The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

We have a larger supply of Beasts and of much better qua-
lity than last week. The demand is very limited, it is conse-
quently difficult to support Friday's prices; we cannot quote
35. Bd. for anything, although it may be nearly realised for a
few choice things. The number of Sheep is also larger; small
selling Sheep make about the same as of late; but big Sheep
are rather lower. Lamb is a ready sale, at fully late rates.
Trade is slow for Calves, but a choice one is more freely sold at
a little advance. From Germany and Holland there are 231
Beasts, No Sheep, and 113 Calves; and front Scotland, 350
Beasts.

The following is stated to be a correct estimate of the
number of slaves in the following countries :—United
States, 3,095,000; Brazil, 3,250,0:!0; Spanish Colonies,
900,000; Dutch Colonies, S 5,000; South American Re-
publics, 140,000; African settlements, 300,000; total,
7,500,000.

M. ALBERT SMITII.—This popular writer has come to
the judicious determination of giving himself an extended
holiday, by gratifying a long-felt wish to visit the Medi-
terranean, the East, and the northern coast of Africa.
From the account he gives of his travelling arrangements.
he will start with a light hearted companion, with ro other •
luggage than a knapsack, on a somewhat long walk, from
Cologne to Venice, intending, it circumstances permit, to
catch a glimpse of Central Italy. "To eat the real ke-
bobs,
and sec the real Circassian slaves of the ' Arabian
Nights Entertainments,' to hear a bulbul, to climb the
Pyramids, and to ride upon a camel," are among the prin-
cipal objects which the travellers propose to themselves ;
and we doubt not on his return from his pilgrimage, Mr.
Albert will manage to let the public come in for a share
of their cnjoymcnta.
AGED POETS. The Inverness ("eerier has the following
interesting gossip respecting our living poets :—" At the
Queen's state ball on Wednesday who should be p:eaent
but the poet Laureate, William. Wordsworth, from the
lakes, " Like grey-lieir'd &Vann, quiet as a stone."
Poetry must be a healthy occupation. It was never con-
sidered very fattening, but the vital and divine spirit must
he strong in the tuneful tribe. litre is Wordsworth, aged
seventy-nine, travelling from Westmoreland and joining
in Court gaieties, besides writing sonnets. (He wrote ono
lately on the Sisters of Mercy, at Exeter.) There is Sa-
muel Rogers, aged ciebty seven, running about to routs
and picture sales. James Montgomery, at Sheffield, in •
his seventy-seventh year, is still intent on poetry and
benevolence; and Thomas Moore the Little, who, upon
Monday next enters upon seventy, sings his Irish Melo-
dies with as much gusto as ever, sips his pint of claret,
and now and then indites honeyed verses oa rosy lips,
blue eyes, and " and all that sort of thing." Joanna
Baillie, bordering on four score, still graces her retreat at
Hampstead. One of the early hikers, Thomas de
Quincy, after encountering many reverses in seventy
years, and after eating more opium than would kill a com-
pany of grenadiers, dreams and writes classic dreams
somewhere about 'Auld Reekie,' joined occasionally by
P. o7essor Wilson, who is getting lazy, though only sixty-
, one. So literature keeps its place in the green old
haunts."

SESSIONS AND ASSIZES.--On Saturday, the Court of
Queen's Bench delivered judgment in the case of Smith v.
the Queen (in error). The prisoner had been tried and
convicted before the Recorder of Manchester, and sen-
tenced to be transported for his offence, which was one of
felony; hut, at the time of his conviction, the judges of
assize of oycr and terminer and general gaol delivery were
sitting for the county of Lancaster at Liverpdol. The
question raised: by the prisoner in support of the writ of
error we s whether the authority of the Recorder was de-
termined by the coming of the judges of assize, and sitting
in the county under their commissions. The Court de-
cided that it was a matter of convenience that the two
commissions should not be proceeded with at the same
time. The commission of gaol delivery commanded the:
judges to deliver the gaol, &c., and it was said that their
authority might conflict with the commission of the
just'ces of the peace. There was noshing, however, to
oust the jurisdiction, and upon this ground the writ of
error could not be supported, but judgment must be given
for the Crown. Though there was no defect of jurisdic-
tion in this case, it was certainly inconvenient that the'
sessions should be held during the assizes, though a disa
tinetion might probably be made between a Recorder and
the county sessions. In the latter case it was inconve-
nient for the magistrates to hold their sessions at the same
time with the assizes, even if it were a different part of
the county, for the Court coull not suppose that they
would hold them in the same place. Judgment affirmed.
WESTMINSTER IN THE OLDEN Tram—Owing to the
constant jealousy with which the kings regarded the
immunities and privileges claimed by the citizens of.
London, Westminster attracted their favour, and rose
gradually into populousness and wealth. In 1714, Fitz..
stephen, having described London, adds that further
westward, about the dietance of two miles, on the banks
of the Thames, was the Royal Palace, "an incomparable
structure, guarded by a wall and bulwarks. Between
this and the city was a continued suburb, mingled with
large and beautiful gardens and orchards belonging to
the citizens, who were themselves everywhere known,
and respected above all others for their civil demeanour,
their goodly apparel, their table, their discourse." The
occasional sojourn of the princes in the Old Palace during
successive centuries, from an early period, induced the
courtiers and nobility to tix their town-residences in the
neighbourhood ; and yet a more decided and powerful
impulse was given to forward the prosperity of the grow-
ing town by the establishment of the wool-staple, for
Westminster soon became the resort of merchants. It
remained, however, still a distinct town from London ;•
and the road which led to it, bordered at intervals by
noble mansions, eiiirted the river-strand, and passed.
through the little mhiwav Hamlet of Charing. * *
It is from the reign of King Henry VIII. that we must
date the commencement of a prosperous era in the his-
tory of Westminster, although about the time of King
Henry 111. the court had begun to reside more frequently
in it; and the Ccurt of Common Pleas, held hitherto
wherever the king was, by statute of Magna Charta, in
A. D. 1225, 9 Hen. 111., was permanently held there;
Westminster also being the customary place for the
assembly of parliament. To King Henry VIII.'s pro-
tection and favour Westminster owed its advances in
fame tied prosperity, eretOth and importance. In the 37th
year of King Henry VIII. an act of parliament was made
to authorise that monarch, by letters patent or procla-
mation, to make Westminster an ',einem.
Early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, ::beat A. D. 1550,
s appears by a mei) republished by Vcri.ue in 1737,
Westminster had ereatly extemled iteelf, and Charing-
crese was in the Midst of an nobrokkn line of houses
reaching from Whitel!all to London. r•: though near
Westminster Hail and the Abbey, wee e like tutelary
guiadiens rose gieantic al:ove the low el -,towers of the
Palace-close and old Wl:it-el:all, fonnin;-, 'le nucleus of
thecity, new buildings Ii! stz,rtt up, lined aclose
town of rainy starch, still far greCil lens,
witidinfr. lanes, and a breezy CGUIIII y, with wayside
inns and Tilet homesteads peeping th; , 1110 parting of
the trt.:E-, spread ro,::.d its ,s, stretching
up in f:::r L!s:arCe b; yond t!,en), Ltdeci away
bencath tha blue rni,ty lie;Jts of Highgate and Hemp-
stezel.—.l.feme; ale (,;! Trv:thins:cr.

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