The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.-FRIDAY.

_ The Sunday Trading Prevention Bill was, after some discus-
sion, passed through committee.
The Distress for Rent (Ireland) Bill, and the Sunday Fairs
Prevention Bill, were severally read a second time.
Earl GREY moved the second reading of the Australian
Colonies Bill; the objects and provisions of which be entered
into at great length, but the discussion of them so fully in the
douse of Commons must have made them so familiar to the
public that it is unnecessary to repeat them here.
Lord STANLEY said that when he had formerly proposed to
give a constitution with a single chamber to New South Wales,
it was on the ground, as he had at the time declared, that it
was a transition constitution which they were conferring, and
under such circumstances it was unfair to say that his propo-
sition was made the foundation for granting permanent con-
stitutions to form other Australian colonies. He had great
doubt as to the propriety. of giving a single chamber to the
colonies, but. under any circumstances, he was convinced that
parliament should retain in its own hands the power of extend-
ing double chambers if it should think necessary. Bethought
the federal scheme proposed by the bill objectionable and in-
congruous, and little short of an abrogation of the functions
of the Imperial Legislature.
The bill was then read a second time, and it was arranged
that the COmmittee should be taken on the 10th of June.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE. CITY OF GLASGOW.
We have received from Greenock accounts from New
York to the 18th ultimo inclusive, brought by the screw
steam-ship, City of Glasgow, Captain Mathews, which
arrived in the Clyde shortly before midnight on Saturday,
after a fine run of fourteen-and-a-quarter days.
The City of Glasgow encountered very favourable wea-
ther, and brought one hundred and one passengers.
During her run she steamed 263 miles in one day.
The West India steamer, Severn, arrived at Mobile
from Havana on the 9th ult.
Our accounts are of an important character ; confirm-
ing the departure of the secret expedition of 10,000 men
against Cuba. The force would land at the Isle of Pines,
thence proceed to Cuba, seize upon the towns, and issue
proclamations to the Spanish troops. Of these docu-
ments we have received copies. The United States cabi-
bet had despatched orders to the southern ports to arrest
the expedition. Accounts of the expedition's landing were
daily expected ; and, as bloodshed would occur, an out-
burst of excitement in the United States was apprehended.
•Advices from Washington report that an adverse re-
port on the Galphin claims bad been made. A great sen-
sation had been caused. In the Senate, on the 16th ult.,
after a preliminary caucus amongst the Southern Sena-
tors, two amendments on the slavery question were
offered ; the first recognised slavery in the colonies ;:and
the second giving to Texas all the disputed territory, and
emoving the Indians at the expense of the government.
Fears for the success of the compromise were entertained.
New Orleans dates of the 15th report the cotton mar-
ket easier. Sales of three days, 6,800 bales • good mid
124 c. Receipts at all southern ports, 615,000 bales.
Flour advanced 25c. The sales in corn were 30,000
bushels at 65c. to 72c. Freights on cotton to Liverpool
were slightly better. A tremendous rain-storm occurred
ion the 13th.
Private advices received from Havana to the Bth ult.,
state that the Spanish authorities were ready to give the
American invaders a warm reception. There were Spanish
cruisers about the island in every direction. The deaths
by cholera for the week ending the Bth May averaged
ninety-four per day.
Havana accounts of the 7th ult. state that there was a
+treat scarcity of rain, but the crops promised fairly.
Bum was firm ; fine whites, which were scarce and in
active inquiry, were 10 to 101 rials. Exchange in Lon-
don, 101 premium. Shipping adapted to sugar freights
abundant ; to Cowes £2 2s 6d.
Advices from Cape Haytien to the 2d ult. state that
the monopoly law was to bo abolished after the Ist July.
Letters from Nicaragua, to the 23d April, report that
the states of Honduras, Nicaragua, and San Salvador
feeling indignant at the aid afforded the rebels by the
people of Guatemala in the late attempt at revolution,
had raised an army of five thousand men, and were about
to march upon that city.

THE WEST INDIES.
The royal mail steam-ship Great Western arrived at
Southampton on Sunday, with the usual mails from the
Pacific and West Indies, extending from St. Thomas to
the 15th ultimo.
The Great Western brings a large cargo, and 1,384,980
dollars specie.
Jamaica accounts of the Bth ultimo report that the
island was healthy, but suffered much from want of rain.
Much damage had been done to the cocoa fields by a
disease which had broken out. Cotton trade flat. Sugar
had fallen, and a great deficiency was expected. Mer-
cantile accounts state that coffee was depressed. Freights:
little doing. Rum, 4s. ; sugar, 12s. to 16s. ; Cavendish
tobacco, Is. lid. Jamaica and Colonial Banks Exchange
in London : ninety days, -1 per cent. ; sixty days, 1 per
cent. ; thirty days, 11 per cent. The house of Lundries,
Arbouin, and Co. had failed. The Severn, with the out-
ward mails, arrived at Kingston on the 13th April: being
unable to make the Bermudas, she went to St. Thomas.
Barbados accounts of the 10th state that in the High-
lands there was still much sugar to be made. Owing to
severe drought, the crop will fall short of the last year's.
Large quantities of sugar were awaiting shipment.
Freights, 3s. to 3s. 6d. The weather was favourable for
planting, and much had been accomplished.
At St. Lucia the dry weather continued, and the crops
were lamentably short, averaging not more than two-
thirds of last year's. _ _

Antigua letters report the weather improved, but not
sufficiently to be of service. A slight shock of earth-
quake had been felt, but no damage was done.
From Trinidad we learn that the weather was fine.
The crops were consequently promising.
From Chagres and the West Coast our accounts have
also been anticipated via New York.