The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

CAIRO AS IT IS, AND WILL ERE LONG BE.—Cairo is at
present, with the single exception perhaps of Damascus,
the most purely Arab city in the East; but the ruthless
reforms of the Pasha, and the constant passage of the
Franks on this new high-road to India, will erelong divest
it of its distinguishing characteristics, and give it as hybrid
an aspect as that of the Frank intruders into the Pashas
chamber. An English hotel has already started up ; and
Mrs. Poole informs us, that " by a proclamation of the
Pasha, the houses are to be whitewashed within and with-
out ; those who inhabit ruined houses are to repair or sell
them ; and uninhabited dwellings are to be pulled down,
for the purpose of forming squares and gardens ; meshree-
beyehs (projecting first-floor windows) are forbidden ; and
mastabahs (the seats in front of shops) are to be removed.
Cairo, therefore, will no longer be an Arab city, and will
no longer possess those peculiarities which render it so
picturesque and attractive. The deep shade in the narrow
streets, increased by the projecting windows ; the pictu-
resque tradesmen, sitting with one friend or more before
his shop, enjoying the space afforded by his niastabah—
these will be no more ; and while I cannot but acknow-
ledge the great necessity for repairing the city, and remov-
ing the ruins which threaten the destruction of passengers,
I should have liked those features retained which are
essentially characteristic—which help, as it were, to group
the people, and which form such admirable accessories to
—Blackwood's Magazine.

TOWN EDITION.

LONDON MARKETS OF YESTERDAY.

MARK-LANE CORN EXCHANGE

There was a moderate supply of English Wheat, a good de-
mand was experienced for fine qualities at fully the currency of
this day week. Other descriptions, however, only a slow sale
without change in value. There was rather more doing in free
foreign at late rates.
The arrival of Barley was liberal. The finest chevalier in
good request, but the coarse and secondary qualities still diffi-
cult of disposal without a reduction in terms. Grinding unal-
tered. Malt, Pease, and Beans in better supply, and the price
in favour of buyers.

We have a further good arrival of Oats. Scotch Oats were
fully 6d. per qr. cheaper, and the sale of Irish was liii ited chiefly
in retail sales to country buyers, hardly supporting the prices
of Monday last.
CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE
Wheat, Essex and Kent
Red ..
White

Norfolk and Lincoln, red
White
Irish, Ted
WlAte

48 0 -
38 0 -
40 0

43 0
- 47 0

Rye, old
New
Barley, Grinding
Malting
Chevalier
Malt, Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingston and Ware
Chevalier
Oats, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, feed
Potatoe
Youghall and Cork, black
Cork, white
Scotch, feed
Beans, tick
Pigeons
Pease, Grey
Maple
White
Boilers

30 9 34 0
35 0 36 0
27 0 00 0
33 0-35 0
36 0— 00 0
58 0 63 0
56 0-60 0
6u 0 oo 0
64 o— 65 0
22 0-23 0
23 0 24 0
29 0 —22 0
21 0— 23 0
23 0 24 0
34 0-36 0
38 0 39 0
34 0 36 0
35 0 36 0
33 0 35 0
36 0 38 0
Flour, town made
Suffolk 33 0 35 0
Stockton and Norfolk
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND.

pictures."

EFFECT OF SUPERIOR BIRTH AND MANNER UPON A
VULGAR MIND.-Mr. Perrott had seated himself a little
apart from the ladies, and nearer to Mr. de Vere; who,
too polite to suffer any one in his house to feel neglected,
addressed himself with great urbanity to the somewhat
cloudy-countenanced citizen, and enteavoured to lead him
into conversation. But there was a certain dignity, a cer-
tam air of unaffected superiority when be addressed our
philosopher, which all hi good breeding could not entirely
conceal. lam sure he did not intend it, but he could not
help looking like one politely bestowing attention upon an
inferior in need of it; and the advocate of universal equa-
lity and the rights of man was quick enough to perceive
this, and was with it in proportion offended. In vain he
tried to assume a certain coarse and impudent tone of su-
periority, which he, in his turn, was accustomed to exer-
cise over his fellows ; he felt as if a kind of magical bar-
rier was opposed to familiarity or presumption by the dig-
nified politeness of Mr. de Vere. As he had not been
much in what is generally called good company, he had
been accustomed to carry all before him in the circles he
frequented, by the coarseness, bluntness, and sarcastic bit-
terness of his conversation. He never felt so ill at ease in
his life : he fidgetted in his chair, crossed and uncrossed
his legs, endeavoured at an harsngue, but found it impos-
sible to insert the wedge of his discourse into the conver-
sation : while the ease, spirit, and gaiety of Mr. Higgins
at last forced upon him the unwilling conviction that an
oration, however eloquent, upon the rights of man and
wrongs of governments, would be here quite out of place.
—Mount Sorel ; or, the Heiress of the De Verea.

Wheat, Dantzie...
Hamburg

32 0 -
30 0 -.-
20 0 -24 0
17 0 - 18 0
15 0 - 17 0
24 0 -29 0
28 0-32 0
19 0 - -
18 0 - -

Barley ...
Oats, new

Flour, American
Baltic ....

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET

Since Monday last the imports of foreign stock into London
have amounted to 40 Oxen, 20 Cows, and 35 Sheep, all from
Holland. The supply of home-fed Beasts was sufficiently nu-
merous, but very deficient in quality. The demand for them
was steady at an advance on last week's quotations of 2d. per
Blbs.—the highest figure being 4s. per Sibs. ; but the middling
and inferior Beasts were a slow inquiry, at about previous
figures.
The number of Sheep exhibited a falling off, indeed, they were
somewhat limited. Prime old Downs were in steady request,
and a turn dearer. All other kinds were heavy, at previous
figures. Calves were in limited supply, and steady request, at
full prices. In Pigs a fair average amount of business was doing
but at no more money.
Per 81bs. to sink the offal.

THE TALLY OR " SCOTCHMAN'S" TRADE.—What so
easy as to give an order to the tallyman ? And though the
articles are higher in price, and not nearly so good as those
she used to buy, and that, besides, she has no power in
making a choice, (being obliged to take just whatever is
offered,) there is the independence of ready money, so
convenient and pleasurable to a poor and needy woman,
and the flattering argument that it can be paid by degrees,
or a little and a little at a time. In this way all the scru-
ples of her simple and honest prejudices are got over, the
hebdomadal visits of the tallyman continue till she is se-
cure in the toils of this want-producing system ; compro-
mised in moral, as well as womanly dignity ; in debt to an
amount she scarcely dreams of, and her happiness as a
wife dependent on the forbearance of an unprincipled
agent, who keeps the secret involved in their dealings from
the deceived and injured husband, just so long as she finds
the means of meeting his extortionate demands. However
imposed on, she has no power of purchasing elsewhere,
the weekly drain upon her limited means leaves her, of
course, without money, and renders this exacting and
fraudulent channel the only one by which she can obtain
whatever is necessary for her family. By-and-by, sick-
ness or accident occurs to render less punctual the pay-
ment she has subscribed to ; weeks go by without her li-
quidating any part of it, and then her creditor, dropping
his obsequious complacency, becomes harsh, insolent, and
loud ; she learns to know his step, and to tremble at it ;
and, conscious of the coarse rudeness that will meet her
defalcation, hides herself at his approach, teaching her
little ones deceit and falsehood in bidding them deny her.
The man raps at the doo'r, and they answer from within
(though she is is in the next room to them) that their mo-
ther is not at home ; and sullenly re-shouldering the heavy
pack he had cast down at the threshold, after peering
rudely in through the window, the man walks away mut.
tering imprecations on her want of principle ; and what is
the issue of all this ? Conscious of deceiving her husband,
for he knows not a moiety of her enthralment, she feels no
longer satisfaction in meeting him, and lives in continued
dread of her indiscretion coming to his knowledge, her
cheerfulness sinks beneath this mental burden, and the
fear of her merciless creditor renders her morose and fret-
ful. The state of mind naturally spreads to her expres-
sions and temper; her children are affected by the change;
they grow quarrelsome with one another, and seeing no
cordiality exist between their parents, cease to share their
loving natures with them, and shun as much as possible
their presence. Alas ! what a change is here ; nor this its
worst climax. Day by day the weight of deceit and debt
grows more intolerable, till, what began in credulity and
the love of acquisition, ends at length in confirmed crime ;
and the lost victim of this vicious system flies to the Lethe
of drunkenness to stifle the sense of her own imprudence,
her husband's reproaches. and the budding depravity of
her neglected children.—Jerrold'a Shilling Magazine.

s. d. s. d. a. d. s. d.
Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 2 8 Second quality do. 3 2 3 II
Second [quality do. 2 10— 3 4 Coarse do. 3 8— 4 0
Prime large Oxen. 3 6 3 8 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 4 0, Do. out of the wool --
Coarse Calves .... 3 10— 4 8 Large Hogs
Small do.
Suckling do. each ; 8 0-30 0 Qr. old Pigs, each 16 0-20 0
Inferior Sheep.... 2 8— 3 0; Lambs

SUPPLY AT MARKEL

Beasts„ 2,945 Sheep, 2'1,450,

Calves, 63 .. Pigs, 330

LONDON SHARE MARKET

The Share Market has not been so lively this morning, but
still the business done has been extensive. Prices are on the
average well sustained. Churnet Valley shares were last sold
at 73, Caledonian 7i. Cambridge and Lincoln 4, Eastern Coun-
ties 183, Birmingham and Gloucester 134, Brist ii and ditto 591,
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 114 Great Western
1763, Haves 1003, Hull and Selby 97. Brighton 64, London
and York 64 Midland 129. Newcastle and Berwick 14,
North British 173, Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton and Dudley
33, South Eastern South Devon 173, South Wales 42, Trent
Valley 23, York and North Midland 1044 Boulogne and Amiens
11, Tolouse 2a. Toulouse and Cette 23, Great Northern of France
63, Orleans and Bourdeaux 103, Paris and Orleans 523, Paris
and Rouen 453, Tours and Nantes 23.

TATTEI6IIAL'S.
Last Night, Six o'clock.
CHESTER CUP.
12 to 1 agst Cataract
12 1
16 1
16 1
22 1
25 -- 1 Winesour
25 1
33 1
50 1
66 1
66 1
DERBY.
10 to 1 agst Alarm
16 1 Idas
16 1
16 1 Cobweb colt
20 1 Pam
25 1 Clear-the-Way
30 1 Pantasa
33 1 Mentor
40 1 Old England
40 1
40 1 Fitz-Allen
50 1 Young Eclipse

AN ENGLISH DEMOCRAT OF THE TIMES OF THE
FRENCH REVOLUTION.—Mr. Higgins, on his return from
London this time, was accompanied by a man most par-

ticularly disagreeable to Reginald. This gentleman :was

one of those political adventurers with whom the times ---
swarmed, whose purposes were directed to take advantage MAYNOOTH.—No protestant has a right to be taxed for
of the simplicity and vanity of his fellow-creatures in or- the expense incident on making a popish priest. The
der to advance his own fortunes and interests. Such was Popish priest should not be manufactured into such at the
Margarott ; such was Robespierre ; such did Horne Tooke expense of the state ; and Maynooth is a mere state-paid
and many others always appear to me to be. Our present manufactory for making popish priests. It is the lair in
subject was a small, rather ordinary-looking, black- which the nightmares are engendered that overlay the
browed, black-eyed man, who affected the sans culotte in mind of lreland, and prevent its state-paid education
his habits and manners, and the bitterest contempt for all from educating ; and it is foul injustice that the money of
the delicacies and refinements of life : who eat, and drank, a protestant people should be squandered in nursing up
and enjoyed himself, and talked of Cyrus and his Cresses : these nightmares, and making them formidable. Nor
who advocated universal freedom of opinion and never have the effects of Maynooth been confined to Ireland.
would suffer himself to be contradicted : and declaimed It has been a masked battery raised against protestant-
upon universal equality, while he commanded the services ism all over the empire; and it is rather hard, in such
of every domestic about him in terms and tones which few circumstances, that the party shot at should have to pay
domestics in the worst of times would bear. His name all the expense of casting and working the guns employed
was Perrott. Where Mr. Higgins picked him up, or what against them, and of supplying them with ammunition.
he could see in him, it was difficult to say; but that he " All the young men who enter Maynooth," says Mr.
exercised a very extraordinary influence over that bold and Grant in his recent work on Ireland, " are presumed to
masculine understanding was certainly true; and that he do so with the view of preparing for the priesthood. In
flattered him in a way which would have sickened many fact, if any young man made an admission to the con-
a crowned king, greedy of flattery, as it was then the fa- trary, he would not be received into the institution.
shion to suppose kings alone to be, was manifest to every Consequently all the students go through the same
one. Perrott understood his man and his times to per- routine of education. It happens, however, that not
fection. The dislike or disapprobation of Reginald or of much more than half the students do, after all, eventually
others troubled him not a whit. He had entangled the enter the church. It is ascertained that, taking one year
great fly round whom his meshes were cast; the little ones with another, out of every 75 students, only forty settle
were not worth his notice.—Heiress of the De Veres. down in the capacity of priests. The remaining 35 en-
ORIGIN AND DECLINE OF THE COMMERCIAL CIVES, gage in secular occupations of various kinds. A goodly
OF ITALY AND GERMANY.. THE
just remarked, Englano number of them connect themselves with the newspaper
press—some as editors, and others as reporters." We
was not the first of European states to reach mercantile deem this a pregnant statement. What do our readers
preeminence. She had illustrious precursors in the thir- think of the fact, that no inconsiderable proportion of a
teenth century in the line of commercial and manufactur- 1 class of men who direct and originate opinion in the conn-
ing distinction, in the Italian cities of Genoa, Venice, try should have been educated as popish priests? This
Florence, and Leghorn. These cities were unknown to evil did not exist ere Pitt originated his miserable expe-
the ancients ; they are all of modern foundation, and dient for rearing a home-spun priesthood in Ireland at
their greatness the result of commercial industry. About
previous priest the national expense ;
the year 1450 Florence had 200 factories and 30,000 work-» as the popish
people that time was imported ready ma-de from abroad, and to
employed in the woollen manufacture alone. At a
supply did not largely exceed the demand. And when,
period a little later, but nearly contemporary with the I
by Peel's still more miserable and more unjustifiable ex-
prosperity of the republican marts of Italy, had risen into
ptdient, of much more than doubling the grant to Slay-
power the great confederation of the Hanse Towns, com-
prising in its defensive league Hamburgh and Lubeck, nooth the priest-manufactory shall be extended, we shall
with eighty of the more considerable cities on the Rhine see the evil mightily increased.—Witness.
and Baltic. The enterprising merchants of these cities and THE MUSICAL GIIOST.—The following curious in-
of Italy used to form companies, and settle in England, to stance of a musical ghost occurred in the writers own
advance and manage their trading interest—much in the family. A lady having watched several nights by the bed-
same manner, and for the like purposes, as those for which side of her sister, (a married woman,) suffering under
the London, Liverpool, or Glasgow merchant despatches dangerous illness, was at length fairly exhausted by phy-
his agents to India, China, or the Levant. The Lombards sical fatigue and mental anxiety. Long privation of
became especially noted as the bankers of the metropolis ; sleep had worked its bewildering effect. Further attend-
and the industrious Germans exercised also in this court- ance, was out of the question at that time. It was abso-
try all the functions of the English merchant. German lutely necessary that she should repair to her mother's
vessels were almost solely employed in the transit of house, and recruit her strength and spirits in order that
goods ; Germans were the brokers, buyers, and sellers— she might better be able to resume her affectionate offices
bringing here silks, linens, and cloth of gold, tapestry, on behalf of one so dear to her : and her brother having
wines, books, household furniture, and drugs, in exchange undertaken to sit up with the patient's husband, and to
for our wool, coarse cloth, lead, tin, sheep, beer, and communicate, in case of need, with his unmarried sister,
cheese. The prosperity of Holland was about a century the latter set out on her return to the maternal home,
subsequently. In the middle of the sixteenth century there to find repose of which she stood so excessively in
Antwerp was famous for industrious enterprise and the need. Utterly weary, worn out, and plodding towards her
extent of her navigation. The number of ships that every residence, more by instinct than by perception of outward
day entered and left her port averaged 500 ; the carts and objects, she almost slept as she walked, and was only
other vehicles employed in the conveyance of merchandize roused to consciousness by the sudden glare from a shop-
arnouu, ed to 10,000, and she contained 100,000 inhabi- window, produced by a strong light before a polished re_
tants. The opulence of some of the Dutch merchants flector. Looking about her, she could not distinctly re-
may be conjectured from what is related of one named member how she came to be where she was. She felt
Fugger. He gave a public entertainment to the Emperor I bewildered and alarmed. Being in the neighbourhood
Charles V., on which occasion he made a fire in the hall of one of her friends, she thought it would be prudent
of cinnamon, and lighted it with the bonds that prince had to call, and, distrustful of further progress in the streets
given him in security for a public loan. It would be gra- by herself, ask for sonic one to accompany her. Accord-
tifying, doubtless, if our own national creditors would try ingly, attended by a servant, she reached her home safely.
to emulate the munificence of this wealthy Hollander, by But whether her somnolency while walking, or the shock
laying on one blazing pile our public obligations. Fugger, she had received on having been startled into conscious-
despite of his splendid liberality, died worth six millions ness, or the extreme agitation under which she laboured
of crowns—an enormous accumulation for the period. The on account of the critical state of her sister—whether any
causes of the decline of these glorious cities and states or all these had brought about nervous irritability, cer-
were chiefly political. Antwerp was ruined by its siege twin it is that she had no tendency to sleep on sit; ing down
and capture by the Spaniards in 155, arid its mercantile in her own room, where she remained in a state of painful
interest transferred to Amsterdam. But the causes of vigilance—her thoughts in the meanwhile shaping them-
the general decline of Holland were the oppressive weight selves in all kinds of dreary prognostics. A pianoforte,
of taxation and the natural growth of other countries. Her closed up, was in the room ; and, as tie almost-exhausted
exhausting fiscal system wash however, a principal cause lady leaned back in her chair, she heard, (so she thought,)
of her paralysis. On fish, for instance, the price paid to the keys of the instrument struck on a sudden by sonic
the fishermen was six times over paid to the state in im- unseen hand, which, after a wild and dismal prelude, per-
posts. On one particular sauce thirty different duties were formed a dirge-like melody. She had never before heard
levied. Excess of opulence, and the debilitating vices it the air, nor could she imagine how so mournful, so ghastly,
engenders, appear to have been a leading cause of the de- so funereal, so spiritual a character could be given to
cline of the Italian cities. They became rich, effeminate, music. In the weakness of her fear, she started up,
luxurious ; lost their military energies, and became sue- grasped the back of the chair for support, and ejaculated
cessively the prey of the brutality of Switzerland, the in- to herself, "My sister is dead I—these sounds which seem
solence of France, and the rapacity of Spain. The pro- born of tears, announce to me her dissolution I" On a
gress of navigation, and the discovery of a new passage to sudden the strains ceased • and the returning silence was
the East round the Cape of Good Hope, also contributed quickly broken by a loud knocking at the street door.
to divert the commercial stream from the Mediterranean j Gasping with terror, she staggered to open it, when her
ports. The fate of Spain forms a singular example of vi- brother appeared. "Maria is just dead!" she shrieked ;
cissitudes. Her empire in Europe once equalled that of " you come to tell me so I" "Be calm, I beseech you,"
Charlemagne, and exceeded that of Napoleon ; for the he replied; " I bring you news from the physician that all
French emperor was never master at sea, while the Spa- danger is over, and that she will soon be well. The
niards ruled over both elements. They are memorable delight was too much. The poor watcher fainted in her
instances of the mischief that may be wrought by bad go- brother's arms, was conveyed to bed, and, after a night's
vernment, since this was the very cause of the decline of repose, waked happily at sunrise. The imaginary and
their commercial and political greatness. The Protestant presaging sounds were falsified, as such omens often are,
Reformation, so salutary to other European nations, was though the failures are seldom recorded. Had not the
ruinous to Spain—only made her people more bigoted, her hearer of them been so utterly worn out in mind and body,
Inquisition more vigilant, and her rulers more imbecile.— no such sounds would have seemed to be audible. Ex-
Wade's London Review. haustion is a cunning impostor.—Ainstvorth's Magazine,