The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

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emand has

up, and 6,000 bags St

Domingo changed hands, a an advance of ls. per
cwt. Of Rice the sales consist of 1,400 bags
Arracan at 9s. 9d. to 10s. ; 1,500 bags Bengal, at
10s. 3d. to 10s. 6d. ; and 120 tees. Corolina, to

arrive, at 255. per cwt. Of Rum the sales small,
owing to the absence of stock. For Tea there has
been a better inquiry for good to fine Congous, but
sales only on a small

scale, and common

tions quite neglected. Saltpetre in steady demand,
and 1,300 bags disposed of at 275. to 295. 6d. per
cwt. For Nitrate of Soda an improved demand at

3,000 bar'rels sold at 4s. sd. to 10s. per cwt.
Hides : About 6,500 dry salted Brazil sold at 5/d.
for common, and 6d. to 61d. for fair to good Cerea,
which is a slight advance. Olive Oil: Steady
buyers, and prices an upward tendency. Seal Oil
without change in price ; Cod, £32 to £32 10s. ;
and American Sperm Oil, £BB per tun ; Rape Oil,
38s. to 395. for pale, and 365. 6d. for brown ; 40
tons Linseed realised 295. 6d. per cwt. Of Spirits
of Turpentine, 200 barrels American to arrive
brought 455. to 465. 3d. per cwt. Palm Oil steady,

miffed to,

Low the sal
without alt

full prices.—TO-DAY

s have not

No change

Sugar has been rather quiet,

the -sales, including Saturday's business, being
confined to 60 hhds. Barbadoes at 335. 9d. to
38s. 3d. ; 315 bags Madras at 31s. 3d. • and 1,600
bags Pernams at 19s. per cwt. Nothing doing in
Molasses or Rum. Foreign Coffee continues in
fair demand, 1,200 bags Rio having been taken at
395. 6d. to 435. 6d. per cwt. There is more acti-
vity in the Tea market, and some parcels of fair
to good Oopack kinds have changed hands from
ls. 4d. to ls. 6d. per lb. ; for common, holders are
demanding lid. per lb. An active inquiry has
appeared for Rice, 3,000 bags Arracan having
realised 10s. 3d., and 3,600 bags Bengal lls. 9d.

to 12s. 3d., being an advance of 3d. to 6d. per cwt.
Of Saltpetre, 1,050 bags sold at 265. to 265. 6d. per
cwt., for 84 to 61 per cent. refraction. 400
bags Sago Flour are reported at 20s. per cwt.
Some considerable sales have been made in St.
Domingo- Logwood at full prices, and a small lot
of Siam Sapanwood has brought £l4 per ton.
WooL.—We have a full average amount of busi-

ness to report this week ; buyers are now coming
into the market more freely, partly from necessity,
and partly actuated by the improved feeling which
has characterised this branch of trade since the
close of the London sales ; prices generally are
very firm, with a slight inclination in favour of the
seller ; prospects, on the whole, look favourable.
Imports for the week, 4,076 bales—viz., 923 from
the Mediterranean ports ; 140 Buenos Ayres ; 334
Portugal ; 315 Russian.; 442 Iceland ; 449 Alpaca
and Peru ; 1,130 East India ; 299 Scotch ; 12
Irish, and 32 Coastwise. English : There is con-
siderably more enquiry for combing skin, which
seems to be recovering from the depression expe-
rienced for some time back. Irish : The reports
received present no new feature ; farmers are firm
at 225. for mixed parcels, and very little can be
bad under. Some very large sales of English
and Irish Fleece have been made for Yorkshire, at
id. per lb. higher rates than were current a week
since. Stocks are not heavy, and prices have an
upward tendency.

TIMBEIL—The demand for Timber has been so
great that it has exceeded the supply, and recent
sales have shown a considerable advance in prices,
with no immediate prospect of any decline. We
extract the following from the circular of Messrs.
A. F. and D. Mackay, just published :
" The tonnage employed carrying Timber and Deals to
this port since the Ist of February last, exceeds that of the
previous year by 10,582 tons, although from the Ist of
August, last year, to the 18th of the same month, sixty-
two vessels arrived, against ten vessels to same date this
year ; and to the present time, it is not difficult to place
cargoes on arrival, and in many instances before arrival,
at considerably advanced rates. The impression being
that the consumption this year will be hereafter, as
heretofore, correspondingly extended with the import, a
fresh impetus has been given to trade in almost every
branch, within the last three weeks, owing in a great
measure to the favourable weather for harvesting, and a
general impression in the minds of the public that the
Eastern question will ultimately be peaceably arranged."

THE MAHOMED SHAH, which sailed from London with
emigrants for Australia, in the early part of the year, was
burnt to the water's edge on the 18th April. Crew and
passengers taken off by a ship, and conveyed to Hobart
Town. The ship Winchester, which sailed from Mel-
bourne on the 18th May, for Newcastle, took fire on the
following day,:and was totally destroyed. The crew and
passengers were saved in the boats.
THE DONCASTER CHURCH RUlNS.—During the past
week the workmen engaged in preparing the site of the
ruins of the late church for the foundation of the new edi-
fice have turned up a great number of tombstones which,
from their purely symbolical character, are ascribed to a
period not later than the fourteenth or fifteenth century.
They are generally of small dimensions,and are sculptured
with crosses (most of them decorated), heraldic devices,
and various emblems of professions, guilds, and trades.
THE CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION, which was es-
tablished in 1809, held a quarterly court last week. The
Rev. Dr. Russell, who presided, announced several sub-
scriptions to the fund for building a new school at Canter-
bury, and urged upon the clergy the necessity of exertions
to obtain the amount still needed to carry out the objects
contemplated. This fund was set on foot by the Rev. Dr.
Samuel Wilson Warneford, who gave £3,000 to purchase
a site for a new boys' school ; 4,000 towards building a
school for 100 boys ; and £6,000 to found six scholarships,
three scholars to be elected annually for two years each, at
£3O per annum, from the date of their regular superan-
nuation.
A STUPENDOUS CLAIM.--A western Pennsylvania
company have set up a claim to the whole of the western
reserve of Ohio, under a grant from Connecticut, alleged
to have been made after the year 1662, when Charles 11.
granted to that colony a patent for the reserve. In 1795,
it will be remembered, she sold the reserve to another com-
pany, relinquishing all claim to jurisdiction over the ter-
ritory to the United States in 1800. These Pennsylvania
parties to-day applied to the general land office to make to
them patents for all the reserve ! The office replied, we
learn from parties interested in the " speculation," that
the government never having had a claim to, or proprie-
torship over, that territory, they cannot entertain the
application ; and that the state of Connecticut is the party
to whom the Pennsylvania company must look for redress,
if they really have rights involved in the case.—Washing-
ton Star. _ _ _

A PANIC.—An Orleans (France) journal has the follow-
ing :—On Wednesday last a well-dressed stranger arrived
in this city by railway. He went to the Frere-Directeur
of the Ecoles Chretiennes, and, representing himself as a
dentist, stated that he intended to stop some time at Or-
leans, to exercise his profession ; and, in order to make
himself known, was ready to examine the teeth of all the
children in his schools, and do what was necessary gratui-
tously. As he produced papers proving his respectability,
and as he suggested that the parents of the children should
be present at any operations he might perform, the Frk.e
gave his consent. The next day he went to a school in the
Rue de l'Universitd, and examined the mouths of the chil-
dren. Having ascertained that several had teeth which re-
quired drawing,, he asked them if they and their parents
would consent to the operation, and, on receiving a reply in
the affirmative, he extracted the teeth. Some children,
influenced by the example of their companions, wished
to have their teeth drawn also, and the thing was done.
The total number of pupils was about 400, and the dentist
extracted from them about 200 teeth. When the children
went home with their mouths bloody and their faces bound
up, the parents of many of them began to suspect that there
had been foul play. In conversing with one another they
became excited, and when it was known that nearly 200
children had been operated on, the most extravagant ru-
mours were spread. The rumours Kaye rise to a panic after
a while, and parents rushed in dismay to the different
schools, and demanded that their children should instantly
be given up to them. Some mothers seized large sticks,
and threatened violence in the event of the children not
being immediately restored. A crowd of both sexes
went to' the Maison de la Visitation, and as some
hesitation was shown in giving up the children, they
broke open the doors and carried them off. At the
school of Sainte-Croix the Sisters of Charity endeavoured
to convince them that their fears were unfounded but
they cried, " The man is coming ! give us up our children !"
Similar scenes took place at the house of the Sisters of
St. Paul, at St. Marceau, and St. Laurent. Even the board-
ing-schools of Mad'lle. Mauguin and Mad'lle. Grammont
were evacuated ; and as to the schools of the Freres of the
Doctrine Chretiennes' not a single pupil was left in them.
The mob next went to the Salle d'Asile, in the cloitre Saint
Pierre-le-Pue,llier ; and though a commissary of police em-
ployed all his efforts to convince them that there was no
reason whatever for. their terror, they carried off all the
children. They also attempted to cause the Ecole Normale
to be evacuated, but M. Monvel, the director, firmly resisted
them. The next day the agitation continued, and the most
alarming reports were spread. One was that a child who
had had eleven teeth extracted had died, but it is scarcely
necessary to say that this was perfectly false. The depart-
mental commissary and the commissaries of police employed
all means in their power to dissipate the ridiculous fears of
the parents, and it was hoped that they would eventually
succeed. By their request the unfortunate dentist left the
city. Had he fallen into the hands of the people at the
moment the panic .was at it- height, he would no doubt
have been tutu Cv pieces,