Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1831-02-11
FOREIGN,


Correspondence Of the IouraaI Of Commerce.
LONDON. Dec. 49,
The Revolution in Poland is at las after The lapse
three four days since the first arrival of the news
beginning to produce its natural effect on the money
market and nlerchandizc.
I'aliow IS advancing III the face of extraordinary
impofiations, aud Hemp and Flax are more firmly
held. There has also been advance i'll Rum. and
the enqt.r,es for this article extensive Foreign
Caffees also IN great request.
II is probable that all descriptions of naval stores
would advance much extensively. if it were not
for the prevailing belief that Great Britain will not
III my event become party to the which is now
confidently expected to result from passing occurren-
ces.
The funds have given way one per cent to-day.
CoBsots leave off at 8li, sellers and with every ap
pearance of further decline. Exchequer Bills and
India Bonds are not much affected. The former
l9a2os, and the latter 9al0s. The market is
quite gloomy, but the quantity Of stock business
done falls very far short of that OF former times when
people rich felt so.
In American stocks there has been steady, mod
erafe business The only advance has been in u S.
Bank shares, which are quoted at Ga7 l0s In other
descriptions of American securities there no aItcta-
ton.
The Russian per cents have fellcn or 9 per
cent within the week. They held day at
S7I37a The Dinish 3 per cents are SO.
have seen n letter to-day from Paris in which
the writer, very intelligent person, describes the
enthusiasm ofthe Parsiuns in favor of the Poles to
be ardent enough to encounter every sacrifice in sup
thot the French generally vii! not willingly even
suffer the Russians interfere, but on the contrary
if the King of the French should not coincide with
the public sentiment on thus point, he will not re-
main on the Throne SIX months longer.
You will have the speech OF lafayette ON the
necessity of putting France in warke array and that
of the Duke of Wellington on the wicked" charac-
Ter of the French Revolution These two speeches
indicate the principles of the two sides that are per
haps to be drawn up against each other in what MI
Canning denominatcd IA war of op'non;" Russia
and her al les against France, Belgium, and the
friends OF freedom and equal rights.
The part which England will take depends much
ON the manner in which Belgium is to be disposed Of
With her present Cabinet, she leans towards Franco:
although she will never approve of union of Bel
gium and France; hut if the King of the Neither
lands not utterly intractlhe, she would
overlook all his froward and perverse dscyurtesies
and strengthen his power barrier against tina,
OF her ancient and Englishmen long believed her
natural foe. The object Of the Prince of ORANGES
stay in this country is to effect some compromise
that may avert the absolute and final division of his
supposed inheritance; but he finds that the epoch has
arrived when the decisions of Cabinets can no lon
ger contravene the wishes of the people, without
producing civil connections.
The new Ministry, so far, true to their prnci-
pies, The of reform is patronsed bv the ru-
ers of he land and its progress daily promote ed in
some way r-a1otBer Hunt the radical is elected
member for Preston, the place from which such ef
t6rs were intellectually made few years ago send
u bbet This is OF the extraordinary signs of the
times, and of the resolution of the community to be
rsd'ty represented. l have had no doubt for some
months, of the existence of secret association
among the friends of feerIum as they have
III one or Two instances called themselves ol
been called. One mode of operation, adopted BY
them at the last election, somewhere in Dcvorshre
is TO marshal their aderents among those who have
the privileges Of voting, privately; and where CON
tested election is not anticipated, to bring them !,
shbals and uawarcs to the poll 1t is in this way tina
Mr.. Stanley, who loUked on his re-eIection as Ger
taInty and a mere formality, has unexpectedly bee,
rejected by tie electors Of Preston.