The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-26 00:00:00

ORDINARY HALF-YEARLY MEETING,

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that the Ordinary HALF-
YEARLY MEETING of the SHAREHOLDERS of this COM-
PANY will be held at the Palatine Hotel, in Manchestei, in the
county of Lancaster, on the 2nd day of FEBRUARY next, at the
hoar of Eleven o'clock in the Forenoon of that day. And
NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that, in accord-
ance with a. requisition signed, by more than twenty Share-
holders in the said undertaking, holding, in the aggregate, not
less than one-tenth of the capital of the said Company, an
EXTRAORDINARY GENERAL MEETING of the SHARE-
HOLDERS of the said COMPANY will be h at the Palatine .
Hotel aforesaid, on the day and ye oresaid, at Twelve
o'clock at Noon of the same day, mediately on the termi-
nation of the business ,ef th id Ordinary Meeting, for the
following purposes; namel - To receive, consider, and decide
on the steps to be ith respect to the Report of Messrs.
William Gibb, Geor illiam Cram, and William Nichol, the
Committee of ha igatioh, appointed on Saturday, the 25th
day of July las ncl-to determine on the propriety of redncing
the number of 'rectors from twelve to six, and, if thought ad-
visable, specificallyto remove six of the present Directors."
AND NOTICE IS HEREBY FURTHER GIVEN, that at
the said last-mentioned Meeting the Directors will apply for
powers to proceedwith and endeavour to obtain, in the ensuing
session of Parliament, Acts for alteration of Main Line and
Hawes Branch, with power to purchase, rent, or use the
Northern Counties Union Railway, and amendment of Acts
relating to the Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle-upon-
Tyne junction Railway,. and to the Northern Counties Union
Railway Companies ; Railway from the East Lancashire Rail-
way near Burnley, to join the Burnley Branchof the Manches-
ter and Leeds Railway, with power to sell or lease to the East
Lancashire Railway Company, or to the Manchester and Leeds
Railw_aY ComPanY ; and LiverrK 01, Manchester, and Newcastle-
iipon-,ryne Junction and Northern Counties 'Union Railways
Amalgamation.
And the Directors do hereby convene the said Meetings
accordingly.

- THOS. ROBT. WILSON FRANCE, Chairman
C. MOORE WILSON, Secretaries
W. H. INGRAM,
Company's Principal Office, 31, Prim

Jitzncheste

" The Register of Transfers" v
froin,the 19th day of January, 181

11 be closed, and remain so
, until after the above-named

C. MOORE WILSO
W. H. INGRAM.

'IC,} Secretaries

THE BOMBAY MARKET.
(Promthe Chamber of CornmereeOverlandPriceCurrent.)
BOMBAY, DECEMBER 15,1846.
The dulness which prevailed in our import market at the

the fortnight. The uncertainty as to theresultOrtireCar-
cutta opium sale, which then interrupted all legitimate busi-
ness, can scarcelyyet be said to be removed. Theannexed ex-
tract from the Calcutta' Star, of Dec. 1, will show the na-
ture 'of the measures adopted by the " sellers for account"
in the opium time-bargains to defeat the operations of their
opponents, and arrest the progress of the Government sale.
How far, however, the success of their plan may accom-
plish the object contemplated, and be legally sufficient
to quash the time-bargains in which they were involved.

vu a maLter Os uouot, mvomng legal questions
of no small difficulty, and which may give rise to litiga-
tion between the parties interested. Whilst, however,
there is still sufficient uncertainty existing in respect to
these matters to keep up in same measure the prevailing
distrust, and divert merchants from their usual and legiti-
mate dealings, a respite at all events has by the events in
Calcutta been obtained, and the impending serious con-
sequences, which we befoi.e wrote of, as exciting much
anxiety throughout our native mercantile community,
have been for a time 'averted. The account of these
events having, however, only reached us a few days ago,
there has as yet not -been sufficient time for the excite-
ment connected with:them to subside, and chiefly there-
fore in consequence of them there has, during this, as in
last fortniaht. IThr 144-1. , •

Lng in imported

TRADE WITH THE EAST,

The annual comparative statement of British shippin
entered inwards and cleared outwards from and to

within the limits of the East India •Company's charter for
the years 1845 and• 1846 has just been published by the
East India and China Association :

"The total number of vessels entered inwards was 852,
with 360,039 tonnage, against 860, with 354,260 tonnage.;
showing a decrease of eight vessels, but an increase of
5,779 tonnage, compared with 1845. The returns for the
ports of London and Liverpool exhibit on the first station
a decrease of vessels, but only of 19 tonnage ; and on the
second station of 18 vessels, and 4,184 tonnage. Bristol

and Hull, on the other hand, show an increase of twaves-
sels, with 369:tonnage, and Clyde and other Scottish ports
an increase of 25 vessels, with 9,613 tonnage. The great-
est increase is observed in the entries of vessels from
China and the Mauritius. In the former case the num-
ber was eleven vessels, with 4,792 tonnage : in the latter
case 24 vessels, with 7,328 tonnage. The greatest de-
crease is observed in the arrival-of vessels from the Cape
of Good Hope, Bombay and Singapore, and Penang. The
decrease in the case of the Cape of Good Hope vessels is
stated at 18 vessels, with 2,732 tonnage; in the case of
Bombay at 17 vessels, with .9,865 tonnage ; ,and in the
case of Singapore and Penang at 13 vessels, with 7,663
tonnage.

` The corn'

arison of the total c/earanc

,utwards during
the year 1845

he year wit

hose which took.pl

8,299 tonnage,
the respective numbers being 979 vessels, with 413,849
tonnage, against 1,007 vessels, with 422,148 tonnage, last
year. The returns for the port of Liverpool show the
greatest decrease, the comparison being 282 vessels, with
111,612 tonnage, in 1846, and 338 vessels, with 135,198
tonnage, iii 1845 ; leaving a difference of 56 vessels, with
23,586 tonnage. The London return furnishes an increase
of 6 vessels, with 7,425 tonnage, the depavtures in 1845
havinff been 502 vessels, with 222,556 tonnage, and in
The returns for
likewise rive an

1848,-508 vessels, with 229,981 tonnage
Bristol and• Hull and the Scottish nor

1;300 tonnage, and in the second.case to 16 vessels: with
6;562 tonnage. The greatest decrease occurs in depar-
tures for Calcutta, the result being 49 vessels, with 15,214
tonnage. To Madras and the South Seas there have also
been fewer vessels despatched. New. South Wales figur(
for the largest increa

hat respect it merely

pared with

;ra, and the

mauritms, appear to be the chief
;points to which the
remaining increase of departures is directed."

CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

TO TIII

N EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

,toa va,taaaa a
,
was there and then able to collect, with the view.and
determination of bringing the case before a society.whielf
I understood. was in existence and active operation in this
town for the prevention and suppression of cruelty to
animals, and for the prosecution and punishment of those

ilpable of infringing its
)Id-blooded, hard-hearted savagenes
nimals.

Le laws

..icy would have ended at once, by rendering.the point
of humanity--u, in debate intelligible even to the dull capacity of the
of conduct to the inferior .. Rochdale Leaguer, the house was in a roar of laughter,
On inquiry, immediately afterwards, I was extremely which must have been anything but gratifying to Lord
sorry to learn that the society had become extinct, not- John Russell, who had himself, at length, to afford the
withstanding that its signboard was still conspicuously required information. _
,• , , • ... ..

y night, the -Chancellor of the Exchequer

gown

introduce, with reference to- sugar, molasses, andrum,
partly as a return to the West India interest for the sacrf-

aces aemanaea rrom them Last session. The measures in
question may he very briefly stated. In the first place,
he proposed to admit sugar into breweries, but to exclude
molasses, because it would render necessary a minute
excise survey to prevent fraud. He expected, however,
that the substitution would only be very partially
adopted, except when malt is very high. Sugar is al-
lowed to be used in distilleries, but not molasses ; the
material to be taken from the bonded warehouses,
and _ a duty to be levied upon it equivalent to what

displaced. The duty on colonial rum he proposes to re:
duce from Bs. 10d., its present amount, to Bs. 6d., in Eng.
land ; in Scotland, to 4s. 2d. • and in Ireland, to 3s. 2d.
The right hon. baronet concluded by stating that " if this
measure should have the 'effect of setting free a great
amount of barley for Duman food, he should feel rejoiced,
* * he did not expect that they would reduce the

prices of grain, but they would tend to keep them from
rising higher." This is one of the Whig specifics for
the relief of Irish distress. Piices are to go no higher,
but they are not to be reduced by the admission of sugar
into distilleries—as strange a piece of politico-economical
•

doctrine as we have lately met with. A financial state-
ment from the Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood will be a

curiosity in its way