The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-20 00:00:00

£14,124,540
11,407,46 t

The amount of notes in c

being an ir.

rease of £1

on in both departments

In increase of

the preceding return

cniation is 4-

•51 3 79,755

and the stock of

£22,232,1

S110:1*-

compared with

rn tne early part of the week our SHARE Alarket
continued in the same active state in which we have

t to be for

he two or three previous weeks,
and the amount of business done daily, both real
and speculative, was considerable. This continued
until Friday : towards the close of that day a dis-
position to realize was observed in one or two quar-
ters, and some large accounts were closed. These
the market took eagerly, but they have induced
some bear operations since, which have tended to
lower prices some two per cent. all round. From
the appearance of the market at present, we should
augur that a very slight further reaction would
cause a resumption of the bold fide purchases, and
bring higher prices than before this cheek. The
sales by the bear operators will, to a great extent,
counterbalance the real sales made, and prevent
any pressure of stock when the account approaches.
To-day there is very little business doing, with a
firm tone in the market. We annex the quotations :
—Birkenhead, 9d ; ditto £52 shares, 41d; Caledo-
nians, 224 ; Greenock guar., 17--t; ditto pref., 9+;
Eastern dounties, 111; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
86 I 6 ditto fifths, 3 2 85.16 d 3d ; ditto £2O F,
; London stock, 133 ; ditto new quarters, 325- ;
Sheffield stock, 34 ; Midland stock, 78; 4
ditto_ new pref. V>, p ; Dover stock, 23 b 3;

South Wales, 411 ; Yorkshire and River Dun, I',;p;
York, N. and 8., pref. unpaid up, lid ; Royal
Insurance, iss. 9d. premium.
Our PRODUCE Market has been quiet during
the -week, but in prices there is little change.
SUGAR and TEA are supported. COFFEE is a
trifle easier. SALTPETRE and NITRATE are rather
lower. 3000 bales GAMBIER are reported at 17s.
to 17s. 6d.—This day the sales of SUGAR were
500 hhds. Barbadoes, at 325. to 38s. ; 30 hhds.
Demerara, at 335.; a small parcel of Antigua, at
325. 6d.; about 450 bags Benares, at 868. to 375.; 450
mats Mauritius, with all faults, at 30s. to 40s. 9d.
By public sale to-day 190 boxes Havanna, with all
faults, were offered, and dispused of at 17s. to 19s.
A lot of Pernams were offered at the same time, but
could not find buyers. Of MOLASSES the sales an
350 puncheons Antigua, 17s. per cwt. to arrive. A
small lot of Demerara Rum is reported at 2s. 2d.
per gall in. The COFFEE market is steady, but the
sales limited. On Friday, 20 tierces Jamaica sold
at 445. to 50s. for ordinary to good ordine.7 quality,
subsequently 100 bags Peru changed hands at 245.
6d. per cwt. The TEA market is steady, and a Eir
extent of business is going forward at late rates.
The transactions in other articles arelimited, namely,
two lots of East India Ricx, at 9s. to 11s. per cwt.,
according to quality, and a few boxes of Pearl
SAGO, at 20s. per cwt.

COTTON.—The Cotton market during the week
has been exceedingly quiet, but steady; and although
holders were not able to effect large sales, prices
have been rather well supported. If any change can
be noted, it is in favour of buyers. The Niagara's
advices have not had any effect on the trade to-day.
The season appears to be virtually over in the
United States, and the accounts as regards the
growing crop highly satisfactory. The sales of the
last, three business days are about 14,000 bales, of
which speculators and exporters have taken 3000.
The import since Thursday is put down at 30,000
bales.

THE HEALTH AND SCENERY OF LANCASTER THIR-
TEEN HUNDRED YEARS AGO.—The state of the country
at that time, as described by one of the earliest British
historians, Gildas, serves to shew that considerable pro-
gress bad been nude in the arts, in commerce, and in
agriculture; and that the, people no longer painted theft
bodies, and depended for their food on the precarious re-
sources of the chase. " The island of Britain," says this
historian, " placed in the balance of the divine poising.
hand, which weigheth the whole world, at almost the ut-
termost hounds of the earth towards the south-west,
tending itself from the south-west out towards the North
Pole, eight hundred miles in length and two hundred in
breadth, embraced by the embowed bosoms of the ocean,
with whose most spacious, and on every side impassable
inclosure, she is strongly defended, enriched with the
mouths of noble floods by which outlandish commodities
have, in times past, been transported into the same, be-
sides other rivers of lesser account ; strengthened with
eight and twenty cities, and some other castles, not
meanly fenced with fortresses of walls, embattled towers,
gates and buildings, (whose roofs, being raised aloft. with
threatening hugeness, were mighty in the aspiring tops
compacted,) adorned with her large spreading fields, plea.
santly-seated hills, even famed for good husbandry,
which ever mastereth the ground, and mountains most
convenient for the changeable pastures of cattle ; watered
with clear fountains and sundry brooks, beating on the
snow white sands, together with the silver streams gliding
forth with soft-sounding noise, and leaving a pledge of
sweet savours on bordering banks, and lakes gushing out
abundantly in cold-running streams."—The Rev. Robt.
Simpson's History and Antiquities of Lancaster.

SOMEBODY says, there are two things about which we
should never grumble : first, those things which we can pre.
vent; and secondly, those things that we cannot prevent.

" You Loom," said an Irishman to a pale, haggard
smoker, "as if you had got out of your grave to light you-
cigar, and couldn't find your way back again."
ART-EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.—The Builder has
found the children of the Sovereign at nine in the morn-
ing at the museum of practical art; and on enotber occa-
sien, at the same hour, amidst the Elgin marbles—not
the only wise hint to the mothers of England to be found
in the highest place. Accustom your children to find
beauty in goodness, and goodness in beauty.
REMARKABLE EXPERIMENT.—A living man, lying on
a bench, extended as a corpse, can be lifted with ease by
the forefingers of two persons standing on each side,
provided the lifters and liftee inhale at the moment the
effort is being made. If the liftee do not inhale, he can.
not be moved off the bench at all; but the inhalation of
the lifters, although not essential, seems to give additioucd
Power,--q\rotes and Quriel.