The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

The arrivals of bread stuffs of all kinds from America
continue to be most extensive ;_promisin* supplies in even

untouched the resources of t

harvest, perhaps the.moit

:teous with which Provid

as eve

transatlantic neighbours, being auequaTe, tue wurus 01
the President, to supply the wants of the whole world.
And while materials of plenty are thus provided by the

gracious hisposer of all t

-e rejoice to

authority, that no difficulty or obstruction is likely to arise
in the progress of transporting the food to our own shoies
and homesteads. In a word, we *feel now that the game

haps, even a fearful recoil preparing for them.
We shall now allude briefly to the facts which justify us
in our foregoing observations. In our own Corn Exthange;
yesterday, the prices were decidedly lower. Wheat fell
about ls. per 2821b5., and the highest quotation of Indian
corn was 525., being 4s less than was obtained on the pre-
ceding market day.
In Newry, the price of Indian meal has fallen within the
last few weeks fully £6 per ton, and is now quoted at £l2
per ton, while prompt payment in cash will procure the
article considerably under that sum. A similar decline has
taken place in Londonderry and Galway.
We 'rejoice to learn that France is participating in tl

same happy anticipations. The alarm created by the
Debate, on the food question, has subsided, and given
place to more agreeable anticipations ; and a depression in
the prices of food has followed, and still continues.
With all these facts staring them in the face, the bakers
Dublin have the unblushing dishonesty to hold up the
price of the loaf, though their London brethren
• • feeling, giving way in proportion to the
' —Dublin Evening Mail.

fall of the raw material

FALL IN THE POTATO MARKET.

addition to the bill of fare is daily presenting itself with
more and more abundance, and, we must add, unblush-
ing effrontery—the mealy potato ! The Dublin Potato
Market, which has been formally closed for the last two
months, is re-opened, and presents every day considerable

styptics or natives, bIIUULL
the table—good for seed—at a reduction of fiom six
pence to eight pence per stone. The Inverness Journal
sates that, on Tuesday week, a good supply of potatoes
appeared in the market :—" There was considerable de-
mand for them for qt ten pence per stone ; and

was tit

closely to the

COURT AND E

The Queen, Prince Al

Lord Stanley attair

main in town during the

considerably improed,

,e to Windsor (

Monday

not yet convict

• FASHIONS FOR APRIL.
-•
(Fewn the " London and Paris Ladies' Magazine of

very elegant, foulards; rekins,
striped, checked, jaspees inoii
with bareges toiles de Chide to
and organdy, with coloured p.

w, or in A

on a blad

as ever, but at this season the material i.
slighter texture. In the make of dresses
but little change ; many redingotes will I

there will be

worn, and

noirs, with demi-wide sleeve, showing the under one of
tin, richly embroidered. Black lace still forms

white mus
..:

flounces for three or four rows, or narrow lace put I
on spirally; or en echellle gimps, fringes, and soutache
will be used on the spring dresses, particularly a
new kind, with pearl edge. Some dresses of poult d
sole are made with revers, embroidered in shaded colour
Fancy straw bon.
r I fashionable ; and

crape, mixed with straw, form pretty
capotes ; sot, ~,rape bonnets are covered with lace, which
sometimes form a demi-voilette ; on the edge roses or
iardeni6res wreaths are placed under these laces, and

give mum etegence to tne sonnet. nonnets male of
baptiste de Chine of its natural colour, lined with pink,
blue, orlilac crape, or gauze, form a pretty novelty; the
material is very fine and light. Flo wers will be very
much worn to ornament the interior as well as well as the
exterior of bonnets this spring. Foliage of light colour,
as the acacia, or dark, as the chesnut, will be used on
straw bonnets ; exotics, with large petals, will ornament
crape bonnets ; whilst the more simple flowers of our gar-
dens will be required for pailles de riz. The Noemie
bonnets are of crape, covered with tulle a la niege and
filet ;. and the flowers that ornament them are of the
most delicate description, or marabouts. The pompa-
dour is of paille de riz, with wreath of pompadour rib-
bon. For the public dejeuners a new style will be intro-
duced, the petit bord bornais, made of white straw, or-
namented with field flowers, or a wreath of roses or single
feather. Very small manteaux have been worn of green
or violet velvet, trimmed with two rows of broad black
lace, one at the edge, and the other above it, and a third
row at the throat ; this style will be adopted in taffetas of

every colour. mantennes are a mixture of the visite and
nzantelet, made of pros de Naples, trimmed with lace or
fringe to match, with open heading, and surmounted by a
roseaux of application.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

The Tynemouth Extension of the North Shields Branch
..!1 'cried for public traffic on Wednesday last.
NION.- March 31.—The Flythe Extension
A.t present it has only a single line of rails.
•

was opened
We under_
of the Great Southern and Westernßailway will open to
Kilbricken, near Mountrath.—Dublin Evening Packet.
NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—The works for the
1 naicrh-

)t their

1v able t

and from the bounty o
nas m Liverpool. John Liveston, has
whose only support is about is

Iknow many men Who have to ;;;;;

1r 4d. r

1,11 "
ordere
bpilt

work, in addition to his food. The poorhou.
to have their number reduced to what they
tains near 900. Omagh, a three-quarters union,
con
and fcrtain ; Clogher is a half union, and for nuk,,
900, it contains near 1300 ;so you av ,u, . what will
be the result, when no more will be adm' it-ts,l '
redundant turned out; and I believe --

money you Se

me ;
_may God dispose the hear

ristian friends, to cal

towards the relief of my starring neighb,

JAMES JONES

To Alexander M'Coy, Town Missionar
153, Bedford-street, Park.

LIVERPOOL THE PRINCIPAL PORT OF THE
UNITED KINGDOM.

From a return moved for by Mr. Cardwell and published
on Wednesday, exhibiting the amount of tonnage, British
and foreign, inwards and outwards, at 12 of the principal

)
since the general peace, up to theak close of 1845, we derive
the gratifying information that the port of LiVerpool has
at length reached the point of supremacy over all her ri-
.

the total tonnage of London, inwards and outward...,
1,247,873 tons, and in 1845 2,688,897 tons, showing an i
crease of 1,441,024 tons. In 1816, the tonnage of Liver-
pool was 642,063 tons ; and in 1845, 2,819,014 tons, show-
ing an increase of 2,176,951 tons, the business of this port
having thus more than quadrupled itself, whilst that of
London has only a little more than doubled itself. Liver-
pool in 1845 was 130,117 tons above London; and the re-
sult of last year has probably improved our relative posi-
tion.nock THh6,e.3n3eott
toinncsr;easGe
Glasgow, 197451
Newcastle, is is 1,158,816 tons;
of Hull, 506,773 tons •; Southampton, 263,665 tons ; Gree-
-80,443 tons ; Leith, 58,888 tons ; Dublin
Belfast, 61,734't0ns ; and Cork, 29,659 tons.
to
It will be satisfactory observe
how very large a pro
portion of the total increase,tons Bristol.
52,
of tonnage has been an in-
crease of British as compared with foreign shipping; for
example, out of the total increase in London and Liver-
pool, viz., 1,441,024 tons at the former, and 2,176,951 at
the latter port, the proportions of 932,443 and of 1,414,659
respectively have arisen fr.,.,, of

shipping.

LADIES INDUSTRIAL COMMITTEE FOR THE
RELIEF OF THE POOR OF IRELAND AND
SCOTLAND.
A meeting of ladies was held in the Lyceum, Bold-
street, on Monday, the 22d March, at which the Rev.
Mr. Pollock presided, when it was resolved—
That a committee be formed, to be entitled " The
Ladies Industrial Committee for the relief of the existing
destitution in Ireland and Scotland, through the enctm-

)mestic mane.

actures

e this object a sale be opened at the
building a room has been most kindly