The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ihntral Altarllany.

Hay-making began at &lllford on Thursday.
The Bank of England advanced, on Thursday, a consi-
derable sum on Consols and Bills, at five per cent.
Haymaking has commenced in the neighbourhood of
Bath.
0? Tuesdr cot'

n —ay, Sour cottages were destroyed by fire in
village of Throckmorton, near Evesham.

The foundation stone of a new market in Doncaster,
was laid last week with great ceremony.

The Rev. H. Walmsley, Roman Catholic priest, of
Park-row, Leeds, has died of typhus fever.
The journeymen bakers have held meetings in Chester,
Nottingham, &e., for bettering their condition.
The Shakspere Society has very properly presented a
copy of its publications to Mrs. Cowden Clarke, for her
ample Concordance to the immortal bard's works.
A correspondent of The Times proposes that the flour

of the horse chesnut should be used for the stiffening of
calico, &c., instead of flour obtained from wheat.
Dr. Pusey, Mr. Keble, and two other leading tracta-
rians, have announced a " commentary on the holy scrip-
tures for the unlearned."

The Driver, war steamer, which arrived at Portsmouth
on Friday week, from New Zealand, is the first steamer
which has ever sailed round the world.

A boy, five years of age, died a few days ago in Scot-
land, from lock-jaw, arising from a wound inflicted on one
of hig feet by a thorn.

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MAGNETIC DISCOVERY.-It is said that a physician ih
the south of England has discovered- the principle of
magnetic force which explains the deviation anti dip of

needle,

Amongst the inventions 'registered last week is a venti-
lating pane of glass, wherein small holes are drilled ob.•
liquely, an inch or an inch and a half apart, thus giving an
inward direction to- the current of air
No FAITH IN HIGH. PRIG

____Es.—At the Hull Corn
Market, on Tuesday last; a gentleman, residing at Bar-
row, bought a quantity of wheat, now growing in Lincoln-
shire, to be delivered in August at £3 per quarter.
Instead of rising the price of bread, the bakers of De-
vizes have entered into an agreement to make it of a
coarser quality, and continue to sell it, as long as they
poSsibly can, at ls. 9d. per gallon.
A Scotch paper says that a field of oats, at a place called
Borlands, has been nearly destroyed by an immense mul-
titude of small snails, which devoured the green blades.

A farmer near Retford, Nottinghamshire, having seve-
ral corn-stacks in his farm-yard; has received an anony-
mous letter stating that unless he thrashes out the grain,
and puts it. into market, it will be done for him.
All the Southampton drapers, save one, consented to
close their shops in the summer months at eight. The
solitary disientient opposed the arrangement because " the
• town would look so dull at nights to strangers !"
PRICE OF FOOD.-It is calculated that, on the average,
an advance of 45 per cent. has taken place on all the arti-
cles of food. Vegetables have risen 100, 150, and, in
some instances, 400 per cent.
'CoNwA+.—On Thursday morning week, the son of
Mr. R. Mactella.n, of Penmaen bath, aged eight years,
was found a corpse under a tree, near Brynmor. He was
supposed to have climbed up the tree in order to get at a
nest, which was found lying near the body on the ground.
Mr. Joseph Crossfield, and Mr. Howell, secretary to
the City of Dublin Steam Packet Company, have con-
trafficted the statement in the Manchester Examiner, of
paupers being sent to England by relief committees in
Galway.

A boy belonging to a Scottish fishing smack, was lately
found floating on a ladder at the mouth of the river Tay.
The vessel foundered, and all the crew were drowned, ex-
.
cept•this lad, who clung to the ladder, upon which he
passed several hours before he was descried by a boat.
The fine old mansion ,Ragley Hall, the next neighbour
almost to the archbishop's palace, and within sight of
Littlemore, the late scene of Mr. Newman's transition
state, has been taken, says the Oxford Chronicle, for the
purpose of being converted into a monastery.
The King of the Belgians has. done Mr. Weale, the
scientific bookseller, of Holborn, the honour of presenting
him with a splendid gold medal, in acknowledgment of his
services, in publishing several scientific works, more espe-
cially the valuable papers of the Royal Engineers.
Rear-Admiral Sir Charles Napier's squadron has com-
menced assembling at Spithead. The Howe, 120 ; the
Terrible and Birkenhead steam frigates joined the St. Vin-
cent on Friday. The Queen and Caledonia are hourly ex-
pected from Plymouth.

- The Bishop of Norwich, at a recent meeting to pro-
mote " ragged schools," observed that Mr. Peto, by edu-
cating the nevigators working on the railways in the
county of Norfolk, had beaten the beer-shops out:of the
field.

ELOPEMENT.—Great distress has been occasioned in the
family of a gallant M.P. residing in this county, by the
clandestine departure of his daughter with a gay Lothario.
To aggravate the calamity her husband is on a bed of
sickness, and her young family will severely feel the loss of
a mother.---Notts Review.

Mr. Frederick Douglass, the negro-slavery abolitionist,
has arrived out in the United States. He says that he
was treated on the voyage with the greatest kindness by
the Christian passengers, and obsrrves, " I left republican
America a slave--I returned from monarchical England a
freeman."

A woman of the name of Anne Cleveland, and a man
named Hill, alias "Dolly," who cohabited together at a
disreputable house in London, have been committed for
trial at the next Central Criminal Court sessions, charged
with the wilful murder of an infant son of the female pri-
soner.

NOVEL EPITAPH.—On a grave-stone recently put down
in a churchyard at Newchurch in Rossendale, is the fol-
lowing inscription :—" Here lies the body and soul of Ann
Gill, the wife of John Gill, who died aged
where she must sleep with the children of the resur-
rection."

The Tablet, the organ of the Roman Catholics, says
that when the Pope was informed of the defeat of Mr.
Watson's bill for the removal of the remnant of the
penal statutes, he said—" That puts an end to further ne-
gotiations for diplomatic relations with me. I will never
receive an ambassador from England while there remains
a vestige of those penal laws against the church."

DISTRESS AND MORTALITY.—About six hundred Irish
poor landed at Newport on Sunday week. Persons are
dying there at the rate of five or six in a day. Fever is
raging from one end of the town to the other amongst the
poor, and some respectable parties have fallen victims.
Captain Palfrey, of Dartmouth, who brought a great
many Irish over in his vessel, died on Saturday.

DEATH FROM THROWING ORANGE-PEEL UPON THE
PAVEMENT.-A poor man died at Bristol last week from
the effect of injury he had received in falling backwards
from having trodden upon a piece of orange-peel when
walking up Redcliff-hill. On Tuesday, Mr. Lorymer, of
that city, also had a fall from a similar cause, and was se-
riously injured, so as to be confined to his bed.
POOR-LAW MANAGEMENT.—An inquest was recently
held at Deddington, on view of the body of Rose Davis,
a poor woman, when the following_ verdict was recorded :

-" That the deceased Rose Davis died from famine—that
is, from the want of the common necessaries of life ; and
that blame attaches to the medical and relieving officers
for neglect of duty."
A London surgeon, to whom the body of an extraordi-
nary dwarf, named Leech, had been sent for dissection,
has died from an accident which occurred to him while
engaged in that operation. He accidentally pricked his
finger with a lancet, and the poison produced by animal
putrefaction afterwards superinduced abscesses, which
gradually spread, and put an end to his life within a few
days. _ _

A Yorkshire paper states that a young lady, residing
near Holme, was lately attacked with violent pains in the
stomach, which afterwards transferred their seat to her
shoulder and arm, and did not terminate until, after seve-
ral month's illness, six needles came out of her arm. It
is presumed that she must have accidentally swallowed
some needles, though she has no recollection of having
done so.

A HIGHWAY-WOMAN.-At noon, on Monday, as a
labouring man, named Pineham, was passing through one
of the streets in the neighbourhood of Wapping, a woman
named Hannah Haley asked him to give her a glass of
beer. He refused, on the plea that he had no money, and
she immediately knocked him down. She took 19s. from
his pocket, and she was captured by a policeman who
arrived opportunely. On Tuesday, she was committed
for trial from the Thames Police-court.

The draughts of mackerel within the past week have
been unprecedently abundant ; upwards of three hundred
thousand have been landed on the beach between Port-
land and Burton,' Dorsetshire. Seven thousand were
shipped on board one small craft on Monday evening, for
Southampton, the owners hoping to be in time for the
first morning train from that place to London. So large
have been the quantities landed that spectators were per-
mitted to take with them as many as they chose gratui-
tously, the beach being strewed with fish.

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TIRE PURE JUICE.--A city chemist in New York, not
long since, analysed a bottle of imported champagne,' sold
as'pure, and found in it one quarter of an ounce of sugar
of lead. A writer in the Observer states that a liquor
dealer admitted to him that on one occasion he purchased
of n onrinfril rriProlumt a 1M of whiskey. mid before the

factured into various kinds of wines, at from one to five
dollars per gallon, taking care to supply his orders for
" communion wine" at five dollars per gallon, to save

appearances

THE STOCK OE CORN AND THE CROPS.—A letter
from Frome says—" The corn markets are coming down.
All the corn rooms are full of wheat, and some of it has
been in the London Inn for the last two years, and the
sacks are rotten. There were 2,000 sacks left, unsold at
Bath last Saturday, and the farmers in this part hold good
stocks, and some of them are yet sanguine of getting 70s.
or gq. ner sack. Potatoes look well. The blight is said

to have commenced in the Isle of Wight. The Wheat and
the grass crops look exceedingly well. Fruit is likely to
be abundant. We shall be obliged to pluck off half the
cherries to make room for the others to grow. The apples

.e somewhat similar

ROYAL DECREE EXTRAORDINARY I—Some few days
ago, a respectable, but unsophisticated matron from Mad-
ley, made the most diligent inquiries, publicly and psi-
vately, in this city, respecting a supposed decree issued by
the Queen, that in consequence of the high price of food

all efilldren babbies" ) under five years old, and all
grown-up persons above seventy, should be put to death !
It was difficult to convince her that it was a false report--
she seemed to have no doubt of the fact, observing, " This
is just as King Herod did, but I thinks her Majesty should
gie up her own " babbies" as well as the rest. I be only 60,

and lie safe, but its a terrible business. There is plenty
of corn in the country, but the rich men and the farmers
hoards it all up, and keeps it from us poor critturs."
Strange as it may seem, the notion of an order having been
given for the massacre of superfluous infants and helpless
old people, is prevalent. We know not whether there is
an adult school at Madley, but it is clear that such esta-
blishments are necessary there and elsewhere.—Hereford
Journal. -

DISBUDDING FRUIT TREES.—The increasing attention
to the cultivation of superior sorts of fruit, gives addi-
tional interest to such hints, as emanate from really prac-
tical men. In Maund's " Botanic Garden and Fruitist"
for June, the subject of disbudding fruit trees at this sea-
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in the summer, the growth of the superfluous wood is pre-
vented, and the whole power of the tree is thrown into that
portion which is retained as useful for bearing. It will be
clear, even to the unlearned in these matters, that this sys-
tem must be superior to permitting the tree to exhaust it- '
self on that which is to be cut away. Another evident
advantage arises from the light being fully admitted to act
on, and properly ripen the wood that is retained ; for it is
stated, " light is more especially required, to act on the
leaves belonging to the embryo buds, or spurs, which are
ultimately to produce the fruit." We give one other ex-
tract from amongst these directions, very useful for those
to remember who , cut, or direct the cutting of, trees,
many of which' are pruned by those possessing no know-
ledge of the subject. " The plum, apricot, pear, apple,
and the red and white currants are instances of fruit trees
bearing principally on spurs ; whilst the raspberry, black
currant, vine, peach, and morello cherry, produce the
chief of their-crop on the young shoots."
A YACHT CAPSIZED IN A SQUALL.—The greatest'
consternation was produced at Beaumaris, Anglesey, on
Whit-Monday last, a pleasure-boat with six persons on
board, belonging to the town, having gone down, within
sight of their relatives and friends, and at about half-pistol
shot from the promenade. The party had gone out in the
morning on a fishing excursion, in the direction of Aml-
wch, there being what sailors call a " capfull of wind
and a bit of, sea on." With what success they plied their
nets it is impossible to say at present, the sole survivbr
being in too weak state to render any account of the day's
proceedings. - Let it suffice that with the return tide and
the coming on of night the vessel was homeward-bound,
and had gained the Roads- about seven o'clock, by which
time the wind had freshened to a gale, producing a heavy
cross-sea, such as no small craft would •choose -to be
abroad in, whet, on making a tack, and before.the vessel
had way on, she was struck by the wind and sea at the
same moment, Etnd went down by the stern. Some of
the party were observed struggling with the waves, 'and
before a boat could reach them, which it tried in vain to
do, they were swept off by the tide. Another boat at the
greatest possible risk, went up the Straits in the direction
of the tide, and at a considerable distance picked up the
body of a youth in whose arms an oar was firmly grasped.
The rest of the party could not anywhere be met with,
living or dead, all having perished miserably. The
names,. &c., of the unfortunate party are, Mr. George
Owen, druggist ; Mr. Thomas Lloyd, Mr. Sparkman,
officer of Excise ; Mr. Jones, painter ; Hugh Tyrer, an
' old seaman, who bad weathered many a gale ; mid Heger
L Hayes, aged 16 (saved), _ . .

PHYSICAL VERSUS. MORAL.—Whether the Physical
wants should be remedied through the Moral, or the
Moral through the Physical, has been a question which
has occupied the attention of philosophers and philanthro-
pists for centuries. Without attempting to decide the
question, there can be no doubt that when the. Physical
condition is impaired it demands the first attention. For
instance ; a person whilst suffering from an acute attack
of Gout would be unable to appreciate the sublimest
lessons of philosophy, even though enunciated .by the
divine Plato. How much more welcome to the sufferer
would be a box of Blair's Gout and Rheumatic Pills, so
efficacious in eradicating this distressing malady.

A FORTUNATE SPORTSMAN.—Last month a person of
the name of Macleod, residing at Rosehall, while out
shosting,s was so fortunate as to kill twelve wild ducks
with one shot! In 1846 the same person 4ccomplished a
feat which, we dare say, few others have done—he killed
two large eagles with one shot; and in March last, at one
discharge, he shot two swans. Sixteen birds thus fell at
three sho ts .I—lnverness Courier.

CHEESE RETURNS. A return obtained by Sir P.
Egerton, the member for Cheshire, shows that the total
quantity of cheese imported into the United Kingdom
from Europe during the year 1846, amounted to 249,663
cwt., and the quantity imported from the United States
to 91,901 cwt. The aggregate of the importations of
cheese amounted to 341,682 cwt. The different kinds of
cheese are not specified, nor are the exports of British
cheese adduced. 3,624 cwt. of foreign cheese were so ex-
ported in 1346.
SUICIDE FROM LOSSES ON THE DERBY. Monday
morning, 'Mr. Frederick Cruso, landlord of the Crown
and Sceptre, Great Titchfield-street, Marylebone, poisoned
himself with prussic acid. He had latterly attended much
more to sporting matters, races in particular, than to his
buiiness, and from his irregularity of living it was sus-
pected that his mind was disordered. He was a loser'to
a considerable amount on the last Derby, and was to have
settled his bets on Tuesday evening, but it is supposed he
was unable to meet them. After his death a razor was
found in his pocket.
COLOURED MINISTERS.—PubIic Interest was much ex-
cited on Sabbath by the preaching in town of two mini-
sters, both men of colour. The Rev. Mr. Clark, minister
of a congregation at Washington, most of whom are slaves,
preached in the afternoon in Dr. Candlish's church, and in
the evening in the Music-hall. The Rev. Mr. Gloucester,
from Philadelphia, preached in the forenoon and evening
in Mr. Begg's church, Newington. We understand that
both have been preaching much in England for the Metho-
dists and Independents there—the latter, especially, for
Mr. James, of Birmingham.—Edinburgh paper.
A strike for increased wages took place among the
slaters and plasterers of Berwick, a few days ago, owing,
it was understood, to the present high price of provisions.
Their wages, when in regular employment, were 17s. per
week, but from the nature of their occupation—their work
being frequently stopped for weeks at a time from varia-
tions of the weather—their earnings did not average on
the whole year more than 13s. 6d. per week. A meeting
of the masters was held, when it was agreed to assent to
their demand for 20s. weekly, and to charge the public 4s.
per day, instead of 3s. 6d., as formerly.
CONFLAGRATION AT CHELTENHAM.—A fire broke out,
on Monday night week, in the manufactory of Mr. John
Alder, upholsterer, Albion-street, Cheltenham, which
destroyed property to the value of nearly £5OOO. Besides
the very extensive workshops and warehouse, there was a
large quantity of mahogany and other valuable timber,
which was entirely consumed. Mr. Alder is stated to be
insured in the Royal Exchange office to the full extent of
his loss. The greatest sufferers, therefore, are the poor
workmen, of whom there are between 40 and 50, whose
valuable chests of tools fell a sacrifice to the flames.
SNOW STORM.—The Perth Advertiser states that on
Monday morning the whole Grampian range, as well as
the Ochill and Sidlaw hills, were enveloped to their base
in snow, and that even Kinnoull hill had clad its shoulders
in an arctic mantle. The ,snow on the lesser elevations
soon melted. The Kinross correspondent of the same
paper states that so intense was the cold that numbers of
swallows were found dead, in small clusters of six or eight,
under the thatch of houses and other places where they
had taken shelter. Many were observed, also, flying
about in a weak and disabled state, and in various in-
stances were, without difficulty, killed by the hand.
BREAD FROM WHEAT MEAL.—It is stated by a cor-
respondent of the Salisbury Journal, that bread is made
and sold at Mere, containing the whole of the produce of
the wheat without any dressing, and that the price is only
84d. the 41b. loaf, while the other bakers' bread is 10d.
and 11d. It is a matter of surprise that the former de-
scription of bread is not made and sold in this city; but
instead of such being the case, there is a difficulty in ob-
taining it, even if ordered, and the same price is charged
as for other bread. Bread from wheat meal is recom-
mended as both wholesome and nutritious ; it is in fact
highly conducive to health.

THE MENACED DESTRUCTION OF THE HOUSES OF
SHARSPEARE AND OF BAXTER (the Author of the
Saints' Best).—lt is already known that the house which
Shakspeare was born in, is in the Sale-market; and we
now learn, in addition, that the house of Richard Baxter,
(the author of the Saints' Everlasting Best,) is about to
be pulled down ; which has induced Mr. G. R. Withen
Baxter to address a letter to Lord Morpeth on the sub-
ject; and his lordship's letter, in reply, simply asks
what the Government can do, where the property does
not belong to the state ?" Mr. Baxter as simply and
briefly replies, "buy it ;"—and there the correspondence
ends.

THE JEWISH MEAT TAX.—The Jewish Chronicle, of
Saturday, has a long article on this subject, and complains
strongly of the great extra price which has to be paid by
the Jews in consequence. Our contemporary says, "The
laws of the Jewish faith demand that our meat is to be
killed according to certain rules ;. the observance of .these
laws necessarily entails a certain amount of expense on
the congregational boards, who have to watch over their
strict execution. That, therefore, meat, (lawful to eat,)
must be somewhat higher in price than that generally
sold, is but just and natural. No Jew, who feels consci-
entiously bound to eat lawful meat, can find fault with a
trifling addition to the general price, required to defray the
expenses incurred by the board, to pay the officers per-
forming the duties appertaining to our sacred observances.
But we complain of the enormous abuse of this, to a cer-
tain extent, unavoidable taxation ; we complain of the un-
just increase of this tax by the congregation boards, who
derive an annual profit from this heavy meat tax : we

25 per cent. h:

;her for our meat than the mar

JEWISH ScnooLs.—There has been a most inefficient
supply of inefficient masters ; there has not been, nor is
there, any regular attendance at these schools ; and they
have wanted a moral cleansing, which alone would have
remedied all these defects. Let any one go to these
schools, and see what impression is produced on them
by the children there assembled. Dirty, wild, and unruly,
the first principle of social life—cleanliness—utterly dis-
regarded ; and, from want of proper means and due regu-
lations, disorder reigning throughout. What Rirrnify

proud public examinations, where children are previously
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n one or

two of the higher sciences, while they are ignorant of the
commonest principles a most ordinary education affords ?
Do we not see the fruits of these in one fact—there is not

a child educated in the commonest and cheapest twopence-
a-week school who is not better informed than any child
who has followed the course of education adopted in our
schools? Their best supporters and friends have acknow-
ledged this failure. And wherein lies the great secret of

this' failure ? It is because the Jews, as a body, have
taken no part in the education of their people—because
those who, by their position and authority, have -been
bound to examine all these things, and report on them,
have given their donations, and remained satisfied with
this paltry discharge. of their duties. It seems most

strange and remarkable, that, with few exceptions, none
of these children ever turn to any but roving trades, in
which their fathers have laboured, and to which, for want
of knowing better, they cling ; and such a thing would be
impossible were their minds properly prepared and
trained.—Jewish Chronicle.
JENNY LIND.—From a little memoir of this interesting
vocalist, we extract a few notabilia respecting her early
career. It seems she was born in 1821, in Stockholm,
where her parents kept a school. Her precocity appeared
in its usual forms, and excited the usual attention,
particularly that of Madame Dunfiberg, an actress,
through whose instrumentality she was placed under the
tuition of a local music master, and subsequently sus-
tained children's parts at the theatre with great liveliness
and originality. The historian then tells a miraculous
and pitiful tale of how Jenny lost her voice for four years,
and how it came back again upon a certain occasion, when
she was accidentally called upon to sing an "insignificant
solo" in Robert la Diable,—leading to her debut at the
Opera-house while " yet a maiden of sixteen summers,"
as the writer sweetly expresses it, and her performance of
a round in the highest class characters. A narrative is
then given of her desire to go to Paris, and the tender re-
sistance of her parents, and of her ultimate prosecution
of the scheme. She had introductions to Garcia, the
brother of Malibran, who told her she must not sing
another note for three months. Unfortunate Jenny !
For three months, then, she " lived on the tears and the
agony of the mal de pays ;" but she eventually secured
the desired tuition from arcia, though that respectable
individual seems to have had more faith in her intelli-
gence than in her power. But it was left for Meyerbeer
to recognise " the pearl under the modest unpretending
shell," and at Dresden, whither she went at his sugges-
tion in 1844, her German fame !id its earliest origin,
leading to her subsequently visiting all the principal
northern cities, crowning her repute at Vienna, where, in
1846, she sang before all the musical public, as well as the
imperial court.

THE TRIPLE MURDER AT MIRFIELD.—The examina-
, tion of the,two prisoners, Michael M'Cabe and Patrick
Reid, apprehended a short time since on suspicion of
being the perpetrators of this appalling crime, took place
on Saturday at Dewsbury. The accused have been care-
fully watched since their arrest, and bare been kept in
separate cells. M'Cabe is stated to have manifested con-
siderable uneasiness and restlestness since his removal to
the station at Dewsbury, but on his being brought into
court he maintained the same calm demeanour which he
preserved at his first examination before the deputy-
.coroner. He was placed in the dock in the long brown
overcoat which he wore at the time he was taken into cus-
tody, and on the left arm were placed several pins, to
mark the place frgm which had been cut pieces of cloth,
for the purpose of ascertaining whether the marks on his
clothes were or were not really those of human blood, and
which were submitted to the inspection of Mr. West, of
Leeds. Reid, who is a much younger and more
athletic man, was alsa dressed in the dark green coat and
buff waistcoat which he was sworn to have had on on the
morning of the murder: and on his left arm, immediately
on the round of the shoulder, and the inner part of the
wrist, were similar marks placed, to denote the spots
•whence the cloth had been cut for the chymist's inspec-
tion. The most important witness was Benjamin Horton,
a hawker and dealer in rags and pots, .who lived in Mab-
lane, Mirfield, and who said, that as he was passing down
the road leading from M'Kinnell's house, by the Baptist
Chapel, close to that of Mr. Wraith's he accidentally
turned his head, and he then saw Patrick Reid at the lane
end, near Mr. Wraith's house, and from which one im-
mediately faces into his dwelling by the back yard. He
could not speak as to what distance was between them ;
but he passed on; and a shower of rain almost immedi-
ately overtook him. In his cross-examination, he said he
had known Reid personally for some time, but not his
name before the murder.• and he knew M'Cabe well. He
did not see their faces, but he spoke to their dresses and
person, and swore positively that they were' the two men
he had seen in the locality he had described.
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL SUMMARY.

The improvement of the money market has now assumed
a decided character ; and we may congratulate ourselves
with safety that the severest point of the pressure, under
which we have been labouring, is over. It is not at all
likely, however, that commercial affairs can return to their
ordinary activity, or that parties who have been suffering
will be relieved at once. A few months of cautious and
forbearing conduct will, no doubt, yet be required before
everything is set right; and we must remember that the
cause which has most contributed to restore us—the
weather—is proverbially fickle. The crops throughout the
country are thriving; but it ought to be borne in mind
that they are not yet reaped and hound.
The market for our leading staple—cotton—has been
animated throughout the week, and a large business has
been done at higher prices than last week. American
was quoted on Friday, id. to id. higher; Surat, id. to
id. ; and Brazils, about id. The sales for the week, ended
Friday, were 39,000 bales—of which 10,300 American, and
700 Surat, were on speculation, and 3,370 American,:Bo
Surat, and 890 Pernams, were for export. The imparts
for the week were only 2,066 bales.
By the arrival of the Caledonia, with dates from New
York to the 15th instant, we have little that is decisive
with respect to the produce of the cotton crop, the reports
being conflicting, but on the whole not favourable. In
Louisiana and Mississipi the low lands were flooded, and
the season backward. From New Orleans, however, the
accounts are more favourable. There was little doing in
the market, prices being too high for the English buyers,
and money plentiful. The receipts up to the 12th inst.
(the 35th week of the season) had been 1,640,550 bales,
against 1,847,284 in. 1846, and 2,233,451 in 1845. The
exports to Great Britain were, respectively, 590,376 in
1847, 696,159 in 1846, and 1,104,000 in 1845. The stocks
were, 1847, 537,808, 1846, 560,633, and 1845, 384,698
bales. There were loading for Great Britain 78 vessels,
against the same number on the corresponding date of
1146, and 77 in 1845.

Our corn market, during the week, has continued to
decline, notwithstanding the arrivals were small, both
foreign and coastwise. On Friday, wheat was 3d. to 4d.
per 701bs. below the prices of the previous Tuesday,
Stettin being offered at 12s. 9d., and American red at 12s.
Western canal flour was Is. to 2s. per barrel cheaper,
having been sold at 435. Oats were lower ; and yellow
Indian corn, at 575. to 565., attracted no buyers. The
advices from the continent of declining markets, with the
favourable prospects of the next harvest, both at homd and'
throughout Europe, seem to have paralyzed speculators,
whilst they are inducing consumers to keep out of the
market, except for such sparing supplies as are sufficient
for their immediate wants. The opinion is becoming very
general with all parties that much further reduction must
be made, even before the harvest is over ; and that, should
it prove anything likes favourable one, we shall have prices
very low, as was anticipated, under our present free trade
system.

The advices per steamer state that the canal was opened
on the Ist instant, but the arrivals of provisions of all
kinds had, up to the last dates, been small, a portion of
the cargoes sent forward having, it was supposed, been
detained to supply the wants of the country along the hne
of navigation. Prices were high, Al 81c. to 47 87c.
being the ruling figures, and 447 for delivery in August.
The shipments of bread stuffs from America, from Sep-
tember Ist, 1846 to May Bth, 1847, had been, flour,
1,685,724 brls, corn meal 455,666, wheat 1,570,614 bush.,
corn 11,245,775 bushels, rye 39,769 bushels, oats 294,935
bushels, barley 138,540 bushels.. At New Orleans, from
which we have advices to the 7th inst., flour was quoted
6 124 c. for Illinois, and ,66 374 c. for St. Louis ; Indian
corn 69c. per bushel. The advices from Montreal, up to
the 12th inst., state that the season was very backward,
and that the farmers had got little or no field work done.
The last week—Whitsuntide--during which business in
the cotton manufacturing districts is generally suspended,
was an unfavourable one for testing fully the effect of the
decline of the corn markets, and the relaxation of the
money pressure upon manufacturing activity. At Tues-
day's market,in Manchester, however, we observed a
much improved feeling amongst both manufacturers and
merchants, which has continued during the week. The
rise in the cotton market, against which some of these
parties protest as caused solely by speculation, and to put
down which short time has been so freely resorted to, has
interfered to prolong the present dulness. It is consi-
dered impossible, however, by parties of experience, that
either buyers or manufacturers will be disposed to hold
out long, in the face of the now ascertained fact of a short
crop of cotton, their own decreased stocks, the wants of
some foreign markets, and the orders already arrived for
goods. So soon as ever prices can be established at a
remunerative nature, and in conformity with the price of
the raw material, we shall have, no doubt, a revival of
activity, and our working classes regaining gradually their
usual state of moderate comfort.

IMPORT AND ENTRY FOR CONSUMPTION OF
BREAD STUFFS,
FOR THE MONTH ENDED STH MAY.

The Government return, just published, gives the fol-
lowing as the imports during the month ended sth May :
Corn and grain from foreign countries, 933,611 quarters
2 bushels ; from British possessions, 847 quarters 5 bphls.;
total, 930,45 S quarters 7 bushels. Of this quantity 446,082
quarters 6 bushels was Indian corn. The meal and flour
from foreign countries was 615,936 cwt. 19 qrs. 12 lb. ;
colonial, -15,090 cwt. 17 lb. : total, 628,026 cwt. 2 qrs.
1 lb. Of this quantity 138,771 cwt. 2 qrs. 25 lb. was In-
dian meal.—The entries for consumption were—
corn and grain, 942,011 quarters ; colonial, 1112 quart,
6 bushels ; total, 943,123 quarters 6 bushels ; of which
446,082 bushels 6 quarters were Indian corn. The entry
of copal and

foreign

also gives the quantities
remaining in warehouse, which is very trivial, as, of
course, it only refers to the quantity left over in the
Queen's warehouses of imports made before the suspen-
sion of the corn laws.

THE STEAM-SHIP SARAH SANDS

At a meeting of the cabin passengers held on board the
steam-ship " Sarah Sands," which arrived here yesterday
morning from New York, Thomas EglegtnnFan hniTio

, ueiu
called to the chair, and Mr. Yule requested to act as sec

ret y, 1I J.Dviveu (Amu rapt. ti. Ur. Anderdon, Bri-
tish Army, Joseph Murdez, and Wm. A. Stokes, Esqrs.,
do form a committee to draw up an address to Captain
Thompson. The committee reported the following letter,
which, having been signed by all the passengers, was pre-
sented to that gentleman :

Steam-ship Sarah Sands, off Liverpool,
May 30, 1847
DEAR Sin,---The undersigned cabin

passengers in the steam-

ship Sarah Sands, on her bite passage from New York to Liver-
pool, beg to return their unanimous and cordial thanks for the
attention, courtesy, and kindness, which have always marked
your conduct. Your established reputation as a commander
renders it unnecessary that we should speak of the prudence

and energy with which you have sailed your ship ; but we. think
it proper to say, that since the heavy easterly 'Paleor_ wwhiechawyee
encountered during five days after leaving New York,
('
proved
under all circumstances a sale and
run an average of 235 miles er daymisythvaetsstehle,
agreeable,
e hasbl
you and your splendid ship all the success you SO well!
com-
fortable, and in every way worthy. of the most entire confidence.
wishing
we are very respectfully and truly your friends,—
Thomas Egleston, New York; John Yule, Canada; Joseph
Murdez, France ; William A. Stokes, Philadelphia ; H. G. An-
derdon, Capt. 23d Fusiliers, British Army, Canada J.
F. Houghton, Madeira ; Chas. B. Loomis, New York ; J. J. Smith,
Ditto ; Thos. W. Strong, Ditto ; Wm. Pichlay, Sheffield ; F.
Junet, France; Phillips Kelhun, Liverpool; C. Agostini, France;
F. Morton, Liverpool; Edward Wetherell Philadelphia Robt.
Fletcher_ _t.

...zioutCllllsetts ; U. Armantz, New Orleans ; Samuel
Hayward, Pennsylvania; Jeremiah Osier, Canada; John M.
Bradbury, New York; S. H. Carrver, Brantford, Canada West;
H. Simmons, Hamburg; R. C. Fidler, Cincinnati, Ohio.
The Sarah Sands made a most excellent passage, having,
during the first eight days, encountered heavy easterly
winds, which drove her much to the south. She com-
pleted the voyage in eighteen days.

NEW LIGHTS.—In a return of 285 licenses to preach,
taken out at a sessions of the peace for the county of Mid-
dlesex, is appended a transcript of eighteen different ways
in which the words dissenting, minister, preacher, and
gospel had been mis-spelt by the applicants who signed
the rolls. They are as follows :—Preacher of the Gopsel ;
preacher of the Gosple ; precher of the Gospel; precher
of the Gospell ; preacher of alp' ell: preach of the Gos-
pell; precher of the Gosple ; precher of Gospell ; mi-
niester of thr Gospel ; preacher of the Ghospel ; preacher
or teacher of the Gospell of Jesus Christ ; a discenting
teacher ; desenting teacher ; prashr of the Gospell ;
preicher of the Gospel. Perhaps some of these learned
pundits figured in Mr. Baines 's paper array of school-
masters.--Liverpool Mercury.

'BRITONFERRY.:—THE PORT OF NEATII.—The " Bri-
tonferry Iron Company" rolled their first bar of iron on
Whit-Monday, amidst the acclamations of a multitude
assembled to witness the commencement of " rolling," by
these new and important works. The day was kept as a
holiday in the neighbourhood. The vessels in the harbour
were gaily decorated with flags, and throughout the day
the rocks and mountains reverberated the roar of guns
and the shouts of the people,—all was excitement and con-
gratulation and joyous anticipation. This company of
spirited capitalists have judiciously selected, as the site
for their works; a piece of ground which is the terminus
both of the Neath canal and of a branch of. the South
Wales railway. The river Neath flows on one side., and
the proposed docks bound it on the other. This position
thus commands unequal facilities for the transmission of
the raw materials from the adjacent native beds, and for
the transport of the manufactured article to the market.
Under the skilful management of an experienced gentle-
man, a powerful engine, numerous furnaces, large rolling
mills, and all the apparatus for the manufacture of iron
bars, rails, slates, &c., as well as comfortable cottages for
the workmen, have been erected.
FALL IN THE PRICE OF CORN.—The price of corn has
come down sooner than was generally anticipated. On
Monday it fell at Mark-lane fully Bs. per quarter, as coin-
pared-with previous rates. At Hull and Leeds on Tues-
day the decline was 9s. to 10s. on the prices,of the past
week., The glorious weather has, of course, had much to
de with this agreeable change. But it is also apparent
that there is a vast quantity of grain in the hands of spe-
culating capitalists, who have been greedily anticipating
much higher prices. It would appear that they have
been ," out " in:their calculations., We sincerely hope,
they will prove still more so during the weeks now inter-
vening before harvest. From Russia and the Black Sea
we learn that the supplies of grain were greater than
freights could be found for ; whilst the Straights of Gi-
braltar are represented, by a late letter, as absolutely be-
sieged with corn-laden vessels. The rye in France will be
ripe in a few days ; and in Britanny and Normandy it is
ascertained that the grain on hand is fully equal to the
•local consumption until harvest time. Prices are conse:
quentiv falling in France ; and as the French demand
may be expected shortly to cease, the English inarligt3
will beCelne still more easy.. •