The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-07 00:00:00

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and Yorkshire, 25} ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 281 ; Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29t ; Shropshire
Union, 30; Leeds and Thirsk, 454 ; and the Chester and
Holyhead, 641 per cent. On the Eastern Counties a de-
crease in the traffic for the past half-year is shown of
IA 6,894, or 41 per cent
IMPORTS AND I

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The returns of the Board of
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...ua, 276 ment is distributed through every branch of occupation is
—. .0 small numbers to the stiil observable, there being no single instance of a falling
of Good Hope, &c. Last year the off of any moment. The aggregate value of our exports
.cs from Liverpool was 152,862. during the first eleven months of 1850, has been
MAGICAL NOVELTIES continue as much £60,400,525, against £54,089,109, in the like period of
, notwithstanding his stay in Liverpool 1849, showing an increase of £6,310,716. As compared
tended to twenty-six weeks. Many a also with the same period of 1848, the increase is
been enlivened this Christmas by the £15,992,613. With regard to the imports of the past
3 which he has disposed of,—added to mouth, the chief point for remark is another large increase
,elf attended numerous parties both in in
.the quantity of flour, the total taken and consumed
,try, and his engagements, instead of de- being more than twice as much as in the same month of
,i that Christmas may be said to have passed, 1849. The aggregate importation of flour during the
, increasing. All who wish to give their young year thus far is, however, still below the total of 1849.
a friends treat previous to their return to school should In the import of wheat during the past month there has
take them to Mr. C.'s apartments in Bold-street, where been little variation, but in all other descriptions of grain
we feel quite satisfied that they will be highly entertained. a considerable decrease has occurred. In the consumption
Mr. C. being an accomplished master of his art ; and his of general articles of food and luxury there has been great
mode of giving instructions is so simple that he can enable steadiness, but it has been rather below that of December,
his pupils to perform tricks which seem to require the 1849, sugar, tea, salted provisions, tobacco, spirits, wine,
greatest dexterity with the greatest ease imaginable. His and fruits, all showing a slight falling off. Coffee also is,
table is literally covered with visiting tickets—including as. usual, on the unfavourable side. Eggs, cocoa, and
the names of nearly all the elite of Liverpool and its vici- spices show an increase.
pity. Many of the new tricks which he has just produced CHAPEL, PRINTING-OFFICE.—" Is there any other
are equal to any of his others, and this is the highest praise authority than Creery's Press for the statement that
we could bestow upon them. (His Advertisement will be printing-offices are called chapels ? Whatever may have
found in another column.) been the case, at present the word ' chapel' is applied to
DAMASKED LINEN.—It may interest one of your cor- the persons or companionship employed in the office. not
respondents to learn that a portion of the damasked linen to the office itself. Moxon, in his Mechanict Exercis:a
which formed part of the establishment of James 11. when vol ii., p. 356, 4to, 1658, says :—" Every printing-house
in Ireland still exists in the possession of Mr. B. Ely, of is by the custom of time out of mind called a chappel ;
Ballaghmore Castle, in the Queen's County. I have seen and all the workmen that belong to it are members of the
with that gentleman several large napkins beautifully chappel ; and the oldest freeman is father of the chappel.
damasked with the then Royal arms, together with the I suppose the style was originally conferred upon it by the
initials J. R. of large size, and elaborately flourished. courtesie of some great churchman or men (doubtless
The tradition of the family is, that they were obtained when chappels were in more veneration than of late years
from the plunder of James's camp equipage after the they have been here in England,) who, for the books of
defeat of the Boyne. Mr. Ely 's ancestor was in wages divinity that proceeded from a printing.house, gave
&mg.—Nolo and quer*. it the reverend title of chsppel.' "—Notes end Queries,

:iifference being £671,158

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