The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

Itbcrpoot ':ztanbarb. FROM OUR LONDON CENTS and mils—stuff ani BuLL will no more ti There are hundreds. CORR "PONDENT. MORNING bill-brokers, money-changers, stock-brokers, bullion-dealers, and so forth—within half a mile of the Royal Exchange sound, who are real" for:splitting up our honest coin. It will never be in our time, oh, Lady . the QUEEN I The mint people laugh at it, and they are no bad judges in that b bies of Dr. Bowuna g melting-house on many ho' and—l House of BoudagE yptian mu —lost the kre I wa§ the end of it London line easily pleased. The place is a little town. 'Fire and water were at work ; tons of coals burning at one time in various fires ;—yet no smoke. I declare you could have seen as much on Salisbury plain. In brief, there was no smoke. What led to this ? I'll tell you. There is not a worthier set of men in the world than our English brewers,—l am not now to condemn them for their tremendous profits. I speak of them as kind and generous men. Two or three Spitalfields weavers, long an ingenious and sorely op pressed people,—oh , God, take pity on them ! I never saw such abodes of misery and woe and hunger in my life as the places of these weavers. They went to Tau- MAN'S brewery ; they .had a cup of nappy ale—they had never in all their lives till then tasted anything like it. They grew bold—but not impudent ;—mentioned diat they were stifled,—their rooms were damp, hot, and savoured of that nasty, pasty flavour, inseparable from loom-work. They dared not open their windows, • " the blacks " came and settled on their delicate textile fabric, in one minute it became tainted,—a thing of naught. TRUMAN'S people were vexed; it was their smoke in Brick-lane that did the mischief. They took advice, got hold of a droll eccentric one "I'll do the' trick for you," said the eccentric. Smoke consuming ? Nonsense ! Bosh ! We'll try. That eminent firm save in coals by this process about £3,000 a-year. This is by eating their own smoke ; and the Spitalfields weavers turn out their silks and satins unsmire d. Why don't do 141—,--• ilec ,wers Likewise ? Touching the eccentric person referred to, he is a London trades man; a good many years ago he lost, I think it was £70,000; in his wrath he said, or swore, he should neither shave or ,__ Ibe shaven, or have his hair cut, till he had made up that !.or nim ; same money. I saw him the other day, poor fellow, short, he became a all over hair. The lion and lioness at the West-end just now—and they have it nearly all to themselves—are the Queen CHRISTINA. and the Duke DE RIANZA.RES, the former a decent-looking lady enough, - but I did not see her very well ; RIANZARES, her husband, is a fine military-looking fellow. They are about a great deal. RIANZARES, your readers may be aware, was a soldier when CHRISTINA cast her eyes on him • he paced to and fro in the Palace court yard, she loved him for his looks, and being mistress of her own actions—or at least fancying so—she married him. While they are here, the Times is not in Spain. Signifi cant fact ! The " leading journal" has been interdicted ; and no wonder; there have been some slashing articles in it lately touching Spain, cutting right and left ; and though there have not been a dozen good foreign leaders itythe Times during the like number of years last past, some of old MIIIIRA.Y'S verve was perceptible in those articles which have given mortal offence at the Court of Madrid. The Times, it may truly be said, has had n o foreign editor since :1 - AMES Multna:r died, a few years fond it—and - in the full vigour of the grandest intel lect which ever adorned the glorious newspaper press of London. MURRAY was originally a Presbyterian clergy- man, a ripe scholar, and a famous linguist ; he came froin never-fading Scotland with these qualifications only. They were enough. He was employed on the Times, the managers of which then, as now, encouraged no sham literature on their paper ; at the close of the last war, and during its hottest part, JAMES MURRAY was sent abroad; many perils he had—did the Times some service ; happily they knew it. He returned to England unscathed—was made a partner in the Times, and was the foreign editor for years. For a common man's son, MIIBRA.Y had the most princely tastes. Epicurean entirely, at table ; he ate well, but delicately ; his wines recherche, in the real sense of that abused and misunderstood word ;—the clean, blood-purifying, and body-cherishing wines of Germany being preferred. In his books he was also omatcl7lesi i . Tom BARNES, MURRAY'S colleague, on the other hand, was riant and robust in all his operations ;—would have preferred old port—but was compelled to stick to claret, of which he always had a pipe open. BARNES would " rough it" with a beefsteak and a bottle of that same port, while MtYBRAY would have rather dined off grasshop pers fried in garum, a sauce made of the liver of anchovy or red mullet macerated in vinegar, pepper, salt, parsley, garlic,whitewine, and sweet herbs, if my recollection serves me aright, according to PLINY and ALEXIS SOYER. The dinners of MURRAY and BARNES were different affairs altogether. At MURRAY'S mahogany you minded your P's and Q's ; now and then, a classical allusion was good, always given in English ; the vernacular rarely-- I may say never. At BARNES'S table you could not help eating and drinking more than at MURRAY'S, and the gttests never got so early away. Both those great men are gone; aye, and a greater in his way: the veritable " thunderer"—STEßLlNG! a perfect man in action and appearance, died a driveller—silly ! His faculties had been, doubtless, too much pressed, they gave way; and STERLING could not—would not—did not outlive them. The past has been the most disgraceful week on record 'at Drury-lane Theatre ; Slam", the lessee, is not to blame. Some good musical performances have been given; the artistes, if not all well-educated musicians, have in their number several good ones. Operas were duly advertised, people went in crowds ; waited at doors which were not opened, and much worse when opened on other evenings. Rows occupied the time, and filled each pause the night ingale had made. A person whose name I don't give, be cause he has no business to meddle with musical affairs, which he don't understand, has had the management of these operas, and has disappointed the public, as he had before at Exeter-hall. I only wish ALFRED BIJNN had been there to kick him out. SMITH, the lessee, would have done the "manager's last kick" to the party referred to, but SMITH is gouty at present. I was in the green room two days ago and found him full of bounce, lots of money on the table (plenty to do with it), and lots of parasites and shadows. GUSTAVUS BROOKE is going to do" Othello ; he has got some blazing portraits about worth looking at • let us hope he may be so himself—on the boards of Drury-lane as well as on those of paste. Cuesiditt KEAN has closed, having banked at CouTTa's many f...thor arkc•-•-cr aid ... a -nth % of th e sort. KEAN and his wife are off to the country. GRAND MASONIC BANQUET.—Great preparations are making at Stockport for the reception of the Grand Master, the Lord Viscount Combermere, at the provincial meeting on Thursday next. Workmen are erecting three triumphal arches over the Wellington-road South, leading to St. Peter's-square, and Churchgate and Hillgate. EVANGELIZATION IN IRELAND.—A lecture on this subject, in connection with the recent missions to the south of Ireland for the conversion of the poor Romanists to Christianity, has been announced for Friday next by the Rev. V. M. White, at the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. TICE ROYAL MAIL STEAM-SNIP NIAGARA, Capt. Lang, took het departure hence for Halifax and Boston, on Sa turday, at 10 30, a.m., with 155 passengers and a very full cargo on board, beside the usual mails. A N INQUEST was held, on Saturday, on the body of an infant found in a coal vault, in Warren-street, and a ver dict of wilful murder returned against the mother, who was committed for trial. • CHOLERA. IN LIVERPOOL. — Touching the fatal case of Asiatic cholera, reported to the Health Committee on Thursday last, Mr. Henry Behrend, M.R.C.S., writes : " Having the medical charge of several of the houses for the reception of German emigrants, I have during the last fortnight seen some tolerably severe cases of choleraic diarrhoea, all of which, however, readily yielded to simple treatment. The details of the fatal case have been for warded to the Lancet ; but I may state that Dr. Vose, who was in attendance, agreed with myself that he had never seen a more marked example of the Asiatic type of the malady. There can be no doubt that this case was of foreign origin, as the cholera was raging in Hamburg at the time when our patient left that port. lam of opinion, therefore, that we have nothing to fear from the occurrence of an isolated instance, and concur with the Medical -officer of Health in believing that there is no reason at present to apprehend an outbreak of epidemic cholera in Liverpool. No fresh cases have since shown themselves, and I shall be much surprised if we are called upon for some time to see any true cases of cholera that cannot be traced as direct importations from the Continent. Nevertheless, as even this contingency should, if possible, be avoided, I recommend the local Board of Health to adopt some stringent measures with regard to the houses for the reception of German emigrants." GAROTTING.—On Saturday night, about half-past eleven o'clock, Dir. Richard Edwards of Seacombe-street, Everton, was attacked by several men in Dalrymple-street, top of Scotland-road, as he was going home. After garotting him they stole his watch, a gold Albert chain, and a few cop , pers from his waistcoat, but missed 10s. in silver in his coat pocket. A SEAMAN, recently returned from America,. was, on • Saturday night, robbed in a house of ill-fame, in one of the worst districts in the town, of £54 in gold, and a cheque for £30..'" His liquor was " doctored," and he fell into a deep sleep, on awaking from which, he found himself in a strange street, with his money gone. A BOLD TllEFT.—Andrew Prentice, a young seaman, was, on Saturday, charged by Frances Carpenter with stealing £l5. The prosecutrix, an elderly lady, attired in deep mourning, stated that she was the mother of the late surgeon of the Australia, who was drowned on the voyage from New York to - Liverpool. Hearing that he had left some money and effects, she came to Liverpool to receive them, and the prisoner was shown to her as being the best acquainted with what belonged to her deceased son. She met Prentice at the office of Mr. G u i nn , w h ere a number of articles were pointed out to her, and she also received' £l5 as part payment of the deceased's salary. She placed the money in a reticule basket, and then pro ceeded in a cab to her lodgings in Myrtle-street, the pri soner, notwithstanding that he was told his services were no longer required, mounting the box, and accompanying them. He forced himself into -the house, and while she and her friends were examining the articles they had ob tained from the ship, the prisoner went into the room where the reticule basket had been placed. He remained a few minutes, and then ilsocamped, and immediately after wards the money was missed. The prisoner was subse quently apprehended in Dublin-street. He had purchased a quantity of clothes on Thursday, (Wednesday being the day when the • m oney was missed,) and he had also depo sited £8 in the hands of the persons with whom he lodged, to keep for him. Committed for trial. FATAL ACCIDENT IN WILLIA3I-STEEET.-011 Friday evening, as a man named Joseph Parr, a carter in the em ploy of Messrs. Stock, glass-merchants, in William-street, was assisting in unloading some rubbish into a float, a ladder from a neighbouring warehouse fell upon him and struck him on the back. The deceased lifted the ladder off himself, and when he got up he looked very sick, and seemed much hurt. He, however, took a.load of rubbish to Tabley-street; but soon afterwards went home, com vramr n.inful. After partaking paining wax ins DECK Was very -- of some supper he went to bed ; he had been in lied abotit an hour when he got much worse. He was quite black in the face, foaming at the mouth, and not able to speak, and died about eleven o'clock. An inquest on the body was held yesterday, when a verdict of accidental death Nvas returned. THE MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S works are making rapid progress. The line between Dublin, Belfast, and Port Patrick was opened on Monday week, the corn. pany having selected the occasion of the Queen's visit to commence operations. • Mr. Dargan has nearly completed the street work to connect the offices in College-green, by neans of subterranean wires, with all the railway termini n Dublin, so that that city will be in telegraph communi ith Galway, Belfast, and the intermediate towns, h Port Patrick (Scotland), and in a few days the ;nstown and Killarney will be opened. By month the company expect to complete the nd, also, the line from Preston to Carlisle, • , connecting Liverpool with Glasgow, Greenwich, Paisley, Edinburgh, and the line now making between Carlisle and the cable end at Port Patrick, PRODUCE.—There has been a very firm market for all descriptions of Sugar, and the sales com prise 600 hhds. West India, 5,500 bags Bengal, and 8,500 mats of Mauritius. Foreign continues in active demand, at full prices. No sales in Molasses. For Coffee a fair demand, particularly for the ordinary qualities. Jamaica, 50s to 71s for ordinary to good middling ; St. Domingo, 44s to 45s ; Bahia, s to 44s 6d per cwt. 850 bags Malabar Pepper brought 4d per lb. Trinidad Cocoa, 34s to 35s per cwt. Rice in very active demand, at an advance of 6d to is per cwt. Rum : Owing to the limited quantity on show, sold at an advance of 2d per gallon on recent prices. In Tea business has been transacted to a fair extent, operations having been chiefly in medium to fine Congous ; the last mentioned have an upward ten dency, whilst for the first a slight concession in price has to be submitted to, a few small parcels of common are offering at 101-d, but the bulk is held for 10/4 to lld per lb. Saltpetre without change, and only 250 bags sold, at 25s 6d for 91-, and 27s 6d per cwt. for 6 per cent. refraction. Ame rican Rosin in great demand; 3,700 brls. have been sold at 4s 8d to 4s 9d to lOs 6d, being an advance on the common qualities of 2d to 3d per cwt. About 2,500 salted Monte Video Ox and Cow Hides sold at 5d to 51d per lb. The demand for Olive Oil has been steady. 130 tuns Seal Oil are reported ; pale, at £33, straw, at 232, and brown, at £3O I.os per tun; Cod Oil in limited demand, without change in price ; Rape Oil in good demand, pale selling at 40s to 41s, and brown at 39s • Linseed dull, at 29s 3d to 29 s 6d p er cw t . Nothing doing in Spirits of Turpentine. 325 tons Palm Oil are reported at £36 lOs to £37 per ton, and 100 tons to arrive at the former price. Tallow dull, at 52s 6d for Petersburg Y.C., and at 51s to 51s 6d per cwt. for South American. The sales of Jute amount to 750 bales, at extreme prices, £2l lOs to £23 being realized for fair common to good middling. To-DAY Sugar has been in very good demand ; the sales, including Saturday's transactions, comprising 190 hhds. Antigua at 325. 9d. to 365. 3d. ; 80 hhds. Barbadoes, chiefly grainy, at 335. to 395. 6d. ' • 6,400 mats Mauritius, at 31s. 6d. to ' 355. • 260 hhds. Cuba Muscovado, at 325. 3d. t o 365.; 300 boxes Havana, at 225. 6d. ; and 2,500 bags Pernams, at 18s. 9d. to 19s. 9d. per cwt, 100 puns, St. Lucia Molasses NIA at 15s. 9d. per cwt., and 50 puns. Demerara Rum at full prices. There has been a fair amount of busi ness done in Tea, principally in blackish leaf kinds from is. 20. per lb. upyards. A public sale of 3,200 packages is advertised for Thursday next. Of Rice 600 bags Bengal sold at 13s. per cwt. 1,500 bales Jute realized £22 to £22 10s. per ton. 30 chests Me Lac Dye sold at ls. 9d. per lb. ; 60 chests Shell Lac, at 425. 6d ; 280 bags Saltpetre, at 245. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt., (122 and 8+ per cent.,) and 650 bags Bombay Linseed, at 50s per quarter. Messrs. Jos.:Ronmsox and Co. in their monthly circular say Since our last monthly circular, the accounts from the East have been more satisfactory ; the prospect of con tinued peace has, in a degree, restored confidence, and altogether changed the tone of the.wool market. Manu facturers generally are very busy, there being no scarcity of orders ; and as stocks in their hands are very mnch reduced, many have come into the market and purchased freely, notwithstanding the large quantity introduced at the recent London sales. The imports for the month are to a fair extent ; but the quantity offering is not so great as it would have been, in consequence of the bulk of ar rivals being reserved for the public sales to be held this month. The transactions here have been all by private contract, but the prices obtained were at extreme rates, and the market closes with an upward tendency. Messrs. W. GREAME and Co. in their monthly circular say : During the earlier part of the past month the attention of the trade was much occupied with the public auctions proceeding in London, which terminated on the 13th ult., and the favourable result of these sales, combined with the continuance of fine weather, and the prospect of a pacific settlement of the all-absorbing Turkish question, has tended to improve the tone of this market : during the past fortnight there has been more inquiry for most descriptions of wool, and a fair amount of business has been done at very firm prices. For English and Irish combing wools there has also been considerable inquiry, buyers evincing more anxiety to supply themselves with these descriptions as stocks decrease. Clothing fleeces and skin wools are also more • inquired for, and command rather higher rates. For Scotch wools there continues a fair demand, and our quotations are fully supported. WooL.—There is no particular feature in the market worthy of comment, the business of the week has nnly been to a limited extent, at about previous current rates ; public sales are fixed to commence here on 21st instant, when about 11,000 bales will be offered. We do not expect to see much animation in this market until these sales come off, as the chief portion of present stocks are held over for that period. Imports for the week, 1,419 bales, chiefly Portugal, Iceland, and Scotch. CARDINAL WISEMAN IN LIVERPOOL. HIS ➢ISQUISITION ON THE FINE ARTS, Ox Tuesday evening, after formidable placardings and other means to arouse public attention to the event, Dr. WISEMAN made his bow to a Liverpool audience, in front of the orchestra in the Philharmonic Hall, amid, as was to hare been expected from the amount of preparation, a -considerable display of boisterous welcome. The splendid and spacious hall was well filled, particularly the boxes and galleries, and of the number present a considerable proportion were ladies, while a numerous body of Romish ecclesiastics, of different grades, and collected from carious localities, surrounded the lecturer, or were dispersed in conspicuous positions among the auditory. The orchestra having been in a great degree set apart for the less in fluential, although not less devoted admirers of the doctor, the clamorous evidences of approbation of his person and sentiments which issued from that quarter were, on his appearance, and during the evening, both numerous and noisy. As in the case of other actors of eminence, the ap pearance of the chief performer on this occasion was heralded by a burst of music from a brass band which occupied the centre of the orchestra. The musical strains having subsided, the reverend lecturerer made his debilt, attired in Cardinal costume. Whether it was the amount of preparation, or the notoriety of the individual, which in duced us to expect something grand in the advent of a " Cardinal," or, reverting to the solemn dignity and grave theatrical. propriety with which we have been wont to witness that character invested on the stage, by KEMBLE, MACBEADY, and other representatives of such state, we know not ; but certain it is, we felt disappointed in the show. True enough, we beheld before us a burly priest, decked out in trappings of red, and it might be, for aught we could tell to the contrary, purple and fine linen ; there was no stinted dis play of jewels to adorn him outwardly ; and added to all, there was also conspicuous in the individual an air of swaggering superiority. Still the whole aspect of the man and his attire inspiredus with no higher idea than that of " Bartlemy-fair " finery_ The mein and garniture of Dr. WISEMAN were much more akin to those of "Jack Falstaff," who, according to his own admission, required "to purge and live cleanly, like a gentleman," than in keeping with the purity of aspect mid simple dignity of deportment manifested in the appearance of any of our English Bishops. on Assyrian art, a Dr. WISEMAS having been trumpeted forth by his ad mirers as an oracle of wisdom, an embodiment of erudi tion, and a paragon of refinement ; and he having chosen for' the subject of his lecture a theme admirably calcu lated to draw out his sympathies With the beautiful, to give scope to his talents, and a fair field for the display of his acquirements, we were led to anticipitate some grati fication from the matter he should utter, if we could find nothing to admire in his appearance and manners. Here, again, we were doomed to disappointment. His delivery was ungrace ful, and far from pleasing. His composition was .common-place, abounding in mixed metaphors, and false figures—his manner hesitating, uncertain, and conveying to his auditors a painful conviction of his want of familiarity with the subject he was treating of; yet, as is generally the case with mere pretenders, he was bold enough in his asser tions. It was while attempting to illustrate his assumptions, or to apply them in argument, that his ignorance became as disagreeably apparent as the vulgarity of his diction and address had been previously repulsive. ‘, The Highways of Commerce are the Highways of the A r t s ," was the inviting text he had chosen for his homily ; and, in the course of it, he favoured the audience with no limited display of his critical acumen in connexion with the fine arts. In doing this, he made an ostentatious parade of historical names and events, and from them drew inferences as violently opposed to ordinary logic as they were at variance with established facts. For example, in descanting on the unchanging stability of Egyptian art, manners, and religion, he informed his audience—who ap plauded the information to the echo—that the Romans, with all their boasted power, were unable, even by all their efforts, to modify Egyptian art, or to remodel the religion of that impassive and unbending people.. What exertions the Romans might make to remodel the arts of Egypt, we have no knowledge of, and of such exertions we believe Dr. WISEMAN to be equally ignorant. On the religious point of his argument, however, he ought to be aware that, unlike the Romanists of modern time, the ancient Romans never attempted to subvert the religious systems of those nations they subdued. We allude to this, merely to show one of the numerous fallacies inculcated by the doctor. In unfolding his theories of art, some of which were crude enough, Dr. WISEMAN ostensibly confined him self almost exclusively to sculpture; we say ostensibly, because in reality he did not do so, as witness his ex cessively apocryphal description of Eutrnsean Art, in nearly the whole of which, to use the language of SIIERI DAN, he must have been "indebted to his imagination for his facts." The arts of Egypt, Assyria, and Greece, were discussed by the doctor entirely in connexion with sculpture, ignoring altogether the existence of architecture as an art. Such an omission, if unintentional and occasioned by ignorance, would only prove the unfit ness of the lecturer for the task he had undertaken, and in that case we would recommend for his cogitation the poet's maxim : " Let those teach others who themselves excel." If from any sinister motive he suppressed allusion to that important branch of art, the omission was of a much less pardonable kind. Be that as it may, however, he ought to have known that among the Egyptians and Assyrians sculpture was employed almost exclusively in subordina tion to, and as an auxiliary of, architectural effect. To the Greeks, so far as we are aware, belongs chiefly the merit of raising sculpture to the dignity of an independent art. The subject of sculptural art, however, although seemingly not new, is certainly not very familiar to the Doctor; still, like some of his betters on this subject, assuming a virtue if he has it not," he adventures a theory ; and by this theory upsets the conclusions of nearly all prior fine-art essayists. By inspecting the fragments of Assyrian art in the British Museum, Dr. WISED/AN discovers that Grecian art was borrowed from Assyria, and not derived from Egypt, as heretofore has been' generally supposed. How does he prove this ? In Egypt i an ar t, quoth he, all is quiet, motionless, inert—a perfect sameness in endless repetition ; or, as the doctor facetiously, if not wittily remarked of the sculptured figures on the monuments of Egypt, "they look like a regiment made to order, and clothed by contract." The peculiar aptitude of this sally, as illustrative of a conflicting artistic theory, we confess our inability to perceive ; but let that pass. In Assyrian sculpture, on the contrary, says the lecturer, exaggerated indications of animal strength are the predominating and distinguishing characteristics. Grecian art embodies indications of strength, and to these it adds vigorous action ; ergo, the Greeks derived their sculpture from Assyria ! So, at least, says Dr. WISEMA.N; but Greek sculpture will be found to possess:numerous other features in common with those of Egypt and Assy ria—it possesses repose as well as action—is imbued with attributes of delicacy as well as of strength—is not desti tute of repetition in many of its parts,—and, in short, gives unmistakeable evidence of being an improvement upon the primitive yet noble sculptures of Egypt. In tracing the progress of art through the period of its decadence and revival, the lecturer exhibited no greater profundity of knowledge than he displayed in the analogy he sought to establish between Greek and Assyrian art, while his pretended candour was much more questionable ; the statements, in this and other instances, being coloured to meet the dogmas inculcated by that Church whose doctrines he advocates. Another fallacy the doctor laboured hard to establish was, that no military excursion of any kind had ever been attended by a spread of the arts of civilisation ; and in illustration of this opinion he enlarged upon the absence of civilizing results in even the celebrated expedition of ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Is Dr. WISEMA.N ignorant of the fact, that improvement may be conveyed to the invaders as well as by them ? Does he wish us to believe that the Romans derived no civilizing influence from their invasions of Greece and Egypt ? or to come nearer to our own time, would he insist that the semi-savage inhabitants of Europe obtained no advantage from the Crusades, beyond the fruitless glory of planting the banner of the cross upon the citadel of Jerusalem ? In point of fact, his lecture was a claptrap, studiedly prepared for the gross digestion of the ignorant. That it met with applause from a moderately well-dressed audience, is no proof to the con trary of this assertion ; and when the exceedingly mal apropos occasions, seized on for such applause, are taken into account, it renders the conjecture doubly colourable, that the approbation was concocted and so far managed by some one who, like ADDISoN'S " trunk-maker in the upper gallery," knew exactly when such demonstrations were necessary to hide a weak point, or to mask a defective argu- ment ; but who, unlike that functionary, was not quite in telligently followed in his noisy hints. As an example, we might instance the fact, that when the lecturer described the beauty and durability of some antique mosaics, the applause, though loud and hearty, was so mal-adroit in its delivery, as to render it difficult to determine whether the plaudits were meant to express admiration of the mosaics—satisfaction with their durability —or a compli ment to the doctor's ambidextrous mode of dealing with the fact. Other cases might easily be cited, to show the nature of the "drill" to which a portion at least of the assembly' had been subjected, as witness the effect pro duced at the conclusion of his description of Venice, when he applied to that city the common Italian phrase "it superba," the use of this adjective being rewarded by six distinct rounds of hand-clapping and cheers. So easily were the applauses of the willing audience won. Of Dr. WISEMAN'S want of tact it may not be inappro priate to point out his allusion to the utter destruction of the A.sssrians, on account of their persecutions and cruel ties. We join him heartily in reprobation of persecutions, and world go all lengths with him in any effort for the abatement of cruelty ; but before committing our selves entirely to his views, would like to be favoured with some information as to his affection for heretics, and to be male acquainted with the social and religious position assigned by him to the INQUISITORS—those meek administrators of the kindness of his church. As a performance, for such it must be looked on, we consider tin " Cardinal's" exhibition in Liverpool as one of very inferior merit. A contemporary informs us that, on the Sunday preceding, Dr. MNBILE warned his congregation against the alluring blandishments of the wily lecturer. Had the reverend Dr. been quite familiar with the persmal and intellectual graces of the lecturer, we venture to think he would have spared his hearers on the subject. The lecture was a mere bundle of disjecta membra, delivered in a strain as little seductive as one could well conceive, while the personnel of the lecturer was anything 'tut bewitching. Half the audience collected, we venture to say, were attracted by curiosity to hear and see tie man whose audacity has made him so notorious ; and tint curiosity gratified, we should think little likelihood mists of his being able to re-attract an assemblage with ary pretensions to intelligence or social position. We perceive that, in this quarter, the tawdry displays of the pseudo-archbishop are not yet completed. He is about to give another performance in dedicating a new Roinish chapel in Li3card, assisted by his subordinate and coadjutor the pretended Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury ; ad mission to witness which show is to be by tickets, which may be purchased in various quarters, at prices ranging from the trifling sum of ten shillings to half-a-crown—a means of raising funds for what are called religious pur poses, forming a fitting addendum to the raffles and lot teries by which the Popish exchequer has been frequently and largely augmented. Mus. H. B. STOWT returned from the continent last week, much benefited in health by her quiet residence in Switzerland. She will take her departure for the United States, per the Arctic, to-morrow. DEATH PROMAPOPLEXY.—On Saturday evening, about eight o'clock, a man tamed John Burrows, a labourer, residing in Back Berry-street, dropped down in Wood street. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, when a verdict of died of apoplexy was returned. WILLIAM LAW was, Cu Friday, brought up at the Polite court, and remanded, on suspicion of having stolen a watch and $132 from the bag of Thomas Leslie, an emigrant, at his lodgings, in Townsead-street. The prisoner had a key which opened the prosecitor'sbag, and £26. 10s. in English coin was found with him. MANCHESTER Coax EXCHANGE. —The committee, in compliance with the wish of a considerable majority of the standholders and subscribers, have decided upon opening the hall for business upon Thursday in each week, instead of Saturday, as heretofore. They have it also in contem plation to open the Exchange on Tuesdays for the accom modation of sugar, tea, and coffee merchants, &c. ANN HICKS, THE STALL-KEEPER in Hyde-park, whom Lord Seymour ejected when preparations were making for the Great Exhibition, is now at Melbourne, having arrived out on the Ist of January last, Wafter a long voyage. In writing to England on the 15th of May, she states that she has sent a petition to Her Majesty the Queen to grant her a few acres of land oat there, instead of the money due to her for the materials of .her cottage in Hyde-park ; and that if she receives no answer, she should try to get home next year, and petition the Queen in person. ROMANIST PROSANITT.—The Queen of Spain, who lately gave a rich dress to the statue of the Virgin in the Cathedral of Seville, has just presented the infant Saviour of the same church with a handsome dress and mantle, the former of cambric, embroidered with pearls, and the latter of green velvet and gold. These articles were placed on the statue of the child with great solemnity on the 15th ult., in the presence of the authorities, by the Duke de Montpensier, in the name of the Queen. ONE OF THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SCE NES ever witnessed, says the Halifax Guardian, took place in the cemetery there on Sunday week, when the remains of the great se cularist, Mr. Shackleton, of Queenshead, were about to be consigned to the tomb. Mr. Walters, Baptist minister of this town, had' received an invitation to perform the burial service, and was consequently upon the ground for that purpose ; but Mr. Robinson., secularist lecturer, of Wilsden, accompanied by about one hundred of the friends of the " departed," (who had followed the hearse from Queenshead) came to do this last office for his late colleague, in accordance with the wish of Mr. Shackleton. Mr. Wal ters and Mr. Robinson consequently met together at the grave of the " departed," where they held a long conver sation, which terminated by the former being allowed to carry out his intention. The friends of the " departed" having assembled around the grave, the reverend gentle man commenced the service, which for a time was listened to with the attntion and apaarently the regard becoming so solemn an occasion. Afterwards, however, it became evident that the service was not congenial to the feelings of the secularists, many of whom expressed their dissatis faction by informing the reverend gentleman, at almost every sentence that fell from his lips, that " This wornt t' wish of departed.' At .ength their conduct became so disgraceful that. Mr. Walters was compelled to withdraw to another part of the ground, where the burial service was concluded, whilst Julian Harney, of London, and Mr. Robinson harangued those who remained around the grave of the "departed." • After these gentlemen had spoken some time on the useful life their late colleague had spent, these disreputable proceedings were brought to a close rather abruptly by the grave-digger, who became very vehement in his appeals to the friends of the " departed" to leave the place. A MAN AND HIS WIFE BURNT TO DEATH.—A fire, by which two persons were burnt, and the lives of nearly a dozen other persons were jeopardized, happened on Satur day morning in White Lion-place, Edgeware-road, London. The groundfloor of the building was occupied by a Mr. Thomas Daniels and his wife, while the whole of the upper rooms were tenanted by poor persons and their families. A police-constable of the D division, who was on duty in the neighbourhood, while passing the premises, perceived smoke rushing through the windows into the street, and, without delay, raised an alarm. Screams from the lower part of the hoiise clearly told that some one was in that part of the premises. Assistance having arrived, and some of the lodgers having descended the stairs, the room was entered, when a pitiable scene presented itself. The whole of the bedclothes, curtains, and the rest of the furniture in the room were blazing with such fury as to threaten with destruction the whole of the building. Mrs. Daniels was in the midst of the flames. ' By the ap plication of buckets of water, the neighbours and police were enabled to get the flames sufficiently under to allow them to get the woman out, but not until she was burnt in a fearful manner. The husband of the woman for some time could not be found ; but, upon searching for him, he was at last found in a cupboard, which he had entered, either by mistake, from thinking it was the door of the room, or hoping, by shutting himself up, to escape the flames. Unfortunately, he was as badly burnt as his wife. They were both removed to the hospital, where they died shortly after their admission. The engines of the parish and London brigade, together with the escapes belonging to the Royal Society for the Protection of Life were soon on the spot, but, unfortunate! be of any assistance, the fire having 1 before their arrival. As to the cause of tne outoreo. nothing 13 definitively known. LECTURES ON COMMERCIAL LAW On Thursday, Mr. Leone Levi delivered his first lecture on this subject at the meeting room of the Chamber of Commerce. There was a good attendance of mercantile gentlemen, and the chair was occupied by the mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., who opened the proceedings with some observations on the importance of commercial knowledge, and the necessity of advancing with the spirit of the age. The lecture was an initiate one, and comprised a kind of si topics which Mr. Levi intended to Lry of the varioti succeeding lectures. Ile expressed a wish that the lec tures should be conducted after the Socratic mode, and that young men should supply themselves with pens and paper to enable them to take notes, and that they might ask any questions they considered necessary. He would be happy to afford them every information. It was agreed that the lectures should be arranged as follows :—Four on the law of partnership, and four on bills of exchange. dnage was one of t le radical polyglot. However, he was got rid of, by being sent from the House of Commons to look at cotton, comm —the good manufacturers and weavers of Bolton weight of 1 s eloquence in Parliament true, for BowEING never, to ray_ knowlec Nobody car than babble he talked sense, abstract promiscuously lopian— bore, and - -as sent, as I have stated, into the land of Egypt. V the has done must be best known to the Ibis and Icnneumo: In Dr. BOWRING Lbsence decimal old bitumenised ed, and it is imagined coinage, like a two thousand s body, slept. H( he has stirred some hon. member up with a long pole of pickaxe, and "Decimal Coinage" is the present tub for tl whale-public. Your real practical mothers—they have all been pensioned off at the mint—young whelps, of five or has re six am twenty, have had their £5OO a year for life awarded niers" were a fished in the na• tional coining shop. N'importe, your real men of metal — tin—in the city, they want no change in the system ; they want to go on in the time-venerated plan, of four farthings one penny, twelve pence one shilling, twenty shillings one pound. The floriit, after its "dainty device" was altered. area more m compliment to the Prince Consort, its proposer, than for its necessity. The half-farthings were also allowed to be useful to the Topsies of the colonies ; but the cents and rails, where is the advantage ? Oh ! I'll tell you—to pay four farthings, when three would be ample, for the value received, is foolish ! Providence ! come to the relief of poorer Englishmen, when the richer descend to such cheeseparing. At this present moment there are hundreds of us in town, who are ashamed to offer Cabbie a sixpence for a ride. The English gentleman never carries tie may a or a Joey, the ultima thule of decimal coinage coat pocket full of mils and cents ? JaMais Let tlci hnl4- a.— - - imaau .41 up di war IA) bravest soldiers of this or of an: Lver piece, A waist- other age my eccentric, daring, and intellectual friend, CHARLES JAMES NA.PIER, who died the other day, having been cut and hacked and shot all over for upwards of fifty yews in the service of his country. The NAPIERS stand out in bold relief from all other names that there never was a NAPIER that did not carry a "bee in his bonnet," a phrase in their country meaning little short of being daft. It is stated that the name is derived from two words--nae (no) peer (equal.) Be this as it may, the great original of the name was the noble founder saying, however of logarithms, —great ratio of numbers,--vvonderful con trivance for expeditious calculation, unerring, moreover, as all things in mathematics must necessarily be, or they become sham,—no mathematics. Circumstances, it may be needless here to be noticed, have brought me into con tact with many noble officers in this and the Indian ser- vice ; the NAPIERS, Sir ALEXANDER Bu NEB, Colonel BURNS, son of Romig, the author of bonnie gangs, sung now by as bonnie women at the elegant reunions of the presidencies of the east, as in the thunder and lightning Parties of the west. These men, and others well re membered, are all gone. It was but yesterday that COl. BURNE 3 was numbered with the dead, and still closer 15 NAPIER. " Give me said Et man with a nose," WELLINGTON one day, referring to NAPIER'S beak, which was tremendous in its line. The sinewy Sikhs, and other rice-eating specimens of 'Pastern pin-wire, for all are as tough, called Nipi by a name equivalent, or worse, to our demon; I cannot venture to spell the Indian word, but the sound of it was an echo to the sense, and certainly the General looked any other character than human or divine when he put his spectacles on—to fight. His system of no-shaving answered many ends—a saving ""iv , and steel ; but it made him more frightful to his enemies, and helped, poor tallow, to hide the damage done by that dreadful shot, which made him " hold his jaw " ever after the battle of Busaco. Pro bably nothing became NAPIER better than his real modesty at the banquet given to him on the eve of his departure to supersede that gallant old cock, Gen. GouGir, after his disastrous spree at ChiLlingwallah. When NA.riz4 went there, he found what he expected where GOUGH was—the affair settled. The late Gen. RAPIER was very positive—thought he could never be wrong—nor was he frequently; but he would "stand no nonsense." Limn, was very ticklish; hence his row with DALHOUSIE, which nearly drove them both demented. Col. BURNS, of the Indian army, who died a few days ago, lived to a toler able old age ; I remember dining with him and a handful of friends on the anniversary of his father's birth-day ; they appeared to me to be all Scotchmen, but,with the ex ception of proposing the memory of ROBERT BURNS, and his son's response, all the rest was Italian singing, which ROBIE denounced. I protested, but it was of no use. " Dove sono" and " Un segretta d' importanza" took the place of "Auld lang syne" and "My bonnie Jean." Sir - - ALEXANDER BURNES was a branch of the poet's family, for all the ein his name. Sir ALEXANDER'S career was a brilliant and woeful one; full to overflowing with generous feeling, intrepidity, sagacity, —mere beastly, ignorant savages cut him to pieces at Cabool. The Whig govern ment blamed the most discreet yet daring officer ever em ployed by England in India, and CAII HOB/MUSE, now Lord BROUGHTON, with brandied proboscis, refused to grant all the papers demanded by the House of CoMmons, which would have made poor massacred BURNEs' weeping relations satisfied. I'llnever forget his joining me in the slips of Drury lane Theatre to see " Anster Fair" at hall' price with all his honours flush upon him ; he buttoned his overcoat, hiding his " bits of orders," ran from a grand dinner party to see the play ;—he had never seen one all his life before. In three months he fell in an awful tragedy. Lady SALE, also, she's gone, a day or two ago. Strong-minded woman, kept them all in order in that obscene captivity of theirs men ' women, and children—gentlemen and ladies, all huddled together in one room, with a landing place—a top of the stairs—ealledin London. I forget the name of the officer who had orders for the release of the captives ; his Christian name was James ; the poor prisoners waiting for freedom,—gasping for liberty —on his appearance knocked up, the best way they could, the air of " Ye've been lang a' comin' Jammie." But returning to General NAPIER ; intelligence of his death was communicated to the QUEEN at the Phoenix-park. The Sovereign was much affected. Yet another NA.PIEE--CIIARLEY, the sailor, — where is he ? Nobody knows. Dear old Admiral, never shall forget the last time I sipped gin and water with you, just before you smashed Mygull's pretensions, over in Portugal;; and never shall I forget taking a pinch of snuff, the first Sunday you were in Hyde-park, after your return, out of the diamond box given to you by PEDRO. All the NA.PIERS, as stated, have " bees" in their bonnets ; the one last spoken' of might have been a lord of the admiralty, if he had been less " cantankerous," and written less to the Times. Complaints are generally and justly made with re, to Lord PALMERSTON'S smoke nuisance bill not comir. s into operation until the expiry of one year after the passing of the measure. I have no hesitation in saying that it is the most foolish piece of lenient Consideration ever prac tised, performed, or perpetrated by Minister, Whig or Tory. The owners of the tall chimnies, for ever vomitting forth their dense black smoke, poisoning everything that bas life, and destroying everybody, don't understand his lordship's kindnes twenty pounds sterlin plying with the bill ; and for this pitiful sum we are all to be choked for twelve months. No, we won't,—but no thanks to PAR. Several of our great brewers and owners In most cam ie- outlay in con nay, laugh at him , tild cover ti of factories are themselves the evil. Not so others. places which abound on above bridge, have been at since the bill was passed. 1.23 , putting them in mind to take WI On the co lroM Dover to Calais, or tossing in the Bay of bilge water for ballast lit-seekers been made minstex week have tt battlements of that eld( kept lw ambeth. I had a swh good ( Ihe real racl Never come to Z Yvt I Nvaa air aeli P g e • Fact ! f w l Bh vergons Let US See hn„e,d„PAL THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER COMMERCIAL MONETARY NEWS. MONDAY NIGUIT. ANOTHER week's return of the stock of bullion in the Bank of England, has again shown a decrease to the extent of more than £200,000, and as a con sequence almost inevitable, the Directors have once more raised the rate of discount, the minimum being now four per cent. The first effect was a fall in the price of Consols ; and, notwithstanding the assurances from the east of every obstacle being removed from an amicable settlement, the Funds have not since rallied, and are now as low as they were during the war panic. The cause of this movement on the part of the Bank Directors, is owing, in the first place, to the constant drain upon their resources of specie, and the causes of this drain have therefore formed a topic for discus sion. Among those most prominent, are the great excess of our Imports, creating an ad verse balance of trade, and the recent large purchases of foreign corn requirino• b corres pondino• large exports of specie. As requiring diffi culty has arisen in the face of several large re ceipts of gold, arising out of transactions altogether distinct from the Import trade, some degree of alarm is excited, and the question is asked, what would have been our position, had it not been for Australian gold In indulging these apprehen sions, sufficient allowance is not made for the great difference which exists between Imports and Ex ports. Supposing both to have increased to the extent of only Five Millions : in the one case pay ments will have to be made within three months at farthest; whereas, on the latter, more than a year may elapse before any returns may be re ceived. Every increase of trade, therefore, even of the most profitable kind, involves an absorption of capital, and when it is remembered that the recent increase has been very large, not only in our foreign transactions, but also in our home trade, and the great augmentation in the value of labour, there is amply sufficient circumstance to account for that drain upon the Bank resources which seems to have created the alarm. It has, however, had one good cffect, in restraluing over speculation ; but though it has al kso assisted to produce a stagna tion in business,' we do not anticipate that it will be more than temporary. A cessation of the de- mand from the continent, and the arrival of a few more cargoes from Australia, would very soon animate all our home markets ; but though this result may not be reached for, a few weeks, it will not be much longer. The late excitement in the Corn-market, by which the price was raised be yond all reasonable limits, has already experienced a re-action ; and though the difficulties in the Money-market may help to break the fall, it will not be long before Wheat finds a much lower level. The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Indus, have reached £450,500, of which £364,700 is silver, and £85,800 gold. Of this amount £164,000 is for China, and £70,000 for Alexandria.. There is also the large item .of £165,000 for Bombay. In our SHARE MARKET we have still to report great dearth of business, and an almost continuous decline in prices. The more favourable weather on Saturday and to-day appear, in some measure, to have stayed the downward tendency, but in the absence of any good buying this can only be tem porary. Our Local Stocks are in demand at former quotations. We annex this day's prices :—Aber deens, 12+ ; Chester and Birkenhead, 19 s ; Caledonians, 33 * 3 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 74+ *4 * London Stock, 1098 9 4 11 + + ; Sheffield Stock, 25+ ; Midland Stock, 68* + 8 4 * + 8 -4 ; Dover Stock, 20-I 8 -} ' • Bank of Liverpool, 22; Liverpool and London Fire and Life new issue, 7p ' • Exchange Buildings, 327. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 27th of August gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits ... £4,601,685; Increase £538,639 Other deposits ... 11,133,356; Decrease 490,227 Rest ... 3,291,440; Decrease 60,408 On the other side of the account— Government securities £13,027,582, the same as before. Other securities 13,830,835; Decrease 46,115 Notes unemployed ... 7,755,345 ; Increase 110,465 The amount of notes in circulation is £22,776,305, being a decrease of £226,505 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £16,962,918, showing a decrease of £208,875, when compared with the preceding return. ISSUE DEPARTMENT, Notes issued £30,531,650 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100 (Other Securities 2,984,900 Gold coin & bu11'n.16,531,650 Silver bullion ... £30,631,65& BANKING DEBAILTMENB £30.531,650 Prop. Capital ... £1.4,553,000 Gov. Securities £13,027,582 Rest .. ... 3,291,440 Other Securities 13,830,835 Public Deposits 4,601,685 Notes ... 7,755,345 Other Deposits 11,133,356 Gold & Silver Coin 431,268 7-day & other bills 1,465,549 £35,045,0301 £35,045,030 COTTON.—The business done during the week has been somewhat greater than the previous week, but the stagnation in the manufacturing districts has prevented any animation, and pur chases are confined to immediate necessities, with the exception of a fair proportion on speculation and for export. Prices have, however, been main tained, the difference, if any, being slightly in favour of the buyer ; but the opinion still prevails that prices will go higher, and circumstances seem to warrant the conclusion that this opinion will be the correct one. To-DAY the market was very inactive, and the sales limited, the transactions, including those on Saturday, amounting to only 10,000 bales, of which 2,500 were on speculation and for export. Wq give the following extract from the circular of Messrs. T. and H. LITTLE DALE and CO. " The prospects for the coming crop are not so favour able as at this time last year. In the spring it suffered from drought, and latterly from too much rain, and it is late—but these drawbacks, it is to be hoped, may be re medied in a great degree by a fine September, and an open picking season. The new Cotton will come forward late, as prices as well as freights are likely to be high, and from the ravages the yellow fever is making at New Or leans, and by the last accounts at Mobile, it is to be feared business will be interfered with, and at all events delayed." DESCRIPTION.I PRICE& Sea Island l4 0329 Stained .6 14* Boweds 3i 6 Mobile 4 I New Orleans. 4* 8j Pernams, &c. 65 9 Bahia, &c fia 7 Maranham pemerara,&c 8 14*, Egyptian 6 12 1 1 Surat Madras Bengal SALES. Week Previ. Ilending ously Sept. 2. this yr. 400, 15050 90 1240 8190 351140 4760 221910 15200, 748503 700 54080 1700 39150 790, 31473 130 440 2080 96110 .... 8130 3020 165960 •••• 3350 .... 4490 36970;17410201 IMPORTS Week . r , ; . ending I -"'' Year. Sept. 2. (STOCK !Sept. 2 7390 7288 450883 540 133910 } 9116 890024 3 7 01 t3 615 41102 8560 .... 21470 9950 .... 22327 18650 495 500 503 83497 89180 .... 4899 4250 .... 191206 122870 .... 4665 1630 17522 1710568 779990 TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1853. • tries where snchpartnerships exist, to prevent theallothe mous partners from taking any share in managwo business of the firms to which they belonged? M usa Mr.LEvx : They are prevented from interfering, ii,ho it would lead to a confusion in the public raind as to . „ 3 are the responsible partners. As to the dissipation o o l e L; capital supposed by the Chairman, that could not ; II as it was provided that, on the loss of a certain Prop ° of the capital, the partnership m ust be dissolve d. Mr. 2ITIE Suppose that at any par ticular PliVi 30i of the capital was lost, and that the manager s , J er e desperate effort, going upon their pr esumed credir,2lild enabled to make purchases to such an exte enable them to divide 50 per cent. profit among flipau...°„.wort mous partners ; and by another equally- spasinodi,cfore, next year, they made purchases by which they lotroof would the partners be made to disgorge anY P" P their previous year's inordinate gains? Pa rt scitl Mr. LEvi No, they cannot be made to profits they have already received payment of• vl adl O m The CHAIRMAN expressed it as his opinion rei,, real benefit would be found to result from Lavin . , g a art ier , tration of all who are partners in all mercantile Pit ws3 ships. Old and established firms, he remarked , do o, well known, were frequently represented by mere sl'3a lscao bd In limited liabilities he was a f ra id they mast prepared to find limited confidence. 10 4 Mr. LEVI, in answer to a question from 31r. ocie said, nothing exists to prevent anonymous Po ice reD l ' the provisions of common detail from giving .- tive to the business of the firm, if that is wanted. uts On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a vote of th a „„ , passed to Mr. Levi, for the able lecture he had Pc'''. refer "- NEW NATIONAL SCHOOLS.—We IVOluuooo. readers to an advertisement in another column, slinajogf ing a sermon, by the Rev. A. Hewlett, in aid b national school. of s tia ; FEARFULLY SUDDEN DEATIE. — An den death occurred on Saturday, at the xlwryeta by l station of the Bristol and Birmingham Itail wa Yts„,n . man had arrived at the station from Birrainp,--.4,,ze parliamentary train, and on getting out of the carp fof went into the shed, seemingly very ill , au ,,A d a i l or—t? some water, which was immediately fetch.' to ow not he ail The parties attending on him advised him. any, but simply to wash his mouth out, whl eb k , Dail be , seareo-i „1, and then said, faintly, " Set me down." uttered these words, when he fell back and esPlJ l — re 0 ,1 melancholy part of the occurrence is, that the v ehi • c le , mother were at the station with a horse er od e awaiting arrival, and instead of taking the they had to carry back his corpse. display THE MODEL OF ANCIENT LIVERPOOL, quaint, village-like aspect which it exhibited two cl; s ito ago, is still on view in the Old Assembly-ree.iseird street. To those who are familiar only w i th teen as she now exists, with her bus streets, be,,i,vi wharves and crowded docks, an i n spec ti on of i n must prove both instructive and interesting. edible spectator will be able to trace the all but We l. n liariL.' vances made in this locality, in all th e arts and 3here of life. Our most crowded and finest streets are, „ re played in the quiet rusticity of verdant fields ; 14, 1 " . of our proudest publi c b u ildi ngs now rear theirle3`ber OL Mersey then covered with its placid waters. I titter m an er o e bj c ec u t i to osi e ty xci , exci te thoughtful th ins ou pe gli c tr on re o fl f ecLion, m o o r de a i s a ir r„ : repay attention. LATEST INTELLIG MONDAY EVENING, SEPT23II3O BY _ELECTRIC TELEGRii• fora • be l# TRE QUERN arrived at Edinburgh a few 11 0 _,,i n teS 010 1 ,4 seven o'clock. She proceeded at once to Holyrur wity enthusiastic cheering. The crowd collected L° her Majesty's arrival was immense. 'sti I,,v"^" e a' LONDON.—(From the Commercial Daily 'Change to-day a fair amount of business was tri o of t i ;: ; Scotch Pig at 665. per ton ; Tallow 51s. Th e A S " - V e arthi Corn market is watched with anxiety hY "", 'it 15 ,1 buyers and sellers were perplexed, but evideatiftios question of weather. The Corn markets of 13 „, e , i n,oa d° 0 1 the Baltic were drooping at the latest date. i-0 importance. has been fine to-day. No later foreign esl importance. Some letters state that the 141 ; s5 e rlea c l, 1 ;e hardly now quit the principalities, and the Die' 0 0 the autumn weather will soon render their e evacuation perfectly impossible. t m 74, PARIS, SUNDAY.—Several letters have uv -- Iry 0 1 to-day, from various departments throughou Ace which are unanimous in announcing that the r' wheat continues to decline in all the markets. _ I A GALATZ, AUG. 23.—One hundred and tweabi , to e laden with corn, were still at Sulina, totallY gliab il e thl e t t out to sea. Several had been detained four ta° g , or want of lighters. In some the corn was begir il .A. heated, and would have to be tossed overboan'_. hundred vessels were beating about outside the take '0 TATTERSALL'S BETTING.—Tfus .1 0 1 • LEAMINGTON STAKES.-7 to 2 agst T. , rla r O ie agst Scarecrow, taken ;Bto I agat Little FaWni '" 8 s ai a"ST. .st Boarding Miss taken. LEGER.— S 4l lO chool 10 on ' West Australian, takenij. to Siainghourne, taken ; 8 to 1 agst The Reiver, tak!" ts gell CESAREWITCH STAKES.-25 to I agst Toralen!!., .40 7.1 to 1 agst Nancy, taken; 33 to I agst Winter , talsT11.50!;11 agst Nervous, taken ; 40 to 1 agst Contenttnent,tajric; I %I agst Placid, taken; 50 to 1 agst Frantic, taken; o ' n 10 1 w Muscovite, taken; 50 to 1 agst Songstress, taken ; Cariboo, taken. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES.---1000 to 30 freely ; 1000 to 20 agat Frantic ' • 1000 to 20 ags t The $, DERBY, 1854.-25 to 1 agat Blight, tak en; 25 10 Marley Hill, taken. FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE mAltO i n ' s itiot s During the forenoon, English Funds evinced v d isP .o tD e to advance, but late in the day some sales connected d : c ; Jo e) arrangement of the approaching account c aased :intlacp cd, i per cent. Railway market inactive, and .Pirniued absence ocil by the decline in the Funds, and the con"-old and Lati business, exhibit a drooping tendency s!,eneratly vtitly descriptions continue heavy. Foreign stoop e 3 out change. CLOSING PRICES. 2'3 ;0 Consols, Account .. 1 97} a Bank Stoc k ... L. .... 2d Do. Money.... I 97i 1 Rxcheq. Bills , ' Three &Qr per Cents.. 1001 i 5 I FOR ElOl4 STOCKS. 26 iiSpanish PassiVeS. Mexicans Do. Threes — i Urkish ••• . - Spanish Deferred 23 * Swedish ......... Do. Threes 47* 8 „„ i lw RAILWAY SHARES. ~,S tern ai Amberg.,Nottingham, London &N. -el and '- g and E. Junction — London &S- ' w Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Do. Preference East Anglian — Midland Halves ...... Ps Eastern Counties East Lancashire 703 13' Do. Fre ferenv 0 Eastern Union A Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto B and C .., Great Northern SO 1 mingham ...... ore 600 Do. A — Do. L. &N. W- A Do. IL — S. Eastern and ... . 0( ) 6/ 1 IP Great Western Lanc.and Yorkshire. Berwick .• • ... ' ..' .... sion . Do. Fifths — Do. Exten •_.,,, 0 enc Leeds Northern — 72 4 s N h o r r e t w h g S b t u ai .-.`"ryo rrdtrne ir ... ~.. 15 3 Do. prefr ia o my London, Brighton, and York and N. Mi d Or South Coast MINING Net SHARES. D°. i 1 Nugget ..... 1 , B. Australian .• • - , , i Freehold ... •• • ...... . 1 ' Australasian ...... Preference i Noveau Monde Registered Coidelierit Ave Maria Carson's Creek — Port Philip _ . __ Colonial Mariposa ....••••' 1 3 LAND SHARES. . . 4 Australian Agricultural 33 5 Peel River . . ...... 161 S. Australian Invest. la South Australian Crystals tic ° CORN MARKET. ,je The supplies of all British Grai n are short, b uilt,Tie bil l of Foreign Wheat and Oats are to a fair e xtent• te r, opened firm at Friday's advance of is to 25 Per 4'1 4 l'o re lle no sales have at present been effected; holders e ft 4.0 asked high terms. Floating cargoes did not l; dee ps advance. Flour and Malt are steady. Fine e e ' v s , per quarter. Oats scarce, and prices against buyers and Peas are fully as dear. ei°' fg a s} - 73 5 9 215_,5° English. 2391 Wheat Barley Oats .. Malt .. Beaus Peas .. Flour .. 1630 186 145 • 1072 4 15 sq. , 5163 t PRODUCE MARXSI.'„ 00u: o ft ro• Sugar : Several buyers of foreign, and price ' t e a' t ° For refined there is a large home demand; tfor.Cal°,l:lit 465. to 48s. 6d. Coffee much wanted; NO; vino d e a lt at 485., Plantation 555. to 755. Tea not I °e 11l din cautiously. Rice firm, but demand s wab', ~,ueD " Bl' i t t e olu previous terms for East India. Cochineal to previous rates are well maintained. the Li °ll' ' Li on tile TALLOW MARKET, nb „ ii t 51s• gs d oe The market quiet, but steady. P . Y . C . bro 7, co spot. The stock is 17,342 casks agalna t acO ill st 3pl time last year. The deliveries are 1, 698 Ca casks same time last year. at former prices There is a demand fo r Te2tils, RShiCepT, ' and 11°1* It Mutton er• Monday's prices. Calves are 2d per stone chesP 45 IA Beef 2s ol to 4 6 . 2s 7d to 43 sd I Veal ...... .. 6 d 4s 2d to 5s 4d I Pork ... ••• '' Lambs, 4s. Od. to 55..45• 5161 Calve s ...... I. 26100 Pig 5.......... ARRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts ............... Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, am ton Beasts ......................... jl3OOO Scotch Beasts .......................... 1 Irish Beasts .............................. • • .. / 21 Holland Beasts • ... .................... •• Zao Do. Sheep ............................ Do. Calves ........................... • :::. Do. Pigs .... . ......................... ..... Spanish Beasts ............................ 640 Do. Sheep ............................ .... French Calves .......................... •• A ATOV I; MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHIs,- .fey /4.,1 and Nortu 10 Eastern Counties, 12i; Lancashire and Y 0 1 5 al, London and Northwestern, 1091; Manchester, She Lincoln, 25i ; Southeastern and Dover, 201- O S ....: 90 Beasts Sheep and Lambs, LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGF Lancashire and Yorkshire, 74i ; Midland , 6R GLASGOW CORN MARICET. lorio At to-day's market little busines s done; prices Ife GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET This article is still wanted at 665. 6d LIVERPOOL : • g b r l - 7 ' sfornirl t. 0.,4 Printed and Published every Tuesdaj - It 01 _...0v KB t N. , Proprietor, ROBERT PEARSON T AC f 00. „,,i," Percy-street, at the STANDARD GENERA', ~ w ar. OFFICE, No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, 'Smutty, September 6,1853. LECTURE, YESTERDAY. Yesterday, Mr. Leone Levi delivered the second lecture of his course, on commercial law, in the Chamber of Com merce. The chair was occupied by F. Shand, Esq., chair man of the Chamber of Commerce ; the attendance was very limited in number. The CHAIRMAN on taking his seat expressed regret at witnessing so small an attendance, and said that under the circumstances it would probably become a question with Mr. Levi whether he would continue the course of lectures he had announced, or whether it might not be desirable to change the hour of lecture; as it seemed, judging by the attendance, that the present hour was not well suited to the convenience of gentlemen engaged in active commercial business. For himself, he regretted that, in consequence of another engagement, he was afraid it would not be in his power to be present at the lecture which was to take place on Thursday. He begged it to be understood that these remarks were not intended to interfere in any way with the arrangements which Mr. Levi had made. Mr. M`FIE suggested, with deference to the chair, that if the importance of Mr. Levi's lectures were made more fully known, as no doubt it would be through the press, the gentlemen of Liverpool, becoming alive to the informa tion to be conveyed, would attend in greater numbers. However appearances might in the present instance seem to be against him, he (Mr. M`Fie) entertained no doubt that a second course of those lectures would be well attended. Mr. LEVI expressed his unwillingness to have any inter ruption of the present course of lectures. If, however, a gene ral expression were shown, of a desire to attend the course in the Collegiate Institution, he might be induced to make such arrangements as would meet that desire. In the mean time he should prefer going on with the lectures as announced. He commenced by stating that partnership, the subject matter of the lecture he was now about to deliver, was one which had created much interest in this country ; and it was not to be wondered at that, in a country so extensively engaged in commerce as this is, so important a subject should have commanded deep and wide-spread attention. To follow out, in anything like a systematic form, an idea of partnership, we must revert to the pastoral ages. In those times, he said, of primitive existence, it would be found that capital and labour were so dependant on each other, and so interwoven, as to be inseparable. The shep herd gave his attendance upon the flocks entrusted to his care, while the flock-master entrusted his capital to the safe keeping and guidance of the shepherd. In this primi tive style of arrangement, the advantages of each party, in the simple contract, were attended to, and there were no third parties to interfere or be consulted. This might be considered the simplest form of partnership, and it sufficed for the interests involved in the transaction. When the Italian merchants began to explore, with an eye to com merce, the eastern ports, a more distinct form of partner ship was evolved. The merchandise which they brought home, as well as that which they exported, required to be put under the control of other parties than them selves ; and this was done by the intervention of ship owners, or, as they were then denominated, commanders, and individuals who alone had charge of the cargo. In this form of transaction the process was extremely simple, the charge of the ship devolving on the com mander, without risk beyond his ship, and the mercantile adventure devolving absolutely on the supercargo. The same simplicity of principle, he remarked, was also observed among the adventures of the Crusades. By-and-by, how ever, the adventure was shared in by others, and indivi duals finding it profitable, advanced money to be embarked in the purchase of such merchandise as those acquainted with the particular traffic thought most advisable. From this simple form of partnership the system grew to its pre sent importance, and as it became developed it grew in favour; and it is now generally admitted that its value cannot be over estimated. It gives, said the lecturer, to small capitalists an opportunity of combining their stock,: and so of competing with capitalists of the largest means. He should not, he said, offer any opinion as to the pro priety or impropriety of such combinations, but confine himself to a few observations on the practical working of the system. In this country, he said, co-partneries may be formed by different processes. They may be formed by Charter of Incorporation from the crown ; in which case the liabilities of the partners are generally limited to specific amounts ; or they may be formed by special act of parliament, in which case also there is generally a specified extent of liability ; or they may be formed under the pro visions of the joint-stock and banking-companies act, in which case the liability is unlimited. Charters of incorpo ration, he observed, are generally granted with great hesitation, and mostly for the purposes of effecting impor tant public objects, because it is considered that conferring on a company the right of limited liability is exceptional, and as offering to it unfair privileges compared with other companies and with individuals. To obtain a charter from the crown, or by act of parliament, was, therefore, made an expensive proceeding, and used to cost about £l,OOO. Now, the expenses were very considerably modi fied, and it was understood that the mere fees might be got over for somewhere about £BO. In the United States he observed that the common form of partnerships secured limited liability for mercantile firms of all descriptions ; but in banking establishments the responsibility of the partners was unlimited. In that country charters were granted for carrying on such undertakings as banking, the construction of railways and canals, and other great public works, on very easy terms, the cost being only an outlay of about eight shillings for an official copy of the act under which such enterprises are authorised. In that country, judging from its operation, the law seems to work advan tageously. In France the formation of partnerships is regulated under different forms, the most prevalent being that of what is called common detail. There are also forms under which the names of all the partners are registered, and companies so formed in that country pos sess the advantage of suing, and being sued, in the name of their managing officials. Charter companies also are common ; but in these it is commonly only the name of the enterprise which attaches to the company. Spain also, he said, has similar modes of constituting partner ships with those existing in France. In Portugal there is an additional provision,which:recognises the rights of labor as well as those of capital ; in that instance, however, it was provided that the industrial partner shall not bepermitted to sign anydocument in the name of the firm. In the Nether lands, in Prussia, in Russia, and in Austria, the laws re gulating partnership differ only in minute detail from those of France. In nearly all, if not in all instances, in those countries where the words " and company" occur after any name or names, it is understood that the full responsibilities of the firm only devolve upon the parties whose names are announced, and that the liabilities of all who are included in the words " and company," are limited to the amount for which they are individually engaged to, and in the firm. Numerous attempts, he said, had been made in this country, so to amend the law of partnership as to give security and confidence to the public, while it might relieve individuals from a weight of responsibility which they had not the slightest idea of, and over which, in reality, they had no practical control. Committees had, at different times, been appointed to acquire information on the subject, and to report as to how the object could be most satisfactorily accomplished. The result of those investigations had been, that the ma jority of testimony was in favour of establishing a system somewhat akin to the partnership by common de tail, in which all the anonymous partners should only be liable to an extent equivalent to their in terest in the partnership. In this balance of testimony, merchants, dealers, and barristers, might generally be set down as favourable to the change ; while bankers were generally adverse to it. This must not, however, be taken as absolutely correct, several bankers having expressed themselves favourable, while barristers and merchants have been adverse to such an arrangement. In England, he remarked, it was well known that every partner is involved for the whole liabilities of the partner ship in which he has engaged, and that irrespective of whether he has a control in its management or not ; from this system, extreme hardship had frequently arisen. On the Continent, on the contrary, a partner by common detail is only liable for the amount of his engagements to his fellow-partners, the public having recourse only on those whose names appear in the firm. Yet it was found that practically no disadvantage arose from the system. The main advantages of the system, it was, he said, con tended by its advocates, would be to enable parties with small means to unite and pursue an object with as much energy and success as was done by great capitalists. It was well known that many individuals, tradesmen and others, of unquestionable honesty and intelligence, were made severely to suffer from the difficulty of obtaining a command of capital. Such combinations would have the effect of breaking down monopoly; and of removing the cause of breaches between employers and the em ployed. The chances of any additional doors being opened to the perpetration of fraud, it was contended, would be effectually prevented by the exercise of that more prompt vigilance which it would occasion. In conclusion, the lecturer intimated that, in his next, he should enter into the details of the law of partnership as that at pre sent exists. The CHAIRMAN remarked, that as the Chamber of Commerce had not made any formal report upon the sub ject, it appeared to him that the feeling of the body could not be presumed as favourable to the movement, although it might be unfair to come to any definite conclusion with respect to that at all. In regard to the question of li mited liability, he was not himself quite so sure. It was no doubt an easy thing to limit the liability of individuals. in so far as gas or water companies were concerned ; but, it did seem to him that, if limited liability was introduced as a principle in ordinary mercantile transactions, there might be considerable difficulty in preventing the business of a company from being diverted , into other channels than those for which it was originated. In such a case, the whole of the capital might be expended, leaving nothing to meet legitimate engagements, but the unlimited liabi lity of the ostensible partners. Mr. BOIILT expressed himself as satisfied that, through the agency of the present system, all the evils supposed to accompany limited liability were in full operation. As an illustration of the benefits which might be expected to permitted to in without being b the hands of in be called loose. when the marl ors, hem which, f money rg, was lodged in ers, as it might an opportunitY, money Ate the marfet Lis. he consider to meet their own views unlimited liability as or sion of banks, and their *avant Mr. MTIE would like to bi it had been found practically ,s to whether stage in cowl