The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-18 00:00:00

MONEY Al A RKETi-

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Tuesnav EVENING.—Notwithstanding tie general expecta-
tion raised yesterday of some announcement bearing on the
existing difficulties of the currency, the day has passed over
without anything of the kind, and people are left to as much
doubt as ever what result, if anv, is to follow the frequent inter-
views between the,Governor of the Bank and Mt. Rice. That
he has been pushed hard fur an advance of the interest on
Exchequer-bills cannot be doubted, and that he had given at
one time a qualified consent to it is equally certain; and the
wonder now is, for what reason the public are so long kept with-
out information on the subject. The pievalent conjecture, in
this absence of actual information. is, that Mr. Bice is seized
with a fit of indecision—that he is desirous of making only such
an advance ..as • will just keep Exchequer-bilis above par, and
that in balancing this nice point he has fairly been brought to a
stand. That 2d. will never do has been already proved; and
he is said to have been.at first %riding to make the advance to
24; but some suggestion having been made that 2d . might
be sufficient, he is said to have been •wholly confounded in the
attempt to deterniine which of these courses is the best. To
decide Wiong in thiscase, so as to be driven soon to an advance,
would, as he feels, tend to make. him still more ridiculous, and
yet he is iiesithus not to assist the Bank. any more than is
required for his own security, so angry is he with the whole of
the late conduct of the ditecnirs. Stone persons .imagine, and
we think w!iti'reason, that Mr. Ilico has not any very clear no-
tion what the:nature of au Excinluer bill is, as his language
always has been, that, hoWevnr they may fall, there may be loss
to the bank, but ato detriment to him_ He makes a difference,
too, between the holding of the bank in this security and that
of any private holder; but; allowing the amount in circulation
to remain the same, this cannot matter, as its convertibility into
money is‘ the very essence of its character it must rise with
any general rise in the value of money, or the government must.
be embarrassed, and the implied contract with the public he
broken This, or a funding to reduce the amount, in the only
mode of proceeding that can be adopted. Various pr,jec;s have
been broached in the city to-day connected with the. currency,
one of wiiich was to have an issue of small notes payable in sil-
ver only; and another nas a similar issue founded merely on
deposits of silier at the Mint; but not absolutely payable in that
medium,: and to. he called Mint notes. These ate evidently
mere eaperiments on the public feeling, and have no chance of
beiitg adopted. orie has .the cotiragei iu a direct way to own
he.authorsiiip.4them.— Tinto.

Tent GA KRlCK.—Thtiew packet ship Oartiek, from. New
Ydrk, arrived here yesterday ; she is the largeSt vessel that has•
yet entered the pOrt of •11,11p001.. since the formation of the
docks. . Der .herthen is about 9.5) tons, A mei ican, tthirh would
be upwards of 1,1(h) English. Her accommodations: re sulterb,
and in many respects soperi.o• to any of the other packets.
Site has proved the excellence of her sailing valities by having
made the passage iii seventeen days. The tellowing is the list
of passengers:Messti. J. D. Lawrence, J. D. Cogswell, P.
Ridgway, C. B. Raymond.
II
UN 0155,0 11? \VI A election of guardians. under
the poor taw bill, for the hundred of Wirral!, took place yester-
day. Your conset,Vatives and. three radicals were elected
"Firift ExummoN.,--This delightful lounge, we perceive, is'
apt), oaching towards the termination of its season. It continues,
however, daily Co be the classical tesort of great numbers during
their leisure hours, and must have contributed much towards
improving ant{ relining the taste of the inhabitants of the town.
We trust that aO excellent an institution for the encouragement
of the tine amts; for diffusing a very refined pleasure, and im-
proving the public taste, may, as its infancy disappears, increase
in growth and strength.
GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—On Tuesday last,.the 15th instant,
Sir Robert Peel was elected to till the office of Lord Rector
in Glasgow University by an overwhelming majority.
DNATiI BY POLSON.—On Tuesday afternoon an inquest was
held at the Sessions'-house, before P. F. Curry, Esq , coroner
for the borough, on view of the body of Joseph Jones. The
mother of the deceased stated that she lived in Claremont-street.
The deceased was between three and four years old. On Same-
day she removed every thing out of the cupboard, and put them
OD a tray in order- to clean out the place. A short time after
she had 'done so, she heard the deceased cry out, and she said,
" What is to do with you now?" A little boy who was playing
with deceased told her he had taken something that had burnt
his mouth. .She immediately ran to tiro and haunt hint rubbing
his mouth with his hands. the little boy pointed to a bottle
which he said the deceased had drank out of, and found it to
contain some vitriol and turpentine, which she had bought to
kill bogs with about nine months ago. Witness took bin to a
cit uggist's, and from thence to the Dispensary, where be was
attended, until he died yesterday morning, by Mr. Craig, the
House Surgeon. The jury returned a veadict to the effect that
the decease% died inconsequence of having accidentally taken
poison., . •
CAvivnE•ioy .5.f.,,vP..-stitrs.—We have been favoured with
the following, account of the nuniber of slaves captured by 1-I.M.
brigantine Buzzard, Lieut. Campbell acting commander, trout
Deceurber,lB3l, to July, 1536 :
Formidable Off Old Calabar.. •.••.702 slaves.
Iberia- • Bonny ... . ....3i3
BrenVeneida 44N, long 1W 4:;3 •
Seleirantid Bonny 477
Norma Bunny . • '236 .
1(19
!viol-1(HO° CaMaroons 268
Felicia- - Bonny • ,
"Fainorsa -Bemera Bitubta cargo
Joven Carolina ..Old 'Calabar 432

, :Iota! •4. 3:1110
.'he whole were under Spanish cutout* -with the exception of
he' Mkidillo and Jovety t rolina.—'aie a moo ut .of.prize-money
is -so cOnsiderable as to afford the sum of i.:3',.;0 to the cinirlitOit
seamen belonging to the brigantine, ' --
FIRE ON TIIE EAST SIDE (IF THE SA !AROUSE DOCK.--Ahout
nine o'Clirek., on Tuesday night., a tire broke out in the
,upper
saleJnom occupied by Mr. Bout, of the premises adjoining the
Dumfries and Kirkcudbright Tavern. - 'There was no person
belonging to the sale-room on the premises when the fire broke
out, arilit cannot be said how it originated. It was first ob-
served by One 'of the dock police, whit instantly gave tbealarm.
In a short tissue three engines were.on the spot, and the sinoul-'
Bering eleNnent was suppressed before it burst into a flame. It
was owing to-the activity of Mr. liedson, Mr. Currie, and seve-
ral ether-individuals• in the neighbourhood that the tire was
speedily suppressed. _ A partition was broken through into the
sale-room—buckets of water weie carried Up,.and.the fire was,
kept well under till-the engines arrived. Great credit is chic; to
Mr. Dowling.and. Fire Police for their eieitions. ' had it
not been fortheir promptness a conflagration, aneli us never had
been witnessed in Liverpool,, would have destroyed the whole
range of warehouses between Ausdell-street and Charlotte-street,
as they were ftill of all kinds of combustible luatelials, such as
pitch, oakuin,- tar,-and oil, besides sails. . .
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service llf Miss Whittate)rl,,,i,,ninD4 a.eirxltyrt
111.-REDING To -DEATiI.-.-,A youn;„! woman named Ann Creer,
who was liviug ,in the
i.(0)111t4 in .the early part
sotrrdeient:ti;azinbrive.hr.er deathrtiis xay.fii:iit‘t,adkac3r' sgo
area['
of•the day,..leevir,gthe.servant (the deceased) to take care of
the house. She ..returned home about; half-past:.titie o'clock,
having been absent about three hours. knocked at the
door repeatedly, but received no answer, nor did the Servant
come to open it. At length Mks Whittaket 'became alarmed,
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and requested a servant next door to get over the wall and stS-
certain the reason of the silence withiouse. The servant
was revailed open' to go over the wall, but She immediately re-
turnepd shrieking and et idently much alarmed. A servant man
was then sent over to _open. the, door, and on the enhance of
Miss Whittaker and the man into the-kitchen a most appalling
spectacle met their view. The young, woman, whoa few hours
before was .alive and .appareutly full of health and vigour, sat in
as upright pustule quite dead. A pail of water with a sponge
in it, was standing by her side, and a large pool of. blood was
was. sent for, who examined
flowing on the floor.. A surgeon
the deceased, and found that the blo:id'hialiived'frorn one of
her legs,'Which was full of varicose veincommuniS-, one-ofwhich
with the
was. af
fectect with an ulcer. .Twaliarge veins c
ulcer he found quite open, and he' had no doubt that the blood
had flowed thereroin, and' that•sheltad died from the
,excessive
quantity- she had lostialmost iiistantapeously. It was supposed
that the deceased had been washing' the 'ulcer with the ;,..atttr
that waS tumid beSide her. and bad by,that: means opuned an
lol'd' ~,,joind, nod-so hastily a ecelerattd her own death. Ihe body
wa"'4,ll,li.arils viewed h., a ~.ir, nay's inry, wed the ab 0%... f'ias
~ having aiceri giveti in esitleni.e, a. verdict was retained, " that
• ' tire deces,,eil had bled to death, accelealed.hY natural causes."
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