The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1851-03-18 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY Tuber of petitions were presented, chiefly  ti moved the second reading of rvpenditure Bill, which, he said, was inter 1 over the county expenditure  )sed to. be in  S M. GIBS  aid he entirely  ions exerc I to variot  Lt if it w  t by which magistrates ar s as their  to be chosen by the ratet Ir. W. MILNER did not  Lt.—Mr. Hums ty of the propo  and Sir H. Verney, and opposed by Mess runimona, and Pelham.—ln answer to A I. RUSSELL intimated that should the bill ime •iir G. Grey would be perfectly willing committee, and would then state what amen  hould be made in it.— in renlv_ and his mm  North China Herald announces the discovery of an ws in the interior of the country, iw some missionaries of the London  350 miles from Pekin  Society  CoMmercial affairs had improved at Bombay. The import market was brisk, but there was no increase in prices. The high prices of cotton apparently made purchasers hold back. There was no change in other articles. The noney-market was somewhat improves:. hts from Bombay to Liverpool and London were 2 2s. 6d. to £2 55., with an upward ten t for at  .ondon at six months' siett, 21 to 21 per  rupee. Money was scarce at Calcutta. but prospects were better. The Bengal Bank still discounted at II per cent. Indigo somewhat better; prices of opium falling. Freights improved, especially for sugar, for which, to London, they were at the rate of £3 17s. 6d. per ton. Exchange, six months' sight. %I to a per rupee.  Commercial affairs in China-were looking up generally  Transactions were limited  Austrian boat sailed, the Ripon, from Eng then, the prospects of the yield have been more grossly exaggerated, and we are consequently of the opinion that the lowest point has not yet been reached in Liverpool. When the purpose of certain parties shall have been attained, we may look for estimates approximative to the final result, hut not till then. In the meantime, we prefer to stem the current of error; and as it has never yet occurred to the writer of these lines to he mistaken in his views of the crop, grounded as they are on careful and disinterested observation, we have merely to repeat that the production will not exceed 2,200,000 bales, or equal in weight to 2,100,000 to 2,150,000 hales of last year. None of the circulars written between the 17th and 19thof January last can change our conviction.  Trash... Inferior.  New Orleans Other Atlantic Cottons. and Mobile. Gulf Cottons 71 a 9k a  d not arrived at Alexandria to take.the'passengel;  7,1 a 9; a 92 a 104  Sia a 10  Ordinary to good ord. 941 a 10 Middling to good mid. 104 a 102 101 a —10 i Mid, fair to fair ll* a 112 none on sale. none on sale. Fully fair to good fair none. none on sale. none on sale  The following statement of the movement in cotton since the Ist of September last, as compared with the previous three  A prisoner defending himself on a charge of burglary at the Limerick assizes, on Friday, addressed the court as  follows :—" If I committed all the murders and robberies in the county, my lord, I am as innocent of this charge as the child unborn ; and I only wish I had half an hour's liberty, and I would shoot Malone as dead as a mackarel, the bloody perjured villain. I hope the lord will take me out of this world sown ; and 'pray to God that my ghost may be an evil spirit, and haunt for life every one who had anything to do in my prosecution. You have all done your best, and I don't care a d— for it all, for I could live in a bastable oven if I only had a smoke of a pipe."  Rec'ts at the Ports Ex p'ts to Great Brit'n " to France,  1851. 1850. 1849. 1848. . 1,623,000 1,506,000 1,757,000 1,342.000 509.000 445.000 676.000 347.000 210.000 153.000 155