The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

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SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, One o'Clock, a.m.

THE TROUBLES IN CANADA,—Thare have been no
further disturbances in Canada; but the authorities
betray in their precautionary measures an uneasy feeling.
An additional force of police has been organized. The
Montreal correspondent of the New York Herald says :
"An immense number of addresses have been pre-
sented to Lord Elgin, from all parts of the province, and
which cannot be without their effect in England. The
Montreal address had seven thousand and odd sig-
natures, but I cannot credit such a number being given ;
5,000 would be nearer the mark, as I believe there is
about that number of French Canadian citizens. On
the other hand, meetings are openly held (which con-
trast strongly with the manner in which the Montreal
addresses have been gotten up) in all parts of the pro-
vince, to draft and sign petitions to the Queen, recall-
ing Lord Elgin. Several have been received in Mon-
treal, to go wish that from the metropolis, in the charge
of Sir Allan McNab. In the meantime, I do not per-
ceive the least falterinc, on the part of the British par-
ty, or desire to retract° or give up one iota of their de-
mands. Should the English government, for the pur-
pose of getting rid of the trouble of settling the ques-
tion themselves, leave it to the country, the British
party will be triumphant; and should they not, will not
even then give in. It is not, as I have said before, the
mere disallowing of the • Rebel bill' ; matters have gone
too far for that. It is, I still maintain, a war of races,'
and one or other of lem must succumb. The burning
the Governor-General in effigy still continues in several
parts of the province."
Sir Allan Al'lsTab's motion for copies of correspondence
between her Majesty's Government and the Government
of the Province had been lost by a majority of 32 to 12.

CALIFORNIAN GOLD REGION.—The accounts from
California are to the 29th March, from San Francisco.
The people were prepa!ing to ortianize a government.
The winter had been very severe ; and the diggers had
congregated themselves in San Francisco and Monterey,
until the opening of the season. Their occupation was
principally gambling and drinking. The accounts still
represent the richness of the gold placer as unbounded.
A letter from San Francisco of the 9th March says :

"The activity in this part is extraordinary, and the circula-
tion of money prodigious. Everything is high in price—more
particularly manual labour and the transit of goods. The
freight of a barge from here to the landing pine? of Santa Clara
(three leagues from San Jcse) is from *3103 to 8500. . Here
wretched backs of horses sell forsso ; in San Jose, 5100.
Food for one man is S 5 a day."

The steamer California was still detained in the harbour,
with a large amount of the shipping of all nations, deserted
by their crews, and apparently without a chance of being
able to stir. Another placer is said to have been disco-
vered in Oregon.

SER3.ION BEFORE THE HOUSE OF COMMONS.—Burnet
and Spratt were old rivals. On some public occasion they
both preached before the House of Commons. There pre-
vailed in those days an ancient custom. When the preacher
touched any favourite topic in a manner that delighted his
audience, their approbation was expressed by a loud hum,
continued in proportion to their zeal or pleasure. When
Burnet preached, part of his congregation hummed so
loudly, and so long, that he sat down to enjoy it, and
rebbed his face with his handkerchief. When Spratt
preached, be likewise was honoured with a like animating
hum ; but he stretched out his hand to the congregation,
and cried, " Peaett, peace ; I pray you, peace." Burnet's
sermon (says Salmon) was remarkable for sedition, and
Senates for loyalty. Burnet had the thanks of the House.
Spran had no thanks, but a gonl living from the King,
which he said was-of as much value as the thanks of the
Commons.—Memorial of Westminster.
JEALOUSY or Thos.—Dogs have, also, a great deal
of jealousy in their dispositions ; and even this may be
made to assist in their education, as it makes them strive
to outdo each other. Every clever dog is especially un-
willing that any •of his companions should possess a
greater share of ids master's favour than himself. One
of my dogs could not he induced to hunt in company with
another, of whose advances in my good graces he was pe-
' culiarly jealous. There was no other ground of quarrel
between them. When Rover saw that a certain %Tousle
dog was to accompany me, he invariably refused to go
out ; and, although at other titres one of the most eager
dogs for sport that I ever possessed, nothing would induce
him to go out with his young rival. He also showed his
jealousy by flying at him and biting him on every possi.
ble occasion where be could do so unobserved. At last,
however, when the young dog had grown older, and dis-
covered that his own streneth was superior to that of his
tyrant, he flew upon poor Rover, and amply revenged the
ill treatment which lie had received at his hands. From
that day he was constantly on the look-out to renew his
attacks; but having soon established his superiority, he
thenceforth contented himself with striking down the old
dog, and, after standing over him for a minute or two,
with teeth ready bared for action, be suffered him to sneak
quietly away, for Rover was too old a soldier to resist
when he found himself overmatched. At last the poor
' old fellow got so bullied by this dog, and by two or three
others whom 7 am afraid he had tyrannized over when
they were puppies, that he never left the front-door steps,
or went round the corner of the house, before be had well
reconnoitred the ground, and was sure that none of his
enemies were near him ; and yet, in his battles with ver-
min or strange dogs, he was one of the most courageous
animals I ever had.—Deer-stakine.
WE ARE NO POORER FOR RAILWAYS.—But, when
it i 3 said we have spent all our money in railways—that
we have withdrawn capital from its legitimate channels
to lock it up in railways—what i 3 meant ? How is money
spent in railways ? A number of individuals agree to ad-
vance, at intervals, a certain sum of money to make a
railway. First, a part of this money is lavished in pro-
curing an act of parliament; lawyers, engineers, and
barristers, 'benefit thereby. The act obtained, land is
purchased ; the proprietors through whose property the
line runs sell land.; the company buy it. Then contracts
of the works are entered into, and numbers of labourers
of various descriptions are employed; these are paid every
week or twoe and the money paid by the shareholders of
the company is, by these labourers, put into immediate
and active circulation in return for food, clothing, &c.
The contracts are formed for rails, and an immediate im-
pulse is thereby given to the employment of and
of capital in the iron districts. Carriages are built, by
which profitable labour is provided for thousands of arti-
zans ; and the line is opened, furnishing occupation for
an army of clerks, engineers, workmen, and servants.
All the money is spent in the country. By what part of
this process does the country become the poorer to the
amount of a pound sterling ? The portion of land taken
out of cultivation is, indeed, rendered unproductive; but
an increased value is given to the land through which the
line runs. Till the line is opened, a certain portion of
the capital employed on the works makes no return. In
this stage, the railway resembles a mill while in the course
of erection, a ship while building., or a common while it
is being drained and brought into cultivation. :But when
the line is opened., it becomes productive—it is a perma-
nent addition to nation's wealth. By increasing the
facilities of communication between the various Tarts of
the country, by opening new markets, by transferring to
each portion of the countav, at small expense, whatever
is deficient in that Tart for the development of its own
resources, by rendering commerce more independent of
the impediments which time and space create, the railway,
day by day, increases the nation's wealth.—From alt .ex-
cellent pamphlet, entitled " Gold S;:andard."—By the
Rev. J. Iwells, of ;Nottingham.
LIQUID MANURE.—If we are to believe half the figures
now before us, " fluid town manure" is a commodity irsli-
nitely more valuable than lapis lazuli or plating; in fact,
if the true philosopher's-stene exists at all, it must be in
some concentrated form of this neglected substance. Its
!.collection and preservation mould "renderas wholly inde-
yendent of all foreign manures or guano," and would dis-
engage ships enough to haveitsfluenced the debate on the
_navigation laws. It would " clothe the whole island with
verdure, and endue it with .inexhaustible fertility." When
we come to details, the allegations are still mere astound-
ing. Carrots a foot in diameter, cucumbers two feet in
length, pines of an " unusuallydeep and healthy com-
plexion,' and peaches as large as -cauliflowers' are among
thexeady creations of this powerful agent. As to pasture
lands, the results are miraculous. On Sir -Robert Peel's
own model manor at Drayton, it was plainly and credibly
shown to the assembled agriculturists that they might,
" by the aid of this manure, raise tans upon tons, of milk-
giving, fat-producing, muscle-making grass, six times
a-year !' Mr. Drummond, in addressing his rural con-
stituency last autumn, gave a sketch still more suggestive
and practical. " I was the other day," said he, " upon a
farm of 95 acres of nasty yellow clay soil, :--you have no
soil anything like so bad about here. This farm used to
produce about 20 acres of wheat, 3 quarters to the acre,
and thee used to keep three or four lean cows end a few
hogs. Now I will tell you what..'.l saw with my own eyes.
I saw 50 acres of very fine stubble, and f walked among a
field of carrots, the greens of which were up to my middle,
and the roots as thick as my arm. Mind, this was on a
clay soil. I walked in a splendid field of mangoldwurzel,
and I saw one measuring 2 feet 6 inches in circumference.
This was upon a clay soil. There were 50 beasts fattening
there, going to be increased to 75, and there were 200 bogs
and 200 sheep. Now, you will say, how was this miracle
done ? Why, by the use of liquid manure !" This fact
would be great enough for most people, but we can cap
Mr. Drummond from his own books. It appears that this
manure was simply that collected from stalbes and yards,
instead of being allowed to stagnate in ditches ; but this
article, fertilizing as it is, is all together surpassed by the
genuine " fluid town manure,, which we pour into our
delightful river. Assuming that land in its natural state
will yield its seed threefold, it h\a%s7obdeaerneiclaoltcruelcaitceotol
htloiawt
when dressed with liquid manure from stables it will yield
from seven to tenfold, and when irrigated with that from
town fourtecrifold at the leas
big Mr. Dreromond'o carrots might have grown under
such a dressing, but there is clearly no agricultural miracle
beyond the reach of a man with an acre of land and a hoes-
head of Thames water. Such stuff as this, however, must
be wasted no longer. We cannot keep up our n.,ver maim-
rnactory at this rate. It lii svorse than the dockyards ,of
1802. We use up more Corn in breeding pia7,ucs than
would turn the balance bet wetit Britain and th:.. United
Sates. If the "Conservator's" of the Thames please to
seize its channel as a private tank for the manufacture of
manure, we suppose they must do so, but in any case they
ought to-sell it as fast as it is made, and not to poison-the
whole city by the gratuit,-,us putrefaction of the :Audi
wbicb they choose to keep on hand,— 7ims.

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GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

EXCHANGE NEWS-ROOM, MONDAY.

The delay occasioned by the inefficiency— of the postal
arrangements with respect to the delivery of letters for
Liverpool arriving by the West Indian mail at Southamp-
ton, furnished a topic of serious conversation on 'Change
to-day. The inconvenience experienced by Liverpool
merchants, in this particular, has been alluded to before,
but in the present instance, an entire day has been lost.
The steamer arrived yesterday afternoon, the mail bags
were forwarded to London, where, as Sunday is with them
dies non, they lay until this morning before they were
touched, and Liverpool letters will not come to hand until
to-night • whereas, if a proper post-office department had
been established at Southampton, the letters might have
been sorted immediately on their arrival, and those for
this district despatched at once, for delivery this morning.
Surely, if Southampton is to receive the West India mails,
a little morn attention should be paid to the expedition of
mercantile intelligence.

Although Liveipool has been thronged with the teem-
ing population of the manufacturing districts, and vast
numbers of every grade of society have been seeking health
or pleasurein races,railcvs) trips, or steam-boat excursions,
it has been anything but a holiday-week here, as far as
regards business generally, in many departments of which
considerable spirit has bean displayed in the Liverpool
markets; but owing to the continued confusion which
prevails in the affairs of Europe, transactions have been
chiefly confined to supply the demands for home con-
sumption.
The Share Market has shewn a little more animation
during the past week, and prices have advanced one er
two per cent. London Stock closes this evening—buyers,
126; sellers, 120 ?3-; Midland, 78-9.
To-day and Saturday there has been a very good busi-
ness done in Sugar; 5OO hhds. West India, 3000 mats
Mauritius, and 3000 bees Bengal sold at extreme rates,
of the latter of which 400 bags fine Cossipores brought 50a.
Molasses are arriving very freely, and being difficult of
sale, the market is a little easier.—There is a good demand
for the lower descriptions of Rum, chiefly for the African
market.-300 chests Bengal Indigo are advertised for next
Thursday, which are expected to sell well. The next
London sale is fixed for the 10th of next month, when
15,000 chests will be offered.—Messrs. T. and H. Little-
dale, in their monthly East India circular, published this
morning,state that" Saltpetre hasbeen in good demand the
last ten day:, and prices, which bad given way a little in
the early part of the month have rallied again. The stock
in this market is very small and the import will be light
for some months.—There has been some considerable
purchases made in Nitrate at lls., and the market is firm
at I ls. 3d. per cwt.—Since our circular of the 19th ult.,
there has been a little more inquiry for Tea, and a fair
amount of business transacted, principally in the recent
arrivals. Blacks : Congous, the improved feeling for
good to fine Moning kinds continues, but holders are firm,
whilst the good common qualities and Souchong kinds,
are in request, particularly so the latter, but few of this
year's import remain in first hands. The blackish leaf
and Ho How descriptions have met with fair sale, but
prices are without alteration. Scented Capers-and Scented
Orange Pekoes are both scarce, the fine qualities of the
latter may be quoted ld. to 21. dearer. Greens : Canton
made kinds remain without alteration; within the last
few days there has been some inquiry for Twankays at
6-d. to 7d., but we have not heard of any sales being
made. The good and fine descriptions of Green are in
moderate request at about previous rates. The clear-
ances continue good from this port. The stock thews a
deficiency of 3.207,145 in last year, being 10,177,307
against 13,084,452 in 1848.—Coffee has been in fair de-
mand 250 tierces of the new crop of Jamaica were offered
by auction last week : the fine sold with some spirit at I
80s. to 925. 6.1. ; the middling and lower descriptions were
in less request.—Rice has been in steady demand at former
prices ; broken at Bs. to Bs. 6d., low Bengal at 95., good
at 10s., and fine fresh 103. 9d. to lls.—The recent large
importations of China Silk, coupled with a suspension of
orders from the continent, have tended to make the ma-
nufacturers less disposed to purchase, and but tittle busi-
ness has been done; prices may be considered for most
descriptions 6d. per lb. lower. In Bengal Szlks the
arrivals have been nearly all of the inferior sorts, stocks of
which beingalready largeand not in demand, sales have been
effected with difficulty at lower prices; the middling and
good qualities are scarce, and have supported previous rates,
with a good demand. The arrivals of Italian raw and
thrown Silks, as well as Brussa and Persian, have been
small. but there is no alteration in price. In East India
and China Piece Goods there is still a fair business doing,
and aided by a steady export demand, prices are firm, and
stocks of alt descriptions light. In Waste Silk there has
been but little business done.
The arrival of Timber from British America this month
consists of four vessels, 1,723 tons, against five vessels,
2,919 tons, in same month last year. The arrivals since
Ist February comprise twenty-five vessels, 11,761 tons,
against twenty-six vessels, 15,824 tons, in last year to
same time. The country demand continues to be very
limited.

Our market for Scotch Pig Iron is still very dull, with
scarcely any transactions. We quote mixed numbers at
425. 6d. to 433., No. 1 Gartsherrie at 445. to 455. f o b, at
Glasgow.
The arrivals of Indian Corn into both English and Irish
ports still failing to keep pace- with the consumptive de-
mand, that article is again higher in the Irish markets.
In Waterford stocks have reached a lower point than for
years, and extreme were paid on Saturday for prime par-
eels; whilet we learn from Ccrk that. since receiving the
Liverpool advices of Tuesday's market, together with a
cessation of arrivals, considerable (xcitement prevailed,
and an advance of 10s. to 15s. per ton bps been realised.
In consequence of the receipt of letters from Ireland this
morning with the above intelligence, holders here are
very firm, and soles have been effected at the full rates of
Friday; floating cargoes are also in good demand at full
prices. Some flour changed hands to-day, at precisely the
same figure quoted on Friday, and other articles remain
nominally the same. The 'Whitsuntide holidays have
almost universally limited transactions in the various
corn markets in this country, which, added to the pre-
valence of exceedingly fine weather, has counteracted
the influence which limited supplies generally might
otherwise have exercised upon prices, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne being the only instance where higher quotations are
given, all good descriptions of Wheat having been sold
on Saturday at an advance of Is. to 2s. per qr.; but in
other districts, where tiny alteration in value has taken
place, it has been slightly in favour of the buyer, although
in some cases only in middling and inferior qualities.
In Landon, to-day, though the sale for wheat was slow,
most of the small supply of English were placed without
submitting to lower prices. Foreign moved off very
tardily, at last Tuesday's currency. Flour was very diffi-
cult of disposal. Barley was taken slowly, and scarcely
maintained its previous value. Oats, being plentiful,
were quoted ls. per qr. lower than this day week. Beans
and Pease were held at about previous rates. Indian
corn was also held higher.

There has been a fair business done in Cotton during
the week : to-day we have had a good general demand,
at firm prices, and 8,000 bales were sold, including 1,500
to exporters. Messrs. T. and H. Littledale, from whose
circular we again quote, supply the following clever: digest
of the prospects of this branch of trade, as affected
by the prokable supplies from the States :—The receipts
continue to increase over last year, and shew the great
excess of 453,500 bales. The stocks in the interior as
well as at the ports are reduced, and if the receipts for the
remainder of the season should fall off, as it is confidently
predicted, the crop may not much exceed if it reaches
2,600,000 bales, it will then prove the lorgcst on record ;
but it is believed that 100,000 hales or more remained
over from the last crop, and are included in the present.
The exports already amount to 1,719,966 bales, 1,213,218
to this country, and 506,700 to France and the Continent;
the American consumption has, so far, been equal to
about 11,000 bales per week—the consumption of this
country has been at the rate of 32,000 bales per week,
against 26,800 last year. and unless it is checked by higher
prices, or by some other cause, it is evident the stock of
cotton at the end of the year must be light—thus the
prospect of future supply is a matter of deep interest to
all parties engaged in this important trade. It is reason-
able to assume that with the great increase of population
in the States, the cultivation of cotton as well as corn
will increase ; but unless there is more cotton produced
in India and other countries, the consumption may keep
pace with the growth, particularly if prices can be kept
down. A crop dependent on so tender an annual as the cot-
ton plant, is proved to be very precarious, and will always
render the cotton business more or less of a speculative
character. In the last five veers the crop in America has
varied more or less from 348,000 to 569,000 bales, from
the. ffect of srasons. From the 15th to the 20th April a
frost, unprecedented for severity at that period of the year,
took place over the greater part of the Cotton growing
countries of the United States,- the young plants were
killed to a great extent, and replanting rendered necessary.
This throws the crop bark a month or six weeks, and
although it by no means follows, that from this untoward
circumstance, the next will be a small one, yet in addition
to the fact, of two large crops having been produced in
succession, it renders the estimate for the next season
quite uncertain for some time to come, and in the mean-
time. planters in America, and the importers here will be
less inclined to part with their stocks at low prices, and
the effect of the frost, which has little influence now, may,
in the end prove important in its consequences.
The sales of Wool held here on Tuesday and Wednes-
day last, comprised 324 bales Australian, 236 Lisbon,
1,127 Buenos Ayres, 387 East India, 2,933 ballots Peru-
vian, and 1,579 hales sundries. There was a fair attend-
ance
of home and continental buyers, but the biddings
were flat,-and a part of the Wools were withdrawn,—the
holders calculating that the present exceedingly fine
weather will have a beneficial influence on the market,
and were therefore not inclined to take the present rates.
Of Australian the quantity was only trifling; that which
was sold commanded prices equal to the closing sales of
London. The assortment of Buenos Ayres was very
choice, and attracted great attention ; the greater part of
it fonnd buyers, principally for the continent. • Peruvians
were neglected, and all withdrawn. Turkey, Smyrna,
Oporto, &e., were in less demand, and but few sold.
East India, as usual with this favourite wool, excited.
competition, and maintained late.prices.
The finest descriptions of Waterford and Carrick Butter,
after a further oroeressive redaction had beau submitted
to by holders during the week, were offered, on Saturday,
at 70s. per cwt. landed in Liverpaol, which Frees, how-
ever, failed to stimulate transactions, and the market
closed very heavily.
The American Provision Trade has displayed much
brisknees during the week ; Messrs. Black, Barnes, mid
Whittingharn state that an extensive business has been
done in Ba':on, at firm prices, the demand beieg chiefly
for fine Long Middles varying from 3C),% to 41e. per cwt.
Light continues scarce, and inferior I'dosn !_tnd Bulk
Meet are in fair revest, at. 283. to 345. ...- meet a
fair sale. at 275. to 359. Consider.j; uiz,:e been
made in Shoulders in pickle, Lt 1.5. to , :•r:! in dry
salt, at 235. to 245. Gd. The demand for he: Polk
has been active, principaliy fw• the fl;“.:.

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Cheese is steady, and inferior has2been sold readily at
fair rates.
More money is demanded for Cod Oil, without, how-
ever, leading to business. Nothing has been done in
Pale Seal: the price continues at £3l. Linseed and
Rape continue at quotations. Olive Oil is easier to pur-
chase, which has led to an increased demand. A fair
amount of business has been done in South American
Tallow, at 345. to 365., and 355. 91. for inferior North
American. A parcel of Butcher's Association fetched, by
auction, 375. 6d. to 335. P. Y. C. remains at 393. 6d.
About 200 tons Palm Oil have been sold on the spot at
295. The price now asked is £3O to £3O 103. The de-
mand has been good for Lard of fair quality; from 200
to 300 barrels have been disposed of at 335. to 355., thus
establishing an advance of 61. per cwt.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

The Peninsular mail has arrived, with accounts from
Lisbon of the 29th of May. The Duke of Saldanha has
given in his resignation, upon the ground of ill-health ;
but the fact is that he is diszusted with Costa Cabral, who
is in high favour with the Queen, and also with some of
his colleagues, who oppose him at every point.
The Sardinian government has been thrown into a state
of great alarm, by the receipt of a note from the Austrian
Cabinet, demanding the surrender of the city of Genoa.
and all the Piedmontese fortresses on the French fron-
tier, into the hands of Marshal Radetzky. A council
was immediately called, Which lasted eight hours. but the
det3rminAtioa to which it h;•,d arrived was not pub-
licly known.

A. rupture has just taken place between the Pope and
the King of Naples which is likely to lead to the Pope's
departure from Gaeta. It appears that his Neapolitan
Arajesty is sadly grieved at the snubbing he. received from
General Oudinot, and at the refusal of the latter to assist
the King in his invasion of the Roman States, His Ma-
jesty, therefore, complained bitterly to the Pope of the
conduct of France. His Holiness taking no notice of the
King's remonstrance, his Majesty reiterated his complaint,
which so annoyed Pius IX. that he has expressed his in-
tention to quit Italy, and take up his abode at Avignon,
in France.

LONDON MONEY MARKET.-.YESTERDAY.

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Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of Satur-
day, namely, 91i to 2, and, in the absence of unfavourable news
from the Continent, advanced to 9:4, at which business was
done; they have, however, since receded a little, and are now
quoted at n for money and account. The Three per Cents.
Reduced have been done at of and a, which they continue
to be quoted.

LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The share market exhibits no material variation to-day,
though there is a tendency to improvement in some of V e
leading lines, and only a limited business has been done. Lon-
don and North tt esterns have been transferred at 1261, 5-?,,
and 0; London and South Westerns at 354; ;London ar.d
Brightons at 36 and 2.