The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

THE PROVISTON TRADE

The imports of foreign provisions during the past week,
have been very limited, and prices have in consequence
been very firmly maintained, especially for new beef, and
for lard, which may be quoted Is. to 2s. higher than last
week. Old bacon has been also in request. The market
for butter is firm ; and cheese is ready of sale at good
prices. The usual fortnightly sale of provisions took
place on Friday, at the Commercial Sale-room in Temple-
court, the brokers selling being Messrs. Wm. Gardner
and Co., and Messrs. George Badenach and Co., and was
well attended. A quantity of fine bladdered American
lard was offered, but withdrawn for an advance, after one
lot being knocked down at 625. 6d. Butter was in good
demand at advancing prices. A few lots of bacon were
sold, the bulk offered being held for higher prices. Some
of Gillmore's new long middles were bought at 51s. to
51s. 6d.; and 700 loose hams (Duffield's), were knocked
down at 28s. A fair quantity of cheese was sold at 455.,
and some under, the rest being withdrawn for sale by
private. The sale throughout exhibited great firmness on
the part of the trade.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(BY EXPRESS.)

OVERLAND MAIL FROM CALCUTTA

(From the Second Edition of the Morning Herald.)

We have received by Extraordinary Express our files of
papers and private correspondence, in anticipation of the
Overland Mail, from Bombay, of Dec, 15 ; Calcutta, Dec.
7 ; and China, Nov. 28. The reason of the late arrival of
this mail is explained by our Malta correspondent in the
following terms :—" My last dispatch was by the Vol-
cano, on the 12th inst. The day following her departure
it blew a fresh breeze, which subsequently became a hur-
ricane. On the 15th the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer Indus, which left Malta on the 13th, put
back ; and on the 15th the Volcano, with that portion of
the India mail sent through France, returned to port with
damage. The Hecate is to proceed with the mails when
the weather moderates."

The most important news brought by this conveyance
is that supplied from Calcutta, which represents the truly
disastrous effects of the late commercial embarrassments
in London upon the mercantile community in that presi-
dency. Nine highly respectable firms had been compelled
to suspend payment, and it was impossible to calculate
how far the serious consequences of these failures would
extend. " Credit and confidence," says the Bengal Mir-
karu Price Current," were at once annihilated, and busi-
ness in every branch reduced to cash transactions. The
acceptances of no European house could be discounted in
the bazaar." _ _ _

The firms suspended in Calcutta were Messss. Saunders,
May, Fordyce, and Co., Cockerell and Co., Lyall, Mathe-
son and Co., Church, Lake, and Co., Lake, Hammill,
and Co., Shearman, Mullens, and Co., Hughesdon Brs.,
and Co., and Ewing, Aird, and Anderson. It was publicly
stated that Smith, Cowell, and Co., had also stopped
payment ; but it was subsequently announced that they
had resumed business, and at a meeting of creditors
held since that time, it was resolved that the house be
allowed to carry on business under inpectors then
pointed.
The intelligence from Bombay is of no political impor-
tance. The Punjaub and Scinde were tranquil. Lord
Hardinge was expected to leave Calcutta early in this
month (January). Commercial matters had assumed a

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provement.
Toe accounts from China are entirely of a peaceful na-
ture ; and the feeling of the people of that empire towards
the English authorities is evidently partaking of a more
pacific character. His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis
had returned to Hong Kong from his mission to the coast
of Cochin China, where he had gone for the purpose of
accomplishing some commercial arrangements. Trade
was in a very depressed condition, and prices had gene-
rally declined.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The liberal supply of English Wheat at this day's market met

of this day week. The decline did not. generally apply to
foreign, in which a moderate extent of business was transacted
at former prices.
Barrel Flour is in limited request without any change in the

JIM 25, 184 S.

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF

MANCHESTER

On Sunday morning the Rev. James Prince Lee, D.D.f
was consecrated Bishop of Manchester by the Archbishop
of York. This office was performed in the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, which was crowded by a very large and res-
pectable congregation. At eleven o'clock the bishop's,
procession entered the chapel, comprising the Bishop of
Chester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Archbishop 01
York, &c. The archbishop and bishops proceeded to this
communion table, and the rest of the party were accom-
modated with seats near it.

Morning prayer being ended, the Archbishop begat!
the communion service. The Bishop of Worcester rasa.
" for the Epistle " the appointed portion of Acts xx. ; and
the Bishop of Chester read the gospel. Then the Nicene
Creed having been read, the Rev. Garbett ascended the
pulpit and preached the sermon, taking for his text Act 3
ii., 47,—" The Lord added to the church daily such as
should be saved."

The rev. gentleman began by remarking, that the ori-
ginal epithet rendered " church " was one of the com-
monest use, and was adopted by the sacred writers.to ex'
press the aggregate mass of Christians, i. e., of individual
persons who in successive generations should be called
forth out of the world, by the preaching-of the Gospel. to
obtain salvation through faith in Christ. This chapter
was a history of the first formation of that body; and the
particular text literally rendered would be—" The Lord
added them that were saved daily to the church ;" the
statement being, not that they were added to the church
in order that they should be saved, but that, being saved,
they were added to the church ; their salvation was not
the consequence of their union with the church, but their
union with the church was the consequence of their salva-
tion.

The sermon being ended, the elected Bishop, vested with
his rochet, was presented to the Archbishop by the Bishops
of Chester and Worcester, the Archbishop sitting in ho
chair near the holy table.
It was understood that Mr. Gutteridge went into the
vestry before the service began, and handed to the Arch.
bishop a protest against the consecration of Dr. Lee. It
was said that his Grace immediately put the document 111
the fire.

Typhus fever in a malignant form is very prevalent in
Ulverston, and particularly in the union workhouse there.
On Saturday morning a fire broke out in Burlington ter'
cade, London by which five houses were destroyed, Ana
several others much damaged.
A great part of the extensive cotton-mills of Messrs•
Dennistoun and Co., at Stanley, near Perth, have been
destroyed by fire.

The Earl Grosvenor and Mr. Baring are making a tour
in Italy. His lordship, by the last letters, had arrived at
Rome.

Lord and Lady Stanley left the Earl of Derby's, on
Wednesday, on a brief visiting tour, previous to going to

The packet-ship, Siddons, arrived on Saturday from
New York, brings £20,000 specie on freight. She left 00
the 2d inst. The Columbia and Anglo-American will
shortly be due from New York and Boston respectively.-
the former with specie, probably.

- • -
STATE OF LIMERICK.—The special commission re'
sumed its sitting on Thursday. Besides the cases alreadf
tried, 28 persons stand charged with the dreadful crime et
murder. The usual number of prisoners in the gaol at
this period of the year, is 130, but at the present time
there are upwards of 400 !

Loss OF THE ARGO, OF CAERNARVON.—A dispatch
has been received at Lloyd's, from the Foreign Office,
enclosing copy of letters received by Lord Palmerston,
from her Majesty's consul at the Cape de Verds, which
reports the wreck of. the Argo, Roberts, of Caernarvon,
from Liverpool to Monte Video, coal laden. She stmt'
upon a sunken rock. off the island of Maya, and after-
wards drifted on to the mainland.—Crew saved.
BRISTOL Stramt-MARKET.—Saturday, Jan. 22.—There
has been a general and extensive demand for all kinds
of British plantation sugars this week, the sales amount-
ing to 400 hhds. and 6000 bags of Mauritius, principal'',
to the refiners, and the market closed firmly at an ad-
vance of ls. per cwt. above the prices current this day'
week. The arrivals have been in the Cassiopea, from the
Mauritius, 7500 mats of sugar; in the Laurie, 5113 mats
and 252 casks of sugar and 11 tanks of molasses ; front
Liverpool, 50 hhds. of sugar.
LAUNCH OF THE LLEWELLYN.—The fourth of the nevf
steam-vessels designed for the Admiralty packet service,
to run between Holyhead and Dublin, was launched on
Saturday, at Blackwell, from the building yard and steam,
engine manufactory of Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill,. and
Co. The Llewellyn is 190 feet long, 26 feet 7 inches
broad, and 15 feet deep, 643 32-94ths tons burden. The,
diameter of the cylinders of her engine is 68 inches, and
the length of the stroke 6 feet ; collective horse-power,
350. Compared with her's the Banshee's cylinders are
72 inches in diameter, and her length of stroke 5 feet.
THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—MichaeI M`Mahon, 3v
years of age, was indicted for having conspired with
others, at Claremont, county Clare, on the 3rd of De"
1847, to kill and murder Matthew Bolland ; and also for
soliciting one John Parry to shoot the said Bolland.
dente was taken, and the jury convicted the prisoner 0
the conspiracy, but acquitted him of the solicitation t°
murder. He was sentenced to be executed. On Wednes'
day, John Crowe, the man who was convicted for con'
spiring, with two convicts, Patrick Ryan (Small), Wra'
Ryan (Puck), James Hayes, and others, to murder the
late Mr. James 'Watson, of Ballycorney, having been
laced
for his execution. On Thursday, James Skeehan
reme paetnnY .))PrinPleas,,C y-L4ratu3riaunacmcti, eriNrY,
convicted of the murder of Mr. Ralph Hillon, on the 18th
of Nov.. at Rathard, near Limerick. The murder toot
place in the course of resisting a distress for non-paymetlit,
of rent. On the following day another conviction took
place, for a murder of unusual atrocity. We have given
the particulars of it elsewhere

TIDE TABLE.
DAYS. MORNIEVENO.' Howir.l HOLIDAYS, OTC'

Dec. h. m. h. m. n• in.
Tuesday.... 25 156 214 16 3
Wednesday. 26 232 251 14 10
Thursday ..27 311 333 13 8
Friday ....25 355 419 12 7
Saturday ~29 449 522 7
Sunday 30 559 635 11 3 4th Sunday aft BOO'
Monday.... 31_ 712 747 11 3

-----ift-TEOROLOGICAL REGISTER,
By MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET,

Pressure at

a.m. p.m

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Daily Dire
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Temperature in
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shade by self-re- Humidity at Fall O',
gistering Noon. Will'
Fhermometer. of At
Rain. NOO

18 29'37,1 29'24
19 29'42 29'77
20 29'85 30'02
21 30'19 30'17
22 30'11 29'98

Dry, I Vet
Max. 1 Min. bulb. !bulb

leg. I Deg
35 I 31

leg. Peg
33 32

37 32
38 32
38 33
3E 32

3t 30
36 I 35
35

37
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30'48 ; 30'55

THE WEATHER.-18th: clear; light fall or snow.
clear.-20th: fine.-21st clouded.-22nd donded.-1.
clouded.-24: bright; morning foggy.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 24.
The supply of stock at our market to-day has been lagged
than, last week, the best quality fetching late prices, and secoo",
rate and inferior met with dull sale. Beef, sd. to 7d. per 11)"
Mutton, 6d, to 7,id

LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, JAN 24.
Our demand for Foreign Wool this week has been. on a veil
limited scale, chiefly for Egyptian and Peruvian, of which le.
scriptions a few parcels have been sold. There has been a lit'
more doing in Scotch.____

IMPORTS FOR THE WEEK

Foreign

From West Coast .
„ Monte Video

Previously

SHIPPING 'INTELLIGENCE

MONDAY, 24th JAiii7Ani.—Wind N.E., moderate.
ArtarvEn.—Princess Victoria, Thorns, from Maranhol"of
William Prowse, (late Thompson,) from Canton; left Cape

•
Go Hope 20th&ov.—Providentia, from Ostend. , ,
a Lisbonu rind,
Camillus, Ashton, from Sineapore, at . st. Helena, and sol".
for this port 29th Nov., -
LeSoAnloLraE DiThol‘miapi es
os SAILED.—Majestic;
~ 'illKeinnoewralreas—,
. pi
this port 10th Dec.
Ann Martin from Bombay, and Bucephalus, Small, from l'..
nang, at St. lielen • t Ri°
ondor;Whiting, raid Rouble, Foster,-itc,
Mary Ellen, ingla_isst,etarmome)loTßril'itienns,,haetn.
cdeitaton,danßdahsiaai:eau.
Antelope, (sere
boraza, White, for Callao—Eliza, Aherne, on,
to sail for Monte Video 16th Dec. t in
Janeiro, and rinse
;-- ittiwYa Edwards, Young,
amnaabi ..--i am: t
Helen, 'Miller, from London—Mountain Maid,ll.l.oo
from Hull,-
dofAb d Equator, 't Plymouth—BrY c ,3, os, from. Cadiz, and
PlYm° video—all at Rio Janeiro. all'
Monte_
F.xPra6s* Packet wtis-to *sail from Rio Janeiro for Falll,o
12th Dec.., ,
Mary, Connell/ bence at Bahia,
Laura,. sailed rom Bahia fr this port llth Dec. ,eirt
H. iq. Steamer Hydra sailed.from 'Plymouth for-Rio Ja" I
LiVveicrputorn,i_Clcatilltm
from Adelaide, • 22nd January.
foil,
Aurora, Cotter, from Madras—Collingwood, Boyd, ~.mo
Madras—Alexander, Philipson, from Cobija--Lincoln, ''-'
Boston—all at Cove. lie
..,"
Armstrong, Paxton,
nPfaxduo9nd, fHronmpe.Rio Janeiro, and

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'On the 22nd instantOn his 20th year S kMUEL 5.A..•
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youn&est son of Mr. JOSEPH EST. OA'
Oethe 23rd instant, at Manßchester aged-16 mouths, or
RIAN ALICE, only daughter of Mr. 11:TILLIAM EL.A.Ig, 6
Maker, 89, Bold-street.

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2,1848

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