The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-19 00:00:00

Standard-office, Three o'clock.

LIVERPOOL CORN EXCHANGE,—Tats DAY.

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

As previously anticipated, the duty on Wheat has advanced
this week to 9s. per quarter, and on Flour to ss. sd. per
barrel, at which rates nearly all the foreign bonded stocks are
supposed to have been released up to yesterday; the duty on
foreign Rye is reduced to 7s. 6d. per quarter; and there are
one or two alterations in the rates payable on colonial pro
duce, but as imports from British possessions abroad are
mostly confined to Wheat, Pease, and Flour, it will be in
general unnecessary to notice weekly any trifling 'change of
duties in them, except by reference to the average list sub.
joined to our circular.
We have a comparatively limited fresh supply of foreign
Wheat, with a few parcels of Barley, Beans, and Pease, from
Europe, and several thousand barrels of Flour from Canada,
but scarcely any arrivals coastwise, or from Ireland.
Uninterrupted fine weather, and the consequent active
progress of harvest, with the large accession of supply thrown
upon the free market by the payment of duty, prevents any
improvement in our trade forithe present; the sales between
Tuesday and to-day are therefore quite limited, and in most
instances at somewhat lower prices.

There was a fair attendance of local buyers, but in conse-
quence of the still unsettled state of the neighbouring manu-
facturing districts, few appeared from the country at this
morning's market, and the sales of Wheat were altogether
on a retail scale, at a reduction, on all descriptions, of 2d.
per 701bs. from the currency of our last circular. Flour was
also in very slow request, and 6d. per barrel cheaper.
In Barley, Malt, Beans and Pease, little business was
practicable, and their value is at present scarcely more than
nominal.

Old Oats and Oatmeal nearly support their previous value,
with, however, a very dull sale. New Oatmeal was offered
Is. per sack lower, but we had no new Oats at market to-
day upon which to found a quotation.

ARRIVALS OF CORN,
From the 16th to the 18th August, , ,
1842, ineiussue,

DESCRIPTION. IRK- I COAST-
!CANADA PO.
LAND• WISE. 4tl U.STS. REIGN. 1 TOTAL.
.....______
Wheat Qrs. 626 I 5170 ' 57gG
Barley Qrs. 1250 1250
Malt Qrs.
Oats
Qrs. 50 t
Rye Qrs.
887
139.
.
Beans Qrs.
368 368
Pease. Qrs.
1166 1466
Shelled Barley . Qrs.
Indian Corn . . . Qrs.
Rapeseed Qrs.
Oatmeal .. . . Loads 50 79 129
Flour
Ditto. Brls. I 5670 1 1 5670
Into Runcorn, Ireland and Coastwise :—Wheat, qrs. ; Oats,
qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids; Flour, sacks.

EXPORTS.—Foreign. Wheat, qrs.; Barley, qrs.; Malt,
qrs. ; Oats, 356 qrs.; Pease, qrs. ; Indian Corn, -- qrs. ; Oat-
meal, loads; Flour, sacks, 22 brls.— Ireland. Wheat, 1292
qrs. ; Barley, qrs.; Oats, qrs. ; Beans, 2 qrs. ; Indian
Corn, 36 qrs. ; Oatmeal, Ids. ; Flour, sacks 398 brls.--
Coastwise. Wheat, 677 qrs. ; Barley, 47 qrs.; Malt, qrs. ;
Oats, qrs. ; Rye, qrs. ; Beans, 10 qrs. ; Pease, qrs. ;
Indian Corn, qrs. ; Oatmeal, 169 lds. ; Flour, 199 sacks 123
barrels.

Average prices of Grain, for th;
Wheat 585.11 d. 1 Barley 275. 6cl. )
Beans.. 345. Id.)
• Aggregate average.

Le week ending Aug. ;3, 18s2.
) Oats.. 20s. 2d. Rye.. 355. Gd,
Pease.. 345. 7d.
of the six weeks.

Wheat . 635. 3d:l Barley 275. 81. I Oats.. 21st Sd.r Rye.. 355. Id.
Beans.. 355. 7d. Pease.. 345. 2d.
Duty on Foreign Grain, gze. this week.
Wheat 95.0 d. I Barley gs. od. Oats . • • Gs. od, Rye.. 7s. 6d.
Beans Ss. 6d. I Pease.. Ss. 6d. I I Ind. Corn Os. od. Flour ss. sd.

Ditto from British Colonies out of Europe.
Wheat.... Is. Od. I arley.. 2s. 6d. I Oats .. 2s. Od, I Eye.. .. os. 6d.
Beans.. us. 6d I Pease.. Os. 6d. I Indian Corn.. Os. oa. I Flour.. 74(1.

Liverpool. Averages, week ending Aug. 16, 184.2.
Wheat. I Malt. I Oats. Beans. Pease.
Qrs 236 43 1
Prices

COTTON MARKET—'THREE o'cLocK.

A very fair demand for Cotton to-day ; the sales amount to
4000 bales, at yesterday's full prices : those of the week
amount to 26,000 bales, about one-half on speculation ac-
count. The market closes with great firmness.

Saturday the Queen Dowager completed her 50th year.
Notwithstanding the absence of that illustrious personage
from town, Marlborough-house, Fall-mall, was beseiged
throughout the day by the principal nobility and gentry,
anxious to enter their names in the visitors book. in the
neighbourhood of Bushy-park, at Hampton, Hampton.
3rincipal inhabitants
court, &c., the children of the parochial schools were regaled
with a substantial dinner, and the
the
dined together in the afternoon. In the evening her Ma.
jesty's tradespeople in the metropolis illuminated.
Theatricals, as Mr. Robins truly observed, have in these
days got to a very low ebb ; as a very excellent and complete
equipment for a private theatre, four rolling scenes, three
skies, 1] side scenes, a foot lamp, stand for 301ights, four
lanterns, &c., brought the high amount of XI. Ils. Gd.
Other articles fetched equally low prices. The billiard table,
complete and in capital condition, brought only fourteen
guineas, and a mail coach, (one of the four-in-hand club),
sold only for seven guineas—about the worth of the wheels!
The Dille of Wellington accepted the office lately held by
Lord Hill on Friday. We have reuson to believe, however,
that the arrangement is merely temporary, and that Sir G.
Murray will eventually succeed to the appointment. The
reason assigned for the Duke's acceptance of office is said to
be that Her Majesty was so bewildered by the number and
pressing applications of candidates for this important ap-
pointment, that she requested the Duke of Wellington to
relieve her from the delicacy of the position in which she
found.. herself placed, by accepting it, pro tenzpore, himself.
We repeat our confident belief. however, that his Grace will
remain in office a short time, and that his
place will ulti-
mately be supplied by Sir G. Murray.—United setvic;
Gazette.