The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET,. AUGUST 16-6 p.m

The President was announced to-day with seven days later
news from England. Money continued exceedingly abun-
dant in London. Cotton had improved, and corn had de-
clined. Notwithstanding the abundance and comparative
cheapness of money in London, the foreign exchanges exhi-
bited considerable weakness. This seems in a great measure
to arise from the doubts and speculations concerning, the
harvest ; the prospects, however, with reference to which
considerably brightened during the past week. The exchanges
on London had fallen in the continental markets, in conse-
quence of the large supply of corn bills running on England.
In the markets here to-day but little was done, the an-
nouncement of the steamer early in the morning caused a
cessation► of business until the letters by her should be re-
ceived. At the stock board sales were small at a general
decline in price. 'United States Bank fell off 1+ per cent.,
North American Trust and Banking Company 4, Harlem /,
Delaware and Hudson improved per cent., Stonington 1,
New Jersey
There have been limited sales of bills for the Great Wes-
tern at 61 a 7, or 474 dollars a 475 dollars the pound sterling,
on France 5271 dollars. The rate for money continues low,
and capital is accumulating in hands, which find great diffi-
culty in employing it safely; short loans payable on demand
are made at very low rates. Government treasury notes,
bearing 5 per cent. interest, are readily taken up.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

FRANCE

The trial of Louis Napoleon will not commence till the Ist
October. The meeting of the 15th will be for the purpose
of reading the accusation, but the prisoners will not be
brought forward till the day above named. General Excel-
mans has refused to be present at the trial. Our corres-
pondent tells us that Prince Louis Napoleon is greatly an-
noyed by two valuable cameos and two pictures, family gifts,
which he valued most highly, having been sold by auction in
London. In giving an order for the sale of his furniture he
unfortunately neglected to reserve the articles in question,
and the whole was sold in strict performance of the terms of
his letter. The unfortunate young man is much cast down
at the loss of those family treasures, and he thinks more of
them than of the critical situation in which he is placed.
His father, the Count de Saint Len (Louis Napoleon Bo-
naparte, ex-King of Holland) has addressed the following
letter
"TO THE EDITOR OF THE COURRIER FRANCAIS.'

"'I entreat you to receive the following declaration
" I am aware that a recourse to publicity is at once singu-
lar and improper, but when a father, afflicted, aged, ill, and
an exile, cannot otherwise assist his unfortunate son, such a
recourse can be but approved by all those who have a father's
heart.

" Convinced that my son—my only remaining son—is the
victim of an infamous intrigue, and has been seduced by vile
flatterers, false friends, and perhaps insidious advice, I can-
not remain silent without a breach of duty, and without ex-
posing myself to the most bitter regrets.
" I declare, then, that my son Louis Napoleon has, for
the third time, fallen into a frightful snare, into a horrible,
premeditated snare, since a man, not entirely void of intel-
ligence and good sense, could never have of his own accord
rushed headlong into such a precipice. If guilty, surely the
most truly guilty are those by whom he has been urged on
and misled. _ _

" I moreover declare with horror, that the insult inflicted
on my son by confining him in the prison of an infamous
assassin, is a monstrous, un-French piece of cruelty ; that it
is an outrage as vile as it is insidious.
" As a father deeply afflicted, as a good Frenchman who
has passed through the ordeal of 30 years' banishment, as
the brother, and, if I dare say so, the pupil of him whose
statues are once more being raised to their pedestals, I re-
commend my misled and seduced son to his judges, and to
all those who possess a French and a paternal heart.—Your
subscriber, " LOUIS DE SAINT LEU."

A grand reform banquet was given at Chatillon, near Paris,
on Monday last. Six thousand persons, principally of the
National Guard, were present. Toasts of a very inflamma-
tory nature were drunk, and violent speeches made—the
speakers being each announced as " citizen."