The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1832-11-23 00:00:00

LATEST LONDON. NEWS.

Standard Office, WeAesday Nov. 21, Half-past Three.
The Ostend steam-boat has just arrived, she left Ostend at
night. It is 'stated that the French had' entered
Antwerp, and that they had summoned the, citadel to surrender.
'X'he reply of Generalthasse was that he would'defend the post
the latt extremity.
The invading foreei are waiting the arrival of the heary.ar-
iillery to attack the fortress.
Great confusion 1.4 'Said to prevail at 'Ghent ind-nitisieti, In—
consequence of the arrival of the French.

FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT,
London, Wednesday Evening,' half-Past-Seven.'
Thereiras
_scareely ever "a period at which more ofsloom
arid hang:rileMe political
bons of this country, and the rest of ,Eurepe and,ppither the
published statements of what is occurii9g on the COntinent,
nor the speculatiOns of the L,cpidou Journalist's on either side
tend to elticAate the•,real eirettinftatices of the great political
drama. •The Merchants in the City, and all persons contnemtgd
with.business, :feel a nitre serious .alarni than was usual even
at the most authentic-reports of approaching war. -The -funds;
the usual index of political movements '_afford no guide
to commercial Wen, the result of whose transactions depends
ore than ever upon Political events. The stagnation' bf
Which arose from 'the great Changes' in the old
ritish system of trade, induced' numbers to withdraw-their
money,front commercial pursuits, and thii led to en accumula-
tion of Unproductive capital, which is 'host,'"unfortunately
increased by an apprehension. of it general war: Many of the
Mitch Merchants have counterinanded their 'order to the
manufacturing districts, and 'others' have withheld orders
which'they had received from Hl:Aland; for the transit ission of
Brigtish manufactures from Sheffield; Birmingliain,' Leeds,
'the Potteries, and several otlicli-IVaxts of England, and of
Scotland, Thus is the two-foltt,mtschief 9f unprodiPtive. capi:.
tal,:'_o.n&linenriTtoyed labour; aggravated 12y,the present excite-
niPllt. Jr,ctintstance accounts, in sonirdeifißiii,
the stability of, the funds; and, t is, too certain that,thn. want of
employment will lead to an .encreasgd, gainti ptirhaps, danger-
ous degree of disenntejit ankongst the worlivig clajssest who are
as yet unapprised the' distress . that ~wweits them. It was
!hoped,: by vinost persons,. that Ministers wool d adopt some
arrangement to:pi;et;erve under, any
tygcAcninstances, unimpaired,
the,commercial relations of thy cory-with
The French King"s speech has • been held by, litany persons
. .
to be of a pacific nature,. and hashed its share in maintaining
the prices of the public securities. Belgium loan is dull. The
price 72 72%; Dutch, 2% per cent, .In% ;-Russian 5 per cent;
9731_. : Consols per account; 8.3%. There ss nothing new from
Portfigal, nor is: there any fresh intelligence from Spain.,--
The Steam.' Packet from Ostend., wAriclraelleti at 19 'o'clock
;lagt night, has, ,inst, arrived.
,Private • letters state, that the
:citadel of Antwerp, will be defejidio" to the last, and
that the Policy iof t,hy Icing• of Holland' is, in accordance
wit,' tye • wishes;of his subjects, to maintain a firm and
resistance;dignified andi:if Compelled to yield the citadaotl,
it is thought that the disposal itt will' cost more di-
plomacy than even the 'separation of Holland and Belgium.
tieneptl Chasse has ref use to
,surrender. Vrecrilt.t‘re not
prepared for immediate aggression; and the whole' the Ne-
therlands is in a state of consternation.

THE Vicxxr'SEE.—it is reported that the troNi. and Rev.
Mz.,Plunkett, Dean_ of Down, and_ Rector nn(LYiVa.t of the
six good livings thereunto appended, is to be the new Bishop
of WaterfOrcl.:, su;prising; but provorbjal.l3 is tlie
nepotism of the Chancellor, we are surprised tfi aear.that the
,deatiatry of Down„ one of the richest in the kingdinn—ii to be
iheld.ll-141r-:•Plunkett, in conjunction with-tlio•-Seeof-W-ate:-
ford—tar from being poor ! Is this in conformity with the
Import and recommendation of the ecclesiastical commissioneis
-Leh: my Lord ?=-Dublin Freeman's Journal.