The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN CORN MARKETS.

The state of the continental corn markets, as given in
Messrs. B,dy and Co.,s circular, does not appear to be
such as to warrant us in anticipating any material supply
or reduction of price from that quarter. The number of
grain laden vessels which passed the Sound and Belt, for
England, from the 26th of February to the 3rd of March,
were three of wheat and one of barley. The markets ge-
nerally were quiet, with prices ranging a little above ours,
and little doing, although the navigation was rapidly open.
ing. At Dantzic, good high priced wheat was quoted at
545. to 555. per quarter for small parcels only. holders
being unwilling to sell at less than 2s. to 3s. advance.
At Elbing, Stettin, and Rostock, there was no disposi-
tion to give way in prices: 611 b. to 62:b. red Uckertnark
is held at 475. ; 621 b. to 631 b. Pomeranian at 48s. to 48s.
6d. per quarter, free on board ; freight, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 9d.
per quarter to London.
The Hamburgh, Dutch, and Belgian markets were dull
—prices drooping.
Great activity was manifested at Odessa in the corn
trade. No purchases were made for England ; Italian and
Greek houses were the only buyers, and prices are one
rouble per chet. higher. The good sorts of Polish wheat
cost 375. per quarter, free on board.
The prices of wheat in the Mediterranean ports are
much too high for England, and nothing can be imported
now through the Straits of Gibraltar from the countrie
eastward, without leaving a very heavy loss of from 10 to
15 per cent.; the prices advance at Odessa, in the face of
a serious decline quoted from England.

OUR TALK ON 'CHANGE.

(CONDENSED FROM A CONTEMPORARY.)

The talk during the past week has been considerably
about America and the Oregon question. The talk is
that Brother Jonathan will go to war with us for the whole
territory. Thefurther talk is that he won't go to war at
all about that or any other matter. The general talk is
that be will do neither; and between the three different
talks the public are rather at a nonplus. The prevailing
opinion is that, before giving an opinion one way or the
other, we had better wait and see the event.
The talk in the early part or the week was that the
Lords would insist upon a fixed duty, and overthrow Sir
Robert Peel's measure. The further talk was that the
parties who inclined to such an opinion had the fact com-
municated to them direct from the Duke of Wellington
himself. The general talk, however, was that the Duke
is not a likely man to tell tales out of school. TUe prayer
is that all this may be true.
There has been a great deal of talk about things in ge-
neral; but, as the weather is fine and the flags wide,
opinions have been very different and conflicting. Under
the piazzas things were regarded with a much more com-
fortable feeling, whilst the north-west wind and a few
shoe era considerably damped the feeling in the area.
There was some talk, some further talk, and some
general talk, about Dock matters ; but we were unable
to gather what was the prevailing opinion, therefore
cannot record it.

The Rev. Chancellor Raikes bas been pleased to ap-
point the Bev. W. M. Faßoon, Incumbent of St. John's,
in this town, a surrogate for the granting of marriage li-
censes, probate of wills, &c. &c.
PROTES'IANT LECTURES.—The Rev. Wm. Pollock,
incumbent of St. Helens, will deliver this evening the
fifth of the course of lectures, going forward at the Con.
cert-hall, Lord Nelson-street. The important subject of
of Mr. Pollock's address is, " The vain pretensions of the
Church of Rome to infallibility, &c." The reverend
gentleman is well known as an eloquent and powerful de-
fender of Protestant truth. The lecture delivered by the
Rev. Henry Carpenter, on Tuesday lost, is considered to
be such an unanswerable exposure of the " Superstition of
the Church of Rome in the veneration of relics," that the
Committee of the Protestant Operative Association have
obtained Mr. Carpenter's permission to publish it at the
low charge of two pence, and we are happy to find that it
is being extensively circulated.
NEWSPAPER PUFFERY.—YANKEE versus THE OLD
COUNTRV.—What a wretchedly poor figure the newspaper
puffery of this country cuts when compared with that of
our lively Brother Jonathan. The Mrs. Caudle of Lord-
street, when she sits down to dilate upon her excessive
wisdom and unparallelled circulation, is but a puny dri-
veller compared with the Mrs. Candles of the other con-
tinent, when they assume the boastful vein. John Gordon
Bennett beats poor Mercury at his favourite weapons.
He is as immeasurably greater than our contemporary in
the science of Bobadilism as the Rocky Mountains are
greater than the largest potato that ever was exhibited in
the Mercury's window. Take the best bit of boasting our
contemporary ever perpetrated—take any of his " paper
and a half for sixpenny" brags ; and see how immeasurably
Bennett leaves him behind in the followibg racy bit of
bombast :—" This unprecedented express was arranged
and run throughout by Mr. L. Bigelow, of the Boston.
Fitchburg, and Montreal Express line. It was the fastest
express ever run in the country, and cannot be beaten by
any live Yankee. The whole running time between the
two cities, was seven hours and five minutes—distance two
hundred and fifty miles." There is actually poetry in the
description. The feat of the New Yorker " cannot be
beaten by any live Yankee"—thereby suggesting the idea
that. if necessary, he could employ the disembodied spi-
rits of dead 1 aukees in carrying his expresses. Our con-
temporary at home is prosaic even in the inventive an-
nouncements which he makes of his extraordinary suc-
cesses.

How TO BUILD A CHURCH.—This is a secret worth
knowing, and we think the St. Simon's Building Com-
mittee have published it for the good of others. They ad-
vertised, " Subscribe on condition that a certain sum be
raised," or in other words, " Give me £3 if I can raise
£3000." Many did subscribe; the committee worked;
their motto was "a long pull, and a strong pull, and a
pall altogether;" and they have raised the sum they at
first required. They are now, as appears by their adver-
tisement in to•day's paper, calling for a fulfilment of all
promises ; but we regret to see that they are labouring
under pecuniary embarrassment. The corporation of
Liverpool cannot make them a free grant of the site.
They expected this as the church is to be a poor man's
church; but alas the resolutionwhich they received from the
Finance Committee is neither more nor less than a bill
for £214. Again, the advanced price of labour increases
their expenditure. They have taken several important
steps : they have purchased their ground ; they have se-
lected their plans; they have applied to the public so-
cieties ; the first stone, we hope, will shortly be laid, and
we are sure that the zeal and enthusiasm which marked
tilt commencement of the work, will not cool until the
flag of England will float upon the steeple and our excel-
lent bishop will dedicate it to the worship of Almighty
God.