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

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—TuEsDAY.
Viscount MELBOURNE gave notice that when the Corn
Importation Bill should come on for second reading, if the
amendment of Earl Stanhope, that it be read a second time
that day six months, should be defeated, he would, on going
into committee, move a resolution to the effect that a fixed
duty on the importation of corn and flour would be more ad-
-....us „ to trade, and more beneficial to all classes of the
community, than a graduated duty varying with the average
prices of corn in the markets of this country.
The Duke of WELLINGTON, in moving the second reading
ofo exchequert bills,
of the Forged Exchequer Bills Bill, said that in consequence
of the extensive frauds which took place last year in the issue
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HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
Mr. COWPER attempted, in pursuance of the intimation
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he had given on the previous evening to present a petition
against the proposed income tax
ensued which lasted for some time. An animated discussion
fl
. length Lord Francis
Egerton suggested the adjournment of tti the debate for a few
days, with a view to enable a new standing order to be brought
uhimself to do
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forward which would be satisfactory, p
so on Thursday if no one else took the matter
Sir R. PEEL was disposed to acquiesce in whit3o.arpdpq
be the prevailing feeling of the house, and
moved the adjournment of the discussion untilthereuponAti
Friday next, in order to give an opportunity of ascertaining
the result of Lord Francis Egerton s proposition. Several
hon. members on the opposition side of the house protested
against this arrangement as a compromise, wnich was denied,
however, by the ministerial side, inasmuch as it had been
intimated that governMent would give way on the subject.

Mr. Ai AsTEamAN regretted that the house had not come
to a decision that night, and said that the commercial inte-
rests in the city he had the honour to represent were most
anxious that no delay should take piece in coming to a de-
cision upon the important questions submitted to its conside-
ration.

Sir W. JAMES spoke of the inconvenience of delay in not
coming to a decision.

Lora J. RUSSELL hoped the debate would close to-mor-
row, but as there were many hon. members who had not ex-
pressed their opinions, and who were desirous of so doing,
he thought it impo,sible to prevent them, if they deemed it
a duty to their constituents to address the house.

The other orders of the day were the❑ disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY

Sir H. DOUGLAS, seeing the vice• president of the Board
of Trade in his place, begged to ask that right hon. 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, &v.

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
im„racticable ; 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. He 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
335. to 38s.

Mr. DUNCOMBE moved that Richard Gibbons, who had
been committed 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 reccornmend 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 he 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 f,,r them so dearly as by
the infliction of an income ta.
Mr. ESCOTT supported tl
ment, and impressed upon ti
were, by submitting to this
rate insurance for the pro
mainder of their possession

rorositions of the govern-
.tiers of property that they
:e tax, only paying a mode-
n they enjoyed for the re-

Mr. PARKER supported th esolutions of Lord J. Russell,
and did not think that the C., eign 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 SANDON 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 holder 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, migiat 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 ; and there would be much of com-
pensation in the increased cheapness of living, and in the
rel:ef 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,
he 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 propose anything of the sort lest he should
be abandoned by his supporters behind him. He referred to
the occurrences in India, which he conceived to be the great-
est disasters this country had experienced within his memory,
and he hoped the right hon. baronet would remember an ,
to take care not to carry on a
ob-
servation of the Duke of Wellington, and, now that he was
sending out troops to India
little war in that country.
Mr. TROTTER preferred the plan of Sir R. Peel to that of
Lord J. Russell, even although the former was accompanied
by the income tax, which, in the circumstances of he coun-
try, he must look upon as a bold and honest proposition.
Mr. O'CONNELL said, that having, after consideration,
come to the
conclusion that it was not right to impose ant
income tax on England, he felt bound to offer to every
opposition in his power. A property tax he had no objection
to; indeed, he thought that property was the only
thing that
°tight to be taxed ; and so far from income and property

MONUMENT TO SIR WALTER SCOTT.—Her Majesty has
giuen £lOO, the Queeh 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 Duc..ess of Gloucester £s.to.the subscription for erecting
the monument to Sir Walter Scott. £12,8U0 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, cwieris 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 this to heart, and let me know in spring if the hens lay
two, or two for one."

Letters have bean 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 ccports of insults
,
offered to him, stated in the newspapers of which he could
not be aware hut there is not a word or an expression that
!cad., co 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 bov, 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 be had been doing something
with one of the straps, and had thus entangled himself wish
the shaft. He had no business in 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 tae 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
willsgo 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 ber 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-
GEIANISTAN !!"—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.
Tee remitting of £600,000 a-year to the industrious classes
in England a greater nziefortune 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-ojfice 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 had 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 CATHEDRAL.—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."

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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
Diana, -, from :-avanilla, off ditto
Peri, Dawe, from Terceira, at ditto
Constantine, Rappello, from Genoa, at Cove
Affiance, -, from Calcutta for this port, off Tnskar