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

SMITHFIEL? CATTLE MARKET.-YESTERDAY

We have not quite so many Beasts as on Monday last ; the
supply is, however, tolerably good, both as respects numbers
and quality. Trade is brisk for the choicest descriptions, and
our top quotations more freely realised than of late; but we
cannot, kin the average, quote any advance. There are a few
more Sheep, but the number is still small; the demand, how-
ever, is so very limited, and the dead trade so dull, that we
cannot make higher prices. The number of Calves is very
small, and Friday's prices are readily obtained.

THE HON

AND REV. BAPTIST NOEL,

The public announcement that Mr. Noel would, as stated
elsewhere, take leave of his congregation on Sunday last, caused
an enormous crowd to assemble on the occasion, in and about
St. John's Chapel, Bedford-row, London ; in fact, in the morn-
ing but few of the seatholders were able at all to make their
way into the chapel, and it was during the early part of the
service a scene of much confusion and excitement, but in the
evening more adequate arrangements for securing order were
made. Mr. Noel preached twice—in the morning from Ephe-
sians iii. 14-19, in the evening from John XVii. 24, but said that
he should not waste the time of the congregation by any expla-
nation respecting himself; that a statement of his views would
shortly be published, and would sufficiently explain his posi-
tion. He announced that his post would, for some time at
least, be occupied by Archdeacon Dealtry, who has recently
come to this country from India; and Mr. Noel added,—" I
know not to whom I should more willingly have transferred the
office which I now unworthily fill." At the close of the even-
ing discourse he urged those who might differ from the conclu-
sion to which he had come, and those who should agree in it, to
" learn to manifest to the world how believers in the same Sa-
viour ought to tolerate one another ;" and after enforcing his
well-known views respecting the unity of the Church, he affec-
tionately bade the congregation farewell: There seems to be
considerable uncertainty with regard to Mr. Baptist Noel's
intentions, it is said that he means to retire into private life
" for the present," and that he and his family will attend divine
service at church "for the present" in the neighbourhood of his
residence; there appears to be no doubt entertained that he
will take some further step after a short time, but it is said
that he does not as yet see his way clearly to anything further
than relinquishing his office of minister in the Established
Church. This he does on the ground of objection to the union
of the Church with the State ; his volume on that subject will
be published in two or three weeks.

Mr. Roebuck has declined to come forward for the
West-Riding.

There are 392 male and 65 female prisoners in Kirk-
dale Gaol.

The Governor of Faval has issued an orc'er prohibiting
vessels from Great Britain arriving at that island. They
were to be sent off to Lisbon to perform quarantine.,
The screw steamer Sarah Sands was off Holyhead
yesterday afternoon, after a passage from New York of
sixteen days. She left that port on the ISth ult.
The Bristol Mirror says that Mr. Commissioner Ste-
venson, of the Bristol Bankruptcy Court, and Mr. Sergeant
Ludlow, of the Liverpool Court, are about to exchange
their respective posts of duty.
Amongst other meditated reductions in the Irish
nnblic establishments. it is stated that rho aßf....f +h.

Coast Guard, at the head of
brain, is to be transferred to London

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Sir 'Culling Eardley, in answering a question, on Satur-
day, relative to the Jews, said—" They should he equal
participators in all privileges of my countrymen. I answer
this question the more readily as my grandfather was a
Jew."
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer will shortly be united to the
Hon. Georgiana Wellesley, daughter of the late Lord
Cowley. The ceremony will be performed at Hatfield
House, the Feat of the Marquis of Salisbury, uncle of the
bride. The Duke of Wellington will be present.
A CHILD FOUND DEAD.—Yesterday morning, early,
John Charles Lawrence, a child 16 months old, was found
by its mother, who lives in Caznean-street, dead at her
side, it having been owrlain. The mother, whose hus-
band is a ship carpenter, and now at sea, was afterwards
taken into custody for having gone to the canal, with in-
tent to drown herself. She was remanded.
THE GOLD AT CALIFORNIA.—Two passengers from
California came by the Clyde from Chagres. They con-
firm in part the statements of the American papers rela-
tive to the gold mines, and report the discovery of one
mine running for a considerable distance close to the sur-
face of the ground. These gentlemen have with them
some specimens of gold from California. A piece of this
metal, pure, was exhibited on board the Clyde ; it weighed

two ounces, and was picked up in a crevice in o

mines.
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GENERAL TRADE REPORT.

MONDAY EVENING

In a few days the question, "Who is to rule in France ?"
will be decided ; and speculations as to the future politics
of that country, and their effects upon our commercial
relations, must remain somewhat invoived in doubt until
the election is over. Cavaignac, as a tried servant of the
republic, is evidently the man most likely to ensure a
wise and permanent government ; but we dare hazaid the
prediction, that the prestige of a name will give a triumph=
ant majority for Louis Napoleon. With the present
broad basis of the suffrage, it is only necessary to raise
the French to a certain pitch of enthusiasm, then place
Bonaparte's old grey coat on the top of a stick, and they
will be ready to invest the baton with imperial honours.
In this event, however, we see no reason why any reaction
of public confidence should take place. He is certainly a
very unlikely individual to preserve order at home, or
carry on a peaceful intercourse with his neighbours. If
the predilections of the masses carry him into office, with
nothing to back him but his uncle's fame, he is just the
character, from what we know of him, to rush into any
mad enterprise to humour their vanity. But we think,
this time, the French people have been more than usually
careful in placing so great a curb upon the privileges of
the office as effectually to prevent any attempt at unad-
vised dictatorship ; and the moderate party has already
shown itself too wise to suggest, and too powerful to

.übtnit to, the adoption of any Measure of a belligerent
On Saturday the Three per Cents. closed on
Bourse at 43f., the Fives at 65f. 75e.

tendency.
the Paris

The English funds opened and cl
London at 87/ to 1, although durin

quence of some sales whit
muexion with the news from Rome.
in advance of the closing quotation of this

For the first time s

of Trade exhibit

the retu

an increase in the N

,n Saturday it

of £30.994 over the corresponding period of last year,
and £21,552 over that of 1846; and as the chief increase
has taken place in cotton manufactured goods and yarn,
(in the former of £212,875 and in the latter of £161,894),
the quantity exported, owing to the present IoW prices,
must have been proportionately larger: and as thes
returns, alth.ough only issued on Friday, a
month ending the sth of November, it is el
the reaction must have been felt "in the mar
districts a considerable time before it became pert(

ie market for the raw material

the exports of linen manufactured goods, of £10,061, is
counterbalanced by a decrease in linen yarn ; and the in-
crease in woollen yarn, of X 19,678, is also neutralised by
a decrease in woollen manufactures. The other features
of the return, if we except a considerabl
and culm, and a decr(

se in machinery and iron, are un-
important. But notwithstanding this favourable return,
in all

first ten months of the I
This large deficie

in the exports of
it year 1

by no

€5,319

[essrs. M`Nair, Grc
ye a very

isfactory account, in their monthly circular,
of the state of business in that district, the chief points in
which relate to an advance of from 24 to 5 per cent.
upon both cloth and twist, and to the anticipation of full
employment during the greater portion of the winter.
Nothing has occurred during the past week to retard
the feeling of confidence progressing latterly, and which
may now be said to have become permanently re-esta-
blished among the circles on 'Change.
Prices have been steady in the SHARE market during
The principal feature has been absence of
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closes TO-DAY
the railway calls
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