The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-05 00:00:00

GLASGOW CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

There was no alteration in prices of any articles, at to-day's
market, from those of last market, and trade ruled extremely
dull.

LONDON TALLOW RETURNS.—MONDAY.
Stock is 32,653 casks, against 25,061 casks. Deliveries last
week 2,559, against 1,254 casks last year.

LONDON CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
The supply of beasts to-day being large, the trade was not so
good for inferior as on last market day. Sheep and lambs in
pretty fair demsnd at Friday's prices. Calves unaltered in
value, and little doing. Beef, 2s. to 3s. 6d; mutton, 3s to
3s. 10d.; veal, 3s. 2d. to 3s. ; pork, 3s. to 3s. Bd.; lamb,
4s. to 4s. to 4s. Bd. Arrivals : Beasts, 4,187 ; beasts and sheep,
31,810; calves. 438; pigs, 415; Holland beasts, 1,054; ditto
sheep, 4,050; dit o calves. IR; ditto pigs, 100; Norfolk and
Suffolk beasts, 290 ; Scotch beasts, 200; French ditto, 100;
Leiester, Lincoln, and Nor thampton beasts, 2,400.

THE CITY OF PARIS AND THE GREAT

EXH IBITION.

On Friday morning the large party of guests invited from
the metropolis, by the city of Paris. to partake of its splen-
did hospitalities in honour of the Great Exhibition, took
their departure from the London-bridge terminus of the
South-Eastern Railway. The first train. though a suffi-
ciently long one, was found entirely unable to accommo-
date all the visitors, and a second, and we believe even a
third, followed. The arrangements for the occasion were
nearly as bad as they could be. Passengers, after a suc-
cessful struggle for seats, found themselves separated from
their luggage, and there remained in most perplexing
uncertainty as to whether it would ever reach them again.
Ladies were in despair about their finery left behind them
upon the platform of the terminus, frequently without
any address, and gentlemen suffered no less grievously at
the prospect of being debarred from the fetes by the loss
of their portmanteaus. In vain had Court dresses and
such like vanities been carefully packed away if their
owners could not have them, and even several of the alder-
men felt downcast and overcome by a railway manage-
ment which sent them off to a foreign land without their
chains and scarlet gowns. The first train, after a rapid
run with one of Craropton's engines, reached Folkestone
in perfect safety. There two steam packets were ready
to receive its passengers, and these being rapidly freighted
stood out to sea ; every person on board in good heart,
and determined if possible to bid defiance to the sea sick-
ness. The civic majesty of London was present, and
around his semi-regal person were assembled some of the
most substantial pillars of his state.
Of course all the foreign commissioners are invited
guests on this occasion, and is goodly number of these
distinguished persons were on board the steamers which
started from Folkestone to Boulogne on Friday afternoon.
The weather was not at all boisterous, but there was a
perplexing hubbub and jumble in the channel which soon
told unfavourably upon the happiness of the pleasure
seeke-s. The ladies were the first victims—but they did
not suffer alone—and many a masculine form was pros-
trate before the voyage, short as it is. was half over. The
most affecting spectacle of all was furnished by the Man-
darin Keying, of the Chinese Junk, who, it will be remem-
bered figured so prominently at the state opening of the
exhibition, and whom, with a touch of kindliness and hu-
mour, the city of Paris had not forgot in its wide spread
hospitalities. The worthy mandarin showed his usual
cheerfulness and happy composure of manner for a very
little time after the steamer left Folkestone harbour.
Probably his long sojourn on the river at the foot of
Essex-street has unfitted him for tempting with impunity
the briny deep. He took up his position very scientifically
amidships, seated low, with his elbows resting on his knees
and his ace buried in his hands. But no precaution
would avail, nature had its way, and the Chinaman looked
extremely miserable at intervals until they reached Bou-
logne. There the comfort and cheerfulness of the party
were restored, as far the loss of theirluggage would permit,
and, indeed, they had great cause to rejoice. For the
first time in the history of the two countries, passports
SS well as custom-house surveillance were dispensed with.
The directors of the,Boulogne and Amiens Railway had
provided there a very elegant dijeaner. To this kind
entertainment the most ample justice was done, and
speeches of a complimentary and international character
followed, in which Dr. Lyon Playfair and the Lord Mayor
took part on behalf of England. At Amiens the National
Guard turned out to receive the party, and refreshments
in the shape of wine and biscuits were laid out in the sta-
tion. Darkness had set in, however, and it was past nine
before the first portion of the visitors reached the Paris
terminus. The rest came later, and until long after mid-
night an active hunt was kept up for apartments, Meurice's
and the other hotels frequented by our country men being
crammed to the doors with the unusual influx of people.
Upwards of 1,000 persons are calculated to have availed
themselves of the proffered hospitalities of the French
capital.

;With reference to the banquet and concert at the Hotel
de Ville, with which the fetes were inaugurated on Satur-
day evening, the preparations were on the most splendid
scale, and the stateliness and beauty of the building itself
insured for them a triumphant success. Covers were laid
for 500 guests in the beautiful galerie deg./Wks. When
the entertainment terminated—which was at an early hour,
and went off magnificently—the hall was, by a coup de
thedtre, converted into a concert room, while the company
distributed themselves through one of the finest suites of
apartments in Europe. A garden was improvised in the
Cour de Louis XIV., with trrees, flower beds, statues, and
a beautifnl fountain. in the Salon de la Republique a
pretty little theatre was constructed, on which were per-
formed Le Midkin Malgre" lui, by Mesdames Brohan and
Denain, and MM. Provost, Got, and Delaunay. The
play divided the attention of the guests with the concert,
and the ?fight's festivities were fully worthy the reputation
of the Parisians for tastefal decoration and arrangement.
The banquet itself was a triumph of French cookery.
The predilections of our countrymen for solid fare were.
on the other hand, not overlooked, and a Durham ox,
roasted whole, formed the principal pike de resistance
and took the place d'honneur among the dishes on a
special pedestal of its own.
On Sunday the civic representatives were to visit
Versailles, yesterday to dine with the President of the
Republic. at St. Cloud. This morning they were to meet
Lord and Lady Normanby, this evening to be at the Hotel
de Ville again, and on to-morrow (Wednesday), a sham
fight and review are to take place.

FATAL ACCIDENT.—On, Saturday a boy belonging to
the vessel Guy Mannering, now lying in dock, fell from
one of the yards, and was instantaneously killed. It was
stated that the fatal occurence was caused by one of the
men, and he was brought before Mr. Mansfield, yesterday,
and remanded until an inquest hes been held.
On Sunday last, three sermons were preached in St.
Peter's Church, Preston, when collections were made for
defraying the church expenses. Those in the morning and
evining. were by the Rev. Dr. Hume of this town, and that
in the afternoon by the Rev. J. 0. Parr, M.A., Vicar of
Preston and Rural Dean.
PUBLIC MEETING OF CORN MILLERS IN LIVERPOOL.—
On Tuesday next, the 12th instant, a public meeting of
the corn millers, and others interested in the trade, will
be held in the Corn Sales Room, Brunswick-street, oppo-
site the Corn Exchange, to take into consideration the
propriety of representing to perlismeut the difficulties by
which they are et present beset.