The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-04 00:00:00

time in the last year, of 4958

Spanish wines, of wb

in the quantity taken into use hitherto this year, as compared
with the same time last year, of 89,549 gallons. Wines of
all other descriptions, of whatever growth or produce, not
others enumerated or particularised, nor included in any of
the above classes, hitherto this year there has been duty paid
upon 197,523 gallons, against 181,000 gallons, which were
cleared for home consumption during the same period in the
last year, 1840, showing a►► increase in the quantity of mis-
cellaneous or unclassed wines taken into use up to the pre-
sent time this year, as compared with the same date in the
last year, of 13,523 gallons.
Total aggregate decrease in the quantity of wines on
which duty has been paid for home consumption
. in the port of London as compared with the cor-
responding portion of the last year, 1840
Deduct increase

325,129
29,467

Total actual decrease
The above very remarkable decrease in the comparative
quantity of wine consumed, it will be observed, occurs chiefly
in those wines which are in most general use—namely, port
and sherry, and which may he termed with propriety the
standard wines on the English table ; whereas the.trifling in-
crease appears only on such wines as are consumed almost
exclusively by the more wealthy classes of soc•ety.

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security and deposit of arms. On the subject of the
navy no new suggestions are thrown out. Taken altogether,
we have seldom met with files so barren of information.

THE UNITED STATES BANK

Mr. Austin Montgomery, of Philadelphia, addressed the
following letter to the grand jury, in session, on the Ist inst.

[December
" I chiirg.
Thomas Dunlop,
with fraud and thef

Nicholas Biddle, Joseph Cowperthwaite,
Samuel Jaudon, and John Aildrews,

ating tike

I States hank

My proof is the report of the Investrgating, Committee, made
to the stockholders in April, 1841. As to the idea of the
above being a breach of trust only, 'tis not so—'tis too idle
and insulting to be pretended to be entertained for a moment.
Away with it, then, and for ever. Those men were servants,
and paid for their services—so are your family domestics, to
whom you give in charge your plate and other valuables.

But if they appropriate it or them to themselves,
unhesitatingly charged with and proceeded ag
theft—and why not N. Biddle and the rest ? "
The grand jury in return thought they could do no less
than ask the court to direct the attorney-general to send up

ainst as for

to them bills of indictment against the following persons :-
Ist. N. Biddle, S. Jaudou, J. Andrews and others, to the
jury unknown, for entering into a conspiracy to defraud the
stockholders of the Bank of the United States of the sum or
sums of 400,000 dollars in the year 1836, and endeavouring to
conceal the same by a fraudulent entry in 1830.
2d. N. Biddle, E. Cowperthwaite, T. Dunlop, and others
) the jury unknown, for entering into a conspiracy to de-
tbe stockholders of the Bank of the United States,
8-9 and 40, by which the stockhold-

ceeding three hundred thousand dollars.
3d. The Grand Jury do further ask for a bill of indictment
against Alexr. Lardner, Thomas Dunlop, Richard Price,
Lawrence Lewis, and George Handy, and others to the Jury
unknown, for feloniously, &c., conspiring to cheat and de-
fraud the stockholders of the United States Bank of Pennsyl-
vania, of the sum of one hundred and thirty thousand dollars
in the year 1810. _ _ _ _

The Attorney-General has declared his willingness to draw
up the bills, but one or two of the Judges seem not disposed
to take such direct steps in the matter, and for the present
the matter remains stationary.