The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-05-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Sunday Times.)
CITY, SATURDAY.—II, is not yet in our power to notice any
general improvement in mercantile transactions. During the
whole of the week advices from the United States have been
very anxiously awaited for, three packets from New York
being now due. Itis considered extremely probable among the
merchants connected with America and the Canadian trades,
that the most recent advices will be obtained by the Sirius or
the Great Western Ships, which were to sail from New York
on the Ist instan.t The proprietors of these vessels fully cal-
culate on their making their passage home in twelve or thirteen
days at the utmost. Should this turn out to be the fact, a very
material saving in the time heretofore taken in the communi-
cation between the two countries will occur; thus facilitating
most materially the commercial intercourse with the Transat-
lantic markets. There are not very sanguine expectations en-
tertained in the city that the mercantile intercourse with Ame-
rica will improve for a considerable time, The symptoms of a
return to a more animated state of things, which we noticed a
few weekstince have diminished. Theexportations or the pre-
cious metals have also slackened, as it is thought that, as the
Banks of the Union will not resume specie payments in the
present month, the, demand for it will materially diminish.
The accounts received from the West Indies hold out the
prospect of more abundant supplies of Sugar, Coffee, and Rum
in the present than in the past year. This has tended to ren-
der the markets for these articles rather heavy. The stock of
Sugar has very considerably increased, being now about 11,000
hhds and 1,600 trcs, against 6,000 hhds and 1,000 trcs at this
period last year. The stocks of Rum are now below those at
the same period of 1837, amounting to about 8,000 puncheons
and 1.300 hbds. Of Coffee there are but small stocks in first
hands. The stocks in the port of London of British Plantation
Coffee are under 1,200 hhds and 1,000 bags, being but little
more than one half the quantities which were held at the same
period of last year.
The unprecedented abundance of money in the city has led
to a further improvement in the prices of the British Securities,
which are now of a higher value than they have been for many
years past. 1 his state of things has been induced by the ex-
pectation that the directors of the Bank of England will con-
tinue to increase their issues of notes, with the view of assisting
trade and commerce as much as possible in the provinces, as it
is not believed that, as far as the discount business of the Bank
in London is concerned, that any augmentation has been made
to the amount of accommodation rendered to the mercantile in,.
terest. It is understood that the Branches of the Bank in the
large manufacturing towns a more extended amount of business
is doing, and the increase which has been made in thecircu-
lation of the Bank is principally to be attributed to this clrCuin-
stance. The effect of such a liberal policy will be sensibly felt
as soon as there is any resumption of activity in the trade and
commerce of the country.
The price for Consols reached 938 on Thursday, being fully
per cent. higher than they reached last week. Several of the
Bulls turned their accounts at the advance, which produced a
reaction of about I to a per cent., the last quotation yesterday
having been 94a. Very nearly an equal rise has taken place in
the Reduced Three per Cents, which have been sold at 931, and
in the Three and a Half per Cents reduced, which were pur-
chased yesterday at 1028. The premium upon Exchequer Bills
remained at from 71 to 13 premium during the week, while In-
dia Bonds have been sold at an improvement to 81 13. East
India Stock has sustained the high value of 271. Bank of
England Stock, after having fallen, has since rallied to 205.
For the Foreign Securities the demand is still very limited.
As it is not by any means certain that the proposal tor the re-
duction of the interest upon the French Five per Cents will be
adopted by the Chamber of Peers, the prices of the Stock here
have advanced—the Five per Cents to 108-50, and the Four per
Conts to 102,50, Exchange 25f. 50c. The quotations both of
Spanish and Portuguese Stock have advanced also—the former
in consequence of the successes of the Constitutionalists over
Carlists, and the improvement in the latter is to be ascribed to
the teuour of the last letters from Lisbon, which represented that
the new ministry was gaining strength. Spanish Stock has
risen this week from 208 to 21. Portuguese Five per Cents
from 33 to 351, And the Three per Cents from 221 to 24. .44
improvement of from 54i to 541 has taken place in the Data
Two anti a Half per Cents, and in the Five per Cents from
998 to 100%. Russian, Danish, Austrian, and the Republican
States, remain at nearly the same prices as last week.
The speculation in Asphalte, Railway, and other Shares has
very materially diminished this week, and prices are, in much
instances, much lower. The Shares of the United States Com-
pany, under the patent of Mr. Claridge, have been issued this
week. They were sold first at 5 premium, but have since been
quoted at 11 only. The Shares of Claridge's patent have sus-
tained their value pretty well, having fluctuated only between
14 or 15'. or 12 and 13 premium. For the Liverpool Company's
Shares there has been no money demanded since the first day
they were issued; they have fallen from 4% to 21, or 4 prem.
only. The Bastenne and Gaujac- Bitumen Shares have been
pretty firm at from 31 to 34, or 11 14 premium per share. The
other shares of this description have been all sold lower. The
London and Birmingham Railway Shares have fluctuated be-
tween 170 and 175, or 80 and 85 premium. The Great Western
were offered yesterday afternoon at 95, or 30 premium; the
Brighton at a 'fall to 81, or % premium; the North Midland at
35, or 3 premium; the Greenwich at 16, or 4 discount; the
Southampton 44k, or 44 discount; the Blackwell at 53, or
premium ; the Manchester and Leeds at 354, or 154 premium.
The quotations of the other Railway Shales have been also
dull. A very brisk demand has prevailed for the British North
American Bank Shares, and they have reached 241, or 41 pm.
The other Bank Shares have not been much in request.
HALF-PAST TWELVE.—The Oxford packet ship which left
New York on the 16th ult., is announced as having arrived off
the coast of Wexford. The letters and papers by her cannot be
delivered till Monday. There are no colonial arrivals in the
city to-day.
In the English Market, Consols for Money and Account re-
alise 948. Exchequer Bills are worth 73, and India Bonds 83
prem. Bank Stock is at 2051.
Spanish Stock has been again sold at 21, Portuguese New at
35, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents at 541. In the other
Foreign Bonds there has been no change worthy of comment.
Shares (Railway) are not in much demand. Asphalte are
rather brisk, at about yesterday's value.

Charles Horn, the vocalist, has married Miss Horton.

Blue is the colour to be worn at her Majesty's coronation.
The Wellington statue in the city of London is in be p feet
high; the suits in hand for the work is about £BOOO. 45. it F.
Chantrey will commence the work in a few days, as the illus-
trious duke is about to give him the necessary sittings.
We understand that as soon as the railroad front Ghent to
Ostend is finished, there will be a daily post established between
England and Belgium, through Ostend, the packets sailing be-
tween that port and Dover.
Mr. Macready has already received and read four acts of Mr.
Sheridan Knowle's new comedy, and has spoken of its merits
in the highest terms : it is, he says, transcendently beautiful.
It will be put in rehearsal immediately.
Miss Ilolliday, formerly of Bridlington, in Yorkshire, but
latterly an agent of the Ladies' Association for Promoting Edu-
cation in China, India, and the East, has been raised to the
important and responsible situation of teacher royal in the fa-
mily of the Pacha. of Egypt.— Watchman.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Orange will visitthis coun-
try in the course of this month, apartments having been taken
one of the pi incipal hotels for his reception. His royal high-
ness will represent his royal father at her majesty's coronation,
but is not expected to leave for Holland until the latter end of
July.

Count Strogonoff is expected the latter end of this month from
St. Petersburgh, as ambassador extraordinary to the court of
St. James's, to represent the emperor at the coronation. Count
Woronzow will not come to England, as was reported. A
mansion is in treaty fur the Grand Duke Alexander, who will
be accompanied by Prince Lieveu and a numerous suite, and
will sojourn in this country for two months.
It is confidently stated at the military club-houses that a grand
review .of the household troops, by her ➢lajesty in person. will
take place in Hyde-park, on the 18th of next month, the anni-
versary of the battle of Waterloo. All the envoysextraordinary
from the European courts will be present, and it will be, it is
expected, the most imposing military spectacle seen in this
country since the visit of the allied sovereigns in 1814.
General Count Montholon, the companion in exile of Napo-
leon, who from reverse of fortune, was obliged, during the
restoration, to become bankrupt, has made a formal application
for being reinstated in his civil rights.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—This company, after calling
up £65 per share, has easily taken up on loan the £833,333 6s. Bd.,
as empowered by the act, and is now borrowing, at 436 cent.,
the remaining £35 per share, precluding the possibility of further
calls being made on the shareholders till after the expiration of
the five, seven, and ten years' terms of the loan debentures have
expired. This is the only case of a company having been able
to borrow so early; and, although they du not want the money
just yet, the directors are quite wise in availing themselves of
the present facilities in the trolley market.

GREEN ACP E OUTDONE.—Accounts from Bagneres Mantes
Pyrenees), (Le 25th of March, state, that the arroudisement of
Bagneres de Bigoire has just been the theatre of an atrocious
crime. A man has been murdered, first, by means of a heavy
mallet fur splitting wood; then, bled from the throat; and,
finally, despatched by repeated blows of a hatchet. The limbs
were then separated from the trunk, the trunk enclosed in a
charcoal sack, and the whole, after being carried across preci-
pies to the highest part of the mountain, thrown into a deep
hole, to the depth of 150 feet. The unhappy victim lived with
his aile, a your; woman of 22, and his mother-indaw, in a
dilapidated cottage, situated in the wildest part of the common,
edict! the Haidee Nortez. Be had fur some time, lived on had
terms with these two women, on the subject of some disputes
about property, intermixed with some jealously of another fe-
male; and they appeared to have determined, with the must
determined premeditation, to get rid of him, by violence. Both
assert their claims to the largest share in the murder. Both,
with unprecedented sang froid, have detailed all the frightful
nvuutim of the event, which surp :sses, in horror, all that has
been recorded of similar deeds of blood. These two women
are.at present under the hands of justice, in the prison of Bat"-
twice. The unhappy victim of the revengeful atrocity was a
Spniard.—Cowiitutiund.