The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, AND GENERAL COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER.

COMMERCIAL 4 MONETARY

NEWS.

MONDAY

NIGHT

ANOTIIER week's return of the stock of bullion
in the Bank of England, has again shown a decrease
to the extent of more than 2200,000, and as a con-
sequence almost inevitable, the Directors have once
more raised the rate of discount, the minimum

)eing now four per cent

The first effect was a

fall in the price of Consols ; and, notwithstanding
the assurances from the east of every obstacle
being removed from an amicable settlement, the
Funds have not since raffled, and are now as low
as they were during the war panic. The cause of
this movement on the part of the Bank Directors,
is owing, in the first place, to the constant drain
upon their resources of specie, and the causes of
this drain have therefore formed a topic for discus-
sion. Among those most prominent, are the
great excess of our Imports, creating an ad-
verse balance of trade, and the recent large
purchases of foreign corn requiring corres-
ponding large exports of specie. As this diffi-
culty has arisen in the face of several large re-
ceipts of gold, arising out of transactions altogether
distinct from the Import trade, some degree of
alarm is excited, and the_ question is asked, what
_ _

would have been our position, had it not been for
Australian gold P In indulging these apprehen-
sions, sufficient allowance is not made for the great
difference which exists between Imports and Ex-
ports. Supposing both to have increased to the
extent of only Five Millions : in the one case pay-
ments will have to be made within three months
at farthest; whereas, on the latter, more than a
year may elapse before any returns may be re-
ceived. Every increase of trade, therefore, even
of the most profitable kind, involves an absorption
of capital, and when it is remembered that the
recent increase has been very large, not only in our
foreign transactions, but also in our home trade,
and the great augmentation in the value of labour,
there is amply sufficient circumstance to account for
that drain upon the Bank resources which seems to
have created the alarm. It has, however, had one
raining over speculation but

res

though it has also assisted to produce a stagna-
tion in business, we do not anticipate that it will
be more than temporary. A cessation of the de-
mand from the continent, and the arrival of a few
more cargoes from Australia, would very soon
animate all our home markets ; but though this
result may not be reached for a few weeks, it will
not be much longer. The late excitement in the
Corn-market, by which the price was raised be-
yond all reasonable limits, has already experienced
a re-action ; and though the difficulties in the
Money-market may help to break the fall, it will
not be long before Wheat finds a much lower level.

The shipments of specie by the Peninsular and
Oriental steamer Indus, have reached £450,500, of
which £364,700 is silver, and £85,800 gold. Of
this amount £164,000 is for China, and £70,000
for Alexandria. There is also the large item of
£165,000 for Bombay.

In our SHARE MARKET we have still to report
great dearth of business, and an almost continuous
decline in prices. The more favourable weather
on Saturday and to-day appear, in some measure,
to have stayed the downward tendency, but in the
absence of any good buying this can only be tem-
porary. Our Local Stocks are in demand at former
quotations. We annex this day's prices :—Aber-
deens, 121 ; Chester and Birkenhead, 19 ;
Caledonians, 33 14- 3 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
741 11 11; London Stock, 1091 9 1 8 4 f 2;
Sheffield Stock, 251 ; Midland Stock, 684 4 4
1 8 ; Dover Stock, 201 f' • Bank of Liverpool,
22 ; Liverpool and London Fire and Life new
issue, 7p ; Exchange Buildings, 327._

The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 27th of August gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits ... £4,601,685; Increase £538,639
Other deposits ... 11,133,356; Decrease 490,227
Rest ... 3,291,440; Decrease 60,408
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £13,027,582, the same as before.
Other securities ... 13,830,835; Decrease 46,115
Notes unemployed ... 7,755,345; Increase 110,465
The amount of notes in circulation is £22,776,305,
being a decrease of £226,505 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £16,962,918, showing
a decrease of £208,875, when compared with the
preceding return.

SALES.

,-----A.---.,
DESCRIPTION. PRICES. Week Prey'.
ending °wily
Sept. 2. this yr.

Sea Island l4 629 400, 15050
Stained 6 144 90 1240
Boweds 32 6 8190 351140
Mobile 4 7 4760 221910
New Orleans. 44 82 15200, 748503
Pernams, &c. 62 9 7001 54080
Bahia, &c 62 7 1700 39150
Maranham 64 7 790' 31473
Demerara,&c 8 144 130 440
Egyptian 6 12 2080 96110
.... 81301
Surat
Madras 3350
Bengal — 4490

369717410201

PRODUCE.—There has been a very firm market
for all descriptions of Sugar, and the sales com-
prise 600 hhds. West India, 5,500 bags Bengal,
and 8,500 mats of Mauritius. Foreign continues
in active demand, at full prices. No sales in
Molasses. For Coffee a fair demand, particularly
for the ordinary qualities. Jamaica, 50s to 71s
for ordinary to good middling ; St. Domingo, 445
to 45s ; Bahia, 44s to 44s 6d per cwt. 850 bags
Malabar Pepper brought 44d per lb. Trinidad
Cocoa, 34s to 35s per cwt. Rice in very active
demand, at an advance of 6d to is per cwt. Rum :
Owing to the limited quantity on show, sold at an
advance of 2d per gallon on recent prices. In Tea
business has been transacted to a fair extent,
operations having been chiefly in medium to fine
Congous ; the last mentioned have an upward ten-
dency, whilst for the first a slight concession in
price has to be submitted to, a few small parcels of
common are offering at 101-d, but the bulk is held
for 101 d to lld per lb. Saltpetre without change,
and only 250 bags sold, at 25s 6d for 91, and
27s 6d per cwt. for 6 per cent. refraction. Ame-
rican Rosin in great demand ; 3,700 brls. have
been sold at 4s 8d to 4s 9d to lOs 6d, being an
advance on the common qualities of 2d to 3d per
cwt. About 2,500 salted Monte Video Ox and
Cow Hides sold at 5d to 51d per lb. The demand
for Olive Oil has been steady. 130 tuns Seal Oil
are reported ; pale, at £33, straw, at £32, and
brown, at £3O lOs per tun ; Cod Oil in limited
demand, without change in price ; Rape Oil in
good demand, pale selling at 40s to 41s, and brown
at 39s ; Linseed dull, at 29s 3d to 29s 6d per cwt.
Nothing doing in Spirits of Turpentine. 325 tons
Palm Oil are reported at £36 lOs to £37 per ton,
and 100 tons to arrive at the former price. Tallow
dull, at 52s 6d for Petersburg Y.C., and at 51s to
51s 6d. per cwt. for South American. The sales of
Jute amount to 750 bales, at extreme prices,
£2l lOs to £23 being realized for fair common to
good middling. TO-DAY Sugar has been in ver
good demand ; the sales, including
`wis comprising 190 hhds. J
's. 3d. ; 80 hhds. Barbadoes,
grainy, at 335. to 395. 6d. ; 6,400 mats Mauritius
at 31 '

328: 9d. to -3(

Saturda

chiefly

AntiguE

-6. 6u. to 355. ' • 260 hhds. Cuba Muscovado,
A 325. 3d. to 365. ; 300 boxes Havana, at 225. 6d. ;
and 2,500 bags Pernams, at 18s. 9d. to 19s. 9d.
per cwt. 100 puns, ``it, Lucia Nolasso sad at

15s. 9d. per cwt., and 50 puns. Demerara Rum at
full prices. There has been a fair amount of busi-
ness done in Tea, principally in blackish leaf kinds
from ls. 21d. per lb. upwards. A public sale of
3,200 packages is advertised for Thursday next.
Of Rice 600 bags Bengal sold at 13s. per cwt.
1,500 bales Jute realized £22 to £22 10s. per ton.
30 chests Me Lac Dye sold at ls. 9d. per lb. ; 60
chests Shell Lac, at 425. 6d ; 2SO bags Saltpetre,
at 245. 6d. to 265. 6d. per cwt., (14 and 81 per
cent.,) and 650 bags Bombay Linseed, at 50s per
quarter

Messrs. JOS.:ROBINSON and Co. in their monthly
circular say :

Since our last monthly circular, the accounts from the
East have been more satisfactory ; the prospect of con-
tinued peace has, in a degree, restored confidence, and
altogether changed the tone of the wool market. Manu-
facturers generally are very busy, there being no scarcity
of orders ; and as stocks in their hands are very much
reduced, many have come into the market and purchased
freely, notwithstanding the large quantity introduced at
the recent London sales. The imports for the month are
to a fair extent ; but the quantity offering is not so great
as it would have been, m consequence of the bulk of ar-
rivals being reserved for the public sales to be held this
month. The transactions here have been all by private
contract, but the prices obtained were at extreme rates,
and the market closes with an upward tendency.

Messrs. W. GREAME and Co. in their monthly
circular say :

During the earlier part of the past month the attention
of the trade was much occupied with the public auctions
proceeding in London, which terminated on the 13th ult.,
and the favourable result of these sales, combined with
the continuance of fine weather, and the prospect of a
pacific settlement of the all-absorbing Turkish question,
has tended to improve the tone of this market : during
the past fortnight there has been more inquiry for most
descriptions of wool, and a fair amount of business has
been done at very firm prices. For English and Irish
combing wools there has also been considerable inquiry,
buyers evincing more anxiety to supply themselves with
these descriptions as stocks decrease. Clothing fleeces
and skin wools are also more inquired for, and command
rather higher rates. For Scotch wools there continues a
fair demand, and our quotations are fully supported.

WooL.—There is no particular feature in the
market worthy of comment, the business of the
week has only been to a limited extent, at about
previous current rates ; public sales are fixed to
commence here on 21st instant, when about 11,000
bales will be offered. We do not expect to see much
animation in this market until these sales come
off, as the chief portion of present stocks are held
over for that period. Imports for the week, 1,419
bales, chiefly Portugal, Iceland, and Scotch.

CARDINAL WISEMAN IN
LIVERPOOL.

HIS DISQUISITION ON THE FINE ARTS.

ON Tuesday evening, after formidable placardings and
other means to arouse public attention to the event, Dr.
WISEMAN made his bow to a Liverpool audience, in front
of the orchestra in the Philharmonic Hall, amid, as was
to have been expected from the amount of preparation, a
considerable display of boisterous welcome. The splendid
and spacious hall was well filled, particularly the boxes
and galleries, and of the number present a considerable
proportion were ladies, while a numerous body of Romish
ecclesiastics, of different grades, and collected from various
localities, surrounded the lecturer, or were dispersed in
conspicuous positions among the auditory. The orchestra
having been in a great degree set apart for the less in-
fluential, although not less devoted .admirers of the doctor,
the clamorous evidences of approbation of his person and
sentiments which issued from that quarter were, on his
appearance, and during the evening, both numerous and
noisy. As in the case of other actors of eminence, the ap-
pearance of the chief performer on this occasion was
heralded by a burst of music from a brass band which
occupied the centre of the orchestra. The musical strains
having subsided, the reverend lecturerer made his debiit,
attired in Cardinal costume. Whether it was the amount of
preparation, or the notoriety of the individual, which in-
duced us to expect something grand in the advent of a

" Cardinal," or, reverting to the solemn dignity and grave
theatrical propriety with which we have been wont to
witness that character invested on the stage, by
KEMBLE, MACBEADY, and other representatives of
such state, we know not ; but certain it is, we
felt disappointed in the show. True enough, we
beheld before us a burly priest, decked out in trappings
of red, and it might be, for aught we could tell to the
contrary, purple and fine linen ; there was no stinted dis-
play of jewels to adorn him outwardly ; and added to all,
there was also conspicuous in the individual an air of
swaggering superiority. Still the whole aspect of the man
and his attire inspiredus with no higher idea than that of

" Bartlemy-fair " finery. The mein and garniture of Dr.
WISEMAN were much more akin to those of "Jack Falstaff,"
who, according to his own admission, required "to purge
and live cleanly, like a gentleman," than in keeping with
the purity of aspect and simple dignity of deportment
manifested in the appearance of any of our English
Bishops.

Dr. WISEMAN having been trumpeted forth by his ad-
mirers as an oracle of wisdom, an embodiment of erudi-
tion, and a paragon of refinement; and he having chosen
for the subject of his lecture a theme admirably calcu-
lated to draw out his sympathies with the beautiful, to
give scope to his talents, and a fair field for the display of
his acquirements, we were led to anticipitate some grati-
fication from the matter he should utter, if we could find
nothing to admire in his appearance and manners. Here,
again, we were doomed to disappointment. His delivery
was ungraceful, and far from pleasing. His composition was
common-place, abounding in mixed metaphors, and false
figures—his manner hesitating, uncertain, and conveying
to his auditors a painful conviction of his want of familiarity
with the subject he was treating of ; yet, as is generally the
case with mere pretenders, he was bold enough in his asser-
tions. It was while attempting to illustrate his assumptions,
or to apply them in argument, that his ignorance became as
disagreeably apparent as the vulgarity of his diction and
address had been previously repulsive.

" The Highways of Commerce are the Highways of the
Arts," was the inviting text he had chosen for his homily ;
and, in the course of it, he favoured the audience with no
limited display of his critical acumen in connexion with
the fine arts. In doing this, he made an ostentatious
parade of historical names and events, and from them drew
inferences as violently opposed to ordinary logic as they
were at variance with established facts. For example, in
descanting on the unchanging stability of Egyptian art,
manners, and religion, he informed his audience—who ap-
plauded the information to the echo—that the Romans,
with all their boasted power, were unable, even by all their
efforts, to modify Egyptian art, or to remodel the religion
of that impassive and unbending people. What exertions
the Romans might make to remodel the arts of Egypt, we
have no knowledge of, and of such exertions we believe
Dr. WISEMAN to be equally ignorant. On the religious
point of his argument, however, he ought to be aware that,
unlike the Romanists of modern time, the ancient Romans
never attempted to subvert the religious systems of those
nations they subdued. We allude to this, merely to show
one of the numerous fallacies inculcated by the doctor.
In unfolding his theories of art, some of which were
crude enough, Dr. WISEMAN ostensibly confined him-
self almost exclusively to sculpture ; we say ostensibly,
because in reality he did not do so, as witness his ex-
cessively apocryphal description of Eutru,scan Art, in
nearly the whole of which, to use the language of &MEI-
DAN, he must have been "indebted to his imagination for
his facts." The arts of Egypt, Assyria, and Greece,
were discussed by the doctor entirely in connexion
with sculpture, ignoring altogether the existence of
architecture as an art. Such an omission, if unintentional
and occasioned by ignorance, would only prove the unfit-
ness of the lecturer for the task he had undertaken, and
in that case we would recommend for his cogitation the
poet's maxim

" Let those teach others who themselves excel."

If from any sinister motive he suppressed allusion to that
important branch of art, the omission was of a much less
pardonable kind. Be that as it may, however, he ought
to have known that among the Egyptians and Assyrians
sculpture was employed almost exclusively in subordina-
tion to, and as an auxiliary of, architectural effect. To
the Greeks, so far as we are aware, belongs chiefly the
merit of raising sculpture to the dignity of an independent
art. The subject of sculptural art, however, although
seemingly not new, is certainly not very familiar to the
Doctor ; still, like some of his betters on this subject,
" assuming a virtue if he has it not," he adventures a
theory ; and by this theory upsets the conclusions of
nearly all prior fine-art essayists. By inspecting the
fragments of Assyrian art in the British Museum, Dr.
WISEMAN discovers that Grecian art was borrowed from
Assyria, and not derived from Egypt, as heretofore has
generally supposed. How does he prove this ? In
Egyptian art, quoth he, all is quiet, motionless, inert—a

perfect sameness in endless repetition; or, as the doctor
facetiously, if not wittily remarked of the sc,ulptured
figures on the monuments of Egypt, " they look like a

)y contract

peculiar aptitude of this sally, as illustrative of a conflicting
we confess our inability to perceive ; but
In Assyrian sculpture, on the contrary,

let that pas

lecturer, exaggerates

are the predominating and distinguishing characteristics.
Oreciau art embodies i)adications of strength, and to these

it adds vigorous action ; ergo, the Greeks derived their
sculpture from Assyria ! So, at least, says Dr. WISEMAN ;
but Greek sculpture will be found to possess:numerous
other features in common with those of Egypt and Assy-
ria—it possesses repose as well as action—is imbued with
attributes of delicacy as well as of strength—is not desti-
tute of repetition in many of its parts,—and, in short,

gives unmistakeable evid

on Assyrian art, as that is incontestably a step in advanc
upon the primitive yet noble sculptures of Egypt.

In tracing the progress of art through the period of
its decadence and revival, the lecturer exhibited no
greater profundity of knowledge than he displayed in
the analogy he sought to establish between Greek and
Assyrian art, while his pretended candour was much more
questionable ; the statements, in this and other instances,
being coloured to meet the dogmas inculcated by
that Church whose doctrines he advocates. Another
fallacy the doctor laboured hard to establish was, that
no military excursion of any kind had ever been
attended by a spread of the arts of civilisation ; and in
illustration of this opinion he enlarged upon the absence
of civilizing results in even the celebrated expedition of
ALEXANDER THE GREAT. Is Dr. WISEMAN ignorant of
the fact, that improvement may be conveyed to the invaders
as well as by them ? Does he wish us to believe that the
Romans derived no civilizing influence from their invasions
of Greece and Egypt ? or to come nearer to our own time,
would he insist that the semi-savage inhabitants of Europe
obtained no advantage from the Crusades, beyond the
fruitless glory of planting the banner of the cross upon
the citadel of Jerusalem ? In point of fact, his lecture
was a claptrap, studiedly prepared for the gross digestion
of the ignorant. That it met with applause from a
moderately well-dressed audience; is no proof to the con-
trary of this assertion; and when the exceedingly mal
apropos occasions, seized on for such applause, are taken
into account, it renders the conjecture doubly colourable,
that the approbation was concocted and so far managed by
some one who, like ADDISON'S "trunk-maker in the upper
gallery," knew exactly when such demonstrations were
necessary to hide a weak point, or to mask a defective argu-

ment ; but who, unlike that functionary, was not quite in-
telligently followed in his noisy hints. As an example, we
might instance the fact, that when the lecturer described
the beauty and durability of some antique mosaics, the
applause, though loud and hearty, was so mal-adroit in
its delivery, as to render it difficult to determine whether
the plaudits were meant to express admiration of the
mosaics—satisfaction with their durability—or a compli-
ment to the doctor's ambidextrous mode of dealing with
the fact. Other cases might easily be cited, to show the
nature of the " drill" to which a portion at least of the
assembly had been subjected, as witness the effect pro-

duced at the conclusion of his description of Venice,
when he applied to that city the common Italian phrase
"it superba," the use of this adjective being rewarded

by six distinct rounds of hand-clapping and cheers. So
easily were the applauses of the willing audience won.
Of Dr. WisEmAN's want of tact it may not be inappro-
priate to point out his allusion to the utter destruction of
the Assyrians, on account of their persecutions and cruel-
ties. We join him heartily in reprobation of persecutions,
and would go all lengths with him in any effort for
the abatement of cruelty ; but before committing our-

selves entirely to his views, would like to be favoured with
some information as to his affection for heretics, and
to be made acquainted with the social and religious
position assigned by him to the INQUISITORS—those meek
administrators of the kindness of his church.

As a performance, for such it must be looked on, we
consider the " Cardinal's" exhibition in Liverpool as one
of very inferior merit. A contemporary informs us that,
on the Sunday preceding, Dr. WNEILE warned his
congregation against the alluring blandishments of the
wily lecturer. Had the reverend Dr. been quite familiar
with the personal and intellectual graces of the lecturer,
we venture to think he would have spared his hearers on
the subject. - The lecture was a mere bundle of disjecta
membra, delivered in a strain as little seductive as one
could well conceive, while the personnel of the lecturer
was anything but bewitching. Half the audience
collected, we venture to say, were attracted by curiosity
to hear and see the man whose audacity has made him so
notorious ; and that curiosity gratified, we should think
little likelihood exists of his being able to re-attract an
assemblage with any pretensions to intelligence or social
position.

We perceive that, in this quarter, the tawdry displays
of the pseudo-archbishop are not yet completed. He is
about to give another performance in dedicating a new
Romish chapel in Liscard, assisted by his subordinate and
coadjutor the pretended Lord Bishop of Shrewsbury ; ad-
mission to witness which show is to be by tickets, which
may be purchased in various quarters, at prices ranging
from the trifling sum of ten shillings to half-a-crown—a
means of raising funds for what are called religious pur-
poses, forming a fitting, addendum to the raffles and lot-
teries by which the Popish exchequer has been frequently
and largely augmented.

Mus. H. B. STOWE returned from the continent last
week, much benefited in health by her quiet residence in
Switzerland. She will take her departure for the United
States, per the Arctic, to-morrow.
DEATH FROMAPOPLEXY.—On Saturday evening, about
eight o'clock, a man named John Burrows, a labourer,
residing in Back Berry-street, dropped down in Wood-
street. An inquest was held on the body yesterday, when
a verdict of died of apoplexy was returned.
WILLIAM LAW was, on Friday, brought up at the Police-
court, and remanded, on suspicion of having stolen a watch
and $132 from the bag of Thomas Leslie, an emigrant, at
his lodgings, in Townsend-street. The prisoner had a key
which opened the prosecutor's bag, and £26, 10s. in English
coin was found with him.

MANCHESTER CORN EXCHANGE.—The committee, in
compliance with the wish of a considerable majority of the
standholders and subscribers, have decided upon opening
the hall for business upon Thursday in each week, instead
of Saturday, as heretofore. They have it also in contem-
plation to open the Exchange on Tuesdays for the accom-
modation of sugar, tea, and coffee merchants, &c.
ANN HICKS, THE STALL-KEEPER in Hyde-park, whom
Lord Seymour ejected when preparations were making for
the Great Exhibition, is now at Melbourne, having arrived
out on the Ist of January last, 'after a long voyage. In
writing to England on the 15th of May, she states that
she has sent a petition to Her Majesty the Queen to grant
her a few acres of land out there, instead of the money
due to her for the materials of her cottage in Hyde-park ;
and that if she receives no answer, she should try to get
home next year, and petition the Queen in person.
ROMANIST PROFANITY.—The Queen of Spain, who
lately gave a rich dress to the statue of the Virgin in the
Cathedral of Seville, has just presented the infant Saviour
of the same church with a handsome dress and mantle,
the former of cambric, embroidered with pearls, and the
latter of green velvet and gold. These articles were placed
on the statue of the child with great solemnity on the
15th ult., in the presence of the authorilies, by the Duke
de Montpensier, in the name of the Queen.

ONE OF THE MOST DISGRACEFUL SCENEs ever witnessed,
says the Halifax Guardian, took place in the cemetery
there on Sunday week, when the remains of the great se-
cularist, Mr. Shackleton, of Queenshead, were about to be
consigned to the tomb. Mr. Walters, Baptist minister
of this town, had received an
,invitation to perform the
burial service, and was consequently upon the ground for
that purpose ; but Mr. Robinson., secularist lecturer, of
Wilsden, accompanied by about one hundred of the friends
of the " departed," (who had followed the hearse from
Queenshead) came to do this last office for his late colleague,
in accordance with the wish of Mr. Shackleton. Mr. Wal-
ters and Mr. Robinson consequently met together at the
grave of the " departed," where they held a long conver-
sation, which terminated by the former being allowed to
carry out his intention. The friends of the "departed"
having assembled around the grave, the reverend gentle-
man commenced the service, which for a time was listened
to with the attrition and apaarently the regard becoming
so solemn an occasion. Afterwards, however, it became
evident• that the service was not congenial to the feelings
of the secularists, many of whom expressed their dissatis-
faction by informing the reverend gentleman, at almost
every sentence that fell from his lips, that " This wornt
t' wish of `departed."' At :ength their conduct became so
disgraceful that Mr. Walters was compelled to withdraw
to another part of the ground, where the burial service
was concluded, whilst Julian Harney, of London„ and Mr.
Robinson harangued those who remained around the grave
of the "departed." After these gentlemen had spoken
some time on the useful life their late colleague had spent,
these disreputable proceedings were brought to a close
rather abruptly by the grave-digger, who became very
vehement in his appeals to the friends of the " departed"
to leave the place.
A MAN AND sirs WIFE BURNT TO DEATR.—A fire,
by which two persons were burnt, and the lives of nearly
a dozen other persons were jeopardized, happened on Satur-
day morning in White Lion-place, Edgeware-road, London.
The groundfioor of the building was occupied by a Mr.
Thomas Daniels and his wife, while the whole of the

upper rooms were tenanted by poor persons and their
families. A police-constable of the D division, who was on
duty in the neighbourhood, while passing the premisos,
perceived smoke rushing through the windows into the
street, and, without delay, raised an alarm. Screams from
the lower part of the house clearly told that some one was
in that part of the premises. Assistance having arrived,
and some of the lodgers having descended the stairs, the
room was entered, when a pitiable scene presented itself.
The whole of the bedclothes, curtains, and the rest of the
furniture in the room were blazing with such fury as to
threaten with destruction the whole of the building.
Mrs. Daniels was in the midst of the flames. By the ap-
plication of buckets of water, the neighbours and police
were enabled to get the flames sufficiently under to allow
them to get the woman out, but not until she was burnt

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LECTURES ON COMMERCIAL LAM

On Thursday, Mr. Leone Levi delivered his first
lecture on this subject at the meeting room of the
Chamber of Commerce. There was a good attendance
of mercantile gentlemen, and the chair was occupied
by the mayor, Samuel Holme, Esq., who opened the

Mr. Levi in

tures should be conducted after the Socratic mode, and
that young men should supply themselves with pens and
paper to enable them to take notes, and that they might
ask any questions they considered necessary. He would
be happy to afford them every information. It was agreed
that the lectures should be arranged as follows :—Four on
the law of partnership, and four on bills of exchange.