The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

MATggT FROM AIviERICA.

The'Britiih and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship Niagara, Captain Ryrie, arrived -here on Sunday
afternoon with advices from Boston to the fith inst. and
Halifax-to the Bth. By means of a telegraphic despatch
to Halifax we have received eaglets from New York to
the -7th inst., including more recent intelligence from
California; it is given in anothercolumn. The Niagara has
brought upwards of eighty passengerseamong whom is Mr.
Shipley, of the firm of Brown, 'Shipley, and Co., of this
town.

Money was in fair request at New-York at previous
rates. The spring trade had opened unusually active,
more so than at any season sincelB36.: Foreign exchanges
were in active demand at 1081 to 109 on London.

On the 29th ult., in the Senate, the Hon. Henry Clay
introduced to the house a series of resolutions intended to
mould into a peaceful and definitivo issue the lively pas-
sions which exist so markedly throughout the Union,
and proposing an amicable arrangement of all contested
questions between the free and slave states, growing out
of the recent acquisitions of territory. The resolutions
refer to California, Mexico, Texas, .84c.
Accounts from Washington, of the '2d instant, state
that " the Hudson Bay Company have made a proposi-
tion to sell to the government all their possessory rights
in Oregon. The proposition has been communicated to
the Senate in executive session. It is understood that
the Company ask 1,000,000 dollars."
Resolutions have been submitted by Mr. Webster to
grant a portion of the public lands toactual settlers with-
out charge.
Mr. Calhoun had been dangerously 'ill. At one time
his • life was despaired of ; but the latest accounts state
that he had rallied. He is now sixty-eight years old.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Journal ,qf Commerce states that accounts had been re-
ceived from Cuba announcing that the Inspector-General
" bad received orders to release all the slaves should an
invasion or an insurrection arise." We doubt the autho-
rity ofthe statement.

The :New York journals report at _great length the
launch of several Atlantic and Pacific steamers. We ex-
tract the following from the Journal,pf Commerce :
" An immense concourse of citizens, numbering at least
15,000, assembled yesterday morning to witness the
launch of the steamers Arctic, New World, and Boston.
All three vessels were launched without the least accident.
The New World was the first to go off, and was no sooner
fairly in the water than her wheels began t© revolve, and
in a few minutes she was seen rapidly steaming to and fro
on the river. This experiment, which is without prece-
dent, was eminently successful. The New World was
built for California. At half-past twelve o'clock she pro-
ceeded on a trial trip to the seaward. The Boston was
the next to go off, and was.followed by the huge steamer
Arctic, of E. K. Collin's New York and Liverpool mail
line, larger than which there is no steamer afloat. She
moved off the ways in beautiful style, amid the deafening
cheers of the spectators. She is the third steamer of the
line yet launched. The fourth, the Antarctic, will be
launched in about three weeks. The fifth, the Ethiopic,
has not yet been contracted for. The Atlantic and Pacific
are now receiving their machinery. The first is advertised
to sail on the ,6th of April, the latter on the 27th of the
same month. They each measur3 about 3,500 tons."

A subsequent journal says, " The immense steam ship
Arctic, belonging to Collin's line is now in the Sectional
Floating Dock, receiving her copper. These vessels will
sail from New York and Liverpool every fortnight, on
days intermediate from the Cunard line, thus giving every
other week, two steamers from England.

Captain Cook has addressed a letter to Captain Knight,
of the packet ship new New World, defending in the most
explicit manner the conduct of Captain Hoxie, of the
Caleb Grimshaw, from the aspersions of A Cabin Pas-
senger in the London Times.

Venezuela advices of the 2nd ultimo announce that
affairs were quiet. Paez was still in close confinement.
The coffee crop was abundant.
From Hayti we have accounts stating that the mer-
chants had refused to carry out the principle of the coffee
monopoly law.
The steam-ship Philadelphia has been sold to Messrs.
Howland and Aspinall for nearly £40,000.

A new packet-ship has been launched at New York,
the Isaac Webb, of 1,400 tons.

From Canada our accounts are unimportant. They
announce that the elections at Quebec have resulted in
favour of the Ministerial candidates by a majority of two
to one over the annexationists. The papers contain a
despatch from Earl Grey, approving of Lord Elgin's dis-
missal of those who had signed the address in favour of
severing the province from Great Britain ; and relying on
the loyalty of the great majority of the inhabitants, and
commanding his lordship " to resist to the utmost of his
power any attempt which may be made to bring about
the separation of Canada from the British dominions."
FEARFUL CATASTROPRE.—A terrible disaster occurred
on the 4th instant, in New York, by the explosion of the
boiler of a steam-engine in a machine shop, crushing the
building, which was six stories high, into a complete mass
of ruins in less than one minute. A large number of lives
were destroyed by this unexpected catastrophe, the build-
ing being occupied by over one hundred workmen. The
loss is estimated roughly at fifty killed and fifty wounded.
Several adjoining buildings were also seriously damaged.
One poor woman lost her father, husband, and three sons.
LIST OF PASSENGERS.—FrOm Boston: Messrs. R.
Dunn, J. J. Hatch, Reecy, R. Levy, D. F. Goodhue, L.
G. Clinton, D. Duncan, H. S. Hester, L. S. Levy, E. S.
Mawson, Thos. Day, Johnson, R. H. Dillon, Master T.
Carduheres, Col. Freeman, Messrs. Woodridge, Christ,
Sada, Dupont, R. Soleliac, Gleahull, Beecher, H. J.
Baker and lady, J. B. Gluick and lady, J. H. Collins and
lady, J. D. Russell, Greenshields, J. S. Nye, F. Arm-
strong, F. Gridley, F. Armentuos, J. Brougli, P. S. Kint-
ner, Dr. Duvanny, U.S.M., Messrs. Ashworth, G. H.
Pollock, Shipley, A. Levesque, Vasssie, Grosvenor, Mor-
rison, Waugh, Shearton, Beare, W. H. Page, G. Dawson,
S. Bowdan, S. Hutton, J. Lewis, J. Morgan, Wilson,
Brenan, H. Meyer, P. G. Simmons, R. Kennedy, Wm.
Toults. From Halifax: Messrs. Culloden, E. Kenny
and lady, Tupper, J. Bell, A. Ritchie, Strong, Mrs. Dug-
gan, Mr. A. Henshaw, Jas. Doherty, Rev. Mr. Wlntyre,
Miss Magee, Messrs. Heath, M`Dougall, J. Fraser, Low-
den, and C. Morgan.

COTTON MARKET.
NEW YORK, FEB. 5T14, 1850.
The circular of Mr Stewart says :—" On Friday, the 25th, we
received the telegraphic accounts per Niagara, which created a
buoyant feeling. On Saturday, at 2 p.m., the letter mail was
delivered, and the sales amounted to 1,600 bales, at rates exhi-
biting more confidence on the part of exporters, who were the
principal operators. The business was checked on Monday,
28th, by the anxiety displayed by holders to realise, and the
sales were limited to 1,000 bales. On Tuesday, the sales were
2,400 bales, at an eighth easier. On Wednesday, 1,600 bales at
similar rates. On Thursday, 31st ult., the disposition to sell
ceased, and buyers were only enabled to obtain 600 bales at
previous rates. On Friday, Ist inst., the telegraphic accounts
from New Orleans, quoting `middling' at 12 cents, brought out
shippers, and the sales were 2,800 at prices exhibiting an
advance of a quarter cent in comparison wtth previous sales.
On Saturday, holders exacted higher rates and checked busi
ness, which ceased with sales of 1,000 bales.
"The movements in this staple, in this country, up to the
latest dates in each of the past three seasons, nave been as
annexed:—

MOVEMENTS OF COTTON IN THE UNITED STATES.
BALES.
Receipts at ports since September 1, 1849 1,098,000
Corresponding dates last year.
,9 year before
Exports from United States since Sept.l, 1849, 570,000
Corresponding dates last year 704,000
JP 9, year before. 473,000
Exports to Great Britain since Sept. 1, 1849,.. 344,080
Corresponding dates last year.
t, year before. 221,300
Stock in New 'i.ork and ports of receipt 500,000
Corresponding dates last year
, f 7, year before... 460,000
"The receipts at this port since the Ist instant have been
3,00 bales. Exports, 1,000. Taken by spinners, 4000. Taken
on speculation, 4,000. Whole stock in city in all hands, 55,000.
Amount on sale, 10,000.
" The crop presents no new feature. The estimates making
are as formerly, from 1,900,000 to 2,2C0,000 bales, according to
the hopes and wishes of sellers and buyers. The favourite
figure is 2,100,000 bales, by those more conversant with its pe-
culiar condition, and that amount may be reached, providad
gleaning is close. In that event, the crop will probably be ap-
portioned as follows:

Receipts of the Mississippi Valley, at N. Orleans 850,000 bales
- at the port of Mobile -
- at Apalachicola, Florida -
- at Eastern and Middle Florida -
- of all the Atlantic States 675,000 -
- of Texas ports 35,000

2,100,900 bales.
" The Mississippi river, and lowertributai ies, remain in a high
state, and it is evident that the interior of the country is cleared
of cotton, to a very unusual extent, and I feel therefore war-
ranted in saying, that the receipts at the ports will exhibit a
rapid decline during next months. Closing quotations are—
LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION. N. Orleans.
Mobile <5. and
Uplands. Florida. Texas.
Inferior
Ordinary 121 to 121 121 to 121 121 to 121
Middling 13 to 13k 13 to 13} 13i to 13i
Good Middling In to 13i 13i to 13i 13* to 131
Middling Fair l3* to 13k 131 to 11i 13i to 131
Fair l3l to 131 131 to 131 13i to 14
Fully fair l3it to 13/ 13j to 14 14 to 14
Good fair l3-1 to :4 None. Nominal.
Fine l4 to 14 None. Nominal.

BREADSTUFFS.—There has been a fair business doing, with-
out marked change in prices. Flour is in fair supply and
steady. Corn has been in good inquiry, and the rates are a
little higher, but at the close the market is heavy. The quota-
tions are, Western Canal flour, 48873 c to 58 25c per barrel;
southern descriptions, 5,8° 12ic to 58 25c; corn meal, 28 87c.
PROVISIONS.—The business has been without important
features excepting in lard and cheese. Pork is heavy at 10.8' 25c
to 10d 27ic for old, and 118 for new mess, and 88 50c to 88 62ic
for old, and 98 50c to 9.8 62ic for new prime. Prime mesa is
108 59c to 62ic per bushel. Wheat, Genessee, 126 c to 128 c;
Ohio, 105 c to 110 c per bushel.
Beef is dull. Prime mess sells at 158 50c, with small stock.
Lard has an upward tendency, and the business has been large
at &lc to 6ic, and 6ic to 7c in kegs. Cut meats are nominal.
There has been a large speculative movement in cheese, and
same two millions and a half of pounds bought, sweeping the
market. Good dairies are now held at 6ic to 7c per lb.
IRON.—Scotch pig iron is held more firmly at 21$ 25c to
21$ 50c cash, per ton, English bars firm at 42$ 50c, 6 months.
Tinplates are quiet, but very firm, at 10$ 50c for ix. Zinc,
Sic to .51c' 6 months. according to assortment. Lead in fair
demand at advancing prices ; bar and sheet lead and lead pipe,
4ic; and shot, 53c, cash.

FREIONTS.—To Liverpool, the rates are steady at, corn, sd;
tar, 2s ; flour, Is 6d; heavy goods, 205 to 22e 6d.
NEW ORLEANS, February I.
COTTON.-3000 bales were sold yesterday, (mostly for Eng-
land,) at a decline of one-eighth. Good midd ing is quoted at
12ic. Sales of 30.000 bushels of corn have been made at 47 to
48 cents.

THE GERMAN CATHOLICS IN BAVARIA.—The Su-
preme Consistory of Bavaria has issued a decree in which
the " German Catholics" are declared unfit, on account
of their rejection of the chief doctrines of Christianity, to
be admitted to communion with the German Pretestants
of the Lutheran and Reformed confessions ; and, in the
event of any of them wishing for admission into the last
named Communions, baptism is declared indispensable,
even though they should have been baptised after the
manner of their own sect.
PANTHER HUNT IN ALGERIA
gives an account of a
Dued-Mouilha, near

—The AlcieS‘rr of Algeria

-filter hunt on the busks of th

which was of large size, had taken up its quarters inn
deep ravine, and had committed great ravages among the
flocks of the Arabs. ' On the night preceding its destruc-
tion it had carried Off a sheep, and some Arabs, accus-
tomed to that kind of sport, sallied out in pursuit of the
inteiloper. 'Fiveor six of them, armed with muskets,
and another, who only carried a sabre, tracked him on
the snow.to his lair, and, contrary, to their expectation,
found him standing up. On the approach of his enemies
the (panther retired down the bank of the river. He con-
tinued his route,,followed by the Arabs, and ascended a
precipice which rises to a considerable height above the
bed of the river, ,and on the summit of which stood an
oak tree, into which he climbed for security. One •of the
Arabs fired his musket, and, hitting the panther in the
head, it fell to the ground on the edge of the precipice;
the height of the fail and the wound making the Arabs
believe that it was dead. The man, whose only weapon
was a sabre, who happened to be the foremost, ran to-
wards the animal, thinking that such was the case, but
he was unhappily mistaken, for the panther, who was
only stunned by the fall, sprung on him and knocked him
down with his paw., and, furious from his wound, began
gnawing at his face and head. The man, who had no
longer any power to use his sabre, as a last resource
plunged his hand into the animal's throat, receiving many
severe wounds by so doing, but preventing the panther
from injuring any other part of his body ; and his com-
panions coming up despatched the panther with their
muskets. In consequence of the bad state of the roads
from the snow, ',the wounded Arab could not be conveyed
to the military hospital at Teniet-el-Haad until five days
afterwards. Although his wounds are very serious, and
his left eye destroyed, the medical men do not despair of
saving his life. 'The panther measured two metres ninety
zentirnetres from the nose to the extremity of the •tail,
the height of the shoulders eighty centimetres ; and it
weighed one hundred and fifty pounds.

COURT AND FASHION.

Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and the royal children, ar-
rived at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday from Windsor.

The Weekly Chronicle persists, in spite of contradiction
from the Times, in asserting that her majesty will visit
Lisbon and Gibraltar during the ensuing summer.
The Duke of Wellington had an audience of the Queen
at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday.
Prince Albert presided, on Wednesday, at a meeting of
the committees of the Royal Commission for the Exhibi-
tion of 1851. The meeting was held at Buckingham
Palace. His Royal Highness presided again on Thursday
at a meeting of the same commission.
Her Majesty and the Prince visited the Haymarket
Theatre on Thursday, and on Friday evening his Royal
Highness honoured with his presence the Sacred Har-
monic Society's performance of the oratorio of St. Paul,
at Exeter-hall.

By a new system of medical treatment the Duke of
Sutherland has been relieved from the deafness under
which his grace so long suffered._ _

The Earl and Countess of Sefton will entertain a large
party at Croxteth Park next week.
The Queen Dowager has bequeathed the sum of ten
thousand pounds to Major-general Lord Frederick Fitz-
clarence, G.C.H.