The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-08-18 00:00:00

(From the New York Herald)

The news the Queen carries out is rather of an interesting
character. In political matters, the Whigs appear to be
triumphant nearly all over the country. The result of the
Louisiana election is a premonitory symptom of Mr. Van
Buren's political death. In short, he may be considered as
dead and buried; and it is safe for our friends in England to
bet heavy on that. Older heads than ours, and more refined
ones too, say that he has not even the smallest or most indif-
ferent smell for the next Presidency.
This prospect a-head enables the Whigs to keep up their
spirits, and to indulge in their desire for travelling over the
country. All the fashionable watering-places are full of
company ; the White Sulphur and Saratoga Springs, Niagara
Falls, New Brighton, Rockaway, and a dozen other delight-
ful places are alive with beauty, fashion, and talent. British
officers are running all over the country after our pretty girls.
And if any tradesman sends his clerk to collect a bill in the
city, the answer is, " Call again in a fortnight ; Mr. and Mrs.
are gone to the springs."
So much for politics and fashion. In theatricals we are
doing but little. The gardens, the vaudevilles and Fanny
Elssler have crowds of admirers. The rest----none. In lite-
rature the Harpers, Appleton, and Carey and Hart, are all
doing all that is to be done. In science we are excelling
Daguerre in the daguereotype, and Jacobi in the electrotype.
In Swartwouting and defaulting, we are doing a decent busi-
ness ; and in petty roguery nothing very extensive. A few
banks are expected to burst before the hot weather ceases ;
and sundry cashiers to melt into air, thin air, and disappear.
In commercial matters there is much stagnation. The
Pearl-street jobbers are doing nothing, The stock of cotton
is small, under 14,000 bales, and will probably be reduced to
1000 bales before the new crop comes in. Prices are firm,
with a slight advance since the sailing of the Western. It is
believed that the southern planters will be out of debt before
the next, cotton crop comes in. The coming crop will be
quite large.
The corn crop will be 10 per cent. larger than last year,
and prices have advanced an average of 35 cents a barrel in
14 markets since the Queen arrived. The supply in the city
is small, hut there is plenty in the interior.
In ship building we are going ahead. Two government
steam-frigates are nearly finished ; two more are preparing,
and one for the Russian government, all about the size of
the Great Western. In this city we have six merchant ships
on the stocks, and two small steamers. We have just
launched a merchant ship of 1300 tons, the largest in the
country, and a steam-boat called the Troy, the longest in the
world, being 294 feet long, with a promenade of 250 feet. So
much for ship building, in which we excel the world.
The armed ship of the Sultan of Muscat has been refitted
at an expense of 20,000 dollars, and the people have footed
the bill.

The North East Boundary is about to be surveyed by com-
petent Americans directly, and Uncle Sam pays 25,000 dollars
to have it done thoroughly. After this John Bull must do
the handsome thing, or take the consequences.
Canada is tolerably quiescent. Governor Thompson gets
along pretty well with the disaffected ; but there is a heavy
storm brewing ahead.
In Texas they are giving themselves up to carousing and
feasting, but they do not, like Belshazzar, see any hand-
writing on the wall.

Mexico is torn to pieces, and the liberal party is decidedly
in the ascendant ; they are in possession of the whole pro-
vince of Yucatan.

The Philadelphians are still talking about a line of steam
packets to England.
In this city we are dull and stupid enough at present. The
principal features afloat are mad dogs, dirty streets, hard
cider, and hot nights, and the thermometer at 92 in the shade.
Can John Bull beat this? -