The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-11-15 00:00:00

There are a preponder^
tendency of p

lce of buy(
A decidedly up
—Caledonians, 27*

annex quotations

cashire, 161; Lancashire and lorionire, v=im s 4 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle Thirds, 111 p ; London
Stock, 1021 ; Sheffield Stock, 201 ; Midland
Stock, 61 1 ; Dover Stock, 18 3-16
Dilanchester,Sheffield and Lincoinshir -
St. 'Helens R. and C.
R. and Goole, 214
Debenture 6 per cent
1 9-16 p.
COTTON.—The sales during the week were

5 per cent
; Quebec

1044 ; Shef
and Riche.

Royal Ins

e preceding

Mutat great, Cl CA LCII V Lilau r..----0
week, averaging about 5,500 bales each day to the

trade, and prices have also i
qualities of America being a
improvement has taken place in
continued strike in the manufacturing districts
and the many conflicting reports of warlike opera
tions in the East. The weather has, however,
been fine, and the corn-markets throughout the

raproN

[e face of the

country are declining.—To-DAY t]
Asia showed lower markets on tl
there were contradictory statemel
crop, and very little (
market

ices b;

other side, but

is respecting th€

feet was produced on this
The demand here was brisk, and though

much firmer, as current -rates were more readily
obtainable. The sales amounted to 6,000 bales,
including about 1,000 on speculation and for ex-
but
vourable weather, there beinc, a thick fog over
Liverpool nearly the whole of the day. The fol-
lowing are the comparative prices between pi

rates and the corresponding rates of last year

New Orleans, middling

5 13-16 d. E
6 3-Bd. E

IMPORTS

,
DESCRIPTION.! PRICFS.t Week., rrevi- YVCEK ;
I 1. .I.'
r.SPOdiri I°l 1136)1 •Yr
. 1:121 Year. INov:11

STOCK

Sea Island l4 ca 34
Stained 6i
Boweds 4 71
Mobile 4 6
New Orleans., 31 ij
Pernams, &c.l 6i 8

220 1""1
10, 1540 793‘ 493318

10340 4266931/
4330 2623801}
16850 882200
3941' Cll 6364: 926047

Bahia, &c... I6* 6,
Maranliam 6/ 8
Demerara, &c
Egyptian....
Co ni.W.l.&c.

1030: 46100
1140, 38430

al io
7 I

Surat .
Madras
Bengal .

1147701
109101

45060'20884801 9170 1914094' 681660

PRODUCE.—The markets during the week have
presented very little deserving of notice, with the
exception of Tea, in which there has been conside-
rable excitement, owing to the intelligence from
China of the patriot party havilar, got possession of
Shanghae. TO-DAY there has been a better feeling
in our Sugar market, and the sales effected have
been at prices not previously obtainable, the busi-
ness comprising 140 hilt's. Barbadoes at 32s to 395,
500 bags white Benares at 37s 6d to 40s 6d, and
450 bags dates at 33s to 33s 6d per ewt. 80 puns.
St. Lucia MOlasses have been sold at 15s 6d per
cwt., and a small lot of Demerara Rum at previous
prices. Since the arrival of the letters this morn-
ing we have had a large inquiry for both common
and blackish leaf Cougou, the former at is ld, and
the latter at is 6d to is Sd, but with few sellers,
otherwise a larger business would have been done ;
there is also more inquiry for low and common
greens, at improved rates. There has again been
an extensive demand for Arracan Rice, 30,000 bags
havinc, changed hands since Friday at 12s 9d to
13s, besides 800 bags Bengal at 15s to 15s 3d per
cwt. We have also to report 300 bags Sumatra
black Pepper at 44d. per lb., and 40 tons Lima
Wood at 212 12s to £l2 17s 6d per ton.
WooL.—No change to notice this week : the
transactions are again very limited, and prices
without alteration. Since the improvement in
the London sales, noticed at the commencement
of last week, a rather better feeling has been
manifest in this market ; and we hope to see more
animation shortly. Import for this week, 1,042
bales.

MrrALs.---There is still great activity in the
Iron trade, owing to the large demand for all
descriptions for exportation, and prices have ad-
vanced, Scotch Pigs having reached £4 per ton.
Copper has increased in value no less than £9 10s.
per ton, and a further rise is expected.

THE WELLINGTON TESTIMONIAL.—A design for the
testimonial, proposed to be erected in Liverpool to the
great Duke of Wellington, has been made by Mr. Thorpe.
It represents a portion of the globe, upon the apex of
which, elevated on a pedestal, is a figure of the Duke in
an animated attitude, and surrounded by ten of his prin-
cipal compafiions in arms, including IJord Combermere,
Lord Hill, the Marquis of Anglesey, Sir Thomas Picton,
&c. ; and on the front of the pedestal is an inscription,
" Glory to God on high : on earth peace, good will towards
men." The design is left for inspection at Mr. Walmsley's,
in Castle-street, and it is proposed that it shall be erected
on the vacant space at the top of Shaw's Brow, so that,
when the improvements are completed, it may form an
elegant termination to the vista from the Town Hall.
NEW PL.tNET.-Mr. Hind has discovered a new planet
in the constellation Taurus, about two degrees south of
the ecliptic. It is rather brighter than stars of the ninth
magnitude. This planet is the ninth which he has dis-
covered since the commencement of a systematic search
in 1846, and raises the number of that extraordinary
group of worlds between Mars and Jupiter to twenty-

seven.
OCEAN STEAMERS, t&C.—At the last meeting of the In-
stitution of Civil Engineers, a paper was read "On the
Speed and other Properties of Ocean Steamers, and on the
Measurement of Ships for Tonnage," by Mr. A. Hender-
son. After alluding to a paper brought before the insti-
tution in 1847, by the same author, in which the fallacy
of using registered tonnage and nominal horse-power, as
the index of the capabilities or speed of steamers, was
shown, by a comparison of their relative proportions and
elements of resistance with the steam-power employed, the
present paper referred to a tabular form, containing
copious details of dimensions and of general information,
as to the form, proportions, and speed realized by ocean
steamers, compiled from documents emanating from the
department of the surveyor of the navy, and from
the returns made to parliament, by the Post-office
and the Admiralty ; showing that, between the years
1845 and 1851, on an aggregate mail service of 1,271,000
miles, the speed realized only averaged 7.945 knots per
hour, which was far short of the speed generally sup-
posed to be maintained by mail steamers, the highest
speed being 81,- knots per hour, between Marseilles and
Alexandria, by H.M. mail packets, and the lowest 7/ knots
per hour, between Ceylon and China, by contract steamers.
Reference was then made to a tabular statement, published
by the Committee on Steam Communication with India,
showing the station of each steamer, including six
packets of the Indian navy, running upwards of 325,000
miles, at a speed of B'oB2 knots per hour, and eleven
contract steamers of the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany, running above 533,720 miles, and averaging
7'792 knots per hour. By the same table the speed
of the iron steamer Pekin was shown to be 7'733
knots per hour; the old timber steamers, Lady
Wood and Braganza, realizing only 7'378 knots
7'249 knots per hour respectively. Some observations
were offered on the various proportions, forms, u.
ante of ocean steamers, and the difficulty of obtaining a fax
criterion of relative efficiency ; with suggestions, tha'
information might be obtained by recording the particular,
required in the columns of a table, similar to one which
was exhibited, from which it appeared that the proportions
of vessels varied from five-and-a-quarter to eight times
their breadth to their length. That the length of the five
steamers realizing 8* knots per hour averaged less than
six times their breadth. while that of those which realized
less than 8* knots averaged upwards of seven-and-a-half
' times their breadth. The second part of +b'-
" On the measurement of Ships."
the present register of particulars, by =Atm
gave less information than the old register ;
tions of tonnage deduced from internal measurement mu.
show discrepancies of ten, or even fifteen per cent. between
r 411 a

Aid resist-

It was contended that
ig the deptq
that ealeula-

the computed tonnage of' timber and of iron ships, of tne
same size or external bulk ; therefore, it had become neces-
sary to introduce a method of computation, deduced from
bothinternal and external measurement, so as to combine
the capacity for stowage, and the weight or the load, and
the disPlßCenacUtV,