The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-02-10 00:00:00

STATE OP TRADE.

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BRADFORD MARKET.—The stuff trade continues steady,
though there was not quite so much business transacted in ails
market on Thursday, as on the previous market day. There
has, however, been considerable bustle in the warehouses duriug
the week. Prices remain pretty much the same as on previous
market days; yarns are rather firmer, though the demand for
wool has rather slackened.
HALIFAX MARKKT.—There was another good market on
Saturday last. Lastings were as much in demand as ever, and
in some cases higher prices were paid, the manufacturers
having been obliged to pay rather more for their yarns, and
also to increase the remuneration of their weavers. Yarns met
ready sale on improved terms.
litorEttsvmt, o MARKET, on Tuesday, was much brisker
than on several previous market days, but there was no im-
provement in prices.
Sanoi.awonTii.—The woollen cloth business is reviving a
little in this district. Towards the close of the last week the
manufacturers had several good sales, but all their hands are
not as yet fully employed, though they are somewhat better in
that respect than they were a month ago.
BARNSLEY LINEN TKADE.—The new year has realised our
expectations. The demand for our manufacture is almost as
breat as ever. The drill trade is becoming a most important
ranch of business, and the number of looms employed in weav-
ing that article is rapidly on the increase.
itocitoa Le FLANNEL MAIIKET, MONDAY, Feb. 2.—Less
business was done than last week. though the market was well
attend..d. Low whites were scarcely inquired after, but good
greys for dyeing were in some request, let inferior sorts would
hardly sell'at any price. Middle qualities of white were duller
than last week, but pieces of finer reeds were brisk sale. The
wool market was active, but of low qualities was most in request.
COTTON lIAND-I.OOM WFAVING IN LANCASHIRE.—WC re-
'gret to hear that the cotton hand-loom weaving has within the
last three weeks become very slack.

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TUESDAY MORNING. _FEBRUARY 10, 1835.

In our opinion a great deal too much has been said and
written about the speakership. The discussion, we ad-
Mit, has been forced on by a certain coterie, or rather
by a fragment of the wings; and, as the most bitter
feelings have been brought into the contest, we are con-
tent that the public should decide, according to the best
of their judgment, as -to the merit of the facts, allega-
tions, and arguments, as well as the conflicting claims, of
the respective candidates. •
We confess, however, that a great mistake has oc-
curred in giving so much importance to the factious pro-
ceedings of- Lotd JOHN RUSSELL. We should have im-
agined that the pretensions of this very conceited and
superficial personage had sunk far below zero since his
unfortunate controversy with the Bishop Of• Exeter, in
which the gross misrepresentations of Lord JOHN, after
being detected and exposed, were humbly confessed by
himself.

This exposure, we condeived, had settled his character
for ever as a public man, and we, in that conviction,
looked upon him as holding merely an equal situation in
society to that of Mr. LITTLETON, Mr. DEVONPORT
HILL, Sir EDWARD CODRINGTON, and others. The con-
fident tone with which he began his last canvass for
South Devon was considerably lowered before its close,
while the controversy which be had provoked told his con-
stituents that the illustrious godfather of the reform bill,
though a member of the cabinet, and an important per-
son in his own estimation, was held in such poor repute by
his whig colleagues that they did not even consult him
on matters of any public interest, or entrust him with
state secrets. At his first election for Devonshire, fresh
from the honours of robbing Dartmouth and defending
Tavistock—of destroying the influence of the noble
houses of Newcastle and Rutland, and extending that of
the more illustrious aristocrats, the BEDFORDS and the
DURHAMS—fresh from these honours, we say, and deco-
rated with the laurels of the reform bill, Lord Jon Rus-
SELL threatened the electors of Devonshire with the bal-
lot. At his recent, election, however, the noble ex• pay-
, master of the forces thought proper to draw in his horns.
He then declared himself an enemy of the ballot, and, in-
stead of riding over the county like a conqueror, he
deemed it prudent to court its suffrages like a mendi-
cant. We cannot tell what his former friends of the ra-
dical school now think of Lord JoitN 'limn'. In the
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opinion of those who know him best he is reckoned A
very shallow, prating, busy-body, in whom artificial grr
vity and flippant pedantry pass for wit.

Such people are always digging pits and tumbling into
them. Lord STANLEY touched off his character and de-
scribed his meddling propensities in five words--
"Yohnny," said he, "has upset the coach !" He built a

house of snow, but he was silly enough to put a chimney
and a fire in it. He endeavoured to consolidate the ci•
binet, but, in ousting Lord GREY, he forgot that without
a head the arms, legs, and tail were useless I What $
comical statesman it is !

It was, therefore, with some concern, as well as sur-
prise, that we saw Lord JOHN, after he had secured his
return for Devonshire, coming forward once more, in
leading part on the political stage, and looking as much
like a star as does the reflection of a farthing candle in a
tub of water. In the dress of lago he condescends.to
patronise Mr. JAMES ABERCROMBIE as Roderigo. I
have professed me thy. friend," says the former to the
latter, (quoting Sliakspeare, not Don Carlos, of course,.)
" and I confess me knit to thy desert ing with cables of
perdurable toughness; I could never better stead thee
than now. Put\money in thy purse ! Follow these
wars ; defeat thy 'favour with an usurped beard ; I say,
put money in thy purse!"
This is the character to a hair. Lord JOHN says to
Mr. ABERCROMBIE, "I am thy friend; wouldst thou be
speaker ?—I am knit to thee ; wouldst thou have £6OOO
instead of £2OOO a year ? If so, go to ; put money in
thy purse!"

The mock generosity and special pleading displayed
in the dialogue are excessively comic and true to life; es-
pecially so when we consider that they are addressed to
an Edinburgh lawyer. Mr. ABERCROMBIE is taken on

his weak side ; for who ever heard of a whig, particu-
larly a whig attorney, refusing to " put money in his
purse," when offered him ? Lord JOHN says " I can stead
you now—only say the word, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL '
can and will make his friend Mr. JAMES ABErtertomets
Speaker of the House of Commons, with a retiring pen-
sion of £4OOO instead of £2OOO a year—the last beings
beggarly reward which would not have been worth the
accepting had anything been done for it."
But let us place the matter in a more sober light. The
judge is compelled sometimes to smile at the ludicrous
vagaries of the culprit, whom, ere the day is done, he
transports for life. - That is our case. Lord JOHN RUS-
SELL'S conduct towers into arrogance, and Mr. JAMES
ABERCROMBIE'S is that of. a. miserly buffoon in the hands
of a quack. In the whole of these proceedings, as far
as England and Scotland are concesned, we see no other
performers than Lord JOHN and Mr. ABERCROMBIE. The
former calls upon the latter to consent to be put in no-
mination for the speakership. The latter consents—at
whose, solicitation ?—Lord JOHN'S .In other words,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL presumes to represent all the whip
reform, and destructive members of the House of Com-
mons, and Mr. ABERCROMBIE recognises him as such.
We know not what the ultra reformers mean to do, but
we ask the great body of the Whigs, particularly the mo-
derate whigs, is Lord JOHN -RUSSELL YOUR LEADER ?
Have you, gentlemen pf the whig party, given Lord ,
JOHN a carte blanche to use your united influence in any
way he pleases ?.,—to attach your names to any document
he thinks fit to publish ?—to command your vote in the
case of the speaker without any reservation on your
part, and to drag your suffrages, as the representatives of
the people, through bog and mire, through every kennel
of faction, for the dirtiest of all personal and selfish pur-
poses, and in order to gratify his malice and his vanity
at the same time ?..

We do not believe it t There is a point in the path
downwards at which the most reckless draw breath and
pause. There is a point beyond which even the most
forlorn will not pass; and we do not believe that the
whigs, fallen though they be, have fallen so far as to al-
low themselves to be dragged at the chariot wheels of
such a man as Lord Jour; RUSSELL. The respectable
whigs, we know, disavow the leadership of Lord JonN,
and feel indignant at his presumption. The important
and honourable section at the head of which are the
Duke of RICHMOND, Lord GREY, Lord HOLLAND, Lord
LANSDOWNE, Lord STANLEY, Sir JAMES GRAHAM, Sir
MATTHEW RIDLEY, and many others, disclaim all parti-
zanship with the consequential and inflated patron of Mr.
JAMES ABERCROMBIE. The Duke of HAMILTON we are
assured will not submit to be made a tool of by this suck-

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ring of tne Mouse of BEDFORD. Lord HowicK will vote
against him; and we are not quite sure if Lord Jon
can rely upon the countenance of the near relations of
the Earl of DURHAM. The Duke of SUTHERLAND has,
not yet declared his adhesion to Sir ROBERT PEEL'S ad-
ministration; but we learn in the best quarters that he
is not unfavourably disposed towards them, and that he
is decidedly opposed to the factious proceedings of the
despicable clique who do homage to Lord JOHN.
But the preposterous folly and arrogance of the ex-
paymaster would have been glaring enough without the
aid of Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL. We have said that in
Great Britain Lord JOHN RUSSELL was the only declared
patron of Mr. ABERCROMBIE. This is quite true; but,
as mischance would have it, he has another distin-
guished. supporter in the person of the spoliator of the
poor, the priest-fed pauper, who lives upon pence ex-
torted by the flames of purgatory, whose buoyancy is
the peasant's life-breath, and who dips the wings by
which he soars in their blood—we mean the agitator of
Ireland. Mr. DANIEL O'CONNELL has formally an-
nounced to his tail and his slaves that Lord JOHN Rus-
SELL has "s officially" declared Mr. ABERCROMBIE to be
Speaker. We make every allowance for the bombast of
a hedge orator in Ireland. But stripping it of its vulgar;
adornments it means this—" We, O'CONNELL and our
tail, are resolved to support ABERCROMBIE."
This is rather bold in a man whose seat for Dublin, he
well knows, is not worth a month's purchase. But we
pass by that which it would be folly to quarrel with. The
moral is worth a Jew's eye. Are the whigs disposed to
coalesce with O'CONNELL in opposition to the claims of
Sir CHARLES MANNERS SUTTON ? Are they willing to
run all the consequences of offering a studied insult to
the King, by coming arm in arm on Thursday-week to
the House of Commons, and giving their voices on the

side of a man who is the declared enemy of the protest-
ant church and the Blitish monarchy ? Will Lord STAN-
LEY be found in the minority— for a majority is out of
the question—with Mr. O'CoNNELL'? Will Sir JAMES
GRAIIAM mingle in theierray with an Irish rebel ? Will
any man, no matter what is the colour of his coat, but.
who has a character to lose, he found on the same side
with him whose name is contamination—whose history
is dishonour—whose friendship is pollution ? No, io..
We have a better opinion of human nature. We think
too highly of our countrymen to believe that fifty of them,.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, JOSEPH HUME, Surgeon WAXLEY,.
SILK BUCKINGHAM, WHITTLE HARVEY, Dr. BOWRINO.
and Dr. LUSHINGTON included, could be found to vote
with tYCONNELL on this question. Whatever may be
their private feelings on subjects intimately connected
with the liberty of the subject, the diminution of taxa-
tion, the extension of trade, and the favourite but falla-
cious maxims of the political economists—quacks who
are now fast sinking into oblivion—still the spirit of Eng-
lishmen survives, as demonstrated at the recent election,
and those who might go a certain length are, on calm
reflection, deterred from moving a single inch, simply
because they cannot, as honest men, shut thekr eyes to
the dangers which they see before them.

At the same time we should be imprudent advisers if
by evincing any excessive confidence, we should deter,
those from marching to the van whose aid might be re-
quired. It is bad policy to make too sure of victory.
The antagonist ranks are powerless and would be easily
dispersed, if we had the benefit of a drawn battle ; but
many a victory is lost through indifference, and by treat-
ing the enemy too lightly. It is not enough for the re-
presentatives of England and Scotland to beat Lord Jons
RUSSELL and Mr. O'CONNELL—they must be beaten by'
a majority which shall give confidence to the whole elec.-
tive body of the people. The pretensions of selfishness

on the one part, and ofia dismembering faction on the
other, must be put down and silenced for ever. The
first %ow of O'CoNNELL must be his last fur the city

of Dublin. Fiuud %lilt bare its triutnph at the first hour,

hut that triumph must be its last. The 'protestants of
Dublin are contributing liberally in support of the peti•
tint] of Messrs. HAMILTON and WEST. Why should the
subscription be confined to lielnd ? Every protestant of
England has a deep interest in seeing that plunderer
driven out of his strong hold. Liverpool, we hope, will
do its duty. What are a few thousand pounds to the•no-
ble spirited merchants who are the life and soul of its
prpsperity, and who have a deep interest in putting down
agitation in Ireland—and who—commercial interests
apart—must be anxious, as generous and benevolent
men, to see peace and happiness restored to an unhappy
island which is 'bleeding at a thousand wounds—whose
children are destitute—whose labourers are slaves—and
whose industry, first taxed by a rapacious priest, and
doubly taxed by an unprincipled demagogue, are sink-
ing down to the most degrading barbarism under the in-
fluence of superstition and priestly despotism Gentle-
men of Liverpool, you must do your duty.

One of the best evidences of civilization in any country
is when the people can enjoy a joke or a caricature at
their own expense. The French and English excel in
this respect. One half of Paris is constantly laughing
at the other, or at what our dancing friends call the
stupidity and counting-house manners of JoHN BULL ;
but what Englishman, and there are many thousands in
Puris,,ever dreams of taking offence at the frivolities of
a gay people ? In London, JOHN BULL, his wife and his
daughters, return the compliment, and laugh at the capers
and grimaces, the extravagant foppery, and frogeating
habits of Moniieur Crapaud. But whoever hears of a
Frenchman falling into convulsions, grinding his teeth,
and storming like a Bedlamite, at the ridicule cast upon
his countrymen ? In England we smile at each other,
and laugh at the matter which, although at our own
expense, excites mirth in others.
The citizens of the United States of North America
are the only peOple; of whonfWe' have any knowledge,
who cannot endure to be laughed at. If any man or
woman has dexterity enough to cheat or overreach them
(which is difficult) they can pardon that, and blow a cloud
with pleasure ever the unexpected loss of the dollars ; but
woe be to him who ventures even a good natured sally
in reference to their taste or the questionable courtliness
of their manners ! If caught taking such freedoms
with republican refinement, in the land of liberty, he is
a dead man, or a tarred and feathered one—if it be
possible.

How is all this excessive sensitiveness and thin skin-
ed nessto be accounted for? The 'Americans are like
their parent stock, a brave, enterprising, and intelligent
people. Whatever they possess in wealth or fame is of
their own acquirement. They -build their own ships,
grow their own corn, rice, swashes, and pumpkins, and
raise their own cotton, tobacco—and, we believe, their
own slaves; and we have yet to learn that any English-
man or foreigner can fairly he accused of underrating
their industrious and exemplary habits in these respects.
Trade is their element—agriculture the great source
of their wealth—and as traders and farthers, they are as
accomplished as similar persons in other countries, and
quite as much as is suitable - to their station and their
avocations. Why, than, so sore, if a foreign lady should
chance to read them an occasional lecture upon goOd
breeding, the use of handkerchiefs and kid gloves, the art
of tying a shoe, of opening and shutting a dour, and of
sitting upon a chair without placing their feet upon the
fender or the stove ? These are nice points which the
ladies are particular about in good society, and it is right
that Cousin JONATHAN should, in his progress towards
aristocratism, be made acquainted with them. If he
cannot be instructed at home, he ought to be thankful
when a lady from Paris or London, even though poor,
and unfortunately but a dress-maker or a milliner, is kind
enough to give him wholesome advice at a cheap rate.

But Las our cousin the good manner's to elevate his ha

make his best bow, and say, "Madame, I am infinitely
obliged to you?" Not a bit of it. He frowns himself
into a yellow fever, and he has the nouslessness and the
bearishness to construe an act of kindneis, done by one
of •the gentle sex, into a studied insult, as if she had
pulled the President by the nose,* had emptied a slop-
pail on the "striOd buntingt;" Or-sung 'Oa save the
King in the gallery of the House of Representatives,
Really, there is something very pettish and unmanly
in all this, Which is unworthy the national character.
We cannot reconcile it to any other theory than that of
false pride and overweening conceit. Their pride is
wounded, not because the allegations ate slanderous, but'
simply because they are true. Their pride is hurt be-
cause the Americans fancy that as they excel every
European nation in the length of their canals, the vast-
ness of their rivers, -and the whiteness of their flour, they
ought also to excel in literature, in dramatic taste, in
oratory, in pulpit eloquence, and in fashionable and
courtly accomplishments. But here they commit a great
mistake, and their defects are rendered more remarkable
by the silliness of their resentment. They ought to re-
tnemberlhat, unlike the kingdoms of Eur Ope, they have
no standard of manners. The courts of Paris and Lon-
don lead the fashions in these two countries; but in the
United States there is no court, no standard of fashion,
no recognised gentry, no old families, no one man in five
hundred who can look back and tell who was his father's
orhis mother's grandfather.
The Americans, then, having no recognised standard
of taste, they are compelled to import the fashions from
.Eugland and France. This they do, we admit; but it is
one thing to import a lace cap, or an Indian shawl, or a
pair of bracelets,_ and quite another thing to know how
to wear diem. This makes all the difference. The figure
of a quadrille may be imported fiom Alinacks, but where
are the exclusives 'or New York or New Orleans to do
3ustice to the original elegance which gave celebrity to it ?
The same remark applies to other matters. Chairs iu
Europe are made to sit—not to lie upon. The poker or
the tongs may in this country be allowed to rest occa-
sionally Ipon the fender or the grate—not so a pair 'of
iltiman legs. A gentleman here will sometimes be found
to 'lest his arms on the table after dinner, but he never
Places his feet on it. As for the use of carpets, they
are intended to be trod upon, but not

We stop here—a word to the wise is enough,—and far
be it from us to be critical to excess. At,the same time
the citizens of the United States cannot be too frequently
reminded of the indecbrum, cot.to use a harsher word,
of their manners, because every reminder must. have a
tendency to polish them, just as knives are sharpened
and polished, by rubbing !
These observations are initiatory of a paragraph in
Winch Miss FANNY KEMBLE, the actress, is rather coarsely
handh..d in a New York paper. We take it from the
Daily AdrWiser, of the 14th January :

" We are not able to see, from anything that has appeared in
the newspapers, in the form of extracts,from the expected work
of Miss limbic, what there is in them which has caused such
an exciteineat Of feeling'against the author. We may not have
noticed all that has been published,'but what we have seen is
too light and trifling to enkindle resentment. Indeed, if the arti-
cles which purport to be extracts from her work are not proved
to lie such by strong evidence, from the character which has
heretofore been given of her understanding, we shall doubt their
authenticity. If genuine, it may teach our countrymen a lesson
of some importance. It would seem, from the extravagance
with which they extol the individuals, who, front time to time,
tome here from Europe to amuse and gratify them, and from
the liberality with which they pay them for their trouble and
exertions, that there is nothing in the whole circle of human
eqj oyrn en t which can rank with theatrical exhibitions. If this
be so, we should think it would be an exercise of public spirit
and patriotism, as well as of economy, f,r them to go to work and
441ste their own stage players. It would be the means of prevent-
ing a goad deal of money from going abroad,and at the same time
save the it •rsons concerned from the mortification of being ri-
diculed and slandered by those whom they have flattered, fos-
tered, and enriched, without exciting any feeling of gratitude or
even of civility."

Unfortunate. Miss BAIL/E! What can Miss FANNY
ICEMBLE have done? The New York papers take care
not to tell us; but, if we are not greatly mistaken, the
lady in question has written a book in which she has had
the courage to•describe the manners of the people among
whom she •has sojourned for sometime; and her descrip-
tions are so graphic and accurate, that She has, like Mrs.
TRoLLorE, given mortal offence to the over-sensitive re-
Publicans. • Of course her career as an actress is ended

• Thi• was done the o! her day by one of themselves.

in America. The thunders of applause are spent, and if
she were to appear again, woman though she be, she
would be pelted off the stage. The Advertiser recom-
mends the citizens to raise their own actors, as they raise
turnips and horse-beans. Sooner said, wiseacre, than
done. It is impossible for an actor or actress, raised in
America, to read SHAKSPEARE with either correctness tr
elegance. They might read it in the American lan-
guage, but that, like the dialect of JOSEPH HUME or Mr.
RUTHVEN, is not quite English. If they should make
the attempt so much th better, and so much the larger
fund of mirth for the En "
t 66,
sh sketcher. If they have any
prudence they will drop t dea. .

But we ought not to be surprised at the acrimonious,
testy, and thin-skinned temper of the people of the
United States in their own free country, when we have
daily proof that they evince it on our own shores. This
is altogether unpardonable in men who have visited
foreign countries, and have breathed the atmosphere op
freer and more liberal nations. In New York they in-
dulge in a quaint sneer at the morale of the natives who
come from the " far down west ;" but those who have
had communication with the " far up east" do hot seem
to have brushed off the education and the airs of Ken-
tucky. In a short article which appeared in the LIVER-
POOL STANDARD a few days ago some facetious notice
was taken of a ship called the Republic, made, not built,
as the sailors say, in some unknown corner of the United
States. There was not an expression which any man of
good education, or'of companionable habits, or of gener-
ous feelings, would hate taken umbrage at. We saw
the vessel—laughed at Ni—and laughed irresistibly. If
any man breathing can do so without laughing be is not,
like theiship in question, of a mould which we admire.
We said nothing detrimental in reference to the strength,
the capacity, or the safety of the ship. She was called
the Republic, and certainly had a most cornica,l appear-
ance, as at least five hundred persons, and every ship-
builder and every shipowner in Liverpool will bear
witness.

That was a most disastrous and calamitous laugh on
our part. We have lost some three or four four-and-six-
pences in consequence. The magnanimous personage
who has the honour to command the Republic took the
joke in high dudgeon, published a contradictory adver-
tisement in all the papers, and actually persuaded some
of his countrymen to resent the insult heaped upon his
flag and nation ! Really this is below contempt. Are
there no schools in America ? Is the science of smoking
instead of the art of reading only inculcated in the naval
academies of a free country ? .It would appear so, for we
suffer damage to the extent of some fifteen shillings for
our joke. Talk o: the tax upon powdered wigs—this
upon laughing is much more serious.
These irascible people, however, do not know what
they are doing. They forget that they are foreigners
here, and that they receive .profitable indulgencies to
which they are. not entitled in law. What right, have
they to carry letters between New York and Liverpool
which do not pass through the postoflice, and by which
the revenue of that establishment is deprived, and, we
suspect, defrauded, of several hundreds, if not thousands,
of pounds per annum ? We understand what is meant
by the consiguee:s bag, but a hint, we hope, is enough
for the postoflice.

We have taken the liberty of borrowing, for the use of
Our readers, the whole of Mr. WAGHORN'S letter to the
merchants of LiVerpool, on the important subject of
steam communication with India. We shall also endea7
your to give his equally valuable appendix in our next.
It is unnecessary for us to say that the shortening of
the distance between England and the eastern: world, as
proposed in the plans of Mr. WAGHORN, and supported
by the Board of Control, is of the utmost consequence to
the commercial interests of this country. 'The route is
so clearly defined, formed for us in faCt by nature, and so
little liable to interruption from hostile and barbarous
powers, that we need not expend the public money in
exploring unknown regions, or in digging canals, cr in
embanking rivers, through insular and impracticable
countries. If we aretklHave a safe, which is of vital im-
portance, as well as an'expeditious channel of communi-
cation with India, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean.
with the Isthmus of Suez, only 130 miles of land car-
riage, shortly to be converted into a railroad, well de-
fended by the Paella of EGYPT, form the moat conve-
nient and accessible route. •

Mr; WAGITORN, we believe, is not a speculator in this
business. He can derive ho possible advantage from the
undertaking. He is simply the representative of the In-
dian public, under the favourable support of Lord ELLEN-
IiOROUGII, deputed to fubmit to the; merchants of Liver-
pool the best mode of facilitating the desired communi-
cation. It will be for our merchants to consider whe-

tiler the proposition submitted to them is or is not
worthy their most cordial support. They must see at a
g:ance the benefits which it is likely to confer on Liver-
pool. lithe steamers were built, and the -communica-

tion opened, they must perceive that eventually the pac-
kets from England to Alexandria, via Malta, must sail to
and from this port. The India trade is.gradually draw-
ing down towards the manufacturing districts, and ex-
cept,in the article of tea there is nothing worth bringing
to. London. The great bulk of eastern raw silk is of no
use in the metropolis. It must find its way here, and
from hence are, or ought to be, and will be, exported
all the• manufactures which are consumed by the hun-
dreds of millions of people who inhabit the sun:rising
side of the Cape. If, therefore, the trade should tend
hitherwards, of which we do not entertain a doubt, the
packets also must come to the convenient haven of the
Mersev.

On the whole, the sum squired is but trifling, consi-
dering the vast advantages which are likely, nay, cer-
tain to flow from it. The first two packets built would
be but the commencement of the business; other packets
would be required, not only between .India and Suez,
but between the islands of the eastern seas, bringing
Ceylon much nearer our own doors, and the produce of
China, and the spice islands, at a reduced freight, at
even less risk, and a comparatively short investment of
capital.

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

City, Half-past Seven o'clock, Saturday Evening.

It is impossible to convey, in adequate language, the shame 7
tess attempts made to obtain votes for Mr. Abercroniby, which
attempts continue to this moment, and exhibit a most disgust-
ing and degrading display of an abandonment of all principle
and honour for the reckless purposes of faction. From all that
we can learn, however, all these dirty efforts will fail, and the
practices, in addition to the annoyance of
.defeat, will have the
disgrace of having forfeited all character to prevent it.
The Money Market has been heavy since we last wrote, and
money is not abundant. Consols for the Account closed this
afternoon at 92i; Exchequer Bills have also become flat at 39
to 40 premium; but India Bonds are 21 to 23.

In the Foreign Market 1-ie Northern Bonds have supported
their prices iu a great measure; Belgian Bonds are 1001
Dutch 5 per Cents. are 11:121 ; and Russian, 1094. The trans-
atlantic securities continue depressed; 854 j is the price of Bra-
zilian, 414 42 that of Chilian; 331 4 that of Colombian, and 424
that of Mexican. The speculation in Spanish or Portuguese
Stock is not very extensive, nor is the fluctuation of moment.
Reports have been current to-clay of the death of Miva, but we
'do not credit them. The people of Castile generally, however,
are said to have made strong demonstrations' of dislike to the
present government, and its duration, according to appear-
ances, will not be very long. The closing price of Spanish
Bonds was 564 and the Scrip was at 4 premium ; Portuguese
Stock left off at 924. The following are the elositig prices :

Bank Stock - 2231
3 per Cent. Red - 92 IS2
3 per Cent. Consols
3i per Cent. Red 1(4
Nev‘ft,3l )er Cec' 91 1

Chilian ' 411 42
Colombian 3411 31
Danish in; ;
Dutch 5 per Cents ..1021 102
Kr

••• • •
Long Annuities'l7 7-16 17-16
India Bonds 22 21 23
Exchequer Bills 4l 39 4(1
Consols for Account ....921
Belgian Bonds 10(1
Brazilian . • .ssi

..1 utth 4-pal-Cents .-151
Mexican 42.
Portuguese .... ..... 92i 1 i 1
Russian.. lO9l
Spanish 561 I
Spanish Scrip. 41 3i 4
Real del M- - - St] -"-c-

-Lae. .onte . liaresi.:2s pm.
By accounts from Cuba we learn that the progress of the
emancipation scheme in the British colonies had caused a great
degree of excitement among the coloured population of that
island. The Captain-General, however, • General Tacon, had
taken very energetic measures to keep in.a.We. both the slaves
and the free coloured. population. - His excellency had expli-
citly declared, that however liberal the system pursued by the
mother country with respect to the island of Cuba might be, no
alteration was, for the present, intended to he made iu the
slave system, further than the prevention of the unportation of