The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD MARKET-YESTERDAY.

Since this day se'nnight the imports of live stock into Lon-
don have been moderately good, they having amounted to 40
oxen and cows, together with 114 sheep from Rotterdam ; while
from Schiedam, per the Attwood, we have received 47 oxen, 30
cows, 1 bull, 300 sheep, and two pigs, in for the most part fair
average condition. To-day we had on sale 40 foreign beasts
and 190 sheep. The former found buyers at from .t-16 to .22,
the latter 35s to 34s per head. At the outports 70 beasts and
100 sheep have been received from Holland.

From Our own grain districts, the arrivals of beasts fresh up
this morning were moderate. The beef trade was somewhat
inactive, at about stationary prices.
The bullock drtiVes from the northern counties comprised
1000 short horns; from the eastern districts 300 Scots, short-
horns, &c. ; from the western and midland 900 Herefords, De-
vons, runts, &c. ; from other parts of England, 400 of various
breeds ; and from Ireland 120 beasts.

The numbers of sheep were again limited, owing to which
the mutton trade was firm ; the best old Downs producing 5s 2d
per lib. .

Calves were in short supply, and steady demand, at very full

The pork trade ruled steady, but no improvement can be
noticed in the value.

PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.—

YFSI FR DAY.

Public securities have been firmer this morning, and the
price of Consols has partially. recovered from the depression of
last week. The opening price was 94i since which they
have been done at 94k, and are now 944 buyers. Reduced
Thre-and-a-Quarter New at 27i, Exchequer-bills 26 21, and In-
(ha Bonds 38 pm.

The movement in foreign bonds has been but partial.
Mexican have been done at 31Z the Deferred 17i, Peruvian
41i, Spanish Passive 6/, Austrian 112, and Dutch Two-and-a
Half per Cents., 60k.

LONDON SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY.

The condition of the Share market continues more healthy,
and there is to-day a rally in some of the quotations. Eastern
Counties are up to 23 and 234, Edinburgh and Glasgow to SO,
Caledonian to 15k, Aberdeen to 64, Scotch Midland to 61,
Brighton to 69, South Eastern to 40 and 404, Ceylon I* to 144
Boulogne andAmiens l2i to 13, and Orleans and Bourdeaux 12.

MEMORIAL RELATIVE TO THE NIGHTLY CLOSING
OF THE MARKETS.—Yesterday, a memorial, (which
has for a short time been before the public) urging the
earlier closing of the public markets, was presented to
our worthy Mayor by Mr. Flower. It was signed by 627
shop-keepers, besides medical men and others, including
many of the market people themselves, and suggested
that the closing hour should be seven o'clock every night,
excepting Saturday, when these marts might be kept open
until nine o'clock. Mr. Flower was most graciously re-
ceived by his worship, who expressed himself strongly in
favour of earlier hours of closing, and promised his best
endeavours; but as it appeared that many of the market
people, though they fully agreed to the proposed closing
at 7 o'clock on the first five nights of the business week,
considered that they should be open until eleven on Sa-
turday night—the probability is that a compromise will
be come to, to divide the difference,—so that the
finishing hour on that night will be ten o'clock. We
should strongly urge upon the members of the council
the propriety of assenting to the prayer of this memorial,
modifiified perhaps as to Saturday nights. There
are, it is well known difficulties with respect
to the mode of payment of working men on this
night which, as human nature is constituted, are not
easily got over ; and we should be only too glad to get the
best terms practicable, without stickling for perfection in
our social arrangements.

Nearly a hundred of the distressed emigrants alluded
to in our last sailed for New York, in the Fidelia, on
Saturday. Twenty have returned to their homes, and
thirteen are still detained at Southampton by illness.
COLLEGIATE INSTITUTION.-Our readers will perceive
that Dr. Rimbault will open the lecture season next Fri-
day, with a course of musical lectures, in which he will be
assisted by Miss Thornton, of London, one of the most
charming ballad-singers of the day, Mr. Barnett, the cele.
brated Manchester tenor, and the highest local talent. In-
deed' the array of lecturing talent advertised to appear a
this institution has never been previously surpassed, and
deserves, as we are sure from former experience it will re•
ceive, the most extended support.

THE GERMAN DWARFS.-These three natives of Ger-
many, and members of one family, who have been in this
country about twelve months, made their appearance at
the Concert-hall, Lord Nelson-street, on Wednesday
evening last, before a numerous and respectable audience.
The curious little people went through their performances
in a highly creditable manner. Mr. Malone Raymond's
sketches of Irish character, together with the illustrations
of Mrs. Raymond and daughter, make the evening spent
at the hall an extremely agreeable one. Some of our
contemporaries have stated that Mr. Raymond pays them
£2,000 a year.

RAILWAY PROPERTY.—The gradnal development of
railway property is best shown by the increase in its re-
tnrns, and the year 1845 has been marked by extraor-
dinary success in that respect. Taking the present lines
as 50 in number, and only 1800 miles in length, their
weekly receipts averaged during the summer months about
£BO,OOO for passengers, nearly £30.000 for goods, and
above £60,000 for " goods and passengers" combined
(some of the companies keeping their accounts so imper-
fectly as to defy the statistician, but this sum being on
"goods" lines rather than "passengers lines," the greater
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emoafy weekly be 3 o receipt,aososOurnoyer the corresponding week of 1844.
In the winter months the passenger receipts are less, but
the weekly receipts exhibit a large increase over 1841 ;--
thus, in December last, our week's receipts were ; for
passengers, £58,000 • for goods, £30,000 ; and for goods
and passengers, £30,000, making a total weekly receipt of
about £llB,OOO, and an increase over the corresponding
week of last year of above £lB,OOO. Taking then for
1800 miles of railway £130,000, as a mean total receipt
week, we have a total yearly receipt of about .£6,750,000
for passengers and goods, and taking only £20,000 as a
mean weekly increase over 1844, we have a yearly increase
of above £1,000,000. As to the goods, taking a mean
weekly receipt £30,000, and only a moiety of the other
£60,000 ( amalgamated for " passengers and goods"),
together making as a mean weekly receipt for goods
£60,000 at least, the total yearly receipt for goods would
be about £3,000,000 sterling, of an average of Id. per mile
per ton. W hen the 3600 miles already sanctioned, and
not less than 5000 to be sanctioned in the next session,
are completed, wills the increase consequent on increased
trade, who can doubt but that this species of property will
fast supersede other investments, and that the subject
will, if it does not now, interest every one?—Railway
Carryiug and Carriers' Law.
COLLEGIATE BAZAAR.—We are glad to find this Ba-
zaar announced to take place in Easter-week. I. will be
upon a greater scale than anything of the kind previously
held in Liverpool, end, from the high patronage which it
enjoys, will, in all probability, be very productive, and
thus enable the directors to procure for the members the
benefit of a good and extensive lending library. The af-
fair has our warmest wishes, and we commend it accord-
ingly to the attention of our fair friends, feeling conscious
how much of its success it must owe to the operation of
their delicate fingers.

TWELFTH NIGHT CAKES.—Mr. Horsfall, of Church-
street, has this year manufactured a number of these de-
licious cakes. In consequence of the immense demand of
last year he has speculated more largely, and we may
venture to anticipate, from their general reputation, a
great sale. They will be displayed this evening, (Twelfth
Night).

MEETINGS OF CREDITORS FOR LIVERPOOL.
JANUARY. HOUR•
6, William Guy Taylor and Co. (2nd) District Court, 12
6. John Lea an, Co. (special) Ditto, 12
9, William Neilson (special)
13, William Occleston, 2nd District Court, 11
13. George Atkins Ditto, 11

16, Frederick Corduroy, 2nd
16, Robert Headlington, Ist
17, Benjamin Baldwin, 2nd. Court of Bankruptcy, London, 12