The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE CAN.IBRIA

The royal mail steam-ship Cambria, Captain Leitch,
which sailed from Boston on the 26th ultimo, arrived
here yesterday morning, shortly before nine o'clock.
The Cambria sailed from Boston at 12 20 p.m., on the
26th ult. At 115 a.m. on the 28th, she arrived at Halifax;
and, after receiving mails, &c., proceeded to sea at 2 50
a.m. On the following day she experienced a severe gale
from the N.E., with a very heavy sea, and had a succession
of strong winds throughout the remainder of the passage,
chiefly from the southward and westward. At noon, on
Sunday, was abreast of Kinsale Head ; at 4 35, yesterday
morning, received pilot ; and at 8 54 saluted the Rock
Light, after a run of 11 days 15 hours and 54 min. mean
time, including the detour to and detention at Halifax.
The Cambria brought twenty-three passengers, and
4'607,800 in specie, on freight. On 30th November, at
3.10 p.m.. passed a large American steamer, supposed to
be the U.S. mail steam-ship Humboldt; and on 2nd
December, at 1 p.m., exchanged signals with another
large American steamer, supposed to be the U.S. mail
steam-ship Pacific.

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The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Judkins, commander,
arrived at Halifax at 8 a.m., on the 24th, and at Boston,
at 4 10 p.m., on the 25th ultimo, after a run hence of 10
days 8 hours and 20 minutes mean time.

List of passengers per Cambria :—From New York—
Dr. Joyce, Messrs. J. Belfield, W. L. Richardson, W. R.
Haskett, H. B. Haskett, Haggart, G. W. Langland, J.
Finula, J. J. Nesbett, S. Crump, Haigh, G. Caught, J.
Gallagher, Schowler, J. Trudjan, J. Pope and daughter.
From Halifax—Lieut. Griffin, Dr. Mure (11th Hussars),
Mrs. Carson, Miss Thompson, Quartermaster Paton, and
Mr. M'lntosh.

There is not any news of importance by this steamer.
Washington advices inform us that there was much
speculation as to what the President would recommend
in his Message. Among other things, it was ru-
moured that he would call the attention of Congress
to the establishment of a Mint in New York. A
letter from the above city, dated the 24th ult. contains
the following :—" This city begins to wear quite the ap-
pearance of life and bustle. On the meeting of ever)?
new Congress, there are numerous applicants for the va-
rious offices at the disposal of the two branches, besides
selecting a speaker, (quite an important matter), pur-
chasing political influence, &c., to say nothing of the dis-
cussion relating to the nomination of a candidate for the
presidency. Douglas and Buchanan appear the most pro-
minent on the Democratic side, whilst no other name is
heard on the Whig side than that of Webster. The
Democrats came in with a numerical force in their favour,
and they will have it all their own way in disposing of the
subordinate offices pertaining to the two houses.
Mr. Clay reached Washington on the 22d ult., rather
enfeebled in health. _ _

The Ithaca Falls woollen-cloth mills were destroyed by
fire, supposed to be the work of an incendiary, on the
evening of the 23d ult., loss estimated at 50,000 dollars,
partly insured.
The New York Kossuth Reception Committee propose
that he shall disembark from the Humboldt at Quarantine,
and remain there over one night with Dr. Doane. On the
following day the steamer Oregon will be despatched to
bring him to the city. He will be received by the city
authorities at Castle-garden, and subsequently will be
conducted to the Irving-house, where a great dinner will
be given to him, on the evening succeeding his arrival in
the city.
At Baltimore, the Kossuth Reception Committeee have
decided, on his arrival there, to have a grand procession
of trades, military, and firemen's associations.
The schooner, Newbold, Captain Maine, was capsized,
previous to the 24th ult., on Lake Michigan, with about
30 persons on board, all of whom were lost.
A snow-storm visited New York, Baltimore, and Cin-
cinnatti, on the 25th. Late Halifax papers contain the
following :—" We experienced a heavy south-east gale
here on the 22d. Telegraph line down ever since. It
commenced to blow hard at ten, p.m., and increased to a
hurricane from two to four next morning. Much damage
ensued to the wharves and shipping, particularly the
coasters. Some vessels were disrnasted, and others sunk.
The loss amounts to some thousands of dollars. Serious
damage was done to fishing establishments, and vessels on
the coast."

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The Webster Convention had met at Fennel Hall,

Boston. Deputations were present from a large number
of the commonwealth, and from all the principal cities.
The floor of the hall, which was provided with settees, was
full half an hour before the time appointed for opening the
meeting, and the galleries also gradually became occupied
until the hall was completely filled with the friends of
" Webster and the Union."
The Christiana rioters, on a charge of treason, had been
formally arraigned, and their trials commenced at Phila-
delphia.
By an arrival from Gonaives it was reported that a
treaty of peace had been concluded between the Haytiens
and Domincians for four years, both parties to give 12
months' notice to commence hostilities.
The Boston papers contain some later news from
Venezuela, but it is devoid of importance.

Jenny tind was at Boston, _where her concerts ap- I

peered to be more attractive than on her former visit.
Catherine Hayes had appeared at Albany, and met a most
encouraging reception.
The Empire City, from Chagres via 'Javan na, had
reached New Orleans on the 24th ult. She had 585
passengers, most returns from California, and about
844,000 dols. in gold dust.

The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate sufferers,
who were killed at one of the New York public schools,
on the 20th, had not terminated. The funerals took
place on the 23d, when the city of New York was the
scene of universal sorrow. _ _

We have later news from Mexico. From the advices
now to hand we learn that Mr. Letcher had addressed a
note to the government, enclosing the order of the execu-
tive department to General Twiggs, commanding him to
use all available means to prevent military expeditions
from leaving the United States for invading the republic
of M exico. During the late disturbances at Cordova three
or four persons were killed, end as many wounded.
It is said that Durango is in a horrible condition. The
inhabitants, driven by famine to the most desperate straits,
are emigrating in large numbers ; added to which the
depredations of the Indians are carried on with increasing
audacity.
This state of affairs on the;
Rio Grande has produced
the greatest excitement in the interior ; many persons

there interested in the restrictive system are fearful that
the pressure will force the government to abandon its
tariff laws.

The Constitutional says that the government has
already distributed IPA° dollars among the soldiers sent
to suppress the revolution.
The return of the Neptunal to Vera Cruz excited a good
deal of alarm. _

The vessel reported that she could not enter the Rio
Grande on account of the low stage of water. _

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Great fears were entertained -for Tampico. It
thought that a garrison of 1500 men and a steamer of war
would be necessary to defend the place.
The authorities of the State of New Leon have adopted
and seconded the measures of Avalon,
Canales is determined at every hazard to maintain the
integrity of the territory of the Republic, and to suppress
the insurrection.

The Mexican administration sees in the mov,ment only
what its leaders proclaim an effort to force the govern-
ment into an abandonment of its long cherished restrictive
system. . .

The opposition in the country affects to look deeper,
and to discern a hidden motive for the acts of the insur-
gent chiefs

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Nov. 25

The money market both at New York and Boston was steady.
Sterling bills at the former place were reported to be tame, at
1101 to 110 i. The New York Journal of Commerce says,
"Notwithstanding the large outgoes of coin, the money
market continues easy. Some capitalists, preferring to wait
the developments of the future, untrammelled, are limiting
their accommo,lation to loans on call ; while others, sanguine
of an easy market, are buying good commercial paper liber-
ally. The offerings at most of the banks continue compara-
tively light, and the pressure which was felt here seems to
have been almost entirely transferred to the interior."

At Philadelphia, money was in fair request, at 8 to 10 per
cent. on strictly prime paper, at short dates, and 12 per cent.
on long time. The Boston Traveller of the 26th ult., in its
monetary article of that day, makes the following remarks :
" We are not passing through a crisis in our money market,
but nevertheless the commercial world may well say that the
state of that market is peculiar and anomalous. In good old
times,' to which reference is so often made by men who remem-
ber but the better part of life's past history, we know how
much specie was in this country, how much in England and
France, and, true to our birthright, we guessed the rest.

"The calculation was then comparatively simple. The few
elements were readily evolved. Imports and experts; the
amount of bullion in the country ; the amount of bank note
circulation and a few similar items, helped out with a given
amount of cotton, and the future was foreseen. But now this
country has become an agency and carrying-place for nations."
The New York Courier and Inquirer of the 25th says :
" The active demand for money, noticed last week, continues,
and the rates are firm." From the same paper we extract the
following report of the markets :
COTTON.—The sales reported on 'Change were 1,100 bales,
including parcels of fair Uplands to arrive at 8 13-18 c. and
8-gc. The Atlantic's advices have somewhat strengthened the
views of holders, without increasing the confidence of buyers,
who consider the movement advised in Liverpool as an effort to
attract shipments. That prices will continue to increase until
checked by free imports or the advice of them, all on this side
believe ; but that free arrivals will turn the scale they also
believe, and consequently few are disposed to run the gauntlet.
It becomes, therefore, more difficult to fix the time of free ship-
ments, which we believe will not take place until the foreign
limits are raised now fully one halfpenny too low to admit of
execution.

LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION

New Orleans
Mobile .5- Texas

Uplands. Florida,

Inferior
Ordinary
Good Ordinary
Middling
Good Middling
Middling Fair .
Fair
Fully Fair
Good Fair
Fine

7* a 71 7.+ a 71 7 a 7-1
7i a 8 71 a 8 8 a l*
Si a 8* 8* a Si Si a 8/
aB* 81 a 9 9 a9*
9 a9* None. 94. a 9i
None. None. a 10i
None. None. None.
None. None. None.
None. None. None.
Stock in city, in all hands, estimated at 15,000 bales,

BREASTUFFS. There has been a fair demand for common
brands of Flour, and prices are well sustained. We quote
superfine. No. 2, .83 50 to ,83 ; common State, 33 87 to
-B'3 93k; Winsconsin, Ohio, Michigan, &c., 94 to $4 182 ;
fancy brands of Michigan, .8.4 06i to 434 12k; pure Genesee,
£4 061 to £4 12i ; good Ohio, $4 to S 4 63 ; fancy Ohio, S 4 182
to $4 371 ; fancy Genessee, 182 to S.t 373 ; extra Ohio, In-
diana, and Michigan, S 4 50 to 34 75 ; and extra Genessee, £450
to S 4 623. Wheat is in moderate request, at 91 to 100 cts. for
Genessee, and 92 for white Southern. Indian Corn continues
on demand at 60c. for Western mixed, 60c. for New Southern
Round Yellow, and 58c. to 59c. for heated Western.

PROVISIONS.—Pork has been sold at $l5 for mess, and
-f/l3 62ic. for prime, and at the close of to-day's market higher
prices were asked. Beef is rather heavy. Sales of Lard have
been made at full prices, and Butter and Cheese remain at
previous rates._ _ _

FREIGHTS.—TO Liverpool: Cotton, id.; Flour, Is.; Wheat,
4d. ; Cheese, 20s. To London : Measurement good , 255. to
30s. ; heavy goods, 205.; Beef and Pork, 4s. to 4s. 6d. per tierce.
To Havre : Cotton, id.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT NEW YORK.-
NEARLY FIFTY CHILDREN KILLED, AND
SIXTY SERIOUSLY INJURED.

A very frightful accident occurred at a school called
Ward School, near Charles-street, New York, on the
20th ultimo, arising out of an incident of a trivial charac-
ter. The school house is a magnificent four story edifice,
with a winding staircase from the first floor to the upper
landing. This stairway is not spiral, but is formed of
short flights of stairs wir.ding round a square well. The
first or ground floor is used as a playground for the
scholars, and is paved with flag stones. The second story
of the building is occupied by the primary department of
the institution ; in the third story is the female depart-
ment of the upper school, and in the fourth story the male
department. The entrance to each of the school rooms is
from the landings of the stairs. The outer side of the
stairs was guarded by an ordinary wooden banister, of no
great height, and not firmly secured at the bottom, or
where the balusters were connected with the stairs. This
description of the stairway will enable the reader better
to understand what follows.
About two o'clock in the afternoon, one of the teachers
in the female department, a Miss Harrison, was taken
with a fainting fit, and in order to her recovery she was
carried out into the passage way, where a cry was raised
of " Water I water !" by one of her companions. This
cry was not understood, or else the scholars thought that
the water was wanted to extinguish fire, and the next mo-
ment the cry of " Fire !" was raised, and spread like wild-
fire through the building. In a moment subordination
was at an end. The children from the primary depart-
ment rushed to the stairs, as did also the scholars on the
floor above them. The stairway was soon filled, and the
press against the balusters so great that they gave was ,
precipitating the children over the stairs down to the
ground floor. As the rush increased, so did the numbers
that were hurled over the stairs into the space below. Two
of the female teachers made an effort to stop the children ;
but so great was the panic that their efforts were vain,and
they were themselves hurried along with the current, and
despite their efforts were carried over the stairs into the
space below. Nearly sixty children received very serious
injuries, and were girls from Bto 12 years' old. The boys
are about the same age. As might be expected, the loss
of life was dreadful. It is known that forty-two were
killed by falling from the stairs, or from bruises and in-
juries, and that others are likely to die. Some of the boys ,
jumped out of the windows, and one of them had his neck
broken by the fall. There were altogether in the building
but a few short of 1,800 scholars. Hundreds on hundreds
went over the stairs, until there was a pile of human beings
—a mass of children—eight feet square and about twelve
feet in height. Those that were on top, were, of course,
but slightly injured, but as soon as these had been removed,
the most heart-rending spectacle presented itself. Body
efter body was taken out ; many of them, lifeless at first,
came to when they once more breathed the fresh air, but
many, alas, were beyond aid, and death was but too plainly
marked upon their palid features. Some were injured by
the fall, and lay writhing in agony ; some moaned, while
others shrieked with pain, and others again, when released,
started off tor home, apparently unconscious of the awful
scene through which they had passed. Many of the dead,
dying, and wounded, were taken to the station house,
where the entire lodging-room of the policemen was
turned into an hospital, and their beds all used as couches
for dead bodies of injured children. This was, indeed, a
sad sight ; parents, whose children were missing, came
here to confirm their hopes or fears. Here might be seen
a lifeless body, with an agonised mother standing over it,
wringing her hands in the excess of her grief. There was
a father looking the picture of sorrow, as he beheld the
form of a loved one that he had so lately parted with in
health ; and then further on was a family standing round
the bed of a little one, whose painful writhings gave evi-
dence of the patient's sufferings. One after another the
bodies of the dead were removed ; and at length litters
were provided, and the wounded were carried away also.
Nearly one hundred families either mourned the loss of
children, or watched anxiously over the forms of the
wounded. A coroner's jury bad been empannelled to en-
quire into this sad occurrence. The building has only been
in use about a year.

" THE PRESIDENT'S LADY."—Mr. Fillmore is a law-
fully married man, of excellent character, and unimpeach-
able morals, and why the papers persist in calling Mrs.
Fillmore the " President's lady," instead of giving her
the honourable name of the " President's wife," we can-
not imagine. The same incivility was practised towards
Mrs. Polk, and we called attention to it at the time.
Lady and female are fast supplanting the good old names
of wife and woman. We suppose that the same dandyism
will find out some new names for father and mother.
Lady is a beautiful word in its proper application, but it
o es not mean wife.—Providenee Journal.
THE LATE MARSHAL SOULT.—Marshal Soult, whose
death we announced last week, was the last and the most
renowned of Napoleon's marshals. He died at the Chateau
of Soult-Berg, near his native place, St. Amend, in the
department of the Tarn. It was in 1769, in the year
which gave birth to Wellington and Napoleon, that Mar-
shal Soult first saw the light ; but so obscure was his
descent, that little has been said of his parentage or ex-
traction. His military instincts appear to have been
developed even before that extraordinary stimulus which
such prepossessions received from republican enthusiasm,
for his first, like his last, service was under a Bourbon
king. At the age of 15, be entered the Royal Regiment
of Artillery, from which corps he was speedily transferred,
with a lieutenant's commission, to a battalion of Grena-
diers. At the battle of Ileums he was yet only a colonel,
but even in that capacity he found opportunity for exer-
cising such seasonable discretion that his military reputa-
tion was established on the field. Colonel Soult became
a General of Brigade in 1794, and within four years from
that time was intrusted with the command of a division.
Napoleon detected in an instant the talents of the rising
general, and from this moment the name of Soult is rarely
absent from the history of Europe. He fought in every
war, almost in every field, if not with invariable fortune
at any rate with unchangeable skill. Since the last revo-
lution, Mantua Soult, enfeebled by age, but still intellec-
tually vigoroug; lived in retirement, in the enjoyment of
boundless fame iii7d ample fortune,