The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

Hawes Branch,-with 'power to prochas,
Northern Counties Union Railway, anthlimendment of Acts
relating to the Liverpool, Alancliester..nnd Newcastle-mini,

'ent,

Tyne Junction Railway, and to the Nelitern Counties Union
_Railway Comfy/flies ; Railway from th'eqf.ast Lancashire Rail-
way near Burnley, to join the Burnley,Dranch of the -Manches-
ter and Leeds, Railway, with power tossellor lease to the Rest
Lancashire lway Company, .or to the Manchester and Leeds
Railway Company; and Liverp._ol, Manchester. and icetvcastle-
upon-Tyne -Junction and is:erthern Counties Union Railways
Itrnalgainon.
And the Directors do hemby ,cor.vene the said Meetings

• THOS. ROBT.LsoN FRANCE,
C. MOORE WILSON; k s
W. H. INGRAM,
Conrpsay's Principal Office, 31;PrincE

-street,

,chester, De

" The Register of Transferi"*ill be close`,
front the 19th day of January,l947, until after the about
Meetint;s.

C. MOORE WILSON
W. H.,INGRAM.

Secretaries.

THE BOMBAY MARKET

(Prom the Chamberriftionuft?rce Overland Priceeurrent
BOMBAY, DECEMBER 15, 1846.
'The dulness which prevailed in our import market at the
close of our last issue has continued unabated throughout
the fortnight. The uncertainty as to the result of the Cal-
cutta opium sale, which:then interrupted all legitimate busi-
ness, can scarcelyyetbe said to be removed. Theannexedex-
tract from the Calcutta =Star, of Dec. 1, will show the na-
ture of the measures adopted by the " sellers for account"
in the opium time-bargains to defeat the operations of their
opponents, and arrest the progress of the Government sale.
How far, however, the success of their plan may accom-
plish the object contemulated, and be lecallv sufficient

to quash the time-bargains in wh .. -
seems to be a matter of doubt, involvmg 1
of no:small diffieulty,,and which may give
tio,n between the Tarties interested.
there is still suffioient.r.ncertainty existing
these matters to keep4lp in same measure

;h they

Involved,

1 questions

rise to litige,
ilst, however

tlistrust

id divert.merehatits from their ,usu

,nd legit

mate dealings, a respite at all events has b.,
Calcutta beenobtained, and the impending serious con-
sequences, which we• before wrote of, as,excitinginuch
anxiety throughout '.our native, mercantile community,
have been for .a time averted. The account of, these
events having, however, only reached us a few da
there has as yet not been sufficient time for the _
meet connected with them to subside, and chiefly they
.

excite-

fore in cansequence.of them there hz
last fortnight, tkeen.but little businef
goods.

doiig in import

TRADE WITH THE EAST.

The annual comparative statement of British shipping I
entered inwards .and cleared outwards groin and. to place
within the limits atthe East India Company'
the years 1845 and :1846 has
East India and China A

just been published by th,
lodation :

~....0 n,a s., ........a ws., a vpuLiuzg {Amur uepins ()I TOOCE WOUIU is the ryot system, by whi
" The total number of vessels entered inw,ards was 852, check the enterprise of private individuals. Yet this wise the
with 360,039 tonnage, against 860, with
.354,260 tonnage ; official, in the very next sentence of the speech, from br position of thp ~,,,Pr'
•
showing a decrease of eight vessels, but on h.orease of which we have quoted above, virtually acknowledges thatl!
5,779 tonnage, compared with 1845. The returns for the the mere existence of a food depot in any lo
ports of London and Liverpool exhibit on the first station presses private enterprise

vators from one-

tinting. away an encom
... ___........,- -.---, uut, uuly us su IA mliage.l aria on tile -ot one place where there was a depot it had been the soil by the outlay
second station of ;18 vessels, and 4,184 tonnage. Bristol stated that—' The destitution in the neighbourhood of upon its cultivation.. 'I
and Hull, on the other hand, show an increase of two ves- Lastletown (Bearhaven) has been greatly aggravated by
production of the partic
sell, with 369 tonnage, and Clydeand other Scottish ports the arrival of a commissariat officer, rumours having gone conductors, is the
an increase of vessels, with 9,613 tonnage. The great- -abroad that the Government was about to open a food
... article in the India
est increase is observed' in the entries of xessels from de 6t which has prevented co n n ' 1 people,f
i,e consequence r°'n sPnd The ryots ' (t
China and the Mauritius. In the former case the num- iagP in' pp lies offoO das heret'oferorcela'
ber was eleven vessels, with 4,792 tonnage : In the latter has been that the supplies in the town. are ex' husted,an poverished and ov
ease 24 vessels,: with 7,328 tonnage. .71;e greatest de- the whole district is now without food.' .It was found (the village money
crease is observOcLip the arrival of vessels from the Cape that up to about Christmas there would be food to be oh-
to the ryots, and cant
of Good Hope, Bombaynnd Singapore, and Penang. The tained, but that after Christmas the Government must who buys from the bum
decrease in the easebf the Cape of Good Hope vessels is open their depots. Orders bad been issued to open them Bombay at a loss; whit
stated at 18 vessels, with 2,732 tonnage; in the case of then, so soon as it should bnfound necessary." that the chances are a
Bonabay• at 17 vessels, with 9,865. tonnage; And in the , It was found—(query?—blabbed by ~-.”.... ri--.,..---.._, shipments to England_
r .1", _ 1 •l• • . . ..., - _

to China and Singapo
meat land tax ainoun

that after -Christmas Government would open
its stores; and orders had been given to open them when
Hence the supply from private enterprise was I a total value of tl