The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND,

Wheat, Dantzic..
Hamburg

32 0 - 36 0
30 0 - -

Oats, new

27 0-29 0
17 0 - 19 0
15 0 - 17 0
24 0 - 29 0
28 0 - 32 0
21 0 - -
20 0 - -

Flour, American
Baltic ....

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET,

The supply of Beasts from our own districts being somewhat
on the increase, and the attendance of both town and country
buyers by no means numerous, the beef trade was extremely
dull, at a decline in the currencies obtained on Monday last of
2d. per Sibs., the very highest figure for the beat Scots not ex-
ceeding 4s per Sibs., and a clearance was not effected.

The number of Sheep were tolerably good, but i of to say ex-
tPnsivc. For most kinds the demand was very steady, at fully,
but at nothing quotable, beyond last week's currencies.
_ _

We had a very limited number of Calves on off.T. yet the Veal
trade was heavy, en easier terms—the extreme quotation not
exceeding Ss. per Sibs. Neat ,mall Porkers were in fair request,
but all other qualities sold heavily.

Per Sibs. to sink the offal.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Inferior Beasts.... 2 6 '2 10 Second quality do. 3 4--- 3 8
Second quality do. 3 0— 3 4 Coarse do. 3 20— 4 0
Prime large Oxen. 3 6 3 8 SouthdownWethers 4 2 4 4
Prime Scots, &c... 3 10— 3 0 Do. out of the wool --
Coarse Calves .... 3 IP 4 6, Large II gs
Small do.
Suckling do. each.; 0-32 O,Qr. old Pigs, each 16 0-2 u 0
nferior Sheep 2 10— 3 2' Lambs

SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Busts, 3,003.... Sheep, 26,340.... Calves, 64 .... Pigs, 321

LONDON SHARE MARKET.

The Railway Shares have not been so brisk this morning, and
prices are in some c ses rather lower. Birmingham have been
last done at 23 , Bristol and Gloucester I Bristol and Exeter
83, Caledonian 7*, Ca,, bridee and Lincoln 21, Chester and
Holyhead 8, Churnet Valley 7i, Direct Northern Ij, Eastern
Counties 17, Great Western 175, Great Western Fla ves 100,
Brighton 58, Cr ydon 18 London and York 7a, Newcastle and
Berwick 144, North British 131, Northern and Eastern 61,
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton. & Dudley 4i, South Eastern 3p4,
South Wales 41, Trent Valley 194, Great Northern of France 54-,
Toulouse 24, Orleans and Vierzon 13i, Paris and Orleans 46i.

THE GLASS DUTIES.—The following are the present
duties on glass which Sir Robert Peel purposes to abol-
ish :—Plate glass, 3s. 2d. per foot ; crown glass, £2 16s.
per cwt.; flint glass and black bottles, 7s. per cwt.

ENGLISH LOVE OF FACTS.—Look at our chimney-
pieces, what ornaments crown their beauty? An endless
mixture of indisputable facts? First, there's a bit of the
Great Pyramid ; then a hit from the tower of Babel ; next
a drop of the Red Sea in a bottle, and a pebble from the
very brook where David got his stone with which he killed
Goliath : with collateral hints there is a probability that
this may be the st, ne. This is not fora love of property;
it is not from a selfish desire to accumulate; it is nothing
but an intense relish for the indisputable evidence of the
existence of celebrated things. Will you believe, I picked
up at a stall an old edition of Waller, and in it I found a
bit of black paper stuck inside; underneath it was writ-
ten, " This is a hit of one of the celebrated cartoons of
Hampton Court !" This principle, the love of fact, will
also account for the infantine imbecility to touch every-
thing we see ; whether it be a fine picture, a beautiful sta-
tue, or an extraordinary man. Do the English feel as-
sured of the correctness of their eyes ? not in the least ;
after seeing, up go the fingers, and very often, not satis-
fied with sight and touch, they taste. When the well was
pointed out in which the poor Italian boy was burked, a
genteel woman, well dressed, knelt down and tasted the
water! And when Blucher and Platoff were in England,
people were not satisfied with seeing or shaking hands, they
insisted on hits of their dress, and portions of the hair of
their very heads! In fact, an Englishman never seems
convinced of the truth of his perceptions until every sense
has conveyed them to every iota of his understanding.—
Hayden's Lectures on Painting and Design.

THE DESTRUCTION OF SMALL BIRDS.—We learn
from a French journal, that the prefect of the Lower
Seine has given effect to a French law enabling magis-
trates to prohibit the destruction of crows, rooks, and
similar birds ; and it is expected that his example will be
generally followed. In this the French show good sense,
and set an example which the English would do well to
imitate. While we are ignorantly exterminating our
surest friends, the French are throwing over them a legal
shield. A great English gentleman may afford to have
his park and his tenants' fields devoured by grubs and
similar vermin: for small losses are less felt when there
is much to lose. But the injury inflicted by such perni-
cious enemies is ruin to the small French proprietors,
who have so little in possession that they have nothing to
waste. No wonder, then, that they would have formed
an alliance, offensive and defensive with their friends the
crows. A compact like this is not so brilliant as that
with Morocco, but ii has the merit of being quite as use-
fol. It would be i to assert that birds consume no-
thing which, but for them, we might consume ourselves.
They feed in part at fair expense. They destroy the in-
sects that infest our garden,,, when they can find any, and
when the inserts are gone they search for other food. The
first is their labour; the second is their wages. And is
not the workman worthy of his hire? The man who
grudges a bird a little seed for fruit might as well be-
grudge his werkly pay to the labourer. There is no
doubt that a garden would be less expensive if all the
work in it were done for nothing. If a master could
pocket his servant's wages, he would have more to spend
upon himself. But this sort of arrangement is not ex-
actly consistent with the design of Providence ; and we
are sure that it would not meet with the approbation of
either of our friends, Scrutator or Furibua liostis. We
repeat it, then, let us look at birds as skilful workmen,
and the fruit or seed which they tat, as the coin in which
they are paid their wages.—Gardeners' Chronicle.

DEFICIENT SUPPLY OF W ATER IN LIVERPOOL.—It is
absolutely disgrcaeful that in the whole town, except at
two or three cattle trouzhs, established, not by the
liberality of your company, but by the praiseworthy ef-
forts of the late Mr. Egerton Smith, and for supplying
which you are well paid by the Corporation, there is not
a single place in Liver pool where any man can get a glass
of water without begging it: your act prevents any but
yourselves from selling it. Is this worthy of the town?
The truth is, that because water is doled out by companies
who enjoy the sole right of selling it, and who will not
part with a drop except for the quid pro quo, we have not
had, and without exertion never should have had, enough
of water for any purpose whatever, except in the houses
of those who could afford spacious cisterns. Let any man
who has visited the Continent contrast the supply of water
in their large towns and cities with the state of things
here. In Paris, Brussels, Lyons, Florence, Genoa, Rome,
and, indeed, in almost every town, public fountains are
constantly playing ; all the art cf the statuary is employed
in their construction, and they are not only useful, but
highly ornamental. But, alas ! there is such a woeful
deficiency of water under Liverpool—it is such a costly
thing to raise it to the surface—there is such imminent
danger of the springs of John Company being diverted,
that the precious drops must be husbanded as if they
were molten gold ; not a drop must be used beyond the
stern demand of necessity ; and as to public fountains,
why it would make the worthy Chairman's hair stand on
end only to think of such extravagance!! He has kept
his economical eye so closely upon the tap, that he la-
ments most pathetically even " the waste that runs down
the channels during the working of the engine at a fire."
Public fountains, indeed!! where cattle might drink, and
water be seen playing antics, and then—running away !
What, without being paid fourpence or sixpence a tun for
it ? It is extravagance—folly—nonsense—and cannot for
a moment be entertained! No, Mr. Banner, we shall see
no public fountains while you are the chairman of a com-
pany to dole it out in the smallest quantities at the high-
est price but when we see the mayor of Liverpool chair-
man, ex-officio, of a really public company, and which
before long must be the case, whether you like it or not--
then, shall we have fountains in many parts, and then,—
but not till then shall we have the means of giving a poor
foreign seaman a glass of water without being under the
melancholy necessity of compelling him either to buy,
to beg, or to steal it.—Mr. Holmes'. Pamphlet.