The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

FUNDS, STOCK;

AND SHARE MAR

Consols firm in tone, without the slightest alteration in
prices. Business in Railway Shares increasing, and prices
high. The meetings of the North-Western and North
Stafford Companies on Saturday have had a favourable
effect on their respective stocks. Speculations in Gold
Mines ; business done at fluctuating prices, but closed
at the highest. Australian Agricultural Shares scarcely so
high, but much firmer in tone, closing at 290 to 300.
Australian Banks done at 86, hut closed at 83i 4i. New
Banks well supported. In Foreign Securities, Dutch
and Spanish have an upward tendency.

CLOSING PRICES.
I Consols, Account Bank Stock ..
Do. Aloney 1 100 ' I
Exchequer Bill

2233 41

Three & • Qr. per

L. 8c- S

60 62pm

Cents.

1044-I
FOREIGN
241 1I

Mexicans....
Ditto Threes

STOCKS.
Spanish Passives
Turkish ..... ,
Swedish .....

IPra
2 ].-2dis

Spanish New Def. 24 4
Do. Threes .. 50t 14-
RAILWAY
125 i

London Stock.
Do. Quarters .
Midland Stock ..
Do. Halves ...
N. Staffordshire ..
S. East. & Dover. 82
Amberg.,Notting-
ham, &E.June..
Manch'ter, Sheff.,
andLincolnshire 30414
Caledonian . 69 70
Do. Preference ..
East. Counties ..
East Lancashire..
Edinb. & Glasgow
Great Northern
Do. A
Do. B

SHARES.
East Anglian ....
Great Western ..
Lanc. & Yorkshire
Do. Fifths ..

841 5}

London. Britton,
& South Coast..
Lond.&S.Western 92 3
York, Newcastle,

108 9

& Berwick .
Do. Extension

Do. Preference ..
York &N.Midland 59i 604
Norfolks
Leeds Northern
Caley Preference
North British .
Do. Preference
Shrewsbury, A,

391 40i

Monde

MINING
lf ipm

SHARES.
A. Californian
I Australian ...

Agua Fria.....
Cordeliera ....
Ave Maria ...
Carson's Creek
Port Philip ...

li ipm

i liPni
9} 101
i aPra
1k kpm
3i Opii%
tip"'

11- i-pm
4 trim
1 Anm

Freehold ....
B. Australian
Colonial ....
Mariposa ....

24 3pm

PRODUCE

MARKET

Sugar : Several buyers of foreign for export. Yellow
Havana at 21s. to 245. Refined : Large demand for
home-made goods ; low to fine grocery lumps 455. to 48s.
Coffee more in demand ; native Ceylon 463. to 475. ;
plantation 48s. to 80s.—Tea dull, and a shade lower.--
Rice : Demand more active, at previous prices.—Rum
Several buyers ; prices advancing ; proof Leeward Is. 10d.
to ls. Dd.—Brandy tending downwards.—Cotton : Brisk
demand ; prices firmer.—Tallow sells more freely; P.Y.C.
355. on the spot. _

CATTLE MARKET
The supply of Beasts is small; trade dull
Calves have sold readily, at advanced prices.
Beef .. 2s 6d to 4s 2d Lamb.... Os Od to Os 03.
Mutton.. 3s 4d to 5s Od I Pork .... 3s 01 to 3s Sd
Veal .... 2s 10d to 4s 6d

Sheep and

Beasts ... .
Sheep and Lambs

.2776 1 Calves

15,150 I Pigs

ARRIVALS.
Cambridge, Leicester, Northampton and
Lincoln Beasts 1500
Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts . 3OO
Scotch Beasts ... ..
Holland 8ea5t5.......

Sheep and Lambs
Ca1ve5....,.....

French Calves,

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE

ClosiWgl;rieWST'Aistraiian Freehold, preni. ; Bir-
kenhead, £22 shares, 21 dis. ; Birkenhead, 6 dis. ;
tol and Exeter, 107; Lancashire and Yorkshire, Sat A.:
East Anglian Six per cent, 3 7-16 ; South-Eastern and
Dover, 24 13-16 1.

• LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE
Closing Prices :—Ave Maria, 12; Australia'
: British Australian, 2:2-; East Lancashire, 19
Northern, 184- ; Carson's Creek, lls. pm. ; Midland, SUS'
Nouveau Monde, 3; Lake Bathurst, 1,4 ; York 1131
North Midland, 304; Port Philip, 4 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 21-1-.

Freehold,
T..eds

PERFORMANCE BY THE WAVERLEY DRS"

MATIC SOCIETY LAST NIGHT,

A performance was given at the Royal Amphitheatratie
last night, by the members of the Waverley Dramc
Society, the proceeds of which are to be presented to the
Blue Coat Hospital. The house was full in every part
except the boxes—a circumstance which ought not
occur again, when performances are given by amateurs for
charities of so high a character.
an
We must confess that we expected to be amused, °-
we were so ; not, however, by any glaring failures on
the part of the actors, which are usually anticipated on
such occasions. There were a few breaks down, it is true,
throughout the evening ; but, upon the whole, the Pieces
selected were gone through very creditably.
In the first piece—the play of " Wallace"—the charae:
ter of the hero was excellently sustained by Mr. Mitchell,
the treasurer of the society; and that of Monteith sr4s
also well played by an amateur, with whose name we were
not acquainted by the bills. The gentleman entrusted
with the part of Douglas was unequal to it.
The second piece was " The Three Singles,
the amateur who
__personated the three characters eahi"

~ in which

t:nros,

Tvant, and

Romer in this piece was an excellent we_
by her naivete elicited much applause. The performance'
throughout were most successful; and we
.have seldoul
seen an audience better pleased than on this occasion.

CROMWELL AT THE DEATH-BED OF HIS DAUGHTER.--
A fine, historical picture, bearing the above title, by Nil.'
Charles Lucy, is riow on view at 21r. J. R. Isaac's, Castt'
le'
street. The portrait of Cromwell, equal, as a mere
ness, to any we have seen ; the expression thrown in
r°
his features exceeds all that has come under our obse
vation—even Paul de la Roche's representation of bia2
lifting the lid of King Charles's coffin. The precise has
ment of the scene is well chosen. Mrs. Claypele Th,„B
reminded her father of his past career of remorseless awe
bition, and her solemn exhortations to repentance h?Tig
entered his soul. The placid resignation of the dYlit,
woman is admirably contrasted with the perturbed c°ll.A.ll
tenance and agitated frame of the stern Protector..
the accessories of the picture are in beautiful keePilij,tji
truthful, and so arranged as almost to cheat the eye
an appearance of reality.
beeli
DREADFUL FIRES AT VALPARAISO.—We vsl-
favoured with an extract from a private letter, date
paraiso, 30th October, detailing the destruction '3' otis
vessels, supposed to have been occasioned by spontane ..,)
combustion. The City of Pittsburgh, (American steam
1,600 tons, took fire on Sunday, the 24th of October:twig
three, a.m., and, having burnt to the water's edge,
(1 At
eleven hours afterwards. Her value was estimate 01,
kr400,000 dollars. She had on board 1,700 tons eincapd
1,300 of which were taken on board in Salcauheen:dss,
Corrouel, and the remainder in Rio Janeiro. The .02" fire•
1.200 tons, is also supposed to have been destroyed yap
Her cargo was for Mr. Edwards. Markets dull. ttle"

46 for 60 days' bills. beell
EARTHQUAKE AT MANILLA.—A private letter .asaford,
received in Liverpool, by the owners of the ship S°ll4ept-0
from Captain Callan, the coma.ander, dated IStho:, fro
from which the following is an extract :--" We 11,817,1 the
the last three days, had a great deal of alarm 'rocf the
constant recurrence of earthquakes on the evening
wtt-
15th. The first shock was the most fearful I everrred;
nessed ; I was dining with Mr. Ker at the time it oee-there,
we were all obliged to fly into the street,and the see° and
was really alarming. Several buildings partly dole'oral
the people on their knees in all directions- !etc!):
churches much injured—l believe, two almost con3,P ano
destroyed. Mr. Ker's house has had a severe shir,,e,:istii
would not stand a repetition. In fact, ever since 1'; cell
the earth has been in motion. This Morning t's tat °
sensible shocks have been felt, and business aloao:cit 00
stand in consequence. The shock was felt very r°
board the shipping."
a
" OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT" IN TROUBL:-.of th
Friday, the 10th instant, the Vienna correspond) dispatch,
Morning Chronicle, when about to post his usual un wheref
was seized by agents of police and taken to Pris°V one It
he remained locked up, with four other Persee'consn
whom was in chains, without being allowed to When
with his friends, until noon on the following daY,: p vihe
liberated ho was accompanied home by the.
outragePolie''
seized his papers. The reason alleged for ths The_
that his communications were hostile to Austri!,' before
circumstance will doubtless be brought at lengkoing.
the British public. The correspondent of the olic!
says, thre brut be
Chronicle, in describing his arrest, ,
wanted him to disclose the name of the cditoo,o, theY,
would not ; and, when they took him to Pris the 014
searched his cloes, and then striped him fof , aboen,
pose of seeing whether he had anything conceesuo rrato
his body. He was thrown in a dungeon, whiett„ising
with vermin, and he waa only liberated on Pry
ordersert toPcl
appear again when called upon. •.r)11'.
HORRIBLE CRUELTY ON BOARD A MERCIIA' the &Pp
In the course of the trial of Launcelot Harrisonill'osao,
tain of a merchant vessel, at the Old BaileY,°fl 1-I°)ebe
for wounding a Lascar seaman, a witness, nave which „,0
gave the following account of the cruelty to d to t'p
was subjected by the prisoner:—" 1 was
flogged. I had thirteen lashes on the thickisPootr stgog
thigh : it was with a gutta percha whip- Pr not hitot.
over the boy while he did it, and, the bo
co for big
hard enough, he said he would give two f 0
bile
and taking the whip from him passed)t '' sac" tbe
finger. Prisoner used to call me Fancy oladowo
I was being flogged, he walked up and „, di; on
side of me, and, putting one of the sonr.., hay 'lat
work to his own words, sang, ' Fancy irVad WI ill
Strong,' and said it was a teazel. for me. pisto:ws
night in his cabin, and sat there drunk, keptw tvr°
one hand and whip in the other. I was for thre: rae,
e days
without food. He ordered me to have jahiP
and he then told Brennan to give me six '!l....tisensi of l
that
running. I complained that it did not gore„es
oil with the next dose, and make me take it.
receive,
bad
My legs swelled so from the treatment I titter
at so
1 could not get my shoes on. Some time
_"
crossed the line I was called up from rnY `The cq, the
there found all the preparations for shaving-
_, tar ono of
ordered me to b 3 ducked, which wasone,sa,',,,ut int°
usual filth was rammed down my mouth and put
hair and beard." The prisoner was found

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