The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

LONDON pRoDucE MAREOF

For foreit;ii previous rates demanded,llltlMuth
disposition to operate. Refined: the home demand limited,
but brown lumps realized 4Cs.—Coffee : Prices firm, but few
buyers • sound Native Ceylon at 41s.—Tea dull at barely former
rates.—;Rice : Hoist India in dull sale, and previous rates sup.
ported with difficulty.—Cotton : Firm demand at full rates,
but little business doing—Tallow in firm good request. Fine
new Yellow Candle at 38s. 6d. on the spot.

LONDON TALLOW RETt7RNS.—MONDAY.
The stock in hand is 32,048 casks, against 25,702 casks las
year, being an increase this year of 7545 casks. Tae deliverie:
last week amount to 1292 casks; corresponding week last year
1678 casks; being a decrease this year of 356 casks.

LONDON CATTLE MARKET.—YEsToanAv.
A large supply of inferior beasts at market this morning,
Trade as on Monday last. Choice Scots being scarce sold more
readily. Sheep and Lambs in demand. Calves sold slowly,
Beasts, 4267 ; sheep and lambs, 3,930; calves, 360: pigs, 380 ;
Leicester, Lincoln, and Northampton beasts, 2S(); Holland
beasts, 1224; Ditto sheep, 4706; Ditto calves, 236.

s. (I. s. (1,
2 2 to 3 6
3 0 to 4 0
2 2 to 3 6
3 0 to 3 8
4 0 to 4 8

Mutton

On Friday the Mars, Liverpool steamer, left Water-
ford with at, least 500 passengers, en route to America.
PICKING Locxs.—A letter of Mr. Chubb appears to-
day. If Mr. Hobbs can pick his lock, he has a fair chance.

SHdP ROBBERY.—Yesterday, Mr. Mansfield. the sti-
pendiary, committed to gaol Catherine Kelly and
Johanna Kelly for two months, with hard labour, for
robbing a shop in Richmond-row, on Saturday, of a
quantity of butter and bacon.
INDISCRETION.—At the Police-court, yesterday, a pros-
titute named Mary Galvey was charged by a person named
John Jones with robbing him in the street of a purse
containing £1 10s. He gave to his shame the account of
his meeting, and after that she was fully committed to the
sessions for trial.

..,ssed in utter ignorance. Mr. Horner or,
would ensue. :Mr. Ricardo confessed his e
avowed that all the coininiittee were deceive
ROBBING PAwsnnoKnits.---The robberies of jewellery, j late Lord Ashburton, d dared, in 1821 tiv
from pawnbrokers, in Liverpool, which are fresh in the atosrtehra,rteosteillit7 the
under
tlnu n zi,c e- o, f.s.o extra
memory of our readers, came on for hearing yesterday, in money and ai I
depressiontu. el a
err' t°l;'"f7p'rsol(ieucitlifei productions
a private room adjoining the police-court, before one of 1828, when examined before the CommiTTF'.
the borough magistrates. The depositions of the several eminent merchant said that " the bill of IS
witnesses were taken. Wm. Holmes, Henty Bophry, system,.which the first clouds will endar
the panic of 15.17, hei thus spoke of the
Mary Binke, and Mary Powell were committed for trial
at the Sessions ; the other prisoners, four in number, were canreryhi';,mrslu7,aabes,'",isred.tyorpipsenpu

discharged

ACCIDENTS ON BOARD VESSELS.—On Saturday Wil-
liam Fife, the second engineer of the screw-steamer Nile,
was seriously hurt by the falling of a chain from the main-
top. On the same day James 11I•Lure, a coal trimmer
on board the steamer Camilla, was struck by the handles
of a winch, ar.d died two hours after. He was taken to
the hospital.— On the same day, James Leeming, a lad,
whilst going on hoard tile ship Jacob A. Westervelt,
lying in the Waterloo Dock, for the purpose of taking
leave of some friends going to America, accidentally
fell into the hold, and sustained a severe contusion
of the eyebrow, and was conveyed to the hospital in a
state of insensibility, where he now lies.—On the same
day Dominick M'Connell, an apprentice to a joiner, struck
himself on the instep with an adze on board the Kossuth,
Iving in Stanley Dock, on the 2nd instant.—Daniel
M'Cartney, a sailor on board the ship Waterloo, fell from
the mizen top, at sea, a height of 70 feet, and severely
fractured his arm and leg.-0a Monday, Mary Flaherty,
whilst walking down the stairs, was pushed by her hus-
band, with whom she had been having words, and, falling
from top to bottom, severely fractured her leg, and now
lies in a preCarious state.

Very able manner of the London and Wt
examined on the second report of h
opinion that if war broke out he woo
adding " it would be better to stop befor
than afterwards."

15.—This system has been condemned
Niebuhr and the shrewd aro sagacious Cob!
the principles of Aristotle and Plato; it op
wisdom of Solon and Julius Cwsar ; amon
losses, since 181(1, exceeding twice the :Imo,
debt ; it has sown broadcast the seeds of se,
the people of employment ; it has driven and
hundreds of thousands of our best media:
the United States; it caused the Reform Vi
Indies, repealed the Corn Laws, and subver
Acts. Mr. O'Connell pronounced it the "
source of the disorders and distresses of
wisest and profoundest thinking men living
nant with revolution, especally Mr. John
predictions, extending over a period of thirt
verified to the letter, both in England and ti
erisisl6.—in this of the country,—a cris

THE
IRE CORN AND FLOUR TRADE.—A revolution is about
to take place in the method of selling flour, which will
have a serious effect upon the trade, and possibly also
upon prices. One of the many French factors (who have
establisheci themselves in London since the free-trade
systern was commenced), has issued circulars announcing
that he will sell flour and wheat by,auction. Large rooms
are being prepared for the pur. ose, and there is no doubt
that the large forced sales will tend to depress prices still
further. Indeed, the auctioneer expects as much, for he
states, "goods sold under such circumstances and without
reserve, will frequently present to buyers excellent
chances of making cheap purchases." It is understood
that flour is to be the chief commodity sold, and no doubt
large quantities of French and other foreign-made flour
will be thrown on the market, to the great detriment of
the home producer, who will have to sell his grain at
prices to compete with the wholesale knocking off of

engaged inn struggle between the good ant.
tice and injustice, the lore of country, ant
Mammon. Ilaimy wilt it be for Britain, It
if Liverpool enables us to exclahri,
The fiend Itiok'd up and

Hie mounted scale aloft : nor aioi,
Murmuring, and with him fled the

111W1M1e..,.,.

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'foreign flour.
SUPERSTITION IN DORSETSIIIRE.—In a large village
in Darsetshire, not far from the county town, an intelli•
gent man went recently into the house of a somewhat
respectable woman who keeps a general shop in the vil-
en I cut the
lage, and who is the mother of n numerous family ; and
seeing her with a large
.family Bible open before her, and
the open
several of her children collected around, while she was
Bneibstle.."Thet;owwilei
cutting and paring their finger nails,,and so li-Jouldiiengotfhheiirs
hands as that the cuttings might drop on the leaves of the
Bible, he asked her why she did this. Suspecting, by her
toovebrethh:
nowuaari
inps
rnoiesfre :mtwhyhacet
children,
hlsdhere-el inar,de
replied.
Se.loti
emde.
the object
,c,
taicuttings
wgisanyf
say:
le
uponwwh,
'Bible,
[;teal,l*t- tilfl6 ;The may
naiglsroa'rire "cut
not jequire the educator to be ebroud ?—Notes a rt 4
Quii-itv,

wii in the visages

organ of bullionism and free
extracted from the Times—Liverpool has a aered duty to per-
form. "The good old loyal town" must rouse from the apathy
that has too long deadened its energies. A timid policy roust
be scouted. Party differences must disappear before the patriot
voice of nationality. Protect the labour market. Protect the
instrument in which the reward of labour is measured. Liver-
pool has the power to vindicate the wrongs of Ihittsh industry
at home, at sea, and in the colonies, and it that power be not
vigorously exerted without delay, her ancestral drums to loy-
alty will be lost fur ever. Now is the time, now is the hour, to
prove that the merchant princes of this magnificent port bare
not degenerated from the virtues of their forefathers. We are

;ONATUAN DUNCAN

WrECK OF THE 4ALCTUIC PASSENGER-SHlp.—Siroa
our, notice of the position of the unfortunate emigrants
wrecked in this vessel oa the 6th of June last, the foll.ow-
ing contributions have been received :---,Harnden and Co.
£25, Colonial Laud and Emigration Commissioners £lO,
Baring Brothers £5. E. C Baring £5, Brown, Shipley,
and Co. £s,' Rathbone Brothers £5, Fielden Brother-I£s,
Mr. M' Henry £2, Tapscott and Co. .£2, P. W. Byrne and
Co. £2, Pilkington and Wilson £2, Grimshaw and Co. £2.
S. and W. War:* £i!. Train and Co. £l. Anson- Hardy
and Co. £l, Mr. Barff £1 Is, Mr. Barnett £1 Is, Mr.
ad.cdtobtyalt4oef
£llBito3ns.-XTI
111.:,paids:..,,,Trhsomseosninc£,16—eemnafik,irnwgui.
eminent firth of Harnden and Co. in their ships, free Of
charge, this subscription 'being for extra stores, loss of
clothes, &e. It affords us much pleaswe to .learn that
making their subscription' to thi:, praiseworthy. ob.Vct
Messrs. Harnden hare paid the -"maintirrnefoulthalehreil'ilasi,
up-
wards of .£5O. This not the first (nem* on which we
have /ladle chronicle the munificent comluct of, his firm.
eTnhteeirrpililesuin. a0i,ty...i.5,.,0.n1y equalled by

WE'LL GO AND GATHER ROSES.
BY WILLIAM FORSYTH.
We'll go and gather roses
While summer beauties last,
Ere the cloud its coming shows ns
By shadows round us cast.
We'll go with song and laughter,
Light heart and sunny eye,
Load think on care hereafter
'Heath winter's cauldrife sky.
We'll go and gather roses, summer's sweetest roses,
Through the bowers of beauty vaunted,
Woods where ceaseless songs are chaunted,
And by fountains fairy haunted,
Go and gather roses.

We'll go and gather roses,
Our flowery path along,
Each step some sweet discloses,
Each breath is full of sung.
The merry waters falling,
The wild birds as they sing,
The woodland fays are calling
From out the fairy ring,
To go anA gather roses, bonny budding roses,
To wreathe young beauty's flowing hair,
With sisters meet to blossom there;
Sweetest flowers—though ne'er so fair
As earth's own peerless roses.

We'll go and gather roses,
Where'er they brightest be,
While a thousand radiant glosses

Glint o'er the gowan lea.

Ere the loveliness of summer
And its happy hours depart,
And the sunshine waxeth dimmer
On the hills and in the heart,
We'll go end gather roses, dewy bosom'd roses,
The cloud may come before we wot,
The tear before we dream
Then, let's enjoy our present lot,
And gather summer roses.

LITERATURE

AND THE FINE ARTS,
♦

The Parlour Magazine of the Literature of all Nations

London : Houlston and Stoneman

This magazine contains original English and American
contributions, and translations from the literature of eight
different nations. The idea of establishing such a cosmo-
politan collection of literature was suggested by the in.
stitution of " the Great Exhibition," and in the Crystal
Palace the periodical is printed. Whatever may be the
ultimate fate of that wonderful structure—by the bye,
in the opinion of many more wonderful and attractive
than its contents—we conceive it to be clear that the
" Exhibition of the Literature of all Nations" now before
us will be permanent. The collection in the present part
comprises tales, essays, and poetry from the German,
French, American, and Persian languages, &c. ; and in
some of the selections we can vouch for the accuracy and
effect of the translation.

The Home Circle. Part 25. London : W. S. Johnston.
The amount of entertaining and superior literature with
which this periodical abounds must enlighten the intellect
of every member of that " home" in which it is received.
A Story without a Name," an historical novel, by Mr.
G. P. R. James, is continued throughout the present part,
and in beauty of description and interest of narrative it
sustains his reputation. " Quentin Matsys, the Black-
smith of Antwerp," by Mr. Pierce Egan, increases in in-
terest, and is Scott-like in its truthful delineation of cha-
racter. " Northern Loves and Legends," by Frederika
Bremer, is beautifully written. Here is an elegant passage

NIAGARA.

tntitled
" And there it flows still, since thousands and thou-
sands of years, ever green, ever young, ever fresh with
the sweetness and majesty of a great and noble love ;—its
spirit for ever ascending towards the light, whose loving
rays are for ever descending upon it, embracing it with
radiant rainbows, touching its pure waters with purest
flames. There it riseth to.day, as on its first day, a
solemn, joyous hymn, type of the ever young, ever over-
flowing life of nature—a solemn admonition and invita-
tion to the heart of mankind to feel and grow and flow as
that of its mother."
- - •• -

The " Accomplishments for Ladies," and the " Answers
to Correspondents," are of a superior and entertaining

character.

Pictorial Half Houra

London Topography, Part II

London : Charles Knight,

This part contains highly-finished and accurate wood-
cuts of the public structures in London—a fine field for
such an exhibition of artistic talent. There are elaborate
descriptions and historical accounts—altogether forming
an important and useful work.

Half-hours of English History. Part 111.
We are afraid that the untiring enterprise of Mr. Knight,
in his efforts to diffuse throughout all classes of the com-
munity cheap yet highly-superior literature, has not been
attended with such pecuniary results as they deserve.
It is hardly possible to place before the mass of the Bri-
tish public more instructive information than that con-
tained in this periodical. It consists of concise, yet re-
plete sketches, of the monarchs and institutions of power
in the early part of English history. Their perusal, in the
present eventful period, conveys something more than
mere historical narrative ; something of the natural philo-
sophy of government is exhibited : thus, in describing

- - -
THE CHARACTER OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR.
" With all his ferocity, William evinced throughout
his life a reverence both for the ordinances and the minis-
ters of religion ; and, although he would not suffer either
his clergy or the pope to erect within his kingdom an
ecclesiastical dominion separate from and independent of
that of the crown, he showed himself anxious on all occa-
sions to maintain the respectability of the church by pro-
moting able men to the chief places in it, as well as by
upholding it in its legal rights and powers. That he was
eminently endowed with the qualities, both moral and
intellectual, that raise men above their fellows, is anun-
dantly proved by what he did. Few men have projected
the influence of their genius across so wide an expanse
both of time and space as the founder of the Norman
dynasty in England. In moral disposition William was
passionate and ruthless ; but he does not appear to have
been vindictive, nor even, properly speaking, cruel or
bloodthirsty, notwithstanding the destructive character
of some of his military operations. There was nothing
weak, nothing little about this great king. In his latter
days, the chronicler intimates, he fell into the vices of
avarice and greediness ; but this love of money was only
one of the forms assumed by his love of power, the natu-
ral passion of all superior minds."

Curiosities of Industry and the Applied Sciences. Part I

This is another of Mr. Knight's issues. The present
number treats of the manufacture of glass and iron—the
component parts of the Exhibition Building. The trea-
tises are very elaborate, and really valuable. It ap-
pears that the roof of the " Palace" contains 16 acres of
glass ! and that glazing the structure was " no joke," if we
may judge by the technical manner in which the process
is described. That the most highly-prized things may be
reduced to thebasestusesis w ell illustrated by the remarks on

THE KOH-I-NOOR DIAMOND

" In these days, when the famed Koh-i-noor is under-
going criticism alike from all quarters, from the duke to
the dustman, and when Spanish jewels and Russian jewels,
Indian jewels and Tunisian jewels, are being gazed at by
millions of persons, it may be interesting to bear in mind
that the diamond has on some occasions been used to
convert iron into steel. A somewhat startling and costly
experiment this ! One of the points of difference between
steel and bar-iron is, that the former contains more car-
bon than the latter ; and as the diamond consists of abso-
lutely pure carbon (so far as experiments have hitherto
determined), it has been thought worth while to try whe-
ther iron can be imbued with the requisite dose of carbon
from this source."

An experiment of this kind, made some time since in
France, is described; but, as the writer gravely informs
as, has not often been repeated. This we can credit.

Trade and Travels in the Gulf of Guinea ; with an
Account of the Manners and Customs of the Inhabi-
tants. By J. Smith. London : Sim pkin , Marshall, & Co.

This is an interesting and well-written work, and to
parties carrying on mercantile traffic with the western
coast of Africa its information must be invaluable.
Mr. Smith appears to have had considerable experience on
the subject of which he treats, having made several voyages
to thecoast as surgeon and passenger; and his work sup-
plies a blank, for we do not recollect any previous work
minutely and practically describing the state and inhabitants
of the coast of Guinea, and their religion, laws, and cus-
toms. The results of his intercourse with, and observa-
tion of, a race of men the lowest in the creation, affords
great scope for charitable and philosophic thought. Here
is man in his most debased condition—a direct opposite to
the Creator, in whose image he is made. The author
says—comparing the condition of the negro in his native
land and the_horrors of

THE SLAVE TRADE-
" The negroes sold to the nefarious
ro traffickers in slaves,
are already in a state of slavery.
Africa,ply speaking there
the master and
are only two classes of people in
all the
the slave. Among the latter may be classed
women, who, though called wires, are virtually nearlyt.!n a state
of bondage ; the master a proud, cruel, despotic
whose will in his law; the slave. a poor, inipseralcbleyrait,
de-
graded piece of mechanism, subject in body in mind' to
capricious and degraded master. An English donkey is a
comparatively happy creature, and much less inhumanlya
treated, or its master falls under the lash of the officer of
a humane society ; the negro has no law to protect him,
and he is usually ill fed, worse clothed and lodged, has no
will of his own, and his master can sell, or maim, or kill
'aim at discretion. * * * * A.
great deal has been written and said on the cruelty for..
libsrly practised on the flares in oar West India colonies,

and no doubt severe censure was merited; but their lot
was happiness compared to their wretched condition at
home. Were an offer made to the newly-imported African
bred slaves to convey them home again, and land them at
their former master's door, I am persuaded the offer would
be rejected in ninety-nine cases out of every hundred."

The Protestant Magazine.

London : J. F. 'Shaw,

The contents of this useful publication for the month
are highly attractive, and rendered peculiarly interesting
at the present time. -
The Family:Friend. London : Houlston and Stoneman.
This periodical does not belie its name. The matter it
contains is varied and interesting.

The Girlhood of Shakspeare's Heroines. Tale TX. By
Mary Cowden Clarke. London : W. H. Smith& Sons.
The design of this issue is to trace the probable antece-
dents in the history of some of Shakspeare's women.
The manner in which the work is performed is certainly

equal to the design.
Lewis Arundel; or, the Railroad of Life. By Frank
Fairlegh. Part IX. London : Hall, Virtue, & Co.
This novel continues to sustain its amusing and olaver

character.
The Ladies' .then Book. London : W. S. Johnstcat

This is appropriately styled " a companion to the
work-table." It contains some chaste designs in knit-

The Great Gun Polka, by Richard Harvey; My Polka,
by Carlo Minosi ; and The Minstrel Knight, composed
by Charles Glover. London : D'Almaine and Co.
We have much pleasure in noticing these talented

compositions

Smities Practical Bookkeeping

Is as concise in form as it is clear in example and expla-
nation. Any person with ordinary ability might, with
the assistance of this guide, become an efficient master
of his books. It is not, however, more useful than ano-
ther small book that Mr. Smith has just issued under the
title of a Trade :Reference, or Commercial Dictionary,
which contains lucid explanations of all the terms of trade
in use amongst the mercantile public, as well as all ne-
cessary forms. Mr. Smith, who is we believe a practical
man, has evidently a thorough knowledge of his subject.
Both works will be useful to mercantile clerks and others.