The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

W? have rec present to a eit ease, tl delivered by I rpool commercial gentleman, ire, a number of interesting to tnct the condition of the We regret our inability, 10 LiDt,NTS fromaL in Decor pon a e at minor f for h however, to find must insert ow A friend of mine, farming some seven hundred acres of rich and fertile land, and who enjoys the reputation of being lid experienced farmers in the county, &tutting the other day to the neit proceeds of his estate, declared to me that, notwithstanding his best ef forts to produce the best and largest crops, wheat especially, by using all the requisite appliances of thorough cultivation, he had for the last three years past been minus some two hundred pounds per annum. And this is by no means a so u,— At 11A !rive another sample of the boasted agricultural prosperity, as furnished by our . correspondent " The labourers, as 1 learn from Themselves, average from Is. 3d. to is. 6d. per day; allowance to meet the necessary demands of some five or six earn on the ii with t Ts, if only constantly ein ,e; the respectable tenant few hands at most, w•i li foreign-grown pro- A is now in risk of eventually losing e laboured long and bard easy in their c himself to employ ptoyed ; but sut farms because of his inat duce, either directs his attest rather than s 1; - alt error of the charvd to a Provulept s oug t to have been fouri t nil of the brilliant leen. We feel p ibscribers will - the ear We have S not room for ti another injunctio rarely referred to fore, to all their d the conduct of hit ,n conqueror. resolutely retu: Roman Catholi We should pay post, " asking i a subject can n religious convictions, who t to promot The let TUESDAY MORI s to us a very g that the publi at anv time wi hin our recoil to i them by tt on of a►s evidencing they aT be ( ble with e areconcilea story of ti uld be do Ein 7Liberpool 1 audieu Bich we thriir attent it clergy and others, infinitely more importance to being than attractive in them a deser actors of ..... ..... Our churches, on the contrary, are crowded m on every Sabbath, and klv service. the fact, that ems to have becom ties have its religiou evaded ; to have awakened to the consciousness that it has some end for, and the truth to assert thing to co. us encroa against insini We have reg error ; and, ments too long neglected. ed our attitude of protest against God's help, we trust that we shall cep again in the same fancied security, in Tint el have been too lot ruck with witnessed the at rsial lectures. These, had it been that v e contr iolitical tether to be c last night, h Rev. Dr. M'IN to attract merely .._____L MI. --I, e not shop a serious or in our Amphitheatre by th one of the me crowded and i public saw assembled in any ha on as was calculal thought ject was one embracing the most sublime doctrines of our religion • and when we say that the eloquent lecturer succeeded in entrancing for nearly two tours an assembly uncomfortably crowded, we • - f the merit due to his neat talent and mastery of his subject, devel peaks well for that health ement of üblic mind to wh we have alluded A DIRECT attack upon Liverpool interests )r any whose interest lash with own localit would not h 'e been a atter to excite much remark. But it does surprise us a little to find a Liverpool journalist deliberately sitting down to invalidate the title of the burgesses of his own town e, and calling openly for its confisca ver, is the course pursued by our the Liverpool Times, who, in his last to a vast e tion. Such, hove has devoted two columns to show that t the Dock Trustees of Liverpool ha law nev ower N itended operty, of which ld be handed over to and the ,t the lieh the Legisla- - whole of our contem 'hall endeavour to a of the correct enough he Deel yen to constru of wor 'king, &c., 1 to posse ture for the time being r t wading article, of his aE out a f dock. and to levy rates for t was a limited one. But when t Legislature sub sequently, and from time to t. e.. led the period of such power—altering, n. 43ve. stitution of the trust—it secured to the authorities ne, extent noreover, the con- of the town, a property with a title as clear as any individual can possess upon his own estate. There is one fact, however, bearing upon the claim of the Council to remain the trustees of the docks which has suppressed altogether. For years ses of Liverpool have been bestow- past the ing grants of valuable land and other property upon the Dock Estate, or, what is equivalent, has favoured that estate in their deal -nle, the bargain for ,e of the ck and warehouses, which Dock Trust at a price not Id have been procured The money of the bur- y spent in providing self to t ay for years eek the voluntary rate member of the District was represented as four shillings. It with a verbatim report of r.:ll`Neile, last night, we ;hie day's publication by nowever, that our coon under the circumstances, thank us for rr.wri reasonings of " C as onr correspondent by ;" but there qually " go:den viz., "Render, t ractically exemplified in Nhen he paid taxes to a " Would you not 7,ltes, 'if demanded by a We reply, certainly not. !erfully as any other national im s for conscience sake." A ruler or al confidence in the truth of his uses not every means in his power Our well-intentioned censor rail late. We have not motion to any va staff of one of the re us by writing to the object. )taliliar73. 31ARCH 25, 1851 sign of the times y and readily than ;n, are day by day. mation afforded upon subjects of 1 well• heir own r es. Our theatres ) matter w•I at may ake, for ex Albert Do nded- over to th more than half of what cot for it from priv ses bas 3 been lavis good roa s and other accomni . odtion for the com acted to our docks. It is not, therefore, erce att ion as our contemporary su estate which. whatever as the form of its .Ll4l property, and be managed by " commercial men," irrespective of any permanent connexion with the interests and the property of the town. There is every reason, on the - --kv such an interest in the pros , Per' pure should be a sine qua non of the e in whose hands are intrusted the ty of the town fitness of tho management of an estate so important. Ns a proof that such should be the case, we need hack further than to the ill-judged policy of lv commercial portion of the Dock Corn rds the shipbuilding trades of the Bit by hit they went on frittering away our ,ard, and driving these trades from pillar to post, until, at length, we have made the sad dis covery that not a single efficient site is available for them. In a few years, unless some powerful effort is made, we shall not have within the port the means of repairing a ship. Such a mistake could scarcely have occurred had the Dock Com - days contained a little more of the tradesman elements. mitten in tilos lartne le Times treats—as affording very strong grcund for an alteration in the c ons tit u ti on o f th e . Dock Trust—the circumstances given in evidence by Mr. Bramley-Moore, that " not less than forty out of ty-four members of the Town Council who govern this trust are not even dock rate-payers ;" and further, fifty-three of those trustees are in fa your of making the Dock Estate contribute to the local burthens. With respect to the first of these objections, it is, we dare say, true that forty mem bers of the Council are not, directly, payers of rates. But it does not follow that they are not indirectly large payers, and deeply interested in the commerce and property of the port, which are liable to be favourably or otherwise affected by the good or bad management of the Dock Estate. The fact of pay ing ten or twenty pounds annually of dock rates is neither a guarantee of the possession of intellect or hgnesty, although that fact presupposes the exist ence of a motive for making dangerous reductions in the rates in question. We Should not expect to the si see a property like our Dock Estate, in the hands of such men, managed with any comprehensive regard to a large increase of commerce in prospect, or the works constructed by them of a very dura ble nature. A patching and niggardly economy, and a systematic slurring over of the wants of the hour, would be more likely to characterise the management of such a body, Moreover, it is an established truth, that some of the most valuable members of the Dock Committee have been gen tlemen who probably never in their lives either loaded or dischaged a vessel in the port. With respect to the proposal to rate the docks, we have already given our opinion, that in the present state of activity of the enemies of both our great public estates, both at home and in other localities, this question might be dropped with advantage. That an overwhelming majjsrity of the burgesses, how ever, are satisfied of the justice of the proposal is admitted by the Times and Mr. Bramley-Moore. By the bye, it is singular to remark how unpopular the Reformed Corporation of Liverpool has become in the eyes of the authors and promoters of that measure, since the constituencies ceased to believe in the absolute wisdom of the Whig-Radical party. But there is another and very strong argument in favour of the policy of maintaining the manage ment of the Dock Estate in the hands of a body like the present trustees. There is, unfortunately, a heavy debt owing by the estate. The hardly earned savings of many a family, the sole depend ence of many a widow and orphan, are invested upon the security of the Dock Committee. At pre sent these parties may be considered as in some measure represented by the members whom their votes, and those of their friends, return to the Council Chamber. Take away this source of secu rity ; place the managemeLt of the Dock Estate exclusively in the hands of the dock ratepayers, many of whom have no permanent interest in the prosperity and the property of the town, and what will be the inevitable result ? Although the ex• ample of Birkenhead is before our eyes, we scarcely anticipate that anything like repudiation will be attempted; but of this we are very certain, that before five years shall have passed over, we shall have effectually got rid of all surplus income, as applicable to reduction of rates. The amount of the bonded debt is at present little short of four millions and a-half sterling. This amount, we believe, has been borrowed at an average rate of interest of four per cent. Withdraw the trust from its present hands, and thus weaken the confi •ence of capitalists, and as soon as the present bonds run out, for every shilling of the debt we shall have to pay fire per cent., thus entailing a loss of income amounting to upwards of £40,000 per annum. We may, indeed, to some extent, protect the revenue of the trust by pledging the Corporate Estate as collateral security, as in the case of the money bor rowed for the Riviagton works; but the burgesses, we fancy, would not be very well satisfied to wit ch a step. We therefore beg earnestly to call the attention of the bondholders to their real position and danger. They may find them even worse than we have dared to paint them. WE believe there can be no doubt of the proba bility that the works and property on the site of the Wallasey Pool will, before long, by an amicable bargain, become the property of the Dock Trustees of Liverpool. The desirableness of such an ar rangement was, we learn, strongly pressed upon the parties, whilst engaged in London, as calculated to settle all existing difficulties, and to unite in one _ powerful bond every interest of, what will then be come, the port of the Mersey. Of course we can offer no definite information as to the terms upon which the arrangement is likely to be completed. The negotiations, however, which are going on be tween the parties interested have, we understand, been entered upon on both sides in the best possi ble spirit, and with a full view of arriving at a satis- fancy that our remarks last week must have satisfied the Manchester Guardian that, under our present system of free trade, we were much more r to experience a range of prices below the •nt rates, ruinous as they are to the British than to incur much risk of a scarci ty, as the result of the present low rates. The only dan ger of such scarcity, in fact, is that which the ad vocates of Protection have always referred to as likely to attend a decreased growth of grain at home, and a consequent increased dependence upon the foreigner, viz : a war of tariffs, or a state of actual warfare, such as that through which we had to pass during the opening years of the present century. The necessity of providing for the latter emeraency was admitted by Lord John Russell himself dilling the debate upon the navy estimates, in which he advocated the maintenance of a full naval force in order to secure ourselves against any possible interruption of our supplies of foreign food. _ _ We have this week, amongst the puzzled apolo gists for low prices of grain, the London Times. Strange that the most active parties in " bulling" the corn market—to use a Stock Exchange phrase — should be the men who have most strongly de claimed upon the blessings of a cheap loaf ! The Times, in imitation of other free-trade doctors, treats the imports of flour into this country from France as an exception to the general rule of that country. France, he says, has had a succes sion of abundant harvests since the year 1847. Her home consumption has also been interrupted by the insecure state of society following the revo lutionary period. The result of the present low prices, he predicts, will be that the cultivation of wheat will be very extensively superseded by that of green crops ; and he informs us that " in the district of La Brie, which principally supplies Paris with wheat, large tracts have been sown with rape, and in other quarters increased attention has been given to cattle." Admitting that the harvests in France have been good during the past three years, any intelligent corn merchant will satisfy our contemporary that our large imports of flour from France are not so much the result of extraordinary harvests as of a complete change in the position of the agriculturists of that country, directly resulting from our free trade policy. The northern departments of France have always furnished the chief sources of the sup ply of grain for that country. These departments are now nearer to the English markets than to the interior markets of France. We have received their supplies as a matter of course ; and shall continue to do so. Moreover, we may expect that, as long as we furnish the agriculturists in these depart ments with profitable markets, they will increase their production of breadstuffs for our use. In the south of France, the port of Marseilles has become the great depot of the grain of the Mediterranean ; and, after paying the existing rates of duty, it is found that the population of the southern and be more cheaply supplied central .r.g,yptian, Russian, and other wheat, than they have been whilst drawing their chief supplies from the northern departments. France, as a whole, has not therefore to depend, under our recent legislation, upon her own harvests alone, but upon that of the Niediterranean in addition. She has also this important advantage that, whilst sending us her supplies in the shape of superfine flour —and a very cursory examination of the quality which she sends us ought to satisfy any impartial man that such is her chief export—she is enabled to retain for the consumption of her own population the whole of her " seconds" flour, which makes an excellent household bread, and the feeding stuffs — thirds, bran, &c. The former of these will furnish an excellent substitute for the " maize, rye, buck wheat, and chestnuts (.9" upon which the Times informs us that "a large portion of the community in the central and southern departments subsist." ALLEGED CONCEALMENT OE BIUTH.—A young woman. whose name is Mary Ann Price, and whose friends are persons of respectable station in the town, is at present lying at the Main-bridewell in a state which prevents her being removed. The young person referred to took lodg ings at a house in Rose-court, Rose-place, kept by a person named Mottershead, about seven weeks ago. She appeared to be unwell on last Friday fortnight, and Mrs. Mottershead assisted her to bed, and made her tea and other restoratives. She continued, however, to get worse, and her sister-in-law was sent for, who charged her with having delivered herself of an infant, to which the girl at first gave a denial. She ultimately, however, confessed that the charge was true, and pointed to a trunk, the key of which she handed to her relative, who unlocked the trunk at once, and discovered something wrapped up in a white pocket-handkerchief. She, however, was too much excited to unfold the wrapper. Mr. Hannah, the surgeon, who had visit e d h er or.ce before, was again sent for on Friday . last, whe n h e f ou nd that the parcel spoken of con tained the body of a full-grown female child. The un fortunate girl w a s a t onc e apprehended, and lodged in bridewell, and would have been brought before Mr. Rushton yesterday had the state of her health permitted. An inquest was, however, held on the body of the infa nt, at which Mr. Hann a h, having made a post mortem exa mination, stated that the child was still-born. A verdict in accordance with the evidence was.returned. INTERESTING DISCOVERY OF AN ANCIENT JEWISH TRIBE IN CHINA. By a recent communication, addressed from Shanghae, China, to H. J. Webster, Esq., of this town, honorary treasurer of the Liverpool Jews' Society, we have the interesting intelli gence of a Jewish community having been discovered at Kae fung-foo, a large walled city, the capital of the province of Honan, distant from Shanghae about 520 miles. The discovery appears to have been brought about throlgli the means of a lady in this country—an ardent friend of the race of Israel — Miss Cook, who had heard that, about 150 years ago, the Jesuit missionaries in China had reported their having met with a number of Jew• in the interior of China, living apart from the native population, and observing the ancient customs and form of worship of their nation. Miss Cook, feeling greatly interested in the matter, placed a sum of £3OO in the hands of Dr. Smith, the Lord Bishop of Victoria, to be expended in endea vouring to discover the tribe in question. Dr. Smith accordingly visited Shanghae in October, 1850, and made arrangements with two young moo, attached to the Protestant missions there, to undertake the search. This was completely successful, and the Jews were found at the place described by the Jesuit missionaries. They were about 200 in number, and principally women. They had been without a Rabbi for about 50 years ; and had become unable to read their Hebrew works, of which they possessed several, chiefly por tions of the Sacred Writings. Eight of these works were pur chased from them, and brought away; and it is anticipated that they will furnish important confirmation of the authority of the Sacred Writings. It was the opinion of a Jew from Bagdan, resident in Shanghae, that the paper on which these are written is Persian—certainly not Chinese; and the im pression has, therefore, been created that these people must have originally come from Judea to Persia, and across the country eastward to their present locality in China, which is in latitude N. 34. 52. 05—longitnile 114. 35. They are in great poverty, a distinct people, and looked down upon even by their neighbours, the Mabomedans. Their synagogue, which hears all the marks of former splendour, is now in ruins; and they have lately been compelled to sell a part of the ground belonging to it for the use of the Buddists, whose temples abound and are increasing in the district. They have no idols in their synagogue; but several tablets and writings on the walls, both in Chinese and Hebrew. They have also, in addition to the hooks purchased, several scrolls of con siderable length, and carefully preserved. From the copies made of some of the tablets and writings, it would appear that the tribe have been residents in their present locality since a short period previous to the birth cf our Saviour. They dress as Chinese, wear tails, and have their hears shaved ; but, when in the aynag,o,s, , ne, wear shoes and caps of blue colour. Kae-fung-foo, the city in which they reside, is a very ancient I place, and bears marks of great former splendour. The pro vince in which it is situated is estimated to contain 23 millions of population, or an average of 420 inhabitants to the square mile. _ _ _ 1 he travellers sent to discover these Jews were permitted to enter the "Holy of Holies," from which polluted feet are not now debarred. A century ago the Jesuit missionaries were strictly excluded from this part of the synagogue ; but time and poverty since then have wrought great dilapidations both of the building itself and of the character of its owners. They have had, as before stated, no Rabbi for 50 years, and there is not one of them in the present day who can read a word of Hebrew. They have even discontinued the practice of circum cision, and it is conceived that in a dozen or more years, not a trace of the Igraelitish religion will there be found. It is to be hoped, as indeed it is also to be trusted, that means will be afforded to these poor people of learning the truths of a newer dispensation. AN ANTI-NATIONAL PROCEEDING The following announcement, which we extract from a conten orary, is rather startling • - - " Serjeant Adams, the assistant jurlge of the Middlesex ses sions, stated from the bench last week, that the court had de termined to pass, in every proved case of pocket-picking at the exhibition, or in the park during its continuance, a sen tence of nine mmAlis' hard labour ; and, wlym . e it was found that such offenders had been previously convicted, the punish ment would be transportation. The learned judge added that the period of the exhibition would be long enough to allow him to judge of the effect of this policy, and, if it should prove in effectual, there would be more than one opportunity of in creasing its rigour." Surely the learned serjeant will never be so cruel to the native pickpocket as thus to hand over his long-looked-for harvest to the foreigner! The threatened proceeding, however, would only be of a piece with all our present free-trade policy. We are sacrificing the honest industry of the country on the altar of cheapness ; and why not give a monopoly to the foreign pickpoPket ? Our own practitioners in this line are not nearly such interesting personages as the Continent can supply us with. To be eased of little superfluities by gentlemen sporting mous taches or beards, a la jeune France, will be delightful. On Sunday last, sermons were preached in St. John the Evangelist's Church, in aid of the Endowment Fund for the new church in Crown-street. In the morning, by the Rev. Drummond Anderson, and in the evening, by the Rev. F. Barker. The sum of £27 was collected. FATALITY AT THE DOCKS. - A shiplceeper, name Hennessey, who resided in Crow-street, Stanhope-street, was, on Friday. going on board the " Harmony," lying in the Stanley Dock, for the purpose of keeping watch, when one of the planks of the stage, leading from the vessel to the quay, gave way, and he was precipitated into the water; his body was not recovered for upwards of three hours. _ SUDDEN DEATHS.—On Wednesday evening, Mr. Ed. Roberts, master saddler, residing at the corner of Lower Harrington and Pleasant-hill-streets, expired suddenly after a severe attack of vomiting and purging, induced by intoxication.—On Friday last, Patrick Darcy, an Irish labourer, thirty-six years old, was found dead in bed at his lodgings in Oak-place. Deceased had also been greatly addicted to habits of drunkenness. NEW LIVE-BOAT.—Messrs. White, of Cowes, have recently constructed a life-boat on a new principle, which they have presented to the Broadstairs Commissioners, for the purpose of being used in any cases of emergency which may occur on the Goodwin Sands. An opportu nity presented itself at the early part of the present month for testing the seaworthy qualities of this life-boat. A large brig was seen on shore on the Goodwin Sands at an early hour on the morning of the 6th instant. The sea was most terrific, and the boats which put off to her assistance could not be brought within such a distance of the wreck as to be of any use. The Broadstairs life-boat then went out, manned by eight young men, who suc ceeded in saving seven out of the ten persons composing the crew of the brig : indeed, the entire crew might have been rescued had not the three referred to refused to leave the wreck. _ AN EXTENSIVE STOMACH.-Our contemporary the Liverpool Times is rather amusing in his comments upon some extracts which we gave last week from the New York Courier and Enquirer. We shall not, however, trouble our readers with more than one of his notions. The Times recommends gravely that Brother Jonathan should at once blow out his iron furnaces, and break up his cotton machinery, in order to devote his sole attention to the raising of food for the British market. "There is no reason," he says, " why the inexhaustible wealth of the hills and vallies of America should remain unde veloped. Develope it in the form of bread, cheese, beef, and bacon, and England will find stomachs for it alt." This is, surely, drawing rather largely upon our credulity. How the inhabitants of this little island are to swallow the bread, cheese, beef, and bacon, of an entire continent, passes our comprehension. We have quite difficulty enough in getting through our present stocks, without withdrawing our Transatlantic brethren from the the mine, and the loom, to grow more for us. The prices, too, likely to follow such an extension of pro duction would not, we are afraid, be very remunerative. GOLD IN AMERICA.—An immense treasure, in the shape of virgin gold, has recently been discovered, as we learn from a perfectly trustworthy source, in the state of Delaware. The chimney of a house upwards of a hun dred years old required repairing ; while the work was in process 'the negroes who were employed, from the re markable appearance presented by the bricks, expressed their conviction, to the master, that gold in considerable quantities was contained in the clay of which the bricks were made. At first no attention was paid to their re marks, but ultimately an examination was commenced on one of the bricks which resulted in the extraction of an immense proportion of gold dust. An offer of eight thousand dollars for the chimney alone was at once made by a speculator, but refused ; scarcely any adequate idea of the value of the whole number of bricks forming the house can consequently be formed. There is no doubt that the clay from which the bricks have been made has been procured in the neighbourhood, and hence it may be supposed a mine of enormous value is to be found with out much trouble. A specimen of the gold has been brought over by Captain Stotesbury, of the Philadelphia, who has kindly submitted it to our inspection : it may be seen by the curious at our office. JUNCTION OF THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC OCEANS. — Very interesting particulars on this important subject are given in the New York Herald. Commodore Vander , hilt, the manager of the company, had returned to New York, fully convinced that a ship-canal may readily be formed. Great progress had been made with the surveys ; and up to the last date the engineers have fixed upon routes for a ship canal between the Lake of Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean, and also a road for passengers and freight from the extremity of the lake to the Bay of San Juan on the Pacific. Rio Lagos had been selected on the Atlantic side of the lake. Route, from New York to San Juan, by steam-ship, thence to the Castillian rapids on the San Juan river, by steam-boat; from this point to the river above the aforesaid rapids, a distance of one hundred yards or so, by land; thence by the river San Juan and the Lake of Nicaragua to Virgin Bay ; thence to San Juan harbour on the Pacific, a distance of twelve miles by land, and thence to San Francisco by steam-ship. Making liberal allowances for delays, &c., this will bring San Francisco, by June, within twenty days of New York, being many days shorter than the connexion can be made by any other route. Miss TALBOT'S CASE.—We have seen a letter in the Times written by a person named " Hendren," who very impudently calls himself " Bishop of Clifton." From this letter it would appear that Miss Talbot was, when a very young child, at school in the convent at Taunton, where Dr. Hendren rules supreme ; and that, when a child, she expressed a desire to become a nun. Dr. lien dren's letter is written to show, if that were possible,that not only no compulsion, but that no persuesion even, has been used to bring about the catastrophe which threatens Miss Talbot. It acknowledges, however, that the black veil once assumed there is no escape. Dr. Hendren's spirit will be best understood by an extract. After stating that Mr. Berkeley is " not likely to get any share of it"— e., Miss Talbot's property—he says :—" What right has Mr. C. F. Berkeley to meddle with Miss Talbot's affairs ? He is not her parent—he is not her guardian— he is in no way entitled to interfere with her. It was right, perhaps, to let him see her once, that he might see and be convinced that she WAS under no constraint. But he will not be allowed to see her again—that is, to vex and teaze her—of that he may be sure." After this, Dr. Hendren assures the public that no " compulsion" is used to drive wealthy young ladies into conventual poverty; adding, with a true Popish flourish, that he is not sorry to " have found this opportunity of explaining a subject which is continually misunderstood by fools and misre presented by knaves." We fully agree with him : the subject (and it is a very serious one) may be mituuder• stood by " fools.", THE IIiERPOOL STANDARD. DO THE GRAIN AVERAGES SHEW THE REAL CONDITION OF THE FARMER? We believe that there are few of the statistical compila tions of the present day which are less to be relied on, as exhibiting the true position of the agricultural body, than the weekly Gazette averages of the price of grain. In the first place, they are obviously made up in a very imperfect manner. In proof of this we refer to the re turn for the week ended March the Bth, from which we find that the quantity sold in Yorkshire was 10,329 qrs., whilst in Lancashire it was only 503 qrs., in Bedfordshire 32 qrs., in Staffordshire SS qrs., in Westmoreland 55 qrs., and in the whole of Wales 286 qrs. Such a disparity cannot be supposed to exist as that shown between the quantities sold in Yorkshire and in Lancashire, or be tween these and some other grain growing counties. The large sales in Yorkshire undoubtedly include grain for warded from the neighbouring midland counties, for sale in the markets of Wakefield, Doncaster, &c. ; and the high average price of 375. Bd. in Yorkshire obviously includes the transport to those markets, brokerage, &c. ; and does not all represent what goes into the grower's pocket. Thus, we have quoted, as sold at high prices in the Wakefield market, the wheats of Suffolk, Essex, Kent, Norfolk, Hunts, Lincolnshire, and Cambridgeshire, whilst prices where they are grown are several shillings lower. Norfolk and Hants are quoted et Wakefield, red 363. to 38s. ; extra, 395. ; white, 38s. to 425. ; extra, 455. The averages are in Norfolk, 355. 10d. ; and in Huntingdon shire, 335. 2d. The prices, at akefield, of Lincoln shire and Cambridgeshire are, red, 325. to 375. ; extra, 38s. ; white, 345. to 395. ; extra, 41s. The prices of these wheats, in their own respective counties, are, Lincoln shire, 335. 6d., and Cambridgeshire, 325. It is obvious, from the above facts, that the real position of the British farmer is not to be arrived at from a consideration of the average prices of grain throughout the kingdom, as at present made up. If we could deduct from the rates in such markets as London and Wakefield the amount per quarter paid for railway and canal transit from the places of growth, the coasting freights, brokerage, &c., we should then arrive more nearly at the nett amount which goes into the pockets of the farmers, and which, we ven ture to say, would not he mach less than 2s. to 3s. per quarter below the Gazette averages. In another respect these averages are fallacious, under our present system of Free Trade and large importations. Formerly, when we depended more upon our home growth, the consequences to the farmer of a deficient harvest in any particular county or district, were to some extent 4eutralized by the higher prices obtained for the crop, checked however to some extent by supplies afforded from adjoining districts. At present, however, this operation does not take place. If a midland county has a deficient harvest, and to make up for that deficiency draws upon another so as to raise prices, the importers along the coast immediately pour in supplies of foreign sufficient to swamp the markets. In this way the farmers of Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, and the counties bordering upon our eastern coasts are realizing just now little above 335. 4d., although it is notorious that their harvests were last year fully one third below an average. The balance sheet in these counties will show some rather disastrous results. CAN WHEAT BE GROWN AT PRESENT PRICES WITH THE LAND RENT-FREE ? An interesting wager has recently been decided between two Cumberland gentlemen, Mr. Thos. Rome of Baurgh, and Mr. John Irving of Carlisle,—the former maintain ing, and the latter adopting the reverse of the assertion, " that wheat could not be grown on the average of soils in Cumberland at 14s. the Carlisle bushel of three impe rials, the farmer having the land rent-free, but subject to the usual rates and taxes." The jury who were to decide the question consisted of two Cumberland landowners farming their own land, one land-steward and farmer, and four tenant-farmers. Mr. Rome, in support of his case, put in three statements, which he had obtained from different parts of the country, the first of which showed a loss of Is. 3d. per acre on a crop of wheat after bare fallow ; the second of 95., and the third of 15s. 3d. per acre—the average being thus Sc. 6d. Mr. Irving produced four statements, the result of which showed an average profit on wheat after bare fallow of 13s. std. per acre, and on wheat after green crops of LI 18s. 7i-d. The discrepancy between the parties appeared to result from Mr. Irving's witnesses debiting the wheat crop with only a portion of the manure put upon the land, and spreading the rest over the whole five years of the rota tion ; and also calculating upon larger crops. The jury, after a long and patient investigation, returned the fol lowing verdict : " That to cultivate wheat after naked fallow, and sell it at 14s. the Carlisle bushel of three imperials, will entail a loss of 55. 6d. per acre. That to cultivate wheat after green crops, and sell it at 14s. the Carlisle bushel of three imperials, will leave a profit to the grower of Bs. 6d. per acre. Assuming that as much wheat is grown after bare fallow as after green crop, there ne cessarily is a profit of three shillings upon•two acres so culti vated, which is equal to a profit of ls. 6d. upon one acre. The decision, therefore, is in favour of Mr. Irving." One and sixpence per acre What becomes of the rent? How is the farmer's living to be provided for? The statements given on this occasion are of the average yield of land in a high state of cultivation, and under the best management. A very different account would have to be given of the result of farming upon poorer soils. The Bishop of Chester will preach a sermon, on Thurs® day next, in St. Peter's Church, in aide of the fund for building an asylum for orphan boys in this town. A young man, named Hudson, mate of the Pre cursor, and a passenger, named Smith, were, yesterday, each fined twenty shillings for smuggling cigars. Romistt ZEAL.—A sum of £23 was collected in a cha pel in Preston last week for St. Edward's College at Everton. . Messrs. Roe and Jacob, of Church-street, exhibit in their window three pieces of Californian gold, valued at £lOB. Several cases of pocket-picking were brought before Mr. Rushton, yesterday. The public cannot be too much on their guard. A young man, of respectable exterior, was remanded on a charge of committing the offence in Lucas' Repository. He is eaid to be well connected in Chester. The annual meeting of the friends of the Liverpool Industrial Ragged Schools will be held tomorrow, (Wed nesday,) in the hall of the Collegiate institution. T. B. Horsfall, Esq. will preside. The institution, we are glad to perceive, is very highly patronized. The principal speakers at the meeting will be Dr. M`Neile, Dr. Guth rie, and Samuel Holme, Esq. STEAM BETWEEN LIVERPOOL AND CALIFORNIA. — Various lines of screw steamers are already organized for the trade between Liverpool and the Mediterranean. A similar comprehensive project, but on a still more enlarged scale, is shortly to connect Liverpool and California : the well-known and much-respected mercantile firm of Messrs. Campbell, Arnott, and Co., (formerly J. and G. Campbell and Co.) of this town, are making arrangements for establishing a line of powerful screw steamers between this port and Chagres. Thence, goods and passengers will ere long, in two or three hours, be whirled across the isthmus, by railway to Panama. At this latter place Messrs. Campbell, Arnott, and Co., have already estab lished a branch house. They will attend to the forward ing, by the Pacific steamers, from thence to San Fran cisco, and vice versa. From the latest Panama papers, it appears that the first section of the railway, from Navy Bay near Chagres, to Gatoon, is to be opened by July next; a further section, thence to Gorgona, by next Jan uary ; and the remaining portion to Panama by 1853. It is calculated that a first-rate line of screw steamers will perform the Atlantic voyages in as little or less time than the irregular, cumbrous, and costly West India Mail Steamers—and certainly at only two-thirds of their charges. BEAUTIFUL BABOMETERS.—Messrs. Gray and Keen, the celebrated opticians, of this town, have prepared for the Great Exhibition three elegant barometers, of very tasreful design. The first consists of a design for naval institutions, representing an anchor and cable, the flukes of which support the dial, whereon his engraved a centre, consisting of Britannia borne on a sea horse, accompanied with water-nymphs and tritons ; and the surrounding letters, indicative of the state of the weather, assume the characters in coils of rope. The set-hand is moved by a brass steering-wheel, through which are seen mother-of pearl points of the compass. The indicative hand consists of a trident and coils of rope springing from the globe, with equator and meridian lines. It is a fac simile of the massive one presented to the Sailor's Home by these gen tlemen. The second and third are of the Gothic order, illustrative of the curvilinear and angular, the former lowing a most elaborated dial, in which architecture of the florid style is represented, and letters are also introduced from Mr. Gray's new Gothic alphabet. The base is a cross, being typical of the support that order received from Christianity. The third has also a r i c hly- ornamen ted disc, and the base on which it rests forms a beautiful foliated bracket. Their ideas in the structure of the latter was not only to make an inno va ti on u p on an ti qu ated per petuations, in the designs of these instruments, but to re duce the apparently lengthy form ; in fact, they have endeavoured to render them an embodiment of the useful and the beautiful. DARING BURGLARY AND ATTACK ON A POLICE OFFICER.—On Friday evening a most daring outrage was committed at Allerton-farm, occupied by Mr. Atherton Green, some five miles from Liverpool. About eight o'clock Mr. Green, with his wife and family, a female servant, and a farm-servant, were in the kitchen, when six or seven rough-looking fellows, armed with bludgeons and pistols, entered and immediately secured the inmates. The men were knocked down and held in different corners of the room, with sacks over their faces. Mr. Green's brother and another farm-servant, who entered shortly afterwards, were secured in a similar manner. The bur glars then demanded the keys from Mrs. Green, and having obtained them, ransacked the drawers, and succeeded in finding £6O in gold and silver, with which they decamped,. leaving other valuable property untouched. It is supposed that they remained in the house more than half an hour, and that they had accomplices to watch outside whilst they effected their purpose. About an hour after the robbery one of the country police, named Banks, whilst on his beat in the neighbourhood of Smithdown-lane, met ten men, and, deeming their appearance suspicious, stopped them. Their answers to his interrogations not being satisfactory. he called in the assistance of a farmer, named Aspinall, who was with him, and endeavoured to secure two of them. The men offered considerable resistance, but Banks wrested a heavy bludgeon from one of them, and gave it to Aspi nall. He and his assistant were, however, eventually overpowered. One of the fellows fired a pistol, which passed by Banks' ear, and a second was fired at him, but flashed in the pan. One of the men had a gun, and they all appeared to be well armed. The men, immediately the two were liberated, started across the fields in the div reotion of, Liverpool. COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT. Monday Night, The continued absence of any definite information as to what are likely to be the heancial measures of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and, indeed, we may add, the doubts which exist in many minds as to whether govern ment will ever reach a budget, are quite paralysing the trade of this port. Transactions in almost every article are merely from hand to mouth ; and the uncertainty occurring at a period of the year when consumers in the country ought to be laying in their stocks for the summer, renders:its effect doubly injurious. It is also becoming more and more severely felt throughout the manufacturing districts. There has been rather more doing in commerce, how ever, thislast week, particularly in sugar, suitableforrefiners, and prices have been maintained. Coffee has been little inquired for, and native Ceylon is not worth more than 445. Tea has been in fair demand. We experienced a brisk demand for Cotton on Satur day, with an advance in prices of American descriptions of fully ad. per lb., owing to the accounts just received per Cambria, shewing a considerable falling off in the receipts at the resp ctive cotton ports, together with estimates of less magnitude of the growing crop ; and the sales amount to 12,000 bales (comprising 500 Egyptian, at 7-id. to 8d ; 300 Peruams, at Bd. to 81e1 ; 600 Bahia, at 71d. to Sid. ; 1600 Surat, at 41d. to 5,1 d.), of which 5000 bales Ameri can, 300 Bahia, and 500 Pernam, were taken on specula tion. By receipt of advices per Europa we learn that Cotton had declined in America one cent per lb. up to the 26th ult. From later accounts from this side, the market there assumed a firmer tone, there being no disposition to effect sales. On the 6th instant 2000 bales changed hands at an advance upon the whole of half a cent ; this advance was followed by a large inquiry, which was freely met, and business was transacted at full prices. Opinions differ so widely upon the crop question, that is is impossi ble to form a general estimate ; the range, however, is from 2,675,000 bales to 2,155,000 bales. We think that it cannot be less than 2,200,000 nor more than 2,300,000 bs. Exports to Great Britain since Sept. 1, 1850 527,000 Corresponding dates last year 472,C00 Do. do. year before Stock in New York and ports of receipt Corresponding dates last year Do. do. year before Receipts at this port since March Exports Taken by spinners Receipts at ports since Sept.l. 1850_ 627,000 634,000 17,000 . 6,000 . 3,000 1,688,000 , . Corresponding dates last year Do. do. year before 1,841,000 Exports from the United States since Sept.], 1850 .... 884.000 Corresponding dates last year Do. do. year before 1,031,000 Taken on speculation since Ist instant 3,000 ... Whole stock in New York, in all hands Amount on sale Since the above became generally known the market has become very firm, American descriptions being 1-16 d. up since Saturday, and 3-16 d. since Friday, or equal to nearly ad. during the last 12 days. 1600 bales have been taken on speculation.—lmport since Friday last : Uplands, 5,835 ; Orleans and Mobile, 8,441 ; West India, 23 ; Su rat, 819: total, 15,118. Business in the Share Market has been less active dur ing the past week, and prices have, in most cases, receded a little. The market, however, may be called firm and steady, and the pause a natural one after great ex citement. A very slight imrulse would, no doubt, cause a further and considerable advance, which must take place ere long. We annex this day's quotations : Aberdeen, 161; Ambergate and East Junction, 3 2d ; Caledonian, 141 ; Great Northern, 18 ; Kendal and Windermere, llt ; Old Leeds, 611 a ; Do. Fifths, Gad ; Do. F shares, 12d ; London stock, 1291; Do. new Quar ters, 5Rp; Do. C Quarters, 3p ; M'chester Shef and L'coln, 361; Midland, 631; Do. Quarters, 13} ad ; S'bury and Birmingham B shares, 6 3-16 k ; Shrewsbury and Chester new £l3l-shares, 10; Oswestry and Chester, 141; Old Dovers, 271 -a ; York, Newc. and Berwick. 211;. York and North Midland, 27a; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 191 d.; Royal Assurance, 1 1-16 p ; B'head Docks and Warehouses, 55 60. Mr. Phillips, the occupier of a bakehouse in Copperas hill, consented, yesterday, to remove an oven which was de•lared under the sanatory act to be a nuisance. — Tile United States clipper-ship Typhoon, one of the newest and fastest specimens of American ship-building, will shortly arrive in the Mersey, and will, no doubt, at tract the attention of all nautical men. A man, named Molloy, wag yesterday committed for trial on a charge of having, in conjunction with others, assaulted and attempted to rob Mr. Baker, cigar manu facturer, of Roe-street, in Copperas-hill, on the Ist February last. Mr. Baker said the policeman had acted most courageously in the affair. Last night, about eight o'clock, a heavily laden omni bus, on its way along the line of docks, was suddenly brought to a stand, opposite the Waterloo Dock, by the axletree breaking. The passengers experienced great consternation on being so summarily ejected from their seats, but, fortunately, no one was injured. HEINRICH WERNER'S CONCERT. LAST NIGHT. — This surprising young pianist gave a concert last night at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. He was assisted on the occasion by Miss Whitnall, the Misses Jolly, Mr. Delavanti, and Miss Theresa Jeffreys. We are compelled to postpone our remarks, but can safely recommend to our musical readers the concert on Wednesday (to-mor row) night, Heinrich Werner is a prodigy. T FIE ‘2 " 'GREAT BRITAIN" SCREv7r . STEAM-SSIP - It is well known that this leviathan screw-ship, of Dun drum Bay notoriety, was purchased by a Liverpool firm for £lB,OOO, about two months ago, We understand that it is now determined to make her a seaworthy, but an efficient screw-steamer for Atlantic navigation ; and with this view she has been placed in the hands of Penn and Co. engineers, of Greenwich. The old and inefficient machinery, boilers and all, which are nominally of 1000- horse power, but could never work up to that amount, are to come out, and Messrs. Penn are to construct and fit new screw machinery of 500-horse power ; and it is understood that she is to be ready for sea by the Ist of September, in order that she may take over to New York some of the longest visitors to the Great Exhibition. It is estimated that, including her purchase money, she will be completed for about £50,000. United Service Gazette. BRUTAL ASSAULT BY A WOMAN.—John Cookson, a police-officer, whose head was bound up, and who pre sented other evidences of having suffered rough handling, appeared before Mr. Rushton, yesterday, to charge a powerful Irishwoman, named Mary Lynch, with an assault. The prisoner had been apprehended on a war rant. Rather more than a month ago a serious Irish row took place in Snowdon-street, when several police-officers were beaten almost within an inch of their lives by an overwhelming force of Irish " navvies." Cookson was knocked down, and, while prostrate, he saw the prisoner commit an act more worthy of a fiend than a woman. She deliberately took off her stocking, into which she placed a large stone, and with this deadly weapon she sprang upon the fallen policeman, and commenced a furious attack. Since that period Cookson had not been able to apprehend the woman until Saturday last. She was fully committed to the sessions, when she will be arraigned with a number of her countrymen. THE MODEL OF THE Docks.—On Wednesday last the Mayor, and a great number of the leading personages of the town, attended by invitation at the large room over Mr. Milner's shop, for the purpose of viewing the model of the docks, (which is now completed,) prior to its being despatched to its destination—the crystal palace. On Thursday and each following day the room was thrown open to subscribers and their friends. The excitement has been extraordinary ; dense crowds of respectably attired persons crowded the premises, extending into the street, where the model is on view. So great has been the pressure that three policemen, Cerberus-like, have been stationed at Mr. Milner's door to prevent the shop being inconveniently crowded with persons, awaiting their turn to ascend the stair-case to the exhibition room. Some idea may be formed of the universal desire to get a sight of this miniature town, when it is known that up to the middle of yesterday, since Wednesday,. no less than 7,000 persons had inspected it. In consequence of the great wish of many persons to see it,, and who have not yet had an opportunity, the committee have applied to the metropolitan board to be allowed to retain the model a few days longer. SHOCKING CASE.—On the night of Sunday week a brawl arose in a house in Pall-mall, under the following circumstances :—Amongst the other inmates of the house were three prostitutes, who were laying plans for the re ception of their " chaps," three sailors, expected shortly from sea. On this subject they quarrelled, and one of the girls (Anne Lincion) siezed a candlestick with which she aimed a blow at one of her companions' (Elizabeth Swaine's) head. The blow took fearful effect, inflicting a frightful gash from :which the blood flowed profusely. At this stage, a third girl, of the name of Renshaw, got out and informed a policeman on duty in the neighbourhood of what had occurred, and he returned with her to the house, the door of which was locked. As the inmates refused to admit him,,the policeman burst the door open, when a fearful spectacle presented itself : the girl Swains was lying on the floor, absolutely bathed in her gore. The girl Renshaw, with the assistance of a man, enveloped the miserable creature in a shawl, and conveyed her to the dispensary, where the wound was dressed, and she was taken back to the house in Pall-mall. The loss of blood had been dreadful ; and, most probably owing to this cause and to her being neglected, she remained in a state of prostration till yesterday, when she expired. The girl Lindon was immediately taken into custody, to await the result of the Coroner's inquisition which will be held on the body this day. Tux ASSTZES. - Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Baron Platt, the two judges on the northern circuit, arrived yesterday, by special train, at the Tithebarn-street ter minus, at half-past three o'clock. The train consisted of three carriages, which were occupied by their lordships lordships p r s e great were numberexpected o f o n gentlemen Saturday, oftbe butle n g robe. circumstancesr t ran spired at York which delayed their arrival until yes terday. The judges proceeded direct from the rail wa y terminus to their lodgings in St. Anne-street, where they partook of lunch ; they remained here until the arrival of the sheriff. The high sheriff is Peter Heywood, Esq. eldest son of Sir Benjamin Heywood, of Cl aremon t, near Manchester, and is a very young man. Soon after five o'clock his carriage, accomanied by trumpeters, javelin men, et id genus onine, proceed e d to the door of the 11.delp . lii Hotel, where the sheriff is stopping. The car riage is elegant though neat ; the liveries, green and yellow trimmings, have rather a sombre cast. On the whole the cavalcade is by no means so striking as it usually is. After a short delay, the high sheriff, attended by his chaplain, the Rev. * Mr. Sumner, descended and stepped into the carriage, which immediately, amidst the flourish of trumpets, drove off to take up the judges at their ' lodgings. The commission was opened about six o'clock, when, after the usual formalities, the court was adjourned until eleven o'clock this morning. Their lordships will attend the usual service at Bt. George's Church this morning. March 25, ISSI, EXPRESS NEWS. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF LORDS.---.YESTERDAY• Their Lordships met at 5 o'clock. The County 'loaf Furtlitp Extension Bill, and the Commons i ac os Bill,' Went through committee.—The Earl of CA egg`' • 0 troved the third reading of the Sale of Arsenio . . er o tion Bill, and stated that in consequence of 11 9"a t icsa suggestions which he had received, he had been ' ll 4 o co to propose additional clauses with a view to atfa, l :4o o greater degree of security, making:it illegal to ven°,7 6 s, exceutfo male adults, and in the sale of small q uanti" quiring the admixture of indigo or soot, in order 0 g o , against the occurrence of accidents resulting fre r6 ,,,ops' lessness. The bill was rea d a thi r d ti me withoutpb° sition. The Earl of DESART moved forcertain return s late imports of corn, which led to a short discu 9 t s t sle which Earls Grey and Fitzwilliam and Lord engaged, relative to the a ll ege d di sa d van tages o 'ol English millers in competition with the French' ur oll returns were then ordered, and th e i r l or d s hips 8 0 1', at a quarter to six. IMPORTANT FROM THE PAPAL STA 4IS, "'"? ROME, MARCH 14TH.—(From the Times Colt th; dent).—The Pope and Cardinals h a ve fallen in,"' er dl depth of despair since the French steamer of Ye 0 9 "050 distributed the fatal news of the restoration of the Por cabinet. lam told that the intelligence fell like! Of derbolt on the Vatican, and that for a long time t 0 , e ,, e 0 Father and the Camarilla refused to credit the beu t "tliel It was only when their own despatches arrived th t i e admitted the melancholy truth ; and now, un a ts,t' i make head against it, they look to the Protection l9 oo the Irish members, to free-trade, to anything an t i,: iot! ! thing, as a means of again throwing the cone',. ( lioP confusion, and expelling the Whig cabinet. 1 ,... 3 "dib i Wiseman and his advisers, who have l a t e ly reg 3 l r lor position they had lost on the majority in favour of 0110 ing in the bill being made known here, have 8 0_4 111 th m i ltl i into disrepute, and the Vatican is more irrite o ti , ever at their indiscretion. Even the Suprema'" feels that the Archbishop of Westminster had MI! will lated the force of his adversaries, and Dr. Wisemou lr Vl • was looked upon as inspired, because all his o cl, asserted that the ministry was struck to the gro an it now regarded as a feeble man misled by his 0%0 1 4:0 and not knowing how to estimate the we i g ht o r ell' public opinion at home. PARIS, SUNDAY.—If is supposed that the pre.-- . 0 0 1 , net will remain in office till the end of April or bal s otfr of May. The weather is very unfavou ra ble : therel orir a good deal of sickness, accompanied with much gi lity. The Fives were done to-day at 94 45. c ote; RUSSIA AND POLAND.—It is stated th a t A 0 ,- 1 tration of large masses of Russian troops in Polar w rA the Prussian frontier, is only preparatory to 0 6,10 review, to be held by the Emperor in the months or May. o SPAIN AND POTUGAL.—SOUtharnpion, Mon :t 4T, R k oo ternoon.—The Peninsula and Oriental CompanY's f `i g bil Iberiz has arrived with the mails from Vigo, 19 Cadix, and Gibraltar. Her dates are Lisbon Mar c : Cadiz 16th, Oporto no communication, Vi go 2011" brings a large cargo, but no news of importance. LATEST BETTING. LL'S. M ....., IN t i t TATTERSA I NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES.-9 to 2 agst St. ; • 5 to 1 agst The Ban ; 6 to I agst Legerde main ; 2 0 to Leap Year. TRIAL STAKES.—Even on Peep o' Day Boy. d Po RT STAKES.-5 to 4 agst Beehunter, I°' 2,000 GUINEA STAK ES .—E v e n on Grecian; 3tO i Mountain Sylph Colt. I in CHESTER Cur.-8 to 1 agst Rhesus; 14 t o 1 ag st lq° /1 25 to 1 agst Lady Evelyn. : , I 6" METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-8 to 1 agst SunT,s— „ ol agst Vatican ; 16 to 1 agst Vampyre. I di DERBY.-9 to 1 agst Mountain Sylph Colt; l5 to #'. Neviminster ; 20 to 1 agst Constellation; 30 to 1 asst 50 to 1 agst Lightfoot. _it ,-Tol li LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS. CLOSING PRICES. Consols Account, 96;11; Do. Money, 961 ; Exchee 13 525. , - , - Seel Foreign Stocks.—Mexicans, 33 a. Market steadier' Actives fluctuated a little, closing above its lowest bu t, its oenino• prices. terto RailwayShares.—London Stock, 129 30; Do. QuaL • F,„l prem.; Midland Stock, 624 34; Do. Halves, 13i 13;;:,'i,;111 Staffordshire, Ci dis. ; South Eastern, 27/ ; London and South Western, 88 9; Caledonians, 142 11: Pref., 64 ; Eastern Counties, 7is; East Lancashirejiirqt Great Northern, 181 ; Great Western, 88 9 ; Lanc„ B .4 e f• Yorkshire, 611 21; Ditto Fifths, 7 dis.: York, rep and Berwick, 211 2 ; Ditto Extension, 33- 3 dis. ; t er,' I/ dis.; York and North Midland, 2718; Manches 6,! field, and Lincolnshire, 35 7. The English Market has been stationary through° „4,51) with very little doing. Railway Market flat, and littl e ;$ done. The dull weather had hnd a great effect uP ° to c" market, and Thursday's account being as close seelo' g a rise. ri MANCHESTER SHARE MARKET.—YEsTU London and North Western, 130; Ditto £lO Shareil 8.C., 3 pm; Ambergate, Nottingham. and Eastern„ 3 .1 3 dis ; North Staffordshire, 6i dis ; North British, 140 Caledonian Preference, 6,1 ;- Eastern Counties, 72; 61i ; South Eastern and Dover, 27 9-16th. t LEEDS CLOSING PRICES.—YEsTERDO'OO O 1 Caledonians, 141-; East Lancashire, 17-a 7-16th ;lei West Yorkshire, 122 13 ; North Western, 111 # dis ; North Midland, 51 dia. LONDON CORN MARKET.—Yes,rrive''..t s lam There was only a scanty supply of Engli s h W h eat it,, e ti el this morning; and, the condition bei ng a ff ec t e d by t fine qualities were rather dearer,—'n some instav e re el; iga .. 0 e quarter,—while inferior remained unchanged.- I °.A s tfeu t bt are restricted, but late prices maintained.—Flour eow bu t terms. —Barley : fine finalities are rather higher , ...stIP o t e t e r d e d . — B - O ea a n t ss and thr. Peas:arriva arrivals s late rates.—ln Seeds little done. English White Wheat can be unaltered.--Oats Do. Red do. e aacrhe small , taken bi:OtdneurPtell' ARRIVALS Qrs. English Wheat.. „ Barley 1576 „ Oats „ Malt „ Flour ~ Beans „ Peas Irish Oats SOOO Foreign g LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.—YEsTER, 9 ,O AI I ) ,W Sugar : Refined firm, but little doing ; Brown ; Coffee : Market firm, but little disposition to oper a e Ceylon, 455. to 465. Tea : Little doing, but no. c iee' ( o l prices ; common Congou, lid. Several public sales at ,tti Rice : Demand better for East India, and no sellers, e r 501 rates, Cotton : Demand improving, and prices rat" o llo.4 Iron : Scotch Pig lower, and few buyers; mixed 4ls. to 428. Several purchases of common Weic b .£4 155., and Rail at £5 to £5 ss. LONDON WEEKLY TALLOW RETVItN,,g . tO 4 ; The market continues quiet . Fine new Y.C. 40S ° ;v st on the spot. The stock in hand is 37,466 casks, aga'iast„l last year—an increase of 4319 casks. The deliveries weeP were 1814 casks, against 2226 in the corresponding year, being a decrease this year of 412 casks. SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YEsyss - "de The supply of beasts and sheep were small, and i Valsog cheerful than on Monday and Friday last. Dt a sts, better than on Friday ; calf trade unchanged. 119 • '0 Scotch ditto, 220; sheep and lambs, 18,270 ; calves , ;.. 310. Beef, 2s. 2d. to 3s. 8d ; mutton, 3s. 4d. to 2s. Bd. to 4s. 4di ; pork, 2s. 10d. to 38. 6d. ; WV, to 6d. 2d. v2'. .0 aor Foreignu a n i c i i o l , n o t .fhoetffil 1 2e r ne e d e oon h f o s u Aa r tp s ur a ri I n d. a d y a . ha 1 f e. ot , 004 6 cobles were upset at Newbig4. o s Lord Stanley will be entertained at dinner ' ti e, during a storm, on Tuesday. Nine 1 1 tr i a . 01 w lN c o h a se A T a s tw n .h hC c t r e : T ai se bd t a l i i a e n fi lo t : s r t h t s h i C ' n e-o ll g Mr. Ponsonby (Whig) was, on Friday, electe titer, for Dungarvon by a ma j or i ty o f 158 t o 75 1)1 Maguire Maj l e a s d ty l I , e a . T D h u e p a r t e r z e e m n a d s e a t a u r v d e a r y y . successfulage d i s o 13 5 1 ,i i t c l "); exceed eighteen. Jenny Lind has presented 4,800 dollars to the "de of New Orleans. It is stated that she will. le prpo"?. York in July or August next for London or D v : 1 0 1 11! Lord Langdale has placed his resignation i n "0 2 of Ministers. The Attorney-General, Sir Jo" 1)1 ) will succeed him in the Mastership of the R01 1 , 5 • 5 if The Freemasons intend to entertain Geneo'ig Napier at a banquet at Rugby, but the ( 13 / fixed. of The Rev. John Twells, late Perpetual Curat e ,".i p i thorpe, has been presented by the Lord Chanco,eo? Rectory of Gamston, near East Retford,Nottingo; In the neighbourhood of Brentwood, Ess e V t O damage has been done by the floods. Arn°lle l L;Ov losses, Mr. Sparrow had 25 sheep and lambs all, Col. Sibthorp says the present House of , 0 0 5 might be divided into two classes—cotton sP' ll G bh spinners of yarns. e Rev. M. Ch T u i r i ceh, Accrington, '" as i ch o b l e s e o h n , instituted ineum be incumbent 111,,0r Bishop of Oxford to the vicarage of Hans coO' 0 0if Castlethorpe, Buckinghamshire. ,k e 1 A TARNATION TALL PUFF.—The New Jo , h po ) us the following information :—" Jenny Lin Z - 0 0 4 , 0; pletely won the affections of the people of .`; When she heard the news of the Atlantic's ' ti (ot, c ; wept and sung for joy ! It will be remembere a ti olli Sun) that Jenny came to this country in the Agel THE LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN , d d4 lid AND GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAYS.—The „ f in tatives of the above companies met at the Et ls ': e tiftr, station on Saturday, for the purpose o f effi c . arrangement for an amicable division of W 304 from all those places between London and liire,er they come into competition with each other. efo) to have to state that the parties could W . arrangement. te: _ , LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, YEal'"fe' l The supply of Beasts at market to-dav was 500 last week ; still there was quite sufficient for the dew s was not very brisic, at our quotations. There vv, s a ie in the supply of Sheep, and we notice a considers' in prime qualities. Of" SINKING la. 0 . 42d. to 4 id. 4jd. 4 1d. 0 . 43d. ~ 4 d. aid. ~ 6 0. 0 , 6d. 4 d. od. 43 76. —Beasts, 1724; Sheep, Prime first-class Heiters Second-class Heifers Prime first-class Oxen Old Cows and half-fed Oxen Prime Wethers Second quality Old Ewes Lambs No. at market LIVERPOOL : TUESDAY, MARCH 25, °A l i" PRINTED AND PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDA:of'd isr JOSHUA FLETCHER LACE, of 53, Gro!,..` o tte . IoRONARD ADDISON, of 14, Great Odo r 4.1 St.G.seasil Cassom, JAYA it 40. to 00