The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-04-25 00:00:00

it is 59 vessels and 11,748 tonnage, the difference
between 168 vessels with 88,016 tonnage, in 1854,
and 227 vessels, with 99,764 tonnage, in 1853.
Bristol presents a decrease of 1 vessel and 211
tonnage, the difference between 2 vessels with 473
tonnage, and 3 vessels with 684 tonnage. The re-
turn for the Clyde exhibits a decrease of 19 vessels
and 1,803 tonnage, the departures having been 24
vessels, with 11,803 tonnage, against 43 vessels,
with 13,606 tonnage, in 1853. The total decrease,
as exhibited by the general return, is 119 vessels
and 26,419 tonnage the difference between 267
vessels with 146,360 tonnage, and 386 vessels with
172,779 tonnage. The chief diminution has occurred
in the departure of vessels for New South Wales,
New Zealand, &c., the decrease having been 71
vessels ; but the amount of tonnage in those cases
has not seriously declined, being only 6,873 tons
below the corresponding period of last year. The
other items of decrease are connected with the
number of vessels which have sailed for Calcutta,
Bombay, China, Singapore, and Penang, Java and
Sumatra, and the Cape of Good Hope.
Our SHARE MARKET during the week has been
tolerably steady. The following are this day's
quotations :—Caledonians, 261 4 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 60* 1 601 ; Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 9i - London Stock, 94 ; Ditto Fourths,
5-16 c d ; Midland Stock, 581 9 81 1 • Dover Stock,
171 ; York, Newcastle, and Berwick4 G.N.E. Pur-
chase, 5* ; York and North Midland, 221 ; Fast
Lancashire pref. Fifths, 3-16 d.

CorroN.--The trade during the week has been to
a fair extent, and prices have been firmly maintained,
with an advance from the previous week upon
middling of about 1-16 d. per lb. The sales for
the week, up to Friday, amounted to 40,060 bales,
of which 5,570 were on speculation, and 1,510 for
export. Since then there has been less business
doing, but prices are steady. To-DAY the sales
were from 5,000 to 6,000 bales, of which about
1,000 were on speculation and for export. The
followinc, is a comparison of present rates with
those of corresponding period of last year :-
1863. 1854.
New Orleans, middling 5 13-16 d. ad.
fair
Uplands, middling
fair

PaoDucE.—The markets gene-rani during the
week have been dull, transactions being limited to
demands for actual consumption, and prices with-
out change. Saltpetre and Palm Oil have, how-
ever, been lower, and Rice 6d. per cwt. cheaper.
TO-DIY the Sugar market continued steady,- the
sales consisting of 120 hhds. Barbadoes, at 33g. to
38s. 6d. ; 350 bags Bengal, at 355. to 375. 9d. ;
50 hhds. Cuba, at 345. 9d. to 355. 3d. ; 210 brls.
Maceio, in bond, at 225.. 6d. ; and 50 boxes gavana,
at 21s. 2d. per cwt. A cargo of Cuba Muscovado
Molasses for arrival is reported at 16s. per cwt.
40 casks Mauritius Rum have been sold at 3s. per
proof gallon. The Tea market is without change,
and operations are to a small' extent. 400 bags
broken Bengal Rice have realised 13s. per cwt.-
Of the Honduras Log-wood offered this morning,
30 tons were sold at £7 per ton.
WooL.—There has been a little more inquiry
this week, but it has only been inquiry; buyers
are more inclined to feel their way than to operate
in the present dull state of the market. Prices
remain much the same ; imports, however, from
all quarters continue very light, which will be a
material point in favonr of holders when a re-
action from the present stagnation takes place.
Imports for the week:-210 East India, 117 Buenos
Ayres, 180 Mediterranean Ports, 94 Portugal, 34
Irish, 15 Scotch, 14- coastwise..

THE SPECIAL FAST DAY.—Wednesday, Ppnl 26th.—
Mr. Feeny begs to inform the public,; and his numerous
patrons, that arrangements will be made for Fish Table
d'Hotes, continuously from 1 to 7 o'clock, on the above

day, similar to the Good Friday, y..hichp-ve such general

satisfaction. Every variety of Fish will be provided, and
Mr. Feeny hopes to have the pleasure of seeing a large

attendance of ladies and. gentlemen. Charge-, ls. 61.
each. Merchants Dining Rooms, Slater-court, Castle-
street, third entrance from corner of Dale-street.

NEW TRIAL.—In the case of " Harrison and another v.
Horsfall," tried at the Liverpool assizes, the Court of
Queen's Bench has granted a rule for a new trial.
TEE PACIFIC, United States mail steam-ship, Captain
Nye, sailed for New York at two o'clock on Wednesday

afieimoon, with a full cargo and ninety-one passengers.
Mr..J. B. GOUGH, the celebrated advocate of temperance,
lectured at Birkenhead on Tuesday, and at the Philhar-

roonic-hall, in this town, on Wednesday and Thursday.
UNFOUNDED CILIRG/L—We see by the New York
Daily Herald, of the sth of April, that the charge against
Mr. Dowling, surgeon of the steamer Asia, on suspicion
of having contraband goods in his possession, has- been
withdrawn by the United States authorities, as being
without foundation. _

A Grua STABBED.—At the police-court, on Saturday,
Mary Rigby charged Susannah Oxton with stabbing her.
Both are girls of the town. On Friday night they quar-
relled in Chisenhall-street, when the prisoner took a• knife
from her pocket, and stabbed Rigby several times in:the
head, inflicting several severe scalp wounds. She was
sent to prison for three months.
SUDDEN DEA TIL—Mr. Alexander Thomson, confec-

tioner, of Brownlow-kill, on returning on Thursday
evening to the home he had only left two.hours before,
was taken so ill as led him to make for the first open
house, where he requested the inmates to send- for
medical assistance, but, almost before they could arrive,
Mr. Thomson was beyond their power : he expired almost
without a struggle, his complaint being disease of the
heart, which has been of some standing.
THE UNIVERSITIES.—A meeting to petition Parliament
to open the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge to
heresy and schism, has been called for this evening.
After robbing the Church of her seminaries of learning,
should the agitators be successful, the next step may be
to appropriate the revenues of the Church to secular
purposes.
THE AFRICA, British and North American Royal Mail
steam-ship, Captain William Harrison, sailed from the
Mersey on Saturday for New York, with the. usual mails
for the United States and Canada, about 170 passengers,
and a valuable cargo of merchandise on board..
As will be seen from our advertising columns, Mr.
Scragg, Renshaw-street, has on sale the forms of Prayer
to be used to-morrow.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW.--When the Franklin left
New York, on the Bth instant, the screw-steamer City of
Glasgow, which sails between this town and Philadelphia,
had been 38 days out. We learn that the City of Glas-
gow had on board 50 cabin-passengers, 280 steerage. pas-
sengers, and 75 crew. She carried provisions for 50 days,
a full allowance of water, and an apparatus for condensing
a daily supply. She had also coals for 25 days' consump-
tion. It is the opinion of the owners, Messrs. Richardson
Brothers, that she is detained in the ice. They state that
the Charity (s-s) was detained nine days, and that a
sailing vessel was detained thirty days from the same
cause.
ENTERTAINMENTS AT CLAYTON HALL.—ThiS place of
amusement, it will be seen by an advertisement, is to close
on Wednesday the 3rd proximo, with the benefit of Mr.
Coleman. Of that gentleman's performances individually
we have several times had occasion to speak favourably.
His exertions in the way of producing novelty have not
been less remarkable or less praiseworthy. This evening
Herr Clausthal, the celebrated Tyrolean vocalist, makes
his second appearance before a Liverpool audience. The
metropolitan press speaks in very high terms of this gen-
tleman's talents and acquirements. We perceive also that
Mr. Coleman will give his celebrated " masks and faces" on
the occasion, as well as during the remaining evenings of
the season,
THE Talmnou.—The report of the Local Marine Board
of Liverpool, with reference to the case of Captain Noble,
of the Tayleur, has been laid before the board of trade.
After the examination of several witnesses, and Captain
Noble himself, the bo'ard reports, that it is "fully im-
pressed with the conviction that Captain Noble, notwith-
standing the serious disaster with which his name is con-
nected, possesses skill and ability both as a navigator and
as a seaman, and they have, therefore, no hesitation in
reporting to my lords their unanimous opinion that John
Noble is neither from incompetency, nor from any other
cause, either specified in the act, or not therein specified,
unfit to discharge the duties of a master'; and this board
therefore recommend to my lords the renewal of his cer-
tificate of competency."
THE LANCASHIRE MILITIA..—The 2nd Royal Lanca-
shire Regiment of Militia (infantry), 1,200 strong, as-
sembled for their twenty-eight days' drill yesterday, at
the Parade-ground, Everton. The regiment is com-
manded by Colonel Sir Thomas Hesketh. The Royal
Lancashire Artillery Regiment, 400 strong, will assemble
for drill on Tuesda next, at the Birchfield Barracks,
Islington, under they command of Colonel Sir Duncan
M`Dougall.
THE LANDING- STAGE.—The attention of the police
should be at once directed to the obscene publications
offered for sale on the landing-stage, and on board the
steam-boats which ply from there. The other day, the
family of a highly-respectable gentleman of this town were
proceeding to Eastham, when one of them, a y sheetn
years of age, was tempted to purchase a penny. of
engravings, some of which were of the most disgusting
character. The trade of the vendors of such moral poison
should be suppressed without delay.
WARRINGTON VESTRY.—The annual Vestry took place
at the old church, on Easter Tuesday, the Hon. and Rev.
H. Powys, the rector, in the chair. After the accounts
had been passed, and the churchwardens and sidemen
appointed, a church-rate of the usual amount was pro-
posed ; but the out-townships' ratepayers feeling aggrieved
at being charged from threevence or fourpence in the
pound for the Warrington parili church expenses, while
those of the township of Warrington were charged only
one penny in the pound, and even that charge not paid
by many of them, an out-township ratepayer moved,. as
an amendment, that there be no rate, which was carried
by a large majority on a show of hands. Upon this the
churchwardens demanded a poll, which the chairman
desired should be taken on Thursday, Friday, and Satur-
day, according to Sturges Bourne 's Act. On Thursday
morning the polling commenced, but was rather languid
on that day, at the close of which the numbers were, for
the rate, 229 ; against the rate, 125. On Friday the
numbers were, for the rate, 449 ; against the rate, 362—
majority, 87. On Saturday, at the final close of the poll,
the chairman declared the numbers to be, against the
rate, 723 ; for the rate, 653—majority against the rate,
70. After this result of the poll was announced, there
being apparently no funds by which the salaries and other
expenses of the church could be defrayed, notice of dia•
charge was given to the clerk, sexton, ringers, and the
other officials of the church except the clerplueUi