The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-18 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE

UNITED STATES,

BY the Cambria steamer, which arrived in the Mersey
onThursday evening, we have received New York papers to
30th" April. Politically, they are exceedingly unimportant;
no military operations having taken place in Mexico since
the previous dates. It appears that Santa Anna has suc-
ceeded in putting down the disturbances which distracted
the capital, and he is said to have marched towards Jalapa,
to meet General Scott, who is advancing,-from-Vera Cruz,
with an army of 10,000 men. Fresh proposals for peace
have been made by the United States government, but
apparently without producing the slightest effect. The
government and people of Mexico seem equally deter-
mined to prosecute the war to the last extremity, notwith-
standing the unvarying reverses which their arms have
experienced. If, however, they should carefully avoid
fighting pitched battles, and confine themselves to a har-
rassing and desultory warfare, they may yet succeed in
wearying out their opponents, though at a terrible cost to
themselves. General Scott will, no doubt, force his way
to Mexico without any very serious opposition ; 'but the
real difficulties of the Americans will then only commence.
The procuring of supplies for, and the maintenance of
communications between, so many isolated bodies of
troops, scattered over the country, will be a work of great
labour and hazard, and, above all, of very :great cost,—a
cost which the people of the United States may endure
for a time, but with which they will eventually become
greatly dissatisfied.
The commercial intelligence by this arrival presents a
rather chequered appearance. The continued rise in the
rate of exchange, which, for the packet, was 106- to 107,
puts an •end to the apprehensions of a further demand for
gold from this country, and is consequently favourable.
On the other hand, we are informed that the steamer has
not brought so many orders for cotton goods as were ex-
pected. The exports of grain and flour from the United
States to Great Britain and Ireland, from the Ist of Sep-
tember to the latest dates, consist of about 1,100,000 qrs.
of wheat and wheat flour, and 1,400,000 qrs. of Indian
corn and corn meal, with about 50,000 quarters of rye,
oats, and barley. The probable amount of future export
is variously estimated ; but it is now pretty generally ac-
.knowledged that the statements pretty generally promul-
gated and believed on this subject a few months ago,
were utterly extravagant and unfounded. From present
appearances, it seems probable that the entire export of
wheat and wheat flour, for the whole year, will not much
exceed two millions of quarters. Of Indian Corn, no
doubt, the quantity will be large; but, if we may judge
from the estimates which we find in American circulars,
grain the supply will fall far short of the san-
muine anticipations so common a few weeks ago.

even of that

The internal navigations had remained dosed to an
unusually late period, and the quantity of produce arriving
at New York was so small, and the number of vessels in
the port was so disproportionately large, that the freight
of flour which a few weeks before had been at 7s. 6d. to
Bs. per barrel, had declined to 3s. Considerable supplies,
hOwever, were expected shortly; when, no. doubt, the

become active

following is an extract from a private letter received
per the Cambria, from a highly respectable and intelligent
merchant of New York, dated April 30. After a pressing
invitation to pay a transatlantic visit, he remarks:—

• We have plenty to eat here; but &cirri the number of poor
starving Irish you would meet every day, landing from vessels
just arrived and constantly arriving, you would think yourself
in Liverpool. Such pictures of distress and objects of misery I
have nevet before seen. What a blessing it is to this country
that we have provision enough for ourselves and for all Europe;
but too much prosperity may he our ruin. Our Mexican war
is as unpopular as it is iniquitous and unjust; I hope it may
politically kill the administration that has prosecuted it so
foolishly. Pennsylvania now regularly pays her instalments
every six months ; but a part of it in a depreciated currency."
From New Orleans, a letter, dated April 20, states that

"Indian corn is arriving plentifully,- rates exhibit a down-
war tendency (partly attributable to the extravagant freights),
price 73 to SO cents per bushel, and recommends immediate
sale here of the stuck on hand, as the supiq is likely to be
very considerable. Flour is being bought extensiveiy for France,

and Rothschild's agents have operated largely; foi good ship-
ping qualities of Ohio $64 per barrel is obtained. Wheat is
Purchased as fast as it arrives for the French market, at from
$1 21c. to -81 35c. per bushel of &nibs 'The prospects for the
trrowing crop of cotton are very unpromising, the weather un-
favourable both in the southern and the Atlantic States

Pub:ic opinion estimates the crop at 1.800,000 bales, but some
regard it overrated. As arrivals have for some time past
rapidly diminished, and do not average 200 a day, exports are

, . more limited than customary at this period ofthe year, and
vessels have difficulty to till up at even a halfpenny a pound.
'1 he filling up refers to the advantageous use of bales of cotton

The New York Herald estimates the expense of the
American war at a million of dollars weekly.
The King of the two Sicilies has, by decree dated the
26th of March, suspended the duties on the import of all
kinds of grain.
Distress is becoming universal in all parts of Germany.
It has already led to many excesses, and is, unfortunately,
likely to lead to more

o great is the distress in some parts of Bohemia that
horse flesh has become a common article of food, and is
openly sold.
FRANKFORT.—The house of Rothschild has under-
taken to pay the bakers in this town the sum of six
kreutzers upon every loaf, so that the poor may be all
supplied ; but even then a famine is apprehended.

Accounts from Lisbon to the 9th instant, state that
Madeira had pronounced for the Oporto Junta, and that
the last of the Queen's steamers had run into the Douro,
and joined the insurgents.
On Good Friday, an interesting ceremony was performed
at Jerusalem. The bishop, aaetsted by his chaplain and
two missionary clerirvmao -it"-- J

gy, ~ baptized five Jews—, wee men
and two women. A considerable number of English were
present; but the service was read in German by Dr. Ni-

A letter in the Brussels papers, dated Berlin, April 21,
says that it was " reported that, in consequence of the
great scarcity of potatoes, the distillation will be prohi-

bited in the -whore monarchy, from the Ist of June to the
Ist of September this year. It would certainly be very de-
sirable that this measure should be immediately adopted."
The Morning Post mentions an attempt to assassinate
Queen Isabella, by firing two pistols, or a double-barrelled

at. her Majesty as she was. returning from the Prado

in her carriage: The Post will not believe the version
published at Madrid of its being only a couple of crackers !
The Queen took her departure for Aranjuez on the sth,
unaccompanied by her husband.
MAMMON v. MUMMIES.—The insatiable spirit of
Mammon will not even allow the mummies of the Egyp-
tian sepulchres to slumber unmolested. It is actually
proposed to strip them of their manifold wrappers of
sumptuous linen, in order that the cloth may he manu-
factured into paper for the profit of the Pasha's govern-
ment.

ROMISH RESPECT FOR THE DEAD.—About ten days
ago an English gentleman named Wilton committed sui-
cide at Madrid. The authorities gave permission for the
interment of the body ; the parochial clergy of St. Mar-
tin's placed it in a cellar of an old convent Of Porta Cceli,
and kept it there for 36 hours, whilst deliberating what to
do with it. They at first thought fit to assume that the
—ease(' -'ncr ar Er- ',man was necessarily a Pro-

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_ , but at last allowed the body to be buried in the
public cemetery, on an assurance being given that he was
a " Catholic," though not a " Roman Catholic." The
corpse was accordingly conveyed to the ground, followed
by a few friends, and was there interred without any re-
ligious ceremony. The coffin, which closed with a lock
like a trunk, was, however, opened to allow the body to
be recognised, and the key was given up to the British
Consul. Care was taken to impress a belief on the minds
of the cemetery people that the British government would
in all probability have the body examined at a future pe-
riod. This was necessary to deter them from removing it
—a thing by no means improbable if they believed the de-
, osvcrd to harp hePn a Protestant.— Gationani.

testant