The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

PHILHARMONIC HALL THIS EVENING (TUESDAY), LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR Of THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND OF Firm - PERFORMERS. Admission, Is. ; Stalls. 2s. ; Boxes, 2s. Sd. (See Programmes of the day.) March Ist, Etbapoot -:".ltanbarb. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING THE existence of the present Government will, to a great extent, be determined on Thursday, when the Irish Liberal Members intend taking council as to the course they should adopt in the present crisis of public affairs. About sixty representatives from the sister country are expected to attend the meeting ; and if the majority should resolve that, in pursuance of the policy recom mended by the Tenant Leaguers and Ribbonmen, all ministerial measures shall be opposed so long as Lord ABERDEEN refuses to endorse SHARNIAN CRAWFORD'S bill, and pull down the Established Church, then, as by one of the Brigade's standing rules, the minority are bound by the majority, you may expect ovtr half a hundred Liberals arrayed in opposition to the government, and the government itself in a minority in the House o Commons of from 15 to 20 Notes. The result of the meeting is looked forwardto with great interest, and each of the two sections into which the Irish parliamentary party is divided has been for days past using vigorous exertions to secure the attendance of as large a number as possible of those favourable to their respective views. Half a dozen lines in the report of Friday night's par liamentary proceedings record the fact that the select com mittee who were to have tried the merits of HELY HtrcurNsos's petition against the return of Mr. ESNIOND, the Brigade member for Waterford county have been discharged, and an order made by a special vote of the House of Commons for the appointment of another Committee, who, it is to be hoped, will confer the representation on as gallant and honourable a Conser vative as ever sipped champagne at the Carlton. This rather unusual disbandonment of an Election Com mittee, just on the eve of being sworn before the Speaker, has given rise to a good deal of by no means uninteresting gossip; and as the real circumstances connected with the affair have not yet found their way into ang of the public journals, I think I may as well narrate them here. The newspaper report says, that Sir JOHN TROLLOPE moved for the discharge of the Waterford Committee, and the nomination of another, on the ground that Colonel VER NON HARCOURT, one of the members, had pleaded inability to attend, in consequence of the death of his brother. It is quite true that such a plea was raised, but it is equally true that ano ther member, Viscount 31oNce, found himself placed in such an awkward fix by the cleverness of the Conservative agent, that he could not consistently take any part in the transactions of whatever committee may be selected to seat or unseat Mr. ESMOND. As the Committee originally stood, it presented many features decidedly unfavourable to the Conservative candidate. The majority were of Mr. E,MOND'S political complexion, and two of the members are his personal friends. With such a tribunal, FIERY HUTCHINSON'S prospects of winning the battle, as you can very well suppose, were all taut hopeless. Fortu nately, it transpired that, some weeks ago, Viscount MoNcre had made a bet of £25, at the Kildare-street Club in Dublin, with CECIL LAWLESS, Lord CLONCURRY'S son, member for Clonmel, that Mr. EMSOND would not be unseated. Viscount Moscx, an Irishman, though representative of an English borough, when questioned touching the wager, frankly admitted that it had been booked. The SPEAKER was then informed of the circum stance. He gave it as his opinion that Viscount Moecx could not serve, and directed the chairman to report the affair to the House of Commons and call for another com mittee. In the meantime the domestic calamity to which I have adverted occurred in Colonel Heacouer's femil y, and on this ground was the committee discharged, Viscount MoNcx's entanglement in the plot being care fully concealed from the eyes of the Legislature. An interesting little debate occurred in the House of Commons on Tuesday evening, before the Maynooth question came on. It arose on the motion of that genuine Conservative and real old English gentleman, Sir ROBERT HARRY INGLIS, whose very name is " warrant for his welcome," and touching whose personnel more anon. Sir ROBERT called the attention of the house to the ardu- Oils duties of Mr. SPEAKER, in olden times called " the mouth of the house ;" he referred to the apparont ab3ut• dity and unreasonableness of imposing such constant attendance upon frail humanity, the want also of a deputy for the right hon. gentleman, to take the chair in case of j sudden emergency from cold or cholic. Sir ROBERT then, from a very early period of the history of the House of Commons, cited various instances of speakers being placed in such a predicament. There was, in 1686, a Speaker reported to the house as " very sick," whereupon the house adjourned ; there was a period of fifty years when no Speaker was reported unwell and absent from duty. In 1659 (I give you dates as pronounced by Sir ROBERT INGLIS). there were four cases of absence from illness— house adjourned each time, much to the satisfaction of all the members, save and except those who had motions to bring forward ; in 1772 the Speaker was taken " sick at his post,"—house adjourned. But I need not go into more details from my notes, as we come down the tido of time, be it enough that Sir ROBERT Iscels clinched the impor tance of the question by calling attention to the fact that the present Speaker, Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, " put the question" no fewer than three hundred times on Monday evening. Under these circumstances it does seem strange that there is no Deputy-Speaker, and stranger still, that such a thorough-paced business man as JOSEPH HUME should oppose so rational a proposition. He did so, how ever, but took nothing by his opposition. The House of Peers, which does not sit one twentieth of the time, com pared with the Commons, has four or five deputies, or speakers, who take the woolsack in the absence of the LORD CHANCELLOR. It may be that the more aristo cratic atmosphere of the upper chamber, with all the agremens of lordly-life beside, might even change the perennial and sturdy member for Montrose—were he made Lord Hume—into an exotic or hot-house plant, and hence deputy-speakers by the half-dozen may be required in the Lords. Be this as it may, the Speakers of the House of Commons, time out of mind, for the most part have been remarkable for their immunity from sudden or prolonged attacks of the ills which flesh is heir to. The late CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON was a remarkable example of unbroken attention to the duties of the speakership, and, no doubt, would have been referred to by the right lion. baronet in his enumeration of Speakers, but for the obvious reason that a great number of the members of the present house—although it is motley enough—well knew and remembered the manners in the house of my old friend. Not so your readers generally. MANNERS SUTTON, afterwards Viscount CANTERBURY, was, indeed, a prodigy in sticking to business. It was his wont on a " debate night" to take the chair at 4 o'clock in the afternoon ; after prayers—l don't think they say them so well now—came petitions, then as now, by the cart-load, till five—teazing questions coming as quick as hail, and referring to every end of the earth, and to every subject in or above it, occupied another hour, at the expi ration of which time the regular business began, not ter minating till two, three—aye, four in the morning ! Twelve mortal hours, during which period MANNERS SUTTON —beyond a friendly chat with a member leaning on the arm of the chair, and apparently a more needful pinch of rapee—had no other creature comfort during the tedious hours. There he sat, like JUPITER TONANS, in wig, without " budging," meat, or drink. When he retired to his house, which was reached by a short passage from the senate chamber, his usual meal was a basin of humble gruel, little better than skills ; then he went through his devotions in the same attire he sat in in the house : these finished, to bed, with what appetite for sleep he might. So attached to the duties of the speakership and to their faithful discharge was this remarkable man— in other respects mediocre—that on the pleasant summer's evening, when his aged father, the Archbishop of CAN TERBURY, was breathing his last in Lambeth Palace, across the Thames, and opposite the House of Commons, the Right Hon. Gentleman was, as usual, presiding over the august assembly. A trusty servant of the house was sta tioned on the roof, keeping his eyes on the Archiepiscopal palace. It had been arranged that, when it was unmis takeably apparent that the ARCHBISHOP was in articulo mortis, a white handkerchief should be waved for a mo ment from one of the ancient towers of Lambeth Palace. and About half-past six o'c lock the signal was perceiv e d, in a few minutes the house adjourned. If Sir ROBERT INGLIS had told this, it would have told better than re ferences to cholics two hundred years old. N'importe, Sir ROBERT you are a brick of the right sort. The con stant sitting of MANNERS SUTTON superinduced a disease which it is believed ultimately cat short his life. The present SPEAKER divides his evening. About ten:o'clock he retires—has the wing of a fowl, or something of that sort ready —a glass of wine—takes them, and is in the house again in a twinkling. The axe is laid at the root of the Upas. The politically "accursed thing"—Maynooth College—school for traitors —is doomed ! Though the debate on Mr. SPOONER'S motion was not cleverly managed,—yea, bungled,— ruined in the outset, as it were, by Mr. SCHOLEFIELD'S wishy-washy and side-wind amendment, having for its effect the doing away of all state enactments in aid of ecclesiastical or religious endowments whatever, still a victory was gailed, the motion for an enquiry into the grant being lost by a majority of 30 only, and this majo rity, I have good reason to know, would have been much less, had the division,—hurried on,—not taken place at a Wednesday's sitting, just about six o'clock, when the house as a matter of course adjourns. A division was not expected by many members in favour of the motion. Hence the partial defeat. Mr. SPOONER is able to deal heavy blows against the iniquity : let him ecr on ; he will succeed in the long run. And why ? Cardinal W ISEMAN and his allies, the Romish Priests of Ireland, are the hon. member's best supporters in the present instance; the fearful denunciations of the priests at the recent Irish elections, against all who did not support the renegade quaker-papist and his like, told more for Mr. SPOONER than all his facts, fiery though they were. The debate, on a nauseous subject, was deeply interesting, as was shown by the attendance of members and strangers, the former chiefly preferring a drive in the ring of Hyde-park, on Wednesday, to sitting in the House of Commons, and sensible fellows they are for so doing. The Government acted rather wisely on the present occasion ; not prone to praise the Co. Cab., as the Coalition Cabinet is sometimes called for short, its members considered that there was little or no use for scarcely a word from either of them. This was well ; the thing will work its own " kill or cure," and though " His Eminence " holds over, or at most, only attempts a little dust-throwing in the eyes of the natives, by spouting absurdities in reference to the support of science,—which means knowledge and all that sort o' thing, given by the Faithful in Italy,—he is sore at heart ; and though apparently taking no public part, he thinks the more, deeming prudence the better part of valour. A fool is accounted wise when he holds his tongue. Sensible Roman Catholics, I mean those of that numerous and in most regards highly intellectual and respectable portion of our fellow-subjects who are not priest-ridden, lament the recent interference at the elections. Repeat it, and the progress of Popery is put back a century. And happily. Cardinal WisEmAN knows now, that had he staid where he was, his church would have had more chance of advancing. The late DANIEL O'CONNELL scarcely ever passed any of the fine metropolitan places of worship a dozen years ago, without expressing himself, in what he deemed prophetic accents, that before many years were over, the niche would have its holy water in these same churches. It is not so. Nor likely to be. Idiosynceacy of Parliament ! Tell us the meaning of the words, best of all possible correspondents. Go to the taverns in and about Palace-yard, and you will, gentle reader, soon find out an answer for yourself. Every question debated in Parliament attracts its own particular auditors. So likewise do contested elections bring toge ther, in the hostels aforesaid, certain shrewd-looking, bribe-taking —many of them—individuals, in the shape of witnesses, peculiar in aspect and manner,—rusticity and cunning curiously blended, and striving as it were for rivalry,—garb homely but good. They are tolerably well paid for their attendance to vindicate the futility of Whig measures for the prevention of bribery. Proh pudor ! Bush.' For the most part, the varlets I treat of have a guinea a-day ; yet a shilling clears each man of the majo rity. In the evening they spend no money, for they chiefly get admission to the gallery of the House of Commons. which they make redolent with dirty cheese. This is a cheap, quiet, instructive, warm way of passing the evening ; and then it affords them scope and verge for conversation in tap or parlour, when they return to their polluted (in a parliamentary sense) town. To hear some of the evidence tendered by many of these worthies, it is quite evident that they must have managed to get their names put on the list of witnesses; thus shewing the " jobbery " of the affair ; for, in many cases, their evidence is not worth a farthing. We have had close upon half-a-dozen election committees sitting within an equal number of days. Bribery ! Bribery ! all is bribery ; and the grave, the venerable city of Canterbury talked about as unceremoniously as was another Cathedral city— St. Albans—not long ago ; and, indeed, for that matter, the committee was not very nice with your own sturdy borough of Lancaster, the writ for which is not to be moved for some days. There will be much more of this sort of work going on for some time. A long experience touching election committees and parliamentary proceed ings, enables me to say, that the present more rife in political corruption of this sort, than many parliaments which have gone before. And we shall get worse, and worse, unless some more stringent means of prevention are adopted, transportation to the bribed elector—disfranchisement to the place, and ten thou sand pounds fine to the cause of all ! Idiosyncracy of Parliament, said I ? Yea. As flies are attracted by the pot of ointment, so does a peculiar debate attract peculiar men. Is it the Sugar Duties ? Yes. Do you see that portly, somewhat heavy-headed German, in grey, sitting in the gallery opposite, listening all ear to the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ? He is a sugar . - baker. And so on in every branch of legislation. During the debates on the Municipal Corporation Bill, both houses were inundated with town-clerks ;—Parochial Bills, vestry-clerks are in the ascendant. The Free Church question—a very foolish one, by the bye—filled Lords and Commons with seedy black coats and seedier smalls from every nook of Caledonia. Even the May nooth grant—to die soon, let us hope—still attracts its admirers and opponents, as was witnessed on Tuesday evening. The best nights are in the House of Lords, when a " duck of a peer" is to make an explanation or propound a question. Then it is that the daughters of England's aristocracy most do congregate. Gabble ! gabble yet intelligent and attentive. Sharp wits and politically bitter are many of these beautiful creatures. How patient withal I have seen a duchess and her daugh ter exist—through a livelong night of ten hours—upon a knob of lump sugar a-piece, and half a dozen drops of eau de Cologne. But of course I am not ignorant of the great fact in grammar, that there is an exception to every general rule. Were I, the appearance of the House of Commons on Thursday evening, during the discussion of the Jew Relief Bill, would have dissipated the error. I did not perceive in the gallery, nor under it, three individuals of the tribe, while Christian lords and commons—the latter not members, but of our own common public—thronged the spaces allotted to strangers. Why is this seeming indifference ? Simply because the Jew cares not for the question of relief in the 'parliamentary sense. Give him his Exchange in Houndsditch, if you will, where he can higgle in everything, from diamonds to dirty rags, and nineteen-twentieths of the Jewish community will be satisfied. Contrast Jew apathy to religious toleration, with the warmth of our quiet friends, the Quakers, the Moravians, the Separatists I A little bill was introduced f and carried, a few seasons back, to relieve these people from oath-taking, and, during the discussion of the measure, they in a manner crowded the legislative chamber. Do I, then, underrate the Jew in the scale of intellectual grandeur ? Certainly not. Who are the fathers of sphere-harmony ? Jews—MENDELSSEION and NIEYERBEER—be of the Prophete ; older and greater I might name, were Ito " bestow my tediousness."—Who, executants of the divine art ? Jews mainly—men and wo men, singers of world-wide fame. Who in literature grand ? The Jew—BEN DISRAELI for example. Who writes those glorious periods, as with pen of burnished gold, or sapphire, in the " leading journal"—the portion devoted too seldom to literature, and which will be ad mired by the scholar as long as there is anything pure and dignified in our language ? A Jew. For all this, the Jews do not, as a body politic, care an old hat for the re moval of their " religious disabilities" as the thing is called. I will not run the risk of sinning against the patience of your intelligent readers by noticing the debate on the question,—it was stere3typ6—the same platitudes, heartless clap-trap,—humbug —of former discussions cha racterised it. The question was carried by a majority of 234 to 205, making a house of 439 members, which is considered a tolerably good gathering. During the divi sion I went up stairs and cooled myself with a bottle of , Chateau La Rose, and ascertained that there are not more than nine or ten of the present party-coloured Govern ment in favour of the Jew Bill. The measure will be rejected by the Lords. The Bishop of LoNnoN's obser vations will not be forgotten,—temp. a dozen and more years ago—" Though we have admitted Roman Catholics into Parliament, my Lords, the House of Commons has not yet ceased to be Christian." With regard to the theatres, I might in a double sense say nil ; first as to novelty of production, and second as to receipts, with the exception, perhaps, of CHARLES KEAN'S and Jolts MITCHELL'S establishments—the latter the French plays. The recent dreadfully nipping weather, indifferent dramas indifferently acted, together with the revolution in the abominable order system, have exhibited during the week a " beggarly account of empty boxes." Mr. ic —E AN, at the Princess's, has committed, and is perpetuating, a dramatic mistake, in the most magni ficent manner; he has produced Macbeth as played 6cfore THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1853. the Court at Windsor a little time ago. So far good ; but Mr. CHARLES KEAN sustains Macbeth! I may not— shall not—say one word to the prejudice of this gentleman and scholar ; he is, moreover, one of my earliest play actor acquaintances; he aims well, but misses; has true devotion to his fallen art, is in possession of a large for tune, which he lavishly lays out in having his dramas mounter! in style never surpassed even by MaCREADY, and he went far into a fortune in this way. CHARLES KEAN, :however, is only a melodramatic interpreter of classical plays. His Hamlet, here and there, goes beyond mere mechanism ; but, ah me ! don't men tion Macbeth. It is also lamentable, even in these degenerate days, that CHARLES KEAN'S gifted wife— she of the silver voice—the Rosalind,—the matchless in a hundred plays, where the tender, the lovely, the warm, the devoted, the rincere, the sweet, the elegant, in every relation of life—child—lover—wife—unfortunate it is that she should essay, rather than eschew the great chara:Aer of Lady Macbeth. I noticed some liberties taken by CHARLES KEAN' with WILLIAM SHAKsperte. Daring ! Liberties of transposition. Omit if you will, CHARLES, but don't alter " sweet WILLIAM'S" intents. Every stranger in London,—yea, every one at all imbued, — blessed with a love of SHAKSPERE, ought to go and witness Macbeth at the Princess's. If the visitor be at all musi cally given, especially if attached to ecclesiastical music, the manner in which this department—such an odd word here—is rendered will gratify. Bless us ! WILLIAM SHAKSPERE swallowed upby MATTHEWLOCKE! At Drury. lane the house has been very shy. No wonder. This theatre has been so—with exceptions " few and far between" —every night since ELLtsTos, " Prince of Liars ;" KEAN, the elder, CHARLES YOUNG, JAMES WALLACK, and half a-score of others of " mark and likelihood," appeared on one night, —a common occurrence. Then the bucks thought nothing of turning out seven shillings and six peuce each for admission : the pit was always too crowded, unless half-a-dozen nnadcaps—yet merry and wise, after " chopping" it at one of the taverns in the " loved obscu rity" of the neighbouring court, roughed it, and got possession of the seat immediately behind the fiddlers. Halcyon days —or rather nights ! The people at HER MAJESTY'S Theatre have not yet made up their minds how to proceed. They are to open, and that right early. I am surprised that such knowing ones as are to be found in the Committee of Management, with BENJAMIN LUMLEY, a decent lawyer enough, at their head, and deeply interested, should have imagined for a moment that Mr. CARDWELL, your old friend, was so green as to sanction a bill such as the Opera one, limiting liabilities to the amount of money paid. I know the Government was prepared to give immediate consent to a most liberal measure—perhaps on account of the prestige of the house, but, as I have hinted, Mr. CARDWELL, the mouth-piece on the occasion, considered the measure untenable. COMMERCI4L AND MONETARY NETT S. MONDAY NIGHT. THE weekly returns of the Bank of England show only a small diminution in the stock of bullion, and no alteration having been made with reference to the minimum rate of discount, the public funds maintained their firmness until the receipt of news respecting the war in ;Montenegro caused them to give way a mere trifle. This serves to show the general confidence in the soundness of monetary affairs, and the little cause for apprehension as to the maintenance of commercial credit, arising from the bona fide nature of the great bulk of mercantile transactions. With reference to the probable effect of recent gold discoveries upon our future com mercial operations—a question which is likely to become of some importance—we have received a recently published work, entitled, " Remarks on the production of the Precious Metals, and on the depreciation of Gold," by Monsieur Michel Cheva lier, translated by D. Forbes Campbell. The translator appears to have taken great interest in the views of his author, which he has amplified by notes and addenda. He enters into some elaborate calculations, in order to show the probable quan tities of gold and silver at present in use ' • and upon this supposition endeavours to found an hypothesis as to the effect of a large addition to the supply of gold ; the result he arrives at being a general advancement in the value of all other com modities in a corresponding degree to the presumed depreciation in the value of gold. It would be little service to follow him through his speculative cal culations ; because, until it can be shown that gold is actually used as an equivalent for other commo dities in commercial exchanges, they have really very little bearing on the question. To suppose that a pound is a quantity of gold dependent upon its presumed value, varying according to supply and demand, as in other commodities, is altogether erroneous. A. pound troy weight of gold of 22 carats fineness is coined into the nominal value of .Cl 6 1 10. ouch orwaroign, thoroforo, presents 123'274 grains of standard gold, whether the quantity be large or small, and forms the stand ard upon which every other commodity acquires a nominal value. If this metal, therefore, formed the universal medium of exchange, any large additions to the supply for ordinary uses would but slightly affect the nominal value of other commodities arising from the additional facilities for purchasing. In actual commerce, however, gold has but little to do with business, which must therefore be less sensibly affected. In the great majority of transac tions, whether foreign or domestic, between mer chants and traders, and even many consumers, we have virtually a paper currency in the . general use of bills and bankers' cheques ; and confining our attention to this country, if upon a rough calculation we compare the annual amount which actually changes hands with the presumed value of gold in cir culation, we shall find that the latter forms but a small proportion of our circulating medium. If we take the proportion at five per cent, and argue upon the hypothesis that the quantity of gold being doubled in amount, it will diminish in value in the same ratio, its effect upon the value of other com modities would only be to the extent of two and a half per cent.: a difference too trifling to excite any serious apprehension. Too much stress has been laid upon the effects of the enormous discoveries in Mexico and Peru upon the revenue of Spain in the seventeenth century, but it should be recol lected that at that time the science of commerce was but little known and practised, and the pre cious metals entered far more largely than at pre sent into all mercantile transactions. Now, how ever, these discoveries serve to enrich the settlers in California and Australia, and by so doing create more profitable markets for the products of the industry of the old countries. In this respect both parties must benefit, and we may safely banish any of those fears in which some writers on tile subject have indulged, of the sovereign being reduced in value to ten shillings instead of twenty. The reports from the cotton manufacturing dis tricts show a dulness in most descriptions of lower qualities of goods, being a slight reactionary move ment after the recent activity, and arising, in a great measure, from apprehensions of increased supplies of the raw material, As, however, there is a considerable improvement in actual consumption, arising from new markets for exportation and the more general employment at home, it is not be lieved that the depression can be of long continu ance, notwithstanding the additional supplies. But at these times it is not unusual for spinners to withhold from purchasing beyond their immediate necessities, and as their stocks are not large, they must soon resume their purchases in order to keep pace with their consumption. From Leicester and Nottingham, and from the woollen districts, the reports are of continued activity in almost all descriptions of goods; and this cannot fail to ope rate beneficially upon our staple manufacturers, notwithstanding their present complaints of dulness. The Return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 19th February gives the following results when compared with the previous return : Public deposits .. £6,738,059; Increase £498,762 Other deposits .. 12,081,941 ; Increase 69,363 Rest .. .. 3,313,109 ; Decrease 815 On the other side of the account — Government securities £13,619,393 ; Decrease £29,207 Other securities .. 14,177,702 ; Increase 386,944 Notes unemployed .. 9,667,595 ; Increase 172,970 The amount of notes in circulation is £22,080,690, being a decrease of £224,395 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £18,3 14,61 7, show ing a decrease of £8 7,74 3 when compared with the previous return. ISSUE DEPARTMENT Notes issued .. £31,748,285 Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin & bu1n.17,729,131 Silver bullion .. 19,154 £31,748,285 £31,748,285 BANKING D Prop.'s capita1.£14,553,000 Rest. 3,313,109 Public deposits. 6,738,059 Other deposits . 12,081,941 7-day, &c. bills. 1,344,913 ;PAU7'IIIENT, Gov. securities..Cl3,6l9,393 Other securities 14177,702 Notes Gold & silv coin 566,332 £38,031,022 I X 38,031,022 Business in our SHARE MARKET during the week has again been on a limiten scale, and con fined almost altogether to dealers inside the house. Prices have remained steady, with some slight indications of an advance. Continental affairs, however, are rather against this at present. To-day the market is firm, at the following prices :—Dublin and Belfast Junction, 1 p ; Ea s t ein C oun ti es , 13 3-16; East Lancashire, 181 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 781; ditto fifth-shares, 4idi Liverpool, Crosby and Southport, 173 ; London and North western, 11s1; Manchester, Shefield and Lincoln, 30; Midland, jig 74; Newry and Warrenpoint, 91; South-eastern and Dover, 23i 24+ ; York and North Midland, 29 . 4 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire 6 per cent., 15 l-16;* Manchester, Sheffield and Lin coln £6 new shuts, 9-16 p.; and Commercial Bank of Liverpool, 121, _ COTTON.—The market during the week has la boured under a reactionary movement, caused in a great measure by the doubt and uncertainty as to the yield of the Imerican crop. Speculators have consequently been cautiaus, and the amount of sales have been ie. a corresponding degree low, with a downward tentency in price. There is, however, no ultimate apprehension as to the demand being equal to the supply, as, owing to the great activity in the manfacture of our textile fabrics, it is believed that the whole of the supply, even should it reach the higher figuretalked of, will be required. The sales on Friday reached 5000 bales, at a decline of about per h., and on Saturday 4000 bales changed hands, cf which about 1000 were taken on speculation and br export. To-day the accounts received by the Canada were to the 15th Feb., but there was no newofficial list of receipts. The esti mated receipts slow an excess over last year of 520,000 bales. .n this market prices gave way but slowly and closed heavily, with but little varia tion in prices of all kinds from Friday last. There are about 400,00 C bales of all kinds now at sea. The sales to-day vere estimated at 5000 bales, of which about 1000 were taken on speculation and for export. PRODUCE.—The miuket for Sugar has been well sustained for refining purposes ; and such descrip tions have brought rather higher prices, but for grocery qualities the denand has been limited. The sales consisted of 550 hhds. West India, 3,760 bags East India, and a cargo of Mauritius to arrive. Of foreign Sugar,the refiners have bought largely, the sales reaching 12,000 bags Pernambuco and Paraiba, and 1,000 bores brown Havana. In Molasses nothing doing. Coffee has been in fair demand for foreign descrptions, the sales being 2,370 bags of St. Domingo, Lea Guayra, Java, &c. Of black Pepper, 150 bags cold at 3kd. per lb. In Rice, no variation in price; 1,000 bags fine white Bengal realised 135., and 7000 bags Arracan 103. per cwt. Rum without alteraion in value. Although Tea maintains its value, the msiness transacted has not been to any great extent, holders not being in clined to sell, except at previous rates, and the trade not being in immediate cant. Nothing doing in Saltpetre. Guano in active demand, at full rates. A steady business in Logwood. Little doing in Ashes. Hides are in fair rquest, and 16,000 at public sales found buyers at higher rates. Olive Oil in steady demand; Linseed Oil in moderate request. The sales of Palm Dil are 230 tons, on the spot, and 1,100 tons, to arrile, at £33 to £33 10s. per ton. The market for 'l'alow was firm at the commencement of the week, aril considerable - sales of Petersburg Y.C. took place a; 455. 6d.; but the market has since been easier. Of .Ute, 800 bales have been taken at extreme prices.—To-DAY, Sugar continues in good demand, but ,he limited supply at market restricts business, and the sales consist only of 500 bags Benares at 37;. 6d. to 40s. 6d., 450 bags Madras at 325. 3d. to 335., and 1,000 bags Paraiba, for an out-port, at 183. per cwt.. Of Rum, 200 puns. Demerara have been disposed of at previous rates. Nothing has taken place ire Coffee. We have a fair business doing in Tea, and several parcels have been sold ott of the late ar rivals, at fully previous rates ; new Oolongs have been taken from ls. Sd. to 2s. per lb., and other fancy descriptions have also realisel full rates. A small parcel of Saltpetre has been sold at 255. 9d.. (12-1; per cent, and 18s. per cwt. has been paid for 400 tons Nitrate- of Soda to arrive. We have also to report 20 tons St. Domingo Logwood at £5 15s. per ton, 25 chests fine red orange Si;ell Lac, at 565.,. a small parcel of Cutch at 25e., 18 tons Peruvian Tin at 103 s. (duty paid), 370 slabs Straits' at 113 s. per cwt. Woo:..—This article maintains its high value, as will be seen by the fo.lowing extracts from the monthly Trade Circulars, dated this lay (Tuesday). Messrs. W. GRJAME and Co. says have no materisl change to notice since our Circular of the Ist ult. ; there has been a good demand for almost all descriptions of Wool during the past month, and prices are well supported ; but with the present light stocks and small importations the transactions have necessarily been to a limited extent ; all useful low Wools, both combing and Aloe, such as Egyptian, Turkey, Donskoi, Oporto, &c., are much inquired for, and meet a ready sale of the better ' rlnQcpc, such ns Spanish, Spanish Frontier, Lisbon, &c., there is nothing offering, and a further advance might probably now be obtained for these Wools. Public sales of Colonial Wools commenced in London on the 10th ult., snd will close to-morrow. This series opened at an advance of Id, to I,ld. on the Novernher sales.. There has been a good attendance of the horns buyers, and although little or no demand for exportation to the continent, prices have been well maintained throughout. Public sales are fixed here for the 4th instant, when about 1,000 bales East India and 2,000 Buenos Ayres, Egyptian, Turkey, &c., will be offered. —Messrs. Jos. ROBISON and Co., in referring to Scotch Wools, says : The transactions, from want of stock, have been limited ; but what has transpired is at advanced quotations. Trifling sales in Laid and White Cheviot ; nothing, here in White High land or Galloway to offer; the same may be said as to cross ; Laid Highland is in good demand, and has been sold at the figures named in the table above.—English and Irish. A few English fleeces. have changed hands at a farther rise, and a parcel of Irish wethers are also reported at late rates. Skin is in active demand, both short and long, and. sells as fast as pulled. LAUNCH YESTERDAY.—One of the sharpest vessels ever built in the Mersey was lautiched yesterday from the shipbuilding yard of Messrs, Cato, Miller, and Co. She is named the Belle, is owned ty Messrs. Ridley, Son, and Co., Newfoundland merchants, and is designed for the Newfoundland and Brazil trade. The dimensions were furnished by Thomas Ridley, Esq., the senior part ner of the firm, and the vessel vas named by Mrs. Ridley. The tonnage of the vessel, we understand, is— new measurement, 190 ; old measurement, 287. She is registered 13 years A 1 : length of keel, 10G feet 4 inches for measurement, II I feet 6 inches ; over all, 121 feet 9 inches ; extreme length of beam, 23 feet 1 inch ; depth of hold, 13 feet 7 inches. GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.—Elizabetlt Jones, a child two years old, who resided with her uncle, John Morgan, of No. 20, Rock-street, while left by herself in the parlour accidentally caught fire, and was so severely burned that she had to be taken to the Dispensary, where she died on Sunday. At the inquest, held yesterday, the jury found a verdict of " Accidentally burned." FATAL ACCIDEST.—Dennis Milligan, aged 76 years, who resided with his son-in-law. James Doylan, 58, Upper Milk-street, while employed tallying iron on board the ship Vanguard. in the Waterloo—dock, on Friday morning, fell into the hold, and was so severely injured that he had to be removed to the Northern Hospital, where he expired, yesterday morning, about eight o'clock. At the inquest, yesterday, a verdict of " Accidental death" was returned. MILL ACCIDENT—MAN KILLED,—Samuel Bennett, a miller, residing at 59, Tarlton-street, shortly after going to his work on Wednesday morning last, at the Middle Mill (Mr. Martin's), in Limekiln-lane, had his head jammed between two wheels in a frightful manner. It is supposed that he was cleaning the upper wheel, when it fell and jammed him in the way he was found, lie was released, and taken to the Northern Hospital, where he lingered till yesterday morning, at four o'clock, when he died, in the presence of his wife. He was 51 years of age. An inquest was held yesterday. Verdict "Accidental death." A DISRESPECTFUL SUITOR.—At the County Court yesterday, in the case of Clarke v. Hayman, which ap peared to have been previously before the Court, when the duties of Judge were discharged, in the abence of Mr. Pollock, by the respected Judge of the Chester County Court, the plaintiff insinuated, in the course of his state ment, that he had not got justice, and that justice was a commodity which could hardly be expected from a " hire ling." Mr. Pollock instantly ordered him to desist from the use of languHge so disrespectful to the Court. The gentleman who sat there on the previous Tuesday was ap pointed by Her Majesty to administer justice, and as tho representative of the Crown he must be respected. Mr. Clarke who appeared not to be very deeply impressed with the lecture, was ultimately ot liged to change his tone, on the Judge assuring him that his case should not be gone into at all, if he did not instantly desist from his irregular conduct. ----- LECTURES ON ROMANISM.—The next lecture in St. Paul's Church, Liverpool, will be delivered on Thursday evening next, by the Rev. S. Minton. Subject—" Popular Romish Fallacies." MESSRS. WILLIAM DENNY AND BROTHERS of Dum barton, will, it is anticipated, proceed in the course of a month to lay down the keel of the Persia, a paddle-steamer ordered by the Messrs. Burns, for the Cunard Company, and which will be, without exception, the largest vessel afloat. The Persia will be 325 ft. long, of 3,300 tons re gister, and will be propelled by a pair of engines of 1,000 horse power. - - How TO FRIGHTEN A DEBTOR.—In a case before the County Court, yesterday, a letter was handed by the de fendant to the judge, which, it appeared, had been sent by the plaintiff before the case was put into the County Court, and which professed to explain to the luckless debtor what would be the upshot of the case going before his honor. It was asserted, in the first place, that the judge was empowered to commit a debtor for forty days, in the event of an order being made, and the money not forthcoming, no matter whether the party had the re quisite cash to pay at the precise moment or not. There were other statements in the "threatening letter" equally fallacious, in consequence of which his honour thought it incumbent upon Lim to correct the plaintiff for sending such a document. It was a communication got up to frighten poor people, and conveying quite an erroneous impression of the powers vested in that court, FEARFUL HURRICANE. TWELVE LIVES LOST IN THE MERSEY. Seldom has Liverpool and its neighbourhood been visited with a hurricane more violent or disastrous than that of Saturday. For some hours previous to its break ing out indications of an impending storm were apparent. The barometer fell in the most rapid manner, the decline having been upwards of 11 inches in less than twelve hours. During Friday night, and at the dawn of Saturday morning, it blew a moderate gale from the N.W. At half-past ten o'clock, it increased to a complete hurricane, and for three hours continued without intermission. So furious was the gale that its effects were severely felt both on land and water ; and there is every reason to believe that it has been attended with the most disastrous results, not only in the Mersey, but likewise on the Welsh coast, and in the rock-bound Frith of Clyde. The rough state of the weather in the Mersey com pelled all the ferry steamers, with the exception of the Woodside boats, which continued to ply at intervals, to cease running. Much inconvenience ensued in conse quence, hundreds of people who crossed early, to attend the Liverpool markets, and others who crossed to their business, being unable to return to their homes. The Woodside boats were, on several occasions, upwards of an hour in crossing, the average time, on ordinary occa sions, being seven minutes. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, which should have sailed for New York about noon, got under weigh, as usual, shortly before that time, and stood off and on, waiting the arrival of the mails, but was compelled to come to an anchor again, it being utterly impossible to embark the mails on board the tender at the pierhead, much less to convey them to the Africa. She 7783 7 in consequence, detained until Sunday. The first serious accident on the river occurred to the smack John, of Chester, bound from Rhyl to this port, with a cargo of soda ash. The smack drifted from op posite the Waterloo pierhead, and, in her progress up the river, raa foul of the steamer Prince of Wales, lying at the south end of the Prince's pierhead, and lost mast, part of bulwarks, &c., besides sustaining other damage. After getting clear of the steamer, she drifted athwart the moorings of the landing-stage, and for some short time stuck fast on the chains. The men on board, at this juncture, endeavoured to save their lives, but one was unfortunately drowned within a few yards of hundreds of people, who, however, could not render any assistance. The Prince of Wales sustained considerable damage, not only from being run foul of by the smack, but from beating alongside the pierhead for some time. She was hauled into the U• orge's Basin, and afterwards docked in the Prince's Dock. Most of the vessels at anchor in the river dragged their anchors, and' many were in collision. The damage sus. tained from this cause is, we fear, considerable. The following were among the vessels that drifted ;—The Anna Rich, for Boston, parted her cables, and get ashore on the Devil's Bank, near the Dingle, where she remained. She sustained such serious injury that it was considered pru— dent on Sunday to commence discharging her cargo. On Sunday night, it was said, that she had broken in two. The screw-steamer City of Glasgow, which arrived early in the morning from Philadelphia, drove from her anchors about the change of tide, and, in endeavouring to make fast to a buoy in the Sloyne, got ashore to the south of Rock Ferry. She was, however, got off on the following morn ing's tide, without; - apparent damage, and docked. The American ship Atlas, for New Orleans, lost bath anchors and cables, and was run aground at the mouth of George's Dock Basin. She was safely docked at high water, with only trifling damage. The American ships Cheshire and Rosetta, both for Boston, parted their cables, and ran ashore at Knott's Hole, where they remain. They will probably be got off after lightening. The packet-ship Constitution, from New York, was in contact with the Cheshire, and sustained considerable damage. The barque Maggie, for Singapore, was also in contact in the river, and sustained a good deal of damage. She has sines been docked. The fury of the storm showed an inclination to abate as the tide began to ebb, but not to a sufficient eitent to permit the ferry steamers to commence running. The scene on the Landing-stage and in the Woodside ercarners atthis time, and for several hours previous, was really fearful. The stage, crowded with hundreds of people anxious to reach Birkenhead, swayed to and fro in a-most unwonted way ; and, in endeavouring to land passengers from the Cheshire side, the gangway on more occasions than one fell into the river, to the alarm of the terrified passengers. Many luckless wights were thoroughly drenched, and hats and other insecure articles of wearing apparel were wafted from the heads and shoulders of bewildered individuals,. and generally deposited in the river,—these incidents communicating a ludicrous -aspect to what was in reality a most serious visitation. The outer gates of the Sandon Dock were broken, about noon, by the violence of the waves. Fears are entertained for the safety of the vessels which left this port during the last few days, as the storm appears to have been general all along the Welsh coast. Fite smal vessels are reported ashore at Hoylake. A ship was also reported at anchor about seven miles to the westward of llolyhoad, with' all her masts gone, and a signal of distress flying from a flag staff. One of the Ifolyhead Railway Company's boats proceeded to her assistance at seven o'clock on Sunday morning, and succeeded in carrying her into Holyhead harbour. Her named is believed to be the Gipsy, of and for this port from Charleston, with a cargo of cotton. The American ships Manhattan and Bengal, which left this port on Friday, both rode out the gale in the Channel in safety, and were reported off Holyhead, at 10 a.m., yesterday, all well. The Cornelia, w 7 l i c h a l so sa il e d on - Friday, was not so fortunate, and was compelled to return back, in doing which she got ashore in the RochsChannel, but did not sustain much damage. She has, however, been docked for examination. The most fearful disaster during the storm occurred about midnight, to the barque Irene, Captain M'Donald, whilst in tow of a steamer for the purpose of being docked. She had lost her anchors and cables in the gale, and, whilst in tow, as above stated, caught on the edge of the bank of the Coburg Dock with her stern ; the tide swung her head round, and threw her on her broadside, and she shortly afterwards sank. The steam-tug Powerful was proceeding to the Anna Rich about the time the Irene sank, and screams were heard. Although, the vessel could not be seen, Captain Edwards immediately ordered the steam-tug to be steered in the direction wlence the cries proceeeed, and the vessel was shortly afterwards descried. Tne boat was then got out, and a boatman, named Joseph Hayes, two seamen belonging to the Anna Rich, and Louis Crossman, one of the hands belonging to the Powerful, immediately jumped irto her, and were towed close to the wreck, when they succeeded in picking up nine persons, one of whom was Messrs. Ironside's overlooker. He was in a state of insensibility when picked up. The crew is said to have consisted of sixteen ;, in addition to which there were two passengers,, the pilot, and the overlooker, on board ; so that the number unaccounted for is eleven, among wh)m is the captain, chief mate, pilot, and both passengers. Mayes' statement the disaster is as follows :—" I was on, board the steamer Powerful, going to. the Anna Rich was about half-past twelve o'clock. We saw nothing of the vessel, only heard violent screaming. Capt. Edwards ordered the boat to be got out, and I and three others got into her. _klong line was made fast to the boat and attached to the Powerful, and we were towed close to the wreck. We pickedlip the men, nine in number, off the wreck ;,they were all in a very exhausted state; the overlooker was unable to stand. I saw three men drop off the wreck, exhaustel whilst we were picking the people off, and , they were drowned. I saw a steamer, which 1 took for the Uncle Sam, lying about a quarter-of-a-mile from the Irene. She was the steamer that had the Irene in tow previous to her striking. We took all those saved to the Southern Hospital." The bodies of one of the passengers and a seaman were picked up on Sunday morning . . The name of the passenger is Richard Whitburn. He had upwards of £l6 on his person when picked up. We have not heard the other passenger's name, nor the names of any of the crew. The vessel lies on her broadside on the bank, fills with the tide, and is, apparently, a complete wreck. She is rapidly becoming sanded. She belongs to Messrs. Charles Ironside and Co., of this port, and was bound to Valparaiso, with a valuable cargo, on board. We understand that Crossman, the hand belonging to the Powerful, was eight years ago instrumental in picking up a crew of fifteen, who were wrecked in the Mersey. Shortly after the Irene struck the gale moderated ; and at three, p.m., on Sunday, the w ind wa s.blowi ng a ge ntle breeze from te N. N.W. Beyond the blowing down of a few signboards, inse curely fastened, and the toppling of decayed or ill-fixed chimney-pots and slates, we have heard of but little damage taking place on shore. The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate men who have fallen victims to the storm will be held to-day. The Anna Rich, which was driven on the Devil's bank during the height of the gale, was yesterday afternoon reported to be a complete wreck, having broken in two about midships. CW' Owing to an accident which occurred when we were going to press, some of the papers for the early post were not ready in time. We solicit the forbearance of those of our distant subscribers who were disappointed in consequence, and trust that a similar casualty will not again take place. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 28. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY. Lord DERBY presented petitions on the subject of the clergy reserves in Canada, praying that their lordshps would not interfere with the rights at present enjoyed by the Church of Canada.—After some discussion, in which the Earl of Desert, Bishop of Exeter, Duke of Argyle, Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of London, and Duke of Nevi:- castle took part, the petitions were ordered to be laid on the table.—Adjourned at eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY. Mr. W. GASKELL reported that the committee for in quiring into the election at Clitheroe, had decided that Mr. M. Wilson was not duly elected, and that he was guilty of bribery, through his agents, but that he was not cog. =ant of that bribery.—Mr. HAMILTON also reported that the election committee for Frome had come to the deci sion that Colonel Boyle had not been duly elected.—Mr. BOUVERIE brought up the report of the Bfidgeworth elec tion committee, finding that Mr. H. Whitmore had been duly elected, but that the election was void as regarded Sir R. Pigot, whose agents had been guilty of bribery, but not with his knowledge. Mr. GLADSTONE, iII reply to Mr. Rich, made as elabo. rate statement on the subject of loans issued by the chequer Loan Commissio ners , an d th e a ppropriatioa'_, repayments, and stated th a t ver y s h or tly the balse r c r ; sheets would be laid befo r e the h ouse , t o ena ble it to f° l o an opinion of the result of the operations of the Evil° Commissioners. Mr. F. PEEL, in answer to Mr. Adderley, said the re eit of the operations at the seat of war at the Cape If encouraging as regarded the conclusion of the contest%, o l On the question that the ho use go i n t o co mmitte e supply—Mr. Ilumk complai n ed o f th e co l one lcies oft es Grenadier Guards and the C o ld s t ream G uar d s being gi v ig ,i to Prince Albert and the Duk e o f C am b r id ge , a s a rei ° ,o! tion had been passed some y ears ago t o reserve thy) appointments as rewards for distinguished services• tot also complained that no m easures h a d b een a doptecli v placing the army and o r d nance un d er th e same reellBsot ment.—Mr. SYDNEY HERBERT replied that a 3 government were not prepared to recommend a chango the present system under whi c h th e army an d erd lis were managed.—The house then went into committee supply. Mr. MoNsELL moved the Ordnance Estimates. total amount was £3,053,567, being an e xcess ;, £523,746 over the estimates of 1852.—Mr. Hums e°,, , plained of the expense which Government was Pe, t , t ' t the country to in creating fortifications. He thoug,,e,',6', best defences for England were her wooden walls.-- - " e PECHELL agreed with Mr. Hume.—Colonel Asso s ,c"' eidered Mr. Humo's advice not new, and only the s":, as given every year.—The votes were then agreed tot the house resumed. tte After some discussi on , a se l ec t comm i ttee oa th ,. Leasing Powers (Ireland), Landlord and Tenant ~,(11 1!, land), and the Te nan t' s C ompensat i on ( I relan d) was nominated on the motion of err J. YOUNG. , ‘ A Upon the report of the Committee of Supply brought up, Mr. VANCE moved that the vote for the s Z port of Kilraninham and Chelsea Hospital be poste, The motion was negatived by 119 t o 66. Th e ottic4 Examiner (Court of Cha'ncery) Bill, as amended, was,, tP , considered, and gave rise to so me di scuss i on ; amendment wilg proposed by Mr. Mum.:NGs, which' negatived by 127 to 61. The Bill, in its amended form, agreed to. The other burin-Js of the day was th en tilspese ci ,, ` i and the House adjourned at a quar t er p as t twelve FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET• Consols, from various political causes, opened wit'h'a l( , dency to weakness ; b u t th e a pp earance of a well-lia° Dull" operator, as a purchaser of £50,000 of Stock, 81 , prices an improved impetus,. and the market closes firril an. improvement. The Railway Market is very buoyant, a ' t , in most instances, shows an, improvement. Some a ct ; buying in anticipation of a rise : G rea t W es t ern p ar ticti l3 ' : good. Gold and Land Shares are moderately active. 13 , $' „ Shares much in demand, and prices have advanced corisi ° ably. The Foreign Market is quiet, but steady. Consols, CLOSING PIII-CRS, 99a Bank Stock ccount Do. Money 99# Excheq. Bills, L. &s, 13 Three&CirperCents lO3l Mexicans Do. Threes Spanish Nor Deferred 233 1 Do. Threc.s , 471 81 RAILWAY SIIA.RES, London Stock.. l2O i Leeds Northern Quarter .... L anc . an d Y or k s hi re d , Midland Stock Do. Halve— . London,Drighton,and ,4: North Staffordshire 4l a S out h C oast IA 1 S. Eastern and Dover 80 a London Sz. S.. Western 9° k A mberg.,Nottinginun, London 44t;',7, Western 1 1 " and E. Junction...... 6a I'' Manches., Sheff., and l4l Caledonian Do. Preferences 106 7 Norfolks . -"I Eastern Counties .„. 13i 1 North British 36 .• East Lancashire 74 6 • Do. Preference Edinburgh & Glasgow , 76 8 Shrewsbury', .A.. East Anglian . 13a i Do. B. Great Northern 79 SO York, Newcastle, and 40 Do. A- 43 5 Berwick . is Do. Do. Extension .., Great Western Cale) Preference — : York and N. Midland 69 FOREIGN STOCK'S. 24 t i Spanish Passives si i i lii ji i Turki.li . 1 Swed:sh .... . MINING SHARES. 13,3 pm Nugget ...... 1 limn B. Australian... Freehold ....., Australasian .. Colonial la fpm Mariposa LAND SHARES. AastralianAgricultural 250 S I Van Diemait's South Australian .... 2i 3 , tiro ; N. B. Australia Noveau Monde Agua Fria Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek Pert Philip PRODUCE MARKET. S-ugar : Floating cargoes are much in demand for e%P ri ,,, rl s Yellow Havana, 21s. to 245. Refined—there is an active V fr te l demand; brown lumps realisejss. to 45s.6d.—TheCoffeen's r- ; is brisk, and prices rule firmer; native Ceylon, 47t-.C4. to 49 3 ' 0 1 Tea , There is a large demand 'at previous prices ; .Cong°, o l most wanted at Is, to is. 5d.--Cotton : The sales are sinB ll, ;,l no decline has occurred in prices.—Hemp is not lower , 1 : 0 there is little business doing; clean, t3B 10s. to .#:39, 40 ' 11 0 , in large demand at previous prices; few sellers.—ln tle doing, but prices are not cheaper; fine Y.C.,445; CO 445".. TALLOW MARKET. Stock, 36,956 casks against 51,226 last year. 2)6v e 2059, casks against 2681 last year., CATTLE MARKET. The Beast Trade is firm at last Monday's prices. less-steadily. The Calf Trade i 9 a little better ..... 28 6cl to 48, 24 I Veal . Mutton..... 3s 6d to 5s 4d !Nark . Beasts , Sheep and Lambs 10760 j Pigs 235. 16d An' e .44's ARRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts • Cambridge, Leicester, and North ampton Beasts Scotch Beasts Holland Beasts. Do. Sheep Do. Calves Spanish Sheep LONDON WOOL SALES: 2:lessrs. J. T. Simes continued sales with the usual 4 0 15 and assortment, which sold steadily at previously e*tatin S Currency. LATEST LIVERPOOL SHIPPING, MONDAY, Fes. f , B.—Wind.N.N.W., fresh, CoP Altitnr.E.D.—Gannet (s.s.), Stavely, from Lisbon—Petrel , ,ip/f and Electric Flash, Pentreath, St. 11lichaPs—GeLina Jaa' Alberta, Groningen. 1 1 ° The Anna Rich, from Bo s to n , w hi c h go t on s h ore 01 1 0 4 , Devil's Bank, has become a total wreck—she has br.okenilV e A 11-NI.S. Encounter (14), O'C a ll ag h an , h as arr i ve d here ' O l4 Portsmouth. She is intended to ,b e s t a ti one d h ere as ag" ship. A clipper ship, under jury masts, having been dist4t4 close-to the deck, was passed on the 29th January ) . in lat. 3 ' the Middlesex, which has arrivedhere. Vesta, hence at Casnaroons. Susqueliannah, hence at Charleston. Edinburgh, Blair, hence at New Orleans. St. Vincent, Sheppard, hence for- St.Vincent,..at MadeirV The royal mail steamer America,. Captain. Leitch, all hence at Halifax, on the 16th Feb.. The royal snail steamer Niagara, arrived at New York 00 P 13th Feb.; and the Alps (s.s.), on the 17th Feb. h ere rt T l t l l e lee ra ci l ia d up , le ' k f o u sf r k n Gi b mo i o i ni l , l l , 4.l a ,o n fli d reo A .m th L lo iv n e e r i po fo o r i , P . l o v a rt s. P b l i z o il w i pn—ubpo in n h : c oo river, and several lives were lost in consequenae. Irlam (in 70 days, having left Liverpool on the 26th Sa e ber), and Tamaulipas (s.s.), both hence-at Jamaica. 1406 Francis Hentey, from Melbourne,. a t th e C ape of Good -- She sailed on the Ist December,. an d has- 79,000 Ounces of „ol on board. The Albert Edward, from Calcutta for Liverpool, ) 11 ' pp i Cape L'Aquillitis on the 20th January, with-lossof jibbooni A topgallant masts, the result of a collision with the ustrali' p jil The Noemie has arrived hence at Baltimore; she has qir sails, snakes much water, and lost anchor and chain, in c,;',,0 s e quence of having struck very. heavily on,the tail of the flu to p. Princeton, Russell ; Meroury, Conn: z. E. C. Scrap p,{ Spencer; West Point, Malliner t T. P:. Sage, Robson; h . O O Montezuma, De Courcy, all. hence; ; and liercyna, Mason, " Manilla—al a New VOrk. , rola! NEW YORK, t FEB. 14.—The Connecticut, which salleo4le , New Orleans on the 25th January, with, a c a r go o f 3,558 of cotton, was aground at Pas L'Outre.on the 3d FebruarYL p it' PENZANCE, Feb. 26.—The L'independent parted two !„' e j , sers yesterday, a n d was run on the sand, wh ere s h e s tra , " She is now at the quay, very leaky. I f Cowes:, Jan. 13.—Thera is a vessel, bearing to the ,e 4 ward of Fish Poi n t, un d er Iffy masts, evidently dismantl,,e) the late gale. She has a broad white streak, and looks''' . transport. MILFORD, Feb. 25.—The Ma ry, H u nt, from Lisbon for pool, put in here to-day, with loss of bowsprit, sails, Szc , „0!I• part of cargo thrown overboard, having been i n co:list?' the 4th February, in lat. 30, long.. 7. The dismasted. at anchor off the North Bishops , slipped, came in and proved to be the Maria Eliza, of Cardigan, from,lillr , van, in ballast. TELRGRAPII-OFF•LCE, FEB. 28.—Wind at Holyhead, i n; o o e a a t ( e l a b t r e l . 3 e o .— a T .m h e . ; L a a i d , t l h tu e s Pilotse l , fFrios aNt'elw3ooprleina,o,7o/ the Brazils. Two schooners off the port, at 5 3C.,.p.tp, [ay ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.] .• Edward, hence at Ostend, 25th Feb. Good Intent, hence at Se, ille, 16th Feb. Anna Maria Rose, 4th, and Serpent, 7th Fab,,—boW t Michaels. I; The Gouveneur de B ruges , an d P ep it ra), — both hence Dover, 27th Feb. MADEIRA, JAN. B.—The Anna Dorothea, from Stoelbol ° Messina, was lost in lat. 47, lon. 9: crew saved, 1 0 MAURITIUS, JAN. B.—The Annie, from Hobart Toil', snaking this harbour on the 12th of Dec., got ona reef, b ol ,le, assisted into port not much damaged, and was put on the o f CAPE TOWN, JAN. 24.—The Kingston, from Italtimorei,‘ , : wrecked whilst beating into Table Ray, on the 93rd of vtli` the crew, except five persons, saved, anda small portion 0 ' cargo, LIVERPOOL GLEE AND MAD-RIP AL UNION.—A se c t?, performance of this local amateur body is, our refi ij will perceive, advertised to take p'aco in the Mech o ,ttl' Institution to-morrow evening. Those who were f ° ' nwhich ate enough to n be ot p o re n se ly n i t ne a l t ud i e ts s fi g r le st es pe a r n f d orrn m a a n a c i e : if tt: i wealwhich, wl principally absvyeeefia, fine e o o o l d d report E nglis h i n composers, m a October s last, b u t w a il b l 04 ' , likely to miss the second performance, the prograoll quartett (very little known) by Mr. Joseph Robioo',,o%; Dublin ; a new four-part song, by Mr. Toms ; two Toellt and solo performances on the violoncello, by 'Mr. l'; 8 and on the piano -forte by Mr. C. J. Toms, wbo conduct the society. PHILHARIUONIC-HALL. % Owing to G IZ ' SY THE IMMENSE SUCCESS OF D'ALBERT'S EXPOSITION QUADRILLE It will again be repeated, THIS EVENING, (TV together withfrnew Grand Selection from WILLIAM TELL. 130. ,e51 Admission, One Shilling; Stalls, Two Shillings Two Shillings and Sixpence. 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