The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-14 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

Notwithstandingthe riot at Canton, business both at Can-
ton and Macao had not suffered, and, indeed, in some respects
hadimproved both for imports and exports. The crops of
tea are expected to be of an average quality. excepting green
qualities, the supply of which %viol, it is fearea, be shorter
than last season. The qualities are described as being very
good.
The markets opened for the season by the purchase of 50
chops Congous at the following prices :—Common Congou,
18 to 23 tael ; good ditto, 24 to 25 tael ; and fine ditto, 26 to
28 tael. To these rates 6to 7 tael must be added for consoo
charge, duties, &c. Prices have, however, since given way,
and although still too high. the fine Congous have all been
bought up on arrival for shipment.
The following is a memorandum of the exports in this
article to Great Britain from the Ist of October, 1841, to the
30th of September, 1842 :—Black, 34,632,472: Green,
7,629,176. Total, 42,261,6481 b. The export for the month
of September is 4,369.9711 b, in nine vessels registering 3,036
tons. •
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The crop of silk is represented as likely to exceed in quan-
tity the best season for 43e last five years, and the quality is
said to be excellent.
The cotton market was dull in consequence of heavy stocks,
particularly of inferior qualities, and prices were declining.
Our latest quotations are—for Bombay, tael 5t07. 6. Ben-
gal, tael 7t09. 5. Madras, 5. 5. to 9. 2.
At Sincapore the markets were active, and better prices
were obtained. Freight nominally £3 to £3. 10s.

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Very little was doing at Ceylon. Coffee was 48s. per cwt.
Only a moderate quantity of cinnamon bad been shipped, and
little business had been done in manufactured goods.
Accounts have been received from Mauritius, by way of
Calcutta, to December 19,
The new crop of sugar is considered a good one. The
early arrivals commanded high rates, best qualities having
fetched 8 Spanish dollars 05 per cent. per 100 lb.
The prospects for the Indigo crops at Calcutta and the
neighbourhood were favourable.
The market at Bombay for imports had exhibited an active
appearance, and although the transactions have not been so
extensive as in the previous month, a large trade has, upon
the whole, been done, and the better prices have in some in-
stances been paid.
Freights bad advanced 205. to 305., and may_ be quoted at
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from 50s. to GOs. for London, Liverpool, and Clyde, at which
rates, however, there is not much offering. The harbour
was still filled with shipping ; and as there were forty-five
transports on their way from China to India, and more ard
rivals looked for from all ports, there was no immediate
prospect of the rates advancing.
The following vessels bad left Saugor for this port .during
the months of December and January, Minerva, Mills,
Mary Elizabeth, Duke of Lancaster, Mc Kenzie, Fairfield,
Hughes; Thorn; Queen of Englaryl, Hookey ; Blorenge,
Banks ; Ripley, Norman ; Otterspool, Cornfield.

HONG KONG:—Within these few days several ships have
arrived in the docks from the lately-acquired (in perpetuity)
tirtish settlement of Hong Kong with cargces of teas. A
great number of ships have also arrived during tile week from
Calcutta and other ports in the eastern hemisphere with va-
luable miscellaneous cargoes of silks. sugars, &c. Yesterday
morning accounts were received of several vessels having
arrived in the Downs from our e,stern possessions, and
which may be expected in the Thames, in consequence of the
practice now gerrerally adopted of employing steam-tugs,•this
day or to-morrow. The river has had a very animated ap-
pearance during the week in consequence of the numerous
arrival of ships from foreign ports, as well as upwards of 500
sail of colliers and coasting vessels. The arrivals in the
docks have given employment to a great number of more than
half-starved labourers.

EXTRAORDINARY PRESERVATION OF
HUMAN LIFE.

(From the Bermuda Royal Gazette, Jan. 10.)

The brig Shawmnt, Kimbell, which arrived at Boston on
the 6th of December, from Rio, on the 11th ult. in let. 28
10, long. 58 10, fell in with the wreck of the British brig
Naiad, Pearson late master, of and from Halifax for Deme-
rara, which sailed on the 14th September, and on the 22d, in
let 291-, was capsized in a heavy 4qhall, keel out. She righted
next day full of water, and with his of all her spars except
the foremast. Took from her William Fosdick, of New
York, seaman, the only survivor. Two men were drowned
in the forecastle when she was capsized. and six had died of
hunger and thirst, and Fosdick was in a helplest state, unable
to stand, and could have survived but a short time.
We copy from the Boston Transcript the following further
particulars of this sad disaster:—
"The preservation of the life of the sailor Fosdick was
most wonderful. It appears from his statement that he re-
mained 49 days on the wreck, with little or no food. A
little flour was washed up from the hold, which they collected
wet with salt water, and dried in the sun, and ate. It was
known that there was a canister of salmon preserved in oil
in the cabin. Fosdick dived down several times, and sue- ,
ceeded in obtaining it, on which they lived some time, after
that nothing remained to support life.
" Of the seven that remained (two being drowned in the
forecastle when the Naiad upset,) it is remarkable that the
most fleshy, and apparently the strongest, died first. Every-
thing was done by Fosdick to keep up the spirits of his com-
panions, but they failed one after another, and as soon as
hope fled they yielded died. When the weather was at
all rough, they were o aged to take to the foretop and lash
themselves, there to re ain until it became calm.
" They had now all perished but two—Fosdick and a com-
panion, who were in the top one dark night—when it began
to rain. Fosdick reached over to where his companion lay,
to rouse him to obtain a few drops of water as it fell, but
found him dead. In the morning he cut him loose, and he
fell into the s-a. He then remained alone six days helots he
was taken off by Captain Kimball. Great credit is due and
should be awarded to Captain Kimball, for the medical skill
he displayed in saving his life ; for he was a mere skeleton,
unable to stand or even speak. He took him immediately to
his cabin, put warm clothing upon him, fed him moderately
with warm rice water and gruel, by which means he was gra-
dually restored to consciousness. Had he given him solid
food it would have been fatal. By this great caution and
good management he has saved a fellow-being from a horrid
death—that of starvation.
" He is now in comfortable quarters at the Seaman's
Home, in North-square. He was entirely destitute, when
his case being made known in State-street, and in the insu-
rance offices, yesterday, a purse of 50 dollars was in a few
minutes made up for him. Fosdick is twenty-three years of
age, and belongs to the city of New York, where he has a
father and mother living."

BEA LTII OF SIR. CHARLES BAGOT.—The last accounts
from Kingston state, that the governor-general had been
given up by his medical attendants. Dropsy had supervened,
and his death was considered as certain.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

UNITED STATES.

The packet-ship Rochester. Captain Woodhouse, which
sailed from New York on the 16th ult., and the packet-ship
England, Captain Bartlett, which sailed from the same port
on the 20th, arrived at this port on Saturday morning. The
accounts brought by these vessels are five days later than
those received by the United States, but their contents are
not important.
•The proceedings in congress are brought down in the
papers to the 18th ult. inclusive. "The senate cannot."
says the Washington correspondent of one of the journals,
" rid itself of the troublesome subject of the States' debts.
' Fears are felt and feigned' that the new monster of as-
; sumption will soon swallow up the constitution, the union,
and everything elese." The subject was almost a daily topic
of debate, resolution after resolution being moved, some for
and some against assumption. The question on Mr. Rives's
resolutions was taken on the 18th,ult., when it was resolved
by a vote of 25 to 22, that the subject should lie over to the
first Monday in December. Mr. M'Duflie then moved a
resolution that the government of the United States had no
constitutional power to assume the debts contracted by the
states for their own proper purposes, by the issue of stock,
whatever fund may be pledged for the payment of the interest
or principal. The resolution was ordered to lie over for a
day ; but as there were only twelve working days left of the
sessions, it is evident the resolutions on the subject of as-
sumption would come to nothing during the present year.
The other proceedings in congress were devoid of interest for
the English reader.
The stock and the money market remained as described in
the previous accounts.
An arrival from Hayti had brought intelligence, that an
insurrection had broken out in the southern part of the
island.
'Letters had, been received from the American consul at
Tahiti, one oflthe Society Islands, dated September 11,
which stated that the French admiral, Dupetit Thouars, ar-
rived there on the Bth, and made a demand on the Tahitans
of the sum of 10,000 dollars, in reparation for abuses, and
as a guarantee for their future adherence to the treaties. A
negotiation was commenced, which ended in the surrender
of the island to France. The Reine Blanche was at Tahiti.
The accounts from Texas were expressive of the alarm felt
in the new republic of an attack from Mexico. The English
sloop of war Electra bad arrived off the bar of Galvestor ,
with despatches for our minister at Howton.

TUE LATE EARTFIQUAKES.—The American papers re-
ceived by the last arrival from the United States mention that
slight shocks of earthquake were experienced on the 9th ult.

at Savannab, Raleigh, Columbia, Bremen, Washington, and
other cities of the union. In all probability they were pro-
duced by the almost expended force of the dreadful earth-
quakes in the West IndieF.