The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-02-23 00:00:00

THIRD EMITION.

Standard o.ffice,.Three o'clock

BIRKENHEAD FAlR,—Tins DAY

This fair, being a new one, and some doubt and uncertain-
ty existing as to its being held at all, has caused the attend-
ance to be rather slack. There is no doubt, from the great
facilities offered by the railway to Chester, that if the Birk-
enhead fairs were made more public they would be extremely
well attended, while the excellent prices at all times obtained
on all descriptions of stock ought to prove a sufficient encou-
ragement to the farmers-in the neighbdurhood to bring down
their produce. In the cow fair we saw some very likely
calvers, at £l6 to £22. There were two or three fat beasts,
which fetched high prices, varying from £22. to £25. There

were very few sheep, but high rates were obtained for them.
There were a few pigs, for which 30s. to 40s. were asked, too
high prices for their value. In the horse fair were many
very serviceable animals, some good useful cart horses were
shown, but high prices were asked for all sorts. If this fair
were well supported, we are confident that it would become

one of some consequence. We saw many respectable dealers
from Liverpool, who would doubtless have laid out their
money if prices could have tempted them. We were sur-
prised to find that there was no cheese pitched. Consider-

in; the very excellent prices obtained at the last fair, we should
have thought it would have been worth the while of the
farmers to bring their dairies forward. More publicity must
be given to the next fair, and there is no doubt that the at-
tendance will be better.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tni s DAY

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

The small imports up to Friday's market, added to those
in subsequently, form a moderate supply of Wheat, Barley,
and Oats, coastwise and from Iffeland ; but very little Grain
of other kinds thence, and none from abroad since this day
se'nnight : of Irish Oatmeal and Flour, however, the re-
ceipts, compared with those of several preceding weeks, are
rather liberal ; and of the latter, direct from the American
States and New Brunswick, the arrivals amount to 6705
barrels.

At our market this morning, the holders of Wheat con-

tinued to manifest a considerable degree of firmness, and
succeeded in establishing a further advance upon the improved
rates of Friday, making the rise 2d. to 3d. per 70Ibs. over
those of Tuesday last, which applies more generally to all
sorts of Irish and Foreign, than to English, the latter hardly
supporting a corresponding amendment ; the millers, how-
ever, being disinclined to buy freely, the transactions on the
whole were only moderate.

English, Irish, and Foreign-free Flour, being more salea-
ble, the latter must be noted 6d per barrel dearer. Up to
yesterday barrel Flour continued in good request, and about
16,000 barrels having passed into second hands since this
day week, States Brands realized 255. 6d. to 265. per barrel;
but the demand having abated, no further sales of moment
have been made to-day.

In Barley, Malt, Bcais, and Pease no material change was

perceptible.

The increased supply of Oats having been met by a free
demand, the bulk has been tolerably well cleared, at an ad-
vance of id. per 45 lbs.; and Oatmeal readily commanded
6d. per sack over the terms of this day se'nnight.

ARRIVALS OF CORN.
From the 16th to the 22d Feb. 1841, inclusive,

COAST-

LAND. WISE, CANADA TOTA L

Qrs.! 3074 I 224;

Barley
Malt .
Oats .
Rye ..
Beans
Pease.
Shelled Barley
Indian Corn Qrs
Rapeseed Qrs_,
Oatmeal . Loads' 8298 392
Flour Sacks 4046 240
Ditto Brls. 436

Qrs
Qrs
Qrs
Qrs,
Qrs.

1430 1131
251 204
5909 883
79
8 156

5320
2581
455

► 164

•
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, Wheat, 200 qrs. • Beans,
40 qrs. ; Oats, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 410 loads ; Flour, sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Barley, 10 qrs.; Oats, 111 qrs. ; Pease. 5
qrs. ; Flour, 216 brls.—lreland. Wheat, 486 qrs. ; Flour, sacks.
—Coastwise. Wheat, 93 qrs. ; Barley, 312 qrs. ; Malt, 54 qrs. ;
Beans, 3 qrs. ; Pease, 43 qrs.; Oatmeal, 30 Ids. ; Flour, 463
sacks 416 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Feb. 12, 1841.
Wheat..6ls. Id. I Barley 315.10 d. Oats.. 228. 3d. Rye.. 3ls. 3d
I
Beans.. 403. od. Pease .. 393. Bd.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 61s. Id. I Barley.. 325. 6d. ) Oats.. 21s. Bd. I Rye.. 325. sa
Beans.. 3gs. gd. I Pease.. 3gs. 6d.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week.
Wheat 253.8 d. Barley 13s. 10d. Oats .... 15s. 3d. I Rye.. 21s. 3d.
Beans,l Is. d.I Pease.. I lls. Od. Ind. Cornl3s.lod. I Flourlss.sid.
Liverpool Averages, week ending 16th February, 1841.
Wheat. I _barley. Oats. 1 Beans. Pease.
W Qr 5..... I 328
Prices.. 58s. 3d. I os. od. Os. Od. I Os. Od. f Os. Od.

COTTON

MARKET-THREE O'CLOCK

A good demand for Cotton to-day, and fully 3,500 bales
sold at fall prices, all to the trade.

DESPERATE ATTEMPT OF A HUSBAND TO MURDER HIS
WIFE.—A young man named Thomas Potts, a calico printer,
residing at Mitcham, and who has only been married about
18 months, left home on Tuesday, and did not return until
nine o'clock at night, and he immediately went into the room
where his wife was sitting with her mother, and without say-
ing a word he pulled a pistol from his pocket, presented it at
his wife, and fired it off, and the greater portion of its con-
tents passed through her cheek. A labouring man who was
passing came into the house and seized hold of Potts, and
after a struggle forced him into a chair, and held him there
until West, the Beadle of Mitcham, arrived and secured him.
The prisoner then said, " I have done it-1 have done it—
I have murdered my wife, and I hope I shall be hung." The
constable asked him what he had done with the pistol, and
he produced the one he had just discharged at his wife. West
then searched him, and in one of his pockets he found ano-
tier pistol loaded to the muzzle, and in his coat pocket a
razor, and he asked Potts what he was going to do with the
razor, and he replied that he intended to have destroyed him-
self with it after he had killed his wife. Mr. Tipper, a medi-
cal gentleman of Mitcham, had by this time arrived, and he
ascertained that the woman bad received a very severe injury,
and he administered to her the necessary assistance. The
prisoner was on Thursday brought before the magistrates,
but as his wife was not in a condition to give evidence, be
was remanded for a week.