The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-11-22 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE FROM NEW YORK.

(From the Third Edition of the Standard of Tuesday.)
The ship " Scotland " has just arrived at this port from
New York, which she left on the 29th ult., bringing dates
four days later than the previous arrival. The state of the
money market had not it appears undergone much, if any,
favourable change, but a hope was generally entertained that
matters would continue to improve.
The New York Morning Courier and Enquirer says,—
" We do not think that circumstances would warrant us to
say that the state of the money market is better. It is true
that amongst a few there seemed to be a feeling of confidence
and hope springing up ; yet it would be difficult to trace it to
any definite cause. Merchants' paper was bought at rates
varying from 3to 7 per cent., according to quality. Stocks
have generally fallen again ; and, on the whole, very little
business has been transacted : less than there has been on
any one day for a long time."
United States past notes are not saleable.
Sterling bills are offered at 3-.1 premium.
In specie no alteration.

The Baltimore money market continued tight, the banks
having continued their issues since the late suspension.
The merchants had a new evil to contend with in the in-
creased rates of Exchange on New York. The banks which
collect for that city refused anything but specie or its equiva-
lent.

SAVANNAH, Oct. 3.—lt affords us pleasure to state that
the banks in Savannah have not suspended specie payments.
Their condition never was sounder than at present.
Prices of stocks in Philadelphia improved.

The passage of the Independent Treasury Bill, with the
specie clause, was about to be acted upon. The small bill
policy will thus be suppressed.

(From the New York Morning Herald of 29th Oct.)
" A heavy depression took plaee at the Stock Exchange
yesterday. Sales were small, and prices have again fallen."
News had been received of the suspension of the United
States Bank, a rumour having there been received that the
New York Bank had suspended.
A large public meeting of merchants, manufacturers, and
mechanics, had been held at New York, at which it was re-
solved that the meeting had the fullest confidence in the
banks, and.recommended a spirit of mutual forbearance and
accommodation amongst them and all classes of the com-
munity.

It was farther resolved to support the honour of the coun-
try by specie payments.

THE RIVER WEAVER TRUSTEES.

(From Me Chester Courant.)

We rejoice to find that the Trustees of the River Weaver
have, at length, determined to do their duty to the public
and to the large body of men whom they have caused to con-
gregate on the banks of the River Weaver, by taking some
steps towards providing church accommodation for " those
employed upon or connected with the river." We feel
assured that the present trustees in so doing, are only acting
in the same spirit of benevolence which instigated the first
projectors of the navigation, to the risk of their private
funds, and the devotion of their own good services for the
public welfare. We see that the trustees have determined to
apply to Parliament fur powers to appropriate the amount of
£7,000, in the course of a certain number of years, towards
building, and an annual payment of £450 towards the en
document of three churches, which seem few enough, in all
conscience, when we consider the income which is derived
from the river, and the very large proportion (averaging an-
nually £20,000) which has been for many years paid over
towards the temporal benefit of the inhabitants of this
county. That the trustees have as much right to go to Par-
liament for their present purposes, as they had to obtain
powers to apply the surplus of their revenue in aid of the
county rates, no one in their senses will deny ; and we are
glad to find that, in the exercise of a sound discretion, they
have come to a determination to proceed in the proper form
in furtherance of their good intentions. The present may
not, on several accounts, appear to be the most propitious
times for such an undertaking, but confiding, as we do, in
the goodness of the cause, the pure motives by which it is
dictated, and the calm determination with which men are
happily gifted when engaged in matters of like paramount
importance, we have not the slightest .doubt that sooner or
later the work will be effected to the heart's content of its
first promoters, and, we will add, to the satisfaction gene-
rally of the rate-payers of Cheshire. Our contemporary of
the Chronicle informs us that the subject was brought under
the consideration of the trustees by one of our largest pro-
prietors, both in the agricultural and manufacturing districts,
and that it received the support of 29 of the leading gentle-
men of, the county ; that is as it should be. We have heard
from some quarter of an attempt to raise the cry of " rob-
bery" against the trustees ; we will, however, venture
to express our conviction, that when such a proposi-
tion as we are now discussing, has received the sanction
of the Cholmondeleys, the Egertons, the Brookes, the
Warburtons, and others deeply and personally inter-
ested in the proper disposition of the Weaver Trust,
that if their opinion could be taken, the great body of the
rate-payers of this county would be :uend cheerfully and
gratefully to acquiese. We do not pretend to name the par-
ties who have advocated this excellent measure, as the trus-
tees of the Weaver, in the transaction of their business,
do not adopt the popularity-hunting speeches, under the spe-
cious name of " Open Court ;'' but, judging from the church
building propensities which have shown themselves in the
private conduct of the gentlemen we have hinted at, we
surely must,be right in believing that they have joined with
Mr. Tollemache in acknowledging the principle, " that men
have souls'as well as bodies to be cared for." On this point
we take the highest possible ground ; we say that the trus-
tees have done no more than their duty, and in the perform-
ance of it, we think they have acted with a peculiar forbear-
ance,and good feeling towards the rate-payers of the county.
They have delayed their good wook until, on the score of
convenience, no voice, with any show of reason, can be
raised against them. The navigation of the River Weaver,
tinder the fosterinkcare of the principal gentlemen of Che-
shirerlias been constructed and maintained entirely from its
own resources, without drawing upon the county funds for a
single shilling ; no part therefore of its revenues of a right
woul4belong to the rate-payers of the county. This has,
howeeer, been provided for specially by act of parliament ;
and within the last ten years, the surplus paid over to the
cou4ty:treasurer has enabled the magistrates to pay off a debt
of upwards of X 50,000 to reduce the county rate from six or
seven farthings to one farthing in the pound, to pass over
one quarter last year without any county rate at all, and, as
we'have witnessed at the last two quarter sessions, it has
been a matter of much consideration, whether it were neces-
sary to lay on even a rate of one farthing. We applaud most
highly the proceedings of the trustees on this church build-
ing question ; and, as Christian men, we have every reason
to feel proud, that such an example has been set by them,
and heartily do we hope that they may find imitators, where-
ever imitation is practicable.

Fourpenny pieces will be in great demand on and after the
sth December, in consequence of the new postage.
PRINCE GEORGE OF CAMERIDGE.—His royal highness
visited Covent-garden Theatre on Monday evening to see the
new play of Love.
REGISTERED BIRTHS.—The registered births in England
and Wales in the year ending June 30, 1838, was males,
204,863 ; females, 194,849 ; total, 399,712.
Lord John Russell was not present at the funeral of his
father, the late Duke of Bedford, on Saturday. His lordship
however, had time to attend Lord Melbourne's cabinet din-
ner, on Monday. Surely the novelty of a dinner at Lord Mel-
bourne's must have been Lord John's inducement to attend
it.

The number of passengers who have travelled on that por-
tion of railway opened from Ayr to Irvine, from the sth of
August to the 31st of Sept. we observe, is 35,514 ; from the
Ist to the 7th of Nov., 1318 ; and during the three months
36,832. No trains on the Sabbath.—Kilmarnock Journal.
There are, at present, seven seats in the House of Com-
mons undecided ; those for Ludlow (the return of Alcock
being contested) ; Totnes (there being a double return,
Blount, a Whig, and Baldwin, a Conservative); and for
Bewdley, Devonport, Falmouth, 'Tower Hamlets, and South-
wark, which are vacant.
INDUSTRY.—If industry is no more than habit, it is at
least an excellent one. If you ask me which is the real
hereditary sin of human nature, do you imagine I shall
answer pride, or luxury, or ambition, or egotism ? No, I
shall say indolence. Who conquers indolence will conquer
all the rest. Indeed all good principles must stagnate with-
out mental activity.—Zimmerman.

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