The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The British and North American Royal mail steamer
Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived on Saturday last at this
port. She sailed from Boston on the afternoon of the 2d,
and Halifax (off which she was delayed, by fog, thirty-six
hours) on the morning of the 6th instant. The passage from
the latter port occospied ten days. She has brought upwards
of sixty passengers from Boston and Halifax. Among them
is Mr. Cook, a special messenger from Lord Ashburton,
bearing despatches for Government.
We have received by this •conveyance files of New York
papers to the afternoon of the let instant inclusive, Boston
to the 2d, and Halifax to the sth. Canada papers of late
dates have also been received.

The President and the Congress had disagreed on the
question of the revenue. As the Compromise Act would ex-
pire on the 30th of June, and as the legislation on the subject
contemplated by that act had not been matured, nor was
likely to be so in time, to meet this contingency a temporary
bill had passed both chambers, extending to the Ist of
August the duties in force on the Ist of June, and the laws
for collecting those duties. This temporary bill was called
" the little Tariff Bill," and upon it the President had put
his veto. A. s there were not two-thirds in either house to
carry the bill notwithstanding the veto, the measure is de-
feated. The effect of the veto would be, that the distribution
of the proceeds of the public lands would take place imme-
diately. The executive had determined to attempt to collect
the duties of twenty per cent. on all imports in pursuance of
the Compromise Act. The collection was to commence on
the sth instant at the United States custom-houses : the
proceeds would not, howev,-r, it was maintained, go into the
Treasury. The regulations required by the Compromise
Act to be made for a home valuation were to be prescribed
by law, and regulations prescribed by the executive power
alone are not, it is contended, law. Whatever duties were
paid would be so under protest.
With respect to Lord Ashburton's mission, the papers are
still without any specific information "In our foreign affairs,
referring especially to Lord Ashburton's negociations," the
New York American says, " the confidence of a favourable
result is still unshaken."
The State of Rhode Island had been the scene of a rebellion.
The universal suffrage party had, under the command of
Dorr, their irregularly elected governor, actually taken the
field. A force, amounting to between seven and eight hun-
dred men, fully armed, had taken up a position near a place
called Chepachet, and thrown up field-works. The govern-
ment troops and the militia, to the number of nearly three
thousand, under the command of Major moved
against the rebels. But, before the attack commenced, the
universal sufferage party men, deserted by their leader Dorr,
broke and dispersed. Only one or two lives were lost
among the rebels, about two hundred of whom were made pri-
soners. A large reward has been offered by the Governor of
the State for the apprehension of Dorr, who had, however,
eluded pursuit, and, it was supposed, made his escape into
Canada.

Nothing remarkable had occurred in the money market.
Money is represented as abundant. First-rate paper was in
demand at from six to seven per cent. interest per annum.
New York State Stocks had, since the closing of the books,
fallen off one to two per cent. United States Six per Cents.
were daily taken for investment at par and interest. All the
States not now defaulters which had interest due on the Ist
instant had provided the means. Fears were entertained that
Philadelphia would not be able to continue her payments of
interest.

The demand for bills on England for the Britannia had
not been large. The rates had, however, slightly improved.
The remittances of interest on money borrowed in Europe
had affected them, but not to such an extent as would have
been the case, had all the States met their engagements. On
England the rate was 107 to 1074 ; on France, 5,374 to 5,38 ;
on Amsterdam, 381 to 39 ; on Hamburgh, 34/ to 33 ; and on
Bremen, 754 to 761.
The interest due on the first of July on the Maryland,
Illionis, and Arkansas bonds would not be paid. The in-
solvent States stand as follow :—Pennsylvania, Illionis,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, and Michigan.
. .

Accounts from Port-an-Prince of the 17th ult. had been
received at New York. They contradict the account pre-
viously received of a rebellion having broken out in St.
Domingo. President Boyer was seriously ill, and not ex-
pected to recover.
From Montevideo the accounts reach to the 9th of May,
but they do not contain any news of interest. The contend-
ing parties of Montevideo and Buenos Ayres remained with-
out any change in their relative positions.
The Canada papers do not contain any news worth ex-
tracting. The British and North American royal mail
steamer Caledonia, which sailed from this port on the 19th
ult., arrived at Halifax on the 3d instant, and proceeded on
to Boston, which she would reach on the sth.

COTTON TRADE

(From the New York Herald of July 1.)

At the extreme south, the condition of the currency is
such as to have a great influence upon the markets, particu-
larly at New Orleans, where all transactions are formed on
stipulations in relation to the exact character of the funds in
which payment is to be made. At Mobile the currency con-
tinues rapidly to depreciate, and the prices are governed ac-
cordingly. In the markets of Georgia and South Carolina,
the season is so far advanced as to render transactions slug-
gish, although the news by the Britannia, which had been
received, produced a favourable impression. The following
is a table of transactions at the leading ports :

STOCKS, SALES, PRICES, AND REMARKS

Stocks. Sales. Prices. Remarks.
New York 31,000 4,000 5* to 94 advanced
N. Orleans, Jan. 22 43,502 3,800 5 to 8 firm.
Mobile, „ 22 4,685 700 84 to 91 advancing.
Savannah, „ 25 5,517 230 4to 8 firm.
Augusta, „ 25 _ 300 41 to 8 „

Columbia, S.C., 2Z
Charleston, „ 18.

Market closed.
2,100 5 to 10 firm

The following table will show the comparative prices of
Liverpool classification at the leading ports:—

PRICES COTTON, LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION

N. Orleans. Mobile. Savanh. Charlstn.
Inferior 4 to 41 7 to 7/ 41 to 5) 41 to 51
Ordinary
Middling
Middling fair .... 8 to 81 91 to 10 7/ to 71 71 to 8
Fair to fully fair.. 91 to 10 Bto 8/
Good fair ll --

Good and fine

12 to 13

The prices at Mobile are, of course, governed by the cur-
rency, which is depreciated 40 per cent, for specie. The
receipts Of cotton are now very light at all the ports. The
following is a table of the receipts, exports, and stocks of
cotton in the United States
RECEIPTS. EXPORTS, AND STOCK OF COTTON.
1841. 1842. Incr. Deer
Receipts..
Exports to G. Britain 772,226 868,306 96,080
France
other ports
189,991 102,011 12,020
56

Stocks

33,875

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ENGLAND

The meeting at Bristol has been a very successful one, and
the city has been actually crowded with visitors, including
the Duke of Cambridge and a long list of nobility. A cor-
respondent of the Times says, " not a bed is to bad at any
of the inns at any price, and even in private lodging it is
with difficulty that a decent apartment can be obtained. The
Royal Agricultural Society has converted this ancient city
into one immense hotel, and the suburbs into a stable for all
kinds of domestic animals. Whole acres of canvass are
stretched over the fields at the back of the Victoria-rooms,
and thousands of deal boards have been nailed together for
the temporary convenience and necessity of the •ccasion2,
On Tuesday evening, the mayor, Mr. G. W. Franklyn,
gave a most splendid banquet to his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, and the other distinguished visitors
now in Bristol, at the Merchant's-ball. About ninety guests
sat down to a magnificent dinner, served on plate, provided
by Messrs. Niblett and Pring. His worship presided, the
vice-presidents' seats being filled l the town-clerk, Mr. D.
Burgess, and Mr. J. Franklyn. His worship was supported
on the right by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Duke of Beaufort, and the Earl of Essex, and on the
left by the Hon. Edward Everett, minister from the United
States, the Duke of Riebmond, and the Marquis of Down-
shire.

The usual toasts were drank, and on the health of the
American Minister being proposed his Excellency returned
thanks in an eloquent address, in the course of which he
said the fundamental principle of his country, as they all
knew, was equality, and he confessed that he had errone-
ously thought that in the mother-country this was not so ;
but when last week he had met his Royal Highness at Cam-
bridge wearing a doctor's gown at the University of Cam-
bridge like the rest, and mingling equally with his fellow doc-
tors, and when now again he met his Royal Highness mixing
with the farmers of England, he was proud to confess how
erroneous had been his impression; and he must say that
this example set by his Royal Highness was calculated to
influence.
The the most salutary
The implements and things exhibited in the show-yard
amounted in number to 99 specimens, including all sorts of
novel inventions in agricultural machinery—ploughs, har-
rows, chaff-cutters, rollers, thrashing machines, carts, win-
nowers, washing-tubs, &c., so numerous and ramified, that
a printed catalogue of 34 closely printed pages gives little
more than a list of their names, and the names of the in-

ventors.
The ploughing match came off on Wednesday amidst a
continued fall of rain, by which numbers were deterred from
being present. It took place in a large field at Beggar's
hush, close to Leigh-woods. The ploughing match itself
havealreteuing sight, and had the weather bwn fine, would
one of the best of the whole " show." It was
well
4aorrealliged and well conducted. There were between 30
and
plough,
which
in the match. With the exception of one
fashion, an the was drawn by three mules in the tandem
The space of e Ploughs were drawn by two horses abreast.
an acre; ear half to be ploughed by each plough was half
upright Wanda stall acre was allotted and marked out by
o'clock the startik in the ground; and at a quarter to one
whole of the nto., f it may be so termed, took place, the
returning bnekrwarlses advancing in line across the field and
ploughing of their forwards till the conclusion of the
not cut deep, but with respectiver allotments. The furrows were
each other, and with renTaraltahle precision of distance from
able straightness. No drivers
were allowed, the plongh,,a,
directed his horses by reins,
and by his voice, or, as theafarbouratera call it, it was all `; Jeho"
work. The matchlastecl
judges surveyed the ground. two hours, after which the
The trial of implements took place
field near Sneyd-park, in the presence on 'Wednesday in a
ai,oGuen. Webb Hall
Graburn, and Legard, the judges, 4'114o! Messrs. Parkes,
whole
tulalf-past five
steward of the ground. It commenced
of the day,
descrip-
tion
o'clock in the morning, and occupied the w
trials being made of new inventions in almost every
of agricultural machines. several of which weerrey
pronoun-
ced by the judges to contain very considerable improvement
at 6 o'clock, the Councilt_deinsunbere,etthoef
while others were of course declared to be failures.
On Wednesday,
anticipated grandeur of which has been so long h
expectation, took place at the Victoria ms
roo, and was
attended by a company numbering. more than 500.
After dinner the award of the prizes was read by the Duke
of Richmond. --........—...

n,„RicA.—lt is a common
RAILWAY TRAVELLING
.IN
fact enough, that half the railway routes that are travelled in
—one. reason,
America are either temporary. .or unfinished—one
journey' among several, for the multitudinous us accidents vavhndielwi
ibtehfianl
wayfarers. At the very out-set of our „the
SChuylkill over
scarce a mile of Philadelphia, we crossed
a bridge, one of the principal piers of which is
one of hand;
some and the whole building (a covered wooden yet incom-
plete,
dimensions) filled with workmen yet oceuplie,d,
construction. But the Americans are impetuous
children
way
of improvement, and have all the impatience of iljren
about the trying of a new thing ; often greatly retardingf
their
own progress by hurrying unduly the completion
.s
works, or using them in a perilous state of incomple.tenes. •
their
We crossed one or two inlets from the Chesapeake of consi-
derable width, upon bridges of a most perilous construction,
and, indeed, which have given way once or twice in various
parts already. They consist merely of wooden piles driven
:into the water, across which the iron rails are laid, only just
,raising the cars above the level of the water, To traverse
• with an immense train at full steam speed one of these creeks,
nearly a mile in width, is far from agreeable, Jet one he never
ao little nervous; and Await with infinite cordiality each time •
that I greeted the first blush that hung over the water, '
eating our approach to terra firma.-11ra. Bailer, in Re4l-
- 3fircetlamy.

rinprnal Varitament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY.
The British Possessions Abroad Bill went through com-
mittee, and was ordered to be read a third time on Friday.
In committee on the Railways' Bill, Lord CAMPBELL
moved the insertion of a clause foibidding the locking up of
carriages on railways without the consent of the passengers.

After a short discussion the clause was rejected by a ma-
jority of 35 to 31.

The remaining- clauses were then agreed to, and the hou

resumed

The Queen's Personal Protection Bill was brought up from
the House of Commons and read a first time, on the motion
of the Duke of WELLINGTON, who gave notice that he would
this day move that the standing orders should be suspended,
in order that the bill might pass through its remaining
stages this evening.
The Earl of DEVON moved the second reading of the
Mines' and Collieries' Bill, and in doing so urged upon the
house the necessity of putting an end to the practice of em-
ploying women in mines, particularly when they were thus
employed in a manner disgraceful to humanity. This part
of the bill he trusted that their lordships would agree to, al-
though he understood that some noble lords wished to post-
pone even this important portion. With respect to the em-
ployment of boys he had no objection to having the age at
which they should be allowed to work in mines fixed at ten
years, and he proposed that their apprenticeships should not
last beyond eighteen years of age. The clauses regulating
and limiting the hours of labour for children he should not
press, and he found himself very reluctantly obliged to give
up the point respecting the employment of persons at the
engines under twenty-one years of age. He found the prac-
tice was general of employing lads of fifteen and sixteen years
of age, but he had heard no sufficient reason to convince him
that the persons so employed should be in any case under
twenty-one years. _ _ _ _

Lord HATHERTON said he must have objected to this bill
if the alterations had not been made which the noble earl had
announced ; because from the practical knowledge he pos-
sessed he knew that the working of many valuable mines in
the central part of England must have been abandoned had
the bill in its original shape passed into law.:
The Earl of RADNOR suggested the postponement of the
bill until the next session of parliament.
The Earl of GALLOWAY supported the bill, which he hoped
would not be postponed. He regretted the concessions which
had been made to those who were opposed to the measure.
The Duke of WELLINGTON supported the bill, and said
that he believed there was but one noble lord who contended
that legislation in this case was unnecessary. He would
vote for the principle of the bill, and when the details came
before the house it would be time enough for him to state his
views respecting them.
The Marquis of LONDONDERRY expressed his fears that a
compromise had been entered into between Lord Hatherton
and the promoters of the bill, or he would not have given up
the intention of moving for a select committee. The noble
marquis moved that the bill be read a second time that day
six months. '

Lord WHARNCLIFFE said his objection to the details of
the bill was, that he felt it necessary that, in legislating, they
should not have been carried away by mere feelings of huma-
nity, but should have taken time to consider if the means
proposed to remedy the evil were not in themselves pregnant
with greater evils than those which they were intended to
cure. The House of Commons, he must say, had passed it
on an impulse and without taking time properly to consider
of the great capital and interests which the bill would most
injuriously affect. Their lordships had taken the details into
consideration, and the bill as now altered he was enabled to
support. .

The Bishop of GLOUCESTER said it ought to be their ob-
ject on all occasions to promote morality as much as possible
by legislation, and protested against the doctrine laid down
by the Earl of Radnor.
After a few words from Lord CLANCARTY,
The Duke of BVCCLEUCH said that in his mines in Scot-
land no women were employed. He supported the bill.
After some observations from the Earl of MOUNTCASHEL,
the gallery was cleared for a division, but none took place,
and the bill was read a second time.

The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the
house adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS-THURSDAY

Mr. HUME called the attention of the House to the report
of the select committee on national monuments (in June,
1841), and moved an humble address to her Majesty, praying
that she will be graciously pleased to give directions to the
trustees of the British Museum, and of the National Gallery,
to the authorities having charge of the armouries and jewels
in the Tower of London, to the commissioners of Greenwich
Hospital, and to all other persons having the management
or direction of public edifices and cathedrals, for the
adoption of those facilities and improvements recommended
in that report.
Mr. EWART seconded the motion.

After a few observations from the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir R. Inglis, Mr. G. Knight, Mr. Wyse, Sir H.
Peel, Mr. C. Buller, the Earl of Lincoln, and other hon.
members.
Mr. HOME withdrew his motion.

Mr. EWART then moved the following resolution :
" That it is expedient that the Government School of Design
be formed into a central normal school for the instruction of
teachers of design, in communication with other schools of
design throughout the country ; and that the general recom-
mendations of the committee, which reported on this sub-
ject in the year 1839, be adopted."

Dr. BOWRING seconded the motion.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that the recommendations of the
committee of 1836 were being gradually adopted. Schools
of design were to be established in Manchester, Birming-
ham, York, Coventry, Norwich, and another town not yet
fixed upon. In the present state of the experiment he
thought it would not be advisable to adopt the motion.
After some ,urther discussion, Mr. EWART withdrew his
motion.

Sir R. PEEL obtained leave to bring in a bill to continue
for one year the act for the trial of controverted elections,
Lord Mahon withdrawing the amendment of which he had
given notice, to the effect that the tribunal should not con-
sist of members of parliament, as the right hon. baronet was
only proposing his bill for a limited period.
On the motion of Mr. SHELL. various returns were or-
dered, connected with the clergy reserves in Canada.
Sir J. EASTHOPE, at the request of Sir R. Peel, post-
, poned his motion for returns respecting church-rates, owing
to the illness of Sir J. Graham.

Mr: HuzlE then moved for a copy of the last patent con-
stituting. the commission for executing the office of Lord
High Admiral, with a return of the names and rank of the
officers constituting the commission, their services, and
various other particulars connected with their promotion.
The motion was negatived by a majority of 99 to 23.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER obtained leave to
bring in two bills—one to regulate and reduce the expenses
of the offices attached to the superior courts of common law
in Ireland, payable out of the Consolidated Fund ; the other,
a bill for abolishing certain offices on the revenue side of the
Court of Exchequer in England, and for regulating the office
of her Majesty's Remembrancer in that court.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and
the House adjourned.