The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

tolerably well. We m;ght condole with a portion
of the bondholders uvon the "silly bargain," as
Mr. Duncan Gibh justly termed the bargain with
the Crown, which certain parties otherwise inte-
rested have made for them.

We might—but we will not—express our sym-
pathy with the railway proprietors; whose scheme
is rendered partially worthless by the withdrawal
of the clause insuring a thirteen feet depth of water
in the inner float, on the boundary of which they
have laid out £BO,OOO in the purchase of wharfage•
land. Our object is mainly to direct attention to
the impudent bill, brought in by certain' of the
large bondholders, by which, contrary to all the
past professions of the original projectors, it is at
length proposed to levy a tonnage upon goods, for
the advantage of these very bondholders, and to pro-
tect them from the consequences of their improvident
speculations—at the expense of all parties interested !
The result of such a measure will be to the railway
proprietors a heavy blow ; and we cannot say they
do not deserve it.

The Manchester projectors of this railway sought,
through the cheap dock of Birkenhead, to gratify
an ancient grudge against the Liverpool Dock
Trust and the• Liverpool community ; and if- they
fail it is their loss. But such a power of rating
goods entering the Birkenhead Docks would se-.
nously injure Liverpool, if conceded ; for there
would be nothing then to prevent inward bound
vessels discharging on the Cheshire side, giving to
Birkenhead the dock dues on their cargoes ; and
then crossing over here, to be perhaps three or four
months in our docks, paying only the outward
dues, which would barely serve to pay our dock
gatemen and the cost of our necessary staff. The
statement of Mr. Bramley Moore, which we report
in another column, will prove this abundantly.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.
(BY EXPRESS )

FRANCE.

On Saturday night much agitation prevailed in
Paris. The members of clubs, who had in the course
of the day made an abortive demonstration in favour of
the Poles, remained in groups in the quarter of the Made-
leine, delivering exciting harangues, and advising the
obtaining of arms that they may assist the Poles. The
rappel was beaten to have the assemblies dispersed, but
the matter passed off without violence. The greatest
discontent exists amongst many classes of workmen. A
placard addressed to the workmen, stating that in refusing
to form a ministry of labour, the Government had for-
feited its promise at the barricades, had caused much
excitement, and the workmen on the Northern Railway
had struck work, and the troops were required to prevent
them injuring the line.
The proclamation to the workmen had been the cause
of the postponement of the fete on Sunday, and multi-
tudes who had come up from the country to be present
were compelled to return disappointed.
It was strongly rumoured that the French army was
about to enter Italy; but none of the numerous reports
of war seemed well-founded, with the exception of the
statement that 100,000 stand of new arms had been or-
dered to be made at the factory of of Chatellerault.
There is no mention in the London Standard of last
night of a declaration of war by France against Austria
and Russia; and the rumour circulated here yesterday to
that cad we presume is. therefore, groundless.

THE DANISH DUCHIES.

The Danish Government hove resolved—

"1. That for the present neither the mouths of the Elbe, nor
the Weser, nor any other port on the North Sea shall be block-
aded by Danish vessels of war ;
"2. That the blockades of the following ports—Pillau, Dant-
zic, Stralsund, Rostock, and Wismar, shall be raised from the
16th instant, and that only the Bay of Kiel, with the entrance
to the -Schleswig. Canal shall be blockaded; but that ou the
above-named day the blockade shall be extended to the thiee
mouths of the Oder, viz. ;—those at Wolgast, Swinnemunde,
and Cammin."

Letters from Athens, under date of the 30th ult., an-
nounce outbreaks in the north of Greece, led by certain
persons, lately political prisoners, liberated under an
rmnesty. Troops had marched to quell the outbreak,
but the result had not transpired
We have Madrid journals of the Bth and 9th. All
trace of the late insurrection had entirely disappeared.
Several soldiers and citizens had been shot in presence of
the whole garrison, who were afterwards marched past
the dead bodies.

MONEY MARKET-YESTERDAY.

Consols have only alternated from buyers to sellers at 83}
the price for money end account being the same. The Three
per Cent Reduced have been done from 812 to j, the Three-and-
a-quarter per Cents. from S 2 to Bank Stock lE9i, India
232, Exchequer-bills 3Ss. to 415., and India Bonds 235. to
21s. pm.

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY.

The weather continues most splendid for the growing Wheat,
but spring Corn would be benefited by rain.
At this day's market, although the supply of English Wheat
was.short, it met a dull sale at 'barely the currency of this day
week. In foreign only a retail 'ousiness was transacted, and the
turn in price in favour of buyers. Indian Corn is., barrel Gd.
to Is. dcare , and in good request.
Batting and distilling Barley without change. Grinding
rather higher. Malt, Peas, and Beans sell steadily at former
rates. Our arrivals of Oats being so limited, buyers had to
pay an advance of Gd. to 1 s. per quarter.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET,—YEsTErpAY,

Beef trade steady, at an advance of quite 2d. per 8 lbs. over
➢londay.
sheep moved off at an advance of 2d. per 8 lbs.
Calves at late rates. Little was doing in pi;zs.

A CHANCE FOR ASPIRANTS TO LITERARY

RENOWN,

The London Times contains the following announce-
ment, addressed to literary gentlemen, lecturers, Ste.
"A reviewer and classical scholar, of considerable experience,
the author of well reputed and successful works, on the parent-
age of which the seal of recrcso is imposed hot whose acknow-
ledged productions will furnish incontestable evidence of his
competence, undertakes the CRITICAL REVISION and COL-
LECTION of MANUSCRIPTS or will make the reputation of
a literary aspirant in any branch of the belles lettres, by
wholly executing the contemplated work"
After this revelation, as to the mode in which people
become authors by purchase, who would give a button
for a Literary Reputation ? For anything that the world
knows to the contrary, this very literary hack, whose
address is to his bootmaker, and who is perhaps at this
moment starving in some miserable attic, is the author of
works, on the credit of which noble lords and hon. gentle-
men are listened to with deference in the Senate, and
countesses and untitled blue- stockings are lionized in
their various corteries ? Verily the world is full of decep-
tion and false pretences.

On Saturday afternoon, the soldier, Michael Stokes,
was executed at York, for the murder of Mary Garrad,
wife of one of his comrades in Leeds barracks.
All our readers who have not seen the Antiphoncl,
should lose no time in paying a visit to our enterprising
friend Mr. Jas. Smith, of Lord-street, where they will have
an opportunity of witnessing the extraordinary perform-
ances of this wonderful piece of mechanism.
COMMITMENTS AT THE POLICE COURT YESTERDAY.—
Bridget Sweeny, charged by E.,.Spencer with stealing
wearing apparel, was committed for two months. William
Harper, charged by William Smith with breaking into
his stable a fortnight ago, and abstracting several articles,
—three months.
. _

ASSAULTS ON POLICE-OFFICERS.—At the police-court
yesterday, a respectably-dressed man, named Birtenshaw,
(who was out on bail) and a rough youth, named Peter
Armstrong, who was in the dock; were charged by two
police-officers, the first with his obstructing them in the
performance of their duty in taking some parties into
custody, during a street row, and the other for violent
conduct and assault upon the complainants. The first
prisoner, who was also charged with being drunk, denied
both charges, and said he had done nothing but endeavour
to induce the officers from violently maltreating the other
prisoner. The evidence, however, was too strong on the
other side, and it appeared that the boy had severely
assaulted the officers. The elder prisoner was required
to pay a fine of 20s. and costs, or ten days, and the youth
to pay a fine of £5, or be imprisoned for two months.—
Another prisoner was sent for trial at the Sessions, for a
violent attack, on Saturday night, on a police-officer.—
Four
men, John Jones, Robert Jones, James Warburton,
and James Gudgeon, were each fined £5 for a violent
street disturbance in Warwick-street, and throwing bricks
and stones at the officers who were endeavouring to ap-
prehend some of the aggressors. One of the officers was
so severely hurt that he had since been unable to attend
to his duties.—Another man, named Daniel Peacock, was
remanded for violence to the officers in the streets, and
for having nearly bitten off the end of the thumb of
police-officer 443.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.—The mercantile. articles
in the daily press usually commence with—" We have re-
ceived papers from Paris." Since the suspension of cash
payments, it is useless to expect anything else.---Funch.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A PARIS PENNY-A-LINER.—
In a budget of small news forwarded to us by a Parisian
" penny-a-liner," the " liner" gives the following curious
account of himself:—" This day (26th April) 16 years
ago I commenced the profession of news collector. Dur-
ing all this period I have never been unwell a single day,
and, except on the four great yearly files, I have never
failed to write and distribute my correspondence to the.
journals of Paris and the departments. The working year
leaving for me 360 days, I have, up to this date, laboured
5760 days for the daily press, and have made 5760 collec-
tions of news. On an average, each collection contained
20 facts or miscellaneous pieces of news. I have thus
made the world acquainted with 115,200 different pieces
of information. Every day, in order to collect and distri-
• bee this news, I have walked 10 leagues on an average.
This amounts in a year to 3600 leagues, and in 16 years
to 57,600 leagues. The circumference of the globe being
nearly 9000 leagues, it results that I have walked in 16
years, in order to collect my 115,200 pieces of news, a dis-
tance equal to 6-ils times the circumference of the globe. I
declare, on my honour, that I have never had the least
touch of the gout, from which I conclude that the citizens
who should, like me, walk ten leagues a day, would not
suffer from it either. Lastly, my quintuple occupation of
traveller, observer, news-writer, printer, and distributor,
has brought me, on an average, 18001. (£72) per annum,
without ever doing injury to any one, it not to the late
government, which I opposed to the utmost of my small
ability during 16 years all but two months, without truce
or relaxation. The editors of newspapers have thus been
the means of my gaining 28,8001., of which sum there only
remains to me to-day 121. 503. (103.), which will serve
me, I hope, to the end of the month."—The London
Telegraph.