The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

COTTON

MARKET, HALF-PAST Two o'CLocK, P.M

A very general and good demand has been experienced
from the trade to-day, and 4,000 bale hare been sold at the
full prices of yesterday ; this is a large business for Tuesday,
and the market closes with great firmness.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

EXPORTATION OF BULLION.—SiIver coin and bullion
shipped at Dover from December 15 to December 31 :
5i1ver,699,500 oz. ; gold, 1,585 oz.

A woodcock, weighing 15 ounces and a quarter, was shot in
Morton Cover, on Saturday, by the gamekeeper of R. J.
Lambton, Esq. Morton House.—Newcastle Journal.
That justly celebrated individual, George Stephenson,
Esq., announced at a recent meeting at Blackburn, his in-
tention of shortly retiring from the profession of civil en-
gineering.

The commercial city of Leghorn is in the most melancholy
condition, owing to the failures of several first-rate houses ;
those of Messrs. Perrachin, Guerre, Fouch and Perfetti,
Billotti, Finetti, and Regini.—Gazette du Midi, Dec. 22.
Two remarkably fine Argyleshire Kyloes, fed by H. T. M.
Witham, Esq., Lartiiigton Hall, were killed last week by
Mr. John Walton, Mickleton, and were found to weigh
138 st. 10Ib. The heads weighed 13st., and were so hand.
some that Mr. Witham intends to have them preserved.--
Newcastle Journal.

It would seem that vice and depravity are in favour in
high places, as it is announced that the far famed Mr. Tur-
ton, the barrister, secretary to the late Earl of Durham, in
Canada, has received the appointment of Registrar of the
Supreme Court on the Ecclesiastical side, in Calcutta; an
office valued at £B,OOO per annum.

It has been ascertained that upwards of 100 seamen, con-
nected with the ports of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunder-
land, unhappily perished in the awful storms which raged on
the eastern coast in the month of November—many of them
leaving wives and children in a miserable state of destitution.

BIRMINGHAM.—The meeting of chartists at Holloway_
head, on Friday, to petition for the pardon of Frost, Wil-
liams, and Jones, was miserably attended. John Collins oc-
cupied the chair, and amongst the principal speakers was Mr.
O'Neil, a Scotch delegate, Petitions to the Queen having
been adopted, the meeting broke up very peacably.
WILD SWANS.—Several flocks of these rare birds have
lately been seen hovering in the neighbourhood of Tarbolton.
On Saturday last, Mr. Meikle, farmer, in Clockstone, loaded
his gun—having observed a string of six on the wing—with
No. 4 shot, a charge not at all suited to such weighty game,
he notwithstanding succeeded in winging one of the group.
It weighed 19ilbs., and measured from wing to wing 7 feet
fii inches—the length of the body being 4 feet 7i inches.—
Ayr Observer.

NEWFORT DOCK.—Although the works of this great un-
dertaking arc at present 'suspended, in consequence of the
failure of the contractor, we hear that there will he no diffi-
culty in the resuming of active proceedings as soon as the
weather will permit. The dock company, warned by experi-
ence, has not prepaid the contractor, so that no loss will be
sustained. It is expected that the loan of £15,000 agreed to
be rdvaneeci by the commissioners of public works, will be
iiaid to the treasurer in a few days,--Gloucester Chronicle.

The Duke of Wellington, has had cards of invitation
issued for a grand banquet at Apsley House, on the 25th
instant, to the noble and gallant duke's supporters in the
House of Lords.

We are glad to state, that it is expected that the importa-
tion of sugar from the East Indies alone will next year
amount to about one-third of the total consumption of the
kingdom.—Glasgow Chronicle.

The corn law repealers talk of starting Mr. Richard Cob-
den of Manchester for the representation of the Northern
Division of Nottinghamshire, in opposition to Mr. Henry
Gaily Knight. Before the time of contest arrives they will
know better.

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