The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-14 00:00:00

.idAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

(From Messrs. I? "

succeeded within the

's by a change from the west and milder tempera-

Ist two c

isels have arrives

oastvvise am]

hich, with those stated on Friday, furnish since this day

week a go(

apply of Wheat, Barley, and Malt, a

crease of Oats and Flour, and a very abundant influx of
Oatmeal.

At our Corn Exchange to-day, we had a fair attendance

of buyers; but the excess of our supplies, and the unfavour-

freely,

Of Wheat the sales

re altogether upon a limited scale

of ld. to 2d., and in several instances

3d. per 701bs. below the rates of this day weel

Flour, under the sar

influence, receded Gd. per sack, anc

6d. per barrel; with the exception that superior marks of
Irish were more saleable at the abatement than other de-

Making Barley with occas

nal sales, and grinding samples

with very little enquiry, hardly supported late prices

In Malt and Pease no variation was perceptible ; but Beans
were ls. per quarter cheaper, and extremely difficult to sell.

COTTON MARKET

-THREE O'CLOCA

The demand for Cotton to-day is to a fair averag
at the full prices of yesterday, or those current during the
last week or ten days. The quantity sold is est
2,000 bales, with a better-sopplied market than of late

extent

ated at

M ISCELLANEOUS

There are 140 race-courses in Great Britain.
Seven thousand pounds is the amount of the voluntary
subscriptions for dispensaries in the whole of Ireland.
The Iron trade is in .a deplorable state. At Merthyr, last
week, butter was offered at 81d. a pound
On Friday week a ewe sheep

_ e property of Mr. T.
Widger, of West Sigford, in the parish of Islington, in this
county, dropped six fine lambs !—Exeter Flying Post.

A young woman, servant in a gentleman's family, in Lon-
don, drowned herself in the cistern on Wednesday last. Her
father said she was subject to fits of despondency.

On Monday morning last, the Red Lion Inn, at Cullomp-
ton, and thirteen other dwelling-houses and cottages adjoin-

ing, were d

stroyed by fire

Three prisoners confined in Tynemouth House of Correc-
ton contrived to escape from thence on Sunday night, and
have not yet been retaken.

On Wednesday a meeting was held, at Cork, for the pur-
pose of petitioning the Lord Lieutenant for a second assize
town in the county.

PLEA OF INSANITY.—On Monday, yesterday, the Lord
Chancellor, according to notice given by his Lordship, was
"to call the attention of the House of Lords to the subject of
the late trial of M'Naughten."

ASHBURTON ELECTION.—This election was concluded on
Wednesday, when the numbers were—Mr. Matheson, whig-
radical, 141 ; Mr. J. Horsley' Palmer, conservative, 96.
Majority, 45.
The Racing Calendar gives a list of 607 proprietors of race
horses, and states that the number of horses actually named
for stakes and plates in England for 1843 is 1184, exclusive
of yearlings.

On Tuesday evening se'nnight. as J. B. Orton, Esq., of
Tatten-hall, near Chester, was sitting in his own drawing-
room, a pistol was discharged at him through the window.
Providentially the assassin missed his aim.
Captain Mackenzie, indicted for the summary execution
of some of the crew belonging to the American vessel of war
the Somers, after a long trial, has been honourably acquitted
by a court-martial held on board the ship North Carolina.
A few days ago a young female of Louvain, in a fit of
temporary insanity, arising out of an altercation with her
husband, threw her two children into a well, and destroyed
herself by jumping in immediately afterwards.

At a County Court, held at Devizes on Monday, Mr. 'Wil-
son, of Salisbury, was elected one of the Coroners for Wilt-
shire • the magistrates having determined on augmenting the
number of Coroners to three.

Owing to the depression in agricultural produce the com-
missioners for the borough of Coleraine have made a reduc-
tion of ten per cent. on the rents of their lands, on the half
year due on the 28th of September last, and now payable.
A case was tried in the police court on Thursday, in which
a shopkeeper in High-street. Glasgow, was charged with
selling fresh butter, nearly one-half of the weight of which
was water, mixed up in the body of the half-pound prints.
A reduction of eighteenpence per waggon has this week
waggon has this week been made in the price of coals ship-
ped at Whitehaven, belonging to the Earl of Lonsdale. It
is expected that this reduction will have the effect of keep-
ing the Scotch and Welsh coals out of the Irish market.
It appears by a Parliamentary return that the quantity of
spirits on which duty was paid, in Ireland, in the year end-
ing Jan. 5, 1841, was 7,4131,051 gallons; in 1842, 6,485,443
gallons; in 1843, 5,290,650 gallons ; shewing a decrease in
1843, as compared with 1841, of 2,110,401 gallons.

The system of transportation, from the time of its com-
mencement up to 1841, cost this country £8,000,000. In
1836, the cost of transporting 46,000 convicts amounted to
an expense of £Bl per head ; while, in 1842, the police in
the penal colonies cost £92,000, and other judicial establish-
ments £400,000 more.

THE LATE E. DitummoNu, ESQ.—Administration of the
goods and effects of this lamented gentleman has just been
granted to C. Drummond, Esq., his brother, the eminent
banker of Charing Cross. The personal property of the de-
ceased is sworn under the value ot £6OO. Mr. Drummond
was of too amiable and generous a character to die wealthy.
A horrid tragedy has just been perpetrated at Philadel-
phia. A libertine, named Heber ton, had, by the most vil-
lainous treachery, seduced a young lady of a respectable
family, aged sixteen, lodged her in a brothel for five days,
and then sent her borne. He was challenged by the brother
of the ruined girl, refused to fight, fled, was waylaid, and
shot through the heert.
A man named Leper and his two sons were convicted at
the Antrim assizes for the murder of a man named Lamont.
They were all labouring men engaged in breaking stones on
a road, and some dispute having taken place between them,
the father and two sons beat out the unfortunate man's
brains with their hammers. Sentence of death was passed on
the whole three.
DISCOVERY or A SUNKEN ROCK NEAR RLASQUET
ISLAND, DINGLE.--A letter has been received at Lloyd's
from a fisherman of Dingle, stating that, whilst pursuing
his avocations Some weeks back, he discovered, at the east
end of the great Blasquet Island, a sunken rock of conside-
rable extent, hitherto unknown, having only two or two and
a half fathoms of water upon it, whilst at either end there is
about thirty fathoms. _ . _ _

AUSTRIA.—The population of the Austrian dominions
amounted in 1840 to 36,950,401 inhabitants,4 of whom
18.202,631 were males, and 18,747,778 females. The army
reckoned 464,972 men. The relative population was 3,177
per each German square mile. In 1839 there were 7,637,209
families, and 5,229,508 houses. The number, of Catholics
was 25,469,265; United Greeks, 3,573,218; Schismatic
Greeks, 2,852,120 ; Calvinists, 2,238,918 ; Lutherans,
1,258,250 ; Jews, 652,000, &c.
On Wednesday, James Downie, a journeyman shoemaker.
labouring under a "delusion," was committed to Bridewell
for breaking the windows of Messrs. Bradbury and Evans,
printers, and threatening violence to those gentlemen, be-
cause they would not tell him the residence of Mr. Chambers,
proprietor of Chambers' Edinburgh Journal. He con-
sidered that some article in that miscellany respecting a per-
son named Downie, in India, bad been the cause of his not
obtaining work.
GRATITUDE OF THe POOR.—A pleasing and striking in-
stance of the gratitude of the poorer classes has been recently
exhibited by some of the patients of the Charter-house In-
firmary for the cure of fistula. Sensible of the benefits re-
ceived by them from this institution they have formed them-
selves into an auxiliary society, and subscribed in small sums
nearly £lOO towards its funds. The subscription is no less
honorable to themselves than conclusive as respects the
value of the infirmary.

THE FUNDS.—The funds continue to rise rapidly. See.
ing the advanced point consols have now reached, the public
are beginning to believe that the next financial operation of
the Chancellor of the Exchequer will be a reduction of the
Three and a Half per Cent Stocks. Should the increase of
business ind the abundance of capital give an additional
movement upwards to prices, a doubt can scarcely exist of
Mr. Goulburn availing himself of the favourable opportunity
of making retrenchments in Treasury expenditure, especi-
ally as connected with the debt of the country.—Times.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—The Rev. James Paterson,
minister of New Broughton Church, Manchester, Jamaica,
—the missionary of the United Associate Congregation of
Broughton-place, Edinburgh, was unfortunately killed on
the 23d January. On the morning of that day (Monday), he
in company with his brother-in-law, the Rev. John Robson,
of Wellington-street Church, Glasgow, now in Jamaica, for
the recovery of his health, left home in a gig, to attend the
meeting of the missionary Presbytery at nnint Zion, St.
James. On going down a descent, the horse became un-.
manageable. Mr. Paterson, who was driving, was thrown
from his seat, and lighted on his head. Mr. Robson was en-
abled to keep his seat, and after having ran at full speed for
about half a mile further, the horse slackened its pace, and
gave him an opportunity of dismounting. On returning to
the spot, he found Mr. Paterson lying senseless where he had
fallen. He immediately opened a vein with his pen-knife,
but life bad fled.

THE RELIGIONS OF THE UNITED STATES.—The follow-
ing statement of the religious population of the United States
is said, by the Rochester Democrat, to be derived from va-
rious sources, several of which are authentic:—
Baptiste 4,000,000 Dutch Reformed .. 450,000
Methodists
Presbyterians .... 2,175,000 Unitarians lBO,OOO
Congregationalists. 1,400,000 Dunkers ..
Roman Catholics.. 1,300,900 Morwonites
Episcopalians .... 1,000,000 Shakers
Universalists .... 600,0001 Moravians 5,000
Lutheraus........ 540,000 Swedenborgians . 6,000

A WORD OF WARNlNG.—Oastler, in his Fleeters last
Saturday, gives, with great prominence, the following start-
ling sentences :—" I will caution the starving millions.
Agents are now at work, striving to get up another outbreak.
Do not listen to their suggestions. There is Death in the
Pot." We have
truth of this; and find that, as usual, Mr. Oastler, although
made some anxious inquiries as to the
he is immured in a prison. has contrived to anticipate those
who have the personal advantage of the "freedom of the
press." . Another outbreak is talked about ; and there is
much suspicious aetivity, ip country places especially.—Ha-
lifax Guardian. . '
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_Fox HUNTING EVIi4QKILIIN
—on Ti'rlday
.afternoon
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, a fox hunt extraordinary took PARY lace. in the vicinity of the
Borough. A few. Minutes before five oclock as fine a fox as
was ever followed roe away from his kennel in the neigh.;
bourhood of lylee,tinghonse-walk, .near the Skin-market,
Bermobdsey. Not man minutes had elapsed before reynard
was discovered, when a motley " pick" of pedestrians set Off
in.fine style after him. Th' chase was gallantly maintained ';
and the hallooing of his constantly increased pursuers created
no little, stir throughout the densely-populated district over
which fie ran. From' King,-street- pug proceeded at a very
.iapid , rate, into tthe. Borough 1-ligh-street, where he was at
length headed., skijtirig Sr. Oenrges Church, he suddenly
checked,bis speed, and, not seeming to relish' being hUnted
down so unnaturally, lie bolted without the leaSt ceremony ,
into the shop of a stationer, within a door or-two-of the. B-
orough branch post-office, BlaCkm an orse, Where he was
capored„withopt either difficulty or of life!tdon
raper.
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