The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-14 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS. Perhaps enough has now been said on the subject referred to by " Veritas." . . The two Archbithops of England rank higher than Dukes, and the Bishops stand next below "Viscounts," and above " Barons." The Bishop of London is next in rank to the Archbishop of York—then Durham, Winchester, &c. The Bishop of Chester is certainly not entitled to the post assigned to him b.' our correspondent's friend. Ebt Eiturpool Otanbarb. TUESDAY MORNING, AUG. 14, 1849. THERE has been nothing in the preparations for, and the conduct of, the brilliant festival which has just been held more pleasing than the happy union of all parties and creeds in promoting its benevolent object. The Tory and the Whig, the Churchman and the Dissenter, have worked hand in hand to.,zether, laying aside old feuds and jea• lousies ; and i,he press of the town has done its duty on the occasion. At the last hour, however, this gratifying forgetfulness of party has been broken through by one of our contemporaries. To the Mercury the opportunity to have a fling at a political oppojaent, on any pretext, was a gratifica tion not to be resisted ; and accordingly we find him, on Friday last, indulging in a scurrilous attack upon the Rev. Dr. M`Neile, and attempting, upon an unfounded charge, to hold him up to the unme rited obloquy of his fellow-townsmen. Our contemporary says, in the course of some laudatory remarks upon the scheme of the festival : Yet, against so popular a scheme sermons have been preached, and pharisaic influence brought into play. Dr. M'lsTeile, and some of his humble satellites, have objected to these rational pleasures, and the carrying of the profits to charitable purposes. Be not charitable, they say, tinder excitement : the principle is impure." The imputation sought to he affixed upon the reverend doctor and his clerical friends is, that they have endeavoured to deter their flocks from visiting the festivities, presenting contributions to the bazaar, and thus obstructed the success of the scheme for assisting the charities. We are assured that, so far as Dr. M'Neile is concerned, he has preached no sermons which can be considered fairly liable to this charge. He has, it is true, referred to the subject of the fancy fair, and justly and pro perly lamented that any occasion should have occurred to render such an appeal to the public, for charities, whose value is universally admitted, necessary. He has explained to his flock, as was the duty of a Christian clergyman, how far more preferable in the sight of God is charity, which is poured forth spontaneously, to that which, to draw it forth, requires the adventitious machinery of music anu amusement. He may have referred, also, to the possible excesses by which such gather ings are occasionally attended, but that he ever impugned the sincerity of benevolent feeling which actuated those by whom the fete was promoted, or the charitable motives of the majority of those by whom it was attended, or that. he attempted to injure its success, is simply untrue. The squib attached to our contemporary's remarks is at once witless and indecent. The Mercury, in one part of it, in his reference to the " inflating process," treads on somewhat dangerous ground. The world will acknowledge that our contemporary himself is no mean proficient in the art of inflation, and practices it on a rather considerable scale. WE have received from a highly respectable and intelligent gentleman—practically conversant with hydraulics and geology—the following important statistics, relating to the supply of water at Riving. ton. We shall do no more this week than ask our Thursday's contemporary to analyse the calcula tions and see what he can make of them. Nine superficial miles is the area proposed to be laid under contribution for the supply of Liverpool. Forty inches is the mean annual fall over the district. This would yield, if every particle could be collected and retained, 190 gallons per superficial yard. Now, in one square mile there are 3,097,600 superficial yards. These multiplied by 190 gallons and by nine would yield 5.296,896,000 gallons. This again divided by 365 for the daily supply, would give 14,512,040 gallons, or a little more than fourteen-and-a-half million ; but from this quantity 9,000,000 daily must be deducted for the supply of the millowners and bleachers in the district, and secured to them by act of parliament ; thereby leav ing to Liverpool five-and a-half millions of gallons some what less than the quantity yielded by the wells. The compensation clauses in the act of the Rivington scheme, in the event of a draught, would be utterly ruinous to Liverpool. Instead of 40 inches, the fall over the Rivington area should be not less than 80 inches. And even with this fall, the loss by evaporation and by surface • absorption would barely suffice to give more than 12,000,000 gallons daily. WE are anxious to place the following letter before our readers in as prominent a manner as possible. We can assure the public that the reports of Messrs. Smirke and Tite are as satisfac tory as words can make them with reference to the stability of the beautiful erection referred to : TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, Sir,—ln the Mail of Saturday there appeared a letter signed "An Enquirer after Truth," giving publicity to certain rumours said to be current as to the stability of the new Concert Hall. Prompted by a laudable solicitude, as well to disabuse the public mind as to counteract the evil influence of reports which, however unfounded, might, if left uncon tradicted, seriously compromise the interests of the body to whom the town is indebted for the erection of this splendid edifice, the Chairman of the Philharmonic Society immediately addressed the following letter to the editor of the Mail : "TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL MAIL. "Sir,—As Chairman of the Committee of the Philharmonic Musical Society, 1 feel it to be my duty to call upon you for the name of the writer of the letter which appears In your paper to-day, reflecting upon the safety of the Concert Hall, in Hope-street, as, if he is really what he professes to be, An Enquirer after Truth,' I am sure the committee will have great pleasure in showing him the report of some of the first architects in England, which would at once convince him of the groundlessness of his alarm, and the undoubted safety of the building " I am, Sir, "Your obedient servant. " J. H. TURNER (Signed) " Exchange-court, 11th August, 1849." The reply is as follows : "TO J. 11. TURNER. ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF THE COMMITTEE OF THE PHILHARMONIC MUSICAL SOCIETY. " The editor of the Liverpool Mail informs Mr. J. H. Turner, in reply to his note of the 11th current, that it is not customary for the press to give up the names of correspondents on the call of parties who may feel aggrieved at their communi cations, particularly when those communications have regard to the public safety. "The editor is surprised that such a request should be made of him in.the present instance, and especially in the tone con veyed in Mr. Turner's note. "If the committee are, as Mr. Turner says, in possession of the report of sonic of the first architects in England, which would at once convince the `Enquirer after Truth' of the groundlessness of his alarm and the undoubted safety of the building, it seems strange to the editor of the Mail that they have not ere this felt it to be their duty to publish it, as that course would have restored the public confidence, now for some time greatly shaken on the subject." It is not the intention of the committee to enter into controversy with the editor of the Mail, or any anonymous correspondents ; but, lest the total silence of the com mittee upon the letter of Saturday might be construed into an admission of the truth of the rumours to which it refers, I am instructed formally to invite any one who feels an interest in the subject to the perusal of a minute and elaborate report of two of the most distin guished architects of the day, Messrs. Smirke and 'rite, which lies op - n for inspection at the office of the society, Exchange-court, Exchange-street East. I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, WM. SUDLOW, Hon. Sec. Liverpool Philharmonic Society, August 13th, 1849. We need not, of course, offer a word in addition to this very sensible mode of putting to the test the very foolish rumour, which should never have been publicly noticed ; but we may give the fol lowing remark of a contemporary, which is tolerably pointed and . convincing :—" The framework of the interior is an entirely independent structure, and would stand firmly, however loaded with people, even if all the masonry and brickwork were removed away from it. It is of immense strength, and would, we are assured, bear to have its com partments filled with masses of lead, and then would not yield an inch." A consideration of the dreadful frequency with which - accounts of crimes of blood are compelled to be narrated by public journalists naturally in duces one to seek for some predisposing cause in the present state of society tending to so horrible a result. The task is a difficult one, nor is it pos sible to enter upon the investigation without paus ing in utter horror on the variety of atrocities which crowd on the imagination, and present them selves with all the freshness of recent events to the recollection. Parricide, matricide, the slaughter of defenceless women and inoffensive babes, with a host of other similar excesses of monster wicked ness demand attention. In the majority of instances the absence of any adequate motive is remarkable. One day we hear of a ruffian beating out the brains of two women and the same number of children, without knowing really whether his object were plunder or not, so ill concerted are his measures for such an end, and to so small an extent does he • avail himself of the advantages, in this respect, that actually present themselves. Another occa sion of horror is the cool immolation of her off-:' spring by a mother in order to possess herself of some miserable sum which is to revert to her in the event of her children's demise for their decent interment; a bounty supplied by a public economic society for such a purpose cannot be supposed to yield a very considerable balance after the necessary expenses are defrayed, yet this paltry premium has, in more than one instance, served to bring about the enactment of the dark crime prefigured. To diversify the character of these tragedies, we have at our own doors a man imbruing !is hands in his brother's blood for an attempt to dispose of pro perty of no very considerable amount, and pro- ' fesSedly, in part at least, his own. The weight of such motives is truly insignificant when poised against the deeds of blood which ap parently have sprung from them. In considering the important question, and important no one can deny it has become, the causes inducing such a state of things seem to he various, principally perhaps arising out of the artificial system under which we subsist. Everything is resolved into system—our labouring poor are first demoralised by being worked in immense numbers, and with as little re gard to personal convenience or individual self respect as though they were so many parts of a vast material machine, and then incapacitated either for appreciating themselves the comforts and happiness of the domestic fireside, or applying it as the shrine at which they are to inculcate lessons of virtue and morality to their offspring, these same children are submitted, untaught, to the same grinding ordeal, perhaps after a noviciate in the streets, where, unguarded or uncared for, they have precociously matriculated in vice on entering on the scene of their permanent employment. At best these children have been sent to some school where, because the numbers of recipients are so great, and that of the imparters of instruction so limited, it would be hopeless to attempt to set about the proposed object except by system, the principle of which may be faultless, but owing to its deficiency in practice as applied to children of dissimilar disposition, together with the brief period which is allon4d to numbers to remain under its Dower, often leaves the unfortunates submitted to its teaching with at most a little parrot-like cate chetical proficiency, but with not one grain of that principle which ought to be the end of all instruc tion—that submission of the will to the behests of reason, honesty, and truth. Everything we do is on the grand scale, from pin-making to cotton spinning, and in these subordinate duties of man our whole faculties are absorbed : in the pursuit of wealth we too often neither regard the social desti tution of the wretches by whose sweat we amass the coveted dross, nor the moral requirements of the growing population. Utterly selfish, gain has become the great Moloch of every man's adoration, none are without this spirit; the wealthy sacri fice peace and happiness to amass still greater hoards, and the untutored and neglected, not under the influence even of a moral reflex in such a state of society, scruple not to follow out the same spirit in even less objectionable modes—the daily exigencies of a refined state of society are para mount to all other considerations—rather than his partner should appropriate an inordinate share of stock, we see a man deliberately commit an act in all possibility calculated to destroy life, and that, too, the life of a brother. In these days of pro perty supremacy, we can understand a man assert ing that he "would defend his property ;" aye, at any risk of blood guiltiness. To the morbid love of money, if only to he possessed during the space which intervenes between the slaughter of the vic tim and his consignment to the tomb, are to be traced the several murders for burial society money. In some instances this horrid crime has been com mitted only to effect the transfer of articles of wearing apparel from the possession of the victim to that of his slayer; but the principle is still borne out—a universal sighing after either the substan tials or the symbols of property, with a total dis regard as to the means of accomplishing this, owing , to the absence of early moral culture in the masses 1 of the people, and the consequent daily spreading of atheistical and infidel opinions. We have given elsewhere as authentic an account of the great Fete, which was last week held in our town, as a very numerous corps of reporters could accomplish. If it is in any particular deficient, it is solely because these gentlemen could not be in every place, and because we strictly forbade them from drawing upon imagination for a description of scenes and occurrences, which required no such adventitious aid to render - them remarkable and striking. Our readers who were present on the occasion will readily admit 'that we are below the mark in our narrative of every portion of the week's occurrences, which would have required the pen of the historiographer of the Arabian Nights to do them strict justice. In this place we had hoped to have been enabled to give the precise results—a kind of balance-sheet, in fact—skewing the amount netted for the charities. Vain hope Up to yesterday those results were not by any means accurately known. Carpet-bags and boxes of gold and silver, taken at the various gates, booths, and other places of receipts, had tired the active fingers of the Committee in the task of counting their contents. Returns of tickets sold at many of the places of sale remained to be examined and checked ; bills of expenditure had yet to come in ; and we can only therefore give an approximation to the amount netted for the cha rities. The gross receipts, however, we believe we are authorized in stating, on good authority, at over £9ooo—a sum far over the most sanguine anticipations of the promoters of the festival ; and it is not at - all improbable that they will ultimately reach £lO,OOO. From the fact that most of what would, in ordinary cases, have been expenditure, has in reality been contributed in labour and mate rials, the deductions to be made on this head will be small. At all events, we feel assured that we are not over the mark in setting down £B,OOO as the nett amount realized for the charities. We may remark that the contributions in money alone amount to about £1,300. The sums given, and the names of the donors, appear at length in another part of our paper. No doubt many parties have yet to add their contributions to the list. THE COTTON TRADE. The trade have acted this week upon the advice we have offered them from time to time, and out of 78,810 bales of cotton which have changed hands, they have secured 48,000. The exporters have also purchased freely, and have taKen to the extent of 6,000. Though the demand has been extensive and the market somewhat excited, it is a remarkable fact that prices are not more than an eighth per lb. dearer. The stock is now sensibly de creasing, and in the Brokers' Circular of Friday last, the 10th instant, it is put down at 662,680, including all de scriptions, against 601,790 same time last year. Whatever may be said to the contrary by interested parties, there cannot be a doubt but that the continental buyers of raw cotton are pulling heavily upon the market ; and it is quite evident that, if it is to continue, it must ere long have a forcible effect on our stocks. Indeed it is rumoured to-day that France has signified her intention of admitting cotton imported from this country, free, for the benefit of her own manufacturers. who are supposed not to have more than six weeks' consump tion in the country, hitherto prohibited by her navi gation-laws. Should this prove to be the case it will be a very politic act, for, as we have before re mar ked, th e sur plus of the American crop of cotton is not in America, but in this country, and if France were not to resort to some such step her manufacturers wou ld h ave t o c l ose their mills, which is a circumstance neither desirable for herself nor the rest of Europe. Of these matters parties must judge for themselves. We m a y p u t th em b e f ore our readers as they transpire. The ste amer i s l oo k e d f or w i t h considerable anxiety, but , for our p ar t, we cannot see th at any news she may bring can affect the market, without it shiiuld be of a nature disastrous to the coming crop, which is not very likely . to be the case, the question for the next few months simply lying between supply and demand. To-day there has been an excellent demand, and the sales reach 12,000 bales, at rather higher rates. A DANGEROUS SORT OF LARK.—On Friday evening, in returning from the festivities at the Prince's Park, a dangerous freak was perpetrated by some thoughtless in dividual, and which had nearly been attend e d with loss of life, under the following circumstances :—Mr. White, of Cl a yt on -sqoare, with some of his family, were in a phaeton forming part of the cortege, an omnibus, heavily loaded inside and out, preceding him, and the sides of the road being lined with dense crowds of pedestrians, when an individual, on the omnibus, with more copper in his pocket than brains in his head, threw down a handful of the former immediately in front of Mr. White's phaeton. The consequence was a rush of the crowd, during which Mr. White had to pull up, to the danger of damage to his vehicle. and loss of life. Bye and bye, he was enabled to proceed; the same freak was repeated; and Mr. White had to pull up so suddenly that the shafts of his phaeton were broken, and at one time five of the scramblers for half-perdue were under his horses' legs. Such a senseless proceeding can scarcely be sufficiently condemned ; and its perpetrator would have stood in some risk of the punishment of the law, had his senselessness not been rendered inoccuous, except to Mr. White himself, by that gentleman's presence of mind. THE LITERPO REPORTED ARRIVAL OF THE DUNCAN, CAPTAIN HENRICKSON. Some excitement was caused yesterday morning by the rumoured arrival, from Calcutta, of the above vessel, whose captain, it will be remembered, is the husband of Henrickson, whose family, with herself, are the victims for whose murder the prisoner Gleeson Wilson is alio& to be put upon his trial. So apropos an arrival has not taken place ; and the report has probably been caused by•some one of the five Calcutta vessels which came up on &Imlay being mistaken for the Duncan. We learn that Captain Henrickson left Calcutta on the 17th March, and crossed the bar of the Hooghley on the 18th. He is not considered as due until the 18th instant ; but is not ex pected until the end of the month, as the ship is deeply laden, and the vessels which left on the 31st March only airived on Sunday. The Duncan is bound to Liverpool, not London, as was first stated ; and there is still a possi bility of her arrival in time to enable Captain Henrickson to be present at the trial of the alleged slaughterer of his family. • This is not the first rumour which has been circulated respecting the Duman and her unfortunate commander ; and it will give au instance how rapidly details are ap pended in such cases, when we state that a few hours aft.'r the supposed arrival had taken place, it was added first that the captain had read of his bereavement at St. He lena, and next that he had become insane and the vessel had been brought home by the mate. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. (BY EXPRESS.) The Hon. and Rev. Baptist Noel preached on Sunday morning, as a Baptist minister, in Mr, Evans' chapel, Johnsstreet, Bedford-row, the same place in which the rev. gentleman was baptised on Thursday. IMMENSE DESTRUCTION OF FARM PROPERTY. - On Sunday night, shortly after eight o'clock, a fire, wl:ich continued to rage throughout the whole of the night, occurred upon the estate of Sir T. Lennard, at Wen nington, near Raynham, in Essex. The property in which the disaster commenced was termed Scrips and Others' farms, and was tenanted by C. R. Webb, Esq., of Belmont Castle, Grays. The flames were first disco vered in a wheat rick on the south-east corner of the stack-yard, and very speedily they extended to the barn filled with wheat, whence they communicated to the bul lock-sheds and cow-house. In the course of a few minutes the fire seized upon a number of ricks of wheat, hay, and straw, so that there was property covering upwards of half an acre in a general blaze. Several engines soon arrived, and were quickly set in operation ; but at nine o'clock yesterday morning the flames were not entirely extin guished. It is believed that the fire was the work of an incendiary. The present is the fourth fire that has been raised in the neighbourhood during the week. CHARGE OF BIGAMY AGAINST LOLA MONTES. Yesterday was the day appointed for the re-examination of Mrs. Heald, better known as Lola Montes, or the Countess de Lansfeldt, who was remanded on that day week, on a charge of bigamy, preferred by Miss Heald, ti.e aunt of her present husband, but who has been allowed to remain at large on finding bail herself in £lOOO, and two sureties in £5OO each. Neither the fair defendant nor any of the counsel engaged in the case made their appearance in court. Elsewhere is announced the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. Heald in Paris. It is supposed she will allow her recognizances to be forfeited, to the carrying out of which process the future proceedings in the case will probably be confined. FIFTY-ONE LIVES LOST BY A COLLIERY EXPLOSION. f':11. A dreadful explosion occurred on Friday last ink the colliery of Mr. VV. Thomas, called the Lletty Shenkin Colliery, situate at Merdare, near Merthyr Tydfil, by which 51 persons engaged in the pit lost their lives. Although many of these unfortunate individuals were burnt to death, the greater part were suffocated by what is denominated the after-damp. Ten individuals were rescued from a premature grave, but were sadly injured. The above is from last night's Standard. The Express, however, states that 105 persons were in the pit. and that 70 lives were lost. Seven horses were also killed, It is said that the accident was occasioned through not using a safety lamp. LONDON MONEY MARKET.-YESTERDAY, The principal business in Public Securities has been arrange ments for the settlement of the Consol account: to-morrow. The speculative transactions have not formed a large aggregate during the account, but judging from present appearances, the balances are very decidedly against the Bulls. Many of them have been carrying over their accounts this morning which has reduced the quotation from 92k, at which they opened, to 924. The Three per Cents. Reduced have been done at 921 the Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. 931 Bank Stock 1994, India 2524 4, Exchequer Bills 46 49, and India Bonds 78 80. SHARE MARKET. -YESTERDAY. - - ESTERDAY. The statement put forth, that the dividends of the Great Western and South-Western Railway Companies will be very seriously reduced, has bad a further depressing influence on nearly all the other shares. Great Western 75 2, South-Wes tern 344 34, North-Western 1284, Midlands 634 2i, and Caledo nian 22. LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY We had heavy rain this morning, also on Saturday night, with another thunder storm. English Wheat in short supply, still was rather cheaper; one parcel of new on sale, quality not satisfactory. Fine qualities foreign nearly supported late rates, but inferior sorts are cheaper; floating cargoes had but little inquiry, 355. to 375. generally asked for Polish Odessa. Indian Corn remains unaltered in value. The firmness of im porters, who refuse to make further concession, prevents busi ness, but at Is. per qr. decline there are buyers for floating cargoes. Now Chevalier Barley made 30s. Foreign unaltered, Rye almost neglected, except at low rates for pig feeding. Malt dull of sale, and prices in favour of buyers. New dun Peas about 285., ooilers about 30s. per quarter. Beans as last noted. Oats are the turn dearer. • SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY. The supply of Beasts being small, and the average quantity but middling, the choicest descriptions were readily sold at more money. The number of Sheep is rather larger ; however the demand being considerable, prices remain about the same. There is more inquiry for Lamb than on Friday, and the best kinds make a little more money. Trade is still very heavy for Calves, but a slight advance is realised on the choicest. From Germany and Holland there are 469 Beasts, 2990 Sheep, and 79 Calves; Leicester and Northampton, 1700 Beasts; and Scot land, 40, WOLVERHAMPTON RACES.-YESTERDAY. (BY EXPRESS.) TRIAL STAKES.—Softerley, 1; Woolwich, 2. Won by a length, easy. PRODUCE STAKES.—Aldgate, 1; Christiana, 2. Won by a neck. WOLVERHAMPTON STAKES. — Snowstorm, 1 ; Model, 2; Cingari, 3. Won by a length. Van Dieman's jockey thrown. TATTERSALL'S.—YESTERD AY. The betting men were principally at Wolverhampton. Very little done. General Cabrera, the celebrated Spaniard, who has just been set at liberty by the President of the French Re public, arrived in London on Friday. It has been discovered that the new act for regulating municipal elections in London partially disfranchises the electors. The act was indeed an enfranchising act as ori ginally framed ; and the legislative cobblers who endea voured to mend it meant that it should be an enfranchis ing act still "After a sort ;" but, as is often the case when people will make good better, they have contrived to make it the very reverse. The poor act may address its amenders in the words engraved on the tombstone of a man who died of quack medicines,—" I was well ; would be better ; and here I am." ELECTION OF DOCK TRUSTEES.—On Saturday the annual election of four members of the committee for conducting the affairs of the Liverpool Dock Estate took place. The retiring members were Messrs. Adam Stewart Gladstone, William Robertson Sandbach, Thomas Tobin, and Thomas Bold. Mr. J. N. Wood, seconded by Mr. Lockett, nominated the retiring members. Mr. H. Hal head, seconded by Mr. Daniel Campbell, nominated Mr. Henry Steele. The voting then commenced, which was continued till half-past two, and there then not having been any votes offered for fifteen minutes the poll was closed as required by the act of Parliament. The votes stood as follows :—Steele, 144 ; Bold, 64 ; Sandbach, 63 ; Tobin, 61 ; Gladstone, 44. The four first-named gentle men were, of course, elected. Some time after the polling had commenced Messrs. Eyre Evans, Francis Shand, and Charles Turner were nominated, but only one vote was recorded in their favour. THE BROUGHTON MURDER.—It will be remembered that, at the Spring Assizes for Worcester, a hardened outcast, named Pulley, was convicted of the murder of a Young orphan girl, named Ann Staight, by beating her brains out with a bludgeon in a retired lane near Pershore, in that county, the girl having given him offence by resisting his attempts to corrupt her chastity. A witness on the trial deposed to have seen Pulley shortly after the murder with blood on his trousers, but these trousers (a pair of moleskin) could not be produced on the trial. They have now just been found under circumstances which betray a conscious ness of guilt on the part of the prisoner. As a man named Howse was cleaning out a pool near the scene of the mur der, he found this article of dress tightly rolled up, and containing a brick and stone, evidently placed therein in order to sink them. They were, however. in such a state of decay, owing to the length of time they had been in the water, that no traces of blood could be discovered upon them. EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION.—On Friday morn ing, as two labouring men in the employ of Mr. Bartlett were looking into a chalk well, at Doddington, in Kent, they were alarmed by a human voice issuing from it ; they immediately procured a ladder and descended, when, to their great surprise, they found a young woman in a state of excessive exhaustion, she having been in this deplora ble situation since Tuesday, without any other support than a small quantity of water, that occasionally dripped into the well. She stated that her name was Ann Delany, residing in Charles-street, Drury-lane; that she was on her way to see her brother, at Chatham, on Tuesday last, who had enlisted, when she mistook her way, and, the well being uncovered, fell in ; that during her agonising confinement she had repeatedly beard the voices and the whistling of persons passing that • way, but could not make her own voice reach them, she being at a depth of 40 feet below the surface of the earth. She had endea voured to raise steps with pieces of chalk, but they had constantly given way, thus increasing her despair at every disappointment. She sustained very little injury from her fall, and, after receiving nourishment, rapidly recovered from her fear and fasting, and was able to pursue her way. L STANDARD. THE ASSIZES. On Saturday the commission for the autumn assizes for the southern division of this county was opened at Liver pool by Justice Pattison and Justice Wightman. Their lordships arrived in town about four o'clock, and shortly before five they proceeded to the Crown Court, accompa nied by the sheriff and the usual retinue of officials. The Mayor was present in the court. The usual proclamations and other documents having been read by the clerk of the court, and the commission opened in due form, an ad journment took place to Mo d iy, at eleven o'.-locl - . On Sunday their lordships attended divine service at St. George's Church. They were accompanied by the High Sheriff, the Mayor, and the corporate officials, the latter bearing the municipal regalia. Prayers were read by the Rev. P. W. Brancker, and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Mr. Ffarington, Vicar of Rochdale, and the she riff's chaplain. The rev. gentleman took for his text Micah, 6th c. and Bth v., " He bath showed thee, 0 man, what is good, and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly, and to love mercy. and to walk hum bly with thy God." The church was crowded to excess, and a great many persons were assembled outside when the judges entered. We have already given an analysis of the calendar•, which contains some cases that will excite considerable interest. Among these is the trial of Wilson, charged with the dreadful murders in Leveson-street. It i s thought that this will not take place until near the close of the criminal business. CROWN COURT.—YESTERD AY. (Before Mr. Justice PArrisoN.) The names of a large number of landed proprietors and other gentlemen in the county were read over by the clerk of assize ; and from those who answered to their names the following were sworn in to constitute TIIE GRAND JURY. John Ireland Thackburne, Esq., Hale, near Warrington, fore- • man. Edmund Buckley, Esq., Manchester. John Bentley, Esq.. 9, Portland-place, London. Robert Brandt, Esq., Pendleton, Manchester. Charles Brownell, Esq.. Aigburth, near Liverpool. John Crossley, Esq., Scaitcliffe, 'l'odmorden. William Gale, Esq.. Lightburn House, Ulverston. Robert Gladstone,•Esq.. Manchester. Edward Gibbon, Esq., Netherfield-road North, Liverpool. James Collyer Harter, Esq., Broughton Hall, Manchester. Oliver Heywood, Esq. ' Acresfield, Manchester. Thos. Berry Horsfall, Esq., Mill Bank House, West Derby. Albert Hudson Royds, Esq., Brown Hi!!, near Rochdale. Malcolm Nugent Ross, Esq., Astley Hall, near Manchester. Samuel Taylor, Esq., Eccleston Hall, Prescot. Samuel Henry Thompson, Esq.. Thingwall Hall, Knotty Ash. John Abraham Tinne, Esq.. Brierly, Aigburth. William Gillibrand Unsworth, Esq., Manor House, Maghull. John Woodcock, Esq., St. Helen's, Wigan. Matthew Wilson, jun., Esq.. M. t'., Es' ton, Skinton. John Bramley-Moore,Esq., Mayor of Liverpool. His lordship, on the jury being appointed, invited them all to dine with him at six o'clock in the evening. The usual proclamation against vice and immorality was then read, after which his lordship thus addressed the grand jury : His LORDSHIP commenced by observing that the calen • dar before him was not in point of numbers of a much higher character than usual at those assizes, but there were some cases undoubtedly of a very serious description —not a very great many. As, however, many of the grand jury had been in the habit of attending there, and probably all of them had attended as grand jurors before now, they were sufficiently acquainted with their duties to render any instruction from him unnecessary. He hoped, however, that as that was not the first time they had met, neither would it be the last that either he or other judges would have the pleasure of congratulating them on their appearance. When he said this, he did so with real feeling, and in accordance with the full intention of the words. He had at other assizes expressed the same hope, he (the learned judge) was clearly of opinion that the feeling which prevailed amongst some parties against the constitution of grand juries, and the eligibility of doing away with them was altogether mistaken. He did not wish to enter into all the arguments which might be adduced in favour of the system, but there were one or two points connected with the subject to which he would draw their attention. In the first place it seemed to him (the learned judge) highly desirable that all classes of her Majesty subjects should join in the administration of jus tice, and he did not see where gentlemen in their station of life would take part in such administration unless they served on the petty jury. The great difficulty, however, to be met was this :—What was to be substituted in place of the grand jury ? Some preliminary proceeding must take place before a party was placed upon his trial, for it would never do to allow any individual, at his own will and pleasure, to give instructions to the Clerk of the Court, and thus allow a person to stand accused of crime before a court, however innocent he might be. What then was to be done ? If a public prosecutor was ap pointed, he should like to know how he was to perform his duty ? If one person was appointed in each county he could not be in all places at once ; and it would be most unsatisfactory to have such duties performed by a deputy. Then again if he was to be an officer of the Crown, there would be no security for the subject at all. for the grand jury was the old constitutional tribunal which had always stood between the crown and the sub ject, &pi protect the rights of both. He hoped that grand juries ould not be abolished without careful enquiry being first instituted to see what could be done, and also by what mode a person can be put upon his trial without their intervention. He knew that one great reason which operated with those who wished their abolition—such reason at all events prevailed in London—that witnesses were frequently tampered with between the time of their appearance before the magistrates, and the time that they gave evidence before the Grand Jury, in consequence of which they were induced to favour prisoners, and the re sult was, that bills were often thrown out. His Lordship did not believe that this often occurred, even in London, and it was too much to say that. because it did occur, therefore no other remedy should be sought after, hut that Grand Juries must be abolished altogether. Surely some less violent measure might be adopted. The depositions might be laid before the Grand Jury, and then they could judge for themselves whether the parties gave the same evidence as they had done before the magistrates. There was one case in the calendar which appeared to be of this description, for the charge there stated was that a person who had been committed, but who was out on bail, had unlawfully, knowingly, wilfully, and corruptly made a false declaration. He believed, however, that such cases were very rare in the country, and did not by any means occur so often in London as was re presented. He would not detain them longer on this subject, but would proceed to make some few obser vations on the various cases in the calendar which appear ed to require them. There were many cases of parties charged with burglary, where it seemed entries had been effected through what was called a coalgrid—he did not quite understand what that was, but probably the grand jury would—or window which had been left unfastened. It was quite immaterial to the question whether the coal grid or window was faetened or not, for if they were closed and the party opened either, and entered for the pur pose of committing a felony, it was just as much a breaking as if the parties broke a lock. There was ano ther case of breaking out of a house. It appeared that the prisoner had been allowed to sleep in the kitchen and during the night collected together what he could lay his hands on, and then broke out of the house. This, in law, was just as much a burglary as if the party had broken into a house. There was one case he thought where nothing had been stolen. In order to constitute the offence of burglary it was not absolutely necessary there should be an actual stealing, because, if a person broke into a house in the night time with intent to commit a felony, it was burglary. Then there were many cases of highway robbery. All those cases always involved the question of identity of the parties, and therefore it was necessary to pay particular attention to that. Sometimes it was a question whether a robbery had been committed at all or not, but he did not think there were any such cases in the present calendar, and the only difficulties attending them would, therefore, be the identities. Then there were cases of manslaughter, and of cutting and maiming, and he was very much pleased, so to speak, that he did not find any of those cases in which that mode of fighting peculiar to this county had been re sorted to. Some of the cases were of a savage nature, but there were certainly none in which what was known as up and down fighting had taken place ; there were, however, cases savage enough where the knife, he was sorry to find, had been raised, notwithstanding the at tempts which had been made, by severity of punishment, to put it down. There were cases of bigamy and forgery, and more particularly what appeared prevalent in this town, the forgery of shipping notes. He (the learned Judge) was afraid the effect of these forgeries was to in flict considerable injuries on the lower classes of society— greater than the forgery of bank notes; and one of the cases was a charge against a person, he thought, of the name of Norris, which appeared a good deal com plicated, but he did not apprehend they would find any difficulty in it. There were four cases of murder—in one of which a woman was committed under the coroner's warrant for manslaughter, but he (the learned Jud ge ) was of opinion that it was either murder or nothing at all. One of the cases was that sad affair where a party is charged with murdering two women and two children. On that case a great number of witnesses had been examined, but for his part he did not see that many of them were neces sary or of any great importance, though they might have been. The servant maid was sensible for about a week after the occurrence, and her deposition had been taken before a magistrate, in the presence of the prisoner, who had an opportunity of cross-examining her. She died subsequently to those depositions being taken, and they would be laid before the Grand Jury as evidence, and unless she told utter falsehoods—(but in some im portant points she was corroborated)—there did not seem to be the slightest doubt about the case. There was another case equally free from doubt. It was that of a person named Culkin—it occurred in this town. The prisoner lost his wife and one of his children from an attack of cholera, after which he cut the throats of two other children, then his own, and was found with his arms round the corpse of his deceased wife. He un derstood it was said he was out of his mind,—that afflic tion had so wrought upon his feelings as to render him incapable of knowing what he was about. That, how ever, was not a question for the grand jury to entertain. If it were set up it would be for the petty jury to deal with it. It was a clear case, lamentable indeed, but still one of murder, and what might be the ultimate result must be left for after consideration. He (the learned Judge) had heard of another case, not entered in the calendar, of a person who was said to have shot his bro ther. He believed the brother was not dead, and he sup posed either the party . had been remanded or the case was not complete ; and, in all human probability, unless the brother was very much better, no bill would be laid before them, but the prisoner would be remanded until the next assizes, for if the brother still remained in a dangerous state they would not know what charge to prefer. The other case of murder was a charge against a woman for the murder of her new-born infant child. That charge rested entirely upon the evidence of the medical man, and he confessed that the evidence of all the other witnesses went to negative the evidence of the medical man, and he (the learned judge) did not believe any offence at all was committed.. However, circumstances might come before the grand jury which had not been laid before the coro ner's jury. According to the evidence of the medical man the case was one of murder, but be did not think that was at all correct, for he (the medical man' trusted to the old test that the child had been born alive because the lungs floated—a test now proved to be very uncertain. No. 73 in the calendar was a charge of manslaughter. The prksoner, it appeared, was committed by the magis trates for murder, and by the coroner for manslaughter. Tile case was clearly not manslaughter. It was either murder or nothing. He supposed they went upon the assumption that a mother was bound by law to take proper care of her infant, which was un doubtedly the fact. But it was said that she was drunk and the child fell out of her hands. If that were so it was not manslaughter. If it fell acci dentally and death was the result it was no crime; but if it fell in consequence of drunkenness it was murder. In another case of manslaughter by two persons there might be a question as to which of them struck the blow, but if both were present engaged in a common purpose then the case was complete against both. Nos. 5 and 6 was another case of manslaughter, in which the party met his death from a kick by one of the prisoners, the other not being prseent at the time. Hare, again, the question would arise whether the prisoner who did not strike was acting in concert with the other. No. 9 was a c harge of man slaughter on a little child ran over by a cart. This was not a case of furious driving but of negligence, for it ap peared the pr soner was riding in his cart with his back to the horse, and a little child went out of the house and sat down on the middle of the road in front of the horse and cart. A boy saw him, and called out to the horse, but no attention was paid, and the horse and cart went over the child and killed him on the spot. The driver had no reins to his horse, and indeed if he had, he could have no control over the horse for he had his back to it. The case was, therefore, one of negli gence, and consequently of manslaughter. There was some question about the cart being on the wrong side of the road, but that had nothing to do with it, for unless one vehicle was passing or meeting another the rule of the road did not apply. Nos. 38 and 39 was charge of assault with intent to rob. In that case there was a clear con cert, and, therefore, the act of one would be the act of all. No. 52 was a case of stabbing, with circumstances of some peculiarity. The prosecutor had a quarrel with the pri soner in a public-house. The latter left it, and it did not appear that he bad any intention of continuing the quar rel, but the prosecutor followed him and would fight. The prisoner was using a knife to cut a stick at the time, and, when the prosecutor struck him in the face, the pri soner stabbed him with the knife. For this he was charged with stabbing with intent to do grievous bodily harm, but it could hardly be expected that, under such circumstances, the prisoner could refrain from using the knife. No. 63 was a very peculiar case, and the Grand Jury would have to consider whether the prisoner was guilty of such negligence as they ought to find a bill for manslaughter. It appeared the deceased was a labourer connected with a railway. He got upon a ballast train for the purpose of riding. Had he remained with other workmen travelling by the train in the last waggon his life might have been saved, but he got over the waggons and sat upon the buffer plank of the waggon next the engine, with his legs hanging down. An engine and tender was passing along another line to take on a passenger train, and at the junction of two lines came in contact with the ballast train and killed the deceased: The ballast train had never been on that line before, and consequently the prisoner could not expect it would be there, and although he used the whistle when starting, it was foggy and could not be seen. The prisoner alleged that he had a right to pass along the line as he did, but the railway authorities say he had not, and if he was acting contrary to his instructions he was guilty of negligence for which he was responsible. No. 69 was a charge against a person for presenting a loaded pistol at another, with intent to kill and murder him. According to the evidence this appeared clear; but the charge as stated was clearly not a felony. In order to constitute it a felony there must be an attempt to dis charge by pulling the trigger. That had been so held, and he (the learned Judge) believed that was the law. The pistol was presented at the prosecutor, who immedi ately jumped at the prisoner, and a scuffle ensued, when the pistol flashed in the pan, but whether the trigger was pulled by the prisoner or not did not appear. The grand jury, however, must be satisfied that the prisoner at tempted to discharge the pistol before they found a true bill. No. 71 was a charge against a man for not delivering up his property under a fiat of bankruptcy. In this case he did not find any evidence which was necessary to show that he was a bankrupt, namely, that he was a trader, and had committed an act of bankruptcy ; but he would not throw out the bill on that ground, as he found the fiat was issued on the prisoner's own petition. On coming to the third class of cases, his lordship did not think there were any which required any observation, except perhaps Nos. 118 and 119, which was a charge against two persons for a revolt on board a ship coming from America. It was a clear case under the statute of 11 and 12 William 111., cap. 7, which made a revolt piracy, even if the party did not intend to go away with the ship. In this case the intention was clear, for the prisoners said they would do what they endeavoured to persuade other persons to do, namely, to murder the captain, and take the ship to Cali fornia. If that was proved, it was clearly an act of piracy. There were sonic other cases in the calendar which might have required some observations from him, but no less than 6 sets of depositions had been placed in his hands a few minutes ego, whilst the proclamation against vice and immorality was being read by the officer, and conse quently he had had no opportunity of looking over them. This was very wrong, and he hoped would not occur again. For such neglect he had at one assizes been obliged to inflict a fine, but unfortunately he could not fine the magistrate's clerk—he could only fine his master, which he was very reluctant to do, and trusted he should not have to do again. There was one very serious case amongst the depositions just returned, on which he should probably have felt it his duty to make some obser vations had he been acquainted with its details; but, if any difficulty should arise, if the Grand Jury would come into court and state it, he would endeavour to explain it. The Grand Jury then retired to their duties. A considerable time elapsed before any true bills were passed in cases that were in readiness for trial. The bills, it appeared, had not reached the grand jury, and witnesses were absent. His lordship said, that in cases of such delay, he should certainly not allow the expenses of the witnesses. It was nearly two o'clock before the court could proceed to business with the first case, namely, ASSAULT, WITH FELONIOUS INTENT. . _ _ John Hutchinson, aged 49, was indicted for having, on the 2d July, at Kearsley, feloniously cut and wounded Geo. Greenhalgh, with intent to maim. The indictment involved a charge of intent to murder, and another charge of intent to do grievous bodily harm. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. Monk. The prosecutor, being sworn, said he was an auctioneer at Bolton ; and acting for Mary Greenwood, went to the premises of the prisoner to distrain for rent. Prisoner was not at home, but witness left a message, stating what his mission was. Witness afterwards met the prisoner in the neighbourhood, who said he would make Mary Green wood pay him what sbe owed him. Witness said that if he would not settle it (the demand) he (witness) would have to return to the house. Prisoner used threats that he would kill any one who attempted to take his goods. Witness returned to the house, when prisoner struck him repeatedly and severely with a poker, so that he was rendered temporarily insensible. The prisoner madesome statements that were irrelevant ; and to a question, said that the prosecutor's children came crying to the door, say ing, " do not hit him" ! not as prisoner would have it, " - don't let him."—A boy, son of the last witness, corro borated his father's statement so far. Witness, on bring ing a police-officer, saw the prisoner strike his father with a bar of iron, or a poker. Prisoner said if the officer came up he would serve him the same.—John Crompton, a grocer, saw the prisoner on the day in question strike the prosecutor seven or eight times with a piece of iron, (produced.) He also heard the prisoner utter threats that he would treat all officers who came for his goods in the same way. The prosecutor was badly hurt.—A police officer corroborated as to two blows being struck.—A surgeon, who attended the prosecutor, described the wounds on the head and limbs of the latter. He consi dered him in danger for some time.—The prisoner made a rambling statement, alleging that Mary Greenwood owed him money for work and vegetables, and that Greenalgh had no business there. He denied that he used a fire poker, but only a whip-stock, which the attorney repre sented to the boy, (Greenalgh,) to be a poker.—The Judge briefly addressed the jury, who returned a verdict to the effect that the prisoner was guilty of an assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. His lordship sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for fifteen months. CUTTING AND STABBING. Joseph Smith, a good looking young man, aged 26, was charged with having at Manchester, on the Bth of April, cut and stabbed Catherine Allen, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm. The prosecutrix said that at midnight on the day stated while she was going along Deansgate, a man used coarse language to her, and she pushed him away. He followed her, and she knocked him down three times in all. He finally struck and wounded her with a knife, severely wounding her in the left side ; but she could not identify the man. The prisoner was de fended, and the cross-examination showed the prosecutrix (an Irishwoman) to be a coarse and vulgar person. A police-officer apprehended the prisoner, and found upon him a clasp knife, the point of the blade of which appeared to him to be stained with blood. The knife was produced, but it was questionable whether it was stained as stated. The prisoner did not attempt to escape. The clothes of the prosecutrix, who was taken to the Infirmary, were saturated with blood. One witness said he saw the pri soner with a knife in his band. which he (prisoner) closed and put into his pocket. The prisoner himself called three times for the police, and did not attempt to escape. There was considerable discrepancy in the evidence, and two of the witnesses for the prosecution acknowledged to having been in gaol for felony. * Mr. Blair ably addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and the verdict returned was " guilty of a common assault." The judge said the case was more aggravated from a knife having been used. The sentence was that the offender should be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for one year. BURGLARY AT MANCHESTER. William Leach, 18, was indicted for having, on thelOth May, broken and entered the dwelling-house of John Hayes, in Manchester, with intent then and there feloni ously to carry away goods. The prosecutor is a publican in Cook-street, Manchester. The prisoner was found early in the morning in the kitchen with his shoes off. Drawers, &c., were found broken open, but the prisoner had not time to carry anything away before he was appre-' hended. He had entered by forcing the trap door leading to the cellar. The prisoner said he went in owing to see ing a man coming out of the coal grid, and that failing to rouse the family by knocking at the door, he had entered Aug. _1:42„, P by the trap-door to alarm them. He own, od ---„.. to` 1 being his, stating that he took them Off D e ` 7 c t Oil his feet were sore. The jury returned a ve rch and the sentence was that the prisoner , sc,, ° be three times before convicted of felony , sh o w. ported beyond the seas for seven years. The court rose at half-past five o clock. NISI PRIUS COURT. (Before MR. JUSTICE WIGHTDIAI4IOI` The Court sat at twelve o'clock ,- The dens. tains 102 entries, of which eleven are set% the: tried by special juries. There are 2 7 case s 1 " List, and 75 in that for West Derby h un dred. the ( With the exception of two undefended c3'eS ing was the only case disposed of during the 1. 1 10 ,' f HIGGINSON V. WATERHOUSE AND A 7 : ) , t i l e l9 ' was an action for the recovery of £262, bel n b fgv, of £462, alleged to be due by the defendant' r tity of cotton yarn purchased in the month eLhe,o' It appeared that the parties resided in Mans there carried on business as manufacturers 81?„tig yarns. In the month of April last, the Pled a from a person named Yates what sos lot" of yarn and thread; this lot' Was the s b o e l i d n g to h t e b e d g e o fe o n d d s a n w t e s r , e t t h o e be t er r m ai s d e ft f o „ith exchange at four months' date. Part of Wit', been delivered the defendants accepted bids and afterwards, when the whole of the ge ° th e delivered, a second bill was presented for cor, This the defendants refused to accept, and hel l os e . ;i action. The defendants pleaded that there o btli' tract, that if any contract ever did exist it so s „d g fraud ; that there was a warranty for the gt i fee ° and that there had been a mutual release 0: parties. A bi r• C Mr. Watson, Q. C., with whom traL, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Mal . ""' I Mr. Jos. Addison, for the defendants. , end! The jury were locked up at half-past s.'f'dfirr' past ten o'clock were taken to the Judos" 1 e i: 262 , 4 0 they returned a verdict for the plaintiff, for_„ c erdi' 4 o The jury were anxious to have returee,.." tbe,PZ less amount, or that the Judge should er t lis P o e' to pay part of the defendants' costs; ' i n ", b a o refused to accede to such a verdict. e o d , intimated to the jury that the parties haer no g.e"; f o r rangement respecting the amount of e l 'ariti e ` consequence, the jury found an absolute the plaintiff. •or. We understand that, during the locked up, some one supplied them with do di. and cigars, which some of the jury h0i5te1,0 5 ,,,.0t dow from the street. This, we are inforre h otro j u` t f+ proved of by the foreman,who is neet s ' s i. ? a res,„ heo of Liverpool, and it was done without 1 1, Ltile"" consent, by some of the jury who surrounaG" GENERAL TRADE HEN f or. Ao rt o ir goo— re t o ; flo n t Trade operations here are still under the_, A - n f f e j week's holidays, and business has sca r f resumed, many parties remaining in Du_n l , l , - „ s burr',o l ' having gone to meet her Majesty in 0 ":„, cs e ;fi r tY may mention Cotton, however, as so grea t "„isce,'"o: 4 that neither pause nor lull has taken ri ti ea i ,4 market. In addition to the advance obt s 00? the week, amounting to kel. per lb. uP te ," business on Friday, an animated trade was ;iptio,t", acted on Saturday; and as American desc,•litea,' which the sales (12,000 bales) chietlY e e r ° , ll , ll - 31, e 7 t 0 'f f i° 4 o brought forward rather more sparingly, e obtained. To-day an active business has co 6 0 and prices of Americans are again rather jai2,ooo seller. The sales amounted to nearly f ie (3000 to speculators and exporters.) The Share market has been extremely d e . l o l g t ll o and towards the close of Saturday, and ~,,t,t it er s,o 4 ! sellers have much increased. The Great , - ,,clty r recommending a further reduction of divia e ", w ici tent of two per cent., has created quite a r P re o' stocks, excepting per haps Leeds and D0Ler 3 ', 0 5 0 ,,0 rienced a sudden and material decline. " re OV, of the sales of the day :—Leeds fifths, 4i 41 ; PC l ' land Nort to ck h-estern, 1274 ; Do new uirters, 2 L.. 1/ ' W , ; Dover No.. q f 4, 61; B er wick P 0 ,300 04 Royal Assurance, 24- p; L'pool Corn Exchsa,golo, Since the publication of the Broker's el al O r d; has been rather a better feeling in the Col°ntors,d, Sugar; the London market having taker' e o re, induces more confidence here, and there is l a.° let for the article, although no actual advance 1 ' 145 ' O f place. 05' f or Iron is firm : the present prices are I CI fai l here ; X 5 in Wales. Scotch pig iron, in the, rs r mixed numbers, net cash. Ma n y of the nie l "' sell at present rates. 'l lO 4 The demand for Indian Corn is rather tner e j l ij e d! and fully ls. per qr. advance is obtained on sT i ' i i s SO e i/1 Ste c it appearing that a tolerable quantity consumption in Ireland, owing to the loumes s ji p ° o orty 4 In other articles we have no alteration to 'lots Friday. All the markets of the United Pgg still further declined for Wheat and Flour dl s tle j week, and a correspondent writing from Ne ll 4 Tyne argues as follows: t0 446 ,0A "Our advices from the south represent th e :o o 44 Wheat in the hands of growers to be much less 1 ,; 0 0 1 1 10 . 1 such being a generally received fact, a quel'i s rP s ,'o arises,—having a late harvest in prospect, Dow, at 040 V, justified in forcing their stocks upon the marke",,,t00‘..0,9/ Juncture, when in au probability so many OPP v .ip erl be afforded of realizing to better advantage betty eci„'etwi the winning of the crop? It seems to be pre to any quantity of old Wheat that we can receive f ro go t!'n now that the blockade has been raised, will o n "ibis l of the deficiency held by our growers, and bearin,g„,tot!,',.o we cannot see the necessity at present, at a ll mitting to the recent unnatural decline, more e s i;inen` A . , rj prices seem comparatively lower than on the condeoy!, Another cor res p on d en t, wr iti ng f rom Loaufijs° that while the Wh ea t crop s till prom i se s to Y 1 `,,,,e54 ;0 1 average return, Oats w ill b e , i n some OP' er,, light and late ; but w hil e we g ive th es e w e It!' f their rom p t r h o e p er most weight, n or t other from one of the most north ern localitie s 0 J 4 h i e t rl m y u e s o t e b n e ty sta in ted El 7 i t in t d i o , frlfev oy , From all other parts we hear that harces t ua re.. v il l are progressing favourably. A gentleman, tv t ' sio s:i from Ireland this morning, has informed Wheat fields looked beautiful, were in rne",ling,4 ripe and ready for the sickle, and that e e i",ile4 . lP.: 4 commence to-day in the districts through wh', c v He also spoke favourably of Oats and 8ar1f . 3 0 4 while we give due deference to our Newce s- : for his knowledge of the quantity 1 fil m y to b be pe from the shores of the Baltic, we contend th et ,b.A : ck r lateness in one or two bleak localities canno t fr,f , timate influence even over local markets, in4reP abundant:prospective supply shortly from W e vir growing portions of the United Kingdom. erc r d° We are also informed that Potatoes wer e or more abundant in Ireland than at the pres e ' v ot',e - The Queen has performed the mission of il l. Patrick ; and if, when his saintship " Put elf be li out, he banished all the varmint," it is s ince by the lower orders of her Majesty's dutiful 1 J the n that from the moment her royal foot touche D if t er the sister isle, the potato disease betook i t !„'g9 with equal rapidity ; and, showering bless A l V Majesty, they hope the time may be not far 6 she will go to see them again. . 0% tb e orj Our wool market has been rather quiet dur l a re b ri i and we have no change to report. Holder s s c otc,led higher rates than what staplers like to give' „ artileA, are more inquired for, and good parcels eat' - , ° hey'hit ) ; 7s. 6d. per stone. English and Irish have se" - iltn, in the demand. Imports for the week e nditi n glis' i Jf —Foreign, 491; Irish, 80; Scotch, 201 • 0 Total, 874 bales. P rt) ekC We have had a fair business in Americe e woi rl l o during the past wee k, an d p r i ces are f u lly sa c t t - t ira Li. r . , The market for Irish B u tte r c l os ed op arie , dulness, but quotations to-day remain 11 '01nrie,4 those of last Monday. A few hundred firkin!, 645 , therns are reported to have been sold a',ooe,: fi r board, and at a corresponding rate landed. ' c os. middles, free from bone, new,) 483. to Fine Keg Lard, 38s. to 40s. landed. bity STRIKE IN STAFFORDSHIRE,—The respondent of a London paper states that dui; tfil i f a pretty general turn-out took place anoongslol of Darlston, Wednesbury, West Bromwielh„. - 0 : 1 ,4 11 owing to the masters having given h e- or 4 duction of 6d. per day for thick coal. These r ti od4)) have in some instances been attended with ° i d v,yeil amusementsm c al l p e k . i t f n ho s er .o i Ay n f i lna h arps e .etn im n gw e oo i nen g eee b yk, b :: : 007 bi t e t i : frieo y 4 ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—OwiII to the F FPAr o eboTs r on e thdio s ve t eua e nel r :o s e eof Lo ve," hLn G eto a r‘ la, were postponed. They wi ll g a r next week. In the mea n ti me th ere is at ti' e te rl i 5 amply attractive bill of fare. „ eg VENTILATING BRICKS.—Taere has bee n d o , brick so shaped that, when two are placed er trci°ll circular space is left at the junction. This c' r of connecting from course to course, a wall fool catcrici is, to a certain extent, hollow, and admits Each of,ft air through it, either heated or o therwise. siS e F./ nine inches square and three inches thick' t be w rolliel common bricks, so that only half the usua l '', pOY tbA quired to do the rod of bricliwork, and as t he 4tioa r • f ic) duty, and are laid with very little more 0 0 51 ,1 y common brick, work may be executed at °°ogle saving. A common brick is used at the course.—The Builder. rw . On the 12th instant, aged C DIED. O, Mr. JOHN 1141 Bold-street. LIVERPI)OL : 184 9, TUESDAY, AUGUST 14' sc6 PRINTEDEc lIER AND LACE o n s r I ' i F EVERY TUESDAY Mo:tree," By JOSHUA L of 53 , GrOl .st ree ol , ,r P H:LISFIE- 0 LEONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Urfarvoreooo, At No. 4. ST. Gitoßos's CRESCENT. 1 . 1 .... S t e ep; Orders for Advertisements received by Mes. s '" fl , ) 1 . 7 Co., Warwick-square; Barker and Whiteeliarvi Deacon, Walbmok ; Reynell, Chancery-lan e ; corn / 11 , Birchin-lane; Joseph Thomas, 1, Finch-lane,,,, 8, , t , den Hammond, 27, Lombard-street; Alitc_bstVe,conc'iift:' court, Fleet - street; Lewis and Lowe, 3 ! C . t,.. Oa Vi r , hill; at the London Commercial Coffee-n 01 "obsro ' I at the Jerusalem Coffee-house, Cornhilll ~,e r f i re el house, Paternoster-row ; North and South IV e ..l'olo, house, Threadneedle-street ; Parsons, % Du blin; 14 0 4 London; Johnston and Co., Eden Quill', _ st reet , VI pr i Exchange-street, and C. H. Lewin, Market_ se llel o clo ter; Haddock, and J. and W. Booth, 130 q0. lit d ' e i ton ; Clarke, Pilot-o ffi ce, Preston; and , ' D O 41 i Herald-o ffi ce, Birmingham ; Harthill and 1 /' Prince's-square, Buchanan-street, Glasgovr- BIRKENHEAD: TODHUNTER, Chester -stye PINKNEy, Argyle-street; OSBORNR, Cheste r GRIFFITH, Hamilton-street. IN. 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