The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-04 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, If ednesdau Evening, Hal/:past Seven o'clock.
We have had no colonial arrivals to-day,, and there has been
a general dearth of intelligence. The consol market, which
was at 913 92 Yesterday for the account, has gone down con-
siderably, 9PiI being the last price this afternoon. Exchequer
bills are also rather worse, the prem. being 19 to 21, which yes-
terday was 20 to 22. India bonds remain at 3to 5 pm.
In the foreign market there is a great tendency to deprecia-
tion in the Peninsular bonds, Spanish bonds are at 45, and the
passive at 144, as their securities (!) are daily getting in worse
odour, the failure of Evans' mercenaries, who, between fear
and fever, have nnide a pretty mess of their campaign, the
miserable manoeuvres of Mendezabel, who seems as eminent
in the cabinet as the lieutenant-colonel does in the
field, and the alarm lest the forthcoming dividend should not
be paid, all conspiring to cause alarm, disgust, and a desire to.
be released from such a perpetual scene of doubt, as cannot fail
to be experienced by every holder of Spanish bonds. Nor is
the prospect of the Portugueses bondholders such as would lead
any one to wish for the occupation of the position they are
placed in. The young queen IS fairly at loggerheads with her
ministers, and a dissolution of the cabinet was expected when
the last accounts left. In addition to this, it is reported that
something of a conspiracy had been discovered, which, whether
founded on fact or not, has had the effect of depressing the 5
per cents. to 81i, and the 3 per cents. to 51*.
The dividends on Russian stock are now in course of pay-
ment, and the price, ex dividend, is 108. All our northern
bonds are very firm. Belgian are at 1031, Dutch 5 per cents.
are at 105, the 21 per cents. are 5511, and have been _56 and
Danish bonds are at 771.
With the exception of the Brazilian bonds, there is very little
doing in the transatlantic bonds. Brazilian are 87.1 I • but
Chilian are dull at 48149, Colombian at 311, and Mexican'have
fallen to 34.
The share market continues to monopolize the chief atten-
tion of the speculator's: The rejection of the Gravesend bill by
the House of Commons, has caused Gravesend and Dover shares
to be seriously affected, the former from 12 pm., having fallen
to 4 dis., and the Dover from & pm. to .1 dis. Almost all the
others are, however, on the advance. Great western are at 37
per share, Southampton are 231 per share, Preston and Wyre
14 per share, and London and Birmingham are at 125 per share..

A TEETOTAL A LLE R.—On Tuesday night last, as Beswick, the
beadle, and Williamson, of the police, were going along Angel-
street, they saw a young man named Andrew Stinsell in a state
of intoxication conducting himself in a most improper manner.
The officers took him to the lock-up. The prisoner was brought
up at the New Bailey on the following day, having by that time
become sober, and the above facts having been stated against
him, Mr. Foster asked what he had to say in answer to the
charge.—Stinsell replied that he had joined the Temperance
Society, and had signed the tee-total pledge to abstain from in-
toxicating liquor for six mouths, and that period had terminated
on Tuesday last, and upon that day he had got drunk; but, if
lie could get out of prison, he would sign the pledge to abstain
for twelve months longer.—Mr. Foster: Well, you shall be
committed to prison for seven days, and then you bad better go
and sign the
pledge for twelve months longer.—Prisoner: I
will pay ten shillings if you will let me go.—After some consi-
deration Mr. Foster said he would fine the prisoner ten shillings
and costs for his disorderly conduct in the streets, and in default
of ;,ayment he must be committed for seven des. Not having
I 6 s. at hand, the pris9ner was committed. —.Ma tichester paper.