The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

LONDON TRADE REPORT.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.-The sales to-day were rather
numerous, but no spirit was exhibited. Teas still look up.
TEA.-The market firm with a fair business doing. Com-
pany's congous in the morning reached ls. llid. per pound ;
but on ,Change the price was Is. Ild.
SUGAR.-The transactions in the raw market are limited.
270 casks Barbadoes partly sold at public sale, 635. to 695.
for middling yellow. 430 bags Bengal sold at 61s. to 635.
for low to middling white. 200- boxes and 100 barrels Cuba,
nearly all bought in, white 28s. to 305., yellow 21s. to 235.
2800 bags Siam mostly sold ; low to middling white, 225. to
245.; 3700 bags Manilla were bought in at 20s. 6d.; and 900
barrels of Java at 19s. 6d. to 245. 6d.
COFFEE.-100 bales Mocha sold at 104 s. to 106 s. for fine
ordinary; 4,350 bags La Guayra partly so'Al at 465. to 48s.
for good to fine ordinary ; and 50s. to 525. for fine ordinary
to middling ; 2.150 bags Brazil were offered, the sound taken
in at 40s. to 41s. for good ordinary.
SPICES.-1,300 bags Malabar Pepper partly sold at 31d.
for fair ordinary ; 3,000 black Sumatra and Eastern at 3kd.
to 31d.: 540 boxes Cassia sold, middling to good 945. to
975. 6d.
RICE.-380 bags Bengal sold at lls. to 11s 6d. for mid-
dling white : 750 bags Madras taken in at 9s. to 9s. 6d. for
good bold yellow.

EMPTY HOUSES.—As one proof of the depression of
trade and the want of means by the people, we may mention,
that in Preston there are now 1,220 houses unoccupied, and,
consequently, not paying rates.
AN ACT or HONESTY.—About twelve years ago, a person
named Joseph Hall, who vas then a hand-loom weaver re-
siding at Stockport, emigrated to America with his mother,
who we believe was then a widow. At' the time they left
Stock, they were upwards of £2O in debt. Their creditors
have lately been agreeably surprised by having the whole of
their respective debts paid to them. Mr. William Holden,
provision-dealer, of Edgeley. one of the creditors, has lately
received a letter from Hall, who now resides at Baltimore.
The letter contained a draft or bill of exchange for £25, with
a request to Mr. Holden that he would discharge the debts
owing to eight individuals, whom he named, the lowest
amount being 4s 2d, and the highest, which was for rent,
£7 10s. The whole amount being £22 Os lid. The surplus
he ordered to be given to on old acquaintance. The money
has been applied by Mr. Holden as directed. The letter
concludes with a postscript, stating the writer had overlooked
two other of his creditors, for whom he intended shortly to
send another draft.

SUMMER A,ssizEg.—The judges of the different law courts
assembled in the Exchequer Chamber on Thursday, and
chose their respective circuits on the ensuing assizes. The
following is the arrangement :
Northern.—Lord Denman and Mr. Justice Wightman.

Western.--Mr. Justice Maule and Mr. Baron Rolfe.
Midland.—Mr. Baron Park and Mr. Baron Gurney.
Oxford—Mr. Justice Coleridge and Mr. Justice Coltman.
Home.—Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Bosanquet.
Norfolk.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr. Justice Williams.
North Wales.—Lord Abinger.
South Wales.—Mr. Justice Erskine.
Mr. Justice Pattison remains in town, and will attend
business at Chambers.

' HINTS TO THE WORKING CLASSES.—The reason why
our exporting manufacturers demand a repeal of the corn
laws is, that such repeal would equalise the price of English
with the price of continental labour, which is stated by the
Manchester repealers as under :

In France ss. Bd. per week of 76 hours
Switzerland 4 5 per ditto of 84 ditto.
Austria 4 0 per ditto of 76 ditto.
Tyrol 3 9 per ditto of 88 ditto.
Saxony 2 6 per ditto of 72 ditto.
Bonne on the Rhine 2 6 per ditto of 84 ditto.

Being an average of 3s 103 d. per week of 79 hours' labour.
The average price of English labour in this district is 13s. a
week. Will the labouring classes exchange a condition of
comparative comfort and affluence for such a state of depen-
dence and misery ? They are the parties most vitally affected
by the projected alteration of the corn laws.
THE SLAVE TRADE.—The Conservatives are charged with
hypocrisy in opposing the promotion of the slave trade. The
charge is false, and they are hypocrites who make it. The
Conservatives have been from the first the opponents of the
slave trade. and if the Whigs, in their usual pursuit of popu-
larity, snatched the opportunity of sealing its abolition, the
Conservatives were they who had prepared the opportunity
for them by making the measure popular. Burke was a Con-
servative—Pitt was a Conservative—Wilberforce was a Con-
servative—Perceval was a Conservative—Lord Castlereagh
was a Conservative—Mr. Canning was a Conservative, and
these were all firm opponents of the slave trade. On the
other side, Lord Fitxwilliam, Lord Sligo, and other Whigs,
opposed even their own party upon the question of abolition
in 1806, when the question was carried against a minority of
only fifteen in the House of Commons, and without a divi-
sion in the House of Lords. The Conservative Duke of
Northumberland has the distinguished honour of not only
having exerted himself for the abolition of the slave trade,
but the honour also of having anticipated all others in at-
tempting to provide for the extinction of slavery itself. His
Grace, in 1806, then Lord Percy, moved an amendment to
the effect that slavery should cease in the British dominions
in 1810—au amendment which the Whip Ministers of the
day resisted with success.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT UN THE GREENWICH RAILWAY.
—On Friday afternoon, as the train which leaves the ter-
minus at the Greenwich end at a quarter before three o'clock,
reached that part of the line which crosses Blue Anchor-lane,
Bermondsey, and where the junction of the Brighton and
Croydon line unites with the Greenwich, the engine came
furiously in contact with a post which had incautiously been
left across the tramway. The wheels of the engine and ten-
der passed safely over the post, but the iron which attaches
the tender to the train was broken by the collision, and the
carriages thrown off the line. . The train continued its way
some distance without the engine and tender. The conductor,
whose name is John Nasb, was thrown from his seat, and
part of the train passed over him. He was picked up imme-
diately after the accident, with one leg broken and many se-
vere contusions of the body, and conveyed without delay to
Guy's Hospital. One of the men employed by the contrac-
tors for finishing the London terminus of the Brighton Rail-
way, frightened at the danger he was in, made a leap over the
parapet of one of the arches, and fell into the grounds of a
Theaetdei He was also conveyed to the same
y there were no passengers in the first poor fellow was much injured and
hospital-.
dreadfullyn()as ip•ki t
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frightened.
carriage, which has received damage to the amount of only
a few pounds. The post was or,e of a number brought up by
the train from Deptford, tor the purpose of making a tempo_
rary fence on the side next the Brighton line, and ought to
have been removed immediately on its being thrown down.
The train after a short time proceeded to the terminus.
Poor Nash, the conductor, has since had his leg amputated,
it being so dreadfully fractured as to admit of no cure. Com-
plaints are made that the railway servants ara inadequately
paid moldering tke great risk thrY rall•

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—The works of the
Eastern Counties Railway Company' are now in progress at
Hatfield Peverel, and a fine supply of brick earth in the lane
opposite the mansion of A. Johnson, Esq., will be speedily
converted into bricks for the various adjacent bridges. The
road leading from New-street, in this town, to the rectory,
has been diverted, and men are employed in digging the foun-
dations for the New Bridge at that part of the line. An ac-
cession of hands has been put into the Springfield cutting,
and the embankment formed from the soil is rapidly length-
ening, nearly fifty yards, comprising between 5,000 and 6,000
loads of earth, having, we are informed, been completed
within a week. The Widford cutting is also progressing,
and fast nearing the high road.—Chelmsford Chronicle.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC, &c.—The particulars of traffic upon
the several rails ays in England and Scotland (29 in number)
for the last week--that is to say, up to the date to which the
different returns are calculated, is as follows :—The total
amount received was, in round numbers, £67,200, of which
there was £20,200 for merchandise, and £47,000 for passen-
gers, parcels, carriages, horses, and mails. The greatest re-
ceipts were by the following railways:—London and Birming-
ham, £16,335; South Western, £5,814 ; Grand Junction,
£8,221 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, £1,351 ; Birmingham
and Derby, £1,090 ; Great North of England, £1,171 ;
Manchester and Leeds, £3,290 ; North Midland £3,702 ;
and Midland Counties, £2,603.

UNIVERSITY AND ECCLESIASTICAL
INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Oxford Herald.)

Hon. and Rev. Edward Southwell Keppel, late of Caius
College, Cambridge, to be one of the Deputy Clerks of the
Closet to her Majesty.
Rev. Joseph Buckley, M.A., Vicar of Badminton, to be
Domestic Chaplain to the Duke of Beaufort.

Rev. J. G. Cumming, Classical and Mathematical
Master in the West Riding of Yorkshire Proprietary School,
to be Viae-Principal of King William's College, Isle of Man.
.

Rev. J. G. Curiming, Classical and Mathematical
Master in the West Riding of Yorkshire Proprietary School,
to he Vice-Principal of King William's College, isle of Man.

Rev. IL B. Jories, 8.A.,- Lecturer of St. Peter's Church,
Carmarthen, to the Rectory of Cilmaenllwyd, vacant by the
death of the Rev. John Roberts.

Rev. William Henry Ricketts Bayley, M.A., to the Per-
petual Curacy, Stapleton, Gloucestershire.

(From the Cambridge Chronicle.)

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Archibald
Bennie to be one of Her Majesty's Chaplains in Ordinary in
Scotland.

The Rev. Henry Herning, M.A., Fellow of St. John's
College, Oxford, is presented by the President and Fellows
of that society to the vicarage of St. Giles, in the city of Ox-
ford, vacant by the cession of the Rev. Thomas Chandlier
Curteis. 'Value, £160; population, 2355.
The Marquis of Lansdowne has presented the Rev. Wm.
Maurice Macdonald, S.C.L., late Fellow of New College,
Oxford, to the rectory of Calstone, Wilts, void by the resig-
nation of the Bev. Julian Charles Young, late of Worcester
College; and the latter gentleman .has been presented by the
Venerable William Macdonald, M.A., Archdeacon of Wilts.
to the vicarage of Mynety, in the county and diocese of
Gloucester, void by the cession of the above-named W. M.
Macdonald. Value of Calstone, £192; population, 32.
Value of Mynety, £166 Apopulation, 585.
The Rev. Jas. Mules, to be the curate of Binegar, near
Wells.

The Rev. R. Thompson, curate of West Wittering, near
Chichester, to be chaplain of H. M. S. Impregnable.
The Rev. Henry Sutcliffe, B.A. stipendiary curate of Bre-
reton, Staffordshire, has been presented to the incumbency
of Keelc, vacated by the Rev. J. Stevens. Patron, R.
Sneyd, Esq. ; value, £171; population, 1130.
The Rev. J. D. Schomberg, Master of Stoke Grammar
School, Leicestershire, to the vicarage of Polesworth, War-
wickshire, on the nomination of the trustees of Sir F. Neth-
ersole, Bart. Value, £502; population, 1870.
The Rev. John Sleath, D.D., to the rectory of Thornby,
Northamptonshire, vacant by the death of the Rev. N.
Cotton. Value, £364; population, 198.
The Lord Bishop of Peterborough has instituted the Rev.
Thomas Burnaby, M.A., to the rectory of Market Bosworth,
in the County of Leicester. Patron, Sir W. W. Dixie,
Bart.

The Rev. Charles Whitworth Pitt. M.A., to the rectory
of Stapleford, Abbotts, Essex, vacant by the death of the
late James Hamilton. Patron, the Queen : value, £483 ;
population, 507.