London Mail (Newspaper) - November 10, 1857, London, Middlesex NOVEMBER PRICE 3d THE effect of the American crisis in now making itself felt A week before the of the last it was that the rate of discount was fixed by the Eng land at 8 per On the 5th it was raised to and yesterday to 10 per Por several days past scarcely any paper has been at even the minimum and the Directors have invariably thrown out every Kill which had the slightest trace of American connection upon It is not difficult to perceive what the effect of the New York stoppage has been upon the home each and every one is thoroughly para not have been nume those houses which had the most extensive dealings going and bringing others necessarily with These which have universally and truly their embar to the nonarrival of remittances from the other side and as a matter of those who may have been dependent upon them are obliged to adopt the same The American papers will not hear of any failures having taken they are merely but the result to others is the same and a leading while professing pity at what tli y have brought about in congratulates creditors that the is spread over many and that the English merchants will bear a little more bleeding The rise in the rate of discount bas been forced upon the The Directors could not do seeing the immense pressure upon it for specie the it resolved itself into whether American credit should be supported at the expense of those of oar own country Not withstanding that continual advances in the the demand for discount was unchecked as money got so was more accommodation sought The last week inaugurated a later return of the assets and liabilities by three days than those which had been formerly published and it is by a comparison of these that the assistance required from the Bank may be and how far the Directors have met the wants of the The account of the 17th upon which the rate was raised to 8 per gave Private Securities 4th of 25 to 30 per in to put themselves into Application has been to the either to tax the exportation of or to permit the Bank of France to increase their minimum rate of to neither of which he would In our market the inquiry for accommodation The bank are doing all they can to grant but are very cautious as to the character of the charging a high In Lombard street no paper is done under 11 to 12 per with a and even then only the very highest class can find Meanwhile the funds have scarcely as stock has been offered so the public has taken and gloomy has business confidence does not appear to be really Consols Money Three per New per New Exchequer Bonds Bank Stock India Bonds Exchequer Northern and Central India Calcutta and SouthEastern Ceylon B Shares East C Shares Euphrates Great Indian Peninsula New Five per Madras andaHalf per per Third Extension Five per Fourth Extension ditto North of India Tramroad Oudo Central Scindo Eive per 88 882 209 211 208 211 50 18 8 Si 100 101 14J15 2020i IS 19 Reserve of Notes Bullion 2itli 31st 4th 17th 24th 31st 4th Bank of Chartered Bank of China and Australian London Chartered Baukof New South Wales Oriental Banking Corporation Ottoman Bank Union Bank of Australia New Australasian Agricultural English and Australasian Smelting North British Australian Oriental Gas New Shares Scottish Australasian South Australian Land 5J6 76 78 13i 14i SJ 94 17i 18 17 IS 45 47 35 36 47 49 6 7 21 23 1 H 1 li 31 33 Private Notes in three An increase in Discounts of A decrease in Reserve of Bullion of and in three An increase in Discount A decrease in Reserve of Bullion On the 4th the items stood with the alterations in 11 Circulation Increase Public Private Ditto Government Securities Decrease Increase Decrease Increase This state of affairs has caused very many serious failures and to add to the two Joint Stock Liverpool Borough Bank and the Western Bank of been compelled to The liabilities of the latter are esti mated at between six and seven millions but not the slightest apprehension is entertained in either case but that every claim will be shortly paid in The proprietary are exceedingly wealthy in realised to satisfy the demands of the fearful sacrifices must be submitted Amung the private of have debts to the extent of and many will go far to form a total of nearly in Great Britain On the continent the same uneasy feeling is At Vienna 105 bankruptcies have occurred in the month just The French have hitherto escaped more but the manu are disposing of their stock at a discount It would be perfectly useless to report upon the cotton or produce is no business doing in any of and the latest sales would form no criterion for what may be done in the next market has continued to present a very inanimate appearance throughout the past and although importers have re frained from bringing any quantity prices have receded to on Honduras aud making a decline of to on the former from the highest The quantity offered has com of which only a small part was disposed of the most recent prices paid are for to for small and pasty to fine bold silver to for and to per for and to for market continuing very holders had to submit to a further reduction of to per after our but this decline induced a better aud prices have recently recovered about per Of Plantation Ceylon barrels and bags m public sale have been present prices being to for low middling to In Native hardly anything lias been dune of only a few lots sold at to Of Mocha 523 packages were bought Of other East India 110 cases found buyers at for and at to for fine line ordinary to consequence of the panic rica this article has been very and the amount from the top The sales i AND hove generally met with a dull and where sales have been lower prices have been Oit has been in good supply and the demand having fallen prices have given way to except on fine qualities 372 casks in public were only partly disposed of fine to common to to to and deep ditto in to per consequence of the increased quantity brought have given way to per on Malabar 114 cases Malabar in auction have been and sold at to for good and fine and to for middling rather dark 3 bags Madras longs realised and 14 bags Ceylon sold at to per for LAC market is very and scarcely business has been done DT and B at per active demand noticed in our last quickly and the market throughout the past month has presented a very flat and a heavy decline has taken prices being now per under our last quotations low to good white Bengal hassold at to and cargo at to per market has presented a very dull appearance throughout the pest and prices must be quoted to per lower from the top To business has been done at to and fine on the spot at per utmost depression has prevailed in this and notwithstanding the serious fall which has occurred in to per cwt buyers still purchase only sufficient for their imme diate The deliveries keep and stocks are on the The transactions of the month consist of casks West India bags bags Bengal aud Madras chiefly the bags white Siam castes Cuba and boxes 5 cargoes of 12 lately bringing and a cargo brown have been THE MANIFESTATIONS OF Although the Government telegraphic despatch convey ing the of the fall of Delhi did not reach the metropolis advanced hour of the it is no ex aggeration say spread like wildfire through out the whole ot London and the aud it was the general theme of conversation in every place of public was the interest felt by the that the principal of the metropolis were com blocked by who gathered around every shop window wherein was exhibited anything bearing upon the glorious Although this event has been long looked forward to matter of tlie sudden notification so soon seemed ou Monday night taken The most lively was universally expressed at the prompt retribution with the ruffians had been visited but it was a satisfaction not with by seeing that the battle had evidently been a severe that our loss had been and that many of our noble heroes had fallen in avenging the atrocities perpetrated on their helpless countrywomen Snd children by those fiends in human fever 3 At a aged 39 died of diarrhoea and at Hill a aged 8 died of choleraic Typhus was fatal to 54 29 of whom were under 20 years of age 21 children of 50 of and of At Upper a aged 37 died of fever 3 The registrar this is the second death of typhus fever in and there are 3 or 4 other cases of The registrar of the West Ham which adjoins reports No fresh case of cholera or of death has occurred in my district during the Letheby in his ninth annual report to the commissioners of the City of says at this juncture of an expected visitation of I ought to report to you of the state of our de fence and of the manner in which an attack is to be I do think that the signs of its approach are sufficiently clear to call for any unnecessary alarm or excitement of tile public and even if they were I do not know that I could put the defences into a better It may be that those defences are not in an impregnable but I trust that the sanitary measures which have been enforced for the last nine years wil serve to fortify as strongly as possible against the ap proach of the To all I would say that the most powerful means of repelling the disease are pru dence and Avoid all those circumstances which lower the vital and remove the putrid filth that gives the malady a hearty If I were lo write an essay on the subject 1 could tell you no One I would force upon the at tention of the parish It is that they should be ready for the appointment of a visita under the direction of their district medical directly the first signs of the disease are with for ex has shown that the diarrhoea which precedes an attack of cholera is mostly susceptible of At the theatres and various other places of public amuse ment the announcement of the welcome intelligence elicited the warmest expressions of and when they sub Anthem and other patriotic airs were played and prolonged from most en It is somewhat remarkable that Delhi fell into the pos session of British forces on the 20th of which the anniversary of the glorious victory which was gained by the Allied over the on their first landing in the when they fought the battle of the which tuuk place ou the 20th Septem HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE of the Registrar The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday October 1M is Marlborough House the finished Turner drawings have been and a of 228 sketches of his various periods has been exhibition in their for de himself ou Friday about eight at his at by The nate gentleman expired almost immediately after the fatal act was The deceased gentleman was a brother of the late Eliot whose untimely fate is so well THE BAND OF society hald a demonstration on Monday at Martins George Cruik iu the Various prayers having been hymns aud pieces of music performed by bands com posed of temperance the chairman said that when he was a young man he was a believed that he might still be able to turn anything into ridicule but he did not wish to do that connected willi His pencil had for years been used in the advancement of the cause ef The drunken habits of this country were n blot upon and it was only by Bauds of Hope that the people could be trained to habits of The Isaac Doxsey then the children of the Bund of who have abstained from their and various prizes having been other addresses were aud the meeting ELECTRIC of the Great Eastern steam ship itis expected will take place early in the coming will be effected under the brilliancy of the electric as far as the moving of this wondrous iron monster is done during the and which must occupy a considerable portion of the darker seeing that it will require a period of at least from 1C days from the moment of her first leaving the upper stays or until she quietly in her future Thrust of the electric light be of great monent in this important in it may be the whole nautical world is On the other it will fully test the merits of the various improvements made in this system of removing for if the lights to be erected burn steadily and brilliantly throughout the they will mee the requirements of Trinity as respects the ting power for The brilliancy of the light has never been and the great hitherto has been in securing density and Thest points are we are by tho application of mercury instead of and that a lunar and is now as we have already will now be fully and The point to be determined is even of universal inter est than the Great steam ship itself for if what is represented is established beyond controversy or great national boon will be Nothing can be of greater value to this country than an efficient and powerful light for the Those now in use arc not sufficiently and during fogs and severe frequently useless beyond thu immediate precincts of the whereas the new the we suppose it may is unchangeable in and its powers 111 fog aud thick weather are represented as perfectly Little 1ms been said or is known of this new n the corresponding weeks of ten previous years o 1856 the average The same vears IS 17 me rate mortality iu the present increased population would 1102 deaths and a comparion of the real with the shows a in favour of last week to the extent of 1 Six deaths from cholera and choleraic were registered last Al I to o produc a boy aged 11 dic cholera At Old aged six died of choleraic fever At a died of cholerine 7 i i 11 t plan of overcoming the which carbon light pre but the discoverers hove been persevering in their trials and so as to make every point before its public Wo understand that the discovery is due to Professor but that other gentlemen identified with the prosecution of the question of electric have assisted m bringing tin matter to its stale of The test to which it is to be put is a bold and is ol an earnest of the sincerity of those who consider it perfect for all useful trust their efforts will be crowned with success as brilliant as their own not only on their as u matter of 7 of business has been very prices 0 a decline of to both ou Surat aud Madras Of Asiatic cholera 5 collapse 2 t i 77 teat of this mouter a 7
