The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-11-13 00:00:00

COUNCIL OF DISCIPLINE OF THE NATIONAL

GUARD•

THE GRENADIER' DINNER.

President.—You have been guilty of a grave infraction of
your duty, M. Serdat, in suffering packages to be carried
into the garden of the Tuileries.
Serdat.—lt was no package ; it was only a ceisiniere.
President.—She had something in her hands.
Serdat.—Yes, some plates.
President.—Just so ; that is what you should not have
suffered to enter. It is distinctly against orders.
Serdat.—She had run all the way from the Rue de Seine
to the gate in front of the Pont Royal. It was impossible to
prevent her from entering.
President. —Was there anything indispensable in what she
carried ? .

Serdat.—Egad, there was ; it happened to be my dinner.
(Laughter.)
President.—You should have made her go round the gate.
Serdat (with impressement).—Bless your soul, my dinner
would have been cold.
President. —You did not profit in the least by your pre-
cipitancy. Your cook was stopped by one of the garden
keepers.
Serdat.—And my dinner too ! It was a flagrant shame.
President.—A National Guard should always show a good
example, and you did quite the contrary. You went directly
in the teeth of the countersign.
Serdat.—Pooh, pooh. I can understand no countersign
which is injurious to the well-being of my stomach. I was
hungry when they planted me at my post, and hungrier still,
you may guess, after three hours' mounting guard. I should
have eaten the countersign had I been kept much longer
without my dinner—perhaps even demolish my boots !

(Laughter.)
The refractory sentinel was then condemned to 12 hours'
imprisonment.
Serdat.—The Government may do its best, but it shall
never compel me to commit an act so barbarous as that which
you prescribe.
President.—What is that ?
Serdat.—Why, force a citizen, to be sure, to cross bayonets
against the admission of his own dinner, The bowels of a
Brutus would be unequal to such an act of patriotism !
(Much laughter.)

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, NOVEMBER 10.
(From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott 6. Sons.)
During the past week the imports of Grain from Ireland. Coast-
ways, and from Foreign Parts, and the demand, have been equally
limited and Moderate, with little or no variation in last quoted
prices, excepting in some descriptions of Wheat, on which a small
reduction has been submitted to here, and in all our surrounding
markets.
The weather, though reported favourably in the south, has been
very rainy here and to the northward for the last two weeks, and
unfavourable for securing the Potato crops and for Wheat sowing,
in which very little progress has yet been made.
The only alteration in the duties on Grain from Foreign Ports
since Friday last is an increase of Is 6d per qr. on Oats and Rye.
Some parcels of New York Flour have been sold at 24s to 24s 6d
per barrel, in bond for export, but many imports hold at 25s to 26s
and fine Wheat in bond at 6s to 6s 3d per 701 b.
At this day's market we have had a very thin attendance, and in
consequence of the dullness and decline in Mark-lane, sales have
been effected to a very limited extent at a small reduction of Id to
2d per 701 b on Wheat, and id per 451 b on Oats ; all other Grain
participated in this depression excepting superfine sweet Flour,
which is now becoming rather scarce, and fully supported last
week's rates.
Vin EAT, per ;nibs s.
English
Scotch
Irish 7
Bonded
BARLEY, per qr.
English 19 0 40 0
Chevalier 4O 0 41 0
• Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0
Irish 4 6 5 0
Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0
OATS, per 451 b.
English
Scotch
Irish 3 2 3 4
Foreign, in pond 0 0 0
Ditto, duty frce 3 4 3 6
RYE, per quarter
MALT, per qr. fine 66 0 67 0
middling 56 0 62 0

d. s. d. INDIAN CORN, p. 4801 b.
3(t l 0 3 Red 36 06238 0
6 810 White 36 0 38 0

0 7 4

Bic ANs, per quarter,

6 6 3

„ .
English .. 46 0 52 0
_ 44 0 46 0
Pic As, Grey 3B 0 42 0
White 42 0 46 0
SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b.

In bond l3 0 14 0
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Fine 48 0 53 0
Irish 48 0 53 0
Amer. qp, brl. free
Sweet U.S 33 6 34 0
Sour 31 0 32 0
OAT3IRA L, per 2401 b.
English 24 0 25 0
Ditto, new 26 0 26 6
Scotch 24 0 25 0