The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-16 00:00:00

COTTON MARKET, FEBRUARY 15

The tone of our-market is of a very desponding and
drooping tendency. Last week's decline brought down a
host of buyers this morning ; but as they were unable to
beat prices down lower, many returned without purchasing
a single bale. The sales are only 2500 bales, all to con-
sumers. The markets pre

now. It is beyond a doubt that the croup of cotton is a
short one, the stock here a very reduced one, and nothing
is coming forward. Yet trade is bad, and buyers keep
back, and prices are falling. On the contrary, it is now
well ascertained and acknowledged, that we shall have a
superabundance of " bread stuffs," the markets here are
glutted, stocks are accumulating, and within the next
three weeks or a month, we shall have upwards of 200
sail of vessels into our port, with bread stuffs, from all
quarters. Yet prices are going up, such is the force of
public opinion, and the operations of a speculative mania.
The accounts received by the Hibernia as to the stocks
of cotton are confirmatory of the calculations given in a
correspondence inserted in this paper about a month since.
We may have some further information on this subject
for our next.

We understand that Messrs. W. S. Dixon and Co. have
taken the 60 barrels Indian corn meal, subscribed for the
distressed Highlanders, to Glasgow, free of charge.
PORTRAIT OF THE REV. T. NOLAN.—We have seen
an excellent engraving by Lupton, from a painting by
Mr. Hawksett, of the above rev. gentleman, which strikes
us as the only faithful portraiture of him which has yet
been published. It will be remembered that Mr. Hawk-
sett is the artist whose admirable likeness of the Rev.
Hugh M`Neile is familiar to most of the friends of that

rev. gentleman. The engraving may be seen at Mr. Jef-
freys, carver and gilder, 88, Bold-street. miles, to collect sea which they boil with a little tom,
INQUESTS YESTERDAY BEFORE THE BOROUGH CO- order to eke out their
onew oesedr small pittance of food. When speaking
RONER.—On view of the body of a new born female child, on this subject to the police, he assured me that a few
which on Wednesday last was found thrown over the wall nights before he found a number and..- ‘, eeli restingntiLnu
of the Workhouse burying-ground by a man
who' dis, , the roadside :.each had parcel on:esiel
Bantry Bay, and they told, it was the chief part of air
appeared. The body was encloSed in a box. There was food. This at any time is unwholesome fare; but under their
no mark of violence on the body, and the ()Pinion of Mr. musLntp,c)lsrocnumsr.nc%Anedsdian thaesmlainner they use it, it is ab-
fooiwnfrteo.proonat I
ab-
Grimsdale, surgeon, who made a post mortem examination cabin
was that it had been still-born. Verdict accordingly.—
On the body of Margaret Flynn, aged 53, a married we- 1 the way side. On entering a miserable hovel, I fiouunao
was requested to look at sonj,children":
children in fever, the youngest apparently at the lt of death.ur
Approaching them, I perceived a figure covered up in the heap
man, residing in Paul-street. It appeared deceased had
been complaining for some time, and that she died from of straw, and inquired fromd a young lad who stood by me. He
puseyoufuthmeaniyother Wing by the poor 'uoran the re
disease of the lungs. Verdict in accordance.—On the udwrnhecenon.velrsbeiediehetihiladedtfadilieceecd judge what my feelings were
bodies of Margaret Gore, Ashby-street ; Mary Ann Alil-
three days. 'This woman Ipeft"auus
chil-
ligan, Vernon-street; Isaac Evans, Lambert-street; and
loss. Her husband had been for two monthsme
family
op, ptid had lain there
eatn2F mploy-
Ellen Boote, Woolf-street,—all children, and each ofne to.lament her
ment on the public works. and had lust obtainx.Ti
his family, though fret
whom, during the absence of their parents or friends,that
were so severely burnt, by their clothes catching fire,

uently relieved from my fund,

they died soon aftentards. In one of the cases the ver- duced to extreme misery. A short time since ho was one of
Of most athletic mountaineers I had ever seen. He is now a
diet was accidental : in the others "no evidence to show
how their clothes took fire." miserable, famished object ; and all his children equally exhibit
evidences of starvation All acknowledge that the
THE NIGHT ASItLUM.—The Mercury states that at relief administered here has saved numbers from perishing, and
this asylum shelter and warmth are all that can be offered to-day the priest told me that were it not for what I have been
tb poor applicants, with the exception of a few potatoes enabled to do for them, hundreds more must have been in their
on a Sunday, when the inmates have no chance of earning graves..
a dinner ; and goes on to say that Mr. Councillor Parker The Rev. Thomas Tuekey, of Dromaleague, writes :
proposes to improve on this plan, by sending a cart round "Famine, disease, and death, are daily increasing, and claim-
on Saturday to the principal residents of the neighbour- ing their victims among us. Two men were by
.mere accident
hood, for such broken meat and bread as can be spared. found dead this day. In the consequent search in the house of
He has also offered to find the man, cart, and horse for one
of three children were found dead together, the vie •
fever. Help from every. quarter. will be found neces-
this purpose for a few weeks, te try the experiment fairly, il
and said he would speak to some of the inhabitants to nary to prevent the utter depopulation of this unhappy country."
Rector of Schell, he says
induce them to forward the plan. The cart passed through lna letter I received on Saturday from Dr. Trail!,
several streets in the south part of the town on Saturday,
and with very considerable success. We concur with our " Our average mortality now amounts to 40 per day."
contemporary that the suggestion does great credit to the I might, but must not, multiply such extracts.
heart as well as the head of the worthy councillor, and What shall we say to these things ? Doubtless it is right
sincerely hope the plan may successfully be extended to that statesmen should deliberately discuss the general
other parts of the town, so that not only a Sunday dinner questions of the relations between landlord and tenant, of
but an occasional meal may be afforded to the destitute poor-law regulations, of such remunerative improvements
inmates of the asylum. The result of the experiment, so as railways, of emigration, of protection and provisionfor the
liberally made, was that 110 inmates of the Night Asylum working classes and the poor of England, of what a govern-
were provided with a substantial dinner on Sunday ; and ment ought or may be expected to do, and what a govern-
the sum of 255. was received to be distributed in soup ment ought riot, and should not be expected to do ;—doubt-
tickets. The receipts would have been much greater had less it is most fitting that, after a careful, and candid and
.more publicity been given to the proceeding ; and next comprehensive discussion, such general measures should be
week it is believed that sufficient meat for at least 200 will adopted as will (so far as human sagacity can anticipate)
be collected. Mr. Parker's cart went down Norton-street, remedy existing evils and establish a better system. But
Islington, and the Crescent, to Richmond-row. Such an discussions of necessity require time ; and- the wisest
effort P *cod* waking in every ward in our town. measures, when adopted, must be of gradual operation.