The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-25 00:00:00

SOUTH AMERICAN TRADE

BT the fast and splendid ship Seraphina, arrived in our
port 'yesterday, from Pernambuco, we have dates from
Rio de Janeiro to the 12th December, and Bahia to the
18th. _

The Seraphina sailed from Pernambuco on the 25th
December. The letters report the market for dry goods
very dull, and scarcely any sales to be effected, being in
the middle of the Christmas holidays. Advices from Lon-
don to the 16th November had been received, viii Lisbon.
Exchange, 27.

Arrived, the C. T. Sutton, from Gaspe.
At Bahia Sugars were quoted as follows :—Browns,
1700 to 1800 Isx• an. ; Whites, 2//300 @ 2//400 ip an.
Cotton, 5//600 @ 6//000. Freight, 60s. to 70s. to the
Channel. Exchange, 27.
Arrived, The Milton, from Cape de Verds, Bth Dec. ;
Mary, from Liverpool, 17th Dec.—Sailed, the Laura
Dumbull, to Liverpool, on 11th December; Phcenix for
Channel, same day ; Jane Goodie, to Cork, 15th Dec. ;
Louisa, same day.
The Seraphina has anticipated the news by the Express
packet from Rio, she having sailed on the 12th December
with the mails and a small freight. The arrival of the
Antelope (screw) with satisfactory accounts as regards the
houses in England connected with Brazil had tended
greatly to restore confidence, and considerable transactions
followed both in exchange and produce. The exchange
raled at 271 to 28d. In Coffee upwards of 70,000 bags had
been sold, and about 50,000 remained in first bands.
Ist good, 2//650 @ 2050 ; superior, 2fi850 ® 3//000 v.
snobs. No political news of interest. The Antelope was
to proceed to Monte Video.

•Neool./1/./M/M•MiNZO ,•,*••••
THE PROVISION TRADE

The imports of foreign provisions duringthe past week,
have been very limited, and prices have in consequence
been very firmly maintained, especially for new beef, and
for lard, which may be quoted Is. to 2s. higher than last
week. Old bacon has been also in request. The market
for butter is firm ; and cheese is ready of sale at good
prices. The usual fortnightly sale of provisions took
place on Friday, at the Commercial Sale-room in Temple-
court, the brokers selling being Messrs. Wm.. Gardner
and Co., and Messrs. George Badenach and Co., and was
well attended. A quantity of fine bladdered American
lard was offered, but withdrawn for an advance, after one
lot being knocked down at 625. 6d. Butter was in good
demand at advancing prices. A few lots of bacon were
sold, the bulk offered being held for higher prices. Sbme
of Gillmore's now long middles were bought at 51s. to
51s. 6d.; and 700 loose hams (Duffield's), were knocked
down at 28s. A fair quantity of cheese was sold at 4.65.,
and some under, the rest being withdrawn for sale by
private. The sale throughout exhibited great firmness on
the part of the trade.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS.)

OVERLAND MAIL FROM CALCUTTA

(From the Second Edition of the Morning Herald.)

We have received by Eitraordinary Express our files of
papers and private correspondence, in anticipation of the
Overland Mail, from Bombay, of Dec.ls ; Calcutta, Dec.
7; and China, Nov. 28. The reason of the late arrival of

this mail is explained by our Malta correspondent in the
following terms :—" My last, dispatch was by the Vol-
cano, on the 12th inst. The•day following her departure
it Mew a fresh breeze, which subsequently became a hur-
ricane. On the 15th the Peninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer Indus, which left Malta on the 13th. put
back ; and on the 15th the Volcano, with that portion of
the India mail sent through France, returned to port with
damage. The Hecate is to proceed with the mails when
the weather moderates."

The most important news brought by this conveyance
is that supplied from Calcutta, which represents the truly
disastrous effects of the late commercial embarrassments
in London upon the mercantile community in that presi-.
dency. Nine highly respectable firms had been compelled
to suspend payment, and it was impossible to calculate
bow far the serious consequences of these failures would
extend. "Credit and confidence," says the Bengal Bur-
karu Price Current, " were at once annihilated, and busi-
ness in every branch reduced: to cash transactions. The
acceptances of no European house could be discounted in
the bazaar."
The firms suspended in Calcutta were Messrs. Saunders,
May, Fordyce, and Co., Cockerell and Co., Lyall, Mathe-
son and Co., Church, Lake, and Co.' Lake, Ham mill,
and Co., Shearman, Mullens, and Co., Hughesdon Brs.,
and CO., and Ewing, Aird, and Anderson. It was publicly
stated that Smith, Cowell, and Co., had also stopped
payment ; but it was subsequently announced that they
had resumed business, and at a meeting of creditors
held since that time, it was resolved that the house be
allowed to carry on business under inpectors then i. 43-
pointed.
The intelligence from Bombay is of unpolitical impor-
tance. The Punjaub and Scinde were tranquil. Lord
Hardinge was expected to leave Calcutta early in this
month (January). Commercial matters had assumed a
more healthy aspect, with an appearance of a gradual im-
provement.
The accounts from China are entirely of a peaceful na-
turv--; -and the feeling of the people of that orapiratowarde
the English authorities is evidently partaking of a more
pacific character. His Excellency Sir John Francis Davis
had returned to Hong Kong from his mission to the coast
of Cochin China, where he had gone for the purpose of
accomplishing some commercial arrangements. Trade
was in a very depressed condition, and prices had gene-
rally declined.

LONDON CORN MARKET.-.YESTERDAY

Jan. 25,1848.

CONSECRATION OF THE BISHOP OF
MANCHESTER.

On Sunday morning the Rev. James Prince Lee, D.D.,
was consecrated Bishop of Manchester by the Archbishop
of York. This office was performed in the Chapel Royal,
Whitehall, which was crowded by a very large and res-
pectable congregation. At eleven o'clock the bishop's
procession entered the chapel, comprising the Bishop of
Chester, the Bishop of Winchester, the Archbishop of
York, &c. The archbishop and bishops proceeded to the
communion table, and the rest of the party were accom-
modated with seats near it.

Morning prayer being ended, the Archbishop began
the communion service. The Bishop of Worcester read
" for the Epistle " the appointed portion of Acts xx. ; and
the Bishop of Chester read the gospel. Then the Nicene
Creed having been read, the Rev. Garbett ascended the
pulpit and preached the sermon, taking for his text Acts
47,—" The Lord added to the church daily such as
should be saved."

The rev. gentleman began by remarking, that the ori-
ginal epithet rendered " church " was one of the com-
monest use, and was adopted by the sacred writers to ex-
press the aggregate mass of Christians, i. e., of individual
persons who in successive generations should be called
forth out of the world, by the preaching of the Gospel,, to
obtain salvation through faith in Christ. This -chapter
was a history of the first formation of that body; And the
particular text literally rendered would be—" The Lord
added them that were saved daily to the church ;" the
statement being, not that they were added to the church
in order that they should be saved, but that, being saved,
they were added to the church ; their salvation was not
the consequence of their union with the• church, but their
union with the. church was the consequence of their salva-
tion.

• The sermon being ended, the elected Bishop, vested with
his rochet, was presented to the Archbishopby the Bishops
of Chester and 'Worcester, the Archbishop sitting in his
chair near the holy table.
It was understood that Mr. Gutteridge•went into the
vestry before the service began, and handed to the Arch-
bishop a protest against the consecration of Dr. Lee. It
was said that his Grace immediately put the document in
the fire.

Typhus fever in a malignant form is very prevalent in
Ulverston, and particularly in the union workhouse there.
On Saturday morning afire broke out in Burlington Ar-
cade, London by which five houses were destroyed, and
several others much damage&
A great part of the extensive cotton-mills of Messrs.
Dennistoun and Co., at Stanley, near Perth, have been
destroyed by fire.
The Earl Grosvenor and Mr; Baring are making trtour
in Italy. His lordship, by the last letters, had arrived, at
Rome.

Lord and Lady Stanley left the Earl of Derby'si.ort
Wednesday, on a brief visiting tour, previous to going to.
town,

The packet-ship, Siddons, arrived on Saturday from
New York, brings £20,000 specie on freight. She left ow
the 2d inst. The Columbia and, Anglo-American wills
shortly be due from New York and Boston respectively--
the former with specie, probably.
STATE OP LIMERICK.—The special commission re-•
mined its sitting on Thursday. Besides the cases already,
tried, 28 persons stand charged with the dreadful crime of
murder. The usual number of prisoners in the _gaol at
this period of the year, is 130, but at the present time
there are upwards of 400 !
Loss OF THE ARGO, OF CAERNARVON.—A dispatch
has been received at Lloyd's, from ,the Foreign 'Office,
enclosing copy of letters received by Lord Palmerston,
from here Majesty's cgnsul at the Cape de Verds, which
reports the wreck of the Argo, Roberts, of Caernarvon,
from Liverpool to Monte Video, coalladen. She struck
upon a sunken rock, off the island of Maya, and after-
wards drifted on to the mainland.—Crew saved.

BRISTOL SUGAR-MARKET.—Saturday, Jan. 22.—There
has been a general and extensive demand for all kinds
of British plantation sugars this week, the sales amount-
ing to 400 hhds. and 6000 bags of Mauritius, principally
to the refiners, and the maret closed firmly at an ad-
vance of 11i. per cwt. above the prices current this day
week. The arrivals have been in the Cassiopea, from the
Mauritius, 7500 mats of sugar ; in the Laurie, 5113 mats
and 252 casks of sugar and 11 tanks of molasses ; from
Liverpool, 50 hhds. of sugar.
LAUNCH ,ov THE LLENVELLYN.—The fourth of the neW
steam-vessels designed for the Admiralty packet service,
to run between Holyhead and Dublin, was launched on
Saturday, at Blackwall, from the building•yard and steam
engine manufactory of Messrs. Miller, Ravenhill, and
Co. The Llewellyn is 190 feet long, 26 feet 7 inches
broad, and 15 feet deep, 643 32-94ths tons burden. The
diameter of the cylinders of her engine is 68> inches, and
the length of the stroke 6 feet ; collective horse-power,
350. Compared with her's the Banshee's cylinders are
72 inches in diameter, and her length of stroke 5 feet.
THE SPECHAL COMMISSION.—MichaeI M`Mahon, 30
years of age, was indicted for having conspired with
others, at Claremont, county Clare, on the 3rd of Dec.,
1847, to kill and murder Matthew Bolland ; and also for
soliciting one John Parry to shoot the said Bollan4. Evi-
dence was taken' and the jury convicted the prisoner of
the conspiracy, but acquitted him of the solicitation to
murder. He was sentenced to be executed. On Wednes-
day, John Crowe, the man who was convicted for con-
spiring, with two convicts, Patrick Ryan (Small), Win-
Ryan (Puck), James Hayes, and others, to murder the
late Mr. James Watson, of Ballycorney, having been
placed at the har, the Chief Baron pronounced the ex-
treme penalty of the law, naming the 19th. of February
for his execution. On Thursday, James Skeehan was
convicted of the murder of Mr. Ralph Hilton, on tale 180
of Nov.. at. Ratbard, near -Lincefftk. The murder took
place in the course of resisting a distress for non-payment
of rent. On the following day another convictidn took
place, for a murder of unusual atrocity. We have given
the particulars of it elsewhere.

TIDE TABLE.
DAYS. I MORN. EVEN°. HORT. I HOLYDAYB; RTC.

Dec. h. m. h. in. I ft. in. '
Tuesday....2s 156 214 l6 3
Wednesday. 26 232 251 14 10 •
Thursday .. 27 311 333 13 8,
Friday —.28 355 , 4 19
Saturday .. 29 449 522 11 7
Sunday .... 30 559 635 11 3 4th Sunday aft EPiPll*
Monday.... 31 712 747 ,11 3

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METEORO CAL REGISTER,
BY. MR. C. H. CHADBURN, 71, LORD-STREET

ATMOSPHERIC

pressure at

I.Nine Six

I a.m. ' pan-

Temperature in
shade by self-re-

gistering
Thermometer

Max. 1 Min

Daitylptree-

tion
Humidity at Fall of
Noon. WWI
of
at
Dry Wet Rain.iNoolt•
bulb. bulb.

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ran. In. In. Deg. Deg
18 29'37 29'24 35 31
19 29'42 29'77 37 32
20 29'85 30'02 38 32
21 3019 30'17 38 33
22 30'11 29'98 36 32
23
24 30'48 30'55

-Deg. 1-Deg.l-In. I

37. I .i.

36 35
37 35
34 32

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THE WEATHER.-18th : clear ; light fall of snow,
clear.-20th fine.-21st : clouded.-22nd : clouded,
clouded.-24: bright; morning foggy..

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 24.
The supply of stock at our market to-day has been larger,
than last week, the best quality fetching late prices, and secon,
rate and inferior met with dull sale. Beef, sd. to 7d. per lb. r
Mutton, Gd to 7d.

LIVERPOOL WOOL MARKET, JAN. 24.
Our demand for Foreign Wool this week has been On a veil
limited scale, chiefly for Egyptian and Peruvian, of which de-
scriptions a few parcels have been sold. There has been a little'
more doing in Scotch.
IMPORTS FOR THE WEEK. ;

Foreign. Seota

Fr W
om est Coast
Fr_. Monte Video

Previously

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
. MONDAY, 24th JANUARY.—Wind N.E., moderate.
ARRlVED.—Princess Victoria, Thorns, •from Maranhautl
William Prowse, (late Thompson,) from Canton ; left Cape
Good Hope 20th Nov.—Providentia, from Ostend.
SAlLED.—Majestic, Knowles, Lisbon- -Irt, Younc,,; Bahia"—
Leonora, Thompson, Demerara—Laurina, Edwards,•Jarnaica-
Camillus, Ashton, from Sincapore, at St. Helena, and sailed
for this port nth Nov.
Mary Ellen, Inglis„from Mauritius, at ditto,, and sailed 0%

. ~.
this port totli DeC.
fPrloEyiAmim:ua:ro:rl Hull
--0. PI
1e d fr o m Bahia
II hence at Bahia. 4,..111
condor, Whiting, and Rouble, Foster, ..-
JnLasi Antelope,A,
onn,
enegrilp
oaololaSianrt tdci(iHnswhic,
eeia
axlerum:esre (screw-Steamer,)
from
,os.t,tsaei:illortnifoloejbrraa's .
nayN)
eit'olloarf'tonlirtio.teri i j3e
Videoru':er' i
hencea
ti uhas, Da' deS :I.:: i 87411:
'-tirei4;
Victor, Clarke ; ~,a, White, for Callao—Eliza, Abernetbg
1) MiAllbec,dforso,n. ifrLoomndcoland—i7tioaunndtaivonu3alaoidr:
ffrrooirt
1---8" Steamer Hydra sailed from Plymouth for Rio Janel
100
madras—Alexander, Philipson, from Cobija—Lincoln, n,
j_loston—all at Cove.
• and 110Pe'
George Armstrong, Paxton, from Rio Janeiro,
Ml2toiftle:eiNc7-e::(ll—rctet-e-'r, from Madras--Collingwood, Boyold,
fray
from Melaide at Cape of Good Hope
....------, poßirto
11th
heTi)reco for. falmou.:
22nd January.

DIED:
Oli the 22nd instant, in his 20th year, SAMUEL. SAND'
youngest son of Mr. JOSEPH BEST.
On the 23rd instant, at Manchester, aged 16 months,.
RIAN ALICE, only daughter. of Mr. WILLIAM ELAM. 05'..
maker, 89, Bold-street. —4O

TUESDAY,

2a, 1848

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