Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1840-01-11
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TIiE MAYS FROM ENGLAND.


The packct.ship England, at New York, brings
London and Liverpool dates to the evening OF the 1f
December.
The complexion of the commercial intelligence is as
well as was expected, and better Cotton IS rather
lower but that expected and 50 is still further
decline. Information respecting American stocks
from the letters of the principal London bankers SHOWS
distinct change for the better.
The London Spectator under date of Saturday, De,
ccmber ~ o'clock states that Gan arrangement has
been concluded between The Messrs Rothschild and
the agent of the United States Bank by which the SAID
firm have contracted TO advance II ,o0o,Oo0 sterling
upon the deposite of State stocks to the Same amount
of issues and debcntures bearing interest at the rate
of g per cent per anrum; the price OF these deDen
lures has been Fixed at o. with per cent. commits
sion, and they redremable at par in two years
The brig Petrol, bound from Dahousie, Nova Scotia
to Stockton, with timber, was cast away November
Goth OIL the coast of Fif and all on board persisted
except one seaman. Among the lost was lady, IN
whose trunk was found f400 in bank bills. The brig
had touched al Stromness, where the unfortunate
man got on board Her name was Elizabeth Wagstaff
The gale represented to have been severe in the cx
trcme
The deccase Of daughter Of Lord Brougham Ii
mentioned in the papers.
The Portuguese Minister Of Foreign Affairs, IN
note TO the British Minister at Lisbon says, "her Ma
iesty's Government cannot by any means admit The
right which the British Government arrogates by viz
tue ofthe bill presented to Parliament, to give the III
structions to which his ordshp audes for the capture
and disposal Of vessels found trading in slaves under
the Portuguese flag, and south Of the Equator
LONDON, Dec. 3-The accounts from the United
States by the Great Western leave doubt whatever
of the ability of the New York banks to sustain spec:.
payments; and this having now been put sufficient.
10 the test is received here favorable omen tor the
establishment of better state of things in that coun
ry and of the renewal of trade with il by Great Br
tain, not perhaps to the extravagant state OF 1t lately
existing but TO such an extent as It ought TO ATTAIN
and is consistent with safe and regular returns for It
We shall take no State stocks from the American!
as reInttances for very long time, because importers
finding no vent for them al home, will no longer receive
them in payment, but they will send to us and Europe
generally cotton tobacco, corn, and other produce
quite equal to, if not much better than specie. Large
remttances of this kind said to have arrived by the
Great Western, consisting chiefly bills dram agans
large shipments of to France, but which will be
available as an instrument for recyng the exchange:
in this country Further large orders Of the same kline
were sent out by the British Queen, it having become
great Government object in France, as means o
safety against popular tumults, to secure the mos
abundant stock of grain for which America presented
the best market.
On the whole, the difficulties under which trade la
bored in the United States have not been, in point O.
fact materially relieved 1t is the prospect only which
s decidedly BETTER and for that both countries are IN
debted to the irmness of the New York banks in ad
herring TO their engagements contrary course w"nla