The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

NORTH AND SOUTH WALES BANK.

ripHE Directors do hereby give notice, that a HALF-
JL DIVIDEND, at the rate of Seven per Cent.
per Annum, on the Capital Stock of the Company, to the
30th June, 1838, will be paid on anirafter the 11th of Sep-
tember next, at the Head Office of the Bank in Liverpool,
and at the following places viz --Dolgelley, Machynlletb,
Festiniog, Bala, Pwllheli, Welchpool, Newtown, Llanidloes,
Bishop's Castle, Oswestry, Llanfyllin, R uthin, Chester, Den-
bigh, Llanrwst, Carnarvon, Aberystwith, Wrexham, Bangor,
Holyhead, Llangefni, Holywell,
No Transfer of Shares can be made between 25th August
and 11th September, as the Books must be closed during
that period.—By order of the Board,
THOMAS ARTHUR CORLETT,
General Manager.
Each Proprietor will be expected, on applying for hie
Dividend, to produce (if rewired) his certificate of shares.
Liverpool, 17th August, l: :.

THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY COM-

PANY.
HE CENERAL HALF-YEARLY MEETING,
T assembling the Subscribers in London, on WEDNES-
DAY, the 29th instant. The Directors propose Visiting the
Works at the Dock at Thames Haven, on the same day, and
will feel much gratified if the Subscribers would accompany
them down, and view, themselves, the Property, situation,
and advantages it offers. A Steam Vessel will be engaged
at the Company's expense, and the necessary Refreshments
provided on board, at the individual charge of the party.
It is requested that every Subscriber who proposes to
attend, will apply at the Office for Tickets, for himself and
the friends he brings, by MONDAY, the 27th, that provision
may be made accordingly.
HENRY AMSINCK, Secretary.
o.ffice, 28, Moorgate-street, London, 9th August, 1838.

THAMES HAVEN DOCK AND RAILWAY COM-
PANY.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. that the HALF-
YEARLY GENERAL MEETING of this COM-
PANY, pursuant to Act of Parliament, will be held at the
LONDON TAVERN, Bisbopsgate-street, on WEDNESDAY, the
29th instant.
The Chair will be taken at Ten o'clock precisely, to admit
of the Subscribers proceeding down the River on the same
day. By order.
HENRY ANSINCK, Secretary.
Thames Haven. Dock and Railway Office
28, Moorgate-street, London, 13th August, 1838.

SINGING AND FRENCH LANGUAGE.
-Turß. DE ST. MAURICE, from Paris, begs to inform
iVI the Nobility and Gentry of Liverpool and its Vicinity
of his arrival in this town, where he intends giving. Instruc-
tion in the FRENCH LANGUAGE and LITERATURE,
also in FRENCH and ITALIAN SINGING, 'won mode-
rate Terms.
Application to be made at Mr. Da ST. MAURICE'S resi-
dence, 3, Clarence-street, or Mr. J. SMITH, Music Ware-
house, 64, Lord-street.

LIVERPOOL TRADESMEN'S CONSERVATIVE
ASSOCIATION.
rutHE MONTHLY MEETING of this ASSOCIATION
will be held in the( LA RGE Roost, "YORK HOTEL,
TH Is EVENING (FRIDAY), he 24th instan CRESSWELL
are respectfully requested to attend to meet
CRESSWELL, Esq.
The Chair will be taken at Eight &Clock precisely.
W. P
Committee Room, August 20, JEACHEY, Secretary.
1838.
No Person will be admitted without producing his Ticket.

NEW BRIGHTON HURDLE RACES, &c.
TUE S DAY, Aug. 28, and WEDNESDAY, 29th.
TO START AT ONE O'CLOCK PRECISELY,
THE HURDLE STAKES of FIVE SOVEREIGNS
each, with £lO added, for all Horses, &c. Gentlemen
riders; 11 stone each. Thoroughbred, 71b extra. Heats
once round, and to leap four Hurdles in each heat. The
Winner to pay one Guinea towards Hurdles, &c.
Mr. Barker's IA g Black Diamond ....b1ue...... & white
Colonel Osborne's br g Dustman white and blk stripe
Mr. M`Donough's b h Bolivar ..........................
A MATCH for TWENTY-FIVE SOVEREIGNS each, over the
Hurdle Course, once round. Gentlemen riders ; 11 stone
each.
Mr. Johnston ns b h Charlie .............

............ ...........
kn-twistle's gr h' irefly ...........................
THE TALLY-HO ES of THREE SOVEREIGNS each, and
STAK
£lO added. for all Horses, &c. that have hunted at l
six times with Sir Thos. Stanley's orthe Cheshire Houeast
nds.
Gentlemen riders; to carry 11 stone each. Thoroughbreds
71b extra. Heats once round, and to leap four Hurdles in
each heat The Winner to pay one Guinea, &c
Mr. Garner's b h Lord Clive ......... ....blue and white
Mr. Broster's gr h Conservative..bl.. body, crim. el. blk. cap
Mr. Jones ns br h Slug ..... .......................
Mr. Dewsbury's b h Cotton Spinner ...... gre .. .en and white
Mr. Robinson's ch h Sir Charles
.blue and white
Mr. Ferguson's bl m Wagtail ............................
Mr. Johnson ns ch m Elvira pink add white Stripe
SECOND DAY.

The NORTH WIRRALL STAKES OF THREE SOVEREIGNS
each, with £lO added, for all Horses, &c. Gentlemen
Riders, 11 stone each. Thoroughbreds to carry 7tb. extra.
Heats once round, and to leap four hurdles in each heat.
The Winner to pay £1 towards the Hurdles.
Mr. Barker's bl. g, Black Diamond blue and white.
Mr. Sextie's gr. g. Jemmy..pk. body, pk. & wh. slvs. & bl. cap
Mr. Ferguson's bl. in. Wagtail.
Colonel Osborne's gr. g. Dustman ....white and black stripe'
The NEW BRIGHTON STAKES OF FIVE SOVEREIGNS each,
.
with £lo added, for all horses, &c. Gentlemen riders,
heats once round ; to carry 11 stone each, Thoroughbreds
71b extra, The Winner to pay £2 to the Umpire, &c.
Mr. M•Donogh's b. h. Bolivar .........................
Nllll
r. Robert
Sumobitehr'tsphle.temrs. ,Ms
barrgahr.e
Margaret..
Invincible . and white stripe..•....blue and pink... pink .
Captain Tuthill's Fairy Queen (late My Lady).....
........
Captain Roberts's bay g. by Corinthian.. white and blk stripe.
A SWEEPSTAKES OF Two SOVEREIGNS each, for all beaten
horses in the preceding races. Gentlemen riders, to carry
11 stone each. Thoroughbreds 71b. extra. To name and
enter in the Weighing-room, within a quarter of an hour
after the last race.
No horse to be allowed to start unless his entrance money be paid
WILLIAM MERCER, Clerk of the Course.
Steam-packets will leave the Pierhead. Liverpool every half-
hour; the last packet will leave New Brighton at 7 o'clock.
cry. An Ordinary at the Hotel and at Graves's Tent, (Oil
the beach,) each day atTwo o'clock.

MONS. LE DRAY, SURGEON-DENTIST, from the
Firm of LE DRAY & CO., London.
SCURVY IN THE GUMS EFFECTUALLY REMOVED,
ARTIFICIAL TEETH SUPPLIED,
WITHOUT WIRES, SPRINGS, OR CLASPS.
LOOSE TEETH FASTENED.

AND FILLING DECAYED TEETH WITH MINERAL MARMORATUM.

MONS. LE DRAY & CO., Su I geon-Dentists, respectfully
inform the nobility, gentry, and inhabitants of Liverpool and
its vicinity, that they have opened an Establishment perma-
nently at No. 70, S FfEL-STREET, eight doors from Berry-
street. They continue to fill up the cavities of decayed teeth
with the Mineral Marmoratum, without the least pain, heat,
or pressure, it is placed into the cavity in an almost liquid
state, and in a few seconds gets hard, preventing and curing
the tooth-ache, arresting all further progress of decay, and
rendering the operation of extraction unnecessary. The mi-
neral not only converts a mere shell intoa sound and useful
tooth, but by completely stopping up the cavity prevents
effectually that unpleasant taint of the breath which invaria-
bly accompanies a decayed tooth.
Among the various disorders of the teeth' and gums, there
is none more destructive in their effects, or more generally
prevalent than scurvy, and it is well known that the loss of
teeth arises more from this cause than any other. It affects
individuals of all ages and of all contitntions, and is' the
primary cause of tooth ache and decay; to those so affected
Mons. Le Dray and Co. have to inform them, that they can
effectually remove this destructive complaint by a single ap-
plication without the slightest pain.
Artificialand natural teeth, of surpassing beauty, fixed from
one to a complete set, without extracting the roots or giving
any pain, without springs, wires, or ligatures, answering all
the purposes of mastication and articulation, remaining per-
fectly secure in their places, and may be taken out and repla-
ced by the wearer with the greatest facility--at the following
Paris charges :
A single Artificial Tooth £o 10 0
A complete Set
5 5 0
A complete Set of Natural Teeth on fine
gold plate
An entire Set of Natural or Terro-Me-
tallic Teeth, highly finished, in the first
style, with fine gold sockets, usually
tmi
fienr
icaulry-,
teetha n and et fiocfi ernecpi ems.
repair,
o, f
remodelled palate eff e ctt
ou afil lty
charged Forty Guineas
20 0 0
Loose teeth fastened, arising either from age, disease, or
ther e mme do iuetdh.
aAnrd-
restored equal in beauty and durability to their original irate.
Attendance from nine till seven, and on Sundays from nine
till two.

No. 70, Seel.street, Eight Doors from 13orry-stfeet,
Liiverpool

THE CORN CROPS AND THE CORN LAWS.

(From the Newcastle Journal.)

The state of the Wheat crops throughout the country is a
subject of much attention and anxiety at this moment; and
a diversity of opinion appears to prevail as to the prospects
of the ensuing harvest. A season of severe scarcity is pre-
dicted on the one hand, and on the other we are assured that
the harvest will realize a fair average produce. Speculators
in foreign grain, of course, encourage apprehensions of a
deficiency in the year's crop, their object being to raise the
price of corn, and then enter their stock on hand fur home

consumption at a nominal duty; and there are party politi-
cians wbo do not scruple to inveigh against corn laws on the
presumption that those apprehensions are well founded,
thereby spreading the delusion still further. Though the
.gate
_of the weather for some weeks past has been exceed-

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may be deficient, yet we are persuaded that throughout the
country the year's crop will not fall much below an average
one. Ihis will be evident on perusing the accounts sub-
joined, which we have selected from other similar ones which
have reached us from all parts of the kingdom.

ENGLAND.
HAMPSHIRE.—The wheat crop in this county, and indeed
in the whole south and west of England, never looked cleaner
or better. It is true that, from the heavy effects of the late
severe winter, it is thinner than could have been wished for;
but
then the straw is abundantly fine, and, from the extra-
ordinary improvement in its appearance and growth, arising
from the very genial weather of the past three mouths, it is
expected that it will yield an average crop within a sixteenth.
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—AIthough the crops of corn in the
northern parts of this county are later than tney usually are
by three weeks, yet they are in fine condition, and will soon
be ready for the reapers. The wheats are changing fast, and
promise one of the most abundant yields we have experienced
for many years; whilst complaints are made in some districts
of the maggot, the grub, and other insects, injuring the ears,
in this neighbourhood nothing of the kind has been dis-
covered, but fine, healthy, and large ears give promise of
great abundance. Some barley will be ready for cutting
during the ensuing week, and we may safely aver that a
larger, a finer, or a heavier crop has never been seen stand-
ing. Oats are as good as harley, and are better corned than
the farmers have known for the last twenty years.
Sussax.—Wheat has continued to improve, but not to
ripen so fast as was anticipated; even where its aspect is good
and in nowise beaten down by the storms, heavy rains, or
strong winds, it still promises a very fair crop of corn and
straw in this neighbourhood, proportionate with the thinness
of the plant on the field, the ears being generally of a good
size and weight. and as Yet free from blight.
SOMERAET.—The harvest has begun in our neighbourhood.
in sheltered grounds the crops are remarkably heavy, the
ears being full and the straws fine. But in exposed localities,
which were much visited by the north winilsof the winter and
spring, the stalks are very thin. Taking all the lands to-
gether, the crops will fall considerably below the average.
WARIVICKSHIIIII.—With reference to the corn crops, con-
flicting accounts are given. The corn districts nearest hand
certainly do not appear to have suffered as yet—the wheats
look strong and healthy, and if the weather takes up soon the
harvest will be an almindant one. The late untoward weather
has nevertheless induced many large speculations in corn,
and they have been carried on to such a great extent that it
S confidently anticipated by experienced parties that foreign
corn, in the course of the present month, will be imported and
sold at the lowest scale of duty.

CUMBERLAND.—The continued wet has a serious effect
upon the grain crop; the wheats are generally very thin
planted, and the white wheats are in many places much milde-
wed. The harvest will be a late one; we conceive it will be
full six weeks before a commencement will take place, and
should the weather continue in its present wet state, it may
be much longer. Barley and oats are making a bulky crop,
and probably some little barley will be barvested before the
wheat, but it will he confined to warm dry situations.
WORCESTER.—IU consequence of the severe frost in the
winter, and the backwardness of the spring, the wheat was
unusually late in coming into ear, and since then the weather
has been cold and unsuitable for the wheat, during the for-
mation of the grain, which, in our opinion, will cause a seri-
ous deficiency in the yield, for in examining the ears, grubs
are to be found, where there ought to be wheat; and it ap-
pears to be general, for we have not found one field that is
not affected by it.
SHROPSHIRE.—The wheat crops would be greatly bene-
fitted by warmer weather, and more sun, they being very
backward, and what is still worse, very much infected with a
yellow maggot about the eighth of an inch long. .

IRELAND.
The Dublin Evening Post, a paper that may be considered
high authority on the subject of agriculture, in a long and
able article on the harvest, states the gratifying fact that
"now at the present moment, there perhaps was never such
a prospect of an abundant harvest as there is iu Ireland."—
"We have now before us" (continues our contemporary)
"a letter from a nobleman, than whom there is not a better
practical farmer in Ireland, from which we shall give the
following extract :—• On a tour through the midland coun-
ties Kildare, Meath, Longford, and Cavan, I have found
the present appearance of the crops luxuriant and promising
to an almost unexampled degree, and as yet not a stalk is
broken or laid. The weather, however, is unfavourable, the
hay badly saved, and ripening retarded for want of sun and
genial warmth.' We may add, that this statement is corro-
borated by communications received from various parts of
the country. In one word, should the weather clear up
within a week—but we would not extend the hypothesis much
further—the country will be blessed with abundance. Per-
haps, however, there never has been a more critical fortnight
in respect to food than the next will be."

SCOTLAND.
ABERDEEN.—The editor of the Aberdeen Herald says:—
We had lately occasion to visit the more important districts
of Aberdeenshire, and from personal observation and the
opinions of experienced farmers, are prepared to lay as much
information before our readers as will enable them to form a
very just estimate of the state of the crops. In Garloch dis-
trict the crops are very late. Wheat is an average crop.
The same may be said of Barley, unless on very low-lying
farms, where it has been•much injured by the late rains. In
the Mar district the crops are about three weeks late, per-
haps rather more Corn has a good appearance, and pro-
mises to weigh well, and give good straw. The crops are
further advanced in the Skene district than in any other., we
dare say, in the county. One field of Barley, in Mr. Valen-
tine's farm, is already turned, and we noticed a field of Oats,
on the same farm, beginning to colour. Harvest will be little
past the usual time in Skene. The late rains have been
much against the crops in the Vale of Alford, particularly on
marshy soils. Corn looks well : Barley fair. The crops in
Buchan suirered a good deal from the cold spring. Some
fields of corn and barley have been blasted; but, speaking
generally, au average crop is promised.
AYRiiilßE.—Never, we believe, were the crops more plen-
tiful than this year, liut they must be late, and exposed, in
many parts, to great risk,_
although favourable weather should
soon ensue.

EDINBURGHSHIP.F..—We regret to state that the weather
still continues very unfavourable for the prospects of the
farmer. It has rained more or less every day this week; and
some of the showers being unusually heavy, we were afraid
that the corn in many places must be greatly laid. Even if
the weather should speedily improve, as we fervently hope it
may, all kinds ()C crops will be unusually late; and it seems
to be generally feared that the harvest would be rather under
average.

BERW ICKSHIRE.—BarIey, Wheat, and Oats are now all
in full ear, and, where they are not beaten down by the
rain, look extremely well, generally speaking; but certainly,
unless the weather takes up immediately, and becomes per-
manently warm and dry, the most serious apprehensions may
be entertained for the harvest, which, under any circum-
stances, must now be a late one.
The above accounts from the principal of the corn growing
counties vary in many particulars; though all of them speak
of the crop as nearly an average one. Complaints are rife
of the maggot, grub, and other insects, but it is not probable
that the crop will any where suffer materially from these
causes. The greatest 'danger is apprehended from the late-
ness of the season, and the unfavourable state of the weather.
In Ireland, the wheat crop especially is represented as au
abundant one, and in Berwickshire and the Lothians the
barley and wheat crops are looking exceedingly well. Under
these circumstances, we are satisfied there exists but little
ground for the apprehensions which corn jobbers are endea-
vouring to excite in the public mind; for though in some
districts the wheat crop may be comparatively a failure, the
average will he little short of that of last few years.

A person who said to have largedealings in corn, it is
"stated in the London papers, waited on the Lord Mayor at
the Mansion-house the other day, for the purpose of inform-
ing his lordship, as chief magistrate of• London, that if Par-
liament did nut interfere, bread would soon reach a famine
price, the immediate cause being the general apprehensions
of a deficiency of the wheat crop. This apparently disinter-
ested individual suggested that a petition from the Court of
Common Council should be sent to each House of Parlia-
ment, praying that Foreign Corn at present in bond should
be brought into the market free of duty. His lordship ac-
quiesced in the propriety of the suggestion, and accordingly,
on Monday last, convened a special Court of that body for
the purpose of "taking into consideration the present alarm-
ing rise in the prime article of human food; and at this meet-
ing a mposition to the above effect was discussed and nega-
tived. Thus the attempt of this " extensive" corn jobber to
procure the introduction of foreign wheat to the manifest in-
jury of the British farmer was signally defeated.
The pretext of averting impending famine was too flimsy
to screen the interested motive of this heartless adventurer,
and his proposal was scouted accordingly. It needed, indeed,
but little discrimination to perceive that if the apprehensions
of scarcity were well founded,—if the crop of wheat were be-
low an average one,—the remuneration of the farmer could
only be found in the high prices which would necessarily fol-
low—it being a simple matter of arithmetic, and plain to
every one, that if forty shillings per quarter compensated him
with a crop of 750 quarters, it would require sixty shillings
to compensate hitn when the some relative quantities of land
and labour yielded a crop of butsoo quarters. The admission
of foreign corn, duty free, would no doubt reduce the price
of bread; but it would at the same time entail a ruinous loss
on the farmer. It would enable every foreign adventurer
to pocket his cent. per cent., but it would sacrihce the British
agriculturist. The hardship of high prices is now spread
over the entire kingdom—every class bears its proportionate
share, but if wheat were reduced by the admission of foreign
grain into the British market, duty free, from sixty-nine
shillings and eleven pence, its present average price, to forty
shillings, or fifty shillings, a corresponding loss would be sus-
tained exclusively by the growers of British wheat, who would,
in short, be defrauded of their property. But such is the even-
handed justice of the liberal clamourers after free trade.

It appears that there are now 700,000 quarters of foreign
wheat in bond, the better half of which has been imported
within the last two or three weeks on speculation that the
lowest rate of duty will prevail, when large quantities will,
of course, be entered for home consumption, at a nominal
duty of one shilling per quarter. If the object of the corn
speculators who have been sn eager in spreading alarm as to
the state of the crops and the prospects of the harvest had
been to relieve the poor by reducing the price of bread, the
present prices of wheat are such as to enable them to do so
with profit to themselves. The duty is now sixteen shillings
and eightpence per quarter, and the next return probably
will not rate it at snore than six shillings and eightpence, so
that no obstacle except the mercenary one created by inte-
rested corn-jobbers prevents the introduction of foreign corn
into the English market under the existing law. Besides it
does not follow that if Parliament were at once to grant the
wish of these foreign adventurers, the price of corn in the
English market would be lowered, because the importer is
not compelled to dispose of his wheat immediately on reliev-
ing it from bond ; but having paid the duty, or entered it for
home consumption, duty free, be may sell it when.and in
what way he may think proper. So that the preventive of
expectant famine is in this instance completely fallacious.
If relief is to be administered, under the present high prices,
let it fall equally on all classes of the community, and not on
one class exclusively, as would be the case under the opera.
tion of the plan proposed.
The above plan, it is obvious, could only originate with a
'mall knot of corn-jobbers in the metropolis, where the scheme
'vas hatched, and if it could have been carried into operation
speedily, that is before fresh importations of foreign grain
were made the present holders of bonded grain would have
been enriched by some thousands of pounds; but immedi-
atel •
tiaonuit,hle arrival of more grain prices would settle down,
further continue to fall until they operated as a check on
The importations.
not outcryless absurd attempted to be raised against the corn laws is
forsuerd than the motives of the individuals are inte-
rested;
moment a.bollieZsaupposing that the corn laws were at this
seasons? Certainly that secure us against unfavourable
foreign corn under such n"t; nor would it render our supply of
now is. The hyp:ireh,- circumstance more secure than it
fallacious ono ; for as
,:as of the free-traders is evidently a
price of living became ages would fall in proportion as the
went could be presented toeca_OPron s
Cheaper it is plain that no induce-
peculators,—and they would
then be as numerous as or La re so than they are now, —to

induce them to supply the English market in preference to
any other; and, therefore, no greater security could be af-
forded for a regular supply during a scarce season than at
present exists. Indeed our supply would then be less se-
cure, for under the present system a comparatively small
supply of foreign wheat is required, and for that supply we
can afford to give such a price as will ensure it in any market
in the world, whilst under the free system, the supply re-
quired would be exceedingly large and the money we had to
offer for it would not be such as would present an indudement
for it anywhere.
A favourable change has already taken place in the state
of the weather, and if it continue fine a salutary check will
be administered to the operations oft hose who are speculating
on the miseries and privations which a scarce season would
produce. Whatever apprehensions might have been reason-
ably entertained at one period for the safety of the crops,
there now seems no ~tound to fear that the year's produce
..11T "

will rda much-be-low aLI -aVeraretlit'ffirile-iernerimi•
under favourable circumstances, there will be plenty through-
out the land both for man and beast.