The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

Eiberpoot tatabarb+ FRO. I I OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING THE Government financiers are hard at work, preparing the Budget, and the Treasury clerks find themselv es con- strained, since Wednesday last, to remain at their desks an additional two hours daily, preparing returns and sta tistical abstracts, which the CHANCELLOR of the rxcuE- QUER (now that his mind is set at ease about the ders necessary towards the con struction of a budget calculated to escape the fate of Mr. DISRAELI'S scheme. On Saturday afternoon, the plea- University election) cons sure was mine of witnessing Mr. GLADSTONE'S helpmates gathering materials for the great Coalition Budget : as is rny wont, I visited several of the principal offices in _ Downing-street, and found my old friend ROBERT WIL BRAHAM at the Treasury, installed as Mr. GLADSTONE'S secretary ; while honest, laborious FRANCIS FITZGE RALD was discharging the duties of private secretary to JAMIE WILSON, once upon a time, and that not very long since, an expert manufacturer of felt hats for the denizens of the transpontine district between Black friar's Bridge and the Surrey theatre, so well conducted by CftEswicK. WILBRAHAM and FITZGERALD were up to their eyes in blue books and income-tax details, ham mering away for the bare life at strange-looking columns of complicated figures, and turning out in artistic style a dainty dish to set before the CHANCELLOR of the Ex- CHEQUER. If the rumours I have heard be true,—and the source whence I derive my information leads me to believe it well founded,—this self-same income-tax,neatly dressed up, and deprived of many most unjust, oppressive, and inquisitorial provisions, is likely to form one of the main ingredients in Mr. GLADSTONE'S financial pronounce ment. We are to have what is called differential income rate, a complete remodelling of the schedules, a kindly sop for the small-class farmers. You recollect GLADSTONE supported DISRAELI'S celebrated motion for a committee of inquiry into the burdens of the landed interest, with a view to their removal or diminution ; and though last, not least, an exempting recognition of the difference between permanent and precarious incomes. I think you will find that I am pretty near the mark in this my prophetic anticipation of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Budget, so far, at least, as the renewal of the Income tax is concerned. More with certainty—it may be on semi.official authority—l cannot now say ; but the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER'S friends incline to the opinion that we shall have no new taxes, and very little shuffling of the old ones. The scheme, it is expected, will be complete on Thursday week, and submitted to a Cabinet Council on the follow. THE LIVE These, as most readers are aware, give a concert now and then ; a notice in the newspapers is much desired by them, as it leads to engagements not only in England but America, especially ; invitations to such concerts are now returned, and Miss THIS, SIGNORA THAT, the poor concert givers, see their benches thinly peopled, and have the mortification also of going without mention. With regard to my old acquaintance the EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH, and the denunciations against certain English journals, contained in the French Government organ, the Moniteur, I believe that LOUIS NAPOLEON has nothing to do with the aforesaid denunciations, desecrations, or what ever they are' called, beyond having given his sanction to the government writers saying something on the subject. Probably the most ignorant - class of litterateurs in the world are your small, half-educated, and altogether ua travelled French political writers, though they are not half so bad now as was the case even twenty years ago, when Sir PEEL, Sir DUNCOMBE, and other bits of nonsense studded the whitey-brown columns of the Parisian papers —they, I mean the writers in Paris, are still far behind having a true understanding or appreciation of the genius, so to speak, of the English language. Hence the-quota tions and translations made upon passages said to have been :in the Times, for example, are so far wide of the truth, that they are in reality other articles, not only in spirit but in word. .To give the " gentleman in black" (the EMPEROR'S evening costume) his due, I do not think he saw one of the articles in the Moniteur before it was published. Louis NAPOLEON is no fool, whatever he may be in other regards, though it certainly does smack of the veriest:folly to give circulation in the French papers to such obnoxious statements, which otherwise would never have come to the knowledge of half a million of the seven or eight who are represented to have voted for L' Empereur. A fop of a writer—let's see—CHESTERFIELD it was, says that human nature is the same all over the world, though education and habit may make all the difference. Certes, if your readers know much of the women of Paris, from those buxom ones of the fishmarket, kissed so recently by the Emperor, up to the delicate plants of the salons, who look as if a zephyr would destroy,—they, the readers of the Standard, will easily believe that the Parisian belies are anything but pleased at the :new imperial declaration of love to Miss FITZPATRICX,—I beg pardon—the most lovely Countess DE TEBA, who has, in Paris for the last three months, attracted all eyes in admiration of her peer less beauty. A capital breed that must be from Spanish and Irish. WISEMAN, Cardinal, par example ! Dna I MONTEZ. So also the destined Empress of France. LABLACHE, too, the gros de Naples of the Opera, if I don't mistake, has mentioned that he has the same frisky pater et mater—nity. Badinage apart, this last resolve of NAP. 111. cannot come to good ; antecedents are against it ; he does not strengthen his crown by the alli- The dramatic novelty of the week was the production of DOUGLAS JERROLD'S " St. Cupid ; or Dorothy's For tune," at the Princess's, on Saturday night, the play having been represented on Friday evening at Windsor Castle before the court. The drama is essentially one of JERROLD'S ; characterisad more by terse language and pungent wit than distinguished for construction of plot ; though in this respect it is an improvement on mostly all of JERROLD'S previous plays, which are remarkably defi cient in connected incident. The two principal charac ters in the comedy are sustained—rnirabile dictu I—by Mrs. C. KEAN (a schoolmaster's daughter) and Mr. WRIGHT (a gipsey). Of Mrs. C. KEAN it is unnecessary to say a word. This excellent actress always vindicates her author. Mr. WRIGHT has hitherto been considered little better than a buffoon : his comedy was always broad, —too much so for farce ; he had a vulgar habit also of playing to the audience—winking even to a sweep in the gallery. In the character of Queen Bee, allotted to him by JERROLD, WRIGHT appears altogether an artist,—careful, attentive, rigid. It is not perhaps saying too much, that the Royal children (dressed and seated precisely as on the previous Friday evening,) enjoyed WRIGHT'S personation more than any other in the drama. JERROLD himself is looking right well : much bent, chiefly by hard work, he is as cheer ful as a linnet ;—living much in the country, and seeing only a friend from town now and then, and among them his old friends and collaborateurs, MARK LEMON, editor of Punch, a noble-hearted unmis takeable feIIow—GILBERT A. A'BECKETT, most piquant and punning of writers—discreet magistrate, and modest man. In conversation Mr. A. A'BECKETT is the least obtrusive person I have ever met,—barring the late THOMAS HOOD—the man of the shirt—Hoon's deafness, however, might in part account for his shyness. Poor Tom HOOD ! he was miserable for the night, if a pun missed fire. He is going to have a brave monument, thanks to that remarkable woman with a real English name—aiza CooK. But lam forgetting JERROLD and his visiters. Well, then, there's PERCIVAL LEIGH, yclept " the Professor," author of the Comic Latin Grammar, &c., another of the " Punch-men"—quiet withal, excepting at dinner. I may safely say that the Punch people are the heartiest eaters and laughers in the world. " Who the deuce are they, who are making so much noise in the next room ?" asked a Cabinet Minister at a Greenwich fish-dinner. " Oh, it 's the Punch-men," was the response of our friend in the " smalls " and white waistcoat. JOHN LEECH, too, prince of illustrators and good fellows, is another of " Duggy's" friends. I believe that JERROLD will soon have his claims, as an author who touches the heart strings, recognised by our gracious QUEEN. He got one of his sons slipped into the Treasury two or three years A pleasing enough drama, L. Jervais, or some name like that, for I never touch a play bill—they dirty one's kids so—was produced by Mr. FARREN the other evening at the Olympic; it deserves notice,thoughof French origin. MORRIS BARNETT, the adapter, has invested it with Eng lish interest, a rather difficult task with some of the outre dramas of our Parisian friends,—mentioning whom puts me in mind of JOHNNIE MITCHELL'S programme for the forthcoming French plays. All the dons are secured, and BOUFFE, if he get well. With regard to the prospects of the two great lyrical establishments,—Her Majesty's Theatre and the Royal Italian Opera,—it looks very likely that they will be in the hands of one man next season. I have before me nearly half-an-acre of paper (not yet published) of intended performances at Her Majesty's Theatre, in which that most unmusical instrument, the auctioneer's hammer, is the chief. ing Saturday No less an authority than the Thunderer of Printing house-square took upon himself to contradict inferentially one of the principal statements contained in my last let ter. I announced on Monday that the office of Secretary for Ireland was still vacant. The Times on Tuesday morning said that Mr. VILLIERS STUART had been ap pointed ; this is not the fact, rely on my information ; discredit that of the Thunderer—Lord ABERDEEN has not yet named his man. You will have seen, by an authorised paragraph in the Times, that there is no truth in the statement that Mr. DISRAELI was going abroad for two years for the benefit of his health. What I stated some time since was the fact, and I can vouc I now, that release from the trammels of official life I las made the right hon. gentleman himself again ; in short, that he never was in better health. He will enter parliament in a few weeks, a wiser man as regards two points of his ill-fated budget ; and I do not hesitate to aver that he will support a more equitable and liberal adjustment of the income-tax. The present Minis ters aro, it is confidently stated, to adopt extreme Liberal measures, in order to propitiate certain parties ; their remaining any great length of time in office, however, is not problematical better known as Fox MAt - LE, being one of the legion of Whig brats named after CHAS. JAMES Fox, when he was in the meridian, said, the other day, at a Bible meeting held in Edinburgh—" A change has come over me, and I shall not, for the rest of my life, probably, be so much in the habit of meeting in public with my fellowLcountrymen as I have been ; but I can say this, that when my voice is required to maintain their liberties—when threatened by those who would invade them or their Protestant liberties—when threatened by those who would touch one inch or one iota of our Pro testant bulwarks—my voice shall be at the command of those who wish to hear it. It shall be raised in defence of Protestantism and the Protestant Bible, and, if I add no other, this at least will be the most glorious one to which I can address myself." Thus spoke Lord PANMURE, Lord PANMURE, lon and the words were worthy of him, and every loyal Pro testant subject of Her Most Gracious MAJESTY. Lord PANMURE has long called himself a constitutional Whig, which is identical with " lover of place." Why should Lord PANMURE, by no means old, leave, as he terms it, public life ? Is it because he thinks that the country, for some time to come, will have none of his clique, as a body, in the Government, and that he can never again expect to be at the War-office ? No. Lord PANMURE, like a hard life of it, is retiring to the otium cum, Sc.c., of Brechin Castle. Belonging, as he does, to a family remarkable for the longevity of its members—his father died the other day nearly 90 years old—the present baron is going to husband life's taper by enjoying his " father's ha' " to which he was a stranger for nearly thirty years. The castle, and its surrounding sunny uplands, are to be put in order ; for a great many years there has been nothing done on the estate in the way of improvement, such at least as that required. The old Lord—the last fast man of the last century—did not trouble his head much about a sensible man, afte such matters. Long in Parliament, his evenings were frequently passed in BELLAMY'S Kitchen, where he awaited the ringing of the division bell; on these evenings it is recorded that he would discuss eighteen or twenty tumblers of brandy and water, and BELLAMY'S tumbler s were (and are) no jokes. In this way the old baron lived, ;much estranged to his son and successor, so much so, that the present Lord had to apply to the courts in Scotland, many years ago, for an allowance out of the patrimonial estates. £5OO per annum was awarded Fox MAULE; this, together with his salary when in office, was pretty nearly all his income. Notwithstanding, he has lived jolly and well, and at the Ministerial dinners, whether at Richmond, Blackwall, or Greenwich, he was generally selected to act as chairman. He is a man of frank and simple manners. A few years ago he used to " stand" a breakfast and a guinea, twice or thrice a week, at his official residence, to a Parisian gentleman, for no other purpose than to talk French over the chocolate, and improve the pronunciation of the host and his noble and amiable lady. _ _ LANDSLIP.—A landslip took place on the Scottish central railway, near Perth, on Thursday morning, by which the traffic was greatly inconvenienced. THE SIMOOM, screw-frigate, has proceeded from Ports mouth to Cork. She is to embark there the 31st Regi ment, and convey them to Corfu ; thence she conveys the 41st Regiment to Malta, embarks 740 of the 76th at Malta, and conveys them to Halifax, and then brings to England a portion of the 91st Regiment. EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—A circumstance of a very extraordinary character occurred last week at the adjourned Somerset sessions, held at Taunton—namely, four generations of the same family were placed at the prisoners' bar together. The offence was stealing wood, and the parties were—an old woman, named Pole, aged 82; Jane Tapp, her daughter, aged 48 ; Ann Pole, her grand-daughter, aged 27 ; and a child in arms, her great grand-daughter. A GENERAL CAB FARE.—A mode of making cabriolets less objectionable vehicles in London would be to limit the charge (within a certain circle, as in Paris) to one shilling only for two persons, and sixpence for every extra person or luggage. The operation would be similar to the penny postage, depend upon it, for many would prefer this to an omnibus for cheapness— and many more, when they knew at once what they had to pay. Thus the cab would be kept generally employed even in fine weather, instead of stand ing half a day idling. For cleanliness and civility, the in the " Begg , name and number of the proprietor, large inside, would t two in battles of the same character going on at presen , prove partly, if not quite effective.—The Builder. A HUSBAND'S LIABILITY. — A trial occurred i n the the metropolis of Eng land, the third in Paris. Our Lon don belligerents are the theatrical managers, the play- Court of Exchequer the other day before Baron Platt, order-writ er s, a nd the rival play-bill-stickers, the latter a swphoincislibrtiaewssorfantilrusananne7 10igrhtdeubptosnexthtreaysuapapnotsiednorne-- formidable class of ouvriers. In Paris the parties are, traded. A milliner brought an action against g Mr. Louts NAPOLEON, the Moniteur, and divers of the metro- Trahle, for dresses, &c., amounting to £33 14s. 9d. The politan ne ws p apers . It wo uld be difficult to say which of defence was that the husband allowed his wife a sufficient sum for such necessities ,— somewhere a bout £5O a- y ear,— the three is th e most i nteresting. C er tainly, the funniest is the battle of th e bi ll-stickers. his income not exceeding £ 4OO per annum, whereupon Th es e worthies are Baron Platt told the jury tha t the principal question for mostly all of themearnest men i n th e ir avocation ; th e y the ir consideration was whether the sum of about £5O, sally out at all hours, chiefly in the dead of night, which it had been proved the defendant had allowed to a march on each other, as well as • hid wife within a period of fourteen months, was sufficient " the Public There Is stealing one "merry cock-eyed sprite", who,to provide clothes for a lady in her position of life ; if at screech . of day, thought so they were bound to find a verdict for the will, for a consideration, stick a bill on the dome of S t they defendant. The jury did not think so, and consequently pawl's,—for the matter of that, yea on Temple-bar, or Buckingham Palace. Lately asked by a lie was ordered to pay • but husbands having extravagant wives may find satisfaction in the law as laid down by celebrated o wit and writer if he could manage to "do a bill" Baron Platt. deputation from the Protestant Temple-bar, his naïve reply was, that "he would stickna THE MADIAI.-- A iew last week with Lord John Roster on the Duke of --, if it were wanted." Well, Alliance us had an per these jockies, deeply interested in their employers' e n rv Office, on the subject of the fare, are going all over London and a radius of ten we ,. secu s t l o ll n , s a at nowtlie Forire carried on in Tuscany. The deputation consisted of the Earl of Cavan. Hon. A. Kintlai_r_d e , x M.p. r , miles. Honest BENJAMIN -WEBSTER, of the Haymarket and Adelphi Theatres, complains that his bills are no Cap.tataaliCondor, Mr. J. Cook Evans, Rev.r Josiah Kemble, Rev. Dr. Steane, Cliorn7rit,.Ail..saenetey, sooner up than a myrmidon of the man of paste, in the Russell sai l d under theparticularg case of the employ of the spirited lessee of T. R. D. erne, and Mr. John 11nalicsr,egor.—Lord John those Of Haymarket bills ; the entrepreneur of Old Drury again tuted e deputation. The prosecution had been Insti -1.1 sentiments were very much in accordance with the rece l i a v t e e d government tiie upo n : law n laa a ssed in do 1786, which was an un says he despises the action. It is a pretty quarrel as it enlightened time. of the course pursued by stands. But, for the honour of the rival managers, I believe it stands between the rival bill-stickers. The H. Bulwer y was 12111eilliti government, it appeared that Sir re v s e ubject, and from despatches play order war goes bravely on, and ugly facts are coming with respect to any fur x tt u r sl s y t sidered proper to take in comm e gi e w a h it employed in the case ; but out. lam sorry for a certain class, for the most part dent Sovereign , . his lordship tieservind artistes, — musicians, vocal and instrumental , reserve his opinion.—The deputation begged anind p i n e g h witiight. be e con forto to be allowed _ _. then withdrew. -- - I can state, with perfect certainty, that, had the leading men of the Carlton—and I mention the club without reservation—l say, had they known what the vote on the last budget would have led to, namely, a dissolution, and consequent election for Oxford, a few weeks beforehand ; or, had they had time to organise their plans, it would have been all up with Mr. GL A.DSTONE in that venerable seat of learning. Further, had BERNAL OSBORNE'S new berth rendered it necessary for him to abdicate, he would no more have come in again for Middlesex than your correspondent, who has been out of Parliament for a good many years, and does not mean to return to it. I give no opinion one way or the other, I state facts as regards Oxford and Middlesex, to show that the coalition-cab has it not all its own way. Who .card of the famous " battle of the wigs" ars' Opera ? " There appears to be three 'POOL STANDARD, TUESDAN, JANUARY COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS. market is steady, and rather more doing in several descriptions, at previous prices. By auction this morning, 1050 bags Bengal Rice were taken chiefly at 12s. to 12s. 3d., including some broken at 11s. 6d. per cwt., also 1000 bags Saltpetre at 235. to 295. 6d. for 4 to 21 per cent. refraction, being a decline of Is. per cwt. We have also to report 50 tons St. Domingo Logwood at £5 per ton, and 950 bags Myrabolams at 9s. 6d. per cwt. MONDAY NIGHT. THE anticipation that the Directors of the Bank of England would make a further advance in the minimum rate of discount, was fully realised on Thursday, when it was announced that it had been increased from two and a half to three per cent. The first effect was a decline in the value of public securities, which have since slightly rallied, The London discount houses have also increased their charge for accommodation, and most of the joint stock banks made a corresponding advance in the interest allowed on deposits. It is now pretty clearly ascertained that this step on the part of the bank directors has been chiefly induced by the ex travagant speculations in Paris to keep up the value of the French funds, for which a constant drain was kept up on the bank coffers. This has now subsided, and the rapid fall of all kinds of French securities shows the effect of the operation. Another cause, to which we previously alluded, was the mania for speculation for Iron, particularly in Scotch pigs, and this has so far been checked that that article has fallen nearly thirty per cent. in value. It is gratifying that, in the staple articles of commerce, trade is in a healthy condition, and no fears are at present entertained of any disturbance, as prices generally have not been materially affected by the late movement in the Money market. Even in Railway shares, which are sensitive of monetary changes, the fluctuations seem to have been in. a great measure influenced by questions affecting their intrinsic value as means of investment; and this is so far satisfactory, as it serves to show that operations have been mostly of a bona fide character. In the Cotton trade especially there has been considerable firmness ; and the ad vance which was anticipated last week has been realised to the extent of fully 1-d. on the lower, and id. per lb. on the better qualities of American, while the amount of business transacted has been on the increase. This has been in a great measure owing to the recent advices from America lowering the inflated notions of an excessive crop, and also to the activity in the manufacturing districts, where the demand has been on the advance. With reference to the supply of the precious metals, the Bank returns in Friday's Gazette show an amount of £19,148,507, and since then there have been re ceipts to the value of about a quarter of a million. With reference to the effect of further large supplies much speculation has been indulged in, and writers on the subject have ventured on some extreme the ories, for which they have but little foundation. There can he little doubt but that the receipt into this country of the large quantities discovered and expected to be discovered in the gold fields of Aus tralia, may have some effect in increasing our ex port trade, and consequently of enhancing prices in some degree ; but any comparison of the results with the large supplies from America more than a century since is altogether futile, inasmuch as the circumstances and mode of conducting business are very dissimilar. At that time, owing to the low state of commercial credit, payments were chiefly made in specie, which thus formed an important element in trade, whereas now the precious metals constitute but the small change of our home trade, and are required but for the balance of our Foreign Commerce. The establishment of Joint Stock Banks, and the more general adoption of banking operations, has done in a considerable degree for England what a greater extension of the same system has done for Scotland, and made the expan sion of trade less dependent upon a surplus supply of sovereigns. The anticipated excess may have, however, stimulated unprofitable speculation, but will most probably find its exercise in the increased demand for real property, which appears to be the predominant desire in the possessors of realized wealth. In the meantime the demand for our pro ductions will keep pace with the increasing re sources of the gold-finders; and England, in her Australian colonies, find a ready and profitable market, which will find full employment for the industrious at home. The sales of colonial Wool are announced for the 10th of next month, and it is expected that about 35,000 bales will be brought forward, of which the greater part is from Australia. Recent advices from that quarter remove any im mediate apprehension of a falling off in the supply, but complaints are made that prices here are not adequate to the increased rate of wages in the colony. This, however, is a drawback which the vast amount of emigration will greatly, if not alto gether, remove. COTTON.—The reports per Atlantic, received last week, confirmed the accounts per Canada of higher prices and decreased estimates of the crop, and under the influeuce of these advices our market has shown much more steadiness, and holders being indifferent sellers, an advance of -1., d. per lb. was obtained in the middling and lower descriptions, and id. in the better qualities of American. But this improvement must be looked upon with caution, as there is only a certain quantity of good American cotton each year, and at this period the exporters invariably come forward and pick it up, and hold it over for spring shipment. The stoic is large, fifty per cent. heavier than last year, and the quantity on the way considerable, and the probable stock on the Ist May is variously estimated at 900,000 to 1,000,000 bales, and present prices Id. per lb. higher than this time last year ; so that any advance taking place now, could not but act preju dicially on all concerned in the import and con sumption of this great staple, for it would only push up prices in the " States," and let the Americans realise high prices for the remaining half of their crop, which they have most un doubtedly done with the first, to the cost of many of our merchants, and spinners particularly. Ex porters have operated freely in the better qualities of Pernams, at steady prices, but in consequence of a desire to sell Maccio, they have been taken in quantity by the trade, at easier rates. Egyptian has been in better demand, and is more regular in price. For East India the inquiry is extensive, and the lower qualities command much higher prices. Speculators have taken 9,400 American, 870 Egyp tian, and 820 Surat; and there are reported for export, 3,330 American, 950 Pernatn, 160 Egyptian, 2,200 Surat and 100 Madras. The demand on Friday continued good, and the sales reached 6,000 bales, at steady rates, including 1,000 on speculation and for export. On Saturday the business amounted to 6,000 bales, including 1,000 on specu lation and export. Since then the same feeling has been observable, and a good demandappearing from spinners, as well as from exporters and speculators, prices are rather dearer. TO-DAY the market con tinues steady ; the sales have been 7,000 bales, of which 1,500 are reported on speculation and for export, at very firm prices. SALES. IMPO Week Previ- Week ending ously lending Jan.2l. this yr.Jan.2l. d. d. Sea Island !l9 @3O 320 530, Stained ' 6 8i loi 60 4381 Boweds 4 65 12660' 18170' Mobile 45 6 4580 5830; 1 16537 New Orleans. 45 75 24600 38860 J } 9 940! 1.3' , 0 1 } 6460 e r r a n c a a t m i , s ec . c 6 65 -1 Bahia, &c. 5i 65 2446' 2340, 5730' ' Maranham 5,1 320 9io } Sawginned. Demerara,&.c Egyptian Barhadoes Peruvian Laguayra Com.W.l.&c. Carthagena Smyrna Manilla Surat Madras Bengal - -I DESCRIPTION.I PRICES This 1 STOCK "ear. Ilan. 21 335200 solo; 19560 83711 2200( ....II 19961 3460' 5831 } 250' 2.57 4990 4i 7100 - I 100 5090 ). 2712 1 620 58390 78600 41731 603990 WooL.—Both here and in the Yorkshire markets the wool trade has been rather quieter during the past week, owing chiefly to the stocks in the hands of the dealers being much reduced, and to the high rates asked for the small quantity offered. The prospects of the trade are however good, and holders are expecting higher rather than lower rates. Messrs Greame and Co., in their report state that the supply at present is quite unequal to the requirement. The increased specu lative demand has rendered the position of the manufacturer very difficult, the rise in the price of manufactured goods being very far from 'equal to that of the raw material, and unless they can obtain something like an equi valent improvement in yarns and goods, the late extreme rates must tend to curtail production ; in the meantime, however, the prospect of current rates being fully supported is pretty certain, and the present eager demand for all sorts of clean low Wool, is likely to continue, at any rate until a more plentiful supply is obtainable. There has been some large sales this week, both for export and home consumption, and to arrive, chiefly in Douskoi, Crimea, Egyptian, Turkey, Peruvian, &c. ; the market is again almost cleared until new arrivals, which are anxiously looked for. IRON.—The market for Scotch Pig Iron has. taken the turn which we predicted, and we have again to quote a considerable decline in price. About the middle of December last the quotations were from 765. 6d. to 80s. per ton, and no later than Friday last it was sold at - 555. 6d, since which it has rallied, and to-day sold at 65-s, and closed at 61s. per ton,—a price no less fictitious than that obtained in December. At SOs. men were sanguine enough to imagine it would reach 100 s. and nos., and many backed their opinion both by betting and purchasing the article, and to-day the buyers at 655. were purchasing in the belief that they will again see the prices from which it had fallen—an error which many persons will find no less serious than absurd. For with the following statistics it is only a question of time as to. when Scotch Pigs shall sell at 48s. a figure at which the manufacturers can now afford to supply it, and get a very fair profit. Something under twelve months since they were supplying freely at 355. 6d. per ton, and although wages have advan:ed in Scotland. they have not done so at the some ratio as in Staffordshire ; nor does coal:form such a desideratum in the former as the latter place, added to which the chief production of the Scotch works is Pig Iron, whilst that of Staffordshire is Malleable Iron, upon which the great run has been made. The great argument of speculators in Pig Iron is, the compara tive prices between Scotch pigs and railwag bars six months ago, and relative values this day—a comparison of no value, so long as the stock of the raw material is larger, and can be supplied in superabundance, at a much lower price than the quotations of the day, and leave the supplier a handsome profit. With manufactured iron it is very different, as makers are full of orders for some time at the rates of the day ;.in the one case the price is legitimate, in the other absurd, because the consumption of the latter is not equal to the production of last year, when prices were 355. W., and what comparison the present consumption will bear to the present production, with such an inducement to increase the :hake as present prices offer, may be easily imagined. The Return from the Bank of England for the week ending the 15th January gives the following results when compared with the previous week : Public deposits .. £4,939,878; Decrease £832,036 Other deposits .. 13,284,158 ; Decrease 1,026,490 Rest .. 3,208,878; Increase 32,259 On the other side of the account — Government securities £13,870,796 ; the same as before. Other securities .. 14,157,548 ; Decrease.. 863,005 Notes unemployed .. 9,004,185; Decrease. 805,295 The amount of notes in circulation is £23,661,370, being an increase of £300,685 ; and the stock of bullion in both departments is £19,148,507, show ing a decrease of £617,114 when compared with the preceding return. ISSUE DEP. Notes issued £32,663,555 ARTMENT Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin & bu1n.18,645,401 Silver bullion .. 19,154 .E 32,665,555 £32,665,555 BANKING D-E PARTMENT. Prop.'s capital.il4,s3,oOo -- d-O;:Secn;ities..£ l3,B7o,796 Rest .. Public deposits. 4,939,878 Notes Other deposits . 13,284,158 Gold & silt'. coin 482,952 7-day, &c. bills. 1,529,567 £37,513,481 £37,515,481 Our SHARE MARKET was very much depressed at the early part of the past week, in anticipation of the further raising of the rate by the Bank. Prices, however, reached their lowest point on, the day of the meeting of the directors. Since that day (Thursday) there have been symptoms of returning confidence, and prices each day have steadily ad vanced. Money, too, is becoming more easy, and from all appearances in this market, the account of the Bank will soon be forgotten. We annex this day's prices :.-Chester and Birkenhead, 22; Cale donians, 34-- 3 ; Eastern Counties, 12 7 7 i-; East Lan cashire, 181; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 7914 80 79} 80 791 80 791 ?,- 1,-; London stock, 1211- ; Sheffield stock, 301 1; ditto £6 new pref.,lp; Midland stock, 78 * 8 ; North British, 9 1-16 ; Dover stock, 24 3i ; York and North Midland, 274 ; Dutch Rhenish, 2d. PRODUCE.-The market for Sugar has continued in its previous quiet state, and prices generally have undergone a decline of 6d. per cwt. ; the sales are Confined to 350 hogsheads British plantation, 4,000 bags Bengal, and 1,350 bags Madras, the latter from 30s. 9d. to 345. Foreign has been in fair demand all the week, but without any improvement in prices; the sales on the spot are 70 cases, 2,100 bags brown Brazil, from 16s. 9d. to 18s. 3d., and 180 boxes yellow Havana, at 21s. to 225.; a cargo of brown Pernambuco has been sold, deliverable at an outport, at 18s. per cwt. from the Queen's beam, and likewise one of yellow Havana, the particulars of which have not transpired. Molasses : No sales reported. In Coffee the business is quite unim portant, being confined to a few casks Jamaica, at 40s. to 545. per cwt. In Cocoa, Ginger, Pepper, or Pimento, nothing of interest has been done. Rice : The market is without change, and about 3,000 pockets Bengal have been disposed of, at 12s. 6d. for good white, also 80 tierces Carolina, with all faults, at 20s. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt. Rum : Holders having shown more disposition to meet the trade, the sales have been 550 puncheons Demerara, at rather easier prices. Tea : Several parcels of new blacks and greens have been taken by the trade, out of recent arrivals, at fair prices; but there has been very little done in old Teas, and rates are barely supported. On Wednesday, 23 chests Madras Indigo were offered, but only 16 chests sold, at 4s. 6d. per lb.; 100 hales Gambier have also been taken at 245., and a few tons Cutch at 255.; 10 chests fine Gum Arabic at 575., 40 bales Munjeet at 405., 200 bags Sago Flour at 225. 6d. to 225. 9d., 220 boxes Pearl Sago at 19s. to 205., about 1,000 bags Myrabolams, at Bs. to 10s. 6d., 350 slabs Straits Tin, to arrive, at 98s. per cwt., and a few cases Castor Oil at 4d. per lb. The market for Olive Oil has continued in an excited state, and about 200 tuns have been sold during the week, including more than half to arrive, establishing a further advance of £1 to £2 per tun. The market for Tallow is dull, and Petersburg yellow candle is rather lower, having been sold at 465. 6d. in small lots, and there are now sellers at 465. 3d.; 120 casks South American sold at 455. 6d. to 465. per cwt. 2,500 bales Jute have changed hands at very extreme prices, from £l5 15s to £lB 10s. per ton. To-DAY there has been rather more doing in Sugar, but without any improvement in prices ; the sales, iueluding Saturday's business, consisting of 100 hhds. Barbadoes at 355. to 38s. 6d., 4250 mats Mauritius at 345. 6d. from the quay, and 300 bags and brls. Pernams at 195. 6d. to 20s. per cwt. for yellow to low white. Of Rum, 110 puns. Demerara have found purchasers, without change. The Tea 1849. 1850. 1851. 1852. Tons. Tons. Tons. Tons. Production —.692,000 .. 630,000 .. 775,000 .. 775,000 Foreign } 153 183 134 574 192,670 .. 224,070 Shipments "" ' " ' • Coastwise i Shipments f " • ' 221 ' 943 Stock, 31st Dec.. 200,000 190,083 260,050 199,950 275,003 350,000 , 50,000 From this statement it will be seen that, notwithstanding the high rate of freight, foreign shipments have consider ably increased, whilst the opinion is that they have decreased. Those coastways have decreased about 60,000 tons, yet the decrease has been compensated by the over delivery by land carriage. The pro duction is equal to that of 1851, and greater than that of 1849 and 1850, and at the present price it will, no doubt, be very much augmented, as new furnaces are being put in blast every day, and it will not be a matter of surprise if the production of 1853 should amount to 900,000 tons. The stock of 1852 is 100,000 tons over that of 18M, although we find the production no greater, but the same in both years. Many of the banks who advanced on pigs are giving notice that the warrants must be taken up—and as a natural consequence these lots will come upon the market ; whilst speculation will be crippled, and the price must work to something like an intrinsic value. It is the interest of those who are large holders to bolster up the market by making still larger purchases, and when they find they can reduce the loss which the late decline has entailed upon them, they will, as the London Times quaintly expressed it some time since, " walk quietly out," and leave the pigs in the hands of a class of uninitiated and unfortunate speculators, and the casualties of 1845 will be enacted. THE MADIAI.—An enthusiastic " Indignation " meet ing was held in Birmingham on Friday, and a strong pro test made against Itomish persecution. THE GRANITE CITY, one of the finest clippers yet built, has been launched at Aberdeen, for the East India and China trade. She will carry 1,400 tons. THE QUEEN has directed letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, appointing Arthur, Duke of Wel lington, blaster of the Horse to Her Majesty. DOWLAIS IRON WORKS.—The men have sent notice to their employers that their wages must be raised after the middle of March. The colliers also in the same dis trict are agitating for an advance. The EARL OF BEAUCHAMP died on Saturday, at his residence in Portman -square, at the age of 60. He has left no issue, and the title descends to General Lygon, M.P. for Worcestershire. COLLIERY ACCIDENT.--A frightful accident occurred on Friday, at the New Cottam coal-pit, near the Ecking ton station, on the Midland Railway. An iron ring attached to the wire rope snapped, and seven men were killed. CAPE MAIL.—The General Screw Steam-shipping Company's mail packet Lady Jocelyn, Commander Stu art, arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Monday). Her dates are—Calcutta, Nov. 15 ; and Table Bay ; Dee. 16 ; but her news is not important, 70530' 25, 1853. SECO #ND EDITION. Standard-office ; Two o'clock BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH .1 TUESDAY AFTERNOON FRANCE. PARIS, MONDAY. A Btiii further decline in funds, Four-and-a-Half per Cents 20 centimes, Three per Cents 40 centimes lower, closing 104 80, 79 80. PENINSULAR MAILS The Tagus steam-ship, with the above mails, arrived at Southampton at 5 o'clock this morning. Her advices from Gibraltar are to the 15th instant ; Cadiz, 16th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo, 20th. The Tagus brings a large cargo of fruit and specie, value £3,371. The breaking of the main shaft on the 22 , 1 is the cause of her late arrival. Lisbon : Exchange on London 54.1, for bills at 90 days The mails left Southampton by the 6 40 a.m. train LONDON. Taos MARKET.—Scotch Pig showed considerable reco very yesterday from the recent fall. Many buyers of Pig at 655. per ton, and no sellers under GGs. The Times says the English manufacturing towns' report again indi cated, from the slight effect produced by the further rise in the rate of discount, the healthful state of affairs that prevails generally. LONDON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET. THIS DAY, ONE O'CLOCK. THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 99 ; Ditto for Money, 994 ; Three and Quarter per Cents., 1031-y ; Exchequer Bills, L and S, 57 61. RAILWAY SHARES. —London Stock, 1201 20 ; Mid land Stock, 771 I- ; North Staffordshire, 13a ; Great Northern, 761, A 401. MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. East Lancashire, 181; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 79 ; London stock. 1201 20; Midland, 771 ; Dovers, 23,1 ; Preston and \%yre A halves, 111. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY. NOON QUOTATIONS. Lancashire and Yorkshire, 7SI ; London stock, 1191 Rovers, 231; Sheffield pref., 11 ; N".-Western, 8 1-16. SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. Kossuth, from Calcutta ; and Elizabeth, from Coringa, both at Deal, 24th instant. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET The market was held this morning, for the first time, in the new building in Brunswick-street. There was a good attendance of buyers, and an average amount of business was done in Wheat and Flour, at fully the closing prices of last week. Oats and Oatmeal, as well as Indian Corn, had a downward tendency, the turn being in favour of the buyer. In other articles we have no alteration to note. ,---THIS DAY. THE PRINCE ARTHUR EMIGRANT SHIP. This fine vessel left the Canning Basin on Friday morning, her total number of passengers being 520 souls, equal to 458 adults. In consequence of the confusion ordinary on starting so large a vessel, a few of the pas sengers experienced some discomfort, and, to the surprise of every one concerned, a letter appeared in the ,4//!pit, making complaints of the treatment received. Some inquiry took place, and we give the following letter, signed by the same individuals who signed the letter of com plaint : TO WM. SHARP, ESQ., 31. M. WALTHEW, ESQ., AND CAPTAIN SUTHERLAND. DEAR SlRS,—Hearing you are aggrieved by the letter in the Albion, we beg most distinctly to absolve you from any blame ; and, from what has since occurred, we think that all will pass pleasantly with the passengers on board the Prince Arthur.—We are, dear Sirs, yours', obediently, LEWIS SAMPSON. Jan. 24, 1353, War. AUSTIN. On board the Prince Arthur, off the Bell Buoy. The Prince Arthur sailed yesterday, for Melbourne, with a fair wind. THE MASONIC BALL.—The preparations are going for ward with vigour, and already the application for tickets have been numerous. Amongst the visitors who have promised their attendance, are Lord and Lady Comber mere, the Hon. Major and Mrs. Wellington Cotton, and the Hon Miss Cotton, the Rev. Gilmore Robinson, D.P.G.M., West Lancashire, Mr; Stephen Blair, D. G.M., East Lancashire, Mr. Matthew Dawea, P.P.G.S.W., East Lancashire, Mr. Thomas Litt!edale, P.G.J.W., West Lancashire, Mr. Albert H. Royd, P.G.J.W., East Lan cashire, Mr. W. C. Cruttenden. P.G.R., Cheshire, and Sir Joshua Walmsley, Knight, M.P. MALICIOUSLY STABBING.—On Thursday, Timothy Conolly was committed to trial for maliciously stabbing Henry Doubleday, under the following circumstances : Conolly is a carter, in the employ of William Mooney, and resides in No. 6 court, Blackstock•street, and on Wednes day afternoon v, as engaged, along with the prisoner and two other men, in emptying a midden attached to Mr. Lane's brewery, in Oriel-street. Between two and three o'clock Mooney came into the yard, and finding the men not at work, he complained, upon which the prisoner be came angered, and demanded his wages. Mooney asked the prisoner to resume his work, but, instead of doing so, the prisoner seized him by the collar, struck him, and tore his coat. Doubleday and the other men, on witnessing this, went to the assistance of Mooney, upon which Conolly seized a " yielve," or manure fork, and struck Doubleday on the body with it, two of the prongs of the fork inflicting large wounds on the breast. An officer was called, and the prisoner was given into custody. The prisoner, in ex tenuation of the offence, said Mooney had used abusive words to him, and when he (the prisoner) asked him to pay him, and allow him to go, if he was dissatified, Mooney struck him in the eye with a brick, and in making a blow at him with a fork, it struck Doubleday. A BRACE OF BORES.—In every society you will find a person who will talk and a person who will interrupt. The worst is, the one is not a corrective of the other, for the talkative bore invariably talks when he is not wanted to talk., and the interruptative bore will interrupt at the very period when he is least wanted to interrupt.—Punch. THE ACHILLI CASE.—The application for a new trial in the case of Achilli v. Newman has been argued before the Court of Queen's Bench, and the judgment postponed. FREEMASONRY.—On Thursday, the usual monthly meeting of the Ancient Union Lodge, 24.5, of Freemasons, was held at the Royal Hotel, Dale-street, when Brother Charles Hand was installed as worshipful master for the present year ; Brother R. Shaw was appointed senior warden, and Brother Thomas Simpson as junior warden. The worshipful master Brother Hand addressed the lodge upon the principles of Freemasonry, and referred to the course he should pursue in order to develope as fully as possible the virtues of Masonry. His views were warmly supported by several old and respected masons. GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A somewhat serious accident occurred on the Great Northern line on Friday, to the train which leaves Leeds at 12.40 p.m. The train had arrived near Womersley-station, about ten miles north of Doncaster, when by some means, not yet accounted for, the engine got off 'the line, and, after ploughing up the earth for some yards, brought the carriages to a standstill by a violent shock, which greatly alarmed and partially injured the passengers, of whom there were about 20 in th e train. To the engine -driver and stoker the consequences were more serious, the right lag of the former being greatly mutilated, and the latter being very much bruised and hurt. They are both now lying at Womersley. A horse, in a horse-box, next the engine, was so scalded and muti lated, that it had to be killed on the spot. All the passen gers were greatly terrified, but as yet we have not learnt hat any of them had sustained any injury. Th 3 debris of he train still remain on the line. RATHER.. TOO NICE.—A strict teetotaller of our ae quaintance lately refused a most eligible match, on the ground that the young lady had such an amazing flow of animal'spirits. AN latsramANT who had married when he was about nineteen years of age, complaining of the difficulties to which his early marriage subjected him, said " he would never marry so young again, if he lived to be as old as Mothusalem." iANECDOTE Or THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.—In the divisions of Ayrshire called Kyle and Cuninghame, where his Grace's estates are situated, many anecdotes are cur rent which illustrate the kindliness of his noble nature, and his sympathy for the humble poor. Often, while spending a portion of the summer at one of his country seats, he would wander out in a suit of homely grey cloth, just like a decent farming-man, and thus mingling with the people incognito, he learned not a few of those trials and sorrows which he had it in his power to alle viate. One forenoon he was forced by a sudden shower to take age in a cottar's house, where the gudewife was busily engaged in the manufacture of oaten cakes ; and as ho seemed a " decent, weelfaured body," to adopt her own words, the frank but unsuspecting dame entered warmly into conversation with her visitor—gave him a good seat by the fire—proffered him a piece of her oat en cake—and became wondrously familiar on the subject of her poor husband John, " a man wha had been in his Grace's service for three-and-thretty years, and wha, though sairly bowed down and bent, bad to work in these a'-day rains, else his wages wad be stopped ; which, of course, he was ower puir to afford." The rain still con tinuing, and apparently not intending to stop in a hurry, the stranger solicited the loan of an umbrella, as he was desirous of walking to his destination, a mile or two dis tant. The good woman thought this a bold stroke rather for one she had never seen before; but expressing her belief in the plainest Scotch that be had " a gag honest looking face," she, after a slight hesitation, went the length of risking the big family umbrella with him. An hour afterwards a servant on horseback returned the precious article along with " hi s G rac e's compliments." As may be imagined, the hone s t d am e felt all of a flutter,and at night, when John came h o me, she told him the tale, asking for advice as to how she might rectify the terrible blunder, which the poor folks imagined would do them serious harm. Their fears, happily, proved ground less ; and when the faithful old cottager was sent for by the agent, at the end of the week, it was to hear the agreeable tidings that, by orders of the Duke, he was t o have a pension for the remainder of his life equal to his earnings, and that he would be expected only to do little odd turns about the property when he had n mind so to do.—Notes from the North. LATEST INTELLIGENCE MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 24. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII FRANCE PARIS, SUNDAY.—The name of the Empress vras 04 mentioned in the Emperor's speech, on Saturday. The Monifeur add 3, that the C oun t ess d e T e ba is l' °l lady. The religious ceremony will take place on the 30th. A rumour is generally current of the probability of decrees. One, enabling the exiled generals to returllA, France. The other, restoring to the Orleans falai 41 proceeds of the property belonging to Louis Philippe , Generally speaking, the Imperial speech has creill favourable impressions The Globe's correspondent says it was rumoured generally, on Saturday, that the Government had recce s despatches from Rome, stating that the Pope has ha / attack of apoplexy, and is dangerously ill, This lll ° requires confirmation. LONDON. (From the Sun's City Article,) A report has been very generally current this moraili, that a coup d'etat has been effected at Madrid, and t!, has caused a great sensation among the holders of SOO Bonds ST. PETIIRSUCIRGII, JAN', 11.—The weather contitit i very mild. (From the Globe.) It is currently- reported in political circles, that ? fro / the observations recently made by a certain Scotch I ° l ', on the hustings to his constituents, and charging a rW hon. gentleman and ex-secretary with having used u-nd r influences at recent elections,—a hostile message has he l o i sent by the latter to the former; but the result of , correspondence which has. taken place we a re unable' the present moment to lay before our readers. FUNDS, STOCK, AND SHARE MARKET. The English Market was pretty good in the morning, 11 . f the fluctuations in French shares caused a feeling of heavi ll 7, towards the close.—The tone of the Railway Market is scarO! so good; sales preponderating, and prices close with littlest': oration.—Gold Mines, generally, a shaablower ; little doit Land Shares flat.—Bank Shares fairly supported.—The Ford Market presents no feature of interest. PRICES. Bank Stock Excheq. Bills,. L. K. S. STOCKS. Spanish P.2ssiv'es Turkish SHARES. Great Western ... 69, Lanc. and Yorkshire 78 Do. Fifths - London, Brighton, and South Coast 10+ 2 a p London & S. Western 89 ' York, Newcastle, and Berwick . . 69,,41 Do. Extension• Do. Preference 7:: eh York and N. Midland' 5 3 1 Norfolks Leeds Northern North British ;IA Do. Preference 10 3 Shrewsbury, A 69 I Do. B Caley Preference 30 1 74 6 76 7 40 2 11 2 MINING SHARES. A. Californian B. Australian . Freehold Australasian , Colonial Mariposa HARE*. Van Dieman's. Yuba 1519 1 1 0 3 4 9 69 5111;515 Beef..., ASuttcn• CLOSING Consols, Account .. l 99i Do. Money.... f Three&QrperCents.. 103 :Mexicans FOREIGN 22z 4i Do. Threes — Spanish New Deferred 22 Do. Threes 46 7 RAILWAY 120 1 London Stock Do. Quarters Midland Stock .. Do. H alves.. North Staffordshire.. 44 4 S. Eastern and Dover 79i 80j Amberq.,Nottinghain, and L . :Junction.— Caledonian Do. Preference 105 7 Eastern Counties East Lancash;re' 73 5 Manches., Sheff., and Lincoln Shire Edinburgh & Glasgow Great Northern Do. Do. East Anglian Noveau Monde Agua Fria Cordeliera ..., Ave Maria Carson's Creek Port Philip Australian Agricultural i 1 .20 30 South Australian .... 49 51 CORN MARKET. Supplies increasing. English Wheat at the commencem e n t fully as dear, but, afterwards, trade became flat, at Monda)., rates. Foreign steady.—Flour dull of sale.--English BarleYl; sold slowly, but is not lower in price. —Oats are flat, and' come instances, 63. to Is. per qr. cheaper. No change sil le first report ARRIVALS. English. .. 8266 Nneat Barley Oats .. Malt .. Beaus Peas .. Flour . Foreign 10659 9357 6659 /1889 830 500 5209 Scotch Harley. 2350 1044 12605 PRODUCE MARKET. Sugar: A good demand for Foreign, at previous pri Ces ; Yellow Havana, for export, 205. to 225. 6d. Refined : fl, et goody more in demand ; Brown Lumps, 44 5 . t o 44 5 . 6d.-0)°,1, dull ; Native Ceylon, new import, 46s.—Tea : A.briskerdeM sn o at late prices; ordinary Congou,lod. to 10$d4—Rice sells 1 11° freely; White Bengal, Ils. to in fair demand , t il e , rates- are well sustained.—lndigo : L ess d eman d , b u t cline.—Tallow dull; fine Y.C.„.455. 6(1. TALLOW MARKET. Stock, 43,748 casks, against 59,244 last year ;being a deCr e f this year of 15,452 casks. The deliveries amo un t t o 2,045 ca , '" against 2,643 casks last year ; decrease this year, 598 cola. CATTLE MARKET. Beasts sold readily at Monday's prices. Sheep 2d. per st oll9 - Calf trade brisk, at 4d. per stone advance. .2sGdto4s Od j Lamb Os Gd to O. 10 3 s 4d to 5s 2d I Pork Veal 3s Od to 5s 01. 4170 I Calves.... .._ 17660 I Pigs ARRIVALS. Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and North ampton Beasts Scotch Beasts Holland Beasts Do. Sheep Do. Calves French Sheep.. Beasts. _ Sheep and Lambs MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE- fs ; Closing quotations :—Cheshire Junction., 7-16 1 " t- g d Caledonians, 32i; Eastern COlinties, 131; LanCaSli tre 0s Yorkshire, 79i ; London and North Western, 121#; """ a Chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 304 , ; Midlands, . I° t i Shrewsbury, 70; South Eastern and Dover, 23k; Austral'' Freehold,• par. LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE. Carson's Creek, 1-16th par; London and N. Western, 1_221 COLONEL Bo OVERIF. will be succeeded in the coral: o9 of the Horse Guards by the Earl of Cardigan. ij DR. PEREIRA, the celebrated physician, died suddeo on Thursday, from some internal disease. He was / 11 49th year. 0 ( DOVER CLIFF.-011 Thursday, about 10,000 to o9 l # chalk fell from the cliff' at Dover, doing conside rs damage to several buildings. No lives were lost. 8 0 AURICULAR CONFESSION.—A large meeting was li ed on Friday, at Exeter, and a petition to the Queen ag ree" to, against a return to Roman doctrines and practices. Yl THE Coleraine Chronicle- announces the deathrto Greenlough, near Portlegnors, of Polly Diamond , TO 102nd year of her age. She lived in the reign of British Sovereigns. t 0: 00; SOUTHERN WHALE FISHERY.—On Monday, issu oial meeting of this company, it was d ec ided; .r s, tO £20,000, in debentures at 6 per cent. for three _ meet the liabilities of the company. passengers AN AUSTRALIAN NA-BOR.—AI-non the nip° arrived at Southampton in the India mail steamer x n a mo untingt mau firom te Azs s t , r o a o l Aust ralia, b w y h g o ol l d ias de m al a in de is a itt r e t yr fwcooaruPst country. PLYMOUTH . OUTH GARRISON. Major-General Sir . 1 1, Rolt, K.C.8., has resigned the office of Commander-lair Chief of the Western District, and is succeeded by Harry G. B'. Smith, Bart., G.C.8., the hero of Ali° and Sobraon. • tO DEATH, IN PRISON —On Wednesday, a prisoner 1 0 4 Borough Goal, named John Callaghan, died of epiler,d When his mother was called in to see the dead bqou her son, she clasped her hands and passionately ejacuM; th l "He was the sixteenth child. It is painful to a ractS feelings. He was a bad, wild lad ; but thank my ge e Redeemer Redeemer that he has taken him from me !" AN AMERICAN MOTHER.—The New York / 1 1 0 contains the following advertisement :--" Any person j wishes to adopt a male infant as their own, three 'Oa' old, and of very fine appearance, cm have one by sat' t ing the mother that it will be taken care of. Such s ;t e l , son may apply to, or address immediately, Mrs CO at 8, Heineman's, 88, Broome-street," S HIPBUIL DING IN NEW YORK. — At M`Kay , s alf; yard, East Boston. there are two large packet-vessel 9 lei the stocks for the Messrs. Train and Co. They are tAa tined for the Liverpool line. They will be of 2,00 0 ;Di each, and hear the names of the Star of Empire, Chariot of Fame. We are too top-luftical in our reat i t e of styling, too poetical and melo-dramatic, too starat, empirical. The English way of doing these thing', much more subdued and eligible. Their great shiP s called after great mountains, or divisions of the g lobe s uch a way that all the vesse l s o f th e li ne h ave a 0 , r ot., distinguishing like ness , as regar d s nomenotbir Chariot of Fame is a mi g hty odd name f o r a besides, it makes three words, whereas one vvo,t t id always best for such baptisms. But we are a 1 ,0 "'„a" people, soaring and salient by nature and circurnst 3 " --American paper. LIVERPOOL TUESDAY, JANUARY 25 , 135 3 ' PRINTED AND PUBLISHED s ef EVERY TUESDAY MORNI BY THE PROPRIETOR, ROBERT PEARSON THACO' ' OF No. 7, PERCY-STREET, AT THE ,fCS STANDARD GENERAL PRINTING Orr' No. 4, ST. GEORGE'S CRESCENT, LIVERPOOL. ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION: 05 a IN kroIANCE WSt ON ........ 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