The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

LONDON COMMERCIAL REPORT

'WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The leading auctions in pro-
duce, to-day, were those of East India Sugar, which went off
rather heavily.

The publicsales of Tea were continued again to-day, and
brought to a close. Of 22,122 packages otifred, 11,700
packages were actually sold. There was a good dial of dul-
ness in the biddings, and prices were Id to d per lb lower
to-day on Congou as compared with the rates we gave yes-
terday, and on Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, as much
as Id to 2d per lb. ongou ranged from is 71 for coarse
new and mixed leaf, up to 2s 2d for Pekoe flavour. Pouchong
brought is 64d to is 92d. Souchong middling mixed leaf
Is 7d to is 91, and fine blackish 3s 61d to 3s 71. Pekoe,
Is 12d to 3s ; orange Pekoe 2s 2d for good, to 2s 9-; fcr
fine. Twankay, yellowish leaf, Is 72 to Is lld for Hyson
kind. Hyson 2s 02d for coarse to 4s 6d; for finest briAt
leaf, young Hyson, 2s to 3s Ord ; Imperial mid coarse 2s 62d
to 2s 9d ; and good mid brightish 2s Ild to 3s ; mid coarse
Gunpowder 2s 6d to 2s 8d ; and good mid to good bright
3s 2d to 4s I Id per lb.
Commercial advices from St. Petershurgh, under date of
May 4, give the sales of produce as follows :-200 casks Yel-
low Candle Tallow on the spot at at 38 roubles per berkowez
cash on delivery ; also 250 ponds Seschka Hemp, first quality,
at 31 3-7 roubles per berkowez.

Lord Palmerston has communicated through Mr. Bu-
chanan, the British cunsul at New York, the thanks of her
Majesty's government, to Captaimi, VVotten, of the ship
Rhone, Thompson, of the Stephen W hitney, Cropper, of the
Columbus, and Depeyster, of the Sheridan, for their praise-
worthy conduct in saving the crews
is the
English vessels,
and also has signified to them that it the intention of her
Majesty's government to present to each of them a gold
medal, as soon as the die, which is now in preparation, shall
be finished.

GRETA BRIDGE.—Awrim OCCURRENCE.--OR Thersday
evening (13th inst.), between five and six, the villages of
Londonderry, near Bedale, was thrown into the utmost state
of alarm by a female running out of the house of one Robin-
son, a gardener, covered with blood, and fainting on the
road, who turned out to be the gardener's wife, whom her
husband had nearly killed. On some persons going up to
the house, a most shocking spectacle presented itself. The
son of the unfortunate man lying dead, murdered by the
hands of his father ; the father himself pacing the room with
a gun in his hands, no one daring to approach the house ;
bnt in a few minutes the report of a gun was heard, and on
entering the house, the maniac (for what else can we call
him) was found weltering in his blood, with his head nearly
blown off. But faint hopes are entertained of the recovery
of his wife, whom he had mutilated to a shocking degree.
The two corpses of the father and son were interred o❑ Sa-
turday last. The rumour is that the cause of the melan-
choly affair was the loss of his place, combined with a series
of misfortunes that had reduced him, or was likely to do so,
to a state of poverty.—Tyne Mercury.

- - - - -
A SLIGHT MISTAKE. AT COURT.—The Marquis of
Downshire, accompanied by the Marquis of Abercorn, the
members for Down, Antrim, Derrv, Belfast, and other
northern counties and towns, with Dr. Cooke, the great
champion of anti. repeal, attended her Majesty's levee on
Wednesday last, for the purpose of presenting an address
agreed upon at the great Ulster meeting, when Lord Polti-
more, the lord in waiting, in an audible voice announced*-
" The Marquis of Downshire, to present an address in
favour of the repeal of the union. Her Majesty was
pleased to receive the same most graciously. " In favour "-__
" in favour," was muttered through the ranks of the asto-
nished northerns ; and the nohlrmarquis, deviating a little
from the cold formality of such occasions, proceeded to read
a few words of " the pith" of the address, with an emphatic
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quite so graciously received. Whether, in the commence-
went, " the wish was father to the thought"
io„ius, we know not ; but he certainly with this Po-
the pros and cons better, and we trust
should have known
relieved from the arduous duties of
hi
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