The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-02-09 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, Seren o'clock.
The failure of an old and highly respectable mercantile firm,
Messrs. William Ward and Co., has occasioned very great re-
gret among the merchants, of every shade of politics. Mr.
Ward is a hank director, .and, a few years since, was one of the
members for the city of London, on the conservative and mer-
cantile interests. The liabilities of the house are variously es-
timated, but. it is generally supposed that they will not much ex-
ceed £50,000.. There have also been rumours in circulation
this afternoon of failures in Manchester and Glasgow, paused
by the want of remittances from New York. The failure of
Mr. Ward is stated to have arisen Our of some Chancery pro-
ceedings in which he was unfortunately involved.
Consols closed at Ryi 91 for Money, and 90h for the account;
Excheauer Bills 20 pth. ; India Bonds, 3 pm. ; India Stock 2541;
31 per tents, 90 ; New Ditto, 9g.
In the foreign market there was an increase of business this
afternoon. The increase of our naval forces had the effect of
lowering the Russian and French Stocks. Spanish Stock did
not fluctuate snore than 1 per cent. The closing prices were,
Russian,- 1091; French 5 per cents., 1101; Spanish Stock,
471
The Railway Shares continue to command much of the atten-
tion of the dealers -in the Foreign Stock market. The quota-
tions }MVO been on the decline since last week. The Great
Western Shares have fallen from 17 to 141; the Loudon and
Brighton, (Stevenson',) from 111 to 9; the London and Bir-
miDghata from 61 to 62; and the North Midland from 31 to 11,
and 2 premium per share. The Greenwich Railway Shares
have maintained a premium of 81 to 9 per share. The Graves-
end, Dover, Blackwall, and other minor shares, are rather
lower than last week.

COLLECTION OF IRISH TITHES.—The Irish- Court of Ex-
chequer has decided in a tithe cause, Fi'zgerald Clerk v. Lee
and others, that, in consequence of the obstructions offered to
the service of the process of the court by some of the defendants,
a notice posted on the parish church, on the chapel, and at the
usual
places for publishing notices of road sessions, shall be
deemed a good service, the attorney'for the plaintiff having un-
dertaken to write to each of the patties by the post, acquainting
them with this decision. The Lord Chief Baron said, "By
making this rule, the military and police will be saved a great
deal of trouble."—Mr. Baron Smith: "A great deal of the dif-
ficulties of' service will be got over in this way. We wish to
give- the defendants every notice that their own refractory con-
duct will allow us to do."—Mr. Baron Foster: " This will also
prevent any objection which may be made, that we give too
much trouble to the military and police in aiding the service of
the subpoenas issuing out of this court."
TURN-OUT OF ENGINE-MEN ON THE RAILWAY.—The directors
of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway have been subjected,
during the past week, to considerable inconvenience from a
general turn-out of the engine-men, which, as we, have heard,
took place under the following circumstance :—For some time
past the directors finding it expedient to increase the number
of engine-men, and of having a few men of superior mechanical
skill taught to manage the engines, gave orders that two or
three mechanics from their workshops should accompany the
engines as firemen. The regular engine-men, however, ses-
specting that this new regulation would lead to a reduction of
their wares, strongly remonstrated against it.; and on Wed-
nesday, two of them refused to start from Liverpool with the
men who' had been sent to assist them. They were conse-
quently immediately discharged; the result of which was, that
the whole of the engine-men, and a number of the firemen left
their employment as soon as they had completed their first trips
on that day. This unexpected occurrence, of course placed the
directors in a very unpleasant situation, and there was some
:irregularity in the departure, and more in the arrival of-the
trains on that and the subsequent days. The directors have
filled up the places of the turn-outs from amongst the mechanics,
whose previous knowledge of the construction of the engines
very soon enabled them to Surmount every difficulty in their
1 new vocation. We understand the turn-outs earned, ou an
average, about 40s. per week.