The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-20 00:00:00

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The number of Waterloo officers attached to the army is—
in the Artillery and Engineers, 33 : in the Cavalry, 4-4 ; in
the Infantry, 103 officers.
It is calculated that out of the whole population of Lon-
don and the suburbs, about 40,000 persons subsist by
thieving.

After four years labour, the repairs of the astronomical
clock at Strasburgh are completed, and it will be set in mo-
tion on the meeting of the Scientific Congress on the 28th.
The British Government has presented six gold medals,
bearing the portrait of the Queen, to six captains of Ame-
rican ships, for their exertions in saving the lives of British
seamen.

The amount of money from wages thrown out of circula-
tion within the five weeks that business has been suspended
here, by the closing of the cotton mills, cannot be less than
£so,ooo.—Stockport Advertiser.
In the Quartier de Recouvrance, at Brest, an immense
foundry for marine steam-engines is . being constructed, and
on the north of the town the Minister of War is raising for-
tifications of considerable extent.

A pear was, last week, sold for 30 sous in the market of
St. Sever (Pyrenees), which weighed four pounds. Its
length, without the stem, was eight inches, and its circum-
ference about IS inches.

The large solar spot which was near the sun's eastern limb
reached the centre of that body on the 10th instant. A row
of new spots has appeared to the western of this, and also a
small one below, or to the south of it.
Lord John Russell, it is said, has been occupying his leisure
hours, since his retirement from office, in preparing for pub-
lication selections from the correspondence of John, fourth
Duke of Bedford, from the originals preserved at Woburn-
abbey.
M. CHARLES ICLAIs•
- - —This lady was delivered of a
stillborn child at two o'clock on Sunday morning at the Old
Ship Hotel, Brighton, where she had arrived the previous
evening, with her husband, for the purpose of fulfilling a
week's engagement'at the Brighton Theatre.
THE FLAX TRADE,—We are happy to report a considera-
ble improvement in the flax trade at Leeds. Nearly all the
mills which began to run short time after the alteration of the
French tariff have resumed their wonted activity, finding that
the mischief to be worked by that measure is not so great as
was expected ; and some of them are further increasing their
stock of machinery to augment their production of yarn.—
Leeds Intelligencer.
A RIVER DRIED Up,—The heats of the summer have so
dried up the waters of the river Elbe, that the water-mills
are all at a stand ; and near Pirna the river is entirely dry.
The waters, in retiring, have given up a secret kept by them
for more than 200 years. A square stone is left bare, having
the following significant inscription in Saxon patois:—
"When last men saw me, in August, 1629, they wept; and
they who see me next shall weep too."
DUTY ON Rom.—The Gazette of Friday contains an Or-
der in Council, fixing the duty upon rum from Madras
according to the following shedule :—For every gallon of
rum, of any strength of proof by Sikes's hydrometer, and so
in proportion for any greater or less strength than the strength
of proof, and for every greater or less quantity than a gallon,
being the produce of the territories subject to the government
of the Presidency of Fort St. George, in Madras. not being
sweetened or mixed with any article so that the degree if
strength thereof cannot be exactly ascertained by such hy-
drometer, 9s. 4d. For every gallon of rum shrub, however
sweetened, the produce of and imported from such territoriesf
and so in proportion for any greater or less quantity than a
gallon, 9s. 4d.
EXTENSION OF PROTESTANTISM IN FRANCE.— Few
persons are aware of a fact which we are about to mention on
the authority of a friend, who has resided much abroad, and
who possesses extensive opportunities of arriving at the truth
—viz., that Protestantism is making rapid strides in France.
In some localities the advance is marvellous; and if the move-
ment continues to progress with its present steadiness, a
great change will ultimately be effected in the religious cha-
racter of the French people. When we consider the very
important position which France occupies, it is difficult to
over-estimate the importance of such a result. The peace
and happiness of the civilized world may be materially in-
volved in it. A strong Protestant party would form the best
break-water against revolution—the best safeguard for the
preservation of the peace of Europe. There exists in Paris
a central " Societe Evangelique," which has extensive ra-
mifications, and possesses much influence, and, we believe,
considerable means. A large number of Protestant clergy-
men have been sent out by this institution, and the Report
for 1842, which we have recently seen. is full of facts which
illustrate our friends statement. Glouceshire Chronicle.
FOREIGN HARVEST.—The harvest is almost entirely
gathered in throughout the east of Europe; and we are
enabled to furnish the following comparative estimates,
collected from the most accurate accounts :—ln Selesia there
has been a good average harvest. In Poland, in Gallicia,
and in the Duchy of Posen there has been a decidedly good
harvest, and the same may be said with respect of Russian.
In Hungary the crops have been most satisfactory ; and in
the Banat, which is regarded as the granary of the country,
they have been doubly as productive as those of last year.
In Transylvannia and the Turkish provinces the harvest has
also been most plentiful. Similar abundance has also been
experienced in Moravia. Everywhere the grain is of good
quality, and yields from 15 to 10 per cent more flour than in
humid years. It may therefore be fairly predicted that in
the east of Europe the price of wheat will fall instead of
rising, even though foreign demands should be very great.—
Allgemeine Zeitung.
THE MORMONITE PROPHET.—The Rev. Henry Caswell,
Professor of Divinity in Kemper College, St. Louis, has
written a very interesting book, called "Three Days at
Nauvoo, in 1842." The writer had an interview with the
celebrated "Joe Smith," and his mother, and relates
several amusing anecdotes, all tending to show the shallow-
ness of this modern delusion. The " Prophet " thus speaks
of his miserable dunes :—" Many of the English who have
lately come here have expressed great disappointment on their
arrival. Such persons have every reason to be satisfied in
this beautiful and fertile country. If they choose to complain
they may ; but I don't want to be troubled with their com-
plaints. If they are not satisfied here, 1 have only to say
this to them—Don't stay whining about me, but go back to
England and be d—d." This man has actually mustered
no less than 1700 fighting men at his city of Nauvoo, and is
said to have, in different parts of the world, no less than
100,000 followers.

LIVERPOOL HAY AND POTATOE MARKET,
SEPTEMBER 19, 1842.
Since my report of the 12th instant our neighbouring farmers
have generally been free sellers of all descriptions of agricultaral
produce, and on Saturday last the Hay Markets were very fully
supplied, particularly with Potatoes, and although this root corn.
mands good sale, yet we cannot report any alteration in prices.
s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d.
Potatoes gotb. Old Hay .... 0 9 Go 12 1. 20th,
Short Tops 1 2 1 5 New Hay.... 0 6 0 gi -
Cups 1 4 1 6 Clover Hay.. 0 0 0 0 -
Pink-eyes
Kemps 1 6 1 7i Straw, Oat .. 0 21 0 3i -
Turnips, 5 ton 22 024 0 Straw, Barley 000 0 -
Clover and Grass

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, SEPT. 16

The duty has again advanced on Foreign Wheat to 165.,
on Rye to 10s. 6d. per qr. ; on Flour to 9s. 7id. per barrel ;
upon Colonial Wheat to 35., on Rye to ls. 6d. per qr., and
on Flour to ls. 91d. per barrel, with the prospect of these
articles shortly attaining the highest rates payable from
British possessions.
Of English, Irish, and Foreign Grain, the arrivals into this
port within the last three days have been unusually small ;
and of Flour, scarcely more than about 4000 barrels from
Canada and the United States.

Notwithstanding the prevailing impression that the imports
from abroad will not be repeated so extensively as heretofore
for some time to come, and that meanwhile we shall have to
depend principally upon supplies to be derived from the
growth of this country and Ireland, the transactions here, in
any department of the corn trade between Tuesday and to-
day, have been very unimportant, and the general quotations
specified in our last circular barely maintained.
Upon a very slender attendance of town and country buy-
ers at our Corn Exchange to-day, and more than ordinary
indifference on the part of millers to increase their engage-
ments, we have to report an exceedingly dull trade for all
descriptions of Foreign Wheat, which were decidedly easier
to purchase, and had sales been practicable to any mate-
rial extent, somewhat lower terms would have been
conceded. Of English Wheat no fresh samples appeared ;
the few small lots of Irish New, therefore, were mostly sold,
yet not without submitting to a decline of 2d. to 3d. per
'Nibs. from the rates previously noted.
States and Canadian Flour, being in limited request, were
the turn cheaper. Having no English or Irish offering,
prime marks would readily command late prices.
New Oats, meeting little attention, must be noted Id per
451bs. cheaper, but old. upon a rather better inquiry, are
unaltered in value. With the exception of 2000 to 3000
loads of old Oatmeal disposed of at an abatement of 6d per
2401b5., and a few small lots of new at a similar decline,
very little business in this article has been transacted to-day.
Being without any supply of Malting Barley, no exact
value for such is yet ascertainable, and grinding qualities are
little more than nominal to-day. Malt and Beans. moving
slowly into consumption, scarcely support former prices.
Boiling Pease are also difficult to sell ; of the slow kinds of
foreign, however, several parcels have been taken for feed-
ing at 295. to 31s. per quarter.