The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

good demand for Seal Oil at £32 to £33 ; Cod £32
per tun.—Seed Oils steady, at 29s 6il for Linseed,
and 37s 6d to 3Ss per cwt for refined Rape.—Oil of
Turpentine 46s to 48s per cwt.—For Palm Oil on
the spot the demand has been confined to small lots
at £36 lOs to £37, but 500 tons have been sold to
arrive at £36 lOs per ton.—Tallow is fiat, but there
is no change in prices; Petersburg Y.C. is 53s to
53s 6d, South American 51s to 525, and North
American 53s per cwt.—American Lard 53s to 555,
being is per cwt. advance.-3100 bales Jute have
been disposed of at £2O lOs to £22 10s, being a
further advance of 10s per ton. To-DAY there
continues a very good inquiry for Sugar, the busi-
ness since Friday comprising 120 hhds. Barbadoes
at 338. to 375. 6d., 260 hhds. Antigua at 335. to
375., 110 hhds. grainy Demerara at 345. 9d. to
365. 6d., 500 bags Cossipore at 425. 6d., 2,000 bags
Dates at 365. 9d. to 375. 9d., 250 mats Mauritius
at 365., and SO casks Cuba Muscovado at 355. 6d.
per cwt. Of Molasses, 300 puns. Cuba Muscovado,
in store, have been sold at 16s. 9d. per cwt. 300
bags very ordinary Rio Coffee are reported at
365. 6d. per cwt. We have no change to report in
the 'Pea market. 10,000 bags Moulmein Rice have
changed hands, but the price has not transpired,
and 300 bags good middling Bengal at 12s. per
cwt. We have also to notice 60 bags Saltpetre at
285., 4A- per cent. A small lot of Sago Flour at

19s. per cwt., and 200 bales Jute at 15s. to
£2l ss. per ton.
WooL.—There is nothing new to report in this
article. The improved feeling noticed last week
still continues to characterise the market ; prices
are stationary. Stocks of East India and from
the principal ports in the Mediterranean, have ac-
cumulated a little this last month, as the imports
are very much larger than any month within the
last four or five years, viz., 2,771 bales East India,
and 4,472 bales from the Mediterranean ports ;
but the imports of Spanish Frontier and Alentejo
are very meagre, and for these descriptions there is
much enquiry, and which would meet a ready sale.
Oporto, which also figures high in the imports for
the month, is neglected for the moment ; but, as
this dpßeriptinn rnrrioc info nnmpetition with Eng-
lish combing skin, for which there is considerably
more enquiry, we expect shortly to see a reaction
in this class.

Messrs. W. GREAME and Co., in their circular of this
day, say :—" The transactions in our Wool Market during
the past month have again been only to a limited extent.
The attention of the trade has been a good deal occupied
with the large sales of Colonial Wools at present progres-
sing in London ; this combined with the protracted state
of uncertainty in political matters, has checked anything
like an active or speculative demand with us, and the
buyers have confined their purchases almost entirely to
the immediate requirements of their trade; we are glad,
however, to notice during the past week an increased
inquiry for Wools, particularly for clean, useful medium
qualities, and as many of the manufacturers are getting
very low in stock, we may expect them to come more
freely into the market than they have of late."

IRON.—Considerable improvement has been
manifested in this branch of trade, and no doubt
prices will go higher, owing. to the strike among the
men employed in the Welsh furnaces. Scotch Pig
Iron has been much more in demand, and is quoted
to-day at 595. per ton.

DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE AT
FAIRFIELD.

A most frightful calamity occurred on Sunday morning
at Fairfield, near this town. It appeared that Mrs.
Henshaw (a widow lady) and her daughter had left
her residence in Fairfield, for a short stay in Southport,
taking with them her servant, and leaving the latter's
mother—an elderly female—in charge of the house, with
the additional security of a man, who was in the employ
of a relative during the day, as a porter sleeping in the
house. On Sunday morning the latter rose from his bed
between nine and ten o'clock, and being annoyed by a
strong disagreeable smell, he went immediately to the
kitchen, whence it seemed to proceed, and there, to his
horror, he saw the old woman lying across the fender,
and in flames. He called for aid, and a gentleman in a
neighbouring house came to his assistance. The latter
tried to extinguish the flames, but found himself unable
to do so—although he burnt a woollen hearth-rug and
some other things in trying to do so. He then, with his
penknife, cut away the poor woman's clothes, when she
presented a horrifying spectacle. Nearly the whole of
her under garments were burnt to a cinder, and the fire
had penetrated her right side so deeply that her liver was
literally roasted. Though not quite dead, she was insen-
sible ; and she expired in about two hours and a half after
being discovered. No information as to the origin of the
disaster can be given by the man who slept in the house,
as he went to bed and saw nothing more of the woman
until he found her in the state described. It is supposed
that she must have fallen into the fire-place, and being
unable to call for assistance, fell a victim to•the flames.