The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-02-19 00:00:00

t has been done

from August 31st, 18

We have the
re consecutive

considerble importations of roiefin

average price of wheat in this country was froni 46s 'to 475.
per quarter, leavinf only 2Gs. to 275. for the foreign pro-
y to supply it at that price
y again see shortly

now, and

.efer was never conse
to its present purpose,

Ebt Ettirrpool o,tanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING. FE.

TWO D IYS LATER FROM AMERICA

ANOTHER ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA

C TELEGRAPH

BY the arrival of the Niagara, from Boston, we
e advices from New York to the 6th instant.
hich is not important, will be found
She brings out extensive orders for
manufactured goods, the importers of which had
done well with the fall shipments, and were expect-
ing a large spring trade. The estimates of the

elsewhere

cotton crc

p from the sot

th were rather more in

favour of an increase in quantity,

er than was' ant

the arrivals con-
)ated. The grain
ensive shipments were

markets were dull; and ext
preparing for this country.

The following important news, however, with
di.te thorn New York and Boston two days later
than those receivedby the steamer, was forwarded
by private letter from Halifax to a Liverpool cor-
respondent. The intelligence was telegraphed to
Halifax from New York just as the Niagara was
about to sail

The following is our co-rrespon.

t's letter

" Telegraph Office, Hi
I have telegraphic despatch

r, Sth Feb., 1850.

important

TI
with Califor

steamer E

from Ne

rk and

The facts are

from Chagres, had arrived

to the Ist of January. and from two
ns to two and a half millions of gold dust.
Operations had nearly ceased at the mines for the
mt of the snow and rain, but the gold
satisfactory than heretofore.

s is not le

" The state legislature was already fully organized.
__
drafted constitution, excluding slavery,
ed by 12,000 to 8000 votes.

had been accer

York, b:

had arrived at
Fremont and Gwinn

id members of Conzre
Empire CitN
al candid

had been the suc
" There bad b

), which destroyed

1 ,000,000 'dollar

;es for senators

adous conflazration at St.
roperty to the amount of

"Our reports do not embrace the state of the markets.
" The steamer Severn was waiting at Chartres, and would
receive on board about :8'1,000,000 in gold dust on British

the Ni

ira sailed from Boston, Cotton has de
rd there are free sellers at the decline

" No cl

e in Flour or Grain

" Money market buoyant

THE present condition and attitude of the
manufacturing interest present phases of folly,
selfishness, and wickedness combined, which are
Nom to be observed in one body. But "a little
" we heard nothing but paeans of
triumph over the success of our Free Trade policy,
as evidenced in increased demand for manufactured
qkuttles were revolving, spindles were

month ago,

goods
flv

The agric
but they 1

e operative was in full Iv-Url,

and
went merry as a marriage bell."

ural community might be suff(

were stupid grumblers,---:

ke him in

the fable, who were ever calling upon Jove to
them, instead of putting their own should
the wheel

ers to
The manufacturers alone, and the
-cular, were the only people
re about; and their pros-
raded before the world in

ter men in par

who knew what they.

perous condition was pa

proof of ti

e fact

This state of affairs, however, appears already to
have changed a little. The exuberant prosperity
of these people seems to have vanished as rapidly
as the gloss from •off a piece of Yorkshire cloth, or
the colour from a piece of their own printed calico,
—made to sell. Some people may incline to doubt
whether the prosperity boasted of ever had any
xistence ; but that is not our affair. It is
sufficient to know that no such thing exists at
From the carefully compiled trade article