The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS,

Monday Night.
The markets have been closed since Thursday, and
though little has transpired the last few days, we are glad
to he able to report a general feeling of more confidence.
Prices are low, and a steady daily consumption is going
on. Last Thursday there was much uneasiness visible
on account of a prevailing impression that the Bank
Directors would raise the rate of interest; but they
separated without doing anything. Had they decided
otherwise, they would, indeed, have acted a short-sighted,
and, to most interests, a ruinous part. What commerce
now requires is quietness and confidence ; and how the
Bank Directors could ever entertain the adoption of a step
which would have the effect of unnecessarily disturbing
these two essential points, we are at a loss to conceive. By
the India Mail the exchanges are rather more favourable
to this country ; and there are evidently large ship-
ments of bullion on the way from America, in addition
to which the Exhibition is now on the point of being
opened, when we shall have tnousands of foreigners
arriving, each bringing with him more or less specie.
At the present time, to contemplate a dearth of the
metallic currency is preposterous, and to raise the value
of it would he ruinous. Though our merchants may not
want protection, they have a right to ask for a little
consideration (an absence of that plunging from one
extreme to the other) at the hands of those who have the
power of working so much mischief.
Saturday being kept as a holiday in the Cotton market,
no business was transacted. To-day the market continues
dull, with great reluctance on the part of buyers to satisfy
even their daily requirements. Prices are about the same '
as on Friday : in some instances, however, spinners have
obtained a trifling advantage. About 5000 bales are esti-
mated as the sales of the day, of which 200 are for export.
Fair Orleans, 71d. ; Mobile, 71d. ; Upland, 7d.; Per-
nambuco, Bd. ; Maranham, Bd.; Surat, sd.—lmport
since Friday last :—Uplands, 6663 ; New Orleans and
Mobile. 12,480; Maranham, 2945: Total, 22,088.
Our Share Market at the commencementof the week was
dull, with very little business, an not any material change
in prices. As soon, however, as it was known on Wed-
nesday that no change in the rate of interest could be
made by the Bank, the tone became much more buoyant.
and prices have continued advancing and business in-
creasing daily. We annex the quotations of this day :
Aberdeen, 16i ; Birkenhead L. and Chesh. 8 3-16 d ;
Late Ches. and B'head, 201 ; Caledonian, 151 ; East
Lancashire, 171 ; Old-Leeds, 64 4c 34 ; Do. Fifths,
; Do. do. (West R Un) 5.4 d ; Leeds and Thirsk, 191;
L'pool Crosby and S'port, 4p; London stock, 130 ;
Do. New Quarters, sllp ; M'chester Shef and L'coln,
361; Do. Quarters, 14 Midland, 64 44c4 31 ; Do.
Halves, 12c S'bury and Birm. B, 6;1 ; Old Dovers,
28 274 ; York and North Midland. 271 ; Gt. Southern
and Western (Irish), 42i ; Royal Bank pref. 125 ; Gas,
187.

ST. PETER'S CHURCH, EVERTON.—At the consecra-
tion of this beautiful church to-morrow (Wednesday),
the Bishop of Chester will preach in behalf of the
Diocesan Church Building Society.

We are informed that-a
number of ratepayers, at a
meeting yesterday, determined to bring forward, at the
Easter meeting to-day, Mr. Clarke, of Cable-street, as a
sslect vestryman, in opposition to Mr. Molyneux. _

We understand that all the American commercial
houses in this town are about to follow the liberal exam-
ple of Messrs. Brown, Shipley and Co., and afford the
gentlemen in their establishments with the means of
visiting London during the Great Exhibition.
SUDDEN DEATH.—A labouring man, forty years of
age, living at No. 4, Tillery-street, and whose name was
Michael Clarke, was found dead in his bed at an early
hour yesterday morning. It appeared that he had com-
plained of illness during the whole of last week.
FATAL CART ACCIDENT.—A child named James Par-
kinson, about three years old, whose parents reside in a
court in Greenland-street, died yesterday from injuries
received on the Bth instant, when a float, laden with
barrels of vinegar, passed over the child's body in Lower
llarrington.
It will be seen by an advertisement in our first page
that Mr. Pringle, of Bold-street, has retired in favour of
Mr. M'Clennan, who will, in future, conduct the busi-
ness. The premises will re-open about the Ist of May,
the interim being occupied in re-decoration in a style that
will not fall short, if it does not eclipse, some of our now
truly elegant specimens of shop architecture.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An accident, which from its
nature might have been attended with very serious conse-
quences, but which happily resulted in the most trivial
personal injury, and correspondingly slight pecuniary
damage, occurred at the Lime-street station at a late hour
on Sunday night. A train from the north, consisting of
only three carriages, from the inefficient state of the
breaks, became to a certain extent unmanageable in its
descent through the tunnel, from which it emerged to the
terminus with great violence. The shock was sufficient
to snap off the stationary buffers, which were hurled to
some distance from the frame work. The entire frame
of the buffers was Much sliaken, but beyond this and a
slight contusion received by one of the passengers, no
injury occurred.

TIIE WEATHER.—During the past week this district
has been visited with a succession of seasonable and
refreshing showers, accompanied by a more genial
atmosphere. The change has been rather sudden from
bleak and drying winds to the powerful action of the sun,
aided by fertilising rain, and the results have been marked
by a change no less sudden—foliage has appeared, and
agriculture has progressed, as if by magic. The face of
the country has assumed almost at once its vernal aspect,
and, from the promise thus expressed, the most favourable
results may be anticipated. The bloom on the trees is
already profuse. The young wheat, though, of course,
not very high, ha- --- ^ of ---- ' '

an appearance _ great health and
promise—an observation which, indeed, applies to vegeta-

tion generally.
WHs-r DERBT.—The Liberals of this parish seem
detcrmiued to keep the affairs of the church in hot water.
At the annual vestry meeting, yesterday, the Earl of
Sefton took the chair, and Mr. Bold moved that the same
amount as heretofore (.CB2 Ils.) for the organ and choir
be granted for the ensuing year. An amendment was
moved by Mr. Hardy,- that these expenses be not paid
out of the rates. The amendment was declared to be
negatived, on which Mr. Ilardy demanded a poll, which
will commence to-morrow. (Wednesday,) at nine o'clock,
at the parish church. We trust that every friend of
" decency and order" in the church will record his vote in
favour of the original motion as early as possible, and by
a•i overwhelming msjority put to silence and confusion
ties() agitating dissenters

DREADFUL EFFECTS OF INTOXICATION.—A girl named
Catherine Dara, at a house in Manesty-lane, was tie
unwitting cause of the death of her infant, on Saturday
last. About 7 o'clock on the morning in question she got
up and came down stairs, carrying her infant (about seven
weds old) in her arms. She laid the child on a sofa in
the kitchen and then went out ; about nine o'clock she
returned, having been drinking in the interim. She was
then in a state of intoxication, and lay down upon the sofa
on which the child was sleeping. Some time after this,
Ann Wilson, another inmate of the house, aroused Dara
for the purpose of having her (Wilson's) dress fastened.
As she arose to comply with this request, it became appa-
rent that she had been lying upon her child, w hick was
craite dead. Upon Wilson making some remark about
the child, her companion said she thought she had left it
in bed. An investigation will be made into the case
t -day before the coroners

ROME AND ENGLAND. -A STRIKING
CONTRAST.

On Good Friday, the Rev. Dr. M'Neile called the
attention of his congregation to the following instructive
contrast, suggested as he said by one of the collects for
the day.
_

" M Rome and by the Church of Rome, we of the
Church of England are accounted heretics, and enemies
of the Church of God. In England, and by the Church
of England, Romanists are accounted heretics, habitually
practising what our Prayer Book pronounces " idolatry
to be abhorred of all faithful Christians."

So much for the theory on both sides, separating us as
widely as light is separated from darkness, and condemn-
ing with authority all plausible compromises on the plea
of the same great truths being held by both.
Now for the practice on both sides.
Yesterday, Maunday Thursday, at Rome, and by the
Church of Rome, under the immediate sanction and in
the personal presence of the Pope of Rome, we were all
cursed ; all solemnly damned in the name of God
Almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and
by the authority of St. Peter and St. Paul, and the Pope's
own authority. (Bulla ccenve Domini, read at Rome every
Maunday Thursday.)
To-day, Good Friday, in England, and by the Church
of England, the Sovereign of England cordially joining,
Romanists are prayed for, earnestly prayed for, that it
may please God to take from them all hardness of heart,
and contempt of his word.
In the light of this contrast we recall the Saviour's
words, " Bless them that curse you, and pray for them
that despitefully use you and persecute you."
God looked down from heaven, to behold the children
of men, and on Thursday He saw Rome, and the Church
of Rome, full of cursing and bitterness.
God looked down from heaven, to behold the children
of men, and on Friday He saw England, and the Church
of England, full of prayer and e.
"By their fruits ye shall know them ;" this is the
divine test for both Churches and men.

RUMOURED ADOPTION OF HOLYHEAD AS
THP, STATION FOR THE DISPATCH OF THE
AMERICAN MAILS.

For a fortnight past, it has been rumoured that
Government, or the Admiralty, had determined to con-
cede to the interested clamour of the metropolitan public,
the convenience of the metropolis, or the demands of
sundry railway speculators, by insisting that the boats
belonging to the Cunard line, conveying the American
mails, shall call at Holyhead, both on their outward and
inward passages. Nu such arrangement, we learn, has
been definitively concluded upon ; and for the sake of
Liverpool interests, and of the service itself, we trust
that those in authority will think better of it before
taking so unwise a step. To compel the Cunard
steamers to call at Holyhead would entail upon the
community on both sides of the Atlantic, first, a deten-
tioa of the mails, for two hours, at the least, both coming
and going. In the next place, Holyhead is a difficult
harbour to make in average weather, and a dangerous
one in bad weather. No commander of a ♦essel, steamer
or sailing, desires to near it on his voyage, being quite
content to know that he is in good sea room outside of it.
In a south-west wind, with half a sale, it is almost impos-
sible to get into it with safety. Moreover, being corn.
pelted to call there would preclude the mail steamers
from availing themselves of the north about passage,
which the Great Western almost invariably adopted, and
which the Cunard steamers are sometimes glad to take.
And as for any great advantage to accrue to the commu-
nity from the adoption of Holyhead as the calling place
for the post, ti►e authorities and London may be a trifle
accommodated ; but Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Scotland,
who ought to have some voice in the determination of a
matter so important, will be seriously damaged in conve-
nience. The change, if made, which we trust it will not
be, will he a failure, like many other changes advocated by
our present unwise and inexperienced authorities.

IMPORTANT TO MERCHANT CAPTAINS,