The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

FINANCIAL SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.

(From the Britannia of Saturday.)
The price of Consols, as well as of every description of
securities, has been well maintained during the week, and
the market has bad altogether a firm aspect. The im-
provement caused by the reduction in the Bank rate of
discount has not receded, and Consols for the October
account closed yesterday at the prices of Saturday last,
968 to Z. For money the price was 96k. The fluctua-
tions have been trifling during the week, a slight degree
of depression felt on Tuesday having been recovered by
the confident reports spread of the Queen of Spain's mar-
riage, which would undoubtedly contribute to the tran-
quillity of Europe. Exchequer Bills have continued firm
at 16s. to 20s. premium. Other securities for temporary
investment have been regarded with favour.
Money is for the time exceedingly plentiful, first-rate
securities being easily negotiable at two per cent. It is
remarkable, however, that short dates only are sought
for ; and hence it is inferred that the market can hardly,
at present, be said to be in a sound state. Some fear is
still entertained by the timid on account of railway calls ;
but men of larger views, and with a better estimate of the
national resources, see nothing to dread from railway en-
terprise, assuming it to be legitimate, notwithstanding the
immense number of bills passed this session.
Jr. the Foreign Market the principal event has been
the advance in the prices of Spanish stock, consequent on
the Queen's betrothal to her cousin. The rise has been
nearly equal to two per cent., and a general expectation
is entertained that now Spain will rise in the rank of na-
tions, and make a vigorous effort to place her finances on
a sound footing. The proverbial success of the King of
the French in all his undertakings justifies the most con-
fident hope of the prosperity of Spain, now that he has,
in some degree, taken the dynasty and government of
that country under his immediate protection. Spanish
Actives, which on Saturday closed at 251 to 6, were yes-
terday done at 271 to 1. The Three per Cents. have
risen in like proportion ; they closed last week at 361 to
7; we note them now at 39k. Portuguese stock has also
improved with the more peaceable aspect of affairs. The
Four per Cents., which on last Saturday marked only 42,
were yesterday done at 47 to 471. Other descriptions of
foreign stock have shared in the improvement. Mexicans
were yesterday quoted at 261 to 4, but the market was
dull for them, as they are regarded with great shyness.
The Share Market has been comparatively inactive du-
ring the week, and there has been a disinclination to pur-
chase. From the considerable fluctuations in price, shares
do not yet present a good opportunity for temporary in-
vestment, and the warning of last autumn has not yet
been forgotten. Indeed, from the mania that then pre-
vailed, prices were forced up to such an unnatural height
that it is doubtful whether the stock even of established
lines is not yet too high. However that may be, certain

it is that the Share Market has not materially participated
in the improvement felt in other kinds of securities this
week, and that the transactions have been limited in
amount and of a languid character. We see that in all 305
railway bills received the royal assent this session. Such
a mass of enterprise is startling; yet it is to be noted
that, as a majority of these schemes are for connecting
lines, the main trunk ways will be in fact fed and enriched
by these tributary shoots.
The French lines have shown some symptons of im-
proved-lent, but the amount of business done in them has
been slight.
From the manufacturing districts the accounts are more
favourable. A demand has sprung up, and there seems a
probability of a fair autumn trade. In many descriptions
of manufactures the trade is unusually good for the time
of year.

The rise in the price of grain received a check on Mon.
day, owing to the continuance of fine weather, but the fall
has since been recovered, and a steady rise in price is now
anticipated. The failure of the potato crop must cause
an immensely increased consumption of bread-stuffs, and
thus the large supplies anticipated from the United
States may be taken into consumption without any
unusual pressure on the market being felt. Some
demand has been experienced from France and Bel-
gium, and cargoes have actu,dly teen shipped from the
former conntry, the harvest there, it is stated, being la-
mentably deficient in yield. The Gazette returns pub-
lished last night show an average price of 755. 10d. In
anticipation of a rise in price, and a consequent fall in
duty, stocks are beginning to accumulate in bond. The
arrivals of foreign for the week in the Gazette are 14,000
quarters, while only 747 quarters were entered for home
consumption. The arrivals of oats have been very large,
and we notice that in the week 40,000 quarters were en-
tered for home supply. Experienced factors in the prin-
cipal towns of the kingdom advise that the consumption
of grain is now greater than ever they recollect before.
The duty of 10s. cont nues 'a force.

LOANS TO IRISH RAILWAY COMPANIES.—Mr. La
bouchere has stated that he will entertain proposals for
loans to Irish railway companies that have obtained acts
of parliament, and the parliamentary deposits on which
have been bone fide paid up, and continued in bank to
the credit of the companies.
INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest was held, before Mr.
Curry, on view of the body of Patrick Brien. Deceased
had sailed on Friday week in the Eclipse steamer from
Wexford to this port, and was then well. On the follow-
ing morning he was taken ill, and was attended to by the
passengers as well as they could. He did not rally, and
died on board on the night of the following day (Satur-
day), at eleven o'clock. A post-mortem examination
was made, and the surgeon having given his opinion that
the deceased had died from disease of the heart and lungs,
a verdict to that effect was returned by the jury.
COMMITMENTS, YESTERDAY, AT THE POLICE-COURT.
—Ann Gibson, a young woman, was charged by Elizabeth
Molyneux, cf Bedford-street North, with stealing several
silver spoons, which had been left in a drawer in one of
the bed-rooms. The prisoner was said to be a dress-
maker. She declined to say anything in her defence, and
was committed for trial at the sessions.—Patrick Tobin,
was charged with having been concerned with three other
Young men (not in custody) in breaking into a marine-
store, belonging to William Leach, in Perry- street, Tox-
teth-park, on Saturday morning or Friday night, and
therefrom stealing a quantity of old copper and lead,
which was deposited in a bag. He was committed for
trial at the sessions.—Sarah Naylor, a married woman,
was committed for stealing a shawl and a table-cloth from
the house of Mrs. Margaret Green, London-road.
EMBEZZLEMENT BY A CONFIDENTIAL CLERK.—On
Saturday a young man (stated to be married) of very re-
spectable exterior, named Victor Lecour, was brought
before Mr. Rushton on a charge of having embezzled
sundry sums of money which he had received from Mr.
Unwin and other persons, but which he had never ac-
knowledged or accounted for to his employer, Mr.
Wm. Woodruff Dorrington, merchant, of Chapel-walks.
The complainant stated, that the prisoner was his con-
fidential clerk ; and that he only made the discovery
on Thursday last. At Lecour's lodgings a quantity
of letters were found, which had been addressed to
his employer, but which had been intercepted by the
prisoner, and kept entirely from his employer's knowledge.
They revealed the fact that the prisoner had been, from
time to time, making applications to various corres-
pondents of Mr, Dorrington for large amounts of
money, in some instances due to Mr. Dorrington, but
in two of the cases application was made for £3O, where
in one only £8 was owing, and in the other £lO. Mr.
Dorrington, said that, if the prisoner was remanded, he
should be prepared to prove a variety of cases in
which he had received large sums of money, and
had never accounted to him for them. Mr. Rushton
said that it was a very shocking case. The secret cor-
respondence the prisoner had evidently been engaged in
with Dr. D's customers had not only been intended to
have the effect of robbing his employer, but it was calcu-
lated to destroy the . gentleman's credit entirely. Mr.
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The prosecutor acknowledged that, in one instance, before
Christmas last, he had overlooked one offence, but that
what was now charged had all happened since. The pri-
soner was remanded. He was again brought up yes-
terday, when considerable additional evidence was
adduced. The prisoner was apprehended by police-
officer Thomas Ainsworth, in a splendid house, kept
by himself, in Everton. The general tenor of the evi-
dence was to the effect that, as before stated, the
prisoner had received large amounts in the name of his em-
ployers, for which he had not aocounted, and when detected
he prayed that he might not lie prosecuted, and would make
good the amount, as he expected some money through his
wife. He was fully committed for trial at the sessions,
and the witnesses were bound over to appear under the
usual surety. He declined, after being cautioned, to say
anything in his defence. A gold Geneva watch was found
on the person of the prisoner, which, with the dam and
appendages, is, we beard, of £3O value.

Sept. 8, IR4g.

"THERE IS DEATH IN THE POT."
2 KINGS, •IC. 40v.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SIR—On the 24th of last month I addressed a letter to
you on the then insanitary state of the town, which you
thought of sufficient importance to be prefaced by a
Leader," in which you cordially responded to my
appeal to yourselves, by impressing upon our municipal
authorities the necessity for the prompt discharge of their
duty to their fellow-citizens. Your advocacy, which did
no less credit to your pen than your heart, has met with
its proper reward—success. Already have the initiative
steps been taken by the Watch Committee to remove
from the town one great cause of disease, the masses of
autrifying refuse accumulated about the dwellings of the
poor. One little suggestion still remains unattended to,
viz.,—the immediate and daily supply of water to the
poor man's dwellings by the Water. Companies. This
I beg of you to press for, and you must obtain it ;
let but the directors and other shareholders of the water
companies, who are dividing their 10 per cent., consider
that their stinginess at the present critical time sacrifices
at least one life per diem, and lays on a bed of sickness
fully twenty times the number, and 1 am sure they will,
even if it should be proved to be attended with a loss of
*th per cent., sanction so great a sacrifice of their pecu-
niary interests to the lives and wellbeing of those by th
sweat of whose brow themselves and their fathers have
been enriched.

Wealth has its privileges, but it has its responsibilities
also. Pestilence stalks abroad, principally from the
neglect, the culpable neglect of those whose duty it was
to avert its approach. The tocsin of alarm was sounded
long ago, but wealth went home to its country house,
after subscribing its guinea to the Dispensary, and
thought it had done its duty. Oh that the selfish rich
could, while reclining on his couch, be carried in the
spirit to the poor man's dwelling, and there witness
" some strong" father "in his agony." The mother
of those wailing children, (alas ! how soon to be or-
phans,) as supporting his drooping head she wipes the
clammy death-sweats from his brow, show., by her
pinched and sickly features, that she too is stricken. He
dies—she lingers, and perhaps recovers. Pah ! says the
rich, this is stuff! No, Sir, 'tis but a faithful feature
drawn from nature, the original; had you and your class
discharged your duty, it would not have existed. But
methinks I hear you say, Mr. Editor, " Revenons a not:
moutons," in other words, return to the beef question.
Since my letter to the Mercury on the subject, ten days
ago, the Mayor has, I believe, summoned a commission
of inquiry concerning the amount and intensity of disease
amongst the cattle slaughtered and sold in Liverpool, but
as I have not been invited to attend the investigations, I
have thought it better not to go any further into the sub-
ject until these " learned Thebans" make their report.
I cannot, however, refrain from stating, that a very
great man in the matter pronounced the carcase of a cow
which had been seized by the inspector of meat the night
previously, in the presence of the Chairman of the Watch
Committee and a veterinary surgeon, and with the appro-
bation and concurrence of the owner, as being quite good
for human food. "`When doctors differ, who shall de-
cide ?" But a most respectable wholesale butcher, who
stood by, was heard to exclaim, that he should like to re-
ward the " great man" for his opinion by inviting him to
dine off the beef, and make him, dine off it. To this I
would add,—after he had seen the lights,—which he had
not when he gave his "ex-cathedra" opinion on a "dawn-
ing" subject.
_ _

In
treating of this affair I would have it distinctly
understood that, while I strongly reprobate the practice
of slaughtering and selling diseased meat, and would leave
no stone unturned to remedy the evil, yet I would wish it
to be accomplished without injury to the tradesmen who,
as a body, are as respectable and good citizens as any in
the town. The evil is a gre'r one, and requires energetic
and decided measures to retne6 it. The honest fair-
trading butchers of the town are all anxi us to do away
with the revolting system of selling food for Christians
which Jews won't touch. I speak in parable ; but to ex-
plain, I affirm that if the beef which is sold in the markets
of Liverpool had to pass the Jews' inspector of meat, not
one-third of it would be permitted to be sold. If the
Jewish nation, by acting in accordance with the Mosaic
instructions, succeed in obtaining good sound wholesome
meat at a moderate price, why should not their Christian
fellow-citizens be placed on the same footing by those in
authority over them ?

These crudities will suffice, I hope, for the present, as
I have just had set before me a dish of "smoking hot
potatoes," affected with " the disease," which have been
forwarded to me (raw) by a friend, and about which I
shall have something to say in some paper this week.
Your's, &c.,
H. G. HARBORD.

4, Upper Parliament-street,
Saturday Evening.

The annual archery fete at Wynnstay, North Wales,
the princely seat of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, takes
place on the 11th instant, and will exceed in splendor all
similar fetes in this part of the world. Dinner will be
laid for 400 of the aristocracy. and the evening terminate
with a grand ball, for which Weippart and his full band
are retained.

THE FRENCH QUARREL AT TAHITI. OUT valiant
neighbours have at length learned the advantages of
a little prudence. We are informed, on good autho-
rity, that their claim to the Friendly Islands is to be
abandoned, and that nothing is to be kept, except so much
as will seem to satisfy the democratic spirit of La feline
France. By so doing, the French nation will steer clear
of a rock-ahead, and common sense be placed in the Efe
cendant in the conduct of"affairs of Ghat great nation. •
GOVERNMENT PATRONAGE.—AIthough there is not as
vet any official notification of a vacancy in the department,
it is stated that the office of Poor-law Commissioner, with
a salary of £2,500 a year, has been conferred on Mr.
Morgan John O'Connell, M.P. The Nation, while fully
admitting Mr. O'Connell's qualifications for the situation,
deeply regret the fact of an O'Connell becoming a " st'•
pendiary of England," as establishing a precedent which
the weak and venal will improve to their own interest.
THE WHITE QUAKERS.—Joshua Jacob, the leader
of the sect denominated "White Quakers," who bad
been confined for a long time in the Dublin Marshalsea,
for contempt of the Court of Chancery, was set at liberty
yesterday week on a report of the master, that he could
not longer be detained without danger to his life. Joshua
has gone amongst " his own people," and is now the re-
sident patriarch of the White Quaker Colony, whose
local habitation is the antique building once the abode of
the late Lord Kilwarden, on the Naas-road ; and a yeti
rural and salubrious situation, undoubtedly, for any
patient.

MR. GREEN, JUNIOR'S, ASCENT AT BERLIN.—The
Berlin papers contain elaborate accounts of the ascent of
the celebrated aeronaut, in a balloon thirty-eight feet in
diameter, and sixty-seven feet in length from the top to
the bottom of the car. This is about a middle size be-
tween Mr. Green, senior's, large and small balloods.
The spot from which the balloon ascended was granted
for the purpose by the King of Prussia, who honoured
the expedition with his patronage. About:4o,ooo spectators
assembled to witness a sight which in that part of the
world is a perfect novelty. Among the most distin-
guished were the young Prince of Prussia, the Prussian
Ministers, and all the foreign ambassadors. Mr. Green
was accompaniad by Count Schafeotsch and Herr Kuh-
nel. The balloon alighted on the plain of Gross-Beeren,
and it is a remarkable coincidence that this was on the
anniversary of the victory vained on that spot by the
Prussians over the French. The balloon has been desig-
nated the " Gross-Beeren Balloon" on account of this cir-
cumstance. Our ambassador, the Earl of Westmore-
land, showed great attention and kindness in assisting
Mr. Green in this novel enterprise. Mr. Green purpose 9
to make similar visits to other German cities.
HER MAJESTY'S CRUISE.—As will be seen from a
paragraph elsewhere, her Majesty reached Jersey on
Wednesday evening. On Thursday her Majesty and
the Prince Consort made a progress through the loyal
town of St. Heliers, and on through the country some
few miles, to the Castle of " St. Orgueil," very ancient,
and said to have been originally built by Julius Cresar.
Her Majesty and the Prince, accompanied by the Lord
Chamberlain, Earl Spencer, Viscount Palmerston, and
the rest of the Royal suite, returned to the Royal yacht
little before three o'clock. Her Majesty did not leave
the yacht again that day. Prince Albert proceeded in
the Fairy to take a little survey of some portion of the
island. Her Alajesty left Jersey on Friday, the 4th inst.,
at 8 o'clock a.m., and arrived at Falmouth about seven,
o'clock the same evening. After the Queen's arrival an
address was presented, through Viscount Palmerston, to
her Majesty, from the mayor and corporation of the bo-
rough of Falmouth. Her Majesty on arriving was saluted
from the battery on Pendennis Castle. Her Majesty
dinner party on board the yacht comprised only the Ro9s'
suite. Her Majesty left Falmouth on Saturday morning •
for Mount's Bay and the Scilly Isles, with an intention
of returning,. to Falmouth on Sunday, and calling on
Monday ; on which day a pilot has been ordered to take

the Fairy up the River Fal, as far as Tregothnan, the
seat of the Earl of Falmouth, when the barge will convey
the illusttious party to Truro, where the inhabitants are
making great preparations to give them a splendid re-
ception. On their retur❑ the Prince proposes honouring
the Polytechnic-hall with his presence, and will after-
wards go to the 'United Alines in Gwennap, about eight
miles distant from Falmouth.
Those who are anxious to rent, or invest in property
will find many favourable opportunities by referring to
our advertising columns.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, SEPT. 7.
We have little or no alteration to quote from our late state-
ment, having a fair average of all kinds of stock, both with
respect to quality and number, with a num6rons attendance of
buyers—brisk sale and high prices. Beef sid to od per lb.;
Mutton 6id to 7d; Lamb bid to 7d.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, SEPT- 7.
All activity and bustle in Cotton. The sales to-day reach
lo,ON:i bales at very extreme prices, with a well supplied mar-
let. The tone is firm and steady, but not buoyant.