The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-06-17 00:00:00

THE ERPOOL STMiDAiIO.

SMITHFIELD MARKET-YESTERDAY.

In the port of London the imports of live stock from abroad
during the past week, have been again extensive, viz., 180
oxen and cows. 3 calves, 3 sheep, and 4 lambs from the Giraffe,
Batavier, and Ocean steamers, from Rotterdam; together with
26 steep per the Caledonia from Hamburgh. At Hull upwards
of 20a beasts have been received from Holland in excellent con-
dition. We had on sale this morning 97 Dutch oxen and cows,
the quality of which, though good, was not quite equal to that
of some previous importations. Hence they commanded much
less attention than those exhibited on Monday last, yet nearly
the whole found buyers, at prices varying from .416 to £2l per
head.

The high prices obtained for beef on this day se'nnight, to-
gether with the prevailing warm weather, canned the butchers,
notwithstanding the bullock supply was c imparatively small,
to be very cautious in their operati no to day. Hence we have
to report a dull inquiry fur beef, at a decline. on last Monday's
quotations of from 4d to Gd. per sib—the very highest figure not
exceeding 4s- 4d, per sib, at which great difficulty was experi.
ence lin effecting a clearance. The large arrivals of Scotch
meat up to Newgate and Leadenhall markets operated to some
extent upqp our trade to-day. We regret to observe that the
arrivals fe.:Th the north have mostly sold at a ruinous sacrifice.
The droves from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire,
comprised 1200 shorthorns, Scots, and homebreds. From the
western, midland, and northern counties, we received 400 He-
refords, Devour, runts, shorthorns, &c. ; from other parts of
England 300 of various breeds; and from Scotland 430 horned
and polled Scots.
For the time of year the numbers of sheep on offer were
small, they falling short of an average by upwards of 9000.
The primest old Downs commanded a steady, though not to
say brisk, inquiry, at last week's currencies; but the demand
for all other kinds was somewhat inactive, at barely stationary
prices.

The supply of lambs was small, while the lamb trade may be
considered steady, at previous quotations. Ftom the Isle of
Wight the numbers did not exceed 3').

Calves, the supp'y of which was good, moved off heavily at a
reduction it value of from 2d to 4d per Sib. In pigs I,ttle was
doing at late rates.

PRICES OF STOCKS, &c.—YESTERDAY.

Public securities have undergone no change since Saturday.
The Three per Cent. Reduced stock has been done at 99C the
Three-and-a-Quaver New 1023; Exchequer-bills, tg ; and
India Bonds, 71 pm. Bank Stock has been sold at 212, and
Consols for the Opening ex. div. at ggi.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been last sold at 2S, and the
Three per Cents. at The latter had been done at 4-3, and
the advance is the result of the report that the dividend will be
advertised to-morrow. The Passive Bonds have been done at
7. Mexican 37k, Columbian 173, and Portuguese Three per
Cents. at 663.

LONDON SHARE MARKET-YESTERDAY.

This being the pay-day in the share account, the other busi-
ness has been secondary. It is pretty obvious that the specu-
lators for the decline are on the wrong side in most of the
shares where much business has been done, the prices being
generally better this morning. Cambridge and Lincoln were
last done at 5# ; Caledonian, 12k; Direct Northern, 31; London
and York 3f, Eastern Counties 211, Great Norrh of England
2451, Great Western 2v6, Midland 189, Brighton 76, South
Western 821, South Eastern 48k, Rugby 21, Oxford and Wor-
cester sk. There has been little done in the foreign lines, North
Of France being sk, and Sambre and Meuse 9f.