The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-03 00:00:00

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FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

UNITED STATES,

We find, from the papers brought by the Caledonia,
which arrived on Wednesday, that the grain harvests were
said to be unusually abundant ; and the quantity of grain
and flour ready for exportation was still very large.
We learn from private sources that the prospects of the
cotton crop are exceedingly good. A gentleman who had
recently returned from an extensive tour in the southern
States, and whose statements, we believe, may be relied
on, in a letter dated July 15, says :—" The cotton crops.
from the best information we can obtain, has a very pros-
perous appearance. The quantity that will be produced
is uncertain, but there can be no doubt of an average
yield. Should the picking continue late, more than an
average crop will be produced."
THE MEXICAN WAR.—Neither the American army
under General Taylor nor that under General Scott, has
made any forward movement since the last advices. The
army of Gen. Taylor remains at Monterey, too weak in
numbers to effect anything, and without the slightest
prospect of being able to advance towards the central pro-
vinces of Mexico, within any reasonable time, or.-indeed at
any time that can be named. For any effect that it is
likely to produce on the fortunes of the war, it might just
as well be on the Canadian frontier. The army,of Gen
Scott is considerably nearer the point where the struggle
must be decided, but it seems to be greatly deficient in the
number of troops, and other resources for bringing the
war to a speedy close. So far from having advanced to
the city of Mexico, it had not left Puebla up.to the last
advices ; the disbanding of the volunteers having left Ge-
neral Scott with not more than from 5000 to 6000 men.
This force was expected to be increased shortly to 9,000
or 10,000 men, but the delay had revived, the confidence
of the Mexicans to such an extent as to render 10,000 men
less formidable now than 5000 would have been imme-
diately after the victory of Cerro Gordo. There is every
reason to expect that the Mexicans will fight another bat-
tle between Puebla and the city of Mexico, and though the
probability is that they will be beaten, yet every day's
delay diminishes the impression produced by their ad—
vance, and familiarises the Mexicans with the war. Delay
is the policy of the Mexicans, and the conduct of Presi-
dent Polk's government in leaving Gen. Scott in the heart
of Mexico, for so long a time, without sufficient means of
following up his successes, enables the Mexicans to play
that game with ease and comparative safety. Santa Anna
had reassumed the presidency, and had received powers
equal to those of a dictator.
COMMERCIAL, NEW YORK JULY Is.—The business of
the country continues to be flourishing, healthy, and pro-
mising. From all parts of the country the grain harvests
promise unprecedented abundance. In the more southern
of the wheat-growing states the grain has been already
gathered, and the crop proves to be more than an average ;
and in no section of the Union is there any apprehension
of a deficiency. The supply of flour, wheat, and corn, ar-
riving at the tide-water through the canals of this state, is
large beyond all precedent. The receipts up to the first
week in July of flour this year were 1,578,170 barrels,
being 513,808 over those of the last year ; of wheat the re-
ceipts were 1,823,147 bushels, 1,440,210 more than last
year, and of corn there has been an increase of 1,153,697
bushels ; the whole amount received last year up to the
same time being only 593,334 bushels. Reducing the
wheat to flour, there is an excess of 871,846 barrels over
the receipts of the corresponding period last year. The
receipts of corn, so far, a period of 68 days of navigation,
exceed the receipts of last year by 1,139,882 bushels.
The foreign export has been large ; the quantity shipped
for Europe within the last ten days having indeed been
larger than that of any similar period in any previous year,
though its measure s is not in proportion, perhaps, to the in-
crease of receipts. The large receivers, as a general thing,
prefer to trust a foreign market to selling at rates current
here. In the money market there has been no change of
marked importance. There nas been but little variation
in the price of leading securities, and the transactions
have been comparatively limited. The market has been
firm, except for Treasury Notes and United States' Loans,
generally, which have declined somewhat in consequence
of the recent accounts from Mexico notices elsewhere. The
extreme heat'of the season, and the consequent absence
from town of nearly all the largest dealers, has also con-
tributed greatly to the curtailment of recent transactions.
Speculative stocks, for the same season, have also de-
clined.

CANADA.
MONTREAL, JITLY 15.—Ministers have maintained a
majority varying from 2 to 7. They have introduced a
College bill, by which it is proposed to distribute an en-
dowment amounting to £lO,OOO a-year among four col-
leges—one for• each of these sects—Episcopalians, Pres-
byterians, Wesleyans, and Roman Catholics. It was also
proposed to distribute £2,500 annually among grammar
schools.—Sickness among the emigrants continued una-
bated, and the means of grappling with it were, with the
best will, inadequate.

SOUTH AMERICA.
By the packet-ship Express, which arrived on Thursday
night, we have dates from Rio de Janeiro to June 3 ;
Bahia, June 14 ; and Pernambuco, June 22. The Griffon
had arrived at Rio de Janeiro on the 28th of May, with
the Buenos Ayrean and Monte Videan mails, having sailed
from the former on the 15th, and the latter on the 19th
of May. On the 9th of May the French minister, and on
the following day the English, accompanied by Sir T.
Herbert, landed at Buenos Ayes, and were well received
by Rosas, at a private interview. On the 16th of May
Sir T. Herbert arrived at Monte Video, in the Firebrand
steamer, to propose an armistice, between the troops of
Oribe and the garrison of Monte Video, whilst negocia-
tions were pending, which were agreed to ; and in conse-
quence thereof it was supposed the blockade would be
raised. The ships of war in the river were Raleigh, Eagle,
Melampus, Satellite, Racer, Firebrand, Alecto, Lizard,
Harpy, Victoria, Tender, and Rattler. From the Brazils
there is nothing of importance, save that a change of
Ministry had taken place, and was generally considered
to be very firm. There appeared to be every inclination
to make a treaty in amity, but a very strong feeling existed
against a commercial one.

SPAIN.
We learn from Madrid journals of the 23d ult. that ap-
prehensions of a Carlist rising were becoming general, and
it was said that the army on its return from Portugal was
to be sent into Catalonia. A rumour prevailed that the
British Government had interfered respecting the security
offered for the new loan, saying that the security was al-
ready pledged to British creditors whose claims must be
respected.
Accounts from Madrid, of the 24th ult., state that the
Progressistas had succeeded in returning about one-third
of the members of the provincial deputations. M. Sala-
manca had left in the morning for La Graja, with General
Fernando Cordova.

By an accidental explosion in the arsenal at Rochefort,
on the 21st. instant, thirteen persons were killed and four
dreadfully wounded, of whom one has since died.
SILESIA, July 14.-Well-informed persons are of
opinion that within a month the price of corn will sink
more than fifty per cent.

The English residents at Shanghai have resolved to
erect a church, which will be the first Protestant place of
worship ever built within the dominions of the Emperor
of China
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The King of Bavaria has given strict orders to
the proper authorities to watch that no speculator shall
attempt to buy up the new corn beforehand, in order to
keep up the prices.
An association has been set on foot at Rome, under the
name of The Oriental Society for the Union of all
Christians in the East, to be supported by voluntary con-
tributions. A central board has been formed at Rome,
and sub-committees are to be organised in every place to
which the operations of the society may extend. The
former has the head of the Propaganda for its ex-officio
chairman.

PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN LEAVING THE COITN-
TRY .—The estate of the late Joseph Buonaparte has been
sold for 20,500 dollars to Mr. Richards, of Philadelphia.
The buildings alone originally cost more than 60,000 dol-
lars ! The paintings and statues were on the average sold
under half
.price. The only painting that has been sent
to Europe is " Napoleon's Expedition over the Alps," by
David, for which the proprietors asked 6000 dollars.
The Courrier de Marseille gives the following- letter
from Rome, dated the 18th :--,` There is a most extraor-
dinary report current at Rome, which has excited great
agitation. It states nothing less than the discovery of a
conspiracy, at the head of which was a cardinal held in
great suspicion by the people. I dare not mention the
projects attributed to the conspirators until they are in
some degree officially made public. It is affirmed that at
this moment several

sonages are being arrested,
and that they will be sent in the course of the day to the
Castle of St. Angelo."

ENTERPRISING 1 ANICEES.—Mr. Vespasian Ellis has
succeeded in concluding a treaty with the republic of Ve-
nezuela for eighteen years, by which the United States
have acquired the exclusive right of navigating with steam-
boats the rivers Orinoco and Apure. The company is
already formed under the direction of Mr.'Ellis, and about
to bring together the requisite capital of 200,000 dollars.
We have learnt to see by the Oregon treaty what import-
ance the Hudson's Bay Company has thrown into the
scale. Why should not the Yankees try to do the same ?
PRINTERS OF PIOUS FRAUDS.—There has lately been
a great deal of talk at Lyons of the seizure of clandestine
printing presses in the houses of certain religious orders.
A few days ago the director of the convent of the Freres
de la Doctrine Chretienne was called before the Tribunal
of Correctional Police for having clandestinely kept a press,
but the hearing of the case was postponed. The director
of the convent of the Chartreux was, however, convicted
of that offence, and, not appearing, was condemned by
default to pay 10,000 f. and six months imprisonment.-
Paris Paper
GREAT C —The New

ins _,ASTING. _ ork papers record the
casting, on Saturday afternoon, of the bed-plates for the
engines of the steam-ship United States, one of the con-
templated line of packets between New Orleans and Liver-
pool. About 27 tons of iron were melted, and the plates,
when dressed off, will weigh some 24 tons. This is the
largest casting ever effected in America, and the operation
was in all respects successfully performed at the vvorl-
Messrs. Secor and Co. The cost of the en-

115,000 dollars, and the ship will be a splendid "o 7
2200 tons, and over 1000 horse power.
STARTLING COINCIDENCE.—We have been aroused by
the fraudulent bankruptcy of M. Boyer, the great brass-
founder and government contractor for public works.
Information had been given to the Minister of War that

the whole cannon, to the value of 100,000 francs, which
had been voted by the Chambers last session for the tomb
of Napoleon, had been illegally disposed of by the con-
tractor. A visite domiciliaire was forthwith made in M.
Soyer's atelier, and the cannon being missing, a warrant
was made out for his apprehension. lie had already ab-
sconded, but was arrested at the Chateau of Fould, at
Poissy, and brought back to Paris to take his trial. By a
most extraordinary Coincidence, and one which is really

startling in its support of the doetrine of 'fatalism, it is
proved and reported in the proces verbal that a great part
of the missing bronzes was sold to a contractor for the
English market, and bought up to melt for the statue of
the Duke of Wellington.—Paris-Correspondent of the
Atlas.

THE DEBTORS OF ENGLAND.—The Madrid correspon-
dence of the Times demonstrates, in the quotations which
it furnishes from the Spanish papers the utter disregard
with which any threats of a forcible assertion of the
claims of the foreign creditors of that country is sure to
be met. Spnin knows well enough that•all intimations of
the kind are merely for effect, while at the same time
they afford her an opportunity of putting forth flourishes
about her sense of duty, and of parading• the last rem-
nant of an insolvent's self-esteem—the determination not
to be influenced by insolent menaces.. Lord Palmerston's

speech may probably nave none sou:cluing Jur toe no
because it stirred the public mind not only at
home but throughout the worm, and thus
.tended to keep
up that notoriety of degradation which.is now. connected
with the Spanish name, and to •the desire of escaping

from which, and not to any sense of honesty, the ciedi:
tors will owe the final satisfaction of their rights. But as
to any actual resort to war on the question, there is not a
, man in England—at least, not one who is cognisant of
the tone of the present generation—who would entertain
ke for a moment an idea of its possibility: By a large

increasing proportion, it would be opposed on the "ground
of abstract principle, while with the remainder prudential
considerations would operate with almost equal power.
If Spain were the only dishonest, nation on the globe, the
matter would be within a narrow compass, but the
moment a Mow is struck on behalf of her creditors it
must unfortunately be regarded as the commencement of
hostilities, not only will the larger portion of the conti-
nent of South America, but also with the fraternity of

states extending from Texas to Maine. Nay, a war of
recovery commenced against Spain would almost seem to
involve an unjust selection, since up to this day she has
never denied her obligations, while such states as Michi-
gan, Mississippi, Indiana, and others, have absolutely
triumphed in repudiation. To threaten the comparatively
weak offender and to pass by the federal government
of America (for a war against Mississippi and others
would be a war against the United States) would bring
discredit not to be tolerated, and we should therefore

have no choice if the requisition of the Spanish bond-
holders were heeded but to hold ourselves in readiness to
accord also a like step on behalf of the sufferers from the
more gross depravity of our debtors in the far west.
Let the first blow, however, be struck where it would, in
the United States, the Equator, Spain or eleswhere,, of
course it would amount to the same thing in the end; the
debtors are numerous, and the creditor single-handed,
and whether it would be wise to encounter the fraudulent
alliance that would thus be certain to make common
cause against us is a question that few, either in or out of
the Stock Exchange, will hesitate to answer in the
negative.— Times.

A TURKISH TRAGEDY.—A letter from Constantinople,
in the Daily News, contains the following :—" Pera, one
of the most matter-of-fact, prosaic little town in. Europe,
has become the scene of an event as full of tearfull in-
terest and dramatic excitement as any to be found in the
pages of George Sand or Jules Janin. Mademoiselle
Marie
tradesman. She was possessed of accomplishments su-
perior to her station, and of beauty rare even here, where
loveliness in woman is so common. Like Emma in the
ballad she had many suitors, and on. one her affections
finally settled. He was, however, anything but " the
pride of swains;" a shallow-hearted, worthless creature,
the life and soul of the greasy frequenters of the cafes
and wineshops, for whose amusements he would often
read the letters which, during their courtship, he received
from the poor girl. The father and mother of Marie
were naturally opposed to her marrying with such a
scamp ; but, with the perversity of her sex, this only
caused her to love him more. Amongst the many who
sued for her hand there was one particularly favoured by
the parents, and who, notwithstanding the repulses he
received from the girl, still continued his attentions.
This man and Marie's lover met and fought, and a law-
suit followed, when the most shameful revelations were
made. On the trial Marie's lover showed his true cha-
racter, and she could shut her eyes no longer to the de-
fects. Iu parting with the illusion which she had so long
cherished her heart broke, and from that day forth she
pined away. Her parents, who ought to have comforted
her in sorrow, loaded her with reproaches, and even sub-
jected her to cruel persecutions. She was weary of life ;
and, though she felt that death was coming to her relief,
she thought his approach too slow. The suitor favoured
by her parents still continued his addresses, but without
success. That Marie should marry him her father and
mother were determined, either because he was wealthy
or because they thought it might remove any slur thrown
on the girl's character by the events of. the trial. As,
however, she showed no symptoms of yielding, it was
agreed on by these cruel people that he should woo her
ala 14firabeau. With the parents consent, therefore, he
concealed himself in Marie's sleeping-room, and when
the dying:girl retired there at night he effected her ruin,
and then withdrew. So far, the plot succeeded. But
when the mother came in the morning to rouse her victim
Marie was dead. Though Marie felt she had not long to
live, she could not endure dishonour for so short a period.
Fearful of some such catastrophe, she had already pos-
sessed herself of arsenic, and when her ravisher left her
she swallowed the poison and so put an end to her sor-
rows and her shame. The foregoing circumstance is at
the present moment the subject of an enquiry at the
French embassy, but the result has not yet transpired."