The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-16 00:00:00

STATE OF TRADE.

The vessels which arrive from Europe bring very light
freights for the season. The demand for goods from the in-
terior appears to have ceased, and the markets are conse-
quently becoming more inactive. In Flour the demand for
the eastern markets has rather exceeded the receipts, not-
withstanding that the canal navigation is uninterrupted. This
has caused an increased firmness on the part of holders ;
common Western Flour is held at 4 dols. 87} cents, at which
sales to a small extent have been made on French account.
Ohio is held at 4 dols. 62} cents.
COTTON.—There has been a fair business doing in Cotton
through the week, and prices have closed at about the rate
current after the arrival of the British Queen. The southern
markets generally appear to have improved. The accounts
by the Great Western reached New Orleans on the 13th, but
the effect of her news was not visible in the markets. The
following is a table of stock, sales, prices, and remarks at the
different points for the weeks previous to the day affixed :
Stock. Sales. Prices. Remarks
New York, May 24, 21,000 6,500 6 all adv. lc.
New Orleans, " 13, 190,072 11,000 5i- a 10 adv. le.
Mobile " 13, 206,491 15,000 4 a 9 firm.
St. Josephs, Fl. " 5, 11,288 3,000 6 a 84 adv. it.
Apalachicola .. " 2, 27,133
Columbus .... " 6, 1,527
Augusta " 15, 23,000 1,000 5 a 8- firm.
Savannah .. .
Charleston " 6, 23,018 5,000 5 a 91 firm.
The quotations at Apalachicola are for Georgia Bank notes.
The rates in Union Bank notes are 8} to 11.

TORNADO AT NATCHEZ.
(From the New York American, May 22.)

The steamer William French has arrived at Louisville and
Cincinnati, having passed Natchez early on the morning
after the dreadful catastrophe. We make the following ex-
tracts from the Louisville Journal and Cincinnati Chronicle,
which furnish some mournful particulars of the disaster.
(From the Cincinnati Chronicle)
. .

A tornado began at Natchez, on Thursday the 7th instant,
at two.p.m., and passed over the city, apparently from a
south-east direction, and destroyed about two-thirds of all
the buildings in the city : amongst them were every building
under the bill, except Mr. Cotton's grocery, (a small build-
ing which was partially injured) ; the beautiful grove of trees
around the Court-house is wholly prostrated and the Court-
house itself partially destroyed—all the banks except the
Commercial—every hotel except the Mansion-house, which
was partly blown down. The Planters' and Parker's hotels
were completely obliterated, and nothing left but a pile of
bricks. The tine grove of trees, and the handsome building
adjoining the Planters' Hotel, were all destroyed. The long
row of China trees that lined the brow of the hill, and made
so beautiful an appearance from the river, were all destroyed ;
also the Light-house, erected by the U. S. government some
twenty years since ; the cotton press ; both steam saw mills ;
the steeple of the Second Presbyterian Church, and a part of
the building itself was also destroyed. The Railroad Depot
was blown down, and nine dead bodies had been taken from
the ruins.

On the river, in front of the city, the effects of the tornado
were equally awful. The steamboat Hinds was blown into
the river and sunk, and all the crew Lnd passengers except
four men were lost ; the number of passengers on board was
not known. The captain was said to be on shore at the
time, but had not been seen.

The destruction of property, of course, is immense, and
no estimate can yet be formed of its amount ; and we regret
to add that the number of lives lost is also very great. The
William French passed Natchez only twelve hours after, and
at that time the citizens were entirely engaged in taking out
the dead bodies from the ruins. Seven ladies had already
been taken from the ruins of the Steamboat Hotel. The
loss on board the flat boats must have been awful, as it is rea-
sonable to presume that at least two persons were on each
boat, which would make the number lost in this manner up-
wards of two hundred. The estimates on the spot, by the
citizens of Natchez, varied from three to seven hundred.

(From the Louieville Journal.)

It is said there were 50 persons buried in one of the hotels.
Seven were taken dead from the railroad depot, and seven
dead and one injured from the hotel under the hill. Rumour
says, that in all, 200 persons have been taken dead from the
ruins. Of course many not killed were more or less injured.
It is stated, that the family of Mr. H. P. Postlethwaite
was preserved in the following singular manner :—one of the
children became frantic or alarmed, and ran into the cellar—
the other members of the family followed, and just as they
all reached the cellar the house was blown off. The family
of Mr. Watt, of the firm of Burke, Watt and Co., were ac-
cidentally led to leave the dinner table and go out in the yard,
and instantly the room they bad left was blown down.

It is stated that many persons were blown from the streets
into the river.

How far the ravages of this storm extended we did not
learn. Some say that it was not felt in its greatest violence
anywhere but in and near Natchez ; but that is hardly pro-
bable. At Napoleon, Arkansas, 24 hours after the storm at
Natchez, a house was blown down, anti a flat boat sunk with
five men. A gentleman informs us, that he saw the ravages
of a recent tornado above Vicksburgh, and conjectures that
it was the same storm. At five o'clock, on the day following,
there was a violent hail storm in Louisville, which passed
through Frankfort.
An intelligent passenger in the French informs us that
parts of nearly all the plantations on the Mississippi were
overflowed, and the river had not reached its highest point.
On the Red River, we learn, thousands of acres of planted
cotton were under water.

The Sheridan brought the following passengers :—Mrs.,
Miss, and Mr. H. W. Moncure, Richmond, Virginia ; Mr.,
Miss, Miss C., Mr. A., and Mr. W. Van Rensselaer, Mrs.
De Peyster and two children, Mr. W. B. and Mr. A. C.
Binniger, Mr. S. J. Spence, Mr. S. L. Mirage, Mr. L. C.
Motz, Mr. J. H. Hansler, and Mr. A. Graham, New York ;
Mr. H., Mrs. Mary, Miss, and Master J. H. Messchert, and
Miss M. Griffith, Philadelphia ; Mr. and Miss Shirreff,
London; Mr. Gidney and two children, Manchester; Mr.
Richard Dickson, Norfolk, Virginia ; Mr. J. M`Cance,
Belfast ; Mr. B. Blandy, Granville, Ohio ; Mr. J. 1). Dutton
and Mr. P. Wilson, Maryland.