The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-09-04 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

Mr. A. J. STEPHENS has been appointed Recorder of
Andover, in the room of Mr. Belinder Ker, resigned.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR GEORGE GREY, it is expected,
will attend on her Majesty on her journey to Scotland, and, on
the Queen's return, will come to town for the autumn.
ME. J. D. COLERIDGE, of the western circuit, will be the
new recorder of Portsmouth, in succession to Mr. Massey:
M.P., appointed under-secretary for the home department.
THE EMPRESS EUGENIE.—We expect confidently that, at
no distant date, the official Moniteur, according to the
etiquette of France, will announce to the nation the preg-
nancy of the Empress.—Morning Post.
THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO SCOTLAND.—Her Majesty and
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, with the royal family, will
remain at the Isle of Wight until to-morrow, (Wednesday,)
when they will come to Buckingham Palace. On the follow-
ing morning, at eight o'clock, the Queen and the Prince
Consort, with the royal children and household suite, will
take their departure for Balmoral, travelling by special train
on the Great Northern line from King's Cross. The court
will sleep at Edinburgh one night, and on the following
morning proceed by rail to Banchory, where the royal car-
riages will be in readiness to convey them to Balmoral. The
return of the court to Windsor will be between the 9th and
12th of October next.—Morning Post.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE BALTIC.

Er the United States Mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain
Comstock, which arrived on Sunday, we have intelligence
from New York to the 22nd of August. She brought 130
passengers, and $679,973 in specie. The Pacifie arrived at
New York at seven o'clock on the morning of the 22nd ult.
At 9 p.m. on Sunday, the 26th, in lat. 47 47 lon. 49 15, the
Baltic signalled the Canada, hence to Halifax and Boston.
Coming up the channel on Saturday, she passed at ten a.m.
the steam-ship City of Manchester, and at eleven a.m. the
ships Caledonia and Roscius, the two first outward bound,
and the latter coming in. At twelve, off Tuskar, passed the
ships Sidonia 'and Martha, bound in. At nine p.m., off the
Skerries, the R.M.S. Africa was passed.
The Hon. Abbott Lawrence died at Boston on the 18th ult.
A public funeral was decreed, and his remains were interred
on the Wednesday following.
At Atchison, in Kansas, Mr. Kelly, an abolition agent, was
" whipped" in the streets, and had to fly to avoid the in-
fliction of tar and feathers. The slave-holders only waited
for the arrival of tar.

The Women's Rights Convention met at Saratoga. The
strong-minded were out in full force, and a very small sprink-
ling of males attended.
The yellow fever was raging in New Orleans, as many as
394 persons having died in a week. Throughout Virginia it
was fatally prevalent.
The report brought by the previous mail of the capture, by
Revolutionists, of the specie Conducta, between Vera Cruz
and Mexico, is not confirmed.
A fire had taken place at Cleveland, and damage to the
extent of $lO,OOO had been occasioned. The property was
partially insured in the London and Liverpool Company.
The State elections were still in progress, and the democrats
claimed a majority. This is probable, for the Know-nothings
no longer cohere as a party. At a late council of the South
Carolina Know-nothings, they repudiated the doctrine of the
proscription of Romanists, and provided for the admission
into the order of all eligible natives, of all religious creeds,
upon a declaration disclaiming any binding allegiance,
political or ecclesiastical, to any foreign power. The Live Oak
letter by George Law to the Pennsylvania legislature, of some
months ago, foreshadowed the repudiation of both the
extreme native and religious tests of the American party.
And they are coming round, State by State, to his ideas.
Baltimore was the scene of a desperate and bloody rencontre
between several fire companies on the 19th ultimo. It seems
evident that the combatants were prepared for thelyontest, as,
for some minutes, there was a sustained discharge of fire-arms
that would not have disgraced a battle-field. The fight lasted
only about five minutes, during which time not less than 50
pistol shots were heard. It is surprising that the results were
not more bloody than the details of the encounter show them
to have been, for only one man was killed.
Dr. Peter Parker, long a missionary at Canton, and late
Secretary to the American Legation, has been appointed
Commissioner to China.

MEXICO.—The news from the Rio Grande, says the Herald,
shows that, in spite of the attempts made to disguise the fact
by the dictator's journals, the revolutionists are fast making
head in the north. The defeat at Saltillo is a much more
important one than we were first led to suppose—two-thirds
of Santa Anna's forces under Guitian and Cruz having been
either killed, wounded, or taken prisoners. The battle com-
menced at about eight o'clock a.m. on the 22nd, and lasted
until eleven o'clock a.m. next day, when the Plaza fell into
the possession of the insurgents. The remains of the govern-
ment forces, consisting of about 200 infantry and about 250
of the Dragoons of the Guard and of " the Guides," fled to-
wards San Luis Potosi, but were hotly pursued by mounted
riflemen, who succeeded in completely dispersing them, and
in capturing about $60,000 in specie, besides a large amount
of stores and ammunition. The moral effect of this victory will
be disastrous to Santa Anna's arms. It will rally round the
standard of insurrection all those who are wavering and un-
decided. The federalists seem to have men of energy and
capacity at their head, whilst the dictator's minions betray all
the weakness of purpose and vacillation which usually ac-
company the consciousness of a bad cause. In such a state of
things it is impossible that the struggle can be of long dura-
tion. The government forces, instead of being able to assume
the offensive, are everywhere driven within the protection of
strongholds ; and too weak even to hold these against the
valour and impetuosity of their enemies, there will soon not
be an adherent of the dictator left in the whole of the northern
departments. As to Woll, his case seems hopeless. Shut up
in Matamoros with a force of only 1,700 or 1,800 men, and
rendered hateful to the surrounding population by the un-
necessary harshness of his measures, he cannot possibly resist
the overwhelming numbers with which Vidaurri is advancing
against him. Should he be taken, the nearest tree will
probably end a career marked by but too many incidents of
sanguinary brutality.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Nzw Tonic, 22nd Aug.
In New York there are evidences of a gradual revival of
trade in nearly all departments, and, contrary to general ex-
pectations, there was no increase of demand for money. The
expansion of the city banks still continued. Exchange was
firm, at the following rates :—London, 109; to 1101; France,
5,122 to 5,13:1; Amsterdam, 401 to 411; Hamburg, 36! to
; Bremen, 791 to 79g.
COTTON.—The market had been extremely quiet, the aggre-
gate sales for the last three days not exceeding 1,500 bales.
The stock on sale, consequent upon the light demand both
from exporters and home-spinners, for some days past, had
considerably augmented, causing a decrease of fully cent. on
middling and middling fair qualities. The crop accounts were
of a favourable tenor, and adverse reports were less numerous
than usual at this season of the year.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON.
Exports to Total Exports Stock in
Receipts. Gt. Britain. to For. Ports. Hand.
1855 2,771,725 1,515,006 2,204,248 139,685
1854 2,873,851 1,573,111 2,2i1,328 133,685
Increase .. 6,000
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