The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-01-12 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seven o'clock.
The news of the destruction by fire of a great portion of the
commercial section of the city of New York has created great
excitement, and to a very great extent suspended commercial
'operatiblis. Considerable speculations will, no doubt, be entered
into here, in order to supply the articles of which such immense
quantities have been destroyed—and the result probably will be
an overstocked rparket. Articles connected with the building
trade will, of course, be in great demand. But the shippers
must bear in mind that there are but few if any policies granted
by the great English fire-offices, and that the American offices
are not very likely to pay in full.
The money market has been rather sombre to-day; consols
for account in the afternoon being somewhat lower than the
opening prices, and closing at 9.2 i 1; and for the February
account 9.4 buyers. Money rather scarce. Exchequer bills
reached 24 in the morning, but closed at 22 pm. India bonds
left off at 7 pm. Bank stock 214.
In the foreign market less has been done than for the last
two days past, and prices are generally on the decline. •
In the share market; the gfeat western railway shares fluc-
tuated between 12i and 131 pm.; Brighton (Stevenson's) ad-
vanced to 5 pm.: and the north midland were done at 4.1 pin. ;
London and 'G The
Danube anare at pd
Ma in. e
are at I; and the Grdiscount.eenwich are
steady at 9 phe inm.

REPRESENTATION OF ARGYLLSHIRE.

Our readers, no doubt, are aware, from what has already ap- I
peared in this journal, that the representation of Argyllshire is
about to be toughly contested. At Dunoon, a meeting of the
electors took place on Thursday, at which Mr. Campbell of
Monzie and Mr. Campbell of Islay, the first a conservative, the
second a whig reformer, had an opportunity of delivering their
sentiments; and here we may take this opportunity of compli-
menting the consistency of Dunoon, on the exemplary manner
in which they conducted themselves. Will it be believed that
in any portion of Scotland, on a hustings too, a conservative
candidate can now he heard to an end, without the slightest
interruption ? However difficult of credence, such was literally
'the fact on Thursday.; and, whether it be the general opinion
or not, it strikes us that this is stronger proof than anything else
that can be adduced, that something like a reaction has begun,
not only in the minds of the village ten-pounders, but in those
of the more reflecting of the non-electors. At all events, such
a gratifying spectacle as this meeting afforded could not possibly
have been witnessed one short year ago. A report of the pro-
ceedings will be found in subsequent columns. Both candidates,
we feel called upon to say, are alike respectable as gentlemen ;
but in the display of Thursday, we are convinced that all who
heard them, and even those who may read the outline of their
speeches, will agree with us in thinking that, while Mr. Camp-
bell of Monzie appealed to the judgment, his warm-hearted
namesake of Islay, attempted more particularly to captivate the
feelings of his auditory. An Edinburgh paper, when alluding
to the Argyllshire contest, has called Muncie a Perthshire land-
lord, because his seat is to be found in that county; but the truth
is this, that two-thirds of his property is situated in Argyllshire.
Of Monzie, who is a fluent speaker, and possessed of the most
winning manner, it is right that this rdlculd be known. Ilis.
opponent, Islay, who has " represented the county for fifteen
years," is also a gentielenn in every sense of the -word ; and,
according to himself, if he he 'disrarded at the next election, he
will keenly feel the ignominy of his sititatiou,--Ulas,yow paper.