The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE NIAGARA

The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Niagara, Captain Ryrie, arrived in the Mersey shortly
after eleven o'clock on Saturday evening, with the usual
mails from the United States, Canada, &c., upwards of
eighty passengers, and a valuable cargo. She left Boston
on the 10th, and Halifax on the 12th instant, and has
made the entire run, inclusive of the detour to, and de-
tention at, Halifax, in the remarkably short space of ten
days and six hours, being the quickest passage ever made
from Boston, except by the Canada and Asia on former
nccasions. The United States mail steam-ship Georgia
had arrived at New York, from Chagres, with 40,000
pounds in the hands of passengers. The Pacific steam-
ship Oregon had arrived at Panama, with mails to the Ist
of June, and £745,000 sterling in gold dust, on freight
and in the hands of passengers. The royal mail steam-
ship Hibernia, Captain Lang, was passed on the 11th
instant, a day's run from Boston. The royal mail steam-
ship America, Captain Shannon, was spoken on the 14th

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instant, five hours' run from Cape Race : she would reach
Halifax on the 16th instant. The steam-ship Viceroy,
Captain Ewing, had been got off the rocks where she
struck, near Cape Sable. The West India mail steam-
ship Trent had arrived at Mobile Point, en route to the
Gulf. Her Majesty's ship Inconstant was at Mazatlan,
and would sail for England. During:her run the Niagara
made a very high speed, namely 312 and 310 miles in two
consecutive days.
Our accounts from New York by the Niagara extend, by

letter, to the 9th instant, and by electrietelegraph, via

Halifax, to the 11th instant, and announce the important
fact that President Tayhir's political career had been,
suddenly, and for ever closed by the stroke of death. The
President had been attacked, shortly after the departure
of our last accounts by the Pacific, with a fit of cholera,
and, although prompt medical assistance was obtained,
the gallant old soldier gradually sank, and at length died.
Our telegraphic report will show the effect of this sudden
calamity upon Congress, the people, and the affairs of
State, and, generally, the demise of so gallant a soldier
and stedfast an upholder of constitutional doctrines, was
deeply regretted. Vice-President Phillimore succeeds to

the vacant presidency, as did President Tyler on the death
of General Harrison. A new cabinet must now also be
formed ; and one Point of interest will be the result of
the new state of affairs on the slavery question,
From. Washington our accounts are in other respects
almost wholly uninteresting. Much anxiety existed,
however, in relation to the disputed question of territory
between New Mexico and Texas. Troops were being
marched to the spot by Texas, and New Mexico had
organised a constitution. The document had arrived at
the capital, and the States' senators were shortly
'expected. President Taylor's death may also exercise an
important negative influence upon the course of events in
this quarter.
the British Government had made a communication
to the United States' Government in reference to the
wreck of the steamer Missouri, which was sunk while
burning in the harbour of Gibraltar. The wreck endan-
yered -navigation. The subject was before the committee
on naval affairs in the senate. The expense of removing
this wreck is estimated at from :880,000 to £90,000.
On the 4th instant, the ratifications of the Nicaraguan
treaty were published officially with the treaty.
A letter had been received from an officer of the Arctic
expedition, in search of Sir John .Franklin, dated off
Newfoundiand, June 7, stating that they had been retarded
by head winds and heavy weather. The officers and men
were all in good Health.
We have accounts from Havana to the 4th inst. Great
excitement prevailed against the Americans generally, and
particularly against the American consul, Mr. Campbell,
on account of some letters he had written to the United
States' State Department, reflecting, in the opinion of the
Spaniards, on their navy and militia. The consul was
,obliged to keep his house fortified, and ready at any
moment to repel an aCtack. He had been threatened
with assassination in anonymous letters, and did not con-
side: his life, and that of
.his family, safe, The consul
takes the ground that the OP
ture of the two vessels was
an illegal act, in which he was supported by all the Ame-
ricans in Havannah. The Spa niards were assembling a
large naval force at Havanna.
Dr. Webster still continued iminisoned as a convict
under sentence of death. His wife az .`d daughters had in-
terceded for him personally. MultituOnous petitions for
a commutation had been presented to the' authorities, and
hopes of at least preserving his life were era"ertained.
From California we have by this arrival ac, -cants to the
Ist of June, being fifteen days later than our oft advises,
brought to New York by the steam-ship Phii:vielPhia,
with £500,000 sterling value of gold-dust, and the Ceurgis,
both from Cbagres, whence they sailed on the 30tu.
The Alabama ewer had aloe left Chives with 125 101-

sengers and £lOO,OOO in gold dust for New Orleans.
Our San Francisco advices are not unimportant. Several
collisions of a serious character bad occurred between the
United States troops and the Indian aborigines of the
Sacramento Valley. The losses were chiefly on the side
of the Indians, who soon after sent a deputation of chiefs
to procures treaty of peace, a result which had been at-
tained in a perfectly satisfactory manner. At Clear Lake
a large body of Indians had been killed by a detachment
of the Urated States troops from' the garrisons of Sonora
and Benicia. Much difficulty had arisen from the collec-
tion of the mining-tax on foreigners of £4 per month.
The tax was protested against as exorbitant and unjust,
and 'the citizens generally sympathized with the discontent
of the foreigners. some violent demonstrations had taken
place at Sonora. Other accounts state, that the ship
Albion, of London, chartered by Her Majesty's Govern-
ment for procuring timber for the navy, had been seized
at Oregon by General Dorr, on the part of the United
States Government, for smuggling and cutting timber in
the possession of the United States.
The stock market was buoyant. Cotton had
slightly given way in New York, while in New
Orleans the decline was more decided, middling being
quoted at 11 to Hi on the 3d July. The weather had
taken a favourable turn, but lamentations on the back-
ward state of the growing crop are not thereby removed.
The effect of the death of General Taylor upon the ad-
ministration is even beyond conjecture. The telegraphic
accounts to the 11th July, from New York, advise the re-
ceipt of intelligence by the Hibernia on that day, but at
too late an hour to influence the market. The price of
breadstuffs was too high to admit of shipments to this
country being made to a profit. Exchange 10+ to la,
with little doing, remitters holding off, in hopes, we sup-
pose, that some miracle will work in their favour.

The following are the movements of cotton, as made up
in New York on the 2d July, being the forty-second
week of each season:—

1850. 1849. 1848.
Receipts 1,981,917 2,647,867 2,203,984 bales
Exports to Gt. Britain 895,107 1,469,743 1,125,462 33
Stocks 331,030 200,370 298,420 „
Loading for Gt. Britain 65 48 78 vessels

The week ending 10th July will add nearly 15,000 bales
to this year's receipts.

(BY TELEGRAPH FROM NEW YORK TO HALIFAX.)
NEW YORK, July 11.
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In the interval since the death of , President
Taylor the proceedings of Congress have been of a most
impressive character, having exclusive reference to the
afflicting event which has plunged the nation into mourn-
ing.

Appropriate remarks
have hoop wade in both houses.
The funeral is appointed for Saturday at noon. Mr. Phil-
limore, by choice of the American people Vice-President,
and by the death of the late chief magistrate now Presi-
dent, was yesterday sworn into office. The cabinet, as is
usual, have tendered their resignations. Various names
are mentioned as likely to be called to office, but of course
all is idle speculation. It generally is conceded that few,
if any, of the late President's cabinet will hold office under
the altered state of affairs. Mr. Webster is confidently
named for a state secretaryship.

The Hibernia's news was not received till just the close
of the market, and consequently did not influence it.
Cotton market dull, to-day's sales 700 bales. To-day's
prices, Liverpool classification, are ordinary to middling
uplands 12 to 12i ; Gulf, 12+ to 13 ; fair to good fair, 13t
to 144-; Gulf, 144 to 15; Western Canal flour steady to-
day, £sk to as ; Canadian in bond, 5 to 54 ; wheat,
SI 45 to 81 50; Indian corn, yellow, 63c. to 64. The
president's death has not affected the stock-market, which
is firm, with an upward tendency. State of Government
Sixes, of '6B, at 1154.

There is a talk, says a correspondent of Chambers'
Journal, of a stationary balloon over Paris, to sustain an
electric sun for illuminating the city at night !
The intelligence from Austria announces the disgrace
of Haynou, of Hungarian butchering notoriety, who
has, it seems, at length incurred the displeasure of the
emperor, and been dismissed from all military command.
Twenty-seven houses have been destroyed by fire at
Burnahaupten le Bas, in the department of the Haut
Rhin, and the damage is estimated at 152,075 f. The fire
broke out simultaneously in two places, and no doubt is
expressed that it was the work of incendiaries.
A new religious sect has arisen in Persia, in consequence
of the preachings of a man named Bab, who has written a
new book to take the place of the Koran. He is said to
have already made several thousand proselytes ; and
eighteen of these Babees, as his followers are called, have
been publicly beheaded by order of the Shah.
At a temperance " Jubilee," held a few weeks ago at
Boston, several of the southern delegates refused to sit
on the platform with coloured men ; and one of them
(an Irishman by birth) begged the reportors to make no
mention of the fact that there was a section of coloured
boys in the procession, " as it might hurt the cause at the
South !"

The American papers mention that a frightful tragedy
occurred at Wilmot, Annapolis county, Nova Scotia, on
Sunday, the 9th ultimo. Mrs. Miller, after her husband
had gone to church, walked out with her four youngest
children, tied them to her dress, and plunged with them
from a cliff, and all were drowned. Her mind had been
slightly deranged, but on that day she appeared unusually
well.

THE EQUESTRIAN AERONAUT.—M. Poitevin made 8
second balloon ascension on horseback from the Champs
de Mars, Paris, on Tuesday. The same horse was used
as on the previous occasion. He displayed no alarm as
the strings, &c., were affixed, and when raised from the
ground, appeard quite accustomed to this singular way
of travelling. To prove to the public that he was no way
fixed to the saddle, M. Poitevin, when about a hundred
yards high, stood on the horse's back, and saluted the
public. The balloon went in the direction of St. Germain
with extreme slowness.

A DEVOTED NATURALIST.—ProbabIy one of the most
curious examples of the apparently trifling pursuits of
scientific men has been exhibited by one of the most
esteemed members of the Academy of Science of Paris,
M. Dureau de la Malle. He was anxious to ascertain at
what hour different birds began their morning song ; he,
therefore, from the first of May to the 6th of July, made
observations, which he regularly published. It appears
that for thirty years this vigilant naturalist went to bed
at seven o'cloek in the evening and rose at midnight, during
winter and summer, and that this eccentric habit was for
scientific purposes. It seems that the concert is opened
about one o'clock by the chaffinch, and that the sparrow
is the laziest bird, not leaving his rest until five o'clock.
In the intermediate hours, at marked intervals, which M.
de Malle has carefully noted down, other birds commence
their natual melody. He has shown, on more than one
occasion, that the different birds have mistaken artificial
light for the dawning of day, and that a solar lamp has
awakened the little choristers.

A BULL FIGHT AT MADRID.—The last bull-fight here
was extremely fertile in incidents. Besides the ordinary
number of horses killed, and pickadores bruised, a muni-
cipal guard was gored to death, and a celebrated bull-
fighter, named the Habanero, had his skull cleft. The
municipal guard was on duty outside the barrier, when a
bull, one of the famous breed belonging to the Duke of
Veragua (the lineal descendant of Christopher Columbus)
rushed against the barrier, broke it down, and tossed the
unfortunate soldier into the air twice, each time goring
him in a manner that would have let out 20 lives, if he
had had them. The Habanero is one of the pickadores.
The horse that he mounted was raised from the earth
with him upon it, by the same bull, and thrown against
the barrier with fearful violence. These two mishaps
caused a momentary thrill thoughout the dense mass of
spectators ; but another pickadore came galloping into the
arena, and another municipal guard took charge of the
post that his gored comrade had occupied, and the games
went 3n, and the mad approbative yelling of the crowd at
a good lance-thrust of the pickadores, or a sword-stroke
given according to the best rules of tauromachy by the
matador, went on, as if every one was perfectly oblivious
that a few moments before two of their fellow-creatures
had been sacrificed.—Madrid Correspondent of the Daily
News.

TEST OF AFFECTION.-Mr. Archibald Stanhope, a
groggy sentimentalist, residing in Buckley-street, Phila-
delphia, conceived the harrowing suspicion that his wife
was not as passionately fond of him as a lady of good taste
should be ; and, to put the matter to a fair trial, he hit
on a little stratagem, which he put in practice the other
day, with the results hereafter to be detailed. He took a
suit of clothes, and composed an effigy of himself, by
stuffing the garments with a quantity of straw, which had
lately been discharged from an old bed. Having sus-
pended this figure to a rafter in a garret by means of a
piece of clothes-line, he ensconced himself behind a pile
of rubbish in the same garret, to watch the effect. After
a while his little daughter came up after a iumping-rope.
and caught a glimpse of the suspending figure. She ran
down the stairs, screaming —" Oh ! mother, mother,
daddy has hung himself !' " Now for it," thought
Archibald, in ambuscade—" we shall have a touching
scene presently." " Hung himself ?" he heard Mrs.
Stanhope repeat, as she walked leisurely upstairs; " he
hasn't got pluck enough for such a thing, or he would
have done it long ago. Well, I believe he has done it,
however," she continued, as she came in view of Archi-
bald's straw representative. " Moll," to the little girl,
" I think he ought to be cut down. You had better go
into the kitchen and get a knife, my dear; but don't go
down too fast, or you might fall and hurt yourself.
Stay—l forgot—there's no knife in the kitchen sharp
enough. You can go round to Mr. Homes, the shoe-
maker, Sixth-street, he's only two squares off, and ask
him to lend us his paring-knife ; tell him to whet it a
little before he sends it. And, Molly, while you are in
the neighbourhood, you can call at your aunt &key's,
and ask how the baby is. And, Molly, you can stop at
the grocery -store as •you come back, and get a pound of
seven-cent sugar. Poor Archy !" sighed Mrs. Stanhope,
when her daughter had departed, " I hope we'll get him
down before the vital spark's extinct—for these buryings
are very troublesome, and cost money, He wanted to
put on end to himself, too; and I think I ought to let
him have his own way for once in his life; he used to say
that I was always acrossing him. I wish he hadn't
spoiled the new clothes-line—an old rope might have
answered his purpose." Here a voice, which sounded like
that of the supposed suicide, broke in on Mrs. Stanhope's
soliloquy with " You confounded Jezebel, I'll be the
death of you !" Mrs. Stanhope, thinking this must, of
course, be a ghostly exclamation, uttered a wild scream,
and attempted to escape down the narrow staircase.
Archibald, starting from his place of concealment, gave
chase. Mrs. Stanhope stumbled midway on the flight of
stairs, and Mr. Stanhope having just reached her and
made a grasp at her dishevelled hair as it streamed back-
wards, the amiable partners were precipitated to the
bottom together. Both were
the neighbourhood.ereratherbadly bruised,
d
the cries of the la: raisedlY ./ et! I
bald was arrested for znaking a disturbance and practising
on the tender sensibilitieo of his wife. He was recognised
in 200 dollars, and jocularly proposed his suspended effigy
as his surety ; but he found, to his sorrow, that " straw
bail" was not acceptable under he administration of
Mayor Jouee.—Penweranian,

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.