The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-06-13 00:00:00

Incorn, Ireland and CoaNt
Oats. 4

Wheat, qrs
: Beans, qn

Pease. 236 qrs
ids.; Flour

ks, 156 brl
ase, qrs. ; stye

; 'Flour, PIO sacks, 30 I‘rls.
Barley. 12 qrs.: Malt, 1 qr

Oats. (Irs.; Rye, qrs. ; Beans. qrs. ; Pease
Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, 5 Ids.; Flour, 152

barrels

railway muse to wnere two ui me HMI were at wora, it tore
Average prices of Grain, for the week ending. June 3, 1,443. up the ground. The men were greatly alarmed, and one of
Wheat 476. ltd.; Barley 275. 3d. y Oats .. Hs. Od. aye.. 30s. 31. them much stunned. The quantity of rain that'has fallen
Beaus.. 275. 104 i. Pease.. 2ils. Id. within the past month, or from the 2nd of May to the 6th of
June, seems unprecedented for many years. It was not less
than 6'36 inches. The range of the barometer was also great,
being the highest, or 30'184 inch on the 11th of May, and the
lowest, or 29'224 inch. The thermometer was highest on the
2ud of May, being 69 degrees F., and lowest on May 7, when
it stood at 29 degrees. These observations were made on
;rounds at Ghiswick.

Aegregate average of the six weeks.
17s. Ity

Wheat 475. Id. Barley
Beans

9.75. 11a. Oats.
265. IW. Pease

29i. Id

Duty on Foreign Grain, &e. this r,
Wheat 205.0 d. I Barley 9s. O. I Oats .. . Bs. cl.
Beans I Is. Go. I Pease.. 1.15. dd. I Ind. Corn Os. OIL I Flour 12s.Oid
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.

oth Rye.. 11s. 6d. I

Od. I Ba
Beans.. 3s. od I Pease

:s.od. I Indian Corn.. Os. yid. j Flour ;Is oil

Liverpool Averages, week ending May 33, 1843.
Wheat. Bar;ey. I Oats. Beaus. Pease.
Qrs 317 229
Prices ' 51s. ad. 31s. 4d. I 17s. 4d. I Os. Od. Os. ad.

TrIE POTATO CROP.—Rumours of the failure in the crop
of this important article of food having been for some time
current, we have taken a good deal of trouble to ascertain its
extent, in so far as that can be yet known; and, as our in-
quiries have extended to about thirty miles to the west, and
about twenty miles to toe east, of Edinburgh, we have no

NIISCELLANEOUS

doubt that the result is fairly applicable to East Lotian,
Mid-Lothian, Linlithgow, and the eastern district of Stir-
lingahire, and at least a considerable portion of Fifeshire.
On some farms, so entire has been the failure, that whole
plantations, of twenty and thirty acres, have been ploughed
up, and the land prepared for being sown with turnips. On

Monday next is the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo.
irovetnent iu

The Nottingham Review re

ports a slight lin

the state of the lace and hosiery trader. -
John Penn, Erg. the eminent civil engineer, of London,
died on Tuesday very suddenly.

other farms the tanurc is more partial, extending from a third
to an eighth of the sets. A few farms have as yet escaped ;
and in a few more the planting has been too recently finished
to admit of any opinion being formed on the subject. On
the whole, tl►e already ascertained loss cannot be at less than
from 20 to 25 per cent. of the seed plau•ed. It must not be
supposed, however, that the loss will affect the produce of
the land to anything like that amount. Where whole plan-
tations have been ploughed up, the land will be occu-
pied with turnips ; and, where the failure is partial, many of
the farmers are making up the blank by planting new sets

The Didlington flail estlte in the county of Norfolk,
told on Thursday by Mr. George Robins, for £78,150.

Several hawthorn trees, near Chester, which used to bear

scat let flowers until the present year, ate now bearing white.
Mr. Van Arnburgh, we understand, realized 1370 from
one afternoon's performance at Loughborough.

THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION.—TiIe meeting of the British
Association will take place on the 17th of August at Cork.
Lord Morpeth has intimated his intention to stand for the

with the dibble. In so tar as we have been able to learn, no
satisfactory cause 1155 yet been assigned for this extensive
loss. The whole of the potatoes grown last year upon an
extensive district we have heard of. were sold for seed, and

in every instance the failure has been complete. On some
uds the . sets have simply rotted in the ground, without
of germination. On others, the eyes

A SLIGHT MISTAKE
that the Great Britain, i

Bowing any sytnptc!

have pushed up to the surface ; but so sickly, weak, and at-
tenuated, that, in general, they languished and died. In
other cases the sets seemed to possess a greater vegetable
~nwpr hnt I hev were no sooner nn inch or two shove the

surface than their growth was arrested, and a small tuber,
generally of the size of a sea, sent forth in the top of a stalk,
which thenceforth withered and perished. In this latter
case, nature, on finding herself checked in her appointed pro-
gress, in the desire so constantly manifested to continue the
species, in an expiring effort, sent forth her fuit with a degree
of precocity, which, by accelerating the death of the parent
plant, defeats her own purpose. As the land, however, will
nut be unoccupied, the loss will fall rather on the farmer than
on the country ; for although he may raise a smaller quantity
the
supply b
of
ftbhee beef.
—bsoti6tuset,i
of potatoes, the loss will in. a considerable degree be com-
pensatedcvmer.of turnips, which will augment

A BREAK-NECK AFFAIR.—On the afternoon of Friday
last, as a gentleman connected with one of the sporting Sun-
pay papers was returning from Windsor to Ascot (where he
bad been for information of a sporting nature) in a single-
horse chaise, he unfortunately (if not somewhat clumsily)
drove bang against the turnpike
gate (at Blackness, close to
Virginia Water) in endeavouring to "clear" it, causing the
breakage of both the shafts, and throwing out the driver with
considerable force into the road. The horse, with the broken
chaise dangling at his heels, galloped off at a furious rate,
tumbled headlong into a deep ditch, with the chaise upon
Eton, and reachZediewoasffitcaekoef" tbhaeck to ;he George Inn, at
and broke his neck. The gentleman who had met with
paper in safety the seine
evening, travelling from Slough to Paddington by the railway.
The horse which belonged to Mr. C. Wise, livery-stable kee-
per. at Eton, was worth between £4O and £5O. The late
Mr. Pierce Egan met with precisely a similar accident, at the
time spot, a few years ago, and upon that occasion his horse
'as also killed.
DrszosTlNG ExtmunoN.—One of those revolting de-

so narrow an c

nts of human—rjpiavity, which schock those who
have the fear
of God before their eyes, by the hardihood
with which a sinner can venture to dare the judgments of
the ALMIGHTY, Was
perpetrated in the town of Warminster
on Monday last, A man, who keeps a little bread and gro-
cery shop, caused his coffin to be paraded through the streets
to his house, at the broad daylight hour of eleven, this being,
as we understand a stipulation in the treaty for this encase-
merit of his mortal remains, when the cold hand of death,
whom he assumes to mock,
, shall lay his iron grasp on this
je.qtr with the
king of Terrors. It is said that the pro-
gramme of the exhibition included a delivery of the coffin at
a public-house, where its future occupant was to adjust its
proportions with his living length and breadth, by getting
into it, and drinking
a quart of beer; but the landlord would
the indecent exhibition to be perpetrated, and the
'l'd Oa. In all human probability it will not be a
g
I period before this, one of the last requisites of
will be needed ; but, before that. day arrives, may
~_. irt spirit which has so impiously defied Him who
hath the keys of death and -hell, repent. and to be ashamed
of a proceeding, in the loin or
which he had no sympathisers
—the very poorest shuddering and stigmatising it.—Devizes
Ga:etto.