The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-11-28 00:00:00

CANADA TOTAL
LAND. WISE. i REIGN.

Wheat .. Ors. i 1508 10 1042
Barley Qrs. 156 672
Malt Qrs. i 629 1
Oats Qrs. 2488 92
Rye Qrs. 110
Beans Qrs. 97
Pease Qrs.
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads 12502
Flour. ....Sacks 6239
Ditto

3916 1 1402

Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise, 333 Wheat,
Oats, 990 qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Oatmeal, loads;
sacks.

2560
828
630
2580
110
997

-- qrs. ;

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 3gs qrs. ; Beans,
qr.; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, loads ; Flour, 205
brls.--Ireland Wheat, 376 qrs. ; Beans, qrs ; Indian
Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 110 sacks, —brls.—Coastwise. Wheat,
55 qrs. ; Barley, 75 qrs. ; Malt, 3 qrs. ; Oats, 12 qrs. ;
Beans, 10 qrs. ; Pease, 10 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, 395 sacks 199 brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Nov.lB, 1843.
Wheat 51s. 7ri. 1 Barley 325. 4d..1 Oats 18s. 11.1 Rye 303. 5d

Beans:. 325. 4d. Pease.. 345. Od.
Aggregate average of the six weeks

Wheat sls 1 d-1 Barley

3d I Oats 18s 2d.: Rye 2gi gd

Beans.: 31s. 4d. i Pease.. 333. 3d

Duty on Foreign Grain, &c. this week

Wheatlgs Od I Barley 7s Od 1 Oats .. . 8s Od I Rye.. Ils ad
Beans los Od I Pease.. lls 64 I Ind. Corn Os 04 I Flour lis 54d

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe

Wheat.. Is. od. I Barley.. Os. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. S 'Rye.. 3s Od.
Beans 2s. 6d I Pease Is. Od. I Ind. Corn Os. Od. I Flour Os. 7id
Liverpool Averages, week ending 21st November, 1843,
Wheat, qrs. 2385, price 465. 6d. Barley, qrs. 0, price Os. od
Oats, qrs. 28, price 16s. 3d.

ORIGINAL STOPPAGE OF BANK PAYMENTS.—On
Saturday, the 25th of February. 1797, the late Mr. Samuel
Thornton, deputy governor of the Bank of England, waited
on Mr. Pitt, to explain to him the imminent dangers to
which that corporation was exposed. Mr. Pitt appointed
to receive him at dinner that very day, for the purpose of
examining into the facts, and of determining upon the line
to be adopted. At that dinner there were present but
three persons—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the
Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and Mr. Steele,
then secretary to the Treasury. The presence of the latter
was soon dispensed with, and the authorities of the Trea-
sury and Threadneedle-street were left to discuss confi-
dentially the most important proposition that bad ever
been mooted between those " high contracting powers."
Mr. Thornton demonstrated to the minister that it was
utterly hopeless for the hank to continue its specie pay-
ments; and that early on the following Monday it was
necessary that some decisive resolution should be per-
formed and acted on. The interview was long. Mr.
Pitt examined into the case with the deepest anxiety and
minuteness. In dismissing Mr. Thornton, he directed
him to attend a meeting of the council, to be held on the
following morning, on Sunday. Mr. Thornton was in
waiting, even before the arrival of Mr. Pitt. Having sent
in his name to the council, he was asked by some of the
official persons what was the object of his attendance—an
object which did not appear to have been communicated
to them. He replied that he attended by the command
of Mr. Pitt, and on behalf of the Bank of England. On
the arrival of Mr. Pitt, Mr. Thornton was called in and
examined. He explained the state of the bank, and the
imminent peril to which it was exposed by an immediate
stoppage. The persons present were—the Chancellor
(Lord Loughborough), the Duke of Portland, Marquis
Cornwallis, Earl Spencer, Earl of Liverpool, Earl of
Chatham, and Mr. Pitt. The latter shortly, but conclu-
sively, stated his reasons for the instant adoption of an
order of council, directing the suspension of cash pay-
ments by the Bank of England. The Lord Chancellor
expressed the strongest objection to such an act, as being
wholly contrary to law. The reply of Mr. Pitt was con-
clusive :—" My Lords, it must be done, the public safety
requires it; and I lay before your lordships a minute
directing the proper steps to be taken. To that minute
I affix my own name, and I assume the whole responsi-
bility of the proceeding." The minute was adopted, as
might have been expected, from the authority almost
supreme, conceded to Mr. Pitt by his colleagues as well
as by parliament. The order of council was issued ; it
was communicated to the Bank of England; it was dis-
persed throughout the metropolis at the earliest hour on
Monday morning. We are aware that this statement does
not altogether agree with the declarations made on the
occasion, as well as subsequently ; but our information
came from the lips of one of the parties to the whole
transaction, from its commencement to its close; a man
who would not deceive, and who could not be mistaken.—
Quarterly Review.

CURIOUS COINCIDENCE.—There is a family at King-
cross, Halifax, in which the first born of three generations
have been all girls—all born on the 7th of a month—and
all christened Elizateth.
THE REPEAL CAP.—Mr. Hogan, th 3 sculptor, has de-
signed a cap for the Repeaters, which, however beautiful
in itself, is by no means illustrative of the prime object
of Mr. O'Connell. The repeal cap should be a cap with-
out a crown.—Punch.

Quick lime is found to be a much better agent than
water in dispensing the choke damp that is often found in
wells and pits. The application of a bushel of lime,
slaked or unslaked, will be sufficient to clear a well in five
or ten minutes.

We find by a St. Petersburg journal that during the
year 18-10 there died in Russia 479 persons aged more than
a hundred years; 236 of them reached the age of 105;
108 had turned 110 ; fifty-nine had reached 115 ; forty-
five died at 120; twenty-five at 125; four died at 130 ;
and two attained 145.

Bishop Bedel, to remind him of the need he had of
being cleansed and purified in heart, chose an ingenious
device, consisting of a flaming crucible, with a Hebrew
motto, signifying take from me all my tin, in allusion to
Isaiah i. 25. The reason for selecting those words was
that the Hebrew word for Tin is Bedil.

THE. DANGER OF TAPPING.—After a consultation,
several physicians decided that a dropsical patient should
be tapped. Upon hearing of the decision of the doctors,
a son of the sick man, who had been remarkable for his
devotion to John Barleycorn. approached him and said,
" Father, don't submit to the operation ; for there was
never anything tapped in our house that lasted more than
a week."

Corn given to fowls should be crushed and soaked in
water : this helps digestion. Hens will lay in winter that
are so fed, that would not otherwise. Feed your fowls in
winter with bones powdered fine, and they will need less
corn, and lay as plentifully as at any season of the year.
The bones supply the carbonate of lime, which is neces-
sary for the production of the shell, and a part of the
yolk of the egg. Egg-shell, chalk or unburnt lime,
answers a similar purpose.
PRAISES OF THE IGNORANT.—Racine always reckoned
the praises of the ignorant among the chief sources of
chagrin • and he used to relate that an old magistrate,
who had never been at a play, was carried one day to his
Andromaque. The magistrate was very attentive to the

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extremelygoing
pleased, sir, with your Andrornaque ; I am only amazed
that it ends so gaily."
MONSTER BOUQUETS.—One prevailing fashion I must
notice, which is the monster bouquets of exquisite flowers
which turn the Paris Opera-house into a hot-house in
every sense of the word ;—those for the hand would be a
load for a market girl, and of those borne in the bosom I
leave you to judge, when I tell you I saw a fat marquise
with jive full bloom cabbage roses under her chin ! bien
mauvais
_(lout, no doubt, and in her case especially, un-
wise, as they gave the hint direct to her age and p‘opor-
tions.—Cliellenbuni Looker-on.

Nov

AMERICAN DEBT

DuutfrthGisregeunsto
hcAnapleos:
TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHROZ•IICL°.
Sir,—Having been unwell for some days
schßieimsr tpoaloiinocli-tyr,y., not, shownlTvhh have
Past, oi
had no opportunity of paying my respects to Cl°4ii
piercing cries of
Pilpay's fables :—" A fox," gsays Pilpay, " caught tog
the leg in a trap near the farm-yard, uttered the OA,
whon (whatever be his other merits) i.-if
yard gathered round him and se med to delight iii:a
misfortune ; hens chuckled, geese hissed, ducks quaeclir;
6:edniaesGeihtlrei-etmanhsffessi
sree
a;lc7flitftioonarr
demands,bhidawshitahitt,aeil(sli: Washingtonofihit
she is::
it,
rdoi I
ediebesfrorieja:nufet:iroboo:v!
and chanticleer with shrill cockadoodles rent th
infinite
' Whence,' said the fox, stepping forward with hat
gravity, ' whence this morbid hatred of the fox ?
Doer•
have I done ? Whom have I injured ? I alli Ilvwhelmed with astonishment at these symptoms of art
sion.' Oh, you old villain,' the poultry exela:Illos?
' where are our ducklings ? where are our gos,ll,,,n'rai
erl-d; and
Did not I see you running away yesterday--'t" re'
mother in your mouth ? Did not you eat up all MY of
children,
ahrmteiildodeanrrteisnenra, last week ? You ought
deaths—to be pecked into a thousand pieces.' ' dof
gtrebee
hence, General Green, comes the morbid b
sa;os 1
ni)veoaounayot esmor it—becauseiinssehreabhleosw ormoi
ennehde rs conductosoarol
laoway
go
because she has disturbed the order of the
rifled those sacred treasures which human
hoarded for human •-'
bid :' Wh is •
? y, it not just, inevitable, innate ? arable to
tar
the
havel cle I
jahliali
idtmedy
the
States
lifet hono
not disgraceful to want it ? why, is .
is it no
feel it ? A Alne.
. Hate America !! ! I have loved and honoured
nd at
opportunities which my trumpery sphere °' ` fVI
• and de e I
has afforded, I
have never ceased to praise han ..•
fered all the hospitality in my power. 'let ' -giber'
shut my eyes to enormous dishonesty ; nor, reineawa
ing their former state, can I restrain myself from col the
on them (though I copy Satan) to spring uP from
gulf of infamy in which they are rolling—
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yntAromduercieecia,nltboa:44lt.
to;edsafinomrdait'snui endnr
fortune
to ever
ebVeehri Edinburghis"
Be he
vh:gavl trt
uciaeci 1 Iti:°0701;

" Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen." .e, do
I am astonished that the honest States of 1011.e„r,' br
not draw a cordon sanitaire round their unPaPal'a the
thren—that the truly mercantile New Yorkers.
d° not
thoroughly honest people of Massachusetts, a 5. 5,, or
their European visits wear an uniform with the etniti
Solvent States," worked in gold letters oP°ll A 00 the
and receipts in full of all demands tamhourevoi their
waistcoats, and " our own property" figurea
4 the
pantaloons.
But the General seems shocked that I shouldLesNbat
Americans cannot go to war without money • °JO--a°t
do I mean by war ? Not irruptions into Can° teaioas
the embodying of militia in Oregon ; hut a long, Is app
maritime war of four or five years' duration.. Las no-
man so foolish as to suppose that Rothschild ',.' sotet
tv,h,iitrihgnutto dthoewpitnhwseurcnhf whanrrsroc ainngd
athsahtiialinhganiknroicckooroldo,
may not be crippled in such a contest ? ",rie h5tS theoi
that the Americans can fight. Nobody -°,ll army
a
courage. I see now in my mind's eye a wheu.e,oooease
the plains of Pennsylvania in battle arraY • 's besii_f
corps of insolvent light infantry, regiments a`des °
horse debtors, battalions of repudiators, brig% their
bankrupts, with Vivre sans payer, on mottrir7 I'll tbes.e
banners, and (ere alieno on their trumpets : afer their
desperate debtors would fight to the death, jecadia
country, and probably drive into the sea theili ),ace
creditors. Of their courage, I repeat ogai°7
; their:ls;
doubt. I wish I had the same confidence -la .oate, bi
dom. But I believe they will become intocii
stead o
the flattery of unprincipled orators ; and, .11 inakinge
entering with us into a noble competition:loo rae.,
calico (the great object for which the ~rite Angle" 111ergi
oafppebalrosodtvo, hfao:elishbe, been created), they will )in toYe-
happiness and their money (if they can get anY',o4e ci
, p, ~p
and accursed war, ' „nay, 'll
the world that Perkins is a real fine gend.
_et. for
that the carronades of the Washington e
s.(rt irtorik °r
carry farther than those of the Britisher ,
the Robert Peel vessel of war. udiatioobat°t
lam accused of applying the epithet reP so; be
States which have not repudiated. Pe at is t, 0
dtc:licei
ffeblnet
dr,etohnneoeesw:eeerbl latter States
saeSnit
taatpems al ina 7
hnn o ts
apyasi d 7. a BI udtc",ot.obvroeit
anything, and will not pay you," and anothe'mitte° the
sum,"
Therean d who,
seems
some slight colour of right ; hut the Seca"' is
a
blazing, refulgent, meridian fraud. eated Il'efeal
It may be very true that rich and eduthat Oleo°
Pennsylvania wish to pay the debt, and •taristsiacter
objectors are the Dutch and German agrieuif chars do'
cannot he Made to understand the ettect„,:t it is,tioo
upon clover. All this may be very true, 'f. rei,°`,,- 4,,e
timt 1
hhaeeeAvs
have
Unpaid
cnddnovpntqi
ahocuiewi
dan r,golvr
dfeteloo.aarrdl
World
JTevwoaehnilrteashifturrhtisaehntnichurchwardenshs,d
e:laes:tte,State
ze
rh°ols e 1 v e s 1 is
must make a private rate of infamy for teal 0.'131;r:
tie Ti4ob,fiblei , -,- 40,0.-0„,
Wat Tyler had not the virtue to saY7 10,ii e' 'cop'
speakers in the eleven recent PennsYl%;rgalte a'coo'
have cautiously abstained from saying,--, „ have (.1:1- a sre„,
effort ; book up at once, and pay." '°-whieb 'if:o'
ceptiou of the obloquy and oontempt Bull is 0.3• s pot
exposing yourselves all over Europe. Who a°eet 01.
disposed to love you, but he loves nobly "e plo° srici
pay him. His imaginary paradise is I:),,rareysil'el °st
punctual payment, where ready money BS thef°ral Os
where debt and discount are unknown. oto Ofthe
soon as I hear that the last farthing is 1)1,e harf Alo:,
creditor, I will appear on my knees at robe ° sho"
Pennsyvanian Senate in the plurneopiceatioaatbaocootcei
rican controversy. Each Conscript 1 ~, to ae„i;lie
intrieckwleithovtehromsee
paenfeawl-
pdlurompessofintarw, and help to
1101 the ~ge t° iaig
reasoner of the transatlantic world does d 0017,t0ck st
physical superiority of his opponents. -Anno ply obje"
eased my soul of its indignation, and 5:0, the s.O free
with 4ha One fla peeecanrf
henceforth
ficirgetxnhhettdi.ennd eibsducyoreui
intentionnpn gut ,bul
npli
republics,
sAs,luie)l
hnykudsi lsityni
Abyssinian
ti
eai re
irilfpoiforryeu i
~.115500 iii ill
a, II:
ricohc:aerl,
ing into the Turkish Fours, or the Tun
Half Three
Half per Cent. funds.

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