The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-20 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Wednesday Ecening.
Notwithstanding the braggadocio of the destructive press
there seems to be no doubt of the result of the contest to-mor-
row,i altboygls, on the one side will be arrayed oaii 4ealtb,
reputation, talent, and integrity, and to these will be opposed
faction, recklessness, treason, revolution—a political Hydra,
which, if not immediately strangled, will paralyze the empire
with its poison, rend the country with its anarchical divisions,
and bury the constitution under a weight of democracy and
political incendiarism unprecedented since those days when
France was given up to be scrambled'for by every man of pro-
perty weak enough to become the tool of knaves, and by every
traitor willing to advantage himself of such weakness, to form
an additional step to the ladder by which be mounted to domi-
nion and to despotism. But we are justified in saying, that the
coalition of Dan O'Connell and Daniel Harvey will not prove
that both make a second Daniel ;—that though Russell and
Ruthven have- united to repeal the union—Warburton and
Whalley joined to vote Mr. Bulwer superior to Shakspeare,
and marvellously beyond Sir Walter Scott—Wakley and Hume
agreed professionally to dissect the conservative party, and cut
up the country ; and, worse than all to the English stomach,
that haggis is threatened to be the standing dish of the next
speakcris table, and that "the cock a leekie is ready;" not-
withstanding these we are justified in saying that Mr. Aber-
cromby will not be the Speaker of the House of Commons in
the ensuing parliament, or in any parliament that may behere-
after, unless indeed the " repayl of the union" takes place, and
the arch-destroyer of all around him gives the ex-steward Use
precedence of the delectable community of sans culottes it may
be his pleasure to call together. During the session of the last
parliament the whigs affected to be the patrons of the destruc-
tives or " liberals" (what would Dr. Johnion say ?) as they please
to term themselves. Now Lord John Russell, Abercromby, and
Co. openly avow their subserviency to the agitatorial band,
and crave their "sweet voices" as a boon. Wakley and Co.,
of tap-tub oratory, are also solicited to join the assailants; and
all those who can sit in the Commons House with far more
tranquillity than they venture in their own, are supplicated by
the whigs (shades of Fox, of Burke, of Romilly, how you must
start and shudder in your Tartarian gulph) to join in' over-
throwing all that the country has been taught for years to
venerate and preserve.

The confidence of the capitalists of the country is shown is
the stability of the funds, which maintain, within a fraction, the
high price they have attained since the accession of the present
ministry. Consols, after being 92 to-day, left off at 9'4, and
the Exchequer Bills closed at 39 to 40.

There has been considerable speculation in both Chilian and
Portuguese Bonds since our last. Chilian, to-day, were as high
as 451, but they dosed in consequence of some sales rather
lower, 441 1 being the last quotation. Columbian also, after
being at 381 1, fell to 371, but closed at 38 with buyers. It i„
evident something is about to be done with these stocks, and
the general idea seems in favour of a further advance. Brazi—
lian Bonds have been very flat to-day, and at one period the
market had declined froin 85 to 831, but at the close the price
was 8.11. Spanish Bonds, after being 581, closed at 581; and
the Scrip left off at 51 premium. For the prices of other Stock
we refer to the annexed list, which supplies the last quota-

tions:--

Bank Stock...
3 per Cent. Red 93h .4 3
3 per Cent. Consols ....92i
31 per Cent. Red .. • .100 i
New 31 per Cent 100 h 9.4 00
Long Annuities .....17 7-16
India Stock 2.581
Exchequer, Bills 39 di►
Consols for Account 92i
Belgian Bonds 102 i -
Brazilian
83 34 4

Buenoe Ayres 334 3
Chilian 45 41 5h 4
7
Colugibian
Dutch 5 per Cents-10:2j31
Dutch 2,4 per Cents 5f
Mexican .... 43 g
Peruvian .... .
Portuguese ...........92
Spanish .. • 57; .84 8I 7
Strip ..............54 54 8

_ .
A meeting has been held at Lloyd's this day, at which an
amendment to the bye-laws was proposed and carried unani.
rnously, that " No subscriber should underwrite a policy of in-
surance within the room of this house for particular firms, or
otherwise than in his own name, or in that of the individual for
each respective sum subscribed ; and that no subscriber shall
undertake risks for the account either direct or indirect of any
public company." A vote proposed of .C 25 to the crew of two
Dutch boats which saved the crew of the Snareabrook, wrecked
off the coast of Holland, was amended to the sum of £45, and
carried unanimously; and the vote of £lOO to the sufferers from
the late hurricane at Dominica was confirmed.

THE CASE OF JOSEPH Any.—The sentence passed upon this
well-known individual at the lak sessions held.at the Centiiil.
Criminal Court, Old Bailey, has excited great interest through-
out the "society of friends," of which community he was,
during the early portion of his life, an influential member. On
Saturday afternoon a deputation, headed by Mr. Grote, M P.
fur London, waited upon Mr. Secretary Goulburn, at the Home-
office, to present a petition to procure a mitigation of the sen-
tence of transportation recorded against Ady. The right hon.
gentleman received them in the most courteous manner, and
entered into a lengthened conversation on the merits of the case.
The right hon. secretary assured the deputation that the facts
they had stated should receive the most serious consideration,
and that the petition should immediately be laid before- his
Majesty, when he would instantly communicate to them his
Majesty's commands on the subject. The deputation, who ex-
pressed thenvelves exceedingly gratified with the polite re!.
caption they had received., then retired.—Stoodami.

AMERICAN PACKET TRADE.

We have great pleasure in announcing that a new
line of packets has been established between London
and New York, and of the five ships which form it, three
are British built, and manned by British sailors. These
vessels will regularly call at Portsmouth for the accom-
modation of passengers. In this respect, the ship-
owners of London have set an example which we trust
Will be speedily imitated in Liverpool. It is singular
enough, notwithstanding the facilities we possess, and
the noble ships which belong to the port, that the mer-
chants and ship-owners of Liverpool have never at-
tempted to compete with the American packets. Whe-
ther the bade is not deemed sufficiently profitable we
are unable to decide ; but what is profitable on the one
side of the Atlantic must be equally so on the other.
great mistake has been fallen into by overrating the
form, the quality, the construction, and the swiftness
of these packets. We have many ships in Liverpool
decidedly superior in every respect to the red pine ships
oni the United States, and which are equally well
Mapted for carrying passengers. It is true that
none of our ships are fitted up in the same gaudy style
as that of the Americans, and we, should be very sorry to
see it borrowed by us. The florid finish of the cabins—
the
glare of variegated woods—the richness of the car-
Pets' and the glitter of. the mouldings and rails, may be
'deemed elegant according to some tastes, but in our es-
timation they are quite .the reverse ! They are elabor-
ately vulgar.
Him would au English gentleman be
laughed at if he fitted up his dining-room or his drawing-
-1;xon in the fashion of the cabin of a New York packet ?
fact, the cabin should be finished, as near as ship form
lrould admit, in the style of afashionable drawing-room
for the ladies, with a general cabin to correspond. And
this is what we wish to see done in the first British line
°f packets established in Liverpool. Tbere_is no occa-
sion whatever to build new ships. Liverpool already
Possesses a considetable number of vessels which only
Tequire the touch of an artist to render altogether match-
less- We can do in, this respect what cannot be done in
America. We have beautiful chaste and classical de-
signs at hand, and all that is required is a painter, a first-
ate cabinet maker, and an upholsterer to produce such
• a cabin, for elegance and comfort, as has never yet been
f%een, In order to show ihat we are not tampering with
or drawing an ideal picture, we shall mention here
The names of certain ships which we contend are equal,
I not superior, to any of the. American packets. There
ta,re the lqnd, the Lintin, the Oriental, (Mr. Porter')
_ne Euphrates, (M'Cracken,. Jamieson,- and C 0.,) the
iumu k e
Lancaster, (Gladstone and C 0.,) the Part field,
,iessrs• C. Tavleur and Sons,) the Tory, (Mr. Duncan
"lr.hh.) the John Taylor, (Messrs. Taylor, Potter, and
°'') the St. George, (Messrs. Acraman and Stitt,) and
e eaumbia; (Cropper, Benson, and Co.) Here, then,
Itre at once named, at random, ten as splendid ships as
bever Moved,upon the waters, and, from their diMensions,
out perfectly fitted for the packet trade, being all
luta) tons British register.
"ill it be said that these ships, if completed in the style
We have alluded to, for, the packet trade between this
Country and the United States, would not attract pas-
;ogers as readily as the New York ships? We contend'
Rey would, for this reason, that being equally elegant,
and finished with
as much regard to comfort as the foreign
n
tot.", they
.would be superior to them in strength,
.!.'etY, and swiftness. A. British-built ship is well-known
have at least four times the durability of an American,-
and this results from the excellence and great strength of
llie materials of which she is constructed. This strength'
therefore must. be safety; and as that is everything in
navigation, if they were once established they would
undoubtedly obtain the preference. The public would
13t,rilY have to be made acquainted with the real facts, and
16ritisli ships would instantly supplant those of the United
States. We hope to see the experiment tried soon.