The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-08 00:00:00

road would take the news to Boston without delay.
rile latest returns from the various States confirm
the assertion that General Harrison is the President
elect of the United States. The majorities, in almost
every instance, have been unprecedentedly large, indi-
cating a very great reaction in the state of public

opinion.
The following are the only extracts of any import-
ance from the New York papers :
NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.—Nov. 18.
(From the New York Morning Herald.)
The three steamers now due, or nearly due from England,
are anxiously expected. To-morrow's mail will, in all pro-
bability, bring the Columbia's dates to the 4th via Boston.
The news by these vessels will, probably, have a great effect
upon this market, as the state of things at the last dates was
was far from satisfactory ; and the turn affairs may have
taken will determine the continuance or otherwise of the pre-
sent demand for specie. If the prices of the precious metals
shall have fallen on the continent, and the discount market
have assumed a more favourable aspect in England, the de-
mand for sterling bills, as a means of remittance, will in-
crease. It is, in a great measure, owing to this posture of
affairs, that the negotiation with the Philadelphia Banks has
not been finally closed. If the state of affairs in Europe is
to be such, that specie will continue to be the favourite means
of remittance. the proposed assistance will be of little avail,
as, in the event of the banks here, or at the east being pushed
to any extent, the Philadelphia obligations may be disposed
of in that market, and the avails drawn in specie. On the
contrary. if affairs should have taken a favourable turn, the
operation will have a beneficial influence temporarily on the
market.
At the stock board, this morning, the transactions were to
the usual extent, presenting nearly the same features as for
a few days back. United States Bank improved per cent;
Vicksburg i per cent; Harlem +; Long Island ; North
American Trust and Banking Company declined per cent.;
Stonington per cent. The following sales of state stocks
were made :-
5,090 dollars Ohio sixes
6,000 „ Indiana fives
6,000 „ do. do .... b next week 76*
5,080 , do. do b69 days 76
The Howard' Insurance Company have declared a divi-
dend of four per cent on their capital, payable on the 7th
Decmber.
The Warren Insurance Company, of Boston, a dividend
of six per cent, payable on demand.
A Mississippi paper has the following. in regard to the
Union Bank of that State :
Considerable speculation has lately been going on in the
Union Bank money. The brokers of New Orleans, and
other places, have, combined to raise the price of it, with the
view of shifting off upon the ignorant and unwary the lerge
amounts which they hold. We warn the public against the
trick. The paper of the bank is totally worthless. The
Federal court, which will meet in this city on the first of
next month, will completely use up the concern. All the
property which the bank holds, including the nine millions
of bills receivable, will not pay the judgments that must go
against it, and which they can never bond.
As fast as the legislatures of the several states assemble,
the subject of the currency appears to be the first touched.
In the Georgia legislature, many movements have been made
to compel resumption at an early day. The legislature of
the State of Georgia last year has been the chief means of
nearly ruining both the currency and the credit of that State.
The first thing to be done is to undo the work of last session;
and then to provide ways and means for the prompt payment
of the State's creditors in specie. Flaying done this, the
State government may, with some face, demand of the banks
to pay their debts in specie. A law now compelling the
banks to resume, would be to place them and their resources
at the mercy of the Central Bank, which institution has
been in the hands of the legislature, the instrument of ruin.
The people of Georgia have suffered intensely during the past
year, in consequence of their deranged currency, and seem
now pretty well convinced of the redundancy as well as the
mal-administration of their banking capital.

COTTON.—Our stock is rarely reduced so low as it is at
present. But little has reached us from the South. The
sales, however, are confined to the spinning; very little taken
for export. Sales since Saturday about 800 bales; Uplands
8k to 10; New Orleans 94 to 10-1.
FLOUR.—The market is uniformly dull ; 4 24 to 5 dollars
are the selling prices for Western common brands, and 5 25
to 5 374 for Southern.

CROiS IN FLORIDA.—The Apalachicola Advertiser of the
4th inst. says :—ln various parts of the territory there have
been several frosty nights, but none so severe as to do any
damage to the outstanding crop.
CONFLAGRATION AT NATCHEZ.—A conflagration took
place at Natchez (under the Hill) on the morning of the 4th,
which destroyed property to a large amount.
BRAHAM IN BOSTON.—The visit of Braham to this city
has arrested the attention of the whole musical community.
We have never known such a general interest taken in the
appearance of an artist in this line, nor any thing approach-
ing it, since the times of Incledon and Phillips. Braham has
been at the head of his profession so many years, that his
name and fame are as well established in America as in
Europe. His forte is said to be in the performance of the
vocal compositions of Handel and Haydn, and he gives so
sacred music the highest dramatic effect. We regret to hew
that he appears but in two concerts during his stay in Bos-
ton. It is reported that a large proportion of the tickets are
already taken, so that it is probable a large portion of those
desirous of hearing him may not have an opportunity at the
present time.—Boston Courier.

Our venerable contemporary of the Mercury devotes
this week a column of her enlightened publication to
record the pros and cons of our late controversy with
contemporaries. "Worthy old lady ! It would really
be a pity to deny her the only consolation left to her—
the privilege of chuckling over mischief. But has she
no " affair" of her own with us at this moment ? Is
there no little quirk or quibble upon which she may
hatch a quarrel with us on her own account ?
Poor, dear old Mercury ! Thy glory has gone by,
surely, when, instead of entering into the arena in
thine own person, thy ambition is sufficiently gratified
by the indulgence of a little safe crow outside. Yet art
thou not singular in this mode of evincing pugnacious
predilections, when the power of indulging in them has
passed away. An old poster, battered, spavined, blind,
and windgalled, has often been seen to attempt a gam-
bol when the rattle of the wheels has approached his
paddock ; a cur, old and toothless—unfit for any more
useful or honourable pursuit than to lie upon the kit-
chen mat and bark at beggars and old bonemen—may
often be seen to display symptoms of perfect delight
when the greyhound and the pointer have a tussle to-
gether. The same worn-out animal will even occa-
sionally attempt to do that for which he has not the re-
quisite organs—viz., teeth; but the threatened bite is
only a harmless mumbling effort. It has the spite and
mischief, but has lost the " punishing power" of its
lusty youth.

Stick to thy charades and riddles, good Mercury, or
some of these days we shall be compelled to witness—
what we should be sorry to witness—thy venerable and
frail wits scattered incurably, in the attempt to solve
some weighty question which requires something
stronger for its solution than the milk and water, mis-
called tea, upon which old ladies support their failing
powers of scandal.

Our advertising columns of this day furnish a fresh
instance of radical arrogance and self-sufficiency which
is particularly amusing, and which can scarcely fail to
afford our readers a hearty laugh. We allude to the
extraordinary advertisement which is subscribed by
" Thos. Bolton, Mayor," embodying the magnanimous
resolutions of their worships, the radical magistrates of
the borough of Liverpool.
It appears that Alexander Smith, jun., Esq., the re-
cently elected member for North Toxteth ward, at a
meeting of the electors, which took place so far back
as the 13th ultimo, is said to have made these remarks :
—" Here, then, this municipal bill created a monopoly
of magistrates, and these magistrates have been prosti-
tuted, for they have been granting licenses to the detri-
ment of the publican, for nothing else than to uphold
the political power of the Town Council." These re-
marks, which he is reported to have made to the elec-
tors of North Toxteth ward, who possibly recognised
their truth, very naturally excited the bile of our radi-
cal Solons ; and a meeting was specially convened for
the purpose of deliberating upon the charge which Mr.
Smith so honestly and manfully brought forward
against our corporate justices. At the meeting thus
convened it was first resolved that the clerks to the
magistrates should be directed to address a letter to
Mr. Smith, requesting him to state whether the words
which we have quoted, or words having the like im-
port, were used by him on the occasion referred to.
Messrs. Ellis and Shuttleworth, the magistrates' clerks,
accordingly wrote to Mr. Smith on the subject. Mr.
Smith placed the letter in the hands of Mr. Carson,
who immediately waited upon Mr. Ellis, and stated
that " no answer would be returned" to the letter.
This being intimated to the mayor, another meeting
was summoned on Friday last to deliberate upon the
above remarkably terse and appropriate " communica-
tion." A list of the magistrates in attendance will be
found in the advertisement. It will be seen that the
only conservative present was David Hodgson, Esq.,
and that he dissented from the proceedings of the meet-
ing. After gravely considering the important " com-
munication" to which we have alluded, their worships
most magnanimously resolved " that Mr. Alexander
Smith, jun., having refused to answer the application
made to him, and having thereby declined to explain,
to retract, or to avow the offensive expressions reported
to have been uttered by him, the magistrates, each of
them for himself, deem it to be their duty to declare
that the charge made against them, in the language attri-
buted to Mr. Smith, is false and calumnious."
Risum teneatis, amici? Who can help laughing at
these magniloquent resolutions of the "reverend, grave,
and potent" occupants of the magisterial bench in Li-
verpool ? Who can help being impressed with the
ineffable modesty displayed by these incorruptible spe-
cimens of Whig justices of the peace ? Who can avoid
admiring the wonderful obliviousness of the indignant
remonstrances of the licensed victuallers which these