The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-24 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY

We have a very large supply of beasts to-day, and the wea-
ther exceedingly unfavourable for slaughtering; the dead
markets are also, very full. Choice Scots pretty readily make
45., but a great many second-rate beasts cannot be sold. The
number of Sheep is not large, but the demand is so very limited,
that prices are lower, except for a few choicest downs. There
are not many good Calves on offer; late quotations are fully
maintained.

SOUTHWARK WATERSIDE POTATO MARKET
YESTERDAY.

The very wet weather the last three weeks has done consi-
derable injury to the Potato crop in Yorkshire and Scotland,
and has also prevented shipping to any extent for the London
market. The arrivals from the Continent are extensive, being
upwards of 1,500 tons since our last report, all of which have
met a ready sale. The following are to-day's prices: York-
shire Regents, 50s. to 1405.; Wisbeach Regents, 100 s. to lios. ;
Scotch Regents, 100 s. to 1205.; Scotch Reds, 70s. to 908.;
French Whites, 858. ; to 955. ; Belgian Whites, 80s. to 908.

Mr. Whiteside's retaining fee in the case of Mr. Smith
O'Brien was £5OO.
The Hibernia sailed from Liverpool for Boston and
Halifax on Saturday, taking a number of passengers, and
the usual American mails on board.
A PRIZE TO Sin R. PEEL.—At the Blackburn agricul-
tural meeting, last week, a silver medal was awarded to
Sir R. Peel for his estates in Oswaldtwistle, as the owner,
not being the occupier, who has laid down the greatest
number of rods of stone or tile drains in the best manner.
ATTEMPTAT ASSASTlNATlON.—Yesterday,whasta gen-
tleman, named Tyler, who arrived at Swansea on the pre-
vious evening, was walking on the sands, attended by his
domestic, he suddenly pounced on the man whilst he was
gazing at some distant object, and inflicted a serious gash
near his neck with a knife. The gentleman is now under
strict surveillance, and labours, it seems, under an aberra-
tion of intellect.—Cambrian.
SIR CHARLES NAPIER AND SIR J. W. HOGG. A
letter from Sir J. W. Hogg appears in yesterday's Times,
in answer to that of Sir Charles Napier, the purport of
which we give elsewhere. Sir James Hogg says that Sir
Charles Napier's share of the prize-money will not fall
far short of the sum there stated. He will have as his
portion of the Scinde prize-money one-eighth of a spoil
estimated at above half a million. "It is impossible,"
adds Sir James Hogg, " that it could have been meant
that the money had been actually paid, it being matter of
notoriety that no distribution had actually taken place."
If the facts should turn out to be, as we presume, that it
was in the perfect knowledge of every man who heard the
expressions fall from Mr. Baillie that he was speaking of
the Scinde prize-money, and equally so that the prize-
money had not been distributed, it is a straining of terms
indeed to accuse either" the speaker or his informant of
" malignant falsehood. At the very utmost the " ma-
lignant falsehood" just means that Mr. Baillie stated in
the house, upon the authority of Sir James Hogg, that
the distribution of the Scinde prize-money had taken
place, when, in effect, it had not as yet been so distributed.
Now, really, there is nothing in such a state of facts to
call for all this blood and thunder, and giving of the lie.
Sir Charles Napier has worn the sagum so long that he
cannot reconcile hillitielf to the peaceful Wag 0 the
costume et peace.