The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

PHILHARMONIC HALL

THI S EVEN IN G (TUESDAY), March Ist,
LAST NIGHT BUT FOUR OF
THOMAS'S UNRIVALLED BAND
OF FIFTTY PERFORMERi.
Admission, Is. ; Stalls. 2s. ; Boxes, 2s. sd.
(See Programmes of the day.)

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.

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MONDAY MORNING.

THE existence of the present Government will, to a great
extent, be determined on Thursday, when the Irish
Liberal Members intend taking council as to the course
tbey should adopt in the present crisis of public affairs.
About sixty representatives from the sister country are
expected to attend the meeting ; and if the majority
should resolve that, in pursuance of the policy recom-
mended by the Tenant Leaguers and Ribbonmen. all
ministerial measures shall be opposed so long as Lord
ABERDEEN refuses to endorse SHARMA.N CRAWFORD'S
bill, and pull down the Established Church, then, as by
one of the Brigade's standing rules, the minority are
bound by the majority, you may expect ovsr half a
hundred Liberals arrayed in opposition to the government,
and the government itself in a minority in the House o
Commons of from 15 to 20 sotes. The result of the
meeting is looked forward to with great interest, and each
of the two sections into which the Irish parliamentary
party is divided has been for days past using vigorous
exertions to secure the attendance of as large a number as
possible of those favourable to their respective views.
Half a dozen lines in the report of Friday night's par-
liamentary proceedings record the fact that the select com-
mittee who were to have tried the merits of HELY
HUTCHINSON'S petition against the return of Mr.
EsMOND, the Brigade member for \Waterford count v,
have been discharged, and an order made by a special
vote of the Rouse of Commons for the appointment of
another Committee, who, it is to be hoped, will confer
the representation on as gallant and honourable a Conser-
vative as ever sipped champagne at the Carlton. This
rather unusual disbamlonment of an Election Com-
mittee, just on the eve of being sworn before the Speaker,
has given rise to a good deal of by no means uninteresting
gossip; and as the real circumstances connected with the
affair have not yet found their way into ang of the public
journals, I think I may as well narrate them here. The
newspaper report says, that Sir JOHN TROLLOPS moved
for the discharge of the Waterford Committee, and the
nomination of another, on the ground that Colonel VER-
NON HARCOURT, one of the members, had pleaded
inability to attend, in consequence of the death
of his brother. It is quite true that such a
plea was raised, but it is equally true that ano-
ther member, Viscount MoNcia-, found himself
placed in such an awkward fix by the cleverness of
the Conservative agent, that he could not consistently
take any part in the transactions of whatever
committee may be selected to seat or unseat
Mr. Esatomo. As the Committee originally stood,
it presented many features decidedly unfavourable to the
Conservative candidate. The majority were of Mr.
ESMOND'S political complexion, and two of the members
are his personal friends. With such a tribunal, HELY
HUTCHINSON'S prospects of winning the battle, as you
can very well suppose, were all hut hopeless. Fortu-
nately, it transpired that, some weeks ago, Viscount
MONCK had made a bet of £25, at the Kildare-street Club
in Dublin, with CECIL LAWLESS, Lord CLONCURRY'S
son, member for Clonmel, that Mr. EMSOND would not
be unseated. Viscount MoNcK, an Irishman, though
representative of an English borough, when questioned
touching the wager, frankly admitted that it had been
booked. The SPEAKER was then informed of the circum-
stance. He gave it as his opinion that Viscount MoNcK
could not serve, and directed the chairman to report the
affair to the House of Commons and call for another com-
mittee. In the meantime the domestic calamity to which
I have adverted occurred in Colonel HARCOURT'S family,
and on this ground was the committee discharged,
Viscount MoxcK's entanglement in the plot being care-
fully concealed from the eyes of the Legislature.
An interesting little debate occurred in the House of
Commons on Tuesday evening, before the Maynooth
question came on. It arose on the motion of that genuine
Conservative and real old English gentleman, Sir ROBERT
HARRY INGLIS, whose very name is " warrant for his
welcome," aril touching whose personnel more anon.
Sir ROBERT called the attention of the house to the ardu-
ous duties of Mr. SPEAKER, in olden times called " the
mouth of the house ;" he referred to the apparent absur-
dity and unreasonableness of imposing such constant
attendance upon frail humanity, the want also of a deputy
for the right hon. gentleman, to take the chair in case of
sudden emergency from cold or cholic. Sir ROBERT then,
from a very early period of the history of the House of
Commons, cited various instances of speakers being placed
in such a predicament. There was, in 1636, a Speaker
reported to the house as " very sick," whereupon the
house adjourned ; there was a period of fifty years when
no Speaker was reported unwell and absent from duty. In
1659 (I give you dates as pronounced by Sir ROBERT
Boers), there were four cases of absence from illness—
house adjourned each time, much to the satisfaction of all
the members, save and except those who had motions to
bring forward ; in 1772 the Speaker was taken " sick at his
post,"—house adjourned. But I need not go into more
details from my notes, as we come down the tido of time,
be it enough that Sir ROBERT INGLIS clinched the impor-
tance of the question by calling attention to the fact that
the present Speaker, Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, " put the
question" no fewer than three hundred times on Monday
evening. Under these circumstances it does seem strange
that there is no Deputy-Speaker, and stranger still, that
such a thorough-paced business man as JOSEPH HUME
should oppose so rational a proposition. He did so, how-
ever, but took nothing by his opposition. The House of
Peers, which does not sit one twentieth of the time, com-
pared with the Commons, has four or five deputies, or
speakers, who take the woolsack in the absence of the
LORD CHANCELLOR. It may be that the more aristo-
cratic atmosphere of the upper chamber, with all the
agremens of lordly-life beside, might even change the
perennial and sturdy member for Montrose—were he
made Lord Hum E—into an exotic or hot-house plant, and
hence deputy-speakers by the half-dozen may be required
in the Lords. Be this as it may, the Speakers of the
House of Commons, time out of mind, for the moat part
have been remarkable for their immunity from sudden
or prolonged attacks of the ills which flesh is heir to. The
late CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON was a remarkable
example of unbroken attention to the duties of the
speakership, and, no doubt, would have been referred to
by the right hon. baronet in his enumeration of Speakers,
but for the obvious reason that a great number of the
members of the present house—although it is motley
enough—well knew and remembered the manners in the
house of my old friend. Not so your readers generally.
MANNERS SUTTON, afterwards Viscount CANTERBURY.,
was, indeed, a prodigy in sticking to business. It was his
wont on a " debate night" to take the chair at 4 o'clock
in the afternoon ; after prayers—l don't think they say
them so well now—came petitions, then as now, by the
cart-load, till five—teazing questions corning as quick as
hail, and referring to every end of the earth, and to every
subject in or above it, occupied another hour, at the expi-
ration of which time the regular business began, not ter-
minating till two, three—aye, four in the morning !
Twelve mortal hours, during which period MANNERS
SUTTON—beyond a friendly chat with a member leaning
on the arm of the chair, and apparently a more needful
pinch of rapee—had no other creature comfort during the
tedious hours. There he sat, like JUPITER TONANS, in
wig, without " budging," meat, or drink. When he
retired to his house, which was reached by a short passage
from the senate chamber, his usual meal was a basin of
humble gruel, little better than skilly ; then he went
through his devotions in the same attire he sat in in the
house : these finished, to bed, with what appetite for sleep
he might. So attached to the duties of the speakership
and to their faithful discharge was this remarkable man—
in other respects mediocre—that on the pleasant summer's
evening, when his aged father, the Archbishop of CAN-
TERBURY, was breathing his last in Lambeth Palace, across
the Thames, and opposite the House of Commons, the
Right Hon. Gentleman was, as usual, presiding over the
august assembly. A trusty servant of the house was sta-
tioned on the roof, keeping his eyes on the Archiepiscopal
Palace. It had been arranged that, when it was unmis-
takeably apparent that the ARCHBISHOP was in articulo
mortis, a white handkerchief should be waved for a mo-
ment from one of the ancient towers of Lambeth Palace.
About half-past six o'clock the signal was perceived,
and
in a few minutes the house adjourned. If Sir ROBERT
INGLIS had told this, it would have told better than re-
ferences to cholla two hundred years old. N'importe,
Sir ROBERT you are a brick of the right sort. The con-
stant sitting of MANNERS SUTTON superinduced a disease
which it is believed ultimately cut short his life. The
present SPEAKER divides his evening. About ten:o'clock
he retires—has the wing of a fowl, or something of that
sort ready—a glass of wine—takes them, and is in the
house again in a twinkling.

The axe 13 laid at the root of the tipas. The politically

"accursed thing"—Maynooth College—school for traitors
—is doomed ! Though the debate on Mr. SPOONER'S
I motion was not cleverly managed,—yea, bungled,—
ruined in the outset, as it were, by Mr. SCHOLEFIELD'S
wishy-washy and side-wind amendment, having for its
effect the doing away of all state enactments in aid of
ecclesiastical or religious endowments whatever, still a

victory was gained, the motion for an enquiry into the
grant being lost by a majority of 30 only, and this majo-
rity, I have good reason to know, would have been much
less, had the division,—hurried on,—not taken place at a
'Wednesday's sitting, just about six o'clock, when the
house as a matter of course adjourns. A division was not
expected by many members in favour of the motion.
Hence the partial defeat. Mr. SPOONER is able to deal

heavy blows against the iniquity : let him go on ; he will
succeed in the long run. And why ? Cardinal W ISEMAN
and his allies, the Romish Priests of Ireland, are the hon.
member's best supporters in the present instance; the
fearful denunciations of the priests at the recent Irish
elections, against all who did not support the renegade
quaker-papist and his like, told more for Mr. SPOONER

than all his facts, fiery though they were. The debate, on
a nauseous subject, was deeply interesting, as was shown
by the attendance of members and strangers, the former
chiefly preferring a drive in the ring of Hyde-park, on
Wednesday, to sitting in the House of Commons, and
sensible fellows they are for so doing. The Government
acted rather wisely on the present occasion ; not prone to
praise the Co. Cab., as the Coalition Cabinet is sometimes
called for short, its members considered that there was
little or no use for scarcely a word from either of them.
This was well ; the thing will work its own " kill or
cure," and though " His Eminence" hods over, or at
most, only attempts a little dust-throwing in the eyes of
the natives, by spouting absurdities in reference to the
support of science,—which means knowledge and all that
sort o' thing, given by the Faithful in Italy,—he is sore at
heart ; and though apparently taking no public part, he
thinks the more, deeming prudence the better part of
valour. A. fool is accounted wise when he holds his
tongue. Sensible Roman Catholics, I mean those of that
numerous and in most regards highly intellectual and
respectable portion of our fellow-subjects who are not
priest-ridden, lament the recent interference at the
elections. Repeat it, and the progress of Popery is
put back a century. And happily. Cardinal WISEMAN
knows now, that had he staid where he was, his church
would have had more chance of advancing. The late
DANIEL O'CONNELL scarcely ever passed any of the fine
metropolitan places of worship a dozen years ago, without
expressing himself, in what he deemed prophetic accents,
that before many years were over, the niche would have
its holy water in these same churches. It is not so. Nor
likely to be.

Idiosyncracy of Parliament ! Tell us the meaning of
the words, best of all possible correspondents. Go to the
taverns in and about Palace-yard, and you will, gentle
reader, soon find out an answer for yourself. Every
question debated in Parliament attracts its own particular
auditors. So likewise do contested elections bring toge-
ther, in the hostels aforesaid, certain shrewd-looking,
bribe-taking—many of them—individuals, in the shape of
witnesses, peculiar in aspect and manner,—rusticity and
cunning curiously blended, and striving as it were for
rivalry,—garb homely but good. They are tolerably well
paid for their attendance to vindicate the futility of Whig
measures for the prevention of bribery. Proh pudor !
Bush .' For the most part, the varlets I treat of have a
guinea a-day ; yet a shilling clears each man of the majo-
rity. In the evening they spend no money, for they
chiefly get admission to the gallery of the House of
Commons, which they make redolent with dirty cheese.
This is a cheap, quiet, instructive, warm way of passing
the evening ; and then it affords them scope and verge
for conversation in tap or parlour, when they return to
their polluted (in a parliamentary sense) town. To hear
some of the evidence tendered by many of these worthies,
it is quite evident that they must have managed to get
their names put on the list of witnesses ; thus chewing
the " jobbery " of the affair; for, in many cases, their
evidence is not worth a farthing. 'S'e have had close
upon half-a-dozen election committees sitting within an
equal number of days. Bribery ! Bribery I all is bribery ;
and the grave, the venerable city of Canterbury talked
about as unceremoniously as was another Cathedral city—
St. Albans—not long ago ; and, indeed, for that matter,
the committee was not very nice with your own sturdy
borough of Lancaster, the writ for which is not to be
moved for some days. There will be much more of this
sort of work going on for some time. A long experience
touching election committees and parliamentary proceed•
ings, enables me to say, that the present Parliament is
more rife in political corruption of this sort, than many
parliaments which have gone before. And we shall get
worse, and worse, unless some more stringent means of
prevention are adopted, transportation to the bribed

elector—disfranchisement to tae place, and ten thou-
sand pounds fine to the cause of all !

Idiosyncracy of Parliament, said I ? Yea. As flies are
attracted by the pot of ointment, so does a peculiar debate
attract peculiar men. Is it the Sugar Duties ? Yes. Do you
see that portly, somewhat heavy-headed German, in grey,
sitting in the gallery opposite, listening all ear to the
CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER ? He is a sugar. -
baker. And so on in every branch of legislation. During
the debates on the Municipal Corporation Bill, both
houses were inundated with town-clerks ;—Parochial
Bills, vestry-clerks are in the ascendant. The Free
Church question—a very foolish one, by the bye—filled
Lords and Commons with seedy black coats and seedier
smalls from every nook of Caledonia. Even the May-
nooth grant—to die soon, let us hope—still attracts its
admirers and opponents, as was witnessed on Tuesday
evening. The best nights are in the House of Lords,
when a " duck of a peer" is to make an explanation or
propound a question. Then it is that the daughters of
England's aristocracy most do congregate. Gabble !
gabble ! yet intelligent and attentive. Sharp wits and
politically bitter are many of these beautiful creatures.
How patient withal I have seen a duchess and her daugh-
ter exist—through a livelong night of ten hours—upon a
knob of lump sugar a-piece, and half a dozen drops of
eau de Cologne.

But of course I am not ignorant of the great fact in
grammar, that there is a❑ exception to every general
rule. Were I, the appearance of the House of Commons
on Thursday evening, during the discussion of the Jew
Relief Bill, would have dissipated the error. I did not
perceive in the gallery, nor under it, three individuals of
the tribe, while Christian lords and commons—the latter
not members, but of our own common public—thronged
the spaces allotted to strangers. Why is this seeming
indifference ? Simply because the Jew cares not for the
question of relief in the 'parliamentary sense. Give him
his Exchange in lloundsditch, if you will, where he can
higgle in everything, from diamonds to dirty rags, and
nineteen-twentieths of the Jewish community will be
satisfied. Contrast Jew apathy to religious toleration,
with the warmth of our quiet friends, the Quakers, the
Moravians, the Separatists ! A little b!11 was introduced
and carried, a few seasons back, to relieve these people

from oath-taking, and, during the discussion of the
measure, they in a manner crowded the legislative
chamber. Do I, then, underrate the Jew in the scale of
intellectual grandeur ? Certainly not. Who are the
fathers of sphere-harmony ? Jews—MENDELSSEION and
MEYERBEER—he of the Prophete; older and greater I
might name, were I to " bestow my tediousness."—Who,
executants of the divine art ? Jews mainly—men and wo-
men, singers of world-wide fame. Who in literature
grand ? The Jew—BEN DISRAELI for example. Who
writes those glorious periods, as with pen of burnished
gold, or sapphire, in the " leading journal"—the portion
devoted too seldom to literature, and which will be ad-
mired by the scholar as long as there is anything pure and
dignified in our language ? A Jew. For all this, the
Jews do not, as a body politic, care an old hat for the re-
moval of their " religious disabilities" as the thing is
called. I will not run the risk of sinning against the
patience of your intelligent readers by noticing the debate
on the question,—it was stereDtype—the same platitudes,
heartless clap-trap,—humbug—of former discussions cha-
racterised it. The question was carried by a majority of
231 to 205, making a house of 439 members, which is
considered a tolerably good gathering. During the divi-
sion I went up stairs and cooled myself with a bottle of
Chateau La Rose, and ascertained that there are not more
than nine or ten of the present party-coloured Govern-
ment in favour of the Jew Bill. The measure will be
rejected by the Lords. The Bisitor of LONDON'S obser-
vations will not be forgotten,—temp. a dozen and more
years ago—" Though we have admitted Roman Catholics
into Parliament, my Lords, the House of Commons has
not yet ceased to be Christian."
With regard to the theatres, I might in a double sense
say nil ; first as to novelty of production, and second as
to receipts, with the exception, perhaps, of CHARLES
KEAN'S and Jolts: MITCHELL'S establishments—the
latter the French plays. The recent dreadfully nipping
weather, indifferent dramas indifferently acted, together
with the revolution in the abominable order system, have
exhibited during the week a " beggarly account of empty
boxes." Mr. KEAN, at the Princess's, has committed, and
is perpetuating, a dramatic mistake, in the most magni-
ficent manner; he has produced Madeth as played before

the Court at Windsor a little time ago. So far good ; but
Mr. CHARLES KERN sustains Macbeth! I may not—
shall not—say one word to the prejudice of this gentleman
and scholar; he is, moreover, one of my earliest play-
actor acquaintances; he aims well, but misses; has true
devotion to his fallen art, is in possession of a large for-
tune, which he lavishly lays out in having his dramas
mounted in style never surpassed even by MacREADY,
and he went far into a fortune in this way. CHARLES
KEAN, ;however,- is only a melodramatic interpreter of
classical plays. His Hamlet, here and there, goes
beyond mere mechanism ; but, ah me ! don't men-
tion Macbeth. It is also lamentable, even in these
degenerate days, that CHARLES KEAN's gifted wife—
she of the silver voice—the Rosalind,—the matchless in a
hundred plays, where the tender, the lovely, the warm,
the devoted, the sincere, the sweet, the elegant, in every
relation of life—child—lover—wife—unfortunate it is that
she should essay, rather than eschew the great chara2ter
of Lady Macbeth. I noticed some liberties taken by
CHARLES KEA'S with WILLIAM SHAKSPERE. Daring !
Liberties of transposition. Omit if you will, CHARLES,
but don't alter " sweet WILLIAM'S" intents. Every
stranger in London,—yea, every one at all imbued,—
blessed with a love of SHAKSPERE, ought to go and witness
Macbeth at the Princess's. If the visitor be at all musi-
cally given, especially if attached to ecclesiastical music,
the manner in which this department—such an odd word
here—is rendered will gratify. Bless us ! WILLIAM
SHAKSPERESWEIIOWedupby MATTHEWLOCKE! At Drury-
lane the house has been very shy. No wonder. This
theatre has been so—with exceptions " few and far between"
—every night since ELLISTON, " Prince of Liars ;" KEAN,
the elder, CHARLES YOUNG, JAMES WALLACK, and half-
a-score of others of " mark and likelihood," appeared
on one night,—a common occurrence. Then the bucks
thought nothing of turning out seven shillings and six-
peuce each for admission : the pit was always too crowded,
unless half-a-dozen madcaps—yet merry and wise, after
" chopping" it at one of the taverns in the " loved ohscu-
rity" of the neighbouring court, roughed it, and got
possession of the seat immediately behind the fiddlers.
Halcyon days—or rather nights ! The people at HER
MAJESTY'S Theatre have not yet made up their minds
how to proceed. They are to open, and that right early.
I am surprised that such knowing ones as are to be found
in the Committee of Management, with BENJAMIN
LUMLEY, a decent lawyer enough, at their head, and
deeply interested, should have imagined for a moment
that Mr. CARDWELL, your old friend, was so green as to
sauction a bill such as the Opera one, limiting liabilities
to the amount of money paid. I know the Government
was prepared to give immediate consent to a most liberal
measure—perhaps on account of the prestige o f the house,
but, as I have hinted, Mr. CARDWELL, the mouth-piece
on the occasion, considered the measure untenable.

COM3IERCIAL AND MONETARY NEJ S.

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE weekly returns of the Bank of England show
only a small diminution in the stock of bullion,
and no alteration having been made with reference
to the minimum rate of discount, the public funds
maintained their firmness until the receipt of news
respecting the war in Montenegro caused them to
give way a mere trifle. This serves to show the
general confidence in the soundness of monetary
affairs, and the little cause for apprehension as to
the maintenance of commercial credit, arising from
the bona fide nature of the great bulk of mercantile
transactions. With reference to the probable effect
of recent gold discoveries upon our future com-
mercial operations—a question which is likely to
become of some importance—we have received a
recently published work, entitled, " Remarks on
the production of the Precious Metals, and on the
depreciation of Gold,' by Monsieur Michel Cheva-
lier, translated by D. Forbes Campbell. The
translator appears to have taken great interest in
the views of his author, which he has amplified by
notes and addenda. He enters into some elaborate
calculations, in order to show the probable quan-
tities of gold and silver at present in use - and
upon this supposition endeavours to found an
hypothesis as to the effect of a large addition to the
supply of gold ; the result he arrives at being a
general advancement in the value of all other com-
modities in a corresponding degree to the presumed
depreciation in the value of gold. It would be little
service to follow him through his speculative cal-
culations ; because, until it can be shown that gold
is actually used as an equivalent for other commo-
dities in commercial exchanges, they have really
very little bearing on the question. To suppose
that a pound is a quantity of gold dependent upon
its presumed value, varying according to supply
and demand, as in other commodities, is altogether
erroneous. A pound troy weight of gold of 22'
carats fineness is coined into the nominal value of
£46 14s. 6d. ; and each sovereign, therefore, re-
presents 123'274 grains of standard gold, whether
the quantity be large or small, and forms the stand-
ard upon which every other commodity acquires a
nominal value. If this metal, therefore, formed the
universal medium of exchange, any large additions
to the supply for ordinary uses would but slightly
affect the nominal value of other commodities
arising from the additional facilities for purchasing.
In actual commerce, however, gold has but little to
do with business, which must therefore be less
sensibly affected. In the great majority of transac-
tions, whether foreign or domestic, between mer-
chants and traders, and even many consumers, we
have virtually a paper currency in the general
use of bills and bankers' cheques ; and confining our
attention to this country, if upon a rough calculation
we compare the annual amount which actually
changes hands with the presumed value of gold in cir-
culation, we shall find that the latter forms but a small
proportion of our circulating medium. If we take
the proportion at five per cent., and argue upon
the hypothesis that the quantity of gold being
doubled in amount, it will diminish in value in the
same ratio, its effect upon the value of other com-
modities would only be to the extent of two and a
half per cent.: a difference too trifling to excite
any serious apprehension. Too much stress has
been laid upon the effects of theenormous discoveries
in Mexico and Peru upon the revenue of Spain in
the seventeenth century, but it should be recol-
lected that at that time the science of commerce
was but little known and practised, and the pre-
cious metals entered far more largely than at pre--
sent into all mercantile transactions. Now, how-
ever, these discoveries serve to enrich the settlers
in California and Australia, and by so doing create
more profitable markets for the products of the
industry of the old countries. In this respect both
parties must benefit, and we may safely banish any
of those fears in which some writers on the subject
have indulged, of the sovereign being reduced in
value to ten shillings instead of twenty.
The reports from the cotton manufacturing dis-
tricts show a dulness in most descriptions of lower
qualities of goods, being a slight reactionary move-
ment after the recent activity, and arising, in a
great measure, from apprehensions of increased
supplies of the raw material, As, however, there is
a considerable improvement in actual consumption,
arising from new markets for exportation and the
more general employment at home, it is not be-
lieved that the depression can be of long continu-
ance, notwithstanding the additional supplies. But
at these times it is not unusual for spinners to
withhold from purchasing beyond their immediate
necessities, and as their stocks are not large, they
must soon resume their purchases in order to
keep pace with their consumption. From Leicester
and Nottingham, and from the woollen districts,
the reports are of continued activity in almost all
descriptions of goods; and this cannot fail to ope-
rate beneficially upon our staple manufacturers,
notwithstanding their present complaints of dulness.
The Return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 19th February gives the following
results when compared with the previous return :
Public deposits .. £6,738,059; Increase £498,762
Other deposits .. .. 12,081,941 ; Increase 69,363
Rest .. .. 3,313,109 ; Decrease 815
On the other side of the account—

Government securities £13,619,393 ; Decrease £29,207
Other securities .. 14,177,702; Increase 386,944
Notes unemployed .. 9,667,595 ; Increase 172,970
The amount of notes in circulation is 5:22,M:1,690,
being a decrease of £224,395 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £18,314,617, show-
ing a decrease of £87,743 when compared with
the previous return.

ISSUE DEP
Notes issued .. £31,748,285

£31,748,285

BANKING D
Prop.'s capita1.£14,553,000
Rest... 3,313,109
Public deposits. 6,738,059
Other deposits . 12,081,911
7-day, &c. bills. 1,344,913

'ARTMENT.

Govrnt. Debt.. £11,015,100
Other securities 2,984,900
Gold coin& bu1n.17,729,131
Silver bullion .. 19,154

£31,748,285

EPAILTMENT.
Gov. securities X 13,619,393
Other securities 14,177,702
Notes
Gold & silt'. coin 566,332

£38,031,022 I £38,031,022
Business in our SHARE MARKET during the
week has again been on a limiten scale, and con-
fined almost altogether to dealers inside the house.
Prices have remained steady, with some slight
indications of an advance. Continental affairs,
however, are rather against this at present. To-day
the market is firm, at the following prices :—Dublin
and Belfast Junction, 1 p ; Eastean Counties,
13 3-1 G; East Lancashire, 181; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 751; ditto fifth-shares, 43/4d ; Liverpool,

Crosby and Southport, 171 ; London and North-
western, 1181; Manchester, Shefield and Lincoln,
30; Midland, 763 71; Newry and Warrenpoint,
91; South-eastern and Dover, 231 241; York and
North Midland, 291 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire 6
per cent., 15 1-16 ; Manchester, Sheffield and Lin-
coln £6 new shares, 9-16 p.; and Commercial Bank
of Liverpool, 121.

COTTON.—The market cluing the week has la-
boured under a reactionary movement, caused in a
great measure by the doubt and uncertainty as to
the yield of the American crop. Speculators have
consequently been cautious, and the amount of
sales have been in a corresponding degree low, with
a downward tendency in price. There is, however,
no ultimate apprehension as to the demand being
equal to the supply, as, owing to the great activity
in the manfacture of our textile fabrics, it is believed
that the whole of the supply, even should it reach
the higher figure talked of, will be required. The
sales on Friday reached 5000 bales, at a decline of
about Id. per lb., and on Saturday 4000 bales
changed hands, of which about 1000 were taken on
speculation and for export. To-day the accounts
received by the Canada were to the 15th Feb., but
there was no new official list of receipts. The esti-
mated receipts show an excess over last year of
520,000 bales. In this market prices gave way
but slowly and closed heavily, with but little varia-
tion in prices of all kinds from Friday last. There
are about 400,000 hales of all kinds now at sea.
The sales to-day were estimated at 5000 bales, of
which about 1000 were taken on speculation and
for export.
PRODUCE.—The market for Sugar has been well
sustained for refining purposes; and such descrip-
tions have brought rather higher prices, but for
grocery qualities the demand has been limited. The
sales consisted of 550 hhds. West India, 3,760
bags East India, and a cergo of Mauritius to
arrive. Of foreign Sugar, the refiners have bought
largely, the sales reaching 12,)00 bags Pernambuco
and Paraiba, and 1,000 boxes brown Havana. In
Molasses nothing doing. Coffee has been in fair
demand for foreign descriptions, the sales being
2,370 bags of St. Domingo, la Guayra, Java, &c.
Of black Pepper, 150 bags sok at 3i d. per lb. In
Rice, no variation in price; 100 bags fine white
Bengal realised 135., and 7,00) bags Arracan Jos.
per cwt. Rum without alteration in value. Although
Tea maintains its value, the business transacted has
not been to any great extent, hclders not being in-
clined to sell, except at previous rates, and the
trade not being in immediate want. Nothing doing
in Saltpetre. Guano in active demand, at full rates.
A steady business in Logwood. Little doing in
Ashes. Hides are in fair request, and 16,000 at
public sales found buyers at hither rates. Olive
Oil in steady demand ; Linseed Oil in moderate
request. The sales of Palm Oilare 230 tons, on
the spot, and 1,100 tons, to arrive, it £33 to £33 10s.
per ton. The market for Tallov was firm at the
commencement of the week, and considerable sales
of Petersburg Y.C. took place at 4is. 6d.; but the
market has since been easier. Of Jut!, 800 bales have
been taken at extreme prices.---To-DAY, Sugar
continues in good demand, but the limited supply
at market restricts business, and the sales consist
only of 500 bags Benares at 375. &1. to 40s. fid.,
450 bags Madras at 325. 3d. to 335., and 1,000
bags Paraiba, for an out-port, at iBs. per cwt. Of
Rum, 200 puns. Demerara have been disposed of
at previous rates. Nothing has token place in
Coffee. We have a fair business doing in Tea, and
several parcels have been sold out cf the late ar-
rivals, at fully previous rates ; new Oolongs have
been taken from ls. 86. to 2s. per b., and other
fancy descriptions have also realised fall rates. A
small parcel of Saltpetre has been sold at 255. 9d.
(121, per cent), and Bs. per cwt_ has been paid for
400 tons Nitrate of Soda to arrive. We have also
to report 20 tons St. Domingo Logwood at £5 15s.
per ton, 25 chests fine red orange Shell Lac, at 565.,
a small parcel of Cutch at 255., 18 tors Peruvian
Tin at 105 s. (duty paid), 370 slabs Straits' at 113 s.
per cwt.

WooL.—This article maintains its high value, as
will be seen by the fo.lowincr extracts from the
monthly Trade. Circulars, dated this day (Tuesday).
Messrs. W. GREANIE and Co. says :—Vie have no
materisl change to notice since our Circalar of the
Ist ult.; there has been a good demand for almost
all descriptions of Wool during the past month,
and prices are well supported; but with :he present
light stocks and small importations the transactions
have necessarily been to a limited extent; all useful
low Wools,. both combing and short, such as
Egyptian, Turkey, Donskoi, Oporto, &c., are much
inquired for, and meet a ready sale of the better
classes,. such as Spanish, Spanish Frontier, Lisbon,
' &c., there is nothing offering, and a further advance
might probably now be obtained for these Wools.
Public sales of Colonial Wools commenced in
London on the 10th ult., snd will close to-morrow.
This series opened at an advance of ld. to lid. on
the Novemner sales. There has been a good
attendance of the homs buyers, and although little
or no demand for exportation to the continent,
prices have been well maintained throughout.
Public sales are fixed here for the 4th instant, when
about 1,000 bales East India and 2.',000 Buenos
Ayres,. Egyptian, Turkey, &c., will be offered.
—Messrs. Jos. ROBINS3N and Co., in referring to
Scotch Wools, says : The transactions, from want of
stock, have been limited but what has transpired
is at advanced quotations, Trifling sales in Laid
and White Cheviot ; nothing here in. White High-

land or Galloway to offer; the same may be said as
to cross ; Laid Highland is in good demand, and
has been sold at the figures named: in the table
above.—English and Irish : A. fe►v English fleeces
have changed hands at a further rise, and a parcel
of Irish. wethers are also reported, at late rates.
Skin is in active demand, both short and long, and
sells as fast as pulled.

LAUNCII YESTERDAY.—One or the sharpest vessels
ever built in the Mersey was launchsd yesterday from the
shipbuilding yard of Messrs. Cato, and Co. She
is named the Belle, is owned by Ridley, Son,
and Co., Newfoundland merchants,. snd is designed for
tho Newfoundland and Brazil trade, The dimensions
were furnished by Thomas Ridley, Esc,, the senior part-
ner of the firm, and the vessel was named by Mrs.
Ridley. The tonnage of the vessel, we understand, is—
new measurement, 199 ; old measurement, 257. She is
registered 13 years A 1 : length of keel, 106 feet 4 inches ;
for measurement, 111 feet 6 inches ;. over all, 121 feet 9
inches ; extreme length of beam, 23 feet 1 ',nch ; depth of
hold, 13 feet 7 inches.
GIRL BURNED TO DEATH.—Elizabeth ADDS, a child
two years old, who resided with her uncle, John Morgan,
of No. 20, Rock-street, while left by herself in the parlour
accidentally caught fire, and was so severely burned that
she had to be taken to the Dispensary, where she died on
Sunday. At the inquest,. held yesterday, the jury found
a verdict of " Accidentally burned."'
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Dennis Milligan, aged 76 years,
who resided with his. son-in-law, James Doylan, 58,
Upper Milk-street, while employed tallying iron on board
the ship Vanguard, in. the Waterloo-dock, on Friday
morning, fell into the hold, and was so severely injured
that he had to be removed to the Northern Hospital,
where he expired, yesterday morning, about eight o'clock.
At the inquest, yesterday, a verdict of " Accidental death"
was returned.

MILL ACCIDEIT-I'4AS KILLED.—Samuel Bennett, a
miller, residing at 51J, Tarlton-street, shortly after going
to his work on 'Wednesday morning last, at the Middle
Mill (Mr. Martin's), in Limekiln-lane, had his head
jammed between two wheels in a frightful manner. It is
supposed that he was cleaning the upper wheel, when it
fell and jammed him in the way he was found. He was
released, and taken to the Northern Hospital, where he
lingered till yesterday morning, at four o'clock, when, he
died, in the presence of his wife. He was 51 years of age.
An inquest was held yesterday. Verdict : " Accidental
death."

A DISRESPECTFUL SUITOR.—At the County Court
yesterday, in the case of Clarke v. Hayman, which ap-
peared to have been previously before the Court, when
the duties of Judge were discharged, in the abence of Mr.
Pollock, by the respected Judge of the Chester County
Court, the plaintiff insinuated, in the course of his state-
ment, that he had not got justice, and that justice was a
commodity which could hardly be expected from a " hire-
ling." Mr. Pollock instantly ordered him to desist from
the use of language so disrespectful to the Court. The
gentleman who sat there on the previous Tuesday was ap-
pointed by Her Majesty to administer justice, and as the
representative of the Crown he must be respected. Mr.
Clarke who appeared not to be very deeply impressed with
the lecture, was ultimately ol lilted to change his tone, on
the Judge assuring him that his case should not be gone
into at all, if he did not instantly desist from his irregular
conduct. _ _ _

LECTURES ON RONIANISM.--The next lecture in St.
Paul's Church, Liverpool, will be delivered on Thursday
evening next, by the Rev. S. Minton. Subject—" Popular
Romish Fallacies."
MESSRS. WILLIAM DENNY AND BROTHERS of
barton, will, it is anticipated, proceed in the course of a
month to lay down the keel of the Persia, a paddle-steamer
ordered by the Messrs. Burns, for the Cunard Company,
and which will be, without exception, the largest vessel
afloat. The Persia will be 325 ft. long, of 3,300 tons re-
gister, and will be propelled by a pair of engines of 1,000
horse power.
How TO FRIGHTEN A DEBTOR.—In a case before the
County Court, yesterday, a letter was handed by the de-
fendant to the judge, which, it appeared, had been sent by
the plaintiff before the case was put into the County
Court, and which professed to explain to the luckless
debtor what would be the upshot of the case going before
his honor. It was asserted, in the first place, that the
judge was empowered to commit a debtor for forty days, in
the event of an order being made, and the money not
forthcoming, no matter whether the party had the re-
quisite cash to pay at the precise moment or not. There
were other statements in the "threatening letter" equally
fallacious, in consequence of which his honour thought it
incumbent upon him to correct the plaintiff for sending
such a document. It was a communication got up to
frighten poor people, and conveying quite an erroneous
irepreasion of the powers voted in that court;

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY a

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—moNDAy.
Lord DERRY presented petitions on the subject of the
clergy reserves in Canada, praying that their lordshps
would not interfere with the rights at present enjoyed by
the Church of Canada.—After some discussion, in which
the Earl of Desart, Bishop of Exeter, Duke of Argyle,
Bishop of Oxford, Bishop of London, and Duke of New-
castleon the tookta
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nizant of that bribery.—Mr. HAMILTON also reported that
the election committee for Frome had come to the deci-
sion that Colonel Boyle had not been duly elected.—Mr.
BOUVERIE brought up the report of the Bridgeworth elec-
tion committee, finding that Mr. H. Whitmore bad been
duly elected, but that the election was void as regarded
Sir R. figot, whose agents had been guilty of bribery,
but not with his knowledge.
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