The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

AFTER FRIDAY NEXT

On MONDAY next, the 4th December, at Twelve o'clock,
at Bushby, Son, and Foster's Office, Colonial Buildings,
Dale-street,

500 Bales JUTE.
Apply to Messrs. T. and H. MURRAY, Merchants, or
BUSH BY, SON, and FOSTER, Brokers.

AT HULL.
On WEuNEsnAY,the 6th December, at Hull,ex Raymond,
4897 Chests CONGOU,
200 Half-Chests SOUCHONG,
200 Half-Chests Black Leaf PEKOE,
200. Half-Chests Flowery DITTO,
191 Half-Chests Orange DITTO,
1000 Halt-Chests TWANKAY,
600 121 b. Boxes DITTO,
150 101 b. Boxes HYSON,
200 Half-Cnests DITTO,
170 Half-Chests Young HYSON,
165 Half-Chests IMPERIAL,
204 Half-Chests GUNPOWDER,
150 101 b. Boxes DITTO.
Samples of the above to be seen at the Office of
MOLYNEUX and HULBERT, Tea Brokers,
8, Temple-court, Liverpool.

On FRIDAY, the Bth December, at Two o'clock, at the
Broker's Sale Room, 10, North John-street,
400 Bales East India WOOL,
100 Bales Buenos Ayres WOOL.
ABRAM GARTSIDE, Wool Broker.

Apply to

On TUESDAY, the 12th December, at Twelve o'clock, on
board the Smack STAR, of Inverness, lying in the
King's Dock, if not previously sold by private contract,
)1' The above SMACK,
el*. About 27 tons burthen, with all her materials as
,_ divi from sea.—Apply to Mr. JOHN MORRISON, or
___ to JOHN HURRY, Broker,
8, India Buildings.

AMERICAN APPLES,

SELECTED AND SOLD IN BARRELS AND HALF BARRELS,

AT MIDDLEWOOD'S
FAMILY FRUIT WAREHOUSE,
6, PARKER-STREET,
TWO DOORS FROM CHURCH-STREET.
___

THEfabove are of the Spotted or real Newtown Pippin.
J. M. has, also, just received a fresh supply of fine
Spanish Melons, Turkey Pomegranates, large Shaddocks
and Forbidden Fruit, Dessert Raisins, Figs, French
Plums, Grapes, Preserved Fruits, Marmalades, Aloes,
Pickles, &c.

This Establishment having had a preference for upwards
of thirty years in Liverpool, J. M. is willing to compete
with any other in the Kingdom in the selection of Fruits;
and from long experience, having become acquainted with
the best Markets, respectfully invites a comparison of his
Fruits with those in the cheap or ticket shops.
A few hundred Boxes of Dessert Raisins at 2s. 6d. per
box; Elime Figs, 3s. 6d. per dozen; Forbidden Fruit,
for Preserving, 4s. and 6s. per dozen.

CHANDELIERS, LAMPS,
CANDELABRA, Sc.:.
-Ifil L. HAUSBURG takes the liberty of announcing
-a: • the cqmpletion of his extensive STOCK of
CHANDELIERS, LAMPS, CANDELABRA, &c.
for the present season, in every variety and style, inclu-
ding the latest and most elegant designs, at exceedingly
moderate prices, and respectfully solicits the honour of a
visit from his Patrons and Friends that he may have the
pleasure of submitting them to their inspection.
F. L. H. begs leave also to direct attention to the cele-
brated

BUDE LIGHT,
at present an object of so much attraction ; and, having
illuminated his spacious Show-room (formerly the Post-
office) with the most powerful burner in Liverpool, for
interiors, the practicability and advantage of the applica-
tion to large rooms and Public Buildings generally, is
fully demonstrated. F. L. H. is the only person in Li-
verpool thoroughly acquainted with the nature of the fit-
tings, and is prepared to supply and fix the Light wherever
it is required.
F. L. H. has further to introduce to the notice of his
Friends

THE UNIVERSAL LAMP,
which, after a trial of Eighteen Months, he can confi.
dpntly recommend as a most superior article; the simpli-
city of the arrangement (the trimming being divested of
all difficulty) and the purity and brilliance of the flame
lendering the Lamp in every respect particularly desirable.
He has also just received a new importation of

- BOHEMIAN GLASS,
in LIQUEUR SETS, FLOWER VASES, TOILETTE BOTTLES,
CHIMNEY ORNAMENTS, &C., of the newest design and
most beautiful tints, an examination of which will amply
repay the trouble of a visit.

F. L. HAUSBURG,
(Late PROMOLI and HAUSBURG,)
OLD POSTOFFICE BUILDINGS

SALE OF EXCELLENT MODERN FURNI-
TURE, CHINA, CUT GLASS, &c. INCLUDING
THE EFFECTS OF A GENTLEMAN DECLIN-
ING HOUSEKEEPING.
MR. HODGSON is instructed to SELL by AUC-
TION, on THURSDAY next, the 30th instant, and
FRIDAY, the Ist December next, at Eleven o'clock each
morning, at his Rooms, 50, Church-street,
The FURNITURE and EFFECTS, which include,
in the Sitting and Drawing-rooms, and Library, Sets of
handsome Mahogany Chairs, French Polished, and covered
with Hair-seating, Ditto Sofas, with loose Cushions and
Bolsters, in Hair Cloth, Rosewood Couches, in Damask
and Chintz, Mahogany Sideboard, with Garduvin and
numerous Drawers. excellent Mahogany Chiffoniers, with
Raised Backs and Enclosed Cupboards, handsome Ma-
hogany Circular Loo Tables, on Pillars, Claws, and Cast-
ors, Mahogany Pembroke and other Tables, Brussels and
Kidderminster Floor Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Bronze and
Polished Fenders and Fire Irons, Window Curtains, Cut
Glass Wine and Spirit Decanters, China, Window Blinds,
&c.

The BEDROOM FURNITURE consists of Sets of excel-
lent Mahogany Four-post Bedsteads, with Mahogany
Cornices and suitable Draperies, Tent Ditto Ditto, Straw
and Hair Mattresses,White Goose Feather Beds, Bolsters,
and Pillows, Blankets, and Counterpanes, Mahogany and
Painted Chests of Drawers, Swing Dressingc, Glasses, in
Mahogany Frames, Bedside and Landing Carpets and
Stair Ditto, Lobby Oil Cloths, in squares and lengths of
various widths, together with Kitchen and Culinary Re-
quisites, &c.

- The Furniture may be viewed on the Mornings of Sale,
when Catalogues may be had.

SPLENDID ROSEWOOD AND MAHOGANY
CABINET FURNITURE,
Surpassing in elegance and durability that of the
celebrated German Manufacture.
lUr R. HODGSON has the honour to announce to Fa-
lies Furnishing and the Public generally, that he is
commissioned to SELL by AUCTION, on MONDAY
next, the 4th December, at his Rooms, 50, Church-street,
punctually at Eleven o'clock, the very valuable and select
STOCK IN TRADE of a CABINET MAKER declin-
ing business, and removed for the greater facility of sale,
comprising SUPERB DRAWING, DINING, AND BED-
RoON FURNITURE, of the most costly and unique descrip-
tion, the whole being of the best materials and workman-
ship including a magnificent Spanish Wood Sideboard,
replete with the usual conveniences, Winged and Plain
Wardrobes, with Drawers, &c., Bookcases, with Glazed
Doors, Sofas, in beautifully figured Hair Cloth, Sets of
modern Dining Tables, on Telescope Frames, Drawing
and Dining-room Chairs, with Spring Seats, Circular and
Oblong Loo Tables, in Rosewood and Mahogany, of beau-
tiful designs, Ditto Card Tables, Mahogany, French, and
Four-post Bedsteads, lofty Chests of Drawers, &c., the
whole being of original designs, of the best materials and
workmanship, and of Liverpool manufacture. Also, a
few elegant Bronze and Steel Drawing-room FENDERS,
Two Chimney Glasses, a brilliant-toned Six-and-a-Half
Octave CABINET PIANO-FORTE, and a SQUARE
DITTO, both in most superb Rosewood Cases, &c.
Further particulars in Catalogues, which are in prepa-
ration, and may be had three days prior to the sale. To
be publicly viewed on SATURDAY next, the 2d December. 1

NEW DURHAM MUSTARD,
is. 6n. PER LE.,
In Pounds and half-pounds, Lead Packages.
THERE is no article manufactured more difficult to
obtain genuine than MUSTARD, and as New has
now arrived, we call the attention of Families particularly
to this article, as it possesses double the strength of the
common Mustard, and has the pure flavour of the Mus-
tard Seed, which is so difficult to obtain. Sold only by
HOLLIS, WALFORD, AND CO.,
At tbeir Tea Establishments,
2,80LD-STREET,(Y 8, DALE-STREET, Liverpool.

CHESS.—The fondness of our ancestors for the game
of chess appears by the frequent mention of the amuse-
ment in the ancient romances. Sometimes a lover pro-
cured admittance to the place where his mistress was con-
fined by allowing the jailor to win from him a game at
chess. Again the minstrels of the baronial ball spread
over the subject all the riches of their imagination. They
were wont to fancy the enchanted castle of a beautiful
fairy. who challenged a noble knight to play with her at
chess. Flags of black and white marble formed their
chequer, and the pieces consisted of massive statutes of
silver and gold, which moved at the touch of a magic
wand held by the player.---Mill's History of Chivalry.

DESCRIPTION OF THE SCOTTISH CHARACTER.-7" A
people whose education and habits are such that, in every
quarter of the world, they rise above the mass of those
with whom they mix, as suety as oil rises to the top of
water? a people of such temper and self-government, that
the wildest excesses recorded in their history partake of
the gravity of judicial proceedings, and of the solemn-
ity of religious rites ; a people whose national pride and
mutual attachment have passed into a proverb ; a people
whose high and fierce spirit, so forcibly described in the
haughty motto which encircles their thistle, preserved
their independence during a stuggle of centuries, from the
encroachments of wealthier and more powerful neigh-
bours ; 'such a people cannot be long oppressed. Any gov-
ernment, however constituted, must respect their wishes
and tremble at their discontents. * * * *
The Scotch are not ill governed. And the reason simply is
that they will not bear to be ill governed.—Macauley's
Review of Burleigh.

BAFFLING A BEAR.—After several strange adventures
and very narrow escapes from buffaloes, ether gigantic
elephants, &c., (but how he had suceeded in doing so he
could not well tell,) he, Colonel Hardy, now perceived
through the trees two large black objects, moving in the
very narrow path just before him ; and here he had again
no alternative, but if possible to pass in the same way as
he had passed the elephants. They soon saw or heard
him ; and to his horror he found himself in a moment
almost within the grasp of two large terrific bears, which
instantly made to him, and in so furious a manner, that
he had scarcely time to call upon God to save him ! By
some means or other he eluded the hug of the first bear,
but he was hopeless of being able to avoid or escape from
the claws and frightful teeth displayed in the extended
jaws of the second, when a kind of impulse, for which he
could not account, caused him to raise his arm, and to
aim a blow at the monster with the bottle which he still
held in his hand. This, striking against the teeth of the
animal, was dashed to pieces with a great crash, and the
brandy flying into the mouth and eyes of the astonished
bear, so frightened him as well as his companion, that,
growling loudly, they both made off into the jungle.—
Excursions in Ceylon.

WILL IMPORTS COMMAND EXPORTS?—If an oppor-
tunity was ever afforded of bringing to a practical test the
assertion of the manufacturers—that " imports would ne-
cessarily command exports," and that the introduction of
foreign corn would carry off our manufactures, it occurred
in the periods between the Ist of November, 1811, and
October in the following year, 1812. At no period during
which we have been a corn importing country was a
larger mass of foreign corn brought into the British mar-
ket. The average annual import "ar the ten years com-
mencing 1831 and finishing 1841 had been one million two
hundred thousand quarters, during which there is no con-
nection to be traced between the import of corn and the
condition of the manufacturing classes, as affected by the
less or larger quantity. But in a period of eleven months
between the times we have above stated—that is, between
November 1841, and October, 1842, the importation of
foreign corn into Great Britain reached to the enormous
amount of three million quarters ; and if we convert flour
into quarters of wheat, the whole amount of importation
will stand little short of three millions two hundred thou-
sand quarters ; in other words, nearly three times the
amount of the ordinary annual average importation. Now,
if the theory of the Anti-Corn-Law League be true—that
the larger quantity of wheat which you take from abroad,
the larger will be the exportation of manufactured goods
in exchange—what would be the result? The answer is
obvious :—that, according to this reasoning, the latter end
of the year 1811 up to October, 1842, ought to have been
the most prosperous season of export for British goods
—but that it was not so every factor at Manchester, Li-
verpool, Birmingham, and Glasgow, will admit with one
consent. Never, indeed, during any period of our com-
mercial adversity, was there a greater decline in the ma-
nufacturing market, and less demand from foreign cus-
tomers, than in the eleven months during which this large
mass of imported corn was brought into and consumed in
our markets : it was not, indeed, until the spring of the
present year, when scarcely a bushel of this extraordinary
import was left, that trade began to revive. Now, if this
expenditure of nearly £6,500,000, which was the price of
this imported corn and flour, paid to foreigners, did no-
thing towards reviving trade and manufactures,
but con-
tinued them in a most stagnant and unprosperous stat,
how is it possible that there can be
between the export of British -
foreign corn, as render it

to a repeal of the corn laws, in
rers may sell their goods and tt
nal,