The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-20 00:00:00

, whose articles
1 given the utmost satisfac-

take the supply of
the Army, or the

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(BY EXPRESS

LONDON CORN MARKET.--/
The arrivals of all kinds of Grain of how
market last week, especially those of

,Ne.e utt very iunitea scale ; while those froni
Ireland and Scotland were unusually small. However, the
imports of Foreign Barley and Oats were
scale; those of all other articles being triilins

,n, an extensiv

cvcu
...wing tor an Importation of 4450 ciitarters of Wheat.
The receipts of English Wheat fresh up from Kent were
moderate. Those from Essex, Cambrid--

-.11. The
.upplied with samples, arising from a
effected on Friday last, and the attendance

k, at an inr

which all the s

t; for shipment to France, consisted of n—ea—rly- 27030
quarters, or, at least, a moiety of the supply of that article
brought forward. The whole of the reported arrivals offoreign
Wheat were taken afloat last week for Has
had a very limited quantity on offer to-day
sumption amoderate lulsiness was doin
France about 3000 quarterswere dispo
in value of

FOr home con-
e for export to

Of, at an improvement

doubtless, have been concluded had the supplies been on a
more liberal scale. Notwithstanding the large arrival of
fOreign Barley last week, the actual supply on sale this morn-
in; was by no means good. All kinds, owing to, the dealers
being very short of stock,, moved off briskly. at Is. to 2s. above
last Monday's prices. •

. Wit►, Aalt we were rather scantily sup-
and was by no means active. In prices we have
Although upwards of 30,000 quarters of
from abroad last week, the trade was active, and
the currencies improved from Is. to 2s. per quarter. The few
parcels of English brought forward sold at high rates. The
show of Beans`being trifling, there was a decided improvement

plied, yet the de

no alteration to notice.
Oats came in from abroad last we

nostly heldat

as only a
her

in the demand, at Is. per quarter more money
moderate inquiry for Peas ; yet they were r
rates. Indian Corn, for arrival, was Is. to 2s. per qua..
higher. The Flour trade was firm, and some of the millers
would not sell except at higher rates,

(From Last Night's Sun.)
rket
A most important feature has prevailed in the Corn nAtipt
this morning. The purchases on French and Belgiall;ere, in
have been immensely large.- Nearly all the stands'
fact, cleared off. The price of Wheat was fully.6s. /Ira- ri, tirler
per
in advance of the rates of last Monday;
Oats are ls. t 0 's• s•
quarter; and Barley, 2s. per quarter dearer: There
was in truth a positive rush to purchase from the mo-
ment the market opened until all was cleared off. Such
an active and brisk demand, while it lasted, has not been
seen for many years past. For a season at' least this ertram,
a

ations of

The steamer which leaves Liverpool to'-1
States takes out some amount of specie a

inoi row for the United
gain, but there is rea-

...Luau Luc lust, iew uuys, tuere nas neen appiication mane
to them by exporters of coin, rather than to the Bank of Eng-
land. The latter, it is stated, has declined to buy the specie
imported by the firms alluded to at a higher price than usual,
and this may induce them to ship it to America and foreign
parts on their own account.

Under any circumstances the receipt of this money must
afford present relief, and it would be scarcely 0, any use for
the Bank to be a buyer at a premium, when the whole might
soon again be withdrawn at par by the holders of its notes.
The wisest plan seems to be to let the bullion operators make
their own arrangements.

unua nave men nigner trim morning, and there has been
rather an increased demand for Stock. Consols for transfer
to-morrow have realised 86} to 87, and for May 86# to 87#.
The Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities have been 85# to 86#,
and the New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. 87i to 871. The
value of Exchequer-bills has been Is. premium to 2s. discount.
East India Stock is at 245.

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
THE CIVIL WAR IN PORTUGAL.—We have Lisbon news to
the 10th instant. Count Tojal, on the part of the Queen and
the Government, had called on Sir Hamilton Seymour and Ad-
miral Parker, who had placed the British squadron at the
Queen's orders, and promised that the men would land imme-_

the demand was the tardiness of the Queen's
diately she desired it to protect her. The immediate cause of
generals on the
Alemtejo. Money was not forthcoming, and the Queen's troops
and generals were everywhere at a stand-still. Very little more
e.21,,ggY,A1” displayed by the insurgents, and it appeared, nearly

mie the other. -;-The possibility of a Spanish armed interven-
tion had been increasing, and the prompt action of our resident
authorities was the consequence, as it was probable that Donna
Maria might solicit the aid of troopsfrom Spain. The state of
the money market was daily worse. The discount on Bank of
Lisbon notes had risen to 50 per cent.. The dearth of bread
was &many disniritincr .

ovwc mc..uies were taKen tor the relief of the poor.
The French Chamber of Peers have rejected, by a majority
1 el`f 1." • . n • - • •

g a line of steam-s

!n Havre and New Yo.

The governor of Nova Scotia, in a despatch to Lord Grey,
dated the Ist April, shows the futility of many of the hopes
held out to emigrants to that colony. He presses earnestly on
his lordship the necessity of discouraging all pauper emigra-

no demand for unskilled labour in
any part of the province, and the means of remunerating
agricultural labour of any kind are greatly diminished. Ex-
treme privation and misery would, therefore, necessarily be
the lot of those who skolild come I!!ther without the means of

throughout the

province, and

consequence of the failure of the potato and
most lamentable.

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