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

LONDON MONEY

MARKET AND CITY INTEL
LIGENCE.

SATURDAY EVENINb.—The funds have been steady all
day, but with little business doing, the jobbers being chiefly
holiday making. Consols were 89i to # for the opening.
Exchequer bills 14s. to 16s. premium. Bank stock 166 to 7.
In foreign securities there is little change to remark ex-
cepting in Mexican, which continued to advance, and at the
close of business were 291 to being a rise of about per
cent. on the last quotations of yesterday. Colombian were
221 to 1. Brazilian 64 to 5. Dutch two-and-a-half per
cents. s(}- to 1-1, ex dividend, the five per cents. 100 to 2.
Spanish active with the coupons 25 to Portuguese five
per cents. 33 to 4, the three per cents. 201 to f.

This year closes with a few good wishes from the mercan-
tile community, though, after all, perhaps there have been
many worse. It is certain that we have the elements for a
better trade in store, for with increased imports of many im-
portant articles, the consumption has also been augmented to
such a point as to leave the stocks on hand generally below
what they were this time in 1841. The prices realized, we
need hardly state, have generally been lower, and this it is
which accounts for the depressed state of our mercantile in-

terests, in the face of an apparent
Tea and tallow were quiet to-da

increase of business

OXFORD POETRY PROFESSORSHIP.—Mr. Williams' com-
mittee have proposed to withdraw both the present candi-
dates from the contest; but the principal and fellows of
Brasenose College have refused to withdraw the name of
Mr. Garbett.

A FIENDISH ACT.—Late on Tuesday night some tretch
i 1 iced a number of large stones on the Great Western rails,

between Box and Bath, just before the approach of the mail
train. Fortunately the guard-iron of the train (which was
bent completely double) in some measure cleared the large
stones, and the wheels crushing others, no injury was
sustained.

The prospects for our West India colonies, as we are
formed upon very good authority, are at present rather
satisfactory, the crops being likely to yield more than for
some years past. If such be the fact, and our information is
derived from a party who has been many years in the trade;
we may anticipate better times for our West India posses-
sions.—Courier.

-The New York papers notice, with extreme pleasure, that
Mr. John Quincy Adams has been appointed chairman of
the foreign relations, so important at the present moment,
instead of Mr. Cushing.

HOMELY TRIITH.—A gentleman who was importuned by
a sturdy beggar, answered him, " Mykood man, I am nearly
as poor as yourself, with only the difference that what I have
I work for."

DEATH OF THE EARL OF FALMOUTH.—We regret to
have to announce the death of the Right Hon. the Earl of
Falmouth, which event took place on Wednesday last at Tre-
gothnan, Cornwall, after a short illness, in the 55th year of
his age. By the decease of his lordship his eldest son, Lord
Boscawen Rose, M.P., succeeds to the peerage, and thereby
a vacancy is created in the representation of West Cornwall.
—Standard.

THE GREAT 'WESTERN RAILWAY ACCIDENT. -- A
lengthened inquest was held on the body of Woolley, on
Friday last, when the following verdict was returned :—" We
find that the deceased Richard Woolley came by his death
by a fracture he received on the skull, caused by the engine
called the liecla ' coming into collision with a mass of earth
which had fallen from the slope of a cutting on the Great
Western Railroad at Sonning, in this county ; and the jury
are of opinion that the accident might have been avoided had
there been a night police or cutting. They therefore place a
deodand on the engine and train carriages of the sum of
£lOO, and further they recommend that the passenger trucks
be in future placed further from the engine."
BRUTAL MURDER.—We hare just received the following
account of a barbarous murder which took place near Grange,
in the county of Sligo, on Christmas-eve :—Two neighbour-
ing men went into an unlicensed whisky-shop to drink.
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They were shown into a room, and a noggin of whisky was
brought to them. After sitting some time chatting, one of
them pulled a dinner-knife from,his breast, and stabbed his
companion to the heart. lie then deliberately walked out,
as if intending to return in a few moments; but, not doing
so, the landlord went into the room to see what the other
man was about, when, to his surprise and horror, he found
him bleeding profusely, the knife still fastened in the wound,
and he rolling about the floor speechless and insensible.
An alarm was instantly given, and the neighbours went in
search of the murderer, but we have not yet learned whether
he has been apprehended. We trust, however, to be able in
our next to announce his arrest.—Ballyshannon Herald.
ABSCONDING OF TUE AGENT OF MESSRS. LAMBTON'S
BANK, AT ALNWICK.—Mr. William Gibb, the agent, at
Alnwick, of Messrs. Lambton and Co., bankers, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne, has absconded. Since his departure it has been
discovered that forged bills to a considerable extent have
passed through his hands, but to what amount is not yet
publicly known. It is said that the Messrs. Lambton possess
security in respect to Mr. Gibb to the amount of £3OOO, and
that four very respectable persons, all of whom I believe re-
side in Alnwick, are his sureties to this extent, and will, by
this event, be rendered liable to the payment of about £750
a piece. This circumstance, coming so suddenly after the
failure of the Tweed Bank, has created additional alarm and
anxiety in Alnwick, where there are several instances of con-
siderable hardship, occasioned by the latter event. It is
about three weeks since Gibb left home, but it is only a few
days since it was suspected that he had absconded. Search
is being made for him, but it is supposed that he has left the
country. He has left his wife and ten children in Alnwich.
—Globe.

ADDRESS TO LORD M ELDOURNE.—The Liberals of Derby
taking advantage of the arrival of Lord Melbourne at Mel-
bourne Hall, attempted to get up a demonstration in honour
of Whiggery and the fallen Minister. An address was pre-
pared and a party in carriages and on horseback set out on
Monday to present it. His Lordship did not hazard a written
reply, but delivered a soothing speech in acknowledgment of
the compliment. He reminded his flatterers of what he had
told them in 1834 as to the advantage of union. So long as
that was adhered to the Liberal cause had flourished, but the
moment discord prevailed, failure was experienced. The
Derby folks however had shown a good example and where
other constituencies to act as they had done, Whiggery might
yet get its head above water. As for himself, age had made
its inroads and rendered him less able and willing to under-
take the onerous duties he had lately discharged, still, for the
good of the nation, he would not hesitate to resume his former
functions. He and his colleagues had been unfairly treated
by the Conservatives, but he would return good for evil and
give their measures a fair trial. A dejeuner ala faurchelle
closed the proceedings.

RAILROADS IN AUSTRIA.—(From a correspondent of the
Times.)—l hasten to inform you of the rapid progress rail-
ways are making throughout the Austrian dominions. The
Emperor has issued a decree commanding the completion of
three extensive lines of railroads—one from Vienna to Trieste;
a second from Vienna by Lints to the frontiers of Bavaria;
and a third from Vienna to Dresden, through Prague. These
railroads are to be laid out so as to correspond with those al-
ready completed, or to be executed, and will form one grand
line extending over the entire empire of Austria, and com-
municating with those completed in other parts of Germany.
A central committee has been appointed to superintend the
execution of this gigantic work, to be constructed solely at
the
_public expense. Another resolution of equal importance
has been at the same time adopted by the government relative

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to a revision of the customs tariff, for the purpose of ascer-
taining whether it would be modified so as to adapt it to the
German Customs' Union (Zollverein)--a measure which
clearly proves that the period for a complete union amongst
all the German states riot having arrived, every impediment
and difficulty at least which might obstruct the execution of
a future treaty will be removed. Austria feels the necessity
of uniting herself as closely as possible with the rest of
Germany, particularly at this moment, when Bavaria, the
second Catholic power in Germany, is forming a new alliance
with Prussia, by the projected marriage of the Hereditary
Prince of Bavaria with a daughter of Prince. William of
Prussia, an engagement which is already publicly, and officially
announced, but which will not be consummated before the
latter end of the ensuing year.