The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-05-12 00:00:00

LONDON ~44rs,sr. NEWS.

City, Saturday Evening, half-past Seven o'clock.
The pressure for money continues here, and it has caused a
-further.decline in the public securities. Consols for money to-
day have been as low as 82i, and for the account at 92A but
closed a shade better than the former, being 92i 1, and the latter
at 924 1.• The scarcity of money has likeivise produced a de-
cline in the floating securities; Exchequer Bills having fallen to
2830 prerriimn# and the iudia*Bends are 11 1:3..
tO 5144 1-ePort.et.l --detf—ak..of Valdez by Zaulatara.crom
-irkftitiee to-day had a seriOas decluie in Spanish Bonds and
Sciip, the former falling in-94;-and the latter to premium.
The market, hoikevor, ralliediiiihrds the close, the last price of
the Bonds being at GUI, and the Scrip at 9} prom. The decline
on. COnsols has.canied- a great depression on all our foreign
securities. Colombian left oft' at VI ;.. Chilian at 53 to ;
Mexican at '47 ;. and Veruvian at 37. Portuguese 13onds closed.
at 101% X ; Belgian at:101X 2 ; Dutch 5 per. Gents. are at.
102 h and the 21 per Cents. at 58.

We are enabled, upo'n what we consider first-rate anthorit

to contradict the reported defeat of Valdez, to which we have
alluded above. So far from this the Carlists have been entirely
drawn out of Navarre, and Valdez haL; possessed himself of the
important defiles of Amescoas and Alzana. The success of the
=Carlist general over Yriati appears arose as follows :—Driven
by the superior forces of Valdez towards Biltios, he intercepted
the detachment under Yriati, which had left that place in pur-
suit of some bands of Carlists. From the great superiority of
Zumalacarregu!,the return of this detachment to Bilboa was
rendered imNasible ; but as Valdez was rapidly following his
opponent, the advantage was not likely to be either permanent
or important. It is time indeed, for the sake of humanity, that
this sanguinary conflict had terminated either one wiyor the
other.

Advices have been received from Tripoly to the 15th of
March, up to which date the expedition sent by the Sultan had
not arrived. The foreign consuls had addressed a joint protest
to Mohammed Caramen-ti that he must respect all the European
establishments if he wishes their nations to observe 'a neutrality.
This protest had been productive of good effect, and the bombs
fired into the town were only directed against the property of
the Pacha Sidi Ali and against the vessels cruizing along the
coast for the purpose of maintaining the blockade.
The communication between'Tripoly and the coasts of France.
and Italy was very difficult. The town was, however, well
provisioned both with grain and cattle. • The only vessels of
war at Tripoly were the English corvette Favourite and the
French corvette-Delegento.

Late advice!. from Bermuda give the particulars of the Enter-
prize,. Smith master, with 78 slaves, having put into the port of
Hamilton., in consequence of being _blown off the American
mita when on her passage frOm Alexandria to Charleston. On
the following dhy Captain Smith declared himself ready for sea,
and requested the offieers of his Majesty's Customs to report the
Enterprise outwards, They, however, by the advice of the law
officers of the crown, declined doing so until the pleasiire of the
,
governor was lznown regarding the staves. In the meantime, a
Friendly Society, iaitituted by the tietter. description of the
.coloured inhabitants, hearing that the unfortunate beings did
really desire to be free, obtained from the chief justice a writ of
habeas corpus 'to brifig then; all before hits.` The constable,
with the Writ, went'off to the'ship, requesting' to see the master,
and delivered him; the writ, .which, after .readiog„ Ile_ stated was.
not properly served, and on-the constable declining tOjake it
back it was-dropped into thebtittoinOf the hoat. The constable
immediately returned,,to the Aorta to report proceedings. In
the interim the master -having landed, west advised to plead-to
the writ, and ultimata), the whole of -the slaves were brought
into court. After an examination they all, with the exception
of a woman and five.children, aelared themselves desirous of
remaining and being free -A subscription had been raised for
them, and they-had all been provided with employment. 'lt was
understeod that the Ameriedn captain intended to lay the tnat-
ter befOre the government:

DEATH OP WILLIAM LINLEY, ESQ.—This accomplished
Musical amateur died suddenly yesterday morning at his chim-
hers io Furnival's Inn. He had dined with the catch club on
Thesday. Mr. Linley was the son of the writer of the music in
the Dnenta, and' brother to the celebrated Mrs. Sheridan. He
Wks :hinigilf a. very good composer and an excellent judge of
Music. • His death will be lamented by a very numerons.etrele
of friends, ,and by, the musical profession generally. He was
verging on seventy years of age.—Landon paper.
SEVERN. DROG:—The report of an intention to convertthe
well,lcnoWn towei_upon Shooters'-bill to a place of public amuse-
ment by cutting flown the wood and formtng_pleasure-grounds,
seems to be one of those long Yarns's° often told by the old tars
of Greenwich. The property remains undistrub4l, and, so far
as we have been able to collect information, there is no foun-
dation for the rumour. This fort can never acquire more cele-
brity than it has 'gained by appearing as a monument of the
affection of Lady James for her gallant Ithsband.. The history
of this prominent object is generally known :—Geriat, a strong
town on the Malabar coast of India, was the principal port of
the famous pirate Angria. In 1756 Commodore Jinnes was
employed with a British.squadron to put aetop to the piracies.
'Angria defended hiinself in Geriat.' Upon a small island at the
entrance of the harbour stood the fort of SO:ern Droog, which
the commodore blew up, took the pirate prisoner, and gave
effectual protection to our East India trade. A complete model
of the fortress haYing been, transmitted to Lady James she
erected one of a like form on Shooters'-hill, within the view
from her own villa at Eltham, The property some time since'
*as brought to the haMmer, and purchased by the late Alder-
man Blades, in whose family it remains at present. The views
from .the different floors of the fort are varied and beautiful.
The town of Woolwich. the docks; the Thames windiny, in, its
conYse to the Metropolis, god a thousand pleasing objects de-,
Ii ht the 'eye. By the hen of n glass, the Castle at Windsor,
a;,d six counties, may be seen-. The Princess Charlotte of
Wale/ once employed a' foreigner to paint a panorama from
146 e fort, but tare sudertalsitig. ftas never completed.