The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-03 00:00:00

THE LATE EARL OF MUNSTER.—The will of the late Earl
of Munster has been proved in Doctors' Commons by Lord
De Lisle, General 'Wyndham, and Mr. Cameron, the execu-
tors. The will refers to various family settlements, and di-
rects the residue of his lordship's property, after payment of
debts and legacies, to be laid out in the purchase of estates,
to be entailed in his family, Lady Minister taking all the
rents (except £BOO for. the present earl), and to have the use
of the 'houses and furniture at Brighton and in Belgrave-
understreet rent free for her life. The personal property was sworn
£40,000.
Friendship is a curious gentleman that makes no parade ;
the true heart dances no hornpipes on the tongue.
PROMISES.—It would be more obliging to say plainly, we
cannot do what is desired, than to amuse people with false
words, which often put them upon false measures.
READING.—It is manifest that all government of action is
to be gotten by knowledge and knowledge best by gather-
ing many knowledges, which is reading.—Sir P. Sidney.
BAD TIMES.—The. New York correspondent of the Bal-
timore Chronicle says, that nobody can borrow money there
without paying six per cent. a month, and leaving the money
as collateral security,

An Irish merchant who lived in the country, but had his
countinghouse in Dublin, having left the key of his office at
home, told his clerk one day to go for a locksmith, " for,"
says he, " Tim, I've locked my key up in the room. !"

Said a pretty woman to a friend of ours a few days since,
" Husband has made me a present of a little bill that you
owe him." Who could resist such a polite invitation to

pay up ?

AN ENGLISH BULL.—In the police report of a morning
paper, we find the following most palpable bull :—A blind
old man was led into court, and, on making application to
see the sitting magistrate, his request was instantly granted.

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A very ugly man, who was a great horticulturist, being
found by a visitor perched up in a cherry-tree, his friend
exclaimed, " No wonder, Philip, that you have the finest
fruit in the country ; for you are not only your own gardener,
but, egad, your own scarecrow too."

Smoking is carried to such an extent in Holland, that every
inn is filled with a thick cloud of tobacco-smoke ; and when
the waiter enters the room in search of any Dutchman who
may be wanted, he takes a pair of bellows in his hands, to
blow the smoke from the faces of the party, that he may dis-
cover the person whom he wishes to find.

AN INDIAN RETORT.---All Indian complained to a re-
tailer that the price of his liquor was too high. The latter,
in justification, said that it cost as much to keep a hogshead
of brandy as to keep a cow. The Indian replied, " May be
he drink as much water, but he no eat so much hay."
FIGHTING MEN.—At an agricultural show dinner, the late
Duke of Buccleuch presiding, a round of "fighting men"
being toasted, one giving Wellington, another Graham, a
third Hill, and so on, and when it came to an honest farmer,
he said, " I'll gie ye Saunders Pirgivie, o' Crichton Dean,
for he's had a sair ficht wi' the warld a' his life, an honest
man wi' a big, amily."—Cork Constitution.
A PATIENT CREDITOR.—When a popular comedian,
famous for acting Sir Francis Gripe, (off as well as on the
stage), was asked in consequence of a run of very ill luck to
wait a little for his salary—which was £6O a-week !—he
coolly took a chair, and replied, " Certainly, I'll wait till its
paid."

VISIONARY PROVISION.-Mr. was accosted the other
day on Merry-boys' Hill by a sleek-looking corpulent beg..
gar, who pleaded that himself and family were " pining for
food." " Indeed," said the gentleman, " you do n't look
as if you were starving." "Ah ! Sir," was the response,
with a sigh such as those Sir John Falstaff fattened on,—
" the way 1 keep up my flesh is by dreaming every night that
I have the run of your worship's larder.

SECOND EDITIOii.

Standard-office, Three o'clock

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,--Tats DAY.

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

Of English, Irish, and Foreign Wheat together, the arri-
vals since our report of this day week furnish a liberal supply,
with several parcels of Malt coastwise, and a fair increase of
Oats, Oatmeal, and Flour from Ireland, including 1000 brls.
of the latter from Marseilles.

The royal assent having at length been given to the new
corn bill, duties were receivable at our Custom-house yester-
day, agreeably to the annexed scale, which admits colonial
Wheat and Flour at the lowest rates, and such may now be
considered free for consumption : it is not likely, however,
that any large portion of those articles comprised in the stocks
of foreign in bond, will be released until the averages shall
have attained a more favourable point.
The following are the quantities of grain, Flour, and Oat,
meal computed to remain in Liverpool, on the 2d May,
1842 :

In
Bond.—Wheat, 209,032 qrs. ; Barley, 11,271 qrs. ;
Oats, 13,584 grs. ; Rye, 500 qrs. ; Beans, 21,166 qrs. ;
Pease, 7,787 qrs. ; Flour, 165,166 brls.

Free.—Wheat, 25,000 qrs. ; Barley, 5,000 qrs.; Oats,
12,000 qrs. ; Rye, 400 qrs. ; Beans, 20,000 qrs.; Pease,
5,000 qrs. ; Flour, :5,000 brls. and 5,000 sacks ; Oatmeal,
80,000 loads.

The effects of this measure having been, already, in a
great degree, anticipated, little impression seems now to be
produced upon the trade by its actual coming into operation ;
for the present we are unable to notice any decided increase
in demand, but may shortly calculate on some improvement
in this respect, with a more steady and regular trade than
has been, for some time past, experienced.

The transactions in Wheat at this :day's market, which
were chiefly confined to retail purchases, were altogether to
a very moderate amount, and although in a few cases the
finest descriptions rather exceeded the rates of this day se'n-
night, the various kinds of Mediterranean and other middling
Wheats were generally obtainable on somewhat lower terms.
English and Irish Flour was in limited request, at late
prices, while States and Canadian receded is per barrel.
In bond, the only transactions noted to-day were confined
to a few hundred quarters of States and Ancona Wheat, for
Ireland, the former at 7s 7d, the latter at 7s per 701bs.
Malting and grinding Barley, upon a very dull sale, de-
clined is per qr. ; and Malt hardly sustained its previous
value.—Beans and Pease remained unvaried.

The Oat trade, being languid, prices gave way Id per 45
lbs ; and Oatmeal, although held at last week's rates, was
very unsaleable tolday.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 26th April, to the 2d May, 1842,

inclusive

lAN- I COAST- CANADA
DESCRIPTION. LAND. WISE. !kk U.STS.

REIGN. ',TOTAL.

Qrs.! Ipp 1 2114

Barley Qrs. 191 217
Malt Qrs. 7 2495
Oats
Rye Qrs.[

Beans Qrs. 15 120
Pease. Qrs. 50
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn Qrs.
Rapeseed
Oatmeal . ... Loads 4996 5
Flour. Sacks, 2033 100
Ditto . Brls.

Into Runcorn, Ireland I 1 EMU
and Coastwise :—Wheat, 4 qv
310 qrs. ; Oatmeal, 780 Ids; Flour, 355 sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs. ; Barley, 25 qrs.;
qrs. ; Oats, 151 qrs ; Pease, 12 qrs. ; Indian Corn,
meal, loads; Flour— sacks, 230 brls.--Ireland. Why
qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, 135 qrs. • Oattnee,
Flour, 40 sacks.--Coastuise. Wheat, 256 qrs. L."!
qrs. ; Malt, qrs. ; Oats, 131 qrs. ; Beans, 5 (11.5.'
qrs. ; Pease, 17 qrs. ; Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal,
Flour, 308 sacks 202 barrels.

; Oats,

malt,

irs. ;- - Oat-
mat. 1319

Average prices of Grain, for the week ending April 22
Wheathus. 7d. i Barley 275. 3d. I Oats.. 19s. yd• I Bye
Beans.. 30s. gd. Pease.. sls, 2d-

I, —lds.,
arley, yl
Rye,
, 91 Ids.

k
Wheat.. 5,5. Ad.grueargaletye
2a6vse.raBgae. oofattsh.e. s7.iskye,
Beans.. 30s. 3d. Pease.. 303. 9d.

, 1842.
325. Ild

9s. 6d.
.7s. 9id.

•
Duty on Foreign Grain, &C• this week.
Wheat 12i.chl. I Barley 10s. Od. I Oats .. . es. Od. I Rye.
Beans Its 6a. I Pease .. los. 6d, Ind. Corn OS. Od. I Flour
Ditto from British Colonio out of Europe.
Wheat Is. Od. I Barley.. 2s. Oil. I Oats .. 2s. Od. I Rye
Beans.. ls 6d I Pease.. 2s. 6d. I lian Corn.. os. I Flour..
Liverpool Averages, week ending April 26, 1842.
Wheat. i DarleY• I oats. i Beans.l Pease.
Qrs losi ,
Prices Ms. ad. os. od. I os. c'd. Os• Od. os.-7 0(1

.. Is. od.
Os. lid.

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LIVERPOOL COTT ON. MARKET. THIS Day,
A very quiet market, with little business doing, not exceed..
ing 2000 bales, of all descriptions, at yesterday's price's.