The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY.
After some routine business the house proceeded to the
business of the night, the committee upon the Navigation
Bill. The Earl of Shaftesbury being unable to attend
from indisposition, Lord Beaumont was called to the
chair.

Lord STANLEY, in bringing forward his amendment,
observed emphatically that he considered " reciprocity" for
our own trade ought to be preliminary to any ad

which Great Britain bestowed on the trade of foreign
countries. The principle of the. Government was to
abandon the navigation law, and then to retaliate on
other nations which did not follow the example. His
principle, on the other hand, was to maintain the naviga-
tion law, but to reciprocate the advantages which other
nations might be anxious to extend to us. He protested
against the principle of "retaliation" which it was pro-
posed to adopt. It would be a difficult principle to carry
out; it would be an invidious, hostile, and ur
policy ; it would be a policy under which we n

arteous

sacrifices, without the power of resuu

g our rig

left it to the llouse to decide, then, between "reciprocity"
and "retaliation," and concluded by moving his amend-

merit to el

Atter a long debate, tile. —_
for the amendment, 103 ; non-contents
majority for the Government, 13.
larger than appeared to be expected, but it elicited no ex-
pression of teeling.

The majority v

HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY

A conversation at the instance of the Earl of HAR-
ROWBY, and in which the Marquis of LANsn.owNE and

the Earl of ABERDEEN took par
to the state of affairs in the River PI

ie motion

FOREIGN AND •COLONIAL.
LATEST FROM .AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM-SHIP AMERICA

The royal mail steam-ship America; Captain Harrison,
arrived here yesterday morning a little before three. She
hft New York on the 16th and Halifax on the 19th, with
121 passengers, and has made the passage from New York,
including the detention at "Halifax, in less than eleven
and a half days, being the-quickest passage on record. On
Sunday morning, at half-past eight, she met the steam-
hip Europa off Cape Clear.
"he Hi' P t' 12k' El the

.et au posion on ae 12th, anti
Canada had reached Halifax and left for New York. The
Washington steamer was to leave 'New York on the 21st
for Southampton. The West India st earner Thames, from
Bermuda, arrived at New York on the 12th, with 2.000
dollars specie on freight, and left next day. The Teviot,
tom San Juan de Nicaragua, arrived at Chagres on the
26th ult., and lefi for Carthagena on the all, with a large
--iKe 1 amount of specie.
hts. He We .•

give the advices from Canada, slid the particulars of
a most disgraceful row in New York, in other columns.
The business in Exchange for the steamer had riot been
large, and the market closed -firmly. Bills on London are
quoted Bto 81 per cent. premium. The money market
was quite easy, but it led to little or no speculation. The
Hibernia's advices had not altered the markets.

On the 13th June a very -disastrous fireoccurred at
Watertown, by which all the business portion of the vil-
lage, including three banks, the post-office, three print-
ing-offices, surrogate's office, two hotels, and thirty stores
were destroyed. The loss was 250,000 dollars.

The southern papers give bad accounts of the injury to
the cotton and corn crops by the late untimely frosts.
Its effects seem to be felt most severely in the states of
Georgia, Louisiana. Alabama. &c. The fruit and vege-
tables have also suffered very severely. The farmers are
said to be ploughing up in many districts all the early. corn
and cotton, and one paper states that owing to the scarcity
of cotton-seed a great quantity of the lands previously
planted in cotton, will now be sown with corn. The
Alabama Monitor says, "Most of our planters have lost
nearly their entire stands of cotton, and many of them
arc without seed for replanting. The corn and wheat are
universally destroyed. Ourbeautiful gardens havewithered,
and except in favoured situations. the destruction is uni-
versal." Other papers make similar reports, but we hope
the .tafements will prove to be exqggerate.l. The season

at New York was backward, but tl,e crops about-111er;
were uninjured.

The advices from Mexico are not important, but the
ravages of the Indians continued to be severe. The
diligence, on its way from Vera Cruz to the city of Mexico,
with American passengers, was attacked by robbers on the
15th April, near a place called Plan del Rio, and in the
fight that ensued, a New Yorker, Mr. Charles M. Bugbee,
express agent of the Sun, was mortally wounded. The
robbers were finally repulsed.
St. Domingo advices of the 27th ultimo, state, that
President Soulouque having, with his army, encamped
within a few miles of the city of St. Domingo, used water
from a stream whose source, being near the city, had been
Poisoned by the Dominicans, much sickness and many
deaths in the Haytien army ensued. The Dominicans
then attacked them, killed a great number, took many
prisoners, and nearly captured Soulouque himself. His
army was entirely put to route. On the 21st April the
town of Agua was recaptured, and General Santa marched
across the lines which divide the two provinces, expressing
his determination to be the aggressor, and to kill every
prisoner he takes.

From Porto Cabello, Venezuela, advices of the 30t1
April state, that the President Managers and Vice-Presi.
dent Guzman had sent in their resignations to Congress,
which had refused to accept them. All was quiet.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—From New York: Mr. J. G.
Gregory and lady, Mr. Placci, lady, infant, and servant,
Mr. D. S. Gregory and lady, Mr. R. E. Retortillo, lady,
and servant, Mr. E. W. Weyrnan and lady, Mr. W.
Adams and lady, Mr. W. G. Braze and lady, Mr. Guilli-
mine and servant, Mrs. Alliert, Mrs. Fryer, Mrs. Elliot,
sons, infant, and servant, Mrs. Nelms, Mrs. Smith Cut-
ter, Mrs. Roruanes, two children, and servant, Miss
M`Greger, Miss Samuel, MissJ. Fleming, MissJ. Anora,
Miss Gregory,' Miss Henderson, Miss J. Clement, Miss
C. Clement, Miss Nelkenthal, Hon. George Grant, lion.
E. J. Stanley, Major Saunders, 8.A., Doctor Ashmead,
Doctor J. J. Clark, Doctor R. J. Holmes, Doctor A. J.
de Rossett, Master R. W. Brown, and Messrs. Costor,
Herbert Taylor, Fleming, William Carnal, Ellis Garnall,
Hood, William Macintosh, E. Cock, D. C. Murray,
Tucker, J. L. Smith, Shaw, E. C. David, E. Lloyd, Sa-
muel, J. M. Smith, C. F. Blake' Strachan, N. Carter,
Myers, H. Trolly, Gonful, G. du Roslan, Thiuilier,
M'Gregor, W. G. GubbinS, E. Albert, G. M. Henry. G.
Reisser, A. Schreider, F. de la Fowe, M. Vial, William
Fraser, J. E. Kendall, J. Vionnell, W. Hanershaw, W.
S. Redmond, E. Dusag, E. Daly, A. Allier, B. Cohen,
H. Cheavallie, C. La Chambre, Wallace, Pchullz, White,
E. Morriss, A. Heine and friend, Beckett, Neilson,
Queshda, Dejean, J. C. Sweetser, W. Wild, C. H. Shee-
han, Jean Lafitte, J. Beck, Jose de los Cavas and boy,
Flincks, Feffnny, Fraser, Samuel Rae, J. B. Hay, Shaw,
M. Kewan, Knowles, Tschocpke, Rate, Curtis, Norcross,
Burke.—From Halifax: Mr. Collins.

NEW YORK, MAY 16.
BREARSTUFFS.—FIour—The sales for the day reached
about 10.000 bbls., including line at $4 064 to $4 124; Troy,
Brooklyn and Waterford at $4 25 to St 314 ; common State
and mixed brands Michigan at $4 314 to 44 374; straight
western and straight Genesee at 444 37:} to St 44; heavy
brands Indiana and Michigan at $4 50 to 44 564; pure Gene-
see .85 124 to 45 25 ; fancy Ohio at 45 to .B's 25 ; fancy State
at 45 50 to 45 75; extra at .85 75 to 46 50. included in the
above were about 6,000 bb's. of the lower grades made for ex-
port. Sales 200 to 300 bbls. New Orleans were made at 44 624
to 44 75, and 300 Southern mixed brands at 84 75 to $4
Illeal.—Sales of 1,200 bbls. New Jersey were made at 42 874,
afloat, and 250 puncheons Brandy wine at the mills at 43 50;
100 do. at $3, and 300 do., deliverable, at 42 75. liye Flour.
Sales of 800 to 900 bbls. were made at 42 874. Wheat.- -Sales
of 9,030 bushels prime Genesee, good to prime, were made at
120 c. to 122 c., and 300 do. good Virginia at 100 c. Corn was in
active remand, but at rather easier rates. The sales tor the
day footed up about 80,000 bushels at 57e,. including Southern
mixed at 56 to 57c. ; do. do. yellow at 58 to 59c , and Northern
round yellow at GO to 6lc. )lye.—Sales of 4,700 bushels were
made at 57 to 573 c., delivered. Barley.—Sales of 2,504 bushels
were made at 5.64 c., delivered.

The export of -.lb:eadstuirs from the United States to Great
Britain and Ireland, since the Ist Sept, 1848, as made up in
New York to the 15th of May, was :—Flour, 800,473 brig ;
Meal, 67,5x8 Lrls. ; Wheat, 999,850 bushels; Corn, 8,743;409
bushels; Oats, 1,000 bushels; and Barley, 1,856 bushels. Last
year to May 23 :—Flour, 155,672 brls. ; Meal, 89,925 brls. ;
Wheat, 215,139 bushels; and Corn, 2,63406 bushels.