The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-05-28 00:00:00

LONDON PRODUCE MARKET.-YESTERDAY,

Coffee remains quiet but full prices maintained. 1,003 bags
good ordinary native sold at 393 6d to 465. The public sales
of Tea for to-morrow (Tuesday,) have checked the little business
which was doing ; in the private market prices remain the
same. Prices in Rice are looking down, but there is not mach
pressing on the market. Cotton on receipt of the American
adv ices a bi:sk demand was experienced forSurats, on account
of 11Jan chester spinners, and sales early in the morning were
made to the extent of 1,3C3 bales, at very full prices. The total
sales of the day are 3,4C3 bales at rather stiffer prices. Scotch
Pig Iron rather firmer. No. 1,45 s 6d to 465, and mixed num-
bers 45s per ton, nett cash. the Tallow market qoiet, but thin
P.Y.C. on the spot 36s 9d to 37s Od, and for the last three
months 38s 6d. The stock this day, 24,610 casks, against 24,760.
Delivery last week, 1,147, against 1,113 casks last year.

North American and European Telegraph Agency,
Halifax, Thursday Night, Mao 16.
By special express and telegraph, we have advicesL from
New. York to a late hour this evening as follow :
New York, Thursday Evening, Five p.m., May IG.
A very brief summary of the Hibeinia's news was re-
ceived here at a late hour last night, and published by the
Associated Press this morning. The telegraph report has
unsettled prices of cotton, coin, flour, and provisions, and
holders ere unwilling to sell except at a considerable
advan‘ e. Merchants are waiting the receipt of their
letters, which will arrive here on Saturday morning.
Cotton could not be purchased now at a less advance
than one quarter cent per pound on the quotations per
Canada. The sales on Tuesday were three thousand, The American mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain \st,
Wednesday four thousand, and to-day estimated at two leaves the Mersey, on her first return voyage to New Xork,
to three thousand bales. Most recent southern advices to-morrow, and will carry out a fair complement of Cargo
represent the growing crop as very backward ; but the and passengers. On Saturday the Viceroy leaves Galway,
weather is favourable. Our latest telegraphic accounts also for New York ; and will, probably, effect a tolerable
from New Orleans aro of the 14th instant. A severe run.
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The Hibernia's news also appeared in the Baltimore in a rag.—On Maria M'Gantlin, five months old, found
and Philadelphia papers this morning, and there, as here, dead on board the steamer Albert, from Cork to this port.
stiffened prices for all kinds of bread stuffs. The deceased was smothered, the mother being so sea-
There have been large operations in Whalebone since sick that sic could not attend to it.
the Canada sailed, at 34 to 40 cents. Common Whale Oil MORE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPHS.—A new company,
at 51 to 52 cents ; Sperm Oil at 41. 19 ' • United States calling themselves the "British," are applying to parlia-
Sixes, '67, 118 a, '6B, 1191, and '62, 115; Pennsylvania ment for parliamentary advantages. It has been stated
Fives, 961 ; Kentucky Sixes, 1091 ; Ohio Sixes, '6O, that at the present moment there are in the United King-
than 2000 miles are supplied with telegraphs, leaving 4000
110 ; Sterling Exchange, 1091 to 110 k, inactive. At dom about 6000 miles of railway open, of which little more
New Orleans, on the 14th instant, Rice was selling at
$3 to 43.871 per cwt. without that facility. In addition to this, a great many
WASHINGTON, Thursday, May 16.—Yesterday, in the important cities and towns are without the advantage of
Senate, the report of the Compromise Committee was electric telegraphs. There are nearly 2000 miles of rail-
discussed at great length, but elicited nothing new. In way now constructing, besides 5000 miles for which acts
the House, Mr. Bulwer's letter to Mr. Clayton, relative have been obtained, which at present are in abeyance, but
to the reduction of the tariff upon British iron, &c., was which might with a single way and the, electric telegraph
the only subject of debate of any importance; and that be constructed at from one-half to two-thirds of their
derives its only importance from the decided expression of
present estimated cost. The new company promises lower
sentiment on the part of the representatives against the
rates of charge than those now insisted on. The prem.
views of the British minister. ble of the bill has been passed in committee.—ln France
Mr. Clayton and the French Minister have agreed upon a magneto-electric telegraph, the invention of Mr. Henley,
an arrangement, by which the French Government
becomes a party to the Nicaragua nuestion, upon the which is worked without batteries of any kind and at a
fraction of the cost of the voltaic system, has been tried
tame terms as the British Government. on the Paris and Valenciennes Railway with success.
General Lopez, there is good reason to believe, has
After a most satisfactory series of trials on the single dis-
tance, first with the full power, and afterwards with one.
collected an army of six thousand men for the invasion
of Cuba, and the expedition has, it is supposed, already twentieth of the power, the wires were connected so as to
made a demonstration upon that island. Recent advice.
treble the total length of wire, making 540 miles to and
from Havana state that the Government would effectually from Paris and back—the magnetic message being com-
repel the invaders. A large naval force was concentrated municated through the first wire, back by the second,
at that port. The cholera had subsided to some extent, through the third, and back again by the earth,
but was still very fatal. It has been suggested by the Edinburgh Pont, that the
CANADA.—The Canadian Parliament was opened by office of poet laureate, now vacant by the death of Words-
Lord Elgin, on Tuesday, at Toronto. He delivered his worth, could not be better and more appropriately filled
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speech in English and French, and it was well received by than by appointing to it Professor Wilson the author of
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