The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-10-14 00:00:00

at an in-

n Excise, of

£lO,OOO on Crown

s a decrease of
and of £275
£83.190 oa

3e, of £2.272 on Property
and of £20,000 on Crown

THE MONEY MARKET.—LONDON, SATURDAY.—TO-
day the Stocks were looking up when business commenced,
but they soon gave way again, and left off It per cent. under

yesterday's closing values.
~►e revenue
return made a good impression, but the continued doubt
as to the duration of the French ministry caused rather
an uneasy feeling in some quarters. The amount available
for the Sinking Fund during the current quarter is not
yet officially announced, but we presume it will be between
£600,000 and £700,000. As to the bullion in the Bank
it is known that it would have stood considerably higher
but for the payment of salaries occurring at the end of the

very favourat

made, t

and to reinforce the coffers of the _
might have apprehended a greater demand upon them_
Consols were 96/ to 97 in the morning, and left off at 966
I. The price for November 12 was 96/ to 97. Special
transfers were made in the New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. at 791 and in the Three per Cents. at 96 to'-,
both ox-dividend. Bank Stock was firm at 211/ to 212,
without the interest. East India Stock brought 260, Ex—
chequer Bills were supported 'at 48s. to 495. premium, a
further rise of Is. to 2s. India Bonds improved Is., being
To-day the foreign market has been very
and the general tone has been somewhat weaker.
Mexican were done at 271 in the morning. but let off at

aks that

27. Spanish Five per Cents. were nominally 20k 21/.
Peruvian Deferred Stock brought 41k. Sardinian Old
Bonds were 82. There was a barn-' lch Five per
Cents at 12, with the earl,

Ciiba would sooner or later be conquered by the United States,
INCREASE IN THE LIVERPOOL CUSTOMS igeditsliaantclsf srtleccellha'enneove:inlewmenreloat%lokne palaa,ciet,hSargewitivouoldoee:
-.gain in Fret,,.
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RECEIPTS. sides have to bear the burden of a protracted and expensive . Acuange at 25,20.-Observer.
war. it need scarcely be said, says the Times, that this news The return of the movement of the Bank of England
We are much gratified to find that, for the quay- wants confirmatio for the week ending on the 4th instant, in the Gazette of
ter just ended, there has been an increase in the TAT
"
.
TERSALL'S, YESTERDAY. Friday, gives the following changes compared with the
week ending the 27th ult. :-In the department of issue
Customs receipts at this port of upwards of £58,000 agCstELAaritlnWe IT9Cro.-isagtostl agst Hippolytus (taken freely) •Sto I
Goldtinder ;- 20 to 1 ago San'ter-la. the notes in circulation had increased £59,450, which had
Comae; 20 to 1 agst Italian; 25 to I agst Candlewick; 20 to 1 been produced by aq,, increase of £59,450 in the gold coin
on the corresponding quarter of 1850,-that for the agst Backbiter; 40 10 1 agst Dulcet. or bullion, the silver bullion remainin unaltered,-On
present year having reached £1,013,361. This im- CAMBRIDGESHIRE.-10 to I agst Curl; 15 to 1 agst Heriot ; g
20 to 1 agst any other, the debit side of the banking department the Rear
provement bears a remarkably large proportion of . had increased £6,194, the public deposits had decreased
NEWMARKET RACES.-YESTERDAY.
that for the kingdom generally, which is only Plate: Landgrave, 1; Vatican, 2. -Handicap : Lily, 1 • bills had • sod
, and the seven-day and other postwaves
Cuticula, 2; Catalpa, 3.-Streepstakes • Scarecrow, I ; Father £230,151, the private deposits had increased £327,121,
£83,190; so that the increase at all the other ports Thames, 2; Physalis,3.-Matches : Sophistry won, and Bor-
deaux won.-Plate, T.V.C. : Ravenswing, 1 ; Little Harry, 2. On the credit side the government securities remained
together amounts to little more than £25,000.£31,883, making a total of the liabilities £37,622,145.-
Won by a neck.-Sweepstakes: Iris, 1 Hesse Homburg, 2. unaltered ; the other securities had increased £376,181 ;
Won cleverly. Sweepstakes: Pulcherina, 1; California, 2; the notes had decreased £220,460, and the gold and silver
Cerito, 3; Canterbury, 4. 5 to 2 each agst California, Cerito, coin had decreased £21,374, which equalised the account.
CLOSE OF THE EXHIBITION, and Canterbury. Pulaerina made all the running, and won ia-
THE great European topic of 1851 will soon cease by a length A bad third. Not timed. The bullion in both departments of the Bank had
creased from £14,953,400, to £14,991.476, being a differ-
to be discussed. The original and astonishing ence of £38,076. The.. paper in actual circulation had in-
LONDON MONEY AND SHARE MARKETS-YESTERDAY.
creased from £20,39a,558 to £20,707,351, being a differ-
OSING PRICES.
conception of imitating the English Exhibition of Consols Account, 964' Ditto Money, 964; Exchequer Bills, ence of £311,793.
1756-7, and the French Exhibition of 1801, and Spanish oc Mexicans, 262 74 ; THE IRON TRA '
DE.-The ironmasters' quarter week,
i 202 11 ;sDittoF?Aeiribe'ensS. 374k8; Ditto Passives 5/
IcDt
yitetao s., 4 o
A , • concluded on Saturday last, has proved throu.hout a very
;2'slOmutil
the Free-Trade Bazaar of 1845, will soon cease tol; Ditto Quarters,flat affair. The attendance at the different' places of
Railwayal d Shares
Stock, :414n
84; North Staffordshire,
itorctkh,l
throw toadies into ecstasies; and the brilliant andeach day was unusually scanty, and the- business
North
Lita
nrictai British,
rsei ande 19orrtt
Eastern and Dover, 19 *ex die,; Ainbergate, Nottingham, and meeting
Eastern Junction, 44 4; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire, confined to a few light orders for present consumption
unequalled idea of a gardener to build a hot-house 264 73.; Caledonian, 114 4; Ditto Preference, 64 4; Eastern with the settlement of accounts, which also were both in
r
will no longer put the penny-a-liners into a syncope /Ccoourithieersri. ?s1 ieN; °jribealir ivelsBte2ron; BN4number and extent far below the usual average-they
shire, 542 5* ; London, Brighton and South Coast, 934 44 ; York, were,. however, in general satisfactorily met. Although the
of admiration. The almost exhausted fount of Newcastle and Berwick, 18 4 ; Ditto Extension, 764 dis.; York continued increase of exports might have led to expects-
• •
ando NorhtahaMakdeclatnelyheoain The continued weakness on the Paris lions of more active demand, it does not yet appear to
editorial imagination has supplied to the journals
Bourse has
price. Bank sstoienkardkoenterianSoinesxolsidyeclined 4 have any practical effect upon the market, and it is more
one further "leader" in praise of the great event- fro
d ~ and 34 than counteracted by other adverse facts. The misfor-
Forper cents. 974 I ; these stocks are yet closed to public transfer. tunes of the Newport and Monmouthshire Banks, the
day descending, the proud scene was o'er ; Railway market declined in price, closing dull at its worst
But lived in Settle's numbers one day more. quotations. Business is very slack, and dealers are said to large failures reported in Glasgow, and the panic in financial.
Mr. Paxton has achieved such immortality as a have bought more than they have sold. Foreign market dull. affairs related in the last accounts from New York, under
which two banking establishments there are said to haves
print, representing him very much like a game- MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY. succumbed already, while the suspension of several others
The following are the closing quotations :-Birkenhead and
keeper, can bestow; and any man likely to be Cheshire Junction, 124 dia.; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
was daily expected, have raised a feeling of insecurity that
re, 53* ; must tend to cramp mercantile operations generally, and
struck with awe at viewing a partner in an iron North Staffordshire
new preference, 7 1-16th ; London Stock, 116;
, 84 die. ; and South Eastern,l94, it, 3-16th, no doubt will have an injurious effect on the demand for
foundry at Birmingham, may see Mr. Fox, the iron during the ensuing quarter. The prices of manufactured
iron appear to range from £5 ss. to £B, according to quality
contractor, staring wisely, out of Colnaghi's win- and 4.
LONDON CORN MARKET-YESTERDAY. and description, and pig-iron from 455. to 655. per ton.
ephuarcdhansmeso.dfrriaatriesrhucagocifullnAliaVoVnh,emayt,,sbcuut
rmreinliceyrs. dow, with the Duke of 'Wellington, Napoleon, and Tliireesuanemiogn )fthe
Company,Moanzooup s I, fWirLamnsd,sG(rdioji•agnaz
effected in
sale,
lc
other smaller fry, beside him. To be sure, the aNilod Beanses were
m e teafrec steady
restricted
floatinga latea rrreess. Foreign.oura
l Miallatralerer h
both having their head-quarters at Newport, but the
Exhibition has other modes of being immortal. unaltered, and fine English Oats free of sale, at Monday's former with four or five branches, lass caused a great sen-
prices. White Peas Is. per quarter dearer. sation in the mining districts, and much apprehension ort.
You see the picture of the monotonous rows of English White Wheat 40s. to 465. account of the peculiar condition of the iron trade. We
Ditto Red Ditto .. 358. to 395. have no official explanation of the cause of these suspen-
pillars and shutters, and glass, and banners die- ARRIVALS.
played on your tea-cups at breakfast, in Qrs. Qrs. sions beyond the broad statement that the first is due to
every Eaglish Wheat
window throughout the day-on the lid of your „ Barley
f f
snuff-box, on the bowl of your pipe, on your plates
~ Oats
„ Malt
dinner, and on your curtains at bed-time. Your „ Flour
~ .. 50 brie. mania of 1845, and neither warning
- and sends a print of it round your sugar-and ~ Beans
ft ...... nor remonstrance has sufficed to induce a timely reduction
" Peas - - of the make. Within the last twelve months, it is true,
your baker, instead of tbe time-honoured wheat-sheaf, Irish oats.... 5703 qrs.-Irish Mal F.... 22 qrs there have been numerous furnaces put out of blast; but
or Ceres, with an Irish reaping-hook, imprints the LONDON CATTLE Mif half the complaints we have heard were well founded,ThAßKET.-YESTERDAY. this should have been three or four years since. The spe-
Exhibition on his flour-bags. Who will relieve us very edusrly' of inferior Beasts has. been large, and the trade
jarime Scotch sold readily -Sheep went off but culative producer, under cover of the bank advances, has
held on in his course regardless of price,
and trusting to a
from the pictures of the Exhibition ? Its like one of gsluTtleyd
:a t
ea Friday'squoted:-Beasts,
46v.ce;.h---eeCap l saensd. rAornicisp improvement n. t canv
ebse
curtailment by his weaker or more prudent competitor.
those mirages that appear to the hypochondriac at a 230; Pigs, 580; Scotch Beasts, 20; Leices'ter, Lincoln, and The man of substance has suffered an inroad into his
Wolverhampton Beasts, 2500; Spanish Sheep, 290; Holland capital in the hope that both his rivals would be wise in
stated hour-a bleeding soldier or a death's head- Beasts, 1543; Sheep, 5890; Pigs, 109; and Calves 170. Prices time. Now, however, the wheel is clogged, and we hear
Veal, 2s. to 3s. led. ; and Pork 45. to 4s. Bd.
and which have as yet puzzled the faculty. Turn rangedas follows :-Beef, 2s. to
3s. 6d. ; Mutton, 3s. to 45.;
great stress laid upon what every one must previously have
where you will, there it is before you. It has understood, namely, that many local banks have made
of
actually been stamped on the soles of pairs
undue advances to parties in the iron trade, and that the
Su g aLrO NsDe
yOeNr a l PUCEtrRa
nOaDa a
81%iloA R K ET . -YESTERDA v .
foreign, and a small advance day of reckoning is at hand.-Birmingham Cazette.
.........--------466...
boots, and is devcured daily in the shape of pats of obtained for duty paid parcels and floating cargoes. Refined-
home demand brisk, and prices better; brown lumps 448. to POISONING BY I%II.7SHROOMS.-BRUGES 0
butter. Ladies whisk past you with the Crystal 44a. 6d.-Coffee : Not much doing, but holders firm. Native Two highly-respected officers of the Belgian'Cuirassiers,0ct...---
Ceylon 40s. for good quality.-Tea: A brisk demand for ordi-
Palace (and its regulative crowd of spectators, nary Congou at oict. to 94d.; other sorts sell more freely at quartered at Bruges, died on Tuesday under circumstances
ported with which ought to be made known as publicly as possible.
consisting of a Turk, a Greek, a Cherokee, a Avciuol7;;;arla._Btlincsiacrtic,ig
ga formerinadrgerpa
ceras rates souftpop.o-
-r Cotton: They were in perfect health on Monday last. opnosTues:
guardsman, and a young woman with a scarlet Little doing, yet holders fii:m, and the supply limited.-Indigo: day they dined in their quarters, and orderd some mush-
The sale is proceeding with fair spirit at rather better prices rooms dressed in some favourite sauce for dienner, of which
parasol,) stamped on muslin, envelopingtheir sylph- for East India. they both partook. A few hours afterwards they were
like forms. To say the truth, the mightiest exhi- LONDON TALLOW RETURNB.-YErrsanAv• both taken ill of a horrible and agonizing colic, which be-
Market*ning ; fine new Russian 385. 3d. fore night
bition that 1851 has seen has been the exhibition ones Ilull“tendstroactAdg.ll
casks, against 27,274 casks at became so alarming that medical assistance was
sent for, when it became the opinion of the doctors that
same time last year, being an increase this year of 11,016
of puffing that has taken place. Let us hope for cthaseks. The deliveries are 1,924 casks, against 3,003 casks at a the sufferers had been poisoned by the mushrooms. Every
the best-that it will soon be as once, and trade corresponding.period last year, beings decline this year of 2,079 effoEt.was made to save them, but without effect ; after
casks. suffering the most horrible agonies the whole night, during
may flow back to its old channels tin assisted" by which one of them broke his back from the violence of his
THE TIMBER
.....111T . n ma -In pursuance of an order of
both died yesterday morning. . So great
the "great impetus" of a flood of foreign imports. Majesty , Treasury, convulsions, they
the Lords Commissioners of her s the was the interest taken in the fate of these distinguished. Such a result is greatly needed ; and we, as far as Commissioners of Customs have caused the collectors officers that nearly the whole town assisted at the funeral;
and other principal officers of Customs atand most of their comrades wept
our judgment leads us, fear much that those who and controllers . the crowd was immense,
life several ports the United Kingdom to be directed
in
bitterly. But the most fearful circumstance connected
are depending (and what tradesman is not ?) on to continue to charge 'the lower rates of duty, under the
with the case is, the declaration of several medical men
Christmas bills may have reason to regret the act 8 and 9 Victoria,
. cap. 90,
. on timber_ and
. wood goods
the produce of and imported from the British possessions, and chemists, that the poison of the mushroom is really
contained in the true Agaricus campestris, or common
enthusiasm that made so many forget to "be just notwithstanding the rates of duty mentioned in the table mushroom, after a certain stage of growth ; and Professor
before they are generous." I annexed to the act 14 and 15 Victoria, cap. 62, are in strict- Orfila has hinted at the same in his Book on
Poisos.
nese (from an omission of the word " foreign") applicable This, 1a f act , ought to be generally made known at this
1 i
If the rumour our London correspondent gives to timber and wood goods geuerally,
season of the year.