The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

AMERICA.

The steam-ship Europa, Captain Lott, from New
York, arrived at a quarter-past two o'clock on Sunday
afternoon, after a fine run of 10 days 19 hours, bringing
advices to the 17th instant, £65,000 in specie, and 72
passengers.
The steam-ship Hibernia arrived at Boston on the 12th
instant, and the steam-ship America at Halifax on the
18th instant.

The screw steam-ship Helena Sloman sailed from New
York for Hamburgh on the 12th, and on the 13th the
screw steamer City of Glasgow, Captain Mathews, left
for the Clyde. The iron steamship Viceroy, lost off
Seal Island, had been abandoned. Several attempts had
been made to rescue her, but unsuccessfully, and her hull
had been advertised for sale.

Our accounts by the Europa on this occasion extend
merely to the date of the steamer's departure from New
York, no telegraph report having been received at Ha-
lifax. Our last account reported briefly the fact of Pre-
sident Taylor's demise. We now receive full details of
the event, the funeral ceremony, and the subsequent pro-
ceeding of Congress. The funeral of the President took
place on Saturday, July 13. The occasion was honoured
with appropriate and impressive solemnities ; the military
escort, commanded by the veieran General Scott, was
with a large number of volunteer militia companies from
Baltimore and the district of Columbia. In the principal
cities of the Union the day was observed by suspension
of business and suitable ceremonies.
On the 12th instant the remains of the President were
deposited in state in the east room of the Whitehouse.
On the 10th in the Senate a warm eulogium was delivered
by Mr. Webster on the character of the deceased magis-
trate.

On the 16th Mr. Webster gave notice of a bill to erect
a monument to the President in Washington.
Strong hopes were entertained that the compromise
slavery bill would meet with the assent of the Senate and
the Lower House.

It was anticipated that Congress would shortly adjourn
on the question of the new cabinet and the policy of the
President.

The New York Courier of the 17th says,—" We learn
by telegraph from our correspondent at Washington that
President Fillmore held a conference with the Cabinet
yesterday upon public affairs. The members of the Ca-
binet consented, at the President's request, to remain in
office till Monday next.lt is probable that a new Cabinet
will be organised by that time ; if not, Mr. Ewing, the
Secretary of the Interior, will probably be retained.
The Cabinet declines to advise the President in re-
ference to the new organisation, although invited so to do.
Their functions they now consider executive simply, not
advisory. The President, it is understood, has deter-
mined to pursue the policy marked out by Gen. Taylor
respecting New Mexico, and will act upon it as soon as
the Cabinet shall be formed."
According to a Washington correspondent of the New
York Express, one list of a new administration is as fol-
lows :—For Secretary of State, Mr. R. C. Winthorp ;
for Secretary of Treasury, Mr. M'Kinnon ; for Secretary
of Navy, Mr. Thomas Butler King; for Secretary of
Interior, Mr. Vinton ; for War, Mr. Graham ; for
Postmaster-General, Mr. Morhead ; for Attorney-
General, Mr. Hopkins. The President, a few days before
his death, had prepared a strong message to Congress,
directed against the threatened invasion of New Mexico
by Texas. The Cuban question had assumed a more de-
finite and satisfactory aspect. A Washington corres-
pondent of the New York Courier and Enquirer, under
date the 15th of July, says—" The assurances which were
recently communicated by General Campbell that the
Cuban prisoners would be released after certain formali-
ties have been fulfilled. Despatches were received here
this morning, per Captain M'Keever, of the United States
frigate Conquest, dated the Bth instant, stating that the
Cuban authorities had promised to give up their pri-
soners in the course of a few days." The Pacific Mail
Steam-ship Company declared a dividend of 50 per cent.,
their first dividend. Four hundred houses, and property
to the amount of £200,000 sterling, have been destroyed
by the great fire in Philadelphia. Several lives also were
lost.—From Canada our accounts are unimportant. On
the 12th instant the cabinet sustained a defeat on their
motion to fix the postmaster's salary at ,83,200, for the
vote being 28 to 28, a casting vote of the Speaker reduced
the amount to 6'3,000. £B,OOO had been voted in aid
of the exhibition of 185 L It is reported that the banks
of the St. Lawrence, at the falls of Niagara, were in a
very precarious state, and threatened to give way. From
Vera Cruz, via New Orleans, we have accounts to the Ist
instant, announcing that the Mexican Congress had not
been able to organise for want of a quorum. Some inte-
rest had been awakened relative to the approaching elec-
tion of President. Amongst others, Santa Anna, who is
ineligible, from non-residence, has been proposed. Cho-
lera was devastating the capital. From May 17th to June
16th several hundreds had died. At St. Luis Potosi also
the disease prevailed. Hayti advices of the 28th ultimo
report the probability of the invasion of St. Domingo
more doubtful. Soulouque professes to desire peace.
Coffee was scarce. Carthagena accounts of the 22d ult.
enlarge upon the expulsion of the Jesuits from that quar-
ter. Santa Anna, the Mexican revolutionary chief, still
remains a resident, and had become a great money dealer.
Accounts from Havana of the 11th inst report a few cases
of cholera. Severe rains had fallen.
_ COMMERCIAL NEWS.

The commercial accounts received represent business gene-
rally throughout the Union as being in a very quiet state.
Money was abundant, and the exchanges were heavy; that
on London was quoted at 1104 to 11111.
CorroN.—The market was still active, prices advancing
slightly. The crop accounts are of the same character as when
last reported of.
BREADSTUFFS.—There is no change to report in the bread-
stuffs market. Prices are unaltered.

Thcre were but few transactions in provisions. Freights
inactive.

IRELAND.

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A cargo of wheat, grown near Jerusalem, has arrived at
Cork.

Mr. Vignoles is as work, under his patent, producing
coke and charcoal from bog peat, near Ballinasloe. The
charcoal is used for gunpowder and smelting.
Pierce K. Mahony, Esq., accountant-general of the
Irish Court of Exchequer, was killed by a fall from his
horse on Sunday. The office rendered vacant by this
melancholy catastrophe is worth £6OO a-year.
The £342 subscribed in Dublin towards the national
monument to O'Connell, which it was proposed to erect
in the Glasnevin Cemetery. has. been diverted to the fit.
ting up of a stained window in Father Mathew's new
chapel.
On Thursday Jeremiah Shine, Esq., of Coolyhenane,
appeared in the insolvent court at Limerick to oppose the
discharge of John Waters, a tenant who owed him a
heavy arrear of rent. After giving his evidence he re-
tired to a seat, andimmediately fell down in a fit of
,apoplexy, and died in a few mutes.