The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

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Ditto, new,issucd at .e 33
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Ditto quarter
Birmingham and Dei by
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Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Holyhead
Caledonian
Dublih and Belfast
Dublin and Cashel .....
Dover, new..

old
Eastern Counties
Created at £l6 I3s. 4d .
Perpetual
Eastern Counties, liegistered i
t ditiburgli and Glasgow sb
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i!asgow, Pakley, Grecnuel,
New
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Ditto 6 per cent, interest
Glasgow, Paisley and Ayrshire 5O
Greenock, preference
•,i and Juncti0.,
Ditto half shares St
Quarter..
One-eighth
4reat Western lOl
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Fifth Shares
Great North of England lOO
Holyhead
Hull and Selby (paid up)
Leicester and Swannington
Lancaster aim kerc,toit 50
Ditto three-quarter shares —
Ditto and Carlisle
Liverpool and Mancliest,-1

Ditto half shares ....
Ditto new
London and Birmingham tock
Ditto quarter
Ditto shares i 25
London & Briaton
Ditto Loan Notes
London and South Westein
Ditto. 100, shares
Leeds and Bradford
Manchester, Bolton, & Bury
Manchester and Birmingham ;0
Ditto quarter .
Idanchester and Leeds lOO
Ditto halt shares • • 50
Ditto quarter shares 2;
Midland Counties
Ditto, quarter
1-sth Shares —
North Midland : 100
Ditto new
- Ditto -'33 6s 82 1 33}
North Union ........... Stock
North British
Newcastle and Berwick
Ditto quarter ,riaus
Newcastle and Darlington June
Preston and Wyre
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Lyons
Lyons and Avignon
Runcorn Gap
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Rouen and Havre
Sheffield and Manchester
Quarter
South Eastern and Dover
New shares
South Western ......
Ditto share •
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Scarborough
Teeurs and Bourdeaux .
Trent Valley
Ulster
York and N, rth Midland..
Half Shares
Bank of Liverpool
Borough Bank
Commercial of Liverpool
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M'ehester & Dsct.,
Northern and Central ..
North ant South
Royal of Liverpool
South Lancashire
Liverpool 1711i,:l
Liverpool B.mlriug C 0....
Wilts and Dorset
Exchange Buildings
L'pool and Harrington Watn
Works
Bootle Ditto
!.'pool New Gas &Col:e Co.
L'pool Gas Light Ceniviny
Ditto new shares

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Stock.
Stock,
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',irerpool Marine :.ssnrauce•.,
Corn;.iiny
Marine Assurance
Liverpool Fire and Life
M'cliester Assurance Company
Apothecaries' Company
Darrington Docks
AndertonCarryin Company
Rock Ferry
Steam Tug Cowan,- . .

LATE Houas.—At a meeting comprising no fewer than
three thousand individuals, held at Exe:er-hall 0, Wed-
nesday night, some strong resolution s condemnatory or
the practice of keeping open the shops to la!e hours, were
raseed. The Rev. Mr. Hughes and a Mr. Fu-key were
the principal speakers. The latter termed all those who
support the present system " m urdet era," an observation
which was gre'tedwith lord pplause.
An extraorlinary sensation i:a. been created in Bishop
Stopford during th last few days. in consequene, of the
apprehension of Alfred, stun of Mr. Yardley, pawnbroker,
together with Sarah Fuller, his servant girl, who were
charged, the former with having set fire to the dwelling-
house of his father, and the latter as an accessary. The
female has been discharged, and Yardley fel y committed
for trial at the net Hertford Assizes. On the s'h ult.,
the premises of Mr. Yardley were found to be in flames,
when a great quantity of property was destroyed, a great
portoo of which belonged to the poor ot Stortford and
neighbourhood. Young Yardley w a very mucirrespected,
and would, on attaining his majority, (in a few months,)
come into possession or very considerable property.
DFSTRUCTIVE Mee rat LONDON.—On Monday night.
about nine o'ciock, the neighhourhi,oil ot isjil,y Cross was
alarmed by the teport that the railway nation was on fire.
It was soon ascertained that the engine repository, a fine
octagonal building, was in flames, which made such
rapid progress that in less thiai a quarter of an hour the
whole building was in it blaze. The fire was gre tly as-
sisted by a quantity of oil and turpentine, as well as paint,
that had been hid aside in a per of the engine.roora.
Before the engines arrived the flames bud got so far
a-head that it was fn nnd to be impossible to arrest their
progress. Th, tire b4igarle us,:d their ntmost ceertiaes to
save the adjacent buildings, and, fertu,e,tely, the wind
proving favourahl.e thei' exertions here su tar succe,stul.
By eleven o'clock the root's of both houses (which were
boards covered with lead, and •not iron rafrets) fell in,
and then the eitgiturs, amounting ,o 'about 14, were able to
make an effectual resistaoce againo- the devouring ele-
ment. The flames were at length eff-critafly cot under ;
and the books and furniture ot the were entirely
saved from destrnte ion et the early part of the conflagra-
tion. , The heat was so intensq that the iron ratters
which formed the roof came aeundn r in variona. places-,
and being unable to support its own weight tell in with an
awful crash.

CLEARANCES TO AND FROM THE EAST --The usual
comparative statement, ph)) i,ited by 11.• East India and
China Associatton, of the i.tuidaor of British ships, wits
their tonnage, ent,r, d inwards and cleared uutwsrcis from
and to places withit: tILt ltwits of ti.e E.astltitaejs molpv;
tie
ny's charter, his irate it- ap;,c wane.- it ttlel
the period from the Ist or 3an tnry ti, the 30th September
in the years 1813 and 1844. The full "wing are the results
of the entries nswards :

Ships. Tons.
1)813 .• 41 .. :73.346 •
'B4l •• 45 17.1.714
ltis3 ll6 .. t. 6,173
J 184 t 143 .. 6:,.426
11:;13
.. 11 .. 3 979
.5.14 14 .. 4 897
Clyde and other ports 1144i' ••• ;3.3 •• • 13 IA4
1,955
S!:owing an increase in di the porta, except Clyde, which
exhihits a deereaie in 1844 of one ship and 909 tons. The
total number of vess•ls entered inwards in 1843 was 592,
and 247,459 tons; in 18:4-618 vrqsrle and 251,062 toes ;
re,king an increase in 1844 of 26 ve,sels and 66,..,3 tons.
The c!eara: ces oatwards exhibit a very considerable in-
creme, viz.:—

London .

Liverpool .

Bristol and hull

Rtips. Tons.
1P43 .. .. 124.867
• • I 1844. ;k7l .. 154 878
11843 lyu .. 72,724
11844 .. 1452 .. 95 9E3
4 . .
From Bristol and Hull ~ 1
118841:
11 38 ";07
184 24 . 7,-14
Clyde. and other ports
43,492
:844 34 .. 44,7,9
Showing an agere:ate increase for 1844 over 1843 of 167
ships and 56,791 t-'ns. It will be obs,rved, that in none
of the ports has there been any decrease. In July last,
we ment oned that a number of vessels had cl. ared in.
Liverpool in ballast for the East India port', whose rest
destination was the west coast of Africa, to cot,ct guano,
and that these returns must to that extent be fallacious.
In the one now published, a di,tinct;on is drawn in the
form of a note, 13,:rween the bond fide clearances for the
east and the nominal ones. Tire note says—" There were
likewise cleared out in ballast for the west coast of Africa
arid the following ports,
chit fly from Liverpool, 90 vessels;,Calcutta seven, 2172 toils ; Madras nine, 2059
tons; Bombay furry-t-wo, 18,692 tons; China four, 2148
tons ; Ceylon one, 298 tons ; .I..tva two, 790 tons; -Arabia
one, 220 tons; M turitiu-ten, 2306 tons ; and the Cape at
Good Hope fourteen, 344) tons ; total 90 vessels, 31,145
tons ; and, as the professed object was that they should
load guano on the African coast, it -judged was ',tat proper
to include them in the above statement."
CRIME ANE PUNISHMENT IN MOROCCO.—An avari-
cious butcher, who had enriched himself by selling " keb-
la, (fried meat,) was determined to increase his gains by
the more simple method of receipts wn hour expenditure.
With this view he nightly inveigled into his house a WO-
man of exceptionable character, who vra,, Immediately as-
day as
sasinwed, cooked, and di,po-ed of t 3
" kehlia." His wife, who ‘l, itnes 1 these niOrtty mur-
ders, apprehending a similar fare, went to the Ksi,a, at .d
denounced her hosha,nl. He was soon judged and
(It-tuned ; a boili:x toll of v. :ter was placed over a fierce
fire before his shop door, which so.,n reach? d boiling
temperature. The executioncr-Oen (bagged the critnirra
to his own block, still otiihcri tvi,h the blood of hi- nu-
merous victims, and, cli‘ off
,them
into the cauldron, and, when boiled, they were given to
the numerous bands of hungry, dogs who had b'-en I*S-
sembk,l for that ',noose. • In the ,sitire way his feet and
legs-wer• diFpos,:d of, ioittr,s :(44 tior,d terminatcd
life, and with it this appalling and barbarous jusiice.-
s'laailat d.

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