The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

ibtro 00l &lanbarTr. TUESDAY 3IORNING, MAY 21, 1850 BY the arrival, on Sunday morning, of the Canada from Boston, after a splendid passage, we have New York advices to the 14th inst., and by telegraph to Halifax two days later. The news are only of interest as confirming the previous ac counts, both with respect to the deficient yield of last. year's cotton crop, and the discouraging prospects of the crop forthe coming year. The details will be found -iii our usual summary. Trade generally was is a very dull state, and the demand for dry' goods had almost en tirely ceased. Only a few orders had come forward for execution. Exchange was rising ; and it was expected that specie would shortly be forwarded here as the cheapest remittance. State and other stocks had risen above their value as an investment for European capitalists, and were being neglected. r THE estimates or engineers and architects have always proved somewhat fallacious ; and the march of modern science does not seem as yet to have reached either of the professions in question. To commence any great work, for which the pockets of the public have to be drawn upon, is a simple mat ter; but to tell what it will cost, or when it will he finished, requires an amount of foresight which is not to be found amongst the present generation. A few striking instances of this fact are at present before the world. Just fourteen years ago a com mittee of the House of Commons met to examine the estimate of Mr. Barry, for the erection of the two Houses of Parliament upon the site of the old Palace of Westminster. £707,104 was the sum stated as required for their completion. It has now swelled to the large amount of £2,045,923; and the more probable cost will be about three millions sterling. One of the items of the latest estimate is £497,400 for "works of a decorative character, furniture, &c.," but we are coolly informed that "it is impossible to estimate the work underlhat head." Not less than £124,408 has already been spent by Mr. Barry and Dr. Reid in ventilation alone; and the two philosophers are as far as ever from having arrived at any determi nate plan: In fact nobody seems to have a plan at all connected with any portion of the works, which go on swallowing up money year after year, at a rate perfectly enormous; and which apparently will go on until the arrival of the day of judgment, or of some happy period which, when there shall be no Barrys or Reids to fleece our pockets, shall put an end to the infliction. For the year to expire the 31st March, 1851, we are called upon to vote only the trifling sum of £104,660: and how many more such votes will be reqUired no man at One cause of t' total wa present knows, eckless expenditure appears to any permanently controlling s built one day is min Hall stated be the What us; and they exhibit to the world a picture, the dark shades of which out-romance Romance itself. Where, we ask, is such a thing as prosperity to be found amongst us ? Where is a prosperous business to be met with ? Not in the merchant's counting-house —not in the shopkeeper's establish ment—not in the house of the artizan, or in those of our precariously employed labouring masses. We have two hands offered for every day's work, two mouths clamouring for every day's meal, and a continual stream of pauperism migrating to our shores, and depressing wages to the minimum rate upon which a human being can afford to live. Our best labourers, our yeomen, and small farmers—the consuming classes of the country—are leaving us by thousands weekly, carrying their sturdy arms to till other soils and enrich other countries; to convert the prairies into gardens; to hew the untrodden forests of the western world, or to people the antipodes ; whilst the lame and the lazy, the professional beggar and the criminal, are left behind to swarm in our streets and to fill our prisons. Are these spectacles evi dence of a flourishing state of things ? Certainly not ; yet commercial Liverpool is filled with them. We meet them at every turn, in our back streets, and in our cellars and courts, offering a melancholy contrast to the piles of wealth and the rich products of every clime which the commerce of the world is pouring out at our feet. Let the noblemen and gentry, the legislators:and the delegates from our half-ruined agricultural districts, inspect for them selves the abject misery in which our working classes are steeped to the very lips, and then judge whether we are that to-be-envied people which poli tical economists delight in painting us ! We are not alarmists. We do not seek by ex aggerated statements of distress to produce an effect which the truth will no t warrant. It cannot, however, be concealed that such distress does exist • that our middle and our wor ki ng c l asses are declining in the scale of comfort ; and that commercial confidence has deserted our merchants and our traders. The enterprise and energy which have raised Liverpool to its present importance— which have made her the leading port in the king dom, and the highway to the Western World—are no longer to be found existing to their former ex tent. The once fertile colonies which fed her early greatness have been long ago laid prostrate in the dust, involving in their fall the loss of millions of capital, which, but for the insane policy of the last few years, would have supplied us to repletion with the products of the tropics, and afforded in return employment to thousands of those very artizans whom we are driving from the home of their affections and reverence. These things can be proved upon the evidence of men of known character and standing; and they will surely have their weight upon the country at large, although they may fail in convincing the shallow and inter ested political fops, whose grammar consists of manufactured statistics, and whose Bible is a blue Book. But a mercantile community like that of Liver pool must go a little further in its demands and re searches, than to mere protection against the com petition of the foreigner. They must bear in mind that protection to native and colonial industry cannot remove more than a portion of the evils which at present affect society. It cannot raise from their wretched position the denizens of the courts and cellars of our large towns; it cannot restore the confidence of merchants in their trans actions in foreign markets and with each other. To effect these, and other benefits, we require a remedy more searching—in short, a complete revi sion and remodelling of our monetary system, and a protection from those sudden crises and revul sions, which periodically prostrate the well-founded a 1844, hopes of the enterprising, and involve in one corn a. called upon him mon calamity the incautious and the imprudent, never ;" and that, the reckless speculator, and the man who aims only as to the ultimate to thrive by the exercise of patient industry. Have de to state what the the merchants of Liverpool forgotten the disastrous ), lding would be !" events of 1547, and the noble stand which they mention that, made against a system which was destroying _ eApenditufe, we find out them ? Can they point to no honourable names "e the building occupied by the in this community which, as the result of that sys nso little considered that tern, are no longer known on 'Change, or form ne heard so as to enable their part in the catalogue of our men of note and sta to be correctly reported; and that the tion ? Many such are known —many Who have House is only capable of furnishing sit- been doomed to see the accumulations of years '6 out of 658 members ! The lobbies melt in their grasp—who have lain down in honor so that in a divi- and credit, and awakened in the morning to find and 250 have to themselves beggars ! This wretched system it is, ne half the number would be in a which is at this moment aiding in crippling the energies of commerce, and which has done more to Is of Parliament, however, seem render free trade a failure than any other human haust the inventive genius of agency could have done. Well do we remember her Majesty's ministers and the patience of her the expression of an eminent capitalist and free Majesty's people. An eyesore has been discovered trader, now a peer of the British realm, when he to exist in front of the royal residence—Bucking- spoke of the commerce of Great Britain, under a ham Palace. The marble arch is doomed : and is protective system, as " a swaddled giant." What, to be taken down and removed, nobody seems to however, can we call that commerce now, tied down know where. The same unfortunate arch cost the as it is to a metallic formula, forbidden to stretch £120,000; and the out its arms, or to advance a step, lest it should ,sense attending its burst its golden chains ? Can any folly be more s the votes on Friday glaring than to attempt to free trade in commodi ties, with money, the instrument of all trading 0pe ,672 to defray the expense rations, subject to a restriction of issue, the pres al Palace . awe and form :Removal e Th ing items a public sure and severity of whi c h, a t any g i ven per i o d , omposed were no human being can cal cu l a t e upon ? W e te ll our enclosure in front of the Protectionist brethren, that an effort to get rid of garden, &c., £3,500; this anomaly would receive the support of hundreds lence, 72 &c., £650 ; and o f th e f ree t ra d ers o f our own and other towns. "14,6. " He went into the house about a month ago, and he then asked a man who appeared to be a superintendent there, what was the object of various things he saw there, saver he received was that the man could not we were so many alterations it was impossible - 4 ‘at Mr. Barry intended to do. (Hear. '-qt on a particular Friday he --s(i saw a large gallery at •ain on the following 'hear), and he was tell, for the for him to say c Dnt to the H e end o Tuesda ibered t of Coin he chanibe The hono e such experiments bein Nvn, ar lered, asked ld perhaps scarcely in reply alter incurring that, in the port Lords ed on in a house Little wonder, thus shamefully .• find that the archit ec t, on " whether s had e ought to , acoustics have he member speeche tings for will only bolc ) persons eact lion, when a full hOus, go into ti state of st The n 'ocation country to er it no le following are the items removal, as stated i of the COMMiSB' s than a for d ary, £3 Is this fourteen thousand and odd all the cost of the new hobby ? Not at all. It is the point only The failure of last y e a r ' s co tt on crop, an d t h e of the wedge; for we find the Cha nce ll or o f th e probability of a deficie nc y i n th e season now b efore stating that us, are admitted facts. Our manufacturing popu expense, it was right he sh ou ld s t a t e th a t lation must be cont en t t o suspen d work i ng for two , te did not include the whole expenditure or three days in the week until some fresh source of he hoped no very large supply is opened to the world. Nor has this di lemma come upon us without full warning having more candidly informs been given. It was foretold, as one of the conse quences of opening the markets of Great Britain to certain what would be the the grain-growing states of America, that the culti ait would come toa other o vation of this indispensabl e s t a pl e wou ld b e neg lv so large as the present, finished, so that lected ; and that we should sh or tly fi n d ourse l ves at the mercy of one of our most powerful rivals for the means of employing our industrious popula tion. The historian who pens the events which have occurred in the present generation will record front of it as one of the most si gna l i ns t ances i f h uman re to be open to the pu..,,, fatuity that we n eg l ec t e d t o p rov id e i n ti me f or 'I a should rather say to the such an emergency. "qw far such a consi- We have, in fact, no excus e t o o ff er f or our neg ,vertaxed people lect. Within the hounds of our o wn colonial ern we are pay pre we have territory sufficient to grow cotton for ,radon, a dozen worlds. Our East Indian empire needs .„ I only the helping hand of our capitalists to furnish us in abundance. Our neglected colonies in the West Indies, if provided with labour, could supply us to any extent required, and with a quality not to be surpassed. Every requirement there is ready to our hands. No railways—no canals—require to be constructed there. Labour alone is wanted; and only a mawkish sentimentality prevents its being supplied. In half a dozen years we might have in these noble possessions an active and numerous po pulation, raising for us the products of the tropics to' any extent required, and consuming in return British manufactures. But our folly prompts us to look in any direction rather than to that which own our fellow-countrymen as the proprietors of the soil. We have a grudge against them ; and we are indulging it to our bitter suffering and loss. It is obviously high time now that we set about repairing our past folly. Our present sole depend ance upon a single country would be unsafe in any case; and it is doubly so when we consider that our supply of cotton from America is liable to the casualties attending the institution of slavery. The mere contemplation of a negro insurrection in the Southern States is appalling; and who can tell how soon such an event may occur ? Exchequer " As to ti as that 13 estimat vote in a futt would be suffi Iv John Bull ! ry, tho There is one consolation, however, in the back ground. The ornamental flower gardens, to be found in the front of Buckingham Palace, the marble arch and all, are to be open to the public indiscriminately ; or we should rather say to the public of the metropolis. How far such a consi• deration will be satisfactory to the overtaxed people of the provinces remains to be seen. We are pay rather dearly for the decoration of London, amusement of its people, whilst we have 1 - of local expenditure to bear upon our quite eno leeting will be held in this hich raised in firm protest v, which has already well trade and the industry of 14ure to say, not be lightly portion of the commuity. We perceive that the Rev. Dr. M'Neile will preach this evening at Seacombe Church, in aid of the Church Mis sionary Association. THE ALBATILOSS.—This splendid vessel sailed from this port on Wednesday, for Australia. She took out 93 passengers—chiefly in the second cabin—and nearly 1280 tons merchandise. BIRKENHEAD.—The commissioners of Birkenhead are soon embracing the powers conferred on them by the new improvement bill. An advertisement in another column announces the sale by auction of some extensive plots of land. Yesterday morning, the pupils of Dr. Fisher's educa tional establishment were ably addressed by the Rev. H. H. Higgins. The lecture embraced the " Desert and the Delivery of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai." The next subject will be " Jerusalem." THE WEATHER.--We have had some seasonable rain since our last publication, but the atmosphere and wind were still cold on Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday, however, there was a fine soft and real summer shower about two o'clock, and the temperature has greatly im proved, being now mild or rather warm. Rain has since fallen, and vegetation is progressing with astonishing ra pidity, every thing having before been kept back by the extraordinary cold for the advanced period of the season. We look.witli strong hopes for a prolific agricultural year, especially if harvest tine be propitious. THE SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND AND THE ATLANTIC STEAM-SHIP: The money received from the visitors to the Atlantic steam-ship has been acknowledged by the following letter to the agents of that splendid vessel : " Liverpool, 27th May. 1830. " GENTLEMEN.—As treasurer of the School for the Indigent Blind, I have to acknowledge the receipt of the sum £73195. 3d., being the amount received for admission of visitors on board the steam-ship Atlantic. "At the same time, permit me to return you grateful thanks on behalf of the committee of the institution, and to assure you that they, and I believe the public generally, highly appreciate your kindness, as well as the great attention and urbanity of Captain West and his officers.—l have the honour to be, gentle men, your most obedient servant, "Messrs. Brown, Shipley, and Co." "THOMAS MILLS EPSOM RACES.-THE PROPHECIES AND LATEST BETTING The chances of the horses entered for the great Derby race were never more indistinctly shadowed out than we find them this year. We hear of "dark horses," of " trials" made in private; of horses defeated having run under unfavourable circumstances, and similar causes which soothsayers plead for differing with each other. We pretend to no opinion of our own upon the result of the race in question ; and shall content ourselves with giving the opinions at which the knowing ones, who pro fess to see into futurity, seem to have arrived. In Bell's Life, "Pegasus," a prophet well known to fame, places as first past the judge's chair for the Derby, Bolingbroke, with Mildew very little in his rear. The writer has shown his knowledge in horseflesh and turf probabilities of old ; and his opinion is not to be despised. The Era Rives another opinion. His favourites are Mil dew, The Nigger, Clincher, Bolingbroke, and Voltigeur. Of these, however, he places Mildew Nigger . Clincher Ist, 2nd 3rd, with the others well up. The same writer places for the Oaks Tiff, or Tingle Eliza Middleton . . __ Exotic Filly.. Ist, 2nd, 3rd. The Sunday Times places Mildew as first, without hesi tation. Clincher, Alavors, and Deicoon he considers will contest for the second place ; and Pitsford. Nigger, Bo lingbroke, and Nutshell will form the next division. LATEST BETTING AT THE ALBION HOTEL, LIVERPOOL. The betting at this hotel last night differed in no ma terial point from the London betting. Many of our men refused to accept Bolingbroke, as not being in their estimation a first-rate Derby horse. We have already declined giving an opinion of our own; a friend, how ever, who is well known in the betting circles, inclines that Pitsford, ridden by A. Day, will be first at the finish, with Deicoon, or Mildew, second. The opinion in ques tion is not to b• slighted, and that is all we shall say. Edward Lewes. Esq., barrister-at-law, is appointed to be secretary to the new Common Law Commission. THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB. On Friday last, the anniversary of her Majesty's birth-day, the opening cruize took place of the Royal Mersey Yacht Club. A number of the yachts assembled off New Brighton, about noon. The commodore, Thomas Little dale, Esq. hoisted his flag on board of the beautiful and highly successful yacht, Vision (45 tons), owned by Thos. Birchall, Esq., and a goodly company attended him. The rear-commodore showed his colours on board of the fine iron yacht Leander (32 tons), belonging to Hazlehurst, Esq. ; and the honorary secretary, H. Melling, Esq. navigated on one of his smaller yachts, the Gem. The fleet followed the commodore, and bore to the west ward,—the wind about E.S.E. The vessels passed round the Bell Buoy, and the view of the vessels at sea, and of the objects on shore, was highly interesting. About four o'clock a thunder-storm was witnessed, but it passed to leeward of the yachts. In running home, the yachts had a brisk beating wind, and their manceuvering was skilful and beautiful. Outside the little noble vessels were joined by many other yachts. In approaching to port, the breeze freshened, and the yachts looked admirable under their pressure, each of them " walking the waters like a thing of life." Mr. Ewart's yacht, the " Edith," did not arrive in time to join the fleet, from having gone on a distant cruize. In the Vision, in which was Mr. Bir chall, most of the gentlemen assembled after the uut, and enjoyed a delightful evening. THE EGREMONT HOTEL AND FERRY.—On the 13th of the present month, the opening of this elegant, com modious, yet economical hotel, under the new manage ment of Mr. and Mrs. Mansell, was celebrated by a superb dinner, attended by the most respectable gentle men of the immediate locality, and many of our first commercial men of Liverpool. Miles Barton, Esq., occupied the chair, and Harold Littledale, Esq., the vice-chair. Many loyal and national toasts were given and ably responded to; and amongst those which fol lowed was that of the veteran " merchant prince" and " navigator," the father-in-law of the vice-chairman, who feelingly replied. The health of Mr. and Mrs. Mansell was received with deserved applause, for we know of no host and hostess more anxious to please, or more polite and attentive to those who visit them. The hotel has been greatly improved and beautified, both within and outwardly. The establishment is extensive, and the accommodations are elegant and commodious, whether for a large ball or dinner party—a family desiring separate apartments, or a private individual seeking re tirement in his own chamber. The views from every window of the house, as well as from the terraces and promenades in front, are " ever charming, ever new;" the estuary of the Mersey and the town of Liverpool being within the immediate vista. Good bathing is at hand, and fine walks along the beach towards New Brighton. The western neighbourhood (Liscard, Wallasey, &c.) also gives this place of sojourn additional attractions, all presenting agreeable rural and marine scenery, possessing features of novelty and interest to strangers THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—These grounds never, we think, looked more beautiful and attractive than at present, and have but to be known to be visited and duly appreciated. Great improvements and replenishments have recently been made in the walks, shrubberies, and horticultural department, and also in the Zoological buildings, the bridges, &c. The main novel attraction is the beautiful view of Mount Vesuvius, which we have already noticed, and succeeding visits only confirm us in the opinion, that it is a most pleasing and masterly picture, faithfully representing the scene it depicts. The bay and shipping in front, and the numerous vessels on its surface, as well as the town, the towers, and fortresses, and the far receding mountains, overtopped by the giant mountain, which, from time to time, belches forth fire, projecting heated rocks into the air, and emitting lava that runs down the ravines in red and molten streams, form a truly magnificent scene at any time in the day, and is seen to peculiar advantage towards sundown. For our selves, indeed, we prefer it at the twilight hour, to what is called the "firing up," splendid though that be in pyro technic science. On the gala nights, in addition to an excellent brass hand, stationed in the music pavilion in the grounds, the admirable band of the 62nd regiment performed, by permission of their Colonel, in the Concert Hall, which is chastely and classically decorated, and they will again appear to-morrow night. We consider this one of the most effective and well-tutored bands in the kingdom, highly creditable to the officers who support it, and to the active conductor, who is evidently a man of high musical taste and acquirements. They play a charming succession of beautiful airs and pieces, showing brilliant execution, and astonishing variety and effect in piano and forte. Amongst o her new attractions, the skeleton of the huge elephant " Rajah," which it was found necessary to shoot in these gardens some twelve months ago, has been erected, in correct anatomical posi tion, in the house in which he lived and di e d. Thi s i s well worthy the inspection of all who take any interest in natural history. The putting of it together has been accomplished under the active and able superinten dence of Mr. Atkins, who is indefatigable in every de partment on the grounds, to gratify those who may visit them. THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE KING OF PRUSSIA.—For several days the wound of his Majesty continued to go on favourably, but on the 24th instant symptoms of fever, we regret to say, evinced themselves in the royal patient. The wound was slightly inflamed, but the King slept soundly. The Berlin correspondent of the Times gives the following particulars of the as sassin :—There is no doubt that the criminal is of un sound mind ; the fact is not deduced from his having made an attempt on the King's life, it has been long known, as the medical certificate on which he was dis . charged from the army is dated in September last, and describes him as unfit to perform duty on account of a " disordered mi nd," though he appears to have had in tervals during which his acts were rational enough. It i•is now ascertained that he must have contemplated the act, and all his preparations for it were well calculated ; nor had his outward demeanour any of that wildness which might have attracted attention. He has been practising pistol shooting for some time. For eight days past it is now recollected that he has been seen hanging about the railway station waiting for one of the King's many journeys to Potsdam ; his uniform enabled him to do this without exciting any special observation, it is so usual to meet the military everywhere; a civilian loitering about without apparent business would have excited much more suspicion. He has also been seen in the neighbour hood of the palace of Charlottenburg, watching in the same manner. In the midst of the brilliant fetes and banquets there, with which the Princes of the Congress were entertained, who could have dreamt that the maniac assassin was lurking at the gate, armed against the life of the greatest amongst them ? The following facts respecting the criminal's previous ca reer have been ascertained to-day ; his name is Maxi milian Joseph Sefeloge ; he is the son of en army surgeon; he was born in Wetzlar, and is 29 years of age. He was educated at the Military Orphan Asylum at Potsdam, and has served 11 years in the fifth company of the Foot Ar tillery of the Guard. On the 26th of October, last year, he was invalided on account of physical weakness, and a diseased, if not totally deranged, intellect. By special permission, however, he still resided in the barrack of the corps, and provided himself with a uniform. lb seems to have quitted the service with great reluctance, and made frequent attempts to be reinstated ; he was possessed by some extraordinary fixed ideas ; for instance, that he was the real inventor of gun cotton, and b a d been unjustly passed over in the distribution of prizes given for some peculiar preparation of that article ; he had a similar de lusion with respect to a certain sort of chocolate ; he had also a plan for founding an African colony with the help of the Bey of Tunis. On all these subjects he pestered the ministry, and it is said the King, with petitions and memorials it was impossible to answer, and the neglect of his repeated applications for reinstatement in the array, and patronage for his schemes, it is supposed exasperated a m i n d already crazed. THE UNITED STATES. The fast-sailing steam-ship Canada arrived in our river on Sunday, after a passage across the ocean of only 11 days, with advices from New York to the 14th of May, and by telegraph to the 16th. The Hibernia arrived at Halifax on the 15th. The American mail-steamer Washington would leave on her return voyage to Southampton on the 20th, and will probably accomplish a very rapid run. Much interest had been excited by her late passage of I 3 days out, not 15k, as previously reported. The Canada brings 118 passengers and the mails and files from the port of Boston to the 15th instant. She left Boston on that day, and called as usual at Halifax, on the 17th. Amongst the items of more than ordinary interest which are now to hand, we have rumours of a ministerial crisis having occurred at Washington. These rumours had been very general before the Canada left ; and as such an event had been anticipated for some time previous, they re ceived general credence. • The Cuban expedition, which had been crushed in the bud last year, by the promptitude and energy of the Pre sident, had been revived. Great activity prevailed amongst the volunteers, who were said to be most determined, in the carrying out of their object. Their numbers, already 6,000, were bEing added to daily. The officer in command of the expedition is General Lopez. The slavery discussion had not been brought to a termi nation in the United States Senate. The speech of the veteran Henry Clay had created great sensation amongst all classes in the Union. After a powerful attack upon the position of his adversaries, he showed the utter impossi bility of admitting slavery into a territory such as Califor nia, where the people of the country had repudiated it ; and with the utmost confidence of success he urged the adoption of the report. We regret to receive very alarming accounts of the ravages of cholera on the western rivers. The commercial news by the Canada is satisfactory. Business prospects in general throughout wore a cheerful and promising aspect, and for all legitimate purposes money was abundant at moderate rates. Washington accounts state that much of the interest created by Sir H. Bulwer's letter to Mr. Chatfield had died away. According to the New York Herald the note was received from a friend in Costa Rica, the post bearing it having been seized in Central America. From Hayti we learn that the Emperor was making active preparations for war with the south side of the island. Coffee was very scarce and high. Venezuela advices of the 20th ult. state that the Bri tish Charge d'Affaires had received a notice from British subjects in Venezuela, warning them against ennaging in the coal trade. Accounts from Havannah to the 14th inst. state that there hadbeen rain in the interior of the island ; the crops, however, promised fairly. From Rio de Janeiro we have detailed accounts of the sth of April, comprising the reported ravages among the shipping. It is stated that the disease had undergone no abatement. From this circumstance and the unfavour able weather the market for imports was dull. The stock of coffee was 50,600 bags of i3ev, but of or dinary quality. The new stock arrived slowly and was of poor quality. NEW YORK, MAY 14TH. CorroN.—There is a growing buoyancy apparent in this arti cle. During the week just closed, holders have offered less, and since the receipt of the Niagara's advices the improvement has been daily perceptible —so much so that it is not at all difficult to move large parcels at rates nearly half a cent higher than were obtainable a week since. The sales appear about equally divided amorg exporters, manufacturers, and speculators, who are again in the field, in the view of another short crop. Those of Wednesday last, Eth instant, were 1000 bales ; on Thursday, the day we received the Niagara's advices. 3,500 bales ; on Fri day, 2,600 bales; on Saturday. 2,700 bales; and to-day 1,800 bales. les. The total receipts of the crop at th e por t s, i s l,B Ba 48,0 corresponding dates last year 2,483,74 year before 2,029,2 The total export to Great Britaiiithis year, is ff last year..., year before.. to all foreign ports, this year 1,205,8( 869,01 1,166,1 E 27 lasf eai 1,71057: year before 1,365 , ,06: the stogc now at New York before and all Southern po r t s , is 494,74: last year f . The deficiency of receipts of cotton have now increased 635,0 Deficiency of exports to Great Britain And the stock of cotton in our ports just about theft last two years. year before gure olth In regird to the next crop, if we can yet apply that phrase tc a crop just planted, we furnish herewith a copy of a letter fron a reliable corespondent at Montgomery, Alabama, dated 7t' instant:—" We learn, this morning, that nearly all the Missi: sippi coast, south of Natctez, is under water, and Red Riv is rising very rapidly at th e l a t est d ates. All the cotton lar the lower part of this river. s, nfl +h. ilver, anu I,IIC dated. Add this to the very late and backward spring, and the prospects are not very flattering for the next crop; and in direct connexion, must make mention of the remar k a bl e co ld weather we have had the last four days—four Mackinaw blan kets at night, and overcoats up to eleven o'clock, were neces sary to comfort. I write this near a large fire for comfort. The weather is too cool for cotton to sprout, and frost, althoueli not plainly perceptible, was evidently near. This cold spell will put back cotton another week, in way of growth and vigor, and we would not De surprised to hear of frost on the hills back of this." We have before us numerous other letters, but as the backwardness of the season is a matter of perfect noto riety, and indisputably much greater than that of the last one, we think it unnecessary to add more. The closing quotations in the market were as follows : LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. also inun- Uplands. Inffrior 114 to lli Florida. None. 11 to 12 to 124t0-12 12 to N. Orleans, Mo bile, 4- Texas. . to llf to— Ordinary.. to Good Ordinary 11i to 12 12:1 to 12i Good Middling 12i to 12 to 12} to 1U to Mktuta.s iLZ LO •• • • to .... 13 to Fair 134 to 134 to —13 a Fully Fair 13i to 13a to : 13i to Good Fair 13a to to .... 14 to Fine. 14 to to —14 a Stock in city, in all hands, estimated at 120,000 hales. BREADSTUFFS.—FIour—SaIes embraces some 6,100 lbs., at 84 50 aB4 75 for No. 2 superfine ; 84 57 a .B's for common to straight State ; 85 12a aB5 25 for favorite State ; 85 25 aB5 50 for Michigan ; and .85 62} a£s 75 for pure Genessee. Sou thern flour was steady and in request, with sales of 700 brls. at 85 37a a 85 50 for mixed to straight brands ; and $5 75 a 86 for fancy d 6. Rye flour was less plenty, and held firmly at $2 91 a 83. Corn meal was in fair request, with sales of 300 bbls. Jersey at 82 94 a 3. Wheat—The market for wheat was slightly easier ; and we notice sales of 5,000 bush. prime Ge- . nesee at 133 c. a 134 c., and 1,003 bush. heated Western at 80c. Rye was a shade easier, with sales of 6,000 bush. at 59c., de livered. Barley was quiet ; KO bush. sold at 62c. Oats were lower, including river and canal at 42c. a 43c. ,• and Jersey at 39c. a 40c. Corn was something more weak, while the demand' for the East and for export was good, with sales of 51,000 bush at 59c. a 601 c. for heated ; 62c. a 623 c. for Western mixed, part to arrive ; 62jc a 63c. for western yellow ; 63c. for northern do. • 62c. a 63c. for flat and round white ; an d 6 3 a c. a 61c. for southern yellow. Paovisiorts.—There was increased firmness in the Pork market, and sales were made of 250 bbls. mess at .810 37ac. to krl 0 44c., and prime at kis GOc. to .B'B 75c. • of prime mess about 400 bbls. sold at unknown prices. Beef was Ilithout marked change, while there has be en no sale made worth no ticing. Beef Hams were as before. Cut Meats were very steady. About 3CO tierces good pickled Hams changed hands at fife. Lard was held very firmly at Gic., with sales of 280 bbls. and tierces, also 200 kegs, at 7c. Butter was more plenty, and prices, if anything, favoured pOrchasers. Cheese was qniet at 6c. to Bc. FREIGHTS.—There was a rather better feeling in the freight market for Liverpoel. The chief business consisted of cotton at 38. per bale. Heavy goods were worth 10s.—Corn 23jd., with more asked. Naval stores and flour were nominal. The steamer City of Glasgow took some pork at the rates of about 10s. per ton. Pork dues paid-100 bales of cotton were engaged in a sailing vessel at 3s. bd. NEW , MAY . The Niagara's advices have come to ORLEANS hand, but hare no marked effect on the market for cotton, prices for which re main much the same as before, though the rates obtained are very full. The sales are some 1,50 bales. Small sales of rice, at e 3 75. In flour, grain, tobacco, and pro%isions there is no special variation. TWO DAYS LATER. houlders On Thursda great port, the voice of it the insane pol nigh destroy Great Britain, It'Will no longer be in the power of flippant po liticians and Vieir insolent organs, to sneer at the cry for protection as one solely raised by the agri cultural community for their own exclusive bene- On this occasion we trust to witness the land the merchant and the T, the tenant-farmer, „Tether on the same platform, hold ng up to the world the fact that the legislation, which has depressed the condition of the former, has most grievously reacted on the latter, and asserting broadly the truth that no policy is just, or wise, which does not aim to cement together every class and every interest in one common prosperity. Nor will there be any difficulty in maintaining and proving such fact. We require no elaborately pre pared official tables, no garbled statistics, no blue books for the purpose. All that we require is palpable to practical men of business. It can be demonstrated from invoices of produce, for which a profitable market cannot he found ; from returns of sales, which record heavy losses to the exporter to almost every foreign country; from bills of lading exhibiting ruinous rates of freight; from awful penury and suffering to be found in cellars and garrets of our working population ; from our shops deserted of their customers; and from the striking confession which must be made that the vary class for whose imagined benefit we have brought upon the community this frightful mass of evil, are at the present moment plunged in a position of difficulty, from which only the inter position of a beneficent providence, and the merry of a rival country, can enable them to extricate themselves.. Let these facts be fearlessly made known ; let our merchant princes detail the sad experience of the last three years ; the fortunes squandered ; the capital wasted ; the railway Shares, the bank shares, depreciated one-half in value; the liabilities which hang like millstones round their . necka ; the debts irrecoverable, and the credit awl confidence which has disappeared from gawps tradesman met t TIE LIVERPOOL STANDARO. was Mr. Nelson. - The Governor states that Canadian securities are in better demand, and that they have risen in value in the market; that reciprocal trade with the United States is delayed, owing to the want of action on the part of Congress : that cheap and uniform rates of postage are required ; that the Assembly should be more numerously constituted than it now is; that public feeling is becoming more opposed to capital punish ment; that the Chancery practice of . Canada re quires improving ; that improved assessment and jury laws, and cheaper courts of justice are required. He states that the annexation movement is becoming unpo pular in Canada, and that neither the cause nor its advo cates will be countenanced in any manner whatever by the government. Up to the present time everything remains peaceful in the house. How long this state of things is to last may be judged by the following list of bills, for the introduction of which notices have already been given in the Assembly :—A bill to forbid the proscription of officers of the government on political grounds; to sub stitute for the council an elective senate ; to abolish the endowment of the clergy; to abolish the Courts of Chancery ; to abolish the law of primogeniture. Spring business has opened in Canada under favourable auspices. ARRIVED AT NEW YORK SINCE CANADA SAILED.— From Havre, the Minesota, Allan, and the Seine, Wil liams. From Antwerp, the Exchange, Marion. From Marseilles, the Flora, White. From Limerick the Ro binson. From Liverpool, the Andrew Foster. From Londonderry, the British Queen. Our southern telegraphic despatch reports the wreck and total loss, at Key West, of the Belgian brig Folkuts, from Hamburg, for Falmouth, loaded with sugar. NOTE FROM HALIFAX.—It has rained here in torrents for 48 hours, wind south-east and very foggy. LATEST INTELLIGENT E. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. A cabinet council was held this morning at the Foreign office. The Globe confirms the report of the Lord Chancellor's resignation with a significant intimation that " the retire ment will dispose the public mind to the consideration, undisturbed by party feeling, of the question of the separa tion of his lordship's political and judicial functions." THE DEE CONSERVANCY BILL.—At the meeting of the Select Committee of the House of Commons on this bill, this morning, the counsel for the promoters announced that the contending parties bad come to an arrangement. The principal terms are that the Dee Company agree that the tolls should be applied solely to the improvement of the navigation, to be administered by the Company, and account to be rendered annually. The Dee Company to take power to borrow £25,000 on bond for the purposes of the Act, and X 25,000 on the tolls—the latter sum to be expended solely on the improvement of the navigation; and lastly the Dee Company adopt the bill as their own. After the resolutions the Committee adjourned, for the purpose of the bill being reported, when its recommittance will be moved. FINAL DECISION IN THE GORHAM CASE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAY 27.—Chief Justice Wilde delivered judgment to-day in the case of Gorham v. the Bishop of Exeter. The court was unanimously of opinion that the Judicial Committee of Privy Council was the proper authority in whom rested the final appeal, and that the Upper House of Convocation had no jurisdiction whatever in such cases. The bishop's application for a rule was therefore refused. LATEST BETTING TATTERSALL'S, MONDAY DERBY —Bolingbroke, 4 to 1; Mildew, 6 to 1; Clin cher, Nigger, and Pitsford, 7 to 1; Voltigeur and Nut. shell, 20 to -1; Ghillie Callum, 30 to 1 ; Deicoon and Captain Grant, 40 to 1 ; Carriboo, Alonzo, and The Swede, 50 to 1; St. Fabjay, 60 to 1. No other betting. LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS.—YESTERDIA, Consols for Account, 96 ; Consols for MoneN 93,1 6 ; Three- its, 962 7 ; Exchequer Bills, 68 71 prem Mexicans, 30 i ; Russian 2f 3 prem.; Danish, 7, 34 3 ; North Staffords, 103 dis. ; Old Dovers, 134 144 ; Caledo ' " Eastern Counties, 74 ; Great Northerns, 154 144 ; Leeds Stock, 374 84 ; Do. Fifths. dis; Great Westerns, 55. i The English market has improved to-day, owing to the con tinued rise in the French Funds. Very little doing. The Railway market is firm for all shares to-day, and but a small amount of business done. Market very quiet heavy. Dutch Two•and-a-Half per Cents. better Mexicans LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY Supply of English anti Foreign Wheat scanty. Factors firm; but attendance of millers being small, the business as yet done is frilling, at about last Monday's terms. Flour purchased to a moderate extent, at last week's rate. Barley and Malt met a steady sale, and fully up to last week's prices. Beans and Peas sold readily, and as supplies are small, prices of this day week were readily ;d. Oatr .5 scarcely any on offer ; but of Foreign a good sprinkling of samples. Trade ruled firm at forrher terms. No change in Clover or other Seeds. English white Wheat, 40s. to 48s. ; red, 355. to 425. per qr. ARRIVALS British Wheal „ • Barley Foreign Oats, ~ Malt. „ Flo a u n r s sacks 11 isli'Malt SECOND REPORT. 17796 7514 27503 5143 scks. 756 brls. Trade has ruled very quiet for both English and Foreign Wheat ; but in others no change from 144 Monday. Town made Flour steady, but ship samples a shade easier. Barley and Malt taken in retail parcels at previous rates. Beans met a dull sale towards the close of the market, and ls. lower prices were taken, but Pease steady at full terms. All good kinds of Oats brought previous prices; but second kinds and out of conditioned parcels were slow at 6d. per quarter lower Nothing done in:Seeds. English white, 40s. to 485,; Ditto red, Us. to 435. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY, Coffee remains quiet but full prices maintained. 1,003 bags good ordinary native sold at 393 6d to 465. The public sales of Tea for to-morrow (Tuesday,) have checked the little business which was doing ; in the private market prices remain the same. Prices in Rice are looking down, but there is not mach pressing on the market. Cotton on receipt of the American adv ices a bi:sk demand was experienced forSurats, on account of 11Jan chester spinners, and sales early in the morning were made to the extent of 1,3C3 bales, at very full prices. The total sales of the day are 3,4C3 bales at rather stiffer prices. Scotch Pig Iron rather firmer. No. 1,45 s 6d to 465, and mixed num bers 45s per ton, nett cash. the Tallow market qoiet, but thin P.Y.C. on the spot 36s 9d to 37s Od, and for the last three months 38s 6d. The stock this day, 24,610 casks, against 24,760 . Delivery last week, 1,147, against 1,113 casks last year. North American and European Telegraph Agency, Halifax, Thursday Night, Mao 16. By special express a n d tele gra ph, we h ave advices L from New. York to a late hour this evening as follow : New York, Thursday Evening, Five p.m., May IG. A very brief summary of the Hibeinia's news was re ceived here at a late hour last night, and published by the Associated Press this morning. The telegraph report has unsettled prices of cotton, coin, flour, and provisions, and holders ere unwilling to sell except at a considerable advan‘ e. Merchants are waiting the receipt of their letters, which will arrive here on Saturday morning. Cotton could not be purchased now at a less advance than one quarter cent per pound on the quotations per Canada. The sales on Tuesday were three thousand, The American mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain \st, Wednesday four thousand, and to-day estimated at two leaves the Mersey, on her first return voyage to New Xork, to three thousand bales. Most recent southern advices to-morrow, and will carry out a fair complement of Cargo represent the growing crop as very backward ; but the and passengers. On Saturday the Viceroy leaves G a l way, weather is favourable. O ur l a t es t telegraphic accounts also for New York ; and will, probably, effect a tolerable from New Orleans aro of the 14th instant. A severe run. storm had checked operations in cotton ; but the market INQUESTS, YESTERDAY.—On view of the body of Jane ni mother, h h. b b e 01 0 . ,r n n e o , inn a fa g a ens settle t ft six ii in w d eiaen housekss Sts,. a j c o c hi i l d n e ,l3 n s o t c a sh l tu l o y rc ck o h. v ys e at r rr l ed a e, i t n w. _r b a y op pn h e e da r was very firm. The teal d e fi c i ency i n rece i pts of cotton is stated at about six hund re d an d t wenty- fi ve t h ousand bales. The Hibernia's news also appeared in the Baltimore in a rag.—On Maria M'Gantlin, five months old, found and Philadelphia papers this morning, and there, as here, dead on board the steamer Albert, from Cork to this port. stiffened prices for all kinds of bread stuffs. The deceased was smothered, the mother being so sea- There have been large oper a ti ons i n Wh a l e b one s i nce sick that sic could n o t a tt en d to i t. the Canada sailed, at 34 to 40 cents. Common Whale Oil MORE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—A new company, at 51 to 52 cents ; Sperm Oil at 41. 19 ' • United States ca llin g themselves the "British," are applyi ng t o p ar li a - Sixes, '67, 118 a, '6B, 1191, an d '62, 115 ; Pennsylvania ment for parliamentary advantages. It has been stated Fives, 961 ; Kentucky Si xes , 1091 ; Ohi o Si xes , '6O, that at the present m omen t there are in the United King than 2000 mil es are supplied with telegraphs, leaving 4000 110 ; Sterling Exch ange , 1091 to 110 k, i nac ti ve . At dom about 6000 m il es o f ra i lway open, of which little more New Orleans, on th e 14th i ns t ant , Ri ce was selling at $3 to 43.871 per cwt. without that facility. In addition to this, a great many WASHINGTON, Thursd a y, M ay 16.—Y es t er d a y, in th e important cities an d t owns are without the advantage of Senate, the report of the Compromise Committee was electric telegraphs. There are nearly 2000 miles of rail discussed at great length, but elicited nothing new. In way now constructing, besides 5000 miles for which acts the House, Mr. Bulwer's letter to Mr. Clayton, relative have been obtained, which at present are in abeyance, but to the reduction of the tariff upon British iron, &c., was which might with a single way and the, electric telegraph the only subject of debate of any importance; and that be constructed at from one-half to two-thirds of their derives its only importance from the decided expression of present estimated cost. The ne w company promises low er sentiment on the part of the representatives against th e rates of charge than those now insisted on. The prem. views of the British minister. ble of the bill has been passed in committee.—ln France Mr. Clayton and the French Minister have agreed upon a magneto-electric telegraph, the invention of Mr. Henley, an arrangement, by which the French Government becomes a party to the Nicaragua nuestion, up on the which is worked without batteries of any kind and at a fraction of the cost of the voltaic system, has been tried tame terms as the British Government. on the Paris and Valenciennes Railway with success. General Lopez, there is good reason to believe, has After a most satisfactory series of trials on the single dis tance, first with the full power, and afterwards with one . collected an army of six thousand men for th e i nvas i on of Cuba, and the expedition has, it is supposed, already twentieth of the power, the wires were connected so as to made a demonstration upon that island. Recent advice. treble the total length of wire, making 540 miles to an d from Havana state that the Government wou ld e ff ectually from Paris and back—the magnetic message bei ng com repel the invaders. A large naval for ce was concentrated municated through the first wire, back by the secon d, at that port. The cholera had subsid e d t o some extent, through the third, and back again by the ea r th, but was still very fatal. It has been suggested by the Edinburgh Pont, that the CANADA.—The Canadian Parliament was opened by office of poet laureate, now vacant by the death of Words- Lord Elgin, on Tuesday, at Toronto. He delivered his worth, could not be better and more appropriately filled , speech in English and French, an d it was we ll rece i ved b y than by appointing to it Professor Wilson the author of rt i lsle sash t Lio o fa f e,, P , a Wildl mlsTs32,r' North, tr, ;' ,: T a n ~h , ; Tutaai Cityifi; fights a full house. There were sixty members present, among 0 f As "Thec elod whom were Messrs. Papineau, Lafontaine, Mac Neil, e l w t o ah r ne k d s PS o f lneag genius e's' Prince, Perry, Merritt, &c. Twenty-four members were &mut at the --- or ganization— of the house, aokonet whom of untiYalled beauty, spleubltri. and MEM SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY, Beasts, 3,317; Sheep and Lambs, 22,850; Calves, ISO ; Pigs 320. Beef, 2s. 4d. to 3s. 6d.; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 48. ; Veal 3s. to 4s. ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 2d. ; Lamb, 4s. Bd. to ss. 4d. ARRIVALS, Holland Beasts, 150; ditto Sheep, 100; ditto Calves, 115; Scotch Beasts, 300; Norfolk and Suffolk - Ditto, 2,200. The supply of Beasts short. Trade more brisk, at 2d. per stone advance on Friday's pikes. Prime Scotch making 38. 6d. Sheep and Lambs also better. No alteration in Calves. 1 ' 1, 14, 4 .: ... , 0 1 t l . .. COMMERCIAL AND M0N_ .... 01 ' e Nigh ....------- 0 ti lreeNi gi , ads ' 11 RY in The Share market has been ste w bon ,t been supported by a continuance o i i ,„ e t HIS on the part of the public. It is (Pro , p fi r d o e p n e ce rty i , s res_o „,„ fe st given in this direction. nices t / is ne t Or! Pliole on i of this, gradually advance. Nye I h ivol 7 L a e ness of this day :7—Chester and so d ).!,; Y eonst . a and y th b e ei a n tbe g Lancashire Preference, 7 ; Le eds 91 d; 14y ki Ditto Halves, 18i; Ditto Fifths, tt - oao rt T rot . i l? A 8 6/3 d ; London Stock,lo3l ;P 1 o resal T ° l'i . el nti t en red ot: no t; t Jo in .. Midland Halves, 27- 8/9 d ; O s e -,.. 51- : Old Dovers, 13f ; Newcastle rm s.; , pc chara t, c The French affair is passing a lly . 1 b generally believed that it was o e „ en oo; got up as a feint to distract the Pl itt t o Parisians from what was Passi n g e soo! Deputies. In this light it was i l ir o has done its turn ; but that it rid conciling people's minds to .thefor ilia government are bringing forward b doub t ', universal suffrage we very on e " r e? market keeps steady, and Consols ire for 0 , all Saturday from 951 to f both co r, 300 ~ account. Our produce mark e ts since , rather an upward tendency , be? . of West India Sugar ha: 0 41; grocers, chiefly Barbadoes, at 35 ,-; ont i Benares, at 395. to 425. ; and 5 ,' B 0( 1 Mauritius, at 365. 6d. to 375., he ing o a cwt. on previous p r ices. For eeilL: e 9ut t is a fair inquiry, but the b e tter eol' o ., lower. In Rice there is nothing ne,,, c tio, Our Rum market has again bee nt i; e cout i we have no transactions to n', 3 t e tre de b: contract for 50,000 gallons. T" d tras'4 Brandies are more fi r mly held, IT z eo: limited. In Wines we have no a s ",ftbe '' The Canada arrived yesterdalt "" „ iced: by her are the worst we have yet retiel,' 0, in the receipts ar e 634,000 bales; t d , e ' t f id s' extraordinarily small, and prices, ietu, weather for the coming crop ha' A r 7 ,6 several districts continued so. Viz . have not affected the market muc h slightly improving the demand. . 1 t 8,000 bales, including 1,000 Brafi l ,, 1,000 Sprats : 600 for export, anu l d, . 1 0 0 On Saturday 5,000 bales were 5 2, tbi speculation and for export, die' t i mand was well suppli e d. tbs t 0 , The extraordinary information, 0 , Yankees, variously es ti ma ted at ul e s, o ; have chartered two or three stean to et il selves somewhere o u t o f the ter ri a iuir States, and were beli eve d t o be on th e ' • ,i' 1 cent upon Cuba, has crea ted quite t ' o f A' mercial circles, as the consequences, tbo; may be more serious than appears a' rot ti°, is understood that the Spanish g° ce , t hin t instructions to set the slaves free , 1, 09 would be a most sanguinary conflicid g ey improbable that the Americans w,°, 11 ; 0 0 9 and the example of a slave poPsin4 o3 , sing themselves to an armed bokeiitiou,y lated to infuse a spirit of insuboroli n f r otu'o coloured population of the State s i n ded„„'o disastrous results may ensue. " - ",, n 5F,,0 scheme considered that some Pe r t bo'o4 that the slave abolitionists are at tP" eu purpose of rooting slavery out of Il i tP 4 I)I America, the very prospect of sc h ' e t bell : _d paid twenty millions for abolishing t he rp, colonies, and keep a fleet eonstO i ce:, coast of Africa for the same pUrpo se ' g 01 plate. It would, cert a i n ly, by Pu i , tt ,: ri 'l cu;, ing, give our coloni a l suga r a a r c ed b: of cotton, as this arti c l e i s a ll preo ° " st ed , the States, would be effe c tually arc t ide In consequence of the Whitso,tel manufacturing districts, we have , by the Wool market, coup l ed bp - with tl i are kept back for our public sa les, whl e ,.. vac the 13th June, consequently there l' t$ nt „s Imports for the week ending 27th s le. Irish, 36; Scot c h, 173—t o t a l, 337 ", a it 3' Another of the markets for the„'igl production is being swamped by 1 °'",,, 1 the butter market. W e a lluded 5 ° progressive decline of other depar' vision trade, but of butter we -- n o largely, and the imports into Live r y I amount to 11,334 firkins, 355 croo' ,, s ,',J however, threatens this branch o 'lp been the panic created here by th e ,oP finest foreign butter is n ow sellinl o , l . I 665. per cwt., that a concess i o n of ', ful from the rates of this day week „h,,, $ business, and the top quo t a ti o n of life of Waterford and Carrick may be c ° , urinal. 'O l ~,., 1,1 e The arrivals of grain, &c., in n olh, and from Ireland, are still very i s o — br4 which we have a fair supply. I , ; ', I ',o` Europe about 10,000 qrs. of whe n nearly 2,000 qrs. beans, and 3, """tp moderate ra a i oo t dd t mdio e yen r rarsafbertordoefoum;a: reduced, owing in a tgo n dtnwh c ti e gehn . roag)acti to forwarded rrnt f rwhte l oean n rteg d dher i ee a eoda n cftto C 6o; o ; r ;io ° o4 ; qrs. against 19,000 exported to Irels e f or so that our stock of this article 1 1, 9 5 w existed for several weeks betwee n / / growing crops, which has continno - WAI night, has turned and maintained;gr t ii throughout England, Ireland, .., 0 °,1,111,0 the disfavour of the grower. P 4° `,,e -i rril of a bad harvest can turn the scalehtleAr this case the remedy would be as d a t e disease. Our letters of SaturdaY'? "0 1 1 j for wheat and other articles ; but in boleio of England and Scotland, and the ` c fjild a ,l and oatmeal, owing to the scarcity e hei bit,A has become of late years almost ",, pre A l sumption, have been brought rn' t ar,,,i', 4 'o than hitherto, and prices are gen er ':, o P');' is very little going forward to -day 'bau? and, although no material ehang e ptto ,it Friday, the trade exhibits rather a f ''' sf ee,, e l Scotch Pig Iron has advanced th',- I s 0tg,,,, for mixed numbers, 465. 6d. No. 1 ' ' a cl u ' Glasgow, and is now firm at th e " £4 10s. to X 4 12s. 6d., with little °`' .--.—.,--.----"—______---"' .cik'N'lll'ieQrw' 1 oz B olen , T f a n , I f I s t I t: '1 ; i : Ra . 4 1 : and e t , ilt r tf i qabil . 4 , 4, 88 1 1 ER / 1 b o ,he i o r t i i Aa ,te;:b0k11 lns 4 Preci se i [ ler t 41 . i- 1h . 112 te , i 1 3 1 1 . ! Lll,rt i --- Z" G . R .pk I ? 11 ,, 0 0;" c , 11 ii,l4 t v N I ~t 1 111,s, t ° ,,‘,, v. \ t 7ltre th:44: 1 11 of 200 el kit 4itts Niq.\ert'o•a, b • r 41‘U. A] tiltnen, "kr 41 4 r; TilD ti 7 th. L. 41hrien( Fi c i l tll e he( ':IJ4% ' , lr th -end i ,,, Nol: T all t I l' tl tt 1. 4 b IhS It ,e O , Att..l!l O A , The Marquis of Downshire has c „,iti' , 1 of the Royal Agricultural Society* , 0 ,",, m o H n e d r hAsaibeesetyn enteredelected t u o po s unctceheed3l34.l. figety, 5s Friday, and on Satu r d a y th e Prince 00i her 4th year. ~,, C e P i l YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BE''' r r ia - od directors intend opening the great - ece 5 :0,,1 at Berwick in June, all that is novce tro',"l7 it being the laying of the rails fort a, e , je 0 1 1 ' In the year 1849 there were nv A 5 re fi` lisions at sea ; and yet the numbers , g , in 1847 or 1848, although there 'se , 4 1,4 commercial tra ffi c. , nz io'l4, A young man named Cooper, h",, - c iesc ° ,, re London, who had for a long tinle e ",de te",:i fully to win the affections of a fel e ; pre;to ,vi attached, blew his brains out in ~b,e,.aol o r In his pocket was found a note a d 0 1 ° A , which he said, " I have made up al r` 0 f, longer without Miss Straker." i 0 ~o The Archbishop of CanterburY'dcoo t 4 address of the Clergy of the Arch3,,e', e$,,, P c1,,0 expressing dissatisfaction with tii r to, ' 0 „ ~,'' Appeal from the Ecclesiastical Cci l lot n 9 fl 7 , assemblinc , of Convocation, states . t ioa"fotl leave this l atter b question to the discre 04,17" and refers to the bill before rarliara, 4 neGwitCoolsu,TrtßofoArppLealoNaDscc:_culated t ° 0 f!i i i in the other case, order of the House of Commiteentils:,:issolljetliltriP4 number of new houses built f - ,01,0, 1 police districts, since the Ist ofJae o sa, i t o# ' present time, amounts to 64,( 0 5 ; - in 'de streets formed, to 1,652, 200 mile i. i crease of population within the sa l , OO ,lP V 1849, is estimated at 325,904; th e s ,;nt Zoo ;5 1 metropolitan district being nowrip,4,o THE HALIFAX STEAMERS. WO A 00 ward passage of each of the steatasw, l'i ( 10 ? Europa, 10 days 10 hours ; A teer a i ro, l il tis ? Canada, 10 days 22 hours; _.Nlagi o nist " e e Cambria, 11 days 10 hours ; " 1 `....1 e-- h ° o 6lf d . : Hibernia, 11 days 21 hours.-- A ° 0, 4 '0 —Europa, 9 days 11 hours • Allot 'lo' Canada, 9 days, 18 hours; ' ILig e rsia' 6', Cambria, 10 days 5 hours ; . 1 "" -- 4,1' Caledonia, 10 days 16 hours. Ai , 1.50 4 1 RAILWAYS AND ErraAmtl, ll- 511 Az Ao ti., proposed by a bill, brought in uT !O w e? i t n e t n e , r M ine r n . tGs,wthyant, incorporated r M p o r r a . L o a: r y;A r t , orte . , 0 .. ° , 3 . t 0 e3 6 01 blish cemeteries not more than a t i d pir et ioli f , the railway, to be consecrated 8 5 0 50 1) „per f ( trees; land to be purchased with pa ssset e o t way commissioners; the ordina l "' the ° id o l' charged to those going to and fron? , pe.r .j e 0 d to eb b e e n i t n u t r e e r s z:e n d o a t b e o x v c e ee a d n i o n t ic h , er Wi t tA in bY. I ' - 0 6'1 and the required capital to be ralhole'c, o n tha cco pe £2 per cent. of the capital of the 4.4r1r T i i I li t A 1.411 ti 01,0 qt„ lt AIA 4'l L t `‘): th. (1 N.fi', l !)4 D B e y a J con OS , H l T 17 E S LIvERPY 9, r ,11 PRINTED AND ril g aro y ::: -...." Y, MA ' / ,0050 11 4 EVERY TUESP.,I-tu"0 3 0: 1 4 LEONARD At Irders for Advertisements receive an no, Co., Warwick-smtare; Ba rker _..,,10 ..., B! Birchin-lane; Joseph ite Th Yn o e m li a 'C o ,his l i t i f li g lleP iy . .st f t Ai g den Hammond, 27, Lombard 1 ;1, court, Fleet-street; Lewis and ~. nee -JIT hill; at the London Commercial u,y,, 0 10 1 ,, , , . at the Jerusalem Co ff ee-house, ..%" d $OO7 , fr i g house, Paternoster - row; NortlZioss, yr, house, Threadneedle-street ;.,,,.`-,,, CloilletA London; Johnston and CO., Au__,,,, e . 11 I,isL O we) Exchange-street, and C. litY=tb, 54 ter; Haddock, and J. audvY W. 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