The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-03 00:00:00

Lima

Australia
Bahia ..

Barbadoes
Bombay
B. Ayres ..
Calcutta
G. G. Hope
Charleston
China ....
Demerara
Havana ..
Jamaica ..
Laguira

April S.
July 9.
July 24.
June lg.

May 39,
Aug. 12.
April 21.
July 20

Maranham ..
Mauritius ..
Mobile ...
Monte 'Video.
N. Orleans ..
New Yolk ...
Pernambuco .1
Rio Janeiro..
Savannah

July I

rJuly 14,

St. Helena
Valparaiso
Vera Cruz

!July 1.

;Indirect

May IL

May.i.
Aug. 7.
June 11_
Aug. O.

July 2.
Aug. z

May It.
lair 1

[MONTHLY REPORT.]
EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY.
CORNER OF HARFORD-STREET, MOUNT-PLEASANIL

Surgeons Dr. Edwards anti Mr. Neill.
Assistant Surgeon, J. B. Barrow.
Treasurer. Henry Crossfield, Esq.

EYE DEPARTMENT.
New Patients admitted in the month of August 287
Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical
assistance during the month of August

.. L 2

Total since the commencement .... 40,1G5

EAR DEPARTMENT.
Patients prescribed for, and who have received Surgical
assistance during the Month of August
Total since the commencement

PRICES OF SHARES, SEPTEMBER 2.

SHARES.

RAILWAYS.
Bolton and Bury .. .
Birkenhead and Chester
Ditto half
Ditto, ncw,issued at 433 dis.
Birmingham and Gloucester
Ditto quarter
_ _

.Ci
t/2 i Amt,
gi. paid.

Sales
This Day.

208;, 9t
27k

Birmingham and Derby
Ditto One-eighth Shares
Blackburn and Preston
Chester and Wrexham
Caledonian
Churnet Valley
Dublin and Cashel
Dover, new.
old
Eastern Counties
Created at £l6 13s. Id.

Perpetual .
Eastern Counties, Registered
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto Qr. ..
Ditto Leith, &c. prifere: ce
Glasgow, Paisley, & Greenock
New

Ditto 6 per cent. interest
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire
Greenock, preference
hand J unction
Ditto half shares
Quarter
One-third .
Great Western
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England
Holyhead
Hull and Selby (paid up)
Leicester and Swannington
Lancaster and Preston
Ditto three-quarter shares

Ditto and Carlisle
Liverpool and Manchester
Ditto quarter shares

Ditto
London and Birmingham
Ditto quarter
Ditto i shares
London & Brighton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Western
Ditto, 10th shares
Lynn and Ely
Manchester, Bolton; & Bury ....
Manchester and Birmingham....

Si
6 2-5

Ditto and Ditto Extension
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto half shares
Ditto quarter shares
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
]_sth Shares
North Midland
Ditto new
Ditto .4'33 ds 8d
North Union
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter shares
Newcastle and Darlington June.
Preston and Wyre
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Orleans
Lyons and Avignon
Runcorn Gap
Bou'ogne rnd Amiens
Rouen and Havre
Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter
South Eastern and Dover

23
64
I3s 4d

New shares
South Western

25
124
50

25
Stock.

25
12i
li
50

8s 4d,113s lo
131-

13 ex.
63

93i
Stock,

93
40
7
7u
30

36i
221

524 51f
5

08i. a

Ditto # shares
Shrewsbury and Grand Junction.
Scarborough
-recurs and Bourdeaux
Trent Valley.
Ulster
York and North Midland
Half Shares
Bank of Liverpool
- Borough Bank
- Commercial of Liverpool
- East of England
- M'chester & L'poul Pact
Northern and Central ,
I -
- North and South Wales
- Royal of Liverpool
- South Lancashire
- Liverpool Union '
- Liverpool Banking Co
- Wilts and Dorset
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Water
Works
Bootle Ditto
L'pool New Gas 8, Coke Co.
L'pool Gas Light Company
Ditto new shares.
Liverpool Marine Assiirance..
Company
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
M'chester Assurance Company..;
Apothecaries' Company
Harrington Docks
AndertonCarrying Company
Rock Ferry
Steam Tilf! Coninanv.. ....

IR4 11S.'

495. 6d.

Stock.
Stock.
'no

STATISTICS OF MORTALITY.—The average age of all
who die ii BraEord is 18.69 years; in Liverpool the'ave-
rage age is from 17 to 18 years; in Manchester, 18years;
while in Leeds it is 21 years.
ANCIENT CANAL FROM THE NILE TO THE RED SEA.
—The account of the canal given by the geographer
Makrizy, requires to be transcribed in his own words,
from the accurate summary which it contains of the later
history of this great monument of civilisation. " When
the Most High," says the writer, " gave Islamism to
Mankind, and Amrou-Ben-el-A'ss conquered Egypt by
the order of Otnar-ben-al-Khatab, chief of the Faithful,
he cleared out the canal in the year of the mortality. . Ite
carried it to the sea of Qolzonm, from which ships sailed
to Hedjaz, to Yemen, and to India. This canal remained
Aolbtedriallathtle-
Aobla;_tnTnaliealdc-bbernev-
city of the Prophet (Medina) against Abou-dja'far-Ab- •
boepnen- El'-nHtiol sst ehien-tbienne. Awl yh.etn)c nM-
doul lah - ben Moltammed-Al-Manssour, then caliph of
Irak. This prince immediately wrote to his lieutenant in
at
sea
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Egypt, ordering him to fill up the caual of Qolzoum, that
orderSi
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set.
remained in the state we now see them. * * At pre-
sent, the question of restoring the canal is solely don-
nected with the Indian trade. We own we have very
great doubts whether its re -establishment, if destined only
to connect our lines of steam-packets from India to Sues,
and from Southampton to .11exandtia, would be found a
profitable speculation. The tedious navigation of -the
Red Sea, and, we may almost add, of the Mediterranean,
would render the route by the Cape preferable for sailing
vessels ; and we have not yet arrived at such perfection
in the construction of steamers, as to contemplate their
becoming the only vessels employed in the Indian trade.
It appears to us, that before any reasonable hope of re-
storing the canal can be enertained, or, at least before it
can be kept open with profit, that Egypt must be again in
a condition to employ the irrigable land on the banks of
the canal for agricultural purposes. Unless the country
be flourishing, the population increasing, and the canal
constantly employed, it would be half filled with the sand
of the desert every year.—Blacktoood's Maaazine.
A MANAGER OUTWITTED EY AN ACTRFSS.—In" the
winter of 1818, Miss Kelly accepted a very liberal offer
from Mr. Frederick Edward Jones, the proprietor of the
Theatre Royal, Crow-street, Dublin, to remain in that
city during a principal part of the sca.on. Her talent
was highly appreciated by those who witnessed it; but,
to the discredit of Dublin, the number was too limited to
render her engagement profitable either to herself or the
management. She had brought with her letters of intro-
duction from several persons of rank in England to their
compeers in Ireland ; and to the Lord-Lieutenant's con-
' sideration she was particularly recommended by a very
popular nobleman, whose patronage of the drama had
been much lauded. •As we observed, she had been 'un-
attractive as to the public in general, and the noble' pa-
tronage had been reserved for her benefit night. The
manager had made his appeatto the Viceroy. for his usual
periodical "command,' when a foil house would be sure
a night, a
cso
r tdoi
n b
g e
to compensate tor his previous losses. l'he e2amtatut
was immediately g'ven, but with this unexpected stipule-
twil' Ili
c —hth according to the
nl‘listser Kelly'smsef her benefita;r
e 'enmigehntte;
was to be " free of all charges." The poor manager. .was
thus out-manoeuvred by the cunning actress. She bad
also asked for the command, but for her own profit; and,
having obtained it. she pocketed the whole receipts, nearly
fivit hundred pounds, and the treasury of the theatre was
left to recover from its insolvency by any other method it
could adopt. The actors were unpaid. A vice-vegal
ennmand was then always calculated to bring five hun-
dred pounds to the treasury, and had never been known
to occur on a performer's benefit in Dublin. I3itter.were
the manager's complaints at being " out-manceuvred by
a woman" ; yet, while smarting under the al!e4ed wrong,
he could net help pavinz the lady a high complement. 11.
was heard to observe, in a very fretful tiote, " Talk of
tactics, sir!—talk of rrnoceuvres- at Waterloo! Pub!
I'd back General Fanny Kelly against Wellirotton and all
his staff !" The receipts of the command" • night not
reaching the theatrical treasury, paced the actors •in a
very critical situation. Of their pe,erty, and, .their wig
and merriment in the midst of it, many Nhinnical storiti
wet e then told.—Our Actresses.