The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-07-18 00:00:00

I- ICANADA
LAND. WISE. REIGN

Wheat .. Ors
Barley Qrs
Malt Qrs.l
Oats
Rye
Beans Qrs. ,
Pease Qrs,l
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs. i 20
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads , 6654
Flour. .... Sacks I 4022
Ditty ans. , leo 2 1 1 I an
Into Runcorn, Wheat 488 qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Oatmeal,
oads.

36 450
2037 1 !828

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Beans 25 qrs. ; Pease, 20 qrs. ; Flour,
801 brls.—lreland, Wheat, 760 qrs.; Barley, qrs; Indian
Corn, 195 qrs. ; Flour, —sacks brls.—Coastwise. Wheat,
429 brls. ; Oats, 29 qrs. ; Pease, 8 qrs, ; Oatmeal, lds, ;
Flour, 336 sacks 1030 barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending Juiy 8, 1843.
Wheat 495. 10d. Barley 28s. Bd. I Oats Igs. 7d. Rye 325. Bd.
Beans.. 2gs. gd. I Pease.. 31s. yd.
Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 49s in I Barley 27s 8d I Oats 18s gd. I Rye 31s Id,
Beans.. 28s. gd. I Pease.. 305. 6d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, &c . this week.
Wheat 2050 d I I Barley gs Od I Oats .... 85 OOdßye.. 10s. ad.
Beans is 6d Pease.. los 6d I Ind. Corn Os Od Flour 12s.Oid
Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats ..2s. Od. Rye.. 3s. Od.
Beans 3s. od I Pease 35. Od. I Indian Corn Os. Od. I Flour 3s Od
Liverpool Averages, week ending July 11, 1843
Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. 1 Pease.
Qrs... 205 1595
Prices 51s. Bd. 00s. Od. j 175.104 d. Os. Od. Os. Od.

My precept to all that build is, that the owner should
be an ornament to the house, and not the house to the
owner. 1

THE JONAH MOUSE.—" The Tay trout," says John
Crorar, " lives in that river all the year round. It is a
large and yellow fish with a great mouth, and feeds chiefly
on salmon spawn, moles, mice, frogs, &c. A curious cir-
cumstance once happened to me at Pulney Loch ; one of
my sons threw a live mouse into it, when a large trout
took the mouse down immediately. The boy told me what
had happened, so I took my fishing-rod which was leaning
against my house close to the loch, and put a fly on. At
the very first throw I hooked a large trout, landed it, and
laid it on the walk ; in two seconds the mouse ran out of
its mouth, and got into a hole in the wall before I could
catch it."—Scrope's Days of Salmon Fishing.
OUR SCINDIAN CONQUEST.-It will further appear,
that the present, or rather the now deposed, dynasty of
Ameers, were intruders, whose occupation of the country
is not of fifty years date ; who have not, therefore, ac-
quired that species of right to which sufferance gives a
qualified sanction, and who could justify their title by nu
plea but the choice and approbation of their subjects.
Now, the universally consenting testimony of all persons
who have visited the territories of the Ameers, declares
that they are detested by the Scindians, who sigh for any
change, and who hailed the approach of the British, when
on their march towards Affghanistan, in the vain hope
that they were coming to release them from the absurd
and intolerable tyranny of their princes, which condemned
the people to misery and the very soil to reluctant sterility.
Every traveller in Scinde speaks loudly in praise of the
fertile and productive properties of many tracts in that
neglected country, and of the resources which it would
afford to commerce if its energies were not depressed.—
Asiatic Journal.

PRICES IN 1793.—The celebrated Count Mirabeau, in
a letter written from London just fifty years ago, thus
speaks of English prices ; it is remarkable bow very nearly
they are the same as those paid at the present time. "To
enable you to form a judgment of the dearness of London,
take the following : bread, 2d. a pound ; coarse meat, 4d ;
roasting beef, Bd. to 9d. ; bacon, 10d. ; butter, Is. ; can-
dles, 7d. ; the price of a cow, 12 or 15 guineas ; an acre
of land, in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, £5 or £6
per annum. This great dearness of provisions is continu-
ally exciting murmurs among the peole ; but famine is not
the consequence. The only measures taken a few years
ago, by the legislature, under similar circumstances, were,
laying an embargo upon English corn, and suffering the
importation of foreign grain during three months. In the
debates, upon that occasion, one of the first peers of Eng-
land observed, that the dearness of provisions was not so
much a proof of a dearth of corn, as of the great super-
fluity of gold and silver, which war and commerce had
brought into the kingdom ; that the country partook of
that superfluity, which extended even to the farmer."
WHAT MUST BE DONE WITH SCINDE ?—The country
is now placed in our hands—how is it to be disposed of?
There are but three modes : first, that of restoring it to
its late possessors, with such curtailments and under such
conditions as may diminish the means of annoyance here-
after ; secondly, that of replacing it under the independent
authority of some member of the Calora dynasty ; or,
lastly, that of administering the government of the country
ourselves. Now, it is obvious that the late rulers of
Scinde, educated as they have been, and identifying their
interests with those of an army of Belooche ruffians, could
never make their country a useful ally of Britain, or im-
part to it sufficient strength to resist any invader. Want
of attachment on the part of their subjects would alone
enfeeble their authority, and Scinde would still remain
weak, disorganised, and poor. The change of dynasty, if
it were practicable, would be merely an experiment. The
Calora family had no hold upon the affections of the peo-
ple, and if restored must be upheld, like Shah Shooja, by
British bayonets. There seems, therefore, no other pru-
dent alternative than that which the Governor-General of
India appears to have adopted,—for no formal annexation
of Scinde to the British dominions has yet been promul-
gated,—that of boldly doing in the face of the world that
which must be done covertly' v either of the otter courses