The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1841-08-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

LONDON MONEY MARKET.-SATURDAY  The public securities exhibited no symptoms of recovery to-day, but rather the contrary, for they were very heavy till just before the close of business, when Consols were quoted at about yesterday's prices. Bank Stock, India Stock, and Exchequer Bills suffered more materially, and left off flat ; Bank Stock, 169 to 170 ; India Stock, 247 to 2-19 ; and Exchequer Bills 14s. to 16s. premium ; Consols for money closed 89k, and for the account, 87i buyers ; 3 per Cents. Reduced, 88$; 3-I per Cents. Reduced, 98k to 99; New 3 per Cents., 981 ; Long Annuities (expiring on the sth of January, 1860), 12 15-16; and India Bonds, 7s. premium. Business in the Foreign stocks comprised a very few bargains. Dutch 21 per Cents. were quoted 51k to 52k ; ditto 5 per Cents. 101 k to lO2k ; Spanish, 19k to i; Portuguese 5 per Cents., 291 to 301; ditto 3 per Cents., 17i to 18/ ; Colombian, 19/ to 20; Mexican, 25/ to 26; Danish, 78k to 794,  . . „ . and Brazilian, 671 to i. Railway Shares continue flat ; Birmingham 70 to 72 premium ; Great Western, 18 to 19 premium ; South-Western, 524 to 531 per share.  Espartero has quarrelled with the Pope, the old gentleman at Rome declaring him the greatest vagabond in Europe. Mr. Pigott, after his election for Clonmel, gave the beggars of the town two shillings and sixpence. There is iron enough in the blood of one man to make a chain of strength sufficient to bind him. The quantity of " brass" iu his face is not so readily ascertained. There are said to be no fewer than 3,861 known languages in use in the world ; 937 are Asiatic, 587 European, 516 African, and 1,624 American languages and dialects. A dissenting preacher, named Dyer, of Sydenbam, committed suicide last week by drowning himself in a water butt. '  Her Majesty has granted a pension of £2OO. a year, on the civil list, to Lady Jeremie, the widow of Sir John Jeremie, late Governor of Sierra Leone.  A ne),vspaper editor fancied he was a paragraph, anti as he lay in bed, debated whether he should rise altogether, or sentence by sentence.  The importation of fresh salmon into London, from Dundee, amounts to 700 boxes per week. - - - - - _  An optician in London has invented a machine which, he says, will infallibly shew the distance traversed by hackney coaches, cabs, &c. If this be so, the extortion of the cabmen, (which in London amounts on a fair calculation to 50 per cent.) will be put an end to.  The number of emigrants this season, up to June 26, who have arrived at Quebec is 15,251.  The experiment of sending produce down the rapids to Montreal by steam has succeeded.  The National Intelligencer estimates that the amount of debt and liabilities of the United States Government on the Ist of January next will be 18,694,449 dollars. Accounts from Havannah to the 16th of June, received via New York, mention that by advices from Mexico received there the people were extremely dissatisfied at the high duties which were levied on the importation of merchandise, amounting on cottons to 240 per cent. and on woollens to 108 per cent. on the coast price in Europe. The merchants also complain that this excessive impost ruins the fair trader by the encouragement of smuggling, and in a petition from Vera Cruz ou the subject, with 125 signatures, state that no less than six ships have been loaded in English ports for the Pacific coast of Mexico, whose cargoes it was expected would be introduced without paying a single dollar of duty. All classes, the poorer especially, agree that the duty now payable on articles actually necessary is three or four times more than on goods consumed by the more wealthy, and that from this cause the government revenues from the contraband trade are scarcely halt' so large as they were when the tariff was only one-third as high as it was formerly, or would be if it were reduced. Several petitions to the same purport had been addressed to Santa Anna.