The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-04-13 00:00:00

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LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Mts DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN & SONS' Circular.)

The small arrivals, noticed in our last report, have been
augmented by a moderate supply of Grain and Oatmeal
Coastwise and from Ireland, with upwards of 9000 barrels of
FloUr from the American States ; besides which, two cargoes
of Wheat are in this morning from Wolgast, but too late to
insert the particulars in our import list below.
Seasonable weather for some time past, and the improving
state of vegetation, seemed to produce a depressing effect
upon all the leading markets of this district in the course of
this week : upon a tolerably fair attendance of buyers, how-
ever, at our Corn Exchange to-day, the Wheat trade assumed
a rather better aspect, and the best samples from
Granary were in modcrate request at the rates of this day
se'nnight ; whilst a few sales of the lower descriptions were
effected at a small abatement, but the Wolgast Wheats above
mentioned, being new, and of fine quality, realised lOs per
701bs, duty paid.
English, Irhh, and foreign free Flour continued to meet
a slow demand at late prices. Of States Flour in bond the
sales amount to about 1300 barrels since Thursday last at
235., and a little for export at 235. 6d.
Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease appeared to move off very
sparingly, and hardly maintained their previous value.

Oats, still commanding little attention, were the turn
cheaper; and Oatmeal was extremely difficult of sale at a
decline of 3d. per 2401b5.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 6th to the 12th April, 1841, inclusive

IRK- COAST- CANADA'
WISE. & U.STS.I REIGN. '
,TOTAL

Wheat Qrs. 1270 4144 I 5414
Barley Qrs. 48 1041 1089
Malt
Oats
Rye Qrs.
Beans
Pease. Qrs.l 5 i i 5
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn .. . Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal . ... Loads 3132 2 3134
Flour . Sacks 1002 32 1034
Ditto . Brls. 9117 9117
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Beans,
qrs. ; Oats, 3012 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 3966 Ids. ; Flour, 180 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, 2 qrs. ; Malt, 442 qrs. ; Pease,
qrs. ; Indian Corn, 34 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 72 qrs. ; Flour, 259 brls.—
Ireland. Wheat, 315 qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 19 qrs.
—Coastwise. Wheat, 1140 qrs. ; Barley, 711 qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ;.
Oats, 173 qrs. ; Rye, 30 qrs.; Beans, 27 qrs. ; Pease, 72 qrs. ;
Indian Corn, 0 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ; Flour, 321 sacks 1052
brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 2, 1841.
Wheat.. 645. Id. Barley33s. od. Oats.. 218.11 d. Rye.. 345. od
I Beans.. 3gs. 2d. Pease.. 393. pd.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 635. Bd. I Barley.. 325. gd. I Oats.. 225. Bd. Rye..3ss. 3d.

Beans:. 395. 6d. Pease

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheat 235.8 d. I Barley 13s. 1 I od. Oats .. . 13s. 9d. I Rye.. 16s. 9d
Beans,lls. od. Pease.. I Is. od. Ind. Corol3s.lod. Flourl4s.2gd

Liverpool Averages, week ending April 6. 1841.
Wheat. Barley. 1 Oats. I Beans. 1 Pease.
I 2068 -- 720 ( I
a
.. 625. 10d. Os. Od. 1 225. 6d. 445. 6d. Os. Od

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, 3 r.m

A fair inquiry for Cotton to-day, and 2,500 bales sold at
full prices—about 200 bales taken by exporters.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AND NARROW ESCAPE OF THE FAMILY.
—Between one and two o'clock on Monday morning a most
alarming tire broke out in the Elephant and Castle public-
house, kept by Mr. Leidard, High-street, Whitechapel. The
family, it appears, had closed the house at the usual hour on
Sunday night, when, to all appearance, everything was per-
fectly safe, and in the course of half an hour afterwards the
whole of the inmates were in bed. At the above-named hour,
as police constable Beed, No. 50 of the H division, who was
on duty, was passing the house, he observed a very great
light in the place, which, not noticing before, excited his sus-
picions that the house was on fire, and upon a minute exa-
mination, he found his fears were realised. He directly
sprang his rattle, when police constables Nos. 14 and 98 came
to his aid. With a judgment which reflects great credit on
them they prevented the door and shutters from being forced
open by the neighbours, and thus saved the lives of the in-
mates. Some minutes elapsed before they were aroused, and
when they appeared at the windows it was ascertained by the
police that the stairs were on fire, and the only mode of es-
cape was, from the windows. Unfortunately no ladders could
be obtained in the neighbourhood, and as the fire was assum-
ing a terrific aspect, the policemen saw that the only means
which was left to them to assist the inmates in their escape,
was to adopt the following plan. One stood close to the
front of the house, and the next one got upon his shoulders,
and thus reached the lead beneath the first floor window,
having fixed themselves firmly they then called to Mr. and
Mrs. Leidard, the maid servant, and pot-boy, who were at
the second floor window, to get out and lower themselves
down. The two females were accordingly assisted out by
Mr. Leidard and the boy, and were caught by the police and
lowered down in safety, the men following the example. The
police maintained their perilous position, although the smoke
which issued from the apertures in the shutters nearly suffo-
cated them, until they were certain that all had escaped.
Their heroic conduct was loudly cheered by the spectators.
A CHILD SOLD FOR A SOVEREIGN !—Some months back
a curious story appeared in a London paper, and was copied
into some of the Manchester papers, stating that a gentle-
man, in coming on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,
had bantered a good-looking woman in one of the carriages
about selling her infant, and had taken the child into his
arms, and given her a sovereign for it, intending to return
his charge at the station, but where he found, to his surprise,
that the mother had taken hire at his word, and left him to
make the best of his bargain. It was also stated that, hav-
ing a wife and a family at home, he was afraid to acquaint
them with his odd bargain, and had taken the child to the
police-office, leaving a sum of money for its maintenance,
till the mother should be found. Latterly, the child has
been placed in the workhouse, where a nurse was provided
for it, all inquiries after the mother proving fruitless. A
short time ago, a soldier's wife, named Jane Castleman who
had been with the 79th Highlanders at Ashton-in-the-,Wil-
lows, and had left that place with them, returned there to
take up her residence ; and on her acquaintances inquiring
about the child she had taken away with her, she gave an
account which did not gain credence, and ultimately she was
taken into custody by Sergeant Oakes, of the county consta-
bulary, on suspicion of having murdered the child. She
then confessed that she had parted with it to a gentleman on
the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, and had never heard
of it since.—On Friday week she was brought before Mr.
Maude, at the New Bailey, when the overseers of Manches-
ter preferred a charge of desertion against her. The guard
of the railway train, however, who had witnessed the sale
of the child, stated that Castleman had done everything she
could to get back her child all the way to Manchester, but
that the man refused to give it up, taking it into the omni-
bus when he got off the train, where she was afraidt shetofollowafter.
him, because she had no money beyond the sovereign, which
she expected he would reclaim. The prisoner herself
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wards went there, but could not find him.—On hearing this,
Mr. Maude discharged the prisoner, regretting that it was
not in his power to bring the man up, who had carried his
joke too far, and compel him to reimburse the parish in the
expense of keeping the child.— It appeared that the woman's
husband is a soldier in the 69th Infantry, which had gone to
Australia, whither she was not allowed to follow him. The
child was ordered to be given up to her,--Manchester Cou-
rier.