The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-19 00:00:00

S MOVEMENTS DURING

sans tami

ght between king

the royalist party, shut himself up in a little pavilion in
the park. There his wife and sister secretly visited him,
and took him the news as it arrived from Paris. From
his retreat he plainly heard the din of battle raging in the
streets of the capital. On the 28th of July, a canon-ball,
fired from Courbevoyne, fell near the palace, and at a

... •
There cauld be little doubt of the intention of the shot.
This circumstance made mademoiselle think that in their
fury the royalists might attack Neuilly, and carry off the
family. Accordingly, the duke, accompanied only by his
faithful adherent Oudard, left his retreat, and crossed the

near Bondy. This was on the 29th July ; the duke was
dressed very simply, and wore a grey hat with a tri-
coloured cockade. As soon as the canon-shot was fired
from Courbevoye, mademoiselle said to the duchess, " My

dear, we cannot stand by those people any longer; they
massacre the mob, and tire at us ; we must take a decided
part." Hastening to her wardrobe, she tore up several
silk dresses, white, blue, and red, made them into cock-
ades, and distributed them to the household.—Appert's
Court of Louis Philippe.
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO.—Fifteen years have now elapsed

since the commencement of our literary labou

teen years are a considerat

wife of the Landgrave Of Hesse-Homburg, who
died in 1839, aged 68 ; Maria Louisa, Princess of Spain,
wife of the Duke of San Fernando, aged 67 ; the Princess
Dowager Leopoldine of Liehtenstein, born Princess Es-
terhazy, aged 58 ; Princess Louisa of Hohenzellern-
Hechingen, widow of Baron Herr von der Berg, aged 72
Princess Caroline Louisa, of Schaumburg-Lippe

Among-the-births, 'lCare especially worthy of notice ;
those of the sons of the King of Naples, of the Queen of
Portugal, of Prince Luitpold of Bavaria, of the Prince-
,

Reuss-Greitz, of the Prince-hereditary of
le Prince-hereditary of Schaumburg-Lippe,
Eugene Erdinann of Wurternberg, of the
nce Charles of Hesse-Philinn,thni nnil

Jules of Lippe-Blesterfeld; then those of the
►f the Queen of Great Britain, of the Duke de
of the Prince of Lichtenstein, of the Princes
Naples, Peter of Oldenburg, and Augustus of

in Sovereign

In 1846 the following marriages took ph
houses :—that of the Queen of Spain with her cons..., ---
Infante Don Francisco • of the Duke de Montpensier
with the Infanta Luisa of Spain ; of the Prince Royal of
Wurtemberg with the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia; of
the Princess Mary of Holstein-Blocksburg (widow of
Colonel Lasperg) with Count Alfred of Hthenthal-KO-
nigsbruck ; of Count Henry 11., of Reuss-Kostritz, with
Countess Clotilda of Cassell; of the Hereditary Prince of
Monaco with Countess Antoinette of Merode. We may
,•

mclusion, the divorce of the

?rince Royal of

enteral

3eas were on sale in Hull or

An Edinburgh paper mentions that a lively butterfly
as found at Leith last week.
On Saturday night, a powder-mill, at Kendal, ex-
oded, and blew two, men, who were within it, to pieces.
The total number of ministers in the Wesleyan connec-
•

ed Victuallers, on Thursday, ad-
vanced the price of gin Is. 4d. a gallon.
The penny omnibus system is about to be put in opera-
tion, by a company, in Bristol and Bath.
The customs reeenue for Gloucester for 1846 amounts
to very nearly £116,000, an increase of about £10,500 on

Tr. Bright to a public di

The London Li,

HIGHLAND DESTITUTION.—The Edinburgh subscrip-
tions for the Highland destitution amount to upwards of

w, the subscriptions amount to £5OOO
n.—On Wednesday the bakers on the

e river made an advanc'e of on

a week,

in several villages near Cambridge, the wages
bourers of husbandry have been raised ls. and 2s. t
in consequence of the rise in the prices of provision_
The Conde de Montemolin visited the nmes office on
Wednesday. One hundred papers were printec
presence in one minutt

Mr. Stephen Bowles, of Stilton, who died on Christ
mas-day, has bequeathed ten thousand pounds to th
Stamford and Rutland Infirmary.
The customs receipts of the port of Glasgow for th
year 1847, exceeded those of the previous year by up
ne wards of £44,000.

me rrovost In the chair, the sum of £4,575 way
contributed towards the relief of the destitute in the
Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
GREEN PEAS FOR THE MILLIO
with his barrow close to Tern

A. hawker stood

?eas, just arrived from Holland, at 6d. per c

Ley met with a ready sale

3ank of Eng'

meekly meeting on Thursday, resolved to advance tl
minimum rat. of fn Lat.

DEATH IN A Cuußci4.—During the early service in the
parish church of Kensington, on Sunday, an old man of
80, named Charles Fisher, a regular attendant in the free
seats, dropped suddenly on the floor of the aisle, and
expired.

TUE LATE HOMICIDE AT BRISTOL.-
the inquest on Catherine Welsh, who

thrown over son

-On Wednesday,
o killed by being

Lord John Russell has granted £lOO from the royal
bounty, for the children of the late Thomas Hood, and
it is believed that the pension so briefly enjoyed by the
mother, will be renewed to them in June next.
POOR MAN !—Mr. Dyce Sombre has petitioned the
Court of Chancery to increase his allowance. He says

that £6O per w
support. We ni

its own money

not enough f

at guar

counl

r. Sembre only asks f

on Wednesday, wild ducks

pair, and s

;es were as low as ls. 6d. a brace

4d each; while partx
and hares ls. each.
Amongst the novelties in the shape of joitit
panies is one- for insurance against theft, the compaw
for a premium of 205., undertaking to guarantee all lo
from peculation to the amount of £5O.
TEMPERANCE TROPHY.—The floor of a new temper
ance hall, opened at Cirencester, is composed of the stave
of demolished beer barrels—part of the property of r
defunct neighbouring brewery.
On Wednesday, a Court of Directors was held at the
East India House, when Lieutenant-General Sir Wil-
loughby Cotton, G.C.8.. was annr.;.t.a pn.mmander-in.

chief of the Company's fi

on the Bombay

Mock corn-

One night recently, a knacker, at East

eastern part of the metropolis, in the shape of the opening ness was Mr. Harvey Garnett Phipps Tuckett, late of
of an office for the purpose of granting letters of marque the 11th Hussars ; who deposed to the enlistment of sol-
and reprisal, according to the decrees of the Mexican diers under the name of- emigrants. Mr. Tuckett had
ainst the United States. This sounds himself engaged with Colonel Wright to join the expedi-
,ars of the " new generation," and will. tion as lieutenant-colonel, at a pay of £2O a month. He
back painful recollections to those who had received an advance:of £5O ; but the vessel in which
palmy days of legal buccaneering. The he was to have sailed being, seized, and considering that
.diciously reminds persons feeling disposed to he had not been handsomely treated, he laid the inforina-
la this invitation, that they had better read the lion on which the proceedings were founded. Mr. Tuc-
President Polk, in which he declares that cer- kett admitted, on. cross-examination, that he had been a
'ers will be treated as pirates. party to the framing and publishing of two documents
TAGISTRATES V. THE GAME LAWS.—At the which were read, holding out fine promises to " emi-
Id Epiphany Quarter Session, at Aylesbury, grants," and which he knew to contain false statements:
iagistrates expressed their disapprobation of Colonel Wright was held to bail, himself in £4OO, and
The Rev. J. Pigott " considered them two sureties in £2OO each. Colonel Wright was ao-ain
brought up on Tuesday, and again remanded. He'has
been since committed to take his trial.
PAINLESS SURGICAL OPERATIONS.—Guy's Hospital
on Tuesday was crowded to excess by members of the me-
dical profession from all parts of the metropolis and from
the country, to witness the results of two surgical opera-
tions under the new process of inhalation of ether. The
first case was that of a boy, 12 or 14 years of age, for litho-
tomy (or stone). When brought into the theatre and
bound as usual, Mr. Robinson, of Gower-street, the in-
ventor of the apparatus, offered the pipe for inhalation to
the patient. At first he refused to be operated upon, on

strange to the

doubtless brine

remember II
Spectator ith

Buc
recent]

two of t

'ere incentive to crime

and said if he had been a poor man, he believed he should
have been a poacher. Mr. John Lee, LL.D., of Hart-
well-park, placed the following motion on the book for

the next session :—" That all -expenses incurred in the
prosecution of Game Law offenders shall be paid by the

and not by the county ; and ti:

clerk of the peace be instructed to give an account of the
number of persons convicted of such offences, with the
expenses relating thereto from the year 1840 to 1846."
GAOL PREFERRED TO HOME !—ln the journal of the

account of the many persons presen.,.
pipe was introduced, the nose closed, and in two mint—,.
Mr. Robinson said the patient was ready. The operation
then commenced, and in one minute more the stone was

tuc uperawr. ine pop removeu
to his bed ; and on being visited by the surgeons, and on
being shown the stone, " Ah," said he, " you never took
that from me, I knows, as I never felt it." yThe next case
was still more extraordinary. The patient was a man
about 30 years of age, suffering from congenital hernia,
the operation for which is, perhaps, the most severe and
prolonged in surgery. When brought into the operating
theatre, he readily took the " vapour!' From four to five
minutes the word was given to Mr. Key, the:opertstor in
this instance, by Mr. Robinson, to commence the opera-
tion. From the commencement to the completion of the
operation. the patient w.-4 r 1 J.- nn

he had been looking at those gentlemen outside, up there."
He alluded to numbers who could not gain admittance,
and had availed themselves of the skylight of the theatre.
[On Thursday, Mr. Parker, of Kirkdale, operated on a
boy nine years of age, for the removal of squinting, after
producing insensibility, by the inhalation. The experi-
ment was completely successful.]

THE SUPPLY AND CONSUMPTION OF COTTON
FOR 1846 AND 1847.

(For the Boston Daily Advertiser.)
Within a few months there has been a lame

Cl calls(
by a scarcity of that commodity-inthe markets;;'J'cent
of cor

__.s in Europe have de-
_ than at any former period,
except the two or three past years. They are so large
that if our crop should fall below any of the estimates
which have been made of it, still the supplies for 1847
would far exceed the quantity required for consumption.
If this is a correct view of the case, then the late rise of
• predicated as it has been on the belief that the
_ 1846 will fall short of the consumption, cannot,
upon commercial principles, be permanently maintained.

sumption. It is true that the stocl,
creased, but they are laro;.-

was, as win long be
remembered by many persons who dealt extensively in
cotton, an augmentation of some thirty or forty per cent.
on its previous prices. This advance was not a natural—.
a legitimate one ; it was caused—first, by the circulation
of grossly erroneous estimates of the crop, as was subse-
'e cpyntly shown by its returns ; secondly, by an ignorance

Le case, a

vhich should regulate the prices of comnio-
the extent of the supply as compared with

dities, name
the demand

`Or them

ions or mis-

takes of persons

ing in cotton, prices in 1843-

I 4 were

dormously increased, but they were not long maintained
Nor can the late advance in prices be long maintained

so—far as it may reasonably be attributed Co the current
belief, on the part of a portion of the community, that
the supply of cotton will fall short of its consumption.
The early estimates of the cotton crop, which for obvious
reasons, are never entitled to much confidence, were
extremely discouraging, but not more so than thr.,, which

nave generally been placed before the public by parties
who have an interest in raising the price of that staple,
As the season advanced, every estimate from the cotton
region has been more favourable than the preceding ones.
According to a statement made up by a responsible and
respectable house in Savannah, which appeared in the
papers some weeks since, the out-turn of the crop was
then placed at 2,175,000 bales. A continuance of the
weather for picking, together with rapidly increasing
receipts of cotton at the ports of shipment, seem t(
encourage a belief that the crop will transcend the quality
But it is said that the crop is short. This
But what does that term imply but an out turn below an

we admit

even years since the crop amounteu
. The cultivation of cotton, as is shown
by annual returns, has increased at the rate of about 7
per cent. per annum. The cotton producing ability of the
country may, then, be considered as equal to something
more than 3,000,000 of bales. That, however, would be
considered as a redundant crop. If, however, we take
2,500,000 bales, which is only 122,000 more than the crop
of 1842-43, then 2,200,000 bales may reasonably be con-
sidered as a very short crop. Nevertheless, in order to
be within bounds, we shall assume 2,100,000 as the
product of the present season.
The cotton season ends the 31st August, and we shall,
therefore, take the stocks on hand here and in Europe at
that_date, in forming an estimate of the supply for 1846.
Supply of Cotton for Europe and the United States,

2,177,835 bales

for 1846.
Stock on hand in the ports of Europe, 31st
August, 1846,
Ditto in United States ports ditto ditto -
Imports into Europe from countries other

DALES.
1,057,123
107,122

than the United States
Crop of the United State

400,000
2,100,000

3,664,245

Consumption,
Great Britain,
France, 400,000
Continent of Europe, exclusive
of France,

United States, - _ _

Stock on hand 31st August, 1E47,

460,000-2,780,000

884,245

The consumption of Europe is based upon the expecta-
tion that prices will not beaugmented beyond those paid,
the past six months, by the manufacturers of Great Bri-
tain and France.. lithere is any considerable advance on
these prices, it is pretty certain there will be a diminished
consumption. H. L.
Novemberl3, 1846.

MR. EDITOR :—A writer in your journal, under date of
the 13th inst., after informing the public of a fact, which
had already acquired some notoriety, viz., that an advance
in cotton had taken place, uncertakes to show that "upon

' ',n two
month's consumption, a material which gives employ-
ment to so much capital and labour would be considered
In object of safe speculation atprices far in advance of the

current ones
But the estimate of H. L. is not susceptible of the con.-
struction given to it by your correspondent. The error
proceeds from the adoption of our figures for the supply
and demand for twelve months. With this correction
your correspondent will arrive at the same result as the.
one which has been the subject of his remarks.
It is contended by S. H. F. that " consumption has
overtaken growth." Such is the fact, but it should be•
borne in mind that the present and the past crops are
some three or four hundred thousand of bales below what.
might be considered as an average out-turn, and nearly a
million of bales below what might be deemed a luxuriant
crop. Secondly, it should be recollected that the stock
in Europe has been so much in excess of the usual quan-
tity, as to have made up for a deficiency in our crops._
If, however, the season of 1847-1848 should, as your
correspondent intimates, be an unfavourable one, as much.
so as the two past ones, and consumption is not curtailed'
by high prices—then prices may hereafter range higher
than the existing ones.

Again, your correspondent says, that in view of the
facts of the case, prices ought to he higher than those
heretofore current. We think he is right; but the ques-
tion is as to degree. It seems to be overlooked in many
of the discussions upon cotton, that the present prices
are from 50 to 60 per cent. higher than those paid in the
season of 1843-1844--at least by those persons who
abstained from purchasing during the continuance of the
gambling mania, which, for a short period, carried up
prices fifty per cent. above the subsequent prices paid
for it.

In the article sent you, it has not been contended that
indeed,
realb
present, or even higher prices would not be paid for
Theresi, e'rithteo
a
cotton during the season.ice
whatever
suppose they will go higher,
facts in the case, and the reasonings upon them, if those
whg 310aPotictp,. qua those who are in want of it, believe
it to be lower than it is likely to be hereafter, prices will,
go on rising so long as that belief continues to exist.
The prices of cotton, it may not be amiss to remade,
are now from 10 to 1 „0,. „o„+ 1.:‘,..1,-- 4A_ _t.: . .

England will net, according to prices current on the 18th
November. But the accounts are not very encouraging
for a permanent maintenance of prices. A letter from a
London correspondent engaged in importations of cotton
from India, writes as follows :—" Our cotton market
keeps buoyant on speculation, but unless your crop falls
short of two millions of bales, I do not think our con-
sumption likely to reduce our stock so as to maintain
prices. On the other hand, if the reports of a diminished•
crop should prove to be exaggerated, we shall have a re-
action from the present excitement."
The remarks in the circular of Messrs. Barinand Co.,
whose statements and opinions we have heretofore fount&
to have been trustworthy, are in concurrence with those
of our correspondent. "The stock at the close of the
year (says the circular) will be moderate, but the state of
trade in the manufacturing districts is far from satisfac-
tory. The twist market has declined, and a dull winter is
expected. If the crops of the United States do not
exceed 2,000,000 bales, we think present prices may be
supported for a time, in the face of the expected under-
current of increasing value of money."
In a letter from a shipping-house in Manchester, there
is the following passage : A struggle has been main-
tained between buyer and seller of goods ; the former-
seeing no prospect of remuneration in the foreign mar-
ket, but from low prices ; whilst the latter has to contend
with almost daily increasing rates for the raw material.
A remedy for both can be found in a reduction of time
and labour, at once giving confidence to the exporter of
goods, and a check to the speculation in cotton. We are
happy to say that such a movement is now more than
probable, for already several mills in the district have
commenced running short time."
Other accounts, however, take a somewhat more cheer-
ing view of manufacturing prospects. In this country,
manufacturing prospects are not better than those- ira
England, unless there should be an advance on the pre-
sent prices of cotton fabrics,--and such a change is not,
we apprehend, likely soon to take place. TT T*
December 4, 1846.

MR. EDITOII,-111 commenting upon an article in your
journal of the 17th November last, over the signature of
" 11. L." my object was simply to controvert a position
assumed by that writer, that the recent rise in the price of
s not founded upon commercial principles, and
therefore, be permanently maintained.

cotton wa
could not

I should not have troubled you further upon this sub-
ject, but for the appearance of another article in your
paper of the 12th instant from the same pen, in which the
writer (though be has changed or modified his previous
views) attributes to me " an error in the adoption of his
figures " in relation to the supply and demand for 12
months, stating that I had allowed for a consumption for
16 months, while he would give the impression to the
casual reader. that I had given a supply but for 12 months;
If " 11. L." will refer to my former article,' he will find
that I took for the supply, "for the additional lour
months," the stock which he estimated would remain on
hand at the end of his 12 months—say the 31st August—
and added thereto the probable supply that could be
derived from the new crop, prior to the 31st December,
1847. If "H. L." can point out any other source from
which a supply can be obtained between the 31st August_
and 31st December, I will cheerfully admit that I have
met his argument unfairly ; but if he cannot, I must
maintain that I have assumed correct. grounds. It is true
that the cotton, the production of the present year, may
not, as assumed by the above-named writer, reach the
ports at the period he has fixed upon ; but this is of no
consequence so far as the main point in the argument is
concerned. If it should not have so arrived, his stock, of
course, will be so much the less on the 31st August next
as there may be in transitu or remaining in the shipping
While upon this subject, I will trespass a little further
upon your courtesy by calling the attention of the manu-
facturers and others interested to the fact, that at the last
visitation of the caterpillar before this, it extended its
ravages over two crops—viz., 1840 and 1841—reducing
the production of these two years respectively from
2,177,000 bales in 1839 to 1,635,000 and 1,685,000 bales.
The general mildness of our weather thus far corresponds
with that in 1840 ; and it is much to be feared that the
germ of the enemy may not be destroyed. But perhaps
it is premature to speculate upon so sad an event, as I
should consider any disaster to our next crop to be.
" H. L." has kindly furnished us with extracts from
respectable English letters, which show certainly that the
state of 'trade is not in as prosperous a condition as the
manufacturers desire. But this matter will probably be
remedied by lessening the production of -goods and yarns
—a proceeding which must necessarily take place, from a
deficiency in the raw material, as there is little hope of
our crops reaching 1,900,000 bales.
In reply to the remarks of " 11. L." with regard to the
comparative prices of cotton, I would ask him this ques-
tion—What reduced the price in Liverpool of fair uplands
from7dab.poevre lb. (which was about the standard for years,
oftener
than below it,) to 4d. per lb. ? His answer
will be, I presume—An over accumulation of stock. That
accumulation being now removed, why should, not pripea
be restored to their former equilibrmm, even with al4
average crop ? 8., IL r..
Savannah, December 16th, 1846.