The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-08-16 00:00:00

the 28th of July. Her arrival is thus noticed in the
Daily Express of the following day :—" This splendid
steam-ship arrived Sunday morning about 10 o'clock,
in less than sixteen days, having left Portsmouth on
the 12th instant, at 12 o'clock, p.m. She made the
Floating Light, Sunday morning, 1 o'clock, and soon
after the Highlands and Sandy Flook, and waited
awhile for a pilot. The wind was generally against
her all the passage, and sometimes very rough; but,
large as she is, one man could steer her, She proved
throughout a first-rate sailer. The number of her
passengers is 127, among whom is Mr. Junius Smith,
to whom is awarded the honour of first starting in
England the idea of Ocean Steam Navigation Compa-
nies.

" The arrival of this big ship, as she fired off her
guns, then, making a sweep in the North River, an-
nounced her own approach, created a great sensation
in the city, and immense crowds followed her to the
place of stopping,—the new piers of the Tobacco
Warehouse, which have been especially fitted up, and
with gates, for the reception of the steam-ships. The
crowds continued all day, and thousands and thou-
sands were eager to have a view. It is understood,
however, that as efforts will be made to get her off
August Ist, it will not be possible to see company till
the next voyage.
"As the British Queen and the Great Western are
now side by side, occupying tha inside berths of their
two new piers, the contrast is a great curiosity, and
well worth a visit to observe. The Great Western
was a wonder, but the contrast sinks her into a com-
mon steamer. The top of her funnel is but barely
visible over the deck of the Queen, as an observer
stands on her pier. Both ships stand bow to bow,
their figure-heads projecting over the mainland, and
their wheel-houses almost touching; but the Queen
fills out the pier, and stretches her bowsprit a conside-
rable distance upon the land.• Her prodigious bulk
is the amazement of all who see her. Her paddle-
wheels, now her coal is consumed, are nearly out of
water, and, she looms up, like an observatory in the
air. It is thought that, to make her sit sufficiently
deep in the water, she must take in a good deal of
ballast ; for her paddle .wheels have not, during the
voyage, dipped deeply enough to throw her ahead with
a velocity proportioned to her model and her power.
Her model is American."

Before we proceed to make any extracts from the
papers which we have received by the Great Western,
we submit to the notice of our readers the following
letter from New York, received by a respectable mer-
cantile firm in this town :
" The advices received per Great Western and Bri-
tish Queen have struck dismay and consternation on
the minds of all interested in commercial matters, es-
pecially the Shippers of Cotton. We were totally
unprepared for so great and sudden a reverse. It
would seem that nothing short of an entire destruction
of every man interested to any extent in Cotton, will
satisfy the London Bankers and Manchester Spinners.
Heaven knows what will satisfy them, after all ! Be
what it may, their determined hostility to the planters
and commercial interests of this country is now made
so perfectly manifest, that it is on this side also engen-
dering a feeling that may ripen into a new kind of
warfare, that will operate to the serious detriment of
all parties. You will see a new movement in the Con-
vention called, and to be held at Macon, in Georgia,
the first Monday in October. Judging from the tone
and feeling of many Southrons now sojourning in the
North, some harsh, ;if not effective, measures will be
proposed and acted upon : such as a recommendation
for the whole planting interest to withhold their next
crop from market, and suspend for a year all their
obligations to the public ; in other words, to stop pay-
ment for a year. To combinations of all sorts, either
on the part of the Grower or Manufacturer of the raw
material, every man of good sense must be opposed :
and it is high time, on your side at least, that hostility
should cease, and let things take their regular course.
I have no idea that every thing is to go to destruction
because the gentlemen in your Great Bank Parlour
have so willed it.
" Ist August.
Total deficiency in exports of CottOn up to this
date, compared with last year 474,000
Deficiency in markets 436,972
Stock in all the parts .
Do. do. last year 121,000
Deficiency in exports to Great Britain.
Do. do. France
Do. do. North of Europe
Do. do. other parts.
Average weight of bales, less than last year by 5 per

Bales,

The following are the most important extracts :
(From the Courier and Enquirer.)
COTTON.-The Vicksburg Sentinel says; " It is generally
believed that new cotton will be brought to market, in all
the river towns, by the end of the present month." Last
season, the first cotton received was on the 20th August.
We learn from the eastern papers that the attention of the
young men of Maine and Massachusetts has been turned to
the Aroostook, with the view of planting a colony upon its
banks.
By the arrival of the barque Solalba, Captain Bevans, from
Barbadoes, on the 11th June, we learn that provisions are
very scarce on that island. The sugar crop is meagre in
comparison of the yield last year.
The four American fishing vessels which were sent into
Halifax a short time since, have been tried. Two were libe-
rated, and two (the Hyder Ali and Battelle) were condemned
and ordered to be sold.
A war is raging amongst the Cherokee Indians at the
Arkansas. _ _ _

By papers from Rio de Janeiro to the 31st of May, it ap
pears that two vessels had been captured under Portuguese
colours by a British ship of war, shortly after leaving Rio,
on suspicion that they were fitted out for the slave trade.
These captures excited much indignation at Rio.
By the arrival of the schooner Essex, Capt. Cottrell, at
New Orleans, on the 16th of June, intelligence has been
received, partially confirning the rumour which had already
reached us of the resignation of Santa Anna, and the election
of General Bravo to the presidential chair. This important
inielligence had been received at Matamoras on the 7th June,
by an express from Mexico.
Bustamente, we learn, was, at the last accounts, still in
Tampico. The schooner Lone had been seized at that town.
The Essex brought only 2000 dollars, and eighteen doubloons
to order. Generals Lemus and Canalizo are negotiating
about making peace. The former is encamped at Monterey,
and the latter at Saltillo. Matamoras is still in the posses-
sion of the government ; the rumour of its being captured by
the federalists turns out to have been without foundation.
No idea is now entertained of attacking Texas.
Missouri is entering largely into silk, not satisfied with
her lead mines and corn. Messrs. Bissell and Sharp, near
St. Louis, having 40,000 worms feeding, 20,000 multicaulis
trees growing. The Missouri Silk Company are feeding
130,000 worms.
Yesterday afternoon, about fifty military convicts, prin-
cipally deserters, embarked on board the St. George steamer
for Quebec, from whence'they will be conveyed to England,
preparatory to their final transportation. They were all
fine-looking young men, and did not appear to be much con-
cerned, further than at the inconvenience occasioned by their
hand-cuffs and irons. A strong guard of grenadier guards
accompany them to Quebec.—Montreal Herald.
Some extraordinary reports were in circulation relative to
an alleged deficiency of coinage at the New Orleans branch
mint, and the consequent debasement of currency by the
addition of alloy to the silver coinage. A committee of in-
quiry had been sitting en the subject.
A fatal affray had happened at Courterville, near Natchi-
toches. It seems that some difficulty had arisen between a
son of General Gaiennie and a young man, a clerk for a Mr.
Norma, a challenge passed, but Gaiennie refused to fight ex-
cept at the plantation of his father, to which the clerk ob-
jected, and the duel was dropped. A young gentleman.
named Sylvester Racial, an intimate friend of Gaiennie, who
had interested himself in the quarrel, called to pay Norma
some money which Gaiennie had owed, Norma threw in his
face as he entered, a tumbler of ground Cayenne pepper,
which had apparently been provided for the occasion, and
told his clerk "to shoot." He fired immediately, and the
young man fell dead. There was much excitement in the
neighbourhood about the matter. It is said that the town
was divided into two distinct parties.
(From the New York Daily Express of August 1.)

MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS.—WEDNESDAY, P. M.—
The United States' bank is supplying all the bills wanted
for London at 113, and seems to have an abundant supply,
a fact which materially relieves public anxiety, and which
gives a good deal of stability to the money market. On
France sales are making at 15f 15. Holland may be quoted
at 41. ; Hamburg 36-6-7ths, and Bremen 81 cts. The stock
market in this state of the exchanges stands firm, with a
slight rise even, though sales are heavy.
This being packet-day for both the Great Western and
British Queen, which leave to-morrow almost too early for
any operations in exchange, it is an important day in the
money market, and we are glad to find it passing off with so
much good feeling, and such a general relief from all appre-
hension. It is pretty well ascertained that the Insurance
offices have made themselves responsible for as much specie
as they wish to, by the great Western, and though it is quite
impossible either by the custom-house, or in any other quar-