The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-02-18 00:00:00

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Qrs. 65
Qrs.
Qrs.! I o

Wheat
Barley
Malt .
Oats .
Rye . .
Beans
Pease
Shelled Barley .
Indian Corn . . . Qrs.
Rapaseed . . . Qrs,
Oatmeal . . Loads
Flour. Sacks
Ditto Brls.

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise
qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids; Flour, sacks

—Wheat,— qrs

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. • Barley, qrs.; Malt,
qrs.; Oats, 87 qrs ; Beans, qrs. • Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat-
meal, —loads; Flour, sacks, 501irls.--Ireland. Wheat, 175
qrs. ; Beans, qrs.; Indian Corn. qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ;
Flour, sacks.---Coastwise. Wheat, 659 qrs. ; Barley, 50
qrs.; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 22 qrs. ; Beans, 25 qrs. ; Rye, ---
qrs. ; Pease, 3 qrs.; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 40 Ids.
Flour, 212 sacks, 100 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Feb. 11, 1832
Wheat sps. 11d. Barley 28s. 2d. l Oats.. 20s. 4d. I Rye

Beans:. 335. gci. I Pease

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. Gls. 4d. I Barley 28s. gd. I Oats.. 2fts. 3d. ! Rye
Beans..34s.Od. Pease

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Od

Wheat 255.8 d. I Barley lys. 1-od. I Oats .. . 16s. yd. I Rye.. 12s. lid
Beans 18s. so. Pease.. 18s. 3d. lud. Corn os. Od. Flour iss.sid

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... Is. od. I Parley.. 2s. tid. I Oats ..2s. Id. I Rye 3s od
Beans.. 3s. I Pease.. 3s. I Indian Corn.. Os. od. Flour.. as. Od.

Liverpool Averages, week ending Feb. 15, 1842.
Wheat. Barley. I Oats. i Beans. Pease..
Qrs 252 ; 450
Prices

LIVERPOOL COTTON

MARKET, 3 P.M

A fair attendance of buyers in the market again to-day,
but not more than 3000 bales have been sold, without any
change in prices. The sales of the week amount only to
19,360 bales, against an import of 37,000, adding 18,000 to
the already heavily accumulated stock. 500 on speculation,
and 200 for export. Prices on a par with last week's quo-
tations.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18.—Wind variable

,ARRIVED.—South America, from New 'fork—Norio,
from Terceira—Pennsylvania, —, from New Orleans—
Ann & Kate, Smith, from Wexford—Theodore, M'Lean, from Wa-
terford—Elizabeth Rae, Rae, from Westport—True Blue, Blewitt,
from Londonderry—and Mary Ann Jane, Osborne, from Dublin.

SairtEn.—Aibijn, Gardner, for Adra—Elizabeth Rowell, Wake,
for Constantinople—lndian, Scott, for Trinidad—British Queen,
—, for St. Michael's—Echo, Sill, for New York—Victory, Jar-
vis, for Gibraltar—and Peri, Jollit, for Nantes.

Perseverance, Corichill, sailed from Hobart Town for Sydney sth
September
Agricola, from London, at St. Phillip
Themis. sailed from Mauritius for Liverpool Ith February
Fanny Palmer. sailed from Smyrna 22nd Jan. and Cestries, 27th,
both for Liverpool

Crusader, hence to Buenos Ayres, was spoken in lat. 5,
long. 23

Fanny, -, from Liverpool, off Charleston

LITERARY NOTICES,

Ireland ; its Scenery, Character, &•c. By Mr. and Mrs. S

C. Hall. London: How and Parsons

Part XVI. of this work has appeared, and fully maintains
the high character of the former numbers, both in the lite-
rary department and the illustrations. It is entirely devoted
to the first, and probably the greater, portion of a most vivid
and faithful description of Dublin ; its admirable situation ;
its ancient and modern history; its public buildings and in-
stitutions ;—and no city in Great Britain, or perhaps in the
world, is more delightfully situated in the midst of natural
beauties, or presents a greater number of objects of interest
to the tourist, the historian, or the literary lounger. The
Hill of Howth, the magnificent bay on the south of the city,
the splendid public edifices, the surrounding country replete
with every variety of landscape—from the tranquil and luxu-
riant and beautiful, to the bold, the craggy, and the sublime
—are all depicted in the pleasing colours of reality, without
that minuteness of detail which too frequently render the
works of less skilful travellers tedious or repulsive. Consi-
dering the magnitude of the subject, it may be said that all
that is desirable to the general reader is here conveyed by a
comparatively few masterly and effective touches of the pen.
This iF especially the forte of the fair author, who, as well
as her respected companion and literary assistant, is pos-
sessed of perhaps more knowledge of the localities and man-
ners of Ireland than any writer of her day,—an advantage
which she is enabled to improve by a clearness of perception,
a correctness of taste, and an amiableness of disposition,
rarely exemplified in the sex, bright as is our national galaxy
of female intellect.

" What a glorious impression," she emphatically remarks,
" is conveyed to the eye and mind, upon approaching the
noble and beautiful bay of Dublin! It is, indeed, inexpres-
sively lovely ; and on entering it after a weary voyage, the
heart bounds with enthusiasm at the sight of its capacious
bosom, enclosed by huge rocks, encompassed in turn by high
and picturesque mountains. To the south, varied into innu-
merable forms, are ' the Wicklow Hills ;' but nearer, rising,
as it were, out of the surface of old ocean, is the ever<reen
island of Dulkey. To the north a bolder coast is commenced
by ' the Hill of Howth,' on a leading pinnacle of which stands
the most picturesque of the Irish beacons; on the other side
of the promontory is seen a village, with another lighthouse,
a martillo tower, an ancient abbey, and a calm, though now
deserted harbour—for a long period the landing-place upon
Irish ground.* And if the tourist will step ashore' at
Howth, he may, before he is half an hour in Ireland, visit
some of the most striking and interesting objects in the
combat! :—a ruined church, a very ancient castle, some dru-
idic remains, a village, dignified with the name of town,'
essentially Irish in its half-desolate character; and, standing
beside the wall that surrounds the Bailey lighthouse, he may
gaze over the wide ocean, or, looking to the right, admire
the beautiful scenery that borders Dublin Bay, and, on the
left, the famous little island called Ireland's Eye ; ' beyond
it the renowned isle of Lambay, and, some forty miles north
of the spot on which he stands, the clearly defined and bold
outlines of the Mourne mountains.
" * Kingstown harbour has now almost superseded it."
Such is a brief specimen of our author's style, selected at
random ; but for many of a much more graphic and stirring
description we must refer to the work itself, which is more-
over rich in anecdote of Irish character. The illustrations
are exceedingly beautiful. The Boyne Obelisk, and the view
of Sackville-street, in the city, from the bridge across the
Liffey, terminating it on the south,—both engravings on
steel,—are gems of art. The woodcuts are scarcely inferior
in execution, and the objects selected those that would most
impressively strike the visitor to the Irish capital. Amongst
these we would enumerate, Howth with its lighthouse ; the
Obelisk in honour of the landing of George IV. at Kingstown,
formerly Dunleary ; the College, from Dame-street ; the
Bank of Ireland ; the Castle ; and the Cathedral of St. Fe
trick,—very minute and fine in execution. The reader will
find a most interesting and characteristic description of a
Dublin " Jackeen." The number also contains some cogent
remarks on the comparative treatment of Irish and English
servants, which our fair friends of " Erin's Isle would "
well carefully to peruse. The work is one of the cheapest
and best got up that has yet issued from the modern press.

Episcopal Testimonies against the Doctrines advocated in
the " Tracts fur the Times." Liverpool: Arthur ;hex.

ling ; London : J. Hatchard and Son.
There is perhaps no doctrine more Prominently professed
by the members of the Puseyite schism than the profound
deference which is due to the episcopal authorities of the
church ; and how that profession has been adhered to in
,
practice the public are sufficiently aware. The interdiction
of episcopal authority did not prevent the re-publication,
again and again, by Mr. 'Newman, of the tract No. 90 with
notes and additions, increasing infinitely its objectiwiable
nature ; and even nearer home we have, within the last few
weeks, had an example of the tone of deferent submission
with which the conduct of a venerable bishop has been ;
madverted upon by the Puseyite press. "
The publication of the compilationo Chaeofotreerzr,y,
Armagh
containing
Lichfield,
Lincoln, Calcutta,
fs
of London,
the testimonies
n,
Chester, Chichester, Durham, Exeter, Gloucester,
Lincoln, Oxford, Ripon, and Win
of Ohio and Virginia Winchester, and the Bishops
, is admirably timed at the present mo-
ment. The task, which we
Bride's,
understand is by the Rev. Mr.
Townsend, Curate of St.
and we .. in this town, is ably per-
formed;sincerely hope that it 'll
that usofulness which -
author. has been the object of its reverend

is worti

fey of remark that her Majesty never travels by

railway

TRI WILL 01, THE LAT', .T. Woon.—ln the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court on Wednesday, in the cases of Helps v. Wood,
and the Corporation of Gloucester v. Wood, the sums of
£70,000 in one suit, and £40,000 in the other. were ordered
to be paid into Court.

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ESDAY,2d MARCH, 1842.
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