The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-09-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIDAY EVENING.—The consol market opened firm this morning, with a disposition to rise till nearly the latter part of the day. The opening price for the account was 864, and there was a purchase made at 89. Late in the afternoon the intelligence that Admiral Stopford had issued orders for the capture pf a French ship gave a new turn to the market. Consols fell to 884'to 4, at which price they closed, and at 881 for immediate delivery. Exchequer-bills are 6s. to Bs. premium. The Spanish market was affected at the same time as the English, having till then been firm. The Actives had been done as high as 24, but left off 234 to 4 ; Dutch 24 per cents. are 504 to ; Portuguese stock has improved, the 5 per cents. being 334 to 4 ; also South American securities —Colombian being 23+ to ; Mexican, 254 to 6. The share-market is somewhat improving. Birmingham are quoted 75 to 7 premium ; Great Western, 19 to 20 premium ; Brighton, 104 to 4 discount ; Blackwall, 24 to 2 discount. There was a considerable demand for bills upon Paris and Hamburgh to-day, and, the supply not being by any means adequate to meet it, there was a consequent depression in the rates of exchange upon those places. Amsterdam may be considered much the'same as last post. SATURDAY EvKNlNG,—Compared with the closing prices of yesterday, the English funds are rather higher, but nevertheless firmness is wanting in the market, and the fluctuation of the day seem to indicate a rather uneasy feeling amongst the speculators ; the bargains made in consols at the opening of the market were at 881 for time, and afterwards the price advanced to 881 buyers, but an extensive operation made by a Bear, towards the shutting of the market, produced the lower quotation of 884 to 4 or rather 884 buyers. The money ' price was 884 tot Exchequer bills have continued steady at 6to 8 premium. The only foreign security in which-business of any extent was transacted was Spanish stock, which closed at the advanced price 234 to 44. Dutch stock has been firm at 504 to 51 for the two-and-half per cents, and 994 for the five per cents. In the Transatlantic Securities there is more firmness, Mexican is quoted 254 to 4 and the New Stock 274 to 284. Colombian is 24 to 34. Portuguese five per cents. remain 334 to 4, and the three per cents 22 to 4. A slight advance in the quotations of the shares of the leading lines of railway in the market has taken place, and though the business was far from being extensive, public attention is somewhat occupied with them as a species of investment. Birmingham closed at 7G to 78 prem.; Blackwall, 24 to 2 dis.; North Midland, 16 to 14 dis. ; ditto New, 2 to 3 prem. •, Great Western, 194 to 204 prem.; and Brighton, 10-4 to 10 clis.  FRIGHTFUL MURDER AT NEWCASTLE  (From the Staffordshire Gazette)  PLYMOUTH AND EXETER RAILWA _ an account of Mr. Renders plan fora railway from Plymouth to Exeter, to join the Bristol and Exeter. and thus communicate with the metropolis. The length of the line will be about 421 miles, and the estimate is £674,138. We need  Of course.there must then be no forestalling of markets,. by corn merchants dabbling in corn. There could be no temptation, for the article must not be sold in the British market at a price exceeding 60s. or 63s.—and yet the farmer would receive a surer profit than he draws at present, high as the prices of corn occasionally at present go to. This, I believe, would give a steady price to corn—certainly a moderate one. Agriculturists being thus chargeable with the supply of the market, would of course be entitled to have the proceeds of their assessment managed by a board acting strictly for them. The supply of the deficiency could not by any chance cost the country, through the agriculturists, the sum it annually costs the country at present as a general matter ;—while the farmer has taken out of his pocket, not merely the actual price of the corn imported, but is continually met in the market, and beat down in every direction, by the holder of foreign corn competing with him as a system ;—and therefore he may be said to lose, not only the price of the foreign corn, but all the profits of the merchant. I am, sir, your obedient servant,