The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-05 00:00:00

FURTHER PARTICULARS

Since writing the above, our reporter has visited the Mer-
lin, in which the effect of the collision is peculiarly remark-
able. The end of the paddle-beam of the Earl of Bridge-
water (which is apparently of tough American elm, and, from
8 to 9 inches square) has been driven clean through the lar-
board bow, about a foot from the stem, and about two feet
and a half from the water's edge. It has broken some of
the bow timbers, torn up the ceiling inside, and projects
nearly thiee feet into the interior of the vessel ! It appears,
indeed, as if it had been fired from a gun. The paddle-beam
(as above stated) was broken in the collision, and the end of
it on the starboard side being thus firmly fixed into the Mer-
lin, that vessel, in backing off, no doubt drew out the re-
maining portion, probably 12 or 14 feet in length, which,
together with some woodwork and part of the iron machi-
nery attached, is now sticking in her bow, not unlike the
wreck of a boat. So tightly is the beam driven in, that no
daylight is admitted by any part of the perforation made ;

and were the portion of the wreck outside sawn off, that
driven in would remain fixed, perhaps water-tight, in the
nature of a plug in a gunshot perforation. On one side of
the beam driven in, there is a strong plate of iron. Neither
the stem of the Merlin, nor her figure-head, are injured, and
the damage sustained may be readily repaired.

AWFUL FIRE AT DUNDEE.-THREE CHURCHES
BURNT DOWN.

A respectable gentleman of this town has furnished us with

the following extract of a letter which he has just received

from his son, who is a pupil at a school in Dundee :

Last Sunday morning, January 3, three of the Dundee
town churches, being connected, were burnt to the ground,
and the fire raged so furiously that it was considered neces-
sary to remove several of the ships in Earl Grey's Dock for
The fire, which broke out about four o'clock a.m.,
is supposed to have originated from an overheating of the
In the afternoon the drummer and bellman gave
notice through the town that sermons would be preached in
the seminaries and infant schools.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tnis DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN k SONS' Circular.)

Upon a careful estimate, the stocks of Wheat, Oats, Oat-
meal, and Flour, including British, Foreign, and British
Colonial, remaining in Liverpool on the 31st Decembe,.
1840, are found to comprise--Wheat, free, 67,600 qrs. ; do.,
in bond, 27,483 qrs.4—total, 95,083 qrs. Oats, 11,300 qrs.
Oatmeal, 15,000 sacks. Flour, free, 1500 sacks, 53,500
brls. ; in bond, 18,300 brls. ;—total, 1500 sacks, 71,800 brls.
Of other articles, free or in bond, the quantity is trivial.
To these may be added the supplies received on and since
Friday last, containing a very considerable influx of English,
Irish, and Foreign Wheat combined : of Flour also, chiefly
from Canada (being some of the last shipments thence until
spring), and of Oatmeal from Ireland, we have an abundant
increase to report; but the supply of Oats, although liberal
for the week, is not over large for the season of the year;

and of other grain the arrivals are only moderate.
Ems untrkct W (15 tolerably well attended, and in con-
sequence of the increased supply of Wheat, the millers
seemed prepared to expect lower prices ; but holders, in
most instances, refusing to recede, the operations in this
Grain were altogether upon a very moderate scale, on terms
varying little from the rates of last week.

The trade for all descriptions of Flour was heavy, and al-

though the recent imports were not pressed for sale, our last
quotations were hardly maintained.

Barley, Malt, Beans, and Peas, •appeared to meet a very
limited demand, and scarcely supported former prices.
Oats commanded somewhat more inquiry than of late,
and the importers submitting to a decline of fully Id. per
451b5., transactions to a fair amount were effected.

Oatmeal, on the contrary, was in slow request, at an abate-
ment of 6d. per 2401b5.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 29th December, 1840, to the 4th January, 1841, inclusive

LAND. I WISE

v.
CANADAI r TOTAL
REIGN.

asgs I 3523 ± 21895
2290

180 848
512 2280 2804

20027 I 1852