The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET,

.-THIS DAY,

Of any kind of Grain produced coastwise and from
Ireland, we continue to be very scantily supplied; and
compared with the very abundant arrivals from abroad
noted on Tuesday last, the imports into this place have
fallen off considerably since ; those of Wheat, chiefly
Baltic and American, forming little more than 8,000
quarters, with about 12,000 quarters of Indian Corn,
nearly all of which is from the Black Sea, but of other
Grain and Flour we have little to notice, and the exports
of the week are small in amount.

The more favourable news from the East, and the glo-
rious weather which has set in, have had a depressing
effect upon the prices of Wheat and Flour, in which we
quote a decline of 3d. per 701 b. on the former, of ls. 6d.
per barrel on the latter, from the rates of last week. At
this reduction there was a steady amount of business done
to needy buyers of Wheat, but holders generally were
firm. Oats and Oatmeal are quoted at former rates, but
prices are merely nominal. In other articles little doing,
and no alteration to notice.

HER Imperial Highness the Duchess Catherine of Russia,
the consort of his Serene Highness the Duke George of
Mecklenburgh Strelitz, is expected to arrive in London
shortly from the Continent.

DEFACING THE COlN.—Another Government bill has
been printed. It is to prevent the defacing of the current
coin of the realm. It is declared that a practice has arisen
of defacing the coin of the realm by stamping the same for
advertising purposes. Any person stamping names or
words on coin shall in England or Ireland be guilty of a
misdemeanour, and in Scotland of a crime or offence, and
liable to a fine or imprisonment, or fine and imprisonment
at the discretion of the Court. A tender of coin so defaced
is not to be a legal tender, and any person tendering or
uttering such coin will be liable before two justices to for-
feit...and pay any sum not exceeding £2.
UNSEALED CORRESPONDENCE.—Among other expe-
dients adopted to avoid the present high rates of Ocean
postage, is the practice of sending letters across the sea by
private hands unsealed. A person may convey a port-
manteau full of letters in this way without charge upon
them for the transit service. A gentleman recently returned
from a long residence at Port Natal, Africa, thus describes
the extent to which this practice is carried by the inha-
bitants of the colony :—" To show their disposition to
correspond, I will mention the fact that whenever a ship
was about to sail with passengers home—for such the
emigrant still looks upon Old England—they were pressed
to take charge of numerous letters, and post them on their
arrival. It was so on my leaving the colony ; and if the
anxiety shown by the emigrants to get their letters ready
for me could have been witnessed by the inhabitants of
this their fatherland, it would have aroused sufficient
feeling and determination to abolish this unwise tax on
their correspondence. To avoid it, and still communicate
with those they hold dear, I placed under my care num-
bers of letters unsealed, and written on sheets of paper
without being folded, and the money given me to pur-
chase the penny stamp and post them to their various
destinations. Now, who could or would refuse to do this ?
Only reflect for a moment the secrets of family corres-
pondence to be thus exposed rather than lose an opportu-
nity of sending a line home ! Now, had there been an
Ocean Penny Postage, I should not have been solicited
to bring a single letter ; it would have been thought an
imposition."

etor, ROBERT PEARSON THACKER, of No. 7, Percy-street, at the
;eorge's Crescent, Liverpool.—Tuesday, August 9, 1853.