The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-07-05 00:00:00

PAILTDIENT,

Gov. securities.£l3,llB,olo
Other securities 13,705,389
Notes .... ... 9,563,325
Gold & silt'. coin 470,404

£36,857,128

COTTON.—The demand for consumption has
only been checked by the fears of war and a further
turn-out by the operatives. The sales, on the
whole, have been large, and prices have been well
supported, the advices from the other side of the
Atlantic confirming the previous accounts. Stocks
in the hands of spinners are very short, and when
confidence is restored, there is no doubt that prices
will go much higher. On Saturday the sales
amounted to 8000 bales, of which about 3.000 were
on speculation and for export. TO-DAY the
Canada's advices were still more in favour of
holders, and the sales reached 10,000 bales, of
which 4000 were on speculation and for export, at
very steady rates, and the market closed firmly.
PRODUCE.—There has been a steady demand for
all descriptions of Sugar, at full rates, but the de-
mand has been limited for foreign. No sales in
Molasses. For Coffee the demand continues steady.
Rice rather dearer. Rum has been in demand ;
further advance of id. per gallon, including high
strength, of a favourite mark, at 35., and Leewards
at is. 11d. per gallon proof. In Tea only a limited
business by private contract; at public sale of 7000
packages, 3000 with all faults sold at full prices,.
but the sound portion was withdrawn at much
beyond market rates. Saltpetre remains dull;
Nitrate of Soda rather lower. Olive Oil without
demand. Seal Oil rather lower. Seed Oils a little
more inquired for. Oil of Turpentine lower.
Palm Oil dearer; the sales amount to 690 tons on
the spot at £34 15s. to £36, and 1000 tons to
arrive at £35 to £36 per ton. For Tallow the de-
mand is good, and Petersburg Y.C. has advanced
to 518. per cwt. Petersburg clean Hemp £35 to
£35 lOs. per ton. Jute £l7 5s to £2O. per ton.
Tins DAY there was no particular change to notice
in Sugar; the demand was steady, the sales com-
prising 90 hhds. Barbadoes at 335. to 385., and 220
hhds. vacuum pan Demerara at 345. 6d. to 375. per
cwt. A small cargo, consisting of 200 puns. Cuba
muscovado Molasses, has been sold from the quay,
at 17s. 9d. per cwt. Of Rum, 35 puns. Demerara
realized very full prices, and 40 puns. Surinam,
is. 11 Id. per proof gallon. Nothing of moment to
report in Tea; the public sales which were adver-
tised for Thursday next, are postponed until Mon-
day next. 900 bags Bengal Rice are reported at
lOs. 3d. per cwt. 300 boxes Pearl Sago sold at
20s. per cwt., 2,500 bags and 1,000 pockets Cal-
cutta Rapeseed at 465. per quarter.
WooL.—The transactions during the past week
were very limited, and the market altogether lan-
guid, yet holders are firm, and show little anxiety
to force sales. Prices may be quoted a shade in
favour of the buyer ; but as the consumption in
the manufacturing districts is still very extensive,
there is little to fear as to any material decline in
prices, particularly if an amicable settlement of
political disturbances in the East be shortly accom-
plished, as this matter has had a very injurious
effect on this branch of trade. Imports for the
week, 3,248 bales ; average for the preceding six
salesro eotlooked
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months, 1,486 bales. The next series of public
are fixed to commence on the 14th inst., when
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month have been to a limited extent, the manufacturers
confining their purchases chiefly to the immediate re-
quirements of their trade ; we do not make any material
alterations in our quotations of foreign wools and for some
kinds, of which the market is bare;y supplied, full prices
are firmly supported, in English and Irish combing wools,
the new clip of which at the date our last circular had
just commenced, prices have given way a little, and we
may now quote id. per lb. reduction since the opening
rates; the wool market generally however continues in a
healthy state, a large consumption is going on, stocks are
light, and many of the manufacturers have considerable
orders on hand for future delivery."

RADICAL DEMONSTRATION AT THE
AMPHITHEATRE, LAST NIGHT.
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LAST night, Sir Erskine Perry's supporters met at

the Amphitheatre. The building was crowded, al-
though, of course, many of those present appeared to be
non-electors and youths. Upon the stage we observed
the local leaders of the " Liberal" party, including :
Messrs. James Stitt, Alexander Sleigh, Frederick S.
Hull, Alexander Macrae, Wm. Duckworth, Dr. John
Rogerson, Robinson Duckworth, Henry B. Sitt, J. P. G.
Smith, Daniel Powell. Smith Harrison, J. R. Jeffery,
John Finch, jun., Wm. Downing, Thomas Blackburn.
James Steains, W. F. Macgregor, J. Hampshire Eyre
Evans, James Harrison, Wm. Jeroms, Thomas Hampshire,
E. Lawson, G. H. Lawson, Edwd. Vance, Wm. Wal-
thew, J. Martin, John Downing, Thomas Barley, R. W.
Ronald, Geo. Maxwell, Wm. Hadfield, George Holt,
Jos. Pollock, Geo. B. Shute, Francis Boult, John Stitt,
Edwd. Bradley, John Daniels, Peter Youd, WM. Hay-
dock, A. C. Stewart.

Before the hour at which the proceedings of the even-
ing began, the audience amused themselves by bestow-
ing rounds of cheers upon some of the most noted of the
Radical party. Among those who were thus honoured
were Mr. J. R. Jeffery, draper, Mr. Ronald (the petiti-
oner with Mr. Rathbone against the ex-members), Mr.
George Holt, and others.
The lion. candidate came upon the stage, amid deafen-
ing shouts of applause, accompanied by Mr. Robertson
Gladstone, Mr. J. R. Jeffery, and other members of the
party.

The chairman of Sir Erskine Perry's committee, Mr.
ROBERTSON GLADSTONE, took the chair, and, in intro-
ducing the proceedings of the night, delivered a
speech which was frequently interrupted by the con-
tending parties in the theatre. He said they were
aware they were assembled for the purpose of hearing the
sentiments of the candidate who would appear before
them on the Liberal interest for their suffrages at the
coming election. (Hear, hear.) At this particular stage
he should say very little upon that point, because there
were matters to which he must allude, and which would
form a preamble to the precise business of the evening.
He called upon all those present to lend their ears—to
listen respectfully and attentively to what the speakers
might say, and to offer no obstruction to the business of
the evening. (Hear, hear.) Precautions, he would tell
them, had been adopted ; and if there were those present
who had it in their mind to obstruct the meeting, there
was a provision which would not only oppose any interfer-
ence, but which would rendersuch an attempt quite fruitless.
He then gave a detailed account of the origin of the elec-
tion petition, and stated that the examination before the
election committee had not revealed all the bribery and
immorality which they knew perfectly well was brought
into play at the election to secure the return of Messrs.
Mackenzie and Turner. This)he could partly account for
by the fact, that the counsel for the petitioners
had thought propor not to call the principals,
in consequence of the fear that the whole truth could not
be extracted from them. (Cries of " Oh, oh !)" He
denied that the five shillings in the shape of day's
wages had been given from any other motive than to
secure thevotes of theparties paid; and read portions of the
evidence to prove that only the working men who were
voters had received the five shillings ; that they received
the cash in consideration for their votes ; that the money
was not paid by the employers; and that it was this large
number of small bribes which was the most to be dreaded
—the numerous small-bribe system forming what lie con-
sidered the chronicdisease. In conclusion he unhesitatingly
avowed that not one-fifth part of the iniquity perpetrated
at the last election had been brought out at the inquiry.
He said no party knew this better than those against whom
the petition was directed ; and contrasted the nervous
anxiety of the members and their friends, previous to and
during the trial of the petition, with the loud and indig-
nant expressions as to injured honesty and wounded
honour, which had been heard since the committee gave
in their report. And, after the result of their petition
against the ex members, he could conceive nothing more
anomalous than the Liberal party not bringing forward
one or more candidates, who, if returned, would under-
take the sacred trust of preserving the cause of free
trade.

Mr. GEORGE MAxwEr.f, then moved the first resolution
—" That this meeting desires to record its opinion that
this great commercial town should possess a representa-
tive in parliament who was prepared to give a free and
independent support to the liberal and enlightened policy
of the present government.'

The motion, seconded by Mr. GEORGE HOLT and sup-
ported by Mr. STEWART, was put from the chair, and
carried almost unanimously,—only a few dissentient hands
being held up against the resolution.

The CHAIRMAN, after pronouncing a warm eulogium
upon the Hon. Sir Erskine Perry, and referring to the
services which he had rendered the native population of
India,. and to the estimation in which he had been held
in Bombay, introduced the candidate to the meeting.
The Hon. Sir ERSKINE PERRY said the reception with
which they bad honoured him was quite overwhelming ;
and numerous as had been the pleasures which he had
enjoyed since his return, about six months aco, to his
native land, after an absence of more than twelve years in
India, next to those of his domestic circle, which
every family man present would appreciate, the pre-
sent reception of the electors of Liverpool was de-
cidedly the most gratifying event which had occurred.
He had come at a moment's warning to stand as a candi-
nate for the representation of Liverpool ; and, while he
had listened to the speeches which had been delivered that
evening, the thought had been suggested to his mind what
a satisfaction it must be to be chosen by a constituency
having such heads. (Applause.) And, if there was one
circumstance more than another which could add to his
satisfaction, it was the fact that he had been introduced
to their notice by the honourable gentleman in the chair,
(cheers,) the brother of that illustrious man, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, the greatest financier, he
believed, who had lived in their day. (Tremendous
cheering, the vast assemblage rising to their feet,
end giving " Three cheers for Gladstone !") He (Sir
Erskine Perry) was not a Peelite ; neither was he one of
those who had come over to the Liberal ranks at the
twelfth hour. (Hear, hear.) As he aspired to be their
representative, and expected to occupy a favourable posi-
tion on the poll—(A. Voice : " Don't flatter yourself !")
he thought it was proper that there should be no secrets
between them. He accordingly: gave an account of his
" antecedents"—passing an eulogium upon the character
of his father, James Perry, the founder of the Morning
Chronicle, the unflinching and resolute advocate of
rational progress, when to be such was no holiday. work
—a man who had refused the most tempting offers of
his friend, William Pitt, and allied himself to opinions
which brought imprisonment, persecution, and even
threatened exile; but who, originally an adventurer from
beyond the Tweed, had, by his sterling honesty of pur-
pose and perseverance, succeeded at length in gaining for
himself and his family a respectable competency, and,
what was better,, the respect and friendship of the best
men in the country, including all those members of
the Royal family who were most inclined to favour the
cause of the people. The speaker then briefly re-
ferred to his academical' and university career.; to his
study of the law ; to the .time when he stood for Chatham,
and lost the election by the improper proceedings of
the government, who sent down a nominee, and
influenced the workmen in the dockyards to.support him ;
and to his appointment as a Judge in Bombay, where,
besides making himself thoroughly acquainted with tht
state and government of that great empire, he had from
day to day watched the political progress,of the mother
country—being placed, perhaps, at a greater advantage in
this respect,---to form a sound judgment thereon, than if
he had. been at home, subject to all the minor move-
ments of party which were continually, distraccting the
mind of the politician, and leading him from the true
study- of his country's condition and requirements.
He had heard with interest the chairman's recapitulation
of the great reforms which had been effected during the
last twenty years by the Liberal, party, especially the
Reform Bill,, which was a revolution effected by pacific
means, and which had conferred great justice, previously
withheld by the Tories, on the working classes. They had
the Catholic emancipation, the new poor law, and, above
them all,, that great free trade measure, the adoption of
which was due to the intelligence of the people. (Cheers.)
It was needless to go into those retrospective glances,, if
they did not deduce something from them as to the course
for the future. The extraordinary triumph of liberal opi-
nionawas the most marked featurein this country whichhe
had perceived since his return, The second feature wasthe
marked improvement in, the manners and character of
the people in all ranks, (Cheers.) Wherever he went
he was surprised at the degree of intelligence among all
classes, down even to what their opponents used, to. call
the " lower classes." He did not hesitate to state that
His R. H. Prince Albert was pre-eminently accountable
for the change, so far as the working classes were con-
cerned. There were many in this country, even among
the Whigs, who thought that the Liberal, party were
going too fast. They complained of the rising democracy ;
thinking that, like a runaway railway train,. it would carry
all, state and church, to one eternal smash. He spoke as
a thoughtful man—one who had a stake in the country
—and he distinctly avowed that be had no fear of the
people. He disclaimed this bugbear entirely. When the
people were advancing in intelligence—when they heard
such speeches as that made by Mr. Stewart, which would
have done credit to the House of Commons, and when he
found that Mr. Stewart belongecloriginally to the working
classes'-(" Never!")—he said he might well have no
fear of the people. (Loud cheers.) It might be
said that early predilections accounted for the opinions
which he now expressed ; but when he had the testimony
of such a man as Lord Aberdeen, leading the party of pro-
gress, he held that the man who would oppose the sending
such men to parliament ought not to have the franchise.
(Cheers.) He was a stranger to them ; but he was
surprised to find that. Liverpool allowed itself to be re-
presented by men who would do all in their power
to rip up every liberal measure that had been passed
during the last forty years. He had come forward on the
invitation of the leaders of the Liberal party, to give
Liverpool an opportunity of rescuing itself from this
state, and as an independent candidate to be placed, he
trusted, at the head of the poll. (Great cheering.) It
had been truly said, that he was independent, and he
had no favour to ask from prince or peer. He was
much touched by their attention and approbation.
He would conclude with one remark, that he was de-
lighted with their reception ; and one question.
Are you satisfied with me as a Liberal member ?
(Loud cheering, the audience springing simultaneously
to their feet.) One more reflection he would add—
Every man of you plump for Perry on Friday next. Every one
of you who has influence with a Peelite or a Liberal Conser-
vative, get him to split with Perry, whoever the other may be
for whom he intends to vote. (Cheers.)
Mr. EYRE EVANS moved, "That Sir Erskine Perry is a fit
properandcom m o n person
House
of
Parliament."
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Mr. I. R. JIMERY (who Trasvery wvraly received) liCCol4eq

MONDAY EVENING, Juvx 4.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

ST. PETERSBURG.—On the 22nd, the Emperor of Rus-
sia, in full uniform, surrounded by his staff, proceeded to
the Church of St. Isaac. He wore the Grand Greek
Cross on his breast. This cross is one of the distinctive
signs of the head of the church.

CONSTANTINOPLE, JUNE 20.—Any shipowner sending
out vessels to arrive in Port, would obtain enormous.
freights ; and considering the presence of the fleet, there
would be no risk. Coals for the fleet are in great demand.