The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-08-15 00:00:00

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O'l'Ls.uxut should come out in such rapid succession ?
How, indeed. It la impossible to forget that Colonel

strifes has been for possession of the field with cheap copies
of Mrs. Stowes "Sunny Memories," and the struggle
has been between Messrs. Low and Sox and Messrs.
the former firm having on Monday
aaravew, and what had I issued a two-shilling copy of the book; and the latter an

eighteen-penny one on Wednesday. Others are pushing
forward into a similar contention. Mr. BENTLEY directs
attention to his cheap editions of PRESCOTT'S works ; and
the contest between Messrs. MURRAY and BORN for the
title to furnish the public with competing copies of WASH-
INGTON InvlNG's works, will, in all probability, be re-
newed. Whether right or wrong in a moral point of view,
it would seem the law sanctions the unrestricted reprint-
ing of such works, and reprinted they undoubtedly will be.
The fact, it is to be apprehended, will act disastrously
upon many publishers, who, believing the law would pro-
tect them in the right, inyested large sums in the acqui-

sition of American copyrights

On Monday night, Madame GEISI took her final fare-
well of an English audience. She was in admirable voice,
and sang charmingly to an enthusiastic and delighted

The house on the occasion, though filled, was
not crowded, a circumstance accounted for easily enough
by the interferance of speculators, who, picking up the
tickets at the ordinary prices, sought to render the last
appeal of the great Prima Donna as dear as possible in the
remembrance of an English audience, by demanding three
or four times their common value for these rights of ad-
mission. In the course of the performance, the stage was
literally loaded with the bouquets and other tokens of re-
membrance showered upon the admired cantatrice.

SIB JAMES GRAHAM has been suffering from an attack
of
CIIILDREN KILLED BY LIGHTNIN G.--On
neRuV.
Thursday afternoon a heavy thunderstormrs_sed over the
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village of Capel St. Mary, near Ipswich, w
tun has unfor-
ately deprived three boys of their lives,
besidesl
several others. It appeared, from the statement of the
master of the National School, that he was sitting at his
desk during the heavy storm, when suddenly the room
appeared filled with flame. The next instant he saw seve-
ral of his scholars struggling on the floor. Three were
picked up quite dead, and removed to a chapel opposite,
while many of the injured were taken to their residences.
Two poor little fellows were scorched, and nearly insen,,
school-room, a neat Gothic structure, with
thatched.
Thehedor reeded roof, was found to be on fire, the light-
ning having struck near the
chimney, and speedily ignited
the roof. The entire building is destroyed. The whole
affair has created a most painful sen.jation in the neigh.
benrheed. •

The SHIRE MARKET has been very steady and
well supported during the week. The novel features
of it have been a great disappointment in the Great
Western dividend, and a great decline in Eastern
Counties. The Great Western dividend has been
announced as at the rate of three per cent. per
annum, being a reduction of one per cent. This
has only surprised those who have not taken the
trouble to calculate the amount of the Shrewsbury
dividend, which has now to be paid by the Great
Western Company, under the new arrangement,
which will make a material impression upon the
sum to be divided until these lines are further
developed and begin to tell as feeders to the main
line. The fall in Easterns has been caused by
some heavy sales of this stock, principally on
Manchester and Scotch account, from which (these
people being generally very sagacious,) we should
augur something unfavourable yet to be made
known in the report of this company ; nothing,
however, is yet known. This day has been occupied
principally in the settlement of the account,
which proves rather bullish. Advanced prices are
being paid for next account. We annex prices :
Caledonians, 314 2 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
681 9 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 90i- ; Lancaster
and Preston, 521 p ; Sheffield Stock, 24 4 a 3i ;
Midland Stock, 67f 8 ; South Eastern, 194
11-16 13-16 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire £l6 pref.
shares, -id ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire
£6 pref. shares, 7-16 p ; Liverpool and and London
Fire and Life, 6-Ip.
_ _

COTTON.—There has been a fair demand during
the week, particularly from the trade, owing to
the continued activity of the manufacturers, and
the more favourable appearance of the Money
Market ; but supplies have been freely brought
forward, and buyers have had the advantage, par-
ticularly in the lower qualities of American, so that
prices have slightly given way, middling being
quoted 1-16 d., and ordinary 1-Bd. per lb. lower. The
sales during the week, up to Friday, amounted to
46,640 bales, of which 4950 were taken on specu-
lation, and 4000 for exportation, leaving 37,690
for the trade. Of these no less than 7200 bales
were Surats, which have recently come largely into
consumption.—To-DAY the market has been rather
inactive, the sales since Friday amounting only to
11,000 bales, of which about 2000 are on specula-
tion and for export, without change in prices.

PlionrcE.—There has been considerable activity
in the Sugar Market, and the demand having been
freely met, a large amount of business has been
done. For Coffee there has been a steady demand,
and Tea has sold at full rates. Saltpetre very dull.
Hides have realized full prices. Palm Oil has
been in good request. Tallow without alteration.
••-•To-DAY, Sugar was quiet, but steady, the busi-
ness comprising 200 hhds. Barbadoes to the gro-
cers, at 30s. to 365., being higher prices ; 650 bags
Benares, at 38s. 3d. to 395. ; 40 hhds. Porto Rico,
at 325. 6d. to 355., and 50 hhds. Cuba at 355. per
cwt. There is nothing to notice in Molasses. Rum
continues in good demand, the sales consisting of
150 puns. Demerara, the price of which is not re-
ported, and 350 casks uncoloured Havanna, at
ls. lid. per wet gfallon, being lid. to 2d. per gallon
advance on the price obtained for 200 pipes reported
on Friday. Several parcels of Coffee will be offered
by auction to-morrow. The demand for Tea has
been small, but in prices there is not any alteration
to notice : sound Common Congou is worth 101 d.
to 10d per lb. Nothing to notice in Rice or Salt-
petre. 200 bags Sago Flour are reported at 16s. per
cwt., and 50 cases Castor Oil at 41d. per lb.
WooL.—The improved feeling noticed for seve-
ral weeks back continues to characterise the trade
throughout, and prices generally are very firm,
with an upward tendency. We cannot quote any
material alteration in the prices of low Wools,
except for first and second class Egyptian, which
had suffered more in the general depression than
any other low descriptions. Fair whites may now
be quoted at 10d., and very little on the market at
that. The London sales closed very firm on Satur-
day night. The attendance of both home and
foreign buyers has been very numerous. Prices
opened firm, at an average advance of 6 to 7 per
cent. on well-conditioned Wools—on the May
series—which gradually increased to the close,
establishing an advance of 10 to 11 per cent.—
Imports for the week, 320 bales, viz., 167 Iceland,
5 Buenos Ayres, 4 Mediterranean Ports, 39 Irish,
89 Scotch, and 16 Coastwise. The demand for
English and Irish Fleece Wools has been brisk
this week, both for the home and continental
trades, and the advance established during the
previous fortnight has been fully maintained.
Irish Hogs and Wethers meet with a ready sale,
at 121 d. to 131 d., with light stocks. English
Skin Wool is now becoming scarce, and as Fleece
Wools have :advanced so rapidly of late, holders
are not inclined to sell this description unless at
d. to ld. higher rates than were current a month

T MAID OP JUDAII has arrived in the Downs from
New South Wales, from whence she sailed on the 11th
May. She brings 1.8,598 oz, of gold, of the value of
£75,392. =4 413004 iA vrorviguk