The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

We have received New York papers to the 10th ult., in-
clusive, by the London packet-ship Toronto, Captain
Griswold. They are three days later than those brought by
the Independence.
The decision of the court-martial in the case of Comman-
der Mackenzie had been published. It was as follows .
" The court do, therefore, honourably acquit Commander S.
Mackenzie of all the charges and specifications preferred
against him by the Secretary of the Navy."
Some excitement had been caused, in the monetary circles
of New York and Philadelphia, by the sudden and mysteri-
ous disappearance of Mr. Jacob Shipman, the agent for the
money brokers of the two cities between which be was in the
habit of travelling with very large sums of money. On
Tuesday, the 4th ult., he left New York, and on Wednesday
returned in the train as far as Trenton, with ftinds estimated
at 15,000 dollars. At Trenton the conductors missed him,
and felt uneasy, but supposing that he had got off the car for
some purpose and was detained, they said nothing about it.
The letters which were in his possession came on from Phil-
adelphia through the mail, endorsed by the clerk to the effect
that the postage had not been paid. It is stated, however,
that some deficiency may be expected, from the fact that,
like Nicoll, of the Life and Trust, he speculates in lottery
tickets, and, however honest the individual may be, those
speculations are sufficiently seductive to involve property
intrusted to them, as well as their own." __ _ _

...
The exchange on England was dull at 105 i to 106. 0
Paris it was sf. 411.
The cotton market remained without alteration.

THE COTTON CROP.—The following letter respecting
the prospects of the next cotton crop is from a New York
paper. " The prospects of the next crop are now, indispu-
tably, most unpromising, and the plant at least six weeks
later than that of last season. If the weather that we have
prevails as extensively in the cotton region as I have under-
stood it does, the coming crop will be reduced, I should
think, 1,000,000 bales from the figures of last crop. We had
ice here night before last, an occurrence heretofore unknown
in this place. Everything in the ground (planted) is killed
and last year, at this time, the cotton plant was three inches
ahoAe ground. At Columbus, I hear, it snowed and froze
all day. The corn crop, now of prime necessity lo the plan-
ters, must be planted overagain. In the meanwhile, the rain
pours down four days out of five, accompanied by such
lightening as can only be got up' here. In fact, with the
prospects, the comet, and the present strong promise for a
flood, I am getting to be a confirmed Milerite."

THE BRAZILS

FALMOUTH, MAY 6

Early this morning her Majesty's packet Penguin arrived
from Rio de Janeiro, with the Brazilian and Buenos Ayrean
mails, having sailed therefrom on the 23d of March. She
brings 15 passenaers, and on freight about £20,000 in gold,
silver, &c. By her we have received a confirmation of the
unsuccessful result of Mr. Ellis's special mission to the
Court of Brazil, with a view of effecting a treaty between
that Empire and Great Britain, his proposals having been
rejected, and his final audience for formally taking leave be-
ing fixed for the 25th of March, soon after which it was ex-
pected he would embark in her Majesty's ship Malabar, for
England. The issue of this negociat►on (if so it may be de-
signated) had naturally caused much dissatisfaction among
the English merchants and those connected with British
trade at Rio; and a long and able article appears in the
Rio Mercantile Journal of the 18th of March, in reply to,
and refutation of, certain statements contained in a letter
published in the Journal di Comercio of the 15th, defending
the policy of the Brazilian Government in rejecting the pro-
posals of Mr. Ellis.
. . .

The following are one or two extracts from the article re-
ferred to :

" Does Urn Deputado Ministerial attach no importance to
our observations as .regards the annual importation into
Great Britain of Brazil cotton and hides at a nominal duty ?
He surely does not represent any of the provinces where
cotton is the staple production, for if he did this important
item would at the least have had a passing observation.
Have these provinces no fitting representative in the Cham-
bers, or if they have , do these consider what may be the con-
sequence if the articles in question are shut out from the
British markets? Their annual exportation to Great Britain
exceeds £500,000 sterling, but the point in favour of Brazil
seems totally lost sigh of by Urn Deputado
And again, the writer further adds—
" Notwithstanding that a material reduction has within
late years been made in the duty upon coffee, the primary
article of export from Brazil, the duty is offered to be reduced
still further 25 per cent. Imports from Great Britain and
her dependencies, which have hitherto paid 15 per cent., shall
in future pay 25 per cent., upon about seven-tenths of the
whole, and an unlimited rate of duty upon the remainder.
" Further, the relinquishment on the part of Great Britain
of the remainder of the term of the existent treaty.
" These are the pecuniary considerations ceded to Brazil
by Great Britian, with the object of obtaining a treaty which
shall afford some sort of protection to British subjects, in a
country accursed by civil war, and enfeebled by the repeated