The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-06-03 00:00:00

SMITH FIELD CATTLE
_MARKET, MAY 28,

Fresh up to our market today the receipts of Beasts were, on
the whole, seasonably numerous, while a great improvement was
noticed in their general quality. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex
and Cambridgeshire, we received nearly 200 Scots, homebreds.
&C. ; from other parts of England, about 250 Scots, runts, Devons,
Herefords, and various other breeds; and from Scotland, per
steamers, 200 horned end polled Scots. Very few instances oc-
curred in which the epidemic was prevailing, yet our accounts
from the grazing districts state that several losses have been oc-
casioned by it of late. Owing, possibly, to the weather having
become warm, we have to report a very heavy inquiry for Beef
to-day, and in order to effect sales an abatement in the currencies
noted on this day se'nnight of quite 2d per Slb. was submitted to,
yet a few of the very primest Scots were held at 4s 4d per Sibs.
The number of Sheep being large, the demand for them was ex-
tremely inactive, and we have to quote a decline on last week's
rates of from ad to 4(1 per Slb, and a large portion of the supply
was turned out unsold. From the Isle of Wight only 250 lambs
were received per railway; but from other parts the arrivals were
extensive, and the rates suffered an abatement of from 4d to 6d
per slb , the highest figure being Os per slb. Calves were in great
supply, and heavy inquiry at Friday's depression, of from 4d to 6d
per sib. The pork trade was very inanimate, at previous cur-
rencies, with about 200 from Ireland offering.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE, MAY 31.
Our arrivals coastwise and from Ireland up to Friday's
market were extremely small, and though somewhat increased
since, are still generally inconsiderable ; of Foreign Wheat,
however, chiefly from the Baltic, the import of the week is
again liberal, and of Ptase thence we have to note a fair
supply.
The quantities of Wheat and Flour, released from bond in
this port, at the reduced scale of duties under the New Corn
Act, from the 2d to the 26th instant, inclusive, comprise of
Foreign Wheat, 25,739 qrs., Foreign Flour, 11,970 barrels,
Colonial Wheat, 9,238 qrs., and Colonial Flour, 46,902 bar-
rels ; of which, nearly all the Foreign, and a large portion of
the Colonial, have been sold for consumption.
The pause to any further advance in Mark-lane yester-
day, and the continuance of beautifully fine weather, ap-
peared to counteract any lively or extensive proceed-
ings in free Wheat at our Corn Exchange to-day. Of
English Wheat, indeed, there was little or none offering,
and in the value of Irish we have no change to note ; but
Foreign, of which there was a numerous display of samples,
was in limited request, and in partial instances a small de-
cline was conceded.
Home-made and Irish Flour, being scarce, may be consi-
dered rather dearer ; but States and Canadian, although in
moderate demand, remained stationary in value.

The sales in bonded Wheat yesterday and to-day, compre-
hend a small parcel of fine Stettin, in granary, at Bs. 3d. per
701b5., about 1,000 qrs. soft Polish Odessa, afloat, at 51s.
6d. per quarter, freight and insurance, with a few trivial
lots of Wheat and Flour within the range of our quotations.

Barley, Malt, Beans, and Pease remained unvaried.
Oats, upon a very limited supply and a moderate demand,
realised an advance of ld to 2d per 451bs. ; and Oatmeal,
both tolerably ready sale, commanded Is. to ls. Gd. per
2-101bs. over the rates of this day week.