The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-30 00:00:00

TRADE, COMMERCE, &c.

THE TEA TRADE, MONDAY.--The clearances last week
were nearly 115600,000. The trade is rather dull. The quantity
of private trade teas declared for the next series of sales
amounts to about 50,000 packages.
A letter of the 21st instant, 'rum Lyons, says, " There is a
great fall in the price of silk, which is attributed to the scarcity
of money. Discount is at a very high rate, and cash for bills is
obtained with great difficulty. The princ►pal cause of this is
want of remittances from the United States; perhaps, also, it
may in some measure be attributed to the necess►ty of the
shareholders of the Bank providing their capital of 2,000,000
francs by October 1."

INDIGO PROSPECTS.—AIthough we have had a scorching sun
(with one exception) during the last fortnight in Calcutta, the
indigo planters in many parts of the country; we -hear, have
bad rain enough to save their plant. On the 25th and 26th,
there was rain at Rauleah and all over Kishnagar. Letters
from Bowsing also report showers there also. At Suksangor,
there was a smart shower on the 23d. Towards Monghyr, we
are told, the plant has also a thriving appearance; but many
complaints of drought arrive from Dacca and Myrnunsing,
where, in general, too much rain is apprehended.—Calcutta
Courier, May 3.
As a proof of the great increase in the consumption of teas,
and the advantage which has accrued to the government by the
opening of the trade, a statement has been prepared, by which
it appears that, during the seven months ending the sth of
August, 1835, the amount of teas imported was tb21,011,000, the
duty upon which was £2,189,000. During the same period of
1836, the amount of teas imported was ib36,650.000, on which
the duty was £3.468,000, being an increase of tb15,000,000 of
teas, and £1,27%000 in the duties.-- Times.

BEETILOOT SUG A 11.—A refinery of sugar from the beetroot is
being trectea at Thames Bank, -Chelsea, which, it is expected,
will be in operation in about six weeks. In the vicinity of the
metropolis, during the past summer, a great many acres of land
have been put into cultivation with the root—at Wandsworth,
and other places. The machinery will be principally on the
plans of the vacuum pans, and a pure refined sugar will be pro--
(laced from the juice by the first process of evaporation, after
it has simply undergone the process of decolorization. Another
part of the premises is appropriated to the manufactory of
coarse brown paper from the refuse, in which it is extensively
used in France. Considerable interest is excited in the agri-
culturalu districts on the subject of the manufacture, and the de-
ficiency of supply of this important branch of colonial produc-
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As the different varieties of beet are indigenous to
Sigiidlleeussaitlyand the northern parts of Europe there can be no doubt
but that the saccharine products of the root cultivated in this
country will be equal to that of France, where it is attended
with so much success and profit. In case the government do
not interfere, and, by rendering tit Z product exciseable, retard
or prohibit its manufacture, several individuals have it in con-
templation
to establish refineries in different parts of the king-
dom for purifying sugar, which may be-produced in agricultur-
al districts for domestic or individual use. A refinery has
lately been established at Belfast, in the vicinity of which town
upwards of 200 acres of land have been put in cultivation with
the beetroot for the manufacture of sugar.—Morniny Po4t.

A PIOUS CLERGY AND SENTIMENTAL FLOCK.—We borrow
the following from the Constitutionnel and Droit of Tuesday :
The curate of St. Roch has just bought a little piece of oak,
being a fragment of the real cross. This precious relic will on
Thursday be exhibited to the veneration of the faithful. On
that day, says the programme. the curates and clergy of St.
Etienne and St. Laurent will proceed on a pilgrimage to St.
Roch. Next day will be the turn of St. Med. Saturday the
curate of Vangerard and the whole seminary of St. Sulpice will
visit St. Roth. Lastly, on the 19th, 20th, and 21st it will be the
turns of Notre Dame de Lorette, St. Eustache, and St. Medard.
Are we in the middle ages? What, a piece of the real cross!
'There is enough in more than two thousand churches to build
a cathedral! On the night of the 2d August some debauched
young men entered the cemetery of Louhans, provided with a
lantern, several tapers, bread, wine, &c. They placed their
lights round a cross, and indulged in scandalous orgies, accom-
panied with impious and obscene songs. They next got upon
several tombs, summoned the dead beneath to appear, and
vociferated songs of the most disgusting obscenity; it is even
said that one of those mad youths carried his contempt of all
human feeling so far as to proceed to the spot where his own
brother had been recently interred to mix his name with their
drunken songs, and to invite him-to their infamous banquet.
For this outrage four of these worthies ,:,ere sentenced, on the
31 September, to three months imprisor.ment and a fine of
sixteen francs.