The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-21 00:00:00

LONDON MONEY MARKET,

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—For some days past there has
been a difficulty i❑ money affairs, that is in raising money,
which has been severely felt in many quarters. This morn-
ing the rates of money were as high on accredited securities

as-seven to eight per cent. But -towards the close of thk
Stock Market there was a greater easinessin money matters,
although money was still scarce and not to be had under s&
per cent. in the best quarters and on good securities.
is great complaint, both in the Stock Market and the City
generally that, through the act of the ministry, and ap-
parently with no view but to perpetuate agitation, public
measures should be brought forward which tend to the in-
terruption of all business and confidence. There never was a
time when, in addition to the ordinary causes which cause a
stagnation of trade, so much wanton and entirely unexpected
confusion has been introduced in mercantile affairs by the
proposition of measures causing an entire revolution in the
trading and economical interests of the country,
Under such circumstances the steadiness of the funds is
really extraordinary, for Consols have declined a shade only,
the last prices being 971 sellers for money and 89i to 90 for
account. Bank Stock 168 to 9. India Stock 250} to 11.
Exchequer Bills 4s. to Gs. premium.

LONDON COMMERCIAL REPORT

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—The leading auctions in prc
duce, to-day, were those of East India Sugar, which went c
rather heavily.

The public sales of Tea were continued
brought to a close. Of 22,122 packages offered, 11,700
packages were actually sold. There was a good deal of dul-
ness in the biddings, and prices were /d to id per lb lower
to-day on Congou as compared with the rates we gave yes-
terday, and on Hyson, Imperial, and Gunpowder, as much
as ld to 2d per lb. ongou ranged from is 71 for coarse
new and mixed leaf, up to 2s 2d for Pekoe flavour. Pouchong
brought is 64c1 to Is 9ld. Sou:7.liong, middling mixed leaf
is 7d to is 94, and fine blackish 3s Old to 3s 7/. Pekoe,
Is lid to 3s lld ; orange Pekoe 2s 2d for good, to 2s 9.4 for
fine. Twankay, yellowish leaf, is 7l to is Ild for Hyson
kind. Hyson 2s Old for coarse to 4s 6d; for finest bright
leaf, young Hyson, 2s to 3s Old; Imperial mid coarse 2s 6d
to 2s 9d ; and good mid brightish 2s Ild to 3s ; mid coarse
Gunpowder 2s 6d to 2s 8d; and good mid to good bright
3s 2d to 4s lid per lb.
Commercial advices from St. Petersburgh, under date of
May 4, give the sales of produce as follows :-200 casks Yel-
low Candle Tallow on the spot at at 38 roubles per berkowez
cash on delivery ; also 250 poods Seschka Hemp, first quality ,
at 31 3-7 roubles per berkowez.

ain to-d,

Lord Palmerston has communicated through Mr. Bu-
chanan, the British consul at New York, the thanks of her
Majesty's government, to Captains Wotten, of the ship
Rhone, Thompson, of the Stephen Whitney, Cropper, of the
Columbus, and Depeyster, of the Sheridan, for their praise-
worthy conduct in saving the crews of four English vessels,
and also has signified to them that it is the intention of her
Majesty's government to present to each of them a gold
medal, as soon as the die, which is now in preparation, shall
be finished.

GRETA BRIDGE.—AWFTTL OCCURRENCE.—On Thersday
evening (13th inst.), between five and six, the villages o'
Londonderry, near Bedale, was thrown into the utmost stat
of alarm by a female running out of the house of one Robir
son, a gardener, covered with blood, and fainting -
road, who turned out to be the gardener':
husband had nearly killed. On some persons going up to
the house, a most shocking spectacle presented itself. The
son of the unfortunate man lying dead, murdered by the
hands of his father; the father himself pacing the room with
a gun in his hands, no one daring to approach the house ;
bnt in a few minutes the report of a gun was heard, and on
entering the house, the maniac (for what else can we eall
him) was found weltering in his blood, with his head nearly
blown off. But faint hopes are entertained of the recovery
of his wife, whom he had mutilated to a shocking degree.
The two corpses of the father and sou were interred on a
turday last. The rumour is that the cause of the
melan-
choly affair was the loss of his place, combined with a
of misfortunes
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A SLIGHT MISTAKE AT COURT.—The Marquis of
Downshire, accompanied by the Marquis of Abercorn, the
members for Down, Antrim, Derry, Belfast, and other
northern counties and towns, with Dr. Cooke, the great
champion of anti-repeal, attended her Majesty's levee on
Wednesday last, for the purpose of presenting- an address
agreed upon at the great Ulster meeting, when Lord Polti-
more, the lord in waiting, in an audible voice announced—
" The Marquis of Downshire, to present an address in
favour of the repeal of the union." Her Majesty was
pleased to receive the same most graciously. " In favour"—
"in favour, was muttered through the ranks of the asto-
nished northerns ; and the noble marquis, deviating a little
from the cold formality of such occasions, proceeded to read
a few words of " the pith" of the address, with an emphatic
energy more calculated to correct the error than was, per-
haps, consistent with courtly etiquette, and which was not
quite so graciously received. Whether, in the commence-
ment, " the wish was father to the thought" with this Po-
lonius, we know not; but he certainly should have known
the pros and cons better, and we trust he may soon be
relieved from the arduous duties of his office by a successor
from that school whose motto is " No mistake." —.llOrtrll
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Post.
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Prostrating the Tartar pride
Bu quite low,
t preferred negotiations
It was there that I met with the famed Ke-shen,
Who civilly ask'd the old admiral, when

We returned to Canton, to

Having
And fin
On the

:lilted again
With fresh negotiations,

had at Chusan, very little to do,
ling the Chinamen fought with Shamshoo,
North-east Monsoon we all flew,
To resume negotiations.

wings of th,

leet's left in charge of a Commodore,
thinks writing chops is a species of bore,
:quires but my orders, and nothing more,
To finish negotiations

shen being tardy, I told the rogue
Gordon would shortly visit the Bogue,
f the very best methods in vogue
For shortening negotiations,

The Imperial Envoy dreaded a row,
And felt disinclined to Bremer to bow,
So he witnessed the fate o Ty-cock-tow,
And then hastened negotiations.
Folks say that the bargain's loosely made,
And differ with me on the law of blockade,
But all these trifles are thrown in the shade,
By my splendid negotiations.
Perhaps you will hear in time for next mail,
ror refuses to pay on the nail,
for the opium Ke-shen or Lin's Tail,
nd conclude my negotiations

The hih'
So I'll g

ants want their cash,

.oings in China rash

ld cut future negotiation:.
; Kong Bay, 23th Jan., 1841

NCIDENT AT WINDSOR, OCCASIONED BY
THE LATE SANDWICH ELECTION.

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