The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-03 00:00:00

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SECOND EDI'T'ION.
Standard-office, 'lwo o'clock.
LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. Tuts DAY.
Upon a change of wild since Frilly, the arrivals for
this d'ay's maiket, contain a moderate quantity of Oats,
Malt, and Flour, Coastwise and from Ireland, but of
other produce from those directions the present supplies
are extremely light : whilst from abroad we have to note
a fair import of Wheat, with several parcels of Barley
and Ind'an Corn, iicludiog, what is very unusual, a little
Wheat. and Flour from Pert Adelaide, Australia.
After a further copious ruin during Saturday night and
Sunday rnoroing, the season at length assumes all the ap-
pearance of fine growing i.eather ; which, although ac-
counts from some distant counties eastward still complain
of the Wheat crop, the decline in London yesterday
has effectually checked any lively proceedings at our
Corn Exchange this morning.
In Wheat of every description transactions have been
very limited, and Irish has receded ld. to 2d. per
701 b.; but in the value of English or free Foreign we
have no decided change to note.
Fur Flour there was some disposition to purchase, but
the buyers offering rather lower than the sellers were
willing to accept, nothing extensive was done, and we
may therefore quote prices the turn lower.
Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease were in slow request,
on the terms of last week.
Oats met some little inquiry, but hardly maintainedour
last quotations.
Oatmeal was in moderate request, at a small decline in
value.
ARRIVALS OF CORN.
• From the 28th May to the 2nd June, inclusive
IRE- COAST- , COLO- TO-
I TOTAL.
LAND. WISE. j aIAL. REIGN. I .
Wheat .. Ors. 540 j 55 156 67;1 I 7462
Barley .. Qrs. ' 923 923
Malt.. Qrs.l 31 I 3286
3317
Oats Qrs.. 2739 225 ' 233 3194
Rye Qrs..
Beans Qrs. 2 ) 25
•i
Pease Qrs. • 565
ShelledßarleyQrs.
Indian Corn. Qrs. ; 2100 2100
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. Loads 665 9 I 674
Flour. ....Sacks 3858 21 I 286 4669
Ditto Brls.
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise,—Wheat, qrs. ;
Barley, qrs.; Malt, qrs.; Oats, 712 qrs.; Oatmeal,
oads ; Flour, 504 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat. 1500 qrs. ; Harley, 3 qrs. ; Pease,
qrs. ; Oats, son qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs.; Oatmeal, I
loads ; Flour, 2030 brls.—lreland Wheat, qrs. ; Bar-
ley, qrs. ; Rye. qrs ; Oats, 25 qrs. ; Indian Corn, 65
qrs. ; Oatmeal, 6 Ids ; Flour, 45 sks, brls.— —Coastwise.
Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, 73 qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 12
qrs. ; Beans, qrs. ; Pease, 5 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 203 loads ;
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Flour, 353 sacks 175 brls.

Average prices of Grain, for the wee k end‘nK May 24, MIS.
Wheat4ss. 9d. I Barley 3 5. Id. Oats 21s. 1 id. Rye.. 21s ed
Beans.. 375. sd. j Pease.. 375. 4d.

Aggregate average of the six weeks.
Wheat 455. 10d. I Barley 305. 14. 1 Oats 21s. 6d. 1 Rye 304. Bd.
. _

Beans.: 365. Ski. Pease.. 363. Bd.

Duty on Foreign Produce this week.
Wheat2os od Barley Os 04 Oats .. . 6s od Rye.. les 6.
Beans 6s 6d I Pease.. fis I I Ind. Corn es od Flour l's Oa
Duty on Canadian.
Wheat.. is. Od. I Barley.. us. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. od. I Rye.. 28 6d
Beans Os. 60 1 Pease os.6d. I Ind. Corn os.od. I Flour.. Os ;id
Duty on other British Colonial.
Wheat.. ss. Od. I Barley.. Is. Od. Oats, 2. od. Rye... 2s. 6d.
Beans.. es. 6d. I Pease.. vs. Oct. Flour. 3s. 04.

Liverpool Averages, week ending 27th May, 1635,

Wheat, 2149 qrs., price 44s lid; Barley, 9; qrs., price 22s 1 Id ;
Oats, 208 qrs., price 205. 3d. ; Rye, qrs., price —s. Od.;
Beans, 85 qrs., 38s. 3d. ; Pease, qrs., —s. —d.
Duties paid in Liverpool, for weer en :ing May 29, 1815,
Foreign—Wheat, 21 qrs. ; Barley, 155 ; Oats, ; Beans,
28 ; Pease, 50 ; Rye, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 721 qrs. ; Flour;
barrels. —Co onial—Wheat, qrs. ; Pease. qrs. ; Flour,
sacks.

Etttraturr.

SELECTIONS.

THE MAYNOOTH QUESTION PLAINLY STATED.—This
people is called upon, by their representatives, to pay so
much money a year, to pay so many men to teach lies to
so many young citizens, that they, after a certain number
of years learning how they are best to effect this, may go
forth, in the name of the government and people of Eng-
land, and teach lies to eLht millions of our brethren.
Now, that is just the long and short of the matter. If
you talk till doomsday, von will make no more of it as to
the fact; nor can the wit or sop,iistry of man, or the in-
genuity or malice of the devil, even if it were his policy
to do so—which it is not, (Rev. xii. 10 )—make less of
it.—Pamphlet.
INTERESTING TO PICTURE BUYERS.—As long as a
worthy merchant of Liverpool or calico-printer of Man-
chester can persuade hiu.self that his walls are hung with
canvas that can be at any time exchanged for gold—and
a time for making the exchange never comes—the copies
are, perhaps, just as good as wontd be the originals; but.
let him bequeath his " valuable" acquisitions to his heirs,
and the £20,000 of " property" may bring as many pence.
We not long ago attended et the sale of a small collec-
tion; it had, to our knowledge, cost the collector £5,000.
It brought. clear of the auctioneer's charges and the duty,
just £125 103. Cases of the kind might be multiplied so
as to fill columns of our journal.—Art. Union.
A MODERN RAILWAY PROSPFCTUS.—It was beaded,
" Prospectus of the Grand Union Biggleswade, Puddock_
field, and Pedlineton Railway, in 50,001) shares of £2O
each. Deposit £1 on each share." If the line bad run
through the garden of Eden, supposing that place to have
furnished a large passenger traffic besides agricultural pro-
duce, with London at one terminus and Pekin at the
other, the description could not have been more flattering
than that which I perused. Nature seemed to have la-
vished all her blessings upon Biggleswade, Puddockfield,
and the country thereunto adjacent; in short, I never re-
collect so flattering a picture, with one solitary exception
drawn by my friend Frizzle, who had stuck twenty pounds
into some railway in a mineral district. " When we re-
collect," said Bob, in a burst of poetical frenzy, " the
enormous population of the district, the sottness and ge-
niality of the climate, and the fairy aspect of its scenery
—when we think of the varied traffic which now chokes
up the ordinary avenues of industry—when we estimate
the inexhaustible beds of ore and mineral•, absolutely
heaving themselves from the ground, as though to entreat
the aid of man in adapting them to their proper destina;
tion ;—when we consider all these things, I say, and
finally combine them together, fancy closes her astonished
eyes, and even imagination swoons?" I will not say that
the writer of the Biggleswade prospectus was as soaring
a genius as Bob ; but he was quite enough of a Claude to
seduce the investigating public. I forgot what amount of
return he promised, but it was something hitherto unheard
of, and my mouth watered as I read. " That's the spec !"
said my uncle Dodger. " Sit down and write me an order
for your thousand." " Every sixpence. There—that
will do," and Mr. Dodger disappeared with the cheque.—
Blackwood.

PROTESTANT CONVERSION AND THE MAYNOOTH
ENDOWMENT.—It is now, we think, clearly established,
that a strong disposition exists in various parts of this
country, amongst the Roman Catholic population, to leave
the Church of Rome. Upon this subject, two views.pre-
sent themselves. Either tt-e Romish priests are to be en-
couraged and strengthened in resisting this tendency of
their own people to break from the spiritual bondage in
which they have been sn long bound ; or the missionaries
are to be aided arid protected in the work of conversion.
The first is the view which would seem to be taken by Sir
Robert Peel and the present ministers. They propose a
large augmentation of the grants for extending and esta-
blishing the Romish superstition. They call upon Eng-
land to furnish the funds by which a religion, pronounced
by the legislalature to be idolatrous, may be maintained
and extended, at a time when, if left to its own resources,
it must speedily vanish from the land. The second is the
view taken by the religious community in general, and the
Irish society in particular, by whose instrumentality so
much good has been already effected, and who may be
said to be the precursors of those moral and religious
movements which are so cheering to the heart of the scrip-
tural Christian. Can the man who is really acquainted
with the actual position of popery in this country, describe
the Maynooth project of ministers as anything better than
an attempt to crutch up a tottering superstition against
the causes which are operating its rapid decay, in order
that the difficulties m .y be augmented which have been
found so seriously to militate against the spiritual eman-
cipation of the people? Ireland is ripe for conversion.
This the Romish clergy well know. This is no age in
which a mass performed in an unknown tongue can be re-
garded by any class of people as a reasonabl- service. The
qu=stion, then, is, shall government lend its aid to an un-
scriptural priesthood, by largely endowing them at the
public experse, at a time when a spirit of inquiry is per-
vading the masses over whom they preside, and dissipat-
ing the delusion upon which their authority is founded ?
Never, never was there a more unfounded hypothesis than
that their domination is destined to endure. We cannot
cast our eyes upon any part of the country, without seeing
unequivocal symptoms that there are multitudes within
the bosom of their church to whom their spiritual tyranny
is distasteful ; and it iv against those multitudes their
hands will be strengthened by anti project, such as that of
Sir Robert Peel, by which their temporal circumstances
may be improved. And what do we require ? Simply
that government should stand perfectly neutral between
the parties who are at present contending for and against
the papal pretensions. Is this too much to be expected?
Is it too much to expect that Romish priests should be
confined, in their contests with a Protestant minister, to
what are legitimate instruments of controversy, and not
be permitted to wield those terrors by which physical vio-
lence is substituted for moral conviction ? And is the de-
mand utterly unreasonable on the part of the poor perse-
cuted converts from popery, that they may be taken under
the protection of the law? But, above all things, again
and again, we implore the people of England to distin-
guish between popery as a sect, and popery as a party in
Ireland ; and to be well convinced, that the party never
will be propitiated by any concession made to the sect,
while the sect may be continued by concessions made to
the party; and that the effect of the Maynooth endow-
ment b,ll, and all other similar measures, by which a fac-
tion is sought to be conciliated at the expense of the Pro-
testant interest in Ireland, will be to convert agitation
from an annual into a perennittl plant, and to make the
system of discord, which at present depends upon the ac-
cidents of character and circumstances, as universal as na-
tionality, and as permanent and unchangeable as social
institutions.—Dublin University Magazine.