The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-16 00:00:00

SAVANNAH, APRIL

Arrived since the 13th instant 5980 bales Upland and 123
hales Sea Island, and cleared in the same time 4618 bales
Upland and 557 bales Sea Island, leaving on hand, inclusive
of all on shipboard not cleared on the 20th instant, a stock
of 26,104 bales Upland and 1917 bales Sea Island cotton,
against 11,774 bales Upland and 1194 bales Sea Island at the
same period last year.
The demand during the past week, has been moderate, and
some dealers state that prices, on the aggregate for qualities
under fair, have declined about per cent from the highest
point of quotations reported this month. In consequence
of the scarcity of fair' and the finer qualities, last week's
rates are fully maintained.
The accounts received at New York, per packet-ship Co-
!nimbi", from Liverpool, to 22u1t., are rather more favourable
than was expected, considering the unusually large receipts
at that port from the 16th to the 22u1t. As these accounts
were only received here to-day, we are unadvised-of any
alteration in prices, and, so far as we are informed, they are
not of sufficient importance to cause any change of conse-
quence in the transactions of this market. The highest
figures of our quotations refer to square bales.

TXRRIBLE AFFAIR.—The Mobile Herald, of the 4th ult.,
gays, " Captain Post, of the schooner Augusta, from Havana,
has communicated to us the following particulars of an affair
which happened before he left :—On the night of the 21st ult.
the cars of the Havana railroad, when distant about sixty
miles from the city, were attacked by a band of brigands
numbering about one hundred and fifty to two hundredmen,
who robbed the passengers (numbering some seventy-five) of
their money, watches, arid other valuables, wounded those
who resisted, and outraging the females. They effected the
robbery by piling across the rails a quantity of rocks and
trees, which, upsetting the cars, threw the passengers out in
a state of confusion, and prevented their making a timely
resistance. After acting as we have stated, the villains es-
caped, and the passengers, making their way back to the
city, spread the alarm. Five hundred soldiers were des-
patched to the place where the robbery had been committed,
and after marching round some days, discovered the retreat of
the villains; an engagement took place, on both. sides, and a
score of the banditti taken prisoners, and carried to the city,
bound hand and foot.

Varltattinktao Vuortebtittl.

SE OF LORDS.-TIICRSDAT

Lord BROUGHAM said he had the authority of Earl Spen-
cer to say that he had been misrepresented by the statement
that he had said if all the Irish members agreed to support
the repeal of the union he would support it also. What he
had said when the question was put to him was—that when
all the Irish members came round to support repeal. it would
be time enough for him to state his opinions on the subject.
Earl STANHOPE presented the petition of the farmers of
Buckingsharnshire, agreed to at the meeting at Wallingford,
and contended that the present depression in prices was not
to be attributed to an abundant harvest, for the harvest had
been little more than the average, but it was entirely to be
attributed to the enormous importation of foreign corn which
had taken place under the act of last year—an importation
which could not have taken place under the former scale of
duties. In his opinion there was not one of the evils of the
country which might not be removed by legislative measures,
and such measures of protection should not be considered a
monopoly, for there was scarcely any interest in the country
which did not require protection. He moved that the petition
should lie on the table.
The Duke of BUCKINGHAM seconded the motion, and
stated his conviction that the recent alteration of the corn-
laws was most prejudicial, and he hoped the principle would
be carried no further. He should like to see the government
adopt the same tone upon the subject of the corn-law that it
had a few nights since adopted with respect to the repeal of
the union. He hoped the government would give a distinct
declaration as to whether it would assent to any alteration
whatever.
Earl FtTzwiwAm said that the country certainly ought
not to be left in a state of uncertainty as to the intentions of
government.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that government had not occa-
sioned the uncertainty, for it had declared that it did not in-
tend to make any alteration in the corn law.
A desultory conversation ensued, in which several noble
lords took part, after which the petition was ordered to lie on
the table, and their lordships adjourned.