The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

EPARI'MENT,

Gov. securities.Cl3,464,s3B
Other securities 15,396,827
Notes .. 10,665,430
Gold & silt'. coin 599,710

£40,126,505 I £40,126,505
Our RAILWAY MARKET presents the same
features as at this time last week,—a continuous
decline and very little business. This is attributed
to the many accidents that have occurred of late,
the gloomy aspect of continental politics, and the
very unsatisfactory state of the railways themselves,
as revealed by the evidence on .the tate inquests..
But for the prospects. of the Money Market, the
decline would have been much more serious than
it has been ; we may not, however, have becii the
worst of it yet. Our local stocks, insurance shares,
&c., continue steady and improving—amidst the
crash of railways, investors take refuge in these.
This day's prices are—Ambergates, 24d Chester
and Holyhead, 21A ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
74“1 II 5c 44 ; Ditto Fifth Shares, sd;
Leeds Northern, 15-1-; Liverpool and Southport,
171; London Stock, 1171 a lc 4; Sheffield Stock,
29-g 1 1. 30 ; Midland Stock, 731 ITT I 4 f 4 ; North
British, ; Oswestry and Chester, 141 ; Dover
Stock, 23 13 271- 3 } 3 s 3; York and North Mid-
land, 291 ; Bristol and Birmingham 6 per cent.
pref., 148 ; St. Helen's 41 per cent. pref., *p. ;
North and South Wales Bank, 51-; Liverpool and
London Fire and Life Insurance, new issue, 61p.;.
Pacific Steam Company, 541 ; ditto, new shares,.
2p.; Copiapo Mine, 7 15-16 d.

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COTTON.—There was a decided improvement in
the tone of the market on Tuesday last, and on
Wednesday purchases were made with more confi-
dence, and an advance of fully id. per lb. on the
previous week was established. The market re-
tained its firmness throughout the week. On Sa-
turday the sales amounted to 6,000 bales, of which
about one-third were on speculation and for export..
TO-DAY the advices by the steam-ship Arabia ar-
rived, confirming the short receipts for the week,
but pointing to large receipts for the coming week,
per telegraph ; the consequence is, there has been
less animation, but the sales reach 7,000 bales at
firm prices.

PRODUCE.-The market for Sugar is firm, but
no transactions have taken place in West India,
owing to there being none on offer. There has been
a considerably improved demand for white Benares,
and prices are 6d. dearer; refiners have taken Mau-
ritius, of the, old crop, at 31s. 6d.; Bengal changed
hands during the week. Foreign : 20s. per cwt. for
brown Bahia, 20s. 6d. to 228. for yellow Paraiba,
and 245. to 245. 6d. for white Maceio; Havana sold
at 225. Of Molasses,loopuns. Barbadoes have been
sold to arrive, at 19s. per cwt. The market for Tea
has been strengthened by the advices by the India
Overland mail, and a good inquiry exists from the
trade and speculators, at improved rates for all sorts,
but sales are in some measure curtailed from want
of sellers. For Coffee there has been a fair demand
for the lower qualities, of which the sales chiefly
consist; they comprise 30 tierces of Jamaica, 1500
bags St. Domingo, at 445. 6d. to 455., and 150 bags
Ceara, at 455. to 465. per cwt. Of Rice, 60 tierces
Carolina obtained 21s. 3d. to 225. 6d. per cwt.; but
in Eas tlndia no sales have been reported. Of Chicory,
60 tons sold at £l5 10s. per ton. Of Rum, 450
puns. Demerara sold at previous prices, and
100 puns. Trinidad to arrive at ls. 90. per
gallon. Of Pepper, a small lot of Singapore
black realised 34d. per lb. Guano is in more active
demand. Madras Indigo, 2s. 9d. to 3s. 3d. per lb.;
Saltpetre, 265. to 275. for 10 per cent. ; and 28s. to
295. 9d. for 5 to 21 per cent. refraction. Hides are
held for higher prices. The sales comprised a
parcel of Brazil, at 61d. • 200 Dry West Coast, at
41d. to 6d. ; 15,000 East India Kips, at gid. for
good dry salted; 760 Calcutta Buffalo, at Od. ; and
3,800 Singapore, at 3id. to 3i'd. per lb. for firsts.
In Jute little doing. For Olive Oil a moderate
demand. Rape is lower. Linseed continues de-
pressed 31s. 6d. to 325. was accepted to effect
sales. Sperm £92 to £94 per tun. For Palm there
has been a better demand, £33 ss. to £33 10s. being
paid on the spot and to arrive, the sales reaching
1,000 tuns. Nitrate of Soda is lower. _ _

To-DAY there was a good demand for Sugar,
both from grocers and refiners, and an extensive
business has been done, the transactions, including
Saturday's sales, comprising about 1,000 hhds.
Demerara, chiefly at 335. to 365., including vacuum
pan at 365. to 415., 3,100 bags Benares at 38s. Gd.
to 395. 6d., 300 bags Dates at 365. 6d., 300 bags
brown Pernams at 19s. 6d., with 300 bags by auc-
tion, at about the current rates. 250 puns. Cuba
Muscovado Molasses, from the quay, sold at 188. 9d.
per cwt. Of Coffee, 35 bales ordinary Mocha
brought 505., and 500 bags St. Domingo 465. per
cwt. We have a good inquiry for Tea, at about
prevoius prices. We have also to report 10 chests
Shell Lac at 52, 65 bales Bombay Madder Roots at
375. 6d. per cwt., 5 tons Coir Yarn at £27 to £27
15s. per ton, and 1,000 pockets Calcutta Linseed at
48s. per quarter.

WooL.l—The imports for the week consist of
1,478 bales ; viz., 123 Irish, 5 Scotch, 953 Russian,
and 370 from the Mediterranean ports, the greater
part of which have either been sold to arrive, or as
soon as landed, at very full prices, leaving the
market very bare for future requirements. The

prospect for Importers may be considered very en-
couraging, as prices have still an upward tendency.
Skin Wools continue very scarce; and what finds
way to the market meets a ready sale at extreme
prices. In Scotch, little or none offering. The
demand for English and Irish combing Fleece
Wool has been very brisk, and some extensive sales
have been made at an advance of id. to Id. on
former rates.
METALS.—The market for Scotch Pig-iron has
been more animated, and prices have reached 535.
to 545. per ton ; but at these figures there are few
buyers to be met with. Manufactured Iron is in
good demand, and prices are well sustained. Tin-
plates are rather easier. In other metals no parti-
cular alteration.

JUBILEE OF THE BRITISH AND FOREIGN

BIBLE SOCIETY.

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Philharmonic-hall last evening—the Lord Bishop of Ches-
ter presiding. The hall was filled by a most respectable and
attentive audience. Amongst the gentlemen on the plat-
form were—the Revds. John Jones, W. Rawson. F.
Parry, W. F. Taylor, H. Carpenter, T. Cowan, S. Min-
ton, H. Marlen, W. Pollock, T. Robinson, J. Bardsley,
J. Butler, S. B. Sutton, Herbert Jones, J. H. Wright,
W. Maynard, W. B. S. Matthias, R. Carter, J. Law-
rence, Chas. Lawrence, G. W. Warr, J. Lester, S. Brown,
J. Duck, J. Kelley, V. White, J. Edwards, Newsted,
F. A. West ; T. B. Horsfall, Esq., A. Hodgson, Esq.,
T. D, Anderson, Esq., Capt. Anderton, E. Cropper, Esq.,
J. K. Rounthwaite, Esq., &c.
The RIGHT REVEREND CHAIRMAN opened the pro-
ceedings by reading the 19th Psalm. His Lordship then
addressed some preliminary remarks, expressing the pecu-
liar satisfaction he had in being present on that auspicious
occasion, when the society was entering upon its year of
jubilee. He-traced the career of the society from the
year of its formation ; showed how its operations were
being extended, not only at home, but among the
heathen, and professed the utmost confidence and
hope in the efficiency of the work to the accom-
plishment of which the society addressed itself. But
still, though they had good reason to believe that
the blessing of God had accompanied their work, and that
they had accomplished much ; still he thought they had
not done all that lay in their power to do, if they only bad
the heart to do it. If they had cause for thankfulness, he
feared they had also cause for much self-reproach and
humility; but he hoped that this year of jubilee would
call forth a large increased measure of Christian liberality
in behalf of the society. so as to supply the hitherto ex-
isting deficiencies, (Hear, hear.) i He alluded to the
quickly increasing amount of influence and power, of which
the lower classes of the people were becoming possessed
in this country, and said they had only to supply those
classes with the Bible to cause their increasing power
to be directed aright, and to be a blessing to themselves
and others. He next alluded to the objects of the Peace
Society ; and, while professing a most cordial sympathy
with the motives of the men of whom it was composed,
he saw in the distribution of the word of God the power
which could make the whole world one grand Peace So-
ciety. (Hear, hear.) The third point to which his Lord-
ship drew attention, was that of slavery, and in doing so
he paid a graceful tribute to the moving fiction of Mrs.
Stowe, and confessed his belief that the most efficient way
of effecting the extinction of slavery would be by distribu-
ting the Bible—that Bible, which, if it did not condemn
slavery, in any express terms, still taught us to do un-
to others, as we would they should do to us, and further-
more enjoined upon us to love our neighbour as ourselves.
(Cheers.) In conclusion, his lordship apologised for the
absence of Dr. Raffles, upon whom ho pronounced a very
high eulogiurn, as their excellent and tried friend and se-
cretary, who was unable to attend, in consequence of the
domestic afflictions of a friend.
The Rev. F. PARRY, the honorary secretary, after apo-
logising for the absence of the Rev. Mr. Falloon, and the
Rev. Dr. M`Neile, proceeded to give an interesting ac-
count of the proceedings of the jubilee of the Parent So-
ciety. He reviewed the various speeches delivered on
that occasion, and also the sermon preached in St. Paul's
Cathedral by the Archbishop of Canterbury..
The Rev. VERNER WHITE said that, by the resolution
which he had to submit, the meeting was called upon to
" welcome the jubilee of the society as a fitting occasion
for commemorating the Divine goodness, shown in the

success so abundantly vouchsafed to the society in
origin, rise, and subsequent progress." It had been the
means of distributing 43 million copies of the Book of
God, which were printed in 148 languages. In 1804 the
income of the society amounted to £5,000; last year the
sum was £lOB,OOO.
The motion was carried unanimously.
The Rev. JOHN JONES moved the next resolution :

" This meeting embraces this opportunity of bearing
renewed public testimony to the divine character and
claims of the Bible, and to the right of every individual
of the human family to possess and read the same ; and
pledges itself to promote, by renewed and vigorous efforts,
the widest possible circulation of the Scriptures, both at
home and abroad."

Mr- T. B. HORSPALL seconded the resolution. He
sketched briefly the origin of the Liverpool auxiliary. It
originated with 71 inhabitants of this town, 26 of whom
were ministers of the Church of England, 9 ministers of
other denominations, and 36 laymen. Of those 71 indi-
viduals, three were now alive. Of those three, the Ven.
Archdeacon Brooks was one, their excellent friend, Dr.
Bunting, was another, and the third was Mr. Bold.
Without meaning any disrespect to the committee or the
Right Rev. Chairman, he thought it would have been
delightful and appropriate to have seen one of those vene-
reble men either occupying the chair on this auspicious
occasion, or at all events moving the first resolu-
tion. (ffear, hear, and cheers). During the first year
or existence the Liverpool auxiiiary contributed
£650 per anu0.....,.1,e donations amounting to £1,400. The
year 1811 was, in Liverpool, c. season of great social dis-
tress. The years 1852 or 1853 were, on the other hand,
periods of great social prosperity. In 1811. the population
amounted to 94,000; now it had increased to 400,000.
But they found that, while the population of
94,000 sent a yearly sum of £650, the 400,000 sent only
£Boo,—a sum of course which fell far short of the increase
they had a right to expect, considering that wealth had
increased proportionately with the population.
The Rev. J. KELLY next addressed the meeting.
The resolution, on being put by the right rev. chairman,.
was carried unanimously.
A collection was then made, during which the organ
played. The jubilee hymn was afterwards sung.
Mr. BOURNE, who attended as the deputation from the
Parent Society, was next called upon by the chairman,
and proposed the third and last resolution, which was to
the effect, that the meeting approved of the measures of
the committee for the institution of a jubilee fund
for extending the operations of the society in Great
Britain and Ireland, the colonies, and abroad.
The Rev. Mr. WEST, Wesleyan minister, seconded the
motion, which was carried unanimously.
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman,
he proceedings terminated about eleven o'clock.

ON Wednesday night last, three out of sixty nightmen
introduced from Manchester by Mr. Rose were attacked
by the Liverpool " turn-outs," and fears have been enter-
tained since of further violence.

DEATH OF A CAPTAIN OF A SHIP.—OH Sunday
morning, Captain 'Vincent Antonia, of the Brazilian ship
Providence, was found dead on board a vessel now lying
in the Queen's Dock. A charcoal fire had been burning
in the state room, and during the time the fire was burn.
ing, the deceased fell asleep, and it is supposed that the
fumes from the charcoal caused suffocation. An inquest
will be held upon the- body to-day.
AT the meeting of the West Derby Board of Guardians,
on Wednesday, the Rev. W. Badnall in the chair, Mr.
H. B. Far nail, Poor-law Inspector, was present, having
been sent down by the board to investigate certain charges
made against Mr. B. J. M'Govern, baker, a contractor
to the union for the supply of bread. Mr. M'Govern
had contracted to supply bread for the out-door paupers,
at ld. per lb. ; but he had been accustomed to give the
applicants at his shop, when they appeared with the order
from the relieving-officer, bread at lid. and lid., when
asked by them to do so. The hearing of evidence oc-
cupied the board on Wednesday and on Thursday. At
its conclusion, Mr. Fannin intimated his intention of
laying the whole of the proceedings before the com-
missioners.

GAROTTE ROBBERY IN LlVERPOOL.—Yesterday, at the
police-court, two men, named Bernard Sloane and James
Hughes, were brought before the magistrates, charged
with robbing Thomas Falton, accompanied by personal
violence. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor,
who is a cart-driver, that about seven o'clock en Sunday
morning last he was walking along Henderson-street,
when the two prisoners, together with another man at
present unknown, went up to him and asked him for some
money ; he replied that he had none to spare ; but,
judging from their demeanour that the prisoners were
desperate characters, he gave them a shilling in order to
get rid of them. After he had given them the money they
dragged him into a passage off the street. The prisoner
Hughes then seized him by the throat and nearly
strangled him, his face being almost black, whilst Sloane
rifled his pockets. A labourer, who happened to be
passing at the time, beating a scuffle in the entry, stopped
to ascertain what was going on, and he saw the prisoner
Sloane take the money out of the prosecutor's pockets
whilst Hughes held him. He gave information to a
policeman, and soon afterwards the prisoners were appre-
hended. This witness, as well as the prosecutor, identified
both the men, who were committed to take their trial at
the ensuing assizes,
COMMITTAL. OF A MARINE-STORE DEALER.—At the
police court yesterday, John Madden, who keeps a ma-
rine-store in St. Martin's-street, and a youth named
William Jenkins, were placed before the magistrates,
charged by Mr. Miles Newby, with stealing a quantity of
brass bushes from his premises, in Woodstock-street.
On Wednesday last, on the return of the engineer to the
prosecutor from his breakfast, he missed a number of new
brass bushes, which he had just made for some machinery
his master was fitting up. Seeing the prisoner Jenkins,
(whom he had frequently seen banging about the
premises,) he charged him with having stolen
the articles, when the prisoner denied it ; but a
boy who resides in the neighbourhood stated to the
prosecutor that, shortly after the articles were stolen, the
prisoner went to him, and asked him if he would go with
him to sell them. The boy consented, and the prisoner then
took him to Madden's store. Madden purchased them from
him for 3s.—On Saturday the prisoner Jenkins went to the
store with another quantity of bushes, and sold them to a
servantin Madden's store, for three shillings and fourpence.
The boy above alluded to again went with the prisoner
Jenkin. Subsequently, theengineer to the prosecutor, with
the boy and a police-officer, went to Madden's, and stated
that his servant had been purchasing stolen bushes. Mad-
den called her, and asked her if she had bought any, and
she replied that she had ; and on Madden asking her
where they were, the girl took the police-officer to the
house opposite to Madden's, where the bushes were
found. She then said that her master told her to take
the bushes to this house almost as soon as she had pur-
chased them. At the hearing yesterday, evidence as
above was given, the prisoner Madden's servant deposing
to the circumstances, and Madden and Jenkins were bcitti
committed for trial,

BURNING OF WINDSOR CASTLE.

A fire, occasioning great alarm to the Sovereign, and
involving a lamentable destruction of property, broke out
in the private apartments of Windsor Castle, at a quarter
before ten o'clock, on Saturday night. The outbreak was
discovered within a very few minutes of its occurrence,
but the fire had obtained such ascendancy that its progress
was not altogether subdued until six o'clock on Sunday
morning. The damage to the rooms in the Prince of
Wales's Tower, and adjoining apartments is very serious ;
all the apartments in this tower, including the beautiful
Gothic dining-room, are destroyed ; indeed the tower may
be said to be completely gutted, as the fire extended to
the roof, which is also destroyed.
The precise extent of the damage cannot, at this
moment be ascertained, but it is expected to fall little
short of £lOO,OOO.
The following are the particulars. Her Majesty and his
Royal Highness Prince Albert having arrived at the
Castle from Buckingham Palace in the afternoon, dined
in private, as is their usual custom on the day of their ar-
rival; the dinner being served up in the Gothic dining-
room. Her Majesty and the Prince had not left this
room scarcely an hour before Mr. Barker, the head cellar-
man, whose duty it was to be in attendance in the dining-
roam, observed smoke issuing from the south angle of the
apartment; he immediately communicated the occurrence
to Mr. Norton, the Deputy Comptroller of the Household,
who lost no time in summoning the firemen and commu-
nicating with the gentlemen of the Royal suite.
The tower in which the misfortune commenced, was a
splendid piece of architecture, and nearly faced Eaton
College, whilst the beautiful terrace and promenade stands
immediately in front, and under the battlements is the
tastefully laid-out flower gardens and slopes, where her
Majesty and Royal children frequently enjoy walking ex-
ercise. On the ground floor was an apartment of great
extent and most beautifully appointed, which was used by
the Queen as the dining-room. The roof, or more cor-
rectly speaking, the ceiling, was inlaid with carved oak,
delicately heightened with gold. Over this magnificent
apartment were a number of rooms principally devoted for
sleeping apartments for the Royal children and attendants ;
various other rooms adjoined those just mentioned, and
the whole touched, or nearly so, the apartments in the
Brunswick Tower.
With as little delay as possible the news was communi-
cated to Colonel Phipps, who, in turn, gave the necessary
intelligence to the officers in command of the Castle.
General Drummond immediately summoned the Castle
Guard, and at the same time Private Turner, the sentinel
on duty on the North Terrace, obsel•ving smoke issuing
from one of the Tower windows, reported the circumstance
to Corporal Guerin, who was going round with the relief,
and he immediately conveyed the information to Lieut.
Mostyn, of the Castle Guard. The intelligence was then
despatched to Colonel Dixon, the officer in command of
the Fusilier Guards at Sheet-street Barracks, and in less
than seven minutes from that time the whole of the bat-
talion, 700 men and officers, had " doubled" to the Castle.
A barricade was formed by the Castle Guard at the vari-
ous entrances to the Castle, and shortly afterwards the
whole of the regiment of the 2nd Life Guards, under the
command of Colonel Williams, arrived with three barrack
engines. The soldiers behaved manfully : some mounted
the roof of the Tower ; some removed the valuable furni-
ture, with the utmost care, from the royal apartments
contiguous to the conflagration, whilst others were using
their utmost exertions at the engine. The frost, how-
ever, was so intense that on several occasions the water
in the hose became congealed, which greatly retarded the
exertions of the military, and those in charge of the