The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SANITARY 18, 1852.

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a distant coop, begins chuck, chi-a-
ith a hulla-bullo meant for a crow, and
are it, until the ears of the unfortunate
The individuals which (or who)
pleased me most were specimens of our own honest barn-
fowls—a recollection of favours received, at the expense
of several thousands of the species, may have something
to do with this partiality—some short-legged "chuckles,"
the impudent little Bantams, and two or three varieties of
foreign pigeons—the latter very curious not only in plu-
mage but in the sounds they make, the coo being different
altogether from those of English woods and wood-cotes.
The Cochin-china birds exhibited (beauties they are
termed !) are hideous creatures without tails—rudi-
mentary even—and otherwise vulgar and indecent.
They must belong to the ostrich gang, for they are
long on the legs and ungainly : their flesh, too, I know,
is coarse eating, unless you have a dainty chick, not more
than seven months old, in the pot. That consistent man,
brave soldier, and good farmer, the Duke of RICHMOND,
and sundry other nobs, were present at the time I speak of
(the private view) : the Duke piously ejaculated, "
pity thepnorman's family withintwoorthree milesof you,"
as an ancient Cochin China lad came out with his clarion.
Talking of the Duke of RICHMOND, his large accession of
fortune in Scotland, his residence there during the salutary
portion of the year, his " tak o' saumon," and the whisky
brewing and selling on his Scotch estates do not seem to
improve his looks, poor fellow ! Though a neat personage,
and careful of his appearance, the Duke tells an observant
eye he has " that within which passeth show." The spent
ball—foulest of foes in such a field—which struck his grace
when aid-de-camp to the THE DUKE at Waterloo, has
descended too near the ancle of RICHMOND, and tortures
him every now and then, as if lead were sensible of at-
mospheric change !
The draw of the pantomimes keeps the theatres in
statu quo, if I except Drury Lane, the lessee of which, a
spirited fellow, has introduced, as you see by the papers,
a domestic drama entitled " Gold," which, as far as it has
run, has put gold into the hitherto beggared treasury of
the establishment. The term " domestic," describes the
character of the piece—referring to life in England, and at
the gold diggings. It does not require a KEMBLE or a
SIDDONS, a KEAN or a MAcitEADY, not even a VANDEN.
HOFT to illustrate its point. The drama is not SHAKES-
PERIAN, be assured. Sweet WILLIAM'S statue still
stands over the principal entrance of Drury, as of old,—
yea, there is a military guard to give effect and respect-
ability to the performances, but SHAKESPEARE has been
declared a drug. The committee of the theatre, with
Lord GLENGALL at the head of it, though they have not
rated the Bard of Avon a bore, unhesitatingly say that
SHAKESPEARE now is all -

the whole 1

ring again

Your intelligent readers may supply the blank with the
Persian word " Bosh," the interpretation of which your
correspondent, not being, it is hoped, a vulgar one, with-
holds. The truth is, SHAKESPEARE'S plays cannot be
represented in their entirety any where,. not because,
as is frequently asserted, that the true SHAKESPERIAN
actors are not concentrated—they do not exist. CHARLES
KEAN, an actor, a scholar, and a gentleman, does SHAK-
' SPEARE. He (CHARLES) is cunning of fence—" a very
feather in the cap of youth"—skilled in all that can be
acquired ;—is he geniused does he evolve the deeper
and darker shades of the moody and philosophic PRINCE
OF DENMARK ? No. The ambitious -MACBETH ? Has
he grandeur for the Roman heroes ? If he had, who is to
support him ? CHARLES KEAN and his gifted wife, how-
ever, do much to sustain the poor embers of the legiti-
mate. Go to the theatre of SAMUEL PHELPS—Sadler's
WeIIs—PHELPS is good—passing goad—in your Rim-
MONDS, and there be many in the field. His taste and
lavish expenditure in " mounting" must also be extolled ;
but noble SAMUEL is not a S .akspearian Atlas any more
than CHARLES KEAN. Oh ! but there's JAMIE ANDER-
SON, the " celebrated tragedian," who has drawn great
houses in Grub-street that was. lone he did it. The prices
were small, and Mr. ANDERSON'S having a good salary, as
he had until the other day, when pantomime superseded
him, certainly proves a popular love for our immortal
bard, and that even under constrained circumstances—
in the dramatic world—one swallow may make a summer.
Of new dramas, many have been on the anvil for the last
two months, and several are now being read daily in the
green-rooms of the metropolitan theatres, to keep the
game alive after the first blush of the pantomimes has
faded. Meantime, as a fit pendant to the foregoing,
several of the newspapers, daily and weekly, political and
literary, have sent in their relinquishment of the " pri-
vilege" of wilting orders. To the which I say, bravo !

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?RCIAL

4 iND 3ZONE

ARY NEWS,

MONDAY NIGHT

CONSIDERABLE fluctuation has taken place during
the week in the value of public securities, arising,
in the first instance, from the apprehension that the
directors of the Bank of England would make
another advance in the minimum rate of discount.
The arrival of the steamer Australian, from Mel-
bourne, with gold to the value, it is supposed, of
about a million, tended to allay this apprehension,
and the funds slightly rallied. Thursday passed
over without any alteration having been made by
the Bank directors, but the market was again
depressed, owing, no doubt, to the anxiety of small
holders and speculators to realise, through fear of a
further decline. The expectation which is now
generally entertained that a further advance in the
rate of interest by the Bank directors is still con-
templated, has naturally led to much anxious con-
sideration as to the present position of commercial
affairs, so as to arrive at some satisfactory conclusion
as to the prospects for the future. There can be no
doubt that there is a considerable amount of floating
capital, for which the sources of remunerative
investment are comparatively limited, and this
state of affairs almost necessarily results in
a system of speculation which must prove dis-

astrous in some quarters. The large receipts of
gold from Australia should have the effect of
allaying any apprehension of a deficiency in the
circulating medium, but there are various counter-
acting causes which as yet have appeared to pre-
dominate. The large shipments of gold to Russia,
and also of sovereigns to Australia for the purchase
of gold, have tended to lessen the stock of bullion
in the bank coffers, as shown by the weekly returns ;
while the increased employment and advance in
wages and in prices generally throughout the coun-
try, must operate in the same direction. The in-
creasing spirit of speculation inducing parties to
hold for an advance, must have led to increased re-
quirements for accommodation, all tending to en-
hance the rate of discount, and forcing upon the
attention of the Bank Directors the necessity of
providing against still further demands upon them,
before their decreasing resources shall have rendered
the application of the screw a measure of doubtful
prudence, We have before directed attention to
the mania for speculation which prevails in the Iron
trade, and for which no sufficient reason has yet been
adduced other than that spirit of gain which has
been fostered by reports of the large sums realised
by those who first embarked in it. We observe,
that at the meetings of the iron-masters held last
week, they adhered to the recent advance in prices,
but the circumstances we have before alluded to
could not fail to have a counteracting tendency, and
as we predicted last week, this market could not
stand long in its unnatural and dangerous position.
We have now to record a decline in the value of
Scotch Pigs of several shillings per ton, 655. being
the nearest figure, though at this decline there could
be found but few purchasers. We hear of all being
not quite right with a heavy speculator, but it is
hoped that the matter may be arranged. We must,
however, again warn the public who have been in-
duced to speculate in this article, to beware of the
inevitable consequences, the marked decline being
merely a question cf time. In other metals, such as
lead, copper, and tin, there has been a considerable
advance in value, but much of this may be attributed
to the improved demand and the falling off in supplies,
owing to the flooding of the mines by the late rains.
In COLONIAL PRODUCE the firmness which was
apparent at the commencement of the year has not
been maintained, but the depression has not been
such as to excite any apprehension, while in Coffee
especially the opinion is generally entertained that
prices will go higher. The Cotton trade has been
on the whole of a far more satisfactory character
than for some time, as we have not only to note a
larger sale during the last week than for many
weeks preceding, but the fact that the greater part
of the increase in sales has been to the spinners,
would show that the consumption is increasing.
There is also less apprehension of the market being
affected by the great additional supplies which were
anticipated a short time since, as it is now more
generally believed that the ultimate yield of last
year's American crop will not be much, if any,
in excess of the moderate computations of it.
Exaggerated reports are always to be received with
caution
; and, when it is known that previous ad-
vances in value on this side had led to increased exer-
tions on the other side to take the earliest advantage
of the market, the excess in receipts might be ac-
counted for without referring it altogether to a more
This productive yield.
received
view
to-day
aeyn further t h
theer
con-
firmed by the reportsh
Ca-
nada, which tend to show that the yield is likely to
be of a moderate character, and the result has been
a considerable improvement in our market, the de-
mand being active both for consumption and for
speculation, and prices consequently looking up-
for the
thefollowing
up-
ward.
flreo ms t theh
January Bank o
gives England
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tindeitnug
results when compared with the previous week :

Public de posits .. £5,771,914; Decrease£3,494.42B
Other deposits .. 14,310,648; Increase 1,316,696
Rest 3,176,619; Increase 62,695

On the other side of the account—
Goveinment securities 413, a 870,796 ; Decrease.. £90,895
e 203
—0 Other securities 15,095,533 ; Decrease.. ? , .
Notes unemployed :: 9,809,480; Deer ease. 1,151,015
The amount of notes in circulation is £23,360,685,
being an increase of £307,175 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £19,765,621, show-
ing a decrease of £762,041 when compared with
the preceding return,