The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

We have again a large supply of Beasts, but the choicest
qualities are not very plentiful. Trade is exceedingly dull,
owing to the mild weather, and this being Michaelmas week,
only little meat is wanted. The most selling descriptions, be
cause of their scarcity, are not much lower, but several
middling qualities cannot be sold. The number of Sheep is
rather less; it is, however, more than adequate to the demand,
which is very limited. A few choice Downs still make 4s. The
trade for Calves continues very bad. From Germany and
Holland there are 934 Beasts, 4,710 Sheep, and 58 Calves ;
Leicester and Northampton, 2,000 Beasts ; Lincoln, 400; and
Cambridge, 100.

The Archbishop of Canterbury has expressed a wish in
a letter to the clergy of his diocese that Friday the sth, or
Wednesday the 10th inst., be set apart as a day of fasting
and humiliation.

WRECK.—lntelligence has been received of the foun-
dering at sea of the brig Jane, of Sunderland, from Liver-
pool, with a general cargo, bound for California. On the
Bth of September the vessel sprang a serious leak, in con-
sequence of pitching and rolling in the heavy cross seas for
several days; the leak gained so fast that the captain decided
upon abandoning her, and the crew accordingly :took to
the boats, not being able to save any of their personal
effects, shortly after which the vessel sank. On the 9th
of September they were fortunately picked up by the
American bark Roderick Dhu, from New York, bound to
Madeira.

AN ALDERMANIC PLOUGHMAN.—At the Lichfield
Agricultural Dinner, on Wednesday, the chairman (Lord
Alfred Paget, M.P.) begged to announce that they had a
new acquisition to the society in th 2 person of Alderman
Copeland, and he had authority to state that the worthy
alderman challenged any member of the society to plough
with him—(laughter)—for any amount on receiving four-
teen days' notice. The worthy alderman would hold the
plough himself. (Cheers and laughter.) The capabilities
of Alderman Copeland as a ploughman were then can-
vassed, and offers were made of large odds in his favour.
It appeared to be understood that some one would be
found to try his mettle.—Wolverhamplon Chronicle.
WESTERN PRODUCE.—The past season has witnessed a
considerable increase in the receipts of most leading arti-
cles of western production, as compared with last year, and
a glance at our tables will show a corresponding augmen-
tation in our exports. The arrivals of flour are 1,013,177
barrels, against 706,958 barrels last year ; of Indian corn
equal to 4,785,000 bushels, against 3,600,000 last year; of
wheat equal to 475,000 bushels, against 300,000 bushels
last year ; of corn meal the arrivals are much less, being
only 12,097 barrels, against 47,543 barrels last year. The
total exports of flour amount to 778,370 barrels, against
472,519 barrels last year. Of this quantity 165,458 bar-
rels have been shipped to Great Britain and Ireland,
54,493 to the West Indies, &c., and the remainder to
coastwise ports. Of Indian corn the total exports are
equal to 3,662,000 bushels, against 3,059,000 last year.
Of this quantity 2,361,000 bushels have been shipped to
Great Britain and Ireland, 313,000 to the West Indies,
&c., and the remainder to coastwise ports. Of wheat the
exports to Great Britain and Ireland have been equal to
100,000 bushels, and of the remainder of the receipts a
part was consumed by our city mills, but the bulk was
shipped to the north. The comparative exports to Great
Britain and Ireland, from all the ports of the United
States, from September 1 to August 1 in the past two years
were as follow:

Flour, barrels 178,782
Corn meal, barrels
Wheat, bushels
Corn, bushels 4,134,912 12,536,758
—New York Herald.

A French officer quarrelling with a Swiss, reproached
him with his country's vice for fighting on either side for
money, " while the Frenchmen," said he, " fight for
honour." " Yes," said the Swiss, " every one fights for
what he most wants."
TOUCII/NG SIMPLICITY.—DeepIy were we affected, on
reading the other day of a young lady, who, being told
that her lover was suddenly killed, exclaimed—" Oh !
that splendid gold watch of his—give me something to
remember him by !"—American Paper.
LADY BLEESINOTON AND THE BASKET-MAKER.—On
more occasions than one, Lady Blessington showed her-
self the friend of obscure but deserving genius. Of this
her notice of Thomas Miller, the basket-maker, author of
" Royston Gower," affords a remarkable instance. As
soon as he became known by his writings, Lady Blessing-
ton sent for him, recommended his book, and did him
substantial service. Often (Miller himself says) have I
been sitting in Lady Blessington's splendid drawing-room
in the morning, talking and laughing as familirr as in the
old house at home.; and in the same evening I might
have been standing on Westminster-bridge, between an
apple-vendor and a baked potato-merchant, vending my
baskets.— Tait's Magazine.
POLITICAL PROSPECTS OF FRANCE. The middle
classes in the towns would prefer the Orleans dynasty,
and until the magic name of Napoleon had been pro-
nounced, a fusion of dynastic interests appeared advisable,
and of no difficult accomplishment. The middle classes
do not relish the idea of a restoration of an elder branch,
with which they associate aristocracy and jesuitism ; but
they might have been brought to accept a compromise,
which would open the prospect of a return of the Or-
leanists, which was emphatically a bourgeois dynasty.
Louis Napoleon, whether by taste or policy, has turned
towards the bourgeoisie. His prime minister is the poli-
tical disciple and successor of Lafayette. Thus with the
peasantry and small proprietary at his back, with the
clergy by no means hostile, he turns to the bourgeoisie:
should he succeed in winning over this powerful class,
he would combine the partisans of both branches.—
The bourgeoisie will not, however, be easily made to
forget the position they enjoyed under Louis-Philippe.
They will be the less disposed to forget it on account of
the injuries they are enduring at the hands of the So-
cialists, while they are so feebly defended by the Republi-
cans. With the shopkeepers and merchants and manu-
facturers, the Duchess of Orleans and the Prince de Join-
ville are as popular as is the Duke of Bordeaux in the
Faubourg St. Germain.—Corkran's History of the Na-
tional Assembly.
A KAFIR ScuooL.—A door, apparently in a wall,
opened. No sound of uproarious mirth, angry remon-
strance, or ill-humoured complaining, proclaimed the
character of its inmates, or, indeed, gave one the idea
that it was occupied at all. We entered; some twenty
Kafir boys of various ages, almost all tolerably clothed,
presented themselves to our view, some reading, some
studying their lessons, and others writing. The centre of
the group was Letitia—a Christian Kafir girl. Now,
Letitia had beer. brought to England, and a certain
clique of people at home chose to say that she was one of
many hundreds—nay, some thousand Christian Kafirs.
The fact is that Letitia, instead of being the rule, is the
exception. She is one Christian Kafir among many
thousand heathens! What struck us most forcibly in
Letitia's little school was the repose of the scene. The
Kafir children are as calm in their manner as their war-
rior fathers, and we were singularly impressed with the
musical tones of both teacher and pupils, as they read
their Bible in English and in their own soft language.
Strangely sounded, among these children, Letitia's ques-
tion, " Who was Jesus Christ ?" And a little Kafir boy
lifted up his dark eyes, and answered reverently, " He
was the Son of God." And then they sang, or rather
breathed a hymn, and we went out from that little place
of refuge very hopeful for the Kafir children under the
care of the good emigrants, but unaltered in our notion
of the irreclaimability gf the older generation,—Past and
Future Emigration,