The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

COTTON MARKETS,

NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 3.—From the Commercial Bulletin—
We last had the pleasure of addressing you on the 17th ult. per
Hibernia, and stated in conclusion that the cotton market, for
some days preceding, had begun to waver, as buyers were not
inclined to continue their purchases at the full rates then noted.
During the week subsequent, the transactions were again ex-
tremely limited, amounting merely to 3800 bales ; and m order
to effect sales, holders were compelled to submit to a decline of
to c per lb. This reduction brought forward a few pur-
chasers, and during the first three days of last week 4000
bales changed hands, chiefly on French account. The Ca-
ledonia's advises came to hand on Wednesday: last, and
since their reception, a better demand has prevailed for
cotton, which has resulted in sales of 12,500 bales, nearly
the whole of which was taken for England and France, at
about the same rates current, previous to the arrival of the
news. In some instances buyers contend that they have ob-
tained a slight advantage, which is no doubt the fact, but as a
general rule, the market ranges in conformity with our quota-
tions subjoined. Of the business aforementioned, 6000 bales
were disposed of on Saturday, and 2500 yesterday.
MOBILE, Nov. 6.—The sales for the past three days amount
to about 1200 bales, making the transactions of the week 4000
bales. The market closed quiet but firm t c. The purchases
have been for France, Spain, and the Northern markets. Re-

ceipts of the week 1955 bales—exports 604, leaving a stock on
hand of 10,627 bales.
CHARLESTON, Nov. 11th.—Soon after the issue of our
weekly report on Saturday last, six days later accounts were
received in this market direct from Liverpool.—They were of a
more favourable tenor than those of the latest previous dates,
and for a short time some little excitement was apparently ma-
nifested by operators, during which it was stated a few trans-
actions had been effected by holders on better terms than
previously. The demand remained fair during the day, but
prices generally ruled in unison with those of our last quota-
tions. On Monday and yesterday, the market continued un-
changed, with less activity, however, on the part of buyers.
The daily sales were as follows :—On Saturday 1986 bales.;
Monday 1427 bales, and yesterday 1500 bales ; total 4913 bales,
at the following particulars :-8 bales at 10i ; 116, 10: 898, 9i;
1255, 93-; 354, 9 9-16 ; 1074, 9-1 ; 70, 9 7-16 : 336, 9-a ; 234, 9 5-16,
18, ; 298, 9 ; 96, 8i ; 47, 8i ; 56, Bi.

FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF TETE WEEK,

SATURDAY MORNING

The Consol Market has slightly improved during the
last week, the prices remaining firm, with a moderate
amount of business transacted. Thursday last was set-
tling-day, but the account was, on the whole, a light one,
and the settlement passed off with perfect ease.

The exchanges have rallied slightly after their late de-
cline, which may in some measure be accounted for by the
increasing stock of bullion in the Bank. The Gazette of
last night shows that the stock of gold and silver bullion
for the week ending Saturday last was, in the issue de-
partment, £14,317,830, as compared with £14,245,885 in
the previous week, being an increase of £71,945, while in
the banking department the stock has risen from £602,458
to £605,932, giving a total increase since the last return of
£75,519.

The scarcity of money continues with little alteration.
Consols left off last week at 94i for money and account.
On Monday a trifling increase took place, and a better
feeling seemed to exist in the market, a good deal of busi-
ness having been done at 95i to a, both for money and
account. On Tuesday little variation took place, but Con-
sols still maintained an upward tendency, leaving off at
93f for money and 971 for account. Wednesday Consols
opened firmly at 971, but towards the close of the day they
became dull, and the quotation receded to 941, at which
they closed, both for money and account. Thursday was
settling-day, consequently little business was done, but
Consols remained in much the same state, leaving off at
941. Yesterday a rise took place, in consequence of stock
having become scarce on the settlement of the account,
the quotations being. last night, buyers at 951, although
business has been done for the account as high as 951.
Bank Stock has been done at 206; India Bonds at 2561
to 258; Exchequer Bills have varied from Bs. to 12s. pre-
mium ; New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 951
to 95j.
The Foreign Market continues in a very depressed con-
dition, but a slight improvement has been noticed in
Spanish Stock ; the Three per Cents. having been done
yesterday at 371. Portuguese Bonds are still quoted at
36, but the quotations even at that low price are merely
nominal. By the accounts received by the Lisbon mail
we learn that the Minister of Finance has issued a new
order, modifying one which he formerly issued, for the
purpose of constituting the notes of the Bank of Lisbon a
legal tender. By the first order it was declared that these
notes should be a " tender " for all engagements con-
tracted from the month of May last. By the new modifi-
cation it is declared that the order shall not have a retro-
spective effect, but shall only apply to liabilities contract-
ed in future, in respect to which it is declared that the
notes of the Bank of Lisbon are to be a legal tender.
This suspension of cash payments must have the effect of
raising the nominal prices of goods equal to the deprecia-
tion at any particular time, which, as public confidence in
the ultimate solvency of the Bank is nearly destroyed,
must be very considerable. Dutch Four per Cents. have
advanced to 91i. Mexican Fives remain at 22.
The principal feature in the Share Market during the
past week has been the continued heaviness of old shares.
Better prices were, however, had for French. The deal-
ing in the new-created South-Western shares has been
very extensive ; the price, after haying been as low as
premium, settled down at Ito prem.—Britannia.
SATURDAY EVENING.

The English funds have been well supported through-
out the day. Consols were first quoted at 941 to 5 for
money, and at 95 to 1 for the opening, and several money
purchases having taken place, amongst which were some
for the Court of Chancery, they advanced to 95 to for
money, and 951 to for the opening, these being the
closing prices. Bank Stock left off 205 to 207; Reduced
Three per Cents, 93,1 to ; Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents, 95i to i; Long Annuities. 91 to 15-16; and
India Stock, 257 to 258. Exchequer bills did not par-
ticipate in the general firmness of the market, and were
heavy at 7s. to 10s. pm.
The operations in the foreign market to-day included
Brazilian, at 85; Danish, at 861 ; Portuguese Four per
Cents, 371 for money and the account, Spanish Five per
Cents, for the account, at 261; Passive, at 5i ; the Three
per Cents, for the account, at 37a ; and Dutch Two-and-
a-Half per Cents, at 591.

"EVERY EYE SHALL SEE HIM."

We copy the following from the Worcester Journal of
Thursday last. Our contemporaries still persist in reiter-
ating their calumnious falsehoods in reference to the ser-
mon to which the subjoined communication refers, and it
is therefore as well to show what is thought by disinter-
ested lookers on, both of the publication itself and of the
blasphemous attacks by which it has been so pertinaci-
ouzly assailed :

" It would be amusing to see with what pertinacity the
hirelings of the press, from the Tractarian to the Infidel,
persist in stigmatising the above title to a sermon by the
Rev. Hugh M'Neile as blasphemous, if we did not know
that the charge originated in, and is maintained by, feel-
ings of ' envy, hatred, and malice, and all uncharitable-
ness.' The outcry against him has been a wicked lie
from first to last, and his calumniators know it; bat their
end is answered, or they think it is, and they are satisfied.
It is not difficult to show why this hue and cry has been
raised. There are few men who from their commanding
talent, and the peculiar position they have taken, are so
thoroughly hated by Papist, Tractarian, and political dis-
senters, together with the whole fry of semi's and semi-
demi's with which the present age abounds. They wait
for his halting,' and if they can detect anything like a
dead fly' in his ointment,' it is paraded, and exhibited
as one of the greatest monsters in nature. Perhaps, in
justice to the calumniated individual, you will insert the
enclosed short extract, * which will show the simple use
which Mr. M'Neile made of Prince Albert's visit to Li-
verpool. He only did what his Lord and Master has
done before him—seize on a passing event, and improve it
to the spiritual good of his congregation. Some of its
members thought that the sermon, if published, would be
useful itself, and help to forward the interests of the in-
stitution which brought Prince Albert to Liverpool; and
thanks to the publicity which his enemies have given to it,
it has now gone through four editions.
* Our contemporary gives the extract, but our readers are suf-
ficiently familiar with it.

[The last number of The Church and State Gazette,
which is no very cordial admirer of Mr. M'Neile's prin-
ciples, says " The preacher merely made use of a passing
event to illustrate an important truth'"3

erntral Ottati!any.

JEWISH SHERIFF.—Baron Meyer de Rothschild has
been appointed High Sheriff for Buckinghamshire.
The first shipment of gold from the Bank of England
took place on Wednesday, for Paris. The amount was
inconsiderable.

The increase, of one-halfpenny per paper on the price of
the Daily News will bring in to the proprietors, it is said,

20,000 a-year,

The Home and Colonial Infant School Society being
in want of funds her Majesty has presented £2O towards
the support of that valuable institution.
The late Mrs. Carr, of Knosthorpe, left £4,000 for
apprenticing the boys who form part of the choir of Leeds
parish-church.
During the last few weeks, Mrs. Rowell, of Town-end,
Wisbeach, has lost her whole family, her husband, two
daughters, and a son, by typhus fever.
One of the candle manufactories of Messrs. Palmer, at
Clerkenwell, was destroyed by fire on Tuesday. The
damage is estimated at £3OOO, and is fully insured.

Nearly all the steamers on the Thames, plying between
London and Westminster bridges, have now reduced their
fares to a halfpenny.
The Town Council of Worcester have resolved to adopt
the act of last session for the adoption of baths and wash-
houses.

Such family announcements as the following sound
oddly :—" At the lady of Captain—, unattached,
of a son."

At 'a late electioneering meeting at Stirling, it was
moved, seconded, and supported by four votes, that Mr.
Alison was unfit for a seat in parliament, owing to his
ignorance. . .

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AN ORDER FOR A NOBLEMAN.—Lord Huntingtower
received his protecting order in the Court of Bankruptcy
last week. The debts, &c., were stated on the petition
to be £87,000, and the assets " none."
A violent shock of earthquake was felt at Perth on
Tuesday. In high tenements heavy 'articles of furniture
were violently shaken, bells were rung, and crockery ware
overturned. Many rushed into the streets, under the im-
pression that the houses were falling.
A young gentleman, named Coney, has recently fallen
a victim to hydrophobia, in the neighbourhood of Bristol.
While caressing a favourite dog, he was bitten on the lip ;
and the disease subsequently declared itself with the usual
symptoms.
THE BANK ROBBERY AT MESSRS. ROGERS'S.—On
Wednesday, from information which has recently been
obtained that it is expected will throw some light on this
mysterious affair, the offer of a reward of £3OOO, to-
gether with her Majesty's pardon, was renewed.
Immense meetings were held last week, in favour of
the ten hours' bill, at Dewsbury, Wakefield and Barnsley.
Mr. Oastler delivered telling speeches, and the proceed-
ings were very enthusiastic. Several large manufacturers
argued in favour of the measure.
A BLUE HARE.—On Tuesday, a hare of a singular
colour, which had been seen in Mr. Woodbridge's coverts,
near Chelmsford, for a year or two, and called the " blue
bare," was killed. Its fur resembled that of the grey
squirrel.

G. Hudson, Esq., M.P., last week entertained a distin-
guished party at Newby, including Lord. G. Bentinck,
M.P., Major Beresford, M.P., Sir J. Lowther, M.P.,
Hon. Capt. Duncombe, M.P., Andrew Lawson, Esq.,
M.P., R. C. Hildyard, Esq., Q.C., H. Broodwood, Esq.,
M.P., Mr. G. H. Bentinck, the Rev. Canon Sutton, &c.
There has been some mystification about the health of
Thomas Moore, the poet. It was stated in some of the
French journals that Mr. Moore was " dying" in Ire-
land : a Limerick paper thereupon announced that the
poet was " much recovered ;" and now the Devizes
Gazelle states that Mr. Moore " was in Devizes on Wed-
nesday, apparently in good bodily health."

Dec. 1, 1816.

Up to the present time the Scott Monument in Edin-
burgh has cost £15,050. Tbere are fifty-six niches yet to
be filled with the statues of the principal characters in
Sir Walter's works.

PRIVATE GOVERNESSES.-A correspondent of the
Morning Post, who signs herself " A. Retired Gover-
ness," states that there are in this country. 15,000 ladies
of her professsion, who receive salaries varying from £2O
to £3OO per annum.

The Rev. W. Champneys, nt a recent meeting, said
that in crowded parts the want of sanatory regulations
was not only removing the present generation, but caw-
.

ing the next to grow up poor

and puny, weak and un-

The Rev. Mr. Eavins, Wesleyan minister, late mis-
sionary from America, preached in the Wesleyan chapel,
Keelby, near Caistor, on Sunday, in his usual spirited
manner, apparently in good health; and on Monday
evening, while conversing with some friends, he sank
from his chair and instantly expired.—Doncaster Gaz.