The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-06 00:00:00

STRANGE OPERATION OF THE ROGUES
IN GRAIN.

As before observed, some forced sales of Mexican stock at
what was regarded a considerable sacrifice in the price
naturally attracted attention and led to inquiries as to the
sellers and their objects. In the result it is stated.to have
transpired that the sales were on account of certain parties,
Quakers, largely embarked in the corn trade, and more
largely, perhaps, engaged in corn speculations. The infer-
ence of course was, that Mexican stock was sacrificed in
order to keep up, or to raise, the price of corn in Mark-lane,
where these Quaker corn gentry are well known. On re-
ferring to the state of the corn market during the week, a
strong suspicion cannot fail to be excited that such was the
fact. All last week Mark-lane was in a panic, what with
failures of corn merchants and the ascertained consummation
of a bounteous harvest. Prices of wheat fell a long way
down, even so late as Monday last as much as four shillings
per quarter, and many demure visages on the Corn Exchange
were observed to fall longer still. What was to be done in
such an extremity ? Speculative stocks of foreign corn heavy
and unsaleable on band ; bills approaching maturity ; specu-
lators passing into the Gazette; and prices down daily. If
prices were to be rallied and strung up ; if market credit was
to be bolstered up so that discount brokers might be propiti-
ated, it was clear that sellers must be routed from the Corn Ex-
change, or at least reduced to a minority by a host of buyers.
To effect these important objects, some ready money must be
forthcoming, and to raise this only two modes were apparent,
either to sell Mexican Bonds or unbonded corn. The latter
process would only have exasperated the mischief, and so the
sacrifice of Mexican was resolved upon as the most if not
the only feasible scheme. Of this sort of stock it is well
known that the speculative, and certainly not the most cre-
ditable, portion of theQuakercommunity, are and have always
been large holders, and therefore the recourse was easy and
at band. The effect of these sales of Mexican stock is already
aPParent in the Mark-lane manoeuvres of the day. The
" Corn-Exchange report" thus records them :—" 'We have
to note a farther arrival of about 15,000 quarters foreign
wheat, which, however, has been met by a most animated
lewland. The tone of the market is completely changed.
* * * All descriptions (of corn) have improved in value
3s. Per quarter, and even ss. higher than sales forced off this
day week." In order fully to appreciate the dexterous des-
peration of this sort of double operation, and the extent of
damage voluntarily voluntarily submitted to in order to accomplish, by
for the of the stock in bonds, an exorbitant monopoly price
stock of grain, it is necessary to remember that Mex-
ican bonds weae generally thought to be considerably below
their real 1r
likely to able, and the value to which ere long they were
month stain,an airec For one dividend upon them is due next
dividend a tIY in hand, whilst a large proportion of the
Exchange accorlian April next is also in hand, not in Corn
much for one set pdation bills, but in hard dollars. So
iny Herald. °I rogues in grain.—City Article.—Morn-

GRAMMATICAL WITTCL3I4. —We don't know who
originated the following, but It, ,
all.—
hat is the ste. ~, s a good one at events .
" Bobby, w-- ---ta • --" Bodine water." "That's
compare. it."
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right ;t —A • ; comparative, boiler ;
surperlative, burs . met-lean Paper.
servant maid;in a small
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last w
bl eek
11" her situation in conse-
quence in Herefordshire,,
.quence of her being 'neaps e of ' reeundii
ng her feelings
er mistress."
ages of 30 to 45, is
to the—very bad grammar spoken bY h
bachelors, from
ofthu
The mortality of
Of married men. the
'tine 'tine ages,
27 per cent. who attain the age of _ 18 per
cent. For 41 bachelors 'lO, there are
The difference is more striking as age ,
78 married men. T
60 there are but 22 bachelorsavances. At the age of .
ni ears, 11 bachelors for 2_ alive
for 48 married men ; at .- )_ 7 married
3 bachelors there are e ed
men ; and at 80 years, for married
roen.—Dr. Caspar, of Berlin.
On the 9th April last, a person named Bremond, a tobac-
conist, at Vaucheres, in the Basses A
named
same commune, intercourse, Mantel,
to murder a farmer, of the
an illicit
with whose wife he had been carryinghenbal having taken an
by firing at him from behind, but t
rove mortal. The
oblique direction the wound did notsph
instant, and con-
offender was brought to trial on the t
ears, and also
demned to hard labour at the hulks for twenty
ye
12th instant
to stand in the pillory at Vaucheres. On the
the convict was bein conveyed in a cart from Digne, the
his assize town, to Vaucheres, where he was to undergo
ex-
posure on the 16th ; but while on the way, and still more
• than a league from Farcalquier, an intermediate town, he
became deadly pale, and, turning to one of the gendarmes
who were in charge of him, said—" You would do better to
Rake me to an hospital than to prison. lam a lost man, for
I have got a wooden spoon in my belly." The gendarmes
stopped, and having examined their prisoner, found that he
had, in fact, contrived to cat the handle of a wooden spoon
•to a sharp point, and had forced it up to the bowl into the
lower part of his abdomen. The man bad already sustained
the severe pain this must have caused him upwards of half
an hour, and had to endure it
an hour and a half longer be-
fore he reached Farcalquift. On arriving there, he was
placed in the hands of mit
us. who with great difficulty
drew out the spoon, which a been thrust into his body to
the depth of very nearly file inches, and yet not a drop of
blood had issued from the puncture. Ile was not expected
to live two days ; but his only regret was that he had not
produced instantaneous death, as he had hoped to do when
he resorted to this extraordinary ratans of avoiding exposure
on she pillory.

NEW PLAN FOR THE WEST INDIA MAIL-
PACKET SERVICE.
TO COME INTO OPERATION ON THE IST OCTOBER NEXT.

No. I.—OUT ATLANTIC.—ONE LARGE STEAMER.
Out mails leave Southampton on the Ist and 15th of each
month, to Corunna, Madeira, and St. Thomas. Total from
Southampton to St. Thomas, 19 days 6 hours.
REMARKS ON TAI3LE No. 1. _ _

The company's ships will leave Southampton on the Ist
and 15th of each month, or at farthest, on the following day,
and, so long as they are required to do so by her Majesty's
Government, will call at Falmouth to receive the outward
mails, leaving that place on the 3d and lith of each month.
They will then proceed to Corunna, where they will remain
12 hours to replenish their coals. They will then proceed to
Funchal, Madeira, where they will remain, without anchoring,
as short a time as possible, to land mails, &c., not exceeding,
at farthest, six hours. From thence they will proceed to the
island of St. Thomas, which it is calculated they will reach
in about 19 days anti a half from the time of their leaving
Falmouth. -
On reaching St. Thomas, the ship from Europe delivers
all the outward mails to four steamers there waiting ; one for
the Demerara route, as shown in table No. 2 ; one for
Jamaica and Havana direct, as shown in table No. 6; one
for Porto Rico, Hayti, Cuba, &c., as shown in table No. 4;
and the ,Ith for Bermuda, as shown in table No. 5.
Having thus dispersed all the outward mails, the steamer
from Europe, remains to coal, complete, and refit, after her
voyage, and she will be ready to form one of the four
steamers to assist in the dispersion of the outward mails
arriving at the end of 15 days, by another steamer from
Europe.
Should the outward steamer not reach St. Thomas before
midnight on the 22d day from her appointed day of departure
from Falmouth, the four collected steamers at St. Thomas
proceed with the inter-colonial mails on their respective
routes ; the out mails in such case being considered missing
mails, to remain after their arrival at St. Thomas, till the
next out mails from Europe arrive and are dispersed.
The average time occupied by the steamers on their out-
ward voyages, hitherto, from Falmouth to Barbadoes or St.
Thomas, has been less than 18 days; thus 22 days, the time
prescribed for the departure of the inter-colonial steamers,
allows two days above what may be required, and to carry
the fixed detention at St. Thomas to a greater extent, would
only be productive of inconvenience and irregularity, as re-
lates particularly to the next outward steamer arrived at St.
Thomas, after an interval of 15 days.
No. 2.—DEMERARA STATION.—ONE LARGE
STEAMER.

Out mails arrived at St. Thomas, as shown in No. 1, in
about 19 days 6 hours. In 22 days, therefore, from the date
of leaving England, this steamer starts for her destination to
Tortola, St. Kitts, Nevis, Mountserrat, Antigua, Guada-
loupe, Dominique, Martinique, St. Lucia, Barbadoes, and
Demerara. Total going to Demerara and returning to St.
Thomas, 14 days 5 hours.
REMARKS ON TABLE No. 2.
The arrival of the outward mails from Europe is shown in
the preceding table. This steamer receives all those mails,
or inter-colonial, which are destined for any of the places
specified in tables Nos. 2 and 3.
She leaves St. Thomas, therefore, as soon as she has re-
ceived all her mails; but, at all events, before midnight on
the 22d day after the departure of the out-mails from Fal-
mouth, as shown in the concluding remark on Table No. 1.
Two hours have been allowed for stoppage at each island on
the route to Demerara and back ; but as the postmasters and
others will receive orders to have the various mails made up
and ready for exchange before the steamer arrives, the re-
spective captains will curtail their stay at each place to the
least time required for changing mails and passengers, thus
gaining what they can at one place to compensate unavoidable
delays at another.
Proceeding thus as rapidly as possible, this steamer will, at
Barbadoes, deliver to a steamer there waiting all the outward
and inter-colonial mails for places specified in Table No. 3,
and go on herself direct to Demerara. At Demerara she will
remain to coal, until 30 days 15 hours reckoned from the time
appointed for the outward mails leaving Falmouth. She then
returns as rapidly as possible to St. Thomas, receiving by the
the way all the home and inter-colonial mails from the dif-
ferent islands, and those from Table No. 3 will be delivered
to her, also, by the branch steamer at Barbadoes.
On reaching St. Thomas she delivers the home mails to
the steamer bound to Bermuda, and if the Demerara steamer
has any spare time before her next departure for that place,
she will occupy such time in coaling, for which purpose she
is to have preference to all the other steamers then at St.
Thomas.
The mails to and from Berbice are to be forwarded overland
to Demerara, as formerly.

No. 3.— TRINIDAD STATION.—ONE SMALL
STEAMER.

Out mails arrive at, and are despatched from Barbadoes,
in 25 days 8 hours, to St. Vincent's, Grenada, Tobago, Tri-
nidad, Tobago, Grenada, St. Vincent's, Barbadoes. This
brings the branch steamers to Barbadoes to receive them.
Total going from and returning to Barbadoes-6 days 13
hours.