The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-28 00:00:00

BILIOUS WAFERS

A mild and gentle Aperient and Stomachic Medicine, having
a most agreeable taste, and of great efficacy for regulating the
secretions and correcting the action of the stomach and liver.
Sold at Is. lid., 2s. 9d., and Us. per box. Also,'
DR. LOCOCK'S FEMALE WAFERS.

The best Medicine for Ladies. Have a pleasanliastifu .Airker
ls. lid., 2s. 9d., and Hs. per box, with full- clii;ections.-. All
Pills under similar names are counterfeits. - •

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WHOLESALE AGENTS i-118iMeS and Co;; mins, Son and
Co., Lord-street. Sold in Liverpool, by Roberts, Ranelagh-
street ; Carter and Clay, Bold-street; Aspinall an Wagstaff,
St. James's-street ; J. Britten, Old Haymarket ; Howell Dale-
street ; T. D. Walker, Upper Parliament-atreet • and 1111110414`
ciue Vendors in the Kingdom,

Eiberpoot atanbarb.

031 OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

MONDAY MORNING

CHRISTMAS is not a genial season for news. Every-
body is more intent upon the hospitalities, the fireside
enjoyments, the family gatherings, and the interchange
of presents and friendly communications with relatives,
and with kindly remembered companions, than on the

ecting or contributing to the gossip of

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story, as dressed up by the " Liberal press,

sufficiently piquant, being meant to serve a purpose, in
exciting sympathy and commiseration for the CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER that wishes to be. The

whole business, however, has been greatly exaggerated.
Mr. GLADSTONE was naturally looked upon as a spy when
discovered in the quarters of those against whom he had ex-
hibited the most inveterate hostility instead of friendship,

and he was simply told—what he ought to have understood

without any such intimation—that Lis" presence in a Con-
servative club was inconsistent with the mutual confidence
which ought to exist among gentlemen belonging to the

same political combinations." This might be plain

speaking ; but it ought, under the circumstances, to have
been anticipated. Even Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who is
certainly not celebrated for any overwrought delicacy of
feeling or expression, had the good taste to withdraw his
name from the Carlton long ago. Mr. GLADSTONE,

owever, seems to have been in search of a grievance, and

witl:

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NE TI'S.

MONDAY NIGHT.

THIS has been stock-taking week, and one of
festivity besides ; and we have, therefore, little of
Commercial intelligence to report. The Ministerial
interregnum has added to the paucity of transac-
tions usual at this season. Still, prices of all articles
are firmly maintained ; and we have the prospect
before us of a very active business occurring imme-
diately after the turn of the year. Consumers of
produce throughout the country are generally be-
lieved to be verg light in stock ; in fact, to be in
the position of hand to mouth buyers ; and, if money
be continued in its present abundant supply, and
no shock be given to credit by the formation of this
new Ministry, a circumstance which does not seem
likely, holders of imported articles of all descriptions
will be in a very favouratle position.

The Return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 18th December gives the following
results when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits .. 8,648,726; Increase .. £693.649
Other deposits .. 12,496,270; Decrease.. 10.974
Rest .. 3,080,773; Increase .. 3,556

On the other side of the account—
Gore' nment securities £13,962,688 ; the same as before.
Other securities .. 13,356,036 ; Increase.. £735,833
Notes unemployed .. 12,258,660; Decrease 156,440
The amount of notes in circulation is £22,236,465,
being an decrease of £319,105 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £21,165,224, show-
ing a decrease of £344,931, when compared with
the preceding return.

ISSUE DEP
Notes issued .. £34,495,125

£34,495,125

BANKING D
Prop.'s capital..-C14.553,000
Rest .. 3,080,773
Public deposits. 8,648,726
Other deposits . 12,495,270
7-day, &e. bills. 1,468,714

ARTNIENT,

Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin & bu1n.20,475,971
Silver bullion .. 19,154

£34,495,125

PARTMENT

£40,247,483

Gov. securities.Xl3,962,6BB
Other securities 13,356.036
Notes .... 12,258,660
Gold & silt'. coin 670,099

£40,247,483

The SHARE MARKET has been very quiet during
the past week, and the business done on a limited
scale ; prices, however, have remained pretty steady.
Dovers are much inquired for. In the beginning of
the year a considerable improvement is expected.
Birkenhead £22-shares, 2 d. ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 84:1- :;-; Leeds Northern, 181 ; London
and North-western, 1251; Midland, 791- ; North
British, 9* ; South-eastern and Dover, 25 24i 5 1;
Dutch Rhenish, 1 d.
PRODUCE.—There is little to be noticed under
this head, excepting an increase of firmness, and a
slight advance of price in SUGAR. Both refiners
and dealers are in the market; and this circumstance
of the latter increasing their purchases so near Christ-
mas bears not the impression that they are light in
stock.—To-DAY there is a good ihquiry for SUGAR,
but business being partially suspended, together
R ith the stiff prices demanded, tht sales are limited
to 250 bags Dates at 355. id. per cwt.—There is
nothing to notice in MOLASSES.—About 49 puns.
Demerara Rum have been taken at full prices.—
We have no transactions to notice in TEA ; and in
other articles, owing to the intervention of the holi-
days, scarcely any thing is reported.
COTTON.--The non. arrival of the U.S. mail
steamer " Baltic" on her usual day, has tended to
repress sales of Cotton, which, however, has main-
tained its price. The business of the week, which
is generally a limited one, owing to stock taking,
&c. amounts to 32,530 bales, of which speculators
have taken 2,210, exporters 1,300, leaving 29,320
for the trade. To-day Cotton continues in mode-
rate demand, the sales being only 4,000 bales, all to
the trade. The market has been flat, but prices re-
main just the same as on Friday.
WooL,—There was a large attendance of buyers
at the public sales held here on Wednesday and
Thursday last, and for East India, Egyptian, and
Cordova, there was a good competition ; the prices
realised were -,12d higher than the last sales here.

A USTRIAN DESEYTERS,—A notice has been posted up
at Trieste, to the effect that the British government has
entered into a treaty of reciprocity with Austria for the
delivering up of deserters from Austrian vessels found on
British territory.
THE MEDITERRANEAN PACKETS.—The Peninsula and
Oriental Company's steamers will take up the service
from Marseilles to Malta next month ; the Admiralty
have in consequence ordered her Majesty's steam-packets
Banshee and Medina home to be paid off.
TFIE SIX-MILE BRIDGE AFFAIR.—The Freeman's Jour-
nal intimates that the change of Government is deemed a
sufficient excuse for the next of kin of the rioters shot at
Six-mile Bridge to abandon their prosecution of the sol-
diers implicated in the affray. If they had not this excuse,
they would have made out some other equally plausible.

CHRISTMAS TREAT.—Messrs. Harrison Brothers, of
Church-street, in consideration of the exertions of the
workmen employed in the alterations of their premises, at
the corner of Hanover-steet, have presented them with a
supper, which took place on Christmas-eve, at the
Brunswick Hotel. Between forty and fifty persons sat
down. Mr. Whitter was chairman, and Mr. Cailigan
vice-chairman.

POSTAGE TO SWITZERLAND,—The following has been
issued faom the General Post-ofice :—Henceforward let-
ters for Switzerland, when specially addressed to be for-
warded in the Prussian closed mails, via Belgium, will be
liable to a rate of postage of 1041. instead of is. id. the
single letter, not exceeding half an, ounce in weight, and
so on, according to the scale in operation for charging
inlano letters. This postage may be paid in advance, or
the letters may be forwarded unpaid, at the option of the
sender.

A SURPLUS ESTATE.— In the care of George Joy,
before the Insolvent Debtors' Court, on Friday, upwards
of £30,000, arising from a suit in Chancery, had been paid
into court, by which all the creditors will be paid in full,
and leave a large surplus for the family of Mr. Joy. He
was discharged under the act in the year 1842, when the
debts were about £12,000, and on the termination of the
Chancery proceedings a short time back, the estate of Mr.
Joy, who died a short time ago, was paid into the hands
of the provisional assignee of the court. The matter was
adjourned until after the Christmas Recess.
THE SHIP-BUILDING TRADE.—There are at present
fitting out in the port of Sunderland 20 new vessels, the
aggregate tonnage of which amounts to 8661 tons; and
upon the stocks in the building yards nearly a similar
amount of vessels of an aggregate tonnage. While the
building of timber ships is so active on the Wear, iron
ship-building is very brisk on the Tyne. One firm on the
Tyne is launching an iron-vessel, on an average, every
month ; another is executing a large order for the Austraia
Lloyd's, and the builders of the W. S. Lindsay have a
vessel of 1,800 tons burthen ready for launching, and have
laid.dovvn the keels of three other large iron vessels. Last
week an iron vessel was launched by Messrs. Toward, of
St. Peter's, for Portugal; and last spring Messrs. Palmer
of Jarrow, launched a large iron screw collier, the William
Hutt, for the General Screw Collier Company. Messrs.
Smith, :of Newcastle, have also launched a large timber
paddle steamer for the Demerara mail packet service, and
have a frigate on the stocks for the Sicilian Government.
CAPTURE OF THE SQUATINUS ANGELUS.—A few days
since an extraordinary large specimen of this very scarce
and singular-looking fish was caught off tho Dover coast.
It weighed when taken upwards of 501 b., its extreme
length measured, 4 feet 11 inches, greatest width, 2 feet
8 inches, while such is its singular tapering form that the
breadth across the tail is not more than 2 inches. It was
forwarded to Mr. Grove's, Charing-cross, fishmonger,
where its display attracted much public attention during
the last three or four days of the past week. Yarrell de-
scribes it as the squatinus angelus, or angel fish, and states
that it is also known as the monk fish, shark ray, and
fiddle fish. The body much depressed, head rounded,
anteriorly, both eyes on the surface, the temporal orifice
large behind the eyes; mouth at the end of the snout,
two dorsal fins both behind the ventrals ; no anal fins.
Chiefly found on the south coast, but occasionally on the
eastern. It is very voracious, feeding on the smaller flat
fishes which, like itself, swim close to the bottom. The
flesh is now considered indifferent, though formerly held
in high estimation. The skin, which is rough, is used for
polishing, and by the Turks at the present is made into
shagreen. The female produces the young alive about the
month of June. All the upper surface is granulated, and
of a dark mottled colour. The specimen above alluded to
displays six rows of sharp and rather formidable-looking
teeth.