The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-30 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Lola Montes is again-upon the " boards." She made
her appearance at a public salon in Paris last week, where
she danced the Polonaise, &c., in Styrian costume.
Punch mentions, as an instance of "extreme delicacy
of taste," that "an earthquake has refused to swallow the
King of Naples!"
PREFERMENT IN THE CHURCH.—We hear that the
Reverend Dennis Cahill is appointed Lord Bishop of
Billingsgate.—From the Pope's Eye.
In Mecklenburg, so many dogs have lately gone mad,
that none are allowed to be at liberty except those used
by the foresters and shepherds.
The Turkish government has resolved to establish. elec-
tric telegraphs, and has given a Berlin manufacturer a
large order for telegraphic wires covered with gutta percha.
The cholera is raging at Prague. with the most fatal
results, after a few hours' illness. The public hospitals
are full of patients.
The U. S. mai steam-ship Humboldt, Lines, comman-
der, sailed from Southampton for New York, on Wednes-
day evening, with over 100 passengers and a moderate
freight.
The Literary Gazette contradicts, on authority, the
statement, that a new work by Dickins has been bought
by some American publishers for simultaneous publication
in England and the United States.
Quakerism, or a History of my Life in Dublin and the
Provinces, which has made such a noise, was written by
Mrs. Thomas Grier, formerly Miss Strangman of Water-
ford.—Morning Post.
A council of ancients was observed to be in consulta-
tion, a few days since, in a store in Ryde, Isle of Wight,
whose collective ages amounted to 423 years. They were
respectively aged, one 90, two 85, one 83, and one 80.
Great scarcity exists in the district of Oestmark, pro-
vince of Wermeland, in Sweden, and the inhabitants are
actually obliged to crush the bark of the trees and eat it,
mixed with green rye, chopped up like straw for horses.
The editor of the Fredonia Censor has seen a
" Bloomer," and thus hails the promised reform :
• Sound the loud timbrel o'er earth and o'er sea ;
The skirts shall be shortened, our women be free I

Mr. Lawrence, the American minister, is a self-educated
man. He commenced his career as a British goods
merchant, and he is now the principal proprietor of
celebrated cotton factory at Lowel, United States, and
worth £500,000.

A few days ago, two labouring men, named Crease, and
Porch, were wrestling, near Frome, when Crease threw
Porch, but overbalancing himself by the exertion, fell
backwards into a ditch, and died shortly gfterwards,,from
concussion of the brain.

Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton has accepted the invitation
of the Protectionists of the county of Hertford to be their
candidate at the next election. Acknowledging with
pain his separation from the Whig party, on account of
his consistency on a question " all paramount"—Protec-
tion to Native Industry.

We regret to say the potato blight has made its appear-
ance in the south-western division of this county. The
reports from East and West Ham, Woodford, Ilford, Bark-
ing, and other places, represent the late crops as all more
or less affected with the disease. The disease is also said
to communicate by mixing diseased with sound potatoes
in sacks for stowage.—Essex Standard.

At a meeting of the Medico-Chirurgical. Society, in
March, Professor Simpson stated his total disbelief in the
animal magnetism phenomenon of lucidity, transference of
the senses, clairvoyance, &c., and offered, through the
president of the society, £lOO to any clairvoyant who
would read a line of Shakspeare, which he would write on
a slip of paper and enclose in a box. The challenge has
not yet been accepted.
The train from Paddington, London, was fired at one
evening last week, by some miscreant unknown. The
engine-driver in command, believing he had passed over
a detonating ball, the usual signal of danger, blew the
guard's whistle and stopped the train, when he found that
the stoker distinctly saw two persons, one of whom pointed
his gun and fired, the shots of which were heard on the
tender.—Globe.

Mr. John Dickinson, a yeoman of Clifton in Westmore-
land, lies in a dangerous state from the effects of a strange
mistake. Returning from Penrith market, ho went to
sleep in a recess on Lowther Bridge ; on awaking, he
groped about, found the parapet, and, imagining he was
getting into bed, leaped over, and fell into the river, forty
feet below. Though very much hurt, he managed to
crawl to the edge of the stream, where he was found next
morning.

On Thursday evening, a timber yard at the Bethnal-
green station of the Eastern Counties Railway took fire,
as did also four of the railway arches, in which a great
quantity of mahogany lay piled. The flames mounted
high into the air, and the whole of the wires and posts of
the electric telegraph on that portion of the railway were
destroyed ; and so intense was the heat that the bricks
kept dropping from the crown of the arches. The timber
yard was destroyed, and four houses in the neighbourhood

seriously damaged

tHattets.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, SEPT. 26

Sugar : There was an improved demand during the early part
of the week, and for the finer qualities of Bengal full prices
have been obtained, while for Date and other inferior sorts
rather lower rates have been accepted ; the sales comprise
200 hhds. 8.P., 9000 bags of Bengal, and 2000 mats Mauritius ;
the latter to a refiner at 345. per cwt. Foreign : 2800'bags
brown Pernambuco and Paraiba have been sold at 15s. 6d. to
16s. 3d. in bond, and 150 hhds. Porto Rico at 355. 6d. to 40s.
per cwt. duty paid.-Molasses are difficult to sell, excepting at
easier rates ; the sales are 100 puns. Barbadoes at 14s. 6d. from
the quay, and 70 puns. Grenada and St. Vincent, coastwise
from London, at 12s. per cwt.-Coffee : There is not much im-
provement in the demand, and the business is only moderate;
it comprises 50 casks Plantation Ceylon at 465. Cd. to 525., 1600
bags Costa Rica at 435., 200 bags St. Domingo at 38s. 6d., and
350 bags Rio at 375. per cwt.-Rice: 2500 bags Bengal have
changed hands from 9s. 3d. to 9s. 9d. for middling to good
white, and 8500 bags Arracan at M. 6d. per cwt.-Tea : A fair
business was done in the early part of the week in good to fine
Congous, at prim ruling from Is. to Is. 3d. per lb., being full
previous rates. At a sale held yesterday, 3000 packages were
offered, and 1000 found buyers; Gunpowders, a little spurious,
sold at 9id. to 91d. ; common Congous were taken sparingly
at M. per lb.-In Saltpetre about 400 bags sold at 245. to
245. 6(1. for 12 per cent., and 288. to 295. for very good to fine;
and of Nitrate of Soda, 250 tons at 14s. ex ship, and 14s. 6d.
per cwt. from store.-Hides: Some large sales of East India
Kips have been made at full rates, comprising about 34,000 at
Bd. to 9id. for fair to good dry salted Calcutta, and other de-
scriptions in proportion ; about 4000 salted River Plate have
also been sold at 3id. to 3id., 1300 dry at 4.1 d. per lb., and 380
Horse at 6s. 7d. each.-For Tallow the market has been dull,
without change in prices; Petersburg Y C. rules at 40s. to
40s. 6d., Taganrog at 395., and fine North American at 40s. per
cwt.-About 50 tons Lard have been sold at 50s. per cwt.-
Baltic Hemp continues without change.-Jute: There is no
improvement to notice in the market, and the sales amount to
550 bales only, at 15s. to .412 ss. per ton for good common
to low middling.