The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1853.

AUSTRALIA..—We have advices to the 15th January,
received by way of Valparaiso and Panama. Business of
every description was thriving, and the arrivals of emi-
grants constantly on the increase. The Government
escort which arrived at Melbourne from Bendigo and
Mount Alexander on the Bth of January, brought down
20,007 ounces of gold. The quantity received from the
same places by a previous escort amounted to 17,500
ounces. At Melbourne gold was firm at £3 10s. 6d. per
ounce. Flour was held at, for old, £2O per ton; new,
£l9 ; seconds do., £l7 ; bran, ls. 4d. per bush. ; old
wheat, 7s. per bush. ; new do., 6s. 9d. Groceries were
also firm at the following quotations :—Hams Is. per lb. ;
butter, ls. 21d. ; lemon syrup, 225. 6d. per dozen ; half-
gallon pickles, 375. 6d. per dozen; sauces, 7s. to 13s.
per dozen ; vinegar. 10d. per gall. Gold was still being
received in considerable quantities, although a large pro-
portion of the miners were engaged in prospecting, or, at
least, in surface digging, seeming, as in the early history
of gold hunting in California, to have an aversion to ex-
pending any great amount of labour in sinking deep shafts,
or pushing tunnels into the hills. Several correspondents
from the gold fields complain that exaggerated reports of
the productiveness of the placers are publishad in the
Melbourne papers, which tend to delude many into the
belief that they can do better by digging than by following
their legitimate business in the towns and cities, thus
causing much distress and suffering among the new-
comers. Bush-ranging is carried on to a considerable
pxtent, and in many instances with the most daring
impunity. An instance of this occurred within three
miles of Forrest Creek, and in full view of several tents,
where a man was robbed of £4O by two men well armed
and mounted. An occasional arrest is made, however,
by the patrols, who are quite numerous, and range the
country both on foot arid on horseback. Some very
heavy swindling operations have been carried on for a
number of months past in Australia, in the manufacture
of spurious gold, which, for a long time, passed quite
currently among all classes without the least suspicion as
to its genuineness. It is said that £lOO.OOO had been
made in five months by operations in the gold frauds, one
bank alone having been mulcted in £30,000.
The Kate had sailed for London on the 12th, with
28,977 ounces of gold, worth £115,000; and the Cuth-
berts on the following day, with 445 ounces. The John
Taylor had sailed with 11,847 ounces, the Joshua with
5,732 ounces, and the Sir Robert Sale with 13,836 ounces ;
all from Victoria. The steamer Sarah Sands was to sail
from Sydney for Liverpool on the 27th of January.
Among the sailing-vessels about to depart for England
were the Washington Irving, on the 17th ; the Lydia,
Windsor, and Waterloo, on the 20th ; and the Cheapside
on the 21st of January; the Cyrus, on the Ist of Feb-
ruary ; the Anglesey, on the 10th; the Templar, on the
12th ; the Carnatic, on the 20th ; and the Vimiera, Black
River, and Catherine Jameson, at dates not specified.
The Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer Shanghai
was expected from Singapore about the Ist of February,
and would be despatched during the same month.

AMERICA.

mitted to, but since the receipt of the Liverpool advices,
per Europa, the decline has been fully recovered, and the
market closes firm at our quotations. Wheat is in fair
demand, without change in value. Northern round yel
low Indian corn, 64c. to 65c. per 56 lbs. Southern yellow,
65c. to 69c. per 56 lbs. • white, 64c. to 65c. ; mixed, 61c.
to 63c. per 56 lbs. • barley, 64c. to 68c. per 48 lbs. • rye,
90c. to 92c. per 56 lbs. ; corn meal, £3121c. to £3 enc. ;
rye flour, £'3 75c. to £4 50c. per barrel.
PROVISIONS.—We have no alteration to notice in the
market ; }solders are firm. A few hundred barrels mess
pork sod at £l5 ; prime, £l3 25c. ; country mess, £'B 25c.
to £lO 25c. ; prime ditto, £4 50c. to £5 ; city mess, £l3 ;
prime ditto, £6 to $5 50e. ; prime mess, £'2o to £2l.
Lard, in Larrels, 91c. to 03-c. ; kegs, 101 c. to 10iC.
NAVAL STORES.—SaIes of 300 barrels of spirits of tur-
pentine were made at 53c. ; rough turpentine and rosin
remain dull, at previous rates.

IRON.-Scotch pig was in demand at 37 dols. to 38 dols.,
and held at 38 dols. to 40 dols. per ton, from yard.
FREIGHTS.-To Liverpool : Cotton, 5-16 d. ; flour and
meal, per brl., 2s. 6d. ; rosin, 2a. 71d. to 2s. 9d. • heavy
goods, p r ton, 275. 61. to 30s. ; grain, in bulk, per
bushel, 61d. to 7d. To London : Tobacco, per hhd.,
30s. to 325. 6d. ; flour, per brl., 2s. 9J. to 3s. ; turpen-
tine, per 280155., 3s. 6d. ; measurement goods, per ton,
30g. ; heavy goods, oil, &c., 30s. to 325. 6d.; cheese, 30s.
to 355.; beef, per tierce, Gs. to 6s. 6d. ; oil cake, per brl.,
3s. To Havre : Cotton, sq nare bales, per lb., V:. ; ashes,
per ton, 8 dols. to 10 dols. ; rice, 10 dols. ; measurement
good a, ICdols. ; whalebone, per lb.,
NEW ORLEANS, April 11.-Cotton has been very live
to-day, and the business amounts to fully 14,000 bales,
at an advance of c. to 4c. Strict middling is quoted at
93e. to 10c.

CHARLESTON, April 11.—The sales of cotton to-day
have been 1,800 bales, at prices ranging from 81c. to 11c.
Prices are quite full.
Moann, April 11.—The sales of cotton, during the
week, have been 13,000 bale, and the receipts of the same
period foot up 5,000 bales, with exports of 12,000. The
stock on hand now amounts to 97,000 bales. Middling
is quoted at 91.

fIA.vANA, April B.—Sugars were active. Assorted,
6r. to 9.1 r. ; whites, Br. to 10r. ; yellows, 6r. to nr. ;
browns 51r. to 64r.; and Muscavadoes, 4}r. to 6r. The
stock of sugars at Havana and Matanzas amounted to
200,000 boxes. Molasses scarce, arid readily brought 21r.
Exchange on London had advanced. British bills were
quoted at 91, and for small amounts 10 per cent. Freights
were unsteady, and small vessels were wanted. Quota-
tions :—lo Cowes, £2 15s.

ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN.
By the United States mail steam-ship Franklin, Capt.
Wotton, which arrived off Cowes just before midnight
on Wednesday, we have advices from New York to the
9th instant.

The steamers Daniel Webster and Philadelphia had
arrived at New Orleans with a fornight's later news from
California.

The Pacific mail steamer Tenessee was totally lost near
San Francisco by running ashore in a fog. Her passengers,
600 in number, and the mails, were saved.
Great anxiety was manifested for the safety of the
Vanderbilt steamer Independence, which vessel was 30
days overdue. A steamer had been sent in search of her.
The California mining intelligence was favourable.
Gold mines of great value had been found in Oregon.
The steamer Prometheus had put into Charleston short
of coals, and reported the San Juan difficulty to be all
settled.

Dates from the city of Mexico to the 21st of March
state that on the 17th the ballot-box containing votes for
the President of the Republic had been opened, and Santa
Anna was duly elected.

The town of Weaverville, in California, had been
destroyed by fire ; the damage was estimated at ;B'loo,ooo.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

LARGE Dram°Nn.—ln the last news from Rio Janeiro
we find the following statement :—A diamond, valued at
£200,000, of superior quality, and as large as a pigeon's
egg, wo.s discovered in one of the miner's district, by a
female slave, the property of a poor lame man, who em-
ployed her in searching for stones of value.
TELEGRAPH TAX.—The government of Mecklenburg-
Schweriu ,eing of opinio.l that the use of electric tele-
graphs is Injurious to the post-office revenues, requires
that a tax shall be paid to the state for every despatch by
the railway company; and the company not being im-
mediately disposed to acquiesce in this 'dew, the wi-es
remain, for the present, unused.

SHIP DESTROYED BY LIGHTNING.—By advices from
the United States, we learn that a splendid merchant
trader, called the Goldin Light, was struck by lightning
within the limits of the north-east trade winds, in the
early part of last month, and totally destroyed. The
captain an I crew escaped in the boats. Two boats, how-
ever, are still missing. The loss to the Boston under-
writers, where the ship was principally insured, is about
X 60,000.

ROME pis been full of visitors, including as many as
35,000 for. igners. Our correspondent informs us of the
discovery of tombs near the Via Appia, that fruitful mine
of antiquarian interest, containing the ashes of the free-
men of Nero, Pompey, and Cae3ar. Dr. E. Braun has
nearly completed a guide to the monumental relics of
Rome. The gasworks now being erected for the illumi-
nation of Rome, under the direction of our energetic
countryr n, Mr. James Shepherd, engineer, are rapidly
progressing.

AN Or. ATORICAL NEW YORK WA/71414. - The whit,
waiters of New York have been out on strike. it seems.
At one of their gatherings a Mr. Adolphus Swin was ap-
pointed president. Mr. Swin spoke pithily.. He said
Many amongst you are prevented from marrying, and
thus adcpting a barrier against vice and dissipation, owing
to the impossibility of sustaining a family upon twelve
dollars a month. Your Sundays and your week days are
all alike. If you ask the religious hotel keeper, who heaps
in his twenty or sixty thousand dollars a year, " if you
can go to church or to mass," what does he reply ?- Just
this, " I do not employ you :to go to church ; I pay you
to work." And yet perhaps this hotel keeper is a mem-
ber of a Bible Society, or subscribes to send missionaries
out to the countries of the far Pacific, or the desert of
Sahara, at the moment he refuses you, aj ust remunera-
tion for 3--:ur time, and thus contributes to your moral
and social degradation.

MORAL FORCE IN THE UNITED, STATES.—A case of
Lynch law, not, however, of a very severe character, has
lately occurred in Woodstock, New Hampshire. A
letter from that place states the facts as follows —A man
of the name of Tucker, alias "Colonel,"' who has a wife
and several fine children, took it into his head to make
love to r young girl about two years since, and has from
time to time taken her on journeys with him, and on their
return would leave her at the house of her father.
Finally, he informed his wife that he should live with her
no longer, and took the girl to live with him.. Fiske and
Norcross, of Lowell, have a large number of men near
this place during the winter season cutting and hauling
logs. These men, hearing of the matter, met from the
different camps, and, after consultation, agreed to pro-
ceed to Colonel Tucker's house and make a demonstra-
tion. As it was well known that Tucker usually went
armed with revolver and dirk, there was some hesitation
as to who should " bell the cat," or, in other words, who
should take the lead and enter the house in search of
Tucker. Finally, one of the oldest hands of the gang,
named Jenkins, stepped forward and said that, as he was
getting old, and was without wife or child to cry for him
if he was killed, he would volunteer to lead in the matter.
On Saturday, March 19th, the loggers to the number of
about 100, according to agreement, surrounded the house,
and Captain Jenkins entered, while the others stood out-
side. Co onel Tucker was made prisoner and placed in
the cent-^. The girl tried to escape but was prevented,
and taken back to her father's house. They then took
Colonel .t.'ucker and marched him to the home of the
father of the girl, to whom they introduced him. After
this they took him to the house of Colonel Brown, who
told theta not to kill him, but to punish him, as he de-
served They then marched him to the village of
Woodstock, where they formed a line, and ordered him
to march and countermarch in front of them. Finally,
after keeping up this exercise until about midnight, they
gave him some good advice. obtained a promise from him
that he would take his wife and children home and treat
them well, with the alternative that if he did not they
would visit him again in two weeks, and then they allowed
him to depart.—Boston Paper.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

APRIL 19

CASE OF MR. KIRWAN.—The Earl of EGLINTON
called attention to the case of Mr. Kirwan, whom he had
removed from the magistracy, but who had been reinstated
by the Earl of St. Germans.—The Earl of ABERDEEN
said that the Earl of St. Germans had no intention to
cast any slur upon the Earl of Eglinton. After some
further discussion the matter dropped.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS.—The Lord CHANCELLOR
brought in a Bill for the better regulation of charitable
trusts.

which they would be able to suggest.improvements which
would make the whole plan still more desirable.
After some further discussions, the papers were ordered
to be printed.

PILOTAGE BILL.
MR. CARDWELL having presented two petitions in
favour of this measure from merchants, masters of vessels,
and others of Liverpool, moved that the House go into
committee on the bill.
MR. C. TURNER moved, by way of amendment, that
the bill be referred to a select committee. The interests
at stake, both as regarded the persons immediately con-
nected, in one way and another, with pilotage, and as re-
garded the lives and property of the public, were so vast,
and the question itself was so complicated, that a select
committee could alone properly investigate the subject.
The hon. gentleman had presented, indeed, petitions in
favour of this bill from certain merchants, masters of
vessels, and others of Liverpool, but he was prepared to
state that the very large majority of the merchants of that
port, and of the masters and mates of vessels there, were
decidedly opposed to the measure as it now stood, and
assuredly the opinion of the port of Liverpool, so greatly
exceeding in business as it did the port of London, was
entitled, on such a matter, to the serious consideration of
the House. The underwriters at that port, men well
qualified to give their judgment on the subject, were also
decidedly opposed to the bill, and, indeed, it might be
said that almost the only persons connected with the trade
of Liverpool who advocated the measure were the masters
and mates of the steam-vessels. He was ready to admit
that the pilotage charges to which these vessels had been
subjected in the port of Liverpool, were too heavy, but
the Pilot Board there had agreed to reduce those charges.
The Pilot Board of Liverpool was not composed of pilots,
of persons connected with the pilots, but of merchants,
whose obvious interest it was to keep the pilots and their
charges under proper control. Whether and in what way
the composition of the local pilot boards might be im-
proved was a point which a select committee could effi-
ciently consider. The centralizing of the authority under
the Board of Control seemed a most extraordinary thing,
without any good ground, and against the opinions of
those who thought that instead of 39,000 vessels going
out of the port without a single loss, the probability would
be they would have a tremendous loss of life and property.
The only objection to the present system was, he believed,
the charges, and that point he was quite willing to leave
to the decision of the Board of Trade. He hoped, there-
fore, the Government would accede to the proposition he
had made, or, if not, that the parties whom he repre-
sented would be heard before they proceeded further with
the bill.
This motion was seconded by Sir E. DERING, who in.
sisted that if ever a bill rejuired the strictest inquiry it
was this, which affected the great maritime interest of the
country, as well as the vested interests of the pilots of the
united kingdom.
Mr. GEORGE gave his hearty support to the bill, which,
in his opinion did justice to the important steam interest
connected with the port of Liverpool. He warmly ap-
proved of the power of appeal to the Board of Trade in the
event of the local boards refusing to license competent
masters and mates; and to show the injurious operation
of the existing system, he referred to the case of the
Dublirr and Liverpool Steam Company. The masters and
mates employed by the company were experienced men,
and knew every crevice of the port of Liverpool, but the
local board refused to license them. In the last three
years the company's vessels had made 2,736 voyages from
port to port. In only 245 cases had they employed the
Liverpool Pilots, and they had been compelled to pay for
that service no less than £4,500., being at the rate of
£1,500 a-year

Mr. CA:RDIvgLL observed that the House had assented
to the second reading of the bill without a division, and if
they intended the shipping interest to enjoy the benefit of
this reform they would pass it through. this stage. If it
were sent to-a committee upstairs, and witnesses were to
be examined., it would be long before it r9-appeared. The
principle of the measure was, that no bodies should levy
compulsory taxation upon the subjects- of the realm,
rendering no- account to Parliament of the manner in
which the funds were disposed of.
Upon a division the amendment was negatived by 221
to 85, and the House went into Committee, but imme-
diately afterwards adjourned.
FRIDAY, APRIL 22.
MAIDSTONE: ELECTION.-Mr. HALL reported from
the Select Committee that Mr. George Dodd was not
duly elected.

CLASSIFICATION OF OUTPORTS. -In answer to 8
question from Mr. W. Brown, Mr. WILSON said, that
he omitted last night to state the intention of the Go-
vernment with respect to the classification of the outplrts.
It was intended to abolish the present system altogether,
and to have no. special classification, but to deal with
each port from time to time according to its circum-
stances, taking into account the amount of trade in con-
nexion with it and the amount of revenue le7ied thereat.
The salaries of the officers and the different charges con-
nected with them would be fixed in future in• reference to
the circumstances-of the port, and not in reference to any
general classification.

REDUCTION 07 THREE PER CENTS. --The House
baying resolved itself into a Committee upon, the South
Sea and other Annuities' Commutation Bill, on arriving
at the second clause, which provides that proprietors of
the South Sea Stock and other minor 3 per cent. stocks
may for every £l9O receive £B2 10s. new 3Lper cents.,
or £llO new 21 per cents., both guaranteed tor 40 years ;
or an Exchequer bond for £lOO, bearing interest at 21
per cent. until 1864, and 21 per cent.:until 1894—Sir F.
KELLY characterised the whole scheme contained in the
bill as inconsistent, impracticable, mischievous, and un-
just, and declared ho should oppose this part of it, as
making a large and substantial addition to the national
debt, under circa:instances which led to a reasonable ap-
prehension t hat. the principle would be applied to the
whole debt, unless Mr. Gladstone consented, so far to
modify the bill, as to strike out the second alternative,
and he moved an amendment to that effect.
Mr. DISRAELI. observed, that the plan of 'ale Govern-
ment, if completed, could, at the utmost, save no more
than £600,003 a-year, with a guarantee that might entail
a loss, and contrasted very unfavourably with preceding
financial arrangements, especially in respect to the gua-
rantee, the most important feature of the present plan.
He objected that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had
settled the terms of the operation, whereas it was his Lluty
to have thrown upon the public creditor the responsibility
of offering terms. A2l per cult. stock could be created
at any time ; its policy depended upon terms and time,
and, in his opinion, Mr. Gladstone, though ingenious, had
been premature. Theprospects of the rate of,interest were
uncertain; new phenomena were hourly appeasing; and al-
though beforathese great changes, which had confounded
the greatest financiers, the most successful of our chan-
cellors of the exchequer had never contemplated a gua-
rantee beyond, twenty years, a guarantee: of forty years
was now proposed for a conversion which, if perfectly
fulfilled, would save only £600,003 a-year.—The CHAN-
CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER defended the measure ; and,
after some discussion, the amendment was negatived by
236 to In; and the hole of the clauses were agreed to.
CUSTOMS. REFORM.—The report of the Customs, &c.,
Acts Committee was agreed to, and a was ordered to
be brought in.

REMARKABLE DELUSION. OF A DERBY

FAMILY.

At. the Derby County Court, on Monday week, a man
named Thomas Baynton and his wife made a claim for
£241165. 10d., in the name of board and wages, against
Miss Einma Hunt, a young lady of Derby, who, with the
other members of her family, would appear to have been
a victim to the most remarkable delusions, unparalleled
in the• wildest tales of fiction. The plaintiff and his wife
were induced to leave a good situation in the Isle of
Wight on representations made. by the defendant, and
at her instigation, by her father and sister, to the effect
that she, the defendant, was about to be married to a
duke, and that he, the plaintiff, was to be engaged as
head gardener, while his wife was to sustain the impor-
tant office of housekeeper in. the ducal establishment.
The household of the duke was to be on a scale of ex-
traordinary magnificence. The lady was to have four
gardeners, of whom the plaintiff was to be the chief ; she
was likewise to have four grooms, four coachmen, four
housekeepers, and, in short, a very noble establishment._
The movements, as well as. the locus in quo, of his grace,.
were supposed to be very uncertain, as his intended
duchess did not know exactly when the wedding was
to take place, or where the ducal residence was ultimately
to be reared. However, es a make. shift and tern.
porary dwelling-place, St. Helen's House was fixed
on, while a magnificent mansion was to be built on
the Ashbourne-road, some idea of which domicile might
be formed from the feet, that it was to have forty, rooms
on the ground floor, four of which were to be dining.
rooms, and four to he drawing-rooms. Saint Helen's
House having been found inadequate to the requirements
of the noble pair, even for temporary purposes, was
abandoned, and, the more suitable mansion of Brocklesby
Hall, in Lincolnshire, the seat of the Earl of Yarborough,
was fixed on, its noble owner having, as the lady stated,
kindly placed it at the service of the fair affiance, and her
noble bridegroom. Still, no duke had been seen, and no
precise day: or hour had been fixed for the wedding, of
which important event, the lady stated she herself would
not, in all probability, receive six hours' notice, only one
or two interesting events being certain as to the joyous
ceremony. The first of these was,. that the nuptials
should be graced by Her Majesty and Prince Albert, in
addition to whom, was a mysterons foreign nobleman,
who, having come from " some place far abroad," had un-
expectedly, as well as unfortunately, been placed under
quarantine, in Liverpool. This little contretemps, how-
ever, was more than compensated for, by the condescend-
ing kindness of Her Majesty, who, in addition to counte-
saucing the marriage of the Derby bride, had graciously
consented to waive the rigour of the law, on so august au
occasion, and allow the duke and his " fairy Hunt," to
drive eight horses in their state carriage. Preparations
for the expected, but unconsummated marriage, continued
off and on, from the end of November, till near the close
of February, when the expectant bride, " like Niobe, all
tears," was dragged before the magistrates, to answer the
demand of one of the plaintiffs, who, besides having seen,
no situation, had been unexpectedly, as well as involun-
tarily, exalted to the position of private hanker to his
grace's future father-in-law ; that gentleman, with a con-
descension which certainly was remarkable, having
borrowed several small sums of money to meet present
necessities with. On being taken before the magistrates,
Miss Emma, the defendant, said, on account of the illness
of his grace, the marriage had been indefinitely postponed,
but that she would settle all claims within a fortnight.
Subsequent to this, the sum of £7l 10s. was paid to Bayn-
ton, that being the amount advanced by him to the defend-
ant's father ; no more being forthcoming, on account of
the illness of his imaginary grace. Under these circum-
stances, the plaintiff and his wife, having lost a good
situation, without having received another, as they had
been engaged to have had, brought the present action.
In the cross-examination of Baynton, he stated that nego-
tiations had been opened with witness, by the father of
the defendant, so long ago as the month of July last, in
a series of letter 3, which were read. In one of these it
represented, in a roundabout way, that defendant had
been left £40,000 a year, by a Mr. Bell, in the county of
York. In another, reference was made to the splendid
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ECCLESIASTICAL.

DIOCESE OF' CHESTER

CDIVSECRATION.—SCARISBRICK CHURCH, PARISH
ORMSRIRK.—The Bishop of Chester consecrated
Church of St. Mark, Scarisbrick, on Tuesday last, 95
Chapel of Ease to the Parish Church of Ormskirk, Or/
which it is distant 4} miles, in a situation where the fill!!
of church accommodation was much felt. It contoljill
sittings for 408 persons, including children, of wbi
number-291 are altogether free. After a sermon by P.
Bishop in aid of the fund for defraying the cost of t"m?
Church, a sum of nearly £5O was collected. .41
INcE.—The Bishop has licensed a room in this parr;l
for the performance of Divine Service and other sac
offices during the time the Church is-closed, on acci*
of the repairs it is about to undergo.