The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND

MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—We understand that a
vessel has arrived at Hamburgh, which left the coast of Mex-
ico on the 4th of July ; she brings the information that the
blockade still continued, and that great excitement prevailed.
Consols closed yesterday at 941 g for Money and Account,
and opened this morning at the same prices; and for the Oc-
tober Account. 9-1 g 2. Exchequer Bills, 72 74; India Bonds,
73 75; Bank Stock, 2071 81; India Stock, 2641 51. In the
Foreign market the prices are the same as they closed at.
Spanish Active 2lg i; Portuguese improved to 3.7-1-; Three
per Cents., 241 1; Brazilian, 841; Colombian, 261 4 ; Mexi-
can, 242; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54g
HALF-PAST ONE.—The mercantile accounts from Con-
stantinople, to the 27th Julv,Larssof a fayourkkigjeudeßciy,;,

great state of stagnation, had at length taken a turn, and a
great number of purchasers from the interior arriving lately,
had given an impulse to the market; the storehouses were
nearly empty which contained thearticles of importation, and
sales for various articles continued daily at advantageous
prices.
_ Consols are not quite so buoyant as in the early part of the
morning, and have receded from 94.1 to 911 sellers for the
Account. Money 941, little doing. Exchequer Bills, 727.1.
India Bonds, 75. Bank Stock, 2081. In India Stock nothing
doing. In the Foreign Market Spanish Active heavy at 211
I. Portuguese a shade lower, 371 I. Three per Cents., 21.
Brazilian, 811. Mexican, no alteration, 24t. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half 543 a.
Shales are all lower. Brighton, 3 discount. Birmingham,
75 pm. Great Western, 102 pm.
QUARTER BEFORE THREE.—Consols for the Account, 91A y.
(From the official list, containing the business actually
transacted.)
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, 2081, India Stock,
3 per Ct. Red., 944 5 India Bonds, 75 pm
3 per Ct. Con., 9-13 h South Sea ld Anne. 95'7-
31 per Ct. Anne. 1818, 1028 3 Bank Stock for Acct., 9-11
3 per Ct. Red. 1023 4 Consols for Acct., 941
New 31.. s per Cents., 1012 I £lOOO Ex. Bills, 72 74 pm
Long Ans. 1860, 15 9-16 ff £5OO do. 72 75 pus
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1859, 153 7-16 Small do. 72 75 pm
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, Ditto Commercial,

SLIA
(The quotations give the actu

RES.
tal price, without reference to
• discount.)
lAsphalte (Claridge's Patent)

premium or
Birm. & Derby, 32 311
Great Western, 752
London & Brighton, 8
Lon. & Birmingham, 167 168
London and Blackwell, 63
Manchester and Leeds, 44
Northern & Eastern, 6A
South Easter❑ and Do;er, 3 I
Asphalte, British, 2h

London and Greenwich,
London and Southampton,
Danube and Mayne, 281
South Midland,
Manchester and Birmingham,
Canada, 281
Midland Counties,

CHESTER AND CREWE RAILWAY.

Workmen have been employed in cutting this line about
ten days, and the progress they have already made is truly
astonishing. On Monday the first stone of the bridge under
which the line is to pass, was laid in a field near the canal,
close to Hool-lane Locks. John Uniacke, Esq. Chairman of
the Board of Directors laid the stone with a silver trowel,
bearing a suitable inscription, assisted by Mr. Kelly, mason,
who has contracted for all the bridges. The band played
"God save the Queen," and the assembled populace hailed
this " first pledge" of public spirit in Chester with loud and
repeated cheers; every one present appeared animated with
a hope that the good old city was just awakening from "its
slumbering dreams" of fancied prosperit2, without effort to
realise the good promised to exertion, -and all united iu ex-
pressions of hearty wishes of prosperity to the Chester and
Crewe Railway.
The company entertained the whole of the men employed
in the work, consisting of one hundred and ninety, with a
substantial dinner of roast beef, bread, Cheshire cheese, and
abundance of ale. The arrangements were excellent; and
the half-inch slices of sturdy rounds were demolished before
you could say "Jack Robinson"—every one of their "eating
engines" were up to "high pressure," and assisted by the
additional steam, produced by plentiful libations of John
Barleycorn, their digestive organs appeared in full play, and
rounds and sirloins disappeared with magical rapidity. All
was peace while the operative part of the work continued,
but the close of the feast was turned into a fray by some of
the men who had taken too much, but the " rumbumptous"
proceedings of the "Naveys" were pretty soon reduced down
to quiescence, by Mr. Hill and the party of police under his
orders. All ended in peace—few of them had broken " fron-
tispieces," and none of them fell iuto the canal, or had broken
heads.

The dinner given by Murray Gladstone, Esq. the engineer
of the railway, to the directors and friends of the undertaking
was one of a suprior description. The tables were laid in a
tent on the ground—and the display on them for neatness and
variety, exceeded anything of the kind we have seen for a
length of time; every thing that nature and art could pro-
duce to satisfy the palate, Mr. Bell, the hospitable landlord
of the Hop-pole Inn, had taken care to provide;—beet', mut-
ton, tongues, fowl, grouse, salmon, hunter's beef, potted
meats, tarts, jellies, iced-creams. &c. with an excellent des-
sert—and wines that could not be surpassed, crowded the
festive board.

Mr. Gladstone presided, and amongst the company we no-
ticed—Miss Clemison, Miss Wilson, the Misses Hoyle, John
Uniacke, Esq. Ald. Dixon, Aid. Cross, Captain Stuart, Cap-
tain Clemison, Dr. Phillips Jones, Robert Wilson, Esq. Mr.
Clemison, Henry Kelsall, Esq. Mr. William Palin, Mr. J.
Seacome, Mr. Thomas Seacome, Mr. John Rovle, Mr. Benj.
Brassey, Mr. Macleod. Mr. 1-1. B. Briscoe, Mr. Hammond,
Mr. Lister, Mr. W. Worrall, &c. &c.—Chester Gazette.