The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-15 00:00:00

PRICES CURRENT OF TON.

During the recess we have directed our attention to the state
of the market at the West End, and submit to our readers a re-
view of the leading articles after the fashion and manner of the
City Price Current. It will be seen that the following docu-
ment exhibits items not usually noticed in the publication
known by the name of the Prije Current, and therefore some,
mercantile anomalies will doubtless be detected, such as articles
falling in demand, &c. ; but in general it will be found to be
perfectly correct.
CASH.—In this all-important and favourite article the usual
scarcity continues. The demand is tremendous. • Holders very
firm.
Coccus ANO COLDS.--Since the unsettled state of the wea-
ther the stock on hand is very great. In many cases, where the
holders have been disposed to part with what they had on any
terms, the article has gone off. In what has been long on hand
there is a great tendency to decline, the parties keeping them in
expectation of consumption.
FOOLS and ROGUES are in the market in the ustial quantity.
The former are in much demand at the clubs.
DUNS.—Very plentiful, but are not well received in the
market; and though receipts are offered with them gratis, they
are kept up with great reluctance. _. .
Liyx Srocx.—Calves are much inquired after at Almack's.
Very few Lambs are asked after, except at Whitehall, Job,
the Grunter and a party of whole-hog men from ,Ireland were
in Considerable demand in St. Giles's. There were more Irish
than Unglish bulls. The farmer offered to throw the offal in
but the` demand was very slack.
DUST.—In lively demand since the late rains. Is expected
shortly, howevef, to rise considerably.
Lanus' DaEssgs.—Petticoats have gone up still higher
since last season, and have come down. Ankles, which
were freely shown last seas dresses, . are rather higher in quality, and
busts are offered to a gre .extent. The bonnet business is
much curtailed, and noses eto be occasionally seen in the
market. The sleeve trade is not carried on to quite so great an
extent as before. Stockings, as usual, have much engaged the
attention of speculators during the showery weather. Those
who have them on hand are looking up.
MARRIAGES.—Since the commencement of the present sea-
son numerous speculations have been entered into. The last
season the market was unusually lively, and several contracts
then made have been since completed at prices which have not
transpired. There is yet, we hear, a large stock undisposed of.
Fair descriptions are in brisk demand. Those for choice are
scarce. Offers are freely made for such of this quality which
remain in first-rate hands. A few lots have been taken up for
exportation. Cash is almost alone looked after in the general
run of transactions in this article.—Age.

ROYAL ROCK FERRY STEAM-PACKET COMPANY.—Trustees,
Christopher Bonin, Esq., and T. B. Horsfall, Esq. A meeting
of the proprietors in the above company was held on Tuesday,
at the Uarendon4ooms, South John-street, at which the report
of the provisional committee was received and adopted with
unanimous approbation, and the following gentlemen named:—
Directors: Henry Jenkinson, Esq., J. Nelson Wood, Esq., W.
Dobson, Esq., Anthony Nichol, Esq., John Fletcher, Esq„ H.
Hutchinson, Esq., William Wilson, Esq. Solicitors: Messrs.
Lace, Sons, and Myers. Bankers: Messrs. Leyland and
Boffin.
THE NEW COINS.—A gross oversight has been committed
at the Mint in regard to the new fourpenny-pieces, by adopting
a die of the exact size and form of a small copper coin issued
for circulation .in the Colonies only, and in value about half a
farthing. It was the uniform practice heretofore at the Mint to
confine the figure of Britannia to the copper coinage,, in order
to prevent fraud; and the mischief that may occur born the
present inconsiderate proceeding is obvious. The officers at
the Mint are in a state of perfect dismay at the discovery.—

BATHOS.—The following affecting advertisement is from a
London newspaper :—" If this should meet the eye of Emma
D—, who absented herself last Wednesday from her father's
house, she is implored to return, when she will be received with
undiminished affection by her almost heart-broken parents. If
nothing can persuade her to listen to their joint appeal—should
she be determined to bring their grey hairs with sorrow to the
grave—should she never mean to revisit a home where she has
passed so many happy years—it is at least expected, if she be
not totally lost to all sense of propriety, that she will, withou
a moment's further delay, send back the key of the tea caddy.'t
—Tin Trumpet.
INSTITUTION Fon THE DOM, AND DUMB, BELFAST.—On
Tuesday evening, Mr. Collier delivered his first lecture, " on
the education of deaf mutes," in the Assembly Room, Ex-
change, to a highly respectable and numerous audience. Mr.
Collier's description of the forlorn state of the subjects of his
lecture was truly affecting, and his delineation of the mode
usually adopted for teaching this unfortunate class was ex-
tremely interesting. The examination of the pupils, which fol-
lowed, was very satisfactory; and the sign-language, and per-
sonification of the various trades, by the pupils, excited much
applause. The meeting was next addressed by the Rev. A. C.
Macartney, and some other gentlemen on the state of the funds
of the institution, which, we were sorry to hear, are, iu conse-
quence of the expenses attending the erection of the splendid
substantial edifice in College-street, almost completely ex-
hausted. A. number of ladies kindly proposed their services as
collectors on the occasion. Mr. Collier's second lecture, on
the " Education of the Blind," took place yesterday evening.
The attendance was numerous and highly respectable. Having
satisfactorily proved that. the instruction of the blind is not only
practicable, but that, in consequence of their exclusion from I
surrounding objects, they are peculiarly fitted for the loftier
exercises of intellect, and for surmounting those difficulties in
science with which seeing persons have long and unsuccessfully
struggled, he proceeded- to explain the tangible methods by
which their education is accomplished. The audience seemed
highly gratified by the performance of the pupils, in proving
the efficiency of the plans employed in teaching them reading,
writing, arithmetic, geography, geometry, astronomy, and the
other branches which they are taught in the school. After the,
lecture, several gentlemen addressed the meeting, expressive of
their deep obligations to Mr. Collier, for his zealous and talent-,
ed exertions on behalf of the deaf mutes and blind in the Belfast
School, to whose indefatigable labours the present prosperous
Mete oftitt institution is attrayntable.—Belfast News Letter:

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STEAM NAVIGATION.

As we have always taken a deep interest in what regards the
steam navigation of this part, we, this day insert a very satis-
factory statement in a letter from Colonel'Burgoyne to Daniel
O'Connell, Esq., which we think decides the question as to the
merits of the claim on parliament for an increase of capitathy
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company.
London, 3d April, 1836.
Sir,—Having been summoned from Dublin to give evidence
before the committee respecting the operations of the Dublin
and Liverpool Steam Company's bill, in connection with the
navigation of the river Shannon ' • but having been detained on,
the road by which I arrived ton late for the committee, and be-
ing since informed that my evidence might have tended to re-
move the doubts thrown on the working of the company in. Ire-
land, I deem it but justice to state to you, as. the chairman,
what I should have been ready to have declared befure your
committee. . .

understand, that the bill for increasing the capital of thp
company is opposed. The opposition may-be founded on good
grounds, but I regret it much, because I see many advantages
to the public from an extension of the operations of the company.
. Any considerable intercourse by steam vessels, requires no-
toriously very large capital, particularly if maintained with the
frequency and regularity established by the Dublin and Liver-
pool Company.
Individual enterprize could not effect the object, nor could
an ordinary partnership.
The Dublin and Liverpool Company were the first to under-
take this arduous service; they have brought their establish-
ment to a great state of perfection, and they work it in a man-
ner highly beneficial to the public. Their vessels are substan-
tial, and manned and equipped in a superior manner. One or
more, (often to the extent of three or four) leave each port
every tide. The passage is made with expedition and security.
The charges are moderate, and a bonus, or return, from the
profits is distributed to the shippers of goods, in abatement of
their freights. It does not appear to me that•there either is or
can be auv monopoly in su,ch a business. The ports and their
accommodation on each side of the channel are equally open to
every, body, and indeed, scarcely a summer season passes that
some independent vessel does not undertake this very Dublin
and Liverpool business. The existing company has one advan-
tage, and one only, over any competitor, namely, that of well-
known honourable and moderate conduct.
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The knowledge that the profits of the company, paid to the
shareholders, have not hitherto exceeded six per cent., per an-
num, may be sufficient to show that no undue advantages are
taken.
This company, however, has a particular claim to support,
for the extent and nature of its operations in the interior of Ire-
land, where they have come more immediately under my ob-
servation.
It has united with it the inland steam navigation of the Shan-
non, a river, which from its broad and deep waters is peculiarly
adapted to steam vessels; or it may be said only adapted to
steam, for no navigation by sail, or other means, could be use-
fully or profitz,bly employed there, except on a very small
scale.
The two great canals from Dublin to the Shannon (to which
they both lead) are made feeders of the company's trade to Li-
verpool, greatly to the advantage of the public, both in point
of convenience and economy. To furthei the operations of the
company, several steamers have been put upon that river;—
small piers and harbours have been constructed ; roads
brought down to them : two hotels have been built ; stores and
traders established on the banks and quays, and a great degree
of activity and prosperity promoted in a country previously
without communications, and without markets, excepting so re-
mote as to be almost unavailable. In such situations, and in-
deed throughopt the whole line of their operations, the value of
land, and its produce, has been increased, and the people have
been surprised to find prices for their produce very nearly equal-
ling those of the more fortunate- residents, (as hitherto consid-
ered) of the neighbourhoods of the great cities.
The company's operations being on this extensive scale, and
conducted on enlightened views, the most moderate charges
are laid on the produce conveyed to Dublin for shipment to
Liverpool, very little more indeed, than what pays the actual
expense of this inland carriage.
It may readily be understood what degree of good must be
done to Ireland, and consequently to the empire, by such en-
terprise;—it is a step towards one of the great desiderata to
render that country equally prosperous and settled as Great
Britain.
It is manifest that even the improvement of the great Shan-
non Navigation would be unavailable, unless through the in-
strumentality of large and combined capital, which gives to the
Country, and to all classes, improved means of intercourse ;
and it is, perhaps, owing to the want of large capital, and the
absence of united enterprize, that this. magnificent river has for
so many ages remained useless, as a medium of commercial
communication. .

The combined action of the company in the interior with that
of their Liverpool Navigation is a peculiarly happy organiza-
tion, and of such benefit to the country generally, that it would
be very impolitic to cripple its operations for want of capital.
There are some objects now in agitation likely to afford a
highly important, opening for the beneficial working of a consi-
derable increase of their business.
One is the further improvement of the Shannon, which an
express commission has now under consideration, from whom a
:report has been lately laid before parliament.
Another, is the probability of the Post Office Mail Service
between Dublin and Liverpool, being undertaken by contract,
instead of being worked by government as at present.
A third, may reasonably be anticipated to grow out of the
improvement and extension of the trade on the Shannon; that
is, the giving to Limerick, the only sea-port on that river, the
benefit of a direct intercourse by steam navigation to the B rit -
ish. Scotch, and even to foreign ports.
By the first of these operations, it is expected that the great
capabilities of this fine river will be much more fully developed:
a range of between eighty and ninety miles of the very middle
of its course, comprehending two large lakes, several tributary
rivers, and the mouths of the two Dublin Canals', will he made
applicable for a large class of steamers; while the other parts
of the river will be greatly improved for trade; all which will
require much more extended means of floating steam power and
of trading vessels.
It may be remarked that steam navigation in the interior
of Ireland cannot work to such advantage as when it is connec-
ted with establishments of a similar nature in some neighbour-
ink
.great British port; not alone as regrsardrthe trade, but in
the important concern of the provision and maintenance of the
mechanical means employed.
For the second object, there surely can be no good reason for
preventing this company from being, at least, competitors for
the public business; no other. body being; prevented also from
entering into the competition, as it is most probable they are
prepared to do.
As to the third object, it does not appear unreasonable that
as steam navigation is improved, Limerick end the Shannon
should enjoy this direct trade to British ports, which of itself
will require a capital for building first class steam vessels to so
large an amount as to put it out of the power of individual en-
terprise; and it could not be in better hands than in those of
this company.
On the whole I would observe, lst. That this company have,
by:great efforts, and with much judgment, established a most
important and beneficial business, particularly for Ireland.
2dly. That its operations are capable of great increase, and
without any •reference to, or interference of any kind, with the
trade or enterprise of any other company, or without any thing
tending to monopoly.
3dly. That it would be injurious to prpvent its acquiring the
the means necessary for such extension.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient humble servant,
J. F. BUItGOYNE.
To Daniel O'Connell, Esq., M.P.,
Chairman of the Committee on the City of Dublin,
Steam Packet Company's Bill.