The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

WEST INDIES.

The crane packet, which has made a fast passage from the
Leward Islands, has brought a few papers from Jamaica,
Demerara, and Barbadoes, the respective dates of which are
the 2d ult., the 22d of October, and the 27th of October.
In none of them, however, is there news of importance.
The Jamaica House of Assembly had been opened for the
despatch of public business by Sir Charles Metcalfe with a
speech wherein he deplored the commercial distress under
which the colony had laboured, and the sickness which had
afflicted its inhabitants. There was now, he was happy to
state, a better state of things. His excellency is against the
indiscriminate emigration of Europeans, who, in many re-
spects, he seems to say, are not fitted for the labour required
and the climate. The answer from the members had been
submitted to him, and from this it appears the labourers and
the planters are working more harmoniously together; and
the latter express no doubt but that they will be able to in-
crease the cultivation of the staple exports, a subject to
which the governor, in his address, had made strong allusion.
There are no accounts of the state of the weather in the Ja-
maica papers. The news received there from Carthagena to
the end of October states that Carrnena had raised the
blockade, and that several of his vessels had proceeded out to
Rio Hache. Provisions were pouring into the port for the
Carthagenian troops, and the time for their admission duty
free had been further extended to the 15th of January, 1842.
The Honduras accounts noticed nothing but boisterous wea-
ther, and strong and destructive winds.
The Demerara journals speak of the bad state of credit ;
the failure of firms engaged in the West India trade had en-
gendered. Their merchants were firmer than they had been,
and reports were less frequent of failures. E*ration from
the African coast was held up as the plan to be followed for
the development of the products of that territory. The
boundary question of British Guiana was a source of fruitful
discussion for the colonists.

LONDON MONEY-MARKET AND CITY
INTELLIGENCE.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.—There was a good deal of busi-
ness transacted in the English funds to-day, and fluctuations
to the extent of 4 per cent. took place, the price of Consols
for money at one period being as low as 884, but it eventually
recovered to 89, which was the final quotation. The cause
of this action and counteraction upon the market was the
continuance of sales by the government broker to make up
the necessary supplement to the late funding, and so strong
did these bear upon it at the time they were made that money
fetched 6 per cent. The temporary effect of this was soon
effaced, for before the close of business there were borrowers
of stock. Consols for the amount left off 894 to 4 ; Ex-
chequer-bills, Bs. to 10s, premium Bank Stock, 164 to 165 ;
India Stock, 2474 to 248 i; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 884 ;
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 974 ; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents., 984 ; Long Annuities, (expiring
January 5, 1860,) 12 7-16; and India Bonds, par to 2
premium.

The price of Spanish was not upheld well to-day, although
at Madrid prices are represented as further advancing. The
Actives for the Account ending the 16th of December were
quoted 254 at the commencement of business, but closed 244
to Portuguese Five per Cents. were done at 344-, but
closed 331 to 341. The other foreign stocks were firm, but
there were hardly any bargains. Colombian left off, 204 to
; Brazilian, 58 to 59 ; Belgian, 100 to 101 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 524 to 4 ; Mexican, 254 to 4 ; and
Danish, 781 to 794.

The Queen Dowager has presented £lOO in aid of the fund
now raising for the relief of the distressed Spitalfields weavers.
The amount already subscribed for " The Times Testimo-
nial " exceeds £2,000. .