The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

on fine wool, which is sustained. Public sales will beheld
here on the 10th proximo.
A better demand has arisen for OLIVE OIL, the saleso
the month have been large • both speculators and manu-
facturers have operated freely, and the market has an up-
ward tendency.
The Scotch Pig IRON Market has been very quiet
throughout the week, but prices have remained steady at
455. to 455. 6d. for mixed numbers' free on board, at
Glasgow. From the likelihood of the disturbances in
Ireland being now speedily quelled, a more active demand
is looked for. Bar Iron, ordinary sizes, in Wales, £5
15e. per ton.
The present prices of TOBACCO are as follow :-James'
Meer Leaf, faded, 2,1 d. to 3d. ; ordinary sound, 3d. to 3-d.;
middling, 34-d. to 4d. ; good and fine, 4:1,1. to 51d. ; ditto
stemmed, faded, 2d. to 2111.; ordinary sound, U. to 3d.;
middling, 4d. to 44d. ; good and tine, 44 1. to 51e1..and 6d.
Kentucky leaf, 2d. to 4d. ; stemmed 31d. to sd.
The last return from the Bank of England states that
the amount of notes in circulation is £19,040,720,
being a decrease of £104.340; and the stock of bullion in
both departments is £14,108.707, showing a decrease of
£154,469, when compared with the preceding return.
The accounts from the Amsterdam Bourse state, that
although little business had been transacted, the prices
for Dutch and Russian were slightly better. Spanish
was dull, sales having latterly increased.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on
Saturday, at 45f. ; the Five per Cents., 72t.
The overland mail which reached London yesterday
brings intelligence ,from Bombay to the effect that the
setting in of the south-west monsoon had put a stop to
business. Abundant rain had fallen. The money market
was in a healthy condition, supplies of specie coming
freely from China. The market for cotton piece goods
and cotton yarn was quiet. Freights, owing to a large
accumulation of tonnage, gave way. The last engagement
to Liverpool was at £3 per ton, but, as several aditional
arrivals were reported, it was not expected this
rate would be maintained. Rates to London we quote at
£2 10-e. to £2 12s. Gd. ; and for China we bear of two
vessels taken up-one at Br. per candy, and the other at
Sr. Exchanges had experienced a slight dec:ine, a con-
siderable amount in Russell's draughts upon Baring's.
having changed hands at Is. 10d. The banks asked Is.
91d. for bills at six months' sight, but only mie transao-
Lion at this rate had taken place.
At Calcutta business was still extremely depressed. A.
better disposition to ship sugar was shown, but at a trifling
improvement in prices which holders were less inclined to
accept. Saltpetre had given way 4a. to Ga. per maund.
Little was doing in rice. The import market was still in
an unsatisfactory state. The demand. for cotton piece
goods was limited, and prices were depressed. No change
lied occurred in the money market. Exchange was no-
minally at 1-10 for six months' sight, paper, with docu-
ments, but there was none offering. The most experienced
brokers have no recollection of bills of exchange being so
very scarce. Freights re nained pretty steady at our last
quotations, with a sliglA advance in the rates for some
articles to Landon. For sugar and saltpetre our quota-
tions are £4 ss. to £4 10s.

THE PACKET SHIP CONSTITUTION.

The increasing trade between this port and New Yor
more particularly in the transit of passengers, has given
to the industry of America a stimulus in the building
of ships suited to that traffic, and produced a marked im-
provement in their size, capacity, model, and general
equipment. Hitherto clippers in speed and great in
burthen, they are now excelling in the more important
points—of producing fast-sailing, good carrying, well
ventilated and strong ships ; and in no instance is this
position more verified than in that of the packet-ship
Constitution, some particulars of which may not prove
uninteresting. In point of external appearance the Con-
stitution has all the symmetrical beauty of a line of battle-
ship. Her entrance is fine, her bearing good, and her
run such as would scarcely leave a ripple in her wake.
Her stem from the water-line has a graceful curve and is-
surmounted by a colossal figure of General Washington,
with trail board richly carved ; her stern is also relieve&
with scroll work, surmounted by the American Eagle.
The length of the Constitution, from stem to stern
post, is 200 feet. Her keel is 188 feet. The breadth
of beam is forty feet ten inches, and the depth of
hold thirty-one feet. She has three decks. A prome-
nade deck, usually sparred, but in this case plinked and
caulked, a gun deck, and a berth deck. The between
' decks are extremely lofty, and well ventilated, but no
conception of their capaciousness can be formed by de-
scription. On the gun deck most comfortable staterooms
are erected, while below the berths for steerage passen-
gers are in great part constructed of iron, and are so roomy
that for the four voyages and a passage she has made, not
a single case of sickness has occurred. Yet, in case of
need, she has that significant sign, so lauded by our
talented townswoman Mrs. Maury,—" This ship carries
a surgeon." The saloon is splendidly, and at the same
time substantially, decorated. The state-rooms, which
ru-i down each side, are cut off by pannelling, in dark
and richly-feathered mahogany, skirted with rosewood,
and relieved with intervening pilasters, in white enamel,
picked out with gold in correspondence with the mouldings
of the ceiling. The sofas and settees are upholstered
in crimson plush, and the whole has the appear-
ance, not only of splendour but of warmth and
comfort. The state-rooms, as may be conceived
in a vessel of upwards of forty feet beam are
roomy, convenient, and well lighted. They are pro-
vided with accommodation for thirty cabin passengers,
and though now fully a week from the sailing day,.only
one room is unengaged. -The Constitution was built at.
New York, by Messrs. Brown and Bell, at the time of
the dispute as to the Oregon Territory, and in strength is
so superior, that had that question not been satisfactorily
settled, she would have been purchased by the govern-
ment, and rated as a 44 gun frigate, but is fully calculated
to mount 60 guns. Her timbers are solid Live Oak, her
planking oak to the water-line, and above that pitch pine.
Her knees are all well grown and fitted, and she is copper
fastened throughout and coppered. The scale of spars is
fully equal to those of any American frigate. The Con-
stitution is commanded by Capt. J. Brit ton, whose long
connexion with the port as commander of the Rochester,
has gained him the esteem of the first in the trade, while
his generous, but seaman like conduct has secured
the acknowledged good wishes of all who had the
pleasure of his company at sea ' • indeed, such is the
thatestimation in which he his held his command will
give a preference to any ship. As a conveyance for
passengers the Constitution is most admirably suited ;
indeed the very fact of her being the largest merchant
ship (British or American) that ever entered this port,
will give her a strong recommendation. Her tonnage is,
by register, 1,609, and her estimated burthen close oa
2,000 tons. She is consigned in the pasFenger department
here to Mr. B. Byrne, jun., of Waterloo-road, whose ma-
nagement of her last voyage has been spoken of in high
terms of commendation. To strangers the sight of this
ship will be highly gratifying.

A telegraphic message received from Birmingham, oft
Saturday, states that the detective sent to apprehend Dr.
Reynolds had succeeded in capturing him. •
Intsft VANITY.—Gen. Cavaignac, the Military Dicta-
tor of Paris, who suppressed the insurrection, is of Irisi
descent and of the once princely race of the Cavanaghs of
Borris.—Linzerick Chronicle.

THE COMING HARVEST.—The Gardeners' Chronicle
publishes returns from various parts of the country of the
present appearance of the crops. They indicate a full
average produce of wheat, a various yield of barley. a
comparatively poor crop of oats and of beans, a very bad. •
crop of peas, good promise of a turnip crop, and a heavy
crop of hay of variable quality. They indicate also a stock
of wheat on hand considerably beyond the average of past
years at this season. On the whole, we think there was
at the date of these returns every reason for thankful
anticipation regarding the ersuine harvest.
THE SEA LIONESS.—One of these amphibious creak
tures having been captured in the South Seas, by a Cap-
tain Triscott, has been brought to England, and is now
exhibiting in London. It evidently belongs to the seal
tribe, from which it differs in the general squareness of
its head and the specific flatness of its nose. Its eyes are
round and brilliant, and its skin is covered with smooth
blackish-gray hair, while its fins are like the hands of the
human being. One of its peculiarities is in its teeth,
which consist of only four in front, besides a few small
grinders. A living specimen of the " sea lioness" has
never before, been seen in this country, and the present
opportunity, therefore, will not be lost by the students is
natural history. But we may remark the animal seems
rather to be in a dying than thriving condition.
SILVER.—In the Lords Committee. on the Bank Act of
1844, Mr. Glyn was asked, " Do you approve of that clause
of the act which restricts the Bank in the purchase of •
silver bullion ?" To which he replied, " I certainly do
not. I think the restriction to one-fifth is very in-
convenient, and practically, in the spring of last year,
was found so. Merchants from the Pacific, whose
returns are very much in silver bullion, found, when it ar-
rived last spring, that there was no market for it here, and
they had to send it over to Paris for returns in bills of ex-
change, and when they came back there was a difficulty in
discounting. The interval lost, which is about six weeks,.
is a very serious thing to a mercantile house. And there is
another evil in it. Supposing the amount of bullion
held in the issue department to be in the exact propor-
tions allowed by the act, with one-fitli silver, and supposing
that £400,000 of notes go in taking the same amount of
sovereigns out, that immediately alters the proportions,
and the issue department must necessarily sell silver
bullion to keep the proportions right, and thus reduce
the circulation another £10,060 to keep up the pro-
portion."
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in whichvaemreiiridgee, worlonens' dresses, which were
deposited there, in a blaze, and a policeman's lantern
burning in the midst of the fire. With the assistance of
the serjeant and the policeman on the beat he turned oa
the ready prepared hose to the water-pit-Ks, and very soon
extinguished it. Ou subsequent examination, by the
admiral superintendent and the Queen's.solicitor, of the
policeman. stationed on the beat, the man stated that he
lost a key in the engine-house, and lighted his lantern
from the corporal of the guard's lantern, mid by the aid of
which endeavoured to find it, when. hearing the inspector
of police coming the rounds, to avoid being detected with
his lantern lighted; he placed it on the floor of the build-
ing., and threw sonic of the workwens' elpthes over it, and
thus the fire originated. The man was remanded untilMon-
' day, when he will be re-examined. It was fortunate that the
smoke was discovered so promptly, foi4evegilAing ras
full of inflammable materials; and if tlate‘rq ffainPiewil
any strength, the roof of the dock and tiyi llateff,liattlti'.
ships would have been inevitably 4oktreied. and Irv:rani*,
have been impossible to have estletiated the extent of tuo..,
damage her Majesty's dockyard rienidl44pt sustained..
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