The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

It to ottited that matiy foroopg warp blown crock Om 0000
to tbo river. _ _ .

How far the ravaoo of this storm extOnded 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-
)able. At Napoleon, Arkansas, 24 hours after the storm at
Natchez, a house was blown down, and a flat boat sunk with
five men. A gentleman informs us, that he saw the ravages
of a vecont tornado above Vicksburgh, anti 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 Franktort.
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.

ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH QUEEN.
PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAY MORNING.—The British Queen
anchored this morning between seven and eight o'clock, and
has brought over 180 passengers.
The intelligence which her arrival furnishes is principally
commercial, and we regret to say of a character not to be
deemed improving.
The New York commercialists have each their several
versions of existing matters, but the true aspect of affairs is
anything but promising. We are advised of a sale of United
States Bank Shares at 711, and it is believed that some few
were done at 72, about an hour before the British Queen
departed. The Stock Exchange was more than usually flat
on the day of the Queen's leaving, but the Unicorn steamer
being expected from Boston with later arrivals from England,
was in some degree the cause of this.
Our files of papers supplying us with New York dates of
the Ist instant, do not extend back so long as previously, re-
ceived dates require, although we believe the deficient ad-
vices are wholly unimportant.
The outward passage of the British Queen was one of great
rapidity ; she anchored at New York on the evening of the
15th ult., having got out in 14 days, calculating the time
from the hour of dismissing her English pilot to that of
taking the American one on board, it was exactly 13 days and
11 hours. The homeward passage has occuped about 14 days
and a half.

The several states seem to be each propounding various
schemes of bank bills, with a view to prevent the distresses
-which are so constantly occurring. Advices from Harris-
burg, of the 20th ult., give particulars of a bill for this pur-
pose, and which passed the House of Representatives by a
majority of 39. Its principal provisions are nearly as fol-
lows :—All banks are forbidden to hold any other stocks
than those of the United States ; also from the issuing of
Vost notes. Stockholders are to be individually liable in
proportion to the amount of stock held by them ; and all
such banks as shall, after January 15, refuse to redeem their
obligations in gold or silver, to be deprived of their charter.
The crops are everywhere said to be most abundant, and this
supplies a hope that affairs may hereafter improve.
The election of president is exciting unusual interest, and
from the accounts it would seem that the rioting and profli-
gacy usually attendant on such elections in the model re-
public has greatly increased. The papers abound with state-
ments of the most abandoned nature, and it is scarcely pos-
sible to overstate the extent to which bribery and party spirit
are carried. It is even said that courts-martial are being
held on several officers of the army, on no other charge than
that of having purchased supplies for the commissariat de
partment from persons not actually partisans of the Van Bu-
ren party.
By advices from Washington, of the 27th ult., it would
seem that pretended difficulties are started in opposition to
any uniform law of bankruptcy. Numerous leading mem-
bers of Congress have expressed themselves opposed to the
passing of a law.
Natchez has been visited with a most terrific tornado, by
which nearly 300 lives have beeen lost, and the amount of
damage to buildings alone is estimated to exceed a million of
dollars. Many of the most respectable inhabitants fell vic-
tims to the fury of the hurricane, but the majority of persons
killed were either fishermen or persons whose habitations
were close to the coast.
Fayetteville, in South Carolina, has also suffered much
from a severe hurricane, which has greatly injured the crops

in that district.
From Canada we learn that the Lieutenant-Governor pro-
rogued the Special Council on the 15th ult. Much dissatis-
faction is expressed in consequence of the Governor Gene-
ral's refusal to alter the anomaly which is said to exist in
the currency of the two provinces. Mr. J. Macdonnell and
the Hon. D. B. Vigor, both of whom were imprisoned on
charges of high treason during the late rebellion, have been
liberated.
The whole of the 85th regiment has reached Montreal,

from the Upper Province. -
We are enabled to announce the gratifying intelligence of
another splendid triumph of steam navigation achieved in
the safe arrival at Boston of the Unicorn steamer from Liver-
pool. A correspondent informs us that she was telegraphed
off Boston on Saturday, the 30th (two days before the Queen
sailed.) A public meeting of the inhabitants of Boston had
been previously called, and it was agreed to have great fes-
tivities and rejoicings, the expense of which was to be de-
frayed from the civic funds.
The unsound principle of constructing the engines of steam-
ers in America has been again tested in the explosion of two
vessels. One of these, the Greenfield, which plied between
Montague and Hartford, on the Connecticut, has been blown
up, and several lives lost ; the other, named the Grampus, of
New Orleans, caused the death of two of the crew, and seri-
ous injuries to others.
It is said to be the intention of the United States Govern-
ment to employ Indians to negotiate between them and the
Semolini Indians, and thus put an end to the inhuman Flo-
rida war. Little credit will be due to our. friends in the
States for any good which may thus occur, as it appears they
are animated in such course solely to put an end to the ex-
pense which this war involves. Several butcheries attended
with their usual sanguinary circumstances have recently oc-
curred. Captain Roberts, of the Queen, has received the
warm congratulations of his passengers in addresses, &c. ;
and we understand that an elegant silver speaking-trumpet
and telescope have been presented him during the voyage.

(From the New York Courier, June 1.)
SUNDAY NIGHT.—The Stock Market yesterday was very
calm and prices receding. It is necessary, however, to keep
in view that in this observation, and those generally made in
relation to the stock market here, reference is only had to
those particular stocks to which of late the operations of the
board have been almost exclusively confined, and these are
those of incorporated companies. State Stocks have been
much sought for, and their value has materially, improved.
Those preferred are the stocks of this state and Ohio, and
the corporation of this city, but sales out of the board have
also been effected of Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Alaba-
ma, and the purchasers have been capitalists or commission
houses executing orders from abroad. Little or nothing has
been done in them on speculation : 6000 dols. Michigan Six
per Cent. were sold on Saturday at auction at 78 ; Indiana
Five per Cent. at 794; 11,000 dols. Arkansas Six per Cent.
at 75 ; 12,000 dols. Alabama were also advertised but not
put up ; 50 shares of the Southern Life Insurance and Trust
Company were offered but withdrawn, 50 being the highest
bid for them. Our Corporation Bonds are in active demand,
and with, perhaps, one or two exceptions, are the only securi-
ties in the market above par. New York Five per Cents are
firm at 95. United States Bank is looking down, and sales
are heavy. The only railroad stocks that maintain their
prices, and indeed advance, are the Utica and Schenectady
and Utica and Syracuse railroads. The latter is a favourite ;
has risen 20 per cent. within the last six months, and is now
firm and in demand at 119 per cent.
The transactions in foreign exchanges yesterday were on a
more limited scale than was expected, to-morrow being the
day of the departure of the British Queen, and that and the
following day of three packet ships. The business done
ciosed at the following rates, the supply of bills on all places
having been full :
London
Paris 5 264 5 25
Hamburg
Bremen
Amsterdam 394 40
The British Queen and packets will certainly carry away
half a million of dollars in specie, and probably much more,
of which no official record will be kept, and this too with
foreign exchanges at least 14 per cent. in our favour, or in
favour of remitting bills. We trust the specie maniacs will
see, in this circumstance, apparently so unaccountable, the
futility of their endeavours to restrain the natural course
of trade, or to appropriate to this country more than its due
proportion of the precious metals.
Since the departure of the Great Western the demand for
cotton has been fully equal to the supply, and the prices of
that date have been quite maintained. A great proportion
of the late purchases have been made for home consumption.
The present prices are—
Uplands, very ordinary to middling
Fair to good, fair and good
Tennesse and Alabama
Fine Mobile, Louisiana, &c. 9l to 11 to 12

The Flour Market is very inactive, and good western may
be bought at -11 dollars.