The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER Etberpoot FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. THE Eastern question, and I am ashnmed as I pencil the words, remains,' as car as I know—which means all Downing -street—in stidu quo ; therefore, the least said about it the better this week. Tho members of the Imperial Family of Russia, now ahJut town, are seen everywhere, on the best terms certainly with , themselves, and apparently so with the rest of the world. ABERDEEN hurried to Windsor, to see the QUEEN, as soon as he could after her return from the North, but there was nothing in that ;—he went to pay his "humble duty"—the phrase in such cases—to the SOVEREIGN, as he had not had an opportunity of doing so for several weeks; the PREMIER passing his days alternately in Argyle House, at the West End, or at the Ranger's, Blackheath. The Turks and Russians kept the Earl of ABERDEEN in London this season; he is a great and respected man in the neigh bourhood of the QUEEN'S pet residence, Balmoral, and there he would have been, but for —it Turco. ABERDEEN is not looking very healthy ; —LANSDOWNE totters ; JOHN • NIE RUSSELL is Unwell; CLARENDON thin, and apps . rently thinking; MOLESWORTH—"rudier than the cherry," thanks to the air and exercise of the woods and forests, — and the no thought—all done by clerks—of the office. With the exception of Sir WILLIAM of the Woods, the never-ending, still-beginning negociations anent Turkey and Russia, together with murkey weather, don't seem - to tell in favour of the Ministers with whom we have met lately, if I except PALMERSTON, who looks smart and well for a young man of his years. The " subs " at the three great Government offices have been very busy lately ; the Board of Trade, with dyspeptic EMMERSON TENNANT, especially so. EMALERSON, as he grows older, gets more gay in his outward man ; but he don't look . in rude health; he was seen examining a new- Jangled pill-box the other day, a sure symptom of stomach out of order; judging from the length of the box and its subdivisions, there was room enough in it to hold pills for every ill that flesh is heir to. Of course, mentioning Sir Em AIERSON TENNANT reminds one of Ceylon ;—the puffing and blowing at the Mint the 'last two or three weeks—set down' to the score of the decimal coinage—was occasioned by a new issue of silver bits, for the Ceylonese, several tons of which were carted_ off the other day to be shipped from Southampton. Intelligence came to town yesterday of the death of one of the richest C.ommonets of England, BARING WALL, M.P. for Salisbury, This gentleman, one of the most popular some years ago, at once sank deserted. I have seen him sit a whole night in the House of Commons without a creature speaking to him.. Full of health, he withered,—by no meaus . old—he died with the fortune of an FA -stern monarch. The tedium of the week—wet weather and no sunshine —was relieved, a little towards the middle, by the doings at Manchester and the speeches of Mr. GLADSTONE, the Chancellor of the Exchequer. It is not difficult to get Mr. GLADSTONE to open his mouth, and when he begins a speech, he don't know when he shall have done with it. He cannot help himself. Without an infelicitous rapidity of elocution, as used to be said of RIM:CARD LALOR SRIEL, the Right Hon. gentleman holds on the even tenor of his way, and never leaves his subject until it is exhausted. A good many people in town think lie " laid it on too thick" at the Manchester gathering. Certainly it becomes a pupil to speak well of his master, and Mr. GLADSTONE has shown that he is the man. I'll go every inch with Mr. GLAD STONE in his eulogies on the late Si& ROBERT PEEL'S qualities as a man,—a more virtuous, social creature, I never met ;—perhaps, owing to his vulgar birth and aris tocratic education, he talked too frequently about fine arts and their effect on the manners or morals of a people. This was amiable, at all events. At his dinner table he always had men of genius ; some of them poor—this was generous—but he higgled awfully for those fine pictures in the gallery at Whitehall and the other at Drayton— mostly Flemish pictures in the former, and portraits of Statesmen in the latter. Unlike the Duke of WELLING TON in this regard, who rarely asked the price, but paid. I have seen Sir ROBERT PEEL prefer the arm of a very poor literary workman to that of--- "Marquis, Duke, an' a' that." It has been stated also that his humility was so extensive, that he hesitated not to say he was the son of a cot- i.;;;;:sii1;;;, - and that his wife was the daughter of a corn mon soldier, which in some sort was true. A hundred times I have heard him say in adulation—" Sprung from the working classes, I, &e: All these, and more I could mention, form amiable traits, whether real or assumed. The love of virtue is there. The memory of Sir ROBERT PEEL is " most consecrate" in the hearts, not only of the members of his own family, but in the affections of every one who had the singular good fortune of being on visiting terms with the late Minister. That he is yet remembered with sweet and bitter tears by his family, I know. The inheritor of his name and title, all giddy and bent on plea sure as he is, has not once raised the curtains of his man sion,—there they hang as they did the day Sir ROBERT died ! Therefore all that Mr. GLADSTONE said about _ private virtue was well-merited—true — and in excellent - taste. But to beggar our language, as Mr. GLADSTONB did, in praising Sir ROBERT PEEL the politician—states man stern—out with it! Apply such words as " the im -mense breadth and comprehensiveness of his understand ing" to him, why it is enough to raise a blush on the dead man's cheek ! Expediency was Sir ROBERT PEEL'S ful crum. Expediency,—a word not recognised by our elder and more thorough politicians. But we'll let that pass. Mr. GLADSTONE went, on to talk about Sir ROBERT'S name being engraven upon every heart because of the benefits he conferred. Where are they ? Every necessary of life is double the price they ought to be ! Whereas his boasted tariff? Rubbish ! a hoax ! a delusion ! a snare! The income-tax remains. That is PEEL'S lasting monu ment ! I only remember him by it. Again, quoth Mr. GLADSTONE, the pupil of Sir ROBERT, he allowed no diffi culty, no obstacle, to stand between him and the perform •stnee of his duty —. These be brave words ; but I beg to state that Sir ROBERT bent his head to the obstacles submitted to them—swallowed them—like Roman Catholic Emancipation. The last two days of the past week have inundated newspaper readers in the metropolis with the vagaries of the Peace Society " doves," down in Edinburgh all the way,—the PROVOST, a worthy man enough, giving the broad light of his countenance to the affair ; ELIHU Bun- RITT and JOHN BURNETT backing up the gathering; Admiral NAPIER also throwing in a random shot from his now little used locker. Maim strolls about anywhere. Eccentric in his wanderings as in his manners—l never knew a great linguist otherwise—his appearance in Mo dern Athens was to be expected. The Rev. Joni{ BUR NETT being a native of Perth, forty miles to the north ward, might like to " sniff the caller air". of his native home, and hold forth in. his usual quaint but mistaken way. I suppose many of your clerical readers can tell what constitutes a legitimate right to the title " Reverend." Joint Bunzisrr, for years one of the greatest guns among the dissenters, in his manhood picked up a few Greek roots and Latin derivatives from a country clergyman, straightway went to Ireland as a missionary—preached— preaches—and is sometimes called " the Rev. Dr. Bus- NETT r Oh , deaii if we must put up with humbug, it is surely o u t o f p l ace w h en m i n i s t er i ng i n " holy things." This reverend gentleman, at the peace meeting, uttered absolutely childish nonsense. After moving a resolution touching standing armaments, which he and others wished to see equalized—like the spirit duty, or any other com modity—maintained that, as far as military fame could make us renowned, we were renowned throughout the world—that as far as slaughter might make us great, we were already very great—and that as far as a successful butchering was concerned, we were amongst the most successful butchers in the world; and this " bla therumskite," to use a vulgar but expressive and favourite word of DANIEL O'CONNELL, was cheered by the inha bitants of one of the most intellectual and learned cities in Europe ! I remember the time when the boys of the University,—the students of the Royal Infirmary,—the lads of the register-office, and eke the W.S. clerks,—when GEORGE THE THIRD was king,—would have had a bit of fun with such vapourers as Mr. BURNETT, malgre his sacerdotal character. Apart from the foolish reasoning of Mr. COBDEN, whose reasoning powers are lower than those of an ape—no offence in the world, RICHARD. COBDEN has great qualities, but they are not of the higher order of intellect—reasoning—and he must know it by this time. Deduct this, and the hon. gentleman's speech is really worth perusing in these fallow days, when even I do not think it infra dig. to notice the Peace Society at Edinburgh. In the metropolis the body, somehow or other, is losing ground fast ; falling, probably, by its inherent absurdity. SAMUEL GURNEY—honest broad brim—is busier, apparently, with his bill-brokery than with peace-mongery ; and others of his brothers of the drab and buttonless coat seem to have followed his wise example, for there is not in the city of London a longer headed man than smug SAMUEL GURNEY. Of course hundreds of your readers have dined at the United Service Club-house; certainly the most convenient —in all its appointments—of the lot. The chef is superb, displaying great ingenuity in his dishes, without the slightest approximation to vulgarity. Now and then you have, a soldier's or a sailor's bit of victuals,— Barge°, it is so pronounced, but I do not vouch for the spelling—of the latter service. How cheap they dine there,—but it is difficult to get in. I have known THE DUKE, at the little table close to the inner window, have wine at dinner—for fifteen pence,—put down his shilling and a fourpenny bit, pocket the penny, and toddle down the steps by the Duke of YORK'S monument, across, the park to t. House of Peers, and sit there till two in the more. 2 --having spoken a column of the Times, all upon that ii teen-penny dinner. Brave old DUKE! There are two prime favorites of the Dux now much in the world's eye, I refer to GEORGE Duke of CAMBRIDGE, and JAMES THOMAS lIEUDENELL, Earl of CARDIGAN. A bird of a good 'lest ; the first Earl was a zealous supporter of the royal cause (how I like such !) during the civil wars, and ssuf feredl!, long imprisonment in the Tower. Well, the pre- FArl Colonel of the most elegant and soldierlike regltnent of men and horse in the world—the 11th inspe l i g o — r l o s . , leaving it; having been all but gazetted Duke of c4 i Cavalry in lieu of that expressed essence the troops in Ireland The is to have the command of the shot in anger io t . The Duke of CAMBRIDGE never fired a a p l aything, yet he life —never smelt pow der,indeed, save as soldier, the pet of Lo s a thorough disciplinanan,—a capital Lord HARDINGE; much of this is owing to the lad's own affections, and his splendid military educa tion under JAMIE MACDONALD at Corfu, the greatest adju tant-general that ever lived or drilled since the days of the Romans. Soldiers are delighted with the move. As Inspector of Cavalry, CARDIGAN will have many opportuni ties for the exercise of his unbounded liberality, and, I had almost said, measureless purse. CAMBRIDGE is by fax too careful ; he has lots of money, and don't show the froth of his Sillery very often. In the ample range of the peerage, there is certainly not a greater favourite than the Earl of CARDIGAN : in his regiment, it is a curious fact, that he is adored by his men and by his officers. He is capable of much endurance ; at the opera on a Satur day night, he has supped—gone to bed—to church in the morning—turned into barracks ninety miles from London before two o'clock, p.m.—caught his officers—smoking cigars. "Didn't they catch it, just ?" The great respect shown to CARIDGAN when he was tried by his peers, some years ago, in the HARVEY TUCKETT affair, was noteable ; CARDIGAN sat on a stool inside the bar of the house bare headed ; not a creature spoke to him ; now and again, as the proceedings went on, he appeared to mutter to himself, " What the could I do ?" He was acquitted, and duelling has been out of fashion ever since. CARDIGAN is fond of music ' • the band of the Hussars is chiefly, if not entirely, paid by himself; it is a remarkably fine one. So poor old, dreary yet dear Temple-bar is condemned y city utilitarians to go the way of all doomed stone and mortar. But the Temple-bar of the present day is only a bit of humbug after all; true, human heads have been stuck, three or four at once, on the top of it ; heads of men called traitors, —probably they might be deemed in part reformers now. Temple-bar is not two hundred years old, nor anything like it ; hence the plea of antiquity on its behalf goes for nix, or next to nothing. The law sta tioners in its proximity are eager for its demolition ; many elderly citizens, on the other hand, regard it with feelings akin to sacredness ; the closing of the bar when the SOVEREIGN visits the city,—the opening of it after three distinct " raps" from the west side,—the citizens aforesaid view as the last and greatest recognition by Queen VIC TORIA. of civic rights and dominion. The ceremony itself is pretty enough,—you have lord mayor and sheriffs, common crier and recorder, town-clerk and chamberlain, aldermen and common councilmen not a few, en grande tenue, the big, rusty key, on a regal velvet cushion, handed by the civic monarch to England'a Sovereign, and returned graciously with nod and beck and wreathed smile —as much as to say—" The key could not be in better keeping." The barber's shop on one side of the bar, and the banker's on the other, were these and two or three besides knocked down, increased traffic might be aided. Temple-bar of itself being removed, will not add an inch of facility. The barber's shop is a curious one in its way. Il Barbiere places the chair upon which his customer is to be seated with its fore legs resting in the city of London, its hind ones in the city of Westminster ; so that if there be a writ against the customer, held by any of the numerous bailiffs in the neighbourhood, the party is safe. A city writ can't touch him in Westminster, and vice versa. Many a de cent, hard-up gentleman has been shaved under such dif ficulties. The spacious and well-lighted room which occupies the upper region of Temple-bar is used as a receptacle for the books of the banking firm adjoining. The books are placed there for greater security against fire. The bankers pay a rent of, I think, fifty pounds a year to the city for the accommodation. Covered with black velvet, studded with silver stars, and surmounted with the Grecian incense pots of gold, ever and anon sending up perfumed smoke, Temple-bar presented a mystic appearance on the memorable day of the Duke's funeral. The incense ascended to heaven, and, of the millions who witnessed the funeral, scarce twenty persons thought any-. thing of the classic honour. Our publishers are now on the qui vive, and will con tinue so beyond Christmas. Two or three excellent works have made their appearance since my last, and two or three better are promised. Ido not hesitate to state, that for many years the publishing trade has not been in so healthful a state as at present. One publisher, whose name I do not give, has offered BULWER no less a sum than £20,000 for the copyright of those works of the Hon. Baronet which remain undisposed of. At the Garrick Club, - and the Fielding, the two establishments par excellence devoted to the service of the lovers of the drama and light literature, ALFRED Bumf's forthcoming couple of volumes have been the source of some, pleasant gossip. It is known to all, that the author has been the best part of the last tweire months in the United States, and it is equally known that Mr. BURN is no common observer; we may, therefore, expect a fund of informa tion and humour, for, the Stage before and behind the Curtain is a guarantee for the one, and A word with Punch, for the other. The title, Old England and New England, is suggestive of the characteristics of one coun try being brought into contrast with the other, in the course of which, Bumf's taste, judgment, and expe -1 rience will naturally induce him to substitute pleasantry for scarcasm. The great success he met with in the United States, and the hospitality extended to him in every quarter of the Union, will have enabled him to observe very minutely and dilate very faithfully. I hear of a fine, racy display of character, of anecdote, and of broad fun, and those are ingredients the public look for in books now-a-days. While dealing with travelling lords, itinerant strangers, and denizens whom he has encountered, I have heard that ALFRED gives a succinct history of the American stage and facetiie of the various foreign and native per formers who have figured thereon,--a matter about which the dwellers on this side of the Atlantic desire to know much, but in reality know little. I have already said that a great deal is expected from these volumes, and the sooner that prince of publishers—RlCHAßD BENTLEY—gives the public a peep at them, the better, say I. On Saturday evening I passed a couple of hours in Drury-lane, witnessing BROOKE in " Richard." A won derful performance—physically—such energy—such a voice ! Sound as a bell at the close, notwithstanding the tremendous work it had had to go through. His Richard is no copy, but I do not say it is an improvement in every regard on the conventional Richard of the last half cen tury. Here and there it was most masterly,—the scenes immediately before the battle of Bosworth Field, and his dying scene, were grand, with scarcely a particle of vul garity. DAVENPORT'S Richmond would have done for EDMUND KEAN, or, further back, DAVID GARRICK. Both actors (Bitoofol and DAVENPORT) were vociferously ap plauded by a hou - se crammed from floor to ceiling. Every word of WILLIAM SRAICSPEARB drunk in with avidity, even by the boys in the upper gallery. THE APPROACHING MUNICIPAL ELECTION. ABERCROMBY WARD.—On Tuesday, a deputation of gentlemen waited upon Mr. R. C. Gardner, the retiring member for Abercromby Ward, for the purpose of present ing him with a most numerously-signed requisition, re questing him to allow himself to be again nominated at the ensuing municipal election. Mr. Gardner replied in feeling and suitable terms to the courteous and pressing manner in which he had been addressed, and the deputa tion retired with a full determination to use every legal effort to secure his return. Any opposition to Mr. Gardner would prove futile. TT-STREET WARD.—The same evening a meeting of thet friends of Mr. W. P. Jeffreys, the retiring member for I'W-street Ward, was held at the Vine Tavern, Pitt-street. The.chair was occupied by Mr. Councillor Toulmin, and Councillors J. Gladstone, Wagstaff, and Henderson were also present. A resolution, proposed by Mr. Rimmer, and seconded by Mr. Rigby, was unanimously carried in favour of Mr. Jeffreys' re-election, after which that gentleman addressed the meeting. Mr. Councillor Wagstaff, Mr. Councillor Henderson, and Mr. Councillor J. Gladstone, highly eulogised the conduct of Mr. Jeffreys in his official capacity, both as a councillor and a committee-man. Mr. Jeffreys is one of those who have taken a deep interest in the proposed town improvements, and we understand that he has been mainly instrumental in inducing the improve ment committee to recommend the widening of Park-lane, to the extent of 18 feet, from the bottom as far up as St. Thomas's Church. The radicals, however, notwithstand ing Mr. Jeffreys' usefulness, have been endeavouring to get up an opposition to him ; but out of four candidates invited, viz., Mr. George Maxwell, Mr. George Hall Law rence, Mr. Eyre Evans, and Mr. James Aikin, not one has been found who will stand a contest. WEST DERBY WARD.—We are glad to see that the Conservatives of this ward are up and doing, and that Mr. William Earle, whom the radicals have nominated, will not enjoy the pleasure he has been anticipating of an unopposed return. Mr. Francis A. Clint, a gentleman of staunch constitutional principles, and whose local know ledge will render him a most valuable representative, has been put in nomination. His address will be found in our advertising columns. A meeting of Mr. Clint's friends is to take place this evening, at Marshall's Coffee-house, Edgehill. VAUXHALL WARD is to be contested, the Radicals having put forward Mr. Daniel Powell, a Roman Catholic, in opposition to Mr. William Nicholson, the retiring member. Mr. Nicholson's candid and able address will be found in another column. It is stated that a most disreputable ruse was attempted to be played on Mr. Nicholson, by two councillors of some notoriety, connected with the Radicals. They persuaded him that, to save expense, it would be wise to delay his address, and then busied themselves in getting up a requisition to his oppo nent, to which they are said to have obtained many sig natures by the statement that Mr. Nicholson intended to retire from the representation of the ward. Such acts of meanness and duplicity invariably recoil upon their authors, and we are rejoiced to learn that Mr. Nicholson's re-election is secure. WE have great pleasure in noticing the distinguished honour just acquired by our fellow-townsman, Mr. Matthew Collins, 8.A., of the Mechanics' Institution, whose inge nious pamphlet on "Attractions, and on Clairaut's cele brated Thorem on the Agure of the Earth," has been considered by the Royal Society of London worthy of publication in their " Transactions," whence an abstract of it has been copied into " The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine" for the present month. MR. BOLENO'S BENEFIT.---It will be seen that Mr. Bolen is to take a farewell benefit in the Royal Amphi theatre. The programme includes many novelties, among the rest, a pantomime with three harlequins, three colum bines, three pantaloons, and three clowns. MUNICIPAL REGISTRATION--The revision of the list of municipal voters was concluded on Wednesday night, with apparently a small gain only to the radicals. The business did not terminate till a quarter past eight o'clock, when Mr. Bretherton thanked the Mayor and the Assess ors for their patience, urbanity, and general impartiality, Mr Buckmaster coinciding in his remarks. His worship briefly replied to the compliment, and said that great credit was due to both gentlemen for the manner in which they had conducted the revision, so far as it concerned them. He trusted, however, that their duties next year would be rendered lighter, not by mutual agreement, by 'legislative enactment. SHORT-HORNED CATTLE.-3/IeSSTS. Bagge and Crockett, of Kentucky, shipped from this port, on Saturday last, in the ship Queen of England, for New York, an unusually fine collection of short-horned cattle, which had been obtained, after the most careful selection, at extraordinary high prices. These Kentuckian farmers express their determination to spare no expense or trouble in improving their breed of cattle. The shipment consists of about twenty cows and bulls, and the same number of sheep Southdowns and Cotswolds • also, three fine horses (entire) ; two adapted for the field, and one for the car riage. Several respectable farmers and influential inhabi tants of the town inspected them previous to their depar ture, and unhesitatingly pronounced them superior to any shipment they had before seen. COMMERCIAL 4. MONETARY NEWS. MONDAY NIGHT. THE money market during the week appears to have been ruled by the reports from the East, and fluctuated accordingly ; the prevailing ten dency being downward, or rather against a rase, and very little improvement being manifest from the favourable appearance of the revenue returns, which examination has somewhat shorn of the glittering aspect which theypresented at first sight. Most of this unpleasant feeling is owing to the uncertainty which prevails as to the great question at issue, as there is little in commercial affairs, at present, to create doubts as to mercantile credit. Thursday passed over without the Bank Directors making any further change in the rate of discount; and the London Gazette of Friday announced, for the first time for many weeks, an increase in the stock of bullion, the change no doubt owing , to the recent receipts from Australia being inclu ded in the amount. In the mean time money has not been less easy for commercial purposes, and the markets for foreign and colonial produce have displayed, on the whole, greater firmness, and prices have been well maintained. In the absence, however, of any positive signs of a reverse from that state of general prosperity which prevailed a short time since, it must be ad mitted that the idea of a change looming in the future is written in the catalogue of possibilities, though it may not be so easy to define precisely the cause or the particular direction which it may take. The enormous augmentation of exports must have tended to limit the command of capital, and there are no doubt many instances in which the delay of returns will compel a resort to resources which may tend to cripple future operations. The extensive importations of foreign corn must also have tended to absorb a great portion of available capital, and though prices have as yet been fairly sustained, it is not difficult to foresee that the en gagements of large holders may have the effect of forcing sales, which would operate injuriously upon the markets, particularly as the present rates for wheat and flour will induce a diminished consump tion, which will be further influenced by the great number of operatives out on strike. Such was the result of the great corn speculation of 1828, which was stopped by the Bank refusing to discount their acceptances ; and a similar end was put to the speculation of 1847. The market has been buoyed by reports of damage to our own harvest, strengthened by the small receipts of English wheat at market, but farmers are rarely sellers when prices are on the advance ; and it is well known that there was little unfavourable weather until the greater part of the wheat crop had been saved. On the other side the Atlantic, both in Canada and the United States, the crops have been enormously large, and it only requires some of the shipping now locked up in Australia to be disen gaged, for our markets to be inundated with an abundance of wheat and flour, for which there is no other outlet. The reports which have been recently received from Australia confirm the view which we took of previous advices, that they were not so desponding as at first sight might appear. It is true that sales have been made without those exorbitant profits which former accounts had represented as prevail ing, but the change was owing more to the defi ciency of accommodation for storage than to any falling off in the demand for consumption. Wines and Spirits were, however, selling at good prices, other goods, with the exception of Flour, which is an American speculation, were in fair request, and the demand for building materials was still so great that the supply was totally inadequate to meet it. The account just settled in our SHARE MARKET has exhibited a greater scarcity of stock than any for years past. From 7s. 6d. to 20s. per share has been paid by the speculators for the loan of stock to deliver. Such being the case, no wonder that the electric telegraph has been and is so prolific in lying rumours. We predicted two weeks back that such would be the tactics of the Stock Exchange gentry, which prophecy has been amply verified. There is daily some good • whole some buying, with very little selling. Our local stocks have given way a little from the increased value of money, but are still steady. Insurance shares, profiting by the higher rates at which they can lend their capital, are firm and slightly im proving. We hear that a grand dv'euner a la fourchette is to be given at our Stock Exchange to-morrow, in honour of the marriage of one of the body. We annex this day's prices : Caledonians, 24} -k 4 s 5 - Eastern Counties, 11 13-16 s; East Lancashire, 151 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 62 1,-; 'London Stock, 1021 c 4c 2 ; Ditto Fifths, J g d ; Ditto Eighths, 7-16 d; Midland Stock, 588 4 I 9 fc ; North British, 61 ; Dover Stock, 1711 1. The return from the Bank of England for the week ending the Bth of Oct., gives the following results, when compared with the previous week : Public deposits ... £6,857,398; Increase £118,643 Other deposits ... 11,633,687; Decrease 251,878 Rest ... ... 3,691,119; Increase 9,006 On the other side of the account— Government securities £12,339,083; the same as before. Other securities ... 18,941,549; Decrease. 183,250 Notes unemployed ... 6,361,900; Increase 103,380 The amount of notes in circulation is £22,840,565, being an increase of £67,190 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £15,749,089, showing an increase of £136,527, when compared with the preceding return. SALES. IMPORTS. DESCRIPTION. PRICKS. Week Previ. Week i Th is .. STOCK ending ously ending V, Oct. 14 this yr. Oct. 14 a `"" Oct. 14 I_ Sea Island l5 0 25 140 16800 452161 Stained 8 10 1470 1 4540' 473774 .... Boweds 3,1 61 8370 393810 •—• Mobile 3l 6i 4320 246670 } 844 919718 "• • New Orleans. 32 72 13610 825670 Pernams, &c. isi r 7/ 780 58370 .... 48406 11390 Bahia, &c. Maranham Demerara,&c 84 20, 630 .... 505 520 Egyptian 5/ 10 1830 105610 .... 91893 88380 Com.W.l.&c. 42 9i 40 10670 .... 6983 3620 Surat Madras .... 3450 Bengal — .... 4620 ....I 5313 2250 ----,-- -- 37309 1936030 14122 1855541 753800 PRonucE.- -The markets for almost all descriptions of Foreign and Colonial produce have shown consider able firmness during the week, and a fair amount of business has been doing, particularly in Sugar for refining purposes, Rum, Rice, Tea, Palm Oil, and Tallow, for which the demand has been good and prices rather on the advance. TO-DA.Y the refiners have taken about 100 hhds. Jamaica Sugar at 335. 3d. to 345. 3d., and the grocers 1000 bags Benares at 375. 3d. to 40s. 3d., and 550 bags Dates at 365. per cwt., being previous rates. Of Molasses 200 puns. Barbadoes have been sold at 18s. per cwt.; 25 puns. Demerara Rum are reported at previous prices, and 200 bags St. Domingo Coffee at 445. per cwt. There are some few export orders in the Tea market for common Congou at 111 d. per lb. ; with this exception we have nothing of moment to report. Sales are advertised for Thurs day next. There continues a good inquiry for Rice, 1400 bags Bengal being taken at 14s. 6d. to 14s. 9d., and a cargo of Arracan (350 tons) to arrive, at 12s. per cwt. We have also to notice a few chests of Shell Lac at 475., 70 boxes Pearl Sago at 19s. per cwt., 10 tons Lima Wood, with all faults, at £l2 15s. per ton, and 20 chests Castor Oil at 4d. per lb. WOOL,—The market has been decidedly quiet this week for all descriptions of Wool, and holders are now getting anxious to sell, but to force sales in the present unsettled state of affairs considerably lower prices must be submitted to. Stocks gene rally, but particularly from the Levant and Black Sea, are now very extensive, and in the face of the London sales and the more warlike appearance of the Eastern question, we cannot expect to see any particular animation in low Wools for some time to come ; the only favourable prospect is that stocks in the manufacturers' hands are very light. Im ports for the week, 1,665 bales. English Fleece and Skin Wools can only be sold in quantity at a reduction of ld. to 2d. per lb. on rates current two months ago, and even at this buyers are not anxious to lay in stock. METALS. — At the recent quarterly meetings of the Staffordshire Ironmasters, the prices of manu factured iron were well maintained. The demand was active ; but owing to. the uncertainty which exists as to wages, particularly among the colliers, new orders were received on terms conditional with the present rates being maintained. For pig-iron there is an active demand, and the quotations from Glasgow to-day are 645. 9d. to 655. In other metals there is not much to notice. TIMBER. — The demand for all kinds suitable for building purposes is still very good, and notwith standing the additional amount of shipping em ployed in this trade, the advance in prices is fully sustained. From Messrs. A. F. and D. Mackay 's circular of Friday last, we extract the following : Since our annual circular, dated February Ist, there has been an increase of 20 per cent. in the tonnage employed conveying timber, &c., to this port, when compared with same date last year ; at the same time prices of all de scriptions of wood have advanced fully 20 to 25 per cent. The consumption has been on a very extensive scale ; and at the present time the whole stock in the port of Liver pool is computed to be less than an average one. Cargoes are all readily placed on arrival, and to arrive at full prices where confidence is had in the shipper, the general im pression now being that the import to the Ist February, 1864, will be much less than at one time anticipated.—Of Baltic timber, the arrivals since Ist February are 73 vessels, 20,218 tons register, against 63 vessels, 16,114 tons last year. This article is very light in stock, and will command a high figure. LIVERPOOL COUNTY COURT.- YESTERDAY. (Before JOSEPII POLLOCK, Esq., the Judge.) One hundred plaints were heard. AN IMPUDENT TRANSACTION.—LEWIS V. WICKSTEA.D. —The plaintiff in this case, Thomas Miller Lewis, is a butcher in Wellington-road, Toxteth-park ; the defendant. Joseph Wickstead, a member of the same trade, residing in No. 3, Court, Combermere-street, also in the Park, and the action was brought to recover £1 55., the value of a calf. Mr. Lewis stated that he bought a calf from the defendant, and gave him the money for it, but instead of his delivering the animal, he had taken it down town and sold it ! He was a butcher knocking about the country. —The Judge : What does he say about it ?—The Plaintiff: He says that he will never pay me.—The Judge : Well, you may have either an order for execution, or committal for 30 days —whichever you think likeliest to get the money.—The plaintiff : He has said that he would settle his goods upon his son, but whether he has done so or not, I cannot tell. What are the expenses of sending a person to Lancaster ? —The judge : I am sorry to say that the expenses at present are considerable. Shortly they will be very trifling.—Mr. Wheeler, solicitor : The cost would be about £2 12s.—The Judge : Well, it will not be worth your while. I will give you an order in the usual way. In a short time, when the gaol is built, you can come at less expense. I will give you an order for ss. a-week. CAUTION TO WITNESSES.—The stupidity of plaintiffs and witnesses is often very trying to the patience of the court. To-day, in an action brought to recover the amount of a coal bill, the clerk who appeared on behalf of the plaintiffs did not give prompt and direct answers to the questions of the Judge, and handed in an alleged admission of the debt, but which he was not prepared to prove was in the defendant's handwriting. His Honour ordered a nonsuit, and said,—" I must really make an example in these cases. I intend that you and others shall come properly prepared. I have lost more time than has been lost in any other court in the kingdom by the efforts I have made to teach you what evidence to give. You must have been at least thirty times here when I have complained of parties under similar circumstances, but you do not profit from what I say, and now you must suffer what you should have done months ago. Nothing but my anxiety to gave you and others the fees, has caused me to delay doing it before. You must suffer the consequence of your negligence by a nonsuit." The party begged his honour to postpone the case, but he refused to entertain the application.—ln another case, at a subsequent part of the day, his honour observed to the person appearing for the plaintiff:—" I have been advised long since, and have resisted it strenuously, to make you and others come pre pared with your cases. I have taken a deal of trouble, a deal more, I believe, than any other person in England has, and adjourned cases from time to time. I am now determined that if well-to-do persons, who appear here by their collectors or clerks, do not come prepared with their evidence, I shall strike out the fees ; but if they are poor and ignorant people, I will endeavour to serve them." Yesterday, a Jew broker claimed against the person in whose house he lives for the recovery of 9s. as commission. According to his statement, the landlord was unwilling to let the house to the defendant, and he offered him (the plaintiff) ls. a month if he would take it for him. After cross-examining the plaintiff at some length, and involv ing him in contradictions, his Honour said he was not at all satisfied as to the transaction, and directed a non-suit. CURIOUS CLAIM AGAINST A. PUBLICAN.—FOWLER V. BURNS--Wm. Fowler, plumber, of 22, Great Newton street, was the plaintiff; the defendant. John Burne, a publican, in Lambert-street ; and the summons charged that the defendant had " converted an over-coat of the plaintiff, and disposed of the same to his own use, whereby the plaintiff had sustained damage to the amount of 30 5 ." The case was of a curious eharacter. The plaintiff stated that some time ago he went with a friend into the defen dant's house, and had a glass of ale. He pulled off his over coat, and, laying it over a chair-back, behind the counter, in the bar, said, " Burne, I will leave this coat in your care." He then went out, and saw a tall man (present in the court), afterwards come out with his coat upon his back. He said to his friend, " What is that man doing with my coat on ?" but he said nothing to the man, as he felt satisfied, having left it in Burne's care. He went at night to Burne's to ask about it, when the defendant said, "He would see it right." It was not forthcoming, how ever, and he went on Saturday, a week after, and asked Burne for the coat ; he applied again two Saturdays after that, but received only the same answer from Burne, that he would see that the coat was right. He then wrote him a note, telling him that if he did not return him the coat, he should put him into the Court. He had bought the coat about six months ago, and had paid 305.—The defendant, upon being called on for his version of the tale, said the plaintiff was with two other men in the snug, when he said it was very hot, and he would take off his coat. He did so, when one of the men who was with him, and who was more a friend of his than of him (the landlord), took it up and put it on in his presence, saying, " Well, I may as well be a swell to-night." The three then went out to gether to some sparring exhibition in Crosshall-street, and the plaintiff sat drinking the same night there with the man who had his coat on. He did not put the coat on a chair, nor hand it into his charge. At half-past 12 o'clock that night, there was a "row," in the street, and he observed the man with the coat on there, when the plaintiff came up to him (the defendant), and demanded the coat.—The Judge (to the plaintiff) : I want to know how it was, when you saw a man walking off with your coat, that you did not at once call on Barrie ? Plaintiff: Well, I thought it was enough that I had left it in his care. The Judge :He had your property on him, and you were drinking afterwards in company with him ? Plain tiff: No; but I was in the same house. I said to my friend that I should look to Burne for the coat. His Honour : Then, I don't think you had a right to do so. The 'young man who took the coat was then called as a witness by the defendant, and corroborated his statement in everyparticular. When they came out from the sparring, the plaintiff said to him, " Fred, let us have that coat,"but he told him that he had no other coat on. The Judge: What did you do with it ? Witness : There were a lot of us on the spree next day, and we pawned the coat that morn ing. The Judge : How came it to be pawned ? Witness : I forget the man's name. The Judge : You had better remember. Witness : I could find the man, but I don't know his name exactly. The Judge : Who gave it to him ? Witness : I don't know, sir. The Judge : You had better answer my question at once, or I will direct you to be taken into custody. Who gave him the coat ? Witness : I had possession of the coat. The Judge : Who gave it to the man ? Witness : Well, I think I must have given it to him, but I had pulled it 6ff before. The Judge : So I think.—His Honour then, turning to the plaintiff, said—lf you choose to see your own coat taken away, and don't interfere, I will not allow you to make the landlord responsible. There must be a nonsuit. As the parties were retiring, his honour obser ved to the plaintiff that that man (the witness) was liable for the coat, and he was also liable for illegally pledging, and might be brought before the magistrates on the evi dence adduced, if it were correct. The court rose early. It will be open all this week, with the exception of Saturday. HOTEL V. STEAMBOAT CHAEGES.—A solicitor of this town, in a letter to the Albion, contrasts the excessive hotel charges to travellers, of which he adduces several glaring instances, with th e more moderate charge made for equally good accommodation on board of some of our coasting steamers. He says :—" On board of the Princess Royal, (a steamer equal, if not superior, to any other coasting steamer in the kingdom,) on a late voyage I made by her from this port to Glasgow, we dined shortly after leaving Liverpool. The fare at the table was such as, on shore, could only be had at a first-class hotel; everything was beautifully clean ; the service solid silver ; and the attendance all that could be desired. After dinner, des sert, consisting both of dried fruits and those in season, were placed on the table; and, after that, I corrected the good things by a tumbler of whisky toddy. Now, mark the difference between the sea and land charges. The charge for dinner was only 2s. 6d.; toddy, 6d. No extra charge was made for a dessert which, at an hotel, would have added two or three shillings to the bill. The charge for breakfast next morning was is. 6d., for those who chose to eat at a table better supplied than many an hotel dinner-table ; and, for those who only took coffee and bread, 6d. , On board the Princess Royal nearly every passenger dined, and every one who did so praised the dinner and the ship. I am sure that, if hotel-keepers studied their own interests, they would, like the owners of this splendid steamer, try, by moderate fixed charges, and no extras, to please the public, and would find themselves more than repaid by the increase of their business, I may add that there were waxlights in the Princess Royal, not only in the saloon, but in all the state-rooms, and that mine was allowed to burn all night without any charge being made for " POLICE COURT .. - Y ESTERDAY. ESTERDA Y. ROBBERY OF Two SOVEREIGNS, AND OTHER MONEY. — Bridget O'Brien was charged with having stolen from an elderly man, an Irishman, whose name did not transpire, money to the amount of about £4, consisting of two sove reigns, five dollars, and other money. It appeared that the 'complainant, who had been drinking most of the day on Saturday last, had become much intoxicated, and meeting with the prisoner in the neighbourhood of the police-office, invited her and another woman to have a glass of ale with him, which invitation they complied with. In return, the prisoner invited him to accompany her to her lodgings, which he did, and had some more drink. The result of his sojourn with his new acquaintance was, that on counting his cash he discovered himself minus the amount stated to be stolen. No money was found on the prisoner, who, of course, denied all knowledge of the robbery, and as the complainant could not give a detailed account of it, the prisoner was discharged. ANOTHER ROBBERY OF MONEY.—Mary Murphy was charged with robbing a man who did not give his name, on Wednesday evening, of £ll 10s. The complainant, who described himself as not being properly drunk nor properly sober at the time of the transaction, having met the prisoner, at her request treated her to a glass of ale. On leaving her, he discovered his money was gone, and shortly afterwards gave information to the police, and the prisoner was taken into custody on Saturday. The com plainant admitted that there was another woman in com pany with him besides the prisoner, and expressed his wish that no further proceedings should be taken in the case. With this desire the magistrate refused to comply ; and the prisoner, who had on three previous occasions been brought up on charges of robbery but discharged, was sentenced to be imprisoned for two months. STEALING SIX BALES OF COTTON.--Jaraes Powell and Richard Shea were brought up on remand from last Monday, charged with stealing six bales of cotton, the property of Mr. Gregory. Powell admitted his compli city in the robbery, but it was stated that no case what ever had been made out against Shea, who was forthwith discharged. Powell was remanded for another week,•in order to afford time for the apprehension of other parties who are implicated in the robbery. ABSCONDING WITH MONEY.—Michael Bulger, a young man, who was employed in the shop of Messrs. M'Cor qoudale and Co., in Castle-street,:was charged with having absconded on Saturday last with the sum of £l7. 16s. 6d. with which he had been entrusted. From the evidence it appeared that Mr. M'Corquodale, who is treasurer to the Newton Branch of the Savings' Bank, had entrusted the prisoner with the money to deposit it in the bank in Bold-street. For this purpose Bulger left the premises in Castle-street, about half-past twelve o'clock ; but on its being ascertained that he had not reached the bank with the money, further inquiry was made, and it was dis covered that he had absconded. Information was given at the Police-office, and Cousins, the detective officer, traced Bulger to Birkenhead, and discovered him at the Railway-station, where he took him into custody. On being searched, nearly all the money was found on the prisoner, hehaving, however, expended £l. 17s.—in the purchase of a pair of trousers and other articles. The prisioner, on being questioned, burst into tears, and said he wished to go to Dublin, where his relatives live, that he did not intend to steal the money, but to have had it returned so soon as he got home. He was remanded for seven days. TRYING THE WRONG Pocicrr.—A boy named Coleman was charged with attempting to pick pockets in Lord street, on Saturday evening. Inspector Bates said, on passing along Lord-street, where preparations are being made for rebuilding the corner of Lord-street and Whitechapel, he felt a hand thrust into his outer coat pocket, when putting round his hand he caught the pri soner by the wrist and secured him. Patrick, the victim of this misplaced confidence, assured his worship that• it was all a mistake ; notwithstanding which assurance, how ever, his worship, probably uncertain as to the nature of the mistake, sentenced Master Coleman to three months' imprisonment. THE LATE HOCUSSING AND ROBBERY.—John Morgan, on remand from last Monday, and Joseph Grimshaw, newly taken into custody, were arraigned on a charge of drugging the liquor of a Scotch gentleman, and robbing him of 55., a silver watch, and some other valuables, on the night of Friday, the 30th ult. We gave an outline of the case last week. On the case being called it was found that the gentleman who had been robbed had sailed last Wed nesday in the City of Manchester, steamer, for Philadel phia. So far as it could be gone into in the absence of prosecutor, the inquiry was proceeded with, and the case, as to both of the prisoners having been in the victim's com pany under most suspicious circumstances was satis factorily proved ; indeed, it was not denied by either of them, although both, in vehement terms, protesting their innocence of all crime, indignantly denied the robbery. Both being known to the police as suspected characters, however, their protestations did not go for much, and they were each sentenced to three months' imprisonment, a result which evidently took Morgan by surprise, and he stammered out in impudent, though faltering terms, " Three m-mon-ths ! I wish it may do you good,' .address ing himself to the magistrate. STEALING AND PAWNlNG.—Catherine Brien. pleaded guilty to a charge of stealing a waistcoat, which she also admitted she had pawned for 3s. 6d. Ordered to repay the 3s. 6d., and to pay a fine of 20s. for illegally pawning, or be imprisoned for fourteen days. STABBING A POLICEMAN.—David Irvine, beerhouse keeper in Boundary-place, was brought up on remand from last Monday, charged with stabbing a policeman with a bayonet, on the morning of Monday week. Stephen. Thompson, the constable who was wounded, was in at tendance, and proved that the prisoner stabbed him in the thigh with a bayonet on the morning stated. Medical testimony was adduced, by which it was proved that there were two wounds inflicted,—one in the abdomen, the other in the thigh, and both of a serious as well as a dangerous character. The prisoner, who offered no re marks, was committed for trial al the assizes. PIGS AND PHILANTHROPY.—A garrulous little old NM- I man, who was in vain tried to be kept silent by the officers, pressed forward, as she said she had a complaint to make against the Corporation and its officers, which she insisted on his worship hearing and redressing. Having obtained permission of the bench, she proceeded in a style of rapid volubility to state that she holds a piece of land near the gas-works, which, from motives of the purest and most disinterested philanthropy, she permits sundry individuals, whom she took pains to repre-. sent as very poor people, to apply to the purposes of pig rearing. This porcine nursery, it would seem, like other philanthropic institutions, had fallen under evil influences, and was assailed by antagonists no less formidable than the officers of the Corporation, who, armed with the power of the law, and, as she averred, ever opposed to the plea sures and profits of the poor, insisted on dislodging the colony of" grunters:' Such a proceeding, she insisted, was not only a violation of the rights of property, but a gross intrusion of the comforts of the poor. She went on to demonstrate that so well-regulated a piggery as the one which flourished on the estate owning her sway, so far from being a nuisance was a credit to the neighbourhood, and an establishment which she patronised solely on account of the benefits it conferred on the poor.—His wor ship, with difficulty interrupting her so far as to say a word, acknowledged his willingness to look on her as " a whole-hog humanitarian," but regretted his inability to assist her, as the matter was out of his province. He advised her to apply at the Town Hall ; which she pro mised she would do, and retired. A DISHONEST SEOPMAN.—Peter Pearson, in the em ployment of Mr. Richmond, mercer, Church-street, was committed for trial on a charge of purloining a number of silk neck-ties, handkerchiefs, and other property. SINGULAR CA.BE.—CHARGE or PERJURY.—An inquest on the body of Samuel Webster, master of a steam-tug, who died suddenly at his house in Edmond-street, on Fri= day morning, was held on Saturday. The jury had viewed the body, the evidence had been taken, and a verdict was about to be returned to the effect that the deceased had died of disease of the heart, a decision at which the coroner and jury seemed to have arrived chiefly from the evidence of a respectable-looking woman, dressed in mourning, who deposed that she was the widow of the deceased, when an incident occurred entirely changing the result of the deli berations. A few minutes after the whole of the witnesses had left the court, another woman presented herself as the identical Mrs. Webster, her object being to obtain the coroner's certificate of the death of her husband, to entitle her to receive £lO from a benefit society, of which Webster was a member. To prove her claim she produced her marriage lines, which left no doubt as to the truth of her statement, and the beadle was sent after the pseudo Mrs. Webster. In a short time he re-appeared with the woman, who was called into the witness box, and interrogated by the coroner :—" Are you Winifred Webster ?" " Yes." "Is that your mark ?" Pointing to the 4. which she had appended to her deposi tion.) " Yes, sir ; I put that cross there." " Were you sober ?" " Yes." " Did you hear the clerk read what you had sworn to be true ?" " Yes, sir." "Do you still deliberately tell the jury that you are the lawful wife of the deceased ?" " I did not understand that it was law ful' wife." " Did you consider yourself to be the unlawful wife ?" " I don't know ; I considered myself more so than the one he married." She was ordered into custody, and, after she had been taken away, the coroner, addressing the jury, said, " The statement of this woman, as she has sworn falsely, cannot be relied on, and it is now a question whe ther it would not be desirable to have the body opened. You see the deceased was in a burial society, and if the real wife had not appeared so opportunely, should have given the prisoner the usual certificate, and she would have received the £lO from the society." The jury coin cided with the coroner, and the inquest was adjourned until Monday, at noon, in order that a post-mortem ex amination of the body might be made. At the adjourned inquest, after hearing the medical evidence, the jury re turned a verdict of " Died from apoplexy, caused by ex cessive drinking." The woman claiming to be the wife, whose name is Winifred Howard, was brought before the sitting magistrate on a charge of perjury, which was dis missed, on the ground that in the alleged perjury there was nothing material to the issue. She was discharged. BANKRUPTCY COURT, MONDAY. — In re Dagnal and Fairclough. The court was engaged nearly all day in hearing an adjourned examination in this case, which was further adjourned till Friday next. SUDDEN DEATH. —Yesterday morning, an aged woman, named Preston, who lived at No. 43, Fontenoy-street, was found dead upon her bed-room floor. She had been pre viously complaining of illness. An inquest will be held upon the body to-day. OVERLAIN On Sunday morning last, William Evans, an infant, four months old, whose friends reside in Wetherall-place, Chapel-lane, Bedford-street, Toxteth-park, was found dead in bed by the side of its mother. It is supposed to have been overlain. THE CABINET. — Since the Cabinet Council, on Wed nesday last, several of the Ministers have left London, in cluding the Lord Chancellor, Lord Palmerston, Lord Granville, Sir Charles Wood, Sir William Molesworth, and Mr. Sidney Herbert. The Duke of Argyle, Lord Lansdowne, and Mr. Gladstone remained absent from town, the last named having, on leaving Manchester, pro ceeded to Hawarden Castle, where he is staying. Lord John Russell had intended to have left London early on Friday, but being slightly indisposed he remained in town. The Duke of Newcastle reached London on Friday night. Lord Clarendon remains in town, and received a visit, on Saturday, at the Foreign-office, from his Excellency the Turkish Minister. In the course of ten days a Privy Council will be held by Her Majesty, for the purpose of settling the period of the further prorogation of Parliament, which at present stands for the 27th of the present month. MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 17. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPIL From the Commercial Daily List.--Since the depres sion in the Stock and Share markets, there is a disposition evinced to purchase Produce, and we have to report a greater inquiry for Tea, Iron, and Tallow. Iron is quoted 645.'6d. per ton. FEANCE.-3,000,000 hectolitres of Wheat have, under the late decree of the government , been imported into France. SPAIN.—The abundance of Corn is said to be so great that it is in contemplation to adopt measures calculated to facilitate exportation of the surplus to France. A de cline has taken place in all the Spanish markets. ISSU3 DEP &RTMENT. Notes issued ... £29,202,465 Governmt. Debt £11,015,100 Other Securities 2,984,900 ,Gold coin & bu11'n.15,202,465 Silver bullion ... £29,202,465 £29,202,465 BANKING D Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000 Rest ... ... 3,691,119 Public Deposits 6,857,398 Other Deposits 11,633,687 7-day & other bills 1,453,952 :PART3IENT. Gov. Securities £12,339,083 Other Securities 18,941,549 Notes ... 6,361,900 Gold Sr Silver Coin 646,621 £38,189,1561 £38,189,156 COTTON.—The market during the week has shown some improvement, owing to the manufac turers being out of stock. But their purchases have been limited to immediate requirements, from the uncertainty which still prevails as to political affairs in the East, and also from the strike among the operatives, by which about 50,000 hands are now out of work. Notwithstandingthese drawbacks, the sales are larger in extent, and prices may be quoted to id. dearer for fair and good qualities, the lower descriptions being less in demand, arising from the abundance of East India Cotton, which is almost a drug, and which has tended to depre ciate the inferior sorts of American Cotton. The news by the Africa show a firm market on the other side, where prices are higher than here. TO-DAY the sales amounted to 8,000 bales, of which 3,000 were on speculation and for export, and the market closed firml3 at the improved quotations. The following is a comparison of present rates with the corresponding period of last year : New Orleans, middling fair 6ld. Uplands, middling fair 1853. 5 § 61d. M. 61d. TUESDAY, OOTOBER 18, 1853' wr l;A e . s ., :_ s,s ,‘ „ , N , D , A.y ma . THE EASTERN QUESTION. roes St. Pe te " . just reached me, a telegraphic despatch from. Rass io —The burg has this morning been received at the burg Embassy in Paris, announcing that the EmPeri°r `.. t 0 de. who had just sent a courier in all haste to V ono , 4 w hole ..- dare that he accepted freely and completely the bo a the conditions proposed by the mediating Pow i efl e ir ill' eor r in es t po elli n g d e e n t of w t h n e o l o learned that the Porte had declared war, that tu the l/ i n d ee d, the errthe stantly all his concessions, and again declared —doo now remained nothing but war ; used by the Emperor is, if I am rightly inforraF°, , on ti; strongest kind, However incompatible with the , 0, fical character of his Majesty, it not merely PP but ' war of extermination the conveyance tem of en tr t oo in ps th C toe the Dardanelles , re s tate Pect ill a g to be s speculative. ....,knelie s cil The fleets were preparing to enter the Da.- - the 6th instant. .E.rig. s ad .....-- The Paris paper Siecle says that both France _ . , bei . D e land have sent fresh notes to Russia, desiring fu 0 .q 1 ,,, t tbe gociations, but upon the express understandill' ROO Danubian provinces must be first evacuated by the troops. astf ith' The Times' Paris correspondent writes that , ~,,, i t il standing the Emperor of Russia's terrible. me w . 1 difficult to believe that all hope is yet lost 6f nil , Europe from war. Unless te owers that ' lave ; of proved so friendly to the Porte have lost all infinereco 0 its counsels, they surely can prevail on it to the ? 11. declaration of war on condition that Russia fulfilsil, gagements which the despatch received a the o it 0 Embassy attributes to her. The summons P ilc , i ii „ ,, , Principalities is formal and precise, and there is , Pi: tion of a reference to the Russian Governslo:o ci! Russian General's answer to Omer Pacha's to, t , e nt hot will probably be an equally precise refusal, so l'"' . of ties may commence even before the expirati ,cal 4 ) 3 0 term of fifteen days. It is stated that Gortscn!,, till orders The pDanube. ophoerPorte toe The w act scene O n n o t t n h o o e f w war, accept defensive,the 1 l e therefore,a u n l and 0 d i o o eu t did t n o b eo t P g e -000.0. E Rs the modifications be guaranteed by the A ~, e Austrian and Prussian governments he'" the It agreed to observe a strict neutrality, as long 95 ,, TO.' (should it break out) is confined to Russia and TATTERSALL'S BETTING.—DIis PO BVo; to r, CAMBRIDGESHIRE STARES.-8 to 1 agst 10 to 1 agst Orestes ; 12 to 1 agst Haco; 14 to 1 3 ° polnetf taken; 15 to 1 agst King Pepin, taken; 100 to 5 agst 11$tC taken ; 20 to 1 agst Invasion, taken ; 20 to 1 sgs` taken and offered; 50 to 1 agst Talfourd. FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE g % l The sentiments attributed to the Czar on r ese e d a istr).(l gence of the Turkish declaration of war pro dgc .,7i ag es feeling of depression in the Stock Exchange, e" - a jell decline. Consols opened with buyers at 911 , beingto-ntiti ciation of a per cent. from Saturday, and fluctuated s ed oo price to the close. Railway Shares generally °Pe! ed average from 10s. to 15s. per cent. lower, and relloldegrir out material change to the close of business. F renc a t Stl!, tiona share in the fall. In Land, Bank, and ginl.7lsacy business inactive, and effected at a decline. F orel inactive, and generally lower. CLOSING PRICES. Consols, Account .. 91k Tan k Stock ... . ..... 4 Do. Money.... I 91# Excheq. Bills, 1 . 84 ' Three &Qr per Cents.. 41 0 1/ 6J . ,5r THE LITERARY 4. PHILOSOPHIC_IL SOCIETY. THE first meeting of this society for the present session was held last night, at the Royal Institution ; Dr. Dicken son president. The Treasurer's Report, which was first read, showed a balance to the credit of the Society of £37 4s. 10d. The report, the forty-second of the Society, was then read. This detailed the proceedings of the Council during the past session, enumerated the papers read, and recom mended that the annual subscription to the Society should be raised from 10s. 6d. to a guinea. It appears that the Society now numbers 198 members, 132 of these being ordinary, and 66 corresponding members. The Rev. Dr. HUME opposed the proposed increase, on the ground that when it was proposed in May last it had been negatived, and he considered that the subject had then been disposed of. After some discussion, on the motion of Dr. DUNCAN, seconded by J. B. YATES, Esq., the subject was referred for consideration to a future meeting. The next business consisted of the election, by ballot, of the various officers, and of members of the Council, to supply those retiring by rotation. Mr. J. B. Yates, Mr. Robert M'Andrew, and Dr. Inman were re-elected vice-presidents; Mr. Edward Heath, the treasurer : and Mr. Sansom, the secretary. The following five gentlemen were elected on the Council to supply the places of five others, who, according to the rules, were not re-eligible : Mr. Win. Lassen, F.R.S., Mr. Francis Archer, the Rev. J. S. Howson, M.A., Mr. D. P. Thomson, and Mr. Isaac Byerley. Three ordinary members having been elected, thanks were voted to the retiring members of the council and to the officers. . The PRESIDENT then announced donations of pam phlets and books, &c., from individuals and from kindred societies. It appeared, front a communication read, that a meeting of gentlemen, being members of more than one of the local learned societies, had been held in Mr. Mayers's Egyptian museum, for the purpose of considering the desirability of a union of the Literary and Philosophical, the Polytechnic, the Architectural and Archeological, and the Historic, so cieties, at which a resolution had been passed, requesting that each society should appoint five delegates to talk the matter over together and report. After some conversation the matter was left for the present in the hands of the Council. Mr. Br LEY exhibited a torpedo fish, caught on Saturday last, in Carnarvon Bay ; and after an interesting conversation as to its extraordinary electric property, the Society adjmirned. THE ART OF ADVERTISING. (FROM THE ERA.). EVERYTHING-, it 'is said, has a handle, if we only knew where to place our hands upon it ; or, in other words, there is always a mode of dissipating apparent impossibi lities. Twenty years ago it was an "impossibility" to despatch a message from London to Paris in a few mi nutes, but the " handle" was at length discovered, and the impossibility was vanquished. The road to prosperity is one along which everybody wishes to travel, but the sign-posts which direct to it are so differently read, that the number who find themselves in the right path are, after all, much fewer than they might be, or than they will be shortly, now that the turnpike tolls have been abolished, and the costs generally reduced. Regardless of being charged with interested motives, we unhesitat ingly assert that publicity is A royal road to prosperity ; and that the best, the cheapest, and the most comprehen sive mode of obtaining publicity is through the meium of a newspaper. We shall endeavour to make this r. An advertisement of severarices, for instance, can be inserted in a newspaper for five shillings, and it may fairly be calculated that each copy of the paper is seen by twelve persons. The copies circulated at hotels and other places of public resort, or those which are successively sent from friend to friend, are seen by a still greater number ; and every one knows what a large proportion of the circulation of every newspaper is thus multiplied in its powers of publicity by this passing and repassing from hand to hand. But taking the average number of persons by whom each copy is seen at only twelve, and the total circulation of the newspaper at 6,000, the entire number of readers will be 72,000 ; and for sixty-pence, the cost of an advertisement, an announcement is brought under the notice of this large number of people. We will say nothing of the extended publicity which it receives through its being current in conversation. The advertisement does duty itself, and by deputy also, and those who do not see it are not the less informed of its purport. The extensive relations which an advertiser is enabled instantaneously to establish with thousands of persons is almost as strik ing, if rightly viewed, as the electric telegraph. Every one of his readers may become a customer, or help, by their recommendation, to increase his trade, or may assist, in some way or other, in aiding him m the object he has in view. It is one of the strangest things that these advantages are not universally recognised. They have been seized upon by a comparatively small number of acute persons, who have monopolised this invaluable method of making their own fortunes, while others, to whom the same advantages were open, have neglected this admirable resource, or have adopted other modes of pub licity, far less efficacious than that of advertising in a newspaper. Those who still pursue the old-fashioned plan of issuing circulars, or placarding large bills, or delivering handbills, strangely invert the accustomed habits of shrewd men of business, for they pay enormously for the least advantageous system of attaining publicity, as we shall presently show. A printed circular, gratuitously thrust in at the door, or sent through the post, is treated with sufficiently little ceremony, like most things which are obtruded when they are not wanted. It is within every man's experience to estimate the different treatment of a newspaper for which sixpence has been paid. At all events, the circular is not handed from one person to another, and to attempt to render it equivalent, as a medium of publicity, as many circulars should be issued as the newspaper possesses readers. The cost, then, of 72,000 circulars would be something like £3O, perhaps more, and the same number of envelopes would come to £lB. But the publie are not awaiting the issue with that eager interest which seizes upon a newspaper as fast as steam and the most perfect machinery can print it. An expense of some £5O has been incurred, but until the work of distribution has been effected nothing has really been done. To ensure a circulation in proper quarters, a selection must be made of 72,000 approved names, and it would take one person above a month to write the addresses on the envelopes. The post is the only safe means of distribution, and where so much money had been previously expended it would not be prudent to depend on any other. This would add the small trifle of £3OO to the expense already incurred, and after an expenditure of at least £350 the result would not be quite so valuable as a single advertisement which had cost only five shillings. That large class of substantial persons who live in the country would not be reached ; the circular may arrive at an inopportune moment in some thousands of instances, and, unlike the newspaper, it is not laid aside for a more convenient season, but is thrust into the fire and forgotten. Sup posing the circulars are not sent through the post, but are delivered by men and boys, the cost of delivery would be reduced, but at what an immense diminution of efficiency. The waste-paper shops, the river, and the fire offer fatal facilities for the disappearance of the printed circular, while idleness would suggest that an honest dis tribution entailed labour and trouble, which could be so easily avoided without much fear of discovery. The same number of handbills (72,000) would cost for printing and delivering about £4O, but this plan has been, as the French would say, demoralised, and if the cost were nominal, few persons would think of adopting it in any vain hope of re establishing the respectability of the practice of street delivery. There remains, then, the resource of placarding large bills. It is cheaper, but quite as destitute of useful results as circulars or handbills. If even placards get pro perly posted they are quickly obliterated, and if they were to remain longer few persons would stop to read them. Compare either of these modes, thoughtlessly adopted by some persons, to the efficiency of the newspaper. The cir cular misses fire—the handbill is contemptuously rejected —the placard is unread. No one thinks of destroying the newspaper till it is too old for transmission and perus a l, and before this happens a fresh copy supplies its place ; and so on from week to week it is looked forward to and read with undiminished interest. Every week also it is seen by a large number of fresh readers, so that an adver tisement inserted four times, at a cost of 20s, is seen in the course of four weeks, not only by the average number of 72,000 readers, but by a mass of persons who each week see it for the first time. By frequent insertions the adver tiser's name becomes a " household word." As we have shown, a single circular sent once to 72,000 persons, through the post, would cost about £350. For this sum an advertisement in the newspapers could be placed under the notice of as many persons every week for 27 years ! and this advantage might be gained every week during an entire year at 1-27th of the cost of issuing a circular which merely attempts to secure a similar result for one week. As will be perceived by advertisement, Mr. WILLIAMS, of Ranelagh-street, has opened another office, No. 3, Hackin's-hey, second door from the George Hotel. We believe Mr. Williams is termed the " Father of the Estate agents, from the length of time he has been in the busi ness ; and we have no doubt that the gentlemen on 'Change will find his new office very convenient for the sale or purchase of property. SEAMEN'S WAGES.—The following notice to Ship Mas ters and Consignees has been pencilled on the slate of Mr. Duddell's Shipping-office, Hong Kong :—" We, the seamen of Hong Kong, have held a meeting, and come to the fol lowing conclusion : That, for Australia seamen's wages shall be $2O per month, and one month's advance ; for Ca lifornia, $3O per month, and one month's advance ; for Europe or America, $4O per month, and one month's ad vance." THE DEATH OP M. GERMANOE, the Greek Patriarch, at Constantinople, has given rise to all kinds of reports. It will be recollected that this high dignitary was particularly disliked by Prince Menschikoff. EMIGRATION PROM GERMANY.—In the month of September, 2,048 emigrants left the port of Hamburg for America and Australia direct, and 1,402 proceeded from that port by way of Hull and Liverpool. This makes a total of 3,450 German emigrants from Hamburg alone. Of this number, 3,158 were bound for North American ports, 4 for Rio de Janeiro, and 290 for Melbourne, Sydney, and Port Adelaide.—Hamburg Hansa. LATEST INTELLIGENCE. VOREION STOCKS. 23 1 4 Spanish Passives ..... Turkish ..... .• • ..... Swedish ..... .•••"'' Mexicans Do. Threes Spanish Deferred .... 214 2 Do. Threes 444 5 RAILWAN A mberg.,Nottinghatn, and E. Junction 44 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian I ' SHARES. Lein 1 11 London & N. wes tern iVe5 London & S. od 90 'Mulches., Shelf., 8 .. l a f Lincolnshire.•• •• (Midl an d Stock •••':, IMidl an d Halves••••• .71.4 'North British.••••l;ce o. PON ° 1 4 Norfolks , ..... North Staffordshi 73jr, Shrewsbury an d . p A . •• mingliam .. ••'; u sr• 57 1 Do. L. &N. " ° yer S. Eastern and D ° ad t , •York, Newcastle,v• Berwick • • ... Do. Extensive n 4s Do. Pref York and N. I" c o Do. Prefe r° SHARES. !Nugget ......... • Australian . • • •• , Freehold .• • • ••' ••... Australasian •• •• - (Colonial ..... .••••,, Mariposa .........: LAND SHARES. .. • r S S Australian Agricultural 33 5 Peel River ...... S. Australian Invest. South Australian •' ',, I Crystals . - Do. Preference 97 IGO East Anglian Eastern Counties East Lancashire Eastern Union A Ditto B and C Edinburgh & Glasgow 58 60 Great Northern 74 5 Do. Do. Great Western Lanc.and Yorkshire. Eli 2 Do. Fifths Leeds Northern London,Brighton, and South Coast 93 6 MINING Noveau Monde Registered Cordeliera Ave Maria Carson's Creek — Port Philip CORN MARKET. the 00' 1 4 / -0 ' The show of English Wheat is scanty, WO f Foreign Grain is heavy. trade opened firm a t tb b i g h t ef- v0 of Monday last for English. Foreign is hel d at re l $ . ( es Flour and Malt are steady. Barley and ne a 4 n " P r '3, sparingly at full rates. The Oat trade 1 5 l ; ditto it quite as dear. English White Wheat, 60 5 to :wade 'O 5 58s to 72 ; Town-made Flour, 68s to 75s ; cOua`;.lo., ditto, 585 to 645; Malting Barley, 39s to 435; D is t t h il ,; at the t ee to to 365. Wh ea t c l osed with less • ado,' ,oeS ar e .; mencement. Foreign held steadilay. ' "11010; C fit ', it , DOP inquired for. Fine Barley is fully as dear• s ar e O' Peas 28 per quarter cheaper. Flour, Oats, and 13ean changed. Fo rel?' English. Irish. , 519 1 Wheat 1763 4 67 / 6 1738 Barley 4954 720 ;SP , Oats 6O Malt 4570 20 63 1 0 f, C Beans Peas 383 ; 51I g r 1 1 1 0 Flour ... 3015 of fiL le o From King:fordand Lay's Cireular._Tb e suPP l Y ri o e ` fe ll Wheat is moderate, beat met with a quick and in fe De in; sale, on terms of this day se'nnight. The raar llet n iceP rll d attended by country buyers, Foreign Wheat 0 30 ~6 / erio' 4 4 inquiry, and a fair business was transacte d, l'aci orist'vf depression of Friday last. Fine Malting Barl e y a f,ior ° A pe' Barley: A fair sale at last week's prices ; lni—jl3',jl cheaper and di ffi cult of sale. Beans were unaller.esa;eotfr For White Peaa there was less demand, and the 1 0 i oer 1 ,,f, at about 2s. per quarter reduction; Greybrirl tu2l,--' For Oats there was a fair trade, at prices of ''''' In Flour there is little doing. 0 0 , PRODUCE MARICET; O ID ( O I' Sugar : Foreign is quiet, but no decline ; Y e ":.erf s ;r o , 225. and 265. ; Refined is brisk ; Low to fine gr—ri; 455. 6d. to 475. 6d. Coffee is firm, several buLe 1,011;" 455. 6d. to 475. ; Rio, 433. to 48s. Tea is fr e , l is less demand; Ordinary Congou 11d. to 1144i' re 1 5 India is dull, and rather cheaper. Cotton : t e vers l° demand, and terms are firmer. Cochineal " and prices firmer. TALLOW MRKET. , Tallow is quiet, bun t fine P.Y.C. so lu-' o, sl ' t csst j the spot. The stock is 20,9 4 2 casks, aga ins ` e same time last year; deliveries 3,031 cask s ' casks same time last year. CATTLE MARKET. b ( VP Inferior Beasts are cheaper. P r i m e Sa t _ c- eall e Monday's prices. Sheep trade d u ll, at 2d Pr 4 Calves sold slowly, at Friday's rates. Beef 2s 6d to 44 6d Veal ..... Mutton 3s 6d to 5s Od I Pork . . ... Beasts 6OBO I Calves • • Sheep 4- to 4 21 . 6 d t 39 ARRIVALS.pe ~. Norfolk and Suffolk Cambridge, Leicest . er, Lincoln a Beasts 1 s *********** ************* ,500 am ton Beasts Scotch Beasts *********************** "'' 1• / Irish Beasts ...... Holland Beasts „ , ****** .." 1 0 0 Do. Sheep *** .** . ****************** .•.: 16 C e P a H l ig ve s E s . s . l . l ***************************************** :::: ..' Do. Calves ********************** ....' !,4 Spanish Beasts ........... *********** .. Do. sheep **************** ...• Eastern Fren c h I)IMANCHESTER io Counties, AN. London and North-W s ******** • • . 4f. 6) : i f o rif p ro t LEEDS Sheffield, E and Lincolnshire, 19i; Midland,:pce, IP' Eastern and Dover, 174; Lancashire Assto , W Midland, he at , and s9 Flour held very firmly, vibic' 0 6 411 04 it.'o' se l f' GLASGOW CORN 3IAR- veo t 0 b p re Ili 0 business. All Spring Corn in small suPP l5 ' a 65s 6d, closing buyers , , A110%463,54 GLASGOW PIG IRON 3';'," so ld fr'' 4 6efr ' Rising market. Mixed numbers warrao`sa but fe" at 3d to 6d more. It/ , ' (i' -- 1,10 , 9 GRAVESEND, IGTH OCT.—ATTiVed . LATEST SHIPPING nsITEL•-- 0)04 5 0 ,t 0 Hobart Town - , Orpheus, and Hero of fljlelii.ee;cafto°l-er;4' Kong; Edward Boustead, from Calcutta ; t o Lif ,j ,f li North Western, Mauritius. 17th Oct.—The David Harriaari I _, o -1, 0 for Bahia, with damage, and one man washed o' .A O , ~„ iko o spoken on the 12th instant. Theodore, from Callao; Elspeth, from 1 ' ...,... v oiv,, DEAL, 17TH OCT.—Arrived StatesMan;_fidr°:" Oirod, from Dominica; Elizabeth, from New Yer",,„ r Ole , e ,l' Nova Scotia. The Edward, from Cardenas, ls e ' r i i too 0, was abandoned on the ..., flY ° , Havre. i i fro g V FALMOUTH, 16TH Ocr.--The Speedwe . . , ~,,I4 was towed in here yesterday, totally dismast..„,ndee.,e CP, 18th Sept. : the crew IT ' 00 oufe E rne t oo sE et o sht u ee E r 1 , ii. ett3h:HwiOtr damage,.— Tlie Emilie , an and m u f s r t o to r e p v .s l i r,tfot; ofc4, saved. O OO total wreck, near Hain-Ist:ldt . patliii, FREDERICKSHAVEN, 10TH Ocr.—The Ranwe'„,i fr keitbing, sank eight miles below Skaw : crew saelo.Yl ANJER, STH Auo.—The Nina, of Bristol, fo r n d, Da` fotot r ei was fallen in with on the 19th of July, aband ° e be is% only 10 inches of water in the hold ; neat d aV 0 111 0 quite seaworthy, the second mate and four bands i to take her to Batavia. ----- +h-stre t ' ' 'ofl DIED.—On the 14th in st., at 7, Ilea - Tole r years, Margaret Jane, daughter of Mr. G. Royal Institution, Colquitt-street. , I Y , l ln; LIVERPOOL : , ifo rning4 1 , 1, Printed and Published every Tuesda", ~(Eft,L'isti' Proprietor, ROBERT PEARSON T,lR.ito, V.lt'epo' Percy-street, at the STANDARD Obi" , r-...., r . j„iv 1 OFFICE , No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCb, , 1 Tuesday, October 18, 1853.