The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

YESTERDAY

by land carriage

xnples this

morning being even smaller than of late, factors realised an
advance of 3s. to 4s. per quarter, at which the whole was quickly
cleared off. Business in foreign is extremely limited, and the
demand of bonded for export had nearly subsided.

our quotations are fully
Is. per qr. and peas is to
)Id readily at an advance of Is. per

Barley is more inquired att
supported. Beans must be
2s. per qr. dearer. Oats so
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SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
Owing to the continuance of warm weather, and the thin
attendance of buyers, the beef trade was in a very depressed
state, at a decline in the quotations obtained on Monday last, of
2d per Sibs. ; the highest figure for the best Scots not exceeding
35. ltd. per Sibs., and a clearance was not effected.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire we received
1600 Scots, homebreds, and short-horns; for the Western and
Midland Counties 400 Herefords, Devons, runts, &c.; from
other parts of England 380 of various breeds; and from Scot-
land 32 1 horned and polled Scots.

The numbers of sheep are seasonably good, while the Mutton
trade was firm, and last week's prices were well supported.
Although the supply of Lambs was large, the Lamb trade was
firm, and previous rates were maintained in every instance.
Calves moved off slowly, at but little alteration in value.
In Pigs very little was doing at our Quotations.

The christening of the infant Princess is fully expected
to take place at Windsor early in the ensuing month.
Her Majesty will thus, we hope, be free from every en-
prevent her accompanying her

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Royal Consort to Liverp'ol.
It is said that a difference of ten per cent. in masons'
wages will pay the carriage of worked stone for 100 miles.
The Li►nerick Reporter estimates the number of per-
sons who attended the " O'Brien Demonstration" in that
town, last week, at three hundred thousand.

Captain Gladstone, in consequence of illness in his
family obliging him to go to Germany, has paired off with
the Hon. J. K. Howard.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHYMISTRY.—Prince Albert,
president of the institution, has expressed his intention
of laying the foundation stone of the new laboratories in
connexion with this college, this day (Tuesday).
The asphalte pavements in Manchester have melted
with the heat of the sun, and the pedestrians have, in
some instances, found difficulty in releasing their feet
from the pitchy substance.
At the market in this town on Saturday strawkerries
were is. per quart; cherries Bd. to ls. per lb; goose-
berries 4d. to sd. per quart • peas ls. to is. Gd. per peek;
new potatoes 2d. to 3d. per lb.

The statue of Sir Walter Scott, by Mr. Steel, the Scot-
tish sculptor, is ready to be placed on its pedestal in the
the monument in Prince's-street, where it will be erected
on the 15th August, the anniversary of the great novelist's
natal day.

The proprietors of the Patriot newspaper are about to
present their readers with a gallery of portraits—repre-
senting the leading Missionaries. They are most splendidly
executed in oil colour painting—a style that renders them
beantiful and effective.

Mr. COBDEN'S HEALTH.—A League journal gives a
formal contradiction to prevailing rumours that Mr. Cob-
den is afflicted with a " mortal" disease ; it admits, how-
ever, that he is " worn by his incessant labours," and
that he himself recently said—" When I have done with
corn, I must go to grass."
STRAWBERRIES.—Mr. Cuthill, the florist of Camber-
well, has been very successful this season in the cultiva-
tion of strawberries. Many of his plants have borne from
100 to 150 strawberries, many weighing an ounce each,
and some of them five inches in circumterence. The
plant stands up like a little bush above the ground.
A STEAMER BLOWN' UP AT MAPLES.—The fine
steamer built in England, for the Count of Syracuse,
blew up at Castellamere, on the night of the 50th ult.
The prince had that day made an excursion in her to the
island of Capri, but had returned to Naples by the rail-
road. In the evening the crew amused thews-lves by
letting off fireworks, a spark from which fell into the
powder magazine, in which were about 250 pounds of
p)wder. The persons on board were blown into the sea,
vme wereThe w seriouslyindowindows
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would be when the new Corn Bill came into operation.
But this question, though puzzling, was far less difficult
than the following :—Sir Joseph Radcliffe, a few days
ago, in looking over the works on the Church Fenton and
Harrogate Railway, near Follyfoot, and casting a mecha-
nical eye down a shaft that was being formed, observed to
the workmen employed that it was not circular. One of
the men, evidently not pleased with the remark, called
out, from the bottom of the shaft, at the top of his voice,
" I say, Insister, can you tell me Low many square yards
of reek will make a bushel of soot ?"

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Sunday morning, as the
cheap train from London to this town was approaching
the Barford station, an accident occurred which might►
but for the care of the engineer, have been attended with
unpleasant consequences. A luggage train without any
engine had been left on the down line, the engineer
of the cheap train saw it but indistinctly, owing to a fog
which prevailed at the time, but stopped the engine as
quickly as possible, not in time, however, to prevent
collision, which splintered the fore-board of the engine, a
piece of oak six inches thick. Beyond a few slight bruises►
none of the passengers were injured. The spring of one
of the carriages was broken, and a delay of an hour was
caused by the accident.

SPEED OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.—On Saturday, a public
experiment for the purpose of exhibiting the economy and
tractive capacity of the broad-gauge locomotive was made
on the Great Western line to and fro between London
and Bristol. The experiment was made with a new en.
gine, dragging a passenger train of one hundred tons.
The train left Paddington at 11h. 47m. 525., and arrived
in safety at Bristol at 16m. 325. past two o'clock, the dis-
tance gone over being 118 miles, and the space of a time
occupied, stoppages included, being 2h. 26m. a 'and
The motion throughout the journey was very steady,l'ie was
the average speed attained on level portions of the
a maximum speed of from 70 to 72 miles
nearly 60 miles an hour. On rapidly descending
an was
reached, while, again, on sharp curves, or steep inclines,
the rate was diminished to about 50 miles an hour.
EFFECTS OF A STRIKE.—Many years ago the shippers_
executed by the
of shoes from this port had their orders
trade was
shoemakers of Liverpool, and the shoemaking
numbers of one that furnished employment to large nu
ar-
tisans. Whenever the orders were numerous a strike
took place, men refuse to work, and the masters were
gradients
obliged to send their orders to Stafford, where wages were
much lower. So difficult at last was it to get a foreign or-
der executed in Liverpool, that the merchants were an.
pelled to send their orders to Stafford direct, and in a feW
years not a shoe was made in Liverpool for foreign export.
The town lost that trade entirely, Safford derived the
benefit, and for many years Liverpool itself has been in'
undated with Staffordshire-made shoes, and some of the
principal manufacturers have sale-shops in this town..Bl/
their workmanship being done at Stafford or its vicinity'
SMOKE PROHIBITION.—The Smoke Prohibition /31';
of the present session was printed on Thursday, bearoil
the names of Mr. Mackinnon, Lord Francis Ege;ton,al3-
Mr, IV. Beckett cs object, as declared by the title, id
aisance of smoke from furnaces Ini,e
There are 17 provisions and a schedTe
containing a form of conviction. The present bill is tito
all former ones. Justices are (according to its terms he
appoint inspectors of smoke nuisances from and after
Ist of January next, from which day opaque smoke is Ile,
to issue from any chimney qf a furnace for any longery_..
Hod of time than is bona fie necessary for the kin
of the fire of such furnace. There are penalties le,
offences, and means provided for recoverity, the 031 rt
Th,s bill does not seem to have been framed on the rePv„io
rnade to the Government by the two scientific indiviled
who have made a report on the subject, and who porn
out therein the difficulties of effectually legislating tli_e_r„S'