The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-21 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

ROYAL ISIT TO CLUNY CASTLE.-011 Monday last,
the Queen, Prince Albert, and the Royal children, drove
out to Cluny Castle, on a visit to Cluny Macpherson.
The Royal family rode in a phEeton, drawn by four beau-
tiful grey Arabian ponies, and were accompanied by the
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, and Gen. Wemyss, and
attended by two outriders. The weather had become
much milder about mid-day, and the afternoon, though
rather cold, was calm and clear. Cluny Castle is distant
about twelve miles from the lodge. Cluny Castle is a
massive and substantial residence, built of the granite of
the neighbouring hills. Cluny and his lady had only re-
ceived notice of her Majesty's intention to honour them
with a visit about an hour before the arrival of the Royal
cortege. Little time was allowed therefore for any formal
preparations ; but by the time her Majesty had reached
the gateway, thirty men in Highland garb, with a piper
at their head, were drawn up in front of the castle. Cluny
himself, in his usual costume of kilt and philabeg, and
Mrs. Macpherson, were also in waiting for the arrival of
their Royal visitors. The Dake of Norfolk banded the
Queen from the phaeton, and her Majesty, the Prince,
and the rest of the Royal party were ushered into the
castle. About a quarter of an hour was spent inspecting
the various antiquities which have remained in the cus-
tody of the Macphersons since the rebellions, after which
the Royal party went out into the grounds, and visited
the garden and other places of interest in the vicinity.
Cluny Castle is surrounded with thriving and well-kept
plantations. The garden and orchard are of considerable
size, and the latter is loaded with fruit. The avenues,
porter-lodges, office-houses, enclosures, and shrubbery
are all exceedingly neat, and reflect great credit on the
taste and spirit of the proprietor. There is a small cir-
cular burying-ground in the policies, which contains the
remains of several of the chiefs of the Macphersons.
Spending some time in the grounds, the Royal party then
returned to the castle, and after partaking of a cold col-
lation, took leave of their delighted guests. Her Majesty,
in returning, wore a grey-hooded cloak to protect her
from the cold air.

On Tuesday, Prince Albert wore the kilt for the first
time, and though the air on the hills was cold, he as-
cended to the top of Corarder.
THE QUEEN'S TREAT TO THE DOMESTICS.-021 Tues-
day evening her Majesty gave a ball to the domestics of
her noble host in Scotland, intended, also, as a sort of
farewell treat to the cottars in the neighbourhood, and
their wives and sweethearts. The ball took place in a
large wooden house attached to the lodge. At nine
o'clock, her Majesty and the Prince, with the royal
family, entered the room, when the dancing immediately
commenced, the royal piper, Mr. Mackay, playing a few
reels. The Prince wore the Highland dress—and the
philabeg and plaid of the Stuart tartan ; and, by her Ma-
jesty's command, all the Scotsmen among the domestics
appeared similarly attired, a command which was evi-
dently performed with no good will by many. The high-
land costume set off Prince Albert's figure much better
than the Saxon dress. Her Majesty, the Prince, Lord
Palmerston, and the Duchess of Bedford retired at eleven
o'clock. The rest of the royal party remained until two
o'clock, when the ball broke up, after dancing reels, jigs,
&c., with the greatest familiarity.
he Lord Mayor of York, George Hudson, Esq., M.P,
and Mrs. Hudson, were last week on a visit to the Earl of
Lonsdale, at Whitehaven Castle, where a large_ and dis-
tinguished party has been assembled.
A Scottish paper relates that, a few days since, the
Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal sallied forth toge-
ther to fish in a rivulet whioh flows into Loch Laggan, at
Ardverikie, and each hoped to catch the first fish ; but
the Princess was more skilful or more fortunate, as she
caught a trout before her brother had obtained a bite.
Among the obtruders who have sought to obtain an
interview with the Queen, during her stay at Ardverikie,
was a man who asserted that he strongly resembled Prince
Albert, and who expected that, on account of the " very
great resemblance" which he bore to the Prince, a pension
of £5OO a year would be conferred on him, and " a maid
of honour would be given him for a wife."
A LUCKY ROYAL VISITER.—Among the itinerant mer-
chants who found means to penetrate to the lodge was an
Inverness licensed traveller, Duncan G. Welsh, who has a
good assortment of jewellery, &c. Duncan was at first
ordered off by the police ; but he happened to meet the
Marquis of Abercorn and Lady Jocelyn, and got an invi-
tation to the lodge, where he unfolded his wares and made
,
several sales. I had the honour," said Duncan, "to
sell our Queen five silver brooches, and to put her Ma-
jesty's name in a receipt !" The Duchess of Norfolk,
Lady Jocelyn, and the Marquis of Abercorn were also
among his customers. Duncan was ordered his dinner,
and as much as he could drink," but " God be praised,"
he added, " I kept the pledge, for all that." He departed,
overflowing with gratitude to the Queen and the Marquis
of Abercorn, and determined to get the royal arms
painted on his box I

Sept. 21, 1547.

ANOTHER ALARMING FAILURE

( From the Times of Saturday.)
The daily anxiety regarding failures has been fulfilled
this morning to a more distressing extent than we have
yet had to record. The house of Reid, Irving, and Cu;
has suspended, and the liabilities are estimated a'
£1,500,000, the amount of acceptances alone being un
wards of £900,000. The failure, moreover, irrespective
its amount, derives importance from the circumstance of
the head of the firm being one of the senior directors of
the Bank of England. The cause of the stoppage is to be
found in the way in which the firm had extended the,
operations, not only without a corresponding extension 0"
capital, but in the face of an annual diminution of then
means consequent upon the gradually increasing weight
of inconvertible investments. A sum of not less thal
£600,000 is understood to be locked up in real estate, an
other property, in the Mauritius and the West Indies.

Apart irom the want of prudent calculation thus sboS'
the present case, it is believed, may be described as an °P•
dinary mercantile failure. In former days the house Po(
sessed a capital far beyond most others, and there" 4,
reason to believe that the difficulties which have brought
about the present result have been of that gradual chi'
ratter which often escape recognition until a fall in Pr°•
duce or a permanent rise in the discount market brim'
them to a fatal conclusion. The balance-sheet of We
house, as now made up, shows, it is said, a nominal sur:
plus of about £330,000 ; but this, it can hardly u`
doubted, arises from valuations of the Mauritius estate!,
d
which will prove entirely delusive. Although it is sai
that an aggregate of more than £200,000 has at varioas
periods been written off from the total at which they were
originally valued, the probability is, that if brought ~,
sale, these estates would still be found to have been enor-
mously over-estimated.

The firm, it may be added, were the agents of the Bps'
nish and also of the Venezuelan governments. Sir JO
Reid was
.deputy-governor of the Bank in 1837, and g°'

vernor in 1839

In connexion with this and each of the other disaster:
which have recently fallen, it must be pointed out that
far as the real stability of commercial credit is concerned'
/
nothing has yet occurred to beget terror upon the pares
those houses who may thus far have conducted their 13%
ness upon sound and recognized principles. All the e
which have yet taken place have ( with some small eXceP:,
tions) either had their origin in direct speculation or been
the natural climax of a long continued state of weakscn
which, to those acquainted with it, could have W,,
nothing but the actual date at which suspensionwwold
occur a matter of much uncertainty. Painful as all
vidual cases of distress must be (and few will be regard',
with more regret than that which has to-day occurred];
it should still be a matter of thankfulness rather than 0`
alarm to the solid trader, that however a course of spec!:
lation or of incautious extension may seem for a time 1"
yield results with which his own unobtrusive progress caTj
present but a slight comparison, periodical storms
certainly arrive when the difference between real and sq;
rious credit will be tested, and when commerce Will
restored ( at least until the lesson shall have been forgshte
ten) to its sound and legitimate channels. Even if t t
surrounding evils were ten times worse than they stem
this moment, we do not believe that any house Wh •
could clearly show that it had pursued a course of . but",
ness steadily confined within the fair limits of its mesa
would experience any difficulty in obtaining every aid t',,br
would be essential to avert the consequences of any meter,
accidental pressure. For the true and rational tritu
come what may, we have therefore no fear. Our only
apprehension for the future is, that the number of thus;
especially among the community at large, who have beer.
tempted to depart from the straight road, is far grea'
than has yet in any quarter been anticipated.

TheM leagueOßE MISERIES
buFteßOthMe
tuFßauEuEfaeTtußitrierem.
tEr i
rassments to the high price of the raw cotton ; but 0,,"
'
can this be when the warehouses are full of goods ";
which there is no market ? But it is not alone in th
cotton trade that England is suffering. In almost eve"
branch of business which she has opened to foreign cog,:
petition there are complaints of depression and distre,
The Morning Chronicle, a leading organ of the free-traa
ers, says : is
" The production of coal and iron on the Continent
rapidly increasing. In France, Belgium, Germany,
America, every year sees new mines opened and new I'7o
naces built. We are not merely losing our inarliet.s_eo
those countries for many articles, but find ourselves dri:,l4
by them out of neutral markets, and are even under-yo,
at the doors of our own workshops, knives, scissors, gifor
lets, screws, and other articles of hardware, in whiclitors,
a long time England was able to outstrip all comp.eti
have been and are imported from Belgium into 81011 st
ham, and sold there, both to home and foreign buyers,i
a much cheaper rate than they can now be produce"
the surrounding district. turer
" Some facts stated by Mr. S. Thornton, manufae
and merchant at Birmingham, as to the comparative Poe
of English and foreign hardware, are really startling.

says : ia
" There are half a dozen large screw manufactures
roe
and about Birmingham. My inquiries among them le,s_if of
to conclude that three or four years ago nearly one 27; et
the quantity produced went to the American mar'ethere•
present, not more than five per cent. finds its WaYnforros
Itmhaigthitf the price
b c°lfi
A. neighbour of mine, an extensive screw maker, ~I,e value
me that his returns alone to that market were of t'to not
of £20,000 per annum. They are now reclue'-, anal and
imore
werethanoo. moderately
pete with America, notwithstanding their duty of 30 V
cent.esh°lle't-° c;
" The following are the prices at which some articles of
common use, and of qualities about equal to those of End
lish manufacture, of which the prices are also annexe':

are importe

many and sold at Birmingham
8. d.

No. 625 Knife manufactured at Solingen, (DP
Rhenish Prussia .
691 Do. manufactured at Sheffield 9 2
1516 Scissors manufactured in Prussia 7 1
2335 Do. manufactured in Sheffield,
inferior to 1516. .
1 Common gimblets,manufactured
at Hamburg, price at Birming- „rog
ham, including duty & carriage 5 6perrb'
2 Ditto manufactured at Birming-
ham 7 6 tor
" An ornamental cast in iron of the statue of a6a.,
burgh made at Hamburg, price in Birmingham, 9s. ,
would cost to make at Birmingham, 255." es
All this the Chronicle attributes to the high Prict'ors
coal and iron in England -in consequence of the nr,oo
refusing to work more than nine hours a day ; but
not account for the difference between the price c" 4(1
English and the price at which, after paying the dutt;io
carriage, the foreign article can be sold in Birn3in%eell
and Sheffield. The fact is, our manufactures have. id
sacrificed. Our markets have been thrown open vat'er
due consideration of the vast differences between the los
cumstances of England and the condition of the Bloc
workman and the circumstances and the condition 0
ete,
workman of the countries unwisely invited to coSW
The consequence is, the gradual transference of the tle,
to other lands, and the consequence of that again will 05
either its eventual loss, or such a reduction of Nvagc'ae
will enable the Engish article to regain its place, and n'tile
the unfortunate operative regret that he ever joined iII
clamour against the Corn Law.

THE " TIMES" AND THE PAUPERS.—In one of IbCl3,''t
extreme articles of this slashing journalist, the writjiy
makes it out that we are ultimately to be swallowed ul?th,
pauperism, in a general scramble for property ; bfut:ch a
out any reference to the fact that the menace °'
irnevtohleutsipoanw,
nif
etfhethree bmeaannuyfehtietnugrining
sity,stheasm, ivitsh
paupers ad libitum, without providing for their susteTthe
when unemployed. In the rural districts, one
edges of the free-trade sword cuts in the same directiia
and tends to disable the depressed farmer from avai,,ted
himself of the necessary extent of decently remuner'4
labour,—the nation expending its natural resources so'
ieh foundation
cre_ar te:

foreigners

ing, tbe

DREADFUL SHIPWRECKS.--OD Monday mort-,
9th ultimo., at one o'clock, in the latitude 44 25, 1100
30, the weather being foggy, the ship Shanunga,, upze
Liverpool, came in contact with the Swedish bark jd and
from Hamburgb: for New York, with two hundreel,f
six persons on board. The Iduna-sank in about b3',A'e
hour. Immediately after the collision the Shall"7itie
boats were put out, and with one boat from the ote
picked up thirty-four persons only. One hundred fr;
seventy-two persons, including the master, CaptaleDee
nest Andreas Moberg, were lost. The survivors rea':,,ere,
Boston in a state of great destitution. The men '-et
clothed in such clothes as the generous captain and tar,,ei
the Shanunga could muster. The women who esce,k
with their night-dresses, were clad with such rude Peel'
ments as could be made out of bunting and whatever
could be found on board.—On the 17th August, the;orro
Naiad, Captain Brightman, encountered a fearful eg'asP
on her way from New Bedford for Africa. On Tileso'
the 19th, at midnight, she was struck by a very holt,' poi',
which threw the vessel upon her beamends, in whiel'ol'
sition she lay about twenty minutes, when the tear"
came off, and both masts came out from the
ing up the deck and hatch combining, when everY
„„` e„'
was washed out of the cabin, besides most of the
,i'''"•it"
with all the provisions and water. She then righter, or
nothing above water, except the starboard bow relP,' re'
on which the crew lashed themselves, where the,tbee'
mained until Saturday morning without hats or cloAttie4
b
and the sea breaking over them continually. Three,rt
Captain B. was washed from the wreck, COgPtbef
,one of the crew. Saturday, the sea becoming min',
got boxes from the hold, from which they made baler baf,
and commenced baling, but soon gave up exhauste
ing had nothing to eat or drink for four days, e 5 olej
little vinegar. Sunday morning, seeing a sail to the. 00,
ward steering towards them, renewed their hope7lsl
they commenced baling again, but soon gave up exPoirig 4
the'vessel *out three miles from them, and ,eeci tile;
nofto notice them, but after all hopes having lie ioll",1
were taken off by the barque Swan, of Cork, CaP,t50.5,00,,
bertson, more dead than alive, with their heads, Theri'd,
feet badly swollen and blistered.—The ship, city o ,
for London from Quebec, was wrecked of Bicquet I:,fteo`i
on a reef of rocks on the 11th August. She 6°°lrel e
went to pieces. Her cargo consisted of 2,120 Ittufo;l
flour, and a quantity of deals and staves.-011 of °no
week, the schooner Vine of Pwllheli, with a carg°,ary'g
to Bangor, in attempting to cross the boar from Cor.,E, 41,0
Bay to the Menai Straits, struck on the north 11:5t bastsupposed from the darkness of the night, and board,
immediately capsized and sunk with all on irt.re
daybreak the life-boat was put off, when the t'ef
found on her beam ends, with her masts embeda'n,orig.,
sand. In the cabin the dead body of a female P;',s
was found, and on the banks the body of a man_orire°o,
covered, and both were immediately taken to Carfa
there being signs of life in the men. Fourothle~ oaf
the remainder of the crew perished, but their Do"
not yet been found,

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seen fulfilled'
;han we have
ring, and CO:
)stimated at
ne being UP:
rrespective of
!urnstance of
directors of
)page is to be
tended their
extension of
Ltion of then
asing weight
Lot less thall
d estate, and
st Indies.

bed as an 0'
ie house pos.'
and there
lave brought
gradual elle'
a fall in 10:
iarket bring'
sheet of the
nominal sur-
a hardly be
•itius estetl
igh it is 531",
as at varlet',
[eh they were
brought to
e been enor-

3 of the 80"
s. Sir Rh°
837, and g°'

her disasters
d out that 9,5
s concern
n the part'?
d their ousi:
All the evil'
small excer
ttion or been
of eakoesg'
d
nsion Nevc;gl,.'
1 as all inw;
be regarded
y occurred h
ther than 0'
rse of spew
'or a time
progress c9;l
storms scw
.eal and sPu-
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been forget'
Even if °jet
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louse scul'
Ile of . bug'
)f its ine9ll
very aid tb!
4. any Tiler
err
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o have beer"
- s far great'

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of goods PP e
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competitor.,
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f the 000
but this tlse
price f oti.
the duty t. 50
Birmingmeert
has
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the DO7 the
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to creroPecle
gainhe trs of t be,
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of wages 1;e
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