The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-09-27 00:00:00

LONDON LATEST NEWS.

Wednesday Evening, Half:past Seven o'clock.
The Money Market ..continues witliout any material change;
but there, is a degree of heaviness in.,theyoarket, seeming to
indicate an approaching decline. Consuls for account closed
this afternoon at 881 1, and Exchequer Bills have fallen to
47 48 prem. Scarce any thing. has been done in the Foreign
Market since we last wrote ; Portuguese Scrip is quoted at
20 prem., Belgian Bonds at WI, „Dutch at 48i and Bra-
zilian at 70. Russian Bonds left off this afternoon at 1021,
and Spanish at 2li 3: •
It now appears that the propositions of Marshal Bourmont
are all fudge! So
.far from his having put forth sixteen
clauses, he has not 'proposed the sixteenth part et one. The
intehigence by the Echo has never been made public, and
it is not unfair to presume that the despatches are of so
'
unpalatable a nature that they do not tempt the minister to
furnish
even their' 'subservient 'scribes with an inkling of
their contents. It is current, however, at the club houses, that
Lord Wiliiain Russell has written home a description of the
conduct and' 'designs of Don Pedro, by no means pleasing to
the ministers, who begin to have a gliminering, that they have
furnished their "ancient ally" (Turkey is another ancient ally,)
with a king Stork to rule over theM. Since the arrival.of the
Echo, we have had no intelligence from Lisbon ; but a day or
two must clear up the mystery. Of this our country readers
may rest satisfied, that, had any favourable occurrence taken
place, as respects the Pedroites, we should have heard of it,
they having several Steamers and other modes of conveyance,
white the only .inerlitini. of Conveyance Don Miguel possesses
would be through Madrid and Paris. Beyond doubt, the pea-
santry and the population are decidedly averse to Don Pedro
and his mercenary band, who have given them no cause to re-
joice at the visitation.

PUBLIC MEETINGS AND EXHIBITIONS.

The fourth, and, for the season, the last exhibition of the Floral
and Horticultural Society, was held on Wednesday, and contain-
ed, as we are informed, a good selection of dahlias (the main ob-
ject of the exhibition) and of autumnal fruits. We say "as we
are informed,"—and we avail ourselves of the opportunity of
using that expression to engraft upon it something in the shape
of a protest against the practice that seems to be too prevalent in
the, establishments of this town, where, by means of annual or
other meetings, publicity is sought to be given to the objects of
the respective institutions.; be those objects the increase of funds,
as in the gases of pubile charities,--the extension of knowledge
in science or natural history, as in the case before us,--or that
general dissemination of the details of Meetings, which is a con-
sideration with those. Congregating together, for whatever pur-
pose. We'Should be: unwilling to impute to those who :have
the direction of such institutions a desire to act otherwise than
in a:manner calculated to aid, to the utmost, the objects they
'profess to support; nor can we imagine them labouring under
a supposition, that there other 'way of 'aecomplahing
that end than 'throtith the ".triedium 'of•the public press: If
this be so, how unwiie must it be to withhold,from those who
are alone capable of esunishing. information to the public, any,
one of the faciiities requisite for doing.so ; and not only for
tieing it, but for doing it in the most effective way. It is
surely enough for those engaged in the conduct of the pub-
lic press to lie Vote their time and talents—a talent in this
• particular respect'of no ordinary kind--to the collection
and publication of faithful accounts of the proceedings at
public meetings, or places of, public entertainment, with-
out its being considered a . favour conferred upon them to
give them tickets of 'admission to those places, and with-
out leaving them to shift for themselves, with a not un-
frequent slight manifested as regards the little hospitalities of
the occasiOti;atid'ei,en a great backwardness in communicating
that information known to the conductors or stewards of the
assemblies, but not necessarily known to those attending on
behalf of the Public press; but without which the reports of their
proceedings cannot, except by great caution and exertion, if at
all, be given with the desired accuracy. We are not, in these
remarks, pointing particularly at the society named in the out-
set. Nor should we have made them at all at the moment,
were we not quite aware that, in applying our observations
generally, we are not likely to injure either this, or any other
public institution. Our object is the exact .reverse of that.
And if those engaged in the direction of such institutions think
the intervention of the public press useful to them, they will do
well to adopt the practice universally followed in the metropolis.
That practice is, invariably, to send tickets of admission to each
of the different newspapers for the nee of thtle who may.attend
on their behalf ;—to appoint for theni comfortable and onve-
nient positions to take their notes;-to furnish them with co-
pies of resolutions or documents, ivhich may be brought for-
ward in the course of the. proceedings,, and genefally with every
requisite information ;—and if, perchance, the occasion should
'be a public dinner,, to give directions that they shall be treated
as guests, and not as interlopers. By these means, the pro-
ceedings at public meetings in London are reported in a man-
ner which cannot fail to strike every one as most perfect.
When the same cwarseis pursued here, then, and not until then,
will the same perfection be attainable.