The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-08-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE AND
MONEY MARKET.

WEDNESDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.—The settling of Consols
passed off well yesterday, and this being pay-day tur all differ-
ences; there is no doubt that the various drafts will be duly
honoured.

Consols opened this morning, 23i 24 for l Money ; and for
the Account 94/, with little business doing to the present
hour. Exchequer Bills are 72 74 pm. ; India Bonds 72 74
pm.; Bank Stock 2071208 ; India Stuck 2641 265. In the
Foreign Market, Spanish Active continues heavy, owing to
the unfavourable accounts from 1111drid of financial affairs,
and may be quoted at 20/ ; Portuguese also heavy at 351 1;
Three per Cents. 23/ 1; Brazilian 831 ; Mexican 231 4;
Colombian 26, ; Belgian 1021; Dutch Two-and-Half 53544;
Five per Cents. 1024 1.
HALF-PAST ONE.—Since the early part of the morning
the Consol Market has become very heavy, and at one period
Consols for Money were done at 931, and 94 for the Account,
at which prices they continue at present. Exchequer Bills,
72 to 74 pm.; India Bonds, 72 pm.; Bank Stock, 2071 to
2081; India Stock nothing done. In the Foreign Market
most of the funds are also heavy, Spanish receded to 20/
with coupons; Portuguese receded to 35 ; Three per Cents.
down to 231; Brazilian lower, 831; Dutch also heavy, re-
ceded to 531; Five per Cents. 102/.
QUARTER BEFORE TunEE.--Consols fur the Account, 16th
Oct., 941

(From the Times.)
TUESDAY EVENING.—By the advices from Hamburgh, the
price of gold is 436 per mark, which, at the English Mint
price of f.:3 17s. 101 d. the ounce for standard gold, gives an
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.81, it
follows that gold is 0.93 per cent. dearer at Hamburgh than
in. London.

The premium'on gold at 'Paris is per mile, which, at
the English Mini price of £3l7s. Evict. the ounce for stand-
ard gold; 7ives an exchange of 25.36 and the exchange at
Paris on London at short being 25.45, it follows that gold is
0.34 per cent. lower at Paris than iu London.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock, 2071 81- India Stock,
3per Ct. Red., 941 a India Bonds, 72 pm .
3 per Ct. Con., 94N 31 Bank Stock for Acct.,
31 per Ct..Anns. 1818, Consols for Acct., 94i 4
3y, per Ct. Red. 102 India Stock for do. 255 .
New 3 y per Cents.. 101 k £lOOO Ex. Bills, 72 74 pm
Long Ans. 1860, 15a 11-lo £5OO do. 72 74 pin
Ditto, yrs. 1859, 151 Small do. 72 74 pin
Ditto, 30 yrs. 1860, Ditto Commercial, 21d., 12 pm

SHA]
The quotations give the actuu
peernitun or

RES.
a price, without reference to
discount.)
M.nchester and Birmingham,
911
North Midland, 441
General Steam Navigation,
231
Galvanised Iron Company, 2i
7
'Manchester and Leeds,
Thames Omnibus Packet and
Pier' Company, 234

Candonga; - • -
Great Western, 715 705
London & Brighton, 75 5 5
London & Birmingham,
Birmingham 5 Shares, 273
London and Blackwall, 55
London and Greenwich, 165
London & Southampton, 45
London and -Croydon Trunk,
154

THE LATE DESTRUCT

'IVE FIRE AT HEMEL

HEMPSTEAD.

(From the Standard of Wednesday.)

In the Standard of yesterday was inserted an account of a
most destructive fire which occurred on the morning of Sun-
day last in the town of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire,
in which it was asserted that property to the amount of up-
wards of £20.000 had been destroyed, none of which was in-
sured, and that three lives had been lost—viz., Thomas Jack-
son, whose remains had been dug out of the ruins, and Mary
Sharp, the servant girl, and the sou of Dr. Hallett, about
six years of age, both of whom were still missing.
The above statementwas incorrect in most of the particu-
lars, the facts being as follow :—The fire was first discovered
at about half-past one o'clock in the morning, at which time
the flames were bursting through the windows of the first
floor of the extensive premises of Dr. Hallett, a physician of
considerable practice, situated at the further extremity of the
town, on the right hand side, a short distance below the Sun
Inn. The alarm was immediately given throughout the
neighbourhood in the customary manner—viz., by the ringing
of a hatid-bell, and in a short time hundreds of persons flocked
towards the spot from all directions. These first in attend-
ance directed their exertions to the awakening of the inmates,
(who, it appears. consisted of Dr. Hallet, a woman servant,
and a footboy, Mrs. Haliet, there being no children, having
a few days previously gone on a visit to her relations in Nor-
folk,) in which they had great difiiculity, Dr. Hallet having
been dragged from the Barnes from an upper window, while
endeavouring to save property of value. The first engine
which reached the fire was that under the care of Mr. Cran-
stone, the agent of the Phoenix-office, which was soon fol-
Inwed by the town engine, and that belonging to the Sun
Fire-office, while mounted expresses were sent off to St.
Albans and Watford, for the engines of those places. For
lull half an hour alter the discovery of the sre there was a
scarcity of water, and the flames having extended themselves
to the trzetnises of Mr. Pedley, a gentleman residing on the
upper side, and to those of Mr. Rolph, an extensive linen-
draper' and mercer, on the lower side, that portion of the
town was in a state of the greatest consternation, it being
feared the whole of the surrounding buildings would fall a
prey to the flames. Water was, however, at that juncture
fortunately soon procured, and the engines got into opera-
tion, upwards of forty persons with pails and buckets being
placed in various directions leading to the engines, which
kept pouring a continued stream upon the devouring element.
Shortly before three o'clock the St. Alban's engine reached
the spot with four post horses, and soon commenced playing,
when by the united exertions of the above engines, and that
from Watford, which subseqtiently arrived, the flames were
confined to the premises of Dr. Hallet, and Messrs. Pedley,
Rolph, and Smith. Those of Dr. Hallet and Mr. Pedley
are entirely destroyed, while those of Messrs. Rolph and
Smith are much damaged, and great loss sustained by the
hasty removal of the stock and furniture. Dr. Hallet had,
within the last six weeks, insured his furniture, plate, &c.,
in the Sun Fire-office for £lOOO, £3OO of which was for the
plate alone, while among the ruins there have been found
only two tea and two saltspoons. The premises, which, as
well as those of Messrs. Pedley and Smith, are the property
of Mr. Coplin, of that town, are insured in the Phcenix Fire-
office. Mr. Rolph is insured for £l4OO in the Sun Fire-office.
There is no truth in the report that three lives were lost,
Dr. Hallet having no servants of the names mentioned, nor
any son or family whatever. . . _

Various rumours are afloat as to tha origin of the fi.e,
which at present we abstain from mentioning, from their
contradictory nature.

THE PORT OF LONDON
COMPARED WITH THOSE OF LIVERPOOL GLASGOW, AND
BRISTOL, AND WITH THE WHOLE COMMERCIAL NAVY
OF FRANCE,

(From Elmes's Survey of the Port and Harbour of London.)
To show the amazing commercial trade of the port o 1
London, and its pre-eminence over its great rivals Liverpool,
Glasgow, and Bristol, the following returns from the Cos•
toms, published in " M'Culloch's Dictionary of Commerce,'
is cited as incontrovertible evidence : _

" The returns are for one year, ending December 31,1835
and the four larger ports only are selected. Ships helongin
to the following ports, namely—
Ships.
London 2,828
Liverpool 996
Glasgow
Bristol

Tons. Men.
566,152 32,392
207,838 11,511
58,478 4,321
42,913 3,899

" So that the port of London has nearly three times more
vessels belonging to her than Liverpool, nine tunes more than
Glasgow, upwards of ten times more than Bristol, and pos-
sessing nearly one-fifth of the whole shipping belonging to
all the ports of England and Wales together, which ameunts
to 14,823 ships.
" Again, in forming an estimate of the value of the com-
mercial property which floats on the waters of the port of
Loudon in the course of one year, let us ref,,,r to the Parlia-
mentary papers published by the Board of Trade for the year
ending December 31, 183 a, when we shall find that the
amount of British ships that entered the port of London in
'that year was 3,780 740,263 tuns.

Foreign ditto

1,057 189,158

Forming a grand total of .... 4,837 929,158
which, valued at only £250 per ton for ship and cargo,
amounts to the enormous sum of £232,289,500." _ _ _

Well may Mr. M'Culloch exclaim, after reviewing his
valuable tables and calculations, and this extraordinary
amount of commerce of the port of London, so vast an
amount of shipping and commerce was never previously
concentrated in any single port. London may twly be said
to be, urt;versi orbis toirrarum emporium—may 'her prosperity
be as lasting as it is great !
Another comparison between the navy of France and
England, particularly in reference to the• port of London,
may be appropriately introduced in this place.
The entire commercial navy of France in the year ending
December 31, 1836, as published by the government of that
country, is as follows :
Tons. Vessels. Tons.
800 and upwards. 1 1,0(X)
700 to 800 2 1.442
• - 600-700 2 1.217
500 600.. , l2 6,308
400 500 6B 28,902
300 400 213 73,401
200— 300 575 141,166
• 100-200 1,251 181,395
60 —lOO 1,447 116,68.3
30 60 1,014 45,603
1 30 and downwards

. .
15,249 865,011
Whereas the number of ships and tonnage belonging to the
British empire in the year ending the 31st of December,
1835; was, for England alone, 11,893 vessels, 1,85.3,112 tons,
exceeding the whole French empire by 1,168,100 tons of ship.,
ping, and the port of London is only 118,859 tons short of
all France Vessels. Tons.
Add for Scotland
It eland
The British IslandsofJerseq 536
Guernsey, and Man
Total of the United Kingdom t 20,300 . 2,360,500
and British Islands
Add for theßritish Plantations 5,211

25,5 l 1
Since the preceding parts of this work went to press, the
following important communication, relative to the still in-
creasing commerce of the port of London over the gratifying
statement in pages 32 and 34, was laid before the St Katha-
rine Duck Company. by their Chairman, Mr. Thomas Tooke,
at the annual meeting of proprietors on Wednesday, the 16th
of January, 1838:
SHIPS WITH CARGOES THAT ENTERED THE PORT OF LONDON
FROST FOREIGN PORTS DURING THE YEARS 1836 AND 1837.
.....___

BRITISH.
Vesssls. Tons.
1836.
1837

Increase

588

FOREIGN.
Vessels. Tnns.
1836
1837 . ........... 1,530

81
TOTAL.