The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

..„ ...-. ... ~econa minds, have
„„.. ....., sow, from 33s 647; for cow brown to fine yellow.
Foreign.—There is still a very good export ingniry for Havana
and Brazil, the sales of which amount during the week to 1600
boxes of the former, ordinary to go2d yellcw at from 42s 6d to
445 6d, and 120 cases and 3000 bags of the latter, at from 38s 6d
to 39s 6d for ordinary to middling brown; 200 hlids. Porto
Rico and 230 bap Savanilla have been taken for consumption.
Molasses continue very much.cleprested, ancl to make snipe howled the immerhete ..,....,+. -4. ,

ue suomitteu to ; the sates are about 250 casks, Cuba Musco-
vado (indirect) at 17s 6d, and Montserrat and Antigua, from
17s for the former to 20s per cwt. for the latter.
Coffee.—There is no improvement in the

[0 not exceed 120 tierces ; for really fine and
iry qualities prices are well supported, but
riptions are neglected. Of Foreign, the sales

the middling desci
are 300 bags Lagi
and 50 brls Porto ]
450 bags black Pepper are repot
Rice has been dull, the sales are only .2000 bags, at 14s 3d to
14s fid for broken, and 16s for fine table, being a decline of Is
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very dull, without change

Tea.—The market during the week has again been quiet, the
trade purchasing very sparingly, but no alteration in prices
can be quoted.

The sales of East India Drysaltery articles are unimportant.
In Saltpetre 2000 bags have been disposed of at 26s 6d to 31s,
and only •small parcels of Nitrate of Soda at 12s 9d to 13s

per cwt
Guano.-200 tons inferior Ichahoe were forced off by auction
at lower prices, but good qualities remain steady, although
little has been done.
CoThen
sales of Dyewoods are too trifling to notice
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No tran-

__ ___ . ....pentme or in Tar, but prices re-
Am unaltered.-Of American Rosin, 700 to 800 brls have been
old at previous prices.—Montreal Pot Ashes of the new im-
port have found -buyers in small parcels, at 30s per cwt. No
sales in Montreal Pearls. The market for Hides continues '
dull, and no business of moment has transpired.
The purchases in Brimstone amount to about 100 tons, at full
prices.—Of Sumac, about 500 bags, of recent import, from Pa-
lermo, brought 12s 6d, and 50 bags Tyrolese lOs "64 per cwt.—
Nothing worthy of notice done in Argols or Tartar.—•A small
lot of Flag Annatto was sold at 53d per lb, and 10 bales Persian
':.—There has been some in-
'es have been made at prices
•.....q, according to quality.-40 bales
n Roots brought 40s, and 70 bales Pombay 28s per clst.
small sales have been made in Olive Oil, at previous
ales of Seal Oil have taken place, at full prices, Asir . ..iont and /then.—
_.. .=-27 per tun.—Pale
. Rape and Linseed Oils are description of Goat, Rheumatic
ithout charm.:-s.—Oil of Turpentine is again bawo, Tic Doloreux, Pains in the
n paid..--Palin Oil.—The sales bag o,
to 434 lOs per ton, the de-
... IS take only small parcels for ing from ex-perience, as
rit unsettled state of trade and improved state of Medical Scien
,ales have only been 5 tons Riga remedy ever discovered for then
~ •'2215s per ton, which, nued authenticated proofs of d,
are 'recommended to theonaefiloieftetl
at this season of
—a—Tallow is more in- „,,,Q,A;eitd e .to the Proprietor, fr
the year, and Peters- --
~9 steady at 49s to 49s 6d; several parcels of
dom n
—can sold briskly, at auction, at 46s to 48s 6d per ing sale,
~--,tArd is steady; the sales this week have ranged from 45s raided, fully warrant the' ass
ad fromnd demand all
fo classesr otiflesm oci a
el
for inferior up to 50s for fine quality, and 100 kegs are re- , subject to such complaints will, a
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ported at 52s per cwt.
'out them. Sold by all Medicine
The Grain market is dull; Wheat, 3d per 701bs ; Flour, 2s
fir Box Observe the none o
barrel, and Indian Corn, 5 per quarter lower than this P- - • ~
per .. - • •
. Strand, London, on the Covert
.lay week.

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tnd being still good ; but buyer
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Tun IRON DUKE.—The Atlas, speaking of the re-
ported marriage between the Duke of Wellington and
Miss Burdett Coutts, says,—" There is no longer any
doubt that the preliminary arrangements are nearly com-
pleted."
At Osborne House a rural fete" was given on Saturda week, in honour of the birth of Prince Alfred The Grand Duke Constantine of Russia, who had been visiting her
Majesty at Osborne, returned to town on Saturday. On
Sunday the Queen and Prince Albert attended divine ser-
vicein Whippingharn Church. Her Majesty held a Privy
Council on Tuesday at Osborne House, at which it was
ordered that parliament should be prorogued until the 12th
of October.

Lord George Bentinck is the second son of the
Portland, and is a major in the army. -Lord
born in 1802, and has been in parliament sins
MATRIMONIAL FESTIVITIES.-011 Tu
Ferrand, Esq., of Hari

ried to the lion. Fanny Mary Stuart, second Claus..
Lieutenant-General the late Lord Blantyre. The happy
event was celebrated in Bingley on a scale of liberalit
which did great credit to Mr. Ferrand. Early
morning the parish church bells sent forth a merry peal.
which was repeated at intervals during the whole of the
day. About noon Mr. Ferrand's troop of cavalry (in
number about fifty) began to muster, and paraded the
streets for some time under the command of Sergeant
M`Gowan. The town was also enlivened by two bands of
music.

the

A SHARK IN TILE MEDITERRANEAN.
extraordinary for the Mediterranean, has recem,...,
at Corfu. A few days ago, her Majesty's steam-t,_
Ardent, which arrived here on the 25th ult., with the Corfu
mail, had a part of her crew bathing alongside—oth-
persons of the place were bathing among them—whe•
dorsal fin of a large fish (no doubt a shark) e
above water. The shark struck a lad of the
the breast; it immediately afterwards seize "
belonging to the Ardent) by the hack
bore him down. The Ardent immedip'
but the sufferer did hot rise again.
struck struck was taken on board his sl-
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