The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-11 00:00:00

e the run in ten days and nine

hourF, mean stearning time.
The Liverpool and New York steam-sbip

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had reached New York on the 25th ult., after a passage of
eighteen days. The U. S. mail steamer Franklin reached
New York from Cowes Roads on the 15th ultimo, pas-

sage twelve days. The screw-steamer City of Glasgow
reached Philadelphia from Liverpool on the 10th ult., after
a passage of fourteen days, ten hours, and twenty minutes.
In the general news it was stated that the National
Theatre, at Boston, had been destroyed by fire. Of naval
steam-boat explosions, one in the neighbourhood of St.
Louis cost twenty lives. Mr.iYoung, formerly governor
of the State of New York, died in the fiftieth year of his age
Lola Montes, since her return from Boston, has
living quietly at Howard-house, New York, seeing only a
few distinguished Europeans. She is to appear at the
Broadway Theatre, in the new comedy of her own life,
written expressly by Mr. Ware; provided she do not out-
rage public feeling in any way •between the present time
and the fall. In the meanwhile, she has signed a con-
tract of neutrality in politics and religion ; and the Rev.
Mr. Olmstead, a Puritan deacon of Boston, is about to
conduct her on a tour, as secretary, prime minister, reli-
gious, moral, and legal adviser. She intenda to visit the
Falls, the Mammoth Cave, the Delaware Gap, the
Dancing Springs, the Hundred Mile Prairie, and all
other places of great interest in the country.
The Crystal Palace at New York progresses slowly ;
but half the capital is subscribed and none paid in. Only
one article, a carpet, had arrived from Europe for exhibi-
tion. The steamer Peachontas, with 2,369 bales of
cotton on board, had been burnt at New Orleans.
The Charleston Mercury contains the following ac-
count of the early shipments of cotton from the States.
" Among the exports of "Charles Town." from November,
1747, to November, 1748, are included seven bags of cotton
wool, valued at £3. Ils. sd. per hag. In 1754 some cotton
was again exported from South Carolina. In 1770, there
were shipped to Liverpool three bales from New York,
four bales from Virginia and Maryland, and three hales
from North Carolina. Before the Revolutionary War,
Virginia exported communibus annis, hemp. flaxseed, and
cotton, to the value of 8,000 dollars. In 1784, an American
vessel that carred eight bags to Liverpool was seized, on
the ground that so much cotton could not be produced in
the United States. In 1785. 14 bags ; in 1786, 6 bags ;
in 1787, 109 bags ; in 1788, 382 bags ; in 1789, 842 bags ;
and in 1780, 81 bags were received in Europe from this
country. Of these, 153 bags were sent directly, and a
portion of the remainder by the way of Philadelphia and
New York, from Charleston. The first bag of cotton sold
in South Carolina was purchased, in 1784, by J,,hn Teas-
dale, from Bryan Cape, then a factor in Charleston. The
first bag of the wool exported from that city to Liverpool
arrived January 20, 1785, per Diane, and was consigned
to Messrs. J. and J. Tedsdalo and Co."

From April, 1851, to April, 1852, nearly 14,000 persons
had reached St. Louis, as emigrants.
The President has explained to the Senate the nature
and origin of the Japanese expedition. It is to secure a
treaty with the Emperor, by which a line of steamers
from California to China will possess facilities for coaling
and watering. Much kindness had been shown to some
shipwrecked Japanese sailors ; and it was hoped that if
the Emperor did not consent to admit of intercourse, an
island could be selected for deposit of articles and the
commerce of the parties.

The Southern Union Convention at Charleston will not
support any candidate for the office of President or Vice•
President unless he concur in the compromise measures.
Advices from San Francisco to the lst of April state that
the markets were brisk for produce of all kinds. The
property of a Mr. Campbell had been greatly injured by a
land slide. The cultivation of sugar was about to be
introduced at St. Joaquim. The Chinese were arriving
at California in large numbers ; gold was found in
abundance; and the bill for the abolition of gambling
was rejected.
From Canada we learn that the British ministry had
promised to bring the subject of the European and North
American Railway before parliament ; they are also
reported to be favourable to the Hamilton Railway, Upper
Canada.

The coffee crop had been nearly all shipped at Porto
Cabello ; and a volcanic eruption had taken, place at
Honolulu, in Owhyee.

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK. APRIL 27.

MONEY MARKET.—The money market presents no new
features. The supply is large, without any increased de-
mand, and the rates are the same as last week. Govern-
ment Securities are a shade higher ; but stocks were rather
heavy. _ _

FOREIGN Exchange was in demand, at improved rates.
On London it had risen to 1091 to fc.
CorroN.—The Courier and Enquirer of April 27, re-
ports an active daily demand for cotton, and an improve-
ment in the better descriptions, ranging "good middling"
to " fair," of ' and of 4-o. to Z-o. in the lower grades.
The market clased on the 26th, on the basis of Sic. for
"middling" Uplands, and 81c. to 9c. for "strict mid-
dling" Orleans. The Courier contends for a crop of about
2,900,000 bales, and higher prices.
TELEGRAPH IC ONE DAY LATER.—The following state-
ment, from the New York Shipping List of the 28:h
was communicated by electric telegraph to Halifax, and
brought to Liverpool by the royal mail steam-ship
America : 1852. 1851. Increase. Decrease.
Receipts 2,607,570 2,022,505 585,365
.„

Export to Gt. Bn . 1,014,057
Total Exports to
Foreign P0rt5.1,709,463 1,356,755 352.708
Stock, 8.: on ship. 526,695 508,347 18,348 ..
BREADSTUFFS.—The market was heavy at the close of
the week, especially for Old Western and State flour. The
demand for export was light, and large receipts were in
prospect. Prices of wheat were nominal, and little doing.
Corn was plentiful, with a small demand for export.
PROVISIONS.—Pork is steady, with only moderate sales
of new mess at -818,371 to .619, and of prime at 417 ;
old mess .31R.C21. Peet is in demand at S-6 to 87,25 for
r. S.un, and 4310 to .B'l3 for mess ; prime mess .Sl9 to
421. Cut meats are firm. Shoulders 83c. to to BLe. ;
hams 91c. to 10c. Lard continues in request at 10:1-c. to
111 c. for kegs, and 9F-,c. to 10c. for barrels. Common to
good butter brings 23c. to 30c. Cheese 61c. to Sc.
There was little doing in other articles.

914,097

99,960

The freight market is dull, and rates are heavy. To
Liverpool cotton is taken at 3-16 d. to 7 32d. ; flour,
13}d. ; grain, 3d. to 3 d. ; deadweight, 12s. Gd. to
178. 6d. ; rosin, 15d. to 18d. To London, flour, 18d.
To Glasgow, cotton, 3-16 d. ; beef, 2s. 6d. ; merchandise,
ls. lOid., &c. To Havre, cotton, lc. f ashes, bark, &c.,
86 to .813.

NEW ORLEANS MARKET, APRIL 27.—Sales of cotton
up to noon to-day amounted to 500 bales, at full prices.
Strict middling is quoted 7c.
CHARLESTON MARKET, APRIL 27.—Sales to-day 1,482
bales, at 6c. to 81c. The market continues very firm.