The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-02 00:00:00

THE COTTON TRADE.

The question of supply, in view of the increase of consump-
tion, has again become of paramount importance, and is likely
to challenge a closer scrutiny than for some years past. It is a
question that is always involved in much uncertainty, particu-
larly at so early a period of the season as this ; and the indul-
gence in anything like definite estimates would be presumptu-
ous in the extreme, as so many vicissitudes may yet arise to
the advantage or disadvantage of the growing crops. We think
it may be safely asserted, however, that, what with the frosts
of April, which, by rendering replanting ne-essary to an im-
portant extent, retarded the progress of cultivation several
weeks in some sections, and the excessive rains of July, which
washed the hills, flooded the lowlands, and kept the grass and
weeds rank in the fields—and still further, the recent destruc-
tive overflow on Red River—there can hardly be a doubt that
the total product of the present season will fall short of the
last by several hundred thousand bales
The quality of the new supplies thus far this season proves
much superior to those of last. year, and they give warrant for
the expectation of a considerably higher average classification
than was attained for the crop of 1848. The sales of new crop
up to this date amount to 200 bales, at a range of 101 to 12 c.
for Good Middling to Good Fair, with some fancy parcels at 13
to 14 c. per lb.
In addition to the causes already enumerated, as operating
against the production of a full crop, the past few days h9ve
brought intelligence that the boll worm is quite destructive in
many sections, and that in several portions of Louisiana and
Mississipi caterpillars have appeared upon the plants, which it
is teared may prove the same species of worm that committed
such ravages in 1846. It is devoutly to be hoped, however,
that this may not Le the case, or at least that the lateness of
their appearance, and a favourable change in the weather
(which has thus far been rather too wet), will prevent the ac-
comp!ishment of very extensive injury. Some two or three
weeks (perhaps less) will determine this important point.

STATEMENT OF COTTON.
Stock on hand Ist September, 1648 bales 37,401
Arrived since the 25th ultimo 2,057
Arrived previously 1,140.325

Total receipts for 12 months, ending 31st
ultinio 1,142,382
Additional bales made from waste and da-
maged cotton, and samples, estimated
1,145,392

1,182,783
The New York Shipping List states the crop for 1849, as

.
Bales 2,728,596
Last year „ 2,347134
Year before ,, 1,778,651
Increase over last year
~ year before
Exported to Great Britain
Last year

Increase 213,636 „
Total exports 2,227,884 „
last year 1,838,261 „

Increase 369,583 „
SEPT. 11, 24 P.M.
The sales of Cotton are 1000 bales, at full prices.

EXCITEMENT IN SWITZERLAND.—The accounts from
Berne, of the 21st instant, announce a revival of the old
Sonderbund agitation. The Roman Catholic canton
it appears, have been emboldened by recent events
on the continent once more to oppose the measures of the
Federal government. The council of the canton of
Schwytz, which has always headed these factious move-
ments, began the game at its sitting of the 19th, when it
was resolved almost unanimously " that as all legal steps
ought to be taken to defend the rights of the cantons
against the attacks of the Federal power, there appertained
to the individual cantons the right of proposing to the
Federal Diet, on its meeting in November, that its reso-
lution respecting the military capitulations be rescinded,
and that each canton be allowed the unrestricted exercise
of thube rights which are conferred un all of them by
articles 3 and 11 of the Federal Constitution, and which
a resolution incompetently adopted could not legally
withdraw from them." This resolution has produced a
great sensation in Schwytz, and the elections to the
Second Chamber (Stande rath) afford a clear proof of the
hostile feeling entertained towards the Federal govern-
ment. Uri and Unterwalden will not hesitate to follow
the example of Schwytz ; Zug, Lucerne, and Valais are
still wavering.
The private correspondence of Calvin discovered at
Paris, is about to be published.
The sect of Irvingites is on the increase in Berlin ; the
congregation now amounts to six hundred. It is not
certain that their meetings will be tolerated.
The cholera is said to have shown itself in some spots
on the bleak and barren Alps, which are 2000 feet above
the level of the sea.

The French colony of Cayenne is described as in a state
of utter ruin, in consequence of the sudden emancipation
of the negroes.
In British Guiana, the retrenchment party in the Com-
bined Court, finding themselves in a minority, resigned.
Proclam.tions have been issued for the election of new
members.

A private letter from Italy states that proceedings were
about to be instituted, at Florence, against the printer
who had printed an edition of the Italian Bible for Capt.
Pakenham.
The New York Era states that " Mrs. Fanny Kemble
Butler has gone with a party of down-east celebrities on
an excursion to the White Mountains." She travels on
horseback.

According to the American papers, a steam-boat coming
down the Red River, during the late floods, picked up,
during a voyage of thirty miles, upwards of one hundred
persons who had perched upon trees to save their
Sir Edward Stewart Baynes, her Majesty's consul at St.
Petersburgh, is appointed agent and consul-general at
Tunis, in place of Sir Thomas Reade, deceased. Mr. Er-
nest Michele is appointed consul at St. Petersburgh, in
the place of Sir E. S. Baynes.
JUST IN TIME.—A few days ago, at Clermont-Ferrand,
preparations were being made for the interment of an in-
habitant. The coffin was being lowered into the grave,
when a few taps were heard from the inside. The poor
sinner was only just in time to escape premature inter-
ment. The coffin lid was immediately lifted up, and the
" buried-alive" restored to the light of day.
The quality of the wheat crops in France can now be
more exactly ascertained, as a considerable amount of
new wheat is already in the market, and a sufficient por-
tion made into flour. The produce of the present year is
not equal to that of 1848, which was, however, exceptional;
but the crop is considered as an average one in the depart-
ments round Paris, and an ordinary one in the rest of
France. Throughout the west of France the potato crop
is described as magnificent, and without the slightest
taint. In Normandy and Brittany, the apples used for
cider are in extraordinary abundance.

ENGLISH GRATITUDE.—A few days ago a medical man
was passing through the Quartier St. Germain, in Paris,
when he was attracted by a crowd, in the midst of which
he found a poor Englishman smitten by an attack of
apoplexy. He hastened to render him the assistance that
medical aid could afford. The next day the medical man
called upon his patient to inquire how he felt. The
Englisman asked him what he was to pay. The doctor
replied, 10f. for two visits, at sf. each. " Oh," cried the
Englishman, " my life is worth more than that ;" where-
upon he handed the physician a check for 500 f.

CHINESE COURT CIRCULAR.—His Majesty, after
breakfast, walked a certain distance, and passing through
a gate, visited the King-shan (a mound raised within the
precincts of the palace, planted with trees, and having a
number of grottoes and artificial rocks on it); he subse-
quently entered into a temple to perform worship with
some of his brothers, and others who had followed him,
and having returned by a different road, called a council
of his Ministers. Horses were then prepared, and a
guard appointed for a ride on the following day, when the
higher nobility and great Ministers had to attend the
Emperor. Such trivial circumstances, which used seldom
to be found in the Gazette, are now inserted with great
minuteness, to show that Taoukwang is still vigorous,
and moves about with ease. King-seih, Keying's son,
has been promoted to a high office at the board of the
Imperial Clan, to which only the most influential men
are nominated. The son of the late Minister Paou-hing
has been brought under the notice of the Sovereign as
worthy of the Imperial bounty on account of the virtues
and services of his father.—China Mail.
MYSTERIOUS ARRIVAL AND ITS SPEEDY SOLUTION.—
Late on the evening of the 10th or 11th instant, a lady,
accompanied only by a large black Newfoundland dog,
arrived at the Hotel de Londres, Boulogne sur 111er, from
the Folkstone packet ; and having summoned Madame
Boutoir, the proprietress, to her presence, she informed
her that she had been recommended to her hotel, and
meant to take up her abode there until the arrival of her
husband, saying at the same time that the name she went
by was Mrs. Trafford, to whom all her letters would he
addressed, but that ere long she should know who she
really was. The clever hostess made no further inquiries ;
and the lady, who was joined next packet by her fille de
chambre, continued to walk about. the town and call at
the post without observation or remark. In the course
of her morning rambles she called at Duchocois, the
jeweller's shop in the Grand Rue, with a superb ring, a
royal (quere Bavarian) crown in brilliants to be repaired,
leaving her name and address as above. The words
" Graeffin von Landsfeldt" were afterwards discovered on
the inner part of the setting; and on the same day a let-
ter address: d to the Countess of Landsfeldt was brought
by the postman to the Hotel de Londres, but refused by
Madame B. who would not recognise under that name the

THE LITERPO

lady with the dog. In the course of that day it was
whispered that Lola Montes was in Boulogne; and the
lady in the grey dress, and mantilla of the same colour
and texture, with bonnet trimmed with orange (not
orange flowers), protected by the large Newfoundland
dog, became at once an object of attention ; and it was
then, and only then, observed that her eyes were of a
peculiar size and lustre, and that the pale cheek and neg-
ligee figure may lately have been all beauty and symme-
try. On the evening of the 15th a youthful gentleman,
with downy light moustache and nez relrouss, apparently
not out of his teens, came from London, and claimed the
lady with the dog as his wife, giving his name as Mr.
Heald ; since when there has been no disguise, and the
lady and the youth may be seen almost daily inhaling the
sea breeze on the " Porte," or enjoying rural excursions
in the environs—the former riding a donkey, seated on a
Peru de Minion, whilst the latter devotedly leads the
passive animal ; they being now known as Lola Montes
and Mr. Heald.