The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

THE ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY.

The experiments on the line of railroad which runs from
the Uxbridge-road, near Shepherd's-bush, across Wormwood
Scrubs, to the line of the Great Western Railroad, and on
which carriages are propelled by means of the atmosphere
forcing its way into an exhausted tube or pipe laid down be-
tween the rails, on the principle for which Messrs. Clegg and
Samuda have obtained patents, have attracted.considerable
attention. The experiments were a few days ago attended by
the Government commissioners, Sir Frederick Smith and
Professor Barlow, who examined every part with the most
minute attention, and witnessed the transit of the carriages
along the line. Several of the most eminent engineers and
practical men were also present, and expressed themselves
perfectly satisfied with the results. The carriages travel at
the rate of 30 miles an hour, apparently by magic. Those
who have been accustomed to see the cumbrous locomotive
engines roaring and smoking along the lines of railroad will
be as

tonished to see a train imoving with the rapidity of 30
miles an hour, without any perceptible power to put it in mo-
tion, and it is difficult to persuade many persons of the fact
that trains can be impelled by means so simple as those em-
ployed.

The invention is not a' recent novelty in the history of
practical philosophy, but the manner in which it has been
made subservient to the purpose of railroad conveyance is
entirely the contrivance of the above-mentioned patentees.
In the year 1810 Mr. Medhurst put forth a proposition for
constructing a tunnel froth one end of a railroad to another
through which a carriage or carriages were to be propelled by
means of a current of air generated by powerful air-pumps
worked by steam-engines, and in 1817 a Mr. Lewis proposed
a method upon a similar principle for conveying letters
through a tube from London to Windsor in the space of a
minute, and subsequently a Mr. Valiance proposed to convey
a carriage through a tube, the carriage to be attached to a
piston, upon which the influence of the exhaustion or, rush of
the atmosphere into vacuum was to act. Mr. Valiance had an
interview with the Duke of Sussex on the subject, but the
business of course came to nothing; his plan was little more
than what the plans of Mr. Medhurst and Mr. Lewis had
before suggested, but which in practice were not feasible. It
was obvious that the propelling power must be confined in a
tube or pipe, along which a piston must be propelled by means
of exhaustion or pressure of air, and that this piston must be
connected with the carriages by means of rods or bars of
iron coining through some aperture in the pipe or tube,
so that when the piston was forced along the inside of the
tube, it should draw the carriage or carriages which were
outside the tube along with it. But then arose the difficulty
of contriving such an aperture for the transit of the connect-
ing rods or bars, as should not destroy the vacuum within
the tube, by affording an opening for the rushing in of the
external air, in such places and in such manner as to destroy
the whole principle and power of the vacuum. A Mr. Pin-
kus thought he had effected this object. His method is said
to have consisted in a pipe 40 inches in diameter, with a slit
or groove in the upper surface. The groove was to be closed
by laying a rope in it; a piston was to move in the tube to
which the rods or bars connecting it with the carriage were
attached. Wheels were attached to the bar or rod, which

lifted up the rope as the piston passed beneath it ; and then
came another wheel behind th 3 bar or rod, which forced
down the rope into its former place, after the passage of the
bar had taken place. The defect here seems to have been
that the rope could not be sufficiently forced down, so as to
make the aperture air-tight. It seems that it was reserved.
for Messrs. Clegg and Samuda to contrive the effectual me-
thod of closing the aperture so as to make it air .tight after
the passage of the connecting rods, ,and thus render the ap-
plication of the vacuum principle of practical utility to rail-
road conveyance. Their contrivance is this :—A pipe of nine
inches is used for the transit of the piston ; along the top of
it is an aperture. To close the aperture there is a strip of
leather, strengthened by plates of iron, fixed like a litl, by
being attached on one side to the pipe, while the other side
falls into a groove filled with a composition of oil and wax.
Wheels are attached for opening and closing the valve, and,
what is completely a new feature, a , heated upper rod passes
over the composition after the valve has been closed, melts
the composition, soldering down the edge of the valve or lid
to the groove, and sealing the tube. It will be seen from
this description that the desideratum so long sought in vain,
viz., the connecting the piston in the tube with the carriages
above it in such a manner as to prevent the vacuum in the
tube from being destroyed by the rush of external air, has
been accomplished ;- and it will repay the trouble of any per-
son interested in railroad conveyance to go to Wormwood
Scrubs, and witness the facility with which, by the applica-
tion of the principle of a vacuum, the most heavy carriages
are forced along. The method is an enormous saving of ex-
pense in railroad engineering, an increased speed is attained,
and a variety of accidents avoided. The invention, like all
others, will meet with opposition, and will have to contend
with the prejudices and interests of a host of persons, but
that it must ultimately, and at no very great distance of time,
come into general operation, there can be little reason to
doubt.—Times of Friday.

IMPROVEMENTS IN THE NAVIGATION OF THE
RIVERS MERSEY AND IRWELL.

We mentioned, some months ago, the intention of the
Mersey and Irwell Navigation Company to deepen the bed of
the river, between the Victoria and the New Bailey bridges,
so as to extend the navigation of the river to the pool above
the former bridge, and thereby fulfil the powers with which
the company were invested by their original act, which
authorised them to make the river navigable as far as the
mouth of the river Irk. This intention the company are
now carrying into effect, and a number of men are busily

engaged in deepening the bed of the river between the two
bridges above mentioned, and, by throwing up the gravel to-
wards each side, narrowing the channel as to preserve it here-
after of the depth requisite for the purposes of navigation.
In this work about 70 men are employed, and their opera-
tions were commenced on the Ist instant. Their work, it is
expected, will probably occupy about six weeks; and, when
it is sufficiently advanced, it is probable that the Old Quay
Company's dredge-boat may be brought into operation, so
as to remove whatever may lodge in the bed of the river, and
thus deepen it sufficiently to admit of its safe navigation up
to Hunt's Bank, by the company's vessels, which have a
draught of about five feet. The whole of the operations re-
quisite to complete this extension of the navigation, it is an-
ticipated, will be finished by about Christmas next. It is
not, we believe, at present determined, whether to dredge
out the river in the way just stated, or to proceed by deep-
ening the bridge pond, and then raising the weir at Throstle
Nest, so as to impound the water at its present height oppo-
site the Collegiate Church. Part of the works will consist in
the erection of a rubble wall, so as to confine the course of
the river; but the water-way is not to be narrowed more
than to the span of the Victoria Bridge. In reference to this
part of the operations, a meeting of the owners of land on
the banks of the river was held at the Blackfriars Inn, on
Thursday, and an offer was • made, on the part of the Old
Quay Company, to the landowneis individually, that, if the
latter would erect a sufficiently strong breast-wall, the com-
pany would allow towards it such sums as it would cost the
company to erect a rubble wall for the several lengths in
front of each landowner's property. This proposition was
favourably received, and many of the landowners present
seemed disposed to accept the company's offer. We under-
stand, that, by these works, several large plots of land will
be gained from the river by different landowners.
To carry out the object for which this improvement and
extension of the navigation of the Irwell has been projected,
we understand that the Old Quay Company intend to erect
warehouses on a plot of land belonging to them adjoining the
Salford end of Victoria-bridge, onthe south side of the street,
opposite the Cloth-hall. The. advantages of thus bringing
the carriers' warehouses into the heart of the town, in the
immediate vicinity of the Exchange, must be obvious; while
the extremity of these warehouses to the Corn Exchange,
Hanging Ditch, will afford great facilities to buyers for ex-
amining the bulk of the grain they may purchase, without
the difficulty or loss of time that would at present attend
such inspection. There are several other plots contiguous
to the river, all well suited for the purposes of a vegetable
. market ; and we understand that the Salford police commis-
sioners are desirous to promote the establishment of a good
market in that populous vicinity. And while such a market
in that locality would be a public benefit, there is no doubt
that the boats laden with potatoes would find it of no small
advantage, as saving the cost of the cartage of potatoes and
other vegetable produce through the town. Amongst other
individual speculations in connection with these contemplated
improveMents we have heard that Mr. Samuel Brooks in-
tends to establish a timber wharf and saw yard on the Salford
shore of the river, opposite the mouth of the Irk, for the
purposes of discharging and sawing timber. These improve:

. ments will doubtless tend to relieve the many crowded
streets, some of them narrow and inconvenient ones ; and

altogether it promises to be of benefit to the public, while it
cannot fail to he productive of profit to the large carrying
company, which has projected it, and is now carrying it into
effect.

In no distant connection with this improvement, we may
briefly notice another and more extensive one ; at present,
we believe, under the consideration of the Old Quay Com-
pany. This is, by improving their navigation from this town
to Weston Point, a distance of 31 miles, making it shorter
and more direct, and deepening the channel where necessary,
to obtain the means of enabling vessels of considerably larger
tonnage than those at present found herd, to make their way
up the Mersey to Warrington, and thence up the Mersey and
the Irwell to this town. Indeed, it is stated, that by such
improvements as have'been suggested, it will be practicable
to bring steam-Vessels of about 400 tons up to Manchester
The company, with a view to ascertaining how far such an
extensive improvement of the navigation between Liverpool
and this town was practicable, have availed themselves
of the professional abilities of Mr. H. R. Palmer, F.R.S.,
who has been engaged in surveying the rivers, and was re-
quested to report to the company on the measures requisite
to carry out the contemplated improvement. We have seen
the plan, not yet quite completed, which Mr. Palmer is pre-
paring to publish ; and we understand that his report will
appear in the course of the next month. Under these cir-
cumstances we shall not at present enter into any details.
The plan is entitled, " Plan of the rivers Mersey and Irwell,
between Weston Point and Manchester; showing the pro-
posed improvements, by which it is designed to render them.
capable of passing sea-going vessels from Liverpool, through
Warrington, to Manchester ; by H. R. Palmer. F.R.S."
One of the objects sought to be effected is the improvement
of the navigation of the Mersey between Runcorn and War-
rington. This portion of the navigation is at present subject
to continual neaps even for vessels drawing no more than
five feet water ; and it is designed to obtain a sufficient depth
in that length of the river, to have sufficient water, at all
tides for vessels drawing fourteen or fifteen feet. Besides
deepening the two rivers, wherever that is necessary, the
contemplated improvements a considerable saving of distance,
—as much as four miles in the distance of 31 miles from
Manchester to Weston Point. This will be accomplished by
straight channels in various localities, where the river is
tortuous. The principal work will be the reducing the num-
ber of ponds in this length of the navigation from ten to four.
The locks also are to be made capable of admitting vessels of
the large tonnage before referred to. We understand that
great interest is felt at Warrington in these contemplated
improvements; and they will, doubtleSs, if carried into effect,
be productive of great advantage to the trade of that town.
For the above particulars, also, we have been indebted to
Mr. T. 0. Lingard ; and as the subject is one of considerable
importance, especially in connection with that of inland,
bonding, we shall probably recur to it when the plan and the
report of Mr. Palmer are published.—Manchester Guardian.

Mr. J. H. Talbot, M.P. for Ross, bas become a repealer

GIGANTIC SPECIMENS.—We have, in some of our late
papers, had to notice several natural productions which have
claimed, and properly too, to belong to the giant kind, and
we are glad to see that our accounts of them have attracted
attention, and excited very laudable spirit of emulation in
differentindividuals to become candidates for the gratifying
fame which is ever awarded to good management. The reader
shall now, then, receive the satisfaction which the following
pleasing particulars cannot fail to impart. As a specimen of
Oats we have this week had sent to our office, one stalk
which measures seven feet six inches in length, it was taken
from a field of Mr. Thomas Beesley's, at Higher Bartel,
Woodpluinpton, and we are told the crop averages, in height;
seven feet. Of pease, a stalk from the garden of Mr. John
Hornby, innkeeper, Woodplumpton, four yards two inches in
length, and the greater part of the crop averages four yards.
Of Field Beans, a stalk taken from land adjoining Wood-
plumpton workhouse, seven feet eight inches long. Of Early
Kidney Potatoes, got up from one root in the garden of Mr.
Henry Eastham, picker maker, Woodplumpton, twenty-
one in number, and weighing six and a half pounds. And
a Common Yellow Turnip, grown by Mr. James Walmsley,
of Woodplumpton, which weighs nineteen pounds. The
above then are our present week's gigantic specimens, and
we shall be glad, if in our next, we may be enabled to describe
others of still larger' dimensions.—Preston Pilot.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

The directors of the Loudon , and Birmingham Railway
Company, have resolved to run third-class trains on their
line. They will travel separate from the other classes, and at
a slower rate. The fare will be fourteen shillings for the en-
tire distance from London to Birmingham.
HULL AND LEEDS JUNCTION RAIL*AY.—EXTRAORDI-
NARY PASSENGER TRAIN.—On Sunday morning last, a
special train started from the Leeds station for Hull, com-
prising no less than 40 carriages, containing 1,250 passengers,
chiefly workmen, we believe, who had embraced the opportu-
nity of inhaling, for a short time, a purer air than is to be
found in " smoky Leeds." The arrival of so many respec-
tably dressed strangers amongst us all at once created no lit-
tle sensation in the town • and on the departure of the same
train in the evening for Leeds, embracing,the same number of
carriages, the Humber bank, and every spot where a glimpse
of the novel and really astonishing sight could be procured,
were crowded with spectators. We understanel, that during
the day no less than 3,500 persons passed through our depot
in entering or departing from the town.—Hull Observer.
BIRMINGHAM AND DERBY AND AiIDLAND COUNTIES
RAILWAYS.—Our readers are aware, that, for some time
past, a competition has existed between these two railways
for the conveyance of passengers between Derby and London.
In this competition, however, it appears that the Birmingham
and Derby Company complained of an agreement which the
Midland Counties Company had made with the North Mid-
land Railway Company, under the terms of which the latter
company were compelled to forward and book all the passen-
gers from any part of their line (wishing to go to London) by
way of the Midland Counties Railway only, and were pro-
hibited from booking them by any other route. We have
been informed, that in the bill which the Midland Counties
Company have just passed through parliament, for increasing
their capital and other purposes, a clause was inserted by the
house of lords, at the instance of the Birmingham and Derby
Railway Company, annulling the agreement above referred
to, with a penalty of £5O per day on the Midland Counties
Company if they should at any future time enter into or act
upon any similar agreement with the North Midland Com-
pany, to the prejudice of the Birmingham and Derby Com-
pany. It appears also, that an application by the Midland
Counties Company to the Court of Chancery, to prevent the
Birmingham and Derby Company from lowering their usual
fares from Derby to Hampton, has been refused with costs.
—Midland Counties Herald.

TRIAL OF GEACH FOR FORGERY.

CROWN CO u a.r-

—Before Mr. Baron Parke,

MONMOUTH, FRIDAY, AUG. 14.—The trial of Thomas
Foster Geach, the step-son of John Frost, upon various
charges of forgery, having been specially fixed for this morn-
ing, the court was crowded at an early hour..

The prisoner was charged with having, on the 29th of July,
1837, feloniously forged a certain bill of exchange, drawn by
himself upon one Edmund Williams, purporting to be ac-
cepted by the said Edmund Williams, and endorsed by the

prisoner to Messrs. William Williams and Co., bankers, at
Newport, with intent to defraud the said Messrs. William
Williams, and Co. There were other counts for uttering the
said bill of exchange, others for forging the acceptance only,
and others laying the intent to defraud Edmund Williams.
Mr. R. V. Richards, Mr. Charles Phillips, and Mr. W. J.
Alexander appeared for the prosecution ; the prisoner was
defended by .Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and Mr. Sergeant Tal-
fourd. _ _

The charges were fully substantiated by the evidence
which was brought forward, and the jury after an hour's de.
liberation, brought in a verdict of Guilty. Sentence was
deferred.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 15.—This morning at nine o'clock,
Mr. Geach was brought up to receive. sentence, previously
to which he addressed the court in mitigation of punish-
ment.
Mr. Baron PARKE said that it was with great pain he
passed sentence In this case. But for the recommendation
of the jury, in which his lordship's judgment could not con-
cur, he should have felt it his duty to pass the severest sen-
tence of the law, hut be should allow some weight to that
recommendation. It.was necessary, however, to pass such a
sentence as should read a lesson to persons similarly situate,
and as far as possible deter from the, commission of a crime
which it is to be feared is but too common (and increasingly
so) among persons connected with mercantile affairs, when
in desperate circumstances. For the first offence, therefore,
the prisoner was sentenced to transportation for 20 years ;
upon the second indictment it was not necessary to pass any
sentence.

The prisoner, whose firmness had never forsaken him
throughout the whole of the proceedings, was then removed.
In the course of the morning he was again placed at the
bar, and his lordship said, that, it having been intimated to
him, on behalf of the prosecution, that some statement had'
been made (whether truly or not he did not know) that one
of the jurymen in the first case had not been sworn, he
should, to avoid any question arising upon the point, direct
the sentence to be recorded upon the second indictment.

THE GREEK MOTHER AND HER DAUGHTER,

DISTURBANCE AT PERA

Further particulars from the Leipsic Allgemeine Gazette)
CONSTANTINOPLE, JULY 22.—Within this week past the
whole of the Greek Rayas have been plunged into dreadful,
indeed indescribable, distress, and every heart has been deeply
moved. Early in the morning of the 13th of July a Greek
woman with her daughter, a beautiful child only eight years
old, went to fetch water from the wells at Bulanca, a village
near the Seven Towers. While conversing with a female
friend, her attention was withdrawn from her daughter, and
when about to return home she found that her child had dis-
apPeared..- A Turkish woman, feeling for the distracted mo-
ther, told her that another female Turk had carried off her
child, and that they were in Scutari. The mother instantly
passed over in a boat, and proceeded to the house which had
been described to her, and there she found her child clothed
in the Turkish costume, with her nails stained red. The mo-
ther claimed her child, and insisted on taking it with her,
but the Turkish lady asserted that the girl was her own child,
and with a bleeding heart, the poor Greek mother was obliged
to depart. Following the advice of her friends, she repaired
to Raouf Pasha, the Grand Vizier, and solicited his assist.-
ance. He replied, in rather a surly manner, that she should
have it, and that she must come to him again on Thursday,
the 16th, when her child should be there.
On the appointed day, the Greek woman, accompanied by
the priest, the judge, and several inhabitants of her village,
repaired to the Porte, where she found the Grand Vizier, sur-
rounded by officers and servants. Meanwhile, Raoul Pasha
had sent a- Kavass-Baschi to Scutari to bring the child, who,
however, had been previously worked upon by presents to
persuade her to deny her mother. The Kavass-Baschi on
the way back applied the like inducements, but when brought
before the Vizier, the force of nature prevailed. On seeing
her parent, the infant ran to her, crying, " mother, mother,
save me." The mother burst into tears, and held her child
fast in a convulsive embrace. Raouf Pasha, reddening with
rage, seized the infant by the hair of the head, while the
attendants beat the mother severely with their fists. Having
torn the child from the mother's arms, the Pasha gave it to
another Baschi, who immediately disappeared with it.
The priest and the other Greeks who were present could
not restrain their indignation, and exclaimed, " How ! you,
the first minister of the state, who should set an example to
others, do you dare to use the subjects of your sovereign in
this manner? Is this the fulfilment of the hopes which the
people were lataly taught to place in you? Are you making
good the benevolent promises of the Sultan's Hatti Scheriff,
by which equal rights and equal protection with your own
people were guaranteed to us ? Do the precepts of your
heretical religion permit this injustice to be done ?" On
hearing the concluding reproach all the Karvasses and at-
tendants attacked the priest and the Greek villagers, bastina-
doed. them in the most cruel manner, and sent them off to
prison. The priest, however; availed himself of the confusion
to slip out of the way, and succeeded in making his escape.
The poor woman, dreadfully ill-treated and abused, was
thrown in a state of insensibility into the street. As the priest
could nowhere be found, the Greek Patriarch was summoned,
and it was notified to him that he must answer on his life for
the appearance of the offending ecclesiastic within eight days.
Thus, up to the present time, the affiiir remains ; what has
become of the child nobody knows. Every one is curious to
know what course the rigid and just young Sultan will adopt
with respect to this transaction, as the complaint was pre-
sented to him personally on his last visit to the Mosque.
Every one, too, endeavours to account for the extraordinary
and revolting conduct of the Grand Vizier, who was lately
President of the High Court of Justice, and which is the
more remarkable at the time when a new code declaring Turks
and Rayas equal before the law has just been published. Now,
as, for some years past, both here and in the provinces, many'
handsome Greek and Armenian girls, of from six to ten, have
been stolen from their grieving parents, and as this virgin
robbery is believed to be a new branch of industry, a specu-
lation, having for its object to get .the children reared in
secret by mercenary wretches until they are of age to be sold
for the harems of the rich, the general opinion is, that Raoul
Pasha had cast his eyes on this one child and given a com-
mission for stealing her. In consequence of the suppression
of the pirate system of Morocco, Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli,
no booty of this kind can any longer be had, in the Mediter-
ranean, and as Greece, Georgia, and Circassia are withdrawn
from the dominion of the Porte, it is found very difficult to
procure a sufficient number of•white slaves for the harem.—
It appears, therefore, that child-stealing has been resorted to
as the means of supplying the want so sensibly felt. This
much, however, is certain, that before the downfall of
Khosrew Pasha and the Russian influence, the Greeks would
have been safe from such arbitrary proceedings as those to
which they are now exposed. The fermentation among the
already discontented .Greeks is greatly augmented by this
business.

Another affair has occurred which may also have important
results. Near the Artillery Barracks, beside the great ceme-
tery above Pera, there is a field of considerable extent
cultivated by the soldiers. On Sundays and festival days,
when great numbers of the inhabitants of Pera are walking
about, sentinels are placed on the outskirts to prevent the
people from treading on the parts of the ground which
are planted. On the 19th of July a drunken Piedmontese
thought fit to - pay no regard-to the order of exclusion.
In vain was lie admonished not to force his way over the
line, and the sentinel was at last obliged to arrest him.—
_Two young French officers, just returned from Persia,
took upon themselves to oppose the sentinel, and, with
the arrogance and levity common to their nation, insisted
upon setting the Piedmontese free. Some soldiers. came
from a neighbouring post, and an affray quickly com-
menced. . One of the Frenchmen disarmed the officer of the
post, and blood was flowing on both sides, when a strong pat-
rol arrived, and the whole of the Franks on the spot, together
with some inhabitants of Pera, were arrested. So great was
the rage of the soldiers, that on the prisoners being brought
into the barracks, they gave them heavy, blows with the but-
ends of their muskets, and then carried them before the Pasha
of Topshana : in spite of all the reclamations of the French
embassy, they had to pass that night in prison. In the morn-
ing the Seraskier consented to listen to their applications and
set them at liberty. Though it was clearly proved that the
French officers were in fault, and had insulted the sentinel,

. ”Sal.•
vet . the embassy demands satisfaction and indemnification.
We shall, therefore, in the course of a few days probably see
officers and soldiers who have done their duty degraded and
bastinadoed. The two inconsiderate fools, the French offi-
cers, make no claim for any sort of pecuniary compensa-
tion, but the Dragoman of the embassy, to whom the busi-
ness is referred, persuades them to the contrary. Indiffer-
ence does not suit his way of dealing, for he well knows that
a considerable part of the sum will find its way to his purse,
and so good a job does not come in his way every day. But
how does all this accord with the boasting of the French, that
they alone are civilizing the Turks, and creating for them an
army which is to be feared and respected, since they are the
very persons who constantly discourage them in the most
mortifying manner, trampling on honour and duty—on every-
thing that ought to be held sacred by the soldier ?
HALF-PAST SIX O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING.—My Id-
ler of this day's date is sent to the post-office, and I cannot
recal it. I must therefore write a postscript on another
sheet to tell you, that all the warehouses and shops of the
Greeks (those who are subjects of King Othu) are closed by
order of the government, and that it is notified to them that
they must return to Greece within eight days, or become
Rayas. There is now nothing but confusion—women crying,
men storming. The police has put seals on all the warehouses
and workshops. The unfortunate Greeks are now wandering
in eroups through the streets. It is a sad thing to see so
much distress, so many eyes moistened with tears. Amidst
general excitement, nobody knows to what cause so extraor-
dinary a re-action is to be attributed—whether to King Otho's
rejection of the commercial treaty, or to the manifestation
of sympathy by the Greek population in favour of the de-
posed Grand Vizier, Khosrew Pasha, arid Russia. God help
these unfortunate beings, and preserve them from yet more
horrible scenes of cruelty ! I tremble to find my forebodings
ooner realised than I expected.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, —This DAY.

Incessant heavy rains and high gales of wind during the
whole of yesterday, completely suspended the proceedings of
harvest, and excited apprehensions for the safety of the
crops upon the ground; causing at the same time a consider-
able degree of firmness generally in the trade here :—Wheat
and Flour, in consequence, were held at higher prices, but
not being freely responded to, and buyers seeming unpre-

pared to meet so prompt an advance, the transactions were

not important

The arrivals into this port .up to and since Friday last,
contain a liberal supply of Wheat coastwise and from abroad,

with a moderate "quantity of other sorts of Grain, and of

Flour upwards of 14,000 barrels from the United States and
Canada; but from Ireland •we have still scarcely anything

worth naming, and no bulks of- new produce yet to offer

Although the wind this morning is less violent than yes-
terday, the weather remains very wet and unsettled ; and as

by the accounts from the country the heavy crops of
.corn
are reported to be much laid, this day's market was well at-
tended, and English, as well as good Baltic free'Wheats ad-
vanced 3d to 4d, and the general runs of Mediterranean 4d
to 6d per 701bs, at which tolerably extensive sales were ef-
fected.—Of bonded Wheat, also, several cargoes were taken

for investment at 3d to 4d over the rates of this day week.
Foreign Flour, duty paid, was in moderate request, at an
amendment of Is.; and bonded samples being readily sale-
able were 2s. to 3s. per barrel dearer.
Barley, upon a moderate demand, maintained former
prices, and Malt ruled much the same as last noted. Beans
and Peas moved off slowly without any change in value.

Oats met more inquiry than of late,
ind Oatmeal experienced little or no variation

but were not dearer ;

ARRIVALS OF CORN,

From the

11th to the 17th August, 1840, inclusive

LAND. I WIS

BrATES.I aiiiGN

1 536.8

I i 790 I 3174

Shelled Barley
Inaian Corn .
Rapeseed .
Oatmeal .. .
Plow . • . .
Ditto .

879 879
69 444
40
6165 6068 !4233

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, 10 qrs. ; Oats, 123
qrs. ; Pease, 24 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 390 brls.—
lrelaod. Wheat, 805 qrs.; Oats, 125 qrs. ; Rye, 37 qrs.; Indian
Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads; Hour, sacks.—Coast-
wise. Wheat, 213 qrs. ; Barley, 342 qrs.; Malt, 20 qrs. ; Oats, 766
• Rye. ; Beans. - qrs. ; Pease, 101 qrs. ; Oat-
-2851 brls.

meal, 134 loads ;y Flour, 186 sacks

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Aug. 7, 1840.
Wheat 725 10d. I Barley.. 3 s. Od. I Oats.. 30s. Od. I Rye.. 378. 3d,
Beans.. 475. Od. I Pease, 458. lid.

Aggrci.:.te average of the six weeks.
Wheat.. 70s. 4d. I Ba.ley.. 345. Od. Oats.. 285. 9d. Rye.. 368. Od.
Beans .. 465. Od. Pease .. 455. sd.

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Oats .... .. 4s. pd. Rye .. I Ss. 61
I ud. I Indian Combos. Sd. F,our.. 68. 5d

WheatlOs. Bd. I Brley los.ind
Beans, Is. ud. I Pease 2

Liverpool Avert es, week ending 11th August, 1840.
IWheat. I Barley. } Oats. Beans. Pease.
1070 GUI 75 11
725. Od. Os. Od. 275. I Id. l 48s. 11 d. 455. Od