The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-23 00:00:00

pared with those in the previous two, have been as annexed
Bales

Receipts at ports of the U. S. since Sept.], ]846

:xports

same period last year

The house then resolved itself into a committee. ,I 7, ,9 yvai IJCIVI C ,
Tde receipts at this port since the Ist inst. _._ . _
In the committee considerable wrangling took place on bales. Exports for same period, 8,700 Taken by spinners,
certain amendments proposed on the first and second 13,000. Taken on speculation, 8,000. Stock in city, 40,000.
clauses, but not pressed by their movers to a division. Amount of sale, 8,000.
The chief discussion, however, took place at the close of The current quotations in this market, at the close, were as
-nnexed :

the evening, when Mr. Shaw proposed to expunge the whole
of the second clause, which authorizes the Poor-law Com-
missioners under their seal to administer in certain special
cases, relief out of the workhouses to such persons shall
he given in food only, save in cases of sudden and urgent

LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION

Uplands,
none.

Florida,
none.

New Orleans
Mob. and Texas.
none.

Inferior.

Good liiidling

10i to 1(

if to 114

and eloquence by Lord J. RUSSELL.
Towards the close of the debate the committee became

Fair
Fully Fair

101 to
114 to 111

11} to 11
none.

12- to 12,
12i to 12,

most disorderly—the uproar beggared all description, and
many speeches were not more intelligible than so much
dumb show. The leaders of the Irish party supported
the amendment with true national zeal and impetuosity,
fighting against the clause as a measure affecting " the
life and property" of every landlord and tenant in Ireland.
A division took place, when the numbers.were—
For Mr. Shaw's amendment

Fine 134 to 14 none. 13i to 14
The New York Morning Herald of the 25th states :—At the
close of business at the Boston Custom-house on Tuesday, the
23d, the entries of specie imported in the Cambria, amounted to
81,286,371 in gold, (casting the sovereign at custom-house rates,)
and .817,534 in silver. Of this $532,400 in. gold, $17,2130 in
silver, came to Hamden and Co., and .8484,000 in gold to T. D.
Townsend. A few boxes remained at that time in the Custom-
house vault unentered. It is estimated that the total amount
on the freight list of the Cambria will not exceed a million and
a-half of dollars, but it is further estimated that the amount
brought over in the trunks of passengers exceeded that on the
manifest. We are informed that the captain of the Cambria
made two passengers pay freight on specie they had in their
trunks, upon learning the amonnt.
The same paper publishes an estimate of the crop, as com-

Against it

Majority against it

The clause, therefOre,-standspart of the bill

The CHAIRMAN was then directed to report progress,
and having done so the bill was ordered to be recommitted

The Custody of Offenders Bill and the Prisons Bill
were then read a second time, after a short conversation
between Lord Mahon, Sir G. Grey, Mr. R. Palmer, and
some other members. They were ordered to be com-
mitted on Monday (yesterday.)

of which the following is.the substance :—Crop of 1843, 2,034,034
bales; 1844, 2,394,503 bales; 1845,2,100,540. These ascertained
amounts :—His estimate of the crop of 1845, to December 5, is
2,160,000; and of 1846, to December 5, only 1,700,000, which he
considers an outside estimate, and quite insufficient to keep the
factories going until the next crop. The roads having Conti-
_

I estimate, (December

1 FOREIGN 4 COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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