The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-10 00:00:00

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rightful form than ever : but a
hort time ago a ship entered Liverpool dock measur-
ng but 43 tons, and carrying 320 slaves. The bar-
larous practice of throwing slaves overboard when
pursued by

in a mar

n armed vessel is notorious, and the
rench, it is said, at the present moment, are taking
ayes to Cayenne from a depot in Africa, under the
mvoy of a Government sloop of war. On all discus-
ons on tropical produce four interests must be kept
t view—first, that of the labourers, of whatever
)lour; second, .that of colonists; third, that of the
nglish manufacturer and consumer ; and fourth, that
the revenue, of which the imposts on colonial pro-
Ice forms so important a branch.

THE COMMERCIAL BANK OF ENGLAND.
(From the Manchester Guardian of Wednesday.)
Beyond the adver.tisement of their intention to re-
sume paymentin a few days, which the directors in-
serted in the papers of Saturday, nothing has authen-
tically transpired in relation to this concern. The
London papers inform us, that the deputation •of di-
`nis, &c. of the bank who proceeded to town at the
of last week, have been unable to effect any
t with Messrs. Barnett, Hoares, and Co.,
its, by virtue of which the concern might
-some its payments ; and that in consequence of this,
but contrary to their original intention, they applied
for aid to the Bank of England. That establishment
is said to have offered them the means of retiring their
notes, and paying their deposit and other credit ac-
counts, upon condition that the concern should be
•Ind up. This condition, it is said, the deputation
to accede to ; and the application to the direc-
_
of England consequently failed.
Of the correctness of this statement w. e know.. noth-
ng beyond the fact, that we
Buthave met. with it in severalt
of the London papers.
itassumm the statement
true, we should find'difficult to express. so
.ingly as we feel a sense of the
.imprudence which
3 been committed. The only way in which the
iamitous consequences of the p of_ the bank.
uld have been materially mitigated
o_ the public,
mid have been by the acceptace of the offer—the
y liberal offer, if made as it is represented —of
--o.the
ik of England. For as to any idea of the bank
nn able to resume payments, still more to re-establili
If in credit, we look upon it as altogether chimerical
understand there have been one or two private
.
tings of shareholders the bank, and that an
ince of money, something in the nature of a call,
been proposed, and liberally assented to by some
he opulent shareholders; but the sum that would
•equisite to enable the bank to redeem its engage-
-39 and to furnish it with a working capital besides,
'e altogether too vast for the private resources of
Tietory to command under the present circum-

beg,inn

of the

webend that the creditors of the bank
htest doubt that their debts will ulti-

them from long and 4rjriln'ennvenient delay in
tlement of their claims, would have been by
the
---' acceptance of the terms offered
(if they were
y the Bank of England. How the share-
ay fare, with respect to loss upon their ca-
have no means whatever of forming an op-
!sent ; but we believe that their interests, no
illy than that of the creditors of the bank, would
ounselled the acceptance of means by which they
at once have been placed beyond the apprehen-
legal proceedings, from impatient or hostile

General report gives the Lord Lieutenancy of the county'
o 7 Surrey, vacant by the death of Lord Arden, to the Earl of
Lovelace.