The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

FoREIGN AA\D COLONIAL.

UNITED STATES.

The Hibernia, Captain Ryrie, arrived on Thursday
night at ten o'clock, bringing New York intelligence one
week later than that supplied by the Great Western.
Nothing has occurred to change the character of the
presidential election. Mr. Polk is the man who is to suc-
ceed to the presidential chair.
i The elections have un-
doubtedly gone most decid-dly n his favour, and in the
returns now received, in continuation of former advices,
we find a very nearly proportionate majority maintained
by Polk. It is perfectly needless entering into any analy-
sis of the returns from individual states, such matters
being of no interest on this side. The American papers
are enjoying A fine squabble in debating which party has
bribed, robbed, and swindled to the gre test extent, but
as may be expected there is great difficulty in settling these
points. Each party admi,s a fair amount of delinquency,
and as to the personating of voters and frauds in the elec-
tion returns, these are openly allowed to be perfectly fair
ground for the exercise of electioneering ingenuity, and
therefore in no way to be questioned.
It seems that Mr. Polk is acknowledged by all parties
as the new president, and we find the papers filled with a
great deal of stuff and nonsense in the shape of specula-
tions as to his policy, and who will be the members of the
new administration. Sorry> papers go at length into the
question of the tariff, the Oregon territory, and the Texan
annexation; and the New York He,atd, according to its
usual custom, hatches a war with England on each and all
these points ; however, as a war is always announced in
that paper on the day previous to the steamer's departure,
its readers pretty well understand that it is only a war of
the kind so inimitably described by Mr. Dickens, in his
account of New York ed torials.

Our Canadian news is roo.t satisfactory and cheering.
The conservatives have achie‘ ed a great victory. All the
elections had terminated. and with a triumphant majority
for the Governor General. The radical papers try to
make it nut that he has not a working majority, but this
is only the dying kick of a defeated faction endeavouring
to soften down the nature of their overthrow.

The American commercial intelligence is of no especial
moment. Nearly all the state stocks had fallen in price.
The cotton market was afso very dull. At New York the
prices were for Upland and Florida, ordinary to middling
at 5 a 51 cts., middling fair to fair 61 a 61, fully fair to
good fair 61 a 7; and 1500 Mobile and New Orleans, or-
dinary to middling 5 a 6, middling fair to fair 61 a 71, and
fully fair to good fair 71 a 71. together 5000 bales.
The latest money article says—
The banks are enabled to get a little higher rate of in-
terest, most of them get six per cent. for the ordinary run
of paper, although some of the deposit banks discount
aho t loans at five per cent. The cloying of the year is
approaching, when the banks have to make up their annual
accounts. The result of the election has caused a little
feeling in the market; but it is believed it will have no
immediate influence on the market. Stocks generally
have receded, and the indication is that trade will be less
active, and consequently that there will be less demand
for money.
" EXCHANGE—FOREIGN.—The bill market•has under-
gone no chat,ge in the rate. The steamer of to-morrow
will not take a large amount; but on the contrary the re-
mittance will be light. Sterling bilk are held very firmly
at 110 to 110*. and Paris rates at 5 21; hut at these rates
the transactions have been small. The exports to Europe
at the present time are very small, and no hills will he
drawn against produce stripped for some weeks to come.
Bills on London, 60 ds £ slig.. 110 to 1101 per cent. prem.

, ..
Bills on Paris
5.21
" FREIGHTS.—There is bur little cotton going forward
indeed the stocks here are reduced very low. The Liver-
pool and Havre packets get full, but at very reduced rates.
Many of our freighting ships are up for the south, but
they get scarcely freight enough for ballast."