The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

The tonnage of British vessels entered inwards Tons.

from foreign parts was i❑ 1848 .. 4,565,533
And in 1849

Showing an increase during the year preceding
the repeal of the navigation laws of • 318,677

The tonnage amounting, as above, in 1849, to 4.884,210
Declined in 1850 to

Showing a decrease in British shipping, during
the first year succeeding the repeal of the
navigation laws, of..
And it further appears that—
The tonnage of foreign vessels entered inwards
from foreign ports was in 1848
And in 1849 ..

Showing an increase during the year preceding
the repeal of the navigation lay, s of

The tonnage amounting as above, in 1849, to 2,035,690
Advanced in 1850 to .

Showing an increase in foreign shipping, during
the first year succeeding the repeal of the
navigation laws, of
Those who need further argument after this, are of
the class of people on whom all argument is thrown
away. The advocates of the Repeal of the Navigation
Laws never gave a thought to the effect of that
measure upon the shipping interest or on those
employed by the capitalists who embark in that
particular branch of trade. A large part of the
advocates for the Repeal deliberately desired any-
thing, at whatever sacrifice, that would, as they
fancied, cheapen food and bring down wages; and
another party were merely in search of notoriety—
persons like Mr. Ricardo, who really seem not to
have been endowed by Providence with the power
of comprehending the subject. Amongst them all,
however, they have given a blow to the Mercantile
Marine of England that many years even of altered
policy will not repair.

ACCIDENT TO A FERRY STEAMER.—One Of the Wood-
side ,boats, in crossing the river, on Sunday evening,
broke her paddle shaft. She was immediately replaced by
one of the Monk's Ferry boats.

THE LATE JEWELLERY ROBBERY.—The five persons
who had been remanded for the robberies of jewellery
from pawn-brokers, were yesterday again brought up and
further remanded to allow time to produce evidence.
ACCIDENT.—A poor man of the name of Millighan, a
rigger, is now in the Northern Hospital, suffering from a
scalp wound, occasioned by a fall from a ship's side. The
vessel was laying in the Prince's Dock. Hopes are enter-
tained of his recovery.
ASSAULT.—Yesterday, at the Police-court, a ruffian,
who gave his name as Michael Conning, was fined £5 for
a brutal assault on a man named Blakeley, in Marybone.
Another man was fined 455.. or one month. a imprisonment
for an assault on a police-officer.
JuvENit.k.DI:PaAVITY.—At the Police-coint,yesterday,
two youths, either not evidently more than twelve years
of age, were brought up charged with stealing a parasol.
Tho p.isoners had entered into a shop in London-road,
and while one engaged the shopinan in the selection'of a
handkerchief, his accomplice succeeded in secreting a
a parasol beneath his coat. A detective, who had watched
their steps, was at hand, and, ere they had got a dozen
step; from the shop, they were arrested. To-day, after
receiving a character from the police books, both prisoners
were fully committed for trial at the sessions.
COLONEL SIBTHORP AND THE CENSUS.—III committee
of supply, lately, the gallant member for Lincoln was the
occasion of no little amusement to the house. On the
vote of £130,000 for the expens,es of the census, we read
in the debates, " Colonel Sibthorp complained of the
hardship inflicted on females by requiring them to state
their age. It was gross, indecent, and unbecoming to
show them up in that way. (Laughter.) The sole object
was to gratify a dirty, low, and inquisitive curiosity.
(Laughter.). Some of the persons concerned did him the
honour of consulting him on the subject, and the advice
he gave them was to open the door and turn the inquirers
out, at the same time to hok to their silver spoons.
I.eaughter.)

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

Monday Night.

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been received, we may look for some improvement.
The lower descriptions of Coffee continue in request for
export, aod Native Ceylon has been sold at 40s. per cwt.
No change in Tea. Rum steady at former prices.
The demand for Cotton, both from the trade, exporters
and speculators, continues unabated, and the sales for
several days past have averaged 10,000 per day. By the
steamer Asia, from Ncw York, which vessel arrived yes-
terday at noon, there is little new regarding cotton. In
the New York cotton market activity prevailed, and pre-
vious prices were firmly maintained. Upland and Florida
middling fair to fair were quoted at 'ad. per lb. ; New
Orleans and Mobile, same quality, 71d. to 'al per lb.
At New Orleans market, on the 28th July, good middling
fetched 81d. per lb., although the transactions were f w.
The receipts were going steadily on, and the present crop
of Cotton is put down at 2,350,600 bales. The weather
for the growing crop was generally propitiou., and the
crops of grain were understood to be excessive, the effects
of which we shall no doubt experience in a month or two;
indeed, with the fine weather in this country our different
corn markets are anticipating it. The potato disease is
again spoken of, but all such rumours should be received
with great caution; for, as far as we have seen of the
growing potatoes the last few days, nothing could be in
better condition.

We had not much animation in our Wool Market last
week. but the state of the trade is healthy and the pros-
pects ar.- cheering ; prices are without any material change.
There will not be much here in Scotch until after the
prices have been partly established in the north.
We have again had considerable fluctuations in our
share market, prices, however, closing this day generally
about the same as on this day week. Any attempt by the
dealers to lower prices has been met by a demand for
investment, consequently the decline has been checked,
and the marketi,shews a tendency to improve. Stock, espe-
cially Leeds and Midland. is very scarce; for the former
as much as £1 per share above the current price of the day
is offered for immedia.e delivery. The London arid
North-Western report has not given satisfac:ion, it
having been made known that the expenditure has been
so great as to require a considerable sum from the reserved
fund, to maintain their dividend of 51 per cent.—The
Midland report is considered favourablethe dividend
being 21 per cent., with about £lO,OOO surplus; as also
the Western, which also maintains its dividend, with an
increased surplus, and these for the worst half-year of
the two. The market to-day is steady, with prices
generally showing a disposition to advance. We annex
the quotations :—Old Leeds, 491 t 60; London Stock,
122 2t: Ditto new Quarters, 31 t iFp. ; Midland, 42i- 311 ;
Halt-shares, 20* 194 20 19id. ; Old Dovers, 221 221;
York and North Midland, 181 4 ; Dutch Rhenish, 41 id. ;
Royal Batik Shares, 1141 1151.
The money market at New York had become much
straitened, and it was with the utmost difficulty the com-
modity could be obtained for any purpose, however legi-
timate. At Boston it was still worse. The exportation
of specie was being continued in great quantities; and the
Stock and the Securities Market had depreciated. Busi-
ness, too, throughout the States is not reported of favour-
ably. Breadstuffs continue inactive, prices remaining as
before. Western Canal flour was firm at dots. 4to 4 124
per brl.; Genessee prime wheat, dol. 1 10 to 1 12 per 60lbs. ;
Indian corn, round yellow, 58c. to 60c. per bushel; Indian
meal, Cols. 3 to 3 121 per brl. Provisions have been
in good demand, at prices tending upwards. Freights
continue as at last advices. Exchange on England was in
fair request, at. 10 to MI pm. ; Paris, 5 12 ; Bremen, 78t
79 ; Ilamburgh, 364 to 36i-.
The returns from the Bank of England for the week
ending the 2nd August give the following results, when
compared with the previous week :
Public deposits .... £4,758,458; Increase .... £462,963
Other deposits .... 9.002.461 ; Decrease .... 95,101
Rest

On the other side the account :

Government securities £13,464,021 ; The same as before.
Other securities 11.800,143; Increase.. £199,538
Notes unemployed 6.922,485 ; Increase.. 213,040
The amount of notes in circulation is £20,345 695, b::ing
a decrease of £170,345 ; and the stock of bullion in both
departments is £13,894,879, showing an increase of
£78,143, when compared with the preceding return.

TILE LIVERPOOL AUXILIARY SUNDAY
SCHOOL SOCIETY FOR IRELAND.

The annual meeting of the above society was held yes-
terday evening in Christ Church School-room, Christian-
street. Among those present we noticed the Revds.
H. M. Moss, J. /garland, W. 11. Duck, C. F. M'Carthy,
and R. Falconer and George O'Neille, EFqs.
In the absence of the Rev. Fielding Ould, the chair
was taken by the Rev. H. M. Mose.
A hymn having been sung, and a prayer having been
delivered,
The CHAIRMAN, in an eloquent address, explained the
objects of the society, and impressed upon his hearers the
absolute necessity of Christian unity and exertion in for-
warding them. There were 200_00 Sunday-school teachers
in Ireland, and it was impossible they could extend or
sustain their exertions without assistance. Christians
comprised one body, and he called for united help.
The Rev. C. F. M'Carthy attended as a deputation from
the parent society.
The Agent of the Society, Mr. O'NEILL, read
the report, from which it appeared that there
were, in January. 1851, 3004 schools in connexion
with the society, attended by 226,512 scholars, and 19,753
gratuitous teachers. Of the number of the scholars,
136.355 were reported to be reading in the Bible, and
54,915 to be adults above the age of 15. it stated also
that of the above 226,512 scholars, only 83,974 were receiv-
ing instruction in week-day schools, but that as the re-
turns on this head had not been received from all the
schools, it was estimated that 100,000 did not attend
daily schools, and that many of these derived the whole
of their instruction at the Sunday schools. That on clos-
ing the lists for the past year there appeared an increase of
51 schools, and 2454 scholars, but a decrease of 50 teachers.
That the number of the schools to which gratuitous grants
had been made during the past year was 1076, containing
94,474 scholars, being the largest number of schools ever
assisted in any one year. That there bad been upwards
of 37,01 0 bibles and testaments, 12,457 portions of scrip-
ture, 30,583 spelling books, and upwards of 20,000 other
books, &c., granted and sold during the past year. Dur-
the year the claims of the parent Institution had been ad-
vocated in Christ Church, and St. Ann's, Aigburth, by
their incumbents, the Rev. Fielding Ould and the Rev.
Purdon, and the committee desired to offer their
grateful acknowledgments for those renewed proofs of their
frtendship to the cause. The committee regretted that
the ladies' branch of the auxiliary exhibited a very con-
siderable decrease in the amount. of funds collected in aid
of the society, there being a diminution of £25 18s. 9d. in
the receipts, as compared with those of the preceding year.
This diminution, however, was not to be attributed to any
want of interest on the part of those excellent ladies who
had devoted so much energy to the furtherance of the
cause.

The Rev. JOHN MARLAND moved the adoption of the
report. Alluding to the objects of the society, he said,
it was necessary that the children for whom these schools
were intended should obtain Bibles and instructors, and be
taught the truths to makethem wise unto salvation ; to teach
them; how to controvert the horrible doctrines of Popery.
In many schools in the vicinity of Dublin, the incumbents
of the parish in the localities had come forward to instruct
the children of their schools, and showed them that
Rome, which was once an English church, had now
become a foreign one. He could bear testimony
that there were several children in the habit of attending
these ' schools who came regularly to the Sunday
school, being attracted by the bibles supplied
by.the Sunday School Society. Besides doiag this, they
they did much to eradicate the errors of popery. The
society also went far to stop the system now going on in
Ireland, called the national system of education ; and, in
the schools established under that system, the Scriptures
were only an open book during certain hours of the day.
He alluded to the smallness of the amount of the collec-
tions made on Sunday in Christ and St. Saviour's Churches,
which amounted only to about £22, and concluded with
an earnest appeal in support of the funds of the society.
The Rev. C. F. MACCARTUY seconded the adoption of
the report. lie exhibited at great length the enslaving
doctrines of the Romish church, more especially to the
doctrines of transubstantiation. It was an acknowledged
doctrine of the Roman Catholic church, that any
of its members who omitted to receive the
eucharist at Easter were shut out from salva-
tion ; and yet it was the practice of Romanist
priests to deny the doctrine of exclusive salva-
tion. He had asked hundreds of Roman Catholics
to bring him the unanimous consent of the fathers to any
one of the great disputed points in their church. The
Rev. J. Gregg, of Dublin, had offered .£40,600 to any
Catholic who could bring forward the unanimous consent
of the fathers to the shortest chapter in the whole Bible,
and no reply had been received. (Hear.) Every Roman
Catholic priest swore that he would not receive the
Scriptures without the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
He adduced passages fr3m the Epistles of St. Paul, ann
demonstrated the departure of the modern Romish
Church from the Scriptures; and concluded an able
add,of
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quently addressed, in support of appropriate resolutions,
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by the rev. gentlemen on the platform, and, the doxology
having been sung, the meeting separated.

THE LAW OF LODGINGS.—In reference to a complaint
made in the Times, that a family had to pay £8 58. lid.,
. a single
forcomplains
for a night's lodging, the appartments having been taken
for a week, but found it uninhabitable on account of bugs,
a correspondent of the same journal brings forward the
Tourpel
lcorrespondentedto pa y x 8 ss. ' A
d. j.
ofollowing
having
night's lodging in furnished apartments taken by him for
a week, but which were so infested by bugs that he was
chaeseen :—co. m.
compelled to quit them after the first night. As similar
instances have come to nay knowledge, I think it may be
useful to recall to the recollection of landlords in such
eases the decision of the Court of Lxchequer iu Smith r.
Marrable." .

• --

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.

A letter from Lyons, of the 3.1 instant, states that the
sudden rising of the waters of the Rhone had caused con-
siderable damage in that city. The lower quarters of the
city and of La GuiHonore were complete ly flooded. The
quay de Retz, from one end to the other, and the
quay Bon Renenntre, from the bridge Lafayette to
the bridge of the Hotel Dieu, are covered with water.
All the warehouses on those two quays have been
closed, and are only to be approached by boats. The
waters have risen above the breakwat. r of the Tete d'Or,
and have in consequence ovetflowed the low grounds
in the neighbourhood. The Rhone has reached the same
height as during the year 1840. Subsequent accounts
state that the waters had begun to subside, and all further
apprehension had ceased.

In consequence of the numerous suicides which have
taken place in the army of Paris, Gete.ral Magnan, the
Commander-in-Chief, has addressed to the troops a feel-
ing exhortation against. this sinful and
.cowardly proceed-
ing, and quoted the laneaage of the Emperor ;rt ,;:.-droba-
tion of it.— Paris Journal.
A.Dltis.p.uj;kirrivoiNll,s: has
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journals, in which. he states, with reference to the an-
nouncement that. a M. Salamanca had invented a flying
apparatus, that before M. S.denianca was engaged on this
invention he had made considerable progress with ex-
periments with the same ohj.'ct ; and had now advanced
so much with his machine. that lie hoped to be
able to exhibit its effects in the course of the
autumn. He adds that his invention has many advan-
tages over .that of M. Salamanca, which, according to
him, produces a ti otion afecting the stomach like sea-
sickness, and also requires considerable muscular exer-
tion; whereas, M. d'Arville can, lie says.. with case work
• his wings by the feet with p«lals, and the motion is so
easy that he can write and read in the air as if he were
on land seated in a chair. lle pretends that he will be
able to fly with as much speed as a pigeon.—Galignard's
Messenger.
AFFECTING CIRCUMSTANCE.—A carpenter named Du-
mont, residing near Versailles. received a few days back
a letter from a man who had long owed him a sum of
money,stating that he was then able to lky him. Dumont,
wishing to give an agreeable surprise to his young wife,
whom he was much attached to, d. teto,iited to go for the
money, and suddenly present it to her. He accordingly
told his apprentice that lie was going to bathe in the
Seine, and set out. for Paris, where big debtor
lived. This latter was nor at home when Dumont arrived,
so that he was obliged to wait until the evening.
The debtor insisted on his staying for supper, and in
the end he agreed to sleep the re. lie reeeived the money
the next morning, and hastened hoer, ; but there ho
found everything. changed. Elk Cure li,:d become dread-
fully alarmed when he did net return at. e;ght, and, going
out early the next morning to make ire:dries, heard that
a man named Dumont Intl been drowned. Being in-
formed by two or three ditc-rent p..rsoes that thi; body of
a man had certainly been taken oust of the water a little
before, site rushed to the river and threw herself in.
Her body had just been taken out of the: water when
Dumont arrived. He was so violently affected that fears
were at first entertained for his r.ason. The man who
was drowned was named Delmont, by trade a cabinet-
maker.—Paris Paper.

ALSTRIA.
The murrain is very prevalent amonz the cattle in Hun-
gary. Inoculation has been tried with great success. In
Serhay, 15 sheep and the same number of oxen were,
after being inoculated, put with cattle suffering severely
from the pestilential disease, and remained perfectly free
from all infection.

Some young children have b -en bastinadocd at Leg-
horn. They were eight or ten in number, from eight to
fourteen years old, and received from six to ffteen
strokes each. Their offence consisted in having, whilst
at play, hit an Austrian sentinel with a stone.

Some months ago, M. Ma,. the editor of a hamburg
journal, called the Mephistopheles. was' severely beaten
by six Austrian soldiers, for an article in his journal which
they regarded as insulting to the Austrian army. Thee
soldiers were brought to trial a few days ago, and merely
sentenced to a wc,..k's imprisonment. On the other hand,
a hair-dresser, who was the cause of the disturbance at
Hamburg, between the Austrian soldiers and the inhabi-
tants of St. Pauli, has been tried and sentenced to three
years' imprisonment.
The Emperor of Russia continues his war nrainst ab-
senteeism. The Emperor, by nksse dated the 27th June,
orders that for the future passports to foreign countries
shall only be delivered to nobles for three instead of five
years, and to non-nobles for a veer only. In addition to
the ordinary duty, a tax of 250 rustles (10001.) is to be
paid by each person for each half-year's absence ; for sick
persons, however, the duty is only to be 50 rubles. For
each member of a family and far etch domestic the duty is
to be 250 rubles; but ti.e dotnestics of persons belonging
to the mercantile guilds are to be exempt-.
A watchmaker in Berlin, M. Hoffman, has solved the
problem which gave the Emperor Charles the Fifth so
much trouble in the monastery of Sr. Just. M. Hoffman
has succeeded in constructing' art eleerro magnetic clock,
the machinery of which keeps two other clocks in regular
movement. The impediments remaining in the way, and
which will as yet prevent the invention becoming of general
use, are—the expense of the works—t he difficulty of attain-
ing such nicety of perfection in them as shall obviate any
interruption in the electric stream, and the apparatus
stopping--and the difficulty of making the works solid
enough to serve for keeping't he clocks of u whole town in
uninterrupted motion.

MURDeR AT MALTA.—This city has been the scene of
a horrible murder, committed by a Turk of Susa, lately
baptised in the Roman
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finding the mouth of the well too small to admit it entire.
he divided the tirms from it at the shoulders. The neigh-
bours, upon hearing the cries, instead of proceeding at
once to the house to render assistance, sent for the police,
who, finding the door fastened upon arriving, entered by
the window, and seized the murderer, hid under a sofa,
with the Turkish knife with which he had perpetrated hie
horrid t rime concealed in his shoe, and the woman's jew_
ellery on his person. The prisoner is.a young man 24
years of age.
EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION IN AUSTRALIA.—The
following is an extract of a letter just received by Mr.
Joseph Shearman, a resaectable labourer in Orton, in
the county of Westmoreltuel, from his brother in Aus-
tralia, who emigrated a few years ago :—" We have had
the droughtiest summer that was ever known in Port
Philip. There is a great failure in Ihe ..ogriculteral pro-
duce. Flour has risen f:ami £lO to £l7 per ton, owing to
the drought and destruction by fire. There are many.
very ninny, that hare lost all they had by the bush fires all
round about us. For six weeks we could see them flaming
every day ; it was set on fire round me before it consumed
all my grass in the flames. We pot it out twice, and
the third time it burnt all but the house and stock ; it
flamed round us with fury. The heat and smoke were
had to encounter with the hot wind from the north.
The fire came at a great speed, but that day was nothing
to the great consuming day a fortnight after. It was
called black Thursday. Hundreds of sheep and cattle
were burnt to death ; many lost all they had in the world,
and many were burnt: ate woman and five children
were burnt, to death. Many saved their lives by going
into the river and water holes. There was a part of the
country set on tire by a man burning his stubble. It is
often set on fire ay the draymen—t he carriers who travel
through the country with store goods.. They have teams
of oxen and encamp all along the road for hundreds of
miles, leaving flair fires in when they go off in the morn-
ing, and the long guess and bark pet hold, and it races in
a dry time like this summer is. The natives never saw a
summer like it."

Circus of Ararjuez has again been the theatre of a spec-
tacle worthier of the age of the Romans of the empire
than of the 19;li century. Several wild beasts were in-
troduced successively to fight in the arena. The Queen.
mother and her family, together with the King and the
Duke of Riunzares, were present in the royal box. The
first fight. was between a wolf and several dogs. The
wolf look d at first excessively frightened, and made
several leaps to clear the lotty iron grating which
surrounded the arena. These efforts became desperate
when he raw bound into the circus four powerful
dogs, which, in a few moments, reduced him to
such a pitiful state, that it was necessary to withdraw
him. The wolf stood merely on the defenbive—he shook
off the dogs, but he did not attack them. Next entered
an hyena, against which four dogs were likewise
loosed. One of the dogs distinguished himself greatly
in this combat, and several times mastered the hyena
alone, dragging him over to the ground, but be was so
punished by the fierce I,:;. •• . wild beast, that his
master was fain to co' and withdraw him
amid salvos of applaus.s. ";• oyena was then withdrawn.
The act of the spectacle was that which had more parti-
cularly attracted crowds by railroad to Aranjutz. The
fight was now between a lion tool a hull. The first was
one of the finest of his specir. No sour; he
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The bull thus attacked frcoi oelyind, was unable
to defend himself by his Lorne, hut aft.etwattla
close off to his rump,
the bull turned on biro, and frantic with pain charged
with trymendou, tossing ti.e lion, notwithstanding
his size, into th o-ped the pluck of the
latter, that it C t:* I,lliCh side the
vk!orY would be —*red. :,,111 sat down dejected
and moaning with pain, while the bull charged him seve-
ral times in succession, instigated be the crowd outside
the grating more than by his ov. 11 V 111, for us soon as the.
lion was hoes de ccrnbat, the hulk sought no longer to
molest him, and would have left him alone but for the
stimulation which was applied to him by the spectators.
The lion was yews.

SERIOUS ACClDENT.—Yestertlay morning. as the Isle
of Man steamer was about to take her departure, a
stranger, of the name of Longhottham, in eetting
ashore. slipped between the vossel and the pier. Ile was
immediately taken to the Hospital. wht•n It was found he
had received a fracture of the lei and a .serjous scalp
wound. • .
evtit KALTDOR, TO REMOVE FOECKLES.---Prvared coral,
juice of lernans,,•4 oz. Disaolvetheprepared coral in t . 0i,.,
juice, and keep wet corked for use. Apply it wit-) a sponge
two or three timer a day. It is quite harudesso,and utay In:
relied upon.