The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

Standard-office, Two o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE. THIS DAY.

Although within the last ten days upwards of 300 ves-
sels have entered the River Mersey from nearly all parts
of the world, few comparatively of those from abroad
have contained much Grain or Flour; from Ireland, how-
ever, we have to report since Tuesday last, a good supply
of Wheat and Oats, with a large augmentation of Flour
and Oatmeal; including a fair quantity of Barley thence
and Coastwise ; thereby affording of each, an abundant
show of samples at our market to-day.
The trade was rather heavy for all kinds of new Wheat,
the best qualities, of which nearly lost the advance: of
Friday, and the general runs of Irish were Id. to 2d. lower
than this day week. We have, notwithstanding, a mode-
rate demand for Foreign, which fully supported our last
quotations.
The Flour trade was exceedingly heavy, and if sales bad
been practicable lower prices must have been conceded.
Fine Malting Barley continues to meet some inquiry at
late prices, but Grinding samples remain difficult to sell
on the terms of last week.
Malt remains unvaried.
Beans, of which scarcely any but Egyptian are in the
market, would bring rather higher prices.
Pease have been more saleable, and feeding qualities
may be considered ls. per qr. dearer.
Oats were in tolerable request, at a decline of id. to Id.
per 45 lbs.

Oatmeal was fully 6d. per ld. chsaper, and a slow re-
quest at that abatement.

From the 12,

AR RI V.

tA to Me

,LS OF CORN,

18th Novem;,e,', 1344, inclusive.

2ltB- COAST. COLO- PO-
LAND. WISE. NIA ... RS.SN. TOTA r .
Wheat.. Q• s., 9435 I 4 600 10039
Barley Q•s.i 1347 1614 60 3021
Malt (l,-s. i 27 617 644
Oats Qs. 9939 43 420 10402
Rye Qi, 7 7
Beans Q s. 475 200 675
Pease Q s. 2 2
Melted 80-leyQ s.
Indian Co, a. Q s. 3230 3230
Rapeseed Q -s.
Oatmeal .. Loadsi 19333 1)9 11 19363
Floor. ....Sacks! 14208" na 400 15941'
Ditto Br's.. 2464 5 2469

In o lianco*.o. !vele od Pl4l Coes
Oats, 1803 qrs.; Oat rilea?, 2762 lopti,; F'!ov,' I

•Wheat, 50 qrs. ;
1220 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Fore;gii. Wheat,—qrs.; Bailey,— ; Pease,
25 qrs. ; Oats, 13 q.s.; I -se:an Co qrs.; Oatmeal.
loads ; Flour, 445 o Wed. Wiiea.. 446 q‘'s. ; Bar-
ley, ; Beau., —q s Rye,. q ioo:an Corn,
qrs.; Oatmeal, 86 !Os; Poo:, —sks, —1, is.— —Copsimise.
Wheat, 26 qrs. ; Ba,•ey, 10 q- s. ;- MP 1, 16 qes. ; Oats, 41
qrs.; Beans, 13 vs. ; Pease, 2 qrs.; Oa. neat, 56 loads ;
Indian Corn, 3 qrs.; Flour, 110 sacLs 1415 ihis.

Average prices o G '0 i :le week end.on;Nov. g, 1814.
Wheat 466.3 d. ; Bevies• fAs. it,. I Oa.-..21 6d. e 345. 6d.
Beans.. Us. I IL. I Pea-.e.. 24, 7d.
A.— e— .e eve e o .

Wheat 46s 2-6-1 Oc 20,„ 10C. Itye..Z7s 4d

- - .
be2os.. Ot,. i PePae.. 34, 2(..
Duly o Po. P.'odoee .11, week.

Wheal2os 00 I By .ey -4, Ott I OD? . 0, I Rye.. 5s Ed
Beans 5,6(., I Pease..Gt. I 4.1.C0 .) Os Ot. Foul* 12s

Wheat.. is. Od. I Bk,
Beans Os. 6d j Pease

Doiy oa Cenati;on.
lev..os. ticl.. I Or, oti. I Rye.. Os 6d
Is.OC. I • .( . Co ti Floue.. OS Td

on ()awe B Coloolal.

Wheat.. ss. Od. I Bax le) .. us.6n. I Oats, 2,. od. I Rye... Cs. 6d,
Beans.. Os. 6d. I Pcw.ie.. Cs. 6d. I Flour. 3s. Od.
Liverpool Averages, week ending I.th Nov., 1844.
Wheat, 810 qrs., price 465. 100. ; Barley, 237 qrs., price 345. 7d.;
Oats, 477 qrs., price Igs. 5d.; Rye, 2 qrs., price 40s. Oil. ;.
Beans, qrs., Os. 0d..; Pease, 100 qrs.. 365. Od.
Duties paid in Liverpool, for week endng 14th November, 1844.
—Foreign—Wheat,. 234 qrs. ; Barley, 8 ; Oats, COO; beans,
; Pease, ; Indian. Corn , 996 ; Flour, 0 barrels. Colonial
—Wheat, qrs.; Flour, 1825 barrels.

A FIRST NOCTURNAL REVERIE AT SEA.—I walked
for an hour on the deck of the vessel alone, and immersed
alternately in sad or consoling reflections. I repeated in
my heart all the prayers which I learned in infancy from
my mother : the verses, the fragments from the Psalms,
which I had so often heard her repeat to herself, when
walking in the evening in the garden of Melly. I expe-
rienced a melancholy pleasure in thus scattering them, in
my turn, to the waves, to the winds, to that ear which ,
is ever open to every real movement of the heart, though
not yet uttered by the lips. The prayer which we have
heard repeated by one we have loved, and who is no more,
is doubly sacred. Who among us would not prefer a few
word, of prayer taught us by our mother, to the most
eloquent supplication composed by ourselves? Thence it
is that whatever religious creed we may adopt at the age
of reason, the Christian prayer will be ever the prayer of
the human race. I prayed, in the prayer of the church
for the evening at sea; also for that dear being, who never
thought of danger to accompany her husband, and that
lovely child, who played at the moment on the poop with
the goat which was to give it milk on board, and with the
little kids which licked her snow-white hands, and sported
with her long and fair ringlets.—Lamartine's Travels.
A BATTLE WITH Rarreksrialeks.--Rattlesnakes are
proverbially abundant upon all these prairies ; and, as
there is seldom to be found either stick or stone with
which to kill them, one hears almost a constant popping
of rifles or pistols, among the vanguard, to clear the route
of these disagreeable occupants, lest they should bite our
animals. As we were toiling up through the sandy hil-
leeks which border the southern banks of the Arkansas,
the day being excessively warm, we came upon a perfect
den of these reptiles. I will not say thousands—though
this, perhaps, was nearer the truth—but hundreds, at
least, were coiled or crawling in every direction. They
were no sooner discovered than we were upon them with
guns and pistols, determined to let none of them escape.
In the midst of this amusing scramble among the snakes,
a wild mustang colt, which had, somehow or other be-
come separated from its dam, came bolting among our
relay of loose stock, to add to the confusion. One of our
mules evidently impressed with the impertinence of the
intruder, sprang forward and attacked it, with the ap-
parent intention of executing summary chastisement;
while another mule, with more benignity of temper than
its irascible compeer, engaged most lustily in defence of
the unfortunate little mustang. As the cotstest was car-
ried on among the waggons, the teamsters soon became
very uproarious, so that the whole, with the snake fracas,
made up a capital scene of confusion. When the mule
skirmish would have ended, if no one had interfered, is a
question which remained undetermined ; for some of our
company, in view of the consequences that might result
from the contest, rather inhumanly took sides with the
assailing mule ; and soon after they entered the lists, a
rifle ball relieved the poor colt from its earthly embarrass..
ments and the company from further domestic disturban-
ces. Peace once more restored, we soon got under weigh,
and that evening pitched our camp opposite the celebrated
" Caches"—a place where some of the earliest adven-
turers had been compelled to conceal their merchandise.
Journal of a Santa Fe Trader.
SLEEPING AT INNS.—Beds have vast attractions; beds,
to wit, of down and roses. But we are not told who has
slumbered there the night before. In fact, we never ask
tile question. Mine hostess assures us, that they have
been well aired; but she does not mean that they have
been aired by the noonday's healthy sunbeams. She
gives you to understand, by saying that the bed has been
well-aired, that, in fact, it has constantly been slept upon
by a successon of travellers, of whose health, or the want
of it, not the slightest mention is ever made. The last
occupier may have been one, whose
" Form was fresher than the morning rose, ,
When the dew wets its !eaves;"
" The softest blush that nature spreads,
Gave colour to her cheek ;"
or, on the contrary, the bed might have been occupied by
a rough-skinned, pimpled victim to turtle soup and cura-
coa. He had been nearly a month, at Harrogate, without
benefit, and was on his way on the continent, with his
medical adviser, to try what the spas of Germany would
do for him. A person, on whose veracity I could depend,
and who seemed to have scrutinised the general state of
dormitories with a considerable degree of attention, once
told me' that he had not passed a' single hour in bed for
14 years. He said he was his own master in that respect,
and could suit himself as he thought fir. He added, that
his aversion to enter a strange bed was extreme. He did
not know who bad been there before him, or what impu-
rities might be lurking in the region of the feather bed,
or whether it had been aired by Phoebus or Bacchus ; and
that the possibility of getting into a damp bed acted upon
his nerves more terribly than did the operation of Sir
Robert Peel's income tax. " And how did you manage,"
said I, " without a bed ?" " Uncommonly well," said he.
" My apprenticeship," continued he, "to the hard floor
only cost me a fortnight, and after that all went right."
He then informed me, that the advantages which he had
acquired by abandoning the bed for ever were incalculable.
He said that so long as there was a current of fresh air
in the place where he laid him down to rest, lie was ex-
cellently accommodated for a fair spell of sleep. Tra-
velling had no longer any nocturnal terrors for him.
Whilst others were anxious about the paraphernalia of
their bedrooms, and peevish when things were not to
their liking, he stood smiling on, pitying their distresses,
and happy with the thought that he could stow himself
away for the night in a moment, free from bad bugs, bad
breaths, and bad bedding. " And you will never more
sleep in a bed?" said 1. " Never," said he, with a smile
of contentment on his face. " Nature has accommoda-
ted herself to me, and I to nature. What more can I
wish? He ceased on saying this. I entered fully into
his feelings ; and ere I retired to rest, .I thought if we had
more of fortitude and less of self love, things would go
j better with us, both night and day, than they do at pre-
Bellt "'"Watertgfi'S Zsgays on Natural Historri