The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

1 LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE
(BY EXPRESS.)

Sir Robert Peel arrived at Whitehall Gardens yesterday
afternoon at three o'clock.

There is a most important rumour afloat well calculated
materially to rase the value of share property, viz., to the
effect, that the new ministry will propose the postpone-
ment of "calls" for the present year urnn all new rail-
ways which have obtained their hills, and which have not
actually commenced their works. This would be a
great relief to the money market. Shares and scrip are
all rather higher.

LONDON CORN F,XCITAN3E

.--YESTERDAY

There was a moderate supply rf Wheat horn Essex,
Kent and Suffolk, this morning, the sale of which could not be
proceeded with in the early part of the day without submitting

to a decline, which as the day progre•sed amounted fully to 4s
and 5s per quarter. In Foreign, business was limited, being
held on the same terms as on Friday, with which buyers were
unwilling to comply._

Thete was a small supply of Beans and Peas, for which
former rates have be,n obtained. Barley meets a retail sale a
The large oirmtity of Oats rf.

inotations

per quarter,

SMITHFIELD CATTLE MARKET.—YESTKRDAY.
On the whole, the beef trade was steady, at an advance on

ducing 4s. per Sibs., and a hood clearance was effected.
The numbers of Sheep were somewhat less than those ex-
-I►ibited on this day se'nnight, ,yet they were seasonably large.

other kinds were heavy, at barely stationary prices.
Lambs, the supply of which was moderately extensive, were
a slow sale at low rates.
Calves and Pigs met a dull inquiry, and, in some instances,
the prices had a downward tendency.

killtd and 4
Coel

Inferior .
Ordi, ary
Middling

Middlint,r fair

favotirahle

THE CAFFRE WAR.
(From the New York Courier and Enquirer)
We are indebted to Captain Waterman. of the Ship
Natchez, who at rived yesterday, for Cape Town papera to
the 30th April.
We learn from them that hostilities have actually com-
menced between the authorities and the natives, upon the
frontier. On the 15 hof April a division of troot•s
marched towards Brown's-hill, where there is a missinna-

ry station nr village. situa►ed in front of the gorges of the
Amatola Mountains, into the ravines of which it was un.
thrstoad the Caffres had withdrawn. Here the troops
encamped far the Hight.

In the morning the troops entered the gorges, and en-
countered the enemy, which at times showed a force of

repulsed wherever they could be met, and the troops took
1.800 head of cattle and encamped. In the afterncon
they were attacked by bodies of the Caffres. and during
the night were surrounded on all skits. Major Gibson.
he Commander, sent for a reinforcement to Colonel
cle 26 to 3s Somerset, who proceeded with 200 infantry, one gun, and

some rifle►nen, to his support_
Major Gibson early the next day, without awaiting the
reinforcement, moved upon the ricer, with only an ad-
vance and rear-guard, leaving the waggons, 13tc., between,
rotected. They were immediately a

.acked, and the
line cut in two by the Caffrey, who then attacked the
rear guard upon all sides, compelling Major Gibson to re•
treat to Burn's-bill. The advanced guard crossed the

ricer, and both divisions were then -united and being
j)ined by Colonel Somerset, encamped on the bank of the
Chutnie.

On the.lBth,_while retirinz down the river, they were

T•es, tut succeeded in crossini

•
a lo,s of 1 officer and 2 men killed and 3 wounded. rTneir
w:;ole loss was 11 killed and 14 woumled. The loss ofthe
Caifres is not stated. Government is taking steps to call
out the, whole force of the cavalry, to

ut down the robber

proclaimed by the Govern3r on the 21st of April. At
Post Victnri4, on the 12th, a party of dragoons pursued a
body of Caffres, numbering 1,500, and upon overtaking,
attacked then), They were, howry r, forced to retrrat,

A considerable body of Caffres had also attacked the de
fended position, the Wesleyan chapel, at CoHingham, bc
ai:hout success. Trey were also seen in eonsiderabh
force at varinui points on the frotv hr. They also nttrickec
Drift Post, and suecerd-d in carrying oft 89 head of cattle.
• ,r-stss• 1. . -

Lieutenant o'May, on the 19th, with 81 men, met am
engaged a large body of Caffrey, and entirely routed there
without serious loss on his own part. About 50 •Caffres
on the night of the 27th, attacked the cattle kraal neat

Large numbers of cattle, at other

10 Caffrey

If by nint

re killed ; the Etig.hrh

latter N
I.'

le, who c

Tres bad been seen in bo

s Lieurenqn
to the date of the

s ,f 200 in tiff

eeded frequently in carryit
t ned b

The colony seems to be seriously On
the utmost alarm prevailed in even,

had shot two or tb;ce mail carri: r

nd thrown the nopu!ation of the
itmost confusion. The Legislati

II vesFe

t r froin M a

to the
Video,

we have leitera two days
to the 22nd of April. The monetary difEe_
Gov,rnunent, occasioned by the arrival of I
been removed. li:veira, it was 11
proceed up the Urueuav

crier to be i]

les of th
,eira, lIH

Salta, with a
Engli*h

d French

ced A his chrpos.l, ia which, i

STATEM ENT OF THE COTTON MARKETS
(From Wright and Lrloin's Neu, York Ci,enlar.)

CURRENT PRICES Fop. LivEßPoor, CLASSIFICATIoN
.New York, Iqh June.

6i to of

74 to ;-4

Charleston, S.

lrtli June

G 2 to 7
7i to 7j
if t 0.711
8 to h 4

to .. to CI
to 7i
to 'A

ile&N.o;
6 to (3}
to 7&

11 to 121

6th June 6th Jun

54 to 5

6 to 6

t 4 to-
7 to-

Suffieient time has not elapsed to exhibit tt.

question ; the m. rcantile community, seem however, to
ter' wore confidence in future prospects, and he Mexican

difficulties will, do'

:less, soon cease to exercise any to

euee dt► teitrimerCe. File COtton seagon is
now rapidly drawing to a close, and the weekly receipts
at the South give evidence that the crop is nearly all in;
at any rate, so mush so as to warrant us in expressing the
conviction that. this crop, including Texas. will not reach
2.100,000 bales. It is true that some few parties s'"'
cling to higher estimates '

out we are unable to discover
any grounds for such expectations, and irs a Matter of

ctrcutars trom time to time curing the list winter, in re.
'card to the present crap of cotton, (and in which, for a
long period, we were almt•st alone,) are now being verified
by facts too strong to admit of doubt as to their con% cc-
ness. By reference to our taldes above, it will be seen
that the receipts into all the ports this season, amount to
1.981.662 bales, against to the same dates last year of
2,343.285 bales, which shews a deficit of 3C2,623 bal s.
The stec • of cotton in Augusta, Hamburg, and Macon on
the Ist in4ant, deducting that on hand on the lst Sept.
last, was 35,000 bales, which, added to the receipts, gives

s year of 2,015 662 hales. We beg
once mrre to call your attention to our tables of exports,
from which it will be seen that the falling off in the tt tal
amount exported, as compared with last year, amounts to

us a total supply tl

517 706 bales, the defi, iency to Great Britain being 443,536.
Our circular of 30th May cave the operations to the
close of lAA month. On the 2d inst. we were placed in
posst sion of Liverpool advises to the 19th ult. per Hi-
bernia, showing an improvement in that cotton market,
and a more encouraging state of trule generally ; these
accounts have been somewhat anticipated, hold. rs con-
tinued to off, r their stocks freely at previous rates, and a
large ru-ine&s during the week eodinp 6-b June was the
result, the sales amounting to at least 16,C00 bales, chiefly
for export to Liverpool. During last week purchasers
hav a
e continued itnhuee d
salest he ir
:uoperations.3o o bales, of which thoughat with less eager-
ness,least 4,000 bales were sold on Saturday. We continue
our quotations as given in our last circular, which may be