Northern Times. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-04-30 00:00:00

A POPULAR HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASSES. ,ADDRESSED TOTHEHM TE WORKING CLASSES SELVES 1R RISE AND PROGRESS-SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PART FIFTH CHAPTER FIRST TIEW OF THE ENGLISH CONSTITUTION FROM THE ) OF THE NORMAN CONQUEST-ACCESSION AMES THE FIRST -LEGISLATIVE POLICY OF now about to enter on a period the most in ig and replete with events of any that has 0_ engaged our attention in the History of king Classes And here I may state, in the that I have preferred collecting what informa to be obtained, respecting the progress made or this class throughout the different reigns I pur- Dee taking under review, by, an inquiry into the treumstances attendant on their social and do te-Ale condition, rather than sought to eluci lite and explain it through the operation of olitical changes. Such a mode of treat tg 'history as this may not perhaps be the usual t the latter plan would involve us in a heap ails and discussion that would only fatigue reader ; by adopting the former „d this, and invest our subject with both iimtterest and attraction. Histoky it is now allowed cannot be written in too popular a form, and an able Itistorian of the present day has set the example in this respect, and shown that we can learn far more of the real history of a people by attending to the mnnals of their domestic progress, than we shall be %%hie to glean from out of the dry records of Parliamentary debates. of thi would not be well, however, to exclude haracter connected with history as the present, I shall venture to offer emarks relative to the different changes which of a political c tution of this country has underdone, , that every second century foundation of the monarchy has witnessed msummation of a great revolution in the political y of England. Thus, in the middle of the eleventh ry, the Norman conquest overthrew the Saxon itution, and completed the establishment of lism. In the middle of the thirteenth century, usurrection of the Barons against Henry the put an end to the exclusive domination of the n and the nobility, by introducing into the nment the principle of popular representation. e middle of the fifteenth century, the wars of we houses of York and Lancaster almost anni xl the power of the aristocracy, and left the eons to contend together for the supremacy. finally, in the middle of the seventeenth cen the success of the great rebellion decided the st in favour of the Commons. _ _ It may be said, ther sion of these changes may be thus stated. For the first two hundred years the Government was a monarchy balanced by an aristocracy, sometimes the King had the upper-hand, sometimes the barons; is the next two centuries the middle classes had both a nominal, and, to a considerable extent, a real share in the government ; and that for a third space, for The succ es he same length of time, the power of flit tbody in the State being almost ly destroyed, the Government became to be r a simple monarchy so long as the Crown kepi lastery over the Commons, or a simple democracy .e Commons succeeded in their g the mastery over the Crown. he thing that is to be especially note vas not until the seventeenth century that aft .= t turn in sprung up of the great bodl political rights. The age of the r civil ie commonwealth, is that of the birth of __..cy in England.—of the princi abouring classes, as well as their superioh have a voice in the legislation. It cannot 1, perhaps, that this doctrine has been illy recognised in any of emocrac the consti- iutions through - which the country passed be tween the destruction and restoration of the ancient ' crovernment; and it may be that it has: not either been so recognised to any considerable ,ries the spirit of democracy, understood in this has been a living and active principle of ish politics, and the growth of opinion in favour pular government has been such that no system F A v e ..4 s than that of its tendency, if not to place in the hands, at least to promote the welfare at ttie great mass of the population. .From the period of James the First, therefore, we ay date the commencement of the political em ancipation of the labouring classes. And this single Ile of the birth of true democracy in the earlier pert of the seventeenth century may be taken as a sort: indication and evidence that the general social knproveinent of the country had by this time pene trated down from the middle to the working .classes, and that the condition of the latter was row beginning to be elevated by the extension of trade and manu in the same manner as that r had been in the preceding cent ur y. _ _ -hout two )0 no do. )t, indeed, that throu period. comp' and the earlier o tilt; _e of the part of that of Charles. pop ulat of England were in the re of comfort than h lot in any former agE the eonsequene - e of the 'V% t or El h, and of t the union of th; two divisions of ingdom and to the iut 11 quiet of both rs meat, however, still forme on of the diet of an in c onsid .gricultural labou houses, and of those that "goe in good clothes and fare well, and none knowes whereof they live ; those that be night-walkers, builders of cottages, and takers in of inmates." That the laws for " apprenticing of poor children' be enforced ; and that where any money or stock has been, or shall be given to the relief of the poor in any parish, such gift to be no occasion of lessening the rates of the parish. That wandering persons, with women and children, give an account to the constable or justice where they were married, and where their children were christened; for these people live like salvages, neither marry, nor bury, nor christen, which licentious libertie make so many delight to be roues and wanderers." 'This year is also distinguished by expedient for relieving the poor, which was recom mended to the inhabitants of the metropolis in a royal proclamation issued for preventing a dearth of corn and victual. It was an old custom still observed in the royal household, by the principal nobility and gentry, and in the universities and inns of court, to take no suppers on Friday or the eves of a singular fast-days, nor Wednesdays and Saturdays in Ember week, nor in Lent ; the proclamation recommends the more general observance of this custom, and that the meat be appropriated to the relief of the poor. From expressions in the act against tippling, it appears that, at this period, it was common, even for country labourers, both to eat their meals and to lodge in inns and alehouses ; but it is uncertain whether this mode of living was occasioned by the statute of Elizabeth which prohibited the erection of cottages, and the statutes of inmates (which I alluded to in the previous chapter), which limited the number of inmates in a house to one family ; or whether it was an intermediate state in the progress of society from the absolute dependance of the slave on his master for diet and. habitation, to the improved condition of the free labourer, who, at present, rarely resides under the same roof with his employer. Among some of the measures of King James's government, favourable to industry, may be specified the encouragement given to useful discoveries, by vesting for 14 years the exclusive profit of a new contrivance in the inventor. Those hurtful monopolies alluded to in an earlier part of this work were also checked by him—giving exclusive rights of foreign trade—by a law enabling all persons to engage in continental trade. Agricul tural interests were promoted; and the recovery of debts was facilitated by the abolition of Sanctuaries and the establishment of Courts of Conscience. Other statutes were of a moral as well as industrial tendency. But the great measure of the time, and that productive of the most lasting benefits, was the settlement of colonies beyond the Atlantic. The discovery of America in the last reign awakened a thirst of maritime adventure by w hi c the English soon became distinguished in the persons of their famous navigators—Drake, Raleigh, Baffin, and others ; and, as a consequence of their discoveries, there followed, in the reign of James, factories and Ind the opening up of new branches of commerce in distant and hitherto unknown climes. colour luthor reserves to himsey f further.pullication or translation.] zrtieles being Copyright, the LIVERPOOL BANKRUPTCY CO In Be EDGAR Auc towing judgment on this certificate, which was h ;d this, which was a case of certif aents which 1 ruptcy, before tb TERDAY s Honour deliverei application for :—I have con- Ite, and the been adduced as well on the part - of assignee, by his counsel, Mr. Deighton, Mr. Aspi his present bank and he obtained his pt, by his counsel, 1, befo: r bankruptcy his estate paid no dividend to hi he having sold his business before his MONETARY AND COMMERCIAL. LIVERPOOL, Friday Evening. There has been rather a better feeling in the Liverpool Cotton Market to-day, and the sales amount to 4,000 bales, but there has been no improve ment in prices, which are from a farthing to three eighths of a penny per pound lower than last week. Messrs. Wright, jun., and Co.'s circular says--- . . Since the 21st inst., the date of our last circular per Niagara, most of our produce markets have been extremely quiet, and transactions greatly circumscribed. Apart from the Easter holidays, which usually interfere with business about this time, the approaching parliamentary elections have tended to curtail mercantile operations ; but both these causes are considerably aggravated in effect by the political aspect of affairs, which has now assumed so threatening an attitude, that all hope of. war being averted is abandoned. We may, indeed, hourly expect intelligence of the com mencement of hostilities, and so formidable has become the interest involved, that all Europe is expected to take part in the struggle, however contrary may be the opinion of indi viduals. As a matier of course, a cautious action pervades all classes, and in Cotton the demand is confined to small pareels for the immediate wants of the trade, prices showing much irregularity, holders all eager to realise, and a species of panic prevailing. The funds and pub lic securities are violently agitated, and a serious decline in quotations must be noted in consols, rail way shares. &c., while an increased demand for money accommodation has enforced the necessity of raising the bank minimum rate of interest to 31 per cent., which does not check the drain of our precious metals, and war require ments are not likely to improve their condition. To-day's political reports are more favourably reviewed, and have had the effect of checking the panic feeling. Distrust and apprehension are, however, the ruling features, and business is restricted to retail transactions. The sales of Cotton are estimated at 4,000 bales at irregular rates, and although quotations are only reduced Id. to l i d. per lb. durinc , the week, holders, desirous of realising, would have to submit to a greater decline. The total sales of the week (five days), including what has been forwarded from the ship's side, amount to 30,020 bales, of which 24,640 are American. Speculators have taken 600, and Exporters 2,330, leaving 27,090 bales of all kinds to the Trade. The imports for same time is 24,229 bales, of which 18,812 are American. The quantity known to be at sea from American ports is about 279,000 bales. PRICES New Orleans Fair, 74d..... Middling, ...Gad..'.. Ordinary, 4.7-A to 6 1 d Mobile „ 74d. 9 9 6id sid to 61d Atlantic „ 7d. 6 Sad , 5,d to 61d Total taken for consumption, 1859, 711,070 bales.lBsB, 714,490 bales. „ export (actual) ' , 69,925 , „ 46,535 „ American Brazil Egyptian E, India W.lndia. Total. Stock this day... 351,300 11,840 22,650 35,050 260 421,100 Same time, 1858.385,910 26,240 12,750 60,860 2,590 488,350 Messrs. Edmund Jardine and Co., in their circular The alarming and hostile position which Austria, France, and Sardinia have now assumed, seem to have banished all hope of a pacific solution of their difficulties, and produced a general fear that war once commenced between these powers would endanger the peace of the whole Continent of Europe, the effect produced upon the Funds and other public securities has been very serious, the depreciation varying from sto 10 per cent. Our market during the past week has been entirely controlled by these political combinations, and during the last two days almost suspend ing business, the transactions throughout have been on the most limited scale, and prices have been very irregular at a decline of id to Kd per lb below the quotations of Thurs day last for Anierican descriptions Brazil, Egyptians, and Sea Islands have been in small demand, and slightly in favour of buyers. Surats have been much pressed, and are -kd to id lower. - In Consequence of the threatened war, the PrOdUce Markets have teen very unsettled all week. In Ashes, sales of 300 barrels are reported, at 31s. to 31s. 6d. for Pots, and 325. for Pearls, per cwt. About twenty hogsheads Philadelphia Bark—firsts at 10s. ; and 1,200 bags Baltimore, in bags, at 7s. 9d. to Bs. per cwt. have been made. Bees' Wax would com mand 9/. ss. per cwt., but there is no stock here. Limited sales in Cloverseed are returned at 495. to 535. per cwt. Timothyseed is not inquired for, and price nominal at 295. per cwt. Lard is in im proved request ; 40 tons realised 58s. to 60s. per cwt., and price tends upwards. Linseed Cake is dull, the season passing over; thin oblong nominally 8/. 10s. per ton. Common Rosin Amber has receded to 4s. 2d. per cwt.; sales about 3,000 barrels. Tallow has materially advanced, and present value is 58s. to 60s. per cwt. About 800 barrels Tar realised l Os. 9d. to 12s. per barrel, according to size. Transactions in Turpentine confined to 100 barrels Spirits at 425. 6d...per cwt. to 4s - The Corn Trade is everywhere on the advance. The rise in the price of Wheat ... 9.LEalc . ,elAd ii t u ojay higher. Other articles have increased in price in a corresponding ratio, and the greatest excitement eneraily prevails in the trade. _ _ The extreme panic which characterised the Liver pool. Share Market on Wednesday and yesterday has, in a great degree, subsided, and prices for the leading lines of Railway stock have considerably improved, with a fair amount of business. The transactions to-day were as follows :—Eastern Coun ties, 101, 101, 10, 10 5-16, 101 • Lancashire and Yorkshire, 87, 861 e, 87, 871, 87; London and North- Western, 87, 871, 87 ; Do. one-eighth Shares, 11, c, 1 13-16 d; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 34, 341, 341; Midland, 961, :96+ ; South Eastern, 18+, 181, 18 3-16 c, 18t ; Dutch Rhenish, 61, 7 cd Grand Trunk of Canada. V.: Grpnt . „, After official hours a few transactions were reported, and included Chester and Birkenhead. 611; and London and N or th Wngtnri rz Q/ rPI. .0- 1 1 • uww rw c,oaliia, ill, o r. inn following were the final closing' prices :—Blackburn, 11', 111 ; • Chester and Birkenhead, 61, 611 ; Cale donian; 721, 734-; Eastern Co un ties, 101 101. East T.annn.i,;,.,-, / - 1 • „ _ ,AL ei.iL iNorthern, .., 82 ; Great Western, 514, 521 ; Lancashire orkshire Stock, 861. 87 ; Loudon and North . ern Stock rs — ; -- -n_e-eighth shares, I T - 7 „ .A, and Lincoln, 341, )6 ; North British, 51, , 4'l d; North Eastern 1 North Midland, 70, 43 ; South Eastern 7, 6• d ; )o. A., 81 96, 98 1, 87 ; Do. onp• lanchester, SI lidland Stool many weeks have elapsed, should the adverse ele ments which have dictated the present movement continue in operation, Remittances of silver are now being made to the Continent, as well as gold ; and although there were no withdrawals from the Bank yesterday, it is expected that the efflux will be renewed on an extensive scale. Hostilities, more over, will have the effect of diminishing confidence, and creating stringency in the Money Market ; so that financial as well as commercial prospects have been seriously affected by the alarming situation of foreign relations. Following the movement in the minimum, the Joint Stock Banks and Discount Firms have raised the rate of interest for deposits to 21 per cent. The panic in the Stock Exchange, especially during the earlier part of the day, was more intense than ever. The official hammer announcing the public default of members has been resounding all day. To-morrow will be pay-day on the fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign stocks. Each member of the Stock Exchange is bound to pay the last farthing, under penalty of being proclaimed a defaulter, yet has no security for the punctual receipt of the sums due to him. It has become requisite to make • provision against all contingencies, and with the grand object of preserving their credit, many members have forced sales of all classes of securities. The markets have consequently been paralised. Neither the continental intelligence, nor the alteration at the Bank appears to have had so much effect upon prices as the total dislocation of the internal arrange ments of the Stock Exchange, consequent upon the numerous instances of embarrassment proclaimed in the midst of a heavy settlement. Consols opened this morning at a fall of 11 to 2 per cent., and a fresh reduction of - 1 4 per cent. was soon quoted. The first check to the fall was occasioned by the brokers for a leading financial firm buying away thousands of Lombardo-Venetian Railway New Shares. Consols made a rally of to 1 per cent. from the lowest point of the morning. Although the tendency to fluctuation remained, the aspect of the market in the afternoon was less . gloomy. A certain degree of support was derived from investments. The final quotations were 1 per cent. below those of yesterday. There were no further withdrawals of gold from the Bank to-day.—Deily News City Article,' Thursday evening. A further fall of more than 2 per cent. marked the com mencement of business this morning in the Stock Exchange, and, before the end of the day, upwards of twenty additional failures had been announced—one of them for an amount exceeding £lOO,OOO, the whole of which will fall upon the various dealers. Subsequently there was a partial recovery, and the final transactions were at prices about I per cent. below those of yesterday. The report that Denmark has gratified her anti-German feeling by joining the alliance with France and Russia, thus making a significant com bination of three of the principal naval powers of Europe, was among the causes of the increased depression at the commencement of the market, but the further revelations regarding the secret conditions arranged with Russia, exercised the greatest influence. The change in the Bank rate of discount produced little effect. The symptoms of the Money Market for the last few weeks having fully prepared nearly every one for this step. The applications for discount at the Bank to-day, although not quite so heavy as yesterday, were still very large, the demand continuing without diminution after the raising of the rate. All the Joint-stock Banks have advanced their rate for deposits to 21 per cent., being, as usual, 1 per cent. below the Bank of England minimum. The new Indian loan closed at 5 to 4 discount. Times City Article, Thursday Evening. • The mail from Paris has not arrived. The steamship Behar has arrived at Southampton with a heavy Bombay mail. Five of It M.'s ships were at Gibralter on the 25th. The Behar has experienced very severe weather. - The Times says some of the principal houses of the city, connected with France and Russia, have been engaged in making large purchases of coal, their orders being to take what they can get, irrespective of quality, price, or port. The question has accordingly been strongly discussed, whether such supplies can be fairly furnished by us as a neutral power. Notes issued BANK OF ENG riND RETURNS ISSUE D £31,435,270 ARTMEN anent Debt 11,015,1( Other Secur BANKING I L 31,435,270 Proprietor's Capital. 14,553, Seeu- 1 11,371,118 Deposits 767,155 £39,033,336 Active i Bullion Rest • ... Seven-, 686,981 s which at present are considered an ex ne delicacy in I They are noticed among. thn nri- l's household : the quani he price 2s. the pound learn, c woriof r rani t ot a i Ordia ❑ner ( isual iti bu g any ampler me a general 16 3n, tea, c mblish e t l ih neluded,) and servant attending h certain orders were is s , ers by the Privy Council d ill decide thems e l v e s . - , ied to t and uo rtain district ion of the pooi their ti hall 6ke work or at horn re;ieveu " and beg in ti tragg 3 take. cof tett o: ii on at adsor ( Is in Liverpool 1t " The London"' re in Clayton-square, and name of his brother 10th of September, vho took the premises on t 1 and paid one quarter's rent in advance, a sum of £5O, f the bankrupt's money, the bankrupt being then -un- certificated, and not having passed That house was opened for business on th( July, 1858. The bankrupt took in a partner on th Ist of November following, who was a minor, being of the ago of 17, or thereabodts, from whose: father (who is last examination. 17th of • 1D _ advanu n the 20th J une , 1858 . He was adju - o - - dicated bankrupt on the 23rd of December last, UN a declaration of insolvency made on the 11th of th a dividend in party at e London mated deed of co-partne rs hip, a uiouga nd e at sti £3,000 its actual by the bankrupt, having produced only £2OO. however, cannot be alleged to be the fault of the bank- If blame is to rest anywhere it must be with the The debt due to Mr. Sims, the assignee, was -roods supplied in the name of Alfred Glover, vas, drawn upon Alfred Glover, but accepted ~.r.cupt, who signed Alfred Glover's name to the mince, with the knowledge at the time of signing, --4 s, of Alfred Glover. Mr. Sims, however, was for which a bill w In ignorance of tiM d by Al that the bill was not after the bill became 1 Wow It is dated the 6 ! vrote a letter to Mr woulfrallow it to sjtalidro7 ver." Mr. Sims •ed ii m Iceedim upon .1.808, and is a four months' Bth of November, the day before that bill 41._ . promising that if II( he end of the week h( hough written b bill: Ou t became du( total T ace the .(1 that 1 for the 17 £5O, which forled pa T the former bankrupts„ failure to disclose that amount ( of th it ma • LILU ranted in 1857. But by reason of his having been bang ipt so short a ti me b e f ore, Mr. Gilder should have abstain( _em ()uterine , upon so large a conce rn as " t;L:t.tpleu e London" wiii hat of his debts, whi, vas incurred for fury r, in Moor led a't IE UONPIRMAT pns tan ce 1, or o )t tor tour THE NORTHERN TIMES SATURDAI, APRIL 30, 1859' North Staffordshir --Berwick, 83, 71 ; Leeds Capital Stock, _ and Dover, 18 3-16, 18 : 1; Dutch Rher Great W Canada, 14, 141 84 ; York ani tern of 51,d; rand Trunk of Canada, 7-1-: Great I ; Lombard - a-Venetial 3,2 d. The Manchester Goods Market was completel deserted to-day in consequence of the election, an owing to the critical position of Europe, there hay been very few transactions since Tuesday, and price both Goods and Yarns must be quoted lower. The London Stock Exchange continues in a ver tate, hut the panic to-day has not been quit Great want of confidence, however, prc 2,1,-, 2 d Do. Share vails, v noun cement made t nornin i a fir utter it 51, 53 It. of the rec fall et in, and th 5, 220 .ccount, ) per Cents terctay s pric The closing Is for liet has shown a better )ut still there is great depression, and an isposition to operate largely. The quotr -day, show an improvement on the as will be seen by the is: —Caledonians °'' llowin„ Eastern Count It -WE Ditto A, 79, 81; Great Westerns, 51, 53 ; .ern of Canada, 141 ; Grand Trunk . of • Lancashire and Yorkshire, 86, 88; Western, 86, 87: London find Northern, 41, Sheffield on the 14t1 acivancr_l GO, 63 ; Yorl 121 Newcastle, and mtli. Midland, 69, 71 ) arrived at Southampton 3 to the 15th Stock Sugar until 1091 ink. of England has not led to any material ition in the demand for accommodation, which 1 tolerabl 'oreign affairs upon the tendency It is not improbable that a. further of restriction will bQ adopted before a certificate sit apt, a shi n Act York Ott 9.1- 9 ( Nev ; . elv On Public Deposits ... Other Deposits ... Government Secu- [rites aployed, 11,371,118. Cash to liabilities 477 per Mil Rate of Interest, 31 per cc Amsterdam Short Rotterdam Antwerp . rams Short Ditto. 3 mon Marseilles ... Vienna Trieste St. Pct( Madrid FOREIGN 1 MANCHESTER TRAD A little relief to depression of feelin especia since yestE !lit. Increase, 1 per c XCHANGES .. 11 ... .. 11 .. REPORT 18 to 11 ... 14 fairly tested, since _ Tuesday, as very little is doing, and producers still well enlza LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET.. Colonial, &c : The Sugar market is without change bags Benares are reported at 42s 9d to 43s 9d, and r Havana, in bond, at 27s 6d per cwt. A c chcons) Cuba Muscavado Molasses (off the placed at 15s 3d per cwt. Th e sa l es in Ruin are - limitu, 40 puncheons Demerara, without change in price. Of the Ceara Co f fee offered by auction, 150 bags realised 47s to 51s per cwt. We have had a quiet market to-day for Rice, the business being confined to 1,800 bags Larong at 9s per cwt. At public sale, 250 bales Jute brought £l3 5s to £l7 for - tumon to good, being an advance of 10s to 20s ; and of -APRIL ) boxes .(5 . )00 pun- ;Oa . st)' has been Bombay £2l to to also been disn 25 tons Honclura 150 barrels Poi )gwood, at £5 2s 6d one in Nitrate of Sat pool from Ireland : Wheat, 5 qrs; oats, 1,038 qrs; oatmeal, 170 sacks ; flour, 50 sacks, and 97 brls. Coastwise : barley, 5 qrs ; malt, 63 qrs ; oatmeal, 37 sacks ; flour, 60 sacks. Europo, &c.: Wheat, 1,625 qrs. Total : Wheat, 1,630 qrs ; barley, 5 qrs ; malt, 63 qrs ; oats; 1,038 qrs ; oatmeal, 207 sacks ; flour, 110 sacks, and 97 barrels. Exports from the 26th to the 28th of April, inclusive : —Foreign Parts : oats, 330 qrs ; flour, 200 sacks, and 40 brls. Ireland : Wheat, 1,349 qrs ; Indian corn, 1,011 qrs; flour, 665 sacks, and 50 brls. Coastwise : Flour, 719 sacks, and 76 brls. R. MAKIN & SONS, LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.---APRIL 29. At the commencement of the week an improved feeling was experienced in Manchester, consequent upon the favourable accounts from India. The American advices were likewise, construed in favour of holders of cotton. These, however, were entirely overruled, by the threaten ing, although still extremely contradictory rumours from the Continent, and with very, limited transactions, prices favoured buyers. On Wednesday the reported advance into Sardinia of the two hostile forces, and the notification of an offensive and defensive treaty between Russia and France, causing general mistrust, produced a partial panic, and the small sales since made, are at very irregular prices, fully a id a lb. lower than the quotations of Thursday last. The weekly sales are 30,020 bales, of which 600 are on speculation, and 2,330 for export. THIS WEEK. Prices Paid. Cur. Prices. DESCRIP- - STOCK. Import. Sales. TION. This Week. Mid. Fair. d. d. d. d. 4,40 f 310 Sea Island 3_ to 21 12 to 13 5,580 Upland ;.. 5 77, 6i 14 ' 409 5 4'o Mobile ... 6i 7 11-16 67 13.53 - 0 New Orleans 4f 8 710 Brazil 5,417 970 Egyptian 8 West India . 3,700 East India 41 24,229 30,020 Total ... .01 3 10 7/ 7 64 51 7 7 11 f 546,530 O 81 871 5. LIVERPOOL PROVISION MARKET.-APRIL 29 With a large speculative demand for Beef prices have advanced daily, and the sales for the week exceed 5,000 tierces, leaving very little in first hands ; our quotations represent actual sales, but in many instances still higher rates are now demanded. In Pork, also, the transactions are on an extensive scale, but, the stock of American being light, there is less room for speculative operations than in Beef, therefore the advance in prices is of a less marked character, but the article closes firm with an upward tendency. For Bacon the demand is slow, but holders, gaining confidence from the advance in other articles of food, Lightship. have raised their prices is to 2s per cwt. Lard at last bemins to move, and the sales for the week reach 100 tons, chiefly at an advance of is per cwt. Cheese is quiet, at last week's prices. The Tallow market is very excited, and has advanced 4s to •5s per cwt., closing a little quieter. Linseed Cake is a shade firmer. SHIP P ING INTELLIGENCE' THIS DAY lIIGH WATER, Morn. Y Even. Height 947 19 5 .... 14 11 WIND At LivErtrooL,—E.S.E.—Strong breeze " HOLYITEAD,—E.S.E.--strong gale. ARRIVE. Scamander (ss) . . Alexandria D ..Nantes, fo r Roe Prest o .. Laughing C Sy it l y p h of Elidir ,ss, an A de l r L E E pi D da . ur. 0. ..... Malta Rita ( ‘ Dunkirk Nantes ShamrocksaSales . 1 1 .. 1 ..... ..... ........ Gannet . . ..... san N t S aples Vivid . Pernambuco anchester ' Water...Shanghae Kinburn.............. .. bronsrAild.lat Seafiower ........ • B eni° Newfoundland Success .... Pernambuco - . Quebec Venturoso ..... .• . Gibraltar ..Narva Giovanni . - . : 1. :- • • Ge l . • Narva Triton .... .. . IN ewfoun dlail . . Lima Fenechina Hendrika.-liu° Trieste Marchmont Broderschap Wilhelmine Countess of Sefton MARITIME EXTRACTS. Aril 29* L TV ERPOOL, io to The 31Iaranham (ss), hence to Nantes, which Pu b a d, Falmouth on the 13th instant, with machinery d anla 27th and again sailed for her destination, foundered on the Ap T ril, near St Nazaire ; crew saved. Richer' of The Anne, from Poole to Runcorn, and Whitehaven, have both sunk at Holyhead. The Mary Ann, of Preston, has been stranded a. head. The Byzantium, from Matanzas to Liverpool , r ec , e , i : reci P o considerable damage in the New Harbour (I.lolyhea 9,),„ _-the night of the 28th instant, by the brig Queen , of LilLy' 414,360 stow, running athwart hawse. _ _ frarboili The Amlwcb. Packet has sunk in the New (Holyhead.) foci, The Prince of Wales (s), from Belfast at Fleetwood, having passed two masts of a large ship, aPP I ZoII hanging to a wreck, 12 miles SE by S, from the 133' ,fhwark, ironm° nilla, to arrive, ha In .6yewoods, onl] per ton. Of Ash, Calcutta at 45s to 46s fo: tons Bri 3 tons Farina, at £l4 10s-T ifyiabol at 9s 9d per wait ; ls 2d per ' lb for fine. Oils, & n Olive, a little dointr in 11 ;eed qu It 32s to -33; PYC Tilllot line Am, 4s 4d; Oil Seeds, and iatt T high )0 bags Bombay Linseed at 573; LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-1 The alarming position of politics on th )0 ' and the anticipati on - o f a 1 much exciteme NVit throucrlion has cr ye been quite in' genevall ot,the previous week. The G ended the 23rd instant, are 116,166 guar here has been equally excited as elsewhi business has been done the past few . da to return. )rding to tl '3on r . . 15s per ton for 3rds. 1,700 bags Sago Pearl Sa tun ; I lie business clone at 57sfo; 7 iti;eair:alid rican : . 250 . 0 300 barrels common Rosi 9irits of ,Turpentine at 43s Gd a wheat ton ; 500- for the wed The tradE ad a lar7e are scarcely worthy o verage extent. With a good •s required the full advance r, and though - there was less ceipt of telegraphic advices here gene;•al, and a fair quantity o teat was taken 'by the trade, at an nexed quotations of fully is per cental, in some cas 7urther enhancement was made. Flour lik ne~it on the even ise was held )d to is more money, but the Unix( !ess absolut 31 ....... nit t attractingmuch attention are all dearer, and Indian ;orn may be quoted 9d per cental higher. Oats' have idvanccd 4d, and oatmeal 6d, with a good demand. A rr i va l s i'lin.l thi 20th to the 2801 Of April, inclusive :—lnto Liver. THE LIVERPOOL HIDE MARKET Sales this week : —516 salted B. A. horse hides, average 2911b5, at lls each ; 3,702 salted M.V. do., average, 3011bs to 311 lbs, at 11s to lls ld each; colts, average 1711bs to 174-Ib - s, at 6s 6d ; 901 drysalted Brazil hides, Ceara's (sound), average 311 lbs to 34klbs, at 7id to 88d ; damp and country damaged, at 61d to 61,--d per lb. 8,600 East India kips :—Bengal's drysalted good to prime cure, average 79lbs to 7 2-31bs, lsts at 13d to 14d, 2nds at 10d to 11id, 3rds at 7-ad to 81d, 4ths at 5d to 6?-d, covers at 3-ad to 4kd ; do., average 51lbs, lsts at is Old, is lad, 2nds at 10d, 3rds at 71d; do., average 101bs, lsts at 91d, 3rds at 74d to 74d; do., average.l3albs, lsts at 71d ; fair cure, average lsts at 121-d, 2nds at 92d, 3rds at 7d ; do., average 5 7 - 7 ,1135, lsts at 1144, 2nds at 108 d ; do., average 911bs, lsts at 91d to 91d, 2nds at 71d; do., average 131bs to 14 1-31bs, lsts at 7d to 71d, 2nds at 6d ; 60 dry West Coast lining hides, average 263-,lbs, lsts at Bd, 2nds at 5d per lb ; 136 pipes and 105 hhds. South American tallow, at 56s 6d to 57s 6d, yellow at 54s 6d per cwt ; 1 ton do. Neatsfoot oil, at 5s 6d per gallon; 20 bales S. A. horse hair, slightly mixed, at 91d, slight to fair at 10d to lid ; 240 tons Smyrna Valonia, at £l5 to £l6 per ton; 30 tons cattle bones, S. A. common at £5, piths at £4 17s 6d per ton. G. F. MARTIN & CO. LONDON PRODUCE MARKET -APRIL There is somewhat less excitement in the market to-day ; yet the political aspect on the Continent causes buyers of sugar and coffee to pause and act cautiously, so that actual quotations for those articles are . difficult to give; but the prices of last week are not obtainable. Rice has been sold to a limited extent at fully yesterda - Rum : The price of proof Leeward. 3 nominal at 23; Demerara, 2s 3 - roust be quc but holders generally asking hig,ber.rates SalipetVe: Yesterday's prices are supported, but there less activity in the buying this morning. • Tea : A limited business done at previous rates. .Baltic produce firm at the late advance. 1V ea,t,lief hind; i'vit~i heavy rain Tnight. Supplies fair of forei g n wheat and co rn ; sma ll o f b ar l ey. M ar brisk for all things at 4s advance on wheat, 2s on bar] and is oats, from last Monday. Norfolk flour held at a rise of 6s from Monday. BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—A. There was a steady inquiry for all new h U.is very ttioderate, at ale, but not cheaper. full prices.. Other kind LONDON TALLOW MARKET—APRIL 29. The market for tallow is flat at 58s snot • 58s 6d Ju rl AA, na LONDON MINING MARKET.—APRIL 29. The mining market is still little affected by the depreciat of other classes of securities. Prices in most instances fairly supported. Amongst the transactions reported to this morning are the following, viz. : —West Set on , a t 41 South Frances, at 202 ; Wh ea l Mary Ann, at 454, 461, 47 ; Wheal Tralawney, at 30 and 31; Wheal Margaret 74 ; West Caradon, at 88 ; and East Basset, at 215. Foreign and colonial mining shares remain dull. ' some inquiries, however, for Fortuna Mining, w" marked 1 LONDON MONEY MARKET.—APRIL 29 Consols opened firmer at 90 to 90,1, and 1 1 P. were then do. • continue, twelve - declared to-day. j Shares fir es recovered about 2 per cent., but still nominal. WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET at an advance of 7s to 8s uP last wee s prices, Barley and beans is T. oth BELFAST CORN MARKET.—APRIL 29. Market very firm, at an advance of lOs per quarter ( ;at and oatmeal. and £1 on flour. The rise in pric rover, has checked transactions. BELFAST PORK MARK 1,141 p Prices from 45 s t o 52s per i.27111)I CORK CORN MARKET.—APRIL 29. Red wheat, 255; barley, lls 6d to 16s ; oats, 12s 6d to 14s 6d. A. lar7E (APRIL 29 at an advance of 3s t T, but advanc CORN MARKET, yesterday Jarley wanted, and Is to 2 )W IRON MARKET, No. 1 warrants. mak SPORTING . INTELLIGENC ITTERSALL YESTERDAY LITEsT BETTING. 7 to 1 agst Leamin (t) ; 30 to 1 50 to 1 azst agst Hern e (t) ; 'l,OOO to 3( Roman Candle (t); 1,000 tc a 1 agst Mr. Ten Brocke'E 'Pe (t) GUINEAS.---2 to i agst Promised Land (t), DaRaY.--.50 to 1 agst Defender (ty; 1,000 to 10 uloff (t) ; 1,000 to 10 agst Glenluce Colt (t); 1,000 ;t Balnamoon (off 300 even on Seth: off an, WMAR ET RACES E of 50 new T.Y.( Ws PLATE of 100 gs ; four 1 103 t 121 b R.O x and a of 100 so\• year old, year old s each, 11 ft, fi 21b; D. 31.; 4s Glenlu 3eacon Tournament Sedbury is;_colts Bst 71b, fill Lord of the Manor for • two year olds. Last half Ab. M,- 3rine, Golden Rule, f by Stockwell, Rosalie, and f by Su , lice---lanthe are here. WIIEPSTA. No SHIP SHOULD GO TO SEA without one of Swindell nd Co.'s Patent Self-cleansing Charcoal Filters, eased and tted-up expressly for use on board ship, Note the address ; AUNPERS & Co., 16, Pari SCr-50001 . , Liverpool. to twerp _‘,ll A Dutch vessel, called the Antje, from An- - 11 0 Liverpool, is on shore at Portman, near D üblin, an li e), most likely go to pieces. The Angalie (French sew ° from Troon to Nantes, is ashore near the Skerries• FOREIGN PORTS . Lalla Rookh, Connibeer, hence at Calcutta Montezuma, Roufinack, hence at Vera Cruz. vle s Lizzy, Barber, and Celerity, Morrish, hence at April 17th. (ss) Euphrates (ss), Kilburn, from Alexandria ; Pacte l i l oc ett Cairo (ss), and Christine (ss), hence ; and Rhone (ss) , from Alexandria---all at Malta. Zenith, Long, hence at Civita Vecchia April 19th• Ugo Bassi, Mortara, hence at Genoa. Mathilde Adelaide, Rodriguez, hence at Gibraltar. i 1 Ella, Perfect, sailed from Texel for Liverpool , A P r Osiris, Caithness, hence at Riga, April 20. Danube (ss), Parfit, hence at Leghorn, April 20. ~„0 01 Johannes, Dooght, sailed from Leghorn for Lice'r April 20. Kron Prinses Louise (ss), Piegc_ , dria for Liverpool, April 7. Glanntire, Petersen, sailed from Alexandria for Ll rer pool, April 11. „col, Mina, Sahlsberg, sailed from Alexandria for Licerr April 11. not Lavinia, Rosse, sailed from Alexandria for Liver April 11. f il 6 ' Kate, Robb, sailed from Alexandria for Liverpool, IV - far Mary Davidson, Tindall, sailed from Alexandri'l Liverpool, April 16. &c. Araxes (ss), hence at Gibraltar and left for Malta/ Safwar, Holmdan, hence at Sandhamm. Osiris, Caithness, hence at Riga. Adler, Schebner, hence at Memel. Jarlen, Siep, hence at Swinemunde. Pallas, Westlake. hence at Dordt. Falcon (s hence at Helvoet. Maria Anastasia, ' and Cleator (ss), Middleton, both from St. Nazaire for Liverpool, April 23. f il 2 4 . Abeona, sailed from Marseilles for Liverpool, AP — ex pv Admiral Kanaris (ss), sailed from Palermo for Lic April 16. Pilar. Co .s, a sailed from Ale°ll' Dr Liverpool, April 25' s. sailed from Nantes TIIE a J. keeP er i e f. oeo John Bodgi Chas. Thos LONDON GAZE BANKRUPTS am-stn 1, Whitechapel- Thomas Owen, James Flodd and John Gill. So dnesbury, draper rmiugham, patters \Mpg Ttplip. w , rjneer. %vim= rriest, sen. Pnnlar w itton, York Tasper Peters, Hale Payne, and John Goodman, -‘ ton, leathe- shipow,ncer;thara A naP 3 ll5 - clainie . 6 noi 6 , an 1113 ' 0 11 1 1 15 merchants POETRY AND PROSE.—" See, nurse !" ex the smile irradiated th e f ace o f his in fan whispering to it " No, sir replied nurse. ..A. Pr On TO SHIPPERS AND EXPORTERS.—A most b , De article of export, to warm climates especially, arc c tP; io der 4 cleansing Charcoal Filters, patented by Messrs. qb3ey.isireo [ Co., - of 16, Part aluable wherever Ker-street, Liverpool—in fact s llo' there is hat? - water S. and C 0• export and wholesale orders- t fide l c. , •rs IN FOREIGN FARTS.---The rn: IhC P -- -.ifxn Office notification, rePeatw' a liberal discount or BRITISH SL Gazette contains a r or 12366, to , 2 a persons acceplaub i or n countnes as railway labourers , n otti leers, stokers, and firemen or in any other they arc not entitl e d t o ' relief as distressed Poiblic subjects, or to be sen t b ac k t o th e i r coun t r y at the i expense s t 51. ,,0 115 A MAD CAT. -- Considerable sensation was occ having its a man. 0 "7, hey ti the animal it returned home, an i " tS kivo tinu. in +lin lnn.o T P hn nea: _eaer.7, id attempted to b' animal, a female IN cr tip 11.11 See111111Z;110 me wounds 4 : 4 the a jnaesd.c...o..noveay:.gclnato°ti, of ally. in the C° lll. to 6chool Common P 1 consid it in a cag Mfort to be s. His e t t e i As to tu v et it re all ornst_ncoo rhad rings suspended by ‘ lithepe JeCOMIT ach bottle to ha )f Burt yet by j ~ aho~~ eleCt ).- saner-addition of „ taig ;sntiv in view amental, his lordship thoug Lnkets." tcH RATE.—A meeting_ of tile: -Irwell was held on Moiv n• the ensuing Yeni:;„i no rate be in From the nuns xeur this season of snakes having t miraculous that nothing " i ' til ,he rep I the hubbub 1 i die r- ard aattracwn u I Y - Y e, the Po latter speeu An Y, a lan to the rescue , ntion of a jt was carried by a quently,laadtlie FlJoipits I know of six within to'cif;oi a. ''.u.l:ng ealing its way into a domicile whey and sh arai r lerself with a sFick and there;vith di ` alce, but the dog s h a d been bitten, and two aforeton:l3ay Coup EXTRA OI START AND U 1 SEFUL INVENTION n were at play, and, innocent of tuu— ice , P' - nuke sport with it. Another instar.,3Vel stock, sought to destroy a her 001/ - er fe is —if tli b 0 1- „,. fril . , thing that housewives complain of with g limbic china, or earthenware ings cannot he matched, and of course tpre invent o )y. It is a but in ruarblc nefit of this article need not be dwelt or ets at Mr. Hall's, our neig one of its off ass that has been cemented by it is stror The article i ,ong without it, rnool. and all ii Hall is le breaking of some favourite plecu lu c " e ; huncl ,-,, is of c' inot be La' ~...n1 oeen obviated' by an extraordiu )n, by Mr. Adshead, of Derby Potte cement that may be said to heal, in .• labaster- Ni'e 113'1'1 ;or it s s' 15 '--,.. 'ft “}„. !curred to mat re anou repid 1, whilst n the rept clogs w cheap, ana uc „le age] , ndcre for thera Ting • in at his establishment. Agent for .t 4 Hall, 23, South John-street. Sold in bottle A _ ent free on receipt of sixteen postage stamPs• s i gna tur P.i.tne ; except bearing tho me are g 3g's n