The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-25 00:00:00

THE MAKE OF PIG IRON.

At Abersychan
At Dudley Wood and Netherton, con-
nected with Corngreaves ,370 „
At Ruabon ............................ 3,787 „

Total make of pig iron 17,823 tons.
THE MAKE OF BARS, RAILS, AND OTHER
MANUFACTURED IRON.

At Abersychan—
Bar iron and rai15...... tons 2187 1
Mill bars i, 3141 I 5,328 tons.
At Corngreaves
At Brierley Hill 1,473 ~
At Ruaboi,

Total make of bars, rails, and 1 15,707 tons.
other manufactured iron ..
The report proceeded to show that the result of these opera.
tions had been a loss of £8,784 ss. 1 ld. on the trading
business of the company, inclusive of the payments for fixed
rents, expenses of management, &c. Since the resolution
passed by the shareholders, in November last year, as to the
inexpediency of attempting to dispose of the company's
property in the then depressed state of the trade, the price of
iron in Wales and in London had declined about £1 ss. per
ton, and in Staffordshire about 10s. per ton ; and the directors
were of opinion that some arrangement for bringing the
affairs of the company to a close should be attempted early
next year.—The Chairman stated, that the amount against
the company at present was £150,000 to Mr. Attwood ; the
gross amount (including that sum) was £400,000., against
which there was the property, which produced 40,000 tons of
iron and upwards. The report was adopted after the ex-
pression of a general wish by the meeting that the affairs of
the company should be wound up as speedily as possible.

A paper was read on the 22d instant before the Royal
Medical and Chirurgical Society of London, giving an ac-
count of a case of successful amputation of the thigh during
the mesmeric state, by Messrs. Ward and Topham.
THE MARKETS IN IRELAND.—:-PCOVisiORS of every sort
still rate- very low. Excellent beef was sold in Mayo on
Saturday at from 21d. to 30. per lb. ; good mutton at the
same; the best description of potatoes were sold on Saturday
at lid. per stone, and were bought on Wednesday or Thurs-
day at lid. Oatmeal sold on Saturday at from 7s. to 7s. 6d.
a cwt., and oats at from 3s. 6d. to 4s. 4d. Some oats of an
inferior description were purchased at 3s. We heard expe-
rienced persons say, that the growers can as well afford to
sell oats this year at 4s. as they could last at 6s. at least.
There can be no doubt but potatoes are, by one-third or
more, a better crop this year than last. According to this
calculation, the farmers would not be such losers by the low
prices as might appear at first sight and as has been stated.
Butcher's meat has come down somewhat nearer than it
heretofore did, in proportion to the price of cattle.—Mayo
paper- •

AN INGENIOUS DEVICE.—The Postmaster-General has
issued a bill all over the country, warning persons of the
danger of enclosing coin in letters that pass through the post,
and recommending the adoption of Post-office orders for the
transmission of small sums. A person who was in the habit
of sending small amounts in letters to a poor correspondent
through the post, had one stolen, and being unwilling to give
his correspondent, who was bedridden, the trouble to attend
to Post-office orders, he bought a number of buttons, such
as are bought by tailors to be covered with cloth. These
buttons were the precise size of a half-sovereign. When he
wished to send a remittance, he place a half-sovereign on a
button, and covered it with a thin piece of cloth in the man-
ner a tailor would do it, which scarcely occupied the labour
of a minute. The button was then fastened in the letter,
and the eye of the former was made to protrude through the
latter, so as to make it appear as if a pattern button was
merely sent through the post. This ingenious device evi-
dently deceived the Post-office gentry, and secured several
half-sovereigns from the appropriation claws of postmasters
and their assistants. Every button came safe to hand.

THE PRESTON GUILD ROBBERY.—It will be recollected,
that at the late Preston Guild a gentleman of the name of
Marquise, a manufacturer in Lancashire, and who was for-
merly a foreman in the employ of the late Sir Robert Peel
(father of the Premier), was robbed of his pocket-book, con-
taining bank-notes to the amount of £2,000 and upwards.
It seems that one of the notes stolen, of the value of £3OO,
has recently been presented by Messrs Masterman and Co.
to the Bank of England for, and refused, payment, and the
Bank of England has detained the note. Messrs. Masterman
and Co.. it appears, received the note from the firm of
Rothschild and Co., who stated that their house at Paris
transmitted it to them. Information of the presentation and
detention of the note having been communicated to Mr.
Marquise, he immediately took active measures to trace the
note back to the party who paid it into the bank at Paris, and
sought and obtained an interview with the woman whom, it
will be remembered, he successfully prosecuted for being con-
cerned in the robbery. This woman disclosed where the
pocket-book which contained the note was hidden, and it was
subsequently recovered ; and that her accomplice in the rob-
bery was a man, a mechanic well known in Sheffield, where,
before the robbery, he had worked and resided for some
years ; and that she believed he had left the country the day
following that of the robbery. There can be no doubt that
the man is concealed somewhere in or about Paris.
THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY'S " HOLY VIRGINS" DE-
TECTED.—The readers of the STANDARD will remember that
we last year gave an account of the Earl of Shrewsbury's
credulity, in reference to a disgusting exhibition near Cham-
bery. a place in the vicinity of Geneva. That nobleman
published a description of his visit to a young female, whose
hands and feet bore the marks of the nails which attached
Christ to the cross ; and every morning the wounds bled
spontaneously. The young woman was described as emi-
nently pious, and with a heavenly calmness and resignation
upon her countenance ; and all the flowers of the nobleman's
rhetoric and powers of description were called into play to
give an additional solemnity and effect to his account. It
now appears that the whole thing (as we denounced it to be
at the time above referred to) is a deception and a cheat.
Certain priests prevailed upon a common prostitute (Lord
Shrewsbury's patient and resigned virgin) to enact the part
of the victim ; and for some time the cheat has brought large
sums to their coffers. Another girl was also invested with
the deception, she having some symbolic marks of the same
nature about her. It appears that the police have taken
these wretches into custody ; but the moment the neigh-
bouring inhabitants heard of the detection of the fraud, they
crowded round the house, where it had taken place, set fire
to the building, and razed it to the ground. This discovery
of the abominable fraud, which took place at the commence-
ment of the present month, has led to some extraordinary
disclosures connected with the manner in which all the mis-
creants, male and female, lived together.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT.—On Monday the police-office
was exceedingly crowded, even to suffocation, in consequence
of a trial that was expected to come on, in which two persons,
one of whom was understood to be in rather comfortable cir-
cumstances, were charged with having entered into a conspi-
racy, and made an attempt, to set fire to no fewer than fifteen
houses, for the purpose of defrauding the County Insurance
Office of London. The circumstances of the case are as fol-
low :—On Saturday night last, the watchman on Stephen-
street station observed fire issuing from some empty houses
in that street, and having given the alarm, the flames were
subdued. On examining the premises, in order to discover
the cause of the fire, a quantity of carpenter's shavings and
sticks, piled, and covered with tar, were found, and amongst
these were placed several lighted candles—the entire arranged
in the most judicious manner possible for speedy combustion.
The houses were insured, and had been occupied by improper
persons, who were dispossessed at the last Quarter Sessions
of this town, and since then the premises have been unlet.
The houses intended to have been consumed, had the diabo-
lical arrangement taken effect, belong, we understand, to our
respected townsman, Hill Hamilton, Esq., from whom they
were held on lease by William M`Master. It appeared that
the latter individual offered certain sums of money to Samuel
Boyle, his own agent, and a carpenter named Nicholl, if they
would set fire to the premises in question. Nichol had, how-
ever, after helping to set fire to the houses, and fearing an
arrest, turned informer, and was a material witness in the
case. M`Master and Boyle was committed to the assizes.—
Belfast Times.

A waterspout was seen in this neighbourhood on the after-
noon of Tuesday, the 25th ult. The now, which had fallen
copiously during the early part of the day, had nearly ceased,
but the mass of dark cloud was still sweeping along in a N.
W. direction. It seemed to extend but a short distance sea-
ward, but was exceedingly dense at its western limit, where
it appeared very much agitated by eddies. Fissures were
sometimes produced, affording transient glimpses of the snow-
clad hills of Arran, bright with sunshine, in striking contrast
with the deep gloom which intervened. The commotion of
the elements became more distinct in consequence of the
ceasing of the snow. A part of the snow-cloud approached
the surface of the water, which then assumed a boiling aspect
—appeared as if emitting steam—and rose vertically in vari-
ous places. In one instance the phenomenon referred to was
distinctly formed. It appeared to rise from the surface of
the water in the shape of a cone, communicating at its apex
with an apparently aqueous column, ascending, perhaps, 100
feet. It expanded towards the top, forming an appearance
very much resembling an inverted. cone, placed on an upright
one. The shaft presented a variety of aspects, at one time
curving slightly in the direction of the current, at another as-
suming a serpertine form. The appearance was visible for
about a minute. The direction of the wind immediately be-
yond could not be distinctly ascertained. A vessel was seen
to the westward, but so obscurely as to leave the action of the
wind on it indeterminate; she seemed to be affected (at least
in anticipation), having diminished her display of canvass. A
steamer, however, which appeared at a considerable distance
to the S.W. had the wind In a direction nearly opposite to
that which prevailed on shore. Such appearances are com-
mon in the Indian Ocean.—Ayr Advertiser.

A very curious statistical return has just been furnished
by Mr. E. Deas Thomson, Colonial Secretary, relative to
our Australian colonies, exhibiting the progress they have
made within the last ten years, which is in many respects
very remarkable. For instance, the total value of imports
into New South Wales, including the district of Port Philip,
was £604,620 in 1832, and £2,527,988 in 1841 ; the value of
the exports was respectively at the same periods £384,344
and £1,023,397. These returns show the remarkable fact
of a gradual increase of trade up to the year 1840, at which
point it abruptly ceases; the next year showing a considera-
ble decrease. In the returns which regard the district of
Port Philip separately, however, the same decrease is not
observable in the exports. The amount for which this place
figures in the total above stated for 1841 is, for imports
£335,252, and £139,155 for exports. The total value of the
imports of grain into the colony, including Port Philip, was,
in 1832, £33,365, and in 1841, £201,632: the returns in this
particular show the same decrease which affected the whole
trade in 1841, the article flour and bread forming the sole
exception, and, on the contrary, showing a considerable in-
crease. The return of land in cultivation throughout the
whole colony, at the close of 1841, shows the principal pro-
duce to be wheat and maize, of which the number of acres is
respectively 58,605 and 25,004, producing 832,776 bushels of
the one, and 503,803 of the other. The number of ships
built and registered in the colony was 21 in 1832, the total
tonnage being 2,143; and in 1841 the number was 110, the
tonnage being 11,250. The revenue from the sale of crown
lands in the colony was, in 1832, £12,509 13s. 10d. ; in 1840
it was £316,626 7s. 5d., having gradually increased every
year till then, and in 1841 it fell to £90,387.
TILE SCOTCH Cu intcx.—Considerable attention is at pre-
sent fixed upon the convocation now sitting at Edinburgh, t o
deliberate upon several important questions which have for
some time agitated the Scotch Church. Nothing is as yet
known about the deliberations, but it has been rumoured,
says the Glasgow Argus, that they are by no means at one
in their views--a rumour which, we believe, had no better
foundation than its extreme probability. The Scottish Guar-
dian of Tuesday. which may be supposed likely to have some
channel of communication with those in the secret, says, ou
the authority of a correspondent, that " their deliberations
have been characterised by the most remarbable and grati-
fying unanimity" Another correspondent says:—" The
spirit all along, upon the whole, has been good ; to-day Sa-
turday) perfectly delightful. The members have been firm,
dmided, calm, and all but unanimous." If these assertions
may be trusted. we may infer that the whole body almost all
resolved upon holding the most uncompromising course, for
such was the one strongly vindicated by Dr. Candlish, in his
concluding remarks at the Commission on Wednesday.
That the result of their deliberations will be an appeal of
some sort or other to the Government and Legislature may
be regarded certain. The issue will not probably be made
known before the Convocation separates, if even immediately
then. In the mean time, it can only be guessed at from the
materials before our readers. The number of clergymen at-
tending it is stated variously. The Witness, a leading non-
intrusion journal, says 460 ; the Mercury states it at 500.
It was expected that their consultation would be brought to
a close on Wednesday or Thursday, (yesterday.)
SOUTHEND.—SHIPWRECKS AND NARROW ESCAPE.—
The 19th instant was a most beautiful day, the wind at S.W.,
when about nine o'clock in the evening it shifted to S.E.,
and began to blow a fresh breeze. About 12 o'clock the
rain fell in torrents, and, the wind then blowing a strong
gale, boats and vessels put off on the look out. They had
not to go far to find a job, for directly off Southend lay not
fewer than nine ships driven on that dangerous and well-
known sand, the Nore. The gale at this time had increased
into a rerfect hurricane, and the destruction amongst the
shipping was most dreadful, some drawing their anchors,
running into each other, bulwarks cracking and smashing in
every direction. When the anxiously-looked for daylight
came, the water was covered with pieces of yards, masts,
boats, spirits, &c. A large brig, called the Robinson, was
seen to be in a dangerous situation, when one of the look-
out boats made to her, and remained by her but a little time,
for they were obliged to hasten into the boat, and leave her,
as she fell down on her beam ends, and became a total wreck
in a-few minutes. The boats succeeded in saving the ship's
crew, eight in number, and landed them safely at Southend.
The Caroline brought in a ship's longboat, a seaman's chest,
two hammoicks, &c. There was great alarm at one time, it
being feared that the men had stopped too long by the
Robinson, and bad gone down with her, but we are happy to
state not a soul was lost. The Duke of Wellington smack,
belonging to this place, succeeded in getting a schooner off
the sand, and took her to Landon. Anchors and chains are
to be found in numbers under the Nore. The yawls are
coming in with coals, &c., which have besn taken from the
ships that have been obliged to throw articles overboard.
The Dart smack has brought in a ship's mainmast and rig-
ging, and the Southend watermen have not been so busy for
some time. The James and Susan yawl put her boat off to
a ship in distress but coOld not make her, and was blown
away for some time.—Essex Herald.

VESSELS ENTERED FOR LOADING.

(SINCE OUR LAST PUBLICATION.)

EAST INDIES, CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, LYc.
Patna, 362 China, T & J Brocklebank
AFRICA.
Devonia, S B Long, 84 Africa, J Glynn & Son
WEST INDIES AND MADEIRA.
Magnolia, F Johnson, 232 Barbadoes, S L Trotman
Hannah, A Rattray, 296 Havana, Ashley Brs
Sealby, 92 Trinidad, J N Wood & Co
SOUTH AMERICA.
Columbus, D Green, 319 Pernambuco, Cotesworth & Wynne
Royal Bride, G Welch, 119 Rio Grande, Crawford, Muir & Co
Eliza, E Woolley, 378 Valparaiso, W & J Tyrer

UNITED STATES.
Woodstock, W B Taber, 520 Charleston, Fielder, Brs &Co
Huron, A Sibbison, 449 Charleston, Amey, Catto &Co
Ann Hall, C Hubert, 773 Mobile, Fielden Brs & Co
Montrose, J Davys, 699 New Orleans, Fielden Brs & Co
Lord Wellington, D M'Etae, 732 New Orleans, Fielden Brs &Co
Henry Bliss, G Smith, 729 New Orleans, J& T Johnson
BRITISH AMERICA.

Margaret Jane, 103 St. John, Nfld, C T Bowring & Co

EUROPE.
Amelia, P Trinick, 55 Gijon, J Glynn & Son
Annie, C Potter, 177 Gibraltar and Malaga, J Aikin & Son

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, NOVEMBER 22.
Prevented by contrary winds, we had very few Corn vessels
into this port up to the'close of last week, and although
somewhat increased since, the arrivals of Grain fresh in for
to-day are, upon the whole, rather limited, whilst of Irish
Oatmeal and Flour we have to note a moderately fair supply,
with 2334 barrels of the latter from the American States and
Canada.

Upon the appearance of several country millers and the
usual number of local buyers at this day's market, the
transactions in Wheat, although effected with rather less
difficulty than last week, were by no means lively, and in
order to induce the trade to purchase, even to a moderate
extent, a further decline was complied with, thereby redu-
cing our quotations generally 3d. per 701bs. below the cur-
rency of this day se'nnight.
English and Irish Flour gave way Is. per sack, as well as
Canadian 6d. per barrel, all descriptions of this article having
been taken off very sparingly.
Oats continued to meet a very limited demand, and, not-
withstanding the scanty supply at hand, were the turn
cheaper. Oatmeal was in slow request, at the full abate-
ment expressed in the preceding report.
Barley, having been taken less freely, may be noted Is.
per quarter lower; and Malt, Beans, and Pease remained in
the same languid position as previously stated.