The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

CALCUTTA, MAY 27—Tbe money market had been
much derressed, but was improving. Large remittances
had, it was said, been received from Bombay and China,
to meet the prompt of the third opium sale.
Government securities continued very firm. especially
the 4 per cent. Company's loans which ate much sought
a fi er.

Exchange was dull, and first-rate paper procured with
difficulty at 2s. to 2s. id., at ten months' date.
Batik Stock was rising, but few sellers in the market.
Boatstor, MAY 9.—Money was not procurable at Bom-
bay on any terms, and the distress likely to arise from
this cause was looked upon with alarm.
In cotton manufactures very little has been done during
the week, there being very little inquiry for any descrip-
tion of goods. A few sales only are repor ed in bleached
Airings, gray madapollarns, and jacconets, at about last
week's prices. Of yarn in the gray 12,0001b5. 20 mule
are said to have been sold a' 6 annas per lb.
. In metals
rather more has with the
exception of &With bar iron, for which the inquiry has
been done, but the transactions,
again revived, have been in some measure forced.
The cotton trade coiztinued dull.
Rates of freights were acta n improving. there being less
disposable tonnage in the market, and the latter was not
to be had under 70s. per ton to London and 704. to 751. to
Liverpool; whilst 17 rupees per Candy has beep paid to
China.

The rate of exchange on London rNied more in favour
of the drawer : and on the Btb, first-ela.l. paper could not

he had under.2s. *d. and 25.. id., per rupee, six months
sight, with-an inclination downwards.

CH INA

The only event of any impor4ance that had occurred at
Hong Kong was a meeting between Sir John Davis and
Kev.lng, .at the Bogue, on the 3d April. The greatest
secrecy had been observed on both sides before, at, and
subsequent to the conterence.

COMM Dltet_kt

'The import market, at Shangbae, was extremely dull,
and money was scarce. There was much want of confi-
dence amongst the Chinese, owing to the failure of an
extt naive teabroker.

At Shanghae there had been another stoppage, the party
being the second principal native merchant. II is liabilities
were smell in comra ison with the preceding failure.
There was but little doing in tea. In green there had been
a few operations at high rates. Freights were £6 per ton,
and not likely to recede, as tonnage was much wanted.

BRAZILS —Her Majesty's packet Swift, Lieutenant
uzlas, arrived on Wednesday•frovn the Brazils. Sailed
from Rio, April 25 ; Bahia, May 5; Pernambuco, May 12.
Business at R.o has continued very restricted : a supera-
bundant supply of almost all descriptions of imports has
rendered sales very difficult ; our primary article of export
has been brought to market in quantities very dispropor-
tionate to the demand, and the transactions of the money
market continue limited as heretofore.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The steamer Forth, Cap-
tain Chapman, arrived at Southampton. on Thursday
evening at six o'clock, with the usual mails and 130 pas-
sengers, amongst whom is the Earl of Elgin, Governor of
Jamaica, accompanied by his daughter arid his sister,
Lady Charlotte Bruce. The drought continued to have
serious effect upon the crew', and the quanii' y of rain that
had lately fallen was not in the least adequate to the wants
of the agriculturists, who, during the last few months,
have been exposed to extreme privations in this respect.
Jamaica. Barbadoes, and Trinidad, seem to have expe-
rienced the chief weight of misfortune, though the whole
range /A-islands has not, in any one instance, escaped from
the unsatisfactory influence of the dry weather. The re-
turn of the Earl of Elgin to England on leave is adverted
to in the papers. His administration of affairs in Ja-
maica appears to call forth general praise. The railway
bas remained in grod working condition, and the mer-
chandise traffic has conpiderably increased in the last
month. In Demerara the rain had been sufficient to break
up the drought in many quarters, and the manufacture of
sugar, after a pause of some months, had been resumed.
The estimates of the crop were various, and 20,000 hhds.
had been calculated as the probable amount of production.
NEW ZEALAND.—By the arrival of the ship Augustina
at Penzance, papers from Launceston, of the 28th of Feb.
have been received. Through the medium of Hobart
Town, accounts have been received at Launceston, from
New Zealand, announcing the capture of the pah occupied
by the chiefs Kawiti and Heki, on the 11th Jan. alter a
cannonade which had breached it in several places. The
loss sustained in the attack on our part was 12 killed and
30 wounded. The Governor Grey was present at the at-
tack, and after driving the aborigines out, be published a
proclamation offering a general amnesty, which appears to
have been accepted by all but Heki, who had burned ano-
ther pah, and had retreated into the bush with his tribe.
We have received additional accounts from New Zealand
fourteen days later than this news, from which ae learn
that a pah, more strongly fortified than that which had
been lately stormed and taken by the British forces, had
been purposely set on fire and destroyed by Eleki, who
had resolved to take to the bush, as affording better means
of protracting the warfare than fortifi. d places, which,
whatever the amount of resistance offered, must eventu-
ally fall into the power of disciplined forces provided with
artillery.

flrusielit and Pariaare now united by railroad.

Genets! Loid William Russell is lying hopelessly ill at
Genoa.

The France says :—" We are able to state that in
September next ther. will be a meeting of the three
Sovereigns of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, at Vienna."
The accounts of the growing crops in various parts of
the continent are generally very favourable, and notice the
erevslence of weather corresponding in brilliancy to our
own.

A Paria jnurnal mentions the following as the probable
candidates tor the Papal throne :—Cardinal Franzoni,
aged 71 ; Cardinal Castruccin Castracane, 67; Cardinal
Orioli, 61 ; Cardinal Micara, 71 ; Cardinal Poldori, 68;
and Cardinal Mattei, 54.
THE OLDEST SOVEREIGN IN EUROPE.—In conse-
quence of the death of the Pope, the olde,t Sovereign in
Europe is now Earnest Augustus, Kine of Hanover, b,rn
June 5, 1771. The neat in age is the King of the French,
born October 5, 1773. _

The body of the late Pope, after being embalmed, was
dressed in the usual robe•, and laid in state in the chat.el
of Sextus IV., in the Vatican, (luring the afternoon of
the 2nd instant, and was visited by a large concourse of
people. in the evening of the same (lay it was cairied
with the urn containing the heart to the parish church of
Saint Vincent and Anastasius, and there deposited.
__

OPEN TRADE WITH CHINA.—A letter from Ham-
burgh, of the 10th instant, states that the first two ve,-
sets which had ever traded with China from that port ar-
rived, during the last week from Canton. Each vessel
brought a large cargo of tea, and the two cargoes had
been sold entirely to the house of Hertford, Itrotbers,
and Co., of that ci'y, for 900,000 marks, or .£€B.ooo.
The tiara or triple crown now used in the coronation of
the popes, is that which Napoleon presented to Pius VII.
There is another given by the last Pope Gregory XVI.
The tiaras and valuable tnitres are kept in the tort of St.
Angelo, whence they are brought on the occasions of co-
ronations. The tiara presented by Napoleon is formed of
white velvet, on which the three crowns are wrought in
sapphires, emeralds, and rubies. On the top is
a very
large emerald, surmounted by a diamond cross. It is es-
timated at 80,000 Roman crowns, or 428,000 f.
RoMlsll HUMILITY.—The Emperor and Empress of
Brad are on a tour of the provinces of Brazil. Before
quittir'v the city of St. Paulo, the following scene is de-
scribed hy the " Commissioner of the Journal do Com-
mereio :"—" The morning service at the cathedral on
Good Friday having been concluded, one of the most
sublime and touching scenes t,,ok place at the pals, e.
The emperor washed the feet of a dozen poor people and
of one priest. This c=remony was performed in the
drawing-room, where the throne had been erected, and a
number of the first families were invited to be present,
and every male or female, decently dressed. admitted.
The twelve poor persons were clothed at the expense of
the emperor, and presented with money and the towel
which had been used in washing their feet. The solem-
nity of the act, and the humility of the sovereign kneel
ing at the feet of the most misers •le of human beings,
thus imitating the bright example of our blessed Re-
deemer, and the conviction that this religious act sprung
from the spontaneous and unostentatious devotion of the
monarch, drew tears from the eyes of many of the spec-
tators."

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