The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-04 00:00:00

loom prevailing in the money market

ng on, and appeared to be well sup..

upany was making progress. The ship-
,m Trinidad, for the quarter ending 31st
hhds. 196 tces. and 492 barrels of sugar,
•s, 682,30116. of cocoa, and 36,5071 b. of

Bills by the last packet were at 3 per cent. discount,
sed that the rate by the ensuing one will
ase to 4. The propositions or hints in the speech of Mr.

here, on the equalization of duties as between East
est India rum, which hinted at some further fiscal

Igel, but to nothing like the extent, or in the sense of
e lately brought forward by the ministry, had excited the

Tues

!st uneasiness, and even an approach to a panic.
.nv classes- have suffered, even to ruin, by the tire at

The losses appear to have been more extensive

,t anticipated. The matter bad been brought

ommittes appointed for the al-
)n of the distresses of the sufferers. The ship Hope-
arrived and discharged her emigrants. We annex

gislature,

f the markets

STON PRICES CURRENT. APRIL 10.—Flour, sales al
~ 30s. ; Rice, 265. Bd. to 31s. Bd. ; Bread, a
and no sales to any extent; Butter, 20d. to 22d.;
Candles, firm at 14d. to 15d. ; Soap, sales at
20s. to 21s. Bd. ; Pork, sales at £5 13s. 4d. ;

spicious circumstance we extract from a

days ago a whiling-boat, conducted by six sailors,
knjie d'Arlets. The captain of the customs pin-
Yves, went immediately to ascertain from these
and whence they came. They stated
y were Americans, had been wrecked near Barbadoes,
-'Rain had perished, and that they sought an asy-
rood was immediately procured for them,
and in need ; but scarcely had they
_7nitiarked, and put to sea, steer-
fhis crrated suspicion, and the pin-
..t. They were found next day at Salines,
aken up, and seat to Fort Royal, where they

ey were

.eshed when they re-
foi St. Lucia

apers there are accounts from Quibdo of
rv. They state that accounts from Po-

le 3rd, represented Obando as perfectly recovered,
ur leagues distant from the city, which he threat-
-400 men well armed. In the provinces of Bonn-
e towns had revolted. It had been
conimnniaated that Obando had attacked and

I Cauca

Yopayan

take the following just observations from the Iforning
I uf Tuesday last ; they are of general interest, and

t the charact©r of the Anti-Slavery Society, and
st India body in their true light.
fiber of estates for sale was already
circumstances of the alarm caused

ara tlas n

ous of the government and uneasi-
t to which they might be carried.

at property was unsaleable, and

. _
I measure of the perfidious intentions of govern-
e known, as they would be by the last packet,
ty of sales would be out of the question. The
: is dear, was already beginning, and when the
change in the sugar duties should become

reared that the panic will become so genera!
sorganization and destruction of property
quence. For although the proposed letting
ars at lower duties was negatived for this

no security that the sakle inea-
again, and, if the ministry obtain

. ,
in the next pailiament, surely carried. The
to West Indian interests and property will then
ruck, for so long as labour is so dear there, from
f labourers, and the impediments placed by the
in the importation of adequate supplies of free
ite clear that British West India sugar cannot
e slave-grown sugar of other countries. The
ibour wages is about Is. Sd. currency per
it accessories of medical attendance, and
s of ground at very low rents or none at
oat of slave labour in Cuba, for example,
td v ; the heaviest item in the charge
dried beef of the River Plate, called
calf a pound of which is the daily

exclusive of the banana and other tro-
tell grow wild and cost nothing. The interest
ace, which may be taken at about 500
.tion be only some £7 or £8 per an-
inerara papers remark that their chief
,sting the designs of ministers were the
dowerful anti-slavery body to the intro-
rown sugar, and the interest the members
1, and which they had so often and warmly
ect and to watch over the progress of the
)f cultivation by free negro labour. The
fore be the more grievously disappointed
.o learn the inconsistent, slavish, and dis-
in which the interests of the late slaves, and
labourers of the West Indies have been
card by certain of the so-calling-themselves
country branches of the parent Anti-Slavery
,ondon, which being composed of furious minis-
ails, have preferred sordid party interests before
o -"roes whose cause they pretended to ad-
o! It will be some consolation per-
a the London society have not gone the
.materially compromised their former pro-
g .t deal of eloquence is always at hand among.
le ,tenders, such for example as the ministe-
is erred to, and the spurious tribe of O'Con-
people about the twenty millions of corn-
NV est India planters for slave emancipation.
a glorious national sacrifice in the glorious
ity, but it should not he forgotten that,
einnification to the planter, it amounted to
shillings and eightpence i❑ the pound, for
,st price of the slaves whose emancipation
is reasonably valued at above sixty mil-
'tiler, from the papers now received,
that the now advanced commercial
ministers will be productive of
It in West Indian affairs, and ruin to
Let the Anti-Slavery Society look

oust,/ before

under heavy and conscientious responsi-
is more, they are capable of feeling and
se responsibilities, which her Majesty's nui.

AUSTRALIA

trt-town papers of the 23d of January, advert to
of respectable and wealthy persons about to leave
on account of the puerile manner in which the
is said to be administered, but this does not al-
pear to be borne out by the state of this part of
for the revenue returns of Launceston for the
the sth of that month showed a gradual increase
I with former years. In 1841 the revenue is given
3s 3d ; in 1840 it was £30,591 14s 6d ; and in
£26.999 16s 9. The value of imports in 1841
15, whi e in 1810 they only amounted to £303,110,
to only £230,392. The value of exports in 1841
i, while in 1840 it was £452,870, and in 1839,
The vessel• entered inwards in 18 it were 25u in
th 35,851 tonraKe, and 2,332 men ; and in 1840

n 34,765 tonnage, and-2,403 men, and in
, with '.2,133 tonnage, and 1,526 !Hen.

entered o taw?. rdi numbered in 1841 263, with
age, end 2,583 men ; in 1840 263, with 36,01 i
2,525 men ; and 1839 134, with 23,276 tonnage,
,unceston advices had been received of
1 bills to the amount of £7,000 drawn
Jlonial commissioner, upon the commis-
Flour ranged from £2O to £2B per

In Launceit

,eat 8s to 9s per 60-lbs.
Pnilip papers to the 14th of January notice a
to £4O per ton, in consequence of the unfavour-
Van Dieman's Land.

XAORDIY•TIY

-Three or four large mush-

r anxiety to emerge into the visible 'World, ac-
led the movel feat of displacing a large paving
of our most crowded thoroughfares, on Tues-

kern Examiner

PACTS.—If the conservatives are
hemselves, they
tion come when mutt
and
will be
inunisst of Toes-
ire
Lancashire,
all the
e with Ism)? that in ;IV. The mi-
tre to be found the
manufacturing county of
unts of Liverpool ancr 113 ire,
:ial einpori
n three metropolitan boroughs, ris-
first-class importance ; of members
cities unconnected with commerce, and
oist-rate manufacturing towns. They feel
not be so, if the public opinion of these great
were really on their side. With still more
e.ation they are compelled to place on record the
Ti in the common council of London, so long
:iberalism, and even now represented in parlia.
ministerialists, a petition against the corn laws
testier week strenuously resisted and with cliff',
• .

rrii4l-64 rut of 140 members dii Wing against it,—
ilimetiser witiseutpraliederit in tits annals if the

TX TIIL-ROV4L: LITERPO.OL

Under the llanageme

Nt of Mr. CLARKE, 8010 Lonik

PERFORMANCES DURING- THE SUMMER SEASON,
WILL COMMENCE AT HALF.YAST SEVEN.—DOORS TO
Rb UPENED AT SEVEN.

New Play of RICHELIEU, having been received on
day night with the most enthusiastic applause by a
brilliant and crowded audience, will be repeated on MoN-

DAY next

Fifth appearance these four years of Mr. MACREADY,

who is engaged for Ten Nights.
In order to give every possible effect to the Plays in which
Mr. Macready will perform, Mrs. WARNER, (late
Miss Huddart,) of the Theatres-Royal, Drury-lane and
Haymarket, has been engaged ; and an arrangement has
also been made for the same period with Mrs. SALS-
BERG, (late Miss Phillips,) of the Theatre-Royal, Drury-
lane, on her return from the United States. _

rrillS present FRIDAY, June 4, will be performed the
Tragedy of

VIRGINIUS

Virginius Mr. Macready,
As originally performed by him i❑ London. .
Virginia Mrs. Salsberg.
Servia.
Mr. H. Holl. I Dentatus Mr. Baker
To be followed by the laughable Interlude of
MR. AND MRS. PRINGLE.