The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-20 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL PHILHARMONIC HALL.- The Sixth SUBSCRIPTION CONCERT will take plac on TUESDAY, the 4th October.—FULL D Owing to tl the Corns MARIO to the Prom*, this Concer ) give a N CONCERT, iip€ 11th October.- NDAY, the 3r litsi FROM OUR L P ONDEN7 AN Ad: on his powder hours. in every xly's mou a lady ( till nc I can wri rienced men, on that he has purr season as a blind ! partly taken than the I During Y AfORNINC Lot Sir CIIAULES NAPIBI ), in reference tc ith. Of thi kindly— oliticians, ear t NICHOLAS is not osely sent his " relatives" here this The smash I predicted last week has nt. Sa the latter ; well this regard. Iki wn in nice on Brist aforesaid dray burrs or not where the former c is indisp as I have intimated, car they are out of town N being tion is ployed—a crac how spirit has been in a of our parish Bence in few of our metropolitan surveyors art, wh with a r fastened 1 fond Ar a prett ion and the lute ; certainly d with, or where it I to this, the country air New houses are down falls the fabric,smother- munication. There will be moi ) have cc I. of a nine days' wonder. Some of CnARLEs DICKENS'S bleak houses I and WE back to t my last corn. only the sur- a the qui vine, How long expect will tumbl Let me b 4 Bleak houses nderstood : in a anted nearly a dozen itations f the rat, the disputed own in chancery— ted the atten- hem att Eon of CIIARLEi DICKENS, hence his current work. Nobody will repair them, nobody will occupy them, but the very wretched. There are several of these buildings in the great thoroughfare of—nations I was going to say— the Strand; in Holborn, also, possession is disputed of many ; chancery and death does the remainder. One of the most famous taverns in the Strand has no one to receive its rents ; not a penny has been paid in rent for years. I mentioned surgeons along with surveyors ; little will serve for-them. None but good surgeons can now get a living; the bad are dying off going gone to Australia others. The dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of horrid cruelty ch like words speaks the inspired one; o Bermondsey. Tunnel over such 'DI A visit to Lambeth firs amongst the tanners, an and the : to - Wapping, enables me to say, that, with few excep tions, there is not a parish authority who ought to escape impeachment, and if not beheaded on Tower Hill,--cer tainly thrown into Tower Ditch. Such filth—needlessly SO — such stench from inattention—want of coercion—l never experienced. We are naturally prone to evil, it has been truly said ; among these people, read for evil—dirt. In the last-mentioned locality, water, hot and cold, had been let off ; the gutters were running pure and limpid. lam not fond of praising Thames or New River water, nor water company directors —several of the latter, however, had given orders to their turn-cocks for a continuous run of water— that all might wash and be clean. As if this were not enough, the proprietors of large establishments—factories, and so forth—also ordered a run of clean hot water down the streets ; on either side of these streams I saw scores of dirt-begrimed creatures—men, women, and children — loitering, afraid to wet their feet as if they were cats. What can you do with such people ? Force them to be clean—set the beadle at them. Cholera feeds on filth and bad air : we have got all three ! "Down among the dead men" is a piece of grave music, which has every ap pearance of being popular, chiefly from the inactivity of those who are paid to watch over us. Many portions of London never were filthier than they are at present though we have two boards of health and two sewers -commissions. " Westminster Abbey, or Victory ! claimed the immortal IGLsoist, at the - affair of Teneriffe. Sir ROBERT PEEL, the founder of the Income-tax, has achieved Westminster Abbey : were he alive, I should leave it to himself to define the character of the victory he bragged so much of having gained just before his ill-starred death. Hundreds of hard-working penmen, and, poorer with each, a dozen hungry children at their firesides, when they have coals or wood, moan, as they are compelled to squeeze the obnoxious tax out of their shallow earnings ; and putting aside the cant about the poor man being soothed by the reflection that he would eat his bread all the sweeter that it was not taxed, I hesitate not to state that bread is taxed—double taxed—war-taxed; and the, Income-tax, Sir ROBERT himself, years ago, said it was a . war-tax—but it would not last long. At this moment, years after its dire imposition, it is being collected within the bills of mortality with an eagerness—a rapacity well befitting resources for a beleagured town ! My mind filled with these no very pleasant recollections, I went down to Westminster Abbey to see GlnsoN's statue of the dead statesman. I knew I could have my outraged feelings soothed by the church service, and the glorious canto fermo—better sung by the Abbey choir than in most other places in which I have ever worshipped. I was not disappointed : numbers of foreigners were Present, and paid marked deference to the service. But the statue of the corn-law repealer and income-tax founder : it was unpacked a few days ago with the greatest care, and placed on its pedestal—a solid block of rare marble, with a surface as glossy and smooth as satin—so said the creeping verger who attended me. GIBSON, the artist, is a Scotchman of the right sort, thoroughly im bued with a love of his art, and purely classical. He has studied much at Rome, where, indeed, the present statue was finished. Sometimes Cansorr essays a grace beyond the reach of art ; such as painting his marble. Oh, mon strous ! turning regal grandeur to meretricious tawdriness . after daybreak and arrack at Vauxhall ! Classical in the composition, we have SIR ROBERT PEEL presented to us in the toga—speaking. The size is neither colossal, heroic, nor life; just a little more than the latter. The likeness is perfect, and very properly, methinks, a thought too austere, as PEEL could affect to be when laying down a great principle, or one which he doubted, for he had the same expression of countenance in both positions ; and herein, I imagine, was no great test of mind, either as a man or minister. The statue could not be better placed, had the Abbey been emptied for its reception. In the north transept it stands immediately in front ; indeed, adhering to one of the many light and elegant pillars which form the yet more elegant arches, the great beauty of the interior architecture. The pillar forms the background to the statue, and sets it off admirably. The statue of Sir ROBERT is in good company ; is it possible, in such a place, to meet with questionable ? Rather not. The next but one to Sir ROBERT is that tall, and courtly, and brave Scot, Sir .conN MA.LCOLN ; next to MALcoLm IS GEORGE CANNING ; opposite to CANNING is LONDON DERRY (CASTLEREAGH that was), and opposite PEEL is that sturdy Scot and great lawyer, Loid MANSFIELD. Luckily my esteemed and accomplished friend, Sir Rxcn- ARD WESTMACOTT, one of the few English classical sculp tors extant, came into the Abbey to inspect the statue of Sir ROBERT; he had received instructions from the Lords of the Treasur report thereon it,—its disposition—effect, and ARD went round and round it Sir Rr as far as he could—was picas marble than the chiselling my idea. I let the _ mly have been alone, hid myself behind PITT'S ,COTT had looked his fill. We L ; Sir RICHARD spoke well of id ; and then the sculptor cam • in the thank Heaven monument, until WI then met in front of ! tone, he pet sculptor of seventy years of taste, judge and of socie buumetricaa - "Tee his remarl even befo r e w DEA.N de nce NV Esrxilis provi and th least all that the q nF once a giant in thew brain, grand. In sonal advant.— ""1 e best of sch the last deg , rather than .t what fired a lICICLAND, or at A.NAK he was— partly knew: ventu Great MICKLAND, his under r ow unlike traint," was the response. gentle dulness"—yet you in the dull part of the year. ROBERT OWEN, prince of Socialists, as JoUN BUNYAN was prince of dreamers ! ROBERT OwEN, once the patro nized of the philosopher and philanthropist, is now, I am afraid, going clean daft for ever. In outward man, though nearly ninety years of age, he is hale, his countenance mantling as a man's of sixty, his eyes beaming intel- andlicence, what, to my untutored fancy, is better— good nature. No man, short of a sea-captain, has ever crossed the billowy Atlantic oftener to less purpose—pecuniarily morally, and mentally, than 808 OWEN. Pecuniarily ? know he is near a quarter of a million sterling poorer than he was when I first heard his health drun in honest sherry,— which, by the way, the aged nomadic father does not eschew, old as he is. Morally These spirit-rapping& —" second circle of the fourth sphere,"—are questionable evidences. Enthusiasm in any man is a great blessing ; but then it must be reined in, applied to a good purpose. ROBERT OWEN was and is of glowing enthusiasm,—one of those " hot children of the sun" with whom that qua- y—enthusiasm—is virtue, if I be allowed to take ,erty with the poet. Everything he has touched mostly, has gone to smash,—no ballast, poor man, aboard —no compass. His greatest dodge—Socialism—lives, but it is not the Socialism of 808 OWEN. The Socialism of the present day is tamed down by the salutary spirit and healthful action of our laws, which won't stand non sense of that sort. True, the Socialists still have their crowded Sunday meetings twice or thrice a-day ; they have an orator, for the most part a poor grammarian ; and they have their music; in this they rather excel. The tunes are secular. The last time I attended a Social ist meeting I had previously been at a rather distingue but dull dinner party, one door from Bedford-iquare, which I left for an hour or so, and dropped into the meet ing -house hard by ; it was crowded, and lots of men and women singers, with a compensation grand piano-forte ; the subject of discourse was our first parents in Paradise ; that I will let pass—mere ribald nonsense, vapid attempts at profane wit—no more. Previous to the holdforth, there was a hymn finely sung by the male and female voices, evidently well rehearse to the true English air of "A The leader was a famous man in hunting we will his way, whom I had not seen for some years gave me a few early lessons in part-singing. Th went off well, but it was theatrical and heartless. ROBERT OWEN has got a fine mare's nest in the supposed Chelsea ghost ; writing about it, he at once puts up the affair as of the genuine " Spirit-rapping" class. Now it has not even the merit of being an imposture; a poor fellow has a fit — his brain is softened—a dreadful affection, produced, I need scarcely say in this place, by several causes—hard study, hard gin drinking, among others. The individual referred to fancies he sees and hears things not of this world ; the " Chelsea snobs" wonder, Owen learns of it, immediately he telegraphs PERCY BYssHE SHELLEY, and the Duke of KENT, they " take sights" of each other, and forthwith OWEN gives to the world (or the Morning Post) what he considers to be veritable assurances. Ridiculous —sinful as this is, it is better than no belief. BACON, if I and who remember aright—wisest, meanest of mankind—says, that superstition is better than negation. ROBERT OWEN is now going about our streets apparently as happy as a prince or the discoverer of a real gold-field. THE THEATRES THE THEATRE ROYAL opened last night with the popular new comedy of " Masks and Faces ! or before and behind the Curtain." The principal characters were per formedby Mrs. Stirling and Mr. Compton, who are, engaged for a limited number of nights. At this theatre we per ceive with much pleasure Mr. W. Farren is announced to give a series of performances prior to his final retirement from the stage. Mr. Farren will be supported by Mrs. Phillips and Mr. Robson, from the Royal Olympic Theatre. We are also gratified to learn that it is intended to give a series of grand Operas, Italian and German, at this house, commencing at the end of next month. AT THE ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE, the amusements of the week, like those of several weeks preceding, have been chiefly such as to afford scope for displaying the pecu liar and varied talents possessed by Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone ; the " Ascent of Mount Parnassus" being still a leading and attractive feature in the enter tainments. On the whole, there has been considerable variety in the pieces performed, and the theatre has been fairly attended. Among the novelties recently produced, was one entitled " Cruel Kindness," which was so well received as to call for its repetition. The burden of the acting, in this piece, unlike those generally in which Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone appear, does not devolve on those performers, but was sustained, and, on this occasion, most creditably sustained, by Mr. and Miss Cathcart. The elocution and acting of the former were of a high and gratifying order, while the lady displayed no small amount of talent, tempered by judgment and good taste. Several new scenes were introduced, painted ex pressly for this piece ; one, in particular, a forest scene by moonlight, was spirited and truthful. On Friday evening, Mr. Buckstone took, what is termed, his farewell benefit at this house ; the performances commencing with Brinsley Peake's comedy of " The Sheriff of the County," followed by the new drama of " Snapping Turtles," and " The Ascent of Mount Parnassus"—the two latter pieces from the pen of Mr. Buckstone. In " The Sheriff of the County," Mr. Buckstone, as Pansey, was irresistibly comic. His hits were generally telling as well as laugh able. The character is one requiring tact and stage ex perience, rather than histronic power, and Mr. Buckstone being a master in ' both these walks of his profession, brought them beautifully into play, and frequently con vulsed the house with laughter. His by-play in general was capital, and being introduced with propriety, it had often the effect of rendering a scene highly comic, which would otherwise have been eminently dull. Mrs. Fitz william, as Kitty Crawley, was, as she always is, natural, pleasing, good-natured, and engaging. The other characters in the play were in general respectably per formed ; the Ensign Tardigrade, of Mr. F. L. Villiers ; and the Nonpariel, of Mr. Frederick Younge, being entitled to considerably higher commendation, In " The Snapping Turtles," Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone had the matter all to themselves, and they succeeded in keeping the audience in high good humour. " The Ascent of Mount Parnassus" concluded the performances, and was received with its usual meed of approbation. On Saturday, the new play of " Cruel Kindness" was again repeated, and met with a good reception. It was followed by " Good for Nothing" and " The Ascent of Mount Parnassus." POLICE COURT-YESTERDAY. ROBBERY BY AN OFFICE BOY.--A lad named Robert ' Laird was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a frock coat from the office of Mr. Michael Belcher, cotton broker, Exchange-buildings. The prisoner is a son of police-officer 520.—Mr. Clough stated that the prisoner, who is an office boy in the employ of Mr. Belcher, was brought to the office about a fortnight ago, by a pawnbroker in Fontenoy-street, charged with having stolen the coat. —The pawnbroker stated that the prisoner offered it to him for sale for five shillings, and having reasons to be lieve that he had obtained it by improper means, he gave him in charge. On questioning the prisoner at the police office, he stated that the cashier at Mr. Belcher's had given him the coat, and his story being believed, he was discharged, Since that time, however, it had been ascer tained that the coat belonged to Mr. Belcher, and that the prisoner had stolen it from the office. In the mean time the prisoner had absconded from home and gone to Ire land. He returned on Saturday, when his father, officer 520, brought him to the police office, and he was again given in charge. Mr. Belcher yesterday identified the coat as his property. The cashier was at present in Scot land, but it was altogether unlikely that he could have given it to the prisoner. Several articles had lately been missed from the office, and on Saturday last he (Mr. Belcher) received a note from Mr. Bean, of the Albion office, in whose employ the prisoner formerly was, cau tioning him to be aware of him. Mr. Bean stated that he had, whilst at the Albion office, endeavoured to prevail upon the other boys there to steal the type and other articles.—ln answer to a question, the prisoner's father stated that he was not aware, before now, that the prisoner had been guilty of such practices.—The magistrate said it was a very painful case. The prisoner was evidently a boy of a very bad character, for it was clear that he had not only stolen the coat, but in addition to this, he had endeavoured to prevail upon other boys to steal printing type from the Albion office.—The prisoner was remanded for a week. PICKING POCKETS.—EIIen Melville was committed for three months, for attempting to pick the pockets of a lady in London-road, on Saturday afternoon, about half past four o'clock. ROBBERY OP WEARING APPAREL.—A woman named Harriet Appleton, a domestic servant, in the employ of Mrs. Moore, in Hawk-street, was charged with stealing a quantity of wearing apparel, the property of her mistress, and pledging the same with Mr. Perry, pawnbroker, in Brownlow-hill. The prisoner had formerly been in the habit of frequenting the night asylum, to which she ob tained admission by a false representation. She was committed for trial at the borough sessions. COMMITMENT.—A n named John Baker was charged by police-officer 639, with stealing a bottle of ale from a cask in Duke's Dock. The officer saw the prisoner coming from the dock with something under his coat, and on exa mining him he found that he had a bottle of ale secreted. On making inquiry at the dock, it was ascertained that the property had been stolen. The prisoner was com mitted for fourteen days. AN OFFICER in the Liverpool Police force, named Isaiah Taylor, was on Thursday last convicted in the penalty of £5 and costs, or, in default, to be committed for a month, on a charge of fraud. He had received a silver watch from the master of a flat trading to Chester, to keep secure for him, which he had not only failed to re deliver. but which, on being questioned afterwards by %M. VGI , ••• ... , his superior officers, he said he had not received. tie had, however, taken it to a watchma k e r ' s shop, where it was subsequently found. OPENING SAFETY LAMPS.—At the Worsley petty ses sions two colliers, named John Greenhalgh and Richard Barry, were charged with breaking the rules of the colliery on the estate of the late Duke of Bridgewater, by removing the tops of their Davy lamps, while at work, to light their tobacco-pipes. Mr. Ridyard, inspector of the Worsley coal mines, caught them in the act on Tuesday, and, as the prisoners had been fined for this offence three ties before, it was considered desirable that they should be m made an example of in a more public manner. Although the observance of the rules is absolutely necessary for the preservation of the lives of the miners, yet they are so reckless as to break them continually. A good deal of conversation took place upon the question in court, but the case was ultimately settled by the offenders agreeing to sign a form of submission, to be made public, acknow ledging their fault, and promising not to offend again on condition of forgiveness. VDON COR ved a joke." Great Geologist, sometimes by your researches and annotations thereon, shaking less learned ones' belief in old MOSES and the prophets ! Now you are Door BIICICLA ND out of your mind ! The of knoll thought it quf left min- L, Si I to the notion, that 3 ierian for A last. I BUCELAND, som COMMERCIAL 4 MONETARY NEWS MONDAY NIGHT. THE money market has been in a state of unnatural excitement during the week, owing to a combination of causes. The public funds have, in consequence, experiE line in valuc mercit been DU to enter into any new € THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER formed as to the probabilities of the future. The returns of the Bank of England published on Fri day last, show that the drain on their stock of specie had not concluded, as the diminution was about £300,000, and this circumstance, coupled with another rise in the minimum rate of discount, led to an alarm in the money market, which was greatly augmented by the recent reports from the East of the warlike preparations in Turkey. The whole of the depression may, however, be attri buted solely to feeling, with little reference to the probabilities arising from actual facts, and the ob vious deductions from them. Indeed, it is the mis fortune attending commercial affairs, since the railway panic in 1846-7 that judgment has had to give way to mere impulse upon important ques tions, so that panics have sometimes originated with hardly a justification. This is particularly the case at the present time, when an undue im portance is attached to the rise in the rate of dis count and the withdrawal of specie. Although there is a balance left of more than sixteen millions, fresh importations are daily being received, and the amount of unemployed rates in the Bank is £7,669,090, a margin, it might be conceived, ample for all contingencies. The occurrence of these paroxysms of tightness is attributed by many to the operation of the Bank Restriction Act of 1844, by which the Bank is prohibited from issuing notes beyond its stock of bullion added to £1.4,000,000. Such a restriction is positively useless for any real benefit, inasmuch as it is virtually inopera tive, and is absolutely injurious whenever it is attempted to be brought into action, as was evident in 1847, when the Government were called upon to guarantee indemnity for a breach of the Act. It is therefore no security for monetary sta bility, and productive of unnecessary alarm, which sometimes tends to precipitate the evil dreaded. The present state of commercial affairs should tend far more to inspire confidence than mistrust. In almost every department of industrial activity, trade, until within the last few weeks, has been in a healthy state, commercial operations generally have been singularly free from speculative move ments, and even the state of the weather which, at harvest time, is of more than ordinary importance, has been particularly favourable. The only dis couraging influence has been that arising from the affairs between Russia and Turkey, upon which we have commented elsewhere, and this has now been placed on a footing which completely absolves England from the necessity of any active operation in favour of Turkey. The reports fron 7 l all the manufacturing districts show an evident disinclination to operate beyond immediate demands, owing to the uncertainty which prevails, not only in political affairs, but also as to the conduct of the operatives, many of whom are either out on strike for higher wages, or have threatened such a movement. As these influences are, however, antagonistic, they may help to neu tralise each other. The SHARE MARKET has been very unsettled during the past week. On Thursday, when the Bank-rate was raised to 41, prices declined ; since it has rallied again, caused by bears repurchasing. The public buy sparingly, though a further slight decline would bring in good buyers.—Chester and Birkenhead, 171 ; Caledonians, 281 1 1 12; Chester and Holyhead, 171; Eastern Counties, 121; East Lancashire, 17 16 13-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 68 71 4 7 fi 11 7 i; Leeds Northern, 132: London Stock, 103 1021 1 1 1 ; Ditto Eighths, fd ; Sheffield Stock, 21 4 -g-; Midland Stock, 591,111114 4 311841:, North British, 61 ; Dover Stock, 181 1 11-16 4 I 11-16 a ; York and North Midland, 24 231; Great Southern and Western Pref. Eighths, 81; St. Helen's R. and C. 5 per cent. Stock, 109 ; North Union A Stock, 255 ; Liverpool Fire and Life In surance, 68 s 1 ip. _ - - The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 10th of Sept., gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits Other deposits Rest ... .. £5,251,010; Increase £549,412 10,862,058; Decrease 155,255 3,641,708; Increase 7,185 On the other side of the account — Government securities 212,767,018; Decrease Other securities 14,957,874; Increase 411,680 Notes unemployed ... 7,669,090; Decrease 27,605 The amount of notes in circulation is 02,197,680, being a decrease of £268,265 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £16,201,352,5h0wing a decrease of £298,716, when compared with the preceding return. COTTON.-The several circumstances we have alluded to above have had the effect of almost pa ralysing operations, beyond the demands to enable spinners to complete the contracts they have in hand. The sales during the week ending on Fri day amounted to only 28,200 bales ; and, as the consumption is computed to be about 37,000 bales weekly, the manufacturers' stocks must be consi derably reduced, and lead to a great demand when ever industrial activity may be resumed. Prices have, however, been fairly maintained, the re duction in the quotations being only *d. per lb. We have no subsequent improvement to notice, as the sales on Saturday and To-DAY amounted to only 9,000 bales, including 2,000 chiefly for export. The previous rates being barely supported. PRODUCE.-In Sugar, no change to notice, the sales, which are again chiefly to the refiners, amount to 1,100 hhds. B.P. and 3,000 bags of Bengal. Foreign : 400 cases good brown Bahia sold at 21s. ; 1,300 bags white Pernambuco, at 245. to 255. per cwt. in bond ; and 200 hhds. Suri nam, at 325. 9d., duty paid. No sales in Molasses. At public sale, Jamaica Coffee sold at extreme rates, and the business in Foreign was done at steady prices. Of Rice, 1,100 bags Bengal sold at 13s. 6d., and 1,200 bags Arracan, from 6s. to 10s. per cwt. Of Rum, in the absence of supply, the business was limited. In Tea a good business was done in the Hohow and Pekoe kinds of Con gou • the former at rather easier rates, but the latter at full previous prices. The transactions in all common blacks and greens have been on a very limited scale. Saltpetre, without change, 1,200 bags disposed of at 265. 6d. to 30s. ; and 200 tons Nitrate of Soda, at 17s. to 17s. 6d. per cwt. Tur pentine in demand, and prices again slightly ad vanced. American Rosin in brisk demand. In Hides no transactions/ Olive Oil in limited re quest. Seal Oil sold at £33 ss. to £33 10s. ; Cod, £32 ; and American Sperm, £B7 10s. per tun ; pale Rape Oil, £4l to £42 per ton ; and brown at £4O; Linseed Oil in limited demand, at, 28s. 9d., to 295. per cwt.. American Spirits of Turpentine, 495. to 50s. 6d. per cwt, Palm Oil in active de mand, and 750 tons on the spot sold at £36 15s. to £37 10s. ; and 2,050 tons to arrive at £37 to £37 10s. per ton. A large business has been done in Tallow, at 535. to 545. 6d., for Petersburg Y.C. ; and 525. to 535. per cwt. for South American. Upwards of 200 tons American Lard sold at 58s. to 595. per cwt. • Petersburg clean Hemp, £34 to £35 per ton. Holders of Jute firm, at £22 10s. to £24 ss. per ton, being extreme prices. To-DAY there is no change to notice in Sugar. The busi ness, including Saturday's sales, comprises 100 hhds. Barbadoes, at 325. to 425. for grainy ; 110 hhds. Antigua, at 335. 6d. to 375. 6d. ; 1,500 bags Benares, at 375. to 38s. 6d. • and 1,100 bags Madras, at 31s. pe r c w t. The sales in Molasses consist of 400 puns. Barbadoes, at 17s. from the quay ; and 70 puns. St. Lucia, at 15s. 6d. per cwt. 50 puns. Trinidad Rum have realised 2s. 9d. per proof gallon from the quay. The Tea market wears a firmer appearance, but operations are limited, pending the delivery of the China letters ' • common sound Congou 11d. per lb. i n p ar ti a l demand. There has again been a speculative demand for Rice, a cargo (500 tons)of Arratanhavingbeen sold for the Continent at lls. 3d., floating conditions, and 9,000 bags to arrive at 11s., besides 500 bags on the spot at the same price, and 600 bags broken Bengal at lls. per cwt. 150 bags Saltpetre sold at 265., and 275. 6d. for 8* and 51 per cent. re fraction. 600 bags Sago Flour, to arrive, at 205.6 d. per cwt., and 80 cases Castor Oil at 4d. per lb. WooL.-The business of the week has not been animated, which may be accounted for by the affairs in the East assuming a more unsettled aspect, and the increasing firmness in the money market, together with the approaching sales, which com mence here to-morrow, and will continue until Monday next, for which buyers are holding back. About 14,000 bales will be offered at this series, being the largest sales ever held here, consisting chiefly of East India, Turkey, Portugal, Peruvian, Russian, Buenos Ayres, and Egyptian. With the present aspect of affairs generally, the result of these sales are not expected to be very encouraging, though there is no very particular decline in prices looked for. LIVERP OOL ACADEMY EXHIBITION. SECOND NOTICE. SEIR-CHAMBER PRACTICE: ROMAN ISM IN A BRITISH COLONY. IT is bad enough in this country to witness the truckling of our effete administration to, the insolent assumptions of Romanist traitors, but the the Colonies and realised in t e gone a step farther in Sovereign QUEI the pious J would not fall down and NI NEBUCHADNEZZAR theldl image whic g the principal room, the eye is arrested by collection of fine pictures, hung at the left hand of the ON enteri spectator The excellence of those pictures is attested in the homa gated around them in considerable numbers ge of visitors, who are the pencils of TURNER, COPLEY FIELDING, FRITH, and OASES. The contributions by the first-named three artists are, we should almost say. "old familiar friends," having been exhibited elsewhere, and two of them having been engraved. The pictiire by TIFILNER, which stands number 24 in the catalogue, is "Mercury and Argus," a title very little suggestive of the painting or its subject. It is a finely conceived landscape, embracing a beautiful combination of land and water. The admirable aerial effect in this picture is charmingly characteristic of TURNER'S later style, in which brilliant contrasts are more studied than the broad and massive effects of light and shadow, which distin guished his earlier and, in most respects, more meritorious pictures. In the one before us, the composition is full and flowing—the effect sunny and summer-like. Indeed it would be difficult to meet with a pictorial landscape more redolent of balmy sunshine than that to which we now refer. The subject is divided by a ravine through which a torrent dashes with impetuosity, its waters imparting a cooling effect to the contrasting warmth of the sunburnt earth. On the right hand is a mass of picturesque archi tecture, the mellowing tints of which mix and harmonize with the glowing colours and radiant splendour of the sky, while a grateful freshness is imparted to the whole by the calm repose of the slumbering sea. The foreground, and indeed the general colour of the landscape, is rich and warm; its prevailing lines are harmonious, the parts full without confusion, and the light and shade nearly all that could be wfshed. It is no uncommon thing to hear even candid and good judges of pictures objecting to Turner's land scapes that they are slovenly in the drawing of details ; and the one now under consideration is a good illustration of the remark ; the men and animals are oddly and ill drawn; but take the general arrangement of the picture, and its masses will be found graceful and well balanced. The effect of its colour is sparkling and true to nature, and, as a whole, it is a work of rare excellence and beauty. 29. " View of Gilnockie Tower and Bridge, Dumfries shire." By COPLEY FIELDING. This is a landscape in many respects the opposite of that last spoken of. It is natural and delightful in the general variety of its colour and in its repeated horizontal lines. Expansiveness of view, and truth to nature, appear to- have been the in tended features in the artist's mind when he elaborated the picture, and the intention has been most happily realized. Beautifully gontrasting and amalgamating tints enrich the middle distance ; and the foreground is filled, but not crowded, with picturesque objects of varied in terest and form. This picture is eminently suggestive of a clear, cool, and cheering atmosphere, bathing a richly wooded, undulating country, over which the eye swims in gratified enjoyment : _ 2. "An Old English Merrymaking," by W. P. FRITH, R.A., is a lively and pleasing embodiment of rural life as that was witnessed in days not very long gone by. A group of merry village youths and maidens are assembled round the village " gathering tree," and for their amusement and delectation an old blind fiddler and a youth are dis cussing such music as readily sets in motion the "merry tinkling feet." A couple of hilarious damsels have made capture of the village patriarch, and are busily urging him to join the jocund dance. The action and expression of this group are highly pleasing and artistic. The counte nance of the old man is brimful of happy and contented enjoyment,proclaiming him at once to be— The gay grandsire skilled in - gestic lore." .„ He evinces the readiest sympathy with the youthful sports, and seems reluctantly to admit the time for such sports with him is over. His youthful persuaders are bus...some, guileless, and bent on their holiday. The other corner of the foreground is occupied by a fortune telling gipsy, whose conscious knowingness contrasts finely with the credulity betrayed in the confiding coun tenance of her dupe. Nearly all the heads introduced into this large and well-filled canvass are cleverly painted, and display careful study and a ready hand on the part of the artist. The general effect of the picture is pleasing ; it is rich and good in colouring, and a fine sentiment is trace able throughout the whole of the animated scene. 20. " Llyn Dulyn,by W. OAKES, is a landscape in many respects highly meritorious. The sky and middle-distance are finely managed, and indicate a watchful eye for the less common effects of nature, as these are to be witnessed on moorland and hill. 45. " Claudio deliberating the terms of the pardon offered to him through his sister Isabella," by W. H. HUNT. This picture, to which the academy's prize of £5O has been awarded, is one of very considerable merit ; and the position to which the award of the academy has raised it, has given rise to a keen canvass of its merits and defects. The latter of these appear to consist chiefly in the common-place attitude and action assumed by the two participators in the scene. The thoughtfulness of Claudio is dashed and marred by the trifling,—not to call it mean idea of his playing with the ancle-ring of his fetters, while deliberating on the terms of pardon announced by his heroic sister ; while that sister's earnestness of ad monition is in no small degree deteriorated by the familiar style of placing both her hands upon her brother's breast, not exactly as if in remonstrance with him, but as if about to push him back with somewhat of a hoyden's rashness. Apart from these drawbacks, however, there are many points to admire in this picture. The air and general bearing of Isabella, are earnest and commanding ; Claudio seems much perplexed, by the communication made to him, and but for the incongruity alluded to, his demeanour would be apposite and just. In drawing and pencilling, the subject is well treated ; the colouring is rich, and in many particulars the picture is really beautiful. 94. " Dante and Beatrice in the Lunar Sphere," by J. N. PA TON, R.S.A., is a picture by no means striking on its first presentment to the eye. Look on it—examine—study it, and the spectator will be fully requited for the labour, which can hardly prove other than one of love. The pic ture consists of two groups differing essentially from each other, and each group displaying considerable variety in itself. The head and bearing of the great poet are sug gestive of serenity and intellectual power ; those of his spiritual conductress are expressive of beatified repose and tranquil purity of thought and feeling. The mysterious forms which, flitting through the air, arrest the earthly visitants' attention, are fine embodiments of unimpassioned . thought. The scene conceived in a truly poetic spirit, and is a highly artistic rendering of Dante's sublime delineation. In the countenances of each of the chief actors in the scene the expression of subdued yet devoted attachment and unhesitating confidence is pourtrayed with touching truth and beauty, yet not unmixed with inquiring dubiety on the one hand, met by truthful serenity on the other, while they contemplate. with differing emotions the graceful and etherialized forms floating before their vision with as sweet a harmony as the musical creations which haunt a poet's dream. The mechanical treatment of the subject is in fine keeping with its conception. The poet is drawn and painted with firmness and decision ; the colouring, though powerful, is simple and unobtrusive. Beatrice is delineated with grace and tenderness, exhibit ing a fine admixture of ideal with corporeal beauty ; while the aerial figures described by Dante's companion as " true substances " are so delicately touched that they seem melting into the subtle ether on whose waves they swim. In this picture we are glad to recognise an absence of that exuberance of fancy which has generally charac terised the works of this able artist, and has given to not a few of them a peculiarity of mannerism bordering on the extravagant. In this no artistic puzzle is presented to the eye. Here the labour is simple, the effect charmi ng . 42 and 50. " Portraits of two ladies," by JOHN ROBERT SON, are excellent specimens of portrait painting, and highly creditable to the state of art in Liverpool. Albeit a little heavy in style, both pFtures are treated with much artistic skill. They are firm in the mode of their handling, juicy in texture, and of a fine life-like aspect. The colouring is powerful and pleasing, the attitudes well chosen, and the accessories fresh and telling, without being obtrusive. 28. " Portrait of Thomas Berry isgoo Horsfall, pictu Esq., with M•P limuc"h " b st y rength P o l f rTE eol m our ' A an .R d A no " small amount of excellent paint ing in it. The hands are well drawn and beautifully painted, while the general action is easy and unaffected. 48. " Portrait of Sir John Bent, recently Mayor of Liverpool," by P. WESTCOTT ; a full-length portrait, skil fully treated. The head is well painted and the colour fresh and pleasing. As a whole the picture is a good specimen of portrait art, and will form a gratifying me mento of the esteem in which Sir JoHN BENT is held by his friends and fellow-townsmen. THE STEAM-SHIP GREAT BRITAIN. LIE following are extracts from a letter which has just been received by a gentleman in Liverpool:— On board the Great Britain, St. Vincent, Cape de Verds, August 26, 1853. I never enjoyed better health, not: have I experienced the least sea sickness. * * * On Saturday, the 13th, we spoke the ship Sciotta, of Brunswick, bound for London. Although we have had the disadvantage of head winds and calms, on the 19th we sighted and passed the Island of Madeira, the distance from Liverpool to Madeira being about 1,300 miles. On the 22d, we spoke the ship Alexander Barham, from Liverpool, bound to Calcutta, lat. 24 deg. 8 N., had been out 37 days, thus demonstrating the sailing qualities of the ship Great Britain. The fact is, we fly past every vessel we meet. We sailed past two full-rigged ships this morning. While I am writing, they are preparing the anchors ready to enter the harbour of St. Vincent, which we expect to reach in the morning (Wednesday morning), to take in coals and water. Messrs. Gibbs, Bright, and Co.'s overlooker, Captain Martin, has come out with us to test the sailing qualities, &c., of the Great Britain, and to report upon the same. I expect he will land at St. Vincent, and go to England by the Southampton mail boat. Captain Matthews is very kind to the passengers—he is a very humane gentle man, and worthy the command of such a ship. We have a Wesleyan missionary and likewise a minister of the Established Church on board. We have morning and evening service on the Sabbath days, which is a very great privilege. Captain Matthews has prohibited swear ing under a penalty of five shillings. * * * While I am writing this letter, one of my messmates calls me on deck to see an emigrant vessel called the Hope, from Glasgow, bound to Melbourne. She left Glasgow on the 10th of July, it would have delighted you to see how surprised they were to see our ship. We have left her like all the other vessels, far behind. Just now we spoke another vessel, a three-masted schooner from Liverpool to Port Natal. She left Liverpool a fortnight before us. _ We are now in the Bay of St. Vincent ; we have just caught a large shark, about ten feet long—they knocked out his eyes—they also ran a boat-hook into his mouth, the handle of which he smashed off directly. St. Vincent is the most barren place you eve r b e h e ld, no t the least sign i of vegetation. All n the vegetable way is brought from an adjoining island called St. Antonio. TILE CnoLERA.--The London Gazette of Friday con tains an Order in Council that the provisions contained in the Act for the prevention of Epidemic, Endemic, and Con tagious Diseases, be put in force throughout the whole of Great Britain immediately from and after the date of the Order, for period of 54 calendar mouths, The law of GOD says that man shall not fall down nor worship the likeness of anything ; magistrates in a British Colony inflict a fine and costs on a British subject, for not performing an act of idolatry, at the bidding of the minions of the Church of Rome. We subjoin the report of the case from the Quebec Gazette. It will speak for itself : " Before Alexis Derouselle and Jean Baptist Parant, Esquires, Justices of the Peace, residing in the parish of Beauport, 4th June, 1853. Narcisse Filian, of Beauport, was summoned on complaint of Laurent Gosselin, of Beauport, constable, for having on Sunday, the 29th May last, being the dayof the Procession, behaved himself in a disorderly manner at the door of the Beauport church, by keeping his hat on his head during the procession of the most Holy Sacrament, which was then proceeding from the church to the neighbouring chapel, and by telling the said constable that he had no right or authority to compel him to take his hat off, and that he would keep it on in spite of him—then and there bringing into contempt the authority of the said constable. Filian having been tried on this novel accusation, was convicted and fined five shillings, and twenty-one shillings and threepence costs, with imprisonment not exceeding eight days until paid, should his goods and chattels prove insufficient to meet the amount. A certioarari was this morning allowed to remove the conviction to the Superior Court.—Quebec, sth July, 1853." POLYTECHNIC SOCIETY. • Tirz first meeting of the Polytechnic Society for the season 1853-4 was held last evening in the Royal Insti -1 tution, Colquit-street ; Mr. Milner in the chair. I Before the proceedings commenced, the secretary inti mated that the next meeting of the society would be held that day three weeks. The CHAIRMAN having called upon Mr. Rowett to ex plain, pursuant to the notice he had given, the principle of a new cylindrical paddle-wheel for steamers, Mr. ROWETT commenced by referring to another kind of paddle-wheel, which on a previous occasion he had brought before the society, differing from the one he was now about to explain to the meeting. It had oc curred to him, that the great object in paddle-wheels was to bring into use the two elements of water and air. The flat float had hitherto been considered the most efficient, and the most in use; but he maintained that there were several advantages in the cylindrical float which had never been discovered in any other, and he thought he should be able to make that clear to the meeting. Mr. Rowett then proceeded to explain, in detail, the principle of the cylindrical float. He admitted in the outset that there' was not the same power, in the cylindrical float, over the water, as there was in the flat float ; but when immersed in the water, there was a much greater power in the cy lindrical float than in a flat float of the same dia meter. When immersed in the water, the flat float was too heavy to lift the water, and the result was, that there was a great loss of power. Now, in the cylindrical float, the moment it became im mersed in the water there was a greater resistance to the engine than in the flat float. There was another advan tage which the cylindrical float possessed over the flat float. He tried the principle the other day in a boat. It was not by engine-power; but by hand-power on a small scale, and the result was, that when the paddle-wheel was within three inches of the centre, there was very little pressure on the shaft of the wheel ; for, going at the rate of three knots an hour, the wheel went round with great ease, and appeared as light as a feather. One advantage, too, in the cylindrical float over the flat float consisted in the fact that in the flat float it was frequently found necessary to take the floats off a vessel at sea when engine-power was mot being used, in consequence of the float itself being a drag. This would not be necessary in the cylindrical float, because it would slip through the water with greater ease, and with less resistance to the water itself. After enumerating some other alleged advantages which the in vention possessed, Mr. Rowett said it might be remarked that it was useless,inasmnch as the paddle-wheelwould soon be done away with, and would have to. give place to the screw. He admitted that to a great extent, but he thought that many steam companies would avail themselves of im provements in the paddle, in preference to adopting the screw. An animated and somewhat warm discussion followed, in which Mr. LORD, Mr. STEELE, and other gentlemen, denied the advantages attributed to the invention by Mr. Rowett. Mr. STEELE designated the invention as "all moonshine." (Laughter.") The CHAIRMAN also expressed doubts as to the advan tages of Mr. Rowett's invention. A somewhat irregular and desultory conversation hav ing taken place, in the course of which Mr. ROWETT en deavoured to answer the various objections which had been raised against the invention, Mr. GRANTHAM obsetved, that, as it seemed to him, the question had not been discussed, on either side, on its true merits. The question was, was the cylindrical float, as a propelling power, as efficient as the flat float ? It had been urged by Mr. llowett, that a circular float did not offer the same resistance to the water as a float float did, and slipped more easily through the water - if so, that fact seemed to him conclusive, that the circular float, as a propelling power, was not equal to the flat float. Mr. Grantham, at some length, raised several other objections to the invention. After some further discusSion, Mr. ROWETT received the thanks of the meeting for having submitted the invention, and the proceedings terminated. THE IMAGINARY HANSARD, A PORTION OF THE AETICIPATED SPEECH ON THE IN TRODUCTION OF THE NEW REFORM BILL, IN MARCH, 1854. " The inhabitants of Gravesend are taking active steps to bring . under ministerial notice the claims of that prosperous and increasing place to return a member to parliament. They are said to have received unofficial but satisfactory intimation that their demand will obtain all attention." — Liberal Sunday Paper. LORD JouN Russuin (in continuation) : And now, sir, proceeding with my list of the towns which Her Majesty's Government have thought that we should enfranchise, I come from Fto G. Sir, I have, I trust, sufficiently ex plained the reasons upon which we base our proposed system. Those reasons will, I hope, be found to apply with full force to the case of the locality I am about to name. We consider, sir, that the claims of the town of Gravesend—(hear, hear)—to return a member are too strong to be resisted. An important station for our steam navy. (Laughter.) Honourable gentlemen, may laugh, but let me tell them, that if this country be em broiled with every part of the world, as she nearly is at present, and assuredly will be, if Her Majesty's Ministers continue to hold office, we shall, at no late date, have to fall back upon such vessels as the Father Thames, the Jupiter, and the Diamond for our national defences. Is it wise, therefore, to insult a port where these vessels find their natural home, by refusing it political rights ? (Hear, hear.) But again, sir, I have stated that Her Majesty's Ministers are desirous to confer the franchise on scientific men. At Gravesend, sir, is one of the most re markable buildings which have ever been devoted to science,—l mean the Observatory,—and although I admit that this edifice is at present chiefly frequented for the purpose of discussing tea and shrimps, and though its one telescope is now let out at a penny per head, Ido not despair—l will not—l have no right to despair, of seeing it restored to its nobler object, and that those whose habit is less the taking of observations than of sights may rise to better things. (Hear.) Again, sir, we have considered that the popula tion of Gravesend is a fluctuating one. The resident inhabitants are chiefly shellfish-sellers ; chemists who deal in hair oil, toothbrushes, and cigars ; ginger-beer venders ; keepers of cheap and unclean eating-houses, usually called, I believe (my honourable friend the Secretary to the Admi ralty will correct me if I am wrong), slapbangs ; females whose frank hospitality is unfettered by conventional shackles ; river pilots ; marine-store keepers ; Jews ; artists in black paper ; lodging-house owners ; bankrupt small-coal men ; and crimps. (Hear.) Now, these occupations may not sound very euphoniously ; but when I remind the House that the majority of measures known under the name of our free-trade policy, and espeCially the remission of taxation concocted by my honourable friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer have been calculated to benefit these and similar classes, I am unable to believe that the house would wish us to be so inconsistent and illogical as to refuse to complete the boon by giving these individuals a voice in the Legislature. But I have said that the popu lation of Gravesend fluctuates. This, sir, is a strong reason for giving it the franchise. During some months of the year the humbler commercial classes of London make Gravesend their home, and the Government has a peculiar feeling for those who trade upon the humblest capital, political or otherwise. (Hear, hear.) It is, moreover, the favourite resort of attorneys' clerks ; and I conceive, sir, that an infusion of legal principles and habits of attachment to the law is calculated to do the utmost good to a population, to endear the constitu tion to it, and to imbue it with those great doctrines which placed the house of Bedford—l mean of Bruns wick—at the head of these realms. (Hear, hear.) Another reason which occurs to me is, that I do not consider that the aristocracy (I mean such portion of the aristocracy as is not Whig) should have too potent a voice in any Eng lish town. Where this is the case we have, as in the old Reform Bill, sought to counteract it. Now, I am informed, for I do not myself know the place, whether any per son whomsoever shall even land at Gravesend entirely depends upon two Peers. Now, I ask the House whe ther —Eh ? (Mr. B. Osborne, apparently convulsed with laughter, whispered an explanation. His lord: ship smiled and resumed.) Oh, two Piers —I see. Well, I won't press the point. I find I have been misled by my honourable friend's Admiralty spelling, which is on a par with his Admiralty grammar. But, sir, I would add that in addition to the reasons I have already stated, and which to my mind are perfectly valid, I have a personal reason for desiring to confer any benefit in my power upon Gravesend. If any value be attached to the constituency which elected the Leader of this House to his seat, let it be remembered that he obtained his majo rity from those who are called the 'Long-shore men. To their disinterested suffrages he owes his place here, and he would be worse than ungrateful, and the house which owns his leadership would be worse than inconsistent, if representation were refused to a similar constituency, and one which, Mkt Gravesend, is, with the exceptions I have mentioned, composed of nothing but 'Long-shore men, and those who entertain the same views and principles. I therefore propose that Gravesend be included inoSchedule Das returning one member. And now, _f another place to which the same argument s will apply—l mean the Isle of Dogs.—The Press. LIEUT. J. B. SCRIVEN, 8.A., late Admiralty Agent in tho North American steamers, has been transferred to a similar appointment on thq W es t Afrion line, Boni! from Plymouth. TUESDAY, SEPTEMIIER 20, 1853. DINNER AND PRESENTATION O. SILVER PLATE. LAST evening, Mr. John Wrenn was entertained at dinner, in the Brunswick Hotel, by the members of the Liverpool Guardian Society for the Protection of Trade. At the same time he was claret it rented with a mass e silve sented to John \Yr( ESQ., b and high apprecition of his character as a t his integrity and efficien desman, and as honorary treasurer of that A.D. 1853, society for many years These beautiful articles were manufactured and fur nished by Mr. Mayer, Lord-street. • About 40 gentlemen sat down to an excellent dinner, the chair being occupied by Mr. H. Hope Gibson, vice president of the society, at whose right hand was placed Mr. Wrenn. the guest of the evening. Mr. W. M`Millan ad among the ge Messrs. Bathgate, H. Gibson, R. , J. Pemberton, E. Roberts, J. Cb Reay, J. Reay, J. Wrenn, jun., J. Evans J. R. Isaac, &c.. &c. were Upton Ltlemen present Crossley, a S. re, jun., J. B. J. H. Ireland, On the cloth 'being removed, the CHAIRMAN explained that in consequence of the sudden indispositon of Mr. Baugh, he was unexpectedly called on to occupy the posi tion which that gentleman would have so much more ably filled. He read a letter of apology from Mr. Baugh, and expressed a hope that his (Mr. Gibson's) shortcomings might be overlooked on account of his want of prepara tion or experience. He then proposed as the first toast, " Her Majesty the Queen," passing on her a euloci,, um as equally exemplary in the relations of wife, mother, and sovereign. (The toast was drunk with cheers, after which the company joined in singing the National Anthem.) The OrrAiim.A.N next called' on the company to devote a bumper to the health of " His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the rest of the Royal Family," remarking that Prince Albert, avoiding all political parties, had chosen to devote his attention to cultivating science and the arts ; thus endearing himself to all classes. (The toast was drunk with loud applause—air, " For He's a Jolly Good Fellow.") Tile CHAIRMAN then called on the company to fill their glasses to the brim, as it now devolved upon him to pro pose the health of Mr. Wrenn,—a gentleman known to most of those present, for many years in connexion with the Liverpool Guardian Society ;—(cheers)—and for all these years he had had duties to perform, which had not been equalled in value to the society by any other unpaid officer it had had. The sense of these obligations was better felt by the company than he (the chairman) could express ; but it afforded him the greatest pleasure to pre sent, in the name of the society, the valuable testimonial now on the table, by which the members sought to ex press the sense they entertained of his services. It was gratifying in the extreme to be the means of presenting so handsome a testimonial, the inscription on which he read,. and, in conclusion, said, he could not do better than state his entire acquiescence in the• sentiments expressed so , well in that inscription. He should conclude by giving utter ance to the hope, that the testimonial would be handed down as an heir-loom to many generations of Mr. Wrenn's family. He again called on the company to drink the health of Mr. Wrenn. (The toast was drunk with enthu siastic.cheers, and musical honours) Mr.. WRENN, on rising, was received with loud cheers. On their subsidence, he proceeded to' thank the chairman and the members of the society for the distinguished honour they had conferred on himt Why they had singled him out for such a mark of distinction, he was unable to say, as he had done nothing more than was reasonably to be expected of any member of the society.. It was true his services as treasurer had been unpaid, but he had done no more than all of them- were called on and were willing to do for their mutual benefit, and for the good of the noble society of which they were all members. He had felt honoured in being, at a very early period of his connexion by residence with Liverpool, entrusted with so important a position as that to which he had been ap pointed by that society. But so valuable a testimony as that before-him he was unconscious of deserving. That beautiful gift would be to him an everlasting memorial of the kindness he had experienced in his connexion with some benefit to the institution, which he- felt to be one of great usefulness, and one which lent its assistance extensively, indeed he might say to all parts of the world. It was extending its connexion into other countries, and he hoped the same good feeling which he had always. witnessed and experienced among its members and its- officers would be continued through a long course of successors. It would, he could assure them, at all times- afford him much happiness to render any small services which it might be in his power - to con tribute towards the objects of the society, and to promote its prosperity - He concluded by again thanking the chairman and the-company for the honour they had con ferred on him. (He-sat down amidst loud and continued cheering.) The VICE-CILUBMAN gave, as a toast, "The Town and Trade of Liverpool," which toast he prefaced. by some facetious remarks. connected with the objects of the-society, observing that, although the general character of the business population of Liverpool was of the highest order, still they must remember that all the community did not consist of honest men. If, indeed, there had been none but honest men, there could. have been• no occasion for such a society; nor could they have had. occasion to ac knowledge in skr gratifying a manner• as they had been enabled to do the• valuable services of Mr. Wrenn. He concluded by proposing "The Town and Trade of Liver pool," coupled:with the name of Mr.. Crossley. (The toast was drunk with enthusiasm.) Mr. CROSOLEIr acknowledged the toast, and in doing so said it was• one entitled. to the highest considera tion from all of them. Who, he might ask, in that com pany was not proud of Liverpool and his connexion with its trade:? Its. trade was increasing at such a rate as to give reason for anticipating that large•as that already was, it would at no distant day be infinitely greater than it ever was.. The grounds. for expecting• this were not diffi cult to' point out; they consisted. in, the•enterprize and energy of her merchants in the intelligence of her artizans —and in the industry of her tradesmen. Through the combination of these, markets were rising up and ex tending on all sides, and one country, peopled it might be said, by ourselves, was rising on theother side of the globe, producing us wool, hides, and tallow, besides other raw pro duce,, in such abundance, as to make , us.. doubt that we are neglecting the means for husbanding the full fruits of our enterprize. If we look to the state of the town, we will find that on both sides of the water we are making pre parations for the accommodation of that great trade which is. accumulating around us. He• confessed himself a great free-trader, and, as such, wasof opinion that England should not live for England alone ) but should endeavour to bene fit others while endeavouring to benefit ourselves. He concluded by passing a high eulogium on the integrity and business talents of Mr. Wrenn. Mn. WRENN gave as the next toast, "the health of the Chairman," whose courtesy and good feeling all pre sent must cordially join in acknowledging. (The toast was drunk with loud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN, in a . few brief but feeling and appro priate remarks responded to the toast. Mr. STEELE gave as a toast, "The Testimonial Com mittee." In proposing the toast he passed a high en comium on the good taste and energy displayed by those gentlemen in discharge of their valuable and difficult duties. Mr. IsAAcs returned thanks in the name of the com mittee. Several other toasts were given, and the enjoyments of the evening were much enhanced by the vocal efforts of the Chairman, Messrs. Roberts, Reay, Bathgate, Clarke, and others. After spending a few happy hours, the party separated, much gratified by the evening's entertainment. CHOLERA NEWCASTLE, SEPT. 16.—There were 101 deaths from. cholera, and four from diarrhoea. Gateshead, 36. Great efforts are making by the medical authorities, and it is gratifying to. find that the mortality has made no ma terial progress in the last twenty-four hours. A house of refuge has been opened, and bedsteads sip. plied from the barracks, by authority from the Board of Ordnance. At Hexham, the epidemic has as yet made little way, only six deaths are recorded, though the tendency to diar rhoea is general. SRIET:Dey SATURDAY NlGHT. — There have been four fatal cases in South Shields since yesterday at noon,—one man, a young woman, and two children ; the man had been unwell some time ; the children died in a new part of the town, airy, but badly drained. There was a fatal case in North Shields on Thursday ; another in the village of Tynemouth on the same day. They both appear to have been brought from Newcastle. A very distressing case happened at Jarrow yesterday. A fine little fellow, twelve years of age, son of Mr. Thomas Bell, of Jarrow-hall, one of our large Tyneside alkali ma nufacturers, died after a few hours' illness. The ascer tained fact that the disease can be stopped in its early stages by timely application for medical advice is very much re-assuring our people. _ _ _ SUNDERLAND; SEPT. f7.—The health of the town is in charge of a united committee composed of the sanitary, sewerage, and corporation committees, John Newton, a Newcastle carrier, died here yesterday morning of cholera, after a short illness. Two women have died in the village of Whitburn ; but those cases were imported from the neighbourhood of Newcastle. There has been a death in fHartlepool—a coal trimmer, living in an ill-drained par 01 the town. THE CAPE MAIL STEAMERS areto start from Southamp ton for the future, instead of Plymouth. THE ANNUAL BRAEMAR gathering of the clans took place on Friday at Braemar Castle. All the Highlanders appeared in the full national dress, wearing the tartan of their respective clans. The chiefs being attended by their pipers and usual personal retainers. Her Majesty having signified her intention of honouring the gathering with her presence, the Farquharsons, under the command of Mr. Farquharson, of Invercauld, the Duff Highlanders, under the command of Mr. James Duff, and the Forbes Highlanders, from Strathdon, under the command of Sir Charles Forbes, were drawn up in front of the castle to re ceive her Majesty. FIRE AT BALMOBAL.—On Friday afternoon, one of the cottages occupied by the masons engaged at the new palace at Balmoral was discovered to be on fire, and; being contiguous to the Royal residence, the utmost alarm for a time prevailed. In a short time: a number of men w ere on the spot, the Royal family being not only present, but actively engaged in efforts to extinguish the flames. " We are assured by a speciator," says the Aberdeen Herald," that when a line of men was formed to eonveY water to the burning pile from the river, Prince Albert at once took a position, and continued working shoulder to shoulder with a sturdy Hlghlandman. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred were also actively engaged, while Her Majesty s t oo d b y t h e w h o l e ti me a nd gave such directions as she thou g ht w o u ld tend to assuage t he fire, seemingly deeply interested by the efforts of the men to save ;their clothes' chests, in which many of them had considerable sums of money." The fire is sup posed to have origina ted by a spark getting among some brushwood in one of the cottages where a woman was baking, and as they were all five composed of timber, the flames were speedily beyond the power of control. Islo &silage has been done to the new buildhigs. THE GERMAN "EMIGRANTS' Homz."—Theseverai case,e of cholera which have occurred at this establishment boas caused some uneasiness to be manifested in the populo district in which it is situated. There is, however, In cause for fear, as far as the arrangements and condition 01, the Home a_re_fmcmt.,ThAfppau_ci:,,usheda.nadnwdeellv-evl.7,lll;,,alist: d to keep partments in a b room a well -diplayed .rman ad the bedrooms after elf *lock, p.m. These rega ' eel/ lations will be strictly enforced." In the interim beto' these specified hours the windows are open, and a tliorougrs" e sanitary re airing is produced. The first and second cabin pass ik eDg e o e occupy separate bedsteads, two or three of whieg „ t • placed in one room, according to the size of the apall'i g The berths for the steerage passengers are arrang e / 0, double tiers, in a similar manner to those on board a s and have; except that they are on a more extensive scale, better light and ventilation. • The whole of the bedsteaii, and berth-frames are of iron, and are consequently golation! gible as harbourers Of vermin,' which have never oev.. _„, In any of the rooms. There are (rater-closets ou is floor, to all of which Sir William Burnett's dislufec„,,ori zinc fluid is used three times a day. The only aPPL, e S; , f to an improper smell proceeded from some of those PP", and this arose from the want of a good suPP*; ?„+, 0 61 the pipes having been empty from Fridayhole three o'clock on Saturday afternoon. NO eases of have occurred since those reported to the Healt h C oill je• tee,and, it will be remembered, the sufferers in both t hey stances had but just arrived from Hamburg, w here _ were attacked by the disease. The health of the tool: of in an tmusnally satisfactory condition ; thl.7 nu nibe tbso deaths registered during the past fortnight being has been known for a similar period for sorrarge,..rtut Between two and three hundred German eraig' 3l n the expected to arrive at the Home, in Moorflelds, 61 / 2 .111° week. LATEST INTELLIGEN _ _ - - -_ _ _ _- - ' -- MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBEII 19. BY ELECTRIC TELEG.R.APfi'tO HOLLAND.—The States General were or— afternoon (Monday) by the King. from A submarine inleiraphic dispatch, direct - Hague, contains the Royal Speech. The King! ° ,ittger tulates the country on the state of commerce, agy e or cei and improvements. The partial reports of th e 0 4 " show that it is only an average one, although t he I n ness caused lately on the subject appears to lla ce es ios somewhat exaggerated. The King trusts that the s will afford the opportunity of settling important leg' EASTERN QUESTION. Vise s ' A letter from Paris, in the second edition of the 10t: states, that private letters from Vienna of the 1 2 t . , u 1 ,16i; affirm, that the members of the conference had ass eu ' that the best understanding existed between then . 01 1$ that a fresh note had been prepared by them, wh ic o lcs' couched in the most conciliatory Tangnage, a nd is lated to be accepted by the contending. iai:ties• ar libz The Constantinople accounts of . the sth are 0 1 3 ' were character. Great excitement prevailed, and placard' 00 posted of the most irritating and incendiary ki llll '..itio4; Minister of War and Redschid Paaha are in oPPT r s and accuse each other of being authors and i n stigrt i e era a the placards ; the former, which caltout for war 111n''.; circumstances, the latter of the few which dow' . at any h p rice. C A/V 170 houses and shops had been destroyed by fire stantinople At Eseizaar, a town in Philipopli,, 1200 shoPs ro yi‘ houses, and several public buildings, had been ( l e s ' by fire.... ill A The advices from Paris mention: that a bel ief pacific• solution still prevails. FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARICS,:o.e Consols opened a quarter per cent. lower; th quently experienced an eighth advance,. at vm'' - t e d , " closed.. The heaviness in the forenoon was attliBtl,o the Turkish intelligence, which is not of a nature 5 01 r spire confidence in the maintenance of peace, and r 3 `` e po is , segment rally to rumours of higher prices from ,best Railways.have not generally been supported at thet o o point of Saturday. In Caledonians, and heavY some speculative selling produced a decline.. , Shares firm. Gold, Land, and Bank descriPt l° %eil l ; played much activity, and are firm at an impr°`7,,,otv Foreign Stocks buoyant, and in' a few instances - a rirr better:. CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Account .. 951- Bank Stock .......... Do. Money.... Excheq. Bills, L. & " Three&QrperCents.. Mexicans ..... Do. Threes Spanish Deferred Do. Threes•., 'OREION STOOKS. 25} Spanish Passives 'Turkish . 221 /Svvedish 46i 7 I Si RAILWAY SHARES. Amberp London & S. v c.,Nottingham, t N. Vir u i rg and E. Junction.... an d ' Bristol and Exeter .. Mancbes.,Sheff., a 2t Caledonian London Wes tern Do. Preference - n . East Anglian ... Eastern Counties East Lancashire 67 9 Do. Preference Eastern UnionA. Norfolks ............ Ditto B and C — North Staffordshir e Edinburgh & Glasgow 64 6x div,i Sh rews b ur y and P r Great Northern , 74i rningliam . • • ..... --;„ Do. A — Do. L. &N. W. g" - r Do. B — S. Eastern anti DO% 64 6 Great Western Lanc..and Yorkshir e. Do. Fifths . Fifths . Gj 4 din 13,,, 9 Leeds Northern._. . .. Do. Prii e reqe, 4/ London, Brightoo,and York and N. Midlan d -- South Coast.— 98 100 Do. Preference MINING SHARES. Nugget .. ...... B. Australian .. • Freehold . • • • • • Australasian •• . Colonial ..... • • • Mariposa ....... LAND SHARES. Australian Agricultural 32 4 Peel River .. :• . S. Australian Invest l4 South Australian Crystals Nova'', Monde Registered Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek Port Philip this "gym idisW lll • ;11 CORN MARKET. stir We haven scanty show of English Wheat, but t . h . e .i ...0f plies of Foreign Wheat and Oats are again libr; o te , other grain short. Trade opened fi rm at Friday 5. 0 0 0 namely 3s per qr. advance on those of Monday 0 0; and Malt are unaltered. Barley and Beans reAd ti or,„ full terms. Oats, except foreign, are scarce ; an' - it and is more money is obtained for all fine Corn•-;1000 close the millers raised the price of town-matle' f 655, being 5s higher. English Wheat closed slow 4; 8 bel' at Friday's advance of 2s and 3s per qr.; foreign :43111 4 1 firmly- at 60s and 60s, including floating cargo o cer,i brought 44e for best malting ; grinding 2 6 s a n ," qr Beam, . ; Indian Corn, 32s and 36s per qr. Beam , II; P e ' Malt, is and its per qr. higher. American VW bearer. Wheat Barley Oats.. Malt .. Beans Peas .. Flour., English. Irish. M el t 2400 1200 0 1;t 421 2 1 4 18 413 957 27727 ~.. 5, 6 0 S rig' • 566 11 10 . Ther e ,111 1 (Frani Kingsford and Lay's Cireaar) --- Pro,c been a fair supply of wheat from Essex and KO", Pi s portion of which only consisted of the newer%oribe Essex remained unsold towards the close o f the 0. tfo but for the new Keats an advance of 4s. per c1 „ 1 ,04,:i; prices of this day se'nnight was realised. v, e .„,"" i 's.ie'„ t ir foreign inactive, and a small business only ve,". o r the sales effected were from 3s. to. ss. per qr• quotation of Monday last. A few parcels °'• q ra malting barley brought an advance of ls. to 2 '. gri!.g. secondary and inferior qualiti es una lt ere d in valu e „' scs-nj lug sells at an imp rovemen t o f l s. per qr. 13e3 'icat r,t and ls. to 2s. dearer. White. peas much 101 ,;av command our highest quotations ; grey being );,a week's prices. Oats sell at an advance of is. lie r :l - e l4itz. prices of town made flour are. raised to 655. Per lo p barrels ls. to 2s. dearer. The• small su pply of lle. c o mustard-seed induces holders.to , demand high er 101 the manufacturers will at present submit to. Sugar.—Foreign The U re e is E a fa M ir A bu ß si K nes E s T dOing 0 01 cargoes at full prices. Large purchases have beet or: refined ; brown lumps 455.. to 45 5. 6 d. Ccffee is b" i nio 44 4 - firm ; Native Ceylon 475. 6d. to 48s. 6d. for export' r, ' to 465. Tea in greater demand, and prices firr°,l, cotfo: firm ; Arracan, afloat, Ms. to lls. 3d. Transactiorl; ontioetri, are limited, but no decline. Cochineal is gre:',:igo, and terms are rising. There is more doing if , P r A dva l ' c ' mer prices. Many buyers of Brandy at a O D' . t° TALLOW MARKET. t Os. 311 i sr The market for Tallow is firm ; P.Y.C. c asks5 01 agl ;: to 545. 6d. on the spot. The stock is 21, 12 ' asks , a°s ls 36,243 same time last year; deliveries 3, 471 refer s 2,297 same time last year. The exports froo l 9 3,624 to the 10th instant, were 54,421 casks, again st time last year. Beasts bave sold e a A t l7 2d L p -E er 3 st i o A n ß e I;. :cl T a . cti on. Lambs obtained f ormer prices. Calves met a slat °"" last Friday's terms 6 3 i tO 4 : 4d 9 s 461 c) to 4 3s Beef 2s 6d to 45 4d I Veal ..... Mutton. 4s Od to 5s 2d Pork .... Lambs 43. Od. to ss. 2d. Beasts '6224 f C a lves •• .. Sheep and Lambs 27410 I Pigs ....... ARRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts .............. Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and N .. 4 00 ......... N_,„ am ton 3easts ................... tu. Scotch Beasts .......................... Irish Beasts ............................... ~0 0 2 . Holland Beasts .... .................. ... Do. Sheep ............ 915 Do. Calves Do. Pigs.. Spanish Beasts Do. Sheep French Calves 9 15 ...- 4 4° •••.• . ..... ••• A NO' fi ce MANC HESTER STOCK EXCH..-- re fere t .o Cale d onian s, 28; East Lancashir e, 16 16-16ths, fi quarters. 9 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 674, *. g t l i s I TO: 6 dis. ; London anti Northwestern, 103, 102 i. e'g i; t ot Blanchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 214, 3,4, s_t •er ti $ land, 594, 4, ; North Staffords, 5i dis. ; Southfab' Dover, 182, 11-16ths, i; West Riding Union, 32 do' 0; LEEDS STOCK N EXCHAGE., 60 , I , g ot L an cashire and Yorkshire, 67k, s;Mid iant ' V. oll ‘ - Northwestern,_ n ; Southeastern and Dover, 19 North Midlan GLASGOW .4cet CORN MARKET. fs There was a considerable business done at toly,peat. at an advance of Is. per barrel on Flour, and 2s. GLASGOW PIG IRON MABXEAT' The market firm ; warrants 635. Afie LIVERPOOL : 1. ) , bY -1. Printed and Published every Tuesday l‘lorni o f is 0..,0 Proprietor, ROBERT PEARSON THACKERA,2`7OIr, Percy-street, at the STANDARD GENERAL v.•-rj , ,(e 1? °°" OFFICR, No. 4, S. GEORGilea CIISSCE.STI . Ttteackw,. tiepternber V, 1553.