The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-01-16 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS,

• City, Wednesday Evening, half Seven o'clock.
The accounts from the country continue of a nature to satisfy
the most sanguine, and the spirit of reaction seems awake
throughout the whole of the empire. To-morrow that celebrated
political quack Joseph Hume will receive the coup de grace at
Middlesex, and this country be relieved from being represented
by a man whose whole landed property in the country is con..
tained in the garden pots, which, with all the refulgence of red
lead and scariet runners, deck his balcony in Bryanston-square.
These cheering accounts have had a natural influence au Con-
sols, and our money market generally is in a state of great
buoyancy. The price of Cousols for Money, the dividends de-
ducted, is 90i, and Consols for the Account are at 92g. Money
is very abundant, and things are assuming a most satisfactory
aspect.

In our foreign securities there is a general advance, with a
similar appearance of buoyancy to that displayed in the English
market. Belgian Bonds are 99 to 991 ; 'butch 5 per cents. are
101; the 21 per cents. are 54g ; and Russian Stock 107 i lasi.
Great speculation has prevailed in both Spanish and Portu-
guese Bonds in the last day or two, and there has been a con-
siderable advance in price. The intended appropriation of the
waste lands to the wants of the state is one of the causes of this
rise. Should the civil war long continue, we imagine those
waste lands will be to no little extent, and can now see the po-
licy of the Christinos in destroying all the Carlist owners that
fell into their hands. Spanish Bonds closed this afternoon at
57, and Portuguese at 881. The Duke of Leuchtenburg, the
husband of the young Queen of Portugal, is in our metropolis,
and is really no discredit to the blood of Napoleon.
Our transatlantic bonds are all very firm. Brazilian Bonds
have risen to the high price of 80X; Columbian are 32J4 ;
and Mexican are 41 42%. In the share market Imperial
Brazilian Shares are at 39 10, with a fine market.
A letter from Marseilles of the sth instant states that the
master of a vessel, which sailed from Naples on the 26th ult.,
reported that the St. Wenefred steamer, belonging to Liverpool,
was entirely destroyed by fire on the 25th in the port of Naples.
The crew and passengers were saved. Letters received to-day
from Naples to the 31st ult. state that the above vessel was
much damaged by fire, and had been run ashore at Marina de
Carmina. A survey had been held, and the vessel condemned
and abandoned. Notwithstanding these steps the consignee,
Mr. Cotterell, with the British Consul, had so exerted them-
selves as to get her off ground, and she was being towed into the
mole.

The Trinidad papers to-day are to the 28th November. On
the 24th an attript to excite alarm by a cry of revolution was
made at Porto Spain, and created great confusion. Several
serious accidents occurred, and although -the falsehood of the
report was soon made manifest, the excitement caused was suf-
ficient to show the great distrust under which the colonists
labour.

The accounts from St. Lucia to the 28th of November men-
tion that the governor was going a tour of that island in order
to re-explain the duties of the new law to the apprentices, the
former explanation having caused a great disaffection from his
phrase of " moderate labour" being translated by the sworn
interpretor into " petit petit travail." The result of his visit
was satisfactory on the estates so far as he had gone.
We have accounts from Calcutta to the 3d September. Trado
was dull; the exchange 2s. ld. Freights were falling—dead
weight being £2 ss. to £2105.; light goods £2los. to £3 10.

ANOTHER INSTANCE OF WHIG HONOUR AND
COURTESY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STJINDARD.

Si it,—As you may probably consider it singular that I have
not furnished you with a report of the speeches delivered at a
dinner given to Messrs. En-art and Morris, at the Theatre-
royal, yesterday evening, I take leave to state the circum-
stances which have led to the omission, as I am anxious to show
that it is not owing to any neglect on my part that so much
eloquence is lost to the readers of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
Having received your instructions to attend the dinner al-

luded to, and to take a full and faithful report of the proceed
ings, I, on Tuesday afternoon, at two o'clock, repaired to the
Angel Inn, in Dale-street, where I was given to understand the
managing committee were then sitting. On such occasions I
need not inform you that committees of this description gene--,
rally provide accommodation for the piess. I therefore sent
the following note to the committee, requesting the same privi-

lege as my brother reporters, feeling assured that the applica-
tion would be acceded to by gentlemen whose professions are
of so liberal a nature, and who are such stanch advocates for

the liberty of the press.
"Mr. Gaskill, reporter to the Lirerpool Standard, presents his
compliments to the committee of management of Messrs. Ewart
and Morris's dinner, and requests th'e favour of an admission to
the Theatre-royal, on Wednesday, the 14th inst., for the purpose
of taking a report of the proceedings. Mr. G. skill is only de-
sirous of being placed on a similar footing with the rest of the
press on the occasion. An answer per bearer will oblige.
" To the Committee of Management of
Messrs. Ewart and Morris's Dinner."
In answer to this note I received the following verbal com-
munication from the waiter who carried it :

" Mr. John Ewart will take care that Mr. Gaskill's applica-
tion is placed before the committee, and if Mr. G. will call again
at three o'clock, at which hour the committee meet, he shall
know the result."

At the appointed hour I again called, and sent the same
waiter to receive the answer. The waiter, after an absence of
ten minutes, returned and said, in the presence of a third per-
son, " The gentlemen of the committee request you will walk up
stairs." I, of course, imagined that the committee were de-
sirous to inform me of the accommodation they had provided
for us, and, pursuant to invitation, I entered the room. On my
entrance I saw between fifty and sixty persons surrounding a
gentleman in a green coat, who held ,in his hand a num-
ber of 'letters. Front the deference which appeared to be paid
to this gentleman by those who surrounded him, and from the,
circumstance of his having open letters in his hand, I considered it
was he who had sent for me, and I was making my way to him,
when a gentleman called out, "Mr. Gaskill, you were not in-
vited to this meeting." The eyes of all present were then turned
towards me amidst- cries of " Withdraw ; you know you have
no business here." At this singular, and, as I conceived, un-
gentlemanly conduct I was perfectly amazed. I endeavoured
to inform then that I had entered the room at their own invi-
tation to receive an answer to my note, but as they would not
hear me I withdrew, and immediately forwarded a note to the
following put port:—
"Mr. Gask ill, the reporter of the Liverpool Standard, is at a
loss to know how an invitation to a room in reply to a note,
and on entering, a discourteous order to leave it, can be recon-
ciled with the conduct of gentlemen. Under these circum-
stances Mr. G. declines receiving from Mr. Ewart's committee
anything which might be construed as a favour.
"Angel Inn, half-past three."

Having sent the above note I left the inn ; but iu a short time
afterwards being informed by a friend that some of the com-
mittee had inquired for me, I returned and sent up my name,
intimating that if any gentleman wished to see me I was in a
room below. Three of the committee then sent for me, and
stated that they had instituted an inquiry into the circumstances
relative to my being invited the room, and had discovered
that the waiter had delivered such A message to rue, but without
the chairman': authority. I inquired who instructed the waiter
to deliver the message, but to this I could obtain no other reply
than that it was a mistake of the waiter's. The three gentle-
men,. one after the other then endeavoured to "talk me" into
the belief that I was not justified in feeling myself insulted, and
that it was the committee who were-insulted by my entering the
Toom, notwithstanding their admission that I had received the
invitation. They were also exceedingly anxious for me to admit
myself in the wrong by sending (in writing) to the committee
for a withdrawal of my last note, on the grounds that the mistake
had been explained to me, but this I of course refused. Tickets
of admission were subsequently sent to the reporters, but as I
received no answer to my application I did not attend. Trusting
that my explanation tor not reporting the speeches will be sa-
tisfactory, and that the columns of the STANDARD may be oc-
cupied with more interesting matter,
I am, sir,
Your obedient servant,
L. 'l'. GASKILL.

January 15, IS3I.

THE BACHELORS' BALL.

Last night a ball on an unprecedented scale of grandeur,
termed the bachelors' ball, was given at the Wellington Rooms.
and was attended by a great .phalanx of beauty and fashion,
Among the most distinguished individuals who honoured ye
bachelors with their presence, we noticed Lord Saudon, hir
Howard Douglas, Bart., Lord and Lady Molyneux, the Hon.
G. B. Molyneux, Col. Plumbe Tempest, Mr. William Ewart,
Captain D.ouglas, Mr. T. Gladstone, M.P., Mr. Peter Ains-
worth, M.P., William Blundell, Esq., Mrs. and the Misses
Blundell, Robertson Gladstone, Esq., the officers of the 33d
Re.iment, Mr. Crosbie, &c.
fhe splendid suite of rooms were most elegantly and fanci-
fully fitted up on the occasion by Messrs. Edmondson and Sons,
of Bold-street, and the chasteness and novelty of the designs did
them infinite credit. _
The circular room at the entrance was brilliantly illuminated,
and hung round with holly branches and laurel. From this
room the visitor passed through a grotto, or sea-side hermitage,
which was so happily imitated as almost to lead to the supposi-
tion of its reality. lu appearance it was a cave hewn out of a
rock, to the sides of which clung, with much apparent natural
tenacity, the petrified waters and earthy substances corroded
by the land of time. In the centre, and immediately opposite
the hermit's couch of stone hung a solitary lamp, by the rays of
which the sea-gulls and other wild birds were seen perched in
all the sieeming consciousness of life and security. We never
m i
saw a more co
plete llusion. Having passed through this
rather dark abode of solitude, the visitors were suddenly re-
called to the more pleasing recreations of social life by entering
the ball-room, which; after emerging from the cave, appeared to
be one grand blaze of light. The refreshment and card rooms,
which are at each end of theball-room, were both arranged in a
style which might vie with the magnificence of the east. The
card room was peculiarly elegant; its appearance was that
of a capacious Persian alhambra, or pavilion, formed of blue
white and red drapery, Vandyked with gold. The tent seemed
to be supported by eight gorgeous eastern pillars, four on each
side, and was illuminated by a beautiful cut glass chandelier of
sixteen lights pendant from the centre of the ceiling. The
drapery at the sides was so ingeniously arranged and divided as
to give the appearance of six points of egress from the pavilion,
and by the effective aid of well-painted scenery the outlets
seemed to invite the visitor to take the cool air in a country
rich with every luxury. The whole of the pavilion was sur-
rounded by cushion seats of a light amber colour, and the effect
altogether was such as to impress the mind with an idea of en-
chantment. The refreshment room was also decorated with
blue, red, and white drapery, in a style combining ele,rance
with neatness and splendour. The tables, which groaned with
every delicacy suited to a cold collation, were lighted by six
massy candelebras, from each of which there were six branches.
The ball opened about ten o'clock, and we have no recollection
of one having passed off with greater animation or eclat..

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TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNIVEBSITIES
OXFORD AND CAMBRIDGE RESIDENT IN TH
SOUTHERN DIVISION OF LANCASHIRE.

GENTLEMEN,—The interests of the church establishment yen
have sworn to uphold, and of the universities you are bound to
defend and revere, must be vitally affected by the measittes of
the parliament which the country is about to return. That you,
in common with eyery elector rn the kingdom who may haves
graduated at an English university, are hostite .to those candi-
dates fur suffrages who abet the overthrow of the establishman t
or advocate the admission of schismatics into the universities, I
cannot permit myseif to doubt. But the circumstances in which
you are placed as electors for the southern division of this
county peculiarly claim the exertion of your most vigorous
opposition,
Mr. George W. Wood is a candidate for the representation
of your interests in parliament—he is the ORIGINATOR of the
bill for the admis.ion of dissenters into the universities to whieli
you belong.
I need hardly remind you that the endowments of which these
institutions are possessed, are not the proceeds of a tax levied
upon all, t4e benefits of which impost all might consequence
be deemed eligible to share. They are the bequests of private
individuals, granted fur the specific and unalterable purpose of
educating those only who conform to the creed and discipline
of the religion of the state.
That the munificence of such benefactors should be enjoyed by
those who do not belong to the national establishment is at least
inconsistent; but that the advantages their 'endowments secure
shoold be enjoyed by the sworn foes and malicious assailants of
that system of church government which the founders of our
colleges piously endeavoured to support and diffuse, is at once
cruel, dishonest, and unjust.
Gentlemen,—lt is consolatory to know that your stations in
society as clergymen, barristers, and country gentlemen, must
render your interference under any circumstances ofgreat
It is for you to say whether your interest and exertions were
ever more imperatively demanded than on the occasion of the
ensuing county election.
I forbear inveighing on the contemptible incapacity and pal-
pable unfitness for the duties of legislation which Mr. Wood's
parliamentary career has invariably displayed. His interfer-
ence in the instance of the dissenters admission bill amply
justify your rejection of his claims to your support. lam per-
suaded that neither arguments could strengthen nor invective
inflame your hostility to his return.—l am, Gentlemen, with
great respect, yours, . OXONIENSIS.