The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

AMERICAN COTTON TRADE

(FROM THE NEW YORK HERALD, OF APRIL I.
The last advices from England have, as they progressed
South, checked the animation in the different markets, and
generally caused a depression in prices. There is now but
little doubt that the crop will go over 1,800,000 bales. The
following is a table of the receipts, stock, and eiports, for
this year and the two previous ones : Vessels
Year. Stock. Receipts. Exports. loading.
March, 1840....508,270 1,311,622 758,473 ll 5
9 7 1839.... 432,092 662,243 438,591
1838. .. . 405,697 1,201,894 758,882 76

The receipts thus flit., notwithstanding the untoward events;
have been nearly 100,000 bales larger than in 1838, and
nearly fifty per cent. larger than last year, at this time. The
prices in all the ports are about 50 per cent. of the rates at
this time last year. The following is a table of the prices,
Liverpool classification, in the leading ports, at the latest
dates

Mobile.

New Orleans. Charleston.

Good and fine
Good fair
Fair
Middling....
Inferior ....

1840. 1839. 1840. 1839. 1840. 1839.
2 17 10 • 17/ 9 17/
84 161 81- 161 8z 17
74 151 71 151 8 16
6 144 64 14 74 15
4 14 5 124 '54. 134

This shows an immense falling off in price, especially. in
Maify years',uteu'io -grew, d kmrciry or* ifeskiS-as is now ap-
parent in the southern ports. This fact has had a great in-
fluence in retarding shipMents : nearly one half of all the ex-
ports made since the Ist October have been made since the
Ist Feb., and the receipt of so large an amount will, no doubt,
operate unfavourably upon the market in Liverpoo4' and
cause a further decline in prices.

LOG OF THE STEAM SHIP BRITISH QUEEN,
FROM NEW YORK TO LONDON, APRIL, 1840.

Long. Lat. Dis. run.
April

r- 2 p.m., steamed from dock ; 4 30,
dirnissed pilot ; 5, observed small
boat upset : bore down for her :
observed a signal of distress fly-
ing from schooner; 5 15, ob-
served small boat : stood for her,
•
and lowered cutter : picked up
four men who were holding on
her bottom : found, in spite of
every exertion, two, out of six,
had been unfortunately drowned;
6, boat returned: stood to the
eastward: took departure: Sandy
Hook W, two miles.
2-70 20 40 10 172 WNW, moderate.

3-65 50 40 0 220 W, moderate. 7 30, showed
lon. to American ship Governor
Trump,ofNew York : exchanged
colours with a Swedish ship.
4-60 35 40 35 241 S.W. and S. fresh.

5-55 54 41 30 220 S., latter part E 7, heavy beam
swell; 4 p.m.; spoke the Ameri-
can packet-ship Oxford, from
New York to Liverpool.
6-31 17 42 4 210 E. and variable, moderate, heavy
swell from southward.
7-46 49 43 25 215 E.S.E. strong, W. by N. mode-
rate ; 10, exchanged numbers
with the English ship Victory,
standing to S.W.
8-45 25 44 11 203 E.S.E. moderate, passed a brig
with loss of foretopmast—passed
a ship with loss of maintopmast,
standing to the westward.
9-32 12 45 26 230 S.S.W.to N.W. fresh.

10-37 32 46 26 202 N. W. strong, E. N. E. fresh
gales.
11-27 28 47 23 210 N.N.E. moderate, passed the
English barque Eliza Heywood .
spoke the Effort off Milford,
both standing west.
12-21 51 48 9 220 S., latter moderate, spoke the
Fanny, of London, and Econo-.
• • mist, of Newport,
13-15 48 48 52 241 S., first part N., latter moderate.
14-10 20 49 23 214 E.N.E. strong, exchanged co-
lours with one of H. M. packets,
standing to W.
15— 9 a.ni., Land's End, N.E. ; at
noon, Lizard, N.N.W. 3 miles;
at six p.m., passed an American
ship, supposed to be the Samson.
5 50 a.m., anchored at Spithead,
making a passage from Sandy
Hook to Spithead in 14 days 7
hours, deducting the longitude
on time.

To Lieut. Roberts, R.N., Commander of the steam-ship

risshignQeudeepna.ssengers,
in
the
ship
DEAR SlR,—The undersigned
under your command, feel it to be their duty, on parting with
you, to express, in the most decided terms, the satisfaction
and comfort which they have experienced during the voyage
just completed. They do not wish the present communica-
tion to be classed among those ordinary testimonies so fre-
quently presented to commanders, and which are considered
as matters of course ; but would beg to be understood as ex-
pressing, in the sincerest manner, the high opinion which they
entertain of your own deportment, both official and personal;
of the constant and kind attentions they have received ; of
the perfeit cleanliness of the vessel under your command ;
of her admirable qualities as a sea-boat; and of the ;meow-
piton superiority of the table. In the last-mentioned par-
ticular, they have found not only comfort, but such abun.
danoe and luxury as to make them almost forget that they
were on a sea voyage across the Atlantic °Mall.
Desiring that, If agreeable to yourself, you will make this
communication public, they beg to remain, with great respect,
your obedienTservants. (Signed by all the PaAsengers.)
Steam-ship British Queen, April 16, 1840.

KIRKALDY.—GREENLAND FISHERY.—Notwithstanding
the unsuccessful state of this fishing for some years back,. the
owners in this place have, in the most spirited manner, fitted
out four vessels for the Straits. Two of them have already
sailed, the Hecla and Caledonia; and the others, the Chief-
tain and the Regalia, are in the offing, preparing to follow.
Mr. Yarworth, who was shot at and robbed at Piff's Elm,
in January last, has at length so far recovered as to admit
of his being removed to Cheltenham. Only one of the two
balls with which he was wounded has been extracted, and
his right side is still considerably paralysed. The subscrip-
tions collected in the neighbourhood for his benefit, amount
to £190.-"Bristol Standard.
PouLTON-LE-FyLnE.—Since the genial rains on Saturday
and Sunday last, it has pleased a benignant Providence to
send us warm, sunshiny, and fine weather. In our neigh-
bourhood, the vendure is already beautiful ; we have a pros-
pect of an abundant and remarkably rapid growth. We
and we anticipate an abundant year,
scarcely recollect the wheat so backward, but there is little
early for any decisive opinion to be
aolrthnooug
formed as to the crops.—Preston
dhisicot
ilsomuruacthio
tri,
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Chronicle.

It is incorrectly
ilst newspapers
hunting thatat
p ePrinceen e
P
aEr-
nest met with hisaccident
The fact is, that his highness was riding over the splendid do-
main of the Earl of Cardigan, and carelessly swinging by the
thong a large hand4whip, the heavy end of which accidentally
struck his mouth, and broke two of his front teeth.-Kentish
Gazette..