The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

it indicates considerable confidence. Subsequent letters
from Paris tend to its confirmation.

Payment of the dividends on the French portion of the
Greek. Loan has been authorised by the Provisional Go-
vernment of Paris.

The Banks of Lisle, Nantes, Bordeaux, and Rouen,
have all suspended specie payments.
At Antwerp, Brussels, Amsterdam, and Frankfort, the
respective Bourses have been closed, to avoid rash adven-
turing in stock jobbing; and at Havre, as well as other
places, business has been brought entirely to a stand.
The Branch of the Bank of France at Havre has suspended
specie payment, and the commercial Bank at Antwerp
has stopped business altogether : it is stated that this es-
tablishment will pay in full. The Directory of the
" Societe des Eflets Publics" of the same city, has decided
that operations in the public funds shall be temporarily
suspended. The failure of the banking firm of F. de
Kinder Theunissens has been announced ; this firm will
not, it is said, pay more than 50 per cent. At Antwerp
and Frankfort general trade was all but suspended. Ap-
plications had been made at Antwerp, Bordeaux, and
Lille, for the Government to authorise a postponement
of engagements due on the Ist inst. to the 15th, but
nothing definite had re,ulted. The committee of the
Amsterdam Bourse have completed arrangements for the
settlement of the account, to take place on the 13th inst.
Gold is very scarce in Havre. English sovereigns are
worth 28 to 33 f aucs each.

The commercial intelligence from India, by the Over-
land Mail, reached London on Saturday. At. Calcutta
trade continued dull, and the money market tight. Ex-
change is quoted at ls. Mil. to Is. I lid. for first-rate
document bills at six months' sight. Freights have gone
up again, and are quoted at £6 15s. to £7 for dead weight
to London. Government securities going freely at a con-
siderable depreciation. At Bombay very little alteration
had taken place, and money was still very scarce. Ex-
change on England, six months' sight, Is. 10d. to Is. 100.;
three months, Is. 91.; thirty days, ls. 81d. The writer
of a commercial letter from Bombay, in speaking of the
effect of the home failures at that place, s ys that it has
been comparatively slight. A third house had suspended
payment. but it had taken no one by surprise. Two or
three more failures are announ;•ed, and credit still appears
to suffer from the advice of extensive failures on this side.
The estates of Messrs. Lackersteen Brothers, and Messrs.
J. Wigiiholt and Co., were to be liquidated by the pro-
cess of inspection. With reference to the Union Bank,
it appears that the sum now to be made up by the share-
holders, after the total loss 'of their entire capital of
£1,000,000 sterling, is estimated to be £77,500.
By the last advises from Mauritius sovereigns were 81
b 9 per cent. pm., and British silver 5 to 6 per cent. pm
Commercial accounts from the Australian colonies

state
that trade was gradually improving, and that the exports
of wool and tallow, especially the latter article, were
rapidly increasing. In South Australia, mineral researches
have been attended with the most successful results.

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