The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

Etstrirt grtu,s.

The Earl of Derby is daily adding to his menagerie, at
Knowsley. Mr. Whitfield has just arrived in London,
from the river Gambia, with a fine collection of antelopes
and other rare animals, several of which have never before
been seen in England, and these have been in due course
forwarded to Knowsley. Mr. Whitfield has been absent
some years in search of these rare animals.

A SLIGHT MISTAKE.—The dames of Clitheroe, young
and old, married and single, were thrown into a state of
great alarm and perplexity, last week, by an announce-
ment of the bellman that " a large quantity of black
damsels had arrived and were on sale in the market place."
They rushed to the spot, and happily found that the arti-
cles on sale were fruit—not females.

An ordination, we believe the first in Preston since the
reformation, took place in the Roman Catholic Chapel of
St. Augustine, in this town, on Wednesday morning last.
The very Rev. G. Brown, Roman Catholic Bishop of Lan •
caster was present. The Rev. J. Hardman was ordained
deacon, and to-day the ordination is to be resumed, and
Mr. Hardman will be made priest.—Preston Pilot.
THE NEW BEER ACT.—The beneficial effects of this
measure appear already to be generally felt. On Sunday
morning, almost all the beer shops in the town were kept
strictly closed till half-past 12 o'clock; and the result
was that decency and quiet prevailed where drunkenness
and disorder were too often previously to be seen.—Black-
burn Standard.

THE MURDER AT ASHTON.—The inquiry into the cir-
cumstances attending the murder of Bright, the unfortu-
nate policeman who fell a victim to the Chartists during
the recent outbreak at Ashton, was brought to a close on
Tuesday, when the bench of magistrates, after examining
numbers of witnesses, came to the determination to com-
mit Ratcliffe, Constantine, Kenworth and Walker, as
principals in the murder ; Winterbottom as accessory after
the fact; and Scott, as accessory before the fact. At the
same time Tassaker and Sefton were committed for un-
lawfully assembling and rioting.
Thomas Curtis, collector of taxes and poor-rates for the
borough of Salford, absconded some time since with
money to the amount of between £2OOO and £3OOO. On
arriving at Boston, in America, he was proceeding up the
river, when a friend he had been intimate with stole his
cash-box, and left him and his family penniless. They
returned to England, and in a state of starvation applied
to a Manchester bank for £25, which had been deposited
there by his wife sometime previous. They paid the
money, but gave information to the police, which has led
to his apprehension.
CHESHIRE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.—This society,
which has hitherto been known under the name of the
" South Cheshire Agricultural Society," held its annual
meeting at Nantwich, on Wednesday last, under the able
presidency of the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Combermere.
The display of cheese, there being six competitors for the
prize, elicited general commendation. The implements
were superior to those shown in any former year. The
stock shown was not large in number, but valuable in
quality. The prevalence of disease deterred many parties
from sending stock. There were some good bulls, and
also dairy stock. The show of pigs elicited great commen-
dation, particularly the breeding sows. The show of
horses was limited.

TARVIN BAZAAR, 1848.—Intheyear 1844, £137 14s. 9d.
was subscribed by the gentry, landowners, farmers, and
others, connected with the very extensive parish of
Tarvin, which is five miles east from Chester ; but the
liabilities were then nearly £2OO, thus leaving a deficiency
of upwards of £6O ; and since that period an additional
expenditure has been contracted, amounting to £125, for
the enlargement of the Grammar School-house; so that,
supposing the present proceeds of the bazaar to reach
£l5O, there will still be the difference to be advanced by
some individuals ; and that most probably by the vicar or
his friends. It is, however, highly gratifying to see so
many parishioners sympathizing with their minister, and
to witness among many hundreds of spectators a liberal
supply of clothing and food ; all of which, when combined,
were elegant, substantial, and useful, and also well suited
for the various attendants. The object principally in
view was to render the ancient Free School an efficient
benefit to the farmers' sons, and to any others who may
avail themselves of such a reasonable, rational, and reli-
gious education. We need not add that the venerable
vicar is more than delighted, and is most grateful to his
own parishioners, as well as to his friends in Cheshire,
Lancashire, &c. No language can express sufficient
praise to Mr. and Mrs. Brindley, and their assistants.
A YOUNG BURGLAR.—At the Rochdale petty sessions,
on Monday, a boy only twelve years of age, named Joseph
Tempest, son of Mr. James Tempest, formerly a flannel
manufacturer, was brought up on a charge of burglary
under the following circumstances. It appeared, that on
the evening of the sth the prisoner had concealed himself
in a stable belonging to Mr. Scott, pawnbroker, Union-
street, Rochdale, and after the family had gone to bed, he
entered the house of Mr. Scott through the back parlour
window. He afterwards went into Mr. Scott's bedcham-
ber, took twelve sovereigns out of a purse in Mr. Scott's
breeches pocket, and took £3 in silver out of a till, and
fourteen gold wedding rings from another place in the shop.
After the boy had committed the robbery he came by
railway to Liverpool, where he had got lodged with an old
woman, who disposed of part of the wedding rings. He
also purchased five small pistols in Liverpool, and gave
£2 12s. 6d. for a watch, ten shillings for a guard, and one
shilling for a walking stick. He stayed several days in
Liverpool spending his money, and then proceeded to the
Isle of Man, where he purchased six small pistols and
some powder. A Mr. Coole, a resident of the Isle of
Man, sent a letter to the boy's father, informing him
what his son was doing. The father and a police-officer
from Rochdale then went over to the Isle of Man, and
succeeded in apprehending the lad, who had part of the
wedding rings upon him.—Superintendent Fowler said he
was of opinion that parties at Liverpool could be appre-
hended on a charge of purchasing goods from the youth,
and knowing them to be stolen.—The magistrates ap-
peared unwilling to commit so young a buy for burglary,,
and remanded him till Monday.

MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL AGRICUL-
TURAL SOCIETY.

According to the terms of the amalgamation, ent9red
into last year by the Manchester Agricultural Society,
instituted in 1767, and the Liverpool Society, instituted
in 1830, it was agreed that the annual exhibition and
dinner should be held at Manchester and Liverpool every
alternate year, or any town in Lancashire or Cheshire,
situate within thirty miles of Newton-in-the-Willows.
In compliance with these terms, the exhibition and dinner
this year took place at Manchester, on Tuesday ; and the
most satisfactory results are anticipated from the re-union
then auspiciously commenced.
The show-yard was situate," on a vacant piece of ground
at the rear of the Palatine Hotel, close to the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway station. The show was some-
what inferior to that held at Liverpool last year. The
attendance of the landlords and farmers was remarkably
good. Lord Stanley and other noble lords were early in
Manchester, so also was Mr. William Brown, M.P., and
other distinguished gentlemen.
The dinner took place in the large room attached to the
. Palatine Hotel, and was numerously and respectably at-
tended. The Right Hon. Lord STANLEY presided.
Amongst the company to the right and left of the chair,
we noticed Sir Richard Brooke, Sir Thomas Joseph De
Trafford, Humphrey De Trafford, Esq., Cecil Trafford,
Esq., Sir B. Heywood, W. Brown, Esq., M.P., Wilson
Patten, Esq., M.P., J. Duncroft, Esq., M.P., G. W.
Ormerod, F.G.S., John Moore, F.L.S., Peter Clare,
Esq., C. G. L. Walker, Esq., Benjamin Hampson, Esq.,
(Steward to the Earl of Wilton,) Samuel Brooks, Esq.,
R. Neilson, Esq., Isaac Picton, Esq., &c. About three
hundred and sixty persons sat down.
After the usual loyal toasts had been drunk,
The CHAIRMAN rose to give a bumper toast—the toast
of the evening—" Prosperity to the Manchester and Li-
verpool Agricultural Society;" and began by expressing
the pleasure he felt in being called upon to preside over
this united society, an object in which he had long felt a
deep interest, feeling convinced that the union of these
societies would tend to the mutual advantage of both of
them, and tend also to the advantage of all the local soci-
eties, because of the increase of competition and stimulus
to exertion they would create. He could not think,
whatever others might do, that a great commercial town
like Manchester was an mrppropriate situation for this
society. None knew better than the agriculturists and
the manufacturers how much they were dependent upon
each other for their mutual prosperity. The agricultu-
rist well knew that the prosperity of the manufacturing
districts and the well-being. of trade secured good cus-
tomers, an abundant market, and favourable prices. The
manufacturer knew as well that if, by the visitation of
Providence, the harvest of this country were deficient,
the consequence must be dangerous and ruinous to the
agriculturist, but that it must also affect him (the manu-
facturer) in his best and nearest point. (Loud applause.)
Therefore the two were intimately connected, and there-
fore it was that he (the noble chairman) rejoiced to think
it most appropriate that this united Liverpool and Man-
chester Society should be held in that, the great metro-
polis of British commerce. (Cheers.) He asserted that
the agriculturists in the neighbourhood of these towns
must change their system. (Applause.) They must
apply themselves more to make the most of their land--
to make the most of it by draining, cultivating, and ma-
nuring it as it ought to be drained, cultivated, and ma-
nured. (Great applause.) He did not see facilities for
drainage, and yet no man could look upon the Avl3 C of
farming without being aware how much was to be done
yet, and how absolutely impossible it was to avoid all
other expenses in the shape of agricultural improvements
unless preceded by a deep, thorough, and effectual drain-
ing. (Applause.) The subject to which he wished to call
the attention of those he now addressed, and the subject
to which it was desirable the public attention should be,
directed, was the use, or rather the abuse of manure, for
which these towns furnished incalculable advantages.
(Hear.) The object was to improve the health of the
inhabitants of the great towns, but the object also was to
get rid of that which, if we only knew how to economise,
could be converted to the most useful purposes. There
was no subject more worthy of their consideration—first,
as to the means of getting rid of an intolerable nuisance,
and then converting it into a source of agricultural wealth.
(Applause.) He reverted, then, to that which was more
the immediate subject of the toast. He never was present
at any agricultural show in Manchester before that day.
but the effect produced that day was this,—that if much
had been done—and he believed much had been done—
much remained to be done. (Hear.) The specimens of
pigs were excellent. Two or three struck him as very
valuable bulls, both old and young ; and he saw con-
stantly a very great improvement in the nature and cha-
racter of the tenant-farming stock. (Hear, hear.) He
wished he could say anything upon the character of the
horses; but he believed that any man at random might
go through the streets of Liverpool and Manchester, and
find horses equal to any he had seen at either the Liverm,
pool or the Manchester exhibitions. (Hear, and applause.)
Their proceedings this year had been satisfactory. Last
year they received £lO7 for admission to their show-yard r.
this year they had received £143 ; and he inferred from
this a growing desire upon the part of the public to sup-
port their society. (Hear, hear.) He was also bound to
say that within his knowledge and observation there had,
in the general management of farms, in the general agri-
cultural system, in science and the practical application
of that science to the land, on the part of the tenant-
farmers of Lancashire and Cheshire, been a very great
and marked improvement in the last dozen years. (Ap-
plause.) Every well-disposed landlord must feel that the
prosperity of the tenant was the prosperity of himself,
and that it was his interest, setting aside all moral ques-
tions which ought to connect the two, that he should be
at the head, not only of a contented, but of a thriving
people. (Applause.) And whilst he did justice to the
many landlords in that district who assisted their tenan-
try, and who had testified the interest they took in the
welfare of their tenants by their presence there that day,
he must express his regret that he had not the pleasure
of seeing there a larger proportion of the landed proprie-
tary. (Hear, hear, and much cheering.) The noble lord
concluded an eloquent speech by proposing " The pros-
perity and welfare of the United Manchester and Liver-
pool Agricultural Society," which was drunk in bumpers,
amid enthusiastic demonstrations of applause.
The prizes were subsequently read over.
Several other toasts, principally of a complimentary
character to officers of the society, followed.

STATE OF TRADE.
MANCHESTER.—After Tuesday's market, there appeared to
be a little more cheerfulness in some channels of business. On
Friday however, the more gloomy aspect of continental affairs
generally, has rendered the depression greater, on the whole,
than it was in the earlier part of the week. The indisposition
to enter into operations is rather strengthened among the
Italian, the Greek, and still more the German merchants ; and
nothing whatever seems to be doing by the India houses. We
understand, too, that somewhat less facility in the discount of
bills is perceived—a result of the pressure of railway calls, and
of doubts as to the home supply of food, as well as of apprehen-
sions regarding the state of the continent. Under these cir-
cumstances, and with a full production going on, it is not sur-
prising that prices are manifesting a tendency to a further de-
cline. Within the week, Yarns suitable for Germany and India
have given way *d. to 4cl. per lb. In some other qualities,
also, there is a change in the same direction. Goods suffer in
a somewhat smaller degree than yarns. Some descriptions are
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LEEDS.—Both in the public markets and at the warehouses
a good deal of busiaess has been done this week, and that as
well for the foreign as the home trade. Many of the woollen
manufacturers continue engaged on orders ; hence the quantity,
of goods brought to the Cloth Halls for sale is only small.
Prices are firm, and the stocks are rather low.
BRADFORD.—WOOI: The business doing continues much in
the same way as we have noted for several weeks past, and in
prices we have nothing new. Foils and brokes are in steady
request and firm in price. Yarns : There is more inquiry for
yarns for shipping, and the spinners are better employed in
common yarns, while in coloared there is a greater disposition
to use up than give out further orders. In price there is no
alteration. Pieces : The accounts of an increased duty on
goods for Germany has made less business doing to those mar-
kets. The home trade as usual.
HALIFAX.—We have no alteration to notice this week? either
in the worsted or the yarn trade. The staplers complain that
there is very little demand for wool, as the kind of goods novr
chiefly in request uses up but a very small quantity. Prices
continue without variation. There is rather more activity in
the low woollen trade of the district; and the operatives in that
branch are more generally employed, but at very low wages.
HUDDERSFIELD.—We have again to report a fair amount of
ready sale, and with low stocks, there is a probability of a good
winter trade.
business. Fancy goods, of well-designed new styles, meet with

ROCUDALE.—The demand for flannels still continues good,
and the manufacturer meets a ready sale for all he makes. Ker-
seys, or heavy goads, have been dull of sale, and the numbers
sold have been limited. The wool marke: has been much the
same as it was last week.

Now'Nounm.—Lace : The demand for the home trade is
not so large as usual at this period of the year ; there have been
very few buyers here this week. There has been a little more
demand for Germany and America, which has induced some
persons to put machines to work that have not been employed
for many months ; and in some cases other machines are being
worked two hours additional time. Hosiery : The hosiery
trade remains on the whole very fair; the demand for merinos
in shirts, drawers, and gloves, is still very good. In cotton
goods there is not quite so much activity.
GLAsaow.—Our market has been more inactive this week
than any experienced for some time previous. Fortunately,
tnere are still considerable orders held by manufacturers, and
prices are not quoted lower t'-an before; but from the feeling
exhibited throughout the week, some concession might be ex-
pected in offering orders of any considerable magnitude,—par-
ticularly for the less staple classes of goods. Power-loom goods
and yarns have also been much more difficult of sale.

LATEST DATES AT LIVERPOOL.
Direct. Indirect. I Direct. Indirect.
--
Australia .. .. May 15iLima ! .. June 12
Bahia .. Aug. .. 5 Maranham.. 'Aug. 1 ..
Barbadoes
Bombay .. July 20 Mobile I .. Aug. 28
B. Ayres .. .. .. 9 Monte Video .. July 13
Calcutta .. .. .. 8 New Orleans .. Sept. 4
C. G. Hope. .. June 3 New York .. 1 .. 5
Charleston . .. Sept. 4 Pernambuco Aug. 301 ..
China .. June 24 Rio Janeiro.., .. July 29
Demerara
I
Havana
Jamaica .. .. 7 Talparaiso .. .. (June 211
La Guavra .. ..Cruz
—Wera .. .. ug. 6

GALVANISM.—The following is extracted from the
Court Journal of January 29 :—" It is now about four
years since that we informed our readers, it was to be re-
gretted galvanism was not more extensively used as a
remedial agent. We have every reason to believe that
our advice was attended to, for, in a comparatively short
time, Mr. Halse's residence was crowded with the elite of
fashion, and their less fortunate fellow-sufferers ; and we
feel confident, judging from the astonishing remedial
effects it has produced on ourselves, after all kinds o
medicines and hydronathy had failed to impart any
fit, that the public will thank us for our recomm:endttibn...77l-
We are delighted to notice, a short time since, Mi.- •
Raise was patronised by the Lord Bishop of Lo
Sir Charles Clarke, his Lordship's physiciap
Halse's great reforms in galvanic apparatus, ar
proved methods of application, justly entitle "
as the head of his profession. We again recoL
readers to give galvanism a fair trial. Mr. 11
dance is at 22, Brunswick-square, London."

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