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

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE

The exchange market is firm, with good demand. Sterling
money is at 104 to 1, ; francs, 5 182 to 5 17i. Bills on Amster-
dam, 401 to 41 ; Hamhurgh, 35i to 36. At the close sterling
was freely offered at 104. Bremen, 80 to 804. The supply of
money is very abundant, and loans are negotiated with facility
at 5 to 6 per cent. on good stocks, and still lower on Govern-
ment securities. Paper of good quality is scarce, and second
class is taken cautiously. First class goes at 6to 7 per cent.
freely, and the demand exceeds the supply.
Cotton is very buoyant, and some sales have been made at
an improvement. About 9,000 bales sold to-day. Middling
WI. is quoted at 14a to 142 cents. per pound.

Breailstuffs.—The flour market is rather easier for low
grains. There is less doing for export, but fair for home
trade.

Wheat.—There is not an active business, and the market is
rather easy. The market for corn is easier, heavy, and quiet.
sales are 15,000 bushels.

Provisions.—ln pork there is more doing. The sales are
1,000 barrels, at 8 dollars 371 cents for prime; 10 dollars 81
cents to 10 dollars 871 cents for mess. There is but little action
in beef, but the market is easier. Lard is rather easier.
Iron.—Sellers at 16 dollars 25 cents and 20 dollars 25 cents
six months for Scotch pig, with sale of 150 to 200 tons. Eng-
lish bars are dull, at 15 dollars to 35 dollars 50 cents.
Ashes inquired for, with sales at 5 dollars 871 cents to 6 dol-
lars 12/ cents for pots and pearls.
Freights are quiet at 16d. for flour and Id. for cotton. About
8,003 barrels and 1,000 bales were engaged at these figures.

Simile dead weight was taken at 15d. to 20d., and 4,000 bushels
at 4d. 'To London cheese was taken at 30s.

NEW ORLEANS, OCT. 7.
Cotton is firm and the advance is fully sustained. The sales
to-day were 2,050 bales fair at Hi.

THE WEST INDIES

On Saturday the mail steam-ship Thames arrived at
Southampton with the usual West India and Pacific
mails, forty-one passengers, and specie to the value of
about £250,310 on merchants' account, (none for divi-
dend,) two packages of pearls, and a valuable freight of
general merchandise.
Our dates are,—Havana, 22d ; Chagres, 24th ; Hondu-
ras, 19th ; Jamaica, 28th • Demerara, 27th ; Trinidad,
27th ; Barbadoes, 29th ; and Grenada, 28th September ;
Porto Rico, Ist.; and St. Thomas's, 2d October.
Our advices state, that the prospects of the next year's
crops were good, and the islands healthy. From Jamaica
we learn that the cotton experiment was fully under
weigh. The amount deemed necessary had been sub-
-scribed, the preliminaries agreed upon, and a committee
appointed to manage affairs. A site had been chosen for
sowing the seed, and it was expected that it would be
planted before the close of the year.
Barbados advices state, that the weather during the
fortnight•hßd been calm and sultry. Heavy showers had
fallen, •‘ith but partial effect, having been confined to a
marrow locality, in consequence of the entire absence of
the trade winds. Nevertheless, the face of the country
was luxuriant, and an immense crop of sugar was expected
by the most experienced planters.

FLOGGING IN THE AMERICAN NAVY. —2,201 lashes
were administered on board the United States' sloop-of-
war Albany, which lately arrived at Boston after a cruise
of about 21 months.—New York Tribune. _ _

The cholera at Malta is greatly on the decline, and by
private letters from Sir W. Parker's fleet at Port "Mahon,
we are informed that the cholera had totally disappeared
on board all the ships. The government at Malta do not
intend to issue any more bulletins of the cholera.

A deputation of English Roman Catholics has been pre-
sented to the Pope by Cardinal Wiseman to thank " His
Holiness" for having elevated their " distinguished coun-
tryman" to the dignity of Cardinal. The Pope conversed
a long time with them, and at parting bestowed on each
of them his " anostolical benediction." _

DARING BAiLcON ASCENT.—On Sunday, the Ura-
nus, the balloon belonging to M. Poitevin, ascended
from the Hippodrome, carrying, in addition to the
aeronaut, three young women, who were suspended from
the car. They had wings affixed to their shoulders, and

appeared as if. flying in the air. After being about an
hour in the air the aeronauts alighted in safety.--Paris

paper.
ANOTHER ROMTSH WONDER.—In the neighbourhood
of the Grande Chartreuse, in the Alpine department of
the Isere, in France, the other day, a poor woodman
found himself in the dead of night on a narrow foot-bridge
face to face with a huge Bruin, who had long struck ter-
ror into the whole neighbourhood. What was to be
done

The poor man knew as little of mesmerism as
Harriet Martineau's cowman, before he was enlightened
by his mistress ; but he had faith in the saints, and he
called on St. Bruno, who, in the twinkling of an eye,
made his appearance, and, kicking old Bruin over the
bridge, made a safe passage for the woodman. The story
is as well attested as Miss Martineau's, who, we trust,
will, for once in her life, confess herself fairly outdone.
TIIE FORREST DIVORCE CASE.—Penciller Willis has,
it appears, brought an action against Mr. Forrest for the
assault upon him, the damages being limited to the mo-
derate amount of 10,000 dollars. Some solemn and long-
winded affidavits, in reference to the charge, are published
in the New York Herald. Mr. Forrest alleges as provo-
cation, that " the plaintiff pursued a system of secret and
stealthy intercourse with the wife of the defendant; that

worthy and criminal liberties, and availed himself of arts
and address which he had acquired in foreign society to
alienate her affections from her husband ; that during the
time and times last aforesaid, his conduct towards the
defendant was uniformly treacherous, cowardly, and
false." Mr. Willis's reply to all this is a denial, and a
statement that Mr. Forrest's plea is quite irrelevant to

DREADFUL MURDER OF TWO Bo s.—The last steamer
from America has brought the following particulars of a
revolting murder at Albany. on the 4,11 instant:—On
Saturday, two little boys, aged 6 and 7 years, children of
George Lester, of New Scotland, in Albany County, left
the house for the purpose of playing. After they had
been absent about an hour, Mrs. Lester, their aunt, went
out to look for them, but could not find them. Nothing
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longed, their relatives became alarmed

Search was

again made, but without success. Morning came, and
yet the children did not appear. The neighbours were
aroused, and a party of 200 or 300 commenced a search.
All efforts were unsuccessful for several days. They
again commenced searching, and the body of the youngest

was discovered near a creek, within GO rods of the house,
in a gully, covered with leaves, and a heavy stone resting
on his head and chest. The place had been frequently

crossed while prosecuting the search, but nothing calcu-
lated to excite suspicion was anywhere visible. The body
of the eldest child was found 80 rods from the house, in
an opposite direction from the spot where the youngest

A stick or club had also been used

The jury rendered,

as a verdict, " That David L. Lester and George Lester
came to their deaths by injuries inflicted by Reuben Dun-
bar and other persons unknown." Great excitement pre-
vailed in the town, and, could Dunbar have been found,
personal violence would have resulted. Dunbar is a step-
son of David Lester, the uncle of the children ; and, as

they have property, mercenary motives are supposed to
have induced the commission of the crime. Dunbar, who

lodged in gl

AN AWKWARD ADVENTURE
occurrence of a few days aeo

—ROME, OCTOBER 5.
has so amused our little

,lisp circle in Rome, and is altogether so absurd, that

lam induced to mention it. An English gentleman just
arrived, and now living with his wife at one of our best
hotels, after a good dinner sallied out to smoke a cigar
and survey the " City of the Soul." A bright moon sug-
gested the Coliseum, and thither he bent his lonely steps,
skirting the Palatine, the Palace of the Caesars, and the
Augustan Halls, 2.nd musing in silent sadness on all
around; holding sweet converse with his own soul and
Byron, as served up by Murray. It is difficult to say to

ing himself for the first time in such a place as the Coll-
such an hour, had not his grand and gloomy
reveries been interrupted by the sound of footsteps hastily
approaching him from behind. He turned round and
beheld the figure of a man attired in the garb of a priest,
who had issued from one of the " rents of ruin," and who
passed him so closely as to rub against his shoulder in so
doing. The figure in black had almost disappeared beyond
the Arch of Constantine, when honest John Bull bethought
him of his watch ; and;feeling for it, found not what he
sought. A moment's reflection determined him to follow
the Wily priest, until he came up with him in an open
space where lurkers might not be hid : so, pouncing upon
his man, he demanded the restitution of his property.
The priest understood no English, and our friend no Ita-
lian, but as a substitute for the language our countryman
showed his fists : and, pointing to the watch-pocket of the
other, made him so well understood that the terrified and
trembling ecclesiastic a'. once surrendered the watch,
which satisfied his antagonist, who returned home. On
recounting the affair to his lady, however, he was not a
little astonished when she pointed to his own watch lying
on his dressing-table, which he had left behind him -on
going out. He drew forth the other from his pocket, and
a glance showed him that, without intending it, he had
been guilty of a highway robbery. On going to the police
the next day with a friend to explain the business, he
found that the priest, well known in Rome, had already
been there and deposed that, on taking his usual " consti-
tutional," after the heat of the day, he had been accosted
by a " Garribaldisto Inglese," and by threats and menaces
been obliged to deliver up his watch.

seum at

IRELAND.

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On Sunday evening, as W. H. Kenney, J.P., of Rock-
savage, in the county of Monaghan, was passing from his
drawing-room into the hall, he was fired at from without,
and his shoulder grazed by two or three shots. Several
other shots were found in the hall.
On Monday, as Mr. Thomas Lawler, an extensive fo-
reign merchant belonging to Cork, was in the act of step-
ping into a railway carriage at that town, he fell into the
carriageway and instantly expired. He had a large esta-
blishment in Barbadoes, and had at the time £20,000
worth of goods on shipboard at Liverpool.
A MURDER IN IRELAND.—Dennis Kearin, a boy of
eleven years of age, was forced to start at five o'clock in
the morning, on " a very bad day," for a walk of
fourteen Trish miles, " cold and hnngry," to be inspected
by a board of guardians. On his way home in the even-
ing he said he waS " losing his sight" from hunger : they
had not fed him at either workhouse, and he, at last, fell
dead from inanition. If we are under any protection of
the law—if our Christianity is not a mockery of Him who
taught us to love and protect the young- of His Father's
creation— the sense and justice of the country shall yet
see that there is punishment in reserve for those whose
careless cruel inhumanity caused that child of eleven to
wander on, till blinded by pain he staggered, screamed,
and died on the road side.
SIGNS OF THE TIMES.—A letter from Castlebar, dated
the 13th of October, contains some curious revelations :
" Mr. Commissioner Curran held a court here yesterday
for the relief of insolvent debtors. There were thirteen
applicants seeking to be discharged under the Insolvent
Act, but they were of a class of persons totally different
from those who usually appear in courts of this descrip-
tion. 'One is a landed proprietor, whose rental was esti-
mated at from £2,000 to £3,000 per year, and he is also
a deputy-lieutenant and magistrate of this county. An-
other is or was an extensive Government contractor, who
some years since purchased a considerable estate in this
county, and was supposed to be very wealthy. A third
is a landed proprietor and justice of the peace, possessing
a _small estate in the neighbourhood of this town. A
fourth is a landed proprietor and magistrate of this
county, and an extensive grazing farmer; and the fifth is
•one of the oldest and most upright magistrates of the
county, the owner of a small estate, and also a very exten-
sive grazing and tillage farmer. The case of this gentle-
man excited considerable interest in court because of his
age (upwards of 70 years) and his unblemished character.
THE TRUE CONDITION OF IRELANE.—A parliamentary
return presents us with a statement of the agricultural
condition of Ireland for the three years 1847-48-49. From
these it appears that the breadth of land under crop con-
tinues to increase. In the year 1849 the increase in legu-
minous crops was no less than 56,535 acres—an increase
of nearly 2 per cent. on the preceding year. In green
crops, as we find by the returns, the increase was 16,687
acres, or nearly in the same proportion. A few of the
counties is which the increase took place merit particular
mention, as Tyrone, Mayo, Roscommon. There is
equality of extent between the two years 1848-42 in Gal-
way, Fermanagh, Kerry, and Meath. On the other hand,
it is matter of comfort to find that during the year 1849,
as compared with the previous year, the total decrease of
the potatoe crop reached the sum of 86,841 acres. Hap-
pily the counties in which there had been any increase of
the cultivation of the potato were almost exclusively Situ-
ated in the north-west, the district of all others in which
the destruction of the crop would be least sensibly felt.
With regard, again, to the rates of produce, it is authori-
tatively stated in the returns that, with the exception of
two or three localities of very limited extent, "the average
on the entire kingdom for 1849 was only in one instance
below that of 1848 ; in every other case the rates of pro-
duce were equal to, or above, the ;previous year." The
variations in the quantities of stock are singular. It had
been stated that during the starving time so great was the
stress upon the cottiers that the pigs had been killed or
had died of starvation throughout the length and breadth
of Ireland. The absence of the family pig was the best
illustration of the extrme misery to which the Irish
peasant had been reduced. The argument was unanswer-
able at the time, but we novr.fina that in the year 1849 there
were 139,202 more pigs id firelatzd than during the pre-
ceding year. The number Of cattle has increased 1),