The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

Monday Night.
No doubt appeared to exist on 'Change to-day that the
Irish will rise in the South of Ireland, in spite of the strong
preventive measures taken by Government ; n 1 altlaouh
great confidence is reposed in the foresight of those to
whom the preservation of peace is entrusted, the proba-
bility of an unhappy contest in that country, in its pre-
sent excited state, has had the natural effect of depressing
all speculative branches of trade. The West Indian in-
terest, however, suffers from another cause ; and a hitherto
unobserved failing in the Government measure has within
the last few days thrown the merchants and refiners into
considerable dismay, owing, as stated in the bi-monthly
circular of MessrS. T. and H. Littledale, to " the Cus-
toms admitting refined Sugar from the Continent at a
duty of 245. Bd. per cwt. By the old bill, refined Sugar
was admitted at a proportionate rate of duty, if imported
from the place of growth ; but on all other a prohibition
of 635. per cwt. was imposed, By the present, the prohi-
bition i s removed, and the several rates of duty are, from
wherever imported, 245. Bd. per cwt. on first refined, and
275. 9d. on double. This we can only look upon as an
oversight of the Government, and needs only being
brought before them to be remedied ; otherwise it would
be the heaviest blow at our own Colonies, particularly
Jamaica, and refiners, which has yet been given—the
Dutch, as we understand, receiving a drawback on their
exports of 2s. 6d. per cwt." Meanwhile, the effect upon
the market has been, that sugars suitable for refining
purposes are selling for 2s. to 3s. less money than could
be obtained a week ago. We have good reports from the
manufacturing districts : the home trade is brisk ; and,
as we anticipated, the export demand for goods and yarns
has considerably increased, accompanied by some advance
on the low prices which have so long prevailed. The
greatest facilities are also offered to trade by the easy rate
at which money can be procured; and although consols.
have fallen a little in consequence of the Irish business,
they closed on Saturday at the respectable price of 87k to
4; for the 10th of August, the last quotation was 874 to 1.
The accounts from France contain no new features of
much importance ; an addition of L 7 9,000 to the deposits
of the public, and the absence of any material change in
the present low state of the discounts, still serve to indi-
cate the continued paralysis of trade. Advices from
Vienna show a steady increase of confidence ; whilst at
Naples, on the 14th instant, the reaction in the funds
consequent upon the news from Sicily was still going on,
the Five per Cents on that day having fallen to 86.
The COTTON trade, which was going on swimingly at
the beginning of the week, has fallen off since the confir-
mation of the disturbed state of Ireland, and although
the daily sales were large up to the close of last week, the
slight advance which had been realized on the previous
week's prices was lost. There has been only a small at-
tendance of spinners at market TO-DAY, which has re-
lapsed into a state of inactivity again, owing entirely to
the suspense arising out of the unsettled state of matters
in Ireland. The trade in consegence have purchased spa-
ringly,
speculationfor the present being checked, so that the
business, inclusive of 1000 for export, will not amount to
more than 4,500 bales of all kinds. In prices there is no
material alteration to notice, probably a fraction in favour
of purchasers, as holders do not appear at all anxious to
press sales beyond the demand, feeling confidence in the
measures being adopted by government towards Ireland.
Advices from New York, per Cambria, state that holders
had consented to a decline of ket of a cent IF, lb., gene-
rally I; and that consequently there had been more
business doing, both for shipment and home use. The
market, however, was still dull. The receipts at all the
shipping ports were 2,203,984 bales, against 1,736.712 to
same dates last year—an increase this season of 467,272
bales. The total foreign export this year is 609,044 hales
more than last—say, 441,929 increase to Great Britain,
73,000 increase to France, 50,819 increase to North of
Europe, and 43,296 increase to other foreign ports. The
shipments from southern to northern ports are 71,882
bales more this season than last; and there is a decrease
in stock of 113,250 bales. The sales quoted were 2400
bales, as follows : Upland and Mobile, N. 0.,
Florida. and Texas.
1400 bales. 1000 bales.
Inferior
Ordinary to good ord... 53- a 51 c. 511 ® 5 c.
Middling to good mid.. 6 6+ c. 6 6 c.
Middling fair to fair.,.. 6+ c. 611 7:1 c.
Fully fair to good fair .. 7 a) 7} c. a)B4 c.
Fine nominal. nominal.
The total import, froth the Ist to the Bth instant way
2,253 bales. The export, from the Ist to the 30th June,
1848, was 15,276 bales ; 1847, 3,445 bales. Export from
the United States, since Ist Sept. last, 1,637,641 bales ;
same time last year, 1,028,597 bales.
The CORN Market here is steady for every article of
the trade, without any material alteration in price since
Friday. There is rather more inquiry for Indian Corn
and Wheat, although we have not heard of any large
extent of business done in the latter article. Imports
into this port since Thursday last:—Wheat, from Ireland
110 qrs., coastwise 1220 ; Malt, coastwise 3384 qrs. ;
Beans, coastwise 64 qrs., Europe 2337 ; Indian Corn, U.
States 5162 qrs. ; Oatmeal, coastwise 35 his., U. States
12 ; Flour, Ireland 16 sacks, Canada 1864 brls., U. States
3 brls. Exports :—Wheat, coastwise 160 qrs. ; Beans,
coastwise 320 qrs. ; Indian Corn, for Ireland 2630 qrs.,
coastwise 4 ; Indian Corn Meal, for Ireland 440 brls.,
coastwise 100; Flour, coastwise 216 sacks 344 brls.—
Throughout the country Wheat is rather higher, and
from 2s. to 3s. advance has been realised to-day in the
London market. The Irish markets are generally firm,
owing to the smallness of stocks. With regard to the
Potato crop, although unfavourable reports continue to
reach us from various quarters, we still decline to adopt
them without much reservation. The quantity and qua-
lity of those brought into the market warrant us in using
great caution ; and as we have seen finer and healthier
specimens this season than for some years past, we will
continue for the present to hope for the hest.—A mer-
cantile letter from New York, dated 11th July, states:—
" The grain and grass crops all Over the country have
been most abundant, and as the shipments of specie
have ceased, a good fall import trade is not improbable."
The New York Shipping and Commercial List, per
Cambria, states that there had been a good demand
for Western Flour for home use, and the sales had been
pretty large ; yet the receipts exceeded the current in-
quiry, and the market for the most part was quite dull,
and if pressed by holders, rather lower rates would have
to be submitted to. Corn Meal was in fair request, and
remained steady. Wheat had been in request for milling :
the market, however, was without particular change,
though rather in favour of the buyer, the demand having
been pretty freely met by holders. For Corn there was
an active demand, at an improvement of about one cent
per bushel. The receipts down the Hudson since the
opening of river navigation are as follow :

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1848. 1847.
Wheat Flour bbls. 458,405 1,208,236
Corn Meal 1,561 41,984
Wheat bush. 194,902 1.064,977
Corn
. Rye
Export, from Ist to 30th June,
1848. 1847.
Wheat Flour bbls. 31,263 342,080
Corn
Wheat 1,834 397,437
. Rye
Barley
Oats 735 42,158
AMERICAN Bacon, having been put forward at a low
figure, has commanded attention, and dealers have cleared
off the greater portion of the inferior descriptions. Both
Hams and Shoulders have suffered a depreciation in value ;
the latter, however, meeting with a ready sale, whilst
transactions in the former are concluded with difficulty.
Considerable sales of Lard have been made this week, at
about last week's prices, with the exception of inferior
and Grease, which have declined from 3s. to 4s. The
demand for Prime Mess Pork has somewhat improved
this week, but the business has been confined to choice
lots. Nothing new in either Beef or Cheese.—Prices
current :--

Cheese-(duty paid)-Fine, -s to -s per cwt. ; middling,
40s to 43s ; ordinary, 35s to %Ss. Beef-U.S. (free)-Prime
mess, per tree. 3041 b., 85s to 92s 6d ; ordinary, 80s to 83s, old
40s to 60s; extra, India, family, &c., 97s to 105 s; ditto, per
half-barrel, 30s to 35s ;-mess, per barrel, 2001 b., 50s to 56s ;
ordinary, 40s to 465, old 33s to 40s; prime, 34s to 365. Pork-
U.S. (free)-Prime mess, 40s to 61's, sold -s to -s per barrel,
2001 b.; prime, 3ls to 365, old 33s to 355; mess,. family mess,
&c., 428 to 50s, old 40s to 455. Bacon-(free)-Eastern, -s to
-s; western, 28s to 455; shoulders, 19s Gd to 23s Od, old -s
per cwt. ants-Dried, Witty paid,) old -s to -s per cwt. ;
in salt, (free,) 25s to 325. Lard-(free)-Fine, in kegs and bar-
rels, 39s to 418 per cwt. •, good, in do. do., 37s to 38s; ordinary
to middling, 356 to 36s ; inferior, and grease, 32s to 345.
Batter-Grease, (free,) -s to -s per cwt. Pilot Biscuit-
(duty paid)-155 to 20s per cwt.
Notwithstanding the reports which have reached us of
smaller markets and higher prices in Ireland, the demand
for Emil Butter is only to a small amount here, and last
week's prices are barely maintained. Irish Bacon continues
a drug; but Lard sells freely. Prices to-day (landed
here) :-Butter : Waterford, new, 80s. to 82s. ; Kilkenny,
Carlow, and Clonmel, 80s. to 81s. ; Carrick, new, 795. to
80s. ; Wexford, Carlow, 80s. ; Belfast, 78s. to 81s. ; Bal-
lymoney and Coleraine, 775. to 793.; Banbridge, 765. to
78s. ; Newry and Dundalk, 72:4. to 765. ; Londonderry,
765. to 783. Bacon : Long Middles, free from bone, new,
565. to 575. ; Short Middles, free from bone, new,. 575.
Hams: Dry, 655. to 725. Lard : Fine Keg, 50s. to 525.
Arrivals for the week ending this day : - Butter, 5159
firkins, 2029 crocks ' • Bacon, 136 bales; Hams, 6 hhds. ;
Lard, 3 tierces, 200 kegs.
The market for Scotch Pig IRON is extremely dull,
principally on account of the unfavourable nature of the
news from Ireland, winch has taken away the disposition
to do business. The rates at Glasgow are 465. to 475. for
No. 1.-In New York, as per last advises, Scotch Pig was
somewhat lower-300 tons N. 1, to arrive, having sold
at 524, 6 mos. • English Bars were quoted 5'42.50 @
4343 ; and Swedes, £'Bo @ 532.50, on time.
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and South Wheal Francis, which maintain present prices.
The present prices of TOBACCO are as follow :-James'
River Leaf, faded, 2id. to 3d. ; ordinary sound, 3d. to 34-d. ;
middling, 31. d: to 4d. ; good and fine, Clid. to 51d. ; ditto
stemmed, faded, 2d. to 21-d. ; ordinary sound, 3d. to ad.;
middling, 4d. to 4id. ; good and fine, 47d. to 51d. and 6d. :
Kentucky leaf, nd. to 4d.; stemmed WA. to sd. In the
United States the trade is quite dull, and the sales not
worth reporting.
The TIMBER trade during the last week exhibits a better
feeling, the demand for the manufacturing districts shows
an improvement, and prices have an upward tendency,
though stocks here being light, all the cargoes that have
arrived have been readily disposed of from the quay. We
are certain that this branch of business will improve
rapiily.
Foreign WooL has been in good request this week, and
a fair extent of business has been done, in some cases at
an advance of. 5 per cent. on previous rates, and all kinds
in demand may he said to have improved to this extent.
Some large sales of Alpaca have been made, and although
the prices have not been allowed to transpire, they re

understood to be below the late current quotations.7ln
Scotch there has been no business reported, and farmers
are said to be asking higher prices than the trade seem
prepared to pay. Imports for the week ending July 22
—Foreign 4474 bales, previously 43,125, total 47,599
Scotch 333 bales, previously 7691, total 8024 bales.
There is still a fair demand for both raw and thrown
SILK, by our manufacturers, for the home trade; but
owing to the large imports from every place where silk is
produced, stocks are still heavy, and prices rule low—pap.
ticularly on China Silk—and our quotations of the 4th
instant, of Taysaams from 93. to 10s. 6d. per lb:, and
Tsatlees from 93. 6d. to 145., have been barely supported,
and all other descriptions of raw silk have suffered the
same depression. In East India and China Silk, piece
goods, we have no improvement to notice either in de-
mand or price.
The last return from the Bank of England states that
the amount of notes in circulation is £19,145,060,
being an increase of £784,195 • and the stock of bullion in
both departments is £14,263,176, showing a decrease o
£94,817, when compared with the preceding return.
Up to the date of the Cambria's departure from New
York, Exchange on England had been in fair demand at
1091- to 110.
MO/

LATEST FROM DUBLIN.

THE INSURRECTIONARY MOVEMENT.-SUS-
PENSION OF THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.

No outbreak has as yet taken place in Ireland ; indeed
the utmost tranquillity prevails; but in that country a
lull is always open to suspicions. Silence, is the most
dangerous element of Irish agitation. So far the appre-
hensions of disturbance are confined to Dublin. Orders
have been given to seize all arms imported into Dublin.
It is notorious that neither rifle, pistol, or any other fire-
arm is to be seen in the shop windows, having all been
sold. The general impression is that the provinces are
not yet ripe for an outbreak; and that until the provincia
clubs are more widely extended the rebels will make no
hostile demonstration. In Cork, however, there was some
excitement when the intelligence arrived that that city
had been proclaimed.
The, announcement of Lord John Russell's intention to •
apply to parliament for additional powers to crush insur-
rection in Ireland, reached Dublin, by electric telegraph,
early in the forenoon of Saturday, end had a thunderbolt
fallen upon the city it could not have created greater dis-
may or terror. Full time was it to resort to the extreme
measure shadowed forth in the Premier's notice of motion,
and that not another instant is to be lost will be made
tolerably clear by a perusal of the manifestoes—it would be
childishness to call them newspaper articles—put forward
in the felon journals of last Saturday. They are " open
and advised" declarations of war, and nothing less. Mr.
Duffy, Mr. Martin, Mr. Lalor, and Mr. Brenan, with their
signatures appended to those blood-breathing documents,
tell the people that the hour has come for striking the blow;
that the 40,000 military composing the Irish garrison must
be slaughtered ; that they (the people) are to be stigma-
tized as cowards for evermore, should they neglect the
present opportunity to obliterate British dominion in
Ireland. All this, and even more desperate advice, is
given by the accredited leaders of the movement, so that
there is no choice left ; the crisis cannot be much longer
averted. 'With such undiluted treason as flows through
the columns of the Nation and Felon it is difficult to know
where to begin or where to stop. Mr. Gavan Duffy, as
the senior journalist, is, perhaps, entitled to precedence ;
and here is an extract from one of his appeals to arms :
" Rise, then, men of Ireland, since Providence so wills
it. Rise in your cities and your fields, on your hills, in
your valleys, by your dark mountain passe,s, by your
rivers and lakes and ocean-washed shores ! Rise as a na-
tion ! Englatid has dissevered the bond of allegiance.
Rise—not now to demand justice from a foreign kingdom,
but to make Ireland an independent kingdom for ever.
It is no light task God has appointed you. It is a work -
of trial and temptation. Oh ! be stedfast in the trial—
be firm to resist the temptation. You have to combat
injustice, therefore you must yourselves be just. You
have to overthrow a despot [power; but you must estab-
lish order, not suffer anarchy. Remember it is not against
individuals or parties or sects you wage war, but against
a system. Down with it—down with it, even to the
ground ; but show mercy to the individuals who are but
the instruments of that system. You look round upon
the land—your own land—trodden down and trampled
sni ii s 1-ed, and on a persecuted and despairing people-
* * Act as if your soul's salvation hung en each
'we a!i•eaay within the shadows of
deed—
and it will; f';',
eternity. For us is the combat; but not for us, perhaps,
the triumph. Many a noble heart will lie cold, many a
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throbbing pulse he stilled, ere the cry of ' Victory' will
arise. It is a solemn thought, that now is the hour of
destiny when the fetters of seven centuries may at last be
broken—and by you, men of this generation—by you,
men of Ireland ! You are God's instruments ; many of
you must ne freedom's martyrs. Oh ! be worthy of the
name ; and as you act as men, as natriots, and as chris-
tians, sb will the blessing rest upon your head when you
lay it down a sacrifice for Ireland upon the red battle
field."

His letter is dated "Newgate Prison." His brother
felon, John Martin, is equally intelligible. He says,
" My advice is, shortly, that you stand to your arms.
Stand to your arms ! * * Stand firm and yield .not an
inch of ground to the threat and the rage of our alarmed
tyrants. Let them menace you with the hulks or the
gibbet for daring to speak or write your love to Ireland.
Let them [threaten to mow you down with grape shot,
as they: have massacred your kindred with nmine and
plague. Spurn their brutal acts of Parliament'—trample
upon their lying proclamations—fear them not 1 The
work you have undertaken is to overthrow and utterly
destroy English dominion in Ireland. - That work must
be done. It must be done at any risk, at any Cost, at any
sacrifice. Though hundreds of us be torn from our
families, and free air, to be shut up in the enemy's
dungeons or sent in chains to his felon islands—though
thousands of us be butchered by the enemy's cannon and
bayonets, cur streets and native fields be purpled with
our blood—never shall the struggle for Irish freedom
cease but with the destruction of that monstrous system
of base and murderous tyranny, or with the utter exter-
mination, of the Irish people. Oh, dear countrymen !
let not your hearts quail at the sight of the enemy's pre-
parations—of 40,000 human machines arranged with their
weapon's of death to butcher you on your own land for
the crime of loving your own land. Stand to your arms
res'st to the c'eoth ! Better a hundred thousand bloody
deaths than to leave Ireland another year disarmed,
cowed, and defenceless to the mercy of that fiendish des-
potism."
Mr. J. F. Lalor calculates that "there are 40,000 sol-
diers in Ireland, and the question is, how best and soonest
to kill and capture these 40,000 men ?" He would take
the time " when the full harvest of Ireland shall be stacked
in the haggards. Wherefore, let us fight in September, if
we may—but sooner, if we must. Who draws first blood
for Ireland ? Who wins a wreath that will be green for.
ever ?"

Another letter is from the pen of a man who, at a meet-
proposed
commenced
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outbreaktu
shouldelc,
but the motion was lost by a majority of one only.
Although the meeting in question was limited. to twenty-
one persons, each holding a responsible situation in the
rebel counsels, the government was in full possession of
their " secret" intentions on the following day. This man
says that if the clubs shrink, " the slaves' portion will be
theirs. Let the coffin-maker's heart be merry, for his
trade will shine. Will not the land be rich and produce
great harvests for luxury when the bones of the poor
manure it ? These things will boil' you strike not. Now,
then, or never ! Now, and for ever ! I think we had
better front our fate at once, and be free in death, if wo
cannot live in freedom."

The greatest excitement prevails throughout the district
extending from Carrick-on-Snir, in the county of Water-
ford, to Clonmel, in the South Riding of Tipperary. The
club organisation all along is quite complete ; and after
the metropolis, this is the only quarter in which immedi-
ate danger is apprehended. Mr. Meagher has arrived in
Dublin from Waterford. It is said Mr. Smith O'Brien
has taken wing and retreated to Wexford.
It is said that four regiments will be encamped in Phoe-
nix Park. Already the troops are daily exercised in pitch-
ing and striking tents &c.
The severest scrutiny is exercised in granting,licenses
for arms. No license is to be granted to any person to
hold any large quantity of arms, or wno has not a legiti-
mate use for them, and in no case are licenses to be
granted to young men to keep arms who merely want them
for amusement.

Hyland. the Dublin pike maker, has put out his fire and
transferred his anvil and other apparatus to a southern
county, free from the incumbrance of a Government
proclamation.

• BIRMINGHAM MANUFACTURE AT COURT.—A magni-
ficent chimney-piece, grate, and fender, en suite, of an
entirely ❑ew mode of manufaCture, made for his Highness
Abbas Pacha, were submitted to Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace, by Mr. H.
Room, of Birmingham.
THE HABEAS CORPUS ACT.—We have so long enjoyed
peace, subordination, and security in this happy island,
that young, or even middle-abed men, do not remember
the day when the Habeas Corpus Act was suspended
within the realm of England. But the student of consti-
tutional history and the well-informed lawyer are both
aware that such suspension has taken place more than half-
a-dozen times within a century, and generally, if not
always, with the happiest effects, and with no destruction
or permanent diminution of public liberty in England.
Even within the present century, the 31 Charles 11. has
been twice. placed in abeyance, and were John Horne
Tooke, or his pupil, the late Sir Francis Burdett, or John
Gale Jones, to rise individually and collectively from the
tomb, each must admit that such suspension—far from
inflicting a wound on public liberty—only tended to pre-
serve and foster that greatest blessing.
ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO BLOW UP A HOUSE AT SHEF-
FIELD.—On Friday, Mrs. Marples, the wife of a joiner's
tool maker, in Hermitage-street, Sheffield, was aroused
from her slumbers by a loud explosion, accompanied with
the smashing of window glass. Slie immediately jumped
out of bed, and took her chil6en up, when she saw a
flame shoot through the aperture in the window shutters.
Having alarmed her brother, who was sleeping in an .
adjoining room, they went to the front and shouted
" murder ! " The night watchman immediately repaired
to the place, when he found three men running away.
He chased them, and, having laid hold of one, the other
two came up, knocked the watchman down, and rescued.
his prisoner. Upon getting in front of the premises three
ginger beer bottles, charged with powder, were found
lying on the ground, and about two pounds of strong
blasting powder. The glass in the window was broken,
and it was quite apparent that only one bottle had ex-
ploded, and that had fortunately not entered the bed-
room, on account of the window-shutters being partially
closed. Had the three bottles entered the building, and
exploded, every person therein must have been blown to
pieces. Some time back, the factory helorp-i,,zr to the
same person was destroyed by an infernal machine.

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