The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-14 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD,

Stn,—The letter of "A Catholic" having appeared in
the Mercury, I thought it expedient to adopt that medium
for the following reply.
The editors of that paper having refused it insertion,
(for which :refusal, however, they promise that "the
reasons shall be stated in Tuesday's Mercury,") I venture
to solicit from you the favour which they denied.
Your o-Jedient servant,
September 11th, 1847. NIGEL.

TO A WRITER IN THE MERCURY, SIGNING

" A CATHOLIC."

SlA,—Few men, `perhaps, sit unmoved, whilst the truth
of their favourite doctrines is being questioned, and the
articles of their belief impeached. They feel themselves
identified with the doctrines they profess, and are apt to
apply to themselves the imputations directed to those
only. Perhaps, then, it is no wonder that you should
burn to defend when your Church is attacked, and to
vindicate yourself from the imputation of crediting "fables"
and being captivated by "deceits." And yet I know not
what has been said, the novelty of which could have
surprised or aroused you. You knew that what Dr.
M'lsTeile has been called upon to reiterate is the profession
of all good Church of England men, and is a standing
record in the articles of their church. You knew the
state of the controversy, and the grounds of mutual
opposition between us, and that it was because we be-
lieved those novel doctrines imposed on the faithful by
the Council of Trent to be " blasphemous fables and
dangerous deceits," that the Anglican Church cast them
from her, and returned in penitence to her "first love."
You knew that we must hold ourselves to be innovators
instead of reformers, mutilators instead of pruners, unless
we so believe, unless we are prepared so to denounce
them ; what then. I would fain ask, has brought you
forth to open anew, through the columns of a newspaper, 1
the old controversy, upon which you throw no new light,
and to which you bring no new weapon, to say what has
been said a thousand times before, and, I believe, a
thousand times refuted. But still, since you were as-
suming the management of such a subject through a
newspaper, it might have been expected that in its con-
sideration you would have been actuated singly by a
resolution to vindicate what you believed to be truth, and
a sincerity of purpose which would have been content to
have cast away all those arts by which you attempt to
vilify and slander WI opponent, instead of only-attacking
his position, and to reflect upon his motives instead of
refuting his arguments. But, sir, if from your letter we
subtract all its vapouring without argument, and all its
assertions without proof, all its empty sound without the
solidity that truth imparts, and all its pompous asseve-
ration written orgy to catch the ear, all the inference
which enmity .alone could draw, and the blind charges
which a manly mind could never have advanced, all, in
fact, which malice dictated, and rage impelled, little
indeed would be left for you to boast of or for me to
notice, little that a wise man should have written or a
good man could wish to retain.
For your pity, doubtless, Dr. M`Neile will be grateful,
but while commending the tenderness of yew nature,
permit me to advise you to reserve it till he shall need it,
and you be more fit to evince it ; for, believe me, mistaken
pity, whilst it leaves its object as high and as dignified
before, makes the exercise of it supremely ridiculous.
For once, however, we will confess you have belied the
nature of our church, and allow your amiability to outstep
your judgment, and what is still more beautiful, to stifle
your enmity 'itself. But you have read Dr. M'Neile's
letter with disgust at its presumption, and the assumed
air of infallibility with which it deals damnation round
the land ;' your disgust may, perhaps, be easily accounted
for, but surely such an extremely silly remark could not
have proceeded but from disappointed-rage, which blinds
the perceptions, while it inflames the feelings. Dr.
M`Neile is called upon to state the grounds of his ob-
jection to the Maynooth endowments, he does so by
declaring that he believes with the Church of England,
that many doctrines taught at that institution are bias-
phemousables, and dangerous deceits ;" can anything be
more reasonable, anything more natural, anything more
inevitable? You know that Dr. M'Neile believed this,
what then elicited your disgust, his belief of it, or his
profession of that belief; if his belief, perhaps there is
no wonder you should be disgusted at that of which you
have employed the whole column of a newspaper in evinc-
ing your inability to disprove the truth, and indeed in
unconsciously demonstrating its strength. If his pro-
fession, 1 have shown that nothing is more natural, that
he was absolutely called upon to make it, that he would
have shirked the question if he had not done so. But if
this mere profession of his belief with the Church of
England, that those peculiar doctrines are blasphe-
mous fables and dangerous deceits is an assumption
of infallibility, your whole letter is open to the idle
and childish charge, for in it you profess your belief
in certain distinctive doctrines, and condemn, as error and
heresy, the belief of others. And do I bring any accusa-
tion against you for this ? Surely not ; such is your be-
lief, and you are justified in professing it as you maintain
its truth ; but, Sir, you have done more ; you have pre-
sumed to dive into motives ; you have uncovered the
heart; you have traduced Dr. Wisleile in his character as
a man of truth and sincerity ; you have dared to denounce
him as the utterer of that which he knows to be false, and
as the taker of an oath against conviction. Who, then, I
demand, bias snatched the attribute which belongs to di-
vinity alone ; who has assumed infallibility; who has dis-
played intolerant and unprovoked presumption ? He who
rationally and perspicuously stated the grounds of his op-
position to Popish endowments to be his belief, and his
belief to be, with the Church of England, that the distinc-
tive doctrines of Popery are " fables and deceits," or he
who traduces motives which he cannot ascertain, and ques-
tions the sincerity of that intention which is hid from
human eye ? You denounce Dr. Wi•leile as dealing dam-
nation round the land, because he professes his belief to be
that these doctrines are " blasphemous fables and dan-
gerous deceits." What then ? is he to belie his faith be-
cause the world is full of Papists ; because Popes and
priests, and flocks innumerable, have professed their belief
in these doctrines, is he to believe them also? You, Sir,
may regulate your belief, not by the light of truth, but by
a consideration of the numbers or the weight of the parties
believing. You, Sir, may believe, with Bellarmine, that
vice is virtue and virtue vice, if a certain man wills it, but
we have not.yet arrived at such a pitch of indifferency ;
we cannot yet boast such a perversity of judgment. But
if, when Dr. M‘Neile calls these doctrines fables and de-
ceits, he deals damnation round the land, I would fain
know what your church dispenses when it pronounces all
impugners of the twelve inventions which the-Council of
Trent presumed to add to the Catholic Faith occurred ?
In this denunciation you conjoin ; you are compelled by
the commands of your church to join ; and you, alas ! be-
lieve that we Anglicans are heretics, and that for us, as
such, there is no salvation. Yethow shocked, howoffended
is your charity, who can denounce men to domnation,
when doctrines only which you profess are by us declared
blasphemous. We presume not to decide on the fate or
condition of Papists, whilst we do, and, by God's grace,
always will, denounce the doctrines of Popery ; but you
and your church pour out your denunciations on us, and
consign us, by your standing decrees, to the stake and the
faggot in this life, and to everlasting destruction in the
next.

When you unwarily say that Dr. M'Neile utters a foul
calumny by professing his belief that the adoration of the
sacramental bread is idolatry, you mean, I presume, that
it is a foul calumny to say that Romanists do adore the
sacramental bread. To prove which you assume that the
bread is changed, before it is worshipped, into the body,
blood, soul, and divinity of Jesus Christ. When did a
Romanist bungle through an argument without the help
of a sophism ?—here is as glaring an instance of "petitio
prineipii" as ever Romanist casuistry could possibly
evince : you assume the whole question, and then boast as
if you had proved it. Dr. M'Neile affirms that Papists
worship a piece of bread : you deny this—for the bread,
you say, is changed into the body and soul of Christ : but
this is questioned,—and Dr. M'Neile believes the bread
-to be still bread, when it is worshipped ; and as bread is a
creature, it must be idolatrous to worship it. Believing
so, then, how utters he calumny in affirming such to be
his belief ? But you assert that, even if the worshipper
be mistaken in supposing the bread to be Christ, he is not
an idolater, for he intends to worship Jesus Christ alone.
Such a pretence is so flimsy and so vain that it is almost
unnecessary to explain and explode it. If the mistake
justify the worship of the bread, does it not also justify
every species of idolatry ever committed by deluded man,
or condemned in the Word of God ? We are told by St,
Austin of some " who said Christ was the sun, and there-
fore worshipped the sun,"—were they idolaters ? The
apostate Israel had their golden calf and their Baal,—were
they idolaters ? The heathens had their images of wood, '
their "stocks and stones,"—the Greens and Romans their
Jupiter and so on, were they idolaters ? Divines, sir, in
your own church have been ashamed to resort to so pitiful
an evasion ; and have declared that " if the doctrine of '
transubstantiation be not true, the idolatry of the heathens
in worshipping some golden or silver statue, or any images
of their gods ; or the Laplanders worshipping a red cloth,
or the Egyptians an animal, is more excusable than of
Christians, who worship a bit of bread." And then " if
there be nothing but bread in the eucharist they are all
idolaters." You hint that if transubstantiation be false,
Christ came on earth to speak riddles that would lead
millions of his creatures astray. Sir, think you it is
dealing faithfully with the merciful author and finisher of
the faith—that when he has committed to the keeping of
the church a doctrine so well understood, that for twelve
centuries it was preserved in its original purity and inten-
tion—your church of Rome should impiously dare to cor-
rupt that doctrine, contrary to the Catholic faith of all
antiquity ; and then set up ignorance as an excuse for pre-
sumption ? Talk about riddles, and being led astray from
the truth—Jesus, if I mistake not, once called himself a
vine; another time bread : once he called his salvation
water; another time to be born again. Was he under-
stood ? Did he not speak metaphorically ? The Jews,
indeed, understood him not ; nor did he undeceive them.
Let them who have distorted his known meaning—who
have corrupted the Catholic faith, which was open to the
comprehension and knowledge of all—take heed lest they
should arrive at this awful pitch of judicial blindness—l
beg to commend you for your steady belief of Christ's
promise that the gates of Hell shall never prevail against
his church ; but if I concede your application of it to the
visible church on earth, I must deny its application, as
you would claim it, until you prove that the church of
Rome is the Catholic church. But now your charges
grow in virulence, and in proportion increase in emptiness
and absurdity. The Church of England is but of yester-
day, and her members arc modern schismatics ! The
Church of England, on the contrary, history informs
us, was founded seventeen centuries ago; and very
probably by St. Paul himself. We arc modern schism-
atics, and yet we are dutiful children of this ancient
and apostolical church; whilst you are separated from her. '
How one line wipes out all your charges ! how the irre-
sistible force of truth hears down all tour bold and high.
sounding falsehoo4s What becomes of the fables about

the fratricide Somerset, the boy King Edward, the profli-
gate Elizabeth (who, by-the-way, although dignified by
four graceless epithets, I am content should compare with
the lady who preceded her on the throne), the sensual
James, and the penal Laws ? Which latter are not enacted
against religion, but against treason, not against men, be-
cause they maintain these " blasphemous fables and
dangerous deceits," but because they call their queen the
subject of an Italian monarch, and dedare that as a here-
tic it is lawful to burn her. But who are the schismatics ?
The English church from the second century was recog-
nised as a branch of the Catholic church ; how, then does
she cease to be so ? Because she has cast off the yoke of
Rome, which, in violation of the canons of the universal
church, was in part imposed upon her. Because she has
purged herself of those errors and corruptions which,
though condemned by the whole Catholic Church for many
centuries, had by degrees polluted and defaced her. Be-
cause, with reverential fear, she has endeavoured to re-
trace her wandering steps, and come as near as she pos-
sibly could to the Church of the Apostles and of the old
Catholic bishops and fathers ? I pray you answer me this,
and we may perhaps with more certainty arrive at your
definition of schism and Catholicity. But who is the
schismatic ? I, who still adhere to the old church which
has existed in England since the apostolic age, or you, who
profess to adhere to bishops who, in violation of the de-
crees of the universal church, are ordained and appointed
to places subject to other bishops; and of another decree,
which declares those to be heretics who, though they pre-
tend to profess a sound faith, make congregations contrary
to our canonical bishops ? Who is the schismatic then ?
1, who hold to this old Catholic Church of England and
its canonical bishops, or you, who subject yourself to
Rornish usurpers and foreign intruders ?
Your obedient servant, _ _

NIGEL.
[A second letter from our correspondent will appear
next week.]

LA7T FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

UNITED STATES.
ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA.

The Royal Mail Steam-ship Cambria, Captain Judkins,
arrived here yesterday morning, from Boston and Halifax.
-She left the former port on the 2nd, and the latter on the
3rd instant, at night. She has made the passage from
Halifax in less than ten days. She affords another instance
of the extraordinary regularity in the arrival of these mag-
nificent steamers--having arrived by the very tide, which,
it was calculated, would bring her up. She was detained
at Boston until the 2nd by a dense fog; she has brought
ninety passengers.
As first in political importance we begin with the intel-
ligence from Mexico. The news from Vera Cruz is to the
15th iastant, and announced the return of Paredes to
Mexico, from his exile. He reached Vera Cruz on the
14th in the English mail steamer Teviot, under an assumed
name, and left that port for Mexico just an hour before
information was received of his being on his way to Vera
Cruz. Much is said in the New York papers on this
subject, but it amounts to nothing more than bluster
against the English for aiding his escape, or conjecture as
to his probable objects.
Advices from California state that peace and quietness
reigned through the land, and the prospects of the season
were favorable. General Kearney was exercising supreme
command, and Colonel Fremont, being under arrest,
travelled a short distance in the general's rear.
General Scott was at Puebla on the 7th August, and the
army was to take up the line of march on the next day
for the city of Mexico. General Pierce arrived at Puebla
on the 6th, and lost not a single man on the march, not-
withstanding another severe battle with the guerillas.
Major Games and Midshipman Rogers had escaped from
Mexico, and had arrived safe at General Scott's head-
quarters, bringing intelligence that Santa Anna was
marching with fifteen thousand men to meet General
Scott, whilst the latter has only about two-thirds that
number. The train which left Vera Cruz on the 6th was
attacked about twenty-four miles from Vera Cruz, and it
was reported there that the Mexicans had destroyed a part
of the national bridge, and erected defensive works. A
decisive action was expected at this place. The yellow
fever was spreading at Tampico, but at Vera Cruz it was
on the decrease. Captain Ruff has given the guerillas at
San Juan de Los Llanos, killing 43 and wounding 50.
A telegraphic despatch from New Orleans gives the
following : The Matamoros Flag of the 18th, received
at New Orleans, confirms our statement that General
Taylor would not march on San Luis Potosi. Captain
Taylor, with 27 Texan Rangers, in pursuit of guerillas be-
tween Cerralvo and Monterey, lost five men—three in
fighting on the Gth. Canales was active and doing much
harm to scouting parties and baggage trains. Colonel
Hays was still in Texas. After having been scouting for
the purpose of catching depredators, he returned to San
Antonio on the 24th of July. The Indians and Mexi-
cans are reported as doing our troops a good deal of harm
in a small way."
The Caledonia, which left this port on the 12th ult.,
arrived at Boston early on the morning of the 2nd inst.
The French mail steam-ship Missouri reached New York
via" Halifax, on the 21st ult., and sailed again for Havre
on the 31st.

The new ship Mamlouk, Captain Christianson, which
left New York on the 9th ult., was totally lost on the 15th,
together with, forty-two lives. On that night she was
lying to in a violent hurricane, under the main spencer
and fore topmast stay sail. About ten minutes before
twelve o'clock she was struck with a heavy squall, and
careened so much that the cargo shifted, and she imme-
diately fell upon her beam ends, the weather rail on the
quarter deck being within a few feet of the water. The
main and mizen masts were immediately cut away, and
the ship righted, but the cargo burst open the batches and
floated about, creating much confusion, and increasing the
impending danger. Within a very short time the vessel
filled, and she became water-logged, the starboard rail be-
ing under water. In this condition the crew and passen-
gers remained until daylight on the next morning, the
IGth, when the dreadful truth became apparent to them,
that out of sixty-four souls only twenty-two remained
alive, the others having been washed overboard. It ap-
pears that the steerage passengers occupied the house on
deck, and were in bed at the time of the disaster. The
heavy sea that struck the ship swept this house overboard
with all its inmates, and hence the great loss of that class
of passengers, only one out of the thirty-six having been
saved. The cabin passengers were also in bed at the time,
and as the ship lay on her beam ends they were rescued
through one of the windows on the weather side. The
captain, Christianson, was once washed overboard, but re-
covered himself in the rigging of the mainmast. The
Mamlouk was a splendid hew vessel, was on her first voy-
age, and was built at Perrine, Patterson and Stack's ship-
yard, in New York. She was 850 tons burthen, and owned
by Warren Delano, jun., Esq. She had a full cargo of
flour, provisions, &c., which was worth about 8'50,000.
The vessel and freight money were insured in Wall-street
for about 855,000 ; about 811,500 at the Mutual Safety
Office, and the remainder is divided between the Atlantic
and Sun Offices, and Philadelphia agency. The ship had
every convenience and improvement, and was as fine a
ship as ever left the port. She cost from 8'60,000 to
870,000. The cargo was also partially insured in
London.

The steam ship Guadalquiver arrived at New York on
the 29th ult., and a fire broke out on board on the same
day. Captain Hosken was immediately sent for, End a
stream of water was poured on the fire for several hours,
when it was at length extinguished. It was said that the
vessel was wilfully set on fire. The passengers by the
Guadalquiver had presented a very gratifying address to
Captain Mosher, expressive of their sense of his skilful
management of the ship during a tempestuous voyage.
They had subscribed a handsome sum for the purchase of
a fitting testimonial, for presentation to the worthy cap-
tain.

At Yucatan a plot, having for its object the slaughter
of the inhabitants, was fortunately discovered, but not
before a number of inhabitants had been massacred in
several villages. All white and mulatto men, with the
women and children, had been murdered at Tepick. Party
difficulties had been set aside, and the Yucatanese were
uniting to resist the insurgents.
From Canada we learn that the crops appeared very
promising, but business was dull, and the emigrant fever
was still raging to a melancholy extent,
A letter, published in the New York Advertiser, states
that on the 26th ult., the advance Mexican guard inter-
cepted a private correspondence between -Santa Anna and
General Scott, in which the latter had written that he had
commenced withdrawing his troops from Perote. This
disclosure produced a general excitement among the
Mexican people; and to calm the populace it became ne-
cessary for Santa Anna to make a public manifesto, de-
claring that his policy was only a ruse by which he hoped
to surround General Scott. A letter in La Patria, dated
at Tampico on the 9th, states that a person arrived there
on the Bth, from the city of Mexico, who says that the
preparations of General Scott do not indicate an advance
on the Ist of August, as reported ' • nor was it believed he
would advance with the force he had. The letter adds,
that the news concerning the interception of Gen. Scott's
correspondence is confirmed. The same letter likewise
remarks that the vomito has appeared in its worst form
among the Americans, and already great mortality pre-
vailed.

At Texas, the prospect as regards cotton and sugar, was
favourable to an abundant yield.
The yellow fever was very fatal at New Orleans. On
the 15th ult. twenty-one interments from this disease had
taken place, and during forty-eight hours ending the same
day, 27 deaths had taken place at the Charity Hospital.

BREAD STUFFS.
ExpOrts from the United States to Great Britain and Ire-
land, to latest dates, since Ist September last :
Wheat flour 3,099,176 barrels.
Corn meal 836 347

Wheat
Indian corn
Rye.
88,161 „
.
Oats
Barley . 292,486 „
Of which there were from New Orleans :
To Great Britain, 6-e. France.
Wheat flour 641,120 barrels. 286,133 barrels.
Corn meal.
Wheat
Indian Corn 4,195,271 „ 3,392 „
Rye
Barley,. 1,985 „ 1 274 ..
And from New York : ,
To Great Britain, 6-e. France.
Wheat flour 1,652,311 barrels. 244,352 barrels.
Corn Meal.. 349,919 4,075
Wheat . 2,403,337 bushels, 352,880 bushels.
Indian Corn 6,774,869 ~ 5,772 ~
Rye...
Oats
Barley.. 290,376 32 ~
Alla of Rye to all Voreign ports, 1,008,389 buahels.

NEW YORK.
Export from this port to all Foreign. Ports, from Ist Sep.,
1846, to 25th ult.

Flour
Corn Meal
Wheat
Corn ..
Rye
Oats
Barley

2,096,677 barrels.
406,700 „
2,915,397 bushels,
6,910,527 ,
1,008,389
416,147 ~
301,578 „

The following is an extract from the circular of Mr. T.
J. Stewart, of New York, prepared for transmission by the
steamer :

At the date of my last respects to you per Hibernia, on the
14th inst., I stated that Liverpool buyers were participating in
the operations going forward to a very limited extent, notwith-
standing an easy freight market. For a few days subsequent to
the departure of that steamer, the market wore a quiet appear-
ance, as parties were reluctant to operate until the receipt of
later advices from abroad. The telegraph accounts per Cambria
from Liverpool to 4th inst., were received late on Wednesday
night, 18th inst. advisingof great stringency in the money market
there, and a slight decline on the lower grades of our staple.
The letter mail was not received until Friday, 20th inst., and
the private advt.:es were considered more unfavourable, as no
orders came out; and an apKehension seemed to exist that the
tightness would rather increase ; and, in fact, had commenced
to assume a permanent appearance.
The sales which have been effected since have been to the ex-
tent of 1,500 bales daily, and mainly to our home trade, and
with a large and scattering frock, and an absence of export de-
mand, the market has, presented one uniform appearance of
dullness and excessive indifference on the part of holders, ex-
cept where their orders or immediate necessities prompted sales,
which consequently were made at easier prices, to the extent of
one quarter of a cent. The quiescent state of our market is,
perhaps, not a matter for much surprise when the peculiar
position of the English trade, and the sudden and severe pres-
sure on the money market, on the eve of an apparently bounti-
ful harvest, is considered. The new steamer Guadalquiver
arrived on Sunday morning, with dates to 14th instant ; the
letters received yesterday by her, as far as yet known, are con-
firmatory of the anticipation of parties here, and our market
since has exhibited no change in tone.
The accounts that now reach us respecting the appearance of
the growing crops are conflicting. From a careful analysis of
them, I am persuaded that it is in a very precarious condition,
and that its appearance now is decidedly adverse to a good
yield. From some sections we hear that it promises well, while
in others they have totally abandoned all hope of making even
half a crop. The plant generally looks well. It was pushed
forward to an unhealthy degree by the rains in July, but it is
large, long-jointed, and sappy; the forms and squares are fall-
ing from the stalks, and it is not in a productive condition.
Thus far we have no positive evidence of the appearance of the
caterpillar, or army worm (the noctua gusypii), whose ravages
usually commence the latter part of this month, and continue
through the early part of September, but we have undoubted
intelligence of the presence of the bore or bollworm, a worm
that perforates the boll, destroying it entirely. These worms
are now at work in the richest cotton lands, in South Alabama,
in the Canebrake? on Red River, La, and on the bottom lands
of South Mississippi, and have also appeared near Columbus,
and linfala, Georgia.
Although not leaving such marks of devastation in the leaf-
less stalks and stripped branches as manifests the advent of the
army-worm, this enemy does his work quite as effectually, and
frequently proves more disastrous. The one takes the cotton
by a bold assault, the other adopts mining and-other appliances
of the siege. Such is the shortness of time now for the matu-
rity of the crop, that all the causes which favourably effect it
must co-operate in an eminent degree in order to insure an
average yield. The early planting on light sandy soil this year
looks better than that planted at the ordinary season, and on
such sufficient bolls have matured to enable planters to hasten
forward a few bales to port, for the credit they gain in the''
neighbourhood, of having made the first bale of the season.
In fact, the plant on rich soils, is full three weeks behind its
appearance last season, and we are dependent on the late plant-
mg and undergrowth for the crop, as what is termed the top
crop, does not yield enough now for an ordinary picking force.
Freights continue dull. Exchange has been latterly in good
request, and there is a fair demand.
The receipts of Flour are so light, that the market is rather
firmer than it was previous to the Guadalquiver's arrival.
Genesee is held at 5.75 dols. to 5:81 doh. ; and Ohio, Michigan.
and Oswego at 5.62.} dolt. to 5.75 dols.
There is but little doing in Southern. It is held at 6 dols. to
6.50 dols.

Sales of flat yellow Corn are made at 75 to 76 cents, and mixed
at 73 to 74 cents.

NEW YORK, AUG. 31,1847.
Liverpool Classification.
Inferior lO4 to 104 .. 104..
to 104 104 to 104
Ordinry
a
Middling
Good middling
Middling fair ~
Fair 124 to 13 .. 13 to 134 .. 134 to 131
Fully fair
Good fair..
Fine 0 to 14 .. 0 to 0 .. 144 to 15
Receipts since Ist instant
Exports since Ist instant
Taken by spinners
~
85
Taken on speculation
,000 „
Stock in city
03,000
Amount on sale 1 ~
1 „
Receipts at ports of U, States since Sep. 1, 1846 1,7640,,913000 „
Ditto same period last year
Ditto year before
Exports from the U. States since Sept. 1, 1846 1,205,437 „
Ditto same period last year
842
Ditto year before 2,079,435 „
EXCHANGES. FREIGHTS.
5 30 a 5 292 l Liverpool 3-16 a 4d
7 0a 0 74 I Havre fl fa N't

Paris...
London

NEW YORK, YORK, AUGUST 31.—Cotton, sales 500 bales ;
prices rather feeble. Flour, mixed Ohio and Michig,an
sell at•83,50a56 ; Straight do. at 5'5,62 ; Genesee 5'5,75,
and sometimes 87. Rye 95 cents ; good mixed northern
corn sold at 73 cents, which is a decline of 1 or 2 cents ;
oats, 40 cents for new, to 44a46 for old. Meal, 53a53,75
for home use. Wheat heavy at 100a130 cents for all old.
Ashes, --$5,25 and 58; whiskey 281 cents. Provisions all
quiet, but steady in price. Bone, 7000 lbs. Northern
whale, at 31 cents, tending up. Oil, 1500 bbls. sold at
35 cents for use ; 10,000 at 34 cents, for shipment, firm.
Freights—ls. 6d. for flour, and 3-16 d. lb. for cotton, are
the prices denanded. Sterling, 71a8 prem. Sales at both
rates. Francs 5,271a281 ; sales at the former. Bills close
to-day, with firmer prices.
NEW ORLEANS, AUGUST 24.—Busincss generally was
dull; dealers waiting for Cambria's news, momentarily
expected. Cotton was inactive, and sales very light ; flour
was dull ; sales were principally confined to city use at
--54,75 for Illinois and Ohio, to 45,25 for St. Louis City
Mills. Wheat was inactive, and 800 to 1000 bushels
western red and mixed were sold at 65c. Corn : The re-
ceipts were light; the prices for mixed and yellow ranged
from 52c. to 60c. Oats : Sales of 2000 sacks were re-
ported at 87c. Sugar : Small sales of New Orleans were
made at 64c. Coffee was inactive. Rice was worth 74. c.
to 711 c. Sterling Exchange .5/c. to 51c. Sight bills on
New York dis. ; treasury notes 2 per cent. prem.
BOSTON, AUGUST 30.—Sale of Stocks-130 shares
Norwich and Worcester Railroad, 62450 do. 63 ; 75 do.
62, s. 10 ; 25 do. 63, s. 5, po. in. ; 4 do. Great Falls
Manuf Co., 2171 ; 100 do. Boston and Providence Rail-
road, 1061 ; 11 do. Fitchburg Railroad, 1254; 100 do.
East Boston Co., 23 1-16; 100 do. 25 1-32; 7 do. Mer-
chants' Bank, 104 ; 79 do. Long Island Railroad, 164, s.
30 ; 50 do. Canton Co. 391, s. 3 ; 50 do. Reading Rail-
road 33id, s. 10.
SAVANNAH, August 27.—Cotton: Receipts, 53 bales ;
exports, 289,133 bales Sea Island ; stock, 5,853 bales Up-
land, and 397 bales Sea Island. Market very quiet, not
enough has been done to establish prices. Sales of the
week, 335 bales ; square bales, ord. to good ord., 101 to
11, mid. to good mid. 11k to 11:, mid. fair to fair 118 to
12, fully fair to good fair 14 to 121. No sales of Sea
Islands.—Rice: Sales of the week, 229 casks, .844 to .B'3.
Exchange: No transactions in sterling ; banks sell sight
checks on the northern cities at per cent. prem. ; out-
doors per cent. prem. on New York.—Freights : foreign
are nominal. Coastwise to New York tc. for square,
and 5-16 for round bales ; and 75e. cask for rice, and 64c.
bushel for corn.
MOBILE, AUG 30.—Cotton, market quiet ; 3,700 balei
at 10 to 111 cents per lb. for ordinary and fair qualities.
Arrived 150 bales ; exported 4.737 ditto, stock 31,187
bales. Exchange, sterling bills have advanced to 44 to 5
per cent. premium ; francs 5, 40 ; Philadelphia 60-day
bills 11 to 24 discount. Freights, we quote to id. ;at
Liverpool and Havre 11 cents.
BALTIMORE, Aug. 30.—The news by the steamer Gua-
dalquiver has unsettled the market for bread-stuffs, and
caused a decline in prices. Not much done in flour.
Holders of Howard-street brands were contending for
55,62, but towards the middle of the day sales of about
400 barrels new brands were made at 55,50, more than
which cannot now be obtained. This is a decline of
121 to 181 cents per barrel since Saturday. City millers
are holding at 55,75 ; no sales. Nothing done in corn
Meal. There have been transactions in wheat at a decline
of sto 7 cents per bushel since Saturday. Several par-
cels, amounting in all to about 8,000 bushels of prime
rods have been taken at 105 to 108 cents. Some small
choice lots brought a few cents more. We note a sale of
2,000 bushels at 110 cents. There was also a sale of 2,000
bushels red at 106 cents. Sales of white wheat at 114 to
118 cents. Family flour, white, is worth 125 to 130 cents.
Small sales of white corn at 70 to 72 cents ; yellow is
worth about the same price. Oats 33 to 36 cents. Rye
70 cents.
PHILADELPHIA, AUGUST 30.—Since our last report
was written, we have received ten days later advices from
Europe, noticing a further decline in breadstuffs. This
news has added to the preceding dullness in our market,
and the transactions have been to a very limited extent.
The flour market is at a stand. Holders generally ask
former rates, and are rather more anxious to realize, but
no sales have been reported. In rye flour no sales have
transpired. Corn meal.—A few hundred brls. Pennsyl-
vania were sold at £3, In per bbl., which is a slight de-
cline. Grain-500 bushels prime new Southern red
wheat sold from store at 43'1.25.

ROVES' ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE HOLY LAND.—This
exhibition, which we noticed in terms of approbation last
week, increases in attraction, and is meeting with great
patronage. The skill and ingenuity of the artists, as dis-
played in these beautiful animated representations, have
nightly drawn forth the unqualified approbation of numer-
ous and respectable companies. The exhibition certainly
is of the most interesting, harmless, and exciting charac-
ter, and deserves to be liberally patronized by the public.
THE WELLINGTON SURTOUT.—If the name of Wel-
lington has been celebrated heretofore, it is now likely to
become more so, from the fact of it being applied to a
new registered overcoat, invented by Mr. James FonOre,
of 6, Conduit-street, and 11, Poultry, which has.been ex-
tensively patronized by his Royal Highness Prince Albert,
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and many other members
of the royal family and nobility, as well as by the iron duke
himself, whose name it bears. It is also coming into gene-
ral use among the officers of the Guards, and the gentry in
general. To our sporting readers at the present time it is
especially to be recommended, from its repellant as well
as dust-defying qualities. It is cut without seams on the
shoulders, and fits equally well as an overcoat or frock, and
is made of an elastic cloth. Although impervious to wet
it is perfectly porous to perspiration, and, altogether, Ala
got up in a style quite worthy the name it bears, and we
fully expect to see it become general amongst the sports-
me, of England, and more especially among those whose
pursuits lead them to brave all weathers. Being kept in
all colours, and made up at a very moderate figure, it is
calculated to please all classes. We ought to mention.
that it is made of a peculiar cloth, manufactured expressly.
for Mr. Fougere in the West of Eneland.—From a cor_
respondent of the Albion. Mr. Mactaggart, of Bold_
,treet, and Mr. Blackburne, of Castle-street, advertlie
tl
excellent coat in our paper of to-day.