The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

INTERESTING FACT !

The London Times of Saturday contains the fol—
lowing :

"FOREIGN SUGAR.—A vessel ;vhich has just arrived from
Havannah has brought 1,500 boxes, and another vessel from
Matanzas 1.672 boxes of foreign sugar. The first alluded to
belongs to Norway, and the second to Sweden, and both these
arrivals possess interest as being instances of vessels belonging
to the northern states of Europe having been employed to
bring cargoes of foreign sugar by virtue of the relaxed laws of
navigation for home use."

The arrivals in question must possess especial interest
to the British shipowner.

Distritt Seth .

An elderly gentleman named Whitley, from Manchester,
was drowned in Douglas Bay, on Friday, whilst bathing.
The Orangemen of Wigan celebrated the anniversary
of the battle of the Boyne in a very creditable manner.
On Friday £4,306 Bs. had been subscribed in Man-
chester towards the monument to the late Sir R. Peel.
In Salford £595 18s. 6d. had been subscribed.
The Chartists had an unusually large gathering on Sun-
day week, on Blackstone-edge, near Rochdale. They
estimate the numbers at 50,000.
On Thursday, at Manchester, a publican residing at
Prestwich, was fined for making hay during the hours of
divine service on Sunday.
Some persons wickedly put a quantity of croton oil—
a very strong purgative—into the water used for a teetotal
tea-party at, Blackburn last week.
A pony at Southshore walked deliberately into the sea
last week, and, though he was pursued by his owner in a
boat, he contrived to swim out of sight. Some time after-
wards the animal landed safely at Blackpool.
The hay harvest in the Fylde is fast progressing, and a
few more fine days will complete it. The crop is more
than an average, and the greater part has been carried in
excellent condition.

OnTuesday a devastating thunderstorm was experienced
in Lancashire, and on a later day in other parts of the
United Kingdom. Many lives were destroyed or injured,
and macli property suffered a similar fate. At Bolton
especially great devastation is reported. At Horwich the
Messrs. Bennett are likely to suffer damage amounting to
above two thousand pounds. No small quantity of ale
has been rendered useless, and many buildings were
seriously injured.

INCREASE OF COTTON MILLS IN THE LANCASHIRE
DISTRICT.—During the last two years sixty-one new cot-
ton mills have commenced working in my district ; six of
these being small buildings, which have been converted
into cotton mills. The sixty-one mills have, together,
a power of steam and water of about 1,330 horses. Be-
sides these there are twenty-one now in course of being
erected, some of them very large, which, according to the
best information I can obtain, will have power equal to
1,285 horses. According to the ordinary estimate of in
to every horse-power, these new mills, with 2,615 horses'
power, will give employment to about 13,000 persons.
During the same period there have been 156 instances of
new tenants taking possession of mills and parts of mills
that had from various causes become vacant, very gene-
rally filling them with new machinery, including also
Additions to existing establishments, which, together,
have now a power at work of about 2,738 horses. Besides
these, there are many instances of additional machinery
where there was previously unemployed power, and
and numerous instances of a change in the firm, imply-
ing also new investments of capital. I do not
give the above figures as showing more than ap-
approximately the extent of the investment of new capi-
tal in the cotton trade in my district ; and I am confident
that the facts are understated, and that if it were possible
to get an exact return, it would show a much larger.
amount.—Mr. Horner's Report.

PHILADELPHIA AND LIVERPOOL
LINE OF PACKETS.
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111 S inn!, front LIVERPOOL on the let of each 31onth ,
Nl.
And from PHILADELPHIA on the 10th.

BERLIN, A. F. SMITH
MARY PLEASANTS. A. M. MICHAELS 800 tons.. Ist Sept.
SHENANDOAH. W. H. WEST
EUROPE, W. M`DowELL

The Ships of this Line are t of the best and most costly
materials, coppered and per-fastened, and commanded by
men of acknowledge ent.
No freight rec on board on the appointed day of sailing.
These Ships will take steam up the Delaware.
Apply to JAMES M'HENRY, 5, Temple-place.
Freight payable at 4 dollars 80 cents per pound sterling.

To sail on the 6th August.
For NEW YORK,
NEW
The superior PGlacket-ship
E. W. PREM.eTf
926 toils register; coppered r
Bible conveyance.—Ap

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Ipper-fastened ; and an elf
HARNDEN and CO.