The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-25 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Three o'clock

REPORTED CAPTURE OF BEYROUT,

(From the Third Edition of the Times of yesterday.)

The Paris papers of yesterday have reached us by extraor-
dinary express. Their contents prove that the greatest acti-
vity continued to prevail in the arsenals and dock-yards of

France

At Toulon, Admiral Lalande had been released from qua-
rantine, and was to leave for Paris on the 22d instant.
It was reported in Paris yesterday, that the French Levant
mail, due at Marseilles on Monday last, bad arrived with the
!ntelligence of the capture of Beyrout by Commodore Napier,
and the commencement of the blockade of Egypt. The cap-
ture of Beyrout was not credited.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—THIs DAY.
Since our report of the 22nd instant, the weather, alter-
nately wet and dry, has been for the most part very unset-
tled here ; and although, as we previously observed, very
little Corn remains out in this immediate neighbourhood,
yet eastward, and more especially in the northern counties,
where the crops are backward, a large portion having been
exposed to heavy rains, harvest in those districts has been
latterly in a great degree suspended ; with us, however, to-
day the weather is brilliant, and if durable for a few weeks,
a favourable result may yet be realised.

Upon Foreign Wheat duty is raised to 13s. Bd., upon Oats
to 3s. 3d. per quarter, on Flour to Ss. 2d. per barrel, and
reduced on Barley and Indian Corn to 10s. 10d. per quarter;
that on Rye, Beans, and Pease being unvaried, and British
Colonial produce remaining at the low rates of last week.

The arrivals since Tuesday consist principally of about
6500 qrs. of Fpreign Wheat, 14,568 barrels Flour from Ca-
nada and United States, with a moderate increase of Irish
Oatmeal ; the supplies of other produce being trivial.
The intervening period from Tuesday's market until to-
day was not attended by any extensive transactions, nor ma-
terial change in the value of any article pertaining to the
Corn trade here.

Having a slender attendance of buyers at our Corn Ex-
change to-day, the operations in Foreign Wheat being con-
fined to a few parcels for shipment to Ireland and the North
of England, with a very moderate sale to consumers, fine
samples, even in the face of higher duties, hardly maintained
late prices, while the secondary and lower qualities declined
rd. to 2d. per nibs., the value of English and Irish remain-
ing in limited request.

Flour was generally held at the current rates of Tuesday,
but moved off rather less freely than of late.

In Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease, there was very little
appearance of business this morning, and each barely sup-
ported former prices.
Old Oats continued to meet a difficult sale on the terms
last noted; but new, in the temporary absence of anything
beyond a very limited supply, were in demand, and rather
exceeded our last currency.

Old Oatmeal, on the contrary, was in slow request at an
abatement of Is., and New at a decline of 2s. to 3s. ; the
former being offered at 255. to 265., the latter at 28s. to 295.
per 240 lbs.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 22nd to the 24th September, 1840, inclusive,