The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-03 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET,

-THREE O'CLOCK

Another very moderate day in our Cotton market. The
demand has not exceeded 3,500 bales at the full prices current
during the week. The sales of the week amount to 16,690
bales, of which 3000 are for speculation, and 1300 for export.
Market closes steadily.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Literary Fund has given £so—the highest sum their
precedents warrant—towards the subscription for Miss M it-
ford.

A goose, in the possession of a gentleman at Bents' Green,
has been laying about every alternate day since October, and
has produced upwards of 60 eggs.
The total liabilities of the Bank of Australia, according to
the latest published accounts, were £490,625 14s. 2d., and
its assets £1,295,61311x. Bd.
DEVONPORT, FEB. 26.—Arrived her Majesty's ship Mo-
deste, from China, left Hong Kong October 23, St. Helena
January 6, with 1,000,000 dollars on board.
The corttee of the Wesleyan Centenary Fund have
presented e sum of one thousand pounds from that fund to
the Bible iety.

A. woman of intemperate habits died at Manchester, or
Thursday last, from the effects of a wound on her right shin,
caused by a kick inadvertently given by her husband.

At the Wicklow assizes, on Friday, James Hoskins was
found guilty of the murder of James Pugh, on the 29th Ja-
nuary, and was sentenced to death.

A new church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, was conse-
crated on the 27th ult., at Roehampton, by the Archbishop
of Canterbury.

A fellow named Barker is in custody in Lambeth-street
Police-court, for assuming the character of a postman, and
delivering fictitious letters, for which he exacted 2d. each.

An accident occurred on the Leeds and Manchester Rail-
way on Wednesday week, but fortunately the only injury
sustained was to the leader of one of the engines.
Mary Taylor, one of the women injured by the Hereford
coach, as noticed in our paper last week, died in the Infir-
mary on Saturday.
Mrs. Charles Kean has been seized with an alarming illness
at Bath, which renders her utterly unable to fulfil her profes-
sional engagements.
Mr. Cockburn is retained to defend Macnaughten : the
learned gentleman will join his circuit again at Salisbury,
immediately after the trial.
On Monday, a farewell dinner was given to Sir C. Met-
calfe by the Colonial Society, prior to his embarkation for
Canada.

The Bishop of Down and Connor has resigned his con.
flexion as a patron with the Cambridge Camden Church
Architectural Society.

The Tablet (the popish paper) publishes a long narative of
a visit paid by the editor and two other Roman catholics to
Youghal, and the blasphemous impostures practised by Fa-
ther Foley and his virgins, are exposed with proper severity.

Mr. Thomas Pottinger, the brother of Sir Henry Pottin-
ger, the able negociator of our peace with China, has been
selected by the government for the chief office as resident at
Hongkong, and is to take his departure forthwith.

A very beautiful panoramic view of the city of Edinburgh
has been painted, and is on view in London. It represents
the city on the morning of her Majesty's arrival from Gran-
ton Pier.

The entire island of Lundy, in the British Channel, the
possession of which constitutes the proprietor sovereign lord
of the island, is about to be sold by auction. It pays no
taxes whatever.

A pamphlet, entitled " The Character, Motives, and Pro-
ceedings of the Anti-Corn-Law Leaguers," has just ap•
peared, and exposes, from their own mouths, the selfishness
of these gentry.

So uncertain is the fisherman's vocation, that of two boats
which started together from Brighton last week, one caught
mackarel worth £llO in one night, and the other returned
home without a fish.

It appears that one of. the parties subjected to an Exche-
quer process for smuggling, has pleaded guilty to the charge
alleged against him, and paid, in the way of compromise, the
large penalty inflicted, of £l6B,ooo.—Morniny paper.
" The Earl of Stanhope," says the Hull Advertiser, " is
a water-drinker so inveterate, that, even at the royal table, he
refuses to pledge her Majesty in cups more potent than are
supplied by the parish-pump."

The distress of our shipping interest is so great that three
companies at Stockton, whose paid-up capital is £BO,OOO,
lost on an average each £1,500 last year, independent of the
wear and tear of their vessels.—Glasgow Courier.
On the sth of May, the anniversary of the death of the
Emperor Napoleon, Louis Philippe will lay the first stone of
the tomb destined to receive his mortal remains, at the Hos-
pital of Invalids, the Chelsea Hospital of France.
A vacancy in the representation of Ashburton in the House
of Commons is caused by the demise of Mr. William Jar-
dine, M.P., who expired at his town residence on Monday

morning

Some of the Paris papers seriously attack M. Guizot, be-
cause, at his grand party last week, he gave the guests every
delicacy of the season, and lots of champagne and burgundy
after the English fashion, and there was no singing, nor
dancing.

TEE TEA TRADE, FEB. v.—The public sales having con-
eluded last week, the market for tea has since been quiet at
the decline then established, and there is no further an-
nouncement to make but of small private sales being made.
The deliveries last week were 443,942 lbs.

The Arrnoricain of Brest states, that a convict, named
Lambert, has invented a machine by which, in case of acci-
dent, the carriages of a railway train may be instantly de-
tached from the tender and stopped, whatever be the speed
at which they are travelling.
Of the various presents to the Crown Prince of Hanover
on his marriage, that from her Majesty Queen Victoria is
probably the richest. We hear that it is a splendid silver
table service for 36 persons and six courses.—Hamburgh
papers, Feb. 24.

A law has recently been passed in Sweden, prohibiting the
distilation of brandy called schnapps, a favourite drink with
all classes. The names of all persons who are seen intoxi-
cated are to be posted on the doors of the parish-church,
and the clergyman is to put up prayers for their reformation.
Two fires have occurred at Heysham Rectory, near Lan-
caster, in one week, under circumstances which lead to the
supposition that they are the work of an incendiary. An in-
vestigation into the circumstances is now going on before the
magistrates, but it is strictly private.

stir about a letter from
The Anti-Corn-law League are at present making a great
Lord Robert Grosvenor, in which
that very clever personage repudiates the present sliding scale
as "injurious alike to the consumer, the producer, the mer-
chant, and the revenue."

The Down and Connor Church Architecture Society have
disclaimed all connexion with the Cambridge Camden So-
ciety. This is the first fruits of the exertions by the Protes-
tant laity in the former diocese, which we noticed some time
since. ,

S H IPWRECK.--It is our painful duty to announce the loss
of the brig Thomas, of Chepstow, commanded by Captain
William Williams, by which the whole of the crew, consist•
ing of master, mate, and five seamen, met with a watery
grave.