The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-27 00:00:00

SAILED

Andrernact

Passmore Ganges, Lindsay
Melbourne Constantinople
New City of Cork, Baynes 1-1.-kla. Hansen Genoa
Barbados Meta, Haddock Alexandretta

Taine' Thrane, hence at Anrhures.
Mont idiars, Olive, sailed from St. Nazare for this port, 20th.
MELFORD, Dec. 21.—A vessel was seen to go down by the
Treffrey, Jenkins. arrived at this port, 22nd.—The Tom Banks,
Jones, from Barrow to Newport, sank off Crow Rock, after
being in collision with a brigantine : crew saved.
RuEENsTowN, Dec. 23.—The schooner Farmer's Lass has
hauled to a wharf to discharge, to stop a leak in the bows;
she also lost sails. The Leonora, Morris, of and from Liver-
pool, from Demerara. foundered at sea : crew, eighteen in
number, were taken off by the Doris, from Naples to Glasgow,
and landed here.
BELFAST. Dec. 23.—The schooner Horsford, of Belfast,
from the Clyde to Genoa, with railway chairs, has put in here
in a disabled state, and will have to discharge and repair.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Dec. S.—The Alison and Parthian have
arrived here from Odessa, with part of their cargoes thrown
overboard ; the latter is also leaky. The British Queen, from
Berdianski, and Vicking, from Taganrog, have also arrived
here leaky, as well as the Amaranth, from Galata. and Lord
Brougham and Vaugh, from Berdianski ; the latter struck
near Jeni Kale. Some vessels are on shore in the Dardanelles.
A Russian schooner, supposed the Andreas, Ingman, is
stranded near Sulina.

MONDAY,

DEC. S.—Wind S.E,

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With the exception of the Europa, from New York, tele-
graphed this afternoon off this port, there was no other ship-
ping intelligence reported.

PHILHARMONIC-HALL.
THOMAS'S SHILLING CONCERTS
GRAND OPENING NIGHT.
On NIONDAY next. January 2,
A GRAND TRIUMPHAL M tRCH.
(See Prorramme.)

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FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDE

MONDAY MORNING.
CHRISTMAS week is proverbially the dullest in the year.
That which has just terminated was no exception to the
rule. The synopsis of political gossip, which I gave
.you last week in pith, remains unchanged ; to be sure,
*here are rumours, apparently well founded, that Lord
PA.LitEnsrox has been courted back again; he has not
even up the seals, bat that goes for nothing if he meant

to retire,—" holding office till a successor is appointed"
iiemg a stereotyped Cabinet phrase. The fact is, Lord
SIBERDEEN and his colleagues cannot get any one to fill
lord PALMERSTON'S place; and your readers need not be
surprised when I tell them that matters, in all probability,
--vill remain as they are till the meeting of Parliament, and
then we may have a breaking np of the whole concern.
'Whatever one's opinion may be of the Coalition Cabinet,
as a body, no one can doubt the existence amongst its
tmembers of high honour individually. They will meet
Parliament, make their statements, break up some of
them retire—and there an end. At the clubs, the Earl
zf DERBY and Mr. DISRAELI are looked upon as likely to
join the remaining few. The foregoing embraces the sum
and substance of the conversation yesterday at the Reform,
Carlton, and Brooks's.

A " certain convocation of politick worms " see
:Hamlet passim—his in'Ej snit, trappings and shoots of
-*woe, &c. Who ever heard of the jolly grave-diggers ? the
merry undertakers ? We have all seen and heard of
merry, and something more, undertakers' men, on certain
apecasions. But to the point. One of the last—appro-
riately so—public acts of Lord PALMEILSTO7I, was a
iturions one ; funny, yet sombre. His lordship had a meet-

ing with two gentlemen in black—undertakers, in fact—
referring to the burial of the dead belonging to the binary

parish of St. Margaret and St. John, Westminster ; a
given number of feet superficial,—deep,—were deemed
meeessary to bury the dead, out of sight, in the parish
3eferred to. A long period was agreed on before a grave
should be re-opened. These and other details were
and his Hic Jacet Mends. They

*rranged by PALMY

th a cop:

of the regulations.—eacH in

went away
ocket. PALUBSTOIc, when in office, touched his ivor
'dell-pall, gave orders, and thought nothing of havint.,
twenty folios engrossed in half the number of minutes
The gentlemen in black straightway send the reculatiom

to the papers—they are published—papers and regulations
--the latter as general rules for all burials throughout
JEngland. Little did the two undertakers, still less did
the "judicious bottleholder," now et-Secretary of State.

Saucy for a moment that two parliaments—Marylebone
"Vestry, and City Court of Sewers' Commissioners—would
-lhave Imagined that what was fit and proper for the parishes
atloove-named was altogether absurd, untenable, impossible
in application for the country generally. The Marylebone

veople —most sensible, respectable, sagacious, experienced
inen among them—flogged themselves into a state.of
desperation—frothed about self-government—non-inter-
-

lerence, and all the usual stereotyped clap-trap of anti-
itentralization. Some days pass over—time to chew the
end of sweet and bitter—ignorance, and we find the city

carom discuss thus :

Mr. Deputy LOTT, who thinks " no small beer" of his
-shrewdness at the commission aforesaid, otserved that, as
the citizens of London had a " burial board," he was
desirous of asking whether the extraordinary regulations
issued by Lord PALMERSTON had been forwarded " offi-
No, they have not," said

to the commission ?

31r. Dew (worthy of his name

Deputy LOTT a

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isrishedto remonstrate against any of Lord PALMERSTON'S
sale s —(where are you, shade of L. MITIMA.Y ?). If the
regulations of Lord PALMERSTON are carried out, there
would be no cemetery adequate to the requirements of
any locality. Upon which the chairman, Deputy PEACOCK,
aman of forty years' experience as a baker in Bishopsgate-
street, common councilman, and so forth, sagaciously

interjected, "we are masters of our own actions, and
mhall, of course, take care not to go counter to the Secre-
tary of State." (I am obtuse, and do not perceive the
Sequitur !) After much more twaddle, it was moved
and carried that the rules and regulations issued by Lord
IPALmERsToN be referred to the City Cemetery Com-
mittee. There was no harm in that. Perhaps, they will
take a hint. The regulations referred to have as much
to do with general burial as the reform bill had to do
with PALMERSTON'S resignation.

The Earl of ABERDEEN is looking poorly; this nipping
weather seems.to starch him woefully. When he walks
abroad he is usually attended by a couple of policemen in
Vain clothes : these functionaries stick to the Prime
"ilinister very close, observing everybody likely to come
in contact with the noble earl. They wield each a trusty
"shillelagh," which is firmly strapped round the hand,
as if ready to bastinado any unruly Turk who might
come offensively in their way. There's nothing in this,
lhowever; it has long been the practice for Prime
-Ministers of England to be thus attended. I have seen
the late Sir ROBERT PEEL repeatedly so.

Though coming somewhat within the scope—the doleful
territory of "lapsed news"—l cannot refrain from refer-
ring to a fruitful subject of conversation and discussion in
!city, hall, and coffee-house, during the week,—a topic
'which seemed to engross the city as well as west-end
tradesman ; Government clerks, and they of the Bank of
England, having only a negative interest in the affair,-
-if Ibe allowed the expression,—were mute. I refer to
lord PALMERSTON'S letter to the Lord MAYOR, on the
question of keeping the 26th instant a holiday. Generally
speaking, the great bulk of metropolitan tradesmen were
in favour of the holiday, and well they might be ; there
sronld not be au inch of ribbon sold by the hab

dasher, nor

* pound weight of raisins by the grocer on that day. Wh,

Buse the purchases were made before the festival, as
Stting preparations for it. The et-Secretary's letter has

given much satisfaction to the numbers out of business.
Government clerks have always been allowed a holiday
mominally that they might go to church, when Christmas
Tell on a week-day; argal, quoth PALMY, as it falls this
time on the Sabbath, the clerks will have the same oppor-
tunity of performing their sacred duties. Abstractedly
thls is true. They—the clerks—won't be very hardly
worked after all. I dare say they will be seen flattening
`their noses, and steaming the plate-glass panes at the
west-end offices, as usual ;as they of Somerset-house will
lave "hot joints" at their own fires "from ten till four."
I am given to understand that of shop-keepers there will
not be half-a-dozen doing business. This is virtually a
victory for the closing movement. While on this subject,
I may add, from the best authority, that the early closing
iquestion is making sure, though slow, progress ; and that
before another year shall have elapsed, thousands of intel-
ligent men, from the warehouse porter up to the conduc-
tor of our city establishments, instead of leaving work
I" fagged " at nine or ten o'clock, as not long ago was the

ease, will be able to doff the apron at six or seven in the
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evening, without loss to any one,—a consummation de
voutly to be wished.

The week prior to our great Christmas festival brings
out thousands upon thousands of human beings to visit
Our public places, who, probably, are not seen far from
'their quiet and respectable domiciles the greater portion
of the other part of the year. The weather each
sight during the past week was inclement in the extreme,
and, worst of all, wet and sloppy under foot, yet at least
20,000 persons were attracted to Exeter-hall by HANDEL'S
1" Sphere-harmony," chiefly as exhibited in " The Messiah."
Other works were presented elsewhere. Such demon-
strations vouch for the grandeur of England's moral
tharacter. These individuals never visit theatres, but
they have a keen relish for sacred music. One wonders
"there they all come from, as they form an entire contrast
10 the theatre and opera-going public.
One of the more remarkable men of the day is DANIEL
UHITTLE HARVEY, City Commissioner of Police, some
thirty years ago a city solicitor, with that other remark-
able man for an eleve, I mean DAVID WILLIAMS WIRE,
now Alderman and Sheriff. After a long parliamentary
career, Mr. HARVEY sat himself down in his well-paid,
though arduous, commissionership. Though far advanced
in year, he is still active and of commanding aspect.
ben he done his best garments, which he invariably
'll°es when he pays his periodical visits to the SECRETARY
of STATE'S office, he looks like a man to be feared and re-
13Peeted• I have said that WHITTLE HARVEY is active ;
-.1411"Ing. the example of his superiors, he took it into his
*lead. to deliver a lecture the other day, not on the duties
Zuhedrhood
°.bligati°llB
of
his fraternity—he had pleased the'br?,
hers L,h,owt'ver, by previously obtaining for the menf-
labou"r'itiolutren to their pay—but on the rights and duties
was a great crowd ; and the lecturer
there I tnekle:nsliTerwent on at prodigious length; here and
here and thdh him slightly tinted with " optimism ;''
lure—told well,
esere toretical ; but altogether it—the lec-
ture—told
lua
friePendeisatllY
Calledu
towards the close, where he
guidance of a stead y res:l begin the new year under the
'
tion to labour iu the cause of

human improvement ; and to turn aside from those who
slumber away their existence in the lap of sloth; to heed
not the man, who, reclining upon the couch of indolence,
a various tributes of surrounding toil, without
m his pillow. The shop and the field, quoth our
" Second DANIEL," are as essential spheres of service as

receives the

stirring fi

set or the

No class of pursuits, however

iecessary in the contrivance for human
In the husbandman, the weaver, the mason
It was in the

7iltion of thes(

truths

that the process was discovered by which to overcome
the heartburnings which rankle in the bosom of neg-
lected poverty, and swell the breast of ignoble pride.

Of a piece was the address of Lord ASHBURTON, ill
reference to the teaching of " Common things to common
people." That intelligent peer and close friend of the late
Count D'OusAr might have been considered " fast" at
one time; certes, he has shown in th e foundation of
these same prizes for understanding common things that
he is a "man for a' that

COMMERCIAL. 4

MONETARY NEWS.

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE Money market has not presented any par-
ticular change during the week, except a slight
decline towards the close, owing to the public be-
coming sellers. For purposes of discount money
has been comparatively easy, though no official
change has taken place in the rate of interest.
Great confidence appears still to prevail in the
security of commercial credit, a fact owing chiefly
to the absence of all undue speculation, and the
general healthy state of business. From the re-
turns of the Bank of England, published in the
London Gazette, there appears an increase in the
stock of bullion to the extent of £101,962, a de-
crease in the active circulation of £439,835, and a
decrease in other securities of £288,132, showing
a falling-off in the demand for accommodation.
In the Cotton manufacturing districts trade is,
on the whole, improving, and a considerable
amount of business is being done, though chiefly
in the lower qualities, which accounts for the larger
consumption of Cotton, and the demand in this
market for Surats and the inferior kinds of Ame-
rican Cotton. It is said to be the intention of the
French Government to permit the importation of
Cotton Yarn at a reasonable rate of duty, this
article having been hitherto prohibited, or the
duty being so high as virtually to amount to a
prohibition. Should this measure be carried into
operation, it will have a beneficial effect upon Man-
chester spinners, as the French manufacturers will
be enabled to import English Yarn both cheaper
and better than they can make,. it for themselves.
The recent accounts from Australia, and the ex-
pectation of further large remittances of gold, have
also a favourable effect, and expectations are con-
fidently entertained of increased shipments being

shortly required. Some complaint is made of the
alleged tightness of the Money market, but con-
sidering the confidence which prevails, the mere
difference in rate of discount can have little in-
jurious effect.
The financial prosperity of the United States of
America has led to a proposition for an alteration
of the tariff, by which the free list will be consi-
derably enlarged, so as to affect the revenue to the
extent of about eight millions of dollars. The
articles chiefly affected by this alteration will be
Linens, Wines, Tin Plates, Hides, Salt, Watches,
Steel Bars, Indigo, Hatters' Furs, and Hemp. It
is also proposed to re-arrange the duties on other
imports to an ad valorem rate of 25 per cent. or
100 per cent. All articles not named in the higher
list and the free list to be charged at the lower
rate of duty. If this plan be carried into effect,
and it is recommended in a Treasury report pre-
sented to Congress, it will, no doubt, have consi-
derable influence upon our export trade to the
United -States.
The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 17th of Dec., gives the following
results, when compared with the previous week :
Public deposits _4E10,492,686; Increase £465,520
Other deposits 10,699,684; Decrease 210,393
Rest 3,189,090; Increase 7,273
On the other side of the account—
Government securities £15,043,730; the same as before.
Other securities ... 16,237,015; Decrease 288,222
Notes unemployed ... 8,124,105; Increase 548,930
The amount of notes in circulation is £20,605,625,
being a decrease of £439,835 ; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £15,443,256,5h0wing
an increase of £101,962, when compared with the
preceding return.

Notes issued

SSIIR

,730,Govemmt. Debt £11,015,100
,Other Securities 2,984,900
Gold coin & bull'n. 14,729.730
Silver bullion ...

£28,729,730

BANKING DEPARTMENT,

£28,729,730

Prop. Capital ... £14,553,000'G0v. Securities £15,043,730
Rest ... 3,189,090 Other Securities 16,237,015
Public Deposits 10,492,686 Notes ... 8,124,105
Other Deposits 10,699,684 Gold & Silver Coin 713,526
7-day & other bills 1,183,916

£40,118,37C

£40,118,376

PRODrCE.—During: the week there has been a
considerable improvement in the demand for Sugar,
both from grocers and refiners, which has enabled
holders to obtain full prices for all kinds. For
foreign there has been rather more inquiry, but
the market being barely supplied sales are limited.
The sales of Molasses are confined to a few small
lots of Antigua, and the quotations are reduced 6d.
to is. from the highest point. Of Coffee there is a
strong demand for all ordinary descriptions, but
the absence of stock has prevented business.
Para Cocoa sold at 275. per cwt. Bengal Rice, 14s.
to 15s. 6d. ; Arracan, on the spot, 13s. 9d. ; and
Madras, to arrive, at 13s. 6d. to 13s. 10?-id. per
cwt., the market closing with a firm appearance.
In Tea the transactions were limited until Thurs-
day, when a speculative demand sprang up, and
some considerable parcels of common Congou were
sold at ls. 24d. to ls. 2id. per lb., and the market
closed with a very firm aspect for all descriptions.
Guano, mixed Peruvian and Bolivian, sold by auc-
tion at £lO I2s. 6d. to £los. 15s. per ton ; 800
tons of the lower kinds realized advanced rates.
Olive Oil has continued to move off steadily ; Seal
Oil, £4O ; Cod, £34 per tun ; Linseed Oil, 30s. ;
and pale Rape, 465. to 475. per cwt. Spirits of
Turpentine continue without change. Palm Oil in
better demand, particularly for arrival ; the sales
amount to about 200 tons on the spot, and nearly
1,500 to arrive, at £4O to £4l per ton. For Tallow
the demand has much improved ; Petersburg Y.C.,
575. to 585.; South American, 538. to 565. 6d. per
cwt. Jute, £22 10s. per ton for middling quality.
Carrow.—The amount of businee done has been
to a considerable extent, the sales for the week
ended on Friday having amounted to 45,460 bales,
of which 9,760 were taken on speculation, and
2,790 for export, leaving 32,910 for the trade.
Prices have been very firmly maintained, and
though we cannot note any alteration in quotations,
the turn was in favour of sellers. On Saturday
the sales were about 7,000 bales, of which 1,000
Were on speculation and for export. To-DAY being
a general holiday, nothing was done. The follow-
ing is a comparison of present rates with those of
the corresponding period last year :--

1852. 1853,
New Orleans, middling sld.
fair
Uplands, middling sld.
fair . s2d. ..... -id,

SALES. IMPORTS.
DESCRIPTION. cracks. Week Previ- Week This STOCK
ending ' nusly ending year. , -•
' Dec. 23. this yr. Dec.23.Dec.23

Sea Island lO G 34 200 19380
Stained — 1780
Boweds 3 64 8700' 482670 I
934606
Mobile 4 64 3090 283730
New Orleans. 3j 72 17100 984190 I •• "
Pernams, Atc. 64 8 1110 65920
Bahia, &c. 64 6 680 52240
Maranbam
Demerara, &c

254280

61079, 15300
32039! 8350
355051 16190

Com. W. 1.8:,:c

2720; 128996
11820

5721 450
103931 78840
8032! 3610

-411

Madras
Bengal.

311868 177630

Imo! 5650

I ••• • 1

45460 23:32301

74211 2890

Nil. 20120135 T 557930

WooL.—There has been a moderate extent of
business doing in English and Irish Fleece Wools,
both for the home market and the continent ; and
prices are quite id. per lb. higher. Irish Hog-
gets are selling at 154 d. per lb., and Wethers
to 151 d. per lb., delivered in Dublin.

METAL-S.—Great activity prevails in almost every
branch of the Iron trade, and the only doubt
which appears to prevail is as to the amount of
advance to be demanded at the preliminary meet-
ing which will take place on Thursday next.
Good Pigs are readily bought up ; but it is ques-
tionable whether the speculative price which they
lately reached can be maintained.
TIMBER.—We give the Wowing extracts from
the circular of Messrs. A. F..and D. Mackay, of
this tows2lipm._

" Since ou „_Figifftik.sircular, dated 10 February, 425
vessels, 293,2151,461„w00d laden, have arrived
from British Noah -Ilainely, 146 tom -C/Fbee,
125 from St. John, N. 8., and 154 rriios 44130 arts-; lu the
like time last year, 365 vessels, 239,80 S fens, arrived. A
general dulness prevails in the timber trade at this season
of the year. Coupled with the arrival of many wessels
during the latter part of the last and the early part of the

present month, the scarcity of suitable labour to handle
the cargoes, the crowded state of the docks and quays, and
a determination on the part of some of the buyers to with-
draw from the market for a time,—not from the fact of
their being overburthened with stock, but on the contrary,
(desirous of beginning to lay in for the winter consumption
at lower rates,) in which, to a certain extent, their expec-
tations have not been realised,—all these causes combine
to force prices down. The greater portion of the importers,
however, being well aware of the extent of stock on hand,
as also of the probable quantity to come forward to Ist
February, (the close of the' import season,) have deter-
niined not to submit to a reduction on the present rates,
particularly in the article of St. John deals, which are of
the best quality, and more in demand than any other
description brought to market. Consequently, several
cargoes have been stored for importers' account, and held
firmly for the highest prices. The news received this week
from Quebec of the loss of several ships and cargoes, as
also the detention of many others for the winter by frost
and ice, destined for this port, has had the effect of causing
greater firmness on the part of importers, to which the
trade has already responded. Of Baltic, since Ist February
to date, 90 vessels, 25,280 tons register, wood laden, have
arrived, against the corresponding date last year-69 ves-
sels, 18,498 tons register. Of deals and battens, several
cargoes and parcels arc beingyarded for importers' account.