The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-21 00:00:00

; same period in 1846, 677,860-
. The weekly average of 1845 was
26,071—weekly decrease, 3,164 bales.

PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURI
the balince-shcet of the public income

was issued for the year. ending the sth of July. The
balances in the Exchequer on the sth of July, 1845, were
£6,641,519 ls. 101, and on the sth of July last they
amcunted to £7,351,788 15s. 91d.

THE PROTECTIONIST AND THE SUGAR QUESTION.
—The Times, of yesterday, states confidently that the
protectionists intend to offer a strenuous opposition to the
government proposition to equalize the duties on British
Colonial and Foreign Slave-grown Suaar. Our conter
porary adds, `• Rumour points of

Mr. Gladstor

leader whom they
tune to secure, and whom tt

ho-e what they consider the good for
think no very ridieulou
difficult pos
just befor

ambition to design for that splen
which a Peel,- and after him a Ru
abdicated." It is, however; very ea

rumour

and we suspect this of th

COMMERCIAL VALUE OF

insects, commercially speak,
Great Britain does not
annually for the dried carcasses of the ti

asect, the co

chlueal and another Indian insect, gum sh
less valuable. More than 1,500,000 of hu

beings de

rive their sole support from the culture and manufacture
of silk ; and the silk worm alone creates an annual circu-
lating medium of nearly 200,000,000 of dollars ; 500,000
of dollars is annually spent in England alone for foreign
honey, at least 10,000 cwt. of wax is imported into that
country every year. 11. en there are the gall-nuts of com-
merce, used for dyeing and making ink, while the
cantharides, or Spanish fly, is an übsnlute indispensable
'n materia meclica.—Boston Transcript.
ROYAL AGRICULTURAL. SOCIETY. —The meeting of
this society closed on Friday. During the week upwards
of £2,000 was received as entrance money to the cattle
and implement yard. At the sale by auction after the
show, seven short•horned bulls, calved before the Ist of
January, 1844, were sold for £172 155., being an average
of about £24 13s. each. Nine calved since that period
were sold for £263 lls. averaging £29 ss. 9d. each.
Three in each class were bought in.. The highest price
obtained in the first class was £37 165., for a bull three
years and two months old, belonging to Lord Hastings,
by whom it was bred. ' The lowest price was 20 guineas
for a bull three years and six months old.' The highest
price obtained in the second class was £56 14s. for a bull
two years and 23 weeks old, belonging to Mr. Joseph
Atkinson, of Embleton, near Alnwick ; the lowest price
13 guineas for a bull one year and one month old. Four
short-horned cows, in milk, were sold for £l2l 10s.,
averaging £3O 7s. 6d. each. One in-calf, heifer, was sold
for 25 guineas, and another for 24 guineas. Four year-
ling heifers were sold for £B4, averaging £2l each. A
cart stallion, six years old, was sold for £lO5. One
seven years old was sold for £B5 15s. ; and a two years
old filly was sold for £42. A Leicester shearling ram,
belonging to Mr. Abraham, of Barnet-by-le-wold, near
Brigg, sold for 7 guineas; one 15 months old, belonging
to Air. Aegis. of Keswick, brought the same sum. Mr.
Grey, of Dilston, sold three shearling rams for 4 guineas,
8 guineas, and 9 guineas respectively, and two others at
7 guineas each. Two Leicester shearling ewes brought
15 guineas each. The Soutbdown shearling rams varied
from 5 guineas to 14 guineas each. _ _ .

A splendid carnation show will be held at Mr. New's,
at Kirkdale, on Tuesday next. The arrangements are ex-
cellent.
Mr. Atherton, of Canning-place, is fitting the whole of
the rooms over his shop with seats, from which an excel-
lent view of the stone-laying by Prince Albert will be ob-
tained.
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BRITISH WINES.—The excellence of British wines era
daily becoming more evident. Mr. Asbe's advertisement,
which appears in another column, announces further im-
provements in their manufacture : indeed, they are ex-
cellent.

Tne political intelligence is not of much
The fort of Kangra had not been surrendere
last accounts came away, which were of the 14t.
Sir H. Hardinge was at Sirulah on the 16th of M.
ing returned thither from a visit to the interior.
The Governor of Madras, we regret to learn, wat.
fined by illness at Vellore.
Cholera was still raging at Rajpoor among the frn
of the 22d Regiment.
Commercial matters at Bombe- -
state as those last received. At.
trade was very
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in much the 8

The Emperor of China had issued a
nouncing that Chusan was to be immediately evacu...--
Mr. Elmslie, who so long faithfully exercised the office o
Secretary to the Superintendent of Trade, was to have
the honour of bearing the Imperial assent for the ratiri.
cation of the Queen of England.
The commercial accounts are of such a character as tc
create much solicitude in the minds of the merchants en.
gaged in the trade. There is not a single article of Britist
manufacture selling to cover the cost of production, whist
affords good ground for anxiety on the part of every per.
son that has capital embarked..

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