The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-02-14 00:00:00

PRODUCE.—There has been an active demand
for Sugar this week, and full prices have been
maintained. Coffee quiet, For Rice lower rates
have been accepted. In Tea a fair amount of busi-
ness in Congous, other kinds neglected. For Palm
Oil and Tallow, a good demand at full prices. Jute
rather flat. To-DAY the show of Sugar continued
limited, and the sales were consequently confined
to 70 hhds. vacuum pan Demerara at 395. 9d. to
41s. 6d., and 60 hhds. Porto Rico at 355. 9d. to
375. 6d. per cwt. Nothing has taken place in Mo-
lasses, Rum, or Coffee. 500 bags Para Cocoa were
sold at the close of last week at 28s. per cwt. The
transactions in Tea are to a moderate extent, and
at about previous rates. The news by the overland
mail has not had any influence on common Congou,
which rules nominally at ls. ld. per lb. About
4,000 bags Arracan Rice changed hands on Satur-
day at 15s. 3d. per cwt., but this price has been
refused to-day, and no further business has taken
place.
WooL.---We have again to notice a quietness in
this market during the past week ; the attention
of the trade is now occupied with the public sales
in London, which are progressing with pretty good
spirit, at about the opening rates ; and until the
close of these sales, we do not expect to see much
activity in this market. Prices remain without
alteration.—lmports for the week, 1,472 bales,
viz., 109 Buenos Ayres, 800 Peruvian and Alpaca,
477 Mediterranean Ports, 70 coastwise, and 16
Irish.

HULL FORTIFICATIONS.—The Admiralty committee
of survey concluded their labours on Thursday. We hear
that the evidence was overwhelming and decisive as to
the removal of the citadel, but, we believe, the block-
house is to stand. It is capable of mounting several
guns.—Hull Packet.
THE DIRECTORS of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham
intend to open the building on the 24th of May—the
Queen's birthday. Some intimation has been conveyed to
the directors that her Majesty, although taking no official
part in the ceremony, will be present on the occasion of
the opening.
THE CANTWELL-CANNOCK CASE.—The case of Miss
Margaret Cantwell against Messrs. Cannock and White,
the proprietors of one of the Dublin monster drapery
houses, is again before the public, the arena being shifted
from the Commission Court to the more imposing tri-
bunal of the Queen's Bench, Dublin, with the Lord Chief
Justice and a special jury for the arbiters of the great
legal contest. The lady, who, it may be recollected, was
acquitted of a charge of having purloined a yard or two
of velvet riband, has brought an action for false imprison-
ment, &c., against her prosecutors, and for four whole days
popular excitement has been strained to a pitch that
might lead one to suppose that the issue involved the set-
tlement of the question which just now agitates all Europe.
The damages were laid at £5,000. The reply was not
concluded until Saturday, after which the Chief Justice
proceeded to charge the jury, who retired shortly before
two o'clock, and remained in deliberation for upwards of
two hours and a-half, when they returned a verdict, find,
ing for the plaintiff on the first count—false imprisonment,
and awarding £3OO damages and Gd. costs. Upon the
second count—malicious prosecution—the jury did not
agree. The jury were then discharged. The charge of
the Chief Justice was favourable to the plaintiff. The
jury was compose 4 of tve,Romanists, six itottstants, and
One Quaker.