The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

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PRODUCE.—The markets through the week have
been quiet, owing, no doubt, to the uncertainty
attending the proposed changes in the Budget.
Sugar was without any material alteration from
former rates, and the sales comprised 610 hhds.
West India, 500 bags Bengal, and 600 mats Mauri-
tius. For Foreign very little inquiry, and sales were
confined to 1,500 bags Maceio at an average of
18s. 6d. 160 hhds. Surinam at 335., and 20 hhds.
Porto Rico. Molasses declined 6d., with but little
demand. Coffee dull, and but little doing. Of
Cocoa 70 bags Trinidad sold at 365. to 38s. In
Rum nothing new. Tea, though higher in price, is
very inactive, both buyers and sellers waiting for
the Budget to be confirmed. The advance in
Congous is id. to ld., and on Greens ld. per lb.
For Guano a good demand at previous rates, 400
tons Lobos Islands sold at £6 17s. 6d. to £7 ss.
per ton. Saltpetre dull. Indian-Rubber higher,
about 90 tons sold at an advance of 11d. per lb.
Turpentine dull, and American Rosin declining.
In Hides some sales have been made at 51d. per lb.
for Salted River Plate Ox. Olive Oil in better re-
quest, about 50 tons sold at fully previous rates.
Linseed Oil firm at 295. to 295. 6d. Palm Oil in
active request, and increased since the announce-
ment of the repeal of the Soap duty. The sales
amounted to 400 tons on the spot at £33 15s. to
£35, and 3,500 tons to arrive at £33 10s. to £35.
For Tallow a good demand, at 465. 6d. to 465. 9d.
for old Petersburg Y.C., and 475, 6d. for 1852

black; South American sold readily at 465. 3d. to
475. 9d. ; and North American at 465. to 475. per
cwt. No sales of Baltic Hemp. Of Jute the sales
were confined to 600 bales to arrive at an extreme
price. TO-DAY there continued a good inquiry for
SUGAR, the sales (including Saturday's business)
comprising 400 hhds. Demerara, chiefly at 325. 3d.
to 335. 3d., including grainy at 375. Gd. to 415.,
1,200 bags yellow Dates at 365. to 365. 3d., 300
bags Madras at 315., 20 hhds. Porto Rico at 395.
3d., and 800 bags Pernams at 17s 6d. per cwt., the
latter being rather lower. Of Molasses 400 puns.
Cuba Muscovado in store sold at 17s. Gd. per cwt.
A small parcel of Demerara Rum brought previous
prices, and 100 bags Rio COFFEE 40s. to 445. per
cwt. Some few parcels of clean common Congou
TEA changed hands at full rates, viz., from 11d. to
11.1. d. per lb. Other descriptions were unaltered.
A strong speculative demand, however, appeared
this afternoon, and large contracts have been con-
cluded, at advancing rates for Congous from 11d.
to Is. 3d. per lb. and upwards. About 4,000 pack-
ages, chiefly Congou, will be offered at auction on
Thursday next. Of SALTPETRE 300 bags sold at
285., 41 per cent , 200 bags SAGO FLOUR at 20s.
per cwt., and 120 bags black PEPPER at 4d. per lb.
WooL.-The public sales took place here on
Wednesday and Thursday, when 6,171 bales were
offered ; there was a tolerable attendance of buyers ;
a fair competition was the marked feature of these
sales, and the result was very satisfactory to im-
porters. A parcel of Sydney fleece, ex Great
Britain, brought 22d. to 23d. ; the stock of
Australian in the manufacturing districts being
rather above an average compared with other
descriptions, this parcel did not share so much in
the improvement as the lower class of wools. East
India ruled 11d. to I Id. per lb. above March sales
on the finer classes of white, and 71-;d. to 1-d. on
middle and lower descriptions. Oporto good fleece
fetched 13d. to 131 d.; inferior and cotty, 101 d. to
' 101 d. ; lambs, l id. to i I Id. per lb.; and the
principal descriptions from the Mediterranean ruled
a shade higher than previous current rates. The
market is now left very hare for future requirements.
Mesrs. ABRAM GARTSIDE and Co., in their
circular, say :-
The demand for Wool continues unabated, and prices
of home-grown and most foreign and colonial kinds below
201, of which stocks arevery deficient, still move upwards.
The last few weeks clean useful kinds have risen 5 to 15
per cent. The good classes of Australian at 21d. and
upwards form the only exception, and are very little
dearer than a few months ago, while the qualities below
this are much wanted, at advanced prices.

Messrs. W. GREAM E and Co. in referring to the
public sales of Wool, on Wednesday and Thursday,
says:—
We had a large attendance of the Trade, and a good
competition throughout. The few Colonial and other
medium clothing Wools offered sold at about previous
current rates ; but on lower descriptions there was a
mar xed improvement, particularly in East "India, for
which there was great competition, low and middling
yellow realising an advance of Id. to Id. per lb., and best
whites 11d. to 2d. per lb. Egyptian, Turkey, Oporto,
&c., generally met a ready sale, at rather higher rates
than previously ruling, by private contract, and the
market is again left very barely supplied for future re-
quirements. _ _ _

Messrs. HUGHES & RONALD, in their report, say :
" The public sales held here of 6,163 bales, brought to-
gether a large number of buyers, almost exclusively from
the home trade ; the biddings were very spirited. and the
result satisfactory. Some fine Colonial, ex " Great
Britain," the first of the new clip, met with a good de-
mand, at prices about equal to those of the late London
sales, in February and March last. For East India the
competition was very brisk, and an advance of from Id.
to id. per lb. on the March sale prices was realized, the
greater advance being on the better qualities. Egyptian
participated in nearly the same degree, both as to demand
and enhanced value. Entre Rios were not of a first-rate
class, the competition therefore languid. Peruvian washed
of fair quality sold at 1311. to 1-qd., part withdrawn.
Oporto brought fully late rates. Illogadore were chiefly
withdrawn, and so were Russia.

IRON.—The market is dull, and prices lower, the
quotations from Glasgow to-day being 525. for
Scotch Pig.

CHURCH MISSIONARY SOCIETY.

MEETING LAST NIGHT.

(For Morning Meeting see sixth page.)
The evening meeting- was held in the Theatre of the
Collegiate Institution, at half-past six o'clock, when the
admission was by ticket, the upper gallery alone being
free. Notwithstanding the unpromising character of the
weather, and the heavy showers of rain which prevailed
previous to the hour of -meeting, the large hall was
crowded by an exceedingly respectable audience. The
attendance of clergy, as well as of the laity, was much
larger at the evening meeting than at that in the former
part of the day, and among those present were the Lord
Bishop of the Diocese, who took the chair.
The proceedings having been opened with prayer by the
Secretary,
The CHAIRMAN said,—l have very great pleasure in
being permitted to meet you again on the anniversary of
the Church Missionary Society, and I am glad to see
this large room filled with so numerous, so respectable,
and so influential an assemblage as that we now .see
before us. We have met on this occasion to listen
to the statements of a deputation from the Parent Society.
In the list of the deputation which has -been kindly put
into my hands, I perceive the first name is one that will
not require either introduction or recommendation
at my hands. He is a gentleman well known to you,
and known to fame. I speak of one of the most zealous
and energetic and useful friends and advocates of the
society, whose voice has been heard in former years by
you with pleasure and benefit in this same room and in
the same cause. lam speaking of the Rev. Francis Close.
(Loud applause.) The next name which I find on the list is
that of a gentleman whom I have not had the pleasure of
ever meeting before. I know not whether he may have
visited Liverpool before on such an occasion or not ; I refer
to the Rev. J. C. Ryle, rector of Helmingham, in Suffolk,
(loud cheers)—who has kindly come hither to be present.
I need only hope, and I feel every confidence that his
name is well known to you all by the manner in which the
mention of his name has been received. I hope this, 1
say, because he is the writer of many valuable tracts,
—(hear, hear,)—which I hope, from your reception of his
name, are familiar to you. But I wish to say that I have
derived the highest gratification from those useful publi-
cations, from the sound scriptural truth which they con-
tain—from their affectionate tone and reasoning—and
from one other element in them, the simple and plain, yet
forcible way in which they are brought home to the com-
prehension and feelings of the humblest classes in the land.
And far happier and nobler is it to write such publications
for the humblest classes in the land, if God's blessing
went with you in the work, than to attain the very
highest earthly fame by the possession of a power which
could excite or amuse the fancy—(applause)—but which
would not soften or subdue, and touch or elevate the
heart (great applause). The next name is that of the
Rev. George Fox, to whom I have the pleasure of being
personally known. I wish to assure him that it gives me
the greatest pleasure to meet him here on this occasion.
When I came to take charge of this diocese, I found him
a curate in one of the largest parishes in Chester. He
was at that time only in deacon's orders; but I had my-
self subsequently the satisfaction of admitting him to the
higher order of the priesthood. He was greatly endeared
by his kindness and attention to those amongst whom he
ministered, and his departure was the source of universal
regret to them all, when motives of domestic convenience,
—or rather, I should say, when motives of filial piety,—
induced him to leave Chester, so that he might be nearer
his mother.—(Applause.) But his presence here on this
occasion is interesting, not only from the circumstance I
have mentioned relating to himself, but as connected with
the general cause, for the advancement of which we are
this night assembled. Perhaps some of you may not
know that he is the surviving brother of a faithful
servant of God, now called to his rest, who, as long
as health and strength permitted, laboured faithfully,
earnestly, affectionately, and with a single heart, in the
work of his Lord. (Loud applause.) That brother, lost
to us, is gone, we trust, to a better and a happier land.
That brother had, I know, been educated as a youth by a
most excellent man, and a profound scholar, the late Dr.
Arnold, of Rugby ; and I have no doubt that under the
guidance of that man his talents were directed aright;
and I think I am correct when I say, what the moment
prompts me to say in the hearing of so many ladies as are
assembled here—and I think I am correct in my recollection
when I say that at home, and in the early years of his
life, and to the gentle and blessed influence of a mother,
he owed chiefly those deep impressions of piety that
formed in his mind the benevolent and noble desire to
devote himself to the work of a missionary, and to sacri-
fice to that determination health and even life itself.
(Loud cheers.) I think I recollect sufficiently well to
say that all this is found in what is to me one of the
most beautiful pictures of piety that I know, the pub-
lished memoir of his life and ministry. That memoir was
written by his brother, whom we have now the gratifica-
tion of seeing amongst us ; and as it is not only a
beautiful but a useful work, sanctified to a most holy
purpose, so do I hope that it will prove an enduring
memorial of brotherly affection. I do not know whe-
ther the volume may be known to all of you, but
as many of you into whose way it has fallen—and to
those who have gone out of their way to seek it—
I am sure will find themselves gratified, and elevated,
and improved by the pure spirit of piety and self-sacrifice
by which the whole of his conduct was guided. I.
have now introduced to your notice three mem-
bers of the deputation. We had the presence of a
fourth gentleman in the forenoon, who has passed some
years as a missionary in China—the Rev. Frederick
Gough. Circumstances will not permit him to attend
this evening. I believe he gratified the assembly in the
morning by a very detailed account of what he has seen
and heard in that benighted country, China, where
gloom; idolatry is, I hope, gradually melting away before
the genial sunshine of the light of the Gospel. (Ap-
plause.) I look upon the present meeting as belonging
more especially to the gentlemen of the deputation, who
have not merelycome from a distance, but who have come
furnished with many interesting and valuable details
concerning the various fields of missionary la-
bour. (Applause.) I observe in this paper a
regulation, by which it is proposed to terminate
our evening meeting at half-past nine o'clock. I
think it has grown out of the necessity of the case. The
very last meeting of a religious kind which I attended
in Liverpool was the jubilee of the British and Foreign
Bible Society. (Applause.) lam sure Ido not think I
was ever present at a more gratifying meeting—for I
think there was no clock there to let us see how the
time went by—(a laugh) ; and it went so pleasantly
past, without any one taking note of its progress,

MONDAY EVENING, APiUL 2:i

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

The Standard says the market for Public Securities
had been very steady this morning, it being assumed that
Ministers will carry their Budget by a small majority,

TURKEY.—The Pari3 Moniteur of Monday publishes
telegraphic news from Constantinople, stating that on the
14th instant perfect tranquillity reigned in that capital.
SWITZERLAND.—Order is quite restored at Freiburg.
RUSSIA.—News of the 19th instant, from the frontiers
of Poland, state that during the preceding week the
troops of the line stationed in the neighbourhood of Czen-
stochan had broken up their cantonments, and left by
railway for Warsaw. They were to proceed from Warsaw
into Russia, and take up their position on the Turkish
frontier.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The house met at five o'clock.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE put a question to the
Government with reference to the affairs of Turkey.
The Earl of CLAR.ENno:s7 stated that, as negotiations
were still pending, it would be impossible to give a full
answer to the question.
The house then went into committee upon the Canada
Clergy Reserves 811.
Lord DERBY rose to move an amendment, limiting the
power which the government measure would give to the
Canadian legislature. He considered that they received
sufficient power by the act of 1794.
The Duke of NEWCASTLE rose to vindicate the measure
of government. He considered it well adapted to add to
the welfare of the colony.
The Luis of WicKLow and DESART, and the Bishop