The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

NEW YORK MARKETS, JULY 31.

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The condition of the Cotton market is quite unsatis-
factory ; the sales drag heavily, and at rather drooping
prices.
No change in Flour, fresh Genesee 4 dols. 31 cents. to
4 dols. 374 cents ; Ohio and Michigan 4 dols. 25 cents.
Very few sales of Southern, a parcel of sour sold 3 dols.
50 cents.
Rye is 63 cents. buyers ; a cargo of Southern Corn
sold at 48 cents., measure. Oats, 29 to 32 cents.
Ashes are 4 dols. 18 cents. to 4 dols. 25 cents. for pots
and 8 dols. 374 cents for pearls, both dull. The only sale
of Pork which we hear of is 50 brls. of each sort at 7 dols.
60 cents. and 9 dols. 50 cents. Lard is in fair demand at
54 to 6 cents. in brls. and 6 to 64 in kegs ; 200 small kegs
New York lard, very prime, sold at 84 cents.
EXCHANGE AT NEW YORK.—Foreign.—There is little
or nothing doing. We quote bills on London 1094 to
1091; Paris sf. 264 to sf. 25.

THE COTTON CROP.—The Mobile Merchants' an
Planters' Prices Current, of the 20th instant, says :-
" From all parts of the cotton region we continue to re-
ceive accounts of the most favourable character in regard
to the growing crop. Throughout middle and south
Alabama the prospects for an abundant yield were never
more promising ; and from the fact that the present season
is at least three weeks in advance of the last, we have thus
some data, deemed reliably by many who have paid atten-
tion to the subject, upon which to found an estimate of a
large crop for Mobile as well as for the country."
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The Savannah Republican speaks equally favourably of
the crop in that vicinity.
It is estimated that 300,000 bags of the new crop have
been destroyed by the extraordinary and unprecedented
flood that swept over a part of the Valley of the Missis-
sippi during the months of June and July.
CHARLESTON, July 27.—Cotton.--Receipts of Upland
1202 bales ; exported 1164 bales, leaving on hand 12,218
bales. Great dullness and inactivity in the Cotton
market. Sales of the week 020 bales. Our last quota-
tions, inferior an ordinary 51 to 6 ; middling to middling
fair, 6 to 71 ; fair to fully fair, 71 to B.—Long Cotton.
A tolerable fair demand, 119 hales, 20 to 28c.—Rice.
An active demand has prevailed, prices have advanced
fully 3-16. Sales 500 bales, from 3 dols, to 3 3-16.
Rough Rice has advanced to 31 dols.—Exchange. Very
little doing, sterling at 81 to a • sight checks on the
North very scarce, in demand at per cent.—Freights.
The Only vessel up for Liverpool engaged at 5-10 to 3d.
NEW ORLEANS, July 20.—Cotton—Arrived 760 bales ;
cleared for Liverpool 1455, Havre 3668, Marseilles 184,
Havana 319, Galveston 100 New York . 7 Baltimore 89,
altogether 4892 hales, leaving on hand a stock of 33,470
bales. Demand has improvedAa ; sales 5500 bales. In
middling and good orr,,Tjapimprovement of to 1.
Stock on sale,
middling fair
bales. Ordinary 51 to 0;
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middling to 7i ; fair 71 to 1; fair 8 to 11 ;
good fair 8i to 9.
SAVANNAH, July 26.—Cotton—Arrived 1042 bales.
,r1(1,81 Sea Island—
Exports, 161 bales Upland to Boston, 437 to New York.
fair 7 to 71 ; fair
Stock on band-3399 bales Upland
't° 51 ; ordinary
Island—
with an advance of Ad per lb,
ildndfleirn.logr
51 to 6 ; middling 61 to 6; m
Bice—ln active demand, without
and fully fair 7,1, to 21.
change in price.
Sales 498 casks at 2 cents ; 397 at 21.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.-For Halifax : Mrs. Rebecca
Stubler, Mr. Phineas Janney and wife, Mr. Green, Mr.
Robert Bolton, Mr. H. Williams, Mackenzie, Mr. F.
Charman, Miss Charman, Mrs. Cassidy, Mrs. Brown and
three children, Mr. Brown, Nigo Austin, Mr. Kidaton,

Mr. Sims.—For .Liverpool: Mr. Geo. A. Hall, Mr.
Joshua Dixon, Mr. Adrian Odier, iklr. Paul Julane, Mr.
Kke aria two children, Mr. J. Conerie and servant,
Mr. H. Robbins, Mr. C. M. Hovey, Mr. Alonzo Child,
Mr. C. Chamberlin, Mt-. Lewis Trapman, Mr. Joseph
Leonard, Mr. J. Philippe, Mr, A. Morrison, Mr. R. J.
Ticulat. Mr. Jas. Iliggenson, Mr. Murphy, Mr. J. W.
Fuller, Mr. W. Turner, Mr. H. Gray, jun., Mr. 11. H.
Centre, Mr. G. Duvivier, Mr. S. N. Talbot, Mr. J.
Dunn (servant), Mr. Thos. Lockhart, Mr. John Tappun
and lady., Miss Tappun, Capt. J. Spear, Miss Clark, Mr.
J. L. Patterson, Le Baron de Bulow, Mr. Thos. Gates,
Mr. M. H. Meyer, Rev. Mr. Chalmers, Mr. Atkinson,
Mr. J. Hagan, Mr. H. Wyckoff, Mr. Richard Stubbs,
Mr. J. Lanmonier, Mr. A. Thompson, Mr. 0. M. Cole-
man, Mr. C. Au2e, Mr. F. Brun, Mr. W. B. Jarvis.—
From Halifax, for Liverpool: Capt. Bowles, Mr. Thos.
Fenerty, Mrs. Murray and servant, Master Hackett,
Capt. Wright, Mr. Philip Toledo, Mr. W. Doherty, Mrs.
Kelly, Mrs. Mignowitz, Mr. Stevenson, Mr. Cassidy ;
Steerage, Mr. Wm. Durran, Private M'Goldrick, Rifle
Brigade.

Edwivi Forrest and Henry Placide have just returned
home, to New York, from profitable professional tours to
the West.

Mt. Macready had a tremendous opening house at
Montreal. The Governor-General was present. Mr.
Macready was suffering from indisposition. He was to
appear a second time as " Richelieu," in Buiwer's play of
that name.

It is not generally known that the present Emperor of
Morocco was originally a merchant in Mogadore, and
that the previous Emperor bequeathed the crown to him
in preference to his son, who was a sad scapegrace : that
very son is now with Abd•el-Kader.

PUBLIC COOLING FOUNTAINS —Although the New
York common council hate broken up the booths around
the park, they have not been unmindful of the comfort of
their cold-water friends. They have ordered eight tons
of ice to be deposited in the Croton reservoirs to cool the
water, alike for the rich and the poor; and each hydrant
will in future give forth delicious ice-water. A supply of
130 tin drinking cups has been provided for the use of
those who may choose to quench their thirst with the iced
Croton at the fountain in the park.

A. RELic.—Amongst the number of articles of gold and
silver manufacture which were lately exposed to view at
the public exhibition in Paris, was a frame destined to en-
close a piece of the gown of Jesus Christ, which was pre-
sented by the Emperor Charlemagne to the church of
Argenteuil. Tradition fixes the 10th of August as the day
on which this precious relic was given to that c'iurch by
the French Emperor. The same day was, therefore,
chosen for the transfer of the relic to the new frame.
The Queen of France was to have been present at the
ceremony.

HORRIBLE DEATH.—During the visit of the United
States sloop-of-war Saratogo to the island of St. Thomas,
May 24, the coxswain fell overboard. While in the act of
swimming towards the ship, he was seen suddenly to dis-
appear, and thereupon, the fins and tail of a huge shark
emerged from the water; and splashingfor a few moments,
sank beneath the surface. I saw, says a spectator, noth-
ing but a crimson stai❑ of blood and a hat floating at a
short distance. Not a cry wag uttered, it was so sudden.
Again the splashing of the shark occurred, another was
seen to seize the hat—two boats reached the spot, but too
late—scores of fish were leaping about for the torn pieces
of the poor sailor.--New York Republican.
ABDICATION OF MEHEMET ALI.—We have received
from our Paris correspondent the following extraordinary
and important communication :—" Alexandria, July 27.
—His Highness, the Viceroy, has lust abruptly left Alex-
andria, declaring that he renounces for ever Egypt and
public affairs, and that he means to retire to Mecca.
Ibrahim Pacha is at Alexandria—the city is quiet." No
reason is assigned for this sudden resolve, and few ima-
gined that the veteran warrior, so fond of power, and so
anxious to raise Egypt to a distinguished rank, would
have resigned all into the hands of his son. He is now
in the 75th year of his age, however, and possibly weary
of the turmoils of Government, and desirous to see how
his system will work under his successor, he proposes to
survey the scene in the quiet retreats of the Holy City.
NEW YORK CUSTOMS.—A comparative table of the
Custom-house revenues at New York during the first
six months of the years 1842-3-4 is contained in the
American papers just received, and shows an immense
increase for the present year, the total receipts for the
first half of 1842 being 5,457,042, dols. for that of 1843
being 4,555,414, and for that of 1844 being 11.421,598
dols. The addition made to these totals for 22 days in
the July of every year furnishes a corresponding result.
For 1842 the addition amounts to 1,252,571 dols. ; for
1843, to 1,345,180 ; and for 1844, to 1,427,467. The
large receipts, according to one of the papers, take
place in the dullest period of the year for business, since
though July commences the " fall," or autumn, trade, the
bulk of imports does not generally arrive till August.
Cape of Good Hope papers have been received to the
2nd of June. The missionaries are said to have exercised
much influence on the natives from the Namacqualand
district to the interior, and it seems to be believed that,
if properly carried out, commercial intercourse could be
established with them, and the soil made profitable and
productive. Among the recent improvements introduced
at the Cape was the establishment of a weekly mail with
the frontier ; and for the protection of the coast, the
long talked-of light was to be erected on the Agulhas
Point, and a breakwater built in Table Bay. The news
from Port Natal is that everything is proceeding quietly in
that quarter, and the markets are reported to be well and
abundantly supplied with provisions. According to a
biatiestlual account which appears in these papers, the
number of vessels entered inwards during the quarter
ending the sth of April last, was 29, with 5,626 tonnage,
while the number entered outwards was 27, with 5,571
tonnage. The imports for the same period were valued
at £38,730, and the exports at £35,651, the wool shipments
representing of the latter item £20,216. The accounts
from the frontier by this arrival are less unfavourable as
respects the catalogue of depredations by the Caffres.