The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-08-07 00:00:00

no. 126 8
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13 Leeds Northern
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Australian Agricultural 'Peel River
S. Australian Invest.... South Australian
Crystal Palace
On 'Change, Linseed 0.11 dull at 435. on the spot ; Tallow,
655. 6d. ; Scotch Pig Iron, 735. 6d. to 745. ; Spelter, £23;
Cotton inaAive. Sugar and Coffee quiet but firm.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—(From Kingsford and Lay's
Circular.)— The accounts of the Wheat, Rye, and Potato crops
being bad from the Baltic, and very good from America—
English being extremely contradictory—the supply of English
Wheat was moderate, but, added to that left over from last
week, made a large show ; a few samples sold at the opening
at about 3s. decline, at which the remainder was offered with-
out tempting buyers. In Foreign only one or two retail sales
at about a similar reduction ; millers holding quite aloof, and
the majority of holders being careless of realising at the re-
duction. Barley, Is. cheaper, with a better demand for grind-
ing. Beans and Peas unaltered. Oats sell slowly at last
week's rates. In Flour little doing; country marks are 2s.
per sack lower. A few samples of Rape and Canary Seed :
Rape brought £.40 to £42 per last. Canary, es. to 445. per

CWt. ARRIVALS.
English. Irish. Scotch. Foreign.
:heat .......... 1836 50 . 10207
Barley .......... 3819
2303 192 50 Malt ............
Oats ............22 5726 4065 23843
Beans .......... 269 600
Peas ............ 37 1225
Flour ..........

MR TROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.—Beast trade not so
good, the supply being large. Lambs and Calves maintained
Friday's prices. Beef, 44 2d to 6s 2d ; Mutton, 4s to 5s 4d ;
Veal, 3s 8d to ss; Pork, 4s 2d to ss; Lambs, es to es 2d.
Beasts, 3,937 ; Sheep and Lambs, 25,120 ; Calves, 282 ; Pigs,
620. Arrivals : Holland Beasts, 1,239 ; Ditto Sheep, 980 ;
Ditto Calves, 221; Ditto Pigs, 340; Spanish Beasts, 204;
Ditto Sheep, 480 ; Scotch Beasts, 220 ; Norfolk and Suffolk
Beasts, 500; Cambridge, Leicester, Lincoln, and Northamp-
ton Beasts, 900.
LONDON PRODITCE MARKET.—Business is small but holders
Arm, and obtained full rates for Tea, Coffee, Rice, and Spirits.
For Ails many buyers. Tallow is quiet but not cheaper :
Stock, 40.20 mks, against 33,987 casks last year; deliveries,
1,782 casks, against 946 Oslo last year.
GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET,—The market is steady at
735. 9d. ; rasher sellers.
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shire, 811 ; Midland, 70.1 i; District Bank, 81- pm.
WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.—London, Newcastle,
Dover, York, wind S.E., Hull, N.E., Lancaster, W., dull;
Dublin, S.E., Haverfordwest, S.W., much rain; Whitehaven,
Nottingham, S.E., Brighton, S., Southampton, N.E., Carlisle,
W., cloudy ; Leicester, Derby, Darlington, S.E., Plymouth
S., Leeds, N.E., Manchester, Stoke, W., Exeter, S.W., rain ;
Great Grimsby, Bath, Perth, Berwick, S.E., Edinburgh, E.,
Glasgow, N.E., Scarborough, Whitby, N.W., Sunderland,
Dundee, S.W., Hague, N.E., fine ; Bristol, S., unsettled.

RIPON RACES.
Trial Stakes—Hospodar, Ist. Two-year-old Stake—Tilly,
Ist. Great St. Wilfred Handicap—Angelo, Ist.

BETTING AT TATTERSALL'S—This DAY.
BR xGrrrox STAKES.-7 to 4 agst Baroncino (2 to 1 tk) ; 5
to 1 agst Quince, tk ; 5 to 1 agst Mishap, tk ; 100 to 15 agst
Winkfield, tk.

BRIOSTON MTBSERY.-5 to 2 agst George Brown, tk.
LE4M-11 to 8 agst Oulston, tk; 20 to 1 agst Noisy,

DERIII,^IO to 1 agst Wentworth; 25 to 1 agst Yellow
Jack; 40 to 1 agst Mario; 40 to 1 agst Van Galen ; 40 to 1
agst Villiers—all taken.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

MONDAY.

Their lordships met •at five o'cloelE.

A conversation arose upon the Limited Liability Bill, which
is fixed for the second reading to-morrow. In the course of
which Lord St. Lrorranns expressed a hope that the measure
would not be pressed this session.
Earl GRANVIL said it would be premature to discuss the
measure now, seeing that it was not formally before the house.
The subject then dropped.

The Marquis of CLINRICA.RDE then moved a resolution to
the effect, that a select committee of the House of Commons
having recommended an immediate amendment of the Sale of
Beer Act,•of 1854,—The circumstances which rendered legis-
lation on the subject of the bill, which had been passed by the
House of Commons. were of such urgency as to render the
immediate consideration of the bill necessary.
Lord RRDESDALE opposed the motion on the ground that
the house ought to adhere to its standing orders, and that
there was no urgency.
Lord LYTTLETON also opposed it.
Earl GRENVILLE supported the motion, urging that as the
resisting law was productive of great inconvenience to the
public, and that as the decisions of the magistrates in putt*
it into force were conflicting it, it was necessary that a change
should be made in the law.

After speeches from the Earl of Shaftesbury, the Earl of
Hardwicke, Lord St. Leonards, and Lord Congleton, the house
divided—

For the motion 25
Against
Majority for
The motion was carried, and the bill was read a second time.
The Militia Ballot Suspension Bill was read a second time.
The Metropolis Local Management Bill was read a third
time and passed.
The Excise Duties Bill passed.
The Turkish Loan Bill, and a number of other bills, passed
through committee.
The Island of Tobago Loan Bill was read a second time.
Their Lordships adjourned at eight o'clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

MONDAY.

The house met at one o'clock.

The Lunatic Asylums (Ireland) Bill, and the Navigation
Works (Ireland) Bills were severally read a third time and
passed. The Diseases Prevention Bill was also read the third
time and passed. The Exchequer Bills (£7,000,000 sterling) Bill
and the Militia Pay Bill passed through committee. The
Appropriation Bill passed through committee. The third read-
ing is appointed for to-morrow.
CRIMINAL JUSTICE BILL.

On the the motion for the third reading of the Criminal
Justice Bill,

Mr. T. CHAMBERS moved that the third reading be deferred
for three months. He stated that this measure made a greater
alteration in the constitutional tribunals of the country than
any that had ever yet passed the legislature, yet it had
hitherto gone through all its stages without discussion ; feel-
ing that it had not been fully considered, he deemed it bis
duty to urge its postponement. The second reading had been
fixed for a day when all the legal members of the house were
absent at the summer assizes, and it was now proposed to
read it a third time when they were absent at the autumn
assizes. The bill has no preamble, but its object was to
diminish the exuenses and delays inempni- +llp nresent cra.
tern. He denied that it would produce either of these results,
but it would throw the fate of, every poor man in the rural
districts, especially, into the hands of the police. They had
already trenched too far upon the system of trial by jury, and
should be very slow to proceed any further in the same direc-
tion. The tribunals under the bill he feared would neither
be competent nor impartial ; they would not raise up the
clergyman of the parish to try the dissenter, nor the squire
to try the poacher. Under all these circumstances, he sincerely
hoped that the house would not sanction the bill, which he
believed to be the worst ever brought before it.
Mr. Kennedy supported the amendment.

The ATTORNEY GENERAL was of opinion that the bill would
be extremely beneficial. It would lead to a great saving of
expense and of time, nor did it violate any constitutional
principle, for the prisoner could not be dealt with under it
except by his own consent. The object was to prevent the
imprisonment of individuals before trial, and it only applied to
petty offences, so that it was idle to say it involved any great
constitutional principles.
Mr. BARROW supported the bill on the ground that no
man ought to be made the inmate of a prison until he had
been convicted.

Mr. McMahon opposed the bill, and it was supported by Mr.
Baines.

The amendment was then negatived without a division, and
the bill was read a third time.

Several new clauses were then moved, and eventually the
debate was adjourned upon one proposed by Mr. M`Mahon,
relative to the right of appeal.
The house then adjourned at 4, until 6 o'clock. The house
resumed at 6 o'clock.

Mr. BRIGHT gave notice that, on the bringing forward of
the Indian Budget to-morrow, he would move a resolution to
the effect that it was desirable to have the returns made up
to a later period than usual, and also that the fanancial state-
ment of the affairs of India ought to be submitted to the
house at an earlier period in the session.

Lord PALMERSTON stated that he should continue the grant
to the Royal Society of £l,OOO for the present year out of the
Civil contingency.
Lord J. RUSSELL gave notice that to-morrow he would call
attention to the present state of Italy, and to its occupation
by foreign troops.
Lord PALMERSTON withdrew the Cambridge University Bill.

DRAWING' FOR MR. E. TV. THOMAS'S COLLEC-
TION OF PICTURES, LAST NIGHT.

Is consequence of the heavy loss sustained by Mr. E. W.
Thomas, last winter, in giving his "shilling concerts" at the
Philharmonic-hall, he has been compelled to part with his
valuable collection of paintings, which were thus offered up as
a sort of propitiaiton to Apollo, for the want of devotion on
the part of the public of this town. It is certainly rather
unjust, :however, that the high priest of the god of music
should himself be compelled to make a sacrifice on behalf of
those who ought to have appreciated and paid tribute to his
efforts in providing them with such ." festivals," and we can
hardly ever hope that any gentleman will in future be tempt-
ed to hazard providing the people of Liverpool with high
class entertainments at such low rates, after so discouraging a
result to Mr. Thomas.

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amongst 300 subscribers, at one guinea each, and to be drawn
for by lottery, similar to the practice pursued at the London
and Liverpool Art-Unions. They have been on view for some
time at Mr. Morrish's Merchants' Dining-rooms, Tithebarn-
street, where also the drawing took place, last evening, There
was a large attendance of Mr. Thomas's friends, and the
drawing occupied about two hours. The following was the
list of prizes, and the result :

Prize 1. " Landscape," by Nicholas Poussin. Drawn by
ticket No. 24, Mr. Wm. Davies, Lyceum-place.:
2. " Skating Scene," by Vanderneer. Ticket 125, Mrs. E
Knight, West Derby-street.
3. " Sea Piece," by Peters. Ticket 198, Mr. Stephanoff,
Rumford-place.
4. "A Study : The Wounded Soldier," by Mortimer.
Ticket 12, Mr. Robert Jones, Caernarvon.
5. " A Horse," by Butler. Ticket 238, Mr. R. Richardson
Lord-street.
6. " A Landscape," by Clint. Ticket 199, Mr. Alexander
Powell, 17, King-street.
7. " Portrait of a Lady," by Sir Peter Lely. Ticket 61,
Mr. Edward Roberts, Pembroke-place.
8. " A Landscape," by Wilson. Ticket 127, Mr. James
Smith, Lord-street.
9. " The Toper;" by Brawer. Ticket 264, Mr. John Swain-
son, Aigburth.
10. " Incantation Scene," by Salvator Rosa. Ticket 295,
Mr. P. Vance, Falkner-square.
11. " Ogwen Lake, North Wales," by the Rev. John Thom-
son. Ticket 54, Mr. F. Haywood, Exchange-buildings.
12. " A Landscape," by Barber, of Birmingham. Ticket
275, Mr. E. W. Thomas.
13. " Bothall Castle, Northumberland, " by Thirlwall.
Ticket 91, Mr. J. B. Cooper, Fairfield.
14. " Shepherd and Sheep," by Rhodes, of Leeds. Ticket
223: name of winner not known.

15. " Farm Yard," by .Morland, (early.) Ticket 265, Mr.
John Swainson, Aigburth
16. " Landscape, by
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