The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

STAIEMENT OF CAPTAIN BARTLETT•

" The Charles Bartlett was a first-rate ship of 400 tons regis-
ter. She left the Downs from London, bound to New York, on
the 14th June, with a general heavy cargo, of about 450 tons
weight, and 162 passengers in the steerage, one cabin passenger,
and fourteen souls of the crew • had fine weather, with light
easterly winds, up to the 19th. From that time to the 27th had
S.W. and W. winds and foggy weather. At noon it cleared up
a little, observed the lat. 50 48 N., and estimated the lon, at 29
W., all well on board, and everything lookinf properous. Soon
after noon a dense fog set in, wind W, by S., ship heading to
the N.W., close hauled, all sail set. At three o'clock ordered a
good look-out from the topgallant forecastle ; also directed the
man at the wheel to look sharp to windward. At 3 30, p.m,
being on the weather side of the poop deck, heard a rumbling
to wuldward like distant thunder; turned any ear to ltindyna

and my eye to the horizon. The man at the wheel noticing
that I was listening, looked to Windward, and cried out Sail,
ho.' lat once saw what I supposed was a ship about one point
forward of our beam, about 400 yards distant. I ordered the
helm up, thinking if she did not discover us that we should
have time to clear her before she could come into contact. All
hands shouted at the same time to alarm the ship, and I or-
dered the bell to be rung, and called to the ship to port her
helm,' as I saw that was the only chance of escape. There
were nearly one hundred passengers on deck at the time. All
was of no avail, for in one minute from the time we saw the
ship she was upon us, going at the rate of twelve knots, strik-
ing us abreast of the after main shrouds. The crash and the
terrible scene which ensued lam not adequate to describe. I
was knocked to leeward with the man at the wheel. I reco-
vered myself in a moment, shouting for every person to cling
to the steamer as their only hope; I caught hold of a broken
chain on the bow and hauled myself up, shouting at the same
time to the crew and passengers to follow. I had barely time
to get on the steamer's bow, and, while getting up, I noticed
that her bow was into the ship within a foot of the after hatch,
and that she was stove clear to the lee side, and that full 20
feet of her side was stove in. There must have been nearly 50
persons killed by the collision, and every exertion was made by
Captain Lott, his officers, and crew, and the passengers on
board the steamer. The boatsi were lowered as soon as possi-
ble. Unfortunately only about ten were saved by the boats,
the balance, making thirty-three more or less, saved themselves
by hanging to the bow. The steamer lay by tlio scene as long
as there was any hope of saving any. Of the crew, Mr. Thos.
Parker, of Charleston, S.C., aged twenty-two years ; George
Parsons, of Portland, aged eighteen years ; and William Rich,
of Gravesend, England, aged twenty-five years, were lost. A
list of the passengers and crew saved will be found in the public
prints. We were most hospitably entertained by the captain,
officers, and passengers of the steamer.
" I will notice that all due exertion was used by Capt. Lott,
the officers and crew of the Europa, as well as all the passen-
gers. I particularly observed one passenger using the most
noble exertions; I saw him let himself overboard and clench a
man in his arms, and, finding him (lead, let him go. I next
saw him on the bow of a boat haulltig a man from under water
with a boathook, who was afterwards restored to life on board.
I afterwards found that person to be Captain R. B. Forbes, of
Boston. I cannot express myself as I feel for the noble and
generous conduct of all on board in contributing to the wants
of the surviving sufferers, and for the sympathy felt by all, par-
ticularly by the ladies.—Yours, with gratitude,
"WILLIAM BARTLETT."

The passengers saved were chiefly from London or
Germany. They had each sums of money with them va-
rying from £5 to, (in one instance,) £800; the owner of
the last-mentioned sum having also lost his wife and
family. Many others have been deprived of relatives and
friends, and, besides losing their cash, have lost luggage,
tools, merchandise, &c. Scarcely one of them was with-
out money. Besides the captain and second officer of the
unfortunate vessel, nine others of the crew were saved.

THE COTTON TRADE.

30th June, 1849.

In the early part of the present year we had the plea-
sure of inserting, for our readers interested in the article
of cotton, two or three letters from a valued correspon-
dent ; and now that this main staple of our manufactures
is attracting so much of the public attention, we purpose
following up the subject. Our correspondent, in January
last, pointed out in a very forcible manner that the value
of raw cotton was moderate, and that it is not to the per-
manent interest of the spinners and manufacturers in this
country to have cotton too cheap, or below a remunerat-
ing point to the grower. The advance in price which sub-
sequently took place has no doubt had considerable in-
fluence in drawing the bulk of the late large crop in the
United States to this country, and this circumstance
ought to be a matter of no little satisfaction to us all, as
in the case of an advance in the value of the article,, which
is highly probable, holders in this country will reap
the benefit ir stead of our American friends, they having
parted with, comparatively, every bale they will be able
to spare us for several months.
The receipts in the American ports for the next few
weeks may fluctuate a little, but they can make little dif-
ference in the ultimate result, the crop being generally
admitted to be about 2,700,000 bales, which we take as
our basis. The steamer now nearly due not having
arrived, we will refer our readers to the Brokers' Circular'
of last week, dated the 22a instant : the total stock of
cotton, including all descriptions, is there put down•
at 672,000 bales. By the Niagara steam-ship, which
arrived on the 25th instant, we find there were afloat'
228,000 bales, which, added together, make 900,000 ; by'
the same advice, they had only 277,000 in the ports and
on shipboard, to which we will add 103,000 bales yet to
be received of the crop, together 380,000; of this quantity,
they will require, for their own use, three months' con-
sumption before they get a bale of their new crop, which,
at their present rate of 600,000' a year, is 150;000; and
they' will export to the continent, at a very low estimate,
50,000 bales, so that there can only'be an available balance
for this country of 180,000 bales. The following figures
will exhibit pretty nearly the probable stock of all de-
criptions at the end of the year :
Total stock of Cotton in Liverpool 22nd June, Bales.
1849
On the way from America
Balance of America old crop
Extreme supply from the new crop ....
Probable import from E. 1., Egypt, and'S. A 120,000

1,300,000

Probable export from this port the next six
months, of all sorts

1,200,000
From the 22nd June to the 31st Dec., 27 weeks,
at 30,000 bales a week consumption BlO,OOO

Stock 31'st Dec., 1849

390,000

A stock of 390,000 bales, at any time, in the present
requirements of this country, is doubtless a vary small
quantity, and if the calculation that after the present
quantity now arriving from the " States 'has been re-
ceived we obtain no more than 280,000 bales of Cotton
from that quarter for nearly six months, be coupled with
the late season, and more or less injury done to the
coming crop, then we cannot help coming to the con-
elusion that future prices must in a great measure be
governed by what holders from time to time determine to
demand—supposing no check to the present ratio of con-
sumption to supervene; and though we should be sorry to
see Cotton• run up beyond its legitimate ratio,- we know it
to be the opinion of some of the largest spinners, that
cotton must inevitably be dearer ; and further, that they
would rather see a moderate advance than not ; and we
think they are right, for the greater the inducement we
hold out to the planter, the greater care and' expense he
will use in securing the coming crop, now admitted to be
in a very precarious state from the lateness of'the season,
recent inundations, and other causes ; and, from what we
can heer, we do not think that a moderate advance would
materially interfere with the consumption ; for though the
spinners and manufacturers might threaten short time, we
know that working short time would be attended with loss.

2d July.

The accounts of the steamer Europa, arrived yesterday,
estimate the present crop at rather under 2,700,000 bales,
the receipts for the week having fallen off 5,000 bales;
total receipts, 2,62Z500 bales. Shippers and planters are
now.finding out that their stocks are exceedingly light, and
the manufacturers are alarmed about their own supply.