The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-07-04 00:00:00

HORTICULTURE.

Late sown annuals should be thinned out as soon as
they are above ground. Herbaceous plants should be
secured by stakes from high winds : early flowering bulbs,
such as tulips, hyacinths, turban ranunculi, will now be
ready for taking up. Piccotees and carnations should be
looked to for cuttings to propagate ; pipings from pinks
should be struck under hand-glasses. Dahlias should be
attended to, and traps set for earwigs and other noxious
vermin. Strawberry runners should be prepared for next
spring ; plant Brussels sprouts in rich deep soil ; the
young wood of wall-fruit trees should be railed in. Celery
may still be planted out, and should be well supplied with
water. Box-edging and hedges should be kept thinned,
and the beds kept clear of weeds. Nearly all kinds of
winter greens may now be planted out. Cauliflowers
should have liquid manure.

__ .oe worse appear the better reason,
..is well known and pretty generally admitted; but the
power of countenance displayed by him in endeavouring
to show that Ministers acted with propriety and consis- CONVICTS.—By a parliamentary return, it appears that
tency in opposing the clause on the 22nd, and voting for 946 convicts, under sentence of transportation, have, be-
-,n the 29th was more than even he had ob- tween October 10, 1853, and May 15, 1854, received
His arguments fell as unconvincingly licenses to be at large in the United Kingdom.
iditory, as erst did his moral suasion on
the obtuse understandings of the South Sea Stockholders. CROPS.—The luxuriant aspect of the crops is a subject ,
If the reasons which Mr. GLA.DSTONE adduced were not of general congratulation, and the farmers speak in the
credited, the motives which he did not declare were most encouraging way of the prospect of the forth-coming
kindly as well as shrewdly guessed at. It is more than a harvest.
'hese clauses, if not THE QUEEN OP SPAIN has just presented the Abbe
'f Lords; and Humphry, rector of the Church of St. Louis-les-Francais,
L 1 at Madrid, a royal mantle for the statue of that saint, and
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throw the odium of rejecting such legislation on the for its rich embroidery, has been sent to another statue
Peers, compel the representative of Oxford University, of the Virgin in the same church. In short, their statues
and he allows himself to be through the mire to have now, like Mrs. Morton's charming woman, "
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STONB is a University representative supply the proof ?
If the country is displeased, as well as astonished, at the
shabby mode in which questions of public moment are
,ted by the Government, they are not less amazed if
much dissatisfied at the mode in which
of different kinds are disposed of
oy committees of the legislature. This feeling has re-
vived a new impulse by the deliverance of the Committee
called the " great Irish stew," arising
enunciations fulminated against the
_ ..embers, from whatever source ema-
nating ; but it appears that considerable difficulty existed
in obtaining the committee's agreement on the report.
Mr. BUTT proposed the insertion of a clause, expressive of
4i conviction that in Irish society there is a readiness to
upon very slight grounds conclusions detri-
`he character of political opponents ; and, to
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of individuals, without being
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The report is par-

Tait SuccEssprx. BARRISTER.--According to the Paris
correspondent of the Atlas, a young English barrister has
succeeded in marrying Mad'lle R—, the wealthiest
heiress in Paris, and connected with one of the highest
families. The young lady was known to possess an un-
disguised weakness for a well-dressed man, and by loudly
expressing this opinion had been of more service to the
tailors of Paris within the last year than Count d'Orsay
in double the space of time. The barrister had many
rivals, but the most formidable was a gentleman acknow-
ledged to be the most approved dandy in Paris. The lady
selected these two to decide from, and invited them both
to her chateau. The Frenchman declared to his friends
that he meant to cut the matter short at once by so out-
shining the Englishman by his dress that the latter would
retire from the field crushed to atoms by the superior skill
he was determined to manifest on the occasion. The
Englishman said nothing, made no boast, but accepted the
invitation, and, together by the same train, the two rivals
left Paris for the seat of war. It so happened that the
French dandy had furnished himself with a regular
trousseau for the occasion at the great English tailor's in
the Rue du Helder, and the English tailor, out of sheer
compatriotism, had told Mr. of what it was com-
posed. A sudden idea flashed across the brain of the bar-
rister. His servant, one of the sanctified hypocritical roue
valets for whom London was always famous, is something
about the height and size of the French prjtendu. Mr.
H— immediately ordered for this ally the exact counterpart
of every suit already ordered by the Marquis de la B—.
The first day, at dinner, the poor young marquis was
rather disconcerted, when upon entering the dinmg-room,
his glance alighted upon the very counterpart of himself,
standing stiff and self-centred behind the Englishman's
chair ; and he looked angrily at his rival to see if any in-
sult was intended, but the Englishman was too intent
upon making himself agreeable to the lady to notice his
ruffled— temper. The second day the same scene was
enacted, although our hero had completely changed even
the style of his whole tournure ; and again was the same
ill-humour displayed during the whole of dinner, while
Mr. H— was profiting by the silenceofhiswitty rival.
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FAERION•ABLE FEMALE PICYPOCICIRTIA—Two well-
dressed young women, who gave their names as Mary Ann
Williams and Judith Godfrey, were charged by Detective-
officer .Russellwith attempting to pick pockets on Saturday
last. The officer said, as he was passing:along Church-
street on Saturday,. his attention was attracted by the
movements of the prisoners, whom he saw make attempts
upon the pockets of several ladies,. but they were not suc-
cessful. He then followed them into St. John's Market,
and observed them attempt the pockets of.' others, but
still without success. They next went towards Lime-
street, and here he saw one of them put her band into the
pocket of a woman who was looking into a shop-window.
He asked the woman if she had lost anything, and she,
putting her hand into • her pocket, said, "Yes, a purse."
The purse was found iniher own basket. The prisoners were
defended by an attorney ; and the case was remanded till
this day.

Our SHARE MARKET has undergone some severe
fluctuations during the week.. It opened on Tuesday
last with as strong upward tendency. The scarcity
of stock and some rather extensive purchases gave
strength to this,. and London andNorth-Western
went as high as 109 ; Midland;. 69 ; Leeds, 681 ;
and Caledonians, 32-1. There has been a larger
amount of business done than in, any week for some
time. As; however, might be- expected, after so
decided am advance, a reductiOn took place on
Saturday, which has further progressed to-day,
and prices have receded some two or three per
cent. from their highest point; Londons, this
evening, being only about 1Oa`• Midland, 664 ;
Leeds, 66 ; at these prices the- market is pretty
firm. The less favourable weather and news from
the East has had much effect in producing this
decline. We annex quotations : Caledonians,
311- -I; East Lancashire, 164 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire,. 66 s 6 5f f I,- 6 ; Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 12 ; London Stock, 105 ;
Sheffield Stock, 211 ; Midland- Stock, 66 5-1 61 4
61 ; Newry and Enniskillen, 51d ; North
British, 8 7-16 ; South Eastern, 191 lc 7-16 ;
St. Helen's R and C 6 per cent. 120.

EXTRAORDINARY SHOPLIFTING.
A LIVERPOOL TRADESIVIAN COMMITTED FOR
TRIAL.

A considerable time was occupied yesterday by the
police magistrates in investigating an extensive series of
shepliftings, which for a considerable time past have been
practised with success in Liverpool. An elderly and
rather respectable-looking foreigner, who gave hi.s name
as Speridion Louage, was charged with having- stolen a
great number of pieces of silk handkerchiefs, principally
from the shops of Messrs. Forrester and Co. Church-
street, and of Messrs. Frisby, Dyke, and Co., 1,4;d-street ;
and Thomas Fell, taibr and draper, in Paradise-street,
was charged with receiving the same, knowing them to
have been stolen. _

COTTON.—There has been a very active trade
during the past week, particularly in the lower
East India qualities, the total sales of the week up
to Friday amounting to 77,520 bales, of which
16,500 were taken on speculation, and 5,780 for
export, leaving 55,240 for the trade. Middlings
are quoted 1-16 d. per Th-. dearer. TO-DIY the
adviees per Niagara were received, and were con-
siderably favourable to holders ; but the market
being freely supplied, owing to the recent large
importations, we cannot quote any further ad-
vance. The sales were 8,000 bales, of which about
2,000 were on speculation and for export, previous
prices were steadily maintained, and the market
closed firmly. The following is a comparison of
present prices with those of the corresponding
period last year :

Russell, the detective officer, said that in consequence
of information he had received, he was on the- look-out
yesterday morning in Church-street, and saw the prisoner
Lounge, who had a handkerchief round his neck and over
his left elbow, as if he-had a sore arm. Louage went into
Forrester's shop, where he remained some time, and on
coming out went immediately to the shop of Fell, the
other prisoner, in Paradise-street, where witness, on look-
ing through the window, distinctly saw Lounge take a
flat parcel, containing black silk handkerchiefs, out of his
pretended sling and hand it to Fell, who seemingly made
a few remarks, took the parcel from Lounge, and laid it
aside, and the latter came out. Louage next proceeded up
Lord-street, followed by Russell, and entered the shop of
Messrs. Frisby, Dyke, and Co., witness taking his stand
on the opposite side of the street, and the window
being empty at the time, he could see perfectly what
passed in the shop. While observing this, he saw Louage
looking over several parcels of handkerchiefs, which did
not seem to please him, and he was shown others. While
the attention of the shop assistant was diverted to the
turning out of fresh parcels, witness saw Lounge take a
parcel of handkerchiefs, and place it rapidly in the sling-
handkerchief, and shortly after leave the shop, again mak-
ing his way directly to the shop of Fell, where the same
kind of intercourse as that to which he had been previ-
ously a witness took place. On this, witness went into
Fell's shop, and asked if he knew Louage, and whether
he had bought anything from him that morning. To this
question Fell at once answered in the affirmative, and pro-
duced two parcels of handkerchiefs as those which he had
just bought from Louage. On further questioning, Fell
admitted readily that he had bought a considerable quan-
tity of handkerchiefs from Louage, and produced them ;
some from a drawer, some from shelves, and some from a
room up stairs. All of this property, amounting in value
to between £7O and £BO, Russell took possession of, and
he also apprehended both the prisoners. After their ap-
prehension, Russell communicated the facts of the case
to Messrs. Forrester and Co., and Messrs. Frisby, Dyke,
and Co.
*Mr. Birt, one of the shop-assistants of Frisby, Dyke,
and Co., identified a portion of the property as belonging
to those gentlemen. He also recognised Lounge as one
who, in the course of that morning, had visited their es-.
tablishment, and looked over a great many handkerchiefs
under various plausible pretexts, and concluded his visit
by purchasing a handkerchief, for which he paid 4s. Part
of the handkerchiefs Lonage had sold to Fell were some
of those the witness had shown to the former-named
prisoner. Others were like handkerchiefs which Messrs.
Frisby, Dyke, and Co. had considerable quantities of, but
from these the private marks had been removed, and con-
sequently they could not be identified.
John S. Junian, shop-assistant to Messrs. Forrester and
Co., identified a large number of handkerchief pieces as
thean ravPeirdttTalawhhisoerierring telleattfeevre:::: Lonage
frequently about their shop. Goods had so' frequently
been missed of late, and particularly after Lounge's visits,
that he was suspected of having stolen them.
For Fell, who was represented by Mr. Bluck, solicitor,
it was stated in defence that Lounge represented himself
as an Austrian sea-captain, who had purchased a large
quantity of silk handkerchiefs and other goods for export;
but that in consequence of the war breaking out, he found
it would be unsafe to export them, and he therefore sold
them. Fell, it was said, believing the story, purchased
them, and gave the culprit a fair price for them. It was
likewise contended, that as he offered no evasion or con-
cealment, the inference that he believed the transaction to
be bond fide was a fair one.
The magistrates remarked that the case was of too
serious a character to be disposed of otherwise than by
the verdict of a jury. Both prisoners were committed for
trial.

New Orleans, middling

Uplands, middling

DESCRIPTION. PRICES.! Week Prey].
ending ously
June 30 this yr.

Sea Island I S @24 11601 12440
Stained 8 10, 710
Boweds 4 61 16870 227690
Mobile 4 61 11040 123610
New Orleans. 31 8 38690 449810
Pernams, &c. 6 S 510, 24170
Bahia, &c 6l 61 6401 13720
Maranbam
Demerara,&c 81 10 60, 370
Egyptian 5;l 9-1 1820, 53060
Com.W.l.&e. 6 301 3490
Surat
Madras
Bengal 2l 3 1001 1500

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1853. 1854.
63d. 5 7-16 d,
Gid.
6d. 5 5-16 d,
61d. 61d.

!STOCK

IMPORTS
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ending June3o
junew Yeu.

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3742 17102; 16900
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PRoDucz.—The Sugar market has been very
dull, owing to the near approach of the change in
duties, and sales have been effected at lower rates.
Tea has been in better request.--In Oils a fair
business.—Tallow in good demand.—Brimstone
cheaper, and in Saltpetre nothing doing. TO-DAY,
the transactions in Sugar, including Saturday's
sales, are confined to 150 hhds. Barbadoes at
325. 6d. to 365., 30 hhds. St. Vincent at 325. to
325. 6d., 40 hhds. Jamaica at 345. 9d., and 15
hhds. Louisiana at 85s. per ewt.—We have no
sales to notice in Molasses ; and of Rum, only a
small parcel of Jamaica, the price of which is not
reported.-50 bags Para Cocoa have been sold at
275. 6d. per cwt.—We have to notice the sale of
700 chests of common Congou Tea at 10Id. per
lb. ; in medium quality a fair inquiry exists, at
former rates.—There continues a steady demand
for Rice, 2700 bags Bengal having been taken at
13s. to 13s. 9d. per cwt.—Of Linseed 2,300 bags
Bombay have found purchasers at 635., 3,350 bags
Bengal, to arrive, at 635., and 700 bags Bombay
Rapeseed at 48s. per quarter.—A small parcel of
St. Lucia Logwood is reported at £5 7s. 6d., and
30 tons indirect Campeachy at £6 17s. 6d. per ton.
WooL.—Since the public sales here the trade
has been very inanimate, there being no tempta-
tion to purchase at present prices. Stocks in the
manufacturers' hands are, however, low, and it is
hoped that in a short time we shall witness a re-
turn of business.

Fell was admitted to bail, himself in £4O, and two
sureties in £2O each.

Messrs. JAB. ROBINSON & CO. say Since
our last circular, the English clip has been coming
forward ; the quantity offered, so far, is not by any
means so great as last year. The low prices cause
many farmers to hold, though others are disposed
to meet the market. It is expected in a short time
that the growers will give way, as the consumption
is much lessened. Those manufacturers who are
working their mills, are acting with the greatest
caution, and will scarcely purchase more than a
week's consumption at a time. The price of yarns
still keeps too low to realise a profit. With such
a disposition on the part of purchasers, there will
be a further reduction should the new clip come
freely in. While such is the depression in long
stapled wools, there is more doing in the short
wool districts. In addition to the various orders in
hand, a large government contract for blankets
has been given, which has slightly increased the
confidence in those quarters, though on the whole
there is scarcely an average business doing.

GROVE'S ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY LAND.—From
an advertisement it will be seen that the attractions of
this enteresting exhibition are continued in the Music-
hall, Bold-street. The animated representations of the
Holy Land are, in a high degree, calculated to impress
the mind of the beholder with religious feeling, and to
augment veneration for those passages in the inspired
records which they are intended to illustrate. The beau-
tiful simplicity and artistic skill displayed in these illus-
trations, are striking and effective—the Brook Kedron,
with Absalom's tomb—the rivers Jordan and Kishon,
with Mount Carmel, may be regarded as favourable speci-
mens. Each picture is enlivened by the passing and
repassing of mechanical figures, arrayed in the national
costume of the several nations they are intended to

represent.
"IT appears to me, " said a small apple-faced man the
other day—" it appears to me that they make a great
deal of fuss with this fellow, Shakspere. I'd just like to
know what it's all about. Why, if it wasn't for his
writings, he never would have been heard of!"
How MRS. CAUDLE SILENCED BIER HUSBAND.—She
called him a "Confounded roaring, good-for-nothing, bru-
tal, bullying, boorish, grumbling, growling, sour, saucy,
snarling, snapping, sneaking, surly, sulking, severe, sharp,
stupid, stern, suspicious, savage 1" and 'Ault jaw tears
because—lie fell Weep.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

THE WAR.

The bombardment of Bomarsund, on the 21st Junei ley
the Hecla, Odin, and Valorous, is confirmed by the publication
of authentic particulars. The affair was of a very spirited
nature. The Swenska Tidning says :—" The bombard-
ment began at five in the evening, and by seven the mas-
ked battery was dismounted and abandoned, and at ten
o'clock p.m. the Rnssian magazines were in a blaze. The
English lost three men. The Russians fought obstinately,
their artillery being well supported by rifles. One bomb
burst on the deck of the Heels,. Midshipman Lucas threw
another overboard before it burst."

The latest Dantzie despatches announce that the Hecla,
Odin and Valorous, had returned from Bomarsund on the
26th ; that on the 21st Napier sailed for Cronstadt with 12
steam line-of-battle ships, 9 steam frigates, 5 French ships
of the line, and several French steam corvettes ; and that
Admiral Plumridge returned on the same day, in the
Cuckoo, to the Gulph of Bothnia, from the consultation
to which he had been called with Admiral Napier. im-
portant news is daily expected.
A letter from Jassy of the 29th June states that the
fact of the Russian troops having received orders to fall
back has now an official character ; and it also asserts the
following :—No one here doubted that such would be one
of the first results of the arrival of the allies of Turkey at
the theatre of war ; but what is less generally known,
thanks to the mystery which enshrouds the proceedings
of the Russian military administration, is that the
measures taken for the evacuation date from the end of
the first fortnight of May. Hardly had the corps of Les-
ser Wallachia, after having failed in all its attempts
against Kalafat, fallen back upon the Olto, when instruc-
tions were given at Bucharest to begin the preparations
for the retreat.

The following is a Vienna dispatch of Friday night :
" I am assured that Baron Meyendorff received his letters
of renal this morning ; but it is not believed that diplo-
matic relations with Russia will be broken off in conse-
quence. Count Coronini is to enter Little Wallachia by
way of Orsova with about 30,000 men, on the 3d of July.
On the 20th and 23d of June the Turkish vanguard,
consisting of 25,000 men, attacked the Russian rearguard
and drove it beyond Trajan's Wall. The details of the
battle are wanting."
Accounts from Galicia, of the 24th, state that the
second Russian corps d' armee stationed in that pro-
vince, and •/0,000 strong, is gradually approaching the
Austrian frontier.

HERMANSTADT, JUNE 30.—The Russian troops invest.
ing Silistria are incessantly retreating in forced marches
to Ploieslti, where a camp is to be formed, and whither
considerable provisions have already been sent.
Accounts from Erzeronm, of the Bth, state that Persia
having refused to receive the new ambassador of the Czar
the Russian Consul at Tabreez had been instructed b
take charge of the Russian subjects at Teheran. rersig
continued to couceutrAte troopmlong the frontier,

The Morning Chronicle's Paris correspondent writes
that all the-accounts from Germany concur in stating that
the Emperor-of Russia is making formidable preparations
to resist attack, whether it comes from the side of Bul-
garia or that of Austria; indeed, his attitude is that of
determined resistance to the intention announced by Aus-
tria of taking-possession of the Principalities.
The Parise ministerial papers of Sunday seem to hint
that the Char may have some intentioiLof carrying war
into the Austrian possessions.

The Moniteur announces that Austria still awaits the
reply of the-Czar.
Coronin, with 25,000 Austrian troops, was to march on
Giurgevo on,the 3rd instant. Shilck and: Hess had also
received orders to depart.

All the right bank of the Danube was evacuated, except
Matschin, Tulscha, and Isatscha.

The Globe's Paris correspondent writes-on Sunday even-
ing as follows :—" The Moniteur of this-day has given rise
to a good deal of conversation, by a circumstance which
has no interest in itself, but which is of importance from
the motive which is supposed to have-led to it. In the
leading columns of this journal, among the telegraphic
despatches and other news, there is a short letter from
Liverpool; in which the writer states that the recent
speech of• Lord Clarendon has caused.a great and satisfac-
tory sensation there; and that it is-generally hoped that
the Western Powers will not, after having incurred such
heavy expenses for the war, make a peace in which all
that they require for their security and honour should
not have been obtained. The prominent way in which
this letter has been given seems to- show that the French
Government is desirous of removing a suspicion that it
wishes to prepare the public mind for an unsatisfactory
peace, and that it is quite as resolved to push things to
their utmost point as the English may be. If this were
not the feeling of the French Government, the Liverpool!
letter would be very much out of place in the Moniteur."