The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

ent prices by s

le Immense crop will wiLo an ming lIKC a goou
be required to keep prices front

It is well known to those in the trade, that th
the speculatine. •
• -

• - now being done in our market is on London
-"wait ; so that " the speculative spirit at all times too
prevalent in Liverpool" is led on and abetted by the London
vapitalist. But our contemporary need not be alarmed, for
rade has improved, and must continue to do so, to the dis-
vomfiture of the " League," whose aim, glory, and boast is
to keep things as they are, if they cannot be made worse, in
order that they may move earth and spirits in the vasty deep
°encompass their selfish schemes. With the sale of 52,000
3ales last week prices are not higher. Cotton is still plenti-
ful, and freely offered at prices which yields tt VERY HAND-
soul.: return to the manufacturer.
Tile cotton trade is on too large a scale, the parties con-
nected with it here are too respectable, and jealous of their
thepreputation to be guilty of any rig or combination to get up
rice. It was attempted by the Americans a few years
since , and dire disaster and ruin were the result. But it is
does not lillowledged on all hands that the present price of cotton
pay the grower for his outlay, and would throw
much land out of cultivation—a happy medium in this, as in
nom
,Yother things, is the best.
Capitalists will invest when they see it to their interest so
o do ; and if they think the low price of cotton an indnce..
%ment to do so, even to ten times their present extent, we see
reason why they may not do so without incurring such
Herald.
called for remarks as those quoted from the Morning

GHLY PROMISING STATE OF THE WHEAT
CROPS.

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e have
t7np conversed with a gentleman who has had much
IgoiirtTienee in agriculture. and who frequently visits the corn
rai.", on the general condition of the growing crop of
wil.en., and avail ourselves of the ;ratifying information with
0, 1. li he has favoured us,—the result of a careful inspection
:the field in the principal corn districts throughout the
country,ei
He assures us that the present appearance of the
:,.!let: t crop is the most promising that he remembers to have
;treawitnessed at this season of the year, both as regards
lgth of plant, and forwardness of growth,—and that the
eekst is likely to be the earliest, (probably by three or four
favoured and the most productive, with which we have been
fdyoured in England since the year 1827. With this prospect
uthlBth
as the prices of wheat now are—the last average of the
instant being 475. 6d. per quarter. or ss. llid. per
ushel—th probability—he is strongly of opinion, is, that
Places must continue to decline, until ss. a bushel, at the
lutihst, as
e an average price will have to be submitted to before
end of the
year. He attributes the present fine appear-
'.lop of .nee of the growing wheats chiefly to the superior prepara-
the soil during the propitious summer of last year—
Il!'s in 1826. We may add, that the land was never perhaps
lienetter condition as a seed-bed for the spring-corn, since
0,, !nairi
g of the corresponding season-1827, so that the
-reranZ prospect for the yield of oats and barley is equally
Promising.
,The views of our informant (who bad some time ago pre-
pgficted a considerable fall in the price of grain, notwithstand-
the decrease of the stock on hand, and irrespective of
leeares.iglii-SuPPlies), appear also to be entertained, so far at
wi `, eY intelligent individuals engaged in the corn trade,
. 10, though naturally anxious to obtain remunerative prices,
etiarnedi;.lly.hold out no prospect of an advance. In the corn
Lay_a ow in our last publication, dated 21st instant, and which
~.he. deemed of the first authority, it is remarked :
~. riecanous as the corn trade has been for some time
Past, it appears to become more irregular weekly, nothing
acF.orrieg to render it capable of the least improvement, but
eratslier to depress the value of every article. Such was the
attends at our market to-day; for though we had a moderate
freely
of buyers, wheat, of all descriptions, was offered
at a decline of 2d. per 701bs. from the rates of last
ain'ait ; and had sales been practicable, beyond a mere retail
low"kit, several holders appeared disposed to accept even
lower terms. Flour was also more difficult to sell than usual,
angry enearlly somewhat cheaper."
Fthe corn circular of Messrs. R. Makin and Sons, dated
1:;atlY last, it is also remarked
tradeWe haVe experienced in every department of the corn
int_ this
p,": m°reing, another excessively dull, heavy and un-
limited market. In wheat, a few casual sales of very
to,i7d amount appeared to be the only transactions notified
subaraYit;, and though holders were not generally disposed to
noticed") any
material decline from the low rates previously
, a slight abatement, notwithstanding, was partially
e.onceded. Flour was likewise in very slow request, and all
descriptions rather cheaper."
halt impossible, after the long depression of trade, (now
111:PullY somewhat reviving,) and the consequent want of
112 (1r ate
emPloYment of masses of our industrial classes,—
'le , too the perils and expenses in which the country has
recently been involved both at home and abroad.—it is im-
ppeossible, we say, to withhold our thankfulness for the pros-
now now before us of an abundant harvest from our own
emaltnediate soil. The general good and contentment of the
iZesmunitY will thus be promoted ; and though some sacri-
, a. will have to be submitted to in consequence by indivi-
Its here and there, no general benefit can arise without
i
;100we loss or inconvenience to particular interests. M uch,
ever, may
state of tt • be done to avert any severe pressure from this
'logs, by the general introduction of the most ap-
proved manures in sufficient quantity, which, by giving in-
creased fertility to our home soils, would, to a certain extent,
overcome the precarious nature of our climate, and, by in-
creased production on a given area, be tantamount to an
great of our territorial surface. This is a subject of
national importance, though hitherto almost wholly
eglected or overlooked, even by our most celebrated agri-
tcultunil societies. We shall probably be enabled, ere long,
e°,4lbtnit a communication upon it, addressed to a distill-
aed statesman, from the per. -c.l-e intelligent gentleman
,‘,hwhoni we are indebted for our present information on the
falleeat CroP, and founded on facts and experiments that have
withn Within his own knowledge and that of others conversant
and interested in agricultural improvements.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN
KNOWLEDGE.

At the close of last week James Pownall, Esq., the trea-
surer of this society, received the fallowing anonymous cons-
olunication, addressed to himself as treasurer i—
tag
t' °" 100 l
ti ciong over the accounts of the Society for Promo.
Chrisa Knowledge, for the year 1842, there appears
11,t)on the face of them a vey gross error. It is there stated
that there is a balance due to the treasurer of £583 13s 9d.,
Whereas, upon adding up the different items of receipt and
te'hcPenditure, it would appear there is a sum of £416 6s 3d. in
ite trasurer's hands at the credit of the society. Perhaps
Can be expiained through the STANDARD paper how the
error has
'a so," arisen? It is quite clear from the accounts that it
We have been , ave requested to give the following complete re-
Ply to the query :--
,:11.1'he treasurer of the District Society for Promoting
‘-obtiritstian Knowledge informs an anonymous, but not very_
e,t Vas, correspondent, that the sum remitted to the Pa-
ii,rociety in London, for books during the past year, was
the ~° 11s. 10d., not £l4B 18s. 13d., as erroneously stated in
over'ePort just issued, and that the error originated in an
appointed ight on the part of Mr. Kirkey, the society's recently.-
„ agent at the depository, in omitting to mark this
rte„iar item (which escaped Isis notice along with others)
ur,,
sr.n.rdection in the proof sheet.
hirn4 er these circumstances the treasurer cannot hold
call .
a very responsible for what his correspondent is pleased to
~rh
gros error.'
to v."' e balance,s as stated in the report, £583 13s. 9d., due
mar f
treasurer, is, therefore, only too correct, and he will be
e
poed_i this explanation should lead his anonymous corres-
-1;4 ~,,... nt to afford his aid in liquidating so large a debt, to a
'e
4 accurate 'acquaintance with the large sums which have
as Weriaid in former years for books to the Parent Society,
the "ah Parto a more practical knowledge of the usefulness of
Parent to
itself in effecting their distribution."
trent'lpght have occurred to the querist, had he been at the
the, eof adding the two sums mentioned in his letter, that
that piount exactly to £lOOO, and he might have surmised
the i_ne omission of a single figure would have occasioned
miceuracy, which is the simple fact.