The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-04-15 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Sir H. DOUGLAS, seeing the vice-president of the Board
of Trade in his place, begged to ask that right bon. gentle-
man whether there was any objection to, or difficulty in, fur-
nishing the information required by a notice of motion which
oe had given on a former day, in the shape of a return of the
cubical admeasurement, &c., of foreign wood imported into
this country for home consumption, for the year ending Ja-
nuary, 1842, together with the amount of duties received, how
classed, &c.

Mr. E. GLADSTONE, who was not distinctly heard in the
gallery, was understood to say that, in answer to the question
of his hon. friend, he ought first to say that there was no ob-
jection whatever on the part of her Majesty's government to
the production of a return of this description, but that it was
imdracticable ; that it was not in the power of the revenue
department to take cognisance of the cubical quantities of
deals imported from abroad by the tale ; and that with re-
spect to the dimensions of such woods, they could only know
as to the lengths. It was impossible to compute with accu-
racy the cubical contents of such timber. lie believed that
what had been stated by his right hon. friend was that the
general average duty upon timber of all kinds, and from all
parts, ran from 41s. to 425.: that computation was, however,
unofficial, and rested with those who were engaged in the
trade. The average of woods imported from the Baltic, so
far as the calculation cubically could be made, was 425. the
load duty. But with regard to the inferior descriptions of
wood included in the averages, and the effect of the duty to
lower the averages by 35., when the proposition of the right
hon. gentleman was made to tax timber and deals only in two
classes, as stated in his speech, the tax on lathe and fire wood
was estimated at 20s. Then the smaller classes had, with
reference to the new tariff, been placed under a different duty
by themselves, at a duty lower than that proposed by the
right hon. gentleman to be laid on deals, and the duty on deals
and sawn woods had been taken out of the average, and the
duty had been raised on the higher descriptions of wood from
355. to 38s. _ _

Mr. DUNCOMBE moved that Richard Gibbons, who had
beentcommitted to Newgate on the charge of having com-
mitted perjury before the great Marlow election committee,
should be called to the bar and reprimanded. After some
discussion, the house directed that the minutes of the evidence
should be printed, with the view that the matter might be
hereafter more fully considered. _ .

Mr. W. S. O'BRIEN asked Sir. R. Peel if it was the in-
tention of the government to reccommend to her Majesty to
confer upon the Lord Mayor of Dublin the same honour
which had been conferred upon the Lord Mayor of London.
It was the more desirable that this honour should be conferred
as the present Lord Mayor of Dublin was the first Catholic
who had filled the office for centuries.

Sir R. PEEL hoped he should not be considered to be
treating.the house with any disrespect if be declined to say
what advice the government intended to give her Majesty
upon the subject.
The adjourned debate on the income tax was resumed by

Mr. ALDAM lauded the reductions made by the new
tariff, but was still unwilling to pay for them so dearly as by
the infliction of an income tax. _

Mr. ESCOTT supported the prorositions of the govern-
ment, and impressed upon the owners of property that they
were, by submitting to this income tax, only paying a mode-
rate insurance for the protection they enjoyed for the re-
mainder of their possessions.
Mr. PARKER supported the resolutions of Lord J. Russell,
and did not think that the foreign affairs of the country pre-
sented such an aspect as to raise a presumption that they
could not be grappled with by the ordinary resources of the
country, without resorting to an income tax.
Lord SAN DON contended that the budget of the late mi-
nisters would have produced no sufficient revenue. As to
corn in particular, if the harvest had been a good one, no
corn would have come in to pay duty ; if a bad one, the fixed
duty would have been taken off. Nor could any immediate
revenue have been relied on from sugar or timber. If all
these items were unavailable last year, were they to be re-
vived by some sudden galvanism for the purposes of the pre-
sent day ? The people preferred the bolder and more pro-
ductive scheme of Sir R. Peel, to which they saw, indeed,
certain objections, but which they, best knowing their own
affairs and interests, were content to accept. The distinction
between a war-tax and a peace-tax was not applicable here.
If a technical ground were taken, we were at war—if a sub-
stantial one, we were in great emergency. Our loss of men
in India was not to be likened to a loss of men in an hospi-
tal ; for we must measure each loss by its consequences to
the British arms in the country where such loss took place.
Ten thousand men, lost in a defeat, might occasion a neces-
sity for a new armament of ten times that amount, while
10,000 men, lost in a victory, might altogether have termi-
nated the war. China, too, required a warlike outlay', im-
practicable without an extraordinary outlay. He felt the
inequalities of the proposed income tax, but he acquiesced in
them as unavoidable. Though the intended per centage
would, upon small incomes, be inconvenient, it would not,
even there, be ruinous ; anti there would be much of com-
pensation in the increased cheapness of living, and in the
relief to the springs of industry. The first impression of the
whole plan upon the house had been highly favourable ; it was
not till party had had time to get up objections that a mur-
mur had been raised ; and, after all, there had been but a
partial discontent. He concluded by an explanation of the
motives which had led him and others to oppose that portion
of last year's budget which sought to let in slave-grown
sugar.
Sir C. NAPIER said, if he could believe that the state of
the country required an income tax, a property tax, or both,
be would cheerfully support them. He believed, however,
that the budget of the late government, if adopted, would su-
persede the necessity for an income tax, and he believed Sir
Robert Peel was of the same opinion on this subject, but
that he feared to
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servation of the Duke of Wellington, and, now that he was
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was the only thing that
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MONUMENT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.—Her Majesty has
giuen £lOO, the gueeh Dowager £5O ; Prince Albert £25,
the Duke of Sussex and the Duchess of Iverness £lO, the
Duchess of Sutherland £lO the Duchess of Buckingham £5,
the Due Jess of Gloucester £s,to,the subscription for erecting
the monument to Sir Walter Scott. £12,800 is the amount
necessary to complete the monument, which is a Gothic
tower and marble statue. Above £ll,OOO of this sum has
been already contributed.

FEEDING POULTRY.—Professor Gregory, of Aberdeen, in
a letter to a friend observes—" As I suppose you keep poul-
try, I may tell you that it has been ascertained that if you
mix with their food a sufficient quantity of egg shells or
chalk, which they eat greedily, they will lay, exteris paribus,
twice or thrice as many eggs as before. A well fed fowl is
disposed to lay a vast number of eggs, but cannot do so with-
out the materials for the shells, however nourishing in other
respects her food may be ; indeed a fowl fed on food and wa-
ter, free from carbonate of lime, and not finding any in the
soil, or in the shape of mortar, which they often eat off the
walls, would lay no eggs at all with the best will in the world.
Lay acig to heart, and let me know in spring if the hone 1.0,,
two, or two for one."
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Letters have been received from the Bishop of the Anglican
Church at Jerusalem, of which the latest is of the 9th March
last. Of course they cannot contradict reports of insults
offered to him, stated in the newspapers, of which he could
not be aware ; but there is not a word or an expression that
leads to the supposition that he had experienced any insult
of any sort. On the contrary, all the evidence of feelings
entertained towards him appears to have been satisfactory ;
and the conduct of the authorities had been " most encourag-
ing." There are various letters from other persons attached
to the mission, which lead entirely to the same conclusion.
—Correspondent of Standard.

SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—On Monday week,
about half-past ten o'clock in the morning, a boy, named
Robert Wainwright, was caught by one of the shafts on the
premises of Messrs. Bond and Lindley, callenderers, at Man-
chester, and carried round at the rate of sixty-five revolutions
per second. His screams brought several persons into the
room, and, the engine having been stopped, he was extri-
cated, after being upwards of three minutes in this perilous
situation. He was then insensible, and his right arm was
broken, and his right foot separated from the leg. When
restored to sensibility, he said he had been doing something
with one of the straps, and had thus entangled himself wish
the shaft. He had no business i❑ the room. He was taken
to the Infirmary, where he died the same evening at five
o'clock.--Manchester Chronicle..

EXTRAORDINARY DISCOVERY OF WATCHES IN LON-
DON.—Between eleven and twelve o'clock on Friday week,
as a man named Brown, a corkcutter, was passing along
Crutched-friars, he saw a parcel lying in the gutter, which,
on being opened, was found to contain fifty-three Geneva
silver watches. Brown lost no time in conveying the pro-
perty to the station-house in Tower-street, and delivered it
to Inspector Bradley, who sent a description of the watches
to each of the station-houses, and then took them to the
head office in Basing-hall-street. There is every reason to
believe that the wrapper had been a pocket to a great coat,
and had fallen off, as there are several stitches in it. At a
late hour on the previous evening a foreign steamboat arri-
ved at London Bridge Wharf. and there is reason to suppose
that the property had been smuggled. The whole of the
watches have been seized by a custom house officer.

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AND DEATH OF A LADY.
—About three weeks since, Miss Stabbins, who resided with
her brother and sister at Worle, Somerset, after she had re-
tired to her bed-chamber at ten o'clock, said to her sister, " I
will go down and see if the street door is locked," which she
did, but not returning, her sister went down purposely to
ascertain the cause, and found ,on a table the young lady's
cloak, shawl, and her purse, containing several pounds, and
the street door open. Having called up her brother and the
servants. search was made in the village, and the neighbour-
ing ponds were also raked, but she could nowhere be found.
The dirtracted relatives continued making every inquiry, but
could hear no tidings of her till Monday last, when her body
was discovered by John Cox. in the river Yeo, in the parish
of Congresbury, full five miles from the house of Mr. Stab-
bins, at Worle. No cause whatever can be assigned for the
deceased's leaving her home. She was 27 years old, and her
person remarkably fine.

" THE THROWING AWAY OF THE TIMBER DUTIES A
GREATER MISFORTUNE THAN THE DISASTERS IN AFF-
GHANISTAN !"—Let this atrocious proposition never be
forgotton while the name of whig survives—let it he placarded
at every public place—sounded forth at every public meeting.
The remitting of £600,000 a-year to the industrious classes
in England a greater misfortune than the disgrace of the
British arms—the imprisonment of British women at the
mercy of licentious, savage murderers—the lost lives of 10,000
or 12,000 of our fellow;subjects, a spark kindled that may
consume our Indian empire ! By what military disgrace--
by what social calamity will Mr. Macaulay balance the sur-
render of the post-office revenue? It must be by something
equivalent to Napoleon's last Russian campaign. But mark
the "miserable financier;" allowing him to make his balance
sheet between military shame, political danger, and peril to
the honour of English women, on one side, and pounds,
shillings, and pence on the other, how does he complete his
accounts? You must employ, says he, 10,000 more men in
India—the cost of 10,000 men will not be more than £400,000
per annum, and you give away (to the industrious classes in
England) £600,000 per annum. Indeed ! And where did
Mr. Macaulay learn that a campaign can be conducted, any-
where, however near to resources, at the rate of £400,000
per annum for every 10,000 men ? Not, certainly, in Europe.
The Duke of Wellington bad seldom more than 40,000 men
with him in the Peninsula, often less, and as a military econo-
mist his grace is confessedly unrivalled, yet we do not find
that the four years' war in the Peninsula was completed,
gloriously as it was, for less than seven millions sterling ;
but we must not waste time upon such trash. Twenty mil-
lions sterling will not repair the disaster in Affghanistan, if
that disaster can be ever repaired in a political and military
light ; in other regards it is unhappily irreparable.—London
Standard.
CALCUTTA CATIIEDRAL.—The Bishop of Calcutta has
forwarded to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
a report, in which he says, " It is hoped that in little more
than two years from the present time, perhaps on the feast of
the Epiphany, 1844, the cathredral may be ready for conse-
cration. The style of architecture originally proposed has
been adhered to, except where the climate and soil of Bengal
have interfered. It is Gothic, or, as Mr. Britton terms it,
Christian, modified by the circumstances just alluded to;
that is, Indo-Gothic, or Indo-Christian, if such words may
be allowed. The extreme length of the building, including
the buttresses, will be 247 feet, (being 50 feet longer than in
the plan of October, 1839,) and its width 81 feet, and at the
transepts 114 feet. The height of the tower and spire from
the ground will be 201 feet, and of the walls at the top of the
battlements 59 feet. The internal dimensions of the main
body of the cathedral will be 127 feet in length by 61 feet,
the height 47 feet. The 127 feet will probably be subdivided
into a choir, a chancel, and a holy table precinct. The body
of the cathedral, if fully pawed, will accommodate about 800
persons, and if galleries should be added hereafter, and chairs
occasionally placed in the aisles, as is done in all the Calcutta
churches on the great festivals, 1,300 or 1,400. The tran-
septs also, lantern, and western verandah, should they ever
be wanted for congregations of catechumens or Sunday
schools, would furnish above 400 additional seats. The ca-
pacity of the cathedral will not be less, therefore, than for
1,700 persons, but the arrangement of the sittings will be
ruled by circumstances and the convenience of the congrega-
tion, as all the stalls, pulpits, reading desks, pews, and
benches, are intended to be moveable."

Lima, Town, hence at Bahia
Diadem. Grant, from Port-au-Prince, at Trieste
Hero, Thompson, from Matanzas, at ditto
Ocean Bride, -, from the Mauritius, off Cape Clear
Barbara, -, from ditto, off ditto; master and six of the
crew dead
Constitution, -, from Charleston, off ditto
Seagull, Grayson, from Monte Video, off ditto
Diann, -, from Savanilla, off ditto
Pen, Dawe, from Terceira, at ditto
Constantine, Rappello. from Genoa, at Cove
Affiance, -, from Calcutta for this port, off Tnskar

THURSDAY, Aran. 14.—Wind N.E.

ARRlVED.—Constant, —, from Antwerp—Anna Elizabeth,
, from Dordt—Palrnyra, , from Ostend—Curler, —,
from Bruges—Nonantum, Roberts, from Marseilles—Earl of
Leicester, Sterry, from Ancona—and Marie Antoinette, Ocket,
from Antwerp.
SAlLED.—Garrick, Skiddy, for New York—Argo, Malstrom, for
Itevel—Shaw, Hewitt, for Newfoundland and Quebec—Philip, La
Croiz, for Nantes—Lacty Harvey, Reed, for Madeira, &c.—Glance,
Clarke, for Halifax—Standard, Fawcett, for Demerara—Ospray,
Kirk, for Sincapore —Britannia, M`Been, tor New York—Caledonia,
Irvine, for Jamaica—Liverpool, Spence, for New York—Thomas
Naylor, Hannay, for Havana—and Argyle, Ratray, for Bombay.

Frances, Uorkhill, from Barbadoes, orr Cape Clear
Hand of Providence, hence for Constantinople, off Tuskar
Helen, Mullen, hence for Vera Cruz, at Waterford. The master
having sustained severe injury
Ocean Bride, Brunton, from Mauritius, at Kinsale, with loss of

main boom
Undaunted, Foster, hence for Antwerp, off Plymouth
Antigua Planter, Hodge, hence for Trinidad, off Penzance
Kathleen, from Cuba, off Cape Clear

Echo, Lagana, off Cork
CARNAavos, April 10.—The Heron, from Liverpool to Malta,
which was stranded in the Bay 19th ultimo, has been got off, and
towed into the harbour

This morning our Cotton market opened with only a moderate
demand, which however considerably increased as the day ad-
vanced, and a large extent of business has been estimated at $OOO
bales, fully one-half on speculatio❑ account, (2500 bales by one
house.) This has caused a firmer tone and feeling, and at the
close of 'Change their appeared a little excitement. The supply
is at present quite adequate to the demand, so that a large business
may yet be done without any advance in prices. 300 American
also taken for export.

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATO MARKET,
April 14.

We have a pretty:fair supply of Potatoesforwarded yesterday and
to-day's tide, both coastwise and from the Isle of Man. The
market remains very firm, with a steady business doing at the full
prices of Tuesday last. viz. Manx, Scotch and Irish Cups 2s to
2s 3d r solb. _

Potatoes, 90Ib.
Pink-eye
Cups
Short Tops
Cattle
Turnips, v ton
Carrots

s. d. s. d

Old Hay ..
2 6 2 10 `Old
Hay..
2 3 2 4 Clover Hay

s. d. s. d

8a(3,0 11 V, 201 b,
0 di 0 102 --
0 7 0 10

1 g 2 0 Straw, Wheat 0 4/ 0 6 7,lFk 241 b
1 S 1 10 Straw, Oat .. 0 31 0 4} -
28 0 34 0 Straw, Barley 0 3 0 34 -
none Manglewnrzle 27 0 28 0 Eton.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, APRIL 12

Still prevented by the continuance of easterly winds, we
have no Grain, Flour, or Oatmeal of the least moment to
report, either Coastwise or from Irelaud; and the only ar-
rival of Foreign produce since this day week is confined to
1400 quarters u wheat from Barletta.
The reason assigned in the foregoing remarks, at the close
of last week, continues to counteract any lively or important
business with regard to all free articles of the corn trade.
Having however, at this day's market a rather better attend-
ance of town and country millers, the sales of English, the
best qualities of Irish, and most kinds of duty-paid Foreign
Wheat were effected upon a moderate scale for immediate
purposes, at the reduced rates of Friday, which were barely
sustained. _ _

We have had, notwithstanding, rather an animated inquiry
for bonded Wheats, which has resulted in sales of two car-
goes of white Tuscan at 525, one cargo of Stettin a little be-
low 51s, all for future arrival, the prices inclusive of cost and
freight ; a cargo of Sicilian on the passage, the price of
which has not transpired ; besides two parcels of French red
Wheat, in store here, at 6s. 9d. and 6s. 71d. per 70 lbs.
Of Flour under lock, 500 bls. of the finest quality brought
yesterday 28s. per brl., and about 1200 qrs. hard Wheat ss.
4d. per 701bs. in Granary.
English, Irish, and foreign duty-paid Flour remained in
nearly the same state as described on Friday.
Barley, Malt, Beans and Pease, continued to meet a
limited demand, with little change in value from the terms of
this day se'nnight.
Oats, even in the face of an extremely short supply, were
in very low request, and rather cheaper. Oatmeal likewise,
appearing to attract little notice, scarely maintained our last
quotations.

May 6, R. J. Makins, Blandford-street, Manchester-square, Lon-
don, grocer—May 4, J. E. Saunders, jun., Upper Thames-street,
London, fish-factor—May 5, Whitmore, J. Wells, and J. Wells, jun.,
Lombard-street. London, bankers—May 5, R. Riley, Wellisborne
Hastings, Warwickshire, corn-dealer—May 10, J. King, Bristol,
dealer in ships' stores";--May 6, J. Power. sen., Atherstone, War-
wickshire, hat-manufacturers—May 3, W. Thompson, Monk
Wearmouth Shore, ship-builder—May 4, J. Gray, sen., Manchester,
paper-manufacturer—May 16, B. M urgatroyd, Bradford, Yorkshire,
worsted-spinner—May 2, J Rawlings, Gloucester, innkeeper—May
16, J. Bonner, Thame, Oxfordshire. furniture-broker—May 4, R.
Johnson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, builder—May 4, G. Green,
Kunhurst Pottery, Yorkshire, earthenware-manufacturer—J. Lloyd
and W. Lloyd, Atherstone, Warwickshire, builders.

CERTIFICATES
To be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary on or
before Slay 3.
J. Linneman, Liverpool, merchant—H. Gouger, Great Win-
chester-street, City, London, merchant—R. Edgell, Rownham
ferry, Somersetshire, innkeeper—J. Bonner. Thame, Oxfordshire ,
furnitnre.broker—F. J. Jones, City-road, London, draper.