The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-01 00:00:00

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certainties of war, involving much additional
expense, and the rapid decline in the corn markets,
is a circumstance rather favourable than otherwise.
The fluctuations in the value of the public funds
have been but slight, depressed by the absence of
favourable accounts from the scene of contest, but
re-acted upon by the demand for stock for re-
investment of dividends, and the prospect of an
abundant supply of home-grown corn. Commercial
affairs show no particular activity, which is usually
the case at this time of year, when attention is
more paid to relieving the toils of town life by a
resort to rural shades and pleasant retreats on the

decrease of £190,195, but on the other hand there
is a decrease of £1,149,170 in the public deposits,
of which about half a million may be considered to
have been devoted to the payment of the dividends,
and the remainder to the redemption of deficiency
bills, as shown by a corresponding decrease in
government securities. There is also a consider-
able decrease in the other securities, with a very

small reduction in the other deposits ; so that, If
these returns afford any insight into the state of
monetary affairs, it is of a favourable character.
The Foreign Exchanges have also shown an im-
provement, which has tended to check the demand
for bullion for exportation, and the continued
arrivals will no doubt remove any apprehensions of
scarcity, at least for the present.

Those who remember the speculations which
were indulged in when the discoveries of gold in
California and Australia were first made, of the
monetary derangements which were anticipated
from the plethora of gold, must be by this time
convinced of the groundlessness of their apprehen-
sions. We then stated, and subsequent events
have fully justified the correctness of our opinions,
that the danger was considerably over-estimated,
for two especial reasons. In the first place, that
gold, instead of being as it is generally considered,
the representative of value, is but the small
change of mercantile transactions, so that any
excess affects but a small per tentage of tangible
property. In the next place, the great increase of
trade, owing to the stimulus given to manufactures,
exportation and consumption is more than suffi-
cient to absorb the additional gold, so that, instead
of capital suffering by the excess and the consequent
lowness of interest, the direct reverse has been the
case, and the complaint has been that bullion has
been scarcer and interest has been higher than
they were before we had received any of the sup-
plies from California and Australia. We may now,
however, expect a tendency to reaction. An
abundant harvest, by reducing the price of the
necessaries of life, will disengage a large amount
of gold in circulation, and a diminished importa-
tion, or a similar reduction in its value, will also
lessen the demand for gold, to equalise the ex-
changes, so that there is every reasonable prospect
of the money market being in a comparatively easy
state, ex ept so far as it will be affected by the
additional expenditure on account of the war.

In the cotton manufacturing districts, trade
generally is better, and prices have advanced,
owing to the increased demand not only for expor-
tation but for home consumption. This, however,
is not the case with goods for the India and China
markets, it being the dull time of year, and the
advices just received by the overland mail, though
better than formerly, not being sufficiently en-
couraging to stimulate operations here. There are
still complaints from the woollen districts of
depressed trade, but appearances on the whole are
more favourable, as shown by the improved demand

for the_ raw material at the sale; which have
recently taken place in London and in this town.
The hosiery and lace trades are- dull, but it is

that prices have passed the lo'west point

Le than for tributed in no slight degree

Messrs. HUGHES and RONALD say :
" A change has taken place since our last monthly cir-
cular, and the wool market has experienced considerable
improvement in the demand for those descriptions which
are generally sought after by the trade, and most available
for immediate use. The quantity of wool grown this last
year at home, is much larger than before known, and as
there is scarcely two-thirds of the machinery going at the
present time, compared with the same period last year,
and wool in the yarn, a lower ratio, at lower rates than in
the fleece, we look for no great advance on the present
prices."

COTTON. There has been a gradually im-
provinc, trade, owing to the increased activity of
the manufacturers, the better state of feeling in
the money market, and the prospect of an abund-
ant harvest. Prices have partially advanced, mid-
dling qualities being about 1-16 d higher. The
sales for the week up to Friday wounted to
61,960 bales, of which 5,140 were taken on specu-
lation, and 8,300 for export, leaving 48,520 for the
trade. The sales TO-DAY were 7,000 bales, of
which about 2,000 were on speculation and for
export, and the market closed steadily without any
alteration in prices. The following is a com-
parison of current rates with those of the cor-
responding period last year :

New Orleans Middling

Fair -
Upland Middling
Fair

1863.
6 3-16

7 ...
61-16
61 ...

DESCRIPTION. PRICES. Week Previ-
, ending • ously
July 28 this yr.

Sea Island 9 CZ32 760 16720
Stained ' —1 830
Boweds 42 6} 15790 271440
Mobile 4 6i 5180 146870
New Orleans. 3i 7i 29090 549250
Pernams, &c. 72 U5O 27900
Bahia, &c. 62 440 18380
Maranham 6 Bi, 450, 19630
Demerara, &c, ' 520
. Egyptian.. . 1 52 11 2550; 62850
Com.W.l.Btc. 9 10, 3760
Surat

IMPORTS. STOWt
Week This
.-
ending; Year. July 28
July 28

39961 422753
I

65351 820665!63722°

Madras I2/ 4
Bengal i

710, 57301
• • • 18331

61964 13116201

2899, 22121 16730
16284, 9390

... 27564 25030
409, 170
524 39264 60730
20811 2300

139572 175840

PRODUCE.—Very little change has taken place
during the week, the amount of business being
moderate without alteration in prices. As the
market for Sugar continues to be supplied freely,
the transactions TO-DAY, including those since
Friday, have been considerable, comprising 85
hogsheads St. Lucia at 31s. to 325., 90 hogsheads
Trinidad at 30s. 3d. to 315., 50 hogsheads Deme-
rara at 365. 6d. for vacuum pan, 150 hogsheads
Barbadoes at 30s. to 325., 250 bags Cossipore at
41s. 3d., 1,500 mats Mauritius at 375. to 375. 6d.,
105 hogsheads Porto Rico at 325. 6d. to 365. 6d.,
and 650 tons unclayed Manilla at 265. 6d. per cwt.
About 100 puncheons Demerara Rum are reported
at previous rates. Transactions in Tea have been
to a limited extent, at former prices. The sales in
Rice are confined to. 250 bags middling Bengal, at
12s. 6d. per cwt. We have also to report 50 bags
Saltpetre, at 31s. for 6 per cent. refraction; 50 tons
Sago flour, to arrive, at 15s. 9d. per cwt., 40 tons
Madras Redwood at £6 7s. 6d., 25 tons Sapan-
wood, at £l2 7s. 6d. to £l2 10s., and 200 tons
Lim-awood, by auction, at £l2 15s. to £l3 2s. 6d.
per ton.

METALS.--The metal market may be considered
in a very healthy state. Manufactured Iron con-
tinues ,firm in price, with a good demand. A large
business has been done in Scotch pig Iron, which
has advanced fully 3s. 6d. per ton since Wendes-
day last, when it reached its lowest point. The
demand for Copper and Tin continues steady, but
for Lead there is little demand. For Tin plates
there is a better inquiry, with improved prices.

THE NEW AMERICAN THREE-DECKED
PACKET SHIP, HARVEST QUEEN.

Tins fine specimen of naval architecture, which has just
arrived in Liverpool, is in all respects an admirable vessel,
and one well calculated to support the fame achieved by
the celebrated Black Ball line of American packet-ships.
To her owner, Charles H. Marshall, Esq., the pioneer of
the American packets from Liverpool, this town is much
indebted, and with the peculiar tact of Brother Jonathan
he seems still determined to go a-head ;" and as science
progresses—as increased speed or accommodation is de-
manded—he is ever ready to supply the requisites. In
this ship, the celebrated "builder; Wm. H. Webb, may be
justly proud of his work—speed, carrying capacity, spa-
cious deck-room, height, ventilation—in fact, all that can
be combined in ample beam, clean entrance, and well-
drawn run, is attained. Nor is strength in any way
neglected, for we may fearlessly assert that she contains a
greater amount of timber, and is better fastened, than
many a battle-ship. Her frame-work, fore and aft, is of
live oak, as also is the dead wood and kelsons. The night
heads, breast-hooks, aprons, and fourth futtocks, and all
that is necessary to secure strength, are of the same mate-
rial—live oak, locust, and red cedar. The breast-hooks are
bolted through and through with 1k in. 'bolts, clenched on
both sides, and the whole of her knees, which are natural
bends, of enormous span in the throat, are double bolted.
She has three full decks. The forecastle deck extends to
the forward house, and the mid-ship house can be Con-
nected with the poop, thus forming a fourth deck, -fotie
and aft. Her depth of hold (28 feet 6 in.) allows ample'
room for height between decks, and in all respects for the
conveyanCe of passengers she is unexcelled by anything
we have seen.. She is 200 feet over all, and has a breadth
of forty feet. The Harvest Queen spreads an enormous
amount of canvas, and her maiden passage (without copper-
ing) classes her as a first-rate sailer. She is consigned here
to Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., and is commandedby
Captain Young, a veteran in the trade, whose abilities. and
_gentlemanly demeanour have secured him the high opi-
nion of all who have sailed with him, and whose peculiar
talent as a navigator-is identified with his appointment to
so noble a craft.

BOT"DROWNTD.—On Sunday afternoon, a boy; named
Thomas Jones, whose parents reside at 28, Lower Harring-
ton-street, was bathing near the P9ttery Slip, when he got
beneath his depth, and was drowned. The body was float-
ing in the river yesterday,' off the nrunswiclA, pier, and the
inquest will be held to-day.
,‘: •

CUSTOMS FROMOTIONS.-.-.-Mr. J. Walker has been pro-
moted from the third Iv ',the second, class of landing-
waiters at Liverpool. . Mr. W. Piekthall has been pro-
moted from the fourth to the thirdclass of landing-waiters
at Liverpool. Mr.; J. W. Kelly. has been promoted from
the fifth to the fourth class of landing-waiters at Liverpool.
FATAL ACCIDENT.—Ou-Saturday, George Griffith, la-
bourer, of-Peel-place, Clizenove-street, was assisting to
hoist anew grindstone,- three tons weight, on the premises
of Mr. Brown, Waterloo-road, when it fell upon and
crushed-hins so severely that he died as he was being con-
veyed to the. Northern Hospital.
'FORTII24V-tELLING EXTBAORpINAIrie.--Ann Jones, an
elderly, squalid-looking woman, was charged before the
Polite-court, yesterday, with imposing on a silly
Irish girl, under the following singular circumstances.
.Inspector Horfie Said that his.attention was attracted to
some unusual midnight performances in the graveyard
of the chapel in Stanhope-i3treet, and on inquiry he found
the prisoner had enticed 'Ann Connor a servant-girl
residing in Falkner-street, and suspecting that Jones
might be a confederate of some thieves, and had inveigled
the girl into the place named for the purpose of aiding in
a robbery, he took-her ihto custody:' Ann Connor said
she knew the prisoner to be a fortune-teller, and being
desirous- of -knowing something as to the probabilities of
her future husband, applied to Jones to 'receive insight
upon the interesting topic. Acting with a degree of
tanning and caution scarcely to be inferred from the
other circumstances connected with the case, Connor did
'nut give the prisoner anj money, but promised her five
'shillings if her charms and. incantations were successful.
This portion of the arrangenient settled, Jones requested
Connor to get a candle, and 'at certain distances apart to
stick nine pins through the tallow into the wick. Having
done this, Connor was next to -anoint the candle with two
pennyworth of dragon's blood, ithich she did. The next
operation she had to perform was to repair, at the dead
hour 'of midnight, to a burial-grliund, and, lighting the
candle there await its burning, and, as the flame reached
each sitecessive pin, she must invoke the devil by name,
and repeat the following incantation `rhyme

•_• 4t is not the tandle I mean to*stick,
But my true lover's heart I mean to prick,
• 'That he may not get either reseor peace,
Till he comes to me to-night to give me peace.
While the witness, with a sternness of devotion worthy
of the, sybils of old, was performing the different portions
of this mystic ritual in the burial-ground referred to, and in
lively expectation of seeing her true love whom she desired
to rob of rest and peace," her performances were inter-
fered with by the unbelieving conservator of the peace,
who took her directing priestess into custody. As no
allegation'Of felony was made against the prisoner, and as
she had not received anything on any pretence, false or
otherwise, he was discharged; the magistrate telling
" Connor's sighing daughter" that if she pursued an
honest course of industry, she was much more likely to
fall in with a good husband than by burning enchanted
candles at midnight in churchyards., The blushing
damsel curtsied acquiescence in the seittinielit, MA in soft
confuicon hurried &Qi the end. .

severe note to the Baden ambassador at Rome. The car-
-974 3670 dinal declares, in the name of the Pope, that it was the
1491687 931280 Archbishop of Fribourg's duty to make opposition to the
stringent measures which the Baden government, in their
injustice, have thought fit to take against such a faithful
servant to the Church.
VIENNA, MONDAY.-Slight alteration since Saturday.
Five per Cent. Metalliques, 83i ; Exchange on London.
12.2. A French courier passed through Vienna for
Giurgevo.

POLAND,

KAMISCII, JULY 21—Prince Peter of Oldenburg, bro-
ther-in-law to the Grand Duke Constantine, will repair to
Warsaw, as Governor of Poland, to replace Prince Paskie-
witsch. General Rudiger is to remain in Poland as com-
mander-in-chief of the army there.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY EVENING, JULY. 31

LONDOL—The confirmation of the report of a battle
at Frateschti, on the 23rd, and the contradiction in the
Austrian semi-official paper, tends to the belief that it was
a hoax. The health of the Russian army is deplorable,
mainly owing to forced marches during the tremendous
heat. The sick list amounts to 33 per cent., while that
of the Turks is only 15 or 16 per cent.

(From the Second Edition of the Morning Herald.)

CO_ STA.NTINOPLE, JULY 21st.—The Prime Minister of
Persia has just sent a special envoy to Georgia to propose
the conclusion of a secret convention between the Shah
and the Czar.

The occupation by the allies of the Crimea is decided

Dervish Pasha has been named imperial commissioner

to the Austrian arms

No later news from the Baltic, but the report of an
attack on Bomarsund may be expected daily.

BEVERLEY ELECTION,

FINAL STATE OF THE POLL

Gordon
Hastings

Majority for Gordon

HOUSE OF LORDS.---MONDAY, JULY 31

Their lordships met at five o'clock.
The royal assent was given by commissionl46 public
and private bills.

The Earl of HAaDWICKE gave notice that, to-morrow,
he should ask the Foreign Secretary I.lKiit meas4res had
been adopted for the security,of_trade: agaiyattlie attacks
of the Riff pirates. . 2

The Earl of GRANTLE, in relit>. th Lord Monteagle,
said the government ivould re-inftoduce into the House of
Commons the Publioßevenue aird Expenditure Bill, with
the principal amendinents made by the select committee
of the House of fords.

The Bribemßill was read a first time, and a long dis-
cussion took• Place upon the point whether the resolution
should be Suspended Which provides that no bill be read
ii:§edopOime after,the 25th of July.
The Duke of .I%l.ivcasTLE gave a notice to-this effect.
The Townsq,linprovement in Ireland Bill was read a
third time add pasied.
. The Parechial Schoolmasters in Scotland Bill passed
through'Committee.
Oft the motion for going into committee on the Real
Estate Charges Bill, Lord ST. LEONARD'S moved tbat'the
bill be committed this day three months.
Earl FORTESCrE defended the bill.

The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the bill, observing
that, with some amendments; it would be productive of
unexampled good.

The house then divided-'—For gohig• hito committee, 26

against, 23—majority for, 3.
The bill passed through committee, with aniendments.
Earl GRANVILLE moved that the house go into com-
mittee on the Drainage of Lands Bill.
Lord PORTMAN moved that the bill be committed this
day three months:
After some objections from Lord REDZSDALE,
The house divided—For, 13.; against, 23—majority
against, 10.
The bill was consequently thrown out.
Numerous bills were advanced a stage; and the house
adjourned at half-past eight, p.m.