The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLocK.—We understand that a
vessel has arrived at Hamburgh, which left the coast of Mex-
ico on the 4th of July; she brings the information that the
blockade still continued, and that great excitement prevailed.
Consols closed yesterday at 941 for Money and Account,
and opened this morning at the same prices; and-for the Oc-
tober Account, 9412. Exchequer Bills, 72 74; India Bonds,
73 75; Bank Stock, 2071 81; India Stock, 264151. In the
Foreign market the prices are the same as they closed at.
Spanish Active 211 a; Portuguese improved to g7l; Three
per Cents., 2,41 I; Brazilian, 841; Colombian, 261 ; Mexi-
can, 241; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 541 a.
HALF-PAST ONE.—The mercantile accounts from Con-
stantinople, to the 27th July, are of a favourable tendency;
.li4Y-6144-I.llittiusiDe.ss, which had b?en for a long tithe in a

greiTto7l) stagnation, 131 an' trarektlt a (t444f trfflimir
great number of purchasers from the interior arriving lately,
had given an impulse to the market; the storehouses were
nearly empty which contained the articles of importation, and
sales for various articles continued daily at advantageous
prices.

• Consols are not quite so buoyant as in the early part of the
morning, and have receded from 941 1 to 941 sellers for the
Account. Money 948, little doing. Exchequer Bills, 7274.
India Bonds, 75. Bank Stock, 2081. In India Stock nothing
doing. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active heavy at 214
1. Portuguese a shade lower, 371 1. Three per Cents., 241.
Brazilian, 841. Mexican, no alteration, 241. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half 548 I.
Shales are all lower. Brighton, 3 discount. Birmingham,
75 yin. Great Western, 101 pm.
QUARTER BEFORE THREE.—Consols for the Account, 9441.
- (From the official list, containing the business actually
t ransacted.)
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, 2081 'lndia Stock,
3 per Ct. Red., 9471 5 India Bonds, 75 pm
3 per Ct. Con., 941 South Sea Old Anns. 9571
31 per Ct. Anns. 1818, 1021 1 Bank Stock for Acct., 911
3M per Ct. Red. 10214 Consols fog Acct., 941
New 3% per Cents., 11111; 1 £lOOO Ex. Bills, 72 74 pm
Long Ans. 1860, 15 9-16-1 £5OO do. 72 75 pin
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, 151 7-16 Small ilo. 72 75 pm
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, Ditto Commercial,

SHA:
(The quotations give the actui

RES.
al price, without reference to
discount.),
Asphalte (Claridg,e's Patent)

premium or
Birm. & Derby, 32 311
Great Western, 751
London & Brighton, 8
Lon. & Birmingham, 167 168
London and Blackwall, 6%
Manchester and Leeds, -14
Northern -& Eastern, 61
South Eastern and Dover, 3
Asphalte, British, 2h

London and Greenwich,
Loudon and Southampton,
Danube and Mayne, 281
South Midland,
Manchester and Birmingham,
Ci'anada, 28
,Midland Counties,

CHESTER. AND CREWE RAILWAY.

Workmen have been employed in cutting this line about
ten days, and the progress they have already made is truly
astonishing. On Monday the first stone of the bridge under
which the line is to pass, was laid in a field near the canal,
close to Hool-lane Locks. John Uniacke, Esq. Chairman of
the Board of Directors laid the stone with a silver trowel,
bearing a suitable inscriptidn, assisted by Mr. Kelly, mason,
who has contracted for all the bridges. The baud played
" God save the Queen," and the assembled populace hailed
this " first pledge" of public spirit in Chester with loud and
repeated cheers; every one present appeared animated with
a hope that the good old city was just awakening from "its
shimbering dreams" of fancied prosperity without effort to
realise the good promised to exertion, and all united in ex-
pressions of hearty wishes of prosperity to the Chester and
Crewe Railway.
The company entertained the whole of the men employed
in the work, consisting of one hundred and ninety, with a
substantial dinner of roast beef, bread, Cheshire cheese, and
abundance of ale. The arrangements were excellent; and
the half-inch slices of sturdy rounds were demolished before
you could say "Jack Robinson"—every one of their "eating
engines" were up to "high pressure," and assisted by the
additional steam, produced by plentiful libations of John
Barleycorn, their digestive organs appeared in full play, and
rounds and sirloins disappeared with magical rapidity. All
was peace while the operative part of the work continued,
but the close of the feast was turned into a fray by some of
the men who had taken too much, but the " rumbumptous"
proceedings of the "Naveys" were pretty soon reduced down
to quiescence, by Mr. Hill and the party of police under his
orders. All ended in peace—few of them had broken "fron-
tispieces," and none of them fell into the canal, or had broken
heads.

The dinner given by Murray Gladstone, Esq. the engineer
of the railway, to the directors and friends of the undertaking
was one of a superior description. The tables were laid in a
tent on the ground—and the display on them for neatness and
variety, exceeded anything of the kind we have seen for a
length of time; every thing that nature and art could pro-
duce to satisfy the palate, Mr. Bell, the hospitable landlord
of the Hop-pole Inn, had taken care to provide Hbeef, mut-
ton, tongues, fowl, grouse, salmon, hunter's beef, potted
meats, tarts, jellies, iced-creams. &c. with an excellent des-
sert—and wines that could not be surpassed, crowded the
festive board.

Mr. Gladstone presided, and amongst the company we no-
ticed—Miss Clemison, Miss Wilson, the Misses Royle, John
Uniacke, Esq. Ald. Dixon, Aid. Cross, Captain Stuart, Cap-
tain Clemison, Dr. Phillips Jones, Robert Wilson, Esq. Mr.
Clemison, Henry Kelsall, Esq. Mr. William Palin, Mr. J.
Seacome, Mr. Thomas Seacome, Mr. John Royle, Mr. Bcnj.
Brassey, Mr. Macleod, Mr, H. B. Briscoe, Mr. Hammond,
Mr. Lister, Mr. W. Worrell, &c. &c.—Chester Gazette.