The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-02 00:00:00

pecuniai

ITAUAIUrrIy
last. Supplies of foreign restricted, and previous terms main-
tained. Fl:ur taken f.paringly at about former rates. Fine
Barley fully as dear; 'other sorts slow of sale. Oats trade at an
advance of fully 6d. per qr Beans and Peas taken in retail at
about previous rates. Nothing doing in Seeds. The monthly meeting of the council was held yesterday,
English White Wheat, 425. to Cis. Thomas B. llorsfall, the president, in the chair.
„ Red „ 365. to 425. A .1

CHAMBER OP COMMERCE,

English Wheat
„ Barley
►► Oats .
„ Malt

Foreign

Qrs the Committee on the Sound Dues and Russia Company,
.
5097 recommending tl-at further steps relative to these sub-
jects he suspended until the next session of Parliament.—
IHGI Adopted.
-- A letter was read from the Chairman of the Dock Com-
seks.l 17 /
11913 35 mittee. staling that that body disposed to act with
brts.
--

~ Flour

for the examination of passengers' baggage.
It was resolved that the firms representing the foreign
passenger trade should be invited to meet the council for
the purpose of conferring on the subject, and as to the
site, &c.

Letters were read from the Board of Trade and the
-Postmaster General, acknowledging the receipt of the.
memorials in favour of a qualified experiment of the ocean
penny postage system ; from W. Brown, Esq ,
acknowledging the resolution conveying the vote of thanks
for his services to the chamber; from the Dundee Cham.
ber of Commerce, on the sound dues ; from the General
Brokers' Association, and the African Association on, the
mode of delivering letters at the Post-office ; and from the
Law Society, on commercial tribunals—referred to the
special committee on that subject. A return was laid
upon the table shelving the number of new subscriptions
to the chamber up to the 30th June, to be 104.

LIVERPOOL OBSERVATORY .-Mr. thrtnup, thetalented
astronomer at the Liverpool Olniert'atory, has just pub-
lished his annual report to the Town Co.- He states
that many. persons near to miss `nr oh---

app.— ,ue uoservmg
the signal ball which is dropped daily at one o'clock,
Greenwich mean time. The importance of making the
observation is demonstrated by the fact, that the captain
if a ship, the F- I- 41

caster, Cur misdemeanour under the following circurn-
is
.hapd
bhee, wa,netithteo
itn.hceicepeadriesdh
taouptlit,:creitit(:)se
the grintt of a grave ; but he refused to sign the
----•-- :.:: i t in:usual.a.et- ~itfl tor ~. st Indies, while lying in the
river, found recently l:y au observation of the time ball, stances :—One of hts children, about six months old, died.
that the et tor of his chronometer on Greenwich time had
been given wrong by just one minute. He ascertained on
ingairing at the Observatory that his observation was cor-
fct :Er use i s cei ' offfi n thea childd for
undertakinge.able,
to repay the cost of the vont a‘zain should he
rect. The testing of chronometers, Mr. Hartnup says,
important, not only as a check against imposition by dig- in a yard near his house, and caused a large assembly of
reputable persons, but also because that when two throne- F,"31)1° by hiS declaring that he would make the parish
meters are made by the same workmen, and when the ury the child, awl he would net sign any document.
same pains have been bestowed on the one as on the other, Gitaaer CoasLAGRATION.—An extensive fire broke out
it is, notwithstanding, often found, on testing them, that about one o'clock on Tuesday morning in an immense
one is incomparably better than the other. He illustrates range of manufacturing premises iu Pleasant-row. Pel..
this by the changes in twelve chronometers made by the ham-street, Mile End .Naw Town, London, used as lard
same maker. The smallest change was under one second and oil works. The building was originally erected for a
a day, and the largest between seven and eight seconds sngar-house, and besides being of great altitude, extended
a day. He suggests that some arrangement should be a considerable distance backwards, whilst the frontage was,
made by which good chronometers could be procured by at the least computation, 100 feet. Tho various engines
Captains at a reasonable charge for the hire. The last were immediately set to work, but in spite of the utmost
report of the Royal Royal Astronomical Soeiaty states, exertions of the firemen the work of devastation continued,
"Chronometers are tested at the Liverpool Observatory and it was nearly two o'clock before the least impression
Greenwich o," was destroyed.