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-
elusive, 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 heen 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 he 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 funds 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 eiere 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. On
Paris it was sf. 41k. .

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 unprom►sing, 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 coining 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
ahone 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 passengers, 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 negociation (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
(erred to :

" Does Um 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 Um Deputado Ministerial.
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

`• It is stated that Rivera, in his flight towards Cerro
Largo, was overtaken on the 16th of February by General
Ignacio Oribe on the sources of the Santa Lucia Chica,
where he was attacked and routed, losing 200 men (killed)
and 300 prisoners, as also his carts and baggage ; and at the
date of the last intelligence he was reported to be hemmed
in with his remaining followers in the Rincon de la Florida
whence it was considered hardly possible that he could
escape.
I "On the 23rd President Oribe, in person, made a recon-
noissance as far as the Cordon, during which operation half
a battalion of Basque troops came over to him from the
town.
"The head-quarters of the Confederate Army were, on
the 27 ult., at the Saladio of Chopitea, about two miles from
the fortifications.

" General Angel Nunez had landed, and was in command
of the besieging line. The lady and family of that officer
arrived yesterday in this city from off Monte Video.
As the term of Rivera's four years' usurpation expired
on the Ist inst., and he was understood to have signified his
intention of retiring from the Presidency, modestly content-
ing himself with the command of the armed force, the form
of an election was to have been gone through on Wednesday
last, when it was expected that his vice-regent in Monte
Video would be dignified with the precarious title of Presi-
dent."

A French paper, quoting a letter from Bourg, says :
" The great object of conversation here is an eagle which a
sportsman has just killed, as astonishing as the roc of the
' Arabian Nights' Entertainments.' In its stomach were
found several diamonds and other jewels, small in size, but
of very fine water."

A deplorable accident has just occurred in Berlin. A
young lady, the daughter of one of the officers of the staff,
was wiping her face with a towel, when she suddenly uttered
a piercing scream, and the blood was seen to flow in abun-
dance. By chance a needle laid been left in the towel, which
entered her eye so deeply as to occasion the loss of sight.
ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE VICEROY OF Lom-
BAUDY.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke Viceroy was
returning on foot. at about seven o'clock, from his ordinary
promenade, accompanied by one of his chamberlains, when,
on reaehing the Place del Duomo, and at about fifty steps
from his residence, his Imperial 1-lighness was accosted by
an individual of a certain age. The man held a petition in
his hand, and whilst he presented it on his knees to the au-
gust Prince, he abruptly struck him in the right side with a
small piece of iron, which had neither a sharp point nor an
edge, and, therefore, produced but a slight bruize. Being
immediately arrested, the man was forthwith recognised to
be a street-porter, of the name of Ichovanni Sinelli, already
repeatedly brought to justice for having made attempts on the
life of a person of high rank, and struck one of his agents,
because he alleged, in his monomania, that he was his cre-
ditor to an enormous amount. In the last twelve years this
individual has been several times sent to the Lunatic Hos-
pital, whence he has been discharged, whenever the physicians
have declared that his mental derangement had ceased.
Being restored to liberty, he was continually troubling the
authorities and his Imperial and Royal Highness with extra-
vagant demands relative to his pretended claim. Yesterday
evening, again, he confessed having attacked the august
Prince because he had not done him justice. The unfortu-
nate man had beforehand written down the plan of his atro-
cious design. In that note, which was found about him, and
addressed to the President of the Criminal Court, the fol-
lowing were found among other strange ones ;—" I warn you
of the fatal mission which Almighty God, our Creator, has
given me. He orders me to sacrifice the Most Serene
Prince." His Imperial Highness, who was not at all
wounded, re-entered his residence quietly and in the best
humour.

POSTAGE BETWEEN ENGLAND AND FRANCE

Monday's Monileur publishes the postage convention be-
tween France and England, signed April 3, 1843.
The first litre, or chapter, establishes towns of the two
countries from which letters for one another are to be des-
patched. The French towns are—Paris, Calais, Boulogne,
Dieppe, Havre, Cherbourg, Granville, St. Maio, in the Chan-
nel. The English towns are—London, Dover, Brighton,
Southampton, Jersey, and Guernsey. For the Mediterranean,
the French Post bureaux of transmission are—Paris, Mar-
seilles, the offices at Alexandria, Smyrna, the Dardanelles,
and Constantinople. Ths English are, Alexandria, Gibral-
tar, and Malta.

The principal transmission of letters between the countries
takes place between Dover and Calais, six days a week ; the
French Government will send on the seventh day, weather
permitting.

By the -eighth article, the post-boats will continue their
services without interruption, even in time of war, until one
of the Governments shall have signified its wish that the ser-
vice should cease.

In ports where regular Government steamers do not exist,
private vessels and steamers may be employed to carry bags.
For this purpose a post-box shall be put up on board the
packet for the receptiou of letters.

There is nothing new in the regulation of the Levant cor-
respondence, which continues to be transmitted three times
a month.

Letters may be franked or not ; and Wires charges, or par-
ticularly recommended, may be sent in both countries. The
English Post-office is to pay to the French two francs for
every 30 grammes of letters not franked ; and in the same
case the French Post-office will pay the English ls. an ounce.
Letters from France to England, franked, will pay in
France by the amount levied on French letters by the law of
1827. The letters from Paris, however, will pay but the
tariff of Boulogne. Letters franked from England to France
wiil pay sd. per single letter, weighing half an ounce. (This,
in addition to the tariff of Boulogne mentioned above, will
make 10d. postage between England and Paris.)
There are especial charges for letters exchanged with St.
Malo, Cherbourg, and Granville.
Journals of either country are to be delivered at the port
of the country to which they are addressed exempt from
duty.

Pamphlets may be sent by post from one country to another
paying in France as usual; in England, ld for two ounces ;
6d, from two to three ounces ; Bd. from three .to four ounces ;
and 20. per ounce more up to 16 ounces, beyond which
weight the English Post-office will not receive them.
The following is article 86, which relates to a point so much
disputed, and which has involved English journals in some
expense :--

" Art. 86.—1 n order to insure reciprocally the integrity
of the produce of the correspondence of both countries, the
ri ench and English Governments will prevent by every means
in their power the transmission of correspondence by other
channels than the post. Nevertheless it is um:Li-stood, that
couriers sent by commercial houses or others, 1. U carry acci-
dentally a single letter, or one or more newspapers, may
freely traverse the respective territories of both states, these
couriers presenting the letter or the gazettes at the first
bureau of post, where the postage will be levied in the usual
manner."