The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-29 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, Half-past Seren o'clock.
The public securities up to the termination of business u
Thursday. afternoon (yesterday being Christmas day, it was ob-
served, as a matter of course, as a close holiday) exhibited a
slight degree of heaviness without any very assignable• Cause, if
perhaps we except the fact that many of the Bulls closed their
accounts preparatory to their absenting themselves from busi-
ness to enjoy the festivities of the season. The American and
French question has ceased for the present to excite much in-
terest among the speculators in the funds. The fluctuation in
Consols for the Account this week has been between 91i and
91i, the latter quotation having been given shortly previous to
the termination of business on Thursday-the last price was
rather higher, viz., 91i I. The variation. in Money Stock has
'been extremely limited. Exchequer Bills have fluctuated be-
tween 13 and 16, and India Bonds between 2 and 5 premium-
Bank Stock hai advanced from 21Ji to 212. -
There has been a rumour current this aftecnoon that his Ma--
j esty's government has ordered twelve additional vessels of war
to ha- rtaced:tn coninilYsianTwitrtW-Iffewlit-rotentirigl3ettlsfr
commerce, should a rupture take 'place between France and
America.
. The continental arrivals to-day are very unimportant. We
have no accounts whatever frarn the colonies. Business of a
commercial nature, as well indeed as in the Public Securities,.
has been conducted upon a very limited scale, the attendance
of merchants and others having been small : added to this, the
city has, during the greater part of the day, been enveloped in
so "dense a fog as materially to check mercantile and other trans
sections.
The Money Market has been nearly. deserted to-day, and
speculation, in consequence,. was very :nactive. Consuls for
Account, which opened at 91i, fell to 91i. and closed buyers at
that price. The departure of the Pantaloon to the United
States, and the reported increase in the navy,.hase had some
slight effect upon the market. 'ln Exchequer Bills and India
Bonds there has been no variation to-day. Bank stock re-
mains et from 2111 to 212.
Bank Stock, 212 Long Annuities,
Red. Annuities, 90f India Stock,
Consols, shut • India Bonds, 4 pin-
-34, per Cents. Red., 98-j Exchequer Bills, 15 pm.
Ditto New, shut Consols for Account, 91i

Omnium, pm.
In the market for Railway and other Shares there is hut little
doing this week. The Great Western Railway Shares have
varied between GI and 71 premium ; the London and Green-
wich between 7 and 8; the London and Bilmingham between'
47 and 18; and the North Midland between DI and 2 pi einiurta
per share.' The Danube and Maine Shares have fallen to a
discount of I per share. In sonic of the minor Mining Shares
business has been on the increase; but the variations in them
have not been of importance.
A want of energy has been shown in the Foreign Stock Mar-
ket. Spanish Bonds have receded frolll' 48i to 484, but rallied
before four o'clock per cent. Portuguese 5 per Cents have
declined from 834 to 824, and the 3 per Cents, to 544 ; each,
however, closed per cent. liigher. There has been scarcely a
bargain done in auy of the other Foreign Securities. Chihaf
are a shade lower, closing at 4,11 i Mexican Bonds remain no-
minally at 38, and Colombian at 02.
The Share Market is equally languid. The great and in-
creasing demand. which exists for iron has led to an improve-
ment in the British Iron Company's Shares from 1:32 to 1:34
per share. Danube and Maine Shares have declined to 11 dis-
count, and in the Railway Shares there has been no alieration
to-day.
Chilian, 44 Russian, 1081
Portuguese (New) 83 Spanish Consols, 481
Portuguese 3 per Cents., 541 Dutchper Cents., 551
SH AREs.—London and -
13iackwall Railway, 3.1; London and
Gravesend, dis. ; Danube and Maine,l4 ; London and West-
uainster Bank, l 5; British Iron, 33. •

THE WEATIIEEL—The thermometer sank down to 21 degrees
of Fahrenheit on Tuesday night, being the coldest point tha'
year.—Lo'ndnn papt.