The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-25 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE ➢IARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Tallow remains dull of sale, at 368. 6d. to 375. for P.Y.C. on
the spot, and 38s. for the last three months. This day, 24,733
casks, against 23,304 casks. The deliveries last week were 946
casks, against 1,132 in the corresponding weeks of 1849; home-
made plentiful, at 355. 6d. nett cash. In Coffee little bu-
siness done to-day; but few sellers under 40s. to 435. for
ordinary to good ordinary native Ceylon. In Tea a moderate
business done to-day in sound Congou, and market firm at 10d.
per pound. Cotton market a shade firmer, and more business
doing; 500 bales at stiff prices.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

Beasts, 3,832; Sheep and Lambs, 3G,900; Calves, 303; Pigs,
320. _ _

Beef, 25. 6d. to 3s. 4d. ; Mutton, 3s. 2d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal,
2s. 2d. to 3s. 2d ; Pork, 3s. 2d. to 3s. 10d. • Lamb, 4s. 2d. to ss.
Dutch Beasts, 503; Sheep, 1,780; Calves, 154; Pigs, 20;
Spanish Sheep, 400; Scotch Beasts, 200; Cambridge Beasts,
400; Norfolk and Suffolk Beasts, 200.

Supply
of Beasts being large. Trade dull; many of good
quality selling at 3s. per stone. A few prime Scots with diffi-
culty made 3s. 44. Sheep sold slowly, particularly inferior
qualities; choice Downs made 3s. 4d. There was a good de-
mand for Lambs. Calves sold at reduced prices.

Mr. Cardwell, Sir T. Birch, and W. Brown, voted on
Friday against the motion for a modification of the Irish
national educational system. Sir P. Egerton, and J.
Tollemache voted in favour of it.
A public breakfast was given to Dr. Bunting at Leeds,
on Wednesday. More than six hundred persons were
present and the rev. doctor met with a most enthusiastic
reception.

Three more Wesleyan "leaders" were expelled from
the society at York last week, without a trial. The pro-
ceedings were frequently interrupted by much disturbance.
WESLEYAN BAZAAR.—The appeal to the public ir.
behalf of the Wesleyan schools, will no doubt be liberally
responded to. A bazaar is about to be held in the
splendid room of the Philharmonic-hall, which will, no
doubt, form a very great attraction.

THE ASSIZES.—the assizes will commence at Liver-
pool on Saturday, the 10th of August. The causes in the
Salford list will be taken first, and those in the West
Derby list will not be called on before Wednesday, the
11th of August. The first day is the last day for making
up issues in time for trial at Liverpool.
ST. ANDREW'S CHURCH.—We understand that Sir
John Gladstone has appointed the Rev. T. C. Cowan to
succeed the Rev. John Jones in the incumbency of St.
Andrew's Church, Renshaw.street. The former rev.
gentleman, as our reade-s are aware, has officiated some
time as incumbent of St. Thomas's, Toxteth-park, to
which he was presented by the same hon. baronet.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLEMENT.—John Bassford, a carter,
was yesterday committed for trial for embezzling from
his employer, Richard Price, a master carter, in Mersey-
street, several small sums of money. He had received
several shillings on the Ist of June for carting rice, which
he had not paid over, and on a subsequent day a sum of
7s. 6d. in a similar way.
ILLEGAL WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. His Worship
the Mayor, John Holmes, Esq., assisted by Mr. Wybergh,
held a court yesterday, at the Sessions-house, to hear
numerous charges preferred by Messrs. Kissack and Ed-
wards, against various shopkeepers, &c.. for having and
using illegal weights and measures, by which their cus-
tomers, more particularly those belonging to the poorer
classes, are gri'ivously robbed. A great number of parties
were fined in sums varying from 40s. to 2s. 6d.
CONSECRATION.—The new church of St. Alban's, at
the east end of Bond-street, in Bevington district, will
be consecrated to-morrow (Wednesday) morning by the
Lord Bishop of Chester, who will also preach on the oc-
casion, and a collection will be made for the Church of
England Schools in Bond-street. The church will con-
tain about 12,000 sittings. It has been built by the
Liverpool Church Building Society under Sir Robert
Peel's Act, and is therefore endowed with £l5O a year as
soon as consecrated.

AMERICAN RIVER STEAMERS.—Previously to 1844, the
lowest fare between New York and Albany, one hundred
and forty-five miles, was four shillings and fourpence (one
dollar). At present the fare is two shillings and two-
pence, and for an additional sum of the same amount, the
passenger can command the luxury of a separate state-
room. When the splendour and magnitude of the accom-
modation is considered, the magnificence of the furniture
and accessories, the cheapness and luxuriousness of the
table, (each meal, supplied on the most liberal scale,
costing only two shillings and twopence,) it will be ad-
mitted that no similar example of cheap locomotion can
be found in any part of the world. Passengers may there
be transported in a floating palace, surrounded with all
the conveniences and luxuries of the most splendid hotel,
at the rate of twenty miles an hour, for less than one-
sixth of a penny per head per mile. It is not an uncom-
mon occurrence, during the summer, to meet individuals
on board these boats, who have lodged themselves there
permanently during a certain part of the season, instead
of establishing themselves, as is customary, at some of
the hotels in the towns on the hanks of the river. Their
daily expenses in the boat are as follows :—Fare, 2s. 2d. ;
exclusive use of state-room, &c., 2s. 2d. ; breakfast, din-
ner, and supper, 6s. 6d. ; total daily expense for board,
lodging, attendance, and travelling 150 miles at from 18
to 20 miles an hour, 10s. 10d. Such accommodation !a,
on the whole, more economical than any hotel. The
state-room is as luxuriously furnished as the most hand-
some bedroom, and is more spacious than the room in
packet-ships similarly designated. To obtain an ade-
quate notion of the form and structure of one of the first-
class steam-boats on the Hudson, let it be supposed that
a boat is constructed similar in form to a Thames wherry,
but above three hundred feet long, and twenty-five or
thirty feet wide. Upon this, let a platform of carpentry
be laid, projecting several feet upon either side of the
boat, and at stem and stern. The appearance to the eye
will then be that of an immense raft, from two hundred
and fifty to three hundred and fifty long, and some thirty
or forty feet wide. Upon this flooring let us imagine an
oblong, rectangular wooden erection, two stories high, to
be raised. In the lower part of the boat, and under the
flooring just mentioned, a long narrow room is construct-
ed, having a series of berths at either side, three or four
tiers high. In the cmtre of this flooring is usually, but
not always, inclosed an oblong, rectangular space, within
which the steam machinery is placed, and this inclosed
space is continued upwards through the structure raised
on the platform, and is intersected at a certain height
above the platform by the shaft or axle of the paddle-.
wheels. These wheels are propelled. generally, by a sin-
gle engine, but occasionally, as in the European vessels,
by two, The paddle-wheels are usually of great diameter,
varying from thirty to forty feet, according to the magni-
tude of the boat. In the wooden building raised upon the
platform already mentioned, is contained a magnificent
saloon devoted to ladies, and to those gentlemen who ac-
company them. Over this, in the upper story, is, con-
structed a row of small bed-rooms., each handsomely
furnished, which those passengers can have who desire
seclusion, by paying a small additional fare. The lower
apartment is commonly used as a dining or breakfast-
room."—Lardnir'4 Railway Economy,

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