The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-07-06 00:00:00

LONDON MONEY MARKET,

SATURDAY EVENlNG.—Notwithstanding the banking
failures which have occurred in town and country, followed,
as usual, with sinister rumours of other mischief of the same
sort, or trading embarrassments resulting, the funds con-
tinue steady, and even with a shade of improvement. Con-
sols were 891 to for the opening. Exchequer Bills 14s. to
16s. premium. Bank Stock 1681 to 91.
The quotations of Foreign Stocks remain much the same.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 511 to 4, the Five per
Cents 100 to 1. Belgian 100 to 1. Spanish Active with the
Coupons 211 to 2. Portuguese Five per Cents 311 to 2, the
Three per Cents 19 to 1, both ex dividend, the ten shillings
in the pound conversion juggle bonds 27 to Brazilian
67 to 8. Mexican 271 to /. Colombian 201 to 11.
The accounts received from Liverpool this afternoon give
the stock of Cotton at 587,800, against 433,300 bales at this
time last year. The sales of the week have been 29,230 bales,
and the imports this year 717,702 bales. The imports this
week are 20,489 bales. The demand is represented has hav-
ing materially improved, and the consumption has been re-
cently above the average. The supply of American qualities
has rather decreased, and they have risen in consequence id
to +d per lb ; Brazil sorts have also been firmer.
Indigo continues in very limited demand, but prices are
fully sustained, and likely to continue so until the sale of
the 13th inst., which is now increased to 13,307 chests. As
yet, little more than 8,000 chests are ready for inspection,
among which is an unusually large proportion of good and
middling consuming qualities; the remainder are in course
of landing, and will with difficulty be got zeady in time to
see them correctly. Lac Dye improves in demand for home
use as well as for exportation, but prices remain without
alteration ; the importation, however, falls off considerabiy,
which causes holders to be less disposed to sell at present
rates. Ssltpetre is more in demand, but prices have given
way a little at the recent public sales, and holders are now
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more firm. Nitrate of Soda is n every limited request, but
prices, however, do not give way. Brimstone is rather
more in demand, and higher prices are demanded. Dye-
woods —Logwood is less in request, but prices are fully
supported. Fustie is in more moderate demand, and prices
arc firm. Barwood is scarcely enquired for. Camwood
goes off in small quantities,
in at full prices. Saunders Wood
is exceedingly dull, and prices nominal. Lima and Nica-
ragua Woods continua limited demand, but prices are
fully sustained. Sapan Wood meets a ready sale, at full
prices.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

PROMOTIONS

Rev. John Dawson Hull, 8.A., to be Chaplain to the
Duchess of Gordon, and Minister to the Episcopalian Con-
gregation in Huntly, North Britain.
Rev. Edw. Stanley Bosanquet, 8.A., late of Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, to the Rectory of Bolingbroke with Hareby,
Lincolnshire, void by the cession of the Rev. Robt. William
Bosanquet ; patron, C. Bosanquet, Esq.
Rev. Thomas Martin Ready, 8.C.L., of Catharine Hall,
Cambridge, to the Vicarage of Mountuessing. Essex, void
by the cession of the Rev. John Bluck.

Rev. J. W. Donaldson. Fellow of Trinity College, Cam -
bridge, to be the Head Master of the Royal Free Grammar
School of Bury St. Edmund's, void by the promotion of .the
Rev. John Edwards to the Greek Professorship and Stall, at
Durham. _ - . -.—

Rev. Joseph Wright, M.A., to the Rectory of Congham,
Norfolk ; patron, John Roper, Esq.
Rev. James Prosser, Perpetual Curate of Loudwater, Buck-
inghamshire, to the Vicarage of Thame, in this county, void
by the death of the Rev. J. T. Lee ; patron, Walter Long,
E Rev. E. H. Johnson, to the Vicarage of Poling, Sussex,
void by the death of the Rev. C. G. R. Kinsleside ; patron,
the Bishop of Chichester.
Rev. Henry Rogers, to the Vicarage of All Saints', Bris-
tol, void by the death of the Rev. Henry Green ; patrons,
the Dean and Chapter of Bristol.
Rev. Hamilton Sydney Beresford, M.A., late of Clare
Hall, Cambridge, to be the Incumbent of the New Church
of the Holy Trinity, at West Bromwich.

NON• COMPLIANCE WITH THE CENSUS RETURN.—OH
Monday last, at Newham petty sessions, the Rev. William
Black, rector of Blaisdon, in this county, was fined £5 and
costs. It appeared from the census paper, produced to the
bench by the enumerator, that the rev. gentleman had writ-
ten on it, as an excuse for not complying with the act of 3
and 4 Vic., cap. 99, the following :—" The person to whom
this paper was sent cannot conscientiously make any return,
as he considers it highly sinful to number the people. See
the 24th chap. of the 2d Book of Samuel, in the Holy Bible."
—Gloucester Journal. .

EXPLOSION AGAINST THE ROYAL GEORGE.—AII the
other preparations necessary for the first great explosion of
this year having been made on Tuesday last, Mr. George
Hall, the celebrated diver, was sent down about half-past
twelve o'clock, to examine the bottom previously to the
charge being lowered into the water, when, on descending
into the crater of a small charge, that had been fired the
evening before, he unexpectedly found a gun, to which he
attached chain slings, and came up again. Colonel Pasley,
who was on board No. 5 lump to superintend the operation,
directed that the gun should be got up even if the delay
thereby occasioned should require the explosion to be post-
poned. This, however, did not prove necessary. The gun
was brought up after Hall had attached a second pair of
slings to it, by means of the capstan and crab of that lump
working together ; after which the charge was lowered into
the water, and the same diver descending with it, placed it,
as originally proposed, at the bottom of the crater formed by
the small explosion before-mentioned, where he lashed it to
a pig of ballast, and came up again in six minutes. Colonel
Pasley then desired Lieutenant Hutchinson to go board No.
4 lump, where the voltaic battery was stationed, and when
he saw that all was ready, he gave the signal to fire by
sound of bugle, according to custom ; when, before the last
note was finished, an instantaneous explosion was known to
have taken place by a very violent shock, or rather two
blended into one, for such it:seemed, accompanied by a re-
port like that of a distant gun. By this time the tide was
running strong to the eastward, in consequence of the ope-
ration having been delayed about three-quarters of an hour
beyond the appointed hour by the recovery of the gun.
Hence, as several seconds always intervene after the explo-
plosion before its effects are seen at the surface, the strength
of the tide overpowered the risinr, column of water, and the
surface was merely raised in the form of a segment of a
sphere of very moderate height, which spread gradually
i the
round in a circular form to a considerable extent, black with
mud from the bottom ; and this upheaving, attended with
great commotion of the water, did not take place vertically
over position of the charge, but to the eastward of it.
e ce, though the effect at the bottom was no doubt as pow-
erful as could be desired, there was no column of water
thrown up
intothe air, as in Colonel Pasley's great explo-
sionsand gear;
of last
decks
that the numerous spectators partly
stationed on the de
s of the men of war anchored opposite,
boats,partly collected in
must have been disappointed
and other sailing vessels and
which could scarcely in the effect of the ex-
plosion.y repay the trouble of those who
came out merely to enjoy it
as a spectacle.