The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-10-22 00:00:00

iIiTERPOOL STANDARD.

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LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. OCT. 18.
The demand for Sugar continues unchecked, both from gro-
cers and refiners, and a further advance of 6d., and in some
instances ls., must again be quoted; the sales amount to 750
hhds. B.P. and 13,000 bags Bengal. The refiners have again
been free buyers of Foreign, at an advance of 6d. on last week's
pi ices; the sales amount 1850 boxes Havana at 395. to 435., 80
hhds. Porto Rico at 40s. 6d. to 41s. 6d., 100 chests low brown
Bahia at 18s., 8000 bags Pernam and Paraiba at 17s. 6d. for low,
to 20s. Gd. for fine brown, 21s. 6d. to 235. for low to middling
white, with 300 chests Rio, afloat, at 20s. 3d. per cwt., delivered
here.-There has been a good demand for Molasses, and 500
puns. have been sold at 14s. 6d. for clayed, anu Ifis. 64. for
Cuba Muscovado, being an advance of 6d. per cwt.-The de-
mand for Coffee from the trade is languid, and the preference
is Pti'l given to Plantation Ceylon, but for export and specula-
tion an extensive inquiry is experienced, at fully former rates ;
the sales consist of 50 tees. Jamaica, 110 casks, 60 bags Planta-
tion Ceylon at 565. to 685., 3000 bags haguayra (an old import)
at 50s. to 525. 3d., GOO bags Maracaibo at 495., 610 bags : t.
Domingo at 495. to 50s. on the spot, and 48s. afloat, and a
cargo of Rio afloat, the price of which is suppressed by the
seller, but generally believed to be 50s. per cwt., deliverable in
the Mediterranean, but if landed at a near port on the Conti-
nent 48a, 6(1,-1300 bags Guayaquil Cocoa are reported at 30s.
to 31s. per cwt., and 500 bags Para at 28s. 6d., and small parcels 1
of Jamaica and Bengal Ginger at steady prices.--About 100
tees, Carolina Rice sold at 15s. Gd. to 16s. for very ordinary,
with some trifling' parcelsnf broken Bengal at Bs. 94. per cwt.
-The sales in Rum are t5O puncheons, at steady prices.-Se-
veral sales have been made in common Congou Tea, Scented
Orange Pekoes and Covers, at full rates ; it 'other descriptions
the transactions have been limited, but prices are supported.-
In East India ArtiCles, some small sales made in Shell Lac at '
395. to 4.95. per cwt., 35 chests of good native Lac Dye at 10Id.
perlb , 800 pockets of Bengal Turmeric tt 17s. per cwt., about
30 1111.ngs andpockets Linseed at 465. 3d., to arrive, and 465.9 d.
to 475. per quarter on the spot.-50 nses Castor Oil brought
644. per lb., 600 bags of Sago Flour 175.-6 d. per cwt., and Senna
steady rates.-Of Saltpetre, about 500 bags have been sold at
275. 6d. to 295., and 210 tons Nitrate of Soda at I3s. 9d. to 'l4s.
per cwt.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. OCT. 'lB.
The firmness exhibited at the close of last week continued
until 111orrilay, the advices received per Canada in the interim
having produced no effect upon the market. On 'Tuesday,
under the influence of a limited inquiry, and more disposition
being evinced to sell, prices were a shade easier; subsequently
there has been an increased trade demand, which holders have
met freely ; the market, however, resumed a tirnrer tone, and
closes.to-day without any material alteration fromlast Friday's
rates'for American descriptions. Brazil and Egyptian have
been-in good request, an:l ,remain without

excepting
Ir

the commoner qualities of the latter, which are „
Surat a large business has again been done, and prices have
been somewhat irregular, but close the same as last week.
Speculators have taken 650 American, 140 Pernarn, 620 Maran-
ham, GO Egyptian, 2480 Surat, and 100 Madras, and Exporters
1340 American, 490 Pernam, 2450 Surat, 50 Madras, and 70
Bengal.

ACCOUNT OF SALES AND IMPORTS OF COTTON,
For tite`week ending Oct. 18, 1850.

Imports
fhisWkiThisYr

1646 473350

loo7j 493833

I 409.

Autittro.

MANCHESTER CORN EXCHANGE, OCT. 19.
Without more than a steady consumptive demand during
the week for Wheat or Flour, sellers have evinced increasing
firmness, and the tendency of prices has been to advance.
Other articles steady, at late rates. At our market to-day we
call Wheat Id. to 2d. rer bushel, anJ Flour 6d. to Is. per sack
higher. Oats and Oatmeal the turn (hearer. Beans, Peas, and
other articles bring full prices, with moderate consumptive de-
mand for each.

PRESTON CORN MARKET, OCT. 19.
A firmer feeling has prevailed in the Corn trade throughout
the week; and having experienced a steady demand for each
article, our quotations of last Saturday have in all cases been
maintained. There was a small supply of English Wheat at
our Corn Exchange this morning; which met a brisk sale at
an advance of ad. to Is. per windle ; but we cannot note any
improvemenL in the value of Irish ; and so little was doing in
Foreign, we repeat our last quotations. Flour, a shade higher.
Beans inquired for, at extreme rates. Oats, meeting a moder-
ate retail demand, rather exceeded our last currency. In Oat-
meal no change in value was apparent ; and the dealers having
supplied themselves pretty freely in the early part of the week,
sales were not extensive to-day; and for general qualities of
new and old, prices were equalised. Other articles remain
unvaried.

WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET. OCT. 18.
The arrivals this week are on a very moderate scale. There
a steady sale for wheat at an advance of Is. per gr. Barley
is more attention, and good malting (ilifies are Is.
Oats and shelling in retail at late prices. Beans ra-

dearer
ther cheaper

WISBECH CORN MARKET. OCTOBER 19.

We have only a moderate supply•
proceeded steadily at an advance
Beans and oats no alteration.

)f wheat here to-day. Sales
of Is. upon all qualities.

NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE CORN MARKET,

The supply of Wheat to day from the farmers was not so
large as last week, and having several buyers for seed, the
whole met a ready sale at an advance of full is. per qr. There
is a fair arrival of Wheat reported coastwise, for which the d
mind was good, more parti ' .
of is. perlr. on the rat
for old fc

sriy for new, at an improvement
)f this day se'nnight. The inquiry
ign is very limited, and quite in retail, at former
'Ring Barley sells slowly, without alteration in value,
s several of our principal maltsters have not yet commenced
operations : Grinding scarce, and a ready sale at last week's
advance. English and Scotch old Oats are scarce, and bring
6d. to ¶s. per qr. more money; there is also a fair sale for new
at full prices. In Beans and Pease little doing, and prices no-
minally as last reported. Flour commands a steady sale, but
no advance can be obtained.

Wheat—Northinriberland, white, per qr
Do. Do red, do.

Flour--

•Norfolk 'household, per

DUBLIN CORN

438. to 46s
38s. to 435,
30s. to 31s,

MARKET. OCTOBER 18

There was a tolerable supply of grain at market to-day. The
best qualities of oats and barley were abot 9d. dearer, and mid-
dling and inferior wheat was 6d. lower. Those are the only
observations we have to report since Tuesday.

Wheat, new
Red do., old

26s Od to 25i 0(1 Oatmeal ... :
I 17s Od to 23s 6d Rapeseed ..
1 lOs Oct to 13s 3d Flour, secon,
Os Od to 9s 6d Indian Corn
8s Od to 9s 6d 480 1b5....

Oats, new

9s 6d to lOs 6d
Ps Od to 22s 6d

's Od to 31s Od

CORK CORN MARKET. Ocr. 19
'We make no alteration in quotations this week.

In stro

fresh fines and inferiors a large buSiness is doing. NewwFlour
is not' taken freely. Prime foreign Wheats are held firmly for
late prices. The supply of farmers' grain is short, the wea-
ther being so favourabie for seed -sowing, and all descriptions
are slightly improved in value.

BELFAST CORN

MARKET, OCT. 18

At this day's market Wheat was in large supply, quality
various, but all bought up at late rates, or a shade more tor the
low and best qualities. Oats arein moderate supply, without
change in price. Oatmeal dull and lower, by Id. per cwt.
Indian Corn advanced 2s. 6d. per ton in the week, but to-day
there wat little life.

SALFORD CATT

IX MARKET, OCT. 16,

The show of stock to-day was neither so litrge nor so prime
in quality as it has been of late. For good beef and mutton,
therefore, the demand has 'beetl. good, and at fully the rates

current this day se'nniglit —say, beef, 4d. to 5d.; and mutton,4d. to 54d. per lb prime. A considerable quantity of stock
unsold.

WAKEFIELD CATTLE MARKET, Oc-r. lE

We had at this day's mafket a large show of beasts and sheep,
and a very numerous attendance of buyers. Beef sold at from
55. to ss. 3d. ; prime, ss. 6cl. per stone of 141 b. ; mutton, 43d.
to sd. per lb. We had also a fair show of lean stock, and a
large show of pigs. 'At the tlose of the market all sheep dis-
posed of, and only a few beasts left on hand. Number of
beasts, 650; she p, 5700.

DUBLIN CATTLE MARKET. OcT. 17

Our market was this day the largest and lowest of the sea-
sou, it being almost impossible to effect sales of thin or in-
ferior sorts; while on middling, and even prime, a reduction
of 2s. to 3s. per cwt.`badlo'be submitted to from that of last
week. Tne show of sheep svas also large, and a reduction of
id. per lb. was in most caseslnade, very prime bring only Gd.
per lb ; and when we left (about one o'clock), large lots of cat-
tle, sheep, and store cattle were still unsold. The pig market
had the largest attendance of the heaviest pigs we have seen
exposed ; holders also gave way about 2s. per cut. Beef, in
sink, 325. to 405.-; prime, 425. per cwt.; mutton, in ditto, 42d.
to 5g(1..; veal, Gd. per lb:; pork, very prime, 325. to 355. per
cwt. nett.

PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN ST. JOHN'S
MARKET, •OCTOBER 19
s. d. s. d.

s. d. s. d

3rapes,Enz.4,ll, 1 0 to 1 3
Ditto, Foreign 0 6 0 8

0 -5 0 7
06 0
Lamb{fore-qr..,0 0
•
hind-cp. 0 0
Fresh Pork .... 0 5

Mutton
Veal...,

Pines, For. each. 0 0
0 0 Do. Eng. 4 lb. 4 6
0 0 Yowls,* couple. 2 6
0 61 Ducks I 6

. ~
Bret
Salmon
Soles
Cod Fish
Turbot
For Melons each 0 0— 0 0 Cucumbers .... 0 4 0 0
Nectarins, each. 0 0- 0 0 Larks, per doz.. 0 8— 0 0
Fresh Butter
Salt Ditto 0 8 S 11 ,Apricots ') 4 0 5
Eggs x• 120.6 6 6 8 Rabbits. ls• epic. 1 8— 2 0
Potatoes,*Peck 0 '9 1 0 Turkeys 3 6 6 0
Teaches, each .. 0 4 0 0 Snipes .... each 0 6 0 0
Filberts 0 9 0 10 Pheasants 8 0— 0 e

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The Marquis de Breggalo, nerd noble to the Pope,
arrived at Besancon on the 10th. He proceeded to the
palace of the Archbishop, and delivered the red skull cap.
The bells of the churches pealed during the day, and the
facades were illuminated during the night, in honour of
the new cardinal.

PRIESTLY BROILS IN SARDINIA.—The Gazelle Po-
polare, of Cagliari, states that the Provincial Council of
Nuovo (Sardinia) closed its sitting on the 20th ult., after
having voted an address to the government for the aboli-
tion of convicts, the reduction of bishoprics to three, and
the mobilisation of Church property. The same journal
gives an account of a curious combat which took place on
the 22nd ult:., between two priests, in the sacristy of the
church of Itiri. The cause of their quarrel appears to
have been the result of the communal elections, in which
both the combatants had played a conspicuous part under
different colours. The elder priest, aged seventy, had
given his brother of the cloth, a young man of thirty, a
couple of vigorous cuffs, which the latter having returned,
he was knocked down by his venerable antagonist, who,
not content with such victory, took up the heavy cross
used in processions, and would have dashed out the fallen
man's brains, had he not been stopped by the timely in-
terference of the sexton and other people, whom the noise
had attracted to the spot. Still the valiant Nestor did
not relent, but returned to the charge with a ponderous
chandelier, which was with difficulty wrenched out of his
hands. Meantime the younger priest had rallied, and
pronounced an excommunication against his terrible an-
tagonist. The Bishop was afterwards appealed to by both
parties ; the old priest was suspended a divinis on his con-
fessing the facts; as for the excommunication' the Bishop
had to write to Rome, as he had no power to quash it.
The same journal mentions a dispute which has arisen be-
tween the syndic of Suni and the superior of a convent of
mendicants, on account of the former having forbid those
friars to ask alms, on the ground that the laws against
mendicancy were to be enforced without distinction of
persons. The superior has announced to the syndic that
he has incurred excommunication in consequence of such
prohibition.
TILE PALM GROVES.--Those whose cottages bordered
more upon the " bush" had their farms amongst the palm
trees, which grew in Fernando Po with a most surprising
beauty, and, although it has been mentioned before, it is
impossible to avoid again noticing the delight which is
felt on entering one of these palm groves, the trees of
which almost interlace with each other, the long curved
leaves rising and drooping from their centres, and forming
a succession of the most impervious canopies, as a defence
against the torrid rays of the sun, the bodies of these
trees seeming to• be the supportint, pillars of the whole.
Talk not of the secluded groves and walks of England, or
elsewhere : they shrink into insignificance, in whatever
manner either their loveliness or appliances may be re-
garded. The hermit, the painter, the lover, will betray
their partiality for the palm forest, abstractedly as a re-
tiremeat, a subject, or as a refuge from the eye of wrin-
kled envy. The lover alone, perhaps, has a right to ask,
Have you, in these lonely retreats, the soul and purity of
English chastity and beauty ? have you its matchless
form, its soft and glistening eye, gazing on your own with
confidence and love, until every baser thought has withered
beneath its spotless, innocent lustre ?—if not, revel as you
please upon the natural enchantments of the scene, but
dash it from the catalogue of the lovers' haunts.—Seven
Years' Service on the Slave Coast.
THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSE IN LONDON.—On the
south side of Cornhill is St. Michael's-alley, so called
from St. Michael's Church, the tower of which is so con-
spicuous an ornament of this part of London. In this
alley, opposite the Church, stood during the Common-
wealth, the first coffee-house established in London.
According to Aubrey, it was opened about the year 1652,
by one Bowman, coachman to Mr. bodges, a Turkey
merchant, by whom Bowman was induced to undertake
tne speculation. The late Mr. Disraeli discovered the
original handbill, which set forth,—" The vertue of the
coffee-drink, first publiquely made and sold in England,
by Pasqua Rosee, in St. Michael's-alley, Cornhill, at the
sign of his own head." This Pasqua Rosee, it would seem,
was a Greek servant whom the merchant had brought to
England with him. In a curious broadside, entitled, "A
Cup of Coffee, or Coffee in its Colours," 1663, the writer
ridicules the new fashion, as both a very effeminate inno-
vation, and a very indifferent substitute for that" sublime
Canary," which warmed the souls of Ben Jonson, Beau-
mont and Fletcher:—

For men and Christians to turn Turks, and think
To excuse the crime, because 'tis in their drink!
Pure English apes! ye may, for aught I know,
Were it the mode,—learn to eat spiders too.
Should any of your grandsires' ghosts appear,
In your wax-candle circles, and'but hear
The name of Coffee so much called upon,
Then see it drank like scalding Phlegethon ;
Would they not startle think you ? all agreed
'Twas conjuration both in word and deed! &C.
Among other numerous broadsides which were thundered
forth against the new drink, may be mentioned " The
Women's Petition against Coffee," 1674, where a com
plaint is preferred that "it made men as unfruitful as the
deserts whence that unhappy berry is said to be brought ;
that t!--e offspring of our mighty ancestors would dwindle
into a succession of apes and pigmies ; and, on a domestic
message, a husband would stop by the way to drink a
couple of cup of coffep,"—London and its Celebrities.