The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-01 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

' • Cilu, Wednesday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.
It has 'been stated .on 'Change this afterr,,,, hat Lord El-
phinstone has been positively appointed governor of the presi.:
dency of MadraS, and, from fife 'source from whence we derive
this, we plitee• every reliance'upori it:.
Nothing of.aY u ie'a oeCtirred in Consols since our
iast:thepricefourmoln°euyaitd for the.acceunt "being 91i
chequer. Bills are fleclining,, tbe.preiniiiin being fallen to 19 to
21, and ludia ,Bonds 9[l rathpr•lower,,s to 7,beiog the prm.
Our Foreign rnarket•during, the week has a-oro .1
ikoec, iittie matter
fin. comment; Spanish _Bonds tine 4t 44i. Portuguse 5 per
Cents. are at 791, and the 3 per Cents. are ;-;0.
All the Northern. Bonds are within -a fraction of-our former
quotations, but the Reptiblican Bonds have simultaneously ad-
vanced.this aft ernimoo—Columbian to 33 (.Thilian 484, Mexican
to 36, and Peruvian to 24.
In Shares, Calcutta and Saugur are 21 prm; Greenwich
Shares are 11 prm.; .Londen and Birmingham 122 per share.

WRECK OF A SCHOONER.—We exceedingly regret to state,
that a schooner, supposel. to be the London Packet, bound to
Antwerp, unfortunately got ashore• outside the bar yesterday
morning, and soon became a wreck, but the most melancholy part
of the story is, that the crew have all perished. As.soon as.the
cargo of the unfortunate vessel began to drift ashore at New
Brighton, the usualscene.of reckless plunder commenced, the
inhabitants of the adjoining villages took possession of the beach,
and breaking open the casks and cases as they came on shore,
filled bags, baskets; &c., and carried their spoil off in the most
daring and determined manner. As soon as this became known
to Messrs. Chapman and Willis, the -agents for Lloyd's, they
applied to Mr. Dowling for his assistance. who immedialy sent
a force under the command .of an inspector to the spot. Their.
arrival put a stop to the.pinuder, and they remained there un-
der the protection of Mr. Atherton, who acts. as an agent for
Chapman and Witlis: and who, had he ventured to resist the
plunderers until the arm ival of the dock pOlice, would have been
in imminent danger of his life. Surely it is time that these
scenes of violence and robbery-should be put an end to—a little
management on the part of the government would secure the
unfortunate sufferers in such cases from these ruthless wreckers,
by the establishment of a coast guard, or bya county constabu-
ary force,
A HIGHLAND WIDOW.—At his death, the laird or-, in
Argyllshire, frrt a beautiful young widow, of course inconsolable
for his lose. • After the burial and banquet, clansmen and clans-.
women, attended by the piper and fiddler, convened for a dance
in the castle-hail, resolving to mitigate their grief with the
Highland fling; when, unexpectedly, the widow herself came
all weeds and tears, with the tip of her nose scarcely peeping
froth her crape cap, end the seated herself mournfully on a
henclr. The- genfleman' who was to lead down the dance thought
he could not; id good breedinv,.ask any other lady than the
mistress off !1,1.1.5e to stand Alp %il b. hit- and, with a (ieep
sigh, she c0n,..-nted,: „He. t.bcn ;is!<ed !hc ,i,lotv to
nil tie the spri,tg, e. the tune ;,he meoniit ;
"Oh," 4.41 she, " let it be a light spring, fur I have a lieziYy
heart."—T. Campbell, to the New illwahlg: