The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-16 00:00:00

more gratifying.

"lii priv-ate7l have been received by von and your officers
not merely with the deference with which the army always
treats the church? but with the warm kindness of old friends.
All this lam as little likely to forget as able to repay. I recall
with mental delight my intercourse with your regiment ; and
I assure you that I shall ever consider the period of it as one
of the happiest of my life.

" You!' splendid present I gladly accept. I will trek,
and also your touching note, among the things of earth which
I most value. I sin,,,,,AbA __ -, --

their kindness

and my wishesare:tha't the in—do-m'it-a1;1

spirit which fired your men in the brilliant affair at Dominica
may never be extinguished in those who fill the ranks of the
46th Regiment ; that the love which unites you and your
officers as a band of brothers may be always increasing ; that
victory may rest upon your standards in the field ; but, above
all, I wish and pray that your regiment may be good soldiers
of the Lord Jesus Christ, the great Captain of our salvation,
and receive from him decorations which never fade.—Believe
me to be, dear Lieutenant-Colonel Garratt, your most grateful
servant, " JOHN R. CONOR, M.A.,
Garrison Chaplain, Incumbent of St. Simon's
Parish, Domestic Chaplain to Major-
General Lord Downes."

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY REPORT.

Monday Night.
The decline in the Share Market still continues. Prices
have made more rapid progress downwards during the
last week than for some time since, though there have
been no new revelations of rascality nor any political or
commercial events of consequence to give the impulse.
To the uninitiated it is quite unaccountable that share-
holders should throw away their property at present
prices. No cause is assigned for this last slip, excepting
the sale of a loan account or two by the banks. Londons
have declined to 1014, Midlands to 32, Leeds to 32,
Dovers to 13, York and North Midland to 144, and in any
attempt to force a sale lower prices than even these would
have to be taken. In our market to-day there has been
rather more than an average amount of business, but it
has had no perceptible effect in checking the fall, the
closing prices being the lowest of the day. The quota-
tions are :--East Lancashire, 64 ; Leeds Fifths, 104 4
13/9 dis. • Leeds pref., 114 4; Lancaster and Preston
quarters, 13; London stock, 1024 2 14; London quar-
ters, 14 1 16/3 14 2 dis ; Ditto C quarters, 6/3 pm. ;
Midland stock, 324 32 311 ; Ditto halves, 24 2 ; Old
Dovers,l3; Ditto No 4, 44; Newcastle preference, adjs.
The prediction of Wm. Cobbett, that, under a system
of free trade, the average price of Wheat would fall to 4s.
per bushel, or 325. per quarter, is not far from being ful-
filled. The cook of the " Gridiron" certainly knew
something more than ordinary about farming matters ;
and we must give him credit for extraordinary foresight in
so nearly—perhaps, ultimately, exactly—hitting the mark
at a distance of a quarter of a century. From circulars
received this morning, we find the following latest
averages for Wheat :

e. d.
Manchester.. 37 8
Preston. 37 10
Wakefield.. 33 1
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.. 36 5
Spalding. 34 9
Bristol
Wisbech. 35 11
The Scotch and Irish circulars do not furnish the loca
averages. The imperial weekly average for the week end-
ing 6th April was 38s. Id. We find also that since these
averages were made up another general decline has taken
place in the markets of the United Kingdom, and that
Wheat is in some cases—Birmingham and Spalding for
instance—ls. to 2s. lower. The price of potatoes is rather
higher in Ireland just now, owing to the demand for seed-
lings ; and this, doubtless, has some influence on the
value of Indian Corn, which is always one of the eccen-
tricities of the corn trade, and we see that at Londonderry
an advance of ss. to 7s. 6d. per ton has been firmly esta-
blished ; at Cork, also, in a few instances, holders asked
2s. 6d. over previous rates ; but at Belfast, owing to large
arrivals, a decline of 2s. 6d. to ss. per ton on white, and
2s. 6d. per ton on yellow, has been submitted to ; and at
Dublin sales could not be effected in quantity even at 6d.
per qr. reduction. We understand that, although the
shipments of Indian Corn from this port to Ireland con-
tinue tolerable, (amounting to 7,770 quarters during five
days of last week,) that that article is at the present
moment rather easier to purchase in Cork than in Liver-
pool. There was very little passing in Brunswick-street
to-day, except some inquiry for Indian Corn, which was
a shade higher than on Friday ; prices of other articles
were nominally the same, but with a rather downward
tendency. Our local arrivals, from Tuesday and Satur-
day inclusive, are small coastwise and from Ireland ; from
abroad we have received 11,726 qrs. of Wheat, 2,336
sacks of Flour from France, and 10,948 qrs. of Indian
Corn from the States ; which comprise the whole of the im-
ports of any moment. The London market is telegraphed
ls. to 2s. per qr. lower for Wheat, except the finest kinds
of native produce. The foreign imports into London, of
Wheat, Barley, and Oats, are immense : and we subjoin
the following summary of arrivals there for the week end-
ing to-day, for the edification of those who tell us
that the high rates ruling abroad must prevent large
shipments to this country ; and place the supplies side by
side—
ENGLAND AND IRELAND V. THE FOREffiNER.
4,203 25,091
1,794 16,160
4,464 07,958

English Wheat
Barley
Its .