The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND CITY INTELLIGENCE

SATURDAT EVENlNG.—Business in the funds was flat all
day, and the quotations of yesterday were not supported in
Consols, which left off 89 sellers for the opening. Bank
Stock 169 to 170. Exchequer Bills 6s. to 9s. preudin.
. .

There was no feature to report in Foreign Securities.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents were 52. to the Five
per Cents 991 to 100. Belgian 100 to 1. Spanish Active
with the Coupons 231 to Portuguese Five per Cents 331
to 4, the Three per Cents 24 to Brazilian 67 to 8.
Mexican 28 to I. Colombian 21/ to I.

The Cotton market at Liverpool, according to the advices
received this afternoop, is in a very delicate position. With
a stock on hand larger than ever before known, and con-
stant supplies continuing to come in from the other side of
the Atlantic, it is difficult to say what will be the future con-
dition of the market unless some very material improvement
should occur in the demand for manufactured goods, and of
which, unfortunately, there are at present no very strong
indications, owing to the unsettled state of political affairs.
The decline in prices at Liverpool this week has again
amounted to id. per lb, and the demand has been extremely
limited, the total sales being only 12,010 bales. This year the
sales have been only 517,130 bales. The imports last week
alone were 79,755 bales, or more than six times the quantity
sold. This year the imports have been 237,576 bales, from
which it seems reasonable to infer that the heavy stock now
on hand—viz. 569,600 bales against 351,300 bales at this
time in 1840, must partly arise from the excess of supplies
over consumption in former years.
The Tea market has been very active to-day, and prices
are well supported. Company's congou was most currently
quoted at 2s 2d per lb.
A comparative statement of the quantity of hemp and flax
in the London warehouses on the Ist instant, gives the
former, including all descriptions, at 5,633 tons, against
8,144 tons at the same time last year, when, however, the
supply was larger than for some years previously. Of flax
the stock is 1,023 tons, against 1,132 tons iu June, 1849.
Clean hemp is now worth about 39s per cwt ; at this date
last year it brought 35s 10d only.

It may not be generally known, that Mrs. Roberts, wife of
Lieutenant Roberts, R.N., who commanded the President,
resides in this town with her family, consisting of five.
WEST INDIA MAIL.—On the 2d instant petitions were
presented from the Grand Junction Railway Company, and
other parties, praying the selection of Liverpool as the West
India Mail Station.

METROPOLITAN WELSH CHURCH.—OR Saturday last
numerous meeting of the friends of Cambria assembled in
London for the purpose of raising funds to build a church in
the metropolis for the benefit of the immigrants from Wales,
in which divine service will be performed in the 'Welsh lan-
guage, and according to the rubric of the Established Church.
After speeches from various prelates, noblemen, and others,
a committee was appointed to carry into effect the purpose of
the meeting. Upwards of £1,500 was contributed in the
room. Amongst the subscribers were Earl Powis £2OO,
Marquis of Bute £lOO, Lord Dungannon £lOO, Bishop of
St. Asaph's £lOO, Bishop of Bangor £lOO, Bishop of St.
David's £lOO, Sir W. Wynne £2OO, Lord Kenyon £lOO, J.
Nichols, Esq., £lOO, Colonel Wood £lOO, Hon. R. H.
Clive £lOO, Sir Benjamin Hall £5O, Dean of St. Asaph's
£3O, &c.

DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMINT.—There are various re-
ports afloat respecting the day on which parliament is to be
dissolved. The 12th and the 16th instant are the days men-
tioned.

POPULARITY OF SIR R. PEEL.—During the division by
which the House of Commons decided that the further con-
tinuance in office of her Majesty's present ministers is at va-
riance with the spirit of the constitution, there was a great
assemblage of persons in the Palace-yard. After the result
had transpired, Sir R. Peel, on leaving the house, was recog-
nised by the multitude, who accompanied the right hon. baro-
net to his house, in Whitehall-gardens, with deafening ac-
clamations.

THE PRESIDENT.—The New York papers received by the
Stephen Whitney contain some—what we believe to be un-
founded—speculations about the hull of a large vessel having
been seen at sea—and which they suppose, not very logically,
to have been the President. So unlikely'
do we cons idert
suppositions, that we consider it quite unnecessary further to
allude to them. We may add, with regret, that the under-
writers have long made up their minds that the President is
lost, and have offered to settle with the parties who have
The
claims upon them for losses.settlement will, we hear
take place on Friday next. The ship herself was insured for
£60,000. Her original cost was 1;8Z-)060
BEAUTIFUL. ENGRAVING OF THE PORT AND HARBOUR
or WHITEHAVEN.—The talents of our townsman, Mr.
Samuel Walters, as a marine painter, are too well known to
but
require any encomiums from us ;beautiful and accurate
as have been his portraits of many of the finest vessels be-
longing to Liverpool, we cannot withhold an expression of
our admiration of his great success elsewhere. Mr. W. was
some time ago engaged by P. Youhghusband, Esq., of
Whitehaven, to execute a picture of the port and
harbour of
that town, which he completed in a style worthv of the taste
and ability that distinguish his formr productions The
work was so much admired, that he acceded to the wish
nerally expressed that a plate should be taken from it;
agned
the engraving is now before us. It is on a large scale, is
executed in the first line of the art, and conveys a spirited'
and faithful semblance of the port it represents. The view
is taken from the offing, and embraces the harbour, thick
with shipping, the town beyond it, the quays and sea-walls,
the lighthouses, &c., with the green hills, mapped out in en-
closures, forming the back ground. In front is " the wide
weltering sea," thrown into commotion by a stiff breeze, and
enlivened by shipping under sail or steam. Of the vessels
depicted, the Gunga, East Indiaman, is the most conspicu-
ous, under topsails, jib, and trysail, stooping to the gale, and
making towards the entrance. Her hull, rigging, &c. are so
admirably drawn and shaded, that she appears to be as plainly
and palpably thrown out as a model. The others are equally
felicitous,—a brio., outward-bound, a steam-boat, vessels in
the distance, and 'a
boat with figures in the foreground. The
sea-gulls wheeling aloft on the verge of a squall ; the buoys
here and there seen amidst the troubled waters, and the
dashing of the spray against the piers, are all in perfect keep-
ing, and the whole forms a marine picture, at once animated
and graceful. Our Whitehaven
this
cannot, we
gratified by this spirited representa-
think, fail to be highly
tion of their native town.
FATAL PUGILISTIC CONTEST.—A MAN KlLLED.—COH-
siderable excitement was created in Gloucester on Monday
last, by the announcement of a fight which was to take place
in the vicinity between two men of some local celebrity, named
William, alias Maggot Brown, and Philip Inkin. After fight-
ing 75 rounds, which occupied one hour and three quarters,
Brown fell insensible. He was removed to the Infirmary,
but died in a few hours. The facts elucidated at the inquest
held upon the body, on Tuesday, before Thomas Bailly,
Esq., coroner, went the length of implicating the survivor,
the seconds, and the bottle-holders ; and also some individu-
als occupying respectable situations in society. The appear-
ance of the body of the deceased bore ample evidence of the
deadly conflict in which he had been engaged. The face and
upper part of the body were greatly discoloured, the left eye
closed, the left ear swollen and bloody, and both hands were
very much cut and bruised. The principal evidence was that
of a waterman named John Beard, who gave his evidence in
a very clear and satisfactory manner, and was present from
the beginning to the end. He said that after 15 or 16 rounds
had been fought, a county policeman entered the ring, and
told the men to give up fighting ; but on finding that they
were resolved to go on, he went away. They continued to
fight until the 44th or 45th round when the same policeman,
accompanied by another, again entered the ring, and holding
up their staves requested the men to give over fighting, threat-
ening to break the arm of the first man who offered to strike
the other, when a person whom he had since understood to
be Mr. Chesterton, rode up with a boy behind him and told
the policemen if they did not stand back he would report
them, as they had stood by to see thirty rounds for their
pleasure, and now he (Chesterton) wanted the fight to go on
for his pleasure ; the policemen then fell back. The seconds
and bottle-holders wanted to leave the ring, and the men
themselves were willing to give up, but Mr. Chesterton rode
round and formed another ring, and the men were again
brought up to the scratch. Up to that time, in the opinion
of the witness, no blow had been given to produce fatal re-
sults. The fight was then resumed, and as far as he could
estimate, 75 rounds were fought in all. Brown was brought
np to the 76th round but his legs were too weak to support
him, and he fell down without a blow. After the examina-
tion of several other witnesses, the jury returned a verdict of
" Manslaugher" against Philip Inkin as principal, and a
number of other parties as accessories.