The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-12 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

A splendid banquet was given on Saturday at Tyne-
mouth to G. F. Young, Esqr., M.P.
M. Guizot, it is rumoured, is in favour of Louis
Napoleon's candidature for the Presidency,. .

The Germanic Diet intends to suppress'all the gambling
houses in Germany from the Ist ofJanuary next.
A Philadelphia journal records the recent observance in
that city of the phenomenon of rain without clouds.
A New York journal records the death of a horse from
fright produced by the sudden proximity of an elephant.
Tho Wicklow assizes held last week, only lasted two
hours and a half !

There are already nearly sixty candidates for the vacant
post of governor of Wilton Gaol.

The Leeds Gas Companies have reduced the price of
gas from 4s. 6d. to 4s per 1,000.
Marble of a very excellent kind and polish has been dis-
covered in El Dorado county, California.
Mr. Hudson, M.P., has taken £lOO,OOO shares in the
Paris and Lyons Railway.
The meal sellers in Barnsley reduced their flour 2d.
per 141bs, on Thursday.
Mr. Thackery, :the novelist and lecturer, is about to
visit the United States on a professional tour.
The regular oyster season has commenced at Hungerford
and Billingsgate Markets.

The enormous quantity of four hundred thousand dead
letters have been received in Washington from California.

There is quite a demand, in some of the states of America,
for educated female physicians.
The Aylesbury assizes occupied Mr. Justice Cresswell
only four hours.
__

The young men and boys in the United States are sign-
ing an " anti-tobacco pledge."

aggregate The measurement of the ships now building
at Sunderlan amounts to 33,500 tons.
The Lords of the Admiralty have ordered two new
screw ships to be laid down at Pembroke Dockyard.
There are £95,000,000 of property shut up in Chancery,
awaiting adjudication.
A few days ago, no less than 7,400 persons visited
Northumberland-house.

A. New York physician lately gave a certificate to the
effect that a child had died of deficiency of life."

John Williams, Esq., M.P. for Macclesfield, has offered
a prize of £lO for the best essay on the subject, " Wales
as she is, and as she ought to be."
The Hereditary Prince of all the Russias and the Grand
Duke; Constantine, have become members of the society
for visiting the poor in Petersburg.
THE CROPS.—The accounts from all parts of England
represent the crops as in a most healthy state, and pro-
mising a very large yield.

. __. .
The Laxey lower paper mill, in the Isle of Man, was
totally destroyed by fire last week.
A very large number of passengers were landed at
Douglas last week. They were mostly excursionists by
the cheap trains from Yorkshire and the potteries.
A clause has been introduced into the County Courts
Extension Bill, raising the Judges' salaries to a maximum
of £l5OO a year.

The lighting of the General Postoffice with gas cost
£3047 in 1847; last year it only cost £lBl5, owing to the
reduction of price, from competition.
It is stated in a New York journal that wooden posts
planted in inverted order, not as they grow, will remain
sound, whilst others fast decay.
A heavy storm, in the department of the Cote D'Or,
France, has destroyed the grape crop, and the price of
wine has risen in consequence.
The yacht America, from the United States, has arrived
at Cowes, and has excited considerable interest amongst
the members of the Royal Yacht Squadron.
Since the passing of the Church Building Act, 58 Geo.
111. c. 45, there have been 304,062 free sittings appointed
in churches erected under the act. _

The magistrates at Lancaster have determined to pro-
secute parties selEng exciseable liquors on the race moor
on the Sunday before the races.
.. ... .. _ _

The turnip in Russia is eaten as fruit by an classes. In
the houses of the nobles sliced turnip with brandy, is
offered to the guests.
On Monday the contents of the Artillery Forage Stores
at Woolwich were destroyed by fire. The cause of the
conflagration is unknown.
The herrings caught in the Wick district alone, in two
days of last week, realised in hard cash to the fishermen
engaged in their catch no less a sum than .CIO,OOO sterling.
The Hull Dock Company have resolved to make the
very liberal reduction of twenty per cent. in their dock
dues.

The municipality of the commune of Urzel. France,
has refused to vote a grant to a Jesuit school establishment
in their commune.

A gentleman recently travelled from New York to St.
Louis, traversing a distance of 1,600 miles, in 114 hours.
The cost was 261 dollars.

One thousand one hundred and fifteen acres of land
are now under culture with tobacco, in Algeria, against
21 acres in 1844.

The great lunatic asylum which has just been erected
at Colney Hatch, Middlesex, is said to have 1,045 rooms,
7,845 windows, and 1,470 doors.

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Two young skylarks, besides several snails and worms,
were found inside a large eel, which was lately caught by
an angler in the Far pool, near Broughton-in-Furness.
Mr. Mein, of Glasgow, has obtained a patent for ren-
dering the fleece of sheep, while on their backs, impervious
to moist.

We are sorry to see no less than 25 sales of growing
crops of corn advertised in the Oxford journals of July 26,
as well as a number of farms to be let
A partridge has built her nest in a farmyard, at a dis-
tance of not more than four yards from a stable door, at
Langthen-en-le-Morthen, Yorkshire.
The arrival at Copenhagen of Mr. Robert Stephenson,
on business connected with railways, is announced by the
Danish papers,
Letters from Jamaica, of the 10th ult., report the arrival
of a cargo of coloured immigrants from the United States,
on an expedition, it was believed, connected with the
culture of cotton in that island.
Among the elephant tusks placed in the Great Exhi-
bition are three tusks, each measuring eight feet six inches
in length, and twenty—two inches in circumference, and
each weighing 1641b5.
A brewer in Cincinnati took the pledge from Father
Mathew, and immediately closed his establishment, dis-
charged his hands, and then turned his attention to other
business.
A company of fifteen persons, Syrian Libanese from
Syria, have arrived in London, for the purpose of giving
representations of the manners and customs of Syria.
The company have travelled through France.
Letters from Constantinople, in a Berlin journal state,
that the Turkish Government bad again been deterred
from setting Kossuth free from the protests of the Envoy
of Austria.

The late Mr. Brame, of Ipswich, has, by his will,
devised to trustees the large sum of £60,009, the interest
of which is to be annually expended for charitable pur-
poses in that town.
The Perthshire Advertiser. speaking of the fishing in
the Tay, states that a few fish are still being taken at the
various stations;; but the takes are nothing like an average,,
and are far from being remunerative.
There is a rumour amongst the Roman Catholics in.
Leeds, that the Emperor of China has become a convert
to the Romish faith. We know not on what foundation
the rumour rests.--Leeds Intellipencer.
_

The Messrs. Marshall of Leeds, flax-spinners and
manufacturers, are about to erect factories at Nottingham,
and other wealthy firms, from Lancashire and Yorkshire,
are said to be also selecting sites for similar purposes.,
A farmer's man at Ilfracombe carelessly tossed a hay
fork from a cart. Unfortunately a child was standing by,
and one prong entered its left eye and appeared on the
other side- of the face. The child still lives.

The total quantity of wheat imported into the United
Kingdom during the second quarter of 1851, was 1,097,569
quarters; of wheat flour, 1,359,400 quarters; of barley,
314,878 quarters; of oats, 359,853 quarters.
The fatal collision with the Unionist brickmakers, at
Manchester, has been brought under the notice of govern-
ment, and the Home Secretary has offered a reward of
£lOO on the conviction of the offenders.

Letters from Athens announce, that workmen employed
four miles from the city, in draining the field of Marathon,
found the place of sepulture of the warriors who fell there
in the memorable battle 400 years before the birth of
Christ.

Mr. Paxton states that highly respectable parties are
ready to take the Crystal Palace on a lease of 21 years,
and to submit their tariff of admission to the control and
supervision of Government, so that no public grant would
be necessary.
A medical gentleman in Glasgow has a cat which may
be seen lying in the midst of a litter of Newfoundland
whelps, along with the bitch, suckling as many as she can
take under her care, and manifesting the greatest uneasiness
when separated from her charge.
A dinner was on Wednesday evening given by the
inhabitants of Derby to Mr. Paxton, in appreciation of his
genius as the designer of the Crystal Palace. About three
hundred persons were present, and the Duke of Devon-
shire was amongst the guests.
An extraordinary bunch of red currants was gathered a
few days since in the garden of E. T. Perrott, Esq., of
Avon-field-house, Stratford-upon-Avon, having the un-
usual number of 53 berries attached to a single stem. The
fruit was perfectly healthy.
Mr. Bunn has once more become lessee of Drury-lane
Theatre. Not only the musical portion of the profession,
but the patrons of the drama at large will hail the reacces-
sion of this gentleman to this house, as an able and inde-
fatigable manager.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company have
established for their servants a life assurance and a weekly
allowance in case of accident. The payments will be

secured _ .._
by a fortnightly deduction from he wages of each
servant.

On Sunday morning last, a large number of labourers
employed on the South Yorkshire Branch Railway, at-
tended St. George's Church, Barnsley, each wearing a
new white smock frock. They attended church together
as a mark of respect to one of their feliow labourers, whom
they had interred a few days previous.
A committee of the ladies of New York are arranging
for a floral festival in September. They are all to be
dressed in " the Bloomer costume," addresses are to be
delivered by eminent divines, physicians, and ladies, and
a procession of ladies, all dressed in the new fashion, is to
take place at the close of the meeting.
A man in Paris, last week, got into an omnibus with a
bottle of nitric acid in his coat pocket. A jolt of the
vehicle broke the bottle and not only was the poor fellow
dreadfully burnt, but some of the passengers had their
clothes destroyed by the acid which set them on fire, and
the omnibus was a good deal damaged.
These are the final results of the Chess combats :—Herr
Anderssen is the victor, beating his four antagonists ; Mr.
Wyvill second, having been three times victorious, but
beaten by Anderssen ; Mr. Williams third ; Mr. Staunton
fourth ; Messrs. Harwitz and Mucklow, who have not
played off, seventh and eighth.
The high sheriffs of Cumberland have been accustomed
to contribute £looto the Carlisle race fund. but the pre-
sent sheriff, George Head Head, Esq being of the So-
ciety of Friends, has sent a donation of equal amount to
the Cumberland Infirmary, in lieu of a subscription to the
Carlisle races.

According to the returns to parliament there were
26,813 persons committed for trial in England and Wales
in the course of last year. The number in the preceding
year (18-19) was 27.816. Of the number committed last
year 2,578 were ordered to be transported, and 17,602 to
imprisonment. The number sentenced to death was 39.
A bed of fungus has been discovered, breaking from
beneath the brick floor of the kitchen of a public-house,
near Ely. The fungus has attained such strength that it
has actually loosened and lifted the brickwork of the
flooring in question, which has been laid upwards of 18
years. _ _

Milbank prison cost half a million sterling, and the
new prison at Pentonville cost £83,000, or £162 per cell ;
the gaol at Chelmsford cost £3OO per cell ; Reading. £2OO
per cell ; Birmingham, £l2O per cell ; Leeds, £132 per
cell; Aylesbury, £152 per cell; Winchester, £156 per
cell ; Wakefield, £125 per cell; and York Castle, £l2OO
per cell.
A few days back, in a printing-office in Vienna, a Ham-
burgh compositor refused to set the types of a manuscript,
because he found it utterly impossible to decipher it.
The factotum complained against him to the director, and
the latter denounced him to the military authorities. He
was forthwith arrested, and after a month's investigation
sent for one week in chains to the blockhouse.
We understand that Bolton is honoured with a real
" wise man," who, somewhere in the classic locality of
Bolton Moor, is reaping a rich harvest, his house being
constantly besieged by detachments of weak-minded
simpletons, including, it is affirmed, some who, from their
educstion and station in life, might have been expected to
be above such folly.—Bollon Chronicle.

Another case of poisoning has occurred in the ill-famed
county of Norfolk. Hannah Neale, who had left her
husband to live with another man, was prevailed on,
however, to return home to the village of Outwell, near
Downham-market—a success her husband has had to
repent of obtaining, for she now stands committed for his
murder by poisoning.

Captain Maconochie has been dismissed by the magis-
trates from the keeping of the Birmingham gaol in
consequence of his theories on reformatory discipline in
prisons. The captain intimates that the resolution was
come to at a very small meeting of the magistrates,
against which he shall appeal by offering himself for
re-election.

The Times, in speaking of the new House of Commons,
says, " The unfortunate reporters are subjected to the
currents, which are certainly anything but airs fiorn
heaven ;' whilst the extreme coldness forbids the supposi-
tion that they are blasts from another quarter.' Where
the element comes from is a mystery ; but it is ' above,
below, and all around.' "
We regret to state that the potato disease has unequi-
vocally manifested itself in this neighbourhood. We have
seen a patch of potatoes in which the haulms were de-
stroyed in a few hours, and other instances have been re-
ported to us. The grounds about Ilminster, we bear, have
suffered rather severely. Happily these are exceptional
cases.—Bath Chronicle.

In one of the parish church yards of Plymouth, last
week, a calculating retired licensed victualler, upon the
principle that a shilling saved is a shilling earned, with the
help and instruction of a mason's labourer, constructed
his own grave. The worthy Boniface is in excellent
health, and there is no appearance of his soon requiring
the last tenement.

On Saturday afternoon a large party of emigrants, to
the number of nearly 200, and principally from the High-
lands, left Granton-pier, Edinburgh, by the steamer
Clarence for London, where they are to embark for the
Australian colonies. They appeared generally to be people
in the prime of life, and took with them a great variety of
farm implements.

Given the price of potatoes per sack, and of Wheat per
bushel, the Registrar-General will calculate before hand
the number of bridal parties who will go to church within
the quarter in England and Wales. Major Graham's
last report affords another proof of the correctness of his
induction. Provisions have been cheap, and marriages
numerous in proportion.

The cabmen are making a rich harvest from the visitors
to London at the present season. At Vauxhall Gardens,
it is said, they refuse all fares at night, unless a party of
foreigners hail them ; from whom they manage to exact a
good round sum. That the lieges fare little better when
they succeed in hiring a vehicle in any part of the metro-
polis is proved by the numerous cases of extortion that
are brought before the police magistrates daily.
A FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT happened on Friday last,
at Arras, in a half-moon near the Polygon of En-
gineers. The guardhouse in that work, which was used
as a workshop to make up the articles used in mining,
blew up with a terrific explosion. Nine soldiers of the
2nd Regiment of Engineers, and the sergeant who had the
direction of the operations, were blown to pieces, and
their limbs scattered in every direction with the materials
of the building. Four other men were seriously wounded,
and taken to the hospital. The cause of the explosion has
not yet been, ascertained.

COAL-PIT ACCIDENT AT BEDMINSTER.—SIX LIVES
Losr.—The extensive coal district of Bedminster was on
Saturday morning the scene of another terrible colliery
aceident, by which six unhappy fellow-beings were, in
consequence of the rope by which they were decending
into the pit breaking, hurried into eternity. The accident
()mired at the Malago Vale Fit.
A. CASE OF AFFILIAT/014.—A few months ago Mr. H.
Richards, of Veanol, near Towyn, Merionethshire, ob-
tained possession of a leveret, and having at the time a
birch, whose puppies he had just destroyed, he put the
peer creature to this bereaved mother, and, strange to say,
the•affections of the latter were at once transferred to the
former, and she brought her up with all care, so much so,
that the poor little hare used to follow its foster-mother
with all affection to the fields. when the maid went to
milk the cows, and even all the other dogs and cats of the
family looked upon and treated the orphan stranger as
"one of themselves." We are sorry to say that " puss,"
having followed her foster-mother too freely about the
fields a few days ago, was lost, and most likely fell a
victim to some strange dogs.—North Wales Chronicle.

FIRST APPEARANCR OF THE BLOOMER COSTUME IN
LONDON.—Two ladies were to be seen promenading
Oxford-street on Saturday afternoon, attired in the
Bloomer costume, anti escorted by a crowd of ragged
urchins, and a number of the curious of both sexes. They
were said to be mother and daughter, of the name of
Jeffers, recently arrived in the metropolis to attend the
vegetarian soiree. The ladies, who appeared to be
respectively about thirty-seven and eighteen years of age,
were attired in black satin visites and an inner tunic,
reaching a little below the waist; the inner garment being
loose pink-striped pantaloons, fastened round the leg a
little above the ankle; the head-dress was of the usual
kind worn by females. The mob at last got troublesome,
and the ladies entered a cab, and were driven off, amidst
shouts of laughter.

A SAMARITAN.--in the course of a case heard before
the Bedminster magistrates, last week, an instance of the
true Samaritan was incidentally displayed. A man, named
Thomas Warren,. of London, having been convicted in the
penalty of 15s. and costs for insulting the Rev. Mr.
Ingle, a clergyman of the Church of England, while
travelling by the third-class train over the Bristol and
Exeter Railway. On the conclusion of the case, Mr.
Mirehouse asked Mr. Ingle why he had travelled in the
third clas3 Mr. Ingle replied that he was only a curate,
and being applied to by a poor parishioner for assistance,
which he could ill afford to give her, he resolved upon
going by the parliamentary train, and giving her the dif-
ference between that and the second-class train fare-from
Exeter to Oxford.

Oat ets.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET, AUGUST 8

Sugar: The business this week has been chiefly confined to
refining qualities, of which 530 hhds. have been sold at a de-
cline of about 6d. per cwt. ; 2500 bags of Bengal have also been
taken, at former rates. Foreign : Two floating cargoes of
Brazil have been sold, one of 4000 bags white Paraiba at 235.
per cwt., for the Mediterranean, the other 3800 bags ordinary
brown Pernambuco, at 16s. 6d., deliverable here; 400
Foreign West India, chiefly Porto Rico, on the spot, have
brought 345. 60. to 38s. 60. per cwt. duty paid.-There have
not been any sales in Molasses.-Coffee: There is a decided
improvement in the demand for all deseriptions, but the ad-
vance of Is. to 2s. per cwt. is chiefly on ordinary qualities; the
sales comprise 220 tces. Jamaica, at 365. for low ordinary, to
Ills. for a few casks very fine, 700 bags Native Ceylon at 395.,
450 bags Costa Rica at 435., 800 bags St. Domingo at 375., and
a feW bags Riu at 38s. per cwt.-200 ba'rs Para Cocoa- are re-
ported at 245. per cwt.-Rice; 4000 ago of Bengal sold, at
Bs. 6d. to Bs. 90. for broken, and 9s. 9d. to 10s. 9d. per cwt. for
tniddling to very tine white, being rather dearer for the latter
quality.-Tea: A good amount of business bas been done in
common to good Congous; by auction yesterday 1500 packages,
chiefly Greens, all sold at very full rates.-In Saltpetre no
change, the sales being only 10J bags, and of Nitrate of Soda
100 tons, at 13s. 3d. per cwt.-The demand for Ashes continues
limited, and prices are rather lower, 275. 6d. having been ac-
cepted for Pot, and 295. 6d. to 30s. per cwt. for Pearl.-For
Tallow there has been a better demand, at 3Ss. 6d. for Peters-
burg Y. C., and 575. 9d. to 38s. for Taganrog; nothing done in
American.-About 60 tons Lard brought 435. to 455. per cwt.-
The sales of Jute amount to 1500 bales, at previous prices.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUGUST 8.
A large business has again been transacted during the week,
at an advance of id. per lb. upon the middling qualities of
American ; the lower classes (which were previously so much
neglected) have been in increased demand, and are about 4cl.
per lb. dearer. The better descriptions are in less request,
and may be purchased on rather easier terms. Brazil and
Egyptian have participated in the general activity, but, in con.
sequence of the good supply on sale, are rather cheaper. The
sales in Surat have been extensive, and most kinds are fully
per lb. higher, the greatest advance being observable in the
common and middling qualities. Speculators have taken 6050
American, 70 Pernam, 540 NI aranham' 330 Egyptian, and 1590
Surat; exporters, 7100 American, 530 Pernam, and 1450 Surat
SALES. I IMPORTS.
PRICES. Week Previ- Week This
ending) ously ,endino• •
Aug. B.ithis yr. Aug. 8. Year._
d. d.
8 @2l 740 1564011
11
4 8 10 870 7354 432979' I
34 58 16600 313050
524800
31 1 7880 138390'
41 19288 638578 i I
3 74 21770 367290

DESCRIPTION

Sea Island
Stained ..
Boweds
Mobile....
Alabama, &c
New Orleans
Pernams, &c
Aracati, &c..
Bahia, &c...
Maranham
Sawginned
Demerara, &c
Barbadoes
Peruvian ....
Laguayra....
Corn. W.I. &c.
Carthagena..
Smyrna .... I
Manilla
Surat .
Madras
Bengal

STOCK.

Aug. 8

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1027631 76000

59190 109778 C

CORN

188756: 693280

MARKETS

LIVERPOOL, AUGUST B.—With as fine weather as possible
the harvest is now reported to be progressing favourably in the
southern and many of the midland counties of England, and
in this immediate neighbourhood, on early soils. several fields

of Wheat and Oats are being reaped: in some of the Irish
markets a few samples of new Oats and Bere Barley have ap-
peared, but the reports of the prospects of the Wheat crop
in that country are less encouraging than in this, certain locali-
ties appearing to have suffered from blight and other causes;
the breadth of land under this crop being at the same time of
limited extent this year, whilst that of Barley is said to be
good, and Oats very abundant. Of Potatoes within the last
few days the accmmts thence are more conflicting than here-
tofore, the disease in many directions having reappeared in
rather a virulent form; in several of the English districts
similar complaints also prevail, yet we do not learn that the
tubers have been already seriously affected, or the blight so
general as to excite much alarm. Depending on the weather
and the result of harvest, the British and Irish markets are
still invariably kept in a state of suspense, and prices generally
reported on the decline. We have received very scanty sup-
plies of English, Irish, and Foreign produce into this port
since Monday last, as will appear on reference to the particulars
subjoined. Having in the present anomalous state of the
trade little intercourse with the interior, and very few country
millers at our Corn Exchange to-day, the transactions in
Wheat were altogether trivial in amount ; importers, however,
seeing no occasion for pressing sales on lower terms, continued
to require Tuesday's rates, which were scarcely but nominally
maintained.—Superior brands of States or Candian Flour,
meeting an improved demand, were taken more freely by con-
sumers, with some for investment, and fully supported the
annexed quotations ;. heated and inferior parcels moving
slowly at irregular prices, and French on the terms last noted.
Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, upon a very moderate demand,
merely sustained their previous value. Oats and Oatmeal,
although scarce, were little noticed, and the turn cheaper.
Indian Corn on the spot was taken sparingly again to-day at a
decline of 6d. per qr. ; in the course of the week, however,
several cargoes for future arrival have changed hands. The
following are the prices current published on Tuesday :

Wheat, .11;, 70%.
English, red
Ditto, white .
Irish, red ....
Ditto, white ...
Rye, English, 'I), qr .... —— IrsliCOlb ——
Barley, English, icfr qr.. Chevalr, ——
Scotch & Irish, 14. 60lb; 3 4 3 8 —.—
Malt, English pale, :pqr.!s2 0 —56 0 —
Irish do. do. '42 0 —4B 0
Oats, per 451 b.
English & Scotch.... 3 0 3 3 .... ——
Welsh
Irish, fine sorts 3 1 3 2
General do.
Black ', 10 2 11 —
Beans, English, li, ryr... 34 0 —36 0 small 36 0 —37 0
Scotch& Irisli,,e4Bol6 32 0 —34 0 — -
' Pease Eng. white, Tqr..32 0 —34 0 blue
Do. & Irish maple grey..
Flour,per 28011,
English & Irish,2nds!
Ditto, superfinoo 0 —32 0
Oatmeal, :I& Id. of 2401 b.!
Irish, 1850
Canadian ...
Bran.*24lb.

BRITI3II.
6. d. s. d.
59@ 6 0
62 6 4
52 5 6

s. d. s. d.
5 11 @ 6 2

6 4 .a 6 7
5 3 5 7
5 5 5 8

25 6 --26 6