The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The fine packet-ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, reached
the Mersey on Friday, after a highly prosperous trip. She
sailed on the. 16th ult., and has brought intelligence some
ten days in advance of the previous arrival, and a week
later than the arrival at London this week. The papers
by this ship speak of a desperate battle, which, it was be-
lieved, had taken place between Santa Anna, with 30,000
men under his command, and Generals Worth and Wool,
with 7000 men. Santa Anna had left his position at San
Luis Potosi, and marched upon Saltillo, to give the Ameri-
cans battle. Another rumour stated that General Wool's
cqlumn had been cut oil in attempting to join that of Gen.
Worth—that the latter had been driven back by the Mexi-
cans from Saltillo to Monterey, and that General Taylor
was shut up in the last named place. But there is evi-
dently much conjecture mixed up with these accounts,
and probably some exaggeration as to the strength of
Santa Anna's forces. Enough, however, had transpired
to make the Americans uneasy respecting the issue of the
collision with the Mexican troops ; and this feeling, com-
bined with the expressed determination of the Mexican
Congress to carry on the war, and the difficulty Mr. Polk
experienced to raise the necessary supplies, had rendered
this brush with the Hispano blood additionally unpopular
with cousin Jonathan. The next arrival will probably
bring something decisive respecting the Mexican war.
There had been much talk in Congress, but little had
been done, and the proceedings, as far as we have glanced
at them, possess little European interest. Congress still
holds tight the purse-strings, and the position of the Pre-
sident, badgered on every side for rushing so hastily into
the war, which appears to be only now commencing, had
been most unenviable.

The following pis given as the exports to this country
and France during the week preceding the sailing of the
packet:—
To Great Britain.—Corn, bush, 112,672; Flour, hhds,
25,968 ; Cheese, lbs, 183,677 ; Peas, bush, 2,300 ; Oats,
6,206; ; Turpentine, bbls, 6,212; Beef, tcs, 208 ; Beef,
half bbls, 50 ; Lard, lbs, 102,489 ; Wheat, bush, 13,691;
Wool, bales, 78; Sperm Oil, gals, 21,032; Whale Oil,
' gals, 6,676 Staves, M, 12,490 ; Pork, bbls, 699 ; Meal,
bbls, 4,046; Beeswax, lbs, 695 ; Tallow, lbs, 223,299 ;
Barley, bush, 915 ; Whalebone, lbs, 17,932 ; Bacon; lbs.
116,952 ; Cotton, bales, 1,170 ; Tobacco, manufactured,
lbs, 13,500.
To France.—Staves, M, 2,000; Flour, bbls, 3,107 ;
Wheat, bush, 9,920 ; Pork, bbls' 350 ; Tallow, lbs,
44,649 ; Rice Meal, bbls, 618 ; Whalebone, lbs, 14,088 ;
Cotton, bales, 784 ; Ashes, hbls, 130 ; Rice, tcs, 120 ;
Beeswax, lbs, 4,135 ; Lard, lbs, 13,458.
The receipts of the New York Customs for the week
were, 850,875 dollars, of which 776,453 dollars were in
American vessels. The arrivals were 52, of which 39
were American ; clearances 66, of which 32 were Ameri-
can. Sterling Bills were 5% to 6.1.
Some engagements of flour to Liverpool were made at
4s. 91-1. and grain at 17d. to 18d. Cotton 5-16 d for square. '
To Havre, grain had been shipped at 28 cents, which is
lower. Flour nominally 1 dollar 121 cents • cotton 1 cent.
The following are the latest notes of ;he, New York
Corn and Cotton Markets :
Corros.—The sales to-day have been full 3000 bales,
at very full prices. The purchases to-day have been
pretty general, and it is supposed are mostly on specula-
tion. We heard of one list of middling fair uplands being
sold at 111 cents per lb., and another list of 500 bales up-
lands at a price not made public. Holders are daily de-
manding a trifling advance in price, and only sell when
full rates are obtained. Cotton freights to Liverpool are
dull at 5-16 d per lb. square bales.
GRAIN.—A small parcel new southern wheat sold at
102 cents. and a small lot Genessee was on the market at
115 cents. Corn samples were rather scarce to-day, and
the market without change.
FLOUR AND MEAL.—The demand for flour is still good,
and prices are gradually improving. At the close to-day
it was not easy to find Genessee below 5.56, and many
holders asked 5.621.
A letter from New York states that the labouring Irish
have since November last remitted, in small sums, to their
distressed relatives and fellow-countrymen at home not
less than 150,000 dollars, or £20,000 sterling. For the
whole year 1846, the sum total ascertained was 650,000
dollars, or £130,000 sterpling. There are yet four houses
to hear from, which will swell the amount.
ONE THOUSAND CATS.—A Mr. Ridgway advertises in
the Centreville (Md.) Times for 1000 black cats, for which
he will pay two cents. a piece, on delivery at Poplar Island,
Talbot county, Md., or at the store of John W. Ridgway,
of Bayside. Here's a chalice for speculation.—U. S. Gaz.
—Mr. Ridgway does not explain for what purpose he en-
gages in this wholesale feline speculation.
The Hutchinson family having advertised one of their
concerts to take place on the 30th December, at the Music
Fund Hall, Philadelphia, they were warned by the Mayor
that if they persisted in singing anti-slavery songs, and in
'admitting coloured persons, there would in all probability
be a riot. The Hutchinsons would make no alteration ill
their Terformances or in their custom of admitting co-
loured auditors. In consequence, the trustees of the fund
had refused the use of the room, and the concert was
abandoned.

SPAIN.
The Madrid journals of the 27th ult. give no further cer-
tain information regarding the Spanish ministry. El Ti-
empo states that it will be constituted by the Duke de
Rivas, MM. Bravo 'Murillo, Sejas, Donoso Cortes, and
Rogo de Tagores. News from Lisbon of the 20th an-
nounced that the Duke de Saldanha had established tran-
quility in all the upper Beira.

FORMATION OF THE CABINET.
The Madrid journals of the 29th ult. have reached us in
due course. The new Cabinet has been composed as fol-
lows :—The Duke of Sotonmyor, President of the Council
and Minister of Foreign Affairs ; M. Bravo Murillo, Jus-
tice ; Seigas Lozano, Interior ; Roco de Fogores, Public
Instruction; Sautillon, Finances-; Pavia, War; and Bal-
dasano, Marine. The new Cabinet has taken the oaths to
her Majesty. In the sitting of the Congress of the 2gth,
M. Cortina requested to know -whether the papers relative
to the Spanish marriages would be produced. MM. Mal
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The journals contain little else cifinteret. '