The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-21 00:00:00

Per quarter lO 0
* The freight from Holland is 45. per quarter, Odessa 105:,

Trieste 7s. 6(i., Marseilles tis., America 7s. to ts

The Bal

tic, however, being regarded as the granary of Europe, I have

adopted the freight from that quarter.
No account is taken in the above for damage, or for fire in-
surance in store, or for profit to the importer.
The following are the prices of wheat " free on board in
foreign port," according to recent accounts from various
foreign countries :
Baltic sls. to 58s. per quarter.
Mediterranean 43s. to 48s. lf
U. S. of America
These prices include the expense of transit from the place of
growth to the port of shipment, a distance, in many in-
stances, of several hundred miles.
The exact range of prices and duties is open to discussion.
To obviate the great evils arising from the present defective
mode of taking the averages, it is suggested that proper per-
sons be appointed by government, (whether under the con-
trol of the customs, excise, or otherwise, in the several towns
and districts that may be named) to send returns, weekly, of
the prices that shall have been obtained, during the week, by
growers, as well as by factors or dealers, (if none of the for-
mer, in large towns, the latter only) of good, sound, mer-
chantable wheat, (no other quality) new and old, to a board
of commissioners, in London, whose duty it shall be to col-
late the returns, draw the averages, and fix the duty,—then
to transmit it on a certain day in each week to the collector
of Customs in every port of the United Kingdom.
This mode of taking the averages, combined with the li-
mited range of prices and duties comprised in these tables,
would effectually put an end to fraud and reckless specula-
tion, and be the means of keeping prices as steady as the
seasons would permit, while the supply would be regular and
the demand legitimate.

Many persons, in other respects well informed, are under
the impression that, were the present corn-laws to be mate-
rially altered, the English agriculturist would sink—that his
property, as a means of subsistence, would be annihilated.
But these simple calculations ',rove that he has nothing to
fear—that, with a code of duties framed on the principle of
these tables, which offer a protection to the agriculturist va-
rying from 33 to 60 per cent., the foreigner can do us no
injury whatever. And an attentive study of these tables
cannot fail also to lead to the conclusion, that a system
founded upon them, while it would afford real protection to
the agriculturist, would also cause the supply of foreign grain
to be as regular as the manufacturer could desire.
Which scale of duties and prices (if any) shall be deemed
calculated to meet the views and wishes of the two great
interests of the state, others more competent will determine.
To avoid a collision, however, which might go far to en-
danger the very existence of the constitution, prudence would
seem to dictate that the one great Interest should meet the
other half way,—the one accepting the fair and ample pro-
tection afforded by these tables, and the other, secured in the
possession of a regular supply at steady prices, cheerfully and
willingly conceding it.
I have the honour to be, Sir,
Your most obedient, humble servant,
E. W. JACKSON.
Liverpool, 14th December, 1841.

LET WELL ALONE

TO THE LIVERPOOL DOCK COMMITTEE

Ye mortals, my dear terrestrials, are restless oft, and sel-
dom quite content. My ancient pet for ocean's treasures—
the Old Dock—ye did away, and now regret your doings,
though I warned you against it about anno 1825 ; and this
may be recollected by many of my worthy and esteemed vo-
taries amongst ye. Prosperous affairs I wish to my good old
port of Liverpool, and desire to cheer all those who are so
anxious for the same. Then let me calmly and kindly ask,
if it would not be for the good, and profit, and accommoda-
tion of my shipping to retain the three adjoining graving
docks, and restore the Canning Dock as soon as it is possible
to deepen it ? No doubt this sort of system with that loca-
lity is already determined on ; because how can any im-
provement be gained unless you had obtained possession of
the Manchester or Old Quay Basin ? and parhaps the latter
event may be distant many years.—Y our right trusty bene-
factor NEPTUNUS.

Old Ocean's Billows, anno 1841,
P.S.—Then ye have taken my other old possession, Salt-
house Dock. Bethink ye of the law of time and tide; be
very quick there, lest I begin to growl!

CRUELTY TO SPANIARDS

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

Sut,—l addressed a few lines to you on the 30th ultimo,
on the subject of the Spaniards left upon the beach in this
river by her Majesty's cruisers, out of the prize slavers. The
increased wretchedness of these poor creatures, and the re-
volting sights which meet the eye at every turn, urge me
again to trespass upon your valuable time.
A few days since, being unwell, I sent my mate on shore
to transact a little business for me, and In his progress to the
town (in the heat of the day), he encountered the dead body
of one of these wretched beings, lying close to the pathway,
with the eyes and the greater part of the face and body de-
voured by guanas and birds of prey. The disgusting sight,
combined with the pestilential effluvia arising fgom the
corpse, had such an effect upon him, that upon his return to
the ship he complained of sickness, and till his death (three
days subsequent) he frequently alluded to the revolting sight.
There are two more Spaniards, whom I daily expect to see
in a like state, being already one mass of disease. It is high
time that some other mode of punishment was adopted, as
not only British property is sacrificed, and ourselves de-
graded in the eyes of the very parties we are striving to civi-
lize, but the lives of our crews are endangered. With many
apologies for troubling you, I am, sir, your's respectfully,
F. GRANT.
Ship Hero, Bonny River, AUDU,t 28th, 1841.