The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-13 00:00:00

LONDON CORN EXCHANGE.-YESTERDAY.

At this day's market the supply of English wheat was only
moderate, which was quickly Cleared off at Is. to 2s. per qr.
over the'currency of this day week. There was a fait-country
demand.for free foreign at a similar improvement.
The cOtintry advices report barley generally dearer, and fac-
tors demanded Is. to 2s. per qr. advance, which checked busi-
ness ; but necessitous buyers had to. pay rather more money.
The arrivals of oats, although notiarge,appear fully adequate
to the present limited demand ; all' descriptions were fkeely
offered at last Monday's rates, and even lower prices had tb• be
taken where the lay days of vessels had expired, to save demur-
rage. Beans and peas as last noted, with a less active demand.
Fine malt is-scarce, and readily taken off as it comes to mar-
ket, with an upward tendency. Indian' corn—the inquiry still
continues for Ilbating cargoes, and 48s. cost, freight and instil'-'
ance, is generally asked.
SMITHFIELD CATTLE MA RKET.—YSSTERDAY.
Notwithstanding the boisterous gales experienced during the
past week, we hare again to report the arrival of large supplies,.
of foreign stock inhLondon, as well as the nutports. Both the -
beasts and sheep have reached us in good condition, and we
have no hesitation in saying that, in the course of time, the
sheep will equal in quality those home-fed. These observations
may, likewise, be applied to the lambs and •zalves ; but from
their paucity of numbers, we are not, as yet; able to form so
conclusive an opinion as to the pigs.
With home-fed beasts we were but moderately supplied;
hence the beef trade was active, at an advance- in the quota-
tions of 2d per 81b, and a good clearance was effected.
From the northern countries we received abcat 1,800 short
horns ; from the western-anti midland districts, 700 Herefords,
runts, Devons, &c. ; and from other parts of England, 300 of
various breeds.

The numbers of sheep were much less than those exhibited
for many weeks past. The mutton trade was, therefore, very
brisk, at a further improvement in value of fully 441 per sib,
and the whole of the supply was readily cleared off.
For veal we had rather iv sluggish demand, at last week's
prices.
In pigs a steady business was. doing at late rates.

Mr. Gillon, the Radical member for the Stirling dis-
trict of Burghs, died last week.
The Earl Grosvenor has joined the Marquis and:Mar-
chianness of Westminster and family at Eaton, Hall,
Cheshire, from his shooting quarters in Scotland. The
noble earl, en route, visited Lord and Lady Prudhoe, at
Stanwick Park, Yorkshire.
Si. Robert and Lady Peel have, during the last week,
entertained a succession of visitors at Drayton Manor,
Staffordshire. The Earl Talbot, Baron Stockmor, Sir
James and Lady Graham, Colonel Bowles, Mr. Samuel
Rogers, Professor Owen, Mr. Plckersgill, Mr. Eastlake:
&c., have been among the guest%
A S:GN OF THE TIMES.-At a very full repeal gather-
ing, held in Cork last week, the Premier's inability t&
meet the pending crisis was the theme of a leading
speaker, while—tell it not in Derrynane—Sir Robt. Peel
was lauded to the skies as the trustworthy pilot, the only'
statesman fit to weather the storm.

On Friday, three respectably dressed persons were ad-
mitted at Armagh to view Lord Rosse's telescope ; one of
them advanced to the extreme end and cast a stone at the
speculum. It happily did not take effect. The three
were arrested. The one who threw the stone said he
considered it a blasphemy to scrutinize too closely the
works of the Almighty.
IMPORTANT ABRIDGEMENT OF 711 E EXPENSES OF
WORKING,' SHIPS OVERTIME.—The Commissioners Of
Customs have issued an order, allowing all ships of every
country importing goods in bulk, es brimstone, bark,
bones, divi divi, linseed. dyewoods, guano, hemp, iron,
valonia, bides, &c., to work before and after the legal
hours without the attendance of a landing-surveyor,
thereby curtailing the expense to the mere payment of the
landing-waiter and weigher for their cztra attendance.
The first steamer of the New York Cowes and Bremen
'line is to be ready by the Ist of March. She is already
far advanced: She is to be 1,750 tons burthen,
240 feet
on the upper deck, will be 31 feet 9 inches ;.she will have
three flush decks. The engines arc ;.a be 1,000
horse
power cach ; a double marine, with a 72 inch cylinder,
and 10 feet stroke. She will be called the Washington.
Captain Hewit, a graduate of West Point, but better
known as the commander of the Havre packet ship Utica,
will command-her.

At the Ilammersmith Police-court on Saturday, a
young man was committed to prison for three months.on
a charge of obtaining money under false pretences as a
necromancer. The prisoner in answer to the charge, said
he was ready 4o return the money. He had, at a grew."'
expense, learned the art under an eminent and learned
professor, and had practised it for four years. He bad
also learned the mystery of the cards and practised pal-
mistry and the use of the planets, and he was not before
aware that he was liable to punishment unless he practised
witchcraft.

A collision took place on the Eastern Counties Railway,
on Saturday morning, between a train with 33 trucks, and
another with 33, carriages laden with grain. The latter
started about half an hour after the other, from Cam-
bridge, but unfortunately drove into it in consequence).3f
the engine of the truck train getting out of order. A sig-
nal was exhibited to stop the grain train, but too late.
The engine and several carriages were dashed to atoms.
and sacks upon sacks of loose grain were apparently nailed
up with the soil. The loss is calculated at not less than
£3OOO.
RESUSCITATION OF THE POTATO.—We are much
pleased to receive more favourable reports of the potato
crop. It would appear that, on inspection, disease bas
made but little ravages amongst it, and that the tubers
which have reached maturity are sound, and in a great
measure fit for human consumption. They have not, it
is true, either the flavour or the nutritious qualities which
in ordinar7 years the vegetable possesses; still it is gm'
tifying to learn that, where no produce was looked for,
we have now the prospect, in many instances, of a half,
or at least a third crop. We trust that not only is this,.
intelligence correct, but that this condition of the plant
is general throughout the country.—Cork Examiner.
SEE OF, ST. A SAPII.—The Right Reverend Thomas
Fowler Short, D.D., Lord Bishop of Sodor and Mae►
has been appointed to the vacant see of St. Asaph. He
is a very respectable scholar and divine, a sincere whigi
and has actually had the care of St. Asaph's diocese for
nearly two years. The Morning Herald in announcing
the appointment says. " we doubt whether, without a re:
peal of the act of 1836, a new Bishop of St. Asaph could
be made. But an easy way out of the difficulty would be,
to give up the union of Bangor and St Asaph, and 10
unite, instead, St. Asaph and Man. A short act for this
purpose might pass in three weeks from the meeting of
Parliament. Anti, if this arrangement were agreed upon,
a Bishop of Manchester might be appointed forthwith.
We hear, and we trust the report is true, that something
of the kind is actually in contemplation."

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.
mON DAY, 12th OCTOBER.—Wind S.S.E. to N., light.
AanivED.—Syria, Cox, from Quebec—North Pole, Sim, fr°L-.
Bombay—Rajah Bassa, Glover, from Calcutta—Alciope;Be"„,_
nett, from Valparaiso—Selina, Belt, from Arica—Dash, Loga—
from Ambriz; sailed Sth Aug.—Jamaica, Selkirk, from Bahia;
sailed 13th Aug.—Wyke Regis, —, from Halifax, N.S.--M°.
Packet, Robinson, from Quebec.
SAlLED.—Neptunus, Paeplow, and Emma, Meincke, Stettini
Joseph and Mary, Bosford, Rotterdam—Myrtle, Norman. 7„
Terceira—Antelope, Asplett, Lisbon and Monte Video— Mr,
nore, Procter ; Liverpool, Eldridge, and Humpden, Cowan, 1"
New York.
Mary, Sullivan, from Quebec at this port. On Sept. Eecoei
the Superior, from Londonderry to Quebec, and took P-Zia,
the crew of the Lanark, Frith, from Quebec for this port, v_Tdirc-
was abandoned 21st September, having become water-rioeniairwned
the hurricane of the Igth. The remainder of the crew
on beard the Sul erior.
The Alice, which arrived here on Saturday from
ward's Island, spoke the Falcon, hence to Quebec, 25"-h
on her
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in lat. 4S. long. 51, with loss of bulwarks, having been
beam ends for 12 hours during the hurricane. The ke
Falcon
spoke
the barque Francis, from London, on the morning of the 25th.
half full of water, and apparently bearing up for Newfoundland.
Glen Helen, for New Orleans, has put back, being too crank.
Martha, Longregg, Wm Antwerp for this port at Dartmouth*
Belle, from Bahia at Patagonia.
Cosmopolitan, Griffiths, hence at Ambriz.
Oregon, Evans, and Emigrant, Price, hence at Quebec.
Aberdeen, hence off Quebec. Prince Ed.
St. John, —, off Green Island.

Mysore, for Trieste, at Odessa.
Sir Charles Napier, --, off Bic 17th Sept,

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 12.
The demand for Cdtton to-day has been to the extent of 10,00,5,
bales, of which quantity the trade take 5000 and speculattt
2010 bales. The market is decidedly dearer than it was Is'"
week.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, OCT. 12. to
We have a good supply of Beasts at OW market to-day, b°os
with respect to number and quality; the supply of Sheep vl
small. With a numerous attendance of customers, the Bee
trade was rather duller than of late, with a shade of decline '—
price from our last statement. Beef, 54d to 6d per lb.; mutte.°'
6id to 7cl.