The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

but carriages with seats, and containing sufficien

covering from the weather.

We want this much

upon a line very near our own locality; and for the

sake of the true interests of the proprietors of that
line, and of the public, we would urge upon the

former, without waiting for the probable necessity
under which they may be placed, to adopt the hint,

and thus obviate the possibility of the projection 01
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some injuriously competing scheme.

When that particularly discreet and modest indi-
vidual, Mr. William Rathbone, on a recent occasion,
was not the occupant of the chair, at a meeting
called to sympathise with the convicted conspirators,
Daniel O'Connell and others, having previously oc-
cupied a similar position at a meeting held to pro-
test against the then pending trial, we gave him
credit for something very like a spontaneous return
to a sense of what was becoming in a man invested
with the responsible duties of the magisterial bench.
But we knew not hitherto whether such were
really the motive or not.

The fate, however, it now appears, which has
just befallen a Mr. Cornelius O'Brien, like
William Rathbone, not a repealer, but who, un-
like William, attended such a meeting as that
lately held at the Liverpool Amphitheatre, had
" cast its shadows before, " and illumined
the mind of our own Solon. Mr. Cornelius
O'Brien couldn't take a hint; William Rathbone
could and did : and, as the result, the said Cor-
nelius no longer writes J. P. after his name. and
bustles in all the pomp of magisterial authority,
whilst his wiser brother of the bench of Liverpool
can still occupy his usual seat in the Sessions-
house, with the duties and dignities thereunto
attached. The awful fiat of Henry Sugden's secre-
tary has extinguished Cornelius, whilst 'William still
blooms and shines with undimmed beauty and re-
splendence. Unhappy Cornelius—fortunate Wil-
liam—more fortunate Liverpool for whom he is
still spared!

THE FUNDS, SATURDAY NIGHT.—The business at the
Stock-Exchange, to-day was extremely limited, and
prices had a tendency downwards. In the case of the
English securities the flatness of the market was occa-
sioned by the appearance of an influential broker, who
was supposed to be a seller. Consols for the account left
off 98Z to 1 ; Bank Stock, 1971 to 1981; Three per Cents.
Reduced 994 to 1. ; Three-and• a-half per Cents Reduced.
1024 to 4; Long Annuities, 121; India Bonds, 91s. to
965, premium ; and Exchequer-bills, 735. to 755. premium.
In the foreign market there was no particular feature.
Dealings were much restricted, and values were drooping.
Spanish Three per Cents. closed 34/ to ; ; the Five per
Cents, 221 to 1. ; Portuguese Converted, 461 to 471 ;
Peruvian, 261 to 271; Mexican, 35 to 4; the Deferred,
15 to 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 611 to 624 ;
the Five per Cents., 1001 to 1; Danish, 88 to 89 ; Colum-
bian, 131 to t ; Chilian, 103 to 105 ; Buenos Ayres, 35 to
36 ; Brazilian, 82 to 83 ; and Belgian, 1021 to 1031 ;

EXPECTED VISIT OF THE KING OF SAXONY TO LI.
VERPOOL.—The Mayor has received intimation that his
Majesty, the King of Saxony, intends to honour Liverpool
with a visit on his journey through England and Wales.
His Worship has in consequence been in hourly ex-
pectation of the Royal visit since Saturday ; but up to
the arrival of the latest train lass night his Majesty had
not made his appearance. The King was at Cambridge
on Thursday, and at Oxford on Friday ; and on Saturday
morning he proceeded to Blenneim near Woodstock, the
seat of the Earl of Marlborough, Aere, we believe, he is
at present. His visits to the provinces have been strictly
private. He travels under the name of the Graf Von
Hohenstein •' and his suite consists:of Baron de Gersdoff,
the Saxon Minister resident in London, Baron de
his Majesty. The Mayor has forwarded a communica-
tion to his Majesty's private secretary, respectfully
requesting
p ogv
et or beol i; n
afonrdmaend
answerwhen the
is e
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d
visitths will
be
paidremorn-
ing.guetoL We believe it is his worship's intention to give a
handsome dejeune at the Town Hall on •
the approaching
occasion.