The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-17 00:00:00

LONDON LA7'ES7' NEWS.

City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening.
The Consol Market *has been rather more buoyant to-day,
and there is an improvement in the price, thequotation fur the
account, closiagat 921, but the operations have nut been of any
material importance. The settlement of the account in the
Foreign Market took place yesterday; and passed over without
any defalcation ; the fluctuations have not been to so great an
extent as during the last few previous accounts. km has
been a considerable degree of speculation id the' Chilian and
Columbian Bonds within the last few days, and we are enabled
to give some intelligence of no little interest to such of our rea-
ders as are creditors of those republics by holding the bonds of
the loan.' With regard to the Columbian Bonds it must be
borne in mind that the old republic of Columbia, by which the
loans were coutracted, has since become divided into three inde-
Eendent itates, viz., that of New Grenada, Venezuela, and the
quadur. The two former have now, ter a length of time, been
in the enjoyment of tranquillity, and its accompanying bles-
sing, progressive prosperity, and have on more than one occa-
sion expressed a desire to redeem the national credit by appoint-
ing commissinneri on the part of each of the republics to appor-
tion among thera the debt contracted by all when under one
government. This has been prevented by the civil war raging
in the Equador, which rendered that state unable to join the
others in their arrangement.
.As this civil warfare seems, how-
ever, not likely to come to an early'termintion,,the two first-
named republics resolVed' to appoint each- a commissioner with
a view to concoct some plan to retrieve the national character,
The last letters from Bogota bear date the 28th November, and
they.state that these commissioners had apportioned the Colum-
bleu foreign debt iu the ratio 0(50 per cent. to Ow-republic of
'Net* Grenada, 281 per tent. to that of Venezuela, and 214 to
that of the Equador. We also learn from other sources that a
plan for founding, or otherwise arranging the dividends, was on
the tapis. The above was about to be ratified by a treaty be-
tween the three states, and although the situation of the repub-
lic of the Equador may, for the present, preclude her adopting
active measures for liquidating the claims against her, yet the
amount acknowledged by the two former republics amounts to
78A per cent. We alsolearn that negotiations for the recogni-
tion of the independence of these republics by. Spain were on
foot, and that the last advices from Madrid were of a most fa-
vourable character upon this subject. The result of this intel-
ligence has been an improvement in Columbian Stock,.which is
361 1, with a fine inarket. The accounts front Chili are equally
favourable; tranquillity prevailed throughout the republic,
commerce was increasing, and it was strongly asserted, and ge-
.uerally believed, that the goverumeut was about to take active
measures for the retrieval of its credit abroad. The liabilities of
Chili, exclusive of the arrears of dividend,' do not exceed
ilooo,ooo sterling to the English creditors,and if her resources
are once made available, an adjustment would-be-matter of little
difficulty.• This information for. Chili has advanced the Bonds
to 41. In other stock there is not much to notice; the Northern
Bonds are advancing; and Spanish Bonds and Set ip also look
up, and the following were the closing prices this afternoon :-
3 per Cent. Red 92.4 Chilian 431 4IA
3 per Cent. Consuls ....921 4 Columbian, 37 36t ;.
3A per Cent,. Red 1001 Dutch 5 per Cents g
ISr* %V 31 per Cent ......99z Dutch 24 per Cents. :55 66
India Stock 2591 I Mexican - • 42.1
India Bonds
2
Exchequer Bilks .. 39 4(1; Portuguese
1104
.Russian
92h 2
n 1
Consols for Account ..921 h 1 Spanish 571 h
Belgian. Bonds ...... 102 Scrip
Brazilian •....84 86 . •

By it:counts received from New Zealand it appears that an
attack had been made on the residence of the British president I
there, 3. S. Busby, and that his life had been attempted by a
party of the natives, but without the concurrence of auy of the
chiefs.. This had led to a very 'extraordinary memorial from
the British settlers there to the president, in which they stated
that. he was 'Called for the future safety of their families and pro-
perty,
and of.therprinierty of others entrusted to..their .care, to
take advantage ot, the present opportunity to bring the natives
to a sense of the treatment to be observed towards the repre-
sentative of the British government who bad domiciled to pro-
tect British person and property from violence and oppression,
and by so doing to show them the necessity of paying' proper
regard to the alliance 'sought by them, as well as to •those who
had come to reside among them.
The memorial states that the repeated attacks made upon the
presidents were on the increase, and that should the last at-
tempt on the iesidence of the president be suffered to pass with-
out the fullest determination.to enforce satisfaction, the persons
and property of the settlers would be left to the arbitrary ca-
price of every savage horde.
The signets of the document conclude by calling„ on. the pee-
sideet to support the character of his office, and, if hedeemed, it,
necessary, to call a meetitig of the settlers to obtain their opi-
nion of the best mode of redress, and to show that the intention
of the governmenrin appointing the president was, as stated by
him in his atldress, for,tbe protection of the British settlers as
well as of the natives.,:,; •
To this somewhat AMA coininunication the president re-
turned .the following repl*:,--- •
," Gentlemen, —The extraordinary character of your letter or
the 6th 'instant;-which has just been delivered me, renders it
impossible for me to take any further notice of it than to observe
in justice to the chiefs of the surrounding districts that on the
present occasion thy have shown u.o want of a proper sense of
the treatment to be observed to the "representative of the Bri-
tish government" domiciled in this couutry. but have hastened
almost with one accord to 'express their abhorrence of the late
attack on my house, and attempt on my life, and to assure ine
that they will use every means to search out and bring to pu-
nishment the guilty parties."
Bay of Island:, May 9, 1834. •
It appears that the ship John Dunseombe, which, it will be
remembered, had been seized by the natives, had been given up
and was on her way to Sydney.

The ship Strathfieldsay, with female emigrants, arrived safe
at Hobart Town on the 13th August, in 104-days, from Graves-
end; the -passengers wereall landed in good,health, and the
whole were immediately placed itysituations. •

The Rev. Richard Jones, M.A., author of the well-known
work on " Rent," ana professor of political economy, at
King's College, London, has been appointed the successor to
the late Mr. Malthus, iu the college of the. East India Com-
pany at Hayleybury, as professor of political economy and
history.—Literary Gazette.
The widowed Countess-of Dalnley is a daughter of Sir Henry
Parnell, and sister to Lady Henry Moore and the lady of Dr.
Longley, head master of Harrow School.
A JUVENILE FLATTERER.—On the morning of my birth-day
I sent my son with his nurse, to call on the Princess Paulino
(Napoleon's sister.) He was a very fine boy, and was a great
favourite with the princess; he was also very fond of her, and
used to call her his femme princesse. "Why do you love me,
Napoleon?" said she to hint one, day. "Because you are pretty,"
replied the child, throwing his little white arms around her net k.
This naïve reply pleased the princess to the very heart; and,
in truth, h'er beauty must have been of a captivating kind, to
have made. so strong an imptessioit on the child.—Memoirs
of the Duchess d' Abrantes.

THE TURF IN BELGIUM.-At a meeting of the Society for
Improving the Breed of Horses in Belgium, held at Brumelson
Saturday last, one of the members informed the meeting that
he was-authorised by the Duke of Orleans to state that if horses
bred in France were allowed to be entered at the Brussels
races against Belgian horses, his royal highness would attend
the Brussels races, accompanied by some of the most .distin-
guished members of the turf in France, all of whom would run
horses; and in return Bahian horses should be allowed to be
entered for the plates in the Chalk de Mars.— BeVan Jnurnal.