The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-24 00:00:00

THE iiiIVERPOOL STANDARD.

OtPRESS NEWS.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,

LOICHON, MUNDAY NIGHT.
No commercial news. or importance. At Hamburgh,
on the 20th, exchano on London was 13 24-, being I
lower.

PARI3, SUNDAE VVENING.—The President was very
well received at !,be 'review on Saturday. The funds are
a little better, Fives, S 3 17g. Private letters from
Madrid 'of nth, report little probability of obtaining
from the Spanieb. Government any amelioration in the
terms of the-payment of the debt.—Hopes are enter-
tained that The 13ritisiz Envoy will soon succeed in con-
cluding a tonvention aholislifng the differential duties on
shippluwar what is termed in Spain, the right of flag.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

Monday Night.

There has beers more doing the last few days in our
Colonial market, and prices for sugar and coffee have
been fully maintained. The sales in sugar for Saturday
and to-day embrace 3,000 bags of white Benares at 40s.
to 425. 6d., and fine Cimpore at 48s. 6d. to 495.,—a150
300 hhds. of Antigua and Barbadoes at rather stiffer rates.
The tea market continues very fiat. We have been
favoured with a copy of Messrs. T. and H. Littledale and
Lo.'s hi-monthly circular for this month, and subjoin the
following extract from it :
"There is no one article of import to this country which
exercises so great an influence 'over other products as cotton,
and that influence is naturally felt more sensibly in Liverpool
than in any other port. For the last three weeks the demand
has materially increased, and some slight advance has been
obtained price; this, with the improvement in grain, has
tended to dissipate the gloom which has for some time hung
over our markets, whilst the large arrivals of gold by each
succeeding steamer from America and the West give increased
confidence in the abundance of money and moderate rates of
discount. The stock of bullion in the bank is now X 13,836,557,
and the reserve of notes £8,190,020."
_ _

By the Canada steamer, which vessel arrived from
Boston on Saturday night, we have little commercial news.
The weather for the growing crop was generally fine ; the
receipts by telegraph bad again increased, but prices had
been tolerably maintained ; indeed, in some instances
were rather higher. The following are the latest move-
ments of the present and two previous Cotton crops, as
made up in New York on the 11th June, being the
thirty-eighth week of each season

1851. 1850. 1849.
Receipts 2 224,976 1,944,277 2;608,764 bales.
Exports to Gt. Britain 1,164.374 818,051 1,405,199 „
Stocks 377,028 415,163 275,580 ,
Here to-day there has been but a sickly market, the sales
amounting to 5,000 bales at prices rather in favour of the
buyer.

The accounts received from the manufacturing districts
report the wool trade there to be very flat, which has
caused little to be done here during the past week.; but
as the stocks in the hands of the importers are below an
average, prices are well kept up.

. .
The trade in Wheat has all at once assumed a degree
of activity which has enabled the sellers to obtain higher
rates than at any previous period for a considerable time
past. The total rise within the last three weeks may be
estimated at about three shillings per quarter, and the
advance has not been confined to individual markets, but
has been general all over the kingdom. Still the rates
are ruinously low, not reaching forty si,illings per quarter,
and far from giving the farmer a remunerative return,

The following New York circular, received to-day,
from an eminent broker in that city, is not calculated to
!vise the spirits of those who have been laying in stocks
of breadstuffs, in the hope of American supplies falling
off. It is expected that immense stocks will be sent here
next month, as the crops are represented as looking most
promising, and flour was selling at New York for less
than four dollars per barrel. _ _

NEW YORK, JUNE 10, 1851

Since my last advices of the 3(1 instmit, per AfricaiL

Flour is the turn lower, with a dull sale.' Although the low
price increases the sales for the home demand, yet, in the
absence of a vigorous ♦ent for England, the receipts amornt to
more than the market can take off, and a good deal is storing
in the confidence that ere long supplies must fall off.

The shipments this week for Ehgland are 7,265 barrels for
Liverpool, and 604 barrels for London.
The present prices are 33 dol. to 4 dol. per barrel for com-
mon to good superfine this State and Western Flour. Good
shipping Ohio is rather easier, and may be bought at d 4 63c.
and occasionally at 4 dol, per barrel. Inferior Flour, below
No. 2 inspection, may be bought at 33 dol. to 33 dol.—strictly
No. 2 ranges from 33 dol. to 33 dol. per barrel. Of Canada
large quantities are taking for the British provinces at d 4 63c.
to 43 dol. for superfine, and 32 dol. to 33 dol. per barrel for
No. 2. Sour Flour is not in the market. Southern Flour has
declined to 43 dol. to 43 dol. per barrel; the latter price is ob-
tainable in retail only for superior brands.
Wheat is dull and declining ; there is n• choice of samples
of Canada in the market, the superior qualities being held
backfor better prices; the quotation is 90 to 95 cents— (the
cent being equal to a halfpenny sterling : this is a fraction
under 4s. for the American bushel of 60 lbs.;—for inferior to
fair, up to 9R cents per bushel for choice lots. White Michi-
gan 1 dol. White Genesee dl 10 c. to dl 14 c., and Ohio 97c. to
98 cents pe- bushel.
The shipments to England this week consist of only 7,358
bushels for Liverpool.
Corn is again rather lower on the week, though prices have
been a little firmer the last day or two; the anticipations of a
decline in England restrict shipments to that quarter. The
price is 563c.rt0 57 c. for good Western mixed to high mixed,
and 59 c. to 60 c. per bushel for fair to prime round yellow.
The shipments this week ,t Liverpool amount to 24,541 bushels.
Freights are easier again ; for Liverpool 44d. to 43d. has been
paid for Corn, 43d. to 43d. per bushel for Wheat, and Is. 3d.
per barrel for Flour. Flour for London and Glasgow is at
15..8d:.t0 Is. 9d. per barrel..

A little comport may be derived, however, from the
subjoined report from the Paris correspondent of the
Times, dated June 21st.
" There was a sort of panic observable at the close of the
Paris Corn-market yesterday. Flour rose 9f. per sack, and
Wheat was quoted at 19f. the hectolitre. On inquiry as to the
cause of this sudden alarm, I learnt that the accounts recently
received from the agricultural districts are by no means of a
favourable character. It is stated that the young Wheat is
everywhere more or less attacked with disease, and the defici-
ency is estimated at present at from 5 to 10 per cent.—equiva-
lent to the consumption of the entire population for 18 or 36
days."

Our share market continues being inactive, and prices
are lower generally than on this day week. There is,
however, no pressure of stock, but, on the contrary, the
market is rather bare of it; a demand from the public
would at once produce an advance. The approaching
account is very " bearish." We annex this day's quo-
tations :—Bolton C and W York, 41 : East Lancashire,
14 11-16; Old Leeds, 521 •, Do. Fifths. 84d; L'pool
Crosby and S'port, 311 d ; London stock, 1211 ; Do. new
Quarters, 31 1 tp • Do. Fifths, 31p ; M'chester Shef and
L'coln, 251 ; Midland, 481 ; Do. Halves, 181-d ; St. He-
lens Rail. and Can. pref. guar. 5 per et. 133; Oswestrys,
13 7-16 ; Old Dovers, ; York and North Midland, 20;
Pacific Steam, 602.

The railway returns for the week ending 14th instant,
on the under-mentioned lines of railway, are as follows :-
1851. 1850.
X. £.
London and North-western
Great Western
Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire
London and South-western 15,316 .. 12,503
London and Brighton ....
South-eastern. ..
North Staffordshire
Manchester, Sheff., & Lincolnshire 8,422 .. 5,494
Bristol and Exeter. 5,042.. 4,247
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Great Northern
The total receipts being £217.864 in 1851, and £168,879
in 1850, the increase is shown to be £48,985. The number
of miles open was, in 1851, 3,2481, and in 1850, 3,029,
showing an increase of 2191 miles. The average return
per mile per week was, in 1851, £67 Is. 9d., and in 1850,
£55 15s. The returns this year embrace the Whitsuntide
traffic, but the very favourable comparison presented by
the above figures attests how materially the season traffic
has been increased by the Exhibition. The most remark-
able increase is exhibited in the London and North-west-
ern, Great Western, London and South-western, South-
eastern, Great Northern, and Lancashire and Yorkshire
lines.

The Rev. Charles Parsons Hobbslate, late a dissenting
minister, has been appointed curate of " St. Thomas's,"
Park-lane.

Some weeks since a man, named 111`Donald; was seri-
ously injured by a person who resided with him in
Atherton-street. The man has since been confined to
the hospital, where he died on Sunday.

ROYAL perceived that the
management have succeeded in securing the services of
that charming actress, Mrs Warner, and Mr Phelps, for
six nights more.

The Water Committee have suspended Mr. James Mac-
donald from his situation of water assessor, and will re
commend the Council to confirm his dismissal, for giving
a statement, relative to the water supply, to a contempo-
rary. Though Ml. Macdonald may previously have been to
blame, we think that in this instance the Council will
hesitate before they deprive him of his situation. If the
information which he furnished was correct, what impro-
priety has he Lptm guilty of ?
AWFULLY SODDEN DEATII.—The wife of a man named
James Duzcan, who keeps a beer-house in Hodson-street;
died on Sunday, under most melancholy circumstances.
She was just approaching convalescence after an acconche-
ment of a still-born child. There was a fight in the house,
and she rose and walked out to find her husband. As
soon as she saw him she said, " My peace is all gone,"
and returned to the house with him. She sat down upon
a chair, from which she shortly afterwards dropped a
corpse.

DISTRESSING DEATH.-At the latter part of last week
a person, named John Willis Atkin, died on board the
Isle of Man steamer King Orrey, under the following
shocking circumstances :—Deceased was a resident of
Manchester, and being in a very weak state of health, was
advised by his medical attendant to visit the Isle of Man.
This, however, had no beneficial effect, and, after a few
days' stay on the island, he was carried on board the
King Orrey, to be conveyed home. He had not been on
board long before he sunk into the arms of death.
THE BAND OF THE 91ST REGIMENT AT THE BOTANIC
GARDENS.—Theattendance at the fashionable promenade,
" the Kensington Gardens," of Liverpool, was not so
numerous on Friday evening as on former occasions.
This, perhaps, may have been caused from the disappoint-
ment at the absence of the band on the Friday previous,
when there were, it is said, about six thousand persons
present. The band, on the latter occasion, played but a
short time, having concluded with the national anthem
at half-past five o'clock. We would suggest to the officers
of the regiment that the hours of performance should be
later than at present,—say from six to eight, or half-past
six to eight. This would be much more acceptable to
gentlemen in business in town, enabling them to accom-
pany their wives and daughters to enjoy the scene. We
believe these are the hours at which the music plays at
the Kensington Gardens in London.
Pic NIC PARTY AN SEACOMBE. This beautiful
marine locality was yesterday a most enlivening scene,
and the resort of some thousands of the denizens of
Liverpool of both sexes, and all ages. The occasion was
the holding of a picnic party on the Seacombe Bowling-
green and gardens, by the scholars of Mr. W. O'Connor,
teacher of dancing in this town, with their parents and
friends. By twelve o'clock in the forenoon the com-
pany began to arrive, and every successive boat after that
time brought an additional number. A portion of the
green was roped off for the purpose of dancing, a fine
brass band being in attendance; and quadrilles, polkas,
schottisches, &c., were performed during the whole of the
afternoon, and until dusk. The place is an excellent one
for such out-door amusements, from the means at hand,
its
perfect the determination of its proprietors to preserve
perfect seclusion and respectability. Messrs. Parry gave
thundering eclat to the scene during the whole day, by
saluting from their cannons on the green every boatful of
passengers as they arrived.