The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-31 00:00:00

LONDON EXCHANGE NEWS.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The funds have recovered the depression of yesterday, and
a good deal of business has been transacted at the better
prices. The careful reading of the President's Message, and
the satisfactory tenour of the Speech of the King of France,
caused this reaction. Consols for the account closed 82k;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 89k to ; ; Three and a Half per
Cents. Reduced, 99 to g; Exchequer-bills, 12s to 14s pre-
mium ; Long Annuities (expiring Jan. 5, 1860), 121; and
Bank Stock, :65 to 166.

Just before the close of the foreign market several buyers
of Mexican stock appeared, and the consequence was an ad-
vance of nearly one per cent. apon the former price of the
day, it closing 271 to 28. The other stocks were steady, but
few bargains were made in them. Spanish Actives left off
241 to +; Portuguese Five per Cents., 321 to 33k; Ditto,
Three per Cents., 19 to 20; Dutch Two and a Half per
Cents., 511 to 521 ; Brazilian, 63 to 65 ;and Belgian, 1001
to 10111_

The Tea and Tallow markets are without material altera
tion to-day.

The commercial accounts from New York, dated Dec. 3,
state there is an increased quantity of produce going forward,
and the rates of freights are a little improved. For Cotton
to Liverpool 5-16ths and 7-16ths is asked, though hardly ob-
tained; as yet the engagements for Flour have been chiefly at
2s brl; London 2s 6d brl for Flour. Ashes—the sales were
250 brls, Pots closing at 6 dols, and 100 brls Pearls closing
heavy at 5 dols 60e. The stock has increased to 5,152 brls—
viz., 2,757 brls Pots and 2,305 brls Pearls. The receipts of
the season are 32,143 brls. Coffee is dull and heavy, the stock
is not a large one. Sales, 1,000 bags Brazil at 91c a 101 e;
500 Laguayra at 9.1 c a 104 e ; 400 Java at lle a 12c ; 75 Sumatra
at 9ic, all four months; 500 St. Domingo at dic a 81c cash;
200 bags Laguayra sold by auction at 94c a 9ic, three months.
Molasses—the sales are small and at very low rates. Porto
Rico sold in lots at 23c a 25c, and Trinidad at 20 cents, four
months. Naval Stores—Tar is dull and sells only in small
parcels at 1 dot 75c. Washington soft Turpentine sold at
3 dots, and small-sized brls at 2 dots 874 c ; Southern Spirits
of Turpentine sold at 37c. Oils—Whale is very scarce ; 100
brls sold for export at 36c, some sales were made for home
use at 37ie, and for a small lot handsome 39c was given.
There has been a fair demand for Linseed, and at the close
of the week sales were made at 95c cash, and 974 c time.
Cotton—the transactions of the week have been very moderate,
scarcely 2,000 bales, at price /c to ic lower—viz., 9c to l lac.
Flour has a tendency to decline. Prices range from 6 dols to
37c to 6 dols 624 c.

AFFRAY WITH POACHERS,

From. the Times.

At a late hour on Monday night last, two gamekeepers
the employ of Mr. Wilton Harlingstone, of Fellwood-ha,
near Struufield, were returning to their homes from the hal,
where they had been partaking of their worthy master's hos.
pitality, on arriving at a secluded lot of plantations called the
" Dells," they came suddenly upon a party of four men,
three of whom had guns, whilst the fourth carried a large
and apparently well-filled sack. On perceiving the game-
keepers the three men presented their guns, and warned the
others to keep off, at the same time calling to the man who
carried the sack to run, upon which he immediately made off
with his burden. One of the keepers then called out, as though
they had assistance at hand, " Here they are, come on, my
lads," when the poachers, thinking, doubtless, that a strong
party was upon them, turned and retreated with all possible
expedition, closely followed by the keepers, who being strong
active fellows, and moreover somewhat elevated by the libe-
ral quantity of old Christmas ale they had been imbibing,
dashed after the poachers, shouting at the top of their voices,
and having no other weapons save a couple of stout cudgels.
After a chase of several hundred yards the keepers succeeded
in overtaking the man who carried the sack, whom they
seized, upon which the man shouted to his companions for
assistance, calling out that there were but two of them,
meaninc, keepers,
the and one of the poachers returned to the
spot, and presenting his gun swore that he would blow the
keepers' brains out if they did not instantly quit their hold
of the captured man, but the keepers thrusting the fellow
they held before them so as to cover themselves from the effects
of the poacher's fire, told him to fire away and shoot his con-
federate. The man then dropped the muzzle of his piece,
and clubbing the firearm, dealt the keeper nearest him a
heavy blow with the but-end, which lighting on the back of
the other's neck, brought him to the ground. Upon this the
other keeper quitted the grasp on
.the man he held, and
springing on the poacher with the gun, seized him round the
waist whilst in the act of aiming a blow at him (the keeper),
and threw him down. The gun exploded in the fall, and
part of the contents lodged in the poacher's back, upon which
the wounded man calling out that he was shot, his companion
immediately took to flight. The keeper who had been struck
down recovered, and as no further attempt at attack or rescue
was made, the two keepers carried the wounded man between
them to the nearest habitation, and sent off for medical ad-
vice, the man complaining of great pain from his wound.
It was nearly two hours before a surgeon could be pro-
cured, and it was then ascertained that the spine was severely
shattered by the shot. He remains in a very precarious
state. The poachers were probably aware of the " merry-
making " at the hall, and calculated on the absence of the
keepers. Upwards of thirty head of game were found in the
sack.

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
GREAT CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVERPOOL

UNDER THE MANAGEMENT OY MR. EGERTON

MR. EGERTON begs leave most respectfully to intimate
to the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool, that he has
entered into an arramernent with

DUCRO\V,

for a limited number of Representations, with the whole of
his splendid and talented London Establishment (being on
its last provincial tow•), including his peerless and pre.ena-
nent Stud of Beautiful Horses, Fairy Ponies, British and
Foreign Riders, Acrobat Professors, lye. forming au
extensive treble company—Dramatic and Gymnastic. -

THIS present FRIDAY, the 31st instant, and TO-MGR-
ROW, (Saturday,) the Ist January, Mr. Ducrow's
London Grand Equestrian Romance, founded upon the
Crimean War of Independence, entitled the
CONQUEROR'S STEED KARABAGH ;
OR, THE PROPHET OF THE CAUCASUS.
The Circle will present an extraordinary routine of novel-
ties and Grand Union of Equestrian Talent, with unequalled
feats of Horsemanship by Ducrow's extensive Foreign and
British Establishment, commencing with, first time in Li-
verpool, one of the most varied, splendid, and effective
Equestrian Pageants of the olden time, executed by Twenty-
seven Horses, Dames, and Cavaliers, called the
SUMMER'S MORN OF 1686;

OR, THE WHITE WREATH AND THE FLITCH OF BACON.
With Minuet, Gavotte, and the old Country Dance of
ROGER DE COVERLY.
Sir Roger De C0ver1y........ Mr. Hillier.
First appearance in Liverpool of
Sig. ALLARD as the VENETIAN RIDER.
Madame ALLARD, the great French Female Equestrian
from Franconi's, Paris, will make her first appearance.
Likewise, for the first time in Liverpool, Mr. Duerow's
highly trained Cream Horse Palfrey, tutored by Sig. Hillier,
called