The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-15 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

(From our Corropondent.)
LONDON, Saturday Evening, half-past ro'clock.
At the meeting of the West India Dock Company, yesterday,
a dividend of 2 per cent., instead of 21, was declared, which
has created very great alarm among the shareholders, and
caused a depreciation in the shares of - per share, the quo-
tations falling frgni,ll6„tomr6. One of the reasons ascribed for
the falling oll„lif-the;West India 13.0 k business has been the
existence of 'e -Cholera, and a second, to the formation of alv
new docks at St. Kathbrine's.

In our Oonsols' Market there has been no very important
feature, either yesterday or to-day, and this afternoon the quo-
tation cloSed fbt the Account at tin. ; Eichequer Bills left off
at 41 ,12,..and India Bonds at 3032.

We have had intelligence from Portugal, to-day, to the sth
instant, from (Apollo. They are, as usual, very contradictory ;
but the most important fact is the arrival of General Solignac,
to take the command of the army of Don Pedro, apd his ad-
vancement to the rank of field-marshal and major-general of
the army. Neither the Scrip nor the Bonds have been mate-
rially intiueneed by the advices; the Scrip closed at 49 50, and
the Bonds at 44 3 dis. The attempted loan on behalf:of Donna
Maria, of £300,000, ou the security of 5000 pipes of Port wine,
has been abandoned, not one-half of the amount haying been
subscribed. 'ln the northern bonds there is little to notice.
Russian Stock has closed this afternoon at 1001 li; Dutch at
; Danish at 712; and Belgian at 764 74 The last price
of Spanish Stock was l&4 a; and Brazilian left off at 47; 4.1.
We learn, by the accounts from Ancona, that a notice had
been affixed on the Exchange there, recognising, in all the
Papal States, vessels under the Belgian flag ; and another re-
ducing the term of quarantine for vessels from the south of
France. An edict had also been posted at Ancona, as well as
in other parts of the Papal States, giving notice of the augmen-
tation of the duty on salt, which bad caused great discontent:
It was also said, 'that, iu consequence.of the pressing wants of
the Pontifical government, other imposts would be increased.
It was generally current at Ancona, that the brigade of French
was about to be augmented by the arrival of troops from
Greece, and that thfee vessels had been despatched' o convey
them.

We find, by the commercial accounts from New York to the
16th ult., that the arrivals during the month'of November, at
that port, were 539 vessels, of which number 33 were from Great
Britain or her Colonies,. The steerage passengers amounted
to 1035, of whom 902 were English or Irish, and 133 French.
The advices from New Orleans, to the 27th November state,
that business was brisk at that date. '!'he whole of the inter-
ments during the preceding week.was 25.
We learn by accounts from St. Übes, this morning, that the
Spanish government had issued orders that no vessel should be
allowed to enter any Spanish port under a flas, not• officially
recognised. This is said to have been caused by the impru-
dence of Don Pedro's naval officers, who, when in Vito and
other Spanish Ports, openly denounced absolute governments,
and conducted themselies otherwise with great indiscretion.
We learn by the advices from Paraquay, that Dr- Francia
had declared war against the State of Corrientes, and that the
latter state had called out all its troops of the line and militia
to repel the threatened aggression. The army, of Dr. Francia
is said to amount to 8000 men, and he had commenced hostili•
ties by seizing all the people of Corrientes at work on the
Island of Tapa.-

We have some further advices from Vera Cruz' Generals
Montezuma and Cuesto were near Queretaro on the Ist Novem-
ber with 2000 men, and on the 2nd, with the same force, had
advanced near San Juen del Rio, about thirty leagues from the
capital. An express from Orizaba, had brought intelligence of
a capitulation of Besingas, the commander of a government di-
vision, and Torrens, in virtue of which the former had declared
in favour of General Pedraza. The government force in the
'capital is estimated at not more than 3000 men.

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