The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

The import duties on all foreign corn have now reached their
minimum points, and stocks are offering duty paid.
At this day's market there was a moderate supply of English
Wheat, which met a slow sale for both new and old, at 2s. per
qr. under the prices of this day week. Some holders of loreign
offered at a similar reduction ex ship rather than incur granary
charges, at which there was a good inquiry, but many refused
to submi, to any decline.
There is still a large demand for floating cargoes of Indian.
Corn, but the firmness of holders, and the small quantity offer-
ing, check business.
There was no change in the valueof Earley, Malt, Pease, or
Beans, which were in fair consumptive demand.
The supplies of foreign Oats being quite sufficient for our pre-
sent wants, tend to prevent any advance; and this article was
in slow request at cur previous currency.
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YE STE k DAV%
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Even the time of year considered, the supply of home-fed
Beasts fresh by drift and railway conveyance was large; hue
there was nothing remarkable amongst it for excellence of
quality; indeed, the Beasts generally were light weighers. The
very pm-nest Sects were unusually dull in sale, notwithstanding-
their number was very small, and the prices suffered a decline
of 2d. per Sib. However, in some few transactions 45. per 81b.
was realised for them by the salesmen. The middling and in-
ferior breeds, including. the best short horns, Herefort s, runts,
and Devon% were dull in the extreme, at a fall in value of 2d.
to 4d. per 81b. compared with that obtained on this day week.
Without exception, this was the dullest market for Beef we
ever remember.

The numbers of Sheep were about equal to those exhibited on
Monday last, which composed a fair average supply. We have
to report a very dull sale for all breeds of sheep, and the prices
of all descriptions, if we except those of the best old Downs.
whic.l ruled from 4s. Rd. to ss. per 81b., suffered a fall of quite
2d., in some cases 4d. per Sib. Some hundreds were driven
away unsold. _ . .

In Lambs next to nothing was doing. Down qualities sold
with difficulty at late rates; all other breeds were from 2d. to
4th per 13th. lower than last week. •
W`e were seasonably well supplied with Calves, both English
and foreign; while the Veal trade was extremely dull, at 2d. to
4d. per Sib. less money than on Monday last. The highest
quotation was only 4s. per etl.
The sale for Pigs was heavy, and the currencies receded 2d:
to 4d. per slh.

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Rome ; but I beg to inform you that Presbyterianism is
very strongly opposed to any fellowship with Anti-Christ,
for the standards of the Presbyterian Church are contained
in " the Confession of Faith agreed upon by the Assemhly
of Divines at Westminster, A.D. 1344 ;" a book than
which no other uninspired volume is more adverse to the
blasphemous and damning doctrines, and to the crafty and
soul-enslaving priesthood of the great spiritual Babylon.
The present Pope's liberality has been long since denounced
by Presbyterians as a mask under which to carry forward
the deceitful designs of the Papacy ; and the grant to
Maynooth, as well as every other concession to the "Man
of Sin," has been declared by them to be nothing short,.
of national sins, calling down the righteous judgments of
God upon a suffering kingdom, so that, in my humble
opinion, you could not in any other way have placed Lord
John farther out of his element. than by classing him
amongst the followers of John Knox and our Puritan
forefathers ; end I can assure you that Presbyterians,
although they have all brotherly feeling for the " men,"
are yet the uncompromising opposers of the " system" of
the mystery of iniquity.—Your's, truly,
AN ENGLISH PRESBYTERIAN.
September 23, 1848.

AUSTRIA.-Fresh riots occurred at Vienna on the 16th,
and the capital is still in a very unsettled state. The em-
peror has granted an amnesty to all the persons, except
the leaders, implicated in the late insurrection at Prague.
A letter from Bucharest states that Russia has signified
to the Wailachian Government that it must dissolve itself
immediately, and that in case of refusal, it will march an
army into Wallachia.

THE DROWNING REPUBLIC.—The drowning Republic
is catching at a straw. Louis Napoleon is at the head of
the poll. What a revelation of the moral imbecility to
which a great nation is reduced ! France, the count-II
which claims to be at the head of civilization—France
which, though she may not be all that she believes herself
to be, has yet produced many men of great. ability and
lofty character—France is driven to take refuge in a name,
and nothing but a name ! For with all possible respect
for Prince Louis Napoleon as a private gentleman, what is
there in him, we would ask, that he should be elevated to
the proud position of his country's last hope. Of his
abilities, his administrative talents, if he possess any,
France and the rest of the world are alike ignorant. His
feats of war are such es he himself must wish to be buried
in oblivion. In the political world his highest post has
been that of a political pretender, except when for a short
moment he appeared upon the stage as a disturber of his
country's peace. All the stock in trade he has for the
mighty venture in which he is evid.x.tly determined now
to embark is the name of his celebrated uncle. If that
name were not Napoleon, what (we ask all Europa, we
ask France, nay we ask tho ranee himself) could warrant
him to aspire to the supreme power in France—what could
ever put it into the heads of the French people to have re-
course to him, to help them out of their present certainly
grave, and, as they appear to us, inextricable difficulties.
YIELDING TO TEMPTATION.—At the Criminal Court,
on Wednesday, Anna Smith, a ladylike spinster of twenty,
was tried for stealing various nrtieLs of dress and jewel-
ler:, from her mistress, the Honourable Francis Harriet
Eden, sister of Lord Auckland. The offence was not'
proved to the satisfaction of the jury, who required the
testimony of Miss Eden : so a verdict of " not guilty"
was found. The prisoner was then indicted for stealing
twelve towels, the property of the Earl of Derby, and
bearing the mark of his crest. The towels were missed
during the prisoner's stay with her mistress at Knowsley,
in October last, and were found in her box. Verdict,
"' guilty;" sentence, seven years' transportation. The
prisoner did not seem at all affected by the sentence ; but
a respectable-looking elderly female, said to be her mo-
ther, began shrieking most violently, and was carried out
of court fainting. _ _

DISTILESS.—At the Lambeth Police-office on Saturday,
a middle-aged man of gentlemanly appearance, named
Kerr, was brought up charged with attempting to destroy
himself by jumping into the Thames- The prisoner
seemed overwhelmed with shame at his position, and
declared as soon as his state of feelings would permit him,
that borne down by rnsfortuncs and vicissitudes, unable
to pay for six weeks' lodging due by him, and left to
starve, he had made up his mind to rid himself of that
life which be was no longer able to sustain. Having had
time, however, to reflect on the wickedness of the act, he.
felt truly sorry for his conduct, and should not again
harbour the idea of repeating it. Mr. Denny, the priso-
ner's landlord, was present and gave him a high charac-
ter. He said he had used every means possible to obtain
employment, and expressed it as his perfect convh.tion
that it was distress alone that drove bun to attempt the
rash alt. Several gentlemen stated that they knew the
prisoner, and that he was a gentleman of considerable
literary attainments. The magistrates ordered a sovereign
to be given to him out of the poor-box, and the unfortu-
nate gentleman attempted to express his gratitude, but
Lis feeling* were so intense, that he could not utter a
syllable. /

Etsarpool 'tan art.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 26, 1848.

IT has frequently been urged that, whilst the
manufacturing interest were condescending enough
to stoop from their lofty position, and to leave their
philosophical studies, to teach the benighted far-
mers of England how their land should be tilled—
whilst they were exhibiting their profound know-
ledge of draining and subsoiling, the four crop sys-
tem and manuring—there was no part of the em-
pire in which their lessons might be more advan-
tageously.bestowed than in their own immediate
neighbourhoods. The land around the majority of
our large towns has been all along wretchedly cul-
tivated. With manure in abundance to be had al-
most for carrying ; with a ready market for what-
ever could be grown upon it; the soil for miles
round some of our large towns has been utterly
neglected, not because it is not of a productive
quality if properly used—as fertile gardens planted
here and there upon it abundantly show—but for
some other inexplicable reason ; because, perhaps,
at some very distant day, it might be wanted for
building upon, or because the idle and disorderly
would trespass upon it, and destroy or pilfer the
crops.

We are glad to see that attention has at length
been drawn, in influential quarters, to this state of
things. At the dinner of the Manchester and Li-
verpool Agricultural Society, held in Manchester
on Tuesday last—and a neighbourhood in which
the evil exists in a greater degree than around
Manchester we do not know—it was thus referred
to by Lord Stanley, the noble chairman of the
society :

" Gentlemen, I must be permitted to express some
doubt whether, in this respect, the agricultural interest
was sufficiently alive to the great importance of the vicinity
of these large towns or sufficiently aware of the important
benefits which they might derive from them (hear) ; I
doubt whether, in the neighbourhood of great commercial
towns, like Manchester and others of a similar character,
there are the same advantages taken by the neighbouring
farmers of the facilities afforded to them of a due expen-
diture of capital, and an expensive, perhaps, but not an
extravagant cultivation of the land. (Hear, hear.) I see
in this neighbourhood occupiers of small plots of land ;
they can scarcely be called farmers at all ; they are not de-
pendent mainly on the cultivation of the soil, on making
the most of the produce of the soil for their livelihood and
support ; they trust far too much to the casual employment
of horses and carts in carting coal for their neighbours, in
operations connected with the labour of the towns, and in
supplying the towns of this kingdom with milk, the pro-
duce of cows fed on undrained, rushy, ill-cultivated farms.
(Cheers.) Gentlemen, I have no hesitation in saying, that
the agriculturists in the neighbourhood of these great ma-
nufacturing and commercial towns, if they desire to thrive,
must change their system—they must apply themselves to
make the most of their land, they must adopt the legiti-
mate means of farming it, of cultivating it, and of manur-
ing it, as it ought to be drained, cultivated, and manured.
And for this, perhaps, they in the immediate vicinity of a
great town like Manchester enjoy advantages which no
other portion of the community has."
It is incalculable the benefit which might be
made to accrue, if the advice here given were fol-
lowed up, not to the small tenant farmers only,
but to the population of our large towns them-
selves. Take our own neighbourhood for instance.
We have, on his lordship's own estates, and upon
- those of others, of the landowners around, hun-
dreds of small, ill uncultivated farms, the occupiers
of which make a scanty income from a sort! of
laissez faire farming, combined with carting coals,
washing &c. What would be, the result if these
people had the capital, or could be persuaded to
employ it in developing the full resources of the
soil ? Why, we should see precisely the same result
that is realised in some portions of the outskirts of
London. We should see the country rapidly as-
sume the aspect of a garden. We should see far-
mers, instead of being able to bring to market
yearly a few stunted apples and pears, the growth
of neglected orchards and worn-out trees, or a few
`tough cabbages, or diminutive lettuces, competing
with the distant growers, by whom our market is
at present supplied with all except the very com-
monest of vegetable produce and fruit. We should
-see their cattle, instead of eating grass of other
people's growing, upon their own rusty swampy
pastures, cropping the rich grass grown beneath
their feet. And, what is all important, our own
population would be supplied with the necessaries
of life in greater abundance, and of infinitely im-
proved quality, at more reasonable rates than at
present.

THE untimely decease of Lord George Bentinck
is an event which we cannot treat as unimportant
to the nation. We do not,—and we say it em-
phatically—coincide in all the opinions of that
section of politicians, of which his lordship was the
recognised leader. To many of his own known
opinions, probably peculiar to himself, we have
strong objections. In his ♦iews, with respect to our
policy towards Ireland, we believe him to have been
mistaken ; and upon some other questions, we
doubt the soundness of his views. As the presid-
ing genius of a cabinet, we should have had fears
of him ; but as an able and indefatigable opponent
of dishonesty, in whatever form it may present
itself; as a high-minded and honourable statesman,
and as an unflinching and persevering exponent of
the opinions of those who, like ourselves, conscien-
tiously believe that our present free trade system
is based upon error in principle, Lord George will be
sorely missed from his place in the world's affairs.
We observe that it is said by an organ, which
assumes, a little too much, the delegated authority
of representing the opinions of the Conservatives
of England—the London Times—that Lord George,
in his short, but his brilliant and surprising career,
has effected little. He has done much. His expose
of the condition of our West Indian colonies,
through the medium of the eommittee, over which
he so ably presided, is sufficient to entitle him to
the gratitude of his fellow-countrymen. His shat-
tering assaults against the too prevalent forgeries
and falsifications—or, call them in milder terms
" suppressions " of evidence—in the highly extolled
returns of the Board of Trade and the Colonial
office, have afforded invaluable evidence of the
trickery with which these tests of the nation's con-
dition are held up to our view. He has, by these
efforts, and by his acute and searching scrutiny of
facts and figures, bearing upon commercial and
other questions, unsettled the public mind, or at
least so much of it as was blindly infatuated with
the dogmas of the Cobdens and others of the free
trade clique in parliament. He has placed them
on their defence against the doubts of a startled
public. We no longer take for granted the truth
of their large predictions. We are getting into the
wholesome habit of placing facts and figures, and
well tested too, against the mere bombast of philo-
sophers and theorists.
No characteristic of his lordship were so eminently
developed as the unwearied patience, marked with
infinite acuteness of mind, with which he devoted
himself to this branch of a statesman's business. Of
this fact we have personal knowledge. And no
man, occupying his lordship's eminent' position,
could possibly so have conducted his enquiries as
to elicit information of the most undoubted charac-
ter, and at the same time win the respect and love
of those who aided him in his arduous labours. The
public, however, have, we doubt not, set down the
far greater portion of these labours as the mere
gatherings from parliamentary reports. But they
are wrong.. Resembling in this particular the
illustrious Pitt, Lord George Bentinck sought his
information from every available source; and in
the course of that search, and by comparison of its
results with the reports of careless officials, or
interested witnesses, he frequently met with those
truths, which put his opponents to the blush. The
extent of his correspondence of this kind would,
we believe, astonish some of those sapient people
who have all along been in the habit of treating his
pretentions to knowledge with a sneer.
Take his lordship for all in all, the world could,
perhaps, have spared many an abler man.

EXPORTATION OF SPECIE FROM NEW YORK.

The following table, which we extract from the Ame-
rican Sun, received yesterday, shows the rate at which
specie has been returning to Europe from that port :
Steamer Cambria, Liverpool. Sovs.
Mexican dollars • 6,925
Ship St. Denis, Havre—Five-franc pieces 84,690
French gold 440
Mexican dollars 57,770
American gold 2,000

Total, August 26 to Sept. 9
Shipments Jan. 1 to Aug. 21

$161,325
3,380,118

Total for 1848..

83,541,443

We are happy to notice some symptoms of improve-
ment among the Berkeleys. Mr. Craven Berkeley has
taken the judicious advice of his friend Lord Palmerston,
and tendered his " sincere apologies" to Sir Wm. Clay
and Mr. Roundell Palmer, for his scurrilous observations,
which he begs " completely to withdraw."