The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-10 00:00:00

THE TARIFF.-PRICES OF MEAT ABROAD

We have pleasure in laying before our readers the result of
some enquiries which we have felt it to be our duty to make,
as to the prices of meat on the continent at this moment,
more particularly in Belgium and on the coast of France ;
from whence it is anticipated by some that large quantities
of meat will be sent to the English market. We are most
glad to find that the anticipations, which we before expressed,
are well founded, that no mischief can possibly arise to Bri-
tish agriculture by the proposed alteration of the tariff, as
each of the countries, which is referred to, is an importing,
not an exporting, country, and the distance of Hamburgh
and the interior of Germany, from whence meat might be
obtained at a rather cheaper cost, renders it impossible to
import it to England except at an additional cost, which will,
together with the duty, cause a price to the English consum-
ers little short—if any—of that which they now pay.
BOULOGNE.
Beef at present sevenpence per lb., of good quality.
Gravy beef fivepence.
Butchers supply a family with meat at sixpence halfpenny.
Small quantities are charged sevenpence.
No beef is fed in that part of France ; the principal supply
comes from Belgium, and the week before last the price of
beef from thence rose a halfpenny per lb. There may be an
importation for a short time to England, but that will be
checked by the necessary increase of prices, as there is a de-
ficiency rather than a superabundance of meat in those coun-
tries. _

In Ireland much better meat can be bought at fourpence
halfpenny than is bought at Boulogne at sixpence halfpenny
and sevenpence. The prices of meat here mentioned are
according to the French pound of 17 ounces, but the English
of 16 ounces has in it much more of nutrition.
At Hamburgh beef is selling at sd. per lb.
BELGIUM.

The price of meat in Brussels now, subject to a duty on
its sale within the town of about a halfpenny the pound, is,
by the kilograme, being 2 lbs. of 17 oz.
Beef-1 franc 20 centimes, to 1 franc 25 centimes ;or
12 pence the kilogram of 2 lbs.
Mutton the same as beef. Veal is dearer.
Outside the barrier, where it is not subject to duty, it is
selling at 1 franc 10 centimes, or 11 pence for the kilograme
of 2 lbs.
During late years a large Importation of oxen has taken
place from Holland into Belgium.
The price of a beast of about 8001bs. is 500 francs, or £2O.
Of this, the duty and expenses are about 70 francs, or £3,
so that the cost in Holland is 430 francs, or about £l7,—
rather more than fivepence per lb. Belgium sends cattle
into France, which is one reason for their importing from
Holland ; and they think in Belgium that no exportation of
cattle will be allowed from thence to England, and that the
'hrohit)? on exportation to France is to be raised.—Cambridge
Cnicle.

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,-THIS DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

The imports up to Friday's market were upon the whole
very moderate, but the arrivals since then having been con-
siderably augmented, the supplies of the week altogether
contain principally a fair quantity of Wheat, and a large in-
crease of Oats coastwise and from Ireland, nearly 12,000
qrs. of Wheat from the continent of Europe, with upwards
of 10,000 barrels and 2,500 bags of Canadian, East India,
and States,Flour, as inserted below.
From these arrivals and the stocks in bond, we had a full
display of samples at this day's market ; for, although little
Foreign Wheat and Flour has yet been released under the
new act, both articles are freely offered to be delivered, duty
paid, as sales are effected ; while of Colonial Wheat and
Flour, a large portion was liberated here up to Thursday
last, and more since, at the lowest rate permitted from British

Standard-office, Eleven o'clock

APPALLING MURDER AND ATTEMPT AT

SUICIDE

(From our Preston Correspondent.)

It is this week our melancholy task to add to the gloomy
catalogue of horrid and revolting crimes, which have of late
so frequently and so acutely shocked the public mind in this
country. The very recent enactment of the tragedy we are
about to sketch, must be an apology to our readers for not
entering into any very elaborate or circumstantial details.

About one o'clock on Saturday afternoon, the inhabitants
of Preston were alarmed by the report that a murder had
taken place, at the house of Peter Whittle, living in Vicker-
street, near Trinity Church, in that town, a cotton spinner,
in the employ of Mr. Thomas Clayton, of Pitt-street. An
enquiry was immediately set on foot, when it appeared that
the report had too much foundation in truth, and that the
transaction to which it referred, was of the most painful and
cold blooded character. It seems that Whittle had not been
required to attend his customary employment this morning
nd that he had spent some portion of the day at a public-
house, or beer-shop, where he had partaken of a few glasses
of ale, but, as far as the general opinion goes, had not be-
come, to any observable degree, intoxicated.
Some time before the hour we have mentioned, probably
about twelve o'clock at noon, he arrived at his house in
Vicker-street, where his wife and children resided. The
wife, Sarah Whittle, who was a winder, also in the employ
of Mr. Clayton, returned from her work between twelve and
one, and was, to all appearance, received kindly by her hus-
band, who spoke to her in his usual way, and inquired what
time she should finish work for the day. About half an hour
after the poor woman had arrived, and after she and her hus
band had partaken of dinner, a little girl who was in the house
we believe the neice of Whittle, observed him take his victim
round the neck, apparently in a playful and affectionate man-
ner. In a few moments, however, the girl perceived some-
thing like a struggle, and instantly after observed blood flow-
ing from Mrs. Whittle's breast. At this moment the unfor-
tunate creature ran to the door, and, as well as she could ar-
ticulate, called out " Murder I" A person, who was passing,
immediately conducted her inside the house ; but in a few
minutes, and before help could be procured, she ex-
pired. In the meantime, the girl's attention was directed to
the murderer, whom she discovered in the act of cutting his
own throat in the kitchen, where he was afterwards found in
an apparently dying state. From inquiry subsequently made
on the spot, and by the police, we have ascertained that the
weapon which was the instrument of this shocking and two-
fold crime, was a razor, and that the woman's head was
nearly severed from her body. The wretched perpetrator of
the tragedy had inflicted two frightful gashes in his throat,
but hopes are now entertained of his recovery. He is, of
course, under due medical care, and under the surveillance of
the police. From the wounds on the murdered woman's
hands and person, it would appear that she had struggled se-
verely against the attack of her vnnatural assassin. What
renders the event, if possible, more distressing, is, that the
deceased was considerably advanced in pregnancy. The ru-
mour in the neighbourhood is, that jealousy has impelled the
foul and fatal deed ; though the familiar acquaintances of the
ill-fated couple state that they lived together on most affec-
tionate terms, and were both considered as of remarkably
exemplary character.