The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

Notwithstanding the boisterous gales experienced during the
past week, we have again to 'report the arrival of large supplies
of foreign stock in London, as well as the outports. Both the
beasts and 'sheep have reached us,in good condition, and we
have no hesitation in saying that, in. the course of time, the
sheep w9ll equal in quality those home=fed. These observations
may, likewise, be applied to the lambs and calves; but from
their paucity of numbers, we are not, as yet, able to form so
conclusive an opinion as to the pigs.
With home-fed beasts we were but moderately supplied;
hence the beef trade was active, at an advance in the quota-
tions of 2d'per 81b, and a good clearance was effected.
From the northern countries we received about 1,800 short
horns; from the western and midland districts, 700 Herefords,
runts, Devons, &c. ; and from other parts of England, 300 of
various breeds.
The numbers of sheep were much less than those exhibited
for many weeks past. The mutton trade was, therefore, very
brisk, at a further improvement in clue of fully 4d per 81b,
and the whole of the supply was readily cleared off.
For veal we had rather a sluggish demand, at last week's
prices.
In pigs a steady business was doing atiate rates.

Mr. Gillon, the Radical member for the Stirling dis-
trict of Burghs, died last week.
The Earl Grosvenor has joined the Marquis and Mar-
thionness of Westminster and family at Eaton Hall,
Cheshire, from his shooting quarters in Scotland. The
:noble earl, en route, visited Lord and Lady Prudhoe, at
Stanwick Park, Yorkshire.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel have, during the last week,
entertained a succession of visitors at Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire. The Earl Talbot, Baron Stockmor, Sir
James and Lady Graham, Colonel Bowles, Mr. Samuel
Rogers, Professor Owen, Mr. Pickersgill, Mr. Eastlake:
&c., have been among the guests.
A SIGN OF THE TIMES.—At a very full repeal gather-
ing, held in Cork last week, the Premier's inability to
meet the pending crisis was the theme of a leading
speaker, while—tell it not in Derrynane—Sir Robt. Peel
was lauded to the skies as the trustworthy pilot, the only
statesman fit to weather the storm.
On Friday, three respectably dressed persons were ad-
mitted at Armagh to view Lord Rosse's telescope; one Of
them advanced to the extreme end and cast a stone at the
speculum. It happily did not take effect. The three
were arrested. The one who threw the stone said be
considered it a blasphemy to scrutinize too closely the
works of the Almighty.
IMPORTANT ABRIDGEMENT OF THE EXPENSES or
WORKING SHIPS OVERTIME.—The Commissioners of
Customs have issued an order, allowing all ships of even'
country importing goods in bulk, as brimstone, bark,
bones, diei divi, linseed, dyewoods, guano, hemp, iron,
valonia, hides, &c., to work before and after the legal
hours without the attendance of a landing-surveyor,
thereby curtailing the expense to the mere payment of the
landing-waiter and weigher for their extra attendance.
The first steamer of the New York Cowes and Bremen
line is to be ready by the Ist of March. She is already
far advanced. She is to be 1,750 tons burthen, 240 feet
on the upper deck, will be 31 feet 9 inchese she will have
three flush decks. The engines are to be 11,000, horse
power each ;..a double marine, with a 72 inch
and 10 feet stroke. She will be called the Wasbingt° :
but betel
Captain Hewit, a graduate of West Point, . • e
known as the commander of the Havre packet-ship 'Uncle,
will command her.
At the Hammersmith Police-court on Saturday, a
cy.anten,
young man was committed to prison for three months, oil
a charge of obtaining money under false pretences as a
necromancer. The prisoner in answer to the charge, said
he was ready 'o return the money. He bad, at a great
expense, learned the art under an eminent and learne4--
professor, and had practised it for four years. He ha
also learned the mystery of the cards and practised Pal-
mistry and the use of the planets, and he was not before
aware that he was liable to punishment unless he practised
witchcraft.
A collision took place on the Eastern Counties Railway'
on Saturday morning, between a train with 35 trucks, and
another with 33 .carriages laden with grain. The latter
started about half an hour after the other, from Care;
bridge, but unfortunately drove into it in consequence.%
the engine of the truck train getting out of order. A sig-
nal was exhibited to stop the grain train, but too late.
The engine and several carriages were dashed to atoregi
and sacks upon sacks of loose grain were apparently mice
up with the soil. The loss is calculated at not less thao
£3OOO.
RESUSCITATION OF TIIE POTATO.—We are reuc".,
pleased to receive more favourable reports of the Potaen
crop. It would appear that, on inspection, disease h":
made but little ravages amongst it, and that the teber',,
which have reached maturity are sound, and in a great
measure fit for human consumption. They have not,,
is true, either the flavour or the nutritious qualities sable' •
in ordinary years the vegetable possesses ; still it is gra'
tifying to learn that, where no produce was looked fori
we have now the prospect, in many instances, of a 1191.1
or at least a third crop. We trust that not only is do:
intelligence correct, but that this condition of the plea
is general throughout the country.—Cork Examiner.
SEE OF, ST. ASAFH.—The Right Reverend Thontl3-
Fowler Short, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Mail";
has been appointed to the vacant see of St. Asaph.
is a very respectable scholar and divine, a sincere vv1311;
and has actually had the care of St. Asaph's diocese Y),,
nearly two years. The Morning Herald in announcirl7,
the appointment says. " we doubt whether, without a 11,1
peal of the act of 1836, a new Bishop of St. Asaph coo "•
be made. But an easy way out of the difficulty would 11;)
to give up the union of Bangor and St Asaph, and .5
unite, instead, St. Asaph and Man. A short act for thif
purpose might pass in three weeks from the meeting °
Parliament. And, if this arrangement were agreed upoot
a Bishop of Manchester might be appointed forthwit
We hear, and we trust the report is true, that somethl"
of the kind is actually in contemplation."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
MONDAY, 12th OCTODER.—Wind S.S.E. to N., light.,
ALIRIVED.—Syria, Cox, from Quebec—North Pole, Sim,
n'rp-0.,
Bombay—Rajah Bassa, Glover, from Calcutta—Alc:ope,
nett, from Valparaiso—Selina, Bell, from Arica—Dash, Log,
,a;
from Ambriz; sailed Bth Aug.—Jamaica, Selkirk, from 86,103' •
sailed 13th Aug.—Wyke Regis, —, from Halifax, N.S.--"
Packet, Robinson, from Quebec.
SAlLED.—Neptunus, Paeplow, and Emma, Meincke, Stettnror
Joseph and Mary, Bosford, Rotterdam—Myrtle, Norrnan,;.o.-
Terceira—Antelope, Asplett, Lisbon and Monte Video--,oc
nore, Procter; Liverpool, Eldridge, and lAumpdcn, Cowan,
'
New York.
sPn
Mary, Sullivan, from Quebec at this port. On --Sept
art otef
the Superior, from Londonderry to Qpebec, and took Which
the crew of the Lanark, Frith, from Quebec for thia Ill'aed in
was abandoned 21st September, having become water-reninai.ed
the hurricane of the 19th. The remainder of the crew
on board the Sul erior.
prince Ed
The Alice, which, arrived here on Saturday
Chien, 25th Sept.,
ward's Island, spoke the Falcon, hence to Cane-
in lat. 4S, long. 51,with loss of bulwarks, icon sPu"
beam ends for 12 hours during the hurricane. The Fa _
the barque Francis, from London. on the morning of re•
half full of water, and apparently bearing lan for NewfcUndlllu.
Glen Helen, for New Orleans, has put back, being too crank.
Martha, Longregg, from Antwerp for this port at Dartmouth'
Belle, from Bahia at Patagonin.
Cosmopolitan, Griffiths, hence at Arnbris.
Oregon, Evans, and Emigrant, Price, hence at Quebec.
Aberdeen, hence off Quebec. haiinbs. been on her
St. John, —, off Green Island.
Mysore, for Trieste, at Odessa.
Sir Charles Napier, --, off Bic 17th Sept.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 12:00
The demand for Cotton to-day has been to the extent of Ivitors
bales, of which quantity the trade take 8000 and speculaiot
2010 bales. The market is decidedly dearer than it Was
week.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, OcT. 12•
We have a good supply of Beasts at our market to-dal, ;,-0,0
with respect to number and quality; the supply of Sheep Beef
small. With a numerous attendance of customers, the, a its
trade was rather duller than of late. with a shade of deelltorb
price from our last statement. Beef, Sid to 6d per lb.; 14°`
6id to 7d.

LIVERPOOL :
TUESDAY, OCT. 13. 1846.
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