The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-10-25 00:00:00

THE ANNUITY.

The day—th' important day,
Big with the fate of Ireland and of Dan,
is announced. Sunday, the 10th of next November, is
the appointed time for bringing "the tables of the money-
changers into the temples" of popery. The address of
the committee, as the Register pleasantly observes, is
"quite ad rem ;" that is to say, it touches on the main
chance; it is a reg' lar appeal to the pocket.
O'Connell has announced his intention of abolishing
the name of "national debt," as applied to the eight hun-
dred millions due by the people of England to the fund-
holders; but we were not aware that his purpose in so
doing was merely to transfer the title to the tribute due
to himself by the people of Ireland. Nevertheless, such
is the fact. "The claim," quoth his committee, "has
now assumed the character of a NATIONAL DEBT, incurred
by us—the people—to this distinguished man." &c.
If this really be the case—if the debt due assumes the
character of the "national debt"—by Jove it must
amount to a very bouncing sum. Dan's swallow is pro-
digious, if nothing short of the national debt will stop his
mouth. But we apprehend that
" His great desire hath stomach for it all."
—Dublin Mail.

Btarn EXTRAORDINARY.—A poor woman named Nancy
Dt`Gowan, living in Brewery-street, Friars Vennel,
was delivered on Wednesday of three children, a boy and two
girls. The infants were small but well formed and apparently
healthy; the bsrv' however, who had, from the beginning, been
the feeblest of 'the three, gradually declined in strength, and
died on "Monday morning. The twins are illegitimate ; the
another has been a widow for the last eleven years. The alleged
father, a labourer in Maxwelltown, is a widower. He is arc
sturdily to deny hie paternity. Three such pledges at °laic.
were indeed a serious claim on any man's means and affections,.
The mother has the reputation of being a hard working wo-
man, and was laboriously engages up to almost the moment of
her delivery.

The following appeared in our Second Edition of
Tuesday last :

By an Express froth Madrid, the Guardian and Pub-
lic Ledger, whose information is decidedly the best on
Foreign subjects of all the London journals, and especially
with reference -to Spanish aft:Airs, has received advices
from that city to the 12th instant. The Gazeta de Ma-
drid of the 10th instant announces that the Count de Ray-
neval, the French Ambassador, had a private audience
of the Queen Regent, to make to her a communication
on the part of his government, the substance of which
was, that thc King of the French, in quality of the ally
and relative of the Queen Regent, offers to supply her
with all the assistance she may require, in any circum-
stances, to support the throne of her daughter.
This is important, if true !

By the Georgetown, from Demerara, which we this
morning announced as having arrived in the river at a
late hour last night, we have received files of the Royal
Gazette, Guiana Chronicle, and Demerara Courier to
the 14th September, with private letters to the same
date. On the Gth September rumours first reached the
colony of the proposed diminution in the tern of appren-
ticeship, which was brought forward in Parliament on
the 2.5 th July. On the 10th September they received
full intelligence on that head, including the debates to
the 29th July inclusive, by the Atalanta, in thirty-six
days, from Greenock. As was to be expected, the intelli-
gence has excited the greatest astonishment and indigna-
tion. The continual vacillation of the Government at
home, and the state of mental excitement in which the
planters were kept, had brought them to a state of
apathetic despair, which is not ill depicted in the follow-
ing extract of a letter from thence, dated the 7th Sep-
tember :

"We have line weather, and as .yet quiet times; but I regret
to perceive that government have outraged every pledge which
they made, and violated that compact which was, under all its
disadvantages,' received and accepted by us here with a con-
ciliatory feeling. We are helpless, and, therefore, dare not
move ;—the day of retribution, however, may not be far off;
aud, if justice be done, I would much rather be a humble and
honest planter in Demerara, than the premier of Great Britain.
We must face the pending danger coolly and temperately, and
meet, with our best judgment, the measures we cannot prevent."
The Demerara Courier of the 13th September contains
a " Militia General Order," issued three days previously,
from the Adjutant-General's office. The commander-in-
chief sets out by complimenting the militia on their
soldier-like appearance and efficient state, upon their
parade and inspection the preceding day. The order'
then goes on—

"As every officer, non-commissioned officer, and private,
belonging to the militia of British Guiana, must be aware how
very much, not only the general tranquillity of the country,
but the ultimate safety and happiness of himself and of his
family, must depend, for many years, upon the keeping up of
an efficient militia, the Commander-iu-Chief is confident that
no man, possessed of proper feelings, will grudge either the
trouble or the expense to which be may he subject under the
militia law. A small partial evil must necessarily be submitted
to (and by all sensible men will be borne with pleasure) in the
acquirement of a great benefit."
Doubtless the white inhabitants of Demerara, who
constitute the militia, will do their duty. That they will
do it "with pleasure," when it is considered what im-
pending evils have rendered its execution necessary,
we may be excused in hesitating to believe.

EAST INDIA INDIGO SALE.-(LAST DAY.

The sale closed with the same spirit as on the latter days.
The following is a summary of the business done, and prices
made : _

The whole quantity declared was 8,164 chests, from which,
previous to, and during the sale, 531 chests were withdrawn,
leaving the following, viz.:-
1,426 Chests Company's Bengal, &c.
6,W5 .. Licensed do.
91 .. do. Madras.
6 .. do. Kurpah.
10 .. do. Java.

The Company's Indigo, as usual, was placed first in the cata-
logue, taxed from 4s. 6d to 6s. 6d. 4.? lb, the whole of which
sold from 4s. 11d. to 6s. 11d. /b, with the exception of 11
chests refused at the taxed prices.
The sale opened with great animation, which continued
through the whole of the Company's ; but the first part of the
licensed, cunsistinc, chiefly of middling and ordinary qualities,
not meeting with tSat support which had been expected, a want
of confidence immediately became manifest, and continued for
some time, when it became again revived in consequence of
the firm support given by all the proprietors to the end of the
sale, causing greater competition and progressive improvement
in prices as it proceeded to the close.
The orders from the north of Europe and Germany were very
limited, and some of the latter countermanded in consequence
of advices received from this city, representing that information
had been received from India, stating that the crop bid fair to
be a great one, and that the cultivation was not likely to be di-
minished ; which is contrary to the opinions of those best inform-
ed, as also to the latest advices from Calcutta; the orders from
France were extensive, but were reduced during the sale when
they found prices did not go higher. The quantity taken for
export is about 3,000 chests, for home consumption and specula-
tion about 2,500 chests, and the remainder, including one half
of the Madras, was bought in by theproprietors, who have given
greater support than for many years past, under the full con-
viction of obtaining higher prices next year. In Bengal the
fine and good qualities have gone from last sale prices to 3d.
per lb. lower, and the middling and ordinary from 3d. to 6d. per
lb. lower ; Madras has also gone from 3d. to 6d. per lb. lower.
It is well known that the Woollen and Cotton Manufactures
on the Continent have for a long time been in a flourishing
state, consequently the consumption of Indigo must have in-
creased, as is the case in this country, full one-tenth in com-
parison with last year to the same period; and as the export
to this time is 6000 chests less than to the same
.period last
year, the stocks on the continent must have diminished full
8100 chests; yet the demand from thence is not expected to be
of any amount until the stocks are exhausted, so that for some
months to c3ine prices will depend on the firmness of the im-
porters and speculators.
Annexed are the prices of the different qualities, and state-
ment of the number of chests at each price, viz.:-
72 Chests from 7s. to Bs. --d. per lb. •
3525 6s. to 6s. Ild.
3162 • • ss. to ss. Ild.
453 4s. to 4s. 11d.
83 • • 3s. to 3s. 10d.
1 3s. 10d.
26 Bags Warehouse Sweepings, from ls. 10d t 2 2ps. .o