The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-23 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUGUST 22.

The market remains steady, the trade and especially exporters
buying rather freely, at previous quotations. The sales on Tuesday
were 3500 bales, including 1200 good American for export; on
Wednesday the sales were 7000 bales, of which about 9000 were
taken for export; and to-day 5000 bales have been sold, consisting
of 450 Pernam at 9d to gid, 100 Bahia at 90 to 90, 200 Maran-
ham 80 to gad, 200 Egyptian llid to 14d, 800 Surat at 4d to 6d,
and also 400 American for exportation.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, AUGUST 20.
(From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott and Son.)
Since this day week the imports of Grain, Flour and Oatmeal
from Ireland, Coastways and from Foreign ports have again been
very small, almost exceeded by the exports, besides our own, and
the interior consumption, so that our stocks of free Grain are daily
diminishing, and will be in very small compass to meet the new
crops; respecting the weather, we may repeat the remarks in our
circular of Tuesday last, on the night of which day we had very
heavy rain, and it has been a drizzling rain for part of almost every
day since, with a deficiency of sunshine and summer heat, so that
the crops have progressed very slowly towards maturity, and are
still very green ; some heavy thunder showers have fallen partially
throughout this district, by which many fields of the finest heavy
Grain are reported to be laid or lodged, so as to expose them to the
danger of ripening irregularly, or of sprouting, unless an imme-
diate and steadily favourable change occurs in the weather, which
hitherto has been so unfavorable, and further than postponing
harvest, (an evil of no small magnitude !) is believed to have been
productive of little or no very serious or irretrievable injury to the
crops generally, although some damage may have occurred par-
tially; it has just been such as to induce the importers and holders
of_Grain to look confidently for higher prices, while it has not yet
been sufficient to excite alarm with the millers and dealers, who
have purchased cautiously and timidly for their immediate wants,
and sales have been very limited here, and in all the markets of
this county and Yorkshire during the past week at about the prices
last quoted.

An unfavourable change appears to have occurred in the weather
in the southern districts last week, which, as their crops are in a
more forward state than with us, must be injurious ; and reports
state that they have had too much rain to the northward of us—
partially throughout Scotland, and all over Ireland; and from the
weather that has prevailed throughout this whole season, we ac-
quiesce in the opinions received from many friends, in whose judg-
ment we rely, that the crops, particularly of Wheat, will in no in-
stance exceed, and in general will prove deficient of a moderate
average, both in quantity and, quality, to an extent not yet ascer-
tainable, depending, of course, still on the weather for the next
five or six weeks.

The only alteration in the duties on Grain from foreign ports this
week is a reduction of Is 6d per quarter on Rye, which will pro-
bably be reduced further to the lowest duty of is per quarter in
another week or two, and it is almost certain that the duty on
Wheat will be reduced to 10s 8d per quarter next Friday; some
parcels of Odessa Wheat, in bond, have changed hands at 78 8d to
7s 9d, and fine Danzig white at 9s 6d to 9s sod per 70tb, and some
trivial sales have been made of Oats, in bond, at 3s 3d to 3s 6d per
451 E • and of Flour, at 36s to 36s 6d per barrel, for export.
The demand fluctuates daily in a most capricious manner with
every change of weather; on Sunday it was wet all day, yesterday
very fine here until late in the evening, while it rained heavily all
day at Lancaster, Preston and Manchester; this day it is again very
fine, and has counteracted the reported advances in Mark-lane yes-
terday, so that at this days market sales were effected only to a
very limited extent for most articles in the trade, and we can note
no decided advance in prices from those of this day week; and
which were, however, fully supported, and in some instances a
little exceeded.

WHEAT, per 701bs s. d. s. d.
English
Scotch 9 0 10 0

INDIAN CORN, if). 4801 b.
Red 44 OCi4B 0
White 46 0 48 0
BEANS, per quarter.
English 43 0 45 0
Irish 37 0 42 0
PEAS, Grey 34 0 38 0
White 44 0 46 0
SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b.
In bond l5 0 18 0
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Fine 48 0 58 0
Irish 46 0 56 0
Amer. r brl. free
Sweet U.S 39 6 40 0
Sour 33 6 34 6
OATMEAL, per 2401 b.
English 34 0 35 0
Ditto, new 36 0 37 0
Scotch 34 0 35 0

Irish...
Bonded

86 9 4
79 9 6

BARLEY, per qr
English
Chevalier ...

42 0 43
44 0 44

Scotch, per 601 b. 5 0 5

5 0 5

Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0
OATS, per 451 b
English

4 0 4

Scotch 4 0 4
Irish 3 8 4
Foreign, in bond 210 3

Ditto,diity free.. 3 g 4

RYE, per quarter —37 0 43

MALT, per fine 0 0 69
middling 50 0 62