The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 r

the intelligence of the settlement of the I
should have any effect on our Cotton Marl

the signing of the treaty by the fly

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but so

Dwers seems to guarante,

the peace of Europe, and has given a tone of confidence to
the market, inducing several speculators to operate, so that
we have to report upon 3000 bales, which is, for Tuesday,
considered a fair extent of business ; 1000 to speculators, at

the full prices of yesteaday ; the market closing with greater

firmness

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

TUESDAY,

MARCH 23,

Harvest Home, Muirhead, from St. John's, N. 8., at Cove, for
this port
Douglas, Brew, hence for Charente, at Waterford, to repair da-
mage to rudder, &c.
James M'Queen, Philip, hence at Trinidad
Brooke, Adam, hence at Jamaica
Elizabeth, Stone; Thunder, Small; and Water Witch, Robertson,
hence at Leghorn
Coronation, Scott, hence at llelvoet

Jane, -, hence for Constantinople, off Cape Spartel 3d instant
Kentrille, Hughes, hence' at Donegal, with best bower anchor
and part of forerigging carried away by a schooner with which she
came in contact 14th instant

Caroline, Kirkpatrick, hence for l3allyshannon, at Killybegs, with
loss of maintopgallantinast and rigging

ROCK HARMONICOS.—This exhibition closes this week.
Those who have not vet heard it must take time by the fore-
lock. We perceive that there will be a dance to its enliveninT,
sounds on Thursday evening. This will be a novelty indeed.
LIVERPOOL GAS BILL.—The bill to legalize the creation
of new capital by the Old Gas Company, passed the commit-
tee of the House of Commons on Friday; but in a shape
modified to meet the views of the deputation of consumers,
and to place this company upon a par, as to its powe
the new company. The most material cl

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public have gained, through the interference of the gentle-
men deputed to watch the measure, are those which restrict
the rate of profit which the proprietors are entitled to receive
for their investment to 10 per cent. per annum, and fix seven
shillings as the maximum price which they are allowed to
charge the consumer. In case the nett profits produce at
any time more than will be sufficient to pay a dividend of
10 per cent., the surplus is to be funded, in the first instance
to meet any unforeseen contingencies ; but if such surplus
accumulates to any greater sum than £6000., a rateable re-
duction is to be made in the price of gas, so as to bring down
the profits of the company to the maximum amount of 10 per
cent. To enable the consumer to ascertain what are the
profits derived and to prevent any evasion of this clause, a
statement of income and expenditure is to be made out an-
nual,ly and lodged with the Clerk of the Peace for the inspec-
tion of the public. A clause sought to be introduced into
the bill, to place the expellee of taking up arid removing the
pipes belonging toile company upon the consumer, was after
a short discussion, negatived by the committee, as tending to
deter parties at present supplied with gas by this company
from going to another market; and in this respect therefore
the powers of the new and the old company remain alike. A
number of other clauses were also negatived by consent ; but
we understand that most of them involved only minor details,
and that their loss is not considered as materially damaging
the bill.

THE ATTEMPTED MURDER AT LUDLOW.—Misters. who,
will shortly take his trial for the attempted murder of Mr.
Mackreth, is likely to escape, as we hear that the principal
witness, Mr. Cook, of the Angel Inn, Ludlow, is unfortu-
nately an inmate of Gloucester Asylum.—Bristol Mirror.

DIOCESE OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL.—We feel much
gratification in being enabled to state that the lord bishop of
this diocese has made arrangements for consecrating, in tho
ensuing month, the undermentioned new churches, fur three
of which we are indebted to the Diocesan Church Building
Society :-1. The church recently erected near King's Pa-
rade, Clifton ; 2. that at High Orchard, Gloucester ; 3. that
in Barton-street, Gloucester ; 4. that at White's Hill, Stroud.

PROVIDENTIAL RESCUE.—During the squall yesterday
morning, (Monday,) a small gig boat was upset about five
miles beyond the Rock. The owner, Benjamin Davies and
his three men, James and Henry Martindale (brothers,) and
William Blundell remained clinging to the boat for more
than half an hour, when they were providentially rescued
from their perilous situation by the steamer Glasgow, from
Drogheda. The above individuals rescued the crew of the
Lord Nelson, wrecked in January last, who, it will be re-
membered, were sent in a deplorable condition to the Work-
house. One good turn has thus obtained another.
STEALING FROM A PUBLIC-HOUSE.—John Rae, a young
man, was charged yesterday, at the Police Court, with steal-
ing a copper spirit-can. Police-officer Hilsborough, No.
420, saw the prisoner at the gate of the Victoria Dock quay
with the can, which he endeavoured to conceal under his
jacket. Enquiry was made, and it was found that it had been
taken from the house of Wm. Norman, publican, corner of
Crompton-street, Waterloo-road, and was the property of
John Sixsmith. The prisoner said he had picked it up in the
street. He was committed for trial.

TUE LATE ATTEMPT TO MURDER AT MANCHESTER--
William Hampson, the man who last week made a desperate
attempt at murder upon a female named Frances Bostock,
living with him as his wife, was brought up before Mr.
Maude, having been remanded till that day to see if the un-
fortunate woman would sufficiently recover to attend the
court for the purpose of giving evidence. Mr. Beswick told
the magistrate that the woman still continued in a very dan-
gerous state, and he understood there was little probability
of her recovery. Under these circumstances he wished to
have the prisoner further remanded. Mr. Maude ultimatell,,
remanded the man till to-morrow.

rAILURES IN LONDO

—Within the last three c:

have had a many failures, the aggregate amount of -rhos
liabilities is estimated at no less than £200,000. They ar

all respectable firms, connected with the produce marfiete,
chiefly tea, and one has helped to pull down the other. The
serious depreciation in the value of most descriptions of pro-
duce, amounting to 20s. per cwt. on sugar within a few weeks,
and to about 30 per cent. on tea, are causes themselves suffi-
cient to account for these unfortunate reverses : but we must
at the same time remark, that the tea trade has been affected,
in addition, to a very serious extent by the extensive, and,
in many cases, wild speculations entered into; for if houses
of old standing and acknowledged wealth do not themselves
share in it, their connexions often do, and thus involve therm
in the common loss.—Shipping Gazette.

INDIAN BOATMEN.—Their continued severe labour be-
come a source of painful interest. Now drenched to the
skin in swattering through a shallow pool in which they
tracked up to the middle in water ; now plunging into 20
foot water to swim to the pinnace and push her off the bank
on which she had grounded ; anon threading in single file
the steep bank which crumbled under their feet, beating the
billows into yellow foam, and again coming on board for a
short space only to tug at the oar in their shallop ahead till a
favourable towing path again presented itself. And all this
toil, all this exposure, for a mere subsistence of the coarsest
rice, with now and then a little fish.—Society in India.

THE REPORTFD DESTRUCTION OF THE FALLS OF Nl-
AGARA.—Although the account of the removal of the Falls
of Niagara is prononnced to be a hoax, their destruction was.

predicted many years ago by Lyall,in h. • IS
ography ; " and the causes,_ the progress, the coecurre,.. ,
and its consequences,aasrier
tclaielmlyand_ clearly laid down ii,
that ingenious work'
similar events, and had been as
authormuch has i beenlia r
is
ead spectatorw with them,
mot,
by the every day occurrences of life, as he was by his ordi::
nary studies in the exterior construction of our globe. Ile
there proves that the event is but the latest (perhaps not last)
of a series of disembankments, caused, in the lapse of ages,
by the weight and impetus of the Superior waters, which have
reduced the mighty inland fresh water seas of North Americ'
(from the Falls down to its mighty embrouchure in th-
in the narrow but still stately limits of the river St. Lawrenct
and he proceeds to assert that in the consequent progress o
drainage, caused by the removal of the great barrier at Nia-
gara, the regions now covered by the upper and lower lakes
will become solid fertile land, intersected by a river, their
sole remains, from such i
point, if there be any such, where
the elevation of the bottom to a certain height will present
a.
barrier to the waters lying beyond it ; until, in the process
of time, and by the operation of existing causes, that barrier
and barrier after barrier, shall have given way,
watery waste of blue waters be succeeded by and the now
magnificent valley of undualating hills and wide1111
spread immense and
covered with green pastures, ted
and inhabited plains.
by man and
beast. 1

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