The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-08-19 00:00:00

there is scarcely a farm in the south of England, of any
h a vigorous commencement of harvest

upon v

.ork was not made on

favoured with the present fine weather " during the nest
three or four reeks," the bulk of the wheat and barley
crops will have been secured in the south and central
districts of both England and Ireland.

As to the crops, I have travelled through the whole of
Ireland and great part of England and Scotland during
the last few weeks, and I hesitate not to proclaim that a
more bountiful or universal crop over the entire of the
kingdom never before blessed our happy land.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
WILLIAM WEBB.

Society of E

Bath-road, Reading, August'l2."

Gratifying as is this piece of information, which
we are satisfied will be borne out by the result, it is
not the only favourable circumstance in the country's
position, over which we are called upon thankfully
to exult. The ample supplies of home-grown corn
which have been threshed out and poured upon the
market within the last few weeks, and which have
crippled the efforts of speculators to operate exten-
sively upon the averages, have disclosed the fact—
an unexpected one—that although the harvest this
year may be, and undoubtedly will he, a late one, we
have in the country, in farmers' hands, a more than
usual supply of last year's grain to fall back upon ;
sufficient to render unnecessary either large impor-
tations or extensive releases from bond for immediate

It affords us also the assurance,—and, con-
idering the increased consumption of the present
year, arising from the prosperity of the people, a
very strong assurance—that British Agriculture is
rapidly attaining that position, if it has not a.ready
attained it, which will enable us to dispense alto-
gether with foreign assistance in the task of feeding
our population.

COTTON MARKET, AUGUST 18

The tone of the Cotton, as well as the Corn market is now
regulated by the barcmeter. Throughout the entire of last
week the weather was generally favourable, consequeutiy the
demand was good from c, nsurners as well as =peculators, and
the sales were above an average. To-day the rain ha, fallen
freely, and the demand has been languid, and the tone of the
market drooping ; prices have not given way, and holders do
not press their stocks—and yet people are beginning to feel
fidgetty, and the weather is the all absorbing topic of conver-
s,tion— all agree, that as yet, no harm has accrued to any part
of the crops.

SHARE MARKET.-LEEDS, AUG. 16

A limited business continues to be done in this market;
and uutil the settling in the Huddersfield and Bradford
line is effected sreculation will be limited. The efforts to
procure'a compromise seem to involve a host of difficul-
t;es, such a plan having the effect of changing many of the
largest gainers by
stockinto heavy losers. The only
material change of prices to be noticed this day is a de-
cline of the Leeds and Thiask to 141. The other shares
dealt in show little fluctuation.

THE LATE IMMENSE BANK ROBBERY IN LONDON.—
Now that the excitement consequent upon the robbery
from Messrs. Rogers' bank has somewhat subsided, all
sorts of expedients are being adopted by the thieves with
a view of bringing the missing notes into circulation.
Amongst the most conspicuous is the distribution through.
out the country of a new list of the stolen notes, in which
the numbers of all the stolen notes are fictitious. A
casual observer would not notice this, and, consequently,
upon a stolen note being presented, and the party refer-
ring to their list for security, the number not being there,
it is changed.