The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-04 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

The supply of Beasts is shorter than for some time past ;
trade is consequently brisk, at an advance of fully 2d., and in
sonic places 4d per 81b. A choice Scot makes 4s 4d pretty
readily. We have also a smaller number of Sheep on offer.
Trade is better, but prices are not very much higher. Our top
quotations are more freely realized, and in some instances
rather more money obtained. Trade is still very heavy for
Lambs ; a few of the choicest kinds may, however, be quoted
rather higher. Calves sold slowly, at late prices.

ROYAL MERSEY YACHT CLUB.—The day of sailing for
the prize of £5O value, voted at the last meeting, for yachts
of the club above 35 tons, is fixed to take place on Tues-
day next, the 11th of July, a time race, the entries of the
yachts to close on the Bth of July.
CRICKET.—A match was played on the evenings of
Tuesday and Thursday last, between four of the first
eleven and seven of the second eleven of the Olympus
Club, and the Ist eleven of the Roscoe Club, on the
ground of the latter, Edge-hill, which resulted in the
Olympus being victorious with nine wickets to go down.
THE POTATO DISEASE.—The Gardeners' Chronicle
announces the re-appearance of the potato disease in the
open ground in the neighbourhood of Ashford, and in
Sussex; and tainted specimens, says this journal, "are
now before us from Lord Oranmore's estate in Mayo, and
from Yorkshire—the latter in as bad a state as any we
saw in 1845 or 1846."
TIIEFT FROM A SHOP.—At the Police-court yesterday,
two women, Bridget Mulloy, and Margaret Burns, were
charged with having committed a theft from the shop of
Messrs. Arthur Jones and Co., a piece of print. They
had entered the shop and priced some articles, but pur-
chased nothing. Being observed to handle some goods
near the door, they were detained and searched, when the
print was found in Burns's apron. They were committed
for trial at the sessions.
THE LIVERPOOL FLORAL AND HORTICULTURAL Ex-
lIIBITION.—The second show for the present season is to
take place in the Corn-exchange, Brunswick-street, on
Thursday next, and a rich supply of choice plants and
flowers will furnish such a scene for the lovers of these
sweet gifts of nature as can seldom be contemplated. Mr.
Stubbs will furnish the band, which is composed of those
who have been giving concerts in various towns in Lanca-
shire. The music will consist of quadrilles, waltzes, pol-
kas, gallops, &c., interspersed with glees and songs ; a
description of musical entertainment as uncommon under
these circumstances as it is likely to prove pleasing and
attractive. Should the weather be fine a numerous and
gay assembly is expected.

THE BUDGET.-STATEMENT OF THE CHAN-
CELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER.
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On Friday whilst Sir Charles Wood was replying to
Mr. Bright's motion on the Sugar Duties, he entered
into a statement of the prospects of the revenue for the
present year. It showed at the commencement of the
session a deficiency of £2,000,000. The Government
proposed to equalise the revenue with the expenditure by
resorting to increased taxation ; but this having been
opposed when brought before the house, they had ap-
pointed committees to revise and reduce the expenditure
of the different departments. Those committees on the
miscellaneous estimates had reduced the expenditure from
£4,006,000 to £3,770,000, making a difference in that
estimate of £236,000. It had not been able to reduce
the expenditure of the army estimates, but the £150,000
that was voted for the militia they proposed to abandon.
A reduction of £300,000 had been effected in the navy
estimates, by stopping certain works, which, under the
present state of the finances, it would be desirable to
postpone. These reductions would amount to £685,000.
He hoped that further reductions would be made before
the end of the year. From malt and other sources there
would be an increase beyond what was anticipated of at
least £350,000. In those estimates he had left out of his
calculations the amount that might be received from corn.
The Government bad directed the appropriations in aid
for the present year to be paid directly into the Exche-
quer, which taken at the average of three years, would
amount to £500,000. This, it was true, was but a tem-
porary relief ; but it might be taken for the current year.
The total reduction in the expenditure was £1,500,000, so
that at the end of the year there would be a deficiency of
only £500,000, instead of £2,000,000. He concluded
by expressing some gratification at the cheering prospect
of the Exchequer.
Mr. CARDWELL observed, that cheering as the new
budget appeared at first sight, he was not satisfied of the
accuracy of the grounds upon which it was supported.
The Government had found means for reducing the defi-
ciency from two millions to only half a million, and that
state of affairs showed the house was justified in not sub-
mitting to the increase of taxation proposed by the Go-
vernment at the commencement of the session: He then
went on to show that the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
expectation of the revenue receiving no injury was not
well founded. He was not satisfied with the budget, but
could not vote for Mr. Bright's amendment.

THE FREAKS OF FORTIINE.—A poor labouring man
named Roscoe, who has been recently employed on the
Leeds and Thirsk Railway, has quite unexpectedly fallen
into a fortune of twenty thousand pounds.
In the Times of Wednesday last, the Dowager Duchess
of Bedford announces a morning party for three o'clock.
Rather early this ? Perhaps her grace means three in the
afternoon , but it would never do for a duchess to call
things by their right names.
An examination of the children in the North School of
the Church of England, took place on Tuesday. The
number of children present was above 400. They were
examined satisfactorily in Scripture, Catechism, English
History, Geography, and Mental Arithmetic.
ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.—It will be seen, by reference
to an advertisement in our first column, that Madame
Wharton and her talented troupe have been engaged for
another week at these delightful gardens. It will also be
seen that Madame W. will give a grand morning
performance morning next.
FEARFUL MORTALITY IN ONE FAMILY.—In the
families of three sisters, at Easthaven, near Arbroath,
not less than eight deaths have, since the commencement
of the last month, taken place. The husband'and four of
the children of one of the sisters—two children of
another—and one child of the third have, in rapid suc-
cession, died of scarlet fever. _ _

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Wednesday night, Lieut.
Lane, of the 83d regiment, stationed at Castlecomer,
Kilkenny, committed suicide in a fit of delirium, brought
on by scarlet fever. The unfortunate officer got his
fowling-piece, which lay loaded in the adjoining sitting-
room, and contrived to put an end to himself by sitting on
his bed, placing the muzzle of the weapon under his chin,
and pulling the trigger with his foot. The shot had pene-
trated the brain, coming out at the forehead, and shatter-
ing the right eye.
TEIE APOLLO GLEE CLUB.—We beg to refer our readers
to the advertisement in another column, announcing the
removal of this well-known and long-established Glee
Club from the house in which its meetings were originally
held—the late Mr. Holden's, Richmond-row—to the
Adelphi Hotel. We cannot but augur a great increase of
the popularity and efficiency of the club from this most
judicious selection of the Adelphi as its place of meeting—
a selection quite in keeping with the character of its nu-
merous, and highly respectable members.
THE IRON TRADE OF SOUTH STAFFORDSHIRE.—The
resolution (noticed elsewhere) of the ironmasters to reduce
the price of iron 30s. per ton, fixes the price of bars at
£6 10s. ; rods, £6 10s. ; hoops, £7 ; and sheets, £B. As
these rates leave no alternative to the manufacturers
between blowing out their furnaces or lowering wages, the
latter step will, in the first instance, be resorted to. and
the reduction, which is to embrace forgemen, millmen, fur-
nacemen, miners, and colliers, will, in all probability,
commence on the 15th of July. The works of the British
Iron Company at Brierly Hall are about to suspend ope-
rations, owing to the existing depression. This will cause
serious inconvenience and loss to the neighbourhood.
COUNCIL MEETING.—At the monthly meeting to-
morrow, Mr. Parker will move :—To rescind the resolu-
tion of the Council, adopted on the sth of April last, con-
firming the recommendation of the Water Committee,
that that committee be authorised to make an arrange-
ment with Mr- Hawkesley for the purposes. stated in the
report of that committee then•suh-mitted to the Council,
and to employ such persons in the engineering depart-
ment of the Waterworks as may be found necessary for
the economical and efficient working of the present esta-
blishment. That it be an instruction to the Finance
Committee, that an account of the receipts and expendi-
ture of the Birkenhead Ferry be rendered at each monthly
Council. The Mayor's communications comprise a me-
morial from several persons on the subject of consuming
smoke.
SHIP REGISTERS.—It is well known to be customary in
the ports of London, Liverpool, &c., for the registry of a
vessel to be signed by proxy—that is, by the pro-
collector and pro-comptroller, in place of the collector
and comptroller themselves. Conceiving that such a
practice was not consistent with law, a case has been sub-
mitted to Mr. Lloyd (King's Bench) to obtain his opinion
as to " whether the signatures should not be of the comp-
troller and collector themselves ;" or, in ether words,
whether they can legally depute their authority to any
other person to sign either the register or certificate of
registy, or to indorse any bill of sale or such certificate of
registry. The reply returned was—" lam of opinion that
neither the comptroller nor collector can legally delegate
1. his authority to any other person, to sign either the register
or certificate of registry ;" and he refers to the several acts
bearing upon the subject.
CRUELTY TO A BOY.—At the West Riding Sessions at
Bradford, on Thursday, Thomas Smith, a collier, was
sentenced to four month's imprisonment for a violent
assault on a boy. The boy is about 14 years of age, and
on the 29th of April last he was severely beaten by the
prisoner with .a piece of hard wood, in which were several
nails, for an alleged fault,,when the lad was without his
trousers, shoes, or. stockings. The lad escaping from the
grasp of the prisoner, ran to the " eye " of the pit, and
mounting a loaded corve, which was ascending, he was
drawn to the top, whence he ran off and hid himself in a
neighbouring wood, where he was found almost nakedond
in a state of insensibility, some three or four days after,
by some gamekeepers in the service of Mr. Ferrand. His
body and feet presented many wounds, which he had re-,
ceived from the violence of the prisoner, and also bore
the marks of old wounds.

M• GUIZOT AND THE OXFORD PROFESSORSHIP.—
The London Times of yesterday has an article con-
demnatory of the announced intention of some autho-
rities at Oxford to invite M. Guizot to offer himself for
the professorship of modern European languages in that
university. Our contemporary argues that the value of
the endowment for that office lies not only in the philo-
logical instruction which may he imparted to the under-
graduates of Oxford, but in the impulse which should be
given to the philological students of England. He also
asserts, whilst giving the ex-premier every title to the
character of a statesman and historian, that he (M.
Guizot) is not a philological scholar. He adds, " This
proposition to invest him with the dignities of an office
for which he is not directly qualified is nothing less than a
gross job, and not one whit the less so that the feelings
prompting it may have been less selfish or vulgar than
such as usually dictate these transactions."
LONDON AND PARIS.—What suggestions do not these
words call up ? What sympathy with the sufferings of our
own workless and wageless poor ! Compare London and
Paris. In both has there been privation, penury, and
biting distress. In both have tens of thousands been
thrown out of employment. In both have whole families
gone to bed without having tasted bread the livelong day,
and knowing not whether they should taste it on the mor-
row. But bow differently have the two people borne their
yoke ! In the one, furious hate has been maddened into
a brutal revenge ; revenge has sated itself with blood ;
carnage and anarchy have revelled in the ensanguined
Seine ; and now the energies and industry of a whole
people must be taxed to defray the cost of metropolitan
license and Parisian frenzy, for London discontent has
exploded in two attempts innocently abortive and ludi-
crously weak. The great mass of those who suffered stood
aloof from the work of menace and of outrage; and, fold.
ing their arms in patient resignation, waited the day
" when things would mend."
THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—III the course of last
week, a more than usual quantity of rain for the season
of the year fell in this vicinity ; and the consequence was
to considerably retard the hay harvest. Luckily, the
bulk of the crop is still upon its legs ; and that which was
cut and not fully dried, does not appear to have sustained
any or but slight injury from the heavy showers, drying
winds having intervened. The crop of hay generally will,
this year, we may venture to say, be heavy, and, added to
the old stocks left, and the prospects of a good turnip
season, will ensure ample fodder for cattle. The wheats
continue to look well and healthy. The black ears that
here and there appeared in some fields—not the smut
which is so much dreaded by the farmer—have almost

entirely disappeared, and all that is now wanted is dry
sunny weather. We have seen some amazingly fine fields
of oats, very heavy, tall, and already shot into ears of
large size. Much of it will be ready for the sickle or the
scythe as soon as the wheat. 'Turnips and mangels are
proceeding most favourably. A great quantity of both
have this year been planted from the thinnings, and from
the dampness of the soil have taken strong root. Barley
(not much grown here) is well advanced, and will generally
exceed last year's crop, a good deal of which was injured
by the wire worm. Early potatoes continue to swell, and
the slight inroads of the rot, which we before noticed, do
not appear to have increased. Garden vegetables of all
kinds are abundant and fine, especially peas and brocoli.
The nights have latterly been somewhat cold, but yester-
day the temperature was more genial, and the day upon
the whole fine, so that the haymakers were busy.