The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARK ET.-YESTERDAY.

The supply of Beasts is smaller; trade is consequently more
cheerful, and the choicest make rather more money. The
number of sheep is also less: the demand, is, however, but
small, and it is difficult to obtain an advance on the best kinds.
Good Lamb, which is scarce, is more readily sold. Trade is
still very bad for Calves, although a slight improvement is dis-
cernible in the most selling kinds. From Germany and Hob.
land there are 579 Beasts, 3.800 Sheep, and 86 Calves; from
Spain about 20 Beasts; France, 59; and Scotland, 160.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sir,—l cannot refrain from expressing my great sur-
prise that Mr. William Earle cannot engage in the water
controversy without the unfairness of Bragging forward the
names of those who disagree with him in opinion as to the
best means of a supply. Surely he could write his ink-
bottle dry, and yet keep truth on his side by avoiding so
unjust a charge as he attaches to my name in his commu-
nication to the A ItiGn of this day, (August 6.)

" Anonymous scribblings" or"false witnessings",are
not to my taste
May I not agree with the popular opinion of the inex-
pediency of a supply of surface water for Liverpool, and
by my vote in Council so express my opinion, and yet act
the part of an honourable man ? Surely I may, and I
am bold to say that I have done so. I say shame upon
the unmanliness of Mr. Earle for such an unjust charge.
I am, Sir, yours, &c.,
HUGH NEILL.

Mount .pleasant, August 6th, 1849.
[We are not surprised that Mr. Neill feels indignant
that Mr. Earle has felt it right to connect the names of
so many respectable gentlemen with such a shameful
charge, and we feel sure that, if they felt it worth while,
each and all of them would entirely repudiate it.]

MURDER.—John Moore, alias Dreadful, a young mar-
ried man, residing at Monmoregreen, between Bilston
and Wolverhampton, is in custody, charged, on the ver-
dict of a coroner's jury, with the wilful murder of Ann
Morley, servant at a beerhonse, with whom he had formed
a criminal connexion, by drowning her in the canal..
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN THE ASSIZE COURT OF
DONEGAL.--At the close of the assize business at Lif-
ford, on Saturday evening, several male and female
idiots, confined in the gaol, were brought into the dock
to he inspected by Judge Torrens, who wished to have
the opinion of Dr. Stewart, the learned and attentive
physician to the gaol, and the board of superintendence,
and other public officers, as to the state of their
health and mind. I 1 was a melancholy yet humorous
scene. Some of the poor creatures declined to answer
his lordship any questions, stating that he was only
an inferior paid servant of theirs : that they were the kings
and rulers of this empire. Others wanted to kiss his
lordship, and wished to buy his beautiful wig and gown.
One of the females proposed marrying his lordship, apd
making him a king, as she was queen of the whole world.
His lordship modestly declined all the offers, and such of
them as he considered better adapted for the poorhouses
than the gaol, he ordered to be set:t to their respective
unions, with which change they appeared to be well sat-
tistied,—Fall,yshalaton Herald.