The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-13 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Light o'clock, a.nz

FURTHER PARTICULARS OF THE DREADFUL

FIRE LAST NIGHT.

At this hour the fire, although kept under by the mass of
water which has been thrown upon it, continues to burn in
the interior of the building, and the neighbourhood around
it presents the usual scene of devastation, the streets being
strewed with half-burnt materials, timber, coffee, &c., and
the kennels flooded with water mixed with sugar and other
substances from the burning warehouse.
The two lower stories and the goods in them, consisting
principally of sugar, coffee, and palm oil, are saved ; but, in
all probability, the contents will be found much damaged by
water. The building itself is materially injured, and will
have, most probably, to be taken down to the second story.
Had it not been a substantial erection the damage must have
been much more considerable, and, in all probability, the
walls would have fallen, to the sacrifice of many valuable
lives. We understand it was erected by our able builders
Messrs. Samuel and James Holme.

In addition to the accident noticed in our first edition, we
regret to say that four other men have been severely hurt
during the night, besides several, principally firemen, who
have received slighter contusions from the falling timbers,
&c. Three cf the men now lie at the Northern Hospital.
The man whose case we noticed in our former account, has
sustained a severe fracture of the skull, but is doing well up
to the hour at which we write. He was severely injured
during the night by the falling of a case of sugar upon
him from one of the top stories, and was taken up for dead.
He is, however, although suffering much from fractured
skull, doing well this morning. James Hughes, with a
broken arm, is also in a satisfactory state. Two other men
were taken to their own houses, but we believe were not so
seriously hurt as the above. From the desperate hardihood
displayed by the whole of the force on this occasion, we can
only wonder that the casualties are not grerter. Mr. Hewitt
himself, and several of his men, were in the top story when
the roof fell in ; and their escape is almost miraculous.
In the confusion which prevails, we have not been able to
learn the owners of the goods destroyed or of those remain-
ing in the warehouse ; neither can we form even a guess at
the amount of injury done. We should think, however,

from the valuable nature of the property, that it is large,
although it must Le borne in mind that none of it is duty
paid. The warehouse, we are informed, is insured for £6,000.

THIRD EDITION.

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,--THIS DAY

(From Messrs. R. MAKIN Sr SONS' Circular.)

Since our

report of this day week, the fresh arrivals of
Wheat from abroad are rather liberal, having about 14,000 qrs.
to hand from the Baltic and Mediterranean ; we are also mo-
derately supplied with Canadian and States Flour, the latter
of which, at the present rate of duty, is partly being placed
under bond : the imports of new Wheat, Flour, and Oat-
meal from Ireland are at length rather on the increase, and
in a week or two hence we may expect a more regular and
extensive supply ; but until the last few days produce from
that direction has come forward very tardily, and only in
limited parcels, which have been taken by the dealers as they
arrived.

During several days last week the weather was wet and
unsettled, but it now exhibits an improved aspect ; with a
few trivial exceptions, however, the grain crops immediately
around us are secured, and although distantly, in late situa-
tions, much corn remains out, the rains, so far as they affect
this locality, have been favourable.
Stimulated by the advance in London, the trade for most
descriptions of Foreigh Wheat opened this morning with
higher expectations on the part of holders ; but the millers
refusing to comply with the improved rates required, the
currency of this day week was in few instances exceeded,
and the transactions, consequently, were only upon a mode-
rate scale.—Good Irish new Wheats, on the contrary, in the
absence of an adequate supply, realised an amendment of 2d
to 3d per 701bs, and English new supported our quotations.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 30th August to the sth Sept., 1842, inclusive

DESCRIPTION.
IRE- I COAST-(CANADA, PO- ;
LAND. WISE. I&U.STS.I REIGN. TOTAL

Wheat . Qrs ,I 1555 600 14039 16227
Barley Qrs. 189 21 210
Malt Qrs. 3 3
Oats .. . .
Qrs. 693 5 700 1397
Rye Qrs.
Beans Qrs. I 440 440
Pease. Qrs. 150 316 466
Shelled Barley Qrs.
Indian Corn Qrs. 105 20 i 125
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. • . Loads 2548 74 I 2922
Flom Sacks 393 393
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