The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-09-06 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE ARCTIC,

By the United States mail steamer Arctic, which arrived
in the Mersey on Tuesday, we have advices from New York
to the 20th ult. The Arctic passed the steamer Pacific,
from this port, at 5 p.m. on, the 20th, going into New
York ; and at 9 a.m. on the 29th passed the steamer Asia,
hence for New York. .

The Washington correspondent of the New York
Herald, says :
" The British Government have presented the following
propositions for the consideration of our Government :
" 1. The free navigation of the river St. Lawrence.
" 2. To permit colonial-built vessels to obtain registers,
that privilege being already granted in England to Ame-
rican and other foreign-built vessels.
" 3. To abolish the system of bounties to our fishermen.
" 4. To throw open the Californian coasting-trade, that
is to say, to allow British vessels to load in the Atlantic
states for California. _ _

abolish the duty on fish brought here in colonial
bottoms. _ _

" 6. Reciprocal trade with the provinces in certain arti-
cles, the growth of each country, based upon the Recipro-
city Bill introduced by Mr. Grinnell in 1848, and passed
by the House of Representatives ; if their propositions
were agreed to, a participation in the British North Ame-
rican fisheries was to be extended to American fishermen.
" It is understood the proposition to permit colonial-
built vessels to obtain American register, has been declined
by the Cabinet, on the grounds, principally, that it is pro-
perly a matter for Congressional action. Rather than the
exercise of the treaty making the power, it would be for
Congress to determine how far it is expedient to amend
the tariff by modifying the duties on iron, copper, hemp,
&c., so as to enable our shipbuilders to compete with the
colonists on equal terms.
" The proposition to abolish the system of bounties to
our fishermen was declined, upon the ground that the
bounties are matters of internal policy, with which Eng-
land cannot be permitted to interfere.
" The propositions to throw open the California coasting
trade was declined, on the ground that the constitution
declares that all the States of the Union shall be on an
equal footing, and that, therefore, the coasting trade of
California could not be opened to England without the
carrying with it also the whole coasting trade of the United
States. As for the proposition of reciprocal trade, it was
considered as much too limited ; and there appeared to be
no disposition on the part of England to extend it to an
interchange in all articles of growth, product, and manu-
facture of the country and the provinces respectively.
This is the present position of the negotiations. It is,
however, believed that a project of a treaty may yet be
agreed upon, as there appears to be a strong desire on both
sides to settle the matter."

The yellow fever was very bad at New Orleans. A pri-
vate despatch states that, the authorities being unable to
bury all the dead, 125 bodies were burnt. Yellow fever
prevailed at Mobile, but the Board of Health had pro-
nounced it not epidemic.
The New York Herald states that Lord Elgin, the Go-
vernor of Canada, is to return to England in the Sarah
Sands.

Advices from Havannah, of the 14th ult., state that the
cholera had been terrific on one estate, belonging to Mrs.
Seals. 131 negroes had died in six days.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

COITSTIMPTION Cune.BLE.—Dr. Cartwright, of New
Orleans, asserts, from personal experience, that a few
hours spent in a sugar manufactory, inhaling the saccharine
fumes, is a certain cure for consumption.
_ _

VACCINATION.—Dr. Tinsley, the English practitioner
in Cuba, has discovered that vaccine virus, after passing
through a negro's system, is valueless for the white race.

FACTORY -LAW IN PRUSSIA.—The Minister of Com-
merce of Prussia has just addressed a circular to the
authorities, recommending them to look to the careful
execution of the law interdicting the employment of
children in factories for more than six a hours a day.

ERICSSON'S HOT-AIR MA.cnixE.—The experiments
which were announced as about to be made at Havre by
commissions of the Institute and of the Minister of Ma-
rine, on the hot-air machine of M. Ericsson, have taken
place, but the report of the commissioners is, for the pre-
sent, kept secret. A Havre journal states that the expe-
riments were not so conclusive as had been expected, in
consequence of the imperfections of the machine, from its
having been got up hastily.

A NEW Riddell, officiating superintendent
surgeon of the Nizam's army, in making experiments on
the maddar plant of India (Aselepia pigantea), had
occasion to collect the milky juice, and found that as it
gradually dried it became tough and hard like gutta
percha. He was induced to treat the juice in the same
manner as that of the gutta percha tree • and the result
has been the obtaining of a substance analogous to gutta
percha in all respects.

- BARNUM'S LIST DODGE.—The New York papers con-
tained a long and minute report of the arrest of Barnum
for swindling, upon a complaint preferred by a man who
testifies that he had paid 25 cents to see the bearded
woman, but that he had reason to believe that it was a
fraud, and was got up by the said Barnum to deceive,
defraud, and many other wicked things—as he had no
doubt the person was a male, and not a female as repre-
sented. Of course Barnum was there, as he is every-
where; and protested his innocence. He moreover pre-
sented her father, who testified to her sex ; her husband,
who swore that she had borne him two children ; and the
physicians of the city prison, Dr. Valentine Mott, and

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others high in the medical profession, all of whom testi-
fied that she was a female. Being a case of novel character,
the newsmougers caught it up, and reported it at great
length, giving friend Barnum the advantage, not only of
a most extensive advertisement of the Bearded Lady, still
At on exhibition at the Museum, free grati9 '
to which his money c 'ld not well have CIIHSPCI • Vuh.'" ;t

all leaked out thatJ Barnum had 4

puremtatt.
•d the fellow to

tute the suit, and paid him well for it. How much con-
sists in a man's understanding bi business, and then

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