The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-26 00:00:00

totiowing day for England with about 1000
bales. The Achilles had arrived at Woosung from Hong
Kong, and the Litherland from Liverpool. The ships in

port were—Francis Burn, John Christian, J. Garnett, and
Sarah Trotman. 'They were loading very slowly.

On the first of April last, there were in the cellars of
the wholesale dealers in France, no fewer than 18,815,367

" ENVOYS EXTRAORDINARY."—Two black Men have
arrived at Paris, as Envoys Extraordinary and Ministers
Plenipotentiary of the Republic of Hayti to France.
A tremendous fire broke out a fortnight ago in the town

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Kostroma and the Volga. It destroyed 500 houses, by
which 7000 persons were deprived of shelter.
THE GROWTH OF A CITY.—The Boston Chronotype
states that the second child born in Cincinnati still lives
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anc ..as not seen middle age, while that city contains
80,000 inhabitants.

SPAIN.—The king has returned to the palace, the Queen
Christina has reached Madrid. Some of the ministerial
papers give most affecting accounts of the manner in which
the Queen received her husband and mother ; but they are
not worthy of credit.

The Malta papers contain a good deal of writing rtgard-
ing their expected Governor, Mr. More O'Ferrall, whom
they seem to apprehend will, on account of his being a
Roman Catholic, be used as a tool by the Jesuits, whose
conduct is described as peculiarly meddlesome and offen-
sive.

AMERICAN METHODISM.—The decrease of Methodists
within the bourele of the New York conference lies been 81:1_
great, that a " day of fasting and prayer" has been ap-
pointed on account of it. One of their bishops stated in a
recent address, that there had been a falling off of two
thousand members in the New York conference in one
year ; and, in the " whole connexion," a falling off of fifty
thousand within the same period !—Christian Witness.

• CURRENTS OF THE ATLANTIC.-At the meeting of
geologists and naturalists in Boston, on Thursday last,
Professor H. D. Rogers read a report from Lieut. Maury,
on the currents of the North Atlantic, which may lie of
great importance to navigation. Between New York and
Havre and New York and Liverpool there is only a dif-
ference of one day's sailing in distance, while in time
there is an average difference of nearly a week. This may
be obtained by a knowledge of the currents. In going
from Havannah to New Orleans vessels stem a current of
three miles an hour against them, when they might have
a current in their favour of two miles an hour.—New
York Journal.

FOREIGN CORN AND HARVEST.—Brussels, 0ct.•19.
The official returns of the Agricultural Society on the
produce of the harvest of 1847, are as follows ;—The harvest
was in all the provinces good in wheat, very good in rye,
good in spelt, good in mastlin, good in barley, good in
buckwheat, good in oats, good in greens, middling in
horse beans, good in hay, middling in clover, good in lin-
seed, bad in peas. The produce of this year has exceeded
that of ordinary years, as follows :—Wheat, 937,838 hec-
tolitres ; rye. 1,985,434 hectolitres ; spelt, 392,693 hecto-
litres ; mastlin, 223,702 hectolitres ; buckwheat, 37,201
being total excess, 2,576,882 hectolitres.—Flanders papers,
Oct. 19.

SWITZERLAND.—The accounts received from Switzer-
land are becoming daily more and more serious. The
grand council of the canton of St. Goll voted in favour of
coercive measures for the dissolution of the Sonderbund,
and the expulsion of the Jesuits. This gives the govern-
ment and the Liberal party a majority in the diet, which
was to meet on the 18th, and there is now no doubt that
the diet will at once prepare to enforce its resolutions, so
that we may expect to hear of a decided and hostile move-
ment between the parties. On the other hand the Aus-
trians are preparing to interfere, if they should find a fa-
vourable opportunity. The Austrian troops have already
made a favourable movement on the Tyrol frontier : and
the whole of the Swiss frontier is now lined with troops,
from Lago Maggiore to the Lake of Constance.
THE FINANCIAL CRISIS.—Our Exchange never was in
such a state of excitement as reports from this place have
represented it to foreign journals. It is true that discount
is at 6 and 69 per cent. ; but not from actual want of
money, for there is coin enough at the bank; but for fear
of ricambio (re-exchange), which may be expected in con-
sequence of the numerous foreign failures, the bankers
and merchants who have anything to do with exchange
suffer ready money to lie by unused. It is true that seve-
ral of our houses have been concerned in two or three of
the London failures ; but for sums which to them may be
termed inconsiderable ; they have also the Russian houses
to fall back upon, from whom they received the bills, and
if these remain solvent they will suffer no loss eventually.
The house of Pehmoller and Jollens is the only one which
has stopped.—Hamburgh paper.
SPREAD OP THE CHOLERA.—Further accounts from
St. Petersburg say, that according to official authorities,
the cholera continues to advance to the north and to the
west. Cases of this malady have been observed at Orel,
Toula, and even in the village of Pensa, which is situated
only 50 leagues from Moscow, and where four peasants
have been attacked. In the province of Astracan, which
contains 31,300 inhabitants, there have been 5,915 cases,
and 3,131 deaths. The epedemic reigns with great in-
tensity at Tscharno-Jarsk and its environs. At Saratow,
capital of the province of the same name, 2,500 persons
have been attacked, and 1,191 have died. In the country
of the Don Cossacks there have been 12,651 cases, of
which 7,017 have proved fatal. At Charcow 53 persons
have died of the disease ; and at Kursh there were, on the
15th of September, 588 sick. At Woronish, a city con-
taining upwards of 44,000 inhabitants, the cholera ap-
peared on the 4th of September, and since then there have
been 420 cases per day, and 150 deaths. On the 16th
there were in the hospital 1,019 cholera patients, of whom
418 had been attacked the same day; the number of
deaths on that day had been 152.