The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA.

The British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Niagara arrived in the river yesterday morning, soon
after ten o'clock. She left New York on the 25th ult.,
and Halifax on the 27th. She has brought 102 passen-
gers. The steamship Europa arrived at Halifax on the
24th ult.

The intelligence is not important. Business at New
York was dull, owing chiefly to the continued ravages of
the cholera. The money market was abundantly sup-
plied. the bank being at a loss to employ their funds. In
foreign exchanges little was doing. The range of quota-
tion for sterling bills was from 8 to 834.
The cholera seems gradually to be extending itself both
along the sea coast and the interior, and has developed
itself on the lake shores. No where as yet, however, has
it proved so deadly as at St. Louis, at the junction of the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers, although in New York it
is assuming a more fatal type, and the deaths for the week
ending on Saturday, the 21st ultimo, were 1,400, of which
rather more than one half, viz., 714, or 102 daily, were by
cholera. The president had fixed Friday, the 3rd instant,
as a day of fasting and national humiliation.
The weather generally throughout the land has been
most propitious to the wheat harvest,which is completed in
the Southern and Southwestern States. Except in Ohio,
and possibly in Southern Illinois and Indiana, the yield
will be abundant and of fine quality. In the Cincinatti
(Ohio) Gazette, of the 16th instant, it is said that the in-
telligence from Ohio, Southern Indiana, and Southern
Illinois, is full enough to lead to the conviction that the
wheat crop of these states the present year will fall far
below an average crop, and be perhaps not much more
than half the aggregate yield of last year. Rust, weevil,
worm and floods have all had an agency in producing this
failure of the great staple of Ohio. The same paper, in
relation to the crop of Indian corn and potatoes, holds
this language, which is applicable to the crops generally.
The drought which, until within a few days. has prevailed
hereabout, was somewhat unfavourable to both these pro-
ducts ; but-still the yield will, it is thought, be abundant,
and thus far nothing of rot in the potato. Concerning
the growing crop of cotton, it is believed, and notwith-
standing rumours within a few days past of injury to the
late plantations by excessive rains, that it will, for a late
crop, which it must be, yield pretty fairly.
We have advices from California one day later than our,
last. The market at San Francisco is overstocked with
all sorts of wares, and a number of ships were constantly
expected from China to increase the glut. Gambling in
land is all the rage there, house-lots having risen as high
as 50,000 dollars in some parts of the town. No dis-
turbances bad yet happened at the mines between the
Americans and Mexicans (of whom some 6000 have
arrived in the country), but trouble was expected, and,
as our dispatch says, if the Mexicans engaee in an out-
break, they will be shot down to a man. This indicates
anything but a state of peace between the parties. The
digging of gold dust had not yet been profitable, owing to
the high water in the streams ; but from one place in the
dry diggings we hear of £60,000 dollars' worth of gold
obtained by six men in the short time of twenty-three
days.

In Venezuela, Baez and Monagas were about to have a
set-to, at our last advices ; rebellion had broken out in
various parts of tifte country. Monagas was employing
the power of the Government in raising forced loans.
In Mexico and the States of Soutr. America, except
Venezuela, there is nothing to be reported.
In Canada no further disturbances have taken place.
Matters there are ripening to a final crisis. Judging from
the external indications we would say that the party of
annexation was not gaining ground, but we think that the
real fact is the other way. At any rate it is certain that
the affection which the Canadians have hitherto cherished
towards the British nation and government is constantly
growing weaker. A feeling is growing up in favour of
making the St. Lawrence River and the canal of the Ca-
nalas more immediately highways between the Western
States and the Atlantic Cities. A large meeting was held
at Troy, in the State of New York, to consider the expe-
diency of connecting the St. Lawrence, nearly opposite
Montreal, with Lake Champlain, by means of a ship canal.
The whole length of the projected canal (including 84
miles of the Chambly Canal, which it is proposed to en-
large to the required dimensions, will be about thirty-two
miles, and the estimated cost would be a fraction within
one and a-half million dollars. For an expenditure com-
paratively trifling as this, a ship canal, capable of trans-
porting a vessel drawing 2 feet wa'er, and of the burthen
of 3000 barrels, can be constructed.