The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-09 00:00:00

LUC 4.411.1. C2LUCLI,,, cram 0x•5r....., -----
numbers, both mule and water is quoted thus :
ei.mnna without alteration,

prices.
Cotton

-There is still considerable activity in. cotton
r”. Rno-land. but prices have .a tendency, down.

snipments 'or -
wards, partly attributable to the inferior article on hand,
and to the scarcity of available tomrage in the harbour,.
and consequent. advance in the rate of freights. Shippers
of this staple for China are doing nothing, preferring ap-

hat remains of the old. Of the new, some trifling par-
cels of Oomrawutty have been received, and for which

88r. per candy is asked

Freights.—To Great Britain continue firm at £5 55.,
with an upward tendency, owing to the small amount of
available tonnage in the harbour. To China freight is

ninally 14 rs

. _
Exchange is slightly advancing, being now quoted at
2s. Old. to 2s. 0-.}d. There seem to b more drawers
than buyers, the Rlles of English goods not having
amounted to much, and the purchases of raw cotton being
Th. r.i-o of Pxylituvre on Calcutta, at sixty

at above 08-15-6 rs.; on
Price of bullion—
Buzland notes,

days' sight, is now stated to b(
Madras; and China no quotations

;overeiglis, each
10-12-Ors

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BOARD OF EXAMINATION OF MASTERS AND MATES.
—At a Board of Examiners, held on Tuesday last, Capt.
Henry F. Grebow, of Liverpool, was examined and found
duly, qualified 'for a first-class master's certificate. Mr.
Thomas W. Asbridge, late chief-Mate of the Rajah Bassa,
of Whitehayeii, was likewise examined and found duly

to .distrioute relief in arie ~.. -
—William Higgins, No. 619—died of small- :qUelified foi a first-class master's certificate.
rex communicated to him while discharging his dutiei. - SERIOUS ASSAULT.—A female, named Ann Grove, wa.
Xithin the last week there has been a marked increase in yesterday charged with committing an assault upon an
he arrival of paupers from Ireland, and the fever cases old woman. It appeared that, on the 25th day of last
nthe lower districts of the town are very numerous. month the parties had a quarrel, when the prisoner struck
THE. GREAT MADRAS RAILWAY COMPANY.—Under the complainant on the head with a liar of iron. The in-
his title a prospectus of a project appears in our columns, jured party was unable to attend and give evidence until
lesigned to open out a communication between the lead- yesterday, and in the meantime the prisoner had been con-
ing districts and towns of the. Madras presidency, which fined in the Borough Gaol. Mr. Rushton said the pri-
appears to us to be singularly deserving of the attention miner had-barely escaped being committed for trial on a
of capitalists. The length of the line projeCted is 270 charge of murder, and ordered her to pay a fine of £5, or
miles-by the present winding route, and by this project it in default of payment be committed for two months.
will be reduced to 200 miles. the construction of which is SKELETON FOUND.—On Saturday, at noon, the skele-
estimated at the -cost of £5,000 per mile. The popula- ton of a man, supposed to have been about twenty-five
tion of the presidency of Madras, for which this must be years of. age, was found by the men engaged in digging
he main trunk line, is. set down at 14,000,000. The the foundation for the Sailors' Home. The body was
''^ is certain from its extent to pay an excellent found in what is presumed to have been an underground
~as not falilriltyl ireeratochtehde and, according to the medical testimony, the
'suspected .to have fallen a victim to foul play.
ydiaenntpearspsreissesinonfs.thiswcnouLtz
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left the development of the resources of those possessions One of his teeth was broken, and, from the remnant left
to the slow working of the Indian government. The city in the jaw, the surgeon concludes that it was broken be-
article of the Times of Friday affords a striking instance fore :death. The premises which covered the ground
If the disadvantageous results of Government under- many years since, were inhabited by some of the worst
1, as compared with those of private enterprise, in characters, .. . . • •
_we of the construction of the Ganges canal, which OBTAINING . Goons UNDER FALSE PRETENCES.—
...,S been for six years constructing at an enormous outlay(' i Yesterday, a miserable-looking girl named Ann Summer-
whilst the scheme, if confided to a private company, would i lit, was brought; before the magistrates, charged With the
steadily have prograa*llowards completion, since the ea- I above offence. It appeared, that on Saturday. the prisoner
pitql would have been:l'l4lsec], irrespective of any political -went to.a grocer's shop kept by Ann Whitley, and said
eirises that might affect the revenue of the country, or she had been sent by Mr. Parker, of -Boundary-place, for
divert the energies of the Government. We trust that i some groceries.- - She added, that. she was servant to Mr.
this company will, in its own locally, prove to the world Parker: -As the party had some knowledge of Mr. Parker,
that the effects of private enterprise need never be 4-.1 the goods were sent ; but, on inquiry, it turned out the
.spairod of,.and be instrumental in developing the resources . prisqner. had Made a. fraudulent representation, and, she
Of at country so important as is QUr Bast Indian empire to was accordingly given luta custody. The prisoner was.
Urgut Britain. , remanded..

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