The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

Riberpool :7-)tattbarb. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. Monday Morning. HOWEVER numerous are the demerits of that rabble com monly known and recognised as " HER MAJESTY'S Opposition," and however anti-national they are in their schemes, their aspirations, and their operations, it must be confessed that they possess at least one English quality in despite of themselves—that of not knowing when they are beaten. They may repudiate British feel. ings—they may scoff at the British lion—they may jest at British supremacy—they may float the Union Jack, and ridicule the " flag that braved a thousand years the battle and the breeze"— they may withdraw all their affections and cares for their own countrymen to lavish them on foreigners, black, brown, and yellow—never theless they cannot get rid of that ineradicable JOHN BULLISH quality of being ever unconscious of defeat. It is, perhaps, the only thing truly English in its nature that still adheres to them, and therefore they should get fair credit for it. Let the faction have the benefit of this solitary national gift, and let them transmit their name. cg to future times, Linked to one virtue, and a thousand crimes." No, they don't know when they are beaten, or at all events they pretend they don't. They " assume the virtue if they have it not," and they have recourse to the most ingenious devices to persuade one another and the world at large that they are the victorious party. They marshal their forces with a rare genius for mystification, they mix up friends and enemies, they juggle with figures, they play thimble-rig with arithmetic, they twist the unfortunate simple rules of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division into such complex contortions, that COCKER him self could not recognise them. By the same black art which their great calculator, statist, and conjuror, MAC GREGOR made it appear on paper that the repeal of the Corn Laws would save the country a hundred millions sterling per annum. do they continue to make it appear also on paper, that her MAJESTY'S Government will be in a minority in the new House of Commons, and her MA JESTY'S Oppositinr in a triumphant majority. To be sure they can't agree as to what the assumed minority will be ; one sets it down at the small figure of four, and another insists that it will be above a hundred—a pretty consider able margin it must be admitted—but all affect to believe that somehow or other the Government will be short of necessary supporters on the meeting of Parliament. It would be a pity to destroy so agreeable an hallucination if genuine, and so let us allow the simpletons to enjoy the fancied victory until the hour shall come when the pleas ing assurance must he inexorably destroyed. 'We may however venture a glance at the queer array of enemies we shall have to encounter in the mellow month of October, or, as is now probable, the cooler and more comfortable month of November. Was ever before such a gang of ill-assorted, repugnant, internecine fellows pressed into our service I The sparrow and the hawk, the cat and the mouse, the lamb and the wolf, all lodged in the same tenement, present not a spectacle half so unnatural as this forced collection of creatures of the most opposite kinds, instincts, passions, and appetites. Only imagine the presumptuous, pugnacious. irreverent bully BRIGHT marching side by side in amity during the whole course of along session with the modest, peace-loving, respectable EVELYN DENISON ! Fancy that fierce little tiger-cat ROEBUCK, the inveterate assailer of the Established Church, and who would tear it to pieces with tooth and claws if he could, and trample it under foot, fraternising with the soi-disant pious Conservative GLADSTONE, whose ambition is to establish a Church paramount to the State, and to create a sort of Protestant Popedom in the QuEEN's dominions ! Picture to yourself the foul mouthed BERNAL OSBORNE and Sir BENJAMIN HALL, and MIALL, the Nonconformist, and Tom DUNCOMBE, the Chartist, co-operating with HARRY GOULBURN, with SIDNEY HERBERT, with Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, with Sir GILBERT HEATHCOTR ! Conceive the idea of the fiery, faggot-burning, furious zealot LUCAS, the recruiting-sergeant of the Roman Pontiff, laying down his commission militant, and taking humble suit and service under the excommunicated writer of the famous Durham letter ! Figure to yourself DUFFY of the Nation, the hero whose greatest boast is that he is a New gate bird of the blackest dye—the felon DuFFv—taking " the base, bloody," and unconstitutional Whigs under his wing, and protecting them from an ignominious end, at the expense of his own manhood and rebel-reputation! Fancy the nominees of Jony. of TUAM, PAUL CULLEN, of the rabid murder-exhorting priesthood of Ireland—the levellers of all that is established, the profaners of all that is sacred —coalescing sincerely and working harmoniously together with the respecters of the laws and with those who reverence our holy institutions ! The idea of such a combination is so preposterous, that the sane imagination cannot compass it. Yet this is the combination with which Lord DERBY is threatened. Such an opposition is less substantial than a rope of sand—it will prove to be a mere ignis fatuus, which will dissolve and vanish when- ever it is approached and subjected to the test of the senses. Already symptoms have appeared of discord and dissolution among the heterogeneous rabble—the con spirators are already at each other's throats. Some, and them the most respectable and independent, have pro posed to go over quietly to the side of Lord DERBY, be lieving him to be the only truly Conservative minister now possible ; but this will not suit the crew who are ravening for place and patronage. Others, perhaps the most sincere and honest, insist upon openly declaring war to the knife with the Government on the first day of the session ; but this course does not find favour with the Jesuitical rascals who prefer lying in wait and stabbing in the dark to a fair stand-up fight. They cannot resolve upon any plan of action, because they have no confidence in each ; because, traitors to the cause of truth and jus tice and national honour, they will be traitors to each other on the first opportunity that shall offer the chance of individual advantage. _ _ _ The common Old Bailey device, when al else fails to abuse your adversary, has been acted upon by pettifogging Whigs, Radicals, and Mongrels during the week with a vengeance; and the SECRETARY-AT-WAR has been the principal recipient of all the Billingsgate vituperation and slander that corrupt imaginations could engender, and vile tongues utter. One palpable mare's nest has been discovered at Derby by no less creditable a person than a fellow who swears he is " cousin to the honourable mem ber for Athlone," alias BILL KEOGH, the leader of the POPE'S brass band ; and a mare's nest that might, could, would, or should have been found at Carlisle, has been imagined by the creative fancy of the Right Hon.BARONET of NETHERBY. The dramatic FIGARO, the übiquitous fac totum necessary for the working of these little pieces of cunning invention, has been dug up in Shrewsbury, and, with charming poetic propriety, he rejoices in the suggestive name of " FRAIL." The virtuous public may imagine the torrents of indignation, the Niagaras of filthy abuse, that have been poured incessantly upon the de voted head of Mr. BERESFORD—the supposed "W. B." of the plot—since these notable discoveries. But what will the; virtuous public say, when they are told that the Member for Athlone is prepared to swear he has no cousin answering the description of the pretender at Derby, and that the said pretender has very lately made his exit from a lunatic asylum ? Why does not Mr. BERRSFORD more expli,:itly deny than he has done that he is the writer of the letter said to bear the initials, W. 8., may be asked by some simple minded individuals. The answer is easy enough—be cause he does not choose to reply to every madman's tale—because it is more amusing to let the plotters deve lope their slanderous machinations, and expose their malicious designs, in order to overwhelm them more com pletely with ridicule and contempt. " Frail" will turn out but a ricketty support to the villanous burlesque, of which KEOGH of Derby is the original author, and GRA RAM of Netherby the paltry adapter. But from even this piece of slanderous immorality, a moral may be extracted, and that moral may be briefly written. It is : " Frailty, thy name iS GRAHAM !" Talking of the Secretary -at-War, reminds one that the Editor of the Morning Chronicle has betrayed more passion than discretion in denying, in the most positive and discourteous terms, that he or any writer in his Journal belongs to the same club as Mr. BERESFORD, or that any one member of that or any other club indites leading articles for the Chronicle. Any one who knows anything of a London daily journal must k now th at t h e leading articles are the productions of many minds and hands, and that no editor, unless he were omniscient, could tell whether or not the numerous contributions to the paper under his direction belong to clubs or not. But will the Editor of the Morning Chronicle deny that the Hon. GEORGE SIDNEY SMYTHE—the rejected of Cante r b ur y—does not, or did not, write leading articles for th a t j ou r n al ? I apprehend he is the person to whom Mr. BERESFORD referred at the North Essex banquet, when ho said he thought it too bad that the man who occasionally sat on the same sofa with him in his club-room, should turn the conversation and infor mation thus obtained to an unfair use, and then slander - _ . . - and misrepresent him in the columns of an adverse poli- ' tical newspaper. Pirates on the Thames !—what an extraordinary an nouncement in these boasted days of progress, civilization, and everything that is superlatively admirable. Yet so it is. Truth, in this as in many other things, has found itself stranger than fiction. As Shylock says— " Ships are but boards, sailors but men ; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land thieves : I mean pirates." Who would think that between London Bridge and Sheerness, and within sight of Her MAJESTY'S squadron, a British merchant vessel would be boarded and plundered in blessed day-light, and in utter contempt of cruizers and fort guns ? Talk of impudence—if this be not the height of impudence, I know not what is. Really the boatmen of Southend have a " mighty purty" vocation, and this mode of life is ex ceedingly pleasant as well as romantic. Plunderinz vessels in the Thames must be a profitable employment, and far less laborious and dangerous than pirating in the Levant, or the Bornean seas. If it were legalized a bit, I should not mind myself turning Thames-pirate. With the isle of Dogs for a retreat, and the golden waters of the Thames, crowded with rich argosies, for a hunting field, one might manage to carry on a lucrative business, and pleasantly " practise as a sea-attorney." Art and artists have this week been thrown into a flutter by an announcement that reads so like a hoax that one can with difficulty persuade oneself that it is not one,—never theless it is a true bill. A. noted caricaturist has received an order from the " powers that be" to prepare a design for the new National Gallery. The present National Gallery, all will remember, is that absurd edifice with the mustard-pot and pepper-castors on top, in Trafalgar - square, which is the laughing-stoek of all who see it. It has been condemned by the public voice as a penal cell for the daubs of the Royal Academy, and a new one has been ordered. But, in the name of all that is rational, who do you think is, of all the artists of the day, selected to design the new gallery, which is to be a building worthy of tle empire and of the arts ? The late caricaturist of Punch, " H. 8.," whose sketches of distorted statesmen used to make us laugh some few years ago, DOYLE, the comic illustrator and humorist, is the man. Oh, shades of CHRISTOPHER WREN and of INIGO JONES ! Oh, body of Sir CHARLES BARRY ! To what a pass will architec ture be brought at this gate of going ! PAxTON, the gardener, turned into an architect of crystal palaces, was astonishing enough, but DOYLE, the caricaturist, transmogrifiQd into a designer of the " Temple of the Fine Arts" is the ne plus ultra of amazement. How ever, should he succeed in obtaining the commission, wo may expect to have a delightfully droll national gallery. We are a humorous people, and it is decidedly one of our humours to spend immense sums of money on the most monstrous and grotesque compounds of stone and mortar on the face of the earth. DOYLE is just the lad for our taste and money : he will " Fool us to the top of our bent." An absurd rumour has been just ventilated for stock jobbing purposes—that the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER is preparing a scheme for taxing Railway Com panies beyond what they now endure. There is no truth in it whatever. Mr. DISRAELI is really at work night and day at the Treasury, mastering the great subject of finance, and perfecting his forthcoming plan, but the public must wait till the whole is ready to be expounded in October or November. WHO IS TO BE THE NEW DOCK CHAIRMAN ? AMONGST the gentlemen named thus far to succeed the present Dock Chairman, when he vacates the office, in order to assume his future more important public duties, the name of Mr. J. A. TOBIN appears to be almost uni versally the most acceptable. Mr. TOBIN possesses the requisite energy, ability, and local and business know ledge, requisite for a proper fulfilment of this onerous charge. In his present position, as Chairman of the Watch Committee, he has won golden opinions from men of every party; and greatly contributed to bring the police farce of the town to its present high effectiveness. His eminent services as chairman of the special committee appointed to enquire into the accommodation to be pro vided for the shipbuilding of the port were regarded with much admiration ; and we have no doubt that, as Dock Chairman, his value will be equally recognised. ST. HELEN'S CANAL AND RAILWAY COMPANY. ANNUAL MEETING, YESTERDAY. The annual general meeting of the shareholders in this company was held yesterday, at noon, at the station at St. Helen's. THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1852. Gilbert Greenall, Eq., (chairman of the directory,) presided, and there were also present, Messrs. W. Fosbery, C. Holland, T. Kidd, S. J. Steers, John Smith, John Hodgson, directors; and Messrs. A. F. Jones, Jackson, Joseph King, William Houghton, Samuel Taylor, Robert Robinson, H. Gaskell Taylor, Richard Fildes, John Blundell, John Ansdell, &c. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings of the day, said he thought he should best consult both the pleasure and convenience of the meeting by pursuing the course they had always adopted on previous occasions; and there fore he asked Mr. Sinclair, the secretary, to read the report which the directors had prepared. Mr. SINCLAIR then read the report as follows The directors have again the satisfaction of referring to an improved traffic return, as compared with the corre sponding period of last year ; the increase in the gross receipts being £1,239, whilst the increased expenses have been £122, and the additional charge for interest and preference dividends £516, leaving a nett surplus of £6Ol, in excess of that shown for the first half-year of 1851. The gross revenue for the half-year, as shown in the statement of accounts circulated among the shareholders, is, £19,631 15s. 7d. : and the working charges, rates, taxes, and rents, £6,989 12s. Bd. or 35j,L per cent. on the receipts; leaving a surplus of £12,642 2s. 11d. ; deducting from which, for interest on loans, £2,314 16s. 2d., for renewal of permanent way, £350, and for additional works. £7B ss. 3d.—£2,743 ls. 5d.; there remains for preference and other dividends, £9,899 ls. 6d. ; out of which the directors propose that a dividend should be declared for the past half-year, payable on th 4th of August, of LI per old share, £1,200, of 10s. per half-share, £528, of £3 10s. per £lOO preference share, £5,040, and of 10s. 6d. per £25 ditto, £2,588 55.—£9,356 55.; leaving, £542 16s. 6d. ; to which must be added the balance left after payment of the dividend declared at the last general meeting, £684 9s. ; making a balance to be carried to the next account, of £1,227 ss. 6d. The number of passen gers conveyed during the half-year has been 145,247, being 21,082 more than in the same portion of last year ; while the weight of coals and merchandise conveyed has been 231,916 tons on the canal, and 241,350 on the rail way, together 476,266 tons, which is 25,497 tons more than the weight carried in the corresponding period of 1851. The various important works on hand have been vigorously pressed forward, and the directors have now the satisfaction of announcing, that the rails have been laid on the whole of the line from Warrington to Garston, and that the portion between Widnes and Garston, having been completed as a double line, was opened for traffic on the Ist of July ; the necessary ballasting has still to be done on the remaining portion from Widnes to War rington, before it can be opened for traffic. So far as an estimate can be formed from the few weeks' experience on the portion opened from Widnes to Garston, in the absence of any goods traffic until the completion of the dock, the directors are glad to say, the revenue fully bears out their anticipations. The importance of opening the dock as early as possible, more especially under the arrangements made, by which a large traffic is only wait ing their completion, has not been lost sight of, and the directors confidently expect that before again meeting you, these works, as well as the remaining portion of the railway, will be in full and successful operation. The directors have considered it advisable to secure ample station-room at the Garston Dock terminus, and to in crease the dock and railway accommodation, which they had formerly thought sufficient, both as regards the coal trade and goods traffic; they have likewise made provision for the most approved machinery for loading coals and transhipping merchandise at the docks, and a correspond ing railway plant will be required to work the large anti cipated trade beneficially. To accomplish these objects, and complete the Warrington and Garston Railway as a double line, additional capital to a moderate extent is requisite, and at the special meeting, after the termi nation of the general business, resolutions to carry this object into effect will be submitted to the shareholders. The directors have the satisfaction to state, that a large proportion of the company's debentures having fallen due, they have made arrangements for renewing them at 4 per cent. in lieu of the previous rate of 5 per cent., thus effect ing a large saving in the future nett revenue available for dividends. The following gentlemen now retire by rotation, but are eligible for re-election, namely—Mr. Fosbery, Mr. W. C. Fosbery, Mr. Hodgson, Mr. Smith, and Mr. Steers, being five of the directors, and Mr. Crosfield, one of the auditors." The CHAIRMAN then said it was his duty to move that the report and the half-yearly statement of accounts now read be received and adopted. He knew very well that the remarks which he felt it his duty to make on that occasion must be very much an echo of what the report itself contained ; and such figures as he found it necessary to call their attention to must necessarily have been men tioned in the report just read to them by his friend Mr. Sinclair. He could, however, indeed congratulate them on the account which had been placed in their hands to day ; and the reasons of his congratulation would be shown when he reminded them again that the gross receipts on this half year were £1,239 superior in amount to those which accrued in the half year ending June 30, 1851, and the profit they had at that moment was £6Ol superior to that of the corresponding half year. (Hear, hear.) The tonnage and the merchandise, too, it was his satisfaction to state to them, had increased very nearly 29,000 tons, and the number of passengers carried over the line had increased to the amount of 21,000 persons. The working charges, on the contrary, he was glad to tell them, for the half year had diminished from 37i per cent. to 35 per cent. ; and in calling their attention to the amount of their stock, he might say they were the owners of a very valuable property. If they looked over the schedule marked with the letter B, they would find that it now stood in amount at £31,005, whilst in 1851 their stock was only set down at £19,000 ; and yet their present stock, valued by Mr. M'Gregor at £31,005, had been estimated by others at a much higher amount. (Cheers.) On this occasion he was glad, too, that there was another agreeable feature in their pros pects, to which he had the pleasure of calling their attention ; and that was, that he hoped those now present who might meet at the next half-yearly meet ing, in that room, would then witness the works in which they had so long been engaged entirely, or very nearly altogether completed. Then they would know exactly the property they possessed, and then he was quite sure they would all admit that the directors, in their struggle to place this railway in the position it now occupied, had been throughout guided by a sound and clear judgment of what it was best for the interest of the proprietary should be done. (Hear, and cheers.) The Widnes and Garston line being opened, they had the opportunity of judging what the traffic on that line to some extent wauld be. They were now carrying over that line about 800 passengers weekly, and the meeting was aware that at present, the works not being completed, mer chandise would not form an element which could at present be used. But all those circumstances conspired to in duce him to tell them that if, from the first, he had expressed a hope that their undertaking would be a prosperous one, he thought at the present time he might speak with certainty and confidence when he said they possessed a most valuable property. The dock, he hoped, would also he completed before the next half-yearly meet ing. Every effort had been made with that view ; and those gentlemen present, who had inspected the works, must, he thought, have satisfied themselves that, when finished, they would have most admirable docks. Greater accommodation being necessary in consequence of the very largely increased traffic over that which they had contemplated, and in consequence also of the very favourable alliance they had made for the accommo dation of the coal trade with the London and North Western Railway,—such increased accommodation would, of course, be attended with cost, and that would conse quently have to be provided for. Another circumstance which he called their attention to was, that they had re duced, upon an amount of £BO,OOO, the interest which they had been paying, from 5 to 4 per cent. That amount of £BO,OOO was all the directors could deal with at that moment, in consequence of the form in which the money was borrowed; but he thought the time would very briefly arrive when the interest now paid on those other sums would also be very materially reduced. (Hear, hear.) The meeting would find an account under the head of additional works ; those works consisted of siding and accommodation, and had been paid for up to the present time out of the capital. The directors now thought it was time these works should bear their own cost; and they had determined to deduct such an amount from revenue as would enable them to wipe off all those amounts in ten years. Gentlemen who referred to the accounts would see that, after they had paid on dividends £9,356 ss. Od., they had in hand a sum of £542 16s. 6d., to which must be added the balanceleftafter paying the divi dend declared at thelast general meeting of £68495.. making a balance to be carried to the nextaccount of £1,227 ss. 6d. The directors knew there might be on the present occa sion a larger dividend than ss. in the pound ; but they also thought it was advantageous and judicious not to do so ; since their works being very nearly completed, and universal experience showing that works when first opened did not immediately come into fully productive play, the board considered it much wiser to reserve a fund in hand to enable them to keep up, what they felt confident they should keep up, an equality of dividend. (Hear, hear, and cheers). They knew them selves they were not a speculative Railway Company. Those who had the honour of being associated with this company had been connected with it for a very long time, and knew that nothing like an element of speculation had pervaded the board ; they were determined, as he said before, to keep up an equality of dividend, and they knew well enough, by past experience, when there was a reserve fund, it was no unpleasant thing, as they had done for merly, to say to the shareholders, " Well, gentlemen, we have kept your money up to the present moment, and now you may have it." (Hear, hear.) After ex pressing a confident hope that the directors would he enabled to adopt a similar gratifying course with the present reserve fund, the chairman thanked the meeting for the patience and kindness with which they had listened to his remarks, and said he had only one other subject to which he felt it necessary to refer. He knew that there was a good deal of interest felt about the Garston property. The directors did not think it would be wise or prudent to lay before the shareholders fully the whole circumstances atttendant upon that purchase. All he could say was, that their directors did most wisely to secure that property ; that it was a most valuable pro perty; that all they had done in the neighbourhood hitherto had tended to increase its value most wondrously ; and he really believed that, in that property, the proprietors had a possession which would, at no very distant day, prove itself an item of extremely great importance in the ac counts which would come before them. (Hear, hear.) Ile concluded by moving the adoption of the report and the accounts. Mr. JOHN ANSDELL seconded the motion. Th to e t C he H e A ff l eff ec t A t h N a , t i s n o m e reply c t m o p a a n remark r r from d Mr. Jack son money a 3 and 31 per cent., observed that he did not intend, by mentioning they had reduced their rate of interest on the £BO,OOO from 5 to 4 per cent., that they would not endeavour to reduce it still more. The remark of Mr. Jackson had not been lost sight of, and the board would be happy to get money at 2/ per cent. if they could do 60, (Hear, hear.) Th report and accounts were then unani. mously passed. The dividend recommended in the above report was then sanctioned by the meeting, on the unction of Mr. John Hodgson, seconded by Mr. Robert Robinson ; and the retiring directors were re-elected on the proposition of Mr. King, supported by Mr. R. Fildes. The re-ap pointment of Mr. Crosfield, as one of the auditors, was also unanimously passed. A desultory conversation then took place as to the accommodation to be given to passengers at the different points along the line just opened, and it terminated in the assurance of the board, through their chairman, that every attention would be paid to the subject. A code of bye-laws having been confirmed, the business of the general meeting was concluded. THE SPECTAL ,GENERAL MEETING. The CHAIRMAN said they would next resolve them selves into a special general meeting for the purpose of the creation of fresh funds for the company. He regretted very much his friend Mr. Wm. Fosbery was, by ill health, prevented from being present, for he had taken a very active part in this question, as Chairman of the Finance Committee, and had prepared himself to have laid before them the whole of the financial affairs of the company, and to have given his opinion on the subject they were now about to discuss. In the absence of Mr. Fosbery, however, Mr. Holland would bring the matter before them, and explain to them the reasons and feelings of the directors in the course they now recommended to the proprietors. Mr. C. HOLLAND, in dealing with the question of the additional capital which the company required to finish the works they had now on hand, explained to them that it was impossible for the directors, when they created the 6 per cent. shares, to exactly estimate what would be the cost of the dock„ works, and line from Garston to War rington. The directors found themselves now with esti mates to finish the works, which would exceed, by about £50,000, what they had originally intended to have expended upon them. But he was himself perfectly satis fied, and so was, he believed, every member of the board, that they had done very wisely in making this additional outlay of £50,000 in the estimates, for which they had secured very much greater advantages than they originally contemplated in their scheme. Of the items which had constituted this additional outlay, the first and most im portaat one was the extra space they had given to the dock accommodation. On the suggestion of Mr. Court, they at once saw the great advantage and expediency of enlarging the dock now, rather than leave it to be en larged at a future time, when it must of course be done at a very much increased expense compared with the cost of the enlargement at the present time. So soon, therefore, .as they had made what he considered a very advantageous alliance with a neighbouring com pany, and so soon as they felt themselves confident that they could command a traffic larger even than they had at first indulged in anticipating. they at once concurred with Mr. Court, that it was true economy to make this dock, in the first instance, of such capacity as, at all events for a few years, would meet the increased demands that might be made upon it. They had, therefore, increased the dock from four acres and a fraction to about six acres; and the additional expense incurred for additional land they had taken for the dock and an additional entrance for small flats, was estimated at from £20,000 to £30,000. After all, the execution of this work would be completed at a cost unparalleled in dock annals. They would have a dock of six acres, at a cost of somewhere about £lOO,OOO more or less, in cluding the land for the wharfs, quays, &c. The cost of this dock must be deemed ridiculously small, compared with that which it was understood was the expense at Liverpool ; for, taking all the data that could be collected on the subject, it was estimated that the docks in Liverpool do not cost less than £50,000, on the average, for the acre of dock space. Thus, he thought they would admit the directors had acted wisely in at once shaping the docks for such additional accommo dation. They next considered the question of the ma. chinery around the docks, and all the requisites for carry ing on the trade with the greatest convenience to the trader, and the greatest economy to the company itself. The estimated cost of this machinery for coal drops, &c., was £15,000 ; and for the additional plants for working the greatly increased traffic they now anticipated, they calcu lated an outlay of £20,000 would be required. In addi tion to these estimates, there was the probable expense of the contemplated junction at Sutton, £5000; and there was some additional land they had taken on the line to Warrington and at the terminus at Garston, valued at £lO,OOO or £15,000 more. Thus, if they turned to the account laid before them, they would find the present outlay on works in operation, in round numbers, to be £470,000; and if to this were added thecostof theadditional plants, and of the new junction at Sutton, about £30,000, to which he had alluded, it would make a total of £500,000. Again, if they added to that sum the outlay on new works at present, £200,000, and the extra outlay completing the railway as a double line, enlarging the dock to six acres, and other expenses, £50,000, they would find the total expenditure then brought up to about £740,000 or £750,000. They would, therefore, have to create an additional amount of about £50,000 of new stock, in order to complete all these works, and bring up the amount of capital to £740,000 or £750,000. The directors, however, proposed not merely to create this addi tional amount of new stock, but likewise to cancel the whole of the six per cent shares still unissued, numbering about 1290. These propositions would ren der it necessary to create additional capital ; and to raise that capital, about £120,000, he proposed to issue 4,800 shares of £25 each, which would enjoy a pre ferential dividend of 44 per cent. per annum. Mr. Hol land then entered at length into the present position of the company, and showed by carefully -prepared estimates, that after paying all their fixed charges, when the works were completed, they would have an amount of dividend left which would very far exceed anything they were now paying. He then read a string of resolutions, for the purpose of raising the additional capital of £120,000, ex plaining their purport as he proceeded, and adding, that the result would leave the amount of present capital to be £399,635 ; new ditto, £120,000 ; loans, £233,100 ; total, £752,735, He concluded by moving the subjoined pro positions : " That it is expedient to raise an additional capital not exceeding £120,000, under the power and authorities conferred on this company, by virtue of the St. Helens Canal and Railway Act, 1816, and the acts incorporated therewith ; and that such share capital be, and the same is hereby created accordingly. That such capital shall be raised by the issue of 4,800 shares of £25 each, and that such shares shall be entitled to fixed dividends, at the rate of four pounds ten shillings per cent. per annum, from the respective times of payment of the various instal ments thereof, subject to the following conditions:—That the holders of such fixed four-and-a-half per cent. shares shall be entitled to an option within seven years, from the 2d August, 1852. to exchange the same for rat=able ordi nary shares or stock of the same amount, by notice to be given in writing to the clerk of the company. That the company shall be entitled, from and after the 2d of August, 1859, to redeem and pay off at par, any of the then existing four-and-a-half per cent. shares, upon giving one year's previous notice in writing to the holders thereof. That such new shares shall be offered to the existing share holders in the company, in rateable proportion to their present shares, on condition of the payment of five pounds per share, on or before the second day of September, 1852, and of the remaining instalments, as the same shall be called for by the directors, provided that such instalments shall be made payable at intervals of not less than three months, and that no such instalment shall exceed £5 per share. That any shareholder accepting such new shares, shall be entitled to pay up the whole amount thereof, in one sum, and shall receive the fixed dividend of four and half per cent. on such' whole sum, from the date of payment thereof. That any shares not accepted by the existing shareholders, within one month after Ow offer thereof, shall be disposed of by the direc tors, in such manner, and at such times as shall seem to them expedient." Mr. lons HoncsoN, in seconding the resolution, thought the company would never be able to redeem any of the new shares after the lapse of seven yezrs, because before that time they would long have been converted into stock. The resolution having been agreed to, after some un important conversation, thanks were moved to the directors, to Mr. Sinclair, the secretary, and to the auditors. Mr. JONES, in acknowledging the last vote of thanks, observed that in his experience no railway ever held such a position as this one. During two years shares were quoted from 15 to 16; twelve months ago they stood at 48 and 50, and their present position was 76. Such a rise was not, he thought, to be met with throughout the whole railway business of the kingdom. (Hear, hear.) Thanks were then voted to Mr. Whitley, the solicitor to the company, and to Mr. Court, on the proposition of the Chairman, after which the shareholders separated. INQUESTS, YESTERDAY. On the body of John Sabell, an old man aged 60, who had been formerly a commercial traveller, but who had latterly lodged at 22, Woodstock-street, along with his wife, who was quite helpless. They lived on the bounty of friends, but the deceased, whenever he could procure money, was constantly drinking. On Saturday evening he was found dead in bed. Verdict, " Died by the visi tation of God." On the body of William Christian, who jumped over board from one of the Woodside boats as she was crossing the river, and which was picked up about half-way be tween Liverpool and Runcorn, floating on the water. The deceased, for several days previous to his death, had been drinking heavily, and was in a state of delirium tremens. Verdict—" That the deceased drowned himself in a fit of temporary insanity." On the body of a man unknown, who was found float ing in the river off the Magazines. He was sft. 4in. high, and had on a kind of spotted waistcoat, in the pockets of which were found one sovereign, three half-crowns, one shilling, a copper token from some shop in Cork, a key, and a knife. Verdict, " Found drowned." On the body of Patrick Glynn, a young man, who came from Ireland last Monday, for the purpose of emigrating to America. On Saturday he went on board the Benja min Adams, lying in the Nelson Dock, along with his sister, where they had taken berths. After getting their luggage on board, the deceased assisted some of the other passengers, and while coming up from the hold, he gave way for a female to pass him, and, in doing so, over. balanced himself, and fell backwards into the hold. He was removed to the Northern Hospital, and died the next morning, of congestion of the brain, superinduced by the injuries received by the fall.—Verdict, accidental death. CHILD FOUND.—On Saturday morning, the body of a fine full-grown female child was found in a field near West Derby Workhouse. From the evidence of Mr. Kemp, surgeon, it appeared the deceased was born alive, and bad died of congestion of the lungs. The inquest was adjourned, to afford the police an opportunity of trying to discover the child's unnatural parent. THE SHIP THORWALSDEN, which was despatched on Thursday last, for Melbourne, by Mr. J. M. Walthew, took out 280 emigrants, chiefly first-rate mechanics and artisans : not a single berth was empty, and so complete were the arrangements, that the passengers took the op portunity of sending by the tug-twat a note of thanks to all under whose management the equipment of the ship had been placed, MEETING OF THE TIMBER TRADE. An influential meeting of gentlemem engaged in the timber trade of this port was held on Saturday morning, at Messrs. H. Steele and Co.'s office, Brunswick Dock, for the purpose of considering the question of the high rates of inward carriage paid here, as compared with other parts of the kingdom. Mr. H. Holland was called upon to take the chair, and amongst those present were— Messrs, Chaloner, Carter, Ewing, Fleming, Smith, Wat son, King. Bennett, M'Murdo, H. Steele, Anthony, Halhead, Bland, Pearce, Mercer, Lord Smith, jun., &c. Mr. Fleming (of the firm of Chaloner and Fleming), who was called upon to bring the subject before the meeting, entered into a statement from figures received from Mr• Braithwaite Poole, to show that the cost of carrying tim ber to and from some other ports was much less per mile than to and from Liverpool. He remarked :—" Mr. Poole says that by rail from Grimsby to Manchester is 107 miles, and the rate at the present time is 10s. per ton. The distance from Liverpool to Manchester is 31 miles by rail, and the rate is 7s. 6d. per ton. By water carriage (canal) from London to Birmingham, the distance is 160 miles, and the rate is 10s. 6d. ; it is 112 miles by rail, and from Liverpool to Birmingham 98 miles, and the rate is lls. From Liverpool to Manchester is 48 miles by canal, and the rate is 7s. 6d. There is thus sufficient inducement for this meeting to endeavour to get the rates set straight. He had made a great many enquiries as to the ratcs between other places, which he laid before the meeting in a form which would enable them more conveniently to master the facts. From Liverpool to Manchester be found the rate was 21d. per ton per mile, and from Hull to Manchester only led. per mile. After some conver sation, Mr. Chaloner moved the appointment of a:com mittee to collect evidence upon the whole subject, - and suggested that if a memorial were presented to the Earl of Ellesmere he would at once meet their views. Mr. Steele and other gentlemen thought that the railway com panies would be the most likely to do so. After some further conversation, the resolution appointing a com mittee was put and carried, and a subscription entered into for the purpose of carrying out the views of the meeting. LICENSES.— We understand there are nearly 200 ap plications for new licenses within this borough, for con sideration at the annual licensing session, to be held on the 30th instant. THE SPLENDID SHIP MINESOTA, for Australia, has been placed in a berth in the Salthouse Dock. She is a beautiful craft, and the manner in which she is being fitted by Capt. Allen, who has had gyeat experience in passenger carrying, is such as will no doubt meet all the requisites of a voyage of such duration. The rooms are to be capacious, light, and well ventilated. She is the first Australian ship of Guion and Co's New Line. EASTHAM FEERT.—The late propitious weather has attracted hundreds of visiters to view the lovely scenery in the vicinity of Eastham ; and so altered is the channel, that the difficulties of landing and embarking at low water are now almost entirely removed. During the past neap tides there was at least on the fore shore twenty feet more water than during any summer for years past. Two of the fastest river boats are now running to and from East ham every hour. IcEs.—The public were warranted in declaring that in his pine apple ices Mr. Feeny had excelled himself. A more delicious production of gastronomic skill and taste we conceive to be " impossible." That the word, how. ever, is not in the dictionary of this eminent restaurateur, has been proved during the past week to all who have tasted his latest and greatest novelty—the " Vanilla Ice." The most voluptuous of the Roman emperors would have given a province to Feeny for this exquisite article. DEATH FROM VIOLENCE.—An inquest is to be held this day on the body of a blacksmith, named Charles Black, who met with his death under the following cir cumstances.—On Monday last the deceased was at work in his smithy, when a person named Sanderson went in and began to use a hammer improperly. He was told to desist, but refusing, he was turned out. After this, he kicked the deceased (who was stooping to shoe a horse) in the eye. Black immediately complained of pain at the back of his head, and went home. Next morning he was worse, and Dr. Arnold was called in, but the deceased died of the injury on Saturday, and Sanderson is in custody. AN ALARMING SACRIFICE !—Matrimonial " sacri fices " are by no means new to us. Almost daily are we hearing of somebody or other of our acquaintance having " thrown himself away," as our informants phrase it, on the Hymeneal altar ; and with the feminine converse to this our ears are scarcely less familiar. But the following instance we certainly were unprepared for, and, with a ll our experience, it has qu ite unnerved us. We stumbled on it lately in one of those interesting sheets, the"Times' S u pplements," where, with an address as voucher, it stands authentically recorded thus :—" SACRIFICE.—For Sale, in consequence of a slight domestic difference, a very superior and well-bred gelding, new Newport Pagnel cart, and plated harness ; also a thorough-bred hack, with bridle, saddle, and clothing. The above cost a gen tleman a hundred guineas within the last two months, and no reasonable offer will now be refused." Of " do mestic differences," we are, perhaps, not utterly unquali fied to speak, but we must confess that the above quite passes our experience. We are morally convinc e d, in deed, that our darling Judy could never so inordinately "differ" with us, as to occasion the necessity for our clearing out our stables in such a horribly wholesale way as this. It really reminds us of Hercules and the Augean Stud. And to think that with these tremendous conse quences, the " difference" in question is absolutely reek oined , slight"! Si ncere l y d o we p i ty th e un f or t una t e gentleman" who, by painful compa r ison, is forced to IT' so. If , this be a s p ec i men o f hi s " s li g h t d omest i c differences, ' ate i Ti . ble problem at onc e sug gests itself, which the martial round instinctively shudders to solve ! Punc4, COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS. MONDAY NIGHT. WE have had a slight increase in the quantity of Bullion at the Bank, amounting to L 76,671. This small sum is, however, sufficient to show that there is no prospect at present of any serious interruption of the influx of Gold to this country. We are far from entertaining the opinion that such a contin gency, with all the fearful results which have as usual flowed from the preventive efforts of the Bank, cannot again occur, notwithstanding the immense increase made to the stock of the precious metals throughout the world. And hence we can not, like some persons, bring ourselves to believe that the vicious principles of our monetary system have been removed by the discovery of the Aus tralian and Californian deposits. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 24th July gives the following re sults when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .. £2,802,361; Decrease £275,509 Other deposits .. 15,464,288 ; Increase 749,200 Rest .. 3,194,140; Increase 3,662 On the other side of the account — Government securities £13,784,546 ; Decrease 195,070 Other securities.. .. 10,782,182; Increase 110,280 Notes unemployed .. 12,476,665 ; Increase 565,290 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,231,410, being a decrease of £516,325 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £22,065,349, show ing an increase of £76,671 when compared with the preceding return. The reactionary decline in prices in our Share Market, noticed in our last publication, has con tinued during the greater portion of the past week. On Saturday afternoon, this received a check, from the extent of the fall having induced a resumption of the buying on the part of the public. This has been continued to-day, and the tone of the market is consequently very firm, with prices showing an upward tendency. The traffic returns continue to contrast favourably with those of previous years. Mining Shares are firm, but are little dealt in. We annex this day's quotations :—Chester and Birken head £22, ; Eastern Counties, 111 1 -1; East Lancashire, 181 19 1- 19 181; Lancashire and York shire, 841 4 ; ditto fifths, 31d; London stock, 1314 4 1 30+; ditto new quarters, 32+; Sheffield stock, 341; Midland stock, 77 7 ; North- Western, 9 ; Oswestry and Chester, 15 ; Dover stock, 22c 13 i York and North Midland, 271 ; Demerara, 71; Dutch Rhenish, 216 ; Royal Insu rance, 15.16 1 1-16 15-16 1p; Pacific Steam Com pany, 841. The past has been a quiet week generally, and prices of our leading articles of import, such as SUGAR, COFFEE, and TEA, have been barely sup ported. DYES generally have maintained their value. COCHINEAL is again quoted higher; but INDIGO is 2d to 4d per lb lower. COTTON con tinues in fair demand, and is attracting the atten tion of speculators. Prices are moderate ; the consumption is large, and the American crop is in port, so that all parties can foresee no probable supply to the end of the year. By the steamer Canada, which vessel arrived on Saturday, there is little new. The prospect of the coming crop was good; but the effect as to probable prices must de pend upon next s'ear's consumption, not this. The prospects for our own harvest are excellent, and the intelligence received from most foreign countries unusually favourable to a large supply. There are rumours respecting the Potato disease, but they should be received with great caution, as we have never had a year without more or less disease at this period. PRODUCE.—To-day, the markets for most sorts of Foreign and Colonial Produce are steady. For SUGAR the demand has been good, and the sales, since the publication of the Brokers' Circular, reach about 500 hhds., of which there were 80 Barba does, at 325. to 388., 250 hhds. St. Lucia, at 30s. 3d. to 325., 30 hhds. Vacuum Pan Demerara, at 345. to 395.; also, 700 bags Dates, at 345. 6d. to 385., and 160 bags good brown Pernams, at 19s. per cwt. The COFFEE market is steady, and we note sales of 120 bags Costa Rica, at 48s. 6d. per cwt., and 180 bags Sincapore, at 355. 6d. to 38s. The market for TEA. is without animation. About 80 puns. Deme rara Russ are reported, at previous rates. 90 cases of CASTOR OIL have changed hands, at 31d. to 4,1 d. per lb. 100 bales first-class damaged MANILLA HEMP, at £42 per Cwt. COTTON.—The sales of Friday, Saturday, and to-day are about 28,000 bales. Speculators and exporters taking fully 1,000 bales. The market closed firmly with a hardening tendency. Wool..—We have before us several of the monthly Wool circulars, published by our leading Liverpool brokers, which concur in stating that the demand has been good, though transactions have been limited in part by the elections, and the public sales which have been going on in London, and with respect to some descriptions, by the inadequate supply in the market. Messrs. Hughes and Ronald state that— " About 1700 bales were offered here at auction on the 27th ultimo, chiefly low Wools, of which 1200 bales were East India : good qualities being scarce, brought extreme prices, prime white as high as 100. per lb., which was equal to the highest price lately obtained in London : other qualities were less sought after, but on the whole prices were about the same as the late London rates. About 50 bales Buenos Ayres, chiefly middle qualities Mestizo, brought 71d. to 11d. per lb., and 2 bales pure bred Saxony rams Is. 9d. per lb. A few lots of Spanish border Wools, R's, sold from 141-cl. to 170. per lb. ; most of the lower kinds of Lisbon were withdrawn. 12 bags of assorted white Oporto fleece brought 10Id. per lb., but the rest of the fleece were taken in." The public sales in London, which will continue till the 6th instant, were not going on with the same spirit as the previous sales; and prices there were generally quoted lower, more particularly of the finer sorts, from is. lod. per lb. and upwards, which, being scarce at the last sales, were sold higher in proportion. The decline on these sorts was from id. to lid. per lb. The trade both here and in London is generally regarded as being in a most healthy state. Messrs. William Greame and Co. state of the import : The imports from all quarters continue very light, and up to Ist July fall considerably short of those of last year (East India excepted, of which there is an increase of 6,410 bales), say in Australian and Cape Wools 25,510 bales, and in Foreign 20,373 bales, making a total deficit of 39,473 bales, during the first six months of the present year. (From Messrs. Josh. Robinson and Co.'s Circular.) OlLS.—There has been an active demand during the month for all kinds of Olive Oil, and prices have advanced .£.4 per tun, the stock on hand is small, and what is held is chiefly in second hands, holders may almost obtain their own prices, as not much is offering. THE MANCHESTER MARKET.—We quote the following review of the Manchester market from the monthly circular of Messrs. M`Nair, Greenhow, and Irving : . . "The aggregate amount of transactions, though falling much below that of the preceding months of this year, is about equal, in a general way, to the extent of produc tion. No accumulation of stock exists to depress the market ; but, on the other hand, nearly all our producers are more or less under contract. Orders, therefore, of any magnitude, require some weeks for completion ; in deed, even for :comparatively moderate quantities, it may be laid down generally, that orders cannot be executed from stock. The demand for the home trade has been good, owing to the promise of a very abundont harvest.,' THE IRON TRADE.—The Birmingham Gazette says : The demand continues steady, prices are rather stiffen ing, both in manufactured and pig iron, and the general tendency to improvement is still making way. At the same time our contemporary deprecates the representations made, that the works in the district were in full working, which tended to pro-- duce an uneasy feeling amongst the hands. In many instances only two-thirds of the existing ma chinery was in operation. AT STRASBURG Louis Napoleon is said to have adopted for the first time white breeches and jack boots, which formed an invariable part of the Emperor Napoleon's mi litary costume. A REBELLIOUS MONK.—For some time past the go vernment of Athens have been much troubled by a rebel lious monk, one Father Christopheros, who has succeeded in raising whole provinces of the kingdom in revolt on the pretext that the government is undermining the pure Greek Church. To such extremes had he proceeded, that he issued a proclamation to the following effect :—"Who ever kills one of the King's soldiers is a saint ; whoever is killed himself in battle is a martyr; whoever can kill one of the King's soldiers, and refrains from doin g so , will go to hell ; whoever takes part in this holy war shall keep all the booty he can lay hands on ; whoever distin guishes himself shall receive one hundred dollars, besides military rank and honours." It appears that the false miracles by which Christopheros pretends to attest his divine mission are hardly less ingenious than the military tactics by which he eluded or repelled, for several weeks, the forces sent to capture him. He has at length, however, been obliged to succumb, for a letter from Athens, of the 13th, in a Vienna journal, says :—" The monk Chris topheros has been arrested in the Mains by the gendarmes, and has arrived at the Piraeus on board the Othon steamer. After having been subjected to an interrogatory before the Juge d'lnstruction and the Procureur- General, he was taken to the State prison. Two Mainotes, one a priest and the other a laic, agreed to deliver him up for ten thousand drachmas. He is to be removed to the fortress of Rhion, in the Gulf of Lepanto." A BABE AT A BULL-FlGHT.—There has been a grand bull-fight at Madrid, in aid of the poor ! The Queen saw the fun, taking her daughter with her, the baby Princess of the Asturias ! Children are often wet nursed by she-goats ; but it does seem a little odd to bring up a baby on bull's blood.—PunCA. LATEST IN LLIGE TES(I MONDAY EVENING, AVGVST BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL ORKNEY ELECTIOS. FIRST DAY'S PoLL.—Dundas, 133 ; THE WEST INDIA MAI L ' e j , The Jamaica adviceq, per Orinoco, are on,"' 0 - g ri d later than those by the Canada, at Liverpoo" nothing important. bee n el At BArbadoes, 44,000 hhds. of sugar had " — NOVO and the total exports wou ld p r obably reach 47, i dol. In Antigua the re was a grea t want of labour. .:00 distress among the planters. Numerous failures bad oc curre d. R a i n wa s still wante d. At Grenada the cr op was a bout 8,00 0 h bus* scarce, and business dull and unpromising. FRANCE. 10 PARIS.—The late changes in the roinistr3lforel, l o o pected to lead to a n y alteration in policy, b il l, o rji The Funds were firm on strengthen the Government. Fould, altbclol' of State. will, eventually, direct the Finance• iewor.l(l. went gives great satisfaction in the con2reercia` ( 10 114 ' Sunday, but n l-, °thing LONDON. o'l The Globe says, " Investments in railysYfor !I d S tinue, in lack of more profitable emoloYin! f lit g oo9 00 11 and with the present cheering prospects " 014 .1 all over the world. Railway shares will no' bir higher: OP" in price but, most probably, rise still highe r .. e sell railway shares now find great diflicultYlrcua OB the money more profitably. N o Collo° interest." I .4 d i TATTERSALL'S BETTI N6 '6 t ° 11v•I BRIGHTON STAKES.-5 to 1 a g st Phlegra • 1 6 to 1 agst Hesse H om berg ; '";, aft ton ; 10 to 1 agst Phlegethon. r ST. LEGER.-3 to 1 agst Songstre ,— Stockwell. /4 0161 ;k1 FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE English Funds st ea dy a t Saturday's r; ono abundant—l per cent. R a il way Shtu_' D buoyancy, but some sales caused a re lapse , 04 1 1 ket closed flat, with a d ownwar d tendeucl o 'n of the Mexican mail, with a remittanc e ,wies m for,,, dividend, caused a sli g ht i m p rovem ent in '' ot bef o v which, however, was not maintained. y rtiv Securities a shade firmer. Mining Share mated. CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Account 1 . 10(4 Bank Stock i.,105,,,,gt° Do. Money lO O ,l -1 E xc hequer do' Three & Qr. per L. & S. • Cents. .1 9 FOREIGN STOC KS. ...„ e9 0 6 I Spanish TM' Do. Passives Y SHARES• _ Great West orksYD • Lanc.&Y ..„ Do. Fifths ;' bt oof London, Bil l o st. & South Co too Lond. &S. W e9 s tle, York, Now ea . & Berwick ••:, Do. Extension _ Do. Prefer ence York&N. 3ll ,1 P r eferen e Norfolk s • • „ , i; Leeds Nortilni-„ll't: I t " North Bri r Do.. Preferea Sh re wsborit , :,l „ Ditto, SHARES. . ' N. Monde Mariposa.• •." Err. °0 PRODUCE MARK - • fl ,b°, 0 0 1 Sugar : There are few buyers of Forel-05'6e i l l cline for floating cargoes. Yellow Ho'n e :usi! white 29s to 30s Gd. Refined : Ir em e,Tio 4l ';44 limited ; low to fine grocery lumps 455 u" k' c oo 2, Few buyers, but prices are not cheaper ; jog ; o r e 41s to 445. Tea firm, and a fair business 0 0 sound Congou Bd. Cotton in brisk den leY „ire,lo lll P rates are well sustained ; some parties req" o f iiv o teg e t Wool: Not much demand, but in Prie e c tforin A er . change. Cochineal in good demand , a n j gO v ' ' well supported. Tallow firm, and derail° Russian 38s to 38s Gd on the spot. Mexicans. Ditto Threes..... 25 Spanish New Def. 22 RAILIVAI London Stock.... 1291 304 Do. Quarters .... 311 21 Midland Stock .. 76 74 Do. Halves N. Staffordshire .. 41 4dis S. East. & Dover. 731 41 Amberg., Notting ham, &E.Junc — Manchester, Shef field, & Lincoln shire 34 5 Caledonian ..... Do. Preference East. Counties East Lancashire l3l 141 Edinb. & Glasgow 68 70 East Anglian 44 Great Northern MINING A. Maria.. A. California ." CORN MARK S The show of English Wheat is r o oith irect o, largely supplied with Foreign, as tu s s ad t ° j3eg i e ll Oats. The Wheat trade is very sloW;3 t olel i vit l io t of Foreign, a reduction is necessary d° pet 4 ri . Peas are fiat, at late rates. Oats L I to g r a re pressed, and prices have declined u"Cifce th e thoughia nothin g ea d t o w i n a g s . g_ b e o t t : o l/ o i l st wt. C There is no alteration i In n e Sfierestdsretphoerrte,the Or 4 Ole t to tPs consequence of the reported blight; - 4 I 3 1 :RR vALs .. 0. tent to cause an alteration A in price, English. 1 f .. ... 1 ,v s lo lll ' Wheat..... Barley .. 3733 Oats Malt ..... . _ ej Beans .. - ti , , g g F . .... i' Peas . Flour .... .. ...... 434392143402258 The supply of Beasts ClTi' b L e E ing q- l A ar ß g K e,i ni.fe.r , i oO r cli cil o ll , at reduced prices. There has been ° 6 3 ' t 31 ' 1 Sheep ße eedf .u. c a t n 2i o d s n. L o a 2f m d2.d b ats tpoe r 3s. s F t i n d Be a d. y . ' quotatio ns ' rjarn b • 4 0 to y , Mutton3s. Od. to 4s. Od. I Pork.• 6cl• Veal.. ~••• _ l , Beasts ....... 4620 Calves •" Sheep and Lambs... 33,060 Pigs • • Scotch Beasts Leicester, L., and Northampton 1 3 ~• • 50v,, Holland Beasts ............. • ' ~ Sheep . ........... ••• • '‘ 4 0 Pigs ....... •• • ' •••••• ~. Ca1ve5.......... •• Spanish Beasts. ......... KS TALLOW wisinhater ll , l 1, 11. ,i7 K e The stock is 42,538 casks, aga inst not/ an increase this year of 9,885 eas ks iba amount to 982 casks, against 1,559 in de or ° period last year; a decrease t his If 'I "MI ESC II4 O MANCHESTER. STOCK • es, Ito teo Closing quotations.—East Lancashir' Cs . C . jor j 181 : Caledonians, 21 7-16th ; B s a; ste l 1 : 0 701 17 7-16th ; Lancashire and Yorkshires, a-sortl Junctions, 8/ dis ; Midlands, 76};abefliel" dis ;. North Westerns, 131 301 30; 7 #' 131; South Eastern and Dovers, 221 e s " 11 ' Yol tirj oi9t h lt LEEDS STOCK EXG",• r es, Closing quotations.—East Lanc es 77 ; shire and Yorkshires, 841 ; Midlands' 1 1/111 erns Si 13.16 tn ' • tlO C L mon d e , jcp eool oearhmrpnrataocnejojnnaelas.,:rtecs Brows, L riaotei I, A ndAay T snfnv: E aestiwr S mhije l eeur Havana di S ,a, H .Tfvarauot l niam r oyan P 3sdj l oetlue lSt ylfd.olo,9o ! ; :: 6iir s l o osoteproi t o ti f : July 2, H both from Liverpool. tb, for 0 0 pool. Li l l 10. o fora. gp,„ll, Jane Brown, at Demerara, July L' /- 4 •'" ' Wes- 0 1, Kate, from Liverpool. off South, ;,ere - fot.; Felicita, sailed from Trieste for ser er , " of riPeo ne 4 ly 5 ;inahnderlen, a j c u h l a y i s ca , cu. jio - sailed from Antigua, Juli e _ ;/•,ipill'" put ANTIGUA, July 13.—The Newton' or, LIVERPOOL POLI CE 00 O r YESTERDA' 0 19 of 1 , /0 01/ o ettijoll A COOL ROBBERY.—Roger ,„ pr% t b with stealing 181 cwt. of ice, L"`f 1 4 °` - ed 'O4 Henry Tibbets, Ropes, and Co., °eel:0040 The prisoner it appears had beer' r e 044 hi Ropes about the Bth July to discht y I' o o o 6'o the 'Waterloo Dock, from the 5 , 1 ,0 1 ° 1 0 2. V"), a ß n o d s t p o a n i . d o A ff f . te r On n beingtil the tl4wtohr bkimreitgehen.rotegei,:oB:.:4oetarathotocsAbboi:rior/000b,e00,10000:14,,1 the assistance of two other men, '°"" i gigl' et i," dock quay, and had it carted to thew, ft for itCo John's Market, where he sold it to, 6i l ' for 2s. per cwt., and received X 1 g it appeared, was considerably sh°rV ted to the sessions. 4 , 1 0 1 1 1! tors of the Mercha(nAtps,vEaTtsV-55,00-,,:0100'101 N•r.] THE SECOND TREAT OF TD% 03 , dew atrtitbrauctteiosntislloffutrhtheierre,sdtuabrDirg the P r 1 5 , e t 'bee l lo el d ladies and gentlemen who have tos c ol o t, $ O , / with their patronage, that the ,every d,e_7ooooo to supply the choicest ices % b i n c s iA each. The delightful and as ° Pincli , o,4rp/ 0 c r ou laid on the tables fro ten D i n ing' until seven, p.m. 11 rchants' July 2 : I "et, buildings, Excha -street East , 7. et te'ol! o l for this day : herry cream, and on cream ice. . s°' 'i t Ice," so ch admired at the P lac e d 0: 1 .-e, 0 Eitroleseianngotsnd,taDiynsien.niti;g7riolloll3nes:uftorrterst 9. LIVERPOOL,: 1 6 DART) GENERAL Pal i "' l yiv Or TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, .rov 4,140 EVERY PRINTED AND Ptlol,l. n p c$ By TUE SDA Y, I.2l‘',lTatlA 4C;' THF, PROPRITOR, !WE RT fy S off STANDARD OF No. 47, CANNINO-5005;01,16 opt. 40. ST. GE01" .1 410 P 111( ' ANIVVAL SETEISCIaPos mATANia ...... 205. Q 1( CS IP /~ t, I ( 'it Tt, LI , kot ~Itt i oi, IC V ti,