The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

COTTON CROP

The following is an extract of a letter, dated New York,
27th February, 1841, and received, per the Columbia, by a
respectable firm in this town :
" Our crop will not exceed 1,600,000 bales, and may not
be greater than 1,550,000. I could find 10,000 dollars for
you, if you feel disposed to bet on 1,600,000 ; in fact I have
been authorised, for three weeks past, to offer that amount,
in bets of 100 dollars, or in one bet, but can find no taker.
I believe it will not exceed 1,550,000. You will find the re-
ceipts drop off all at once in March ; for although the rivers
have been high since September, and the planters been push-
ing their crop to market, still the receipts are not as large by
50,000 bales as at the same period last year, when the rivers,
during September and until February, were scarcely naviga-
ble; and as compared with 1839, when the rivers were also
low, the receipts are only 50,000 bales greater, when the
crop, as you well know, was but 1,363,000 bales."

The Queen has been pleased to grant to the Duke oi
Sutherland and the Marquis of Westminster, authority tc
exercise the rights and privileges of the most noble order oi

the Garter

LIVER THEATRE.—Mr. Fogg, the obliging and polite
box-keeper, takes his benefit on Wednesday next. He has
selected an excellent drama, and two capital farces, to amuse
his friends. His readiness to accommodate deserves a very
full attendance on the occasion.

DEATH OF A LIVERPOOL OPERATIVE AT LEICESTER.—
We received, last night, a letter from a gentleman at Leices-
ter, who is desirous of forwarding to the friends of one of his
workmen the intelligence of his death. The name of the de-
ceased is John Coventry, and he stated that he was a native
of this town, where he had several near relatives in inde-
pendent circumstances.. The poor fellow died almost instan-
taneously, or some enquiry would have been earlier instituted
as to his friends. Weshall be glad to give the address of the
gentleman who makesthe enquiries, to any person who may
be desirous of ascertaining the circumstances connected with
the death of Coventry. He worked in Leicester as a sail-

maker.
CORONER'S INQUEST'—DEATH OF THE POLISH GENE-
RAL D7.IERZ Awsm.—Yesterday evening an inquest was held
at the King's Head public-house, Marsham-street, Milbank,
before Mr. Higgs, coroner for Westminster, on view of the
body of John Dzierzawski, a native of Poland, aged 46, whose
death occurred under the following circumstances :—Amelia
Lind, of No. 26,
Marsham-street, stated that deceased had
lodged in her house during the last three years. He had
been a general in the Polish army,
and, as witness was in-
formed, had also been in the service of the Greeks. His
only means of subsistence consisted of a trifling pension of
12s: per week, which he received from some charitable insti-
tution as a refugee from his native land. 'With this trifling
stipend, however, deceased had most scrupulously kept free
from debt, and his uniformly honourable conduct had excited
the respect and admiration of all persons with whom he had
had any dealings while lodging in witness's house. For some
time trst deceased bad complained of passing sleepless nights,
and of pains in his lted he peremptorily refused to take
any medicine. On Friday last deceased received his pension,
returned home, and ate a hear!): supper, and went to bed ap-
parently in good health and spirits. On the following morn-
ing. witness went, as
.was her usual custom, into deceased's
bed-room, to light his fire before he got up. To her great
surprise she found him in his night clathes on the outside of
the bed, which was in such an untumbled condition that it
was evident the deceased had not slept in it. Witness saw
ees were shut : she d s arm,
tat deceased
thhen instantly's discyovered that he was atouc corphe se.hi Medicaland aid
was immediately procured, when the surgeon who attended
deceased declared that life had been extinct for several hours.
The jury returned a verdict Died by the visitation of
God."—Morzeing Herald of Wednesday.
A new mode of binding, whereby stability is said to be
given to account-books of the largest size, has been intro-
duced into the Bank of England. It is the invention of Mr.
Morison, the patentee of the Wunine PrOctsps of printing.