The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

tions m wneat
rs not being willing to meet the mark

th flonr. Indian corn in limited su.l
Iron.—The market for English bars ha

ore and to arrive, at S2i .50c. to
rm market.

tut prices were unaltered. A lot of

brougbflOc. to 11

ments; of cotton at
Tithin a few days we

.reli.oilard at 255., 2,000 bales of resin at Is. 3d. to Lon-
We hear of flour at Is. 3d. to Is. 4d.; 600 barrels of
(tine, 250 barrels of resin, 2s. to 2s. 6d.; 700 barrels of
t 4s. 6d. ; 700 packages of bacon and lard ?55.; cheese,

eavy goods,

Is., and to Hanibnigh--1

:ants, and rice, 25.

JAMAICA, MARCH 1.
as been principally con-

ess of the last fortnight I
chases for iminediatn consu

Brooke I

rrived

Malta, on his way to

Fl UNION.—The Bishop of Chartres has pub-
astoral letter in opposition to the Archbishop of

lishe4
Paris
La

rants from Liberia contain satisfactory state-

ritory was 2

ned to teach and elevate them.
200,000. Regulations
..ounteract the demoralising
influence of some of the men who go among the natives.
I A letter from Rome, in the Lombardo Veneto of Venice.

r in the t

were about to be adopted to C

to the King of Naples,

e latter has declined, on the I
se would be contrary to the con-

ground th:

fsuch a Con

cditions agreed on between the four powers. - King Ferdi-
nand, however, has consented to concentrate his troops
on the frontier, so as to assist the Pope in case of need.
Letters from Rome, of the 10th instant, announce that
a dispute having arisen between some of the French

Myers v. Watson, was
concluded. The question is, whether the defendant is
bound to complete a contract or the purchase of land at
Birkenhead, the plan for laying out the site of the neigh-
bouring lands not having been carried into effect. His
lordship said the question was one purely of fact—whether
the defendant had purchased with the view of being in
the nature of a co-speculator with reference- to the con-
templated improvements, or whether his contract was
subject to the proposals for laying out the neighbouring
ground being accomplished. He would look into the
ess of that republic. The aboriginal I evidence.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

Five hundred of the electors of Drogheda have signed
l address, which has been transmitted to Sir William
)mprville, calling on him to resign his seat for their bo-

rough.
On Friday, Sir W. Payne Galiwey, Bart., was returned
for the borough of Thirsk, on Protestant and Protection-
ist principles, without opposition, in the room of the late
John Bell, Esq.
A requisition has been presented to the Marquess of
Blandford, requesting him to allow himself to be put in
nomination for the county of Oxford, in the event of a
dissolution of parliament.
On Wednesday a deputation, headed by Mr. Ewart,
M.P., had an audience with Lord John Russell on the
subject of the repeal of the advertisement duty. Atter a
patient bearing Lord John Russell said the deputation
had made out a strong case ; but he must remind them
that there were other classes of tax-payers who had an
equally strong claim upon him.
Mr. Alderman Salomons addressed the electors of
Greenwich on Tuesday, when he announced himself as a
candidate for the representation of that borough. The
honourable alderman pledged himself that, if returned, he
would immediately claim his right as a Jew to sit in the
House of Commons, and take all the risk of a prosecution
for so doing.
FREE-TRADE LIBERALITY.—We were lately in an
eastern county, where we found wages generally reduced
to Gs., where they formerly were Ms. But we found
bread reduced only from 6d. to sd. This was on a
general view. But we met with one case which placed
the blessings of free-trade to the poor man in a strong
light. A Manchester manufacturer had bought an estate
which was in the market. He had obtained a loan from
government of £3,000 for improvements. He was set-
ting men to work in draining the estate. But the weekly
wages he offered were from 3s. 6d. to ss. per man. And
, if the men refused these wages, word was sent to the
poor board, and when they applied for relief they were
told, " You have been offered work,—we can give you no
relief here."—Herald.
PROTECTION AGAINST FOREIGN FLOUR.—The grand
jury of the South Riding of Tipperary have signed peti-
tions to both houses of parliament, stating that the im-
mense import of foreign flour has totally ruined the great
trade which once existed in Ireland in the manufacture of
flour. That the extensive mills in that country, as large
as the English cotton mills, are comparatively idle, and
the hands turned off. That flour being imported at the
same duty as wheat, gives the Frenchman a bonus over
the British millowners of Is. 7d. a sack, and to the Odessa
merchant is. ld., and they pray for a protecting duty to
place them on a level, at least, with the foreigner. It IS
remarkable that this petition is signed by six grand jurors,
among others, who hitherto have been free-traders and
whigs.
THE ESSEX AGRICULTURISTS.—The following placard
is now visible in many parts of Essex :—" A Proclamation
to our worthy Labourers.—We, the neighbouring farmers,
deeply deplore our inability to continue the present rate
of wages to our worthy labourers ; the fact is, we cannot
afford it. Free trade has brought us into close competi-
tion with foreigners who pay so little money for labour,
that dark brown rye bread, skim milk, cheese, and a few'
onions, are all the men get. With these foreign serfs,
who are bought and sold with the land, like cattle, are we
now contending in our own markets. Much as we de-
plore it, we are obliged manfully to tell you, that if we are
to give you constant employment, we cannot pay you the
present wages. Essex must come to what many other
counties have already come-6s. and 7s. a-week. We will
give as much as we can, but it must be in proportion to
the price of corn ; the money lost by farmers this year is
dreadful. Down with the malt tax l God save the
Queen'.—Billericay, March 14."