The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-04-19 00:00:00

trading under the title of the Atlantic and Pacific Ship
Canal Company, applied to the Mosquito King, through
the British Consul, for permission to establish a depOt
coaling-yard, &c., on Point Arenas, a spit of land:which
forms one side of the harbour, on the opposite side from
the city of San Juan. The desired privilege was granted,
and the company erected the necessary buildings on the
spot indicated. Afterwards, the Municipal Government
of San Juan required this depot ,as a quarantine-ground ;
and, the company having refused to surrender it, legal
proceedings were instituted, and an ejectment issued for
the expulsion of the company's employes and the demoli-
tion of the buildings they had erected. In pursuance of
the decision of the local court, the authorities were pro-
ceeding to eject the Transit Company, when the U.S.
sloop-of-war Cyane arrived in the harbour, and Captain
Hollins, her commander, sent word ashore that he would
permit no " depredation" on the property of the company.
To this the mayor retorted that no " depredation" was
intended, but that he would proceed ,to carry out the
.ejectment unless prevented by superior force. A boat
containing a constable and two men was then despatched
across the bay to serve the ejectment, but was stopped by
a party of marines from the Cyane. Thus foiled, the
mayor and his advisers drew up a protest, surrendered
the town to Captain Hollins, and lowered their flag.
The Cyane continued to keep the town blockaded and
suffered no one to cross the harbour. These proceedings
took place during the absence of Mr. Foote, the British
Vice-consul. • On his return to Greytown he caused the
Mosquitan flag to be again hoisted, and proceeded on
the Cyane to claim the site in dispute as under the juris-
diction of Mosquita, and the protection of England. A
schooner had been despatched by the British Consul to
inform the Admiral on the West India station of the
above circumstances. Thus stood the position of affairs
at latest dates.

RIVER PLATE.—A letter, dated Buenos Ayres, Feb.
18, says that " Urquiza had crossed the Parana, on his
march to Buenos Ayres, at the head of six hundred men,
which would be largely increased at Sante Fe. The go-
vernment at Buenos Ayres proposed to make a new paper
emission of thirty million dollars, which would make the
paper currency nearly valueless. Doubloons were up
to 335."

COMMERCIAL.
NEW YORK, APRIL 6.

MONEY MARKET.—There is rather more ease in money
matters. The demand, however, continues very active,
and the rates of interest are unchanged, 7 per cent. being
still freely paid on call loans. Stocks of all descriptions
have slightly improved, but the market generally is tame,
and the sales limited. The new 6 per cent. loan of the
state of North Carolina for 8.500,000 was taken on the
31st ult., at a premium of 5 2.100 per cent., exclusive of
interest. The imports of foreign goods for the quarter
ending Ist instant are 5'49.932,000. Up to the same
date in 1852 they amounted to 43'32,109,000. On the
other hand, the excess in value of this year's cotton crop
is estimated at fully .5'25,000,000. A fair business had
been transacted in exchange, and bills on London and
Paris were higher. We quote bills on London 91- to 91
prem. ; Paris, 5-131 to 5-161.
COTTON.—(From W. P. Wright's Circular).—We
have had another active week, and a further advance of
Ic. per lb. has been established. The total sales since
the 28th ult. have been 16,000 bales, chiefly for export to.
Liverpool and Havre, and generally on American account.
Some limited purchases have been made for the continent
of Europe and on local speculation. The export during
the same time has been, to Liverpool, 5,807 bales; Glas-
gow, 322 ; Havre, 5,658 ; Cronstadt, 1,274 ; Riga, 1,753 ;
Antwerp, 93 ; Bremen, 82 ; Hamburg, 34 : total, 15,025
bales. Respecting the new crop, I have, since the com-
mencement of the present season, strictly adhered to a
simple expression of the opinion " that it would exceed
the last." The receipts into the ports are now, perhaps,
sufficiently advanced to call for detailed examination with
reference to the probable final amount. I, then, arrive
at the following probable. amount of crop, remarking,
however, that I reserve to myself the privilege of altering
it in two months hence, by which time planters, having
finished their field-work, will have had several weeks'
opportunity to wagon cotton to market, and I shall be
better able to judge of the quantity remaining in the in-
terior. In the meantime it is enough to say that, in all
probability, the crop will not be less than 3,310,000 bales,
as follows :

Present
1853. 1852. Increase. Excess.
90,000 54,000 26,000 25,000