The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-04-21 00:00:00

LONDON NEWS.

City, Half Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening.
Accounts from Alexandria to the 16th ult. state :that the
plague was making the most fearful progress there, and.the
deaths were estimated at 250 daily. The streets were encum-
bered with the cardaverous bodies of the dead. and dying.
Commerce was very much affected by the virulence: of this
dreadful disease.
There is nothing of any importance doing in' the money
market. -I',lonpy has been scarce within the last daypx tvqo,
and this has caused a decline in both India bonds 'and Ex-
chequer bills. In the foreign. securities thegeneral tendency
is in favour of an advance. The settling d 4 p-asseitoviiy on the
16th without defalcation, notwithstanding the ettitordimiry
advance in the transatlantic bonds. The rise in Chilian,stock
during the fortnight has not been less than 13 per. cent., in
Coluiubia.n 11 per cent., iu Mexican 6 per cent., in. Peruvian
9 per cent., Portuguese bonds have also risen,' and all our
northern bonds are firm. •

Bank Stock 2164
3 per Cents. Cousols 921
3 per Cents. Reduced ..91i 1
31 per Ceuts. 9Bl
New 3'2 per Cents 100 99i 100
India Bonds l7 1
Exchequer Bills 35 37 35
Consuls fur Account ... .921 1
Belgian lO3l tO4
Brazilian 874 61 71 i I

Columbian . , 5I 50'
Chi Han 584 7. 8
Danish 77 76•
4
Dutch 5 per Cents
Dutch 2& per Cents "..57 61
Mexican ... 1504. 491 50
Portuguese ........9 81 98: 9
Russian IOS
Spanish 671 43 1
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LONDON LA7'.E,S7' NEWS.
Sunday, Two.o'clock.
It will be seen by the report of the debates iu the house last
night, that, on Monday parliament will be adjourned .to
.the
12th May, so that faction will have accomplished the suspen-
sion of public business fur nearly another month. Lord 'Mel-
bourne has denied that he has enteredinto any treaty with Mr.
O'Connell; but when we see two of the tail, albeit perchance
the two most respectable ones included in the new aditieistra,
Lion, it is "very like a whale:" Moreover, our -readers will
probably have on their minds a remembrance of: the-old habit
of the whips, to individually negotiate—will )4'o have: for-
gotten the famous Littleton intrigue, when the right arm of
the administration took care not to let the left know what it
was doing. Lord Melbourne may consequently be, de facie,
perfectly innocent of any treaty or. "terms"- with that despe-
rate band, whose silent votes have again consigned the country
to Whig misrule. But is Lord John Russell equallyirt.e from
• having touched the pitch? Has he had no communion with
the united "tail?" Nous verronsw
We understand the most strenuous exertions were used to
wrest from Ldrd Hill the command of the army, but that the
King would not yield. This is an On dil here, and is the sub-
ject of much gratulation.
There is something most contemptible in the return of 'the
present cabinet to power. Kicked out with the disgust they so
well merited, they avail themselves of mob alliance to force
themselves into the councils of their sovereign, pocket the pre-
vious indignity, and as complacently proceed to calculate the
amount of their salaries, as though they had been entreated- to
, earn them. We venture a prophecy which has found many an
echo here, that the cabinet will uut exist for six months