The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

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Smith Harrison, Esq.,(Ntr. Jackson, gardener.)—First prizes
for 6 Fuchsias, 12 Pansies, Hardy Herbaceous Plant Antir-

V ...a atcs Ica, V LCLUIVaIb, U 11ATheb IW3eB 1 fl rots,
Lilium lancifolium, Cactus Jenkinsonii.. 2nd, for 6 fuchsias,
Calceolaria, Ditto Cineraria and Hardy Herbaceous Plant
Anchusa italica. 3d, for Basket of Plants in Pots, and for
Hand Bouquet.
William Hall, Esq., (Mr. Dickinson, gardener.)-Ist four
Fuchsias, six. Verbenas, Basket of. Cut Flowers, Specimen
Fuchsia and Calceolaria, and for Lettuce. 2d, for Greenhouse
plant.

J. W.
Fuchsias

Harden, (Mr. Redfern, gardener.)-23, for four

James Stringer, Esq., (Mr. Liversage, gardener.)—lst, for
four Pelargoniums, fine plants; also for single Specimen Pelar-
gonium and Fancy ditto. Melons, Gooseberries, and Peas. 2d,
for Cactus C. Ackermanii.

Thomas Johnson, Esq., a(r. Hughes, gardener.)—For four
Exotic Orchids and for single Specimen the Cattleya Alossim,
before alluded to_ The fnnr crpro Writioa nrinrstn 11, ,n

or piobably a variety of C. Mossize, much darker and tidier
in colour, but not quite so large; and for Cucumbers.
To. Mrs. Swan (Andrew Hogg, gardener.)--lst for Basket of
Greenhouse. and Hardy Plants, for Cabbages, and 2nd for
Rhubarb.
Rev. T. F: Redhead.-2nd for 6 Petunias
Jno. Finch, jun.—lst for 20 Pansies
Wm.. Sharp, Esq. (Mr. Williams
n.en In(

-Ist for speci-

ian'Azalea, and Collection of 'V
cimen Stove Plant, and Specimen Pot Ros
Mr. Wm. Huntriss.-Ist for White Currants; and 2nd for
Cabbages.
Mr. Wm. Barber.-2nd for Cucumbers; and Ist for Turnips

2nd for.Spe-

The first prize for Miscellaneous Collection (Nurserymen's),
was awarded to Messrs. Henderson and Brown, Oxcon Hill
NurseM for very—tine specimens of Erica tricolor, E. tricolor
speciosa, E. depressa Bovonia yphelexis humile serrulata,

June 17, !S 1•

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

Monday sight..
There has been more doing during the past week la
colonial produce, but at wretchedly low prices, Par;
ticularly for coffee. Tea has been heavy of sale, at rattle
lower prices. The sales in D. P. sugar firm :-.FtidaY, 5
circular consists of 700 hhds Demerara and Barbadoes;
the former at 345. 6d. to 378.'64., and the latter at 36!:
6(1. to 40s. 6d. for low to fine yellow ; and 375. to 435. 6d.
for strong grain ; also, 3,000 bags of Bengal, at 403. to
425. for middling to fine, with a small parcel of extra
fine at 435.
By the Africa steamer, which vessel arrived yesterdaf
from New York, there is little new. The several markets
were flat and rather low ; the weather was fine, hut the
receipts were gradually falling off. About 2,350,000 bales
is now thought will be the crop. Here to-day there has
been a good demand, and for the current sorts of Arne'
rican rather higher prices have been obtained.—Saleer
10.000 bales.

The condition of the trade of the country is anything
but satisfactory. The fact that in the thiee counties o
Nottingham, Derby, and Leicester, there are at least
3000 glove.makers, of whom not more than 200 have ail'
thing like full employment; 500, or perhaps 600, avellge
from ss. to 7s. a week ; and hundreds more are barely
getting 25., 35., and 4s. a week, is but a sample of th_
state of too many distriets, and the following report of
the Iron Trade, from the Birmingham Gazette of today,,
is merely an echo of what has long been the condition at
that trade :

• In the iron trade complaints are made of a remarkable cesg-
Batton of orders among the merchants and wholesale dealer 2
while the demands of home manufacturers are also said to sh°.
,7,
a considerable falling off. This torpor is in some quarters rc.
ferred to re-actiou ensuing noon the late atimolns of vrePara_

-,• • •••••••••••••• UpUil LUC lair 151.11111111.
Lion for the Great Exhibition—and its temporary continuance'
it is said, will depend upon how long that object may, as
r a 5
present, engross unlimited attention; but to others it nl9Plat
of a more serious character, the result of a current opinion t
the close of,the quarter will usher in a declared reduction in
prices, accompanied by an effort to effect a general lowering of
of
wages, without which it is asserted that the competition be
other producing districts cannot be met. Whatever may of
the cause, or upon whatever grounds exnectation that eitber_

the latter.couries will beaioWteare;tl,l7l;,7t7Wiiiitbetind;
6 promisino• appearances of last month remain unabated. P°`
manufactured and pig iron are sold with more difficulty, thong)
pressed at all sorts of prices; while a new and alarming feature
presents in the recent stoppage of extensive houses in Liver-
pool,, and one, though inconsiderable, in our own district, u
which several Staffordshire firms will be sufferers. It is unto
rious, that for a long time business has been transacted upon
very unsafe terms, that vast inroads have been made into Pre.
viously acquired capital, in the continued hope that better OP'
portunities would return, and that other resources have been
heavily taxed to keep up appearances • but the depressir,t;

apparently so inter-minable

that men of capita

..,n ISUII.I Luc LUilLeZt, I.IIIU Llielr places air ••••-,
supplied by those who have little to lose, and, under our prese.:
bankruptcy code, little to fear. Hence apprehensions are en
_
tertained that the misfortunes already declared are but
prelude to a severe crisis and a fearful impending series of dts
asters."

A respectable authority amongst the corn trade, gr•
Robert Procter, writes as follows, in his circular of Fridal
last, upon the prospects of holders and importers of god"
" After three years of great depression, the corn trade a
length promises a reasonale chance of better times. The pre`
wailing low price for so long a period has encouraged a "b.%
sumption of breadstuffs surprisingly large, and greatly in
cess, to what it was previously to our entering upon free tritu,.
in corn. The important question now is, have we on hana:e
sufficiency to meet the contingency of a later harvest I helielt
the prominent facts of the last three years to be, that so far •
has not been the interest, nor the inclination, of either farmer,
merchant, or miller, to hold stock ; the result of so acting
generally been to a loss. Last harvest was firmly believed, 141
parties most conversant with calculation, to have been In_a'A.
below an average. Notwithstanding, low prices have lang
under large importations of foreign produce, but by far iceej,„c
greater proportion has gone into consumers' hands; and, sin
the commencement of the present year, putting into store .1
been more from necessity than choice. We lately, and eaP:'„
Az I+. rinlly thin wool, A A r

cluily (1119 weeK, witness a demand upon us from a distancv
the interior, unknown since the memorable year of 1847. Doe
this intimate that the growers are not holding stocks usual at
this period of the year? I am strongly of opinion that tr
farmers and millers have not held shorter stocks of NO!!
than they do now, at a similar period, for a number of Yea`,'
and that low prices have not only caused immense consunird
tion, but that, under dispiritedness, this prime article of foo
has been to some extent wasted, as was the case after the good
harvest and low nriroc: .f iewe loon 79

June 17 1851.

Lcrat gain.
We understand that the Rev. Hugh M'Neile, D.D.,
deli.rer a discourse at Sefton Church, to-morrow
(Wednesday) evenino.
brill ion steamor,so'n Wednesday, came in contact with
the ge at the north end of the Landing-stage, am
liming the iron bulw
On Thurso
one Hungarian n,
they land.
Mr.
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anted to

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morning last three expatriated Poles and

Preston fron-) this town, where

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Upwards of

Franklin arrived

ption, manufac-

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y, en route to the Cape of Good
sion of the same regiment arrived

had been employed by Mr. Gill

, last week, to fence a hedge, died
3 subsequent mortification which

pool Church-school Committees

intention to defray the expenses

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ROTA] INSTITUTION SCHOOL.— On Saturday Mr. Thos.
Barber, scholar of Clare-hall, and Iliff scholar of the
above school, obtained the first classical prize of £lO,
given by his college. Mr. Barber's name appeared brac-
ketted as ay. with that of Mr. Raynes, late one of the
head boys of Winchester School, for the third time that
he and that gentleman have been distinguished as thus
gaining the first classical nrizes in their college. Mr. C.
T. Hudson, late of the above school, stands third in the
examination at St. John's College, Cambridge, and is the
only gentleman in the whole of that large college recom-
mended for a prize.

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