The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

TRADE PROSPECTS

[Bankers' Circular.]

We see no reason to alter the view which we ventured
to take last week concerning the immediate prospects of
temporary improvement in trade in the manufacturing
districts—that word temporary may mean four, six, eight,
or ten months, according to individual impressions, and
we would not fix on the shortest of those periods. Con-
sequently, although we have been censured for presenting
a too sanguine view—a censure not specifically neutralised
by an opposite—yet we adhere firmly to what we have
said, because some of the most cautious and considerate
merchants have commended it for moderation, and for
not passing the boundary which the facts and circum-
stances of the case, as they come under :their own obser-
vation and experience, would completely justify.
The manufacturing and mining affairs of this country
are, however, in so peculiar a condition, so liable to in-
terruption from political causes, or from a policy likely to
be pursued by the best customers of England, which is in
direct antagonism to that which is, or rather has been, for
seven years in vogue here, that we think it right on the
present occasion to extend our views beyond a short
period of comprrative prospepty, for the purpose of en-
deavouring to ascertain what is likely to come after that
temporary period of relief. We hold with an overwhelm-
ing force of conviction to the opinion that we have been
for many years reiterating, viz., that the operation of the
existing free trade policy of England, with the existing
monetary system of England, will produce effects so un-
bearable, that one or the other, and we think both, will
be changed within two years from the present time.
When we say changed, we do not mean changed to their
opposites: judicious currency regulations, which the Acts
of 1844 and 1845 aimed at but did not accomplish, are
requisite ; the removal of obnoxious import duties which
teased and perplexed without yielding revenue, might be
necessary : but we mean that the uncircumspect head-
long measures which have been-forced onward on an in-
dividual anthority, will be wisely modified and be placed
on a foundation not incompatible with the welfare of the
people, and that within two years. * * * *
We have dwelt long on our distant prospects and their
ultimate results ; it is a prolific theme of deep interest for
us. Our immediate prospects for immediate demand and
more employment for the people are, however, improving,
and are exhibiting symptoms of endurance which could
not be discerned last week. The French are showing a
willingness and a capacity to buy and pay for imported
goods. For nine months they have imported no speiter ;
they are now buying fair quantities in Hamburgh at im-
proved prices. They are also importing more copper.
They are, moreover, beginning to import and work up
more cotton and other raw materials. And a fact stated
in the Morning Chronicle speaks emphatically con-
cerning the restoration of confidence and the power of
consumption in Paris. It is this :—" The prosperity of
Paris is generally in proportion to the amount of the
octroi duties. 'When they are low, Paris suffers; when they
are high, Paris prospers. It now appears that the octroi
duties of last month are, for the first time since the revo-
lution, equal to those of the corresponding month of 1847.
In October, 1847, the amount of octroi duties collected
amounted to 2,916,420 francs ; in October, 1848, they
amounted to 2,608,983 francs. The produce of the first
fortnight of November amounts to 1,575,819 francs. The
produce of the first fortnight of November amounts to
1,575,819 francs, which is at the satisfactory rate of
105.053 francs per day."
For these and other reasons (to which we may advert
on another occasion) we hold to the opinion we expressed
last week concerning the prospects for trade in the manu-
facturing districts, which we repeated on commencing
these observations. The volcano that has burst out with
such fury in Germany will, we trust, be stopped, and it
certainly would have been some months since if an extra-
ordinary degree of energy bad been exercised by the go-
vernments. A great majority of the middle and higher
classes of the people are on their side—especially in Prus-
sia ; and all would be so, if a moderate degree of intelli-
gence and liberaiity, combined with inflexible firmness,
characterised the administration of their rulers.

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The barque Arrietta, from Cuba, for Swansea, with
ore, was wrecked in Swansea Bay on Monday night.
Parliamentary notices may in future be forwarded
through the Post Office, under certain regulations.
Shrawberries and violets are now growing in the open
air, in a garden at Strangeways-terrace, Truro.
Mr. Steegman, a German, has been elected to the office
of Sheriff of Nottingham.
A farmer's pocket was picked of £350 at the Monmouth
fair, on Wednesday week.

When Jenny Lind visited Bristol Cathedral on Sunday
week she was honored with a seat in the Bishop's throne.
The Corporation of Durham have resolved to petition
against the introduction of the provisions of the Health
Act into that city until the local acts are found insufficient.
A female prisoner in Gloucester gaol died last week in
consequence of exhaustion, from having persisted in tak-
ing insufficient food.
THE LYME PARK CATTLE.—A fine well-fed wild bul-
lock was slaughtered last week, at Lyme. and a hind-
quarter forwarded for presentation to her Majesty.
"An Appeal to the Public," is the title of a small
affair produced at the Lyceum, which exhibits the bustling
talent of Mr. Charles Mathews to advantage.

On Friday night the Southwark Flax Mills, belonging
to Messrs. Chapman and Co., were destroyed by fire.
The loss is estimated at £2,600 and the firm is not insured
for a penny.
On Friday a destructive fire took place in the premises
of a Mr. Powell, optician, Gray's-inn-lane, London. A
man and woman lodging in one of the upper rooms were
suffocated.

At Kirriernuir, Scotland, lately, a girl about 9 years of
age, died of suffocation, from a dose of turpentine which
her father was attempting to pour down her throat for

Dr. John Stewart, of Cumnock, Scotland, died recently
from inflammation and fever, produced by a slight burn
on the wrist, by the accidental dropping of some melted
sealing was`upon it a short time previously.
During the course of a trial at the Central Criminal
Court, on Monday, the Recorder intimated that a publican
clearly connected with a Derby Sweep lottery, is liable to
a penalty of £5OO.

Last *Week the chapel erected in the Duke of Buc-
cleuch's grounds at Dalkeith was broken into, and a num-
ber of valuable articles used in the service of the church

were stolen

We (Daily News) could point to one church, not many
miles from Guildhall, in which there are as many as five
lecturers appointed who preach to congregations varying
in number from five to thirteen !

A Hull paper describes a full-grown crab, bearing on
its back two score and a half oysters, apparently as firmly
imbedded in its shell as if they constituted a proper part
of it.

THE CASUAL POOR.—According to the official returns
it appears there were 17,500 casual poor relieved in the
the workhouse of St. Martin-in-the-fields, London, during
last year.

At'the Criminal Court, London, on Saturday, the Ba-
ronness St. Mart was found " not guilty" of the charge of
having stolen two rings, value £4O, the property of Sir 3.

One more of the last frail links by which hope hung in
the matter of the party who have so long disappeared with
Sir John Franklin has given way. The latest of the whal-
ers have come in—and brought no tidings. Floating or
camping they have seen no trace of the lost expedition.
A few days ago, a pensioner at Carlisle cut out of his
left arm a flattened piece of lead, about the size of a six-
pence, being a portion of a ball which shattered the upper
bone of the arm at the battle of Waterloo, he being at the
time in the 73d Regiment.
The great clock for the Victoria Tower of the new
Houses of Parliament is to strike the hours on a bell of
from eight to ten tons weight, chime the quarters on
eight bells, and show time on four dials of thirty feet in
diameter. _ _

The Queen Dowager has ordered an agent at Cowes to
distribute among the widows and poor the two months'
supply of coals furnished to the houses which her Majesty
engaged for that period, but which she only occupied for
as many days. _ _ _ _

The Chartist trials in Edinburgh, closed on Saturday,
when the court, by a majority of four, Lord Cockburn
alone dissenting, repelled the objections to the sufficiency
of the verdict. The sentence upon each of the prisoners
was four months' imprisonment.
At a vestry meeting held last week, at Barnard Castle,
it was resolved, by a large majority, to support, by legal
proceedings, the right of the parishioners at large to ap-
point the sexton ; and it was also determined to levy a
rate to meet the expenses. _ _ _

A good deal of excitement has been created at Gorbals
during the last few days, from the circumstance of a man
named George Johnston, a master baker in Thistle-street,
having absconded with a sum of money amounting to
nearly £lOOO, which belonged to a Forester's Friendly
Society, of which he was treasurer.
A large meeting of dissenting clergymen and laymen
was held in Glasgow, on Tuesday, for the purpose of op-
posing the proposed endowment of the Roman Catholic
priesthood, and also in opposition to existing endowments
of every description. Mr. A. Hastie. M.P. for the city,
was called to the chair.
SCARCITY OF COPPER COlN.—Such was the extreme
scarcity of copper money in the town last week, that it
was quite impossible to get `• change for sixpence." One
individual, of somewhat more than ordinary perseverance,
contrived, after s search of some hours, to get a four-
pcnny-piece:and twopence.—Banff' Journal.
GUTTA PE Etc A.---This article continues to be imported
in very large quantities in order to meet the extensive de-
mands which are made for it. A vessel just arrived in
London from Singapore has brought the largest importa-
tion at one time, consisting of 3,294 packages, 710 lumps,
and 10,441 blocks of the article.
PALTRY SPITE.—The Board of Guardians of
Andover Union have withheld their advertisements from
the Times, in consequence of that paper expressing an
opinion on their proceedings. We talk of the freedom
of the press in England, but is not this infinitely more
tyrannical than any continental censorship ?
HONOURABLE CONDUCT.—A dinner was given on
Tuesday night, in London, to Mr. J. B. Graham, by the

creditors of his

ather, in testimony of

of his conduct in liquidating the clairris not only' of his
deceased father, but those upon the firm of which Mr.
Graham, sen. was atpartner.

A RELIC OF OLD TIMES.—A golden bracelet, of the
intrinsic worth of about £2O, which is thought to have
been deposited at the time of the conflict between the
Romans and the sons of the British king, Cunobelin, was

lately found by a ploughman on the estate of Mi. R.
Fox. near Wendover, Bucks, and is to be presented to the
British Museum.
SHAM GENEVA GLOD WATCHES.—The public must be
on their guard in respect to a beautiful imitation, in base
metal, electrotyped, of the small Geneva watches, with a
gold face and engine-turned back

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the special use of the duffers, and are worth froin 15s. to
20s. each. The articles are being offered to the pawn-
brokers, as pledges, for £2 or £3, their apparent value

being £6 to £8

Aichdeacon Hare, in his recently published Charge, has
examined at great length and singular acuteness the argu-
ments which were brought forward in the debate of last
session in favour of admitting the Jews into parliament.
In this question he is opposed to his friend the Bishop of
St. David's and others who advocated their admission.

The publication of his sentiments is well-timed, as the
measure will be introduced again in the ensuing session.
LLANDILLO BRIDGE, CARMARTHENSHIRE.—This noble
structure is completed. At the Carmarthenshire quarter
sessions, Mr. E. Haycock, the architect of the bridge,
presented his report, from which it appeared that the
bridge, which is the third largest in the kingdom, being
nearly 150 feet span, is built principally of black marble,
at an expense of about £18,000; while Gloucester Bridge
cost £60,000, and Chester £40,000.
At Leamington, on Wednesday, the Grand Open Stee-
plechase was won by a length by Mr. Fuller's Knight of
Gwynne, beating the Doctor, Alfred, Chandler, Red
Lancer, Prince George, Khondooz, Venom, Ace of
Trumps, Alexander, Linkboy, and
3 to 1 agst Prince George, taken ;
cer ; 6 to 1 e'gst Doctor ; 10 to 1 ag

" to 1 agst Red Lat
st Gwynne ; 8 to

agst Alexander ; 8 to I.agat Chandlei

A sign that cholera is-on the wane in London, was

afforded on Tuesday by the fact that the Board of Health
issued no report of cases. The deaths, from all cause-,
in the metropolis during the week ending Saturday last,
were 1,207, being 53 over the average. Of the total num-
ber who died during the seven days, 118 were destroyed
by scarlatina, and 70 by typhus—two diseases which con-
tinue to be much more fatal than the dreaded cholera.
FATAL AFFRAY.- -Gn Saturdays a band of Irish navies,
employed on the Clydesdale Junction Railway, went into
a public-house in the village of Mddingstone, parish of
Bothwell, where they had a quantity of whisky. While

together in the house referred to, it appears that a dispute
had arisen betwixt them, and that ultimately they came
to blows. One man, named Joseph Wilson, was' so
severely injured in the scuffle that he died from the effects

of his wounds upon Wednesday.
ELECTRIC LIGHT.—The first experiment of this light
out of doors was made on Tuesday evening, in front of
the National Gallery. The apparatus, of which the most
conspicuous part was the concave reflector behind the
light, was so placed as to illumine the whole of Trafalgar-
square, the rays reaching as far as Northumberland
House. If the illumination can be sustained, there is no

other means of lighting the streets that can at all be com-
pared with this electric light.
The Sheffield Times says that that town is fast losing
all its trade, and though many leave it no one comes to it
as a residence. Nothing answers there—everything fails
—though the town is beautifully situated, with plenty of
canal and railway accommodation. If our contemporary
had not been such a free-trader, he would have found out
that the foreigners have taken away the prosperity of the
town, and would have put the saddle on the right horse

by blaming free-trade.
PRACTICAL JOKING AT THE LONDON STOCK Ex-
CAANGE.—An acc;dent has just occurred at the Stock
Exchange which it may be hoped will check the silly love
of practical jokes which has so long disgraced that esta-
blishment, and which is a reproach to the vigilance of the
committee. One of the members attacked yesterday in
sport of this kind was thrown down and received hurts
which rendered him insensible. Upon medical aid being
sent for it was found he had been seriously injured.—
Times. _ _

MONSTER TORTOISE.—Captain Dady, of the Duke, a
large vessel, owned by Messrs. Hoghton and Co., of
Liverpool, and now delivering a guano cargo in the Junc-
tion Dock, has exhibited within the last few days a tor-
toise of extraordinary dimensions, being about five feet in
length, of the capture of which, upon an island in the
Pacific Ocean, a wonderful account is given. The crea-
ture lived three months after it was taken on board the
Duke, and used to move upon the deck with the captain
and two or three others of the crew upon its back.---Hull
Advertiser.

THE SEASON.—On Thursday last a quantity of new
potatoes, varying from one to four ounces in weight, were
got from an open garden belonging to James Green Armi-
tage, Esq., situated at the very foot of Holm-Moss, a lo-
cality known throughout Yorkshire as the ne plus ultra
of bleakness, and almost eternal snow. The remainder of
the growing crop are in a very thriving condition, and free
from disease.

MELANCHOLY DEATH OF MAJOR Ross.—This gallant
officer of the Royal Horse Artillery. eldest son of Major-
General Sir Hew Dalrymple Ross, K.C.8., Deputy
Adjutant-General to the Royal Artillery, died on Sunday
last at Newcastle-on-Tyne, where he was stationed on the
recruiting service. His death took place from injuries he
received a few days previously by falling from his horse
when out riding, the animal having rolled upon him.
Major Ross was a comparatively young officer, being by
seniority Second Captain in Captain Gilbert's troop of
Royal Horse Artillery, although holding the brevet rank
of Major in the service.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIFE
Seawitch, of London, Freeman, m

—On Friday, the brig

one, with a cargo of African oak, and ground nuts, was
totally wrecked in Pontifex Bay, on the north west coast
of Guernsey. The vessel on striking recoiled, when a
wave carried her into a trough of rocks, and she was al-
most instantly broken in halves. The master and seven

men, who were on the afterpart, were swept away, an
peri3hed. The three men who escaped were in the bow:
where they remained till daybreak, when they were res
cued, the tide having left the forepart of the wreck hig
and dry. Part of the cargo, together with two small bole

of gold- dust and some je;eiler;;, have been re

Dvered

THE OAK FARM fRON WORKS.—An arrangement is
said to have been entered into between the assignees in
the bankruptcy of the late Oak Farm Company and Sir

Stephen Glyn;

Lowid Lyttelton, and Mr. W. drl

the proprietors of the estates, by which further litigation
will be avoided : £20,000 is named as the sum agreed to
be paid by the proprietors in lieu of breaking up the ma-
chinery ; and, although, from their heavy claims, the
greater part of this will revert to themselves, yet the cre-
ditors will sooner have a dividend declared. There are
now in the district of South Staffordshire 106 furnaces in,
and 31 out of blast.

The cholera broke out in Fighting Cock Yard, Monk-
Wearmouth, on Friday week, and on that day and Satur-

day live deaths occurred. This is not surprising, as within
a space of fifty yards no fewer than fifteen middensteads
exist in the most disgracefully filthy condition. and the
whole place is a scene of destitution and dirt. Thence the
epidemic extended to Monk-Wearmouth Colliery, where,
from Saturday to Monday, inclusive. twelve cases occurred,
five of which terminated fatally. Since then, other six
cases have occurred, and two persons have died, making

the deaths in all seven, and the remaining cases twelve.
Owing to the above sickness and deaths the colliery has for
the present ceased working.

NARROW COURTS AND BAD DRAINAGE INDUCE CHO-
LERA.—In the official return of deaths registered in Lon-
don for the week ending Saturday last, the cases are re-
ported of two children, of the ages of two and five years,
and a woman aged 45, who died of Asiatic cholera, the
infant suddenly, the child in four days, and the woman in
IS hours. They all lived in the same court, two in the

house, and the other opposite. The register states that
" This court has 21 houses, which have two rooms in
each. Most of these houses contain two families

width of the court is only five feet, with very bad drain-
age. There is one water tank for the supply of the in-
habitants. The inhabitants are very poor, and several
persons have been taken ill."
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Nottingham is visited by a " suicidal endemic." Fol-
lowing close upon the death of the Rev. Mr. Browne, a
handsome young woman, who had been living with Mr.
Aulton, a lace-manufacturer, poisoned herself with lauda-
num, on learning that her protector was about to marry.
Gadd, a young man, had formed an attachment to a girl
named Cant ;Gadd's friends were adverse to his marry-
ing her; the unhappy couple declared that if they could
not live together they would die together ; so they bought
some arsenic, and put it into two little cakes, which ware
baked at Cant's house. They ate the cakes, and were
soon in a dreadful state, but medical aid having removed
a portion of the poison, there was a chanca of their reco-
very.

STRANGE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A boy named Edwin Hay-
ball, of Chard parish, one day last week fell into a

whose affliction was very great. She took fier in her arm
and held him before the fire. After nearly half-an-hou

the child showed symptoms of returning

upon which some cliange in the position of the body took
place, when it was discovered that the child's foot had

been in the fire and was dreadfully burnt. A surgeon
having been called in did what was necessary, and the
child was getting on very well. About three days after
the mother placed him before the fire for a moment whilst
she went into the garden, and on her return she was hor-
ror-struck to find her child burnt almost to a cinder. It
is a singular coincidence that a girl. the cousin of the
above-named Edwin Hayball, a short time since fell into
the fire, and one of her breasts was almost entirely con-

pain by bathing the breast with cold water, when she fell
in and was drowned.—Devon Chronicle.

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ae trail of a hare, followed by a field of sportsmen
rather sorrily mounted, when they ran their game to
Dyrham Wood, which was forbidden ground, being a
favourite fox cover of the Duke of Beaufort's hunt. The
little pack, however, were not to be restrained. They
plunged into the wood, and were soon iu full chase of a
fine old fox. The pace was so good, that the further they
ran the further the sportsmen were left in the rear, till a
• stiff fence entirely barred the further progress of the
latter. In vain the huntsman blew his horn till he well
nigh burst his cheeks. The little pack, with a burning
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scent, continued the chase unattended. oecame of
them or the fox is not known. The pack were seen soon
after dark altogether wending their way homeward.

Being hungry, they attacked a hock of sheep in the Vale

; a fat one was selected, killed without cere-
mony, and every bone cleanly picked. Having thus re-
freshed themselves, the pack moved homewards, and
arrived at their kennel at daybreak, just as their master
was up to greet them.

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CHARGE OF FELONY AGAINST A COUNTESS.—At the
Central Criminal-court on Friday, Maria Carlota Ali ez
Cabral, aged 50, married, and Maria Rosa, 35, also mar-

ried, were indicted for stealing a brooch and divers articles
of linen, valued at £2, the property of Hester Pitman, in
bar ThP plapr nricumpr culla is A Cinom-

in her own right, and the younger prisoner was her ser-
vant. The prisoners, it will be remembered, lived in a
Portuguese and Spanish boarding-house, in Finsbury-
square, and sundry articles were found in the apartment
of the elder prisoner belonging to the prosecutrix, but
which, it was contended, were only such things as might

T prisoner as an in-

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mate. This view of the case was also taken by the Re-
corder, who said the charge struck him as being anything
but a larceny ; and it was rather hard to charge a person
with felony for having a few more things in use than the
regulations of the house permitted. He then directed an

acquittal, which was also taken upon the indictment as
ied Rosa, who had only acted as the servant of the
prisoner. They were ordered to be immediately

harged from custody

km.—At a
tion, held

meeting of the Birmingham Protestant Assc
a few days since, Mr. T. Ragg, the corresponding secre-
tary, related an extraordinary occurrence which had taken
place during the past week in that town. A poor sick
woman, a Roman Catholic, residing there, had a daugh-
ter who attended one of the Birmingham schools. From
this school she had received a New Testament, out of
which she had been reading to her mother, when a priest
coming in and seeing it, tore the contents out of the
covers, put them into the fire, and held them down with

would so serve all such books that he met with in the
houses where he visited. The Rev. Joshua Greaves, in-
cumbent of St. Peter's, Birmingham, says, in a letter—
ct rwittcat strlrnneirlorliratl rt ma +he+ I,n hiirrhf +lin Toct_

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he would burn every Bi

or tract which he found in the houses of any of his people.
He also charged me never to enter tha house of a Roma-
nist in my district, and upon my assuring him that I
should pay no attention to his command, and that the law
of the land would protect my person, he said he would

order his people to use scuri:ilbus' language towards me,
and to offer me insult, if I ventured to pass their doors.
Upon my appealing to him, and asking how he dared to
burn the Word of God ?' he told me to go and preach in

my pulpit, and not to preach to him.' I merely si
facts, and leave your readers to draw their own inferer
from them."

don, on the body of a child named Wi
aged 4 years, who died after a few hours' i
the symptoms of malignant cholera. Ti
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