The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-01-17 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, JAN. 10.
(From the Circular of Messrs. James Scott and Son.)

By a minute investigatiOn into the imports of Grain and Flour
in the three months ending 31st ult. compared with those in the
same period of the year 1838, there is a great deficiency in the im-
ports of Wheat, Flour, Barley, and Oats from Ireland—the Wheat
Coastways is about 3-4ths Foreign from London and Hull; of Flour
from America our supplies have considerably increased. Our stocks
of free Grain are much less than at this period last year, estimated
at this date at about 50,000 quarters Wheat, about 18,000 barrels
and sacks of Flour, about 45,000 quarters of Oats, and 40,000 loads
of Oatmeal ; in bond here, about :15,000 quarters Wheat, and about
95,000 barrels of Flour; of all other Grain, free or in bond, very
trivial ;—although quotations in our circulars for Wheat are nearly
the same, the averages in the Gazette are about 15s per quarter
lower than in this week last year, chiefly owing to the very bad
quality of the new ; of other articles not much difference. The
weather for winter seed time has been very bad all last month ;
constant rain, no frost or snow up to the sth instant, since which
we have had six days of severe frost, without snow, which im-
mediately succeeding a very wet day, cannot be favourable for re-
cently sown Wheat, and a vast deal of winter Wheat must be sown
farther on in the season, the consequences of which render pros-
pects for another harvest not very satisfactory. The new Irish
Wheat is very bad, and although we may expect large supplies of
Wheat and Flour front America, and also from the ports of the Baltic
and Mediterranean in the spring, we must remember that the ac-
cumulated stocks of previous years in Europe were pretty well
exhausted last year, and we shall require large supplies of Foreign
Grain to prevent an advance, greater than we anticipated, before
another harvest :—we believe this season will prove as favourable
as the last for Importers of Grain from Foreign ports ;—more
sanguine expectations appear now generally to prevail that
some material modification will be made in the Corn Laws early
in the present Session of Parliament ; on this suhjeet we have often
expressed our ideas—particularly in our Harvest Letter of the 12th
November last, to which we steadily adhere.
During the past week, notwithstanding the prevalence of easterly
winds, the import of Oats and Oatmeal from Ireland, and of Wheat,
chiefly Foreign, from Ports Coastwise, has been rather considerable,
and the demand has been so languid, that purchases might have
been made of any article in the trade at a small decline.—The only
alteration in the duties this week is an increase on Oats and
Beans of Is 6d per quarter.—Some parcels of American Flour, in
bond, have changed hands at a decline of 3d to 6d per barrel, and
the recent account of a reduction of half a dollar in America may
cause a temporary depression here.
The supplies to this day's market have been very considerably
increased by arrivals yesterday of Wheat and Flour from America,
and also Coastways and from Ireland;—our demand here having
thus been so greatly exceeded, sales were very languid, and to a
very moderate extent, at a decline of 3d to 4d per 701 b on Wheat,
6d to Is per barrel on Flour, Id per 451 b on Oats,—and every article
in the trade participated in this temporary depression ;—it is not
possible to state prices correctly.
WHEAT, per 70lbs s. d. s. d.
English
Scotch 9 9 10 9
Irish 6 0 9 6
Bonded
BARLEY, per qr.
raiglish 45 0 46 0
Chevalier 47 0 48 0
Scotch, per 601 b 5 4 6 0
Irish - "4,6 6 0
Foreign, in bond, 0 0 0 0
OATS, per 451 b.
English
Scotch 4 1 4
Irish 3 2 3
Foreign, in bond 3 6 4
Ditto, duty free 4 0 4
RYE, per quarter

INDIAN CORN, To 4801 b.
Red 44 0e45 0
White 45 0 46 0
BEANS, per quarter.
iish 45 0 50 0
Irish
44 46 0
PEAS, Grey 3B 0 44
White 44 0 48 0
SHIP BREAD, per 1121 b.
In bond l4 0 17 0-
FLOUR, English, per 2801 b.
Fine 52 0 59 0
Irish 48 0 57 0
Amer. brl. free
Sweet U.S 42 0 42 6
Sour 37 0 38 6
OATMEAL, per 2401 b.
English 32 0 33 0
Ditto, new 34 0 35 0
Scotch 32 0 33 0

MAii, per fine 70 0 74
middling 56 0 68