The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

TIRE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

COLLISION LAST NIGHT OWING. TO THE

TEMPESTUOUS WIND.

The fine packet-ship Brooklyn, of Boston, lying oppo-
site the Prince's Pier, was run foul of by the New York
ship, Patrick Henry, and her bowsprit and mainstay
completely carried away. Some little anxiety was mani-
fested yesterday for the safety of the Brooklyn, a tug-
boat being required to keep her up to her moorings, from
the swell of the tide and the force of the wind, which
from the top of her mainstay must ultimately have car-
ried away her masts. Fortunately, from the exertion used,
she was conveyed to a place of safety.

THE CUSTOMS' REVENUE OF THE PORT OF

LIVERPOOL.

The Customs' Revenue of LiverpOol for the quarter
ended 10th October, again exhibits a decrease as com-
pared with the corresponding quarter of last year, as
might have been anticipated in the present unfavourable
position of commercial and monetary affairs. The re-
ceipts for the two years were as follows :-
1846. 1847.
254,336
324,263
437,784

July
August
Sept.

£1,016,383 £871,570
Shewing a deficiency on the quarter ended 10th October
of £144,813. The total receipts of the three quarters
from Jan. sth have been in 1846, £2,754,308 ; and in 1847,
only £2,497,809. The deficiency on the 9 months is, there-
fore £256,499. In the April quarter we had an increase
of £46,638 over the corresponding quarter of 1846. Hence
the falling off in the last two quarters has been £303,137.
We had also an increase of about £70,000 in the quarter
ended Jan. sth, 1847, which reduces the year's deficiency
to £186,499 ; but at the same time shews that the last
two quarters have decreased £373,137.
in the quarterly return of the revenue for the kingdom
published in our last, the receipts for the year exhibited
an increase of £267,224. There was, however, a decrease
on the quarter ended Oct. 10th of £374,108. Assuming
the deficiency for the kingdom during the past two quar-
ters to have been growing in the same ratio as, the defi-
ciency in Liverpool, we may expect to see the next yearly
statement for the four quarters shewing, instead of a small
increase, made up by the greater productiveness of the
January and April quarters, a large :deficiency • we fear,
unless some great alteration takes place immediately in
the state of our commercial affairs, of something approach-
ing to a million.

CHOLERA.—We regret to state that a letter was received
yesterday, by a medical gentleman at Birkenhead, an-
nouncing that a soldier died at Dublin on Saturday pf
Asiatic cholera.
EVERTON WARD.—Last night a very enthusiastic meet-
ing of the electors of .this ward was held at Halliday's
Coffee-house, at which resolutions were unanimously
passed, pledging the meeting to use every exertion to se-
cure Mr. G. G. Hornby's election. The chairman, Mr.
Kerford, stated that no such meeting of electors or com-
mittee of the ward, to withdraw Mr. Hornby, as stated in
the Mail, had been held. Mr. Stone said that he wished
it to go forth to the public, that since he had made in—
quiries as to the cause of Mr. Hornby's separation from
Great George Ward, he was very desirous of withdrawing
all objection to Mr. Hornby, and he was now very much
in favour of Mr. Hornby.
A QUESTION FOR ONE LEARNED IN THE LAWS OF
CHANCE.—A very interesting question may be started
with respect to the money withdrawn last week from the
banks,—viz., how much of it will ever find its way back
again,
,and escape being stopped in transitu ? The
yielding disposition of tender fathers and husbands will
have to be calculated, and their ability ascertained to
withstand such solicitations as the following :—" Pa, do
buy Jemima and myself new dresses, now that you've
bk beenan ay, fortunate Tratrltesaaws to get tayloauvre mnfoansebyawfrloamt
stchuartfiehiodvsrid
or, "My' dear, I'm sure we might treat ourselves with a
new carpet for the drawing-room," &c., &c. The acti-
vity of the light-fingered fraternity, together with the
natural tendency of pocket-books to slip from the owners'
pockets, (an occurrence which, very provokingly, almost
always happens at a time when something valuable is in
them,) ought also to be considered. We suspect that the
result would prove that it would have been rather wiser
in all parties to'let their deposits remain where they were,
and allowing interest to be accruing, than to have them
submitted either to the domestic or other process of
attenuation, with the risk, besides, of their disappearing
altogether.
THE WEATHER.—During the past week the weather
was rather broken, but occasionally favourable for field
operations, and the sowing of wheat has been proceeded
with. A considerable breadth of land on both sides of
the Mersey yet, however, remains to receive the seed.
On Saturday night a very heavy shower of rain mingled
with rain fell in the neighbourhood—wind strong from
the northward. Sunday morning was fine ; but the af-
ternoon squally with rain, and about four o'clock we had
a heavy downfal of rain and hail proceeded by thunder,
and accompanied by squalls from the north west. The
night was somewhat stormy throughout, but the moon
generally bright. Yesterday was a fine dry day. The
farmers are busy getting up their turnips, which in this
quarter are a fair but not very heavy crop. We had full
moon on Saturday, and have since had very high tides—
yesterday twenty feet four inches by the almanack, (the
highest of the year, with the exception of that of the
26th of September) and it probably rose high from the
pressure of a strong N. W. wind. The Irish Channel
has been very rough for some days, so that not a few
parties have been deterred from crossing. The weather
is, however, seasonable, and we have heard of no damage
on shore, or in the outward approaches to the harbour.
SAD RESULT OF THE CHANGE OF THE TIMES.—The
porter of the Liverpool Stock Exchange is said to be ex-
cessively affected by the wearisomeness of his posi-
tion. A year or two ago there was some fun going
on. There was something spirit-stirring in the very
Babel-like inharmoniousness of the sounds, which
reached him at his post outside the door, at the
close of morning or afternoon meeting. Cries of
" Buy Great Westerns"—" Sell Dover quarters"—
" Buy Dutch Rhenish"—" Seven and a half premium"
—" Any Royal Assurance ?"—" Oldham"—" Buy"—
" Two and a Half"—" Diddlesex"—" Junctions"—
"Great Direct"—"Circumbendibusm—" Squawbash"—
" A hundred"—with ever and anon a peal of laughter, as
some merry speculator bonnetted a member, or split his
coat up to the collar, broke cheerily upon his ear. At
present, however, it is a monotonous " Sell"—" Sell"—
" Sell"—from the beginning to the end of the list—a
" Sell" altogether, and no buyers. The dreariest part of
the infliction is the occasional horrible effort of some mem-
ber to get up a laugh, which seems to freeze in his throat ;
and it is little less distressing to his feeling to witness the
attempts of the various members to stop the growing
elongation of their faces, and to look cheerful, as they
emerge from the room. without a transaction pencilled in
their books. We would suggest to the members to fur-
nish the poor fellow with something to amuse himself
when on duty. An occasional game of leap frog in the
area, with some of the junior members, would, perhaps,
enliven his spirits and theirs as well.