The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES

Letters from Hamburg, of the 14th instant, state the
receipt of news from Copenhagen, to the effect that the
armistice had been ratified by the King, and despatched,
by special courier, to the head-quarters of General
H edemann.

MONEY MARKET—YESTERDAY.
The funds this week have opened with a strong market, and
Consols as dear for money as for time, at 87A to 8. We have
also a rise in Bank stock, which is now quoted 196 to 8, and
in demand. Reduced Threes are 87i to 8. Three-and-a-Quar-
ter per Cents.. 88i to Exchequer Bills, 455. to 495. premium.
Altogether stocks are freely purchased, and the effect of the
dividends is very perceptible upon the market.

LONDON SHARE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The market is generally firm. Caledonians, Scottish Centrals,
and Great Northerns, are all in demand, at quotations slightly
improved. French shares are also more in favour.

LONDON CORN MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Our market was more liberally supplied this morning with
Wheat, by land-carriage samples from the near counties ;
which circumstance, coupled with the continuance of highly
favourable weather, caused the trade to rule very dull, at a
decline of 2s. to 3s. per quarter. The demand for foreign
Wheat was very limited, and sales were with difficulty effected
at a reduction of Is. to 2s. upon the quotations of Monday last.
Barley was a dull .ale, but cannot be quoted lower. Supplies
of Oats of home growth continue very moderate, but from
abroad we still receive considerable quantities. This article
was a slow sale, with the turn in price in favour of the buyers.
Beans and Pease much the same as last quoted.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
We are well supplied with Beasts for the time of the year;
trade is steady at about Friday's prices. The number of Sheep
and Lambs is not large, yet it is quite equal to the demand.
Buyers do not purchase readily; however, prices can scarcely
be quoted lower. Calves are not so plentiful ; they are sold
freely, at rather more money. Pigs are a dull sale, owing to
the hot weather. From Holland there are about 2110 Beasts,
1,620 Sheep, and 124 Calves ; and 200 Beasts from Scotland.

MINCING-LANE.—YESTERDA
Y.
Cotton and Rice continue to wear an upward appearance.
In other articles no alteration. The public sales advertised for
to-morrow are large and various—say, of Sugar, 200 hhds.
West India, and 7000 bags Mauritius, Bengal, and Madras.—
Coffee : 4000 bags, chiefly Ceylon.—Saltpetre : 1000 bags.—
Rice : 10,000 bags.—Tea : 12,000, which prevents any business
being done in these articles by pdvate contract.

SUNDAY SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND

The annual meeting of the Liverpool Auxiliary Society,
in aid of this Society, was held yesterday evening, in the
school-room of Christ Church, in Christian-street, and,
notwithstanding the inducements of the season, was well
attended.

The Rev. Mr. MossE, a young clergyman from Ireland,
was called to the chair, and (after prayer) ably opened
the business of the meeting, deducing some statistics from
a printed document to show the cheering prospects of the
society even in adverse commercial and political times ;
and showing that there were in Ireland 2,964 schools,
80,222 teachrrs, and 224,132 scholars. After noticing a
variety of advantages attached to the working of the
society, be strongly urged the teachers and others who
were friends of the society to continue their endeavours,
by personal services and pecuniary endeavours, to move on
in its,behalf, if they expected a blessing hereafter.
Mr. O'NEIL, the Secretary, read the report, which was
to the effect that notwithstanding the badness of the
times the Society had remitted last year the sum of £lOl,
including donations; that great gratitude was due to the
Rev. F. Ould, and to the Rev. 1 James, of St. Mary's,
for two sermons preached ; that great thanks were due to
the ladies who had exerted themselves in its behalf ; and
the document concluded by affording a number of statis-
tics shewing the number of schools, &c.
The Rev. Mr. BUTLER (from Ireland), moved the adop-
tion of the report, in a feeling and impressive address.
The Rev. G. WARRE, of St. Saviour's, seconded the
resolution in a very eloquent address, which breathed
great Christian feeling towards the benighted in Ireland,
and was replete with forcible illustrations, which produced
a strong and sympathetic effect on the meeting. He es-
pecially pointed out the great object of the Society,—
namely the exclusive promotion of Sunday Schools, and
the doing so by providing tuition for the children, and also
affording Bibles to the able-bodied who applied, at the
smallest possible price, and to the destitute who applied,
for nothing.
The resolution was unanimouely carried.

The Rev. R. WILLING, Rectorjof Kini's Court, Ire-
land, moved the second resolution, expressing the grateful
thanks due to those Christian friends in Ireland who bad
contributed to the success of the great cause, and expres-
sing the hope of the parent society that the auxilliary
society here would continue their kindly exertions in be-
half of Ireland.

This was seconded by the Rev. Mr. CATH CART, (as we
understood,) in an energetic speech.

A collection to a handsome amount was made, and
after a brief address from the chairman, and the singing
of a hymn, the meeting separated.

THE CELEBRATED CHINESE COLLECTION,
FROM HYDE-PARK CORNER, LONDON.

This extraordinary collection was opened in Islington
Market, only yesterday, and, from its magnitude and
variety of subjects, we can only now say, upon a necessarily
very brief view, that we were struck with astonishment,
and not a little bewildered. The entrance to the struc-
ture, or building, in which the whole is contained, is in
the Chinese style of architecture, and is in itself a rich
specimen. The apartment occupied by the collection is
225 feet in length, by 50 in width, with a lofty ceiling,
supported on numerous pillars. The great hall is so re-
splendent with objects, great and small, that one wonders
how they have been collected, and how so massive a
building, (wnich appears as if permanent,) and its va-
luable contents, could be transported from town to town.
The impression upon the visitors is, taking the rooms and
the varied and curious objects within, that. they have sud-
denly got into a new world. Everything is in keeping with
Chinese character, habits, costumes, &c. There are a
great number of scenic representations :all round this ob-
long hall, each representing a stage of a theatre, with
paintings behind, and full length figures in the foreground,
in various and rich costume, illustrative of historical or
judicial scenes appertaining to China. There is also a
variety of paintings, drawings, arms, curiosities, and a
thousand works of art interspersed within the " Cases"
or compartments. All along the floor of this splendid
apartment, the decorations of which are finely carved and
richly gilded, are large glass cases onpedestals, contain-
ing stuffed birds, animals, reptiles, &c. One com-
partment represents the Emperor on his throne,
surrounded by his dependants; another, the Judge
in his court; another, the merchant in his shop, &c.
But it is impossible to particularize. There are also
many fine specimens of Chinese junks, from the man-of-
war, mounted with metal guns, and fit to cross the Mer-
sey, to the beautiful and elaborately carved ivory mo-
del, suitable for a chimney ornament. There is a capital
Sax-horn and Cornopean band, who play charmingly.
We should add that the collection of Chinese lanthorns
suspended from the roofof the magnificent pavilion are beau-
tiful, some of them as large as English summer-houses,
and all beautifully painted, gilded, and curiously designed.
The apartment is splendidly illuminated in the evening
with gas ; and last night when the whole large room
was lighted up with a variety of gas-lights along each
side, and from the huge Chinese lanterns appended from
the roof ; (and the room at the same time filled with
fashionable company, promenading to the music of a
spirited band), the result was highly effective and pleasing.
We shall have an opportunity of noticing this extraordi-
nary collection more at length next week.
It would be injustice not to notice in brief some curious
and valuable porcelain, which (with a vender's shop) form
a striking feature of the exhibition.

DISTRESSING EVENT.—On Wednesday the Rev. Dr.
Davies, minister of the Unitarian chapel, Gloucester,
committed self-destruction by hanging himself at.his resi-
dence in Barton-street. The unfortunate gentleman fell
on his head some weeks since, and suffered severely from
it. The French revolution has deprived him of his pro-
perty, and latterly his mind had evidently been affected.
THE PRICE OF BLOOD IN PARIS. —Le Droit, speaking
of the frequent assassination of gardes mobiles in open
daylight, says that for some days past papers have been
posted in the ateliers, offering rewards of fifty francs to
whomsoever should kill a garde mobile, forty francs for
killing a soldier, thirty for a national guard, and twenty
for a gardien de Paris. The Constitutionnel, after quoting
the above, adds that in the Faubourg Passionniers a pla-
card has been posted, offering 20 francs for the head of a
garde mobile and 10 for that of a national guard.
A LEAP FOR LIFE.—A young gentleman, named
Parker, has made a surprising leap into the Tweed, near
Coldstream. He was in a dog-cart. The horse took
fright, and dashed towards the Tweed bridge. The near
wheel of the carriage struck the wall of the bridge, and
rose up so far as to allow the end_ of the shaft to get upon
the top of it, on which it slipped a considerable way.
Fearing that he might meet a worse fate, Mr. Parkerleapt
from the dog-cart over the parapet-wall into the stream,
at a place where the water was deep enough to save him
from striking the bottom, and he escaped afterwards by
swimming. The depth from the parapet to the water was
forty-five feet, _

Though the King has power to confer titles, he has none
to resume them, Parliament, however, has, and the
power was exeroised.in the case of George Neville, fourth
Duke of Bedford, who was degraded by authority of Par-
lig.Me4ltt on 4009 Wat of his poverty.—. Boo and his Ram

July 18, 1848,

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
PARIS ~UN•-
• let'
The National states, on the authority of a private
from Palermo, that the Duke of Genoa, son of Char
Albert, had been elected King of Sicily.
Arrests continue to be made in Paris, some of why
are described as being of an important character..
Bastide remains Foreign Minister, and M. Vernow
takes the Marine. -

An attempt to assassinate Lucien Murat, in the Chol
Elysees, happily failed.
The German Confederation has presented a bill toot/
Swiss Diet, demanding that Hecker and those Who
invaded Baden be removed from the frontiers.

THE ILLYRIAN PROVINCES. Id
Intelligence from Trieste, of the 6th instant, woo to!
that the hostile fleet had, on the preceding day, re Ili
from Pisano to 'lmago. An official communicastonno
been received from Turin that the Sardinian govern tsd,
had raised the blockade in consequence of the protes
the Prussian and Bavarian ambassadors.

Lord and Lady Stanley were expected to arrive iO7
James's-square yesterday from Knowsley.
Sir Robert and Lady Peel and family have toleft
for Drayton Manor, Staffordshire. "a
00
On Friday, the Grand Jury at Limerick found
bill" against Mr. Meagher.
[IS ty
The Bishop of Chester held his fir. t ordination co
day, at Cambridge.
Lord Clarendon was to leave Dublin yesterday
day) for a sojourn of a few days in London.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury
grand dinner on Saturday at the family resident
Arlington- street.
Friday, the 21st inst., is the day at gresent natned,forb
removal of the Court from Bucxingham Palace
Majesty's marine residence in the Isle of Wight. op
The pitmen at Monkwearmouth collier are Owed
strike, in consequence of the owners having resolf
make a reduction in their wages.
EARLY HARVESTING.—A sample of new harieleo
exhibited at Truro market on Wednesday, and a
oats has been cut near Kenwyn Church.— West Bil'og
Owen Beirne and Michael Beirne were found gier,
on Friday, at the Roscommon Assizes, of the icor'
the Rev. Mr. Lloyd, in October last.
On Thursday, at Roscommon Assizes, Patrick „ft
was convicted of the murder of the late IVjajor 31vi,
Another person it is expected will be convicted n 5
accomplice.
A GOOD SIGN.—The Earl of Minto, Mr. Lewis,,,,
Mr. George Rich, one of the Lords of the TreasurY,;
been instructed to inquire into the Signet-office 80“io
office of the Privy Seal, with a view to the arnalgal'°
or reduction of those departments.
CORNS.—Mr. Levi has received so many applicants fp
relief that he has been compelled again to prolong to
stay. No one can be pitied who suffers from thi,
mentor, when be can be so easily relieved by 020;
himself of the experienced services of an able practiPtie,
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning' °ceb
W
the guards of the Caledonian Railway lost his an
his head coming in contact with a bridge while le
over a carriage to look at a wheel supposed to be 0
and falling off the train he was killed on the spot. ifet
THE CATHEDRAL OF COLOGNE.—The 600th 8006
sary of the ceremony of laying the foundation stone copir
Cathedral of Cologne is to be celebrated with extr°
nary pomp on the 14th, 15th, and 16th of 'August 00
when the newly-constructed portions of the edifice "vs"
consecrated. The Archduke John and the king of 'raloi
sia are expected, and there is a report of the Pope CO
to assist on the occasion.
TRADE BETWEEN BRISTOL AND IRELAND. lir
people of Bristol are exerting themselves to obtain 00
of communication between that port and Ireland, °'ciiice,'
view of supplying the midland counties with Irish pr°oo
They hope soon to carry this into effect. On the 30th °ill 0
month we understand all dock dues on Irish goods
entirely abolished by the new act, and those on the:,
reduced to 6d. per ton ; soon to be again farther r
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to 4d.

AO"
WALES.—The brilliant sunshine we have expe-„0,
during the week has effected a visible improvement 'l,-0,9
appearance of the crops generally in this neighbourrp,
The accounts from the principal agricultural countl-ero,
the south and west of England also speak in cheerinE'
of the improvement which has taken place during 0.1419
week. Potatoes are described as looking well gene Dar,
though instances of disease are reported. _The ha'
vest is progressing rapidly, and the crop is spoken °
being in excellent condition.—Cambrian. fat
ISLE OF MAN FISHERY.—" The herring fisher, ay,
three or four days last week,;' says the Mona's Belie'
4. was yery successful around Port St. Mary and the ott
side. Some of the boats on Thursday brought in "7011
meaze each, and so ranging from that number toold
meaze. The boats are not all out as yet, but all t
he ss'
fishermen are counting on a good season for their husl3re
judging from the signs. Considerable quantities Pll,O
been shipped by the fresh buyers, who purchase vrh°le;iceS
at 4s. and as low as 3s. 6d. a hundred. The retail
may be quoted at the rate of 24 for a shilling. post,
CHARTISM DEFUNCT.—Chartism, in London at the
(and we expect it is pretty well the same throughe%
provinces), is in its death struggles. All
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resuscitating its expiring existence are yam. , life
leaders in prison, and its exchequer empty, its
blood is exhausted, and die it must, and that aPe.,,e
Messrs. Ernest Jones, Fussell, and Co. can bear, st; the
ful testimony to the first-mentioned ct • ,!nurall-
second, we need no further evidence than' the
official and doleful communication, issued on TlMr3
last, from the Chartist head-quarters, John-street 10,smy
tution, Tottenham Court-road :—" We have this 'or
balanced our accounts, and have to announce to the
attena.P: jo
friends that we are without funds.—On behalf e'
Executive Council, JOHN M'CRAE, Secretary." /.y.
WHOLESALE ROBBERIES BY A MAN OF PROPaiely
—At the Somerset adjourned sessions, last week, er
Bartlett, aged 71, was tried on several charges of sie,es,
stealing. The prisoner had been tried at the Dorset_
sions, in conjunction with his son and a man named 1•00170
man ; both the latter were convicted, and sentenced! ',la.
years' transportation, while the former was a
was then removed under a warrant of committal to take
,
trial upon the charges preferred against him for fen;'"c!
committed in the county. The prisoner, a butcher
iiPoj
regularly attended Sherborne market for many years' en
was reputed to be a man of considerable propertYl
jja
had always borne the character of an honest nstarl'irietd
was arraigned on eight indictments, and being cell
was sentenced to ten years' transportation. 4tV
a 00 " d
RAILWAY COMPENSATION.—At Oxford assize, co,
cquitted
turday, the widow of a Mr. Smaner brought an °Der
against the Great Western Railway Company for ce°ll,„`per'
sation for the loss of her husband, a hawking..ieviw-V
On the 10th August last, the deceased was walking ieveh
he came to the railway, which crossed the road on
he opened the gate and had crossed a line of rails w" AP;
suddenly saw an express train coming towards him: otlr
parently frightened and paralyzed with alarm, he sToo°,
instant looking towards the train, then held up his nelio;
ran across the very lines on which the train was
and was immediately killed, and his pack, CO
watches and jewellery to the value of £5OO, wash
s,/ D'h'o
to pieces. It appeared that the engine-driver s?„014
about a quarter of a mile off, and immediately lep t„.')
steam and gave the alarm whistle, but could not s'
train (which was going at the rate of 60 miles aliverdlo
in time to save the deceased. The jury found a
for the defendants, as the road on which the deees9' trr.
walking was not a public highway, but merely
,°/,'
across the fields for the convenience of the adjoininqf
Another cause, between the same parties, went e'd
out trial, the plaintiff agreeing to take a verdict f'
in respect of the jewellery destroyed. tre-
THE FELON PRESS.—Two out of the three jordsit
journals in Ireland were published as usual on }9l,,etilio
the third, the Tribune, being compelled, from Poial,lio
circumstances, to defer its ordinary issue till. the,,,,t
of this week. It was not until late on Fridal,l:/t4
Stamp-office authorities consented to supply tra014,4
newspaper with stamps for that day's number,
_X-4?1,t0
is on foot for the amalgamation of the Nation, 14;01 cif
Tribune into one great organ of felony, for the,
conduct of whicha subscription of £2OOO is ae,fie f',3
by the proprietors. Nevertheless, to judge from " e
digious " run " ou this day's treason market, theri,°o_A°
appear to be ample patronage for at least more t,itiscfe
vehicle for the dissemination of " open and n""
sedition, as it is now mildly characterised. In the `to
time, there is no change in the tone of Mr. GOO iagiod
paper, the incarceration of that gentleman sc°§3e°citil
have altogether deprived it of whatever discretion, 110 joi
muster in his calmer moments. In an article
" The Point of Attack,—The Clubs," &p., to w le bs•
initials are appended, the public are no longer clikp
ignorance of the intentions of the confederate, otlj,
The time, Mr. Duffy distinctly says, has arrivecl,l°i-se'et,
ing the blow against English. supremacy. Ti.'ebsY°4oil
now clear between the Irish pike and the Britis°,oll9-
He leaves no loophole for retreat. Any further u
the cause is for ever lost