The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-29 00:00:00

been received

by whi,.h we learn that the government

American indem-

finances

are in a bad condition. The
nity has been nearly all spent, and the deficiency on the
first of the month was 2,500,000 dollars. Credits of the
great house of li-usina were selling at 40 to 70 cents per
dollar.

Dates from Texas to the Ist instant state that a large
band of Indians were captured, two killed, and consider-
able property recovered, by a detachment of United States

The New Orleans Della of the 3rd instant, contains
nt that devoted

later news from Yucatan, whic
country as in a most desper

to condition—the w

tweeq th

'bites and the nativ

ontinuing with unabated

and tlmatening e

ination of the for-

country

Property

:omparatirely valu

less. Families who, ten years ago, were in the receipt of
thou ands from their estates, are now dependent on their
lanual labour for their subsistence. As the Yucatan
e at this moment without clothing, and depend.
led by a rather bounti-

ins on the precarious supplies al
ful nature for food, it should not be matter of st
the Indians were found in possession in less than one
month.

We learn from Canada that it was all but certain that
the Prwincial Parliament will assemble on the 26th May.

official Gazette contains a notice of intended application
to the legislature for an act to incorporate certain persons
as the Lake Superior and Pacific Railroad Company—a
sort of rival to Whitney's project. George Thompson
was delivering vehement anti-slav?ry lectures at Toronto.

idvices from Jamaica to the 6th instant. The
a still prevailed in certain districts of the Island.
At St. Thomas in the Bast there were sixty cases, of
which eighteen were fatal, during a portion of the month
of March. Among the victims at St. Thomas in the
Vale was the Rev. Robert Seer. At St. Luceer. there
had been several fatal cases. A return made by the Sec-
retary of the Board of Health of St. Andrew to the
House of Assembly, shows that the deaths by cholera in
that parish from the 18th of October, 1850, to the 21st
of January, 1851, as far as ascertained, were :—males,

981 ; females, 957 ; total, 1,948—a mortality fearful to
contemplate. The Falmouth Advertiser of thr let inst.
says, that the crops of February this year will be abund-
ant, although they will fall short one quarter of what was
exneled.

.re unlinportant

steam-ship Isabel bad arrived at Charleston
.e dates from Havana, but the advl:.-
The city remained perfectly healthy. Sugar was firm an:
in active demand at full prices; low yellows have ad-
vanced Coffee of the first quality was quoted at 8 to
t ; middling 71. Exchange was at 6}.

TiTx Cor.Tunv..—An agency has just been established
in Charleston, S. C., for the sale of tea plants and seeds,
sent direct from China.- Junius Smith, E!rf., who has

.xperiments in Lhe culti

vation of the plant in South Caroline, has remarked that
it blossoms there and in China and India at the same

sitnilArit

and that the manner of its blossoming indit
of climate and en adaptation of the temper
tea
and

is of the size and colour of a hazie nut

contains an oily kernel.—New York Courier

zotiations for
for the

MONEY MARKET, NEW YORK, APRIL 16
money are not quite so easy as hest week. Excl
Baltic opened with an advance on sterling; and to fact
alone may be ascribed the present stringency in the market.
Sales of bills on London have been made at 110 to. 110 i. most

at 110 to 110 ; on Paris, 5 1U to 5 10; Amsterdam, 41:4 to 41i;
liamburgh, 364 to Bremen, 752 to 79. The transactions
in Continental funds tare been moderate
CoTToN MARKET

.lessrs. Talcott's circular says

—During

the past week prices of good middling' and under have receded
4c, to ic., while for the better brides the quotations have been
well maintained. The daily transactions have been as follows ;
—Bth, 600 bales; 9th, 2,500: 10th, 2,000; 11th, 1,600. 12th,
1.000; 14th, 8,000; and to-day, the sales reported on 'Change

were 'upwards of 3,000 bales. A large proportion of the busi-
ness was done for export, chiefly to England. By telegraph,
from our own correspondents, we have received the following

lcattx," Ap

middling Ilc

;a in receipts, 120,000 b