The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-06-26 00:00:00

THE COTTON TRADE.

New YORK, MAY 30.—Since the 25th instant, the date of the
receipt of the Liverpool advices of the 17th of April, we have
had a spirited demand for cotton, and the same accounts, con-
firmed by those of the 25th, have enabled holders to obtain their
previous asking prices on good fine, and an advance on middling
to fair of 4 top c. The sales for the last six days reach 8,500
bales, (exclusive of a cargo of 1,000 bales at an average of
191 c.;) about 1,500 have been taken on speculation. The ex-
port from the United States to Great Britain, since October Ist,
1834, falls short of last year for the same period 30,000 bales,
and to France exceeds by 40,000. The increase in our Own
consumption is estimated at 35,000 to 45,000 bales, and thoerop
at 1,250,000 to 1,300,000. There are at this time loading in the
United States, for Liverpool, forty vessels less than same time
last year.

Import from the 23d to the 30th of May :
From North Carolina 1289
„ South Carolina.. —
„ Georgia 163
„ Virginia.... l-130
„ Alabama ..
f 1 New Orleans..
Florida

Total
NEw ORLEANS. MAY 13.--Sales yesterday were at the follow-
ing price :-2,200 bales Mississippi, 19. May 14.—Sales yester-
day were at the followin4 prices:-400 bales Tennessee, 1G ;
2(X/ Florida, 181. Ma y lb.—Arrived since the Bth instant, 7,372
bales; cleared in same time, 17,181 bales; making a reduction
in stock of 9 809, and leaving on hand, inclusive of all on ship-
board not cleared on the 14th instant, a stock of 91,871 bales.
The fair, steady demand that has so peculiarly characterised the
market throughout the present season still continues, though
perhaps in a lesser degree. The sales of the week are estimat-
ed at 10,000 bales; the operations have been chiefly in the finer
qualities, on which prices are well maintained, while for the
lower grades purchasers are not willing any longer to pay the
rates demanded ; we, however, continue our quotations, as no
transactions have taken place that would authorise a change.

KEENNESS AND Sunzurry.—" Few men of genius are keen,
but almost every man of genius is subtle. If you ask use the
difference between keenness and subtlety, I answer, that it
is the difference between a point and an edge. To split a hair
is not proof of subtlety, for subtlety acts in distinguished differ-
ences—in showing that two things, apparently one, are in fact
two; whereas to split a hair is to cause division, and not ascer-
tain difference.—Coleridge's Table Talk.
ANCIENT LAW-SUIT BETWEEN TIIE EGYPTIANS AND TUE
JEWS.—Tuesday was, according to the Jewish calendar, the
26th of the month Sivan, a day held in commemoration by that
people as being the day on which, according to their historical
traditions, the great law question raised by the Egyptians
against the Jews, and carried by appeal before Alexander the
Great, was finally disposed of. The Egyptian nation claimed
restitution in value for the "jewels of silver and jewels of gold
and raiment" burrowed of their ancestors at the period of the
memorable thrusting out of the Jews from Egypt by Pharoah.
How the law proceedings were carried on in those days does
not exactly appear; but it seems the lawyers of the Israelites
did something akin to what modern lawyers would call "filing
a cross bill," or pleading a " set-off," for they raised a claim
for wages of labour performed during the 40d years of their ;
compulsory residence in the land of Egypt, and thereupon the
Egyptians abandoned their appeal.