The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-02 00:00:00

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prorettlings in Varliament.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY.
Lord STANLEY presented an important petition signed by
216 master manufacturers of Lancashire and Yorkshire, 40 of
whom employed no less the n 30,000 workmen, against the
Factory Bill which had passt-d the House of Commons. He
also presented a petition for an unmodified Ten Hours' Bill,
from 6,000 of the operatives of Blackburn.
Lord BROUGHAM reiterated his complaints against the
(rers recent) change in the Post Office.
Petitions, however, are still pouring in to both Houses of
Parliament in favour of the meastue.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—TUESDAY.
lir. G. BERKELEY gave notice that he would, on Tuesday,
the 16th of July, move that the House do resolve itself into a
Committee to take into consideration the Act of the 11th and
12th of Victoria, c. 97, with the view of preventing the expira-
tion of the differential duties on foreign and slave-grown sugar
in 1854. (Hear.)
COLONEL SIBTHORPE drew attention to the destruction of
the fine old elm trees in Hyde Park, which Lord John Russell
stated had been cut down by order of the Chief Commissioner
of Woods and Forests (Lord Seymour) to snake room for the
Exhibition o` 1551.
The adjourned debate on the foreign policy of Government
was resumed by Mr. B. OSBORNE, who supported the motion
with pride and pleasure.—Lord J. MANNERS opposed the
motion, considering that in his conduct towards Greece, Lord
Palmerston could not have taken snore effectual measures to
extinguish British influence in the Levant, and to extend that
of Russia, had he beets really a foreign Minister.— Mr. ANSTEY
would not vote against the motion, because he could not pro-
noun& the whole foreign policy as blameable.—Mr. COCH RA N E
considered the policy of Government anything but an English
policy, being based upon oppression of the weak and conces-
sion to the strong.—Lord PALMERSTON repudiated the doc-
trine which be contended was contained in the resolution pas-
sed in the Lords as one on which DO British Minister had
acted, and the people of England would never suffer any
Minister to act upon. His lordship spoke at great length,
and entered very minutely into the details of the transactions
of Greece and the negociations in London. He stated that
lir. Wyse received no information as to the draught of the
convention until the 2nd of May. The questions of the islands,
he said, did not form part of the demands upon the Greek
Government. His lordship reviewed the policy he had pur-
sued in Europe, observing that the advocates of tempera!e
reform were always stigmatized as the fomentors of revolu-
tion. The policy of the Government was to prevent revolution
—it was a policy of improvement and of peace. The noble
lord concluded a speech of nearly five hours' duration, with a
powerful peroration challenging the verdict of the House
whethep the principles which had guided the foreign policy of
Her Majesty's Ministers had been proper and fitting, and
whether, as a subject of ancient Rome could hold himself free
from indignity by saying, "Civic Romanus sum," a British
subject in a foreign country should not be protected by the
vigilant eye and the strong arm of the Government against
injustice and wrong.—On the motion of Sir J. WALSH, the
debate was adjourned.

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA.

By the Royallfail steam-ship America, -Cuistidn'Shan-
non, we have advices from New York direct to the 19th,
and Halifax to the-21st ult. The Amerioa,has: brouglit
£40,000 in specie.
The Amerioupassed the steam-ship Canibria,goingtitto
Halifax.

The Cuban affair was entirely settled, the American
prisoners having been released after passing through the
form of a trial. A rencontre had taken place' in New
York between 'Mr. N. P. Willis and Mr. Edwin Forrest,
in which the former was seriously injured. Forrest had
charged Willis with the seduction of his (Forrest's) wife.
The steam-ship Griffiths was burnt within 20 miles of
Cleveland, and upwards of 200 persons drowned and
burnt.

The application of Professor Webster for a new trial
had been unsuccessful.

A Brazilian vessel, with 240 slaves on board, had been
captured off Cuba, and taken into Port Royal.
Late advices from Venezuela mention' that business
was dull. Coffee was selling at SBl, with but few trans-
actions ; there was a moderate stock. Cocoa was•scarce
at 61 to 6k.
By the Empire City, from Chagres and Jamaica, we
have dates from the latter to the 10th ult. The Trent
was at that port on the 4th, with two million dollars on
board.
The market was flat for breadstuffs. Considerable
transactions had been made in cod fish.; the stock of
herrings was large.
Accounts from Jamaica, to the 10th ult., had been
received by the steam-ship Empire City, 'which arrived at
New York on the 15th, after a run of ten days from
Chagres. The Jamaica journals complain of the refusal
of ministers to guarantee the loan of £240,000, or to
enable Jamaica to obtain a portion of the parliamentary
loan of £500,000, as it would place the island in an awk-
ward position, obliging her either to obtain the money
without the aid of parliament, or to leave her creditors
without any provision for their payment. It was sup-
posed that the legislature would be summoned by the go-
vernor, and proceed to business in a few weeks. A Bra-
zilian slaver had been captured off the island of Cuba and
taken into Port Royal. A large portion of the Africans
were children. They had been landed at Fort Augusta,
and were to be distributed among the applicants for their
services. They were employed in picking cotton-seed,
and were said to work cheerfully in their novel condition.
The whole number amounts to 241.
At New Orleans nine deaths from cholera had occurred
in seven days.
The steam-ship Viceroy, Captain Ewing, arrived at
New York on the 15th ultimo. Several offers had been
made to purchase her for the California trade.
Accounts from Guadaloupe state that, on the 12th ult.,
an unsuccessful attempt was made by the negroes to fire
the city of Point Petre. A state of siege had been pro-
claimed.
From Canada we have accounts of a destructive fire at
Montreal. Despatches received from Toronto announce,
that on the 24th ultimo Attorney General Lafontaine in-
troduced into the Assembly a bill to increase parliamen-
tary representation. On the same evening, the Inspector-
General announced the intention of government to
introduce a general banking law ; also a measure on the
currency. On the 17th, Mr. Boulton introduced resolu-
tions for amending the constitution, by separating
legislative and executive powers, extending the elective
principle, and assimilating the whole system of govern-
ment to the American model. The house was counted
out for want of a quorum.
TWO DAYS LATER NEWS,

(VIA ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH FROM NEW YORK TO
HALIFAX.)

American and European Telegraph Agency,
Liverpool.

We have received our usual despatch from New York
vici Halifax, bringing commercial intelligence from the
former port to the afternoon of the 21st June :
New York, Friday, 21st June, 2 p.m.
Cotton—Sales, Wednesday, were 6000 bales, at 4- cent
advance, 3000 of which were on speculation. Thursday,
sales were 3000, at lc. to Sc. advance. To-day, sales up
to this hour, (2 o'clock p.m.,) 2500: prices rising.
The activity is caused entirely by calamitous accounts
from the south, relative to the growing crops, without re-
ference to foreign markets.
In some rich sections of the south the crop will be a
dead failure.

Middling Orleans 12/, and middling Uplands 1211, and
very little on sale. _ _

Flour—Firm at Tuesday's quotations; large sales of
Canadian at 45 to Sfi 25c. per barrel.
Corn—Yellow, 464 to =B'6s 9c. ; mixed lots at 5621.
Ashes—No sales since the burning of the inspection
warehouse.
Provisions—Quiet, but firm.

Money Market—Easy ; discounts readily obtained at 5
to 6 per cent. The New Ohio Loan of £'1,600,000 Sixes
was taken at an average of 12ic. advance ; Million Five per
Cent at from 2 per cent to 28-100. Stocks are dull. W.
S. Sixes of '62, 112 to 1124 r; Sixes of '67, 1151; Sixes of
'6B, 1161; Coupons, '6B, 1181 ; Treasury Notes, 1151.
Stealing exchange, 110 to 1101.