The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 2, 1840

We have received a file of the Sydney Gazette to the
21st of May, inclusive. It appears, from these papers,
that great discontent was prevalent in the colony re-
specting the disposition of Government to check emi-
gration. British Guiana is alluded to, in one of the
papers, as an example to the colonists to watch nar-
rowly the distribution of the land fund.

The price of fine Flour had lately been reduced at
Sydney £5 per ton. The prices stood at for fine,
£4O for seconds, £3O for rations. The Governor had
made arrangements for supplying the poorer inhabi-
tants at the reduced rate of ltd per lb., and at the rate
of four pounds per week for each member of the fa-
mily. This regulation would obviate much of the dis•
tress which has been experienced within the last two

years.
The China had arrived safely at Port Phillip, having
on board 240 immigrants and about 30 passengers.
She had only two deaths on board during the voyage.
The number of births was six. This arrival would
prove a valuable acquisition to that rising colony.
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The news from Adelaide is of a favourable charac-
ter. The price of bread had undergone a considerable
reduction there, as well as in most other parts of Aus-
tralia. There is no news of any importance from Van
Dieman's Land.

By the arrival of the Roscoe, Captain Huttlestone,
at this port, on Tuesday, we have received files of New
York papers to the ith instant, inclusive. The com-
mercial news contained in these papers is of a che-
quered character. The stock market, on the sth ulti-
mo was exceedingly inert. In the hardware business
there had been, within the last few weeks, a consider-
able degree of activity, though the prices of cutlery
were much lower than ever. The dry goods business
remained much the same. In the general market there
had been a steady business with a general disposition
to improvement in prices. The shipping business had
begun to slacken a little, as most of the crops had gone
forward. Freighting for the past year had been more
active and really lucrative than ever before. The cot-
ton crop for the past year required for its transporta-
tion 233,000 tons more than the year before. This had
caused a continued scarcity of vessels, and high freights
in the southern ports throughout the season. The
consequence had been that, although the freights from
Europe were small, the voyages out and home had ave-
raged good freights for both passages. Respecting the
cotton market the Morning Herald furnishes us with
the following information :
COTTON.—There has been less doing during the past few
days ; holders, however, continue to demand higher rates,
and sales have been made at an advance of 4e per lb. Ac-
counts of damage done to the crops by weather, insects and
floods, are pouring in from all quarters. In many cases these
reports are without the slightest foundation, and in all greatly
exaggerated. Many letters from disinterested person: state
that it is their impression that the crop will not fall much
short of hut year. The buyers, as usual, are exaggerating
the crop, and the planters state that it will fall short 25 per
cent. In the extreme southern ports the buyers have mostly
left the cities. The stocks are very small, and consequently
the transactions unimportant. The following is a table of
stocks, sales, prices, and remarks for the week previous to
the date affixed—

Stocks. Sales. Prices. .Remarks.
New York, Sept. 5. 6,000 5,000 81 all advance 4 c
N. Orleans, Aug. 25, 18,198 2,300 a 101 improving
Mobile, „ 26, 14,561 700 7a 9} advance 1 c
Apalachicola, „ 20, 3,098 51 aB4
Augusta, ~ 31, 3,000 1,000 6a 9f improving
Savannah, „ 28, 2,283 601 84- a 94 firm
The first bale of new cotton received at Savannah, sold at

llets on the 27th.
The Morality Herald furnishes an account of the

blowing up of an aqueduct over Chippewa Creek, by
by which two schooners, which were in the canal at the
time, were seriously damaged. It was supposed to
have ,been done by the miscreant Lett. •
More Indian murders are reported to have taken
place in Georgia. A gang of one of the aboriginal
tribes bad set fire to and devastated a large amount of

property in Camden county.
A melancholy affair had recently taken place at Phil-
lipsburg, near Montreal, between Lieutenant Farquhar
and Captain M'Adam, of Colonel Dyer's voluntary
corps. According to one account, Mr. Farquhar had
resigned his commission, and Captain M'Adarn having
made some offensive remarks on the subject, a verbal

message was sent, demanding a meeting or an apo-
logy. The captain refused to receive any but a written
message, when Mr. Farquhar attempted to horsewhip
him. The captain pulled a pistol from his pocket ; a
scuffle ensued for the possession of the weapon, when
the charge exploded, and Mr. Farquhar was mortally
wounded. Another account states that Captain M'Adam
accosted Mr. Earquhar in the-street, and, after a few
words, drew a loaded pistol which he had concealed
under his clothes, and discharged its contents into the
body of his unfortunate victim. Captain M'Adam was
in the gaol of Montreal.
Papers had been received at New York from Ja-
maica to the 17th of August, a few days later than
those which we acknowledged on Tuesday. Great
complaints were still made respecting the conduct of
the negroes. The accounts from diflia-ent parts of the
island respecting the droughts, and the destruction of
the coffee crops, are gloomy in the extreme. We sub-