The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, MAY 19

Since Tuesday last the imports of Grain, Flour, and Oatmeal,
from Ireland and Coastwise, have again been very small ; but of
Wheat, Flour. and Barley, from Foreign ports, they have been very
considerable; the two former articles arc going into bond for the
present; duty is paid on the latter as it arrives for home use.
The weather, throughout the whole of the past week, has been
very seasonable, and favourable for the rapid growth of all agri-
cultural produce ; we have had heavy showers daily, and it is now
considered that we have had a superabundance of rain all over this
district, quite sufficient until after the hay harvest;—the country
has assumed a most luxuriant appearance, and the season is now
estimated more forward than the last, by two or three weeks. In
consequence of whit h, andof the large quantity of Foreign Grain
and Flour recently released for home use, our millers and dealers
have been very sparing buyers for their immediate wants, although
a reduction of about Is to Is 6d per quarter on all other kinds of
Grain, (except the most superior qualities of Wheat and Flour, and
also Beans and Indian Corn) and of about 6d to Is per sack on
Flour and Oatmeal, has been submitted to.
The only alteration in the duties on Grain from foreign ports,
since Friday last, is an increase of Is Gil per quarter on Barley,
Indian Corn, and Buck Wheat, and no change is anticipated next
Friday ;—it will he observed that all Grain and Flour are exempt
from the new intended increase of five per cent to take place from
the 15th instant, on the duties of customs and excise ;—there has
been but very little demand for Grain or Flour in bond for export,
last week, but several parcels of very good fresh sweet Foreign
Wheat, chiefly Dantzic, are reported to have changed hands, to be
held in bond, at 75 6:1 to 79 gd per 7olbs.
The supplies to this day's market have been very considerably
increased by the arrivals, yesterday, of Oats and Oatmeal from
Ireland, and of Wheat and Flour from Foreign ports. The small
improvement in London, yesterday, gave a little more confidence
to the trade, and sales were effected to-day to a moderate extent
of Wheat and Flour in bond, and free at about the decline above
mentioned ; Oats, Oatmeal, and Barley, were also a little lower, but
Beans and Indian Corn fully supported last quotations.

WHEAT, per 7olbs S. d. S. U. INDIAN CORN, 43 4801 b.
English
Scotch 9 3 10 0 White l9 0 41 0
Irish 5 3 8 3 BEANS, per quarter.
Bonded
BARLin-, per qr. Irish 42 0 45 0
English 37 0 39 0 PEas, Grey 3B 0 42 0
Chevalier 3B 0 41 0 White 42 0 46 0
Scotch, per 601 b. 4 6 5 0 SHIP Bak:An, per 1121 b.
Irish 110 4 3 In bond l4 0 17 0
Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0 no 1.,11, English, per 2801 b.
OATS, per 451 b. Fine 48 0 53 0
English
... 4 0 4 3 Irish _ _ 44 051 0

Scotch 4 0 4 3 Amer. r hrl. free - -
Irish 3 4 4 u Sweet U.S. 'is 6 37 6
. . . -

Foreign, in bond 3 6 3 10
Ditto, duty free 4 0 4 3
RYE, per quarter 36 0 38 0
MA LT, per qr. tine 68 0 70 0
middling 56 0 66 0

Sour ':3 o 36 o
OATMEAL, per 24011).
English 33 6 34 o
Ditto, new 34 6 35 6
Scotch 31 6 34 o