The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise
469 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 2957 Ids; Flour,

863 16897

Wheat, 135 qrs.; Oats.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt,
qrs. ; Oats. 75 qrs ; Beans, qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, -- sacks, 57 lirls.—lreland. Wheat, 894
qrs. ; Beans, lo qrs. ; Indian Corn, so qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads ;
Flour, barrels.--Coastwise. Wheat, 277 qrs. ; Barley, 5
qrs.; Malt, 8 qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 13 qrs. ; Rye,
qrs. ; Pease, 15 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 31 lds. ;
Flour, 487 sks, 518 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Dec. 17, 1541.
Wheat 625. gd. i Barley 30s. ad. 1 Oats.. 21s. sd. 1 Rye.. 395. 5d
Beans.. 375. 9d. Pease.. 395. od.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 645. 4d. I Barley 325. Oci. Oats.. 225. 3d. ! Rye.. 425. 3d
Beans.. 3gs. gd. I Pease.. 4os. nd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat22s. Bd. I Barley 13s. loci. I Oats .. . 13s. yd. I Rye.. 6s.
Beans 1:s. od. Pease.. 9s. lid. Ind. Corn Os. Od. Flour 13s.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... ss. Od. Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. od. I Rye.... os. Gd
Beans.. as. I Pease.. 3s. I Indian Corn.. es. od. I Flour.. 3s. od.

Liverpool Averages, week ending Dec. 21, 1841.
Wheat. Barley. Oats. L Beans. Pease.
Qrs B5l 286
Prices

LIVERPOOL CO TON

MARKET, 3 P.M

A fair and steady Cotton market to-day, fully 2500 to 3000
bales sold, at yesterday's prices for all descritions. Some
inquiry on speculation account to-day, but what was done
has not transpired yet.

FORGERIES AT THE CUSTOM-HOUSE, BRISTOL, DEC. 17.
—Much anxiety has been felt by the commercial world here
in consequence of a gentleman holding a high situation in the
Custom-house having absconded, and who, it is alleged, has
committed forgeries to the amount of about £l,OOO or £9,000 ;
about £7,000 of forged acceptances having been already ascer-
tained, one or two of which, it is said, are held by the branch
of the Bank of England. The individual is very highly con-
nected, and the acceptances, it is said, purport to be those of
a distinguished add gallant officer of high rank in the army.

SHUTTING OF THE GATE3.-11C 153 d anniversary of
that glorious event which so mainly contributed to place
the House of Brunswick on the British throne, was celebra-
ted in this city on Saturday last, with every demonstration
of loyalty and respect. The ceremonial of it by the Appren-
tice Boys was the same as was observed upon every previous
occasion of the commemoration ; and never was there a
stronger or more earnest feeling of attachment to those pre-
cious blessings—civil and religious—purchased with the
hearts' blood of our ancestors, that was manifested by the
Loyal Leather Aprons upon this last anniversary. That
proud and unbending spirit of loyalty which scorned to bow
before the bigot James 11., when he approached our Walls
in regal state a century and a half ago, has descended an un-
diminished legacy to many of their sons; and that indomi-
table spirit of patriotism that hurled the bold defiance, " No
Surrender," in the face of the enemies of the land, beat with
healthful vigour in the breast of our uncompromising
Apprentice Boys.--Londonderry Sentinel.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL QUESTION

We have pleasure in giving insertion to the following let-
ter of " A Manchester Merchant," upon the West India
Mail question, which is important, as affording additional
evidence of the propriety of a suggestion thrown out by us in
our article of Friday last, which cur correspondent appears not
to have seen when he addressed us. In advocating the selee-
tion of Liverpool as the port of arrival and departure of the
West India mails, we have ever guarded ourselves from any
expression which could lead to the supposition that our ad-
vocacy was actuated by considerations of merely local inte-
rest. Upon this question, the claim of Liverpool is that, as
well, of the entire manufacturing districts of the North of
England ; it is that, too, of the whole of Scotland, which is
deeply interested in the commerce and in the property of
our West India colonies, and of the western world generally ;
and it is of urgent importance, therefore, that, in any appeal
which may be made to the legislature during the approaching
session, (and the question, be it remembered, has never as
yet been legislatively settled,) the effort should be a com-
bined and simultaneous one. The port of Liverpool has
already, to some extent, been heard upon the question, in
committee. But let Manchester—let the entire manufactu-
ring districts which are interested as well as Liverpool—be
heard also, even if the claim to be so heard involve the ne-
cessity of a third committee being appointed ; for until that
course is taken it cannot be.said that British justice has
been done to them by the legislature.

We shall not attempt to-add anything to the able argu-
ments of our correspondent; but shall only suggest to him,
and to others who hold similar views, the importance of agi-
tating the question in their own local press. Although the
columns of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD shall always be open
to the advocacy of a subject in which we take so deep an
interest, yet we are satisfied that, for the purpose of stirring
the public of Manchester to exertion, the press of Manches-
ter is the best and most efficient organ.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SlR,—Yeu have complained, and I think with reason, of
the apathy, on the part of the corporation and merchants of
Liverpool, which has allowed the West India mail packets
to be despatched from the port of Southampton instead of
from Liverpool,—the centre of the correspondence and com-
mercial transactions between the manufacturing districts and
that part of the globe. But if you have ground to complain,
how much more has Manchester, whose merchants and ma-
nufacturers are so deeply interested in the choice.of a near
port of arrival and departure for these mails, a right to ex-
claim against the entire immbbility of her authorities with
respect to this important question ? __ _

The manufacturers and 'merchants of Manchester carry on
a large and increasing commerce in the markets for which
these mails are established as the mode of communication ;
and yet I am not aware that our liberal authorities, with all
their desire for something to employ themselves upon, have
ever taken a step to assert our claims to be considered in the
selection of a port. You have shown, I think conclusively.
that Liverpool possesses superior advantages of a nautical
nature, as well as otherwise, over any of the proposed chan-
nel ports ; and I cannot but think that if the authorities and
the mercantile interests of yonr town and of Manchester
would act together in an appeal to government, during the
approaching session of parliament, it is not yet too late to
procure a reversal of the decision, which appears to have
been come to, in favour of Southampton, and to bring this
important line to Liverpool,—the only station, in my opi-
nion, where it can be productive of the full benefit which it
is calculated to confer upon the commerce of the country.
Parhaps you will allow me the necessary space to lay be-
fore your readers the mode in which the working of these
mails out of Southampton will affect the exporters of manu-
factured goods from this district. We do not calculate that
any great viantity of merchandise will ever be transmitted
by steam conveyance to any of the markets which these
packets will visit. Still, however, to some extent, they will
be used for the despatch of such goods, of a light descrip-
tion, as may be urgently in request, and upon which there-
fore the exporter can afford to pay advanced rates offreioht.
Even in these cases, however, it is very doubtful whether
any description of goods will ever be able to cover the tre-
mendous additional expense of land carriage to so distant a
port as Southampton; and, for the transit of goods, there-
fore, these mails, if continued at this or any other channel
port, must be almost totally unavailable to us.
In addition to the increased cost, however, the loss of time,
in the conveyance of goods for so great a distance inward, is
an insuperable objection. For suppose the case of a packet
arriving at that port, say a week before the sailing of the
outward bound mail, and containing advises to a merchant
here of any particular class of goods being urgently wanted
by his correspondent in the West Indian or South American
markets. Were Liverpool the port of departure such goods
would undoubtedly be forwarded in time for despatch per
steamer, as it is well known is frequently the case with orders
brought from the United States by the American liners,
where the goods are prepared in less time than this, and, for
the sake of dispatch, are forwarded by packets at full rates
in preference to the transient ships, which would take them
at half the freights. The time, however, occupied by the in-
land carriage to Southampton would, independent of increased
expense, be sufficient to deter merchants in most cases from
even the attempt to avail themselves of the steam conveyancee
to any of those markets.

You will. I trust, excuse me for trespassing upon your
valuable columns with these hasty remarks. My object is
principally to call the attention of the merchants of Liverpool
to the importance of this question to the interests of my fel-
low townsmen, in the hope that some effort will be made by
Liverpool and Manchester jointly to procure the reversal of
the sentence of exclusion from the benefits of rapid intercourse
with the valuable markets of the western world, which has,
only temporarily I trust, been passed against us. May I
suggest through your columns a meeting of the parties inte-
rested in both towns, and the adoption of a joint memorial to
government ? We have had gatherings of late upon subjects
of much less practical importance and feasibility ; and I can-
not think that the voice of such a meeting as I propose could
fail to be listened to with consideration by any government,
much less by the present.—l remain, Sir, &c., &c..
A MANCHESTER MERCI-lANT.
Manchester, 24th Dee., 1841.

TO THE 'EDITOR C

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sin,—Permit me, through the medium of your journal, to
direct the attention of the benevolent gentlemen, who may
take upon themselves the superintendence of
.provisioning
the Soup Kitchens about to be opened for the poor of this
town, to an advertisement of a sale by auction on Thursday
next, the 20th instant, by Messrs. Roscoxv, Arnold, and
Leete, of three tons of what is therein called " Portable Rio-
elan Soup," imported by Messrs. U. and J. Hornby and Co.
As the properties of this article and its uses abroad may
not be generally known to the public, I trust to be excused, by
the parties abovenamed, in volunteering the following re-
marks :

It is used in the kitehons of the wealthy in Russia without
exception, and probably in greater proportions by our own
countrymen than by the natives themselves, generally along
with flesh meat newly slaughtered, which imparts to the soup
a freshness of flavour. Of itself, being a pure concentrated
animal gelative, it has little taste, but when diffused through
vegetable substances such as barley, rice, and such like, it is
most soothing to the stomach as well as palatable ; and com-
bining what is supposed to be a main principle of nourish-
ment to the human body, it is well worthy of the attention
of the gentlemen above alluded to, who are about to minister
to the wants of the poor at this season of distress.

Your scientific friends will be best able to state the pro-
portions of gelative and extractive which is contained in a
given weight of the muscle of an ox, and as the article in ques-
tion is cbmposed of those substances in a concentrated state,
its value for the purpose of making soup may be compared
with that of a given weight of beef.—l am, sir, very respect-
fully, your obedient servant, R. B.
26th Dec. 1841.