The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-06 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

In refined Sugar the supply of home goods was small and
prices firm, with ready buyers. Brown grocery lumps realized
495. 6d. to 50s. per cwt. ; British crushed met more attention
at 28s. 6d. per ch t. In Coffee limited sales, and value of good
ordinary native Ceylon 425. 6d. per cwt. In the Hemp market
to ''3o ss. was paid for clear, and £27 for half clear, at
which prices a fair business is doing. Jute held with firmness
at '1.3 10s. to .tlB, but demand less active. Tea continues
brisk, and prices still on the advance; few sellers under Is.
for common Congou. Several parcels of Cotton sold to-day
and rather higher terms obtained; value of East India from 5d
to bad. per lb. •

LONDON TALLOW MARKET—YESTERDAY.
Stock 2,506 casks, against 23,707 casks. Deliveries last
week, 1,254 casks, against 1,250 casks in 1849. Quiet market.
Prices steady, at 365. 6d. to 365. 9d. for prime P.Y.C. on spot

It is expected that, during her Majesty's progress to
Scotland, the Queen will honour two of the cabinet mi-
nisters with a visit, staying a night at Castle Howard,
Yorkshire, the seat of the Earl of Carlisle, and remaining
a night also at Falloden, Alnwick, Northumberland, the
seat of the home secretary, Sir George Grey.
COUNTY COURT.—Yesterday was appointed by Mr.
Ramshay for the resumption of business in his court.
The court was opened at eleven. The following gentlemen
of the profession were present:—Mr. Grocott, Mr. Wood-
bourne, Mr. Hime, Mr. Bretherton, Mr. Cross, Mr.
Stamper, Mr. Greatley, Mr. Pemberton, &c., &c. The
judge did not take his seat until about twenty minutes be-
fore twelve o'clock. On entering the court, Mr. Ramshay
was the object of general and marked observation. The
learned gentleman has been staying at the Isle of Man
for the benefit of his health. His visit has evidently been
attended with the best consequences. The improved state
of his health was observed in the temperate and judicious
manner in which he conducted the business. There was
certainly room for improvement in this particular, and it
is gratifying to know that the irritability displayed by the
judge of the County Coutt was the consequence of phy-
sical suffering, and not of any natural infirmity of temper.
Mr. Ramshay, however, is unfortunately far from the en-
joyment of vigorous health, and we hope sincerely that he
will not be again visited with his malady, the general
opinion of competent parties being that the learned gen-
tleman is a profound lawyer.
MAGNETISM IN PARIS.—Four persons were tried on
Thursday by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of Paris
on charges of swindling, illegal exercise of medicine, for-
tune telling, and explanation of dreams. They consisted
of a woman named Montgruel, calling herself "La
Sybille Moderne," the somnambulist; of her husband,
who assisted her in her business ; of a Polish physician
named Grabowski, who signed her prescriptions ; and of
a Polish druggist named Sokolowski, who made up the
physic. Montgruel, had, it appeared, been a primary
schoolmaster, and had allowed his wife to die in the hos-
pital at Rouen. He then went to live with a girl named
Lefevre, and afterwards married her. They then commen-
ced the magnetizing trade. They established what they
called a " Cabinet de consultations magnetiques" in the
Rue de Seine, and made pompous advertisements of their
skill in revealing secrets, curing diseases, giving infor-
mation respecting persons and places, predicting the
future, and all other feats of the magnetizing fraternity.
They, it appeared made numerous dupes, their gains
having amounted to 20,000 f. in the course of a year.
They paid Grabowski, who described himself as a poor
man without. resources, 50f. a month to sign the pre-
scriptions. Their charge for each consultation was from
10f. to 60f. They also gave advice by correspondence,
for which they were well paid. The most extravagant
questions were put to them ; one was as to the means of
making Paris a seaport ; and several as to what was to be
the future government of France ; and the fee once paid,
they answered each and all with becoming gravity. It
further appeared that in some cases their pretended reve-
lations caused profound discord in families. A. M. Le-
moine, a builder in the Faubourg St. Antoine, stated that
his wife had consulted the " sybille," and had been told
by her that he kept a mistress, and gave her 300 f. a
month and a house to live in. This drove his wife to de-
spair, and it was for some time feared her mental faculties
would be affected. To pacify her he at last went with
her to the somnambulist, passing himself off as her bro-
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