The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

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all his cant about retrenchment and cutting down ex-
penses, has saddled the country with more cost for com-
piling and printing his rubbish of statistics and misleading
returns, than all the rest of the six hundred and fifty six
put together. But vive l'imposture I and

"Blessings on thy frosty pow,

Economical old Joe !"

Another anniversary of the ever memorable battle of
Waterloo has come and gone, and once again the surviving
heroes of the glorious combat have congregated round the
Great Captain's festive board—like the knights of the
round table, with ARTHUR at their head. At this the
thirty-seventh annual banquet eighty-four gallant old
companions in the victorious fight assembled. A noble
spectacle it was to behold them covered with honours and
with years celebrating the splendid event which gave
peace to the world and crowned the victors with undying

Year by year these banquets become more
interesting, for year by year the noble hearts who had a
right to partake of them grow fewer and fewer. Since
June, 1851, eight veteran warriors of Waterloo have gone
to their eternal rest, and in the course of nature the
residue must follow with increasing rapidity. The illus-
trious DUKE himself looks as though he would live a
hundred years, and the chivalresque old MARQUIS
of ANGLESEA appears as though he could yet spring on
his charger, despite his 84 summers, and the want of that
limb which he gloriously left on the field of battle. It
seems almost fabulous to say so, yet it is a fact that the
Duke of WELLINGTON, after doing the honours of his
Waterloo banquet, and entertaining the Prince Consort
and the veteran survivors of the bloody fight up to eleven
o'clock, proceeded to a grand ball at the Marchioness of
SALISBURY'S ; and from thence to a concert given by
the Countess of ZETLAND ; returning to Apsley-house at
the small hours of the morning, and yet rising at his usual
time—somewhere about cock-crow. Lord ANGLESEA,
two years the senior of the Duke, if less of a rake at night,
is quite as early a bird in the morning. He is astir with
the lark, and, indeed, is the beau ideal of a veteran cavalry
Two such men are rarely to be seen together ;--
they are emphatically par nobilefratrum.
What A vioinua world is tlaia wo livo in, and what 11LAM-
bid tastes are disclosed every day ! Last week we were
bed and disgusted with what was called a
romantically criminal misalliance between a young lady—
or one who ought to have been a lady—and a filthy,
abominable, old blind black beggarman. This was lite-
rally a realisation of the fable of "Beauty and the Beast,"
and a story that almost surpassed credence, but that was
nevertheless over true. I thought the force of depravity
could not further go, but I was mistaken. The unfortu-
nate young woman has, it appears, been induced to sepa-
rate from the black satyr, and to go to Australia. But the
most extounding part of the romance is the sequel. Her
revolting tale has excited, instead of horror, love—posi-

! in some indescribably conditioned bosoms

to has had several communications
from several "sympathisers," offering marriage to the
frail, fair, and filthy, Eliza ! Verily, this is unaccountable ;
I but De gustibus non est disputandurn.

COMMERCIAL AND MONETARY NEWS.

MONDAY NIGHT.
THE Money Market remains in a plethoric state;
and gold continues to accumulate, with no present
prospect of a pause. We have at length reached
the unprecedented amount of £21,184,000; and we
can see no reason, if the mines keep up their pre-
sent productiveness, and the thousands of persons
who are weekly leaving our ports for the land of
promise are not doomed to severe disappointment,
why we may not have to record the amount in the
bank at £25,000,000 before this year expires. The
increase during the past twelve months of £7,258,000
fully warrants this expectation.

The return from the Bank of England for the
week ending the 12th June gives the following re-
sults when compared with the previous week :

.. £6,092,573 ; Decrease £27,388
.. 13,678,855 ; Increase 648,105
3,071,786; Increase 5,794

On the other side of the account—
Government securities £13,874,526 ; Decrease 300,046
Other securities.. .. 10,873,025 ; Increase 175,452
Notes unemployed .. 13,440,375; Increase 773,430
The amount of notes in circulation is £21,284,895,
being an decrease of f 400,420; and the stock of
bullion in both departments is £21,184,050, show-
ing an increase of £345,330 when compared with
the preceding return.

The teeming abundance of money has at last
begun to tell upon our Share markets. Business
has increased materially both for bond fide invest-
ment (of which the transactions of the past week
have chiefly consisted) and in speculative operations.
In prices there has been a marked advance through-
out the list, and the appearance of the market this
evening--the highest point of the week—indicates
that the rise is but commencing. The improvement
has been so general that we can hardly name any
particular lines as having been the favourites ; the
largest purchases, however, have been made in
Easterns, Midlands, Leeds, Dovers, and York and
North Midlands. Shrewsbury and Birmingham
also have been much bought, from an expectation
that some arrangement is shortly to be concluded
between this line and one of the leading companies.
Gold Shares have participated in the general im-
provement ; and large purchases of Carson's Creeks,
Nouveau blondes, and Agua Frias have been made
(it is said) by very well-informed people. The
market closes this evening without any reaction,
after a very steady market all day. We annex the
quotations :—Caledonians, 20-i; Eastern Counties,
10+ 5-16 1 5-16 a ; East Lancashire, 18:1 13-16 ;
Kendal pref., 131; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
76+ 7 63 7 1-; ditto fifths, 41 15-16 d id ; fifths
(W. R. U.), 31d; London stock, 1251; ditto new
quarters, 5 4p; ditto fifths, 41p ; ditto quarters
(C), 21p ; Sheffield stock, 3317; Midland stock,
701 i; > '4- ; North British, 81; North Stafford-
shire, Rd; North Union stock A, 261; ditto half
shares 4,101 p; Oswestry and Chester pref., 174;
Dover stock, 211 ; York and North Midland, 25;
Dutch Rhenish, 31 1-16 3d; Royal Insurance, fp.
The produce market has been generally rather
quieter during the past week ; but we have no
change of prices to record. There is still a good
demand for SUGAR, and prices keep well sustained.
Among the sales since Friday's weekly report are
30 hhds. Barhadoes, 325. 6d. to 365.; 100 hhds.
Demerara, at 325. 6d. ; 100 hhds. Surinam, equal
to 325. to 345.; 350 bags Benares, 375. 6d. to 385.;
4,200 bags brown Pernams afloat, deliverable at an
outport, at 17s. 6d. A large quantity of Bahia for
a similar purpose, at the same rate, has changed
hands. There is little doing in MOLASSES ; 200
puns. Trinidad were sold at 14s. 6d. per cwt.
Nothing done in Rum or COFFEE. More activity
prevails in the TEA market, and prices are unaltered.
The sales of RICE are confined to 700 bags ; Ben-
gal at 9s. 9d. to 10s. per cwt. Several parcels of
LoGwooD have found buyers ; we note 50 tons
Jamaica at £3 ss. to £3 7s. 6d. per ton ; 20 tons
St. Domingo at £3 10s., and 200 tons Campeachy,
at £6 2s. 6d. 30 tons Ceara, and 20 tons Jamaica
FUSTIC, are reported at £4 10s. for the former, and
£4 to £4 ss. for the latter. We have also to report
10 chests SHELL LAC at 38s. per cwt., and 15 cases
CASTOR OIL 24 to 4+ per lb.
COTTON.—The demand this week has fallen off,
but holders on the whole have been pretty steady
as to price since the publication of the brokers'
circular. The market closes this evening with
tameness, but with a degree of steadiness, and
prices compared with those of Friday are for the
most part the same. The sales of the week were
50,540 bales, of which speculators and exporters
took 22,220. On Friday the sales were 6,000 bales,
and on Saturday and to-day about 10,000 bales,
speculators taking about a third, and prices being a
shade firmer.

We extract the following from Messrs. T. and H.
LITTLEDALE'S bi-monthly circular, just pub-
lished :