The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-04 00:00:00

LONDON CORN MARKET.-YESTE RDAY

Notwithstanding that our market was but moderately sup_
plied with English Wheat this morning, by land-carriage sam_
pies from the near counties, such was the indisposition to pur-
chase evinced by millers, that a reduction of fully Is. to 2s.
per qr. bad to be submitted to before any progress could be
made with sales. A very limited amount of business was
transacted in foreign at a like decline. Barley was not quite
so tree a sale as last week, but can scarcely. be quoted cheaper.
The arrivals of o.Ats have been very considerable during the
week, and their value has again declined 6d. to is. per quarter.
Beans and Peas were in but little request, and their value was
nominally the same as last week.

THUNDERSTORM.—Qa Sunday afternoon, this town
was visited:by such a thunderstorm as we have not expe-
rienced for many years. The flashes of lightning suc-
ceeded each other with fearful rapidity, and with a vividness
majestic but truly awful, and the peals of thunder broke
immediately over the town like responding crashes of
artillery. After the cessation of the thunder and light-
ning, the rain came down in torrents, and so continued
for about half an hour, when a thick rain set in, which in
about an hour subsided, but throughout the night there
were occasional showers. The American ship Hindostan,
loading for New Orleans, lying at the Routh-cast corner
of the Victoria Dock, was struck during the storm on her
top-gallantmast, and numerous small pieces were splin-
tered off, and the mast otherwise much injured. St.
Matthew's Caurch School was also struck, but no mate-
rial damage was done.
A NOVEL SORT OF DEPUTATION.—We have had some
very queer sort of folks announced as having waited upon
the Provisional Government of France at the Hotel de
Ville
;and have sometimes wondered at the remarkable
versatility. of the Minister, who could enter into and satisfy
their varied acquirements. The deputations of tailors,
cobblers, and sempstresses, must have taxed severely the
acquaintance of Mons. Lamartine with their several
trades ; but we read of a deputation which waited upon
him on Sunday last, which must have puzzled him. The
deputation, we are told by the Paris correspondent of the
London Times, consisted of " the wet nurses of Paris
and the faubourys !" What on earth could the wet
nurses have to demand of Mons. Larnartine and his
colleagues ? We should imagine that the young French
Republic itself was beyond requiring their services; and
it is not easy to see how he could limit their hours of la-
bour, or guarantee them constant employment, as has
been done with respect to other deputations. Perhaps the
ladies called to protest against the Provisional Govern-
ment monopolising the wetnursing of the various young
republics which every day brings forth in Europe.
MEETING OF THE UNEMPLOYED.—On Saturday a re_
port was current in Manchester that two Chartist meetings
would be held that day, and considerable apprehension
was entertained. The magistrates swore in several thou.
sand special constables, but no breach of the peace was
committed. Early on Saturday a meeting of unemployed
operatives was held in Stephenson-square, to consider the
best means of getting food for those who were not in
receipt of parish relief and were in a starving condition.
It was suggested that they should go round the town with
a hand-cart and ask alms from the inhabitants personally,
but, in order to prevent a collision with the police, it was
determined that a deputation should wait on the authori-
ties to ask permission to do so. The mayor and magis-
trates informed the deputation that they could not suffer
the hand-cart to go round, because it would be in reality
demanding food by intimidation ; those however who were
in want of food had a right f o relief, and if the ordinary
mode of granting it would not meet the case, the authorities
were prepared, if a list of persons really in want were
brought to them, to cause immediate enquiry to be made
into their cases, and relief to be afforded when required.
This satiSfied deptifatiO6,-anct during the day the list
reoeived a number of signatures,