The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

PENINSULAR MAILS

The Tagus steam-ship, with the above mails, arrived at
Southampton at 5 o'clock this morning.
Her advices from Gibraltar are to the 15th instant ;
Cadiz, 16th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ; and Vigo, 20th.
The Tagus brings a large cargo of fruit and specie,
value £3,371.
The breaking of the main shaft on the 22,1 is the cause
of her late arrival.

Lisbon : Exchange on London 54.1, for bills at 90 days

The mails left Southampton by the 6 40 a.m. train

LONDON.

Taos MARKET.—Scotch Pig showed considerable reco-
very yesterday from the recent fall. Many buyers of
Pig at 655. per ton, and no sellers under GGs. The Times
says the English manufacturing towns' report again indi-
cated, from the slight effect produced by the further rise
in the rate of discount, the healthful state of affairs that
prevails generally.

LONDON STOCK AND SHARE MARKET.
THIS DAY, ONE O'CLOCK.
THE FUNDS.—Consols for Account, 99 ; Ditto for
Money, 994 ; Three and Quarter per Cents., 1031-y ;
Exchequer Bills, L and S, 57 61.
RAILWAY SHARES.—London Stock, 1201 20 ; Mid-
land Stock, 771 I- ; North Staffordshire, 13a ; Great
Northern, 761, A 401.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
East Lancashire, 181; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 79 ;
London stock. 1201 20; Midland, 771 ; Dovers, 23,1;
Preston and \%yre A halves, 111.

LEEDS STOCK EXCHANGE.—THIS DAY.
NOON QUOTATIONS.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 7SI ; London stock, 1191
Rovers, 231; Sheffield pref., 11 ; N".-Western, 8 1-16.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
Kossuth, from Calcutta ; and Elizabeth, from Coringa,
both at Deal, 24th instant.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET
The market was held this morning, for the first time, in
the new building in Brunswick-street. There was a good
attendance of buyers, and an average amount of business
was done in Wheat and Flour, at fully the closing prices
of last week. Oats and Oatmeal, as well as Indian Corn,
had a downward tendency, the turn being in favour of the
buyer. In other articles we have no alteration to note.

,---THIS DAY.

THE PRINCE ARTHUR EMIGRANT SHIP.

This fine vessel left the Canning Basin on Friday
morning, her total number of passengers being 520 souls,
equal to 458 adults. In consequence of the confusion
ordinary on starting so large a vessel, a few of the pas-
sengers experienced some discomfort, and, to the surprise
of every one concerned, a letter appeared in the ,4//!pit,
making complaints of the treatment received. Some
inquiry took place, and we give the following letter, signed
by the same individuals who signed the letter of com-
plaint :

TO WM. SHARP, ESQ., 31. M. WALTHEW, ESQ., AND
CAPTAIN SUTHERLAND.
DEAR SlRS,—Hearing you are aggrieved by the letter
in the Albion, we beg most distinctly to absolve you from
any blame ; and, from what has since occurred, we think
that all will pass pleasantly with the passengers on board
the Prince Arthur.—We are, dear Sirs, yours', obediently,
LEWIS SAMPSON.
Jan. 24, 1353, War. AUSTIN.
On board the Prince Arthur, off the Bell Buoy.
The Prince Arthur sailed yesterday, for Melbourne,
with a fair wind.

THE MASONIC BALL.—The preparations are going for-
ward with vigour, and already the application for tickets
have been numerous. Amongst the visitors who have
promised their attendance, are Lord and Lady Comber-
mere, the Hon. Major and Mrs. Wellington Cotton, and
the Hon Miss Cotton, the Rev. Gilmore Robinson,
D.P.G.M., West Lancashire, Mr; Stephen Blair, D. G.M.,
East Lancashire, Mr. Matthew Dawea, P.P.G.S.W.,
East Lancashire, Mr. Thomas Litt!edale, P.G.J.W., West
Lancashire, Mr. Albert H. Royd, P.G.J.W., East Lan-
cashire, Mr. W. C. Cruttenden. P.G.R., Cheshire, and
Sir Joshua Walmsley, Knight, M.P.

MALICIOUSLY STABBING.—On Thursday, Timothy
Conolly was committed to trial for maliciously stabbing
Henry Doubleday, under the following circumstances :
Conolly is a carter, in the employ of William Mooney, and
resides in No. 6 court, Blackstock•street, and on Wednes-
day afternoon v, as engaged, along with the prisoner and
two other men, in emptying a midden attached to Mr.
Lane's brewery, in Oriel-street. Between two and three
o'clock Mooney came into the yard, and finding the men
not at work, he complained, upon which the prisoner be-
came angered, and demanded his wages. Mooney asked
the prisoner to resume his work, but, instead of doing so,
the prisoner seized him by the collar, struck him, and tore
his coat. Doubleday and the other men, on witnessing
this, went to the assistance of Mooney, upon which Conolly
seized a " yielve," or manure fork, and struck Doubleday
on the body with it, two of the prongs of the fork inflicting
large wounds on the breast. An officer was called, and the
prisoner was given into custody. The prisoner, in ex-
tenuation of the offence, said Mooney had used abusive
words to him, and when he (the prisoner) asked him to
pay him, and allow him to go, if he was dissatified, Mooney
struck him in the eye with a brick, and in making a blow
at him with a fork, it struck Doubleday.
A BRACE OF BORES.—In every society you will find a
person who will talk and a person who will interrupt.
The worst is, the one is not a corrective of the other, for
the talkative bore invariably talks when he is not wanted
to talk., and the interruptative bore will interrupt at the
very period when he is least wanted to interrupt.—Punch.
THE ACHILLI CASE.—The application for a new trial
in the case of Achilli v. Newman has been argued before
the Court of Queen's Bench, and the judgment postponed.

FREEMASONRY.—On Thursday, the usual monthly
meeting of the Ancient Union Lodge, 24.5, of Freemasons,
was held at the Royal Hotel, Dale-street, when Brother
Charles Hand was installed as worshipful master for the
present year ; Brother R. Shaw was appointed senior
warden, and Brother Thomas Simpson as junior warden.
The worshipful master Brother Hand addressed the lodge
upon the principles of Freemasonry, and referred to the
course he should pursue in order to develope as fully as
possible the virtues of Masonry. His views were warmly
supported by several old and respected masons.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—A somewhat serious
accident occurred on the Great Northern line on Friday,
to the train which leaves Leeds at 12.40 p.m. The train
had arrived near Womersley-station, about ten miles north
of Doncaster, when by some means, not yet accounted for,
the engine got off 'the line, and, after ploughing up the
earth for some yards, brought the carriages to a standstill
by a violent shock, which greatly alarmed and partially
injured the passengers, of whom there were about 20 in the
train. To the engine-driver and stoker the consequences
were more serious, the right lag of the former being greatly
mutilated, and the latter being very much bruised and
hurt. They are both now lying at Womersley. A horse,
in a horse-box, next the engine, was so scalded and muti-
lated, that it had to be killed on the spot. All the passen-
gers were greatly terrified, but as yet we have not learnt
hat any of them had sustained any injury. Th 3 debris of
he train still remain on the line.

RATHER.. TOO NICE.—A strict teetotaller of our ae
quaintance lately refused a most eligible match, on the
ground that the young lady had such an amazing flow of
animal'spirits.

AN latsramANT who had married when he was about
nineteen years of age, complaining of the difficulties to
which his early marriage subjected him, said " he would
never marry so young again, if he lived to be as old as
Mothusalem."

iANECDOTE Or THE DUKE OF PORTLAND.—In the
divisions of Ayrshire called Kyle and Cuninghame, where
his Grace's estates are situated, many anecdotes are cur-
rent which illustrate the kindliness of his noble nature,
and his sympathy for the humble poor. Often, while
spending a portion of the summer at one of his country
seats, he would wander out in a suit of homely grey
cloth, just like a decent farming-man, and thus mingling
with the people incognito, he learned not a few of those
trials and sorrows which he had it in his power to alle-
viate. One forenoon he was forced by a sudden shower
to take age in a cottar's house, where the gudewife was
busily engaged in the manufacture of oaten cakes ; and
as ho seemed a " decent, weelfaured body," to adopt her
own words, the frank but unsuspecting dame entered
warmly into conversation with her visitor—gave him a
good seat by the fire—proffered him a piece of her oaten
cake—and became wondrously familiar on the subject of
her poor husband John, " a man wha had been in his
Grace's service for three-and-thretty years, and wha,
though sairly bowed down and bent, bad to work in these
a'-day rains, else his wages wad be stopped ; which, of
course, he was ower puir to afford." The rain still con-
tinuing, and apparently not intending to stop in a hurry,
the stranger solicited the loan of an umbrella, as he was
desirous of walking to his destination, a mile or two dis-
tant. The good woman thought this a bold stroke rather
for one she had never seen before; but expressing her
belief in the plainest Scotch that be had " a gag honest-
looking face," she, after a slight hesitation, went the
length of risking the big family umbrella with him. An
hour afterwards a servant on horseback returned the
precious article along with " his Grace's compliments."
As may be imagined, the honest dame felt all of a flutter,and at night, when John came home, she told him the
tale, asking for advice as to how she might rectify the
terrible blunder, which the poor folks imagined would do
them serious harm. Their fears, happily, proved ground-
less ; and when the faithful old cottager was sent for by
the agent, at the end of the week, it was to hear the
agreeable tidings that, by orders of the Duke, he was to
have a pension for the remainder of his life equal to his
earnings, and that he would be expected only to do little
odd turns about the property when he had n mind so to
do.—Notes from the North.