The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-15 00:00:00

TO THE

pointed re

Australia by

members charges me with " extravagance." There is no
mistaking the allusion, although my name is not men-

and both exalt " Captain Grey" (who was bat a

very few years in the army, and who „ long ago ceased to
belong to it) as the exclusive cause of the extraordinary

prosperity of the colony.
I have no desire to force myself unnecessarily upon
public attention, but when Mr. Grey and his friends have,

regard to that colony., with yery trifling defensive replies

acknowledge that it is quite time I should in some sort
meet such attacks, and publicly claim whatever may be

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COMMERCIAL At

STD FINANCIAL SUMMARY

The tightness of the money market may now be said td
have effectually relaxed, four per cent being difficult to
obtain at the close of the week. In the ordinary transac-

tions of trade, however, there is little ease as yet dis-
cernible; and probably we shall not experience any great
improvement for a few months to come. There are few
retail businesses in which the ordinary quantity of money
is circulating; and the lock up of capital in worthless, or
non-paying railway schemes, is crippling many, who might
Otherwise be in active and remunerative trade.

With respect to the great staples of food, and of the raw
material of manufacture, we still remain in the position in
which we have been for the past few month

The con-

viction of a short stock of grain in the country grows upon
us; and, as our food markets go up, cotton becomes dull
of sale. The certainty of a deficient supply of this staple
is, however, quite as assured as the deficient supply of
breadstuffs; and when the corn market gives way specula-
tion immediately forces up the cotton market. At the com-
mencement of the last week, corn was in the ascendant ;
and cotton was bought on Wednesday at a decline of Id.
per lb. On Friday, however, the price of grain gave way,
and cotton recovered itself. The genial rain which has
been falling, and the promising aspect of the crops through-
out the country, have been strikinc, terror into the hearts
of the prospects of famine ; but when we come to the other
great necessary of this district—cotton—we are met with
the fact that any progress towards activity in manufacturing
%tions takes away all hope of such activity being pro-
The crop of cotton is undoubtedly short. The

exports to this Country from the United 'States, as we
learn by the advices per mail steamer of the 31st May
had been, so far this season, 605,000 bales, against 735,000
bales to same periodof 1846, I,l6o,ooobales in 1845, 915,000
bales in 1844, and 1,321,000 in 1843. It must be borne
in mind however that, although since the first of January
we have received in Great Britain only 605,000 bales

against 735,000 bales in the preceding year; we had been
short supplied up to the 31st December, the receipts be-
ing only 46,000 bales up to that period against 155,000 on
the preceding 31st December. We shall, therefore, pro-
bably have an extra quantity to arrive.
In any event, however, the prospect of very much higher
prices is very doubtful. The advance on Friday last has
already operated to deter many millowners from recom-
mencing working ; and it is clear that the demand for
manufactured goods is not such as to enable the manu-
facturer to put his machinery, or his hands, into active
with an increased price of the raw material.
The coming cotton crop is said to be backward ; but some
hich are expected to produce

)oration

favourable effects.
The following was the latest quotation of cotton in New
Orleans :

Good and fine
Good fair
Fair
➢Middling fair
Middling
Ordinary

LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION
nominal.
nominal.
11 to
101 to
In} to
9i to 92

nominal

nominal,
74- to 71
62 to

The New York market was quiet. The following is a
statement given in the latest papers received :
The receipts at all the shipping ports are 1,683,790 bales,
~ against 1,932,704 to same dates last year, a deficiency, this
_ I season, of 248,914 bales. The total foreign export this year

falls 206,469 bales short of last, the deficiency been being to
Great Britain, 130,025 ; to France, 64,248 ; North of Europe,
161 ; and other foreign ports, 3035 bales. The shipments from
the southern to the northern ports are 66,180 bales less this
season than last. The sales since our last are 2400 bales, thus:
Upland and Flor. Mobile and N.O.
1,300 bales. 1,100 bales.
Inferior None. None.
Ord. to good ord.
Mid. to good mid 11 to 11} cents, 1U to 11i cents.
Mid. fair to fair 112 to 12i „ 12 to 13 „
Fully fair to good fair IU t 0 139 „ 19 o_l4 „

New Orleans, 476 bales, (less 433,
incorrect in our last

Georgia

South Carolina.
North Carolina

Total import since Ist instant
Export from Ist to 25th May
Export from the United States
Since Ist September last
Same time last year 1,130,355 bales

4,810 bales
3,544 bales.

The advices as to the state of the grain markets of
America strike us as tending to show that the speculators
of that country are in a fair way to burn their fingers ;
and that there is every prospect of a greater exportation
thence than has been calculated upon. Our readers Will
remember that we prepared them to expect that our bre-
thren across the Atlantic would not reserve their stocks
whilst such excellent prices were offering. The New
York Enquirer says :

" Prices of breadstuffs continue extravagantly high. The
best brands of southern flour sold last week for home use in
home market for 91 dollars per barrel, and Gennessee, for ex-
portation, at from 8 dollars 50 cents to 8 dollars 75 cents ;
Wheat brought 2 dollars 5 cents per bushel of 60 lbs. ; and
Indian corn 1 dollar 8 cents to 1 dollar 12 cents, for yellow,
per bushel of 561bs. There is some little pause at present in
these prices, yet contracts have been freely made to pay for
these staples deliverable from June to August, prices equal to,
for flour, 8 dollars 50 cents to 8 dollars ; for wheat, from 2 dol-
lars in June to 1 dollar 65 cents in August ; for Indian corn,
from 1 dollar 2 cents in June to 97 cents in July and 22 cents in
August.

Ail this .shows great confidence in a continued foreign demand
high prices, and is the more remarkable because the arrivals

thi canal are very h

vy, eqyu

'ling 3(

9 35,000

for many consecutive days, and the accounts from
the interior make it evident that the stocks are larger than
was before generally estimated.
The total of our exports of breadstuffs from the United States
to Great Britain, since the Ist of September to the 21st instant,
are, say two millions bbls. of 2001bs. of flour; 585,0001b5. corn
meal; 1,802,000 bushels of 601bs. of wheat; and 1,180,000 bushels
of 561bs. of Indian corn.

The American farmers must evidently think that they
are the only possessors of grain in the world. They will
undoubtedly be mistaken. It is clear, too, that they hold
more than they chose to tell us a while ago.

In New York exchange on Europe continues at a rate which
forbids the further importation of specie. Bills on London
range from 6i to 7i ; on Paris from 5 324 to 5 30.

Freights in New York show a slight improvement.
British ships are obtaining ss. Bd. for cotton, which rate
is refused by American ships. In New Orleans a vessel
had been taken up for Liverpool at 16d. for corn ;. and two,
for Cork, and a market at 20d. and 21d. for wheat. Cot-
ton was at three cents from Boston. Flour brought
ss, 6d. per barrel.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY

The arrival of the Britannia, although bringing more
favourable accounts as to our prospects of supply from
the United States, exercised little influence over our mar-
ket yesterday. A very trifling business, however, was
doing ; but holders were decidedly firmer. The lightness
of the stocks on hand, of course, influences prices ; and
the result of yesterday's Mark-lane market is looked for
with considerable anxiety, and will have an influence upon
our own market this day.

DEATH FROM A FALL.—Yesterday, an inquest was held
before the borough coroner, on view of the body of Sarah
Al`Pherson, aged 60, who resided in Norman-street.
About six weeks ago, while deceased was coming down
stairs, and while within two steps from the bottom, she
slipped, and fell down. She was unable. to walk, and,
getting worse, was sent to the Infirmary, where she died
the
e h toe a d Loi
fv ei rt-.
on Saturday last, from fracture of the neck of the right
thigh bone. Verdict,—" Accidental death."
A CASK PICKED UP AT SEA.—On the 3rd of June last,
id Rio
ed Grande
on h
the, :11' James Smith,"
boundxw frombranded aool, in lat. 51 and lon. 10, picked up a cask of palm oil,
gthheword ~
Since the arrival of the " James Smith," it has, however.

been ascertained. that the cask in qu

cargo of the " Obe

CUM.( , 11 1./111 inc
of Africa, which sailed from that coast on the 20th of
November, 1846, and has never since been heard of.
COMMITMENTS TO PRISON AT THE POLICE-COURT YES-
TERDAY.—Two abandoned girls, Ann O'Hare, and
Biddy 141‘Govern, for robbing a young man in the
employ of Mr. Slater, boot-maker, South John-street,

boots c

Ml= mc:,,g aa4 ii,m; aSMV&

CORRESPONDENCE

TO THE EDITOR OF THE Llf

?RPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Well aware of the zeal and activity you have always
displayed in behalf of the charitable institutions of the town,
induces me to hope you will insert for the benefit of your
readers the following statements :

It is with feelings of deep regret I have seen announced in
several of the Liverpool papers the probability, nay, the neces-
sity of the Eastern Dispensary being closed for want of means
to meet its exigencies, and more particularly at such a time,
when I know for a fact, that the awful scourge that has already
made such dreadful ravages on our inhabitants, is fearfully on
the increase. There is no institution' in Liverpool which has
hitherto tended so effectually to keep in check the spread of
this horrid disease, in affording the same degree of relief to
those afflicted than that very institution, considering its limited
means; at the present moment one third of all its applicants
are cases of fever; last year it relieved 12,000 individuals.
During the last four weeks the average is in proportion very
much above that number. Now I positively assert, that if the
public, particularly that part of it resident within the Eastern
District of the town, will not respond to the call made on them,
and allow the doors of that dispensary to be closed, the results
will be fearful; indeed,,l cannot see how it may be kept from
advancing into their own homes. It is alarmingly on the
increase in this district. In one cellar alone there were nine
inmates ill with fever; two, very bad, were sent to the fever
ward, and the others are attended by the officers of that charity.

I am sure those who can afford 'a little only require to be
made aware of these dreadful facts to come forward and rescue
this valuable institution from its present position, and protect
themselves from the certain results that must follow the closing
of its doors.

I would more particularly direct the attention of the Roman
Catholic clergy to the above facts : nearly four-fifths of the whole
cases are of that persuasion.—I am, Sir, yours, &c.,_

A SURGEON

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Sir,—ln your's of last Tuesday, you have thought proper to
publish a letter, signed " A Wesleyan," in defence of Methodism.
Why any Church of England paper should be required to take
upon itself the championship of a system, so fatal, in many
respects, to that church, I cannot understand. Surely because
Dr. Campbell, who has exposed the unscriptural character of
the greater part of the Methodist constitution, differs widely
from you in politics, you will not, therefore, conclude that all he
has said respecting Wesleyanism is therefore false. The fact is,
the system is beginning to give way, on account of those evils
having grown to such enormity. What must be thought of a
church who allows her ministers the most uncontrollable power
over all matters spiritual and secular ?—in fact, whose ministers
can exercise the most perfect despotism over their people ima-
ginable. They may admit whom they choose, or excommunicate
whom they choose ; appoint to all offices ; neglect or fulfil
their own appointments, just as may be convenient, and their
people have not the least shadow of redress ; may order from
thirty to forty levies every year, all for their own benefit, in
which the people have little to do but find the money. No won-
der they are becoming discontented. The gigantic revival for the
last few years of Church of England principles threatens to
swallow up—nay, it is fast absorbing, Wesleyanism back into
itself. Hence the anxiety of the Wesleyan ministry to seek
refuge and support under the protection of the church; or to be
established as a state-church.

As for the affair at Dover, of burning the Christian Witness,
so much rejoiced at by your correspondent, who does not know
how to appreciate the value of the Popish argument of burning
the truth, when that truth cannot be answered. Allow me, sir,
to suggest that your valuable publication ought not to he made
the means of supporting any religious system which fixes the
iron hoof of ecclesiastical despotism so effectually upon its mi-
nistry, 'that the people are not allowed so much as to utter a
word of complaint.—l am, sir, your's respectfully,
Aigburth, June 11, 1847. _ _ _ G. M. P.

[Our previous correspondent's letter was not in any way
addressed to the " defence of Methodism." His remarks
bad reference solely to the unjustifiable mode by which the
Christian Witness attacks that religious system, and not
to the soundness or unsoundness of the system itself. We
do not, therefore, plead guilty to G. P. M.'s implied
charges of inconsistency.]

KIRKDALE CHURCH.—After the sermons preached at
this church on Sunday last, by the Rev. D. James and the
Rev. Fielding Ould, the sum of £36 17s. Bd. was collected
to defray the current expenses of the Sunday Schools.
The state of the weather was very unfavourable, otherwise
a much larger sum - -Id have

would have been realiseu.
A MARKET CART.—At the Police-court,
/wee youths, Henry Moss, Thomas M`Wade,
Welsh, were charged with having, on Satur-
day last, stolen from a market cart belonging to a farmer
at Houghton, named Mary Parr, bnod.

rerday,

oak and hood, while
The case being

she wassdriving along Chisenhale Bridge
proved, they were sent for trial.
HERBERT'S PAINTING OF THE ACQUITTAL OF THE
SEVEN BISHOPS.—We have much pleasure in being abh
to refer our readers

to the announcement that this-extra-
ordinary painting is, for a limited period, still on view.
We have so lately given it that notice which as a great
work of art it so well deserves, that we shall but remind
;lecting to take the opportunity to
a treat which we have never had

view it, they will miss
excelled.

EMIGRATION PROM THE PORT OF LIVERPOOL.—The
emigrants to America, who have left this port during the
last month, viz., from the 15th of May to the 14th of
June, amount to about 17,955 adults, exclusive of those
poor people who go out by such light craft as do not come
under the provisions of the Emigration Act. This des-
cription of vessels do not carry more than 29.1 adult pas-
sengers each, (four children to each adult,) and in conse-
quence of this light freight of human beings, escape the
supervision of the government officers. The whole of this
number of people are from Ireland, if, indeed, we deduct
a very small fraction for Germans, of which people a lar-
ger proportion than heretofore have been recently emi-
grating from our port. Of these 17,955, about 5785 only
have gone to the colonies of North America, and the re-
maining two-thirds, or 11,570, have proceeded to the
United States.
STEALING FROM THE SHOP.-At the Police-court,
yesterday, a well-dressed woman named Jone Jones, was
brought before Mr. Rushton, by a police officer. It al)-

iody on a charge of stealing, or destroying•, without pay-
ing for, after alleged payment, sum© eggs from a market
woman in St. John's Market. The officer who took her
found in her basket a piece of silk handkerchiefs., value
365., which he afterwards discovered to be the property of
Mr. James Rogerson, mercer, Nos. 13 and 15, Church-
street. She had been in the shop, and said in her defence
that she had picked up the piece at the shop door as she
was coming out. She was committed for trial.
ANNIVERSARY OF THE NATIONAL SCHOOL.—No sub-
ject has attracted more attention of late, than that of edu-
cation ; and its friends, so far as profession goes, are ex-
ceedingly numerous amongst all classes. The world is
unanimous that the people must be educated, and almost
unanimous that the education afforded to them shall be
based upon a religious foundation. Those whose hearts
are really warm upon this subject, will have the opportu-
nity of gratifying their amiable sensibilities on Friday next,
by seeing the children under instruction at the various
schools connected with the Church in this town, form
their annual procession from the Blue School, round the
Town Hall, to St. Peter's Church, where Divine Service
will be celebrated according to usual custom. The sight
is indeed such a one as can be but seldom witnessed, and
the reflections which it is calculated to call forth such as

are alike interesting to the statesman, the philanthropist
and the Christian.

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The weather has
been variable during the past week, with a good deal of
heavy rain and high coldish winds, interspersed with oc-
casional dry intermissions, and but little sunshine ; yet,
upon the whole, the moisture and coolness have been
highly favourable to the growing field and garden crops,
all of which look most promising, not excepted the
potatoes, which, notwithstanding the rumours of a return
of the blight, are, as yet, generally strong and healthy,
any appearance of disease being very rare, and attributable
to bad seed or want of proper manure, or both causes com-
bined. Great breadths of the root have this year been
sown in this county and Cheshire. Fini
were sold by retail in our markets on Satur

kew pot

ay, at 3d. per

Wheats, turnips, mangels, and grass have come up
thick and fine. The fruit trees have lost some of their
honours by the occasional violence of the wind and attacks
of insects ; but it is hoped that the yield, if the weather be
at all favourable hereafter, will yet be large. Black cur-
rants will, probably, be scanty. The show for strawberries
:..

THE ROYAL MERSEY YACHT Cnun.—The first sailing
match of the season took place on Wednesday, for three
elegant pieces of plate, to be run for by vessels of the
three classes, under 35 tons. The course was the " Eger-

ton Couise," (named in honour of the Vice-Patron of
Club,) and is from the Royal Rock Ferry dam, Victoria
Channel, to the Bell Beacon, and back to the ferry, a
straight distance of 27 nautical miles. Nine yachts en-
tered, but one,• from Scotland, did not arrive, and eight
The Echo, 34 tons, P. Cato,

namely,