The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-01-21 00:00:00

LONDON SHARE MARKET.

Birmingham 233, Brighton 52i, South Western 79, Eastern
Counties 19, Birmingham and Gloucester 106, Bristoi and Exeter
78, Cambridge and Lincoln si, Churnet Valley 4i, Direct
Northern ei, Great North of England tag, Great Western 1763.
Halves 1021, Lancaster and Carlisle 213, London and York 41,
Manchester and Leeds 128. Midland 129, Newcastle Junction 66,
Norwich and Brandon 154, South Eastern 483, Trent Valley 11,3,
York and North Midland lot 3. Boulogne and Amiens 4a, Great
Northern of France si, Lyons and Avignon 21, Orleans and
Bordeaux 83, Paris and Rouen 41.

SCHOOL FOR TILE BLIND.—The annual meeting of the
subscribers took place, at the Asylum, on Friday last,
Mr. Alderman Turner in the chair. Mr. Houghton, in
submitting the accounts so far as they could yet be made
up, said he was happy they presented a better aspect than
at the last annual meeting. The total receipts for the
year were £2083 Os. Od., and the total payments £lB4B
13s. Od., leaving a balance in favour of the institution of
upwards of £634. But there were bills to be paid to the
amount of £073, and there was also a considerable sum
due to the charity. In reply to a question, the Treasurer
said the receipts and payments would nearly balance,
though they had commenced the year with a debt of
£743. It was also stated that two legacies had been re-
ceived during the year, amounting to £400: one from
Mr. Hill, of £3OO, and the other from Mrs. Ewart, of
£lOO. The number of pupils at present in the school was
101. Twenty-four had been admitted during 1814, and
the same number had quitted the institution. The sum
of £205 had also been received in new subscriptions. The
cost per head per week had been 2s. 111 d. A series of
resolutions (for which see the advertisement) were then
passed, including a vote of thanks to N. Robinson, Esq.,
for the present of a piano-forte, Pudsey Dawson, Esq., of
Hornby Castle, the high sheriff, was appointed president
for the ensuing year, and the usual ,ppointment of the
other officers having been gone through, the meeting
separated.
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THE COUNTY CONSTABULARY.—The Magistrates at
Prescot, on Monday, on a representation from the rate-
payers of adjoining townships, resolved—" That it be re-
commended to the justices assembled at the adjourned
quarter sessions, to be held at Kirkdale on the 15th of
January instant, that the order made for the erection of
station-houses and strong rooms, in the townships of
Wootton and Wavettree, be revoked." The subject was
taken into consideration by the county magistrates at the
Sessions-house, Kirkdale, on Wednesday, and the pro-
position for the revocation of the order was left to the
general meeting of the magistrates at Preston. The me-
morial from Wootton and nine other townships, which
caused the special meeting of magistrates, stated that the
rats for the quarter ending December, 1844, were four
times as large as the quarter preceding the introduction
of the constabulary, the average then being £176 155.,
whilst the present average was £339 Bs. 4d., being an
increase of nearly 100 per cent. ; and that the amount for
the quarter ending December, 1844, was £532 ls. 3d.,
£4ll 10s. Bd. of which is for the constabulary alone.
The townships of Huyton, Roby, Torbuck, Hale, Speke,
Much Wootton, Little Wootton, and Halewood had only
a serjeant and four men, whose actual expense by the
estimated scale of 1843, including wages, clothing, pro-
portion of the staff at Preston, and contingencies, only
amounted to £Bl 17s. 6d. per quarter. The excess of
expenditure was stated by the county treasurer to be
caused by the of ..!tr.',!cn sod lock-up house at
Woolen, at a cost of £450, and one at Wavertree, at a
cost of £350, and between £3OO and £4OO expense created
by the riots at St. Helen's.

THE SKELETON FROM TCHABOE.—On Saturday, Cap-
tain Wiihers, of the ship Colchester, was summoned
before Mr. Rushton by his second mate, C. H. Maxwell,
for refusing to pay £l9 4s. alleged to be due for wages.
The applicant stated that his wages, at £3 a mouth,
amounted to the sum stated up to the 221 July, on which
day the captain took him to a part of the island about a

mile and a quarter from the ship, and, pointing out a Some remarks, which are appended to the circular of
grave in which a body had been buried for a length of
Messrs. Truman and Cook. on the " mercantile," as
time, said, " ' I want you to lend a baud to raise that
distinguished from the " manufacturing " trade of the
body. Be sure to be here to-night at twelve o'clock, for
country, describe very truly a state of things which may
the purpose, and I shall show you where the boat will be
be said to distinguish the past year from many which has
lying, ready to take the body on board.' He then showed
preceded it :
Me the landing ,lace, and it was understood that I was
" With respect to the mercantile trade of the country, it
to bring a pick with me, and a shovel. In reply to
has been rather an adverse year than otherwise; prices of
questions, appli;:ant continued :—" It was the body of a
all imports are so low that remuneration is reducod to the
lowest point, short of loss; indeed, a complaint of dimi-
nished profits is universal, and the effect is felt beyond
the immediate sphere of the trading interests. The past

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moved it to a burial-ground in which t.airopeans are . .
year, however, has been most extraordinarily free from
interred. It was there I found it. The several captains commercial failures, not a sing .t one of any consequence
-
who were lying at Ichaboe at the time had been previously has taken place, yet the losses made by some of the spe-
Europe, and that they thought they should make £2OO
saying that it would be a very great curiosity to take it to
culators in cotton have been to an amount very consider-
ably more important than is generally known or be-
or £3OO by the spec. I did not consent to raise the
lieved ; some portion of it, however, has probably been
corpse, and in consequence a dispute arose between my-
made up by the operations in railway shares, &c., which
self and the captain. ' On behalf of the captain (who
have been to a large extent, and which up to this time
was out of town), who had refused to pay the full amount
have resulted prosperously. 'I Le iron trade has greatly
claimed, a charge was brought against the applicant of
recovered the depression it laboured under, and the price
drunlsenness and disobedience, so that another man had
of pigtendered iron is full 40 per. cent higher than at the close of
to take his place as second mate, and this appeared by
1843. The shipping interest is certainly in a better con-
dition as respects a large amount of tonnage of a certain
-Xl5 12s. to the complainant, which he agreed to accept;
for if he had defied proof of the charge against him, he class, which has greatly increased in value. There are
still complaints, however, of a want of profitable employ-
would probably have received nothing.
ment for vessels of a higher grade ; but the improvement
MICHAEL ANGueo.—Never did artist work with more already evident will no doubt gradually advance with the
persevering vigour than Michael Angelo. He himself extension of commerce. The lucrative trade of the coun-
said that he laboured hard'r for fame, than ever pcorartist try, however, seem to be passing almost exclusively into
did for bread. Born of a noble family, the heir to con- the hands of the manufacturer, and commercial enterprise
siderabie possessions, he took to the arts from his earliest in other quarters has altogether gone out of fashion. The
years from enthusiastic passion and conscious power. improvement, indeed, in manufacturing property has far
During a long life of ninety years, lie prosecuted them exceeded all expectation; the transactions of the year
With the ardent zeal of youth. He was consumed by the present one unbroken series of remunerating prices for
thirst for fame, the desire of great achievements, the in- goods, and a very moderate cost of the raw material. At
variable mark of heroic minds ; and which, as it is alto- this season it has been usual to expect temporary stagna-
gether beyond the reach of the great bulk of mankind, so tion, but at the present moment all is activity. The spin-
is the feeling of all others which to them is most incom- tiers are full of orders, and steam power is taxed to the
prehensible. Nor was that noble enthusiasm without its utmost to fulfil contracts. The woollen districts have
reward. It was his extraordinary good fortune to be much improved in condition, and may be pronounced also
Called to form, at the same time, the Last Judgment on to be busily and advantageously employed. The stocks
the wall of the Sistine Chapel, the glorious dome of St. of manufactured goods have been well taken off, and it is
Peter's, and the group of Notre Dame de Pitie, which anticipated that the colonial wool sales next month will Le
now adorns the Chapel of the Crucifix, under the roof of very trisk, and very full prices be obtained. With our
that august edifice. The " Holy Family" in the Palazzo extended export trade, and the new markets opening in
Pitti at Florence, and the " Three Fates" in the same the East, which bid fair to be as vast as the most san-
dollection, give an idea of his powers in oil-painting : pine anticipated, our fiscal policy presses upon national
thus. e carried to the highest perfect ion, at the same time, attention as a subject of the most momentous interest.
the' rival arts of architecture, sculpture, fresco and oil It will be in vain that fresh marts are opened to our illi-
. painting. He may truly be called the founder of Italian I mitable manufacturing power, and production excited, if
Painting, as Homer was of the ancient epic, and Dante of attention is not directed to the returns which must be re-
the great style in modern poetry. None but a colossal ceived, and means devised to encourage the consumption
mind could have done such things. Raphael took lessons of them. Fortunately, the finances of the country are
from him in painting, and professed through life the most most favourably circumstanced for the consideration of
unbounded respect for his great preceptor. None have this important subject, which cannot fail to command the
attempted to approach him in architecture ; the cupola of in m ,diate attention of the legislature in the ensuing see-
St. Peter's stands alone in the world.— Blackwood's, situ, and probably signalise it as one of the most interest.:
Magazine. i ing in our commercial annals."