The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY
ippiy of English Wheat by land-carriage sam

morning being even smaller than
advance of 3s. to 4s. per quarter, at 'which t

ate, factors realised an
the whose was quickly
mely limited, and the

cleared off
demand of bonded for export

Barley is more inquired atter, and our quotations are fully
supported. Beans must be written Is. per qr. and peas is to
'l-n”.r_ Oats sold readily at an advance of Is. per

qr apon-the prices of this day se'anight.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

Owing to the continuance of warm weather, and the thin
attendance of buyers, the beef trade was in a very depressed
state, at a decline in the quotations obtained on Monday last, of
2d per Sibs. ; the highest figure for the best Scots not exceeding
3s. ICd. per Sibs., and a clearance was not effected.
From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire we received
1610 Scots, homebreds, and short-horns; for the Western and
Midland Counties 400 Herefords, Devons, runts, &c.; from
other parts of England 380 of various breeds; and from Scot-
land 320 horned and polled Scots.

)od, while the Mutton
trade was firm, and last week's prices were well supported.
Although the supply of Lambs was large, the Lamb trade was
firm, and previous rates were maintained in every instance.
Calves moved off slowly, at but little alteration in value.
In Pigs very little was doing at our quotations.

of sheer

The christening of the infant Princess is fully expected
to take place at Windsor early in the ensuing month.
Her Majesty will thus, we hope, be free from every en-
gagement which would prevent her accompanying her
Royal Consort to Liverpool.
It is said that a difference of ten percent. in masons?
wages will pay the carriage of worked stone for 100 miles.

Tire Limerick Reporter estimates the number of per-
sons who attended the " O'Brien Demonstration" in that
town, last week, at three hundred thousand.

Captain Gladstone, in consequence -of in his
family obliging him to go to Germany, has paired off with
the Hon. J. K. Howard.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF CHYMISTRY.—Prince Albert,
president of the insti! ution, has expressed his intention
of laying the foundation stone of the new laboratories in
connexion with this college, this day (Tuesday).
The asphalte pavements in Manchester have melted
with the heat of the sun, and the pedestrians have, in
some instances, found difficulty in releasing their feet
from the pitchy substance.

At the .raark'et in this town on Saturday strawterries
were Is. per quart ; cherries Bd. to is. per lb ; goose-
berries 4d. to sd. per quart; peas is. to is. 6d. per peck;
new potatoes 2d. to 3d. per lb.

The statue of Sir Walter Scott, by Mr. Steel, the Scot-
tish sculptor, is ready to be placed on its pedestal in the
the monument in Prince's-street, where it will be erected
on the 15th August, the anniversary of the great novelist's
natal day.

The proprietors of the Patriot newspaper are about to
present their readers with a gallery of portraits—repre-
senting the leading Missionaries. They are most splendidly
executed in oil colour painting—a style that renders them
beantiful and effective.

Mr. COBDEN'S HEALTH.—A League jourital gives a
formal contradiction to prevailing rumours that r. Cob-
den is afflicted with a " mortal" disease ; it admits, how-
ever, that he is " worn by his incessant labours," and
that he himself recently said—" When I have done with
corn, I must go to grass."
STRAWBERRIES.—Mt. Cuthill, the florist of Camber-
well, has been very successful this season in the cultiva-
tion of strawberries. Many of his plants have borne from
100 to 150 strawberries, many weighing an ounce each,
and some of them five inches in circumference. The
plant stands up like a little bush above the ground.
A STEAMER BLOWN UP, AT NAPLES. —The fine
steamer built in England, for the Count of Syracuse,
blew up at Castellamere, on the night of the 50th ult.
The prince had that day made an excursion in her to the
island of Capri, but bad returned to Naples by the rail-
road. In the evening the crew amused aerns::lves by
letting off fireworks, a spark from which tell into the
" 250 - nds of

er magazine, in

pou.
p)wder. The persons on board were blown into the sea,
and many of them were seriously injured, but they were
all taken out alive. The windows along the shore to
considerable distance were broken.

A PUZZLING QUESTION.-Sir Robert Peel was puzzled
by the Protectionists, when asked what the price of wheat
would be when the new Corn Bill came into operation.
But this question, though puzzling, was far less difficult
than the following :—Sir Joseph Radcliffe, a few daya
ago, in looking over the works on the Church Fenton and
Harrogate Railway, near Follyfoot, and casting a mecha-
nical eye down a shaft that was being formed, observed to
the workmen employed that it was not circular. One of
the men, evidently not pleased with the remark, called
out, from the bottom of the shaft, at the top of his voice,
" I say, maister, can you tell me how many square yard 9
of reek will make a bushel of soot ?" _ _

RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On-Sunday morning, as the
cheap train from London to this town was approaching
the Barford station, an accident occurred which might?
but for the care of the engineer, have been attended Witt!,
unpleasant consequences. A luggage train without an'
engine had been left on the down line, the' engine,e.,
fog
of the cheap train saw it but indistinctly, owing to a
which prevailed at the time, but stopped the engine as
quickly as possible, not iu time, however, to prevent
collision, which splintered the fore-board of the engine, a
piece of oak six inches thick. Beyond a few slight bruises,
none of the passengers were injured. The spring of one
of the carriages was broken, and a delay of an hour was
caused by the accident.
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SPEED OF THE LOCOMOTIVE.—OD Saturday, a- • d
experiment for the purpose of exhibiting
the econo
tractive capacity of the broad-gauge locomotive "1 made,on
on the Great Western line to and fro, between London
and Bristol. The experiment was made with
hundreda new en.
tons.
gine, dragging a passenger train of onearrived
The train left Paddington at 11h. 47m. 525., and
in safety at Bristol at 16m. 325. past two o'clock, the dis-
tance gone over being 118 miles, and the space of tiro
occupied, stoppages included,being 2h. 26m. and 400-
The motion throughout the journey was very steady, and
the average speed attained on level portions of the line was
nearly 60 miles an hour. On' rapidly descending gradients
a.maxirnum speed of from 0 to 72 miles an hour was
reached, while, again, on sharp curves, or steep inclines'
the rate was diminished to about 59 miles an hour.
EFFECTS OF A STRIKE.—Many years ago the shiPPe,„,-
of shoes from this port had their orders executed by tu,
r:Y
shoemakers of Liverpool, and the shoemaking trade eras
one that furnished employment to large numbers of
strike
tisans. Whenever the orders were numerous a str'"o
took place, men refuse to work, and the masters were
obliged to send their orders to Stafford, where wages liner,
much lower. So difficult at last was it to get a foreign":
der executed in Liverpool, that the merchants were oT,,f-
pelled to send their orders to Stafford direct, and ins t•
years not a shoe was made in Liverpool for foreign es,P7be
The town lost that trade entirely, Stafford derived•
benefit, and for many years Liverpool itself has beet; the
undated with Staffordshire-made shoes, and some O'• 011
principal manufacturers have sale-shops in this tovvni'itif•
their workmanship being done at Stafford or its YieJnOill
SMOKE PROHIBITION.—The Smoke Prohibitioo riog
of the present session was printed on Thursday, be
titisot
the names of Mr. Mackinnon, Lord Francis Egerton: is
Mr. W. Beckett. Its object, as declared by the s',l
" to prohibit the nuisance of smoke from furnace,9„jule
manufactories." There are 17 provisions and a se.°`
containing a form of conviction. The present bill is to
all former ones. Justices are (according to its terms the
appoint inspectors of smoke nuisances from and aftlf not
Ist of January next, from which day opaque smoke 1; pe,
to issue from any chimney of a furnace for any longedbog
riod of time than is bona fide necessary fof the 1013 for
of the fire of such furnace. There are penaltieloae•
offences, and means provided for recovering the ...Dort
Th's bil; does not seem to have been framed on the .;11015
made to the Government by the two scientific iodivoliuted
who have made a report on the subject, and who 1oll:
out therein the difficulties of effectually legislating .3,re

PUBLIC BUILDING, IN LIVERPOOL:
1141 ANKERS, INSURANCE and other JOINT
1) STOCK COMPANIES, are informed that the Premises
situated in Castle-street and Derby-square, now in the occupa-
tion of Mr. Benson, Mr. Bentham, and others, are about to. be
RE-BUILT, and the Proprietor will have no objection to make
them suitable for a BANK, INSURANCE-OFFICE, CLUB-
HOUSE, or other Public purpose. It is intended to make the
Buildings of considerable Architectural importance.
Early application is requested to be made to Mr. WELCH,
Architect, 7, Castle-street, or to Mr. Isanc, Draughtsman, &c.,
62, Castle-street.