The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

SPEECH OF THE LATE SIR R. PEEL, BART.,

MAY 24, 1819,
On presenting petition of Merchants, Bankers, Traders,
and others of London infavonr of Restriction on Cash
Payments, and against the Bill of 1816.

The following, which we extract from a pamphlet, pub-
lished by Simpkin, Marshall and Co., may be interesting
in the present crisis :

" Sir Robert Peel said, that he now stood in a situation
which he had never experienced before, although he had
sat in that house forty years. Tht petition which he was
about to submit to the house was from a body of men
entitled to the first consideration—a body of men who, in
the time of public distress and pecuniary want, were the
very'first to come forward and relieve the government.
He should wish to call to the recollection of some mem-
bers who, he believed, now heard him, whether they did
not remember a meeting of the merchants and bankers
called in 1797 ? At that time the Bank Restriction
Act was projected, and could not have passed if
that very meeting of the merchants, manufacturers, &c.
had not expressed themselves strongly in its favour. He

begged the house would pay particular attention to the
petition which he now held in his baud. It was one of
no common character, but that of a great and important

I LATEST INTELLIGENCE:
(BY EXPRESS.)

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTERDAY

The weather has become most splendid for the growing
crops, which, combined with the abundant arrivals of foreign
Wheat, Oats, and Beans, had the effect of depressing still more
the value of these articles, and the buyers continuing to act oa
the reserve, the trade is almost paralysed.
English Wheat, although short in supply, met a dull sale, at
a further reduction of about Bs. per qr. Foreign was freely
offered at a similar decline, and only a limited business resulted.
Barley, Malt, Peas, and Beans 3s. to 4s. lower.
Oats are 2s. to 3s. cheaper, and merely retail sales effected.
To wn-made flour ss. per sack, and American 3s. per barrel

No demand for inferior Indian corn; but floating cargoes is
fair request where quality can be relied on.

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTERDAY.
For the time of year, the arrivals of Beasts from our own
grazing districts were tolerably good. Although there were
several well-made-un drnvp.
this

kwas

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compliiin, not without cause, that the1.111:
U outcners
Beasts " die " badly..
Notwithstanding the weather was unfavourable to slaughter-
ing, the Beef trade, owing to the increased attendance of both
town and country buyers, was steady, at prices fully equal to,
-•-- -"ling quotable beyond, those obtained on this day
The primest Scots were disposed of at from ss. to
is. 2d. per 81b.

se'nnight

There was a fair supply of Lambs on show, yet the trade was
firm at last week's currencies. The highest value of the best
Down qualities was Os. per 81b.

Calves, the numbers of which were but molerate, moved off
slowly at about stationary prices.
In Pigs next to nothing was doing, at late rates.

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

SPAIN

Accounts from Madricito7th ultimo state that the
government intended shortly to suppress all custom-houses
through the interior of the country. A small column of
troops had been detached from the garrison of Madrid in
pursuit of a band of insurgents, who traversed with impu-
nity several districts of the province of Toledo. The Bar-
celona papers state that the Cabecilla party has mustered
200 men to give battle to the Queen's troops, but they
were defeated by even a smaller force.