The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

A BIT OF MERCURIAL BATHOS.

Our contemporary of Lord-street certainly gets more
amusing in her dotage. In a leading article—or, more
properly, a leaden article—on Friday, she informs us of
the following striking fact, with respect to the recent
presidential election in the United States. Mr. Polk, it
seems, is a free trader, and, withal, an advocate for the
annexation of Texas, the seizure of the Oregon territory,
and other fire-eating projects of Brother Jonathan. Our
good old lady, however, maintains that Mr. Polk is likely
to put aside his free trade, or anti-tariff leanings, and W
base his policy upon the encouragements of the fire-eating
projects in question. "If this should prove true," re:
marks the Mercury, " and if the democratic party should
leave the tariff untouched, we shall have gained" (?)"bi
the election of Mr. Polk, simply the imminent probability,
of a rupture with America instead of that realization ?!
free trade and its glorious consequences which our ern"
rent townsman, Mr. William Brown, so ably advocates
in his letters to Mr. Wilson Patten, and, so forcibly de-
scribed in his speech at the Rochdale meeting of the Anti-
Corn-Late League." Stupendous !! What a pity it 15
that we could not bring our dullness sufficiently to appre-
ciate the ability of Mr. William Brown's " Letters to gr.
Wilson Patten," or his " forcible description" in bis
speech at the Rochdale meetin of the Anti-Corn-LBW
League." When poor John Bull shall become the ,11,1111
fortunate victim of " a ruptur3 with America," we Sul:
have to write over his grave, died of a non-perusal of the
Letters of our eminent townsman, Mr. William Brown,
and his speech at the Rochdale meeting of the Anti-Corn'
Law League !

ANOTHER DISCOVERY BY THE SAME
EMINENT AUTHORITY.

The Mercury has just discovered, " in a local print
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very moderate circulation"—(we presume the Liverpoa
Times is referred to)—" an official notice of an intended
application to parliament for powers to enable the Grand
Junction Railway Company to form a railway, unit,,in.:
with their present one at a point in the township of Ke`e;
wick, near Runcorn, and terminating in the Liverpoolan!
Manchester Railway at Huyton." This discovery je:
little clever, if our contemporary first made it from to`
columns of that " local print of little circulation," the
Liverpool Times, which we doubt, however, inasmuch?,
we gave, a fortnight ago, both a description of the raw'
and a plan of the railway in question. We hope our con:
temporary will not be visited by the Stamp-office, as IP
sums to apprehend, for such amazingly novelinformatiotl•
We agree with him, however, that companies such as the
Grand Junction should give " extensive publicity" to their
projects by advertising in papers which are everywhere
seen and read. For ourselves, we seek for no exclusife
favours from this or any other company, and have already
been prepared to anticipate the reverse as an effort of Peer
revenge for our advocacy of the claims of the public.
This studied " obscurity" wears, however, in our minds, 11,1
in that of our contemporary, " a suspicious appearance.
It is not the straightforward way, or the way of seekia
public confidence.

Her Majesty is expected to visit the Duke of Welling'
ton, at Strathfieldsaye, the week after next.
THE CABINET.—The Duke of Wellington does not
leave town for some days. Sir Robert Peel departs for
Drayton Manor to-day, and Lord Stanley goes to.the
Earl of Derby's seat in Lancashire to-day to meet Ladf
Stanley and family. Lord Wharncliffe, accompanied 1)/
Lady Wharncliffe, leaves Curzon-street in the course of
the week for Wortley Hull, near Sheffield. The Earl of
Haddington, the Earl of Aberdeen, and Sir James
Graham remain for the present in town.
The Hon. R. Otway Cave, M.P., for Tipperary, died,
on Friday, at Bath, after a short illness.
Lord Nugent has fractured three of his ribs by falling
from his horse.
On Thursday Mons. Sallior was tried at St. Omer for
the alleged murder of Mr. Thorn, at Calais, the partied'
lars of which we gave at the time. He was acquitted.
The Monmouthshire Merlin of Friday last contains all
account of an explosion of fire damp, by which upwards
of fifty lives were sacrificed. Considerable doubt let
however, entertained as to the truth of the statement.
A little boy was killed in Cork a few days since, in cow
sequence of having drank a quantity of spirits from 3
decanter, which his mother had imprudently left within
his reach.

The coroner's jury, at the inquest in the case of Mr.
Dean killed last week by the collision on the Midland
railway, have returned a verdict of " manslaughter
against Mr. Lightfoot, the regulator of the trains.
THE FIRST BISHOP OF NEW BRUNSWICK.—Tbe
Rev. Prebendary Medley, Vicar of St. Thomas's, in the
diocese of Exeter, has received the appointment to the
bishopric about to be constituted in the province of New
Brunswick, in North America.
The parties charged with the riot and attack at Stone-
leigh a few weeks since were tried at Warwick on Satur-
day, and found guilty. They were twenty-eight in num-
ber, and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment vary-
ing from three years to three months.
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Sir William Stanley's splendid pack of fox hounds will
meet at Birkenhead Hotel, on Thursday morning, at hair"
past ten o'clock, where they will be joined by a number
of influential gentlemen from Leicestershire and other
places. The hounds will then proceed to the Prenton and
Storeton covers.

The Gazette of Saturday last consists of no less than
eight sheets and a half. The first article in it is the copy
of an order of her Majesty in council assigning districts,
under the 16th section of the 59 Geo. f 11., cap. 134, to
eight chapels, all in the parish of Rochdale, in the coun-
ties of Lancaster and York.

GROSS DEPRAVITY.—Ann M'Cormick, a domestic
servant, was convicted, at the Central Criminal Court, on
Thursday last, of having stolen a sovereign belonging to a
feliow-servant, arid of having attempted to entice her
master's daughter, a little girl ten years old, for the pur-
pose of introducing her to a life of prostitution. She was
sentenced to seven years' transportation.
THE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM SHIP.—The first ex-
perimental trial of the engine of this vessel took place on
Wednesday last, in Cumberland basin. The screw made
36 revolutions, at about half speed. The trial was per-
fectly satisfactory. The Great Britain will leave the
basin on the 11th instant. She will remain in Kingroad
for a short time, whence she will make a few experimental
trips ; after which she will proceed to the Thames.
AFFRAY WITH POACHERS.—On Friday night last,
about seven o'clock, an affray took place at Wollaton, near
Nottingham, between a gang of poachers and the keepers
of Lord Middleton, of Wollaton Hall. The keepers (four
in umber) had apprehended two poachers, when about
sixteen or eighteen of the accomplices of the latter came
up, released the offenders, and brutally beat the keepers.
One of them had his mouth shockingly torn, another lies
in a very dangerous state. All the poachers escaped.
Two FACTS.—In the Rev. Mr. Trench's national
school of Cloughjordan, where no Protestant religion can
be taught to objecting Romanists, there is not a single
Roman Catholic male child. The schoolmaster of this
school, our readers will remember, was murdered, having
been denounced from the altar by the priest. In the next
parish—Shinrone—a school of the Church Education
Society, in which no Romanist child can be without being
instructed in the Scriptures, nearly one-half of the chil-
dren are Roman Catholics.—Dublin Statesman.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY. Dacumaan 2.—Wind S.S.E. moderate,

A RRI WED.—British Queen, —, from Antigua—Elizabeth
& Jane, Thompson, from Marseilles—and Milliades, Mituna,
from Piraeus.

SAlLED.—Unicorn, Touzell, for the Gulf of Mexico—John
Gregg, Wright, for Ichaboe—New Holland, Parsons, for Alex-
andria—Jupiter. Morrison, for OW end—Wonder, Ramsay, for
Calcutta—and Pollock, Frazier, for New Orleans.

Robert Henry, Legge, from Larache, at Cove
BELMULLET, Nov. 23.—The Robert A. Parke, Donald, from
Quebec, parted both chains last night in a heavy gale from S.W.
by W, and drove on shore near this place

LIVERPOOL PROVISION 11.1ARKbr, DEc. 2.
Consumers of Butter hang back, diffidently hoping that a
change in the market favourable to themselves may be the
result. It is, however, all in vain ; —it is difficult to give a cor-
rect quotation. At five o'clock to night, however, we heard an
influentia. party declare the price of Belfast to be 1 os. NeW
Beef has made its appears nce, the quality not very fine, for
which 100 s is asked, but we believe 95s will not be refused. Pori,
is scarce, and remains at our late quotations of dos to 75s per
barrel. Bacon recovering.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 2.
The eupply of Cattle at market to-dr, y has been similar to last
week ; the greatest portion of inferior quality--anything good
fetching high prices. Beef 5d to 50 : Mutton Sid to 6d.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 2.
We have passed through another week of a miserable sort of
Cotton market, not only are prices lower than ever they were
known before, but even at the decline there seems no confidence t 0
the article, and consumers merely purchase for their immediate
wants. To-day, 3,0'10 to 4,C00 bales have been sold.. Lest
week's prices barely supported. The bulk of the demand ranges
from 33d to 4d per lb. Surat, Brazil, and Egyptian descriptions
are as unsaleable as American, and are of the two more de-
pressed.

RKET, DECEMBER 2.
%.L PRODUCE.

NORTH HAY MA
AGRICULTUR)
s. d. s. d.
Hay, old 2lt Oll @ 1 lf Potatoes, AI, gOlb.
hew
Clover, new .... Sf 1 0 Short-tops
Green ditto .... 00— 0 0 Pink-eyes
Straw, Wheat... 0 3i— 0 46 Cattle
Oat 6
0 4 0 4i !Turnips, ten 20 —22
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s. d. s.

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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1841,
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