The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

ITALY

The Piedmontese Gazette of the Ist instant announces
that the Earl and Countess Minto had arrived at Turin,
and that, after resting a few days in that city, they would
proceed to Genoa, where they are to spend the winter.
The official journal does not yet publish the list of the new
Ministers. It confines itself to stating that M. Azeglio
and his colleagues had tendered their resignation to the
King, by whom it had been accepted; that his Majesty
was occupied with the construction of a new Cabinet, and
had held conferences on the subject with several persons.
The King of Naples, during his tour in the provinces, has
liberated more than 1,500 political prisoners. In the pro-
vince of Catanzaro upwards of 1,000 constitutionalists have
been sent to their homes.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA.

We have received intelligence from New York to the
26th ult., and from Boston to the 27th, by the Royal
Mail steam-ship America,Capt. Shannon, which arrived in
the Mersey on Sunday, at 7.53 a.m. She sailed from
Boston at noon the on 24th ult., and arrived at Halifax at
12.20 a.m. on the 20th. After a detention of one hour to
embark mails, &c., she again sailed and experienced va-
riable winds and weather during the passage. On the
29th, at 9 p.m., in lat 45 28 N., lon. 59 20 W., the Ame-
rica exchanged night signals with a 1 arge steamer, bound
west, supposed to be one of the Collins' line.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Niagara, Stone, commander,
with the mails of the 16th, from this port, arrived at Ha-
lifax at 3 a.rn. on the 27th ult.

DEATH OF MR. WEBSTER.
On Sunday morning, the 24th October, at twenty-two
minutes before three o'clock, the United States was de-
prived of another of her most able statesmen in the demise
of Mr. Daniel Webster. It is but a few weeks ago that
the death of Henry Clay spread gloom over American
society, and now another name is added to the category
of those who, having obtained honour in the senate, and
filled a large space in the eye of the nation. have at length
been compelled to bow before a power which is no respecter
of persons. The deceased statesman had been confined to
his residence, Marshfield, for about a fortnight, from
disease of the bowels, accompanied by dropsical affection
of the etoulach. Up to the TqC§CIPY PrtYl4ll.l to hie

solution, it was anticipated that he would soon be able to
resume his official duties ; but his illness assumed a sudden
and alarming phase, and he continued to gradually get
worse until Thursday, when he was attacked with severe
vomiting, which returned at intervals. On that day he
was informed of the near approach of death. He received
the intelligence with perfect composure ; and from that
period, until a short perio efore his demise, his placidity
and clearness of understalling never forsook him. On
Friday, the 22d, he became much prostrated, and, be-
lieving that the hour of death had arrived, he took an
affectionate leave of his wife and family and personal
friends, after which, at his own desire, Mr. Peter Harvey
went into his room. He said to him—" Harvey, lam
not so sick but that I know you; I am well enough to
know you. I am well enough to love you, and well
enough to call down the richest of Heaven's bles-
sings upon you and yours. Harvey, don't leave me
till I am dead ; don't leave 'Marshfield till I am a dead
man." Then, as if speaking to himself, he said, "On
the 24th of October, all that is mortal of Daniel Webster
will be no more." He then prayed in his natural usual
voice, strong, full, and clear, ending with " Heavenly
Father, forgive my sins, and receive me to Thyself,
through Christ Jesus." Shortly afterwards he conversed
with Dr. Jeffries, who said he could do nothing more for
him than to administer occasionally a sedative potion.
" Then," said Mr. Webster, " I am to be here patiently
till the end ; if it he so, may it come soon." Being
anxious to know at what hour his dissolution would take
place, he was told that it might occur in one, two, or
three hours, but that the time could not be definitely
calculated. " Then," said Mr. Webster, " I suppose I
must lie here quietly till it comes." Dr. Jeffries offered
to Mr. Webster something which he hoped might give
him ease. The dying statesman remarked, " Something
more, doctor, more. I want restoration." Between ten
and eleven o'clock he repeated somewhat indistinctly the
words, " Poet, poetry—Gray, Gray." Mr. Fletcher
Webster repeated the first line of the elegy, " The curfew
tolls the knell of parting day." " That's it, that's it,"
said Mr. Webster; and the book was brought, and some
stanzas read to him, which seemed to give him pleasure.
At about two o'clock he was overpowered with faintness,
and expressions fell from him indicating the hope that his
mind would remain to him completely until the last. He
spoke of the difficulty of the process of dying, when Dr.
Jeffries repeated the verse, " Though I walk through the
valley of:the shadow of death I will fear no evil, for Thou
art with me : Thy rod and Thy staff, they comfort me."
Mr. Webster said immediately, "The fact, the fact !
That is what I want. Thy rod, Thy rod ! Thy staff, Thy
staff!" He then sank rapidly, and died at twenty-two
minutes before three o'clock on Sunday morning,
the 24th October. All that was mortal of Daniel
Webster was no more. The ancestors of the deceased
statesman were of Scottish origin, and his descent is
traced from Thomas Webster, who emigrated from Eng-
land, and settled at Hampton, on the coast of New
Hampshire. The father of Daniel Webster, Ebenezer
Webster, in early life served under the colonies, against
the French, in the invr.sion of Canada ; was made a cap-
tain ; and at the end of the war settled on the Merrimack
River. New Hampshire. By a second wife he had two
sons, Ezekiel and Daniel, the latter being born on the 18th
Jan., 1782. At the age of fifteen years Daniel Webster
entered Darmouth College, at Hanover, New Hampshire,
where he graduated in 1801. On leaving college, he
commenced the study of the law, and in 1805 he was ad-
mitted to the bar in the Court of Common Pleas, Boston.
In the first election after the declaration of war with
England, in 1812, he was elected a member of Congress,
and was immediately placed by Henry Clay, the speaker,
upon the committee of Foreign Affairs. On the 10th
June, 1813, Mr. Webster delivered his maiden speech in
Congress, on a series of resolutions moved by himself,
relative to the repeal of the Berlin and Milan decrees of
the French Emperor. No full report of this speech was
preserved ; but it took the house by surprise, from the
vast amount of historical knowledge and power of illus-
tration which was displayed. In 1814 he was re-elected
in the fourteenth Congress ; in 1820 he was chosen one of
the fifteen presidential electors for Massachusetts ; in
1822 he became a member of Congress for Boston ; in
1827 he was advanced to the senate ; in 1840 he was ap-
pointed to the office of Department of State. The part
which he took in the great compromise question, in 1850,
brought him prominently before the notice of the nation,
and, in the same year, he was placed, by President Fill-
more, on the re-organization of the Executive, at the head
of the administration. At this time he entertained
a great desire for the honours of the presidency,
and, it is said, he was greatly disappointed that he
was not nominated by the Whig National Convention,
in June last. His somewhat intemperate conduct with
respect to the recent misunderstanding concerning the
fisheries question tended considerably to diminish the
respect of those of his friends and supporters who are
anxious to maintain friendly relations with England. Mr.
Webster was twice married ; first, in 1807, to Grace
Fletcher, daughter of Rev. Mr. Fletcher, of Hopkington,
; second, about 1830, to Caroline Le Roy, daughter
of the late Herman Le Roy. This lady survives him. By
his first wife, Mr. Webster had four children, Grace,
Fletcher, Julia, and Edward, of whom Fletcher alone
survives. His congressional career embraced eight years
in the House of Representatives, and about nineteen years
in the Senate, in all about twenty-seven years. Mr.
Webster was seventy-two years of age. The news of his
death caused the greatest sympathy throughout the
country.

According to the Tribune, President Fillmore had
written a letter calling upon his friends to rally to the
support of General Scott.
A letter from Boston states that the owners of the
vessels sent out to gather guano at Lobos had forwarded
imarortions to their captains not to attempt to load for-
cibly, but to seek freight elsewhere. According to late
advises, Commodore M'Auley had not received the coun-
termand to the notification given him to defend American
vessels in securing guano.
New York papers state that Lieutenant Porter had had
an interview with the Secretary of the Navy, and that the
President and his Cabinet disapprove of the position
Captain Porter assumed at Havana. Under these circum-
stances the captain is to return to the Georgia, from which
steamer he was temporarily absent when he got into the
difficulty with the Cuban Government, as commanding
officer of the Crescent City.
Yellow fever was still prevalent at Charleston. A cotton
mill was destroyed by fire, at Providence, on the 25th.
Her Majesty's steamer Devastation had detained in
Port Hood, for some hours, upwards of forty or fifty fish-
ing vessels.
Advices from Havana to the 18th ult. state that the
passengers who left New York for Havana by the steam-
ship Crescent City, and who were eventually carried from
New Orleans to their destination by the Black Warrior,
had been arrested and examined with regard to their pro-
ceedings on board the former vessel. They were subse-
quently released.

LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From Boston :—The Earl of
Mount Charles, William Jackson, Esq., M.P.. Mr.
Blake, lady, three children, and servant, Rev. William
David, Mr. J. G. Smith, Mr. C. B. Hastings, Mr.
E. D. Jordan, Mr. G. Pattison, Mr. R. Hardistz, Mr.
J. Ardeva, Mr. J. Hartin, Mr. George Pemberton,
Master Osborne, Mr. Ross, Mr. J. A. Maclagan, Mr.
T. G. Appleton, Mr. E. Enser, Mr. D. Macfarlane, Mr.
G. Dunderdale, Mr. S. G. Wragg, Mr. W. Brown, Mr.
W. B. Abbot, Mr. W. Reed, Mrs. Rynes and two
children, Mr. W. M. Barrett, Mr. Donegree, Mr. J.
Collins, Mr. W. Johnson, Mr. J. Barrett, Mr. W. Heal,
Mr. J. Jenkins, and Mr. Francis.—From Halifax :
Hon. Joseph Howe, Capt. M`Caskill, Lieut. Bell, and
Lieut. Ingram.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, OCT. 26.

MONEY MARKET.—There is no new feature in the
money market. The supply continues abundant, and call
loans are easy at 5 to 7 per cent. The banks are discount-
ing freely. The general tone of the stock market is firm,
with rather more business doing. North American has
advanced 1. The demand for exchange on Europe was
rather dull. London. 110 to 1103; Paris, 5,131 to 5,15 ;
Amsterdam, 41 to 41i ; Frankfort, 401 to 40E ; Bremen,
79i to 79/ ; Hamburg ;361 to 361.
CorroN.—To-day cotton was cheaper, and the sales
amounted to 1,500 bales. Upland middling sold at 10c.
to 10Ic., and Orleans ditto at 104 c. to 10ac. The Courier
and inquirer, of the 26th says : " Since our last review
of the market per Asia, 20th instant, the sales have
amounted to 5,000 bales. Prices under the influence of
favourable crop advices have declined Bc. to lc., to which
our quotations at foot are adjusted. The market closed
yesterday without inquiry, and nearly all the small stock
remaining offered.

STRICT LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.
Atlantic Other
Ports. Florida. Gulf Porta
Inferior.....

Low to good ord. .. to 94 84 to 94 81 to 91
Low to good mid.... 94 to 101 91 to 10/ 9-1 to 104
Mid. fair to fair .... 101 to 104 nominal. 104 to 111
Fully fair to good fair nominal. nominal, nominal.
"It would be difficult at this early season to form any
correct notions as to the aggregate crop of 1852-3 ; but it
may be well to state that at the present moment the cal-
culations vary from 2,700,000 (the lowest estimate) to
2,900,000 and 3,000,000 bales. Assuming the yield at the
latter quantity, and at the present increased value as com-
pared with last year, say 41 to 42 dollars per bale, against
35 dollars, the value of the export to Great Britain will
alone reach nearly 75,000,000 dollars. _ _

(From Mr. W. P. Wright's Circular of October 26).—
The southern markets are without material change In
New Orleans, Mobile, and Charleston, a large business
continues to be done on English account.
THE CROP.—The more favourable advices as to the
growing crop, induced by the continuance of fine weather
throughout the entire cotton region, alluded to in my last
circular, has been during the past week more fully con-
firmed by letters per mail, and by telegraphic information
up to last evening ; estimates are being raised, and it is
not now unusual to find parties who put the figures down
at 3,000,000 bales. As yet, however, it is a matter of
conjecture, nor will it be prudent to adopt any estimate
until after the occurrence of a killing frost in the South.
Of one fact there is no doubt, namely, the highly favour-
able state of the weather throughout the great bulk of the
cotton district during the past four weeks ; which has not
only aided the maturing of the cotton, but has enabled
planters to gather abundantly of what was already ma-
tured. Georgia and South Carolina bid fair to make a
crop beyond that of any previous season ; there is ex-
pected to be a slight falling off in the quantity received at
Mane. owing to the injury received on the bottom lands;
in Florida proper the crop will fall below that of last year,
caused by storms, rains, &c. ; while in New Orleans,
yesterday, it was the opinion of some parties that the re-
ceipts at that port would be nearly if not quite equal to
those of last year.

The following is a statement ofthe movements in cotton
since the Ist of September last, as compared with the
previous three years

1852 1851 1850 1849
Receipts into the ports 256,000 200,001 159,000 155,000
Exports to Great Britain 69,000 50,000 87,000 27,000
„ France
„ other foreign ports 9,000 4,000 18,000 14,000
Total exports
Stock on hand 192,000 172,000 137,000 178,030

BREA DSTUFFS.—The flour market continues to improve,
under the influence of small receipts, and an increasing
demand for home use and the Eastern States, which has
nearly driven the English shippers out of the market. The
advance since this day week is 121 cents per barrel, and
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