The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

T-0 -CORRESPONDENTS

Thg letter of "Consistency" is too ling. It would also create
a great deal of bad feeling. among a class that really does not
merit the severe strictures of the writer, however applicable
his remarks may be to the conduct of individuals of that class
in the locality of which he speaks.

The following: appears in a New York paper of
20Th ult.

The me:eqtres adopted by our legislature at Albany are looked
to with great interest. The bill repealing the restraining law,
and authorisine.nrivate banking, has become a law, with one
important amendment, and that requiring 121- per cent. of
specie to be kept in hand for every dollar iu circulation.
The state of exchanges is now so ruinous that almost all col-
lections at the south dnd west are at an end; the distress falls
heavily on the creditors of our suspended houses. Exchanges
on Boston are getting better; they are about 2 to one per cent
discount. On Philadelphia, drafts have been sold at three per
cent, less, which is an improvement; on the. south and west
they are no better.

The exchange upon London at New York on the 21st ult.
was 51 to 6; United States Bank 1141.

Private letters from New York state, that the resump-
tion of specie payments of the bank was to take place on
the Ist of January next. The above date was to be the
general resumption of the States. A great deal of specie
had arrived in the United States from England, France,
had South America, causing it to be abundant. The
account of the Sirius being within six hours sail of New
York was brought by the Westminster packet.
The price of sovereigns at New York is 4.90, which
establishes a par of exchange in paper of. 110.25 per
cent., and the coure of exchange at New York on Lon-
don being 104'21- per cent., it follows that the exchange is
5.75 percent. against England.

JAMAICA.—We haVe received files of Jamaica papers
to the sth of April. They state that the Governor, Sir
Lionel,Smith, and his family, were abOut leaving the
Island. It was not known who was to succeed him. The
accounts given of the crops are extremely favourable.
The House of Assembly have voted a reward of £lOO
to be 'given to the person who could produce ten pounds
of 6W silk, the production of worms raised in -JaMaica
—the Silk to remain the property of the person so pro-
ducing it. It appears from some letters that the appren-
tices in Jamaica, particularly those of the female sex,
were very impatient of their emancipation, and that a
great number had purchased their immediate freedom at
the rate of £1 per month fin- the unexpired term of four
months and a half. It was supposed that funds had been
supplied to them for this purpose by the agents of the
dissenting portion of the community. On one estate all
the household female negroes had purchased their free-
dom, and declined to serve for wages, it being assumed
that the bonds of Hymen had more delights in anticipa•
tion for the sable beauties than those of free servitude.

Rio JANEIRO.-,-By the Reindeer packet papers and
letters from Rio Janeiro to the 20th of February have
come to hand. T►►eir contents are favourable as to the
state of affairs politically and commercially. The go-
vernnient enjoyed public confidence,.and had no difficulty
in raising on the spot whatever money they stood in
need of. The exchange an England was 23, to and
stocks -were quoted 861 to 871. Nothing of an authentic
nature•was known of the state of affairs in Bahia and
Rio Grande more than has heretofore been made public.

BAHlA.—Accounts ha ve'reached London by the Dublin
man of war that the imperial troops have got possession
of Bahia. The capture is said to have taken place on
the 16th of March.

By the Cabotia, which arrived here on Tdesday, we
have intelligence from Bahia to the sth of March: Pri-
vate accounts received by this vessel describe Bahia as
being still the scene of internal discord. The revolu-
tionary faction are becoming bolder in their aggressions,
since they have not scrupled to detain the crew of the
Alice Crowther in prison for four days. Of the cir-
cumstances which issued in their rescue or release we
are yet ignorant. The commander of the Cabotia re-
ports, that the force of the rebels is so strong as to ren-
der it impossible to predict the result, of the disorders
with which the province haslately been distracted.
Further particulars are looked for with much interest.

MExtco.—By the Lord Melville packet accounts have
been received from the city of Mexico on the 7th of March.
Tirc at; angernent3 cutercd into with the bondholders
here, which 'were submitted to the Chamber of Deputies,
had passed that assembly, and the_ government had been
invested with full powers to carry them into effect. They
were then before the senate, by whom it was not doubted
they would be ratified. Colonel Almonte, the new
Charge d'Affaires from Mexico to this country, has ar-
rived by this packet. It is stated from Vera Cruz, on
the Bth of March, that the French squadron of thie„
brigs and one frigate, from the West Indies, had made
its appearance off the coast, but had ❑ot at that date
joined the two French brigs previously lying, at the
island of Sacrificios, on board of which was the French
minister, who had quitted the capital, as noted on a pre-
vious occasion, on the refusal of his demands. The ne-
gotiations had, however, been renewed on the arrival
of the reinforcement of ships The French claims for
indemnification to private individuals were said to amount
to 800,000 dols. The dates from Tampico reach to the
20th of March, but refer to nothing of public interest.

PORTUGAL.—The ". Liverpool" steamer, which left
Gibraltar on the 4th instant, Cadiz on the sth, Lisbon on
Bth, Oporto on the 9th, and Vigo on the lOth, arrived at
Falmouth on Monday last. The Ministers of State, the
National Guards, &c., took the oath to the new constitu-
tion on the Gth. Much speculation was afloat respecting
the time that the ministry would remain in office. Lord
Howard de Walden, it was expected, would leave in the
next vessel for England. Sir R. Woodford, governor of
Gibraltar, it was thought, would accompany his lordship.
The " Liverpool" brings no other news.

CIRCULATION OF LONDON NEWSPAPERS.—A retur❑ of
the number of stamps issued by the Stamp-office for all
newspapers in Great Britain and Ireland, from Dec. 1,
1837, to March 31, 1838, ordered by the House of-Com-
mons to be printed, has just been published. We extract
that part of the return which embraces the circulation of
the daily and the three-times-a-week London journals
during the period named :