The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-06 00:00:00

re not quelled until midnis:ht

tht; state of affairs at Madeira

Government are about ti
itch the Bulldog steam sloop-of-war,Captain Davie
to that quarter, to correct and to prevent outrage. Sib
was to sail from Devouport on Saturday,.and remain a
Madeira until her presence is deemed by the Bi it con

sul there no longer necessary:; and other men-ot-war will
be requested to touch there after the Bulldog leaves.
Letters worthy of confidence have been received from

bat, being c,,n7

Ka er is of opinion and declares a►ouc
vinced of the impossibility of :success. he ;has renounce(
all intention of invading Algeria. 'lbis is seemingly con.
firmed by news from the frontier; " thetefnre, ' says
French ministerial pap, r, " it is incontes'ible that th(

war system fo

the most desirable resu

g—the discouragenirnt

adversary

M ONTE VIDEO.-By the 'Russian brig Bustruys, which
arrived at Falmouth from Monte Video, atter a re,onarka-
•bly quick passage, on Wednesday, T.-e have intelligence
from that city as late as the 27th July. Matters still
.continued in an unsettled state, with tittle prospect of
amendment. Mr. Hood, the British consul', was ato-ent
t Buenas Ayres, but the object of his mission had not
It seems to be pretty generally believed, that

He had e

lation of a despatch, issued by the Argentine
-nt to General Mansilla, commanding the bat-

teries at San Lorenzo, on the Paranta, directing a suspen

sion.of hostilities. pending the negotiations of Mr. Hood
on bebatf of the British Government, -was on Sunday ex-
hibited in the Underwriters

The order

re di,-

tinct, that no hostile step is to be taken "against the
merchant vessels which remain at Corrirntees or clay be
returning. or against the Anglo-French vessels of war

which may go up or down the river,
indeed_ art, to he nermitted to nass

the only alternatiie mentioned- being permission for the
general to defend himself if attacked.
DRAINAGE OF THE LAKE OF HAARLEM.—TWO more

ngines are now

engines employed in d

slbs. -ot

coal per net horse. power per hour, end, in many cases,
even exceediog.2o to 25Ibs In the Leeehwater engine the
ex pendu ure of fuel is reduced to 2lbs. per net horse-power
per hour, or from leas than one-sixth to one-tenth only
of the former amounts. In the economy of draining land

the an, ient means of locomotion

by this engine is unprecedented ; it is capable of dis-
charging 1.000,000 tons of water in 251 hours. `ben the
three engines are established, and at work, they will dis-
charge 2,800,000 tons of water in 24 hours; and as the
contents of the Lake of Hasriem which covers a surface
of 70 square miles,) are estimated at 1,000,000.000 roes of
as I water, the whole, allowing for contingencies, will be

ydraulic engineerir

totally without p The cost of th-e er
fuel, and workmen, to perform this o

3es , buildin

£1410,000; by the old system of engines, it, would have ex-
ceeded £240,000; and by windmills, £32o,ooo—the latter

'OTATO E

ROPS.—The

Genevese Traveller, in his letter received from New York,
by the Britannia, says :—" Our wheat crop, there is no
doubt, is very large, and it must, for the coming season,
depend upon your market to fix the price. If you do not
require our surplus, wheat and flour will be lower than
they now are in this country. The present price of flour
may be put at 4 62-100 dollars per barrel. This way be
considered a fair &verage price, rather stationary, with an
upward tendency. That tendency, however, is produced
by looking to your market, in the expectation of new
orders to purchase at advanced prices. '0 he home market
of the United States, in my opinion, will not sustain flour
through the season at four-and-a-half dollars per barrel.
Our potato crop is suffering considerably with the same
disease that is proving such a scourage to Ireland, a species
of rot for which no preventative has yet been discovered.
Indeed, so far as I can learn, we are now as ignorant of
the cause of the disease as we were the first day of its ap-
pearance amongst us. But the loss of the potato crop
in this country is not such a diaaaiars ar. a5:arma,...i.,...
would be in Great Britain. Here, no families, except a
few foreign families of labourers in cities, pretend to live,
even chiefly, upon potatoes. Families of eight to twelve
persons rarely consume more than fifteen to twenty bushels
as . in a year."