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

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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

ago flour, to arrive, at 155.-9(1. per cwt., 40 ions
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 1.55. to £l3 2s. 64.
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
arriveclin 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 1 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 extendg to
the forward house, and the mid-ship house can be con-
nected with the poop, thus forming a fourth deck, fore
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 -

first-rate sailer. She is consig,nedliere
to Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co., and is commanded by
Captain Young, a veteran in the trade, whose abilities and
gentlemanly dmeanour 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. .

Boy DROWNED.—On Sunday afternoon; a boy, named
Thormqs Jones, whOse parents reside at 28, Lower Hairing-
ton-street, was bathing near the Pottery Slip, when he got
beneath.his depth, and was drowned. The body was float-
ing in the river yesterday, off the Brunswick pier, and the
inquest will be held to-day.

CUSTOMS PaomorroNs.—Mr. J. Walker has been pro-
moted from the third to the second Class of landing-
waiters at Liverpool. Mi. W. Pickthall has been pro-,
moted from the fourth to the third clasS 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.—On Saturday, George Griffith, la-
bourer, of Peel-place, Cazenove-street, was assisting to
hoist a new grindstone, three tons weight, on the premises
of Mr. Brown, Waterloo-road, when it fell upon and
crushed him so severely that he died as he was being con-
veyed to the Northern Hospital. •

FORTUNE-TELLING EXTRAORDINARY.—Ann Jones, an
elderly, squalid-looking woman, was charged before the
Police-court, yesterday, with imposing on a silly
Irish girl, under the following singular circumstances.
Inspector Horne said that his attention was attracted to
some unusual. midnight performances in the graveyard
of the chapel in Stanhope-street, 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 into 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
cunning and caution scarcely to be inferred from the
other circumstances connected with the case, Connor did
not give the prisoner any money, but promised her five
shillings if her charms and incantations were successful.
This portion of the arrangement 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, which she did. The next
operation she had to perform was to repair, at the dead
hour of midnight, -to a burial-ground, and, lighting the
candle, there await its burning, and as the flame reached
each successive pin, she must invoke the devil by name,
and repeat the following incantation rhyme

It is not the candle I mean to stick,
But my true lover's heart I mean to prick,
That he may not get either rest or 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, she 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 sentiment; and in soft
confusion hurried from the CiArt,