The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

JOURNAL OP THE MONEY MARKET,

MONDAY EVENING.—There 'has been a perfect panic in
the funds to-day. Consols have declined to 88i sellers for
money and 89 for account. Exchequer "Bills 16s tp 18s pre-
mium. Bank Stock for the orening 1694 to 1701. India
Stock 218 to 9. Foreign Stocks were also lower, although
in respect of those on which no dividends are paying the
wonder is rather that they .should have any value at all.
Spanish Active with the May Coupons were 23ito f. Por-
tuguese Five per Cents 321 to 1, the Three per Cents 214- to
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50 to 1, the Five
per Cents 100 to 1. Alexican Old Bonds 26-1 to 71. Co-
lombian 221 to 3f. An extensive depreciation in the prices
of Railway Shares may also be noted. London and Bir-
mingham fell to 62 to 4, Great Western to 16 to 18, the
Half Shares to sto 6 premium. North Midland Old Shares
were 18 to 16 discount, the New par to 1 premium. Brighton
11/ to 10/, Blackwall 11 to * discount. These are very ruin-
ous fluctuations in values, and may be regarded, if events
may be traced to their first cause, as part, and part only,
consummation of the political achievements of the Foreign-
ce.

TUESDAY EVENING.—The English Stock Market conti-
nues agitated, and confidence seems generally paralysed.
Consols have further declined to 87U for money and to 88
sellers for the account. After four o'clock bargains were
done a shade lower. In Exchequer Bilis the offers have been
so great that the premium has receded from 16s. to 18s. to
10s. to 15s. Bank Stock is quoted 169 to 170. Foreign Se-
curities have also experienced an increased depreciation, and
here, as in the Consul market, all are sellers and no buyers.
Spanish was. quoted '221 to 4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents 50 to /, Ditto Five per Cents 99,1 to 1001. _ Portuguese
Regency Bonds 311 to 32, Ditto Three per Cents 21 to
Colombian 221 to . Mexican 251 to 6. Danish 77 to 7!),
and Belgian 99 to 100. Railway Shares still suffer severely
from the effects of the general depression. The throwing of
large quantities of Shares upon the market, in which specu-
lation has been of late kept alive, tends to depress their unfa-
favourable position. Blackwall were quoted at the close of
the day 11 to 1 discount. Great Western 12 to 131 pre-
mium, Birmingham 64 to 66 premium, and New North Mid-
land 2 to 1 discount.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The Stock Market has been
greatly agitated to-day and Consols in the early part of it
were down to 84*. They recovered at the close to 87t for
for money and 88 to * for account. Exchequer Bills were
9s to 12s premium. Foreign Securities of course are more
depressed still than home stocks. Spanish Active with the
overdue Coupons left off at 22} to tt. Portugese Five per
Cents 311 to 2, the Three per Cents 211 to Brazilian 78
to 80. Mexican Old Bonds 241 to 5.. Colombian 21t to 21.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents 50 to 1, the Five per Cents
94 to 91. Belgian 98 to 100. Railway Shares were nominally
as follows :—London and Birmingham 64 to 6, Great West-
ern 11 to 13 premium. Southampton 501 to 11 per share.
For other descriptions there was scarcely a quotation.

COURT CIRCULAR.-THURSDA

The Queen will hold a privy council, to-morrow afternoon,
at Windsor Castle.

The Duke, of Sussex came to town, yesterday afternoon,
to pay a visit to the Princess Augusta. His royal highness
remained at Clarence House, St. James's, half an hour, and
left shortly before six o'clock, on his return to Wimbledon
Park, the residence of. the Duke and Duchess of Somerset.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, the Duchess of Gloucester,
and the Duke of Cambridge also visited the Priniless Augusta
in the course of the day.

The following account of the health of her royal highness

was issued yesterday

" Tee Princess Augusta has passed another restless and
disturbed night. There is no material change in her royal
highness's symptoms. _

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accompanied by the Princes Armand kGus • and the
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the Oceans eamtiOacket, for Rotterdam.

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager left Marlborough. House,
at half-past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, in an open
barouche and four, with outriders, for her residence, Bushy
House, Bushy Park. Her Majesty visited the Duchess of
Gloucester, at Gloucester House, in the afternoon, previous
to her departure.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—IIer Majesty and Prince Albert
have remained within the castle during the whole of the
day.

this morning Lady Charlemont and the Hon. Miss Ca-
vendish drove out in a pony phaeton:
Lord John Russell is expected at the castle this evening.
Sir James Clark arrived this morning, and left the castle
this afternoon.

The following will be included in the Royal dinner party
this evening :—H. R. H. the Duchess of Kent, the Princess
and Princess Therese of Hohenlohe, Lady C. Dundas, Lady
Charlemont, Baroness Spaeth, Madame de Hugel, Hon.
Misses Cavendish and Cocks, Lord Lilford, Sir W. Lumley,
Sir E. Bowater, Captain Seymour, Colonel Wemyss, Vis-
count Melbourne, Lord John Russell, and the arl of
Surrey.

WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—It WaS rumoured
this morning that her Majesty was seriously indisposed, and
that it was necessary, in consequence, to send an express to
London, commanding the attendance of Sir James Clark.
Sir James arrived in the course of the day, and advised her
Majesty (as lam informed) not to leave the castle. In the
course of the afternoon the Queen, I am happy to state, was
considerably better, and Sir James Clark left about five
o'clock. Neither her Majesty, however, nor her illustrious
consort, ventured beyond the castle walls throughout the day.
Such is the extensive nature of the alterations in contem-
plation at the stables and other outbuildings at Cumberland
Lodge, for the accommodation of the prince's stud, and at
Virginia Water, for his royal highness's dog-kennels, that it
is not considered politic to proceed much farther in the ex-
penditure of money without applying to Parliament for a
grant. Another grant must likewise be applied for (and ob-
tained, too!) before the new riding house, with its immense
stabling and coach-houses, can be completed in accordance
with plans upon which the buildings have been commenced.
The £70,000 voted by the legislature for this purpose will not
go half-way towards perfecting the works. Then there is
the expense to be defrayed of laying out upwards of twenty
acres of the Home Park in shrubberies and drives for the
private use of her Majesty and Prince Albert.—Morning
Herald.

MANSLAUGHTER.—On Saturday night last a number of
men and women, who had been drinking and dancing at the
Volunteer public-house, Deansgate, Manchester, came out
into the street, two of the men to fight, and the rest to wit-
ness.the battle. During the disturbance, a young man about
twenty years of age, named Thos. Brown, a tailor, of Bell's
Court, Wood-street, was knocked down, and fell with his
bead on the pavement: Shortly afterwards three policemen
came up, and the man who had knocked Brown down, ran
away ; the policemen then conveyed Blown to Mr. 011ier's,
surgeon, in Brazennose-street, who immediately got up; but,
as soon as he saw the deceased, said he was dead. The police
Subsequently apprehended the man who struck the deceased,
named Samuel Wisdom, and who is an overlooker at Mr.
Harding's mill, in Salford. An inquest was held on the
body, on Monday last, and the prisoner was committed to
take his trial at the next assizes, on the charge of man-
slaughter.

The Hereford Times gives a portrait of Misters, the man
charged with the attempt to murder Mr. Mackreth at Ludlow,
and the Monnzouthshire Beacon also has one. We cannot
say if either or both be like that person, but they are not at
all like each other I

MODEL OF WATERLOO.—Once more we beg to remind
our readers that Capt. Siborn's truly elaborate model of the
field of Waterloo will 'only remain a short time longer on
view. We recommend an early visit to this interesting ex-
hibition.

The subscription to the monument of the late Earl of
Durham already amounts to upwards of £l,BOO.

THE FORTHCOMING DONCASTER ST. LEGER.---For the
great race, the St. Leger, only a moderate show is antici-
pated, and, taking everything into consideration, the horses
are below mediocrity. The great uncertainty as to whether
the flying Crucifix will stand a sufficient quantity of work to
go through a St. Leger race has no doubt acted as a great
check to the bettors on the race. It is to be hoped her noble
owner will, should her leg fail, give immediate publicity for
the sake of the unwary. My opinion is that Crucifix will not
go to Doncaster. To proceed. That Launcelot is Scott's
Leger horse there now exists little if any doubt; and few
will be bold enough to say that their stablettheisseson has
h
been a weak one. Launcelot's running for Champagne
and Two-year-old Stakes at 'Doncaster last year, when no-
toriously in an unfit state to run, proved him a true and
honest racer; and his performance for the Derby justly en-
titles him to the foremost place in the betting (Crucifix, of
course, excepted). It was observed by an experienced New-
market trainer, and one who is not fond of a too great reduc-
tion in the system, just before the start for the Derby, that
Launcelot was too fleshy, and ought to have had at least two
more sweats. It is, I believe, very generally admitted that
Day, William Scott and John
ay, jun.,' destroyed their em-
ployers' chance for the great Epsom race, by running at
such a destructive pace up the hill • and I, with thousands
of others, feel most certain, if one had ben out of the race,
that the other would have carried off' the Derby,e 1840. As it
was,. it was " hammer and tongs" all the way from the. turn ;
in short, a match ; yet, in the end, like the fable of the two
mastiffs fighting for the bone, a little cur stept in and bore
away the prize. When I saw Launcelot at the last Liverpool
July Meeting, he looked amazingly fresh and well, and I
have no doubt at this period that he is at least seven pounds
better than when he displayed at Epsom. Here I close my
remarks upon Launcelot by observing that he is my fancy
for the Doncaster St. Leger, 1840. " The fiend is at mine
elbow, and tempts, saying tb me, Good Launcelot, use
Your legs, take the start, run away from the lot.' My con-
science says yes."—Gibraltar Second.----01d Sporting Ma-
gazine for September.