The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-11-05 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

The Majestic, Captain Smith, arrived here yesterday from
Charleston, aftei an unusually short passage of •21, days. She
brings Papers down to the 11th October, and !haa a cargo of
1,230 bales of Cotton. The news which she brings that we con-
sider best worth extracting at the present moment, is the foi-
-1 •
°lcusg semi-weekly report of the market, taken from the
Charleston Courier of Thursday, the 10th October :
CorroN.--On Monday and Tuesday a very brisk inquiry
existed for this article, and sales to a considerable extent were
trade (amounting, we believe, tty about 3,000 bales,) at from
164 to 17i cents, a large proportion at 1744. For one fine lot of
200 hales 17i was offered and refused. Yesterday the market
was quiet, and very few, if any purchasers could be found at
the rates of the two preceding days. There is, however, but a
small stock on sale.
FinI—For this staple, also, there was a good demand, du-
M
g the first two days of this week, and several hundred tierces
dolla
were disposed of, one or two lots of which sold as high as 31
prs; and yesterday, since the arrival of the steam-boat,
retty large sales were effected at full prices. Fifty hhds. New
rleans Sugar sold at auction on Monday at 10 dollars; and on
Tuesday 88 hhds. fine Porto Rico, also at auction, at 94- to 10
• dollars on time ; and 10 hhds. New Orleans, by private sale a t
cent slO dollars. A lot of casks Teneriffe Wine soldyesterday at 70
._

. . T6e i • •
11-judged measure of removing the deposits from the
Y Bank, has already had an injurious effect upon business
athis city. - The Branch here has fixed the • rate of exchange
the north at j per- cent. discount, in addition to the Bank
discount, for time and travelling time, which will have the
• •effect of embarrassing negociations, and depreciating the price
•• of produce. The limiting-of issues by the U. S. Bank, will, of
• coarse, have a corresponding effect on all local institutions.
*lii[Lit MARKET, OCT. I.7—COTTON.—Our commercial year
closed last evening with a stock of Cottoti•on hand of 139 bls.
The amount of the year's receipts is 129,366 bales and of the
..scPorts foreign and coastwise 129,314. The difference between
• the receipts and exports is only-52 bales, and to this the stock
on hand 30th September, 1832, and we have the stock with
• :which we commence the present season._ In regard to the mar-
ket, so little of the new crop has come to hand that it is im-
possible to give a difinite idea of its value;—some choice lots
are held at 18e. while 16e. is the best offer that has becu ob-.
"lined, The
.general impression is, that the crop of South
Alabata a this year will be somewhat larger than that of the last
• season- but our information on this subject is somewhat con-
▪ tradictory, and we must defer an estimate, at least till our next
reveiw.
• .
-ExPoliT OE COTTON FROM THE UNITED STATES COMMEN-
CMG' IST OCTOBER, 1832.
If
. G. Britain. Continent. Total.
• • Sept. 30. 77,201 . 21,715 - 101.916
.Ne.w Orleans Sept. 14. . 225 667 85 883 311,550
Savannah, Sept. 9 ...131,899 26,279 158,178
Charleston Sept. 21. 116,525 47,452 ' 163,977
V' • • •
.13,007 5,473 - 18,480
New York, Sept. 14.. 45,708 31,700 80,408
'Other Ports
Total to foreign ports 612,907 226,328 839,235
NEw ORLEANS, SEPT.• 26.—NEW COTTON.—Favourable as
the season.was, morenf the new crop has already arrived by
the river and lakes, than we
_could have anticipated, in our
Present circumstances. We hid" the pleasure, yesterday after-
. noon, of seeing a schooner so laden arrive at the Basin. Low
42 are the -waters, and the spirits of our citizens, most ofwhoni
are In:Au-fling the loss of friends or partners dear," this sight
cheering. For, briskness and activity give an idea of busi-
. ir,e34--tbey are business, and thus is the life of man the soul of
In less than five weeks from this date*,. New Orleans
• will doubtless transact- a larger proportion of business than she
- ever did before at any corresponding season. Even in October,
Inliob will be done; the epidemic is now mild, easily managed,
• and " a man who allows himself to die of it, throws his life
away,...vANNAll MARKET, Oct. s,—CorroN.--In Uplands the sales
of the week will not exceed 1000 bales, (all new,) all from 151
; the latter price was obtained yesterday for a choice lot
of about 140 square bales. Freights—to Liverpool id.. have
- been paid, to New York, last enagements, 1 dollar per bale.—
eorgian. -
AUGUSTA MARKET, Oci. 4.—Cotton sold ou Wednesday and
Thursday at 16 and 161,2 for square bales. To-day it is Hardly
as Mitch in demand. We quote it at 15 to 16 for choice.
lireights—to Savannah 1 dollar; to Charleston, 1 dollar 50
• - oeiats. Riveris getting low again.—Courier.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

Since our last the betting upon the events of next season has
not been brisk; but it will be seen by our prices quoted below,
that, several important alterations on the Derby have taken
Pace- Plenipo appears to be getting much into favour, and
rem 25 and :1) to 1 he has improved so far as to fiud takers at
12 tt to 1. Bentley-, from his excellent performances last week at
the
--oughton Meeting, has also risen in estimation, and is now
at 7_l- to 1. The Newmarket last October Meeting terminated
on Friday, and the same time the racing season concluded;
there was a large attendance of fashionables, and the sports
were of a first-rate character. The result of each contest is by
this time familiar to every sportsman, consequently, it is unne-
cessary to encumber our pages with a return list. Our Lance-
' Shiro admirers of the sports of the field are getting up a splendid
tursing cup to be coursed for by dogs, over the'grounds of Lord
olyneux, to come off in the course of a few weeks. On Wed-
nesday next, a grand coursing match, for 100 guineas, iito take
place on the grounds of the-Duke of Devonshire, at Chatsworth.
rhe favourites are, Rowton, Venture, Spring, Major, and Snap :
the four former are taken against the field. The following is
the latest state of the odds
THIC DERBY.-15 to 2to agst Bubastes, (taken); Bto 1 agst
ntleY; (t); 12 to 1 agst Plenipo, (t) ; '2O to 1 agst Chifney."s,
co elt; 20 to 1 agst Emigrant; 30 to 1 agst Bequest, (t) ; 30 to 1
agst Victor ;3Jto 1 asst Brother to Kate.
THE Oaks.---7 to I"agst Cotillon, (t) Bto 1 agst Rosalie ;
to I
agst Amaden, (t) ; 25 to 1 agst Mustard, (t).

FIELD SPORTS, ANCIENT AND MODERN.

No. 11.
( Written eapressly fur the Liverpool Standard.)

Let not the FOX-HUNTER, whose true joy is when -
. • •• The hounds shall make the welkin answer them,
- And fetch, shrill echoes from the hollow earth,"
. ,
'imagine that, by dedicating- our opening paper to the treatise of
Amen, we doubted the superiority of hit pursuit over the other
broaches of the chase. All " good men and true" agree that
the case admits of no comparison. What ! abandon our red
"et, top boots, and leather breeches ! Perish the thought !--
Long live the fox, whose pre-eminence we hasten to acknow-
ledge in our own well-known and far-heard view halloo! Yet we
• 'auto, nevertheless, remind the spoitsman, that "the thunder
of the chase ?.which marks the fox-hunter's peculiar occupation
in the field, never pealed upoii the delighted ear of the son of
GrYlios nor on thatof the Faliscian,t and was equally unknown
our celebrated courser, the younger Xenophon." And such,
moreover, is the confusion of the nomenclature of the sporting
dogs of antiquity,—for
•• Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs, -
• " Shoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are classed
" All by the name of dogs"—
'Lll, to particularize their respective attributes in warfare or
the chase, or the economy of rural life, or to record "their
names and qualities," is next to impracticable. True it is, that
the. hound of Sparta and the stolen fox of Laconian celebrity
demonstrate the bare possibility of a Lacedemonian fox-hunt;
Yet. by learned commentators' who have favoured us with their
•xpositions of the ancients, we find the " Veloces Sparta Ca-
tub" are termed " Liwriers"—Anglice greyhounds ,• and thus,
stt first alludingto the pastime of the leash; not only have we
escaped the guilt of an auacronism, but stand also acquitted of
• all undue preference.
• Per the sake, however, of a further illustration of our sub-
ject, and of supplying at the same time an omission in our first
. paper, it may be as well that we briefly touch upon " the science
4..11(1 practice of the chase," as recorded by Xenophon and Gra-
tius, the writers who preceded Arrian. The summary of
.e
noplion's Cynegeticus is thus stated by Arrian•
s.rl has pointed out the similitude between cvnegetical and
71141itary science, and the age, constitution, and frame of mind
'that ey.pecially qualify fur entering on the chase;—has given a
vedescription ot purse-nets, hayes, and road-nets, such as are ne-
• thasat ry to be prepared7-the mode of fixing snares for animals
, may be entrapped—the natural history of hares, their food,
ailaunts, forms, and. the methods of searching for them—what
jlias are clever at scenting, and what faulty—how, by, their
pe and wark, each may be. ascertained. Some few re-
.
s are also left by him on the boar-hunt, the stag, bear, and
arrntagem chases-.--how these animals may be taken by cunning and
With the Cynegeticus of Gratius, ("qui Augusto
.."a'llee.fiereit," we are less conversant, and must refer our
,st Ira to A twin of Hunting, by Gratius, the Faliscian.
jg !shed and Illustrated by Christopher Wase, Gent., London,
in corroboration of our assertion, that, although we may
la Latin be permitted—

" Imbelles figere damns,
" Audaces ye lupos, vulpem aut eaptare dolosam
let have We no authority for killing our foxes in Greek.
Raring thus established our right to proceed uninterruptedly
in, the exposition of Arrian's manual, we propose shortly to no-
its bibliographical history, and afterwards to close our ob-
servations with a few particulars of the author's life; reserving,
1" w
ue have already intimated, for future notices, the valuable
tter so much to the purpose of the real courser, which is con
neti in his Enchiiidion
• 4.
• . The Cynegeticus was originally written by Arrian, in int*
rtlon of Xenophon's Treatise de Venetic:me, to supply.the
4ticlunm of that work iu the particular department of coursing.
libre manuscript seems to have been neglected in the Vatican
ary for several years after it had been first discoveretl, in
consequence of its bearing the name of Xeuophon; for the per-
Pone Who accidentally met with it, not being aware of Arrian's
assumption of that tale, took no pains to examine it."
After a recapitulation of the Paris, Amsterdam, and Oxford
editions, " The Graduate" criticises Mr. Blane's version, as in
parts inaccurately executed, and omitting numerous sentences
" where he professes to translate, and whole chapters in se-
quence, where we can see no reason for omission." Independ-
ently of the "Graduate's" version, no complete translation
into
English of the work exists, and no prior attempt to translate it
seems to have been made, with the exception of Mr. Blane's ;
:1?,1 of " such fragments as have been made to speak English, On
ttorsine emergency
olian
of a periodical publication needing an article on
K; or a literary
sportsman wishing to enliven his cons-
ications by a reference to the manual, and quoting it in his
;134yours tongue." Relative to the personal history of the
11bgekr Xenophon, antiquity is almost silent. He was a citi-
- °L of Athens and Rome, and born pi obably at Nicomedia,
11.1 the
there seeras
of
of Domitian. 'Between Hadrian and our author
to have beeu a_strong similarity of taste. The Em-
reek
_nd
etor, like his prefect, was not only intimately conversant with
Latin literature, but also passionately fond of the
ing t • such a height did he carry Lis regard, ihat, accord-
lov4,4>iphilia, he graced a monument to the memory of his be-
own nunter'Borysthtines, with an inscription written by his
to thril. 'Whether the similarity of Arrian's rural diversions
to hissei" Adrian in early life, co-operated with other causes
doubtfeie.vation by so capricious a patron must ever remain
cut,
suesc as we learn that the Emperor "venationensemper
gladly'pticiparit," we may fairly suppose that he would
frien,havail himself of the opportunity of adding to his personal
and courser sporting
of
Ornenoursaetion of this by 's daY. " We know," observes the "Graduate," in
pothesis, " how much the pleasure of in-
hop
Iv.. is enhanced-by identity of pursuit, and how strong the
ha,;e
onhich innocent amusements, shared with congenial friends,
certainly
affections ;" and we, in the same social feeling, shall
di
ners.
..eel nothing loth, at any time, to make one at the jovial
iprlrods vvhich some of our contemporary and neighbouring
Srcett.accustomed to wind up. the morning's occupation.
•
The rtlder Xeno '
OR,

f Oratius.

Arriut;