The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-12-16 00:00:00

an important
scription in the City.
since

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the question of the corn laws was first mooted, but other
branches of business may, in many cases, be said to be
almost literally at a stand still, and in none is there any-
thing doing beyond the supply of immediate wants. This
applies to all the articles of colonial produce, as well as
Mark-lane. The main difficulty, however, lies with the
bankers and dealers in money. We have repeatedly had
occasion to state that the distrust that followed the re-
action in the price of railway shares, had induced the
bankers to increase their reserves, or, in other words, to
restrict discounts and other modes of employing their
funds, as a matter of precaution. This fabtidiousness. wP

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caring off, and the_ Barkk of
count houses, had early this

had also stated, was fast
England, as well as the d
week relaxed their proceedings,

and were taking paper at

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as we hay

above stated, has in a

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tally suspended all prosy-ctiv'e business. All these things
tend to show that the state of society in which we are
placed totally unfits the country for an unsettled Govern-
ment, and that we should soon be brought to the verge of
ruin by a renewal of popular agitation and commotion, in

whatever cause it originates.
Consols were done for money at 931, and the price for
the opening, ex dividend, ranged from 911 to 921, leaving
off at 921. Considerable business was done for the open-
ing, but mostly for comparatively small amounts. The
City was teeming all day with a great variety of rumours
about the Ministry. •

Foreign Bonds were rather better supported than could
have been expected, Cuban Bonds were done at 97 and
951; Chilian Deferred, 52? Grenadian, 201; Deferred,
44; Mexican, 29/ ; Peruvian, 35 ; Portuguese Four per
Cents., 58; Spanish Five per Cents., 271; the Three per
Cents., 37;; Passive. 64; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents , 95; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 594; and
the Four per Cent. Certificates, 934.

(From yPsterdop's herald.)

The transactions in public securities were limited in
amount, and otherwise unimportant. Consols for the
opening commenced at 9li, but they immediately rallied,
and left off at 92k ; lieduc d Three per Cents, at 92 • the
Three-and-a-Quarter New, 94 ; and Exchequer Bills 21
22 pm. Bank Stock was done at 2005.
Brazil Bonds were sold at 80. small ditto 79 ; Danish
86; Mexican, 29; Peruvian, 355; Portuguese Three per
Cents., 595 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 27a ; the Three
per Cents., 38; and Dutch Two per Cents 59.

Nothing occurred worthy of notice, the Stock Exchange
having been nearly empty ac soon as it was learned that
there was no news respecting the formation of a Cabinet.
The railway shares were heavy, and, prices rather a
shade lower, even of the registered lines. The truth is,
there are only two descriptions of persons operating;
namely, people that feel compelled to sell at what they can
get, and those who have money to spare, who are lying
continually in wait to take advantage of their necessities.
We refer to the detailed list for the actual prices.

At the Kirkdale Petty Sessions, on Friday, the dis-
gracefulcourt. The want of repair has been occa,i,}ried by a dis-
pute state of Prescot street was brought before the
whether, the West _Derby or the Warrington and
Prescot turnpike trustees are bound to repair it. It ap..
peered that the trustees had offered to give West Derby
£2OO to take the road, but the latter wanted £250. It
was agreed, after a long discussion, to split the difference,
and the repairs are forthwith to be commenced by West
Derby township. ,
One of the greatest impositions praegsed at the present
o the r. e
sop o, n
day by shbpkeepers, not only in London, but in every city
a
nd town throughout the kingdbm, is that of forging the
property of another, and imposing on the public the forged
article with all the, assurance of innocence. We allude in
the present instance to:those admirable requisites for the
toilet, the MacassarOd, Kalydor, and Odonto, as pre-
mPaerreidtismbaYint
adtthiron
the Messrs.
reputation,
parties are., Rwa . N g
andctoa
counterfeiting
ROWLANDS' articles, and, by adopting the very same
nt which,toebrifeeietti
8. from
or of mc fraudu-
lentontchoeci their
some trashy compounds resembling in appearance Messrs.
names, and copying the labels and bills, endeavour to pass
off their trash as the " GENUINE" articles, reckless of the
injury which they will inevitably inflict on those who are
deceived by using them. We should have imagined that
English tradesmen, whose reputation for honour and in-
tegrity is proverbial, would not have stooped to the mean-
ness of so base and paltry
.an action. Nevertheless we
know feir certain, that such is the case, and we would ad-
vise all patrons of Messrs. ROWLANDS' articles to pug-
chase ,only of respectable vendors—and particularly to
observe the Caution in their advertisement, which fre-
quently appears in our paper.