The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-20 00:00:00

The arrivals of on
was in favour of sellers

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET

The scarcity of really prime Beef, the unfavourable change
in the weather for slaughtering, and the increased attendance
of country buyers, mostly from the west of England, prOduced
a very steady, though not to say brisk, inquiry for the best
Scots, Herefords, runts, Devons, and shorthorns, at fully the
currencies obtained on this day se'nnight, the former breed
selling freely at from 4s 10t1 to 58, per 8 lb, but the middling
and inferior kinds of Beef meta slow sale, yet late rates were
mostly supported.
. _ _

The supply of Sheep was limited, owing to which the Mutton
trade was steady, at prices quite equal to those paid on• Friday
last—being 2d. per 81b. higher than on Monday. The best old
Downs sold at ss. 4d. ; and inferior half-breds quite ss. per 81b.,
at which rates a clearance was effected without difficulty.
The number of lambs was tolerably good, but of very midi
filing quality. Compared with that experienced on some pre.
vious market days, the lamb trade was very firm, at Friday's
advance in the quotations of 2d per 81b ; the best:Down quali-
ties realizing 6s. 4d. per 81b. With calves we were but mode-
rately supplied, while the trade was heavy at late rates. In
pigs next to nothing was doing.

MONEY MA.REET-

-YESTERDAY

It is believed that there are still some accounts unadjusted
on the Stock Exchange, which has contributed to render busi-
ness otherwise inactive, still more limited. Consols have been
stationary at 89i a for the account, sales having been made at
both fractions, and for money per cent. lower. Reduced
Three per Cents. have been sold at 89 a,.the Three and-a-Quarter
per Cents. at 9111 4, Bank Stock 1971, Exchequer-bills are 9 12,
and India Bonds 5 10 premium.

WHEN WILL THE ELECTION TARE PLACE ?—lt seems
now pretty certain that Parliament will be prorogued on
Thursday, and, in that event, the writ will,probably be in
the hands of the Mayor, as returning officer, on Saturday,
and if so, we believe it has been decided that the nomi-
nation for this borough shall take place on Wednesday
(to-morrow) week, and the polling on the following day.
Colonel Lyndsay and T. B. Crosse, Esq., have come
forward as the Conservative candidates for Wigan.
Mr. A. P. Astley, of Dukinfield Hall, has acceded to
the requisition of the liberal association of North Cheshire
to become a candidate at the ensuing election.
The Grand Duke Constantine was visiting Loch
Lomond on Thursday, after which he departed for In-
verar y ,010
meetingn a,adjournment
and th haes otherbeenof the
agreed islands
Birmingham o
of, ti ht ebei
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being
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considerednd Oxford
de s
un tcAnother
in
an arrangement of the differences between the di.
rectors and the shareholders may in the mean time be
thatj
effected.
VIOLENT STORM AT SOUTHAMPTON.—This town and
its environs were visited, at half-past one o'clock on
Saturday morning, with one of the most violent storms of
thunder and lightning, accompanied with rain, ever re-
membered in the town. The lightning was terrific, and
the thunder most awfully loud. The storm continued,
with very little intermission, until ten o'clock. At a vil-
lage called Shirley, about wo miles from the -town, a
house was entirely destroyed by the electric fluid, also
nine sheep in the neighbourhood of Pear-tree-green. The
weather continues very sultry, and portends a repetition
of last night.
CREWE.—Crewe is still making rapid progress, which
an absence of fifteen months enables one to appreciate.
During this period, the railway works have been greatly
extended, and the number of workmen employed nearly
doubled ; about 300 houses have been erected by the com-
pany, besides cottages contiguous to the village by private
individuals ; a neat brick-built chapel for the congrega-
tionists, with Norman windows and Gothic entrance, capa-
ble of containing 200 worshippers, has been erected ; the
churchyard has been fenced in, and there is now a verdant.
sward encircling the solemn temple, where mounds of
mortality are visible. . The _new station is progressing
slowly, but it will really be au ornament to the Grand
Junction line. Building, both by the company and pri-
vate individuals, is going on extensively •, and long ere
each cottage is finished, it is taken, and many of the
houses contain two and three families. A new town-hall
has recently been erected, containing lecture class-roomss
news-rooms, and library, for the use of the workmen.
It is said the new colony now contains about 7,900 inha-
bitants

and it may be anticipated that a very Mw years,
will render Crewe the second town in Cheshire. Birken-
head has had a rapid growth, but in that respect has been
excelled by Crewe. We should be glad to see more of
these railway villages erected throughout the country,
which the progress of trade, and the rapid increase of
our population, seem to. require. Railway direetorsshould
make their principal junctions the sites for new towns, and
money thus spent would be equally as profitable as that
invested in railways, while attention
every suggestion that the discussions i
towns has evolved, and thus the errors
avoided in erecting residences for our fellow-beings-
Throughout the village and its vicinity there is an air of
comfort, respectability, and activity not to be seen in
many old towns. The directors seem to do all to render
the inhabitants healthy and happy by their arrangements-

t be paid to
he health of
ar fore fathers

MARRIED
On the 12th instant, at St. James'E
the Rev. H. Hampton, M.A., Mr. IN
JANE HUGHES, both of Bedford-str(

Church. Toxteth-park, i 1
LIAM PRICE, to Miss
Toxteth-park,

Same time by the Rev. H. Hampton, M.A., Mr.
THOMAS ELLiorr, to Miss ALICE PARR, both of Edge"
hill.
On the 19th instant, at St. James's Chureh, Toxteth-parkt..l)
the Rev. H. Hampton, M.A., Mr. WILLIAM HOIDGSu
-POTTER, Chester-street, to ELIZABETH, eldest daughter 01
PETER ROPER, Esq., Park-street, Toxteth-park.

LIVERPOOL
TUESDAY, JULY

20, 1847

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