The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-29 00:00:00

respectable merchants ; no individual in this community stood.
higher for probity and a nice sense of honour. During his long
and successful career he has been looked up to as an example
worthy to be imitated, and has long held the rank of being one
of the first merchants in this city or country.—Daily Advertiser.

Treasury Department, Dec: 1, 1832.
Sns,—l have the honour to transmit for the information of
the House of Representatives an estimate of the appropriation
proposed to be made for the service of the year 1833. amount-
ing to 12,731,581 17. dollars, viz.— DOLLARS.
Civil list, foreign intercourse, and micellaneous 2,685,361 70
Military service, including fortifications, armou-
ries,- arsenals, ordinance, Indian affairs, revo-
lutionary and military pensions, and internal
improvemet
3,377,429 3g
Naval service, including the marine corps

To the estimates are added statements show-
ing-
1. The appropriations for the service of the
year 1833, made by former acts, including
public debt, revolutionary pensions under the
act of the 7th of June, 18n, arming and equip-
ping the militia, revolutionary claims, India
affairs, claims of the state of Virginia, and
claims under convention with Denmark,
amounting to
2. The existing appropriation which will not
be required for the service of the year 18.32,
and which it is proposed to apply in aid of
the service of the year 1833, amounting to
3. The existing appropriations which will be
required to complete the service of 1832 and
former years, but which will be expended in
1833, amounting to 5,475,202 25

652,198 27

These three last-mentioned amounts, together with so much
as may remain unexpended of the sum stated in the report on
the finances presented by this department on the sth inst., as
the estimated expenditure in the 4th quarter of the present
year, and with such sums as may be appropriated by Congress
for the year 1833, will complete the whole amount, subject to
the disposition of the Executive Government in that year.
There is also added to the estimates a statement of the seve-
ral appropriations which will probably be carried to the surplus
fund at the close of the present year, either because the objects
for which they were made are completed, or because the sums
will not be required for, or will no longer be applicable to them,
amounting- to 181,020 72 dollars.
I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, LOU S M' LEA N.
To the Hon. the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On the motion of Mr. Ingersoll, it was laid on the table and
ordered to be printed.
A NEW SeEciEs OF COTTON.—Mr. Burrell Lyles, who re'
sides on the River-road between Cannon's and Heller's Creeks
in Dewberry district, brought to this market a few days since
three bales of cotton in store at Messrs. Woods and Subers,
the staple of which good judges say is superior to any that has
been seen here, and eleven cents has been offered and refused.
I learn from Lyles that some four years ago he discovered in
his crop a single stalk remarkable for its height and the num-
ber of pods which came to maturity and opened earlier than the
rest. He saved and planted the seed from this stalk separately
from year to year, and this year he was enabled to plant about
14 acres. The soil is of medium quality of upland, and the
average height of the stalk about eight feet—occasionally they
shoot up the height of twelve or thirteen feet, and he calculates
the product at an average of a bale of 3251b5. to the acre. The
writer has seen part of Mr. Lyles crop, and knows that the de-
scription of the growth is not exaggerated, and with some
knowledge of cotton-planting, thinks confidently that the pro-
duct is not over-rated. The contrast between that and the ad-

joining crop of the common stock, upon lands of the same qua-
lity, is so great as to force it upon the attention of the mere
passenger. Mr. Lyles has thus given a practical illustration of
the advantages which may be expected to result from a proper
attention to the selection of seed for planting in all the depart-
ments of agriculture, and it is to be hoped that in the sale of his
seed be will reap the reward due to his care. For the present
he has contracted to dispose of all or most of his stock at a mo-
derate price in such quantities as to disseminate it pretty gene-
rally, through that part of the country in which he lives, and if
the anticipations of it are realized, in a few years it will be worth
more to South Carolina than would be the combined products
of all the gold mines of North Carolina, SoUth Carolina, and
Georgia.

THE BALLOT TRWD BY THE BALLOT.—It is supposed that

if the question of ballot or no ballot were to be the ;abject of a
ballot among the constituencies of the metropolis, that the bal
lot would be black-balled. It would be a good test of the state
of the public mind on the question to announce a ballot all
over the kingdom, to be made by electors only. How strange if
the majority should vote by ballot against the vote by ballot ;
how important to ascertain the number of the minority if the
question were carried.—Atlas.
EARTHQUAKE.—The Zara Gazette of ,the 24th ult. has the
following :—" By accounts from the interior of the country,
we learn that on the night of the Ist an earthquake was felt in
the direction of from north-east to south-west. The shocks,
which were at first slight, became so violent thar persons who
were standing upright were thrown to the ground, and were
unable to recover their equilibrium while the phenomenon en-
dured. The isles of Lezina, Curzola, and Lissa, experienced
violent shocks, but no place suffered so much as the village of
Slivno. Situated on the sea-shore, to the south-east of fort
Opus, some houses were totally destroyed, and from the greater
part of the building the tiles were shaken. A circumstance
worthy of remark is, that this phenomenon was not indicated by
any of the usual forerunners. The dogs did not bark, nor did
the horses neigh; but the greater part of the inhabitants were
some hours before they awoke out of their sleep. This earth-
quake was followed by a hurricane, which lasted some hours."
—Galignani's Messenger.
DoM PEDRO'S Nevr.—Cork, Jan. 18, 1833.—0 n the 14th
instant a brig of war, belonging to Dom Pedro, and called the
Mondello, mounting six guns and six carronades, commanded
by an Englishman of the name of Brown, entered the Cove.
She brings ninety-one passengers of all nations from Vigo, the
most motley band ever seen. they are principally sailors who
had been serving with Sartorius and could get so pay, besides
being exposed to the most tyrannical conduct. They loudly de-
clare that not a single promise rriade to them has been fulfilled,
and that the widows of those who have been killed in the service
will never get a sixpence. The poor men are certainly in woful
plight, and the few old men-of-war's.men among them say that
they never heard of such doings as in the imperial navy. The
crew of the brig have also struck, and the men already on shore
declare that they will attach the vessel for their wages. So much
for one of the vessels of war which were to effect the conquest of
Portugal! Pretty scenes would have ensued if such parties had
been let loe4e upon the inhabitants, for actually, when they were-
landed, they looked as if they had just taken the advantage of a
general gaol delivery.—Morning Post.
IMPOSTOR.—In the course of the week a young man, about
15 years of age, called upon some of the officers in Stirling
Castle, representing himself to be an orphan son of an officer
who had been dead for some years, and whom-he named, and
said he had formely belonged to a regiment serving abroad.
Being rather respectable in appearance, and of good address, his
story was readily. believed; and as he also mentioned that hie
mother was now in Glasgow in extreeme indigence and distress,
his situation excited no small sympathy, and he consequently
succeeded in receiving relief from such of the officers as had
first heard his plausible tale. Unfortunately for him, however,
in describing his case to some others, to whom he applied, he
varied in his tale so far as to raise, suspicions that he was an
imposter. He was accordingly more closely questioned, which
only ended in strengthing the suspicions, which the subsequent
inquiry has completely confirmed. It now turns ont that he
told a different story to all whom he had applied, and that in-
stead of the officer, whom he represented as his father, being
dead—that gentleman was very recently known to be living.
and in good health. The propriety of giving publicity to this
case of imposition will appear more obvious, when it is men-
tioned that he carried with him a paper, purporting to be
signed by some military gentlemen in Glasgow, certifying his
story. There is, therefore,_ little doubt but he will endeavour
to impose upon others in. the same way.—Stirling Adveriiser„
CAUTION TO CARTERS, WAREHOUSEMEN, &C.—A shocking
accident last week occurred to Sidney Slaney, one of the per-
sons in the establishment of the Stbekport Advertiser, by the
criminal carelessness of a carter, whilst discharging a cart-load
of cotton at the warehouse of Mr. Thomas Ashton, cotton-
spinner, in the Park, one of the principal streets of that town,
on Friday, the 11th instant, by which one of the bales fell upon
him, breaking ten of his ribs, inflicting other serious injuries,
besides dislocating the back and lacerating the spinal marrow.
On Thursday his sufferings terminated with his existence, and
on Saturday an inquest was held at " the Millstone," in Port-
wood, before John Hollins, Esq., Coroner, touching the nature
of his injuries and investigating- the circumstances which led to
his death. The jury, after hearing the evidence, immediately
returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Samuel Platt, the
carter, and the Coroner issued his warrant to apprehend _him,
that he might be committed to Chester Castle 'to take his trial
at the next assizes. The offender was, at the time of the verdict,
out of the way ; but he has since been apprehended and sent to
prison.—Stockport Advertiser.