The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE MA RKET.-YESTIGDAV

Sugar: The hor
brown lumps, 48s. to 48s. 6c

demand for refined better, at firm rates;
• little done in crushed; British,

,urate in every respect, reu,...to
one-half the price of steel engravings, and ,
expeditious process. He uses six different kin
two of red, six of yellow, three of brown, five
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YRITIRDAY. a variety of flesh tints. Outlines --
The supply of beasts beinc, smaller, trade was better, at last the forms but of the shading r
Monday's prices. The number of sheep are very small, and a which he wishes to copy. Prom
few prime downs made 46. Bd. The calf trade is very dull. outlines, and transferred to a number of stones, corre-
sponding with the diversity of colours, as just specified,
Arrivals : beasts, 3,594; sheep and lambs, 1,820; calves, 120;
whili the painting contains. In this way lithographed
p•gs, 280 ; Holland beasts, 427 ; Ditto calves, 71 ; Ditto sheep,
1,1110 ; Scotch beasts, 260; Norfolk and Suffolk ditto, 2,400.
outlines of the several parts of the painting, according to
the distribution of its colouring, are obtained. Each LUBLINAL OF ConsmnucE.---The committee formed a scription of red, blue, yellow, or whatever the tint may
de-
short time ego for the purpose of promoting the institu- be, has its stone, and the ontlinn .” .1 -- ---L -L—
-e - irilmnsti of rnmnr.c.v". ;,.. •t.,...,.....____,:_ 1 __ _

lea uuii, nut not lower.—Hemp: In clean Russian rather
more doing, at x'3o; Manilla wanted, at £33 to £37.—Jute
dull, at £lO to .el 6 for low to fine.—Wool not cheaper, but
little doing.—lron : Little done at former terms.—Cotton :
Few buyers, and previous rates supported with little difficulty.

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--c.c. J.a sue metropolis have is more or less fillecil;TacLgge
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received several communications from influential parties ing required) with a species of chymical ink. Aquafortis
in the provinces, approving of the movement. is then applied to produce a raised surface, after which
PgRSIAN CtrienuErr AND Timm PiaL/TENEss.—Three the oil colours are made to pass over the stone by rollers,
where they are at once arrested by the ink. So delicately
clefs afterwards I was at Gazbine, installed in the house,
of a certain Scherif-Khan, and received in his absence ny contrived is this part of the process, that, according as
his four sons, who were all dressed alike, and the eldest the chymical ink has been snore or less closely wrought
of whom was barely eleven. In the midst of the ruins the utmost nicety of shading can be secured. The colours
of this town—all Persian towns, indeed, are mere abomi- from the stones are then printed off upon paper, and the
nablo ruins of mud walls—l considered myself fortunate exact tints required are produced by printing one colour
in obtaining a room and a fire-place. One of the walls of over the other, much upon the same principle as that
the apartment to which I was conducted consisted of small which guides the artist in mixing his paints. In this
bits of coloured glass, chequered at regular intervals with way, when all the rof the different stones have
small squares of wood, for glass is both rare and expensive been put together, impressions fom themselves into an exact
in Persia. As however, the greater part of the coloured copy of the original picture; a copy true not ohi- !
glass was broken, and the wind came rushing through the details of outline, form, and shading, as io
holes and crevices, I was half frozen, and nearly stifled steel engravings, but true also in resper'
with smoke, until an end was put to my sufferings by of colouring skill which forms so large
stopping the holes and nailing some felt on the doors. er's art. We saw at Mr. Kronbeim s a number of copies
The children of the house came, under the guidance of a (produced by his process) of the " Descent from the
sort of servant who filled the office of tutor, to pay me a Cross," by Reubens, in the cathedral at Antwerp. Tie-
visit, and seated themselves on the floor. The second, represented, with astonishing fidelity, the brilliant
who was about ten, and who by right of his mother's su- varied flesh tints in which that great mast,.l-
- rank was to inherit all the paternal titles and wealth Times.
inquired after my health ; and on my asking him in m ST. PATRICK'S DAY.—Yesterday wc
turn how he felt, replied with a very stiff little air, "that festival of the patron saint of Ireland, a,.
in my presence every body must feel satisfied." I then custom, a procession of the various Irish I
offered him some cakes, requesting to know if they were through the principal streets of the tow-
to his liking. " All you offer is very good," he said, y"
and was exceedingly unpropitious for -
all you eat must be excellent." I had a cap on my head, this did not prevent the "boys" from ._
and another lay on the table • I questioned him on the strength at the rendezvous. The processe.
value which he attached to the two articles, and asked formed, numbered some five thousand perso.
ftewhich he preferred. "Both are superb." he replied, "but
jority of whom wore the appropriate badges and insignia
piquant specimen of
of their respective :fraternities, varied very generally by
the one ou er is undo
the civility übtedly best." Ar this
of the the
country, it may be drapery of the national hue. Several bands of music
supposed that I was not sorry to end the conference, and accompanied the body, and a due amount of fl.-- 2to get rid of such an excessively well-bred child. I took with appropriate mottoes. Altoge...
care, however, to send a cup of tea to his mother ; who, imposing than any similar demonstration t
the tutor informed me, was young and pretty, and lived in as regards the number of persons formic
house with three other wives of Scherif-Khan. She and the respectability of the externals
found it so much to her liking that she sent to beg for a the clubs were concerned, all seems to-have p.
pound of it.—Prince Soltyknoff's Travels in Persia. quietly. No doubt the drenching rain had so,
DURHAM is BUILT UPON SEVEN HlLLS.—Viewed cooling the excitable tendency of the sons of Erin ; and in
from the north, the city of Durham seems to be scattered the latter part of the day, h. re and there might be seen a
over a multitude of irregular hills, and we discover partsl sturdy Patlander bedizened in green scarf and rosettes
of the town, the castle, and the churches, through severa ditto dragging his tired limbs through the sloppy street
vallics in one point of view, so that they appear.like so homeward, with spoiled finery, and any thing but a merry
spreadpasse
so over
otnhge ,
many distant places. The west front of the castle is seen countenance. A rather laughable incident occurred to a
portion of the procession, as it defiled from Lord-street
on the summit of a steep and deep rock, with some parts
wihfit city, hollow
and afford beau-
of the cathedral ; and the street of St. Giles, as if totally
swits situation and into South John-street, about noon. Several of the men
who were not aware of the locality of the repairs whch
occasioned its being are at present going on, came unexpectedly on an
apart open
sewer, and several of them fell •in as they followed each
othere
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emphatically called the " English Zion." Hegg, who and no doubt feeling equally uncomfortable. A little
wrote the Legend of St. Cuthbert, says, in reference to delay, however, was the most serious result of this tem..
Durham, "he that hath Beene the situation of this City, porary, downfall of the sons of the " first gem of the sea."
bath seene the Margopf Zion, and may save a journeto peiaccthuroetshrieure':
Jerusalem." B wrote his book in M.DCXXYI. from the procession, but owing to the hilarity ofthe hum-
Durham has also been whimsically compared to a crab; blur portion of the Irish population. In Standish-stye
Market-Om repreeenting the body, and the streets e u poofn
all the windows of a public-house were broken,and :vein
Some petty brawls occurred during the evening,
the elewp,
' Irishmen were taken to bridevrell.

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