The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS

By the Acadia, we have received New York papers to
the 31st and Montreal to the 29th ultimo.
The canvass for the Presidential election was proceed-
ing with much spirit. Large meetings, characterized by
great order and quiet, were being held in every part of the
country, and the prospects of Clay and Freelinghasen con-
tinued brilliant. President Tyler had formally withdrawn
from the contest. His retirement restores the Demo-
cratic party to its former entireness. Mr. Clay says, with
regard to Texas, that, so far from having any personal
objections to the annexation, he should be glad to see it,
if without dishonour, without war, with the common con-
sent of the Union, and upon fair and just terms. Slavery
be considers to have nothing to do with the question, he
deeming it to be an institution which'; will inevitably be-
come extinct by the natural increase of the population.
He concludes his letter by stating, that if, in the event of
his election, annexation should become a matter for con-
sideration, he should be governed in his course by the
state of fact and public opinion existing at the time, but,
above all, he should be governed by the paramount duty
of preserving the union entire. M. Polk is in favour of
a " tariff fur revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient
amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of Govern-
ment, economically administered."
Captain Barstow, of the packet-ship Cambridge, which
had arrived at New York, picked up, on the 12th ult., the
crew of a boat belonging to the French fishing schooner
Avenie, of Honfleur, France, in 1at.,1-1 36, lon. 53. They
bad been separated from their vessel thirty-six hours, by
a violent gale of wind and thick fog, when they boarded
the Cambridge ; and they judged themselves to be sixty
miles from their vessel. They were entirely destitute of
provisions and water. Captain Berry, of the Vicksburgh,
on his passage from New Orleans to New York, was also
the instrument of rescuing seven persons, the captain and
crew of the British schooner Orange, which had been lost
on the voyage from Jamaica to Matanzas. One boy,
named W. Roscoe, died soon after from exhaustion, fa-
mine, and exposure, they having been in the boat during
fourtee❑ days.
The quotation of Exchange on London had advanced
to 1091 to 110. Shipments of silver to the amount of one
million of dollars had been made.

An extensive conflagration had occurred at Boston, by
which upwards of thirty buildings were destroyed, and the
loss amounted to about fifty thousand dollars.
The usual cotton circular, of Mr. T. P. Stearat t, will be
found below.

Our accounts from Montreal, to the 29th ult., state
that the following list, comprising men of great ta'ent, is
confidently asserted to be the Ministry selected by Sir
Charles Metcalfe :—President of the Council, Mr. Viger ;
Secretary, Mr. Daly; Attorney-General for Upper
Canada, Mr. Draper; Attorney-General for Lower
Canada, Mr. Sherwood ; Solicitor-General for Upper
Canada, Mr. Chabot; Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Mr. D. P. Papineau ; Receiver-General, Mr. William
Morris; Inspector-General, Mr. Merritt. It is also re-
ported, that the present Ministry do not think it advisable
that the existing Parliament should be again called
together. If this is the case a dissolution and general
election may be speedily expected.
The great public works of the province are proceeding
rapidly ; but, unfortunately, are the cause of repeated
outrage and breaches of the peace amongst the Irish la-
bourers employed upon them. The prospects of agricul-
ture this year are stated to be very good. The wheat
raising in the lower province has been peculiarly success-
ful, the crops having suffered but little from the fly, the
usual curse of the Canadian farmer, and hardly at all
from rust. The accounts from Upper Canada are also
very flattering. Trade, in every branch, was dull.
The intelligence from Vera Cruz, to the Bth ult., had
been brought to New Orleans by her Majesty's sloop-of-
war Rose, which had been despatched with the English
mails which were intended for the Tay, which ran aground
on the Colorados reef. We learn that the Mexican au-
thorities were recruiting sailors for their navy rapidly.
Santa Anna had placed the remains of the unfortunate
General Sentamanat at the disposal of his family, in the
United States. It seems that there was truth in the
statements that the Mexicans mutilated the dead body of
Sentamanat, though Santa Anna utterly disavows the act,
and has ordered Ampudia, the officer under whose orders
the outrage took place, to give a strict account of his
conduct. The French and Spanish ministers in Mexico
have addressed strong protestations to the government
against the summary executions of the prisoners taken in
the rash expedition under Sentamanat.
It is said the proposition has been made to " suspend
all the constitutional forms of government during the war
with Texas, and invest the President with uncontrollable
power to raise money and do any thing else which he may
deem necessary."
The election for a President of Texas was tortake place
last Monday. Burleson and Jones were the candidates;
the first was in favour of annexation, the latter against it.
Jones was supported by the influence of Houston, the
late President, but it was believed the popularity of Bur-
leson would elect him. Jones was openly in favour of
an alliance with England, and the establishment of a
policy unfavourable to the United States.

The New York papers give the following extract from
a letter, dated Bluefields, Musqueto Shore, South Ame-
xica:—" This port is now in possession of the English,
and a British flag is flying here. A tonnage duty of
fifty cents per ton on all vessels trading here or any part
of the Musqueto Shore is to go in force on the 31st of
August in the present year. An English man-of-war has
been titre and landed a Governor and some arms. It
appears they are going to take possession of the coast as
far down as Boco del Toro. The report here is that the
man-of-war has gone down to blockade Salt Creek."

San Fernando,-in South America, is stated to have been
destroyed by floods ; but the accounts are meagre.

PRICE OF COTTON—NEW YORK, Aue. 29.
LIVERPOOL cLAssincATios.
Upland and Florida. N. Orleans & Mobile.
Inferior
Ordinary si .. 54 —si .. Fair supply.
Middling 6 —64 .. 64 —64 .. Fair supply.
Good middling 64 7 .. Fair supply.
Middling fair
Fair
Fully fair 74 S 84 —B4 .. Fair supply.
Good fair — 9 • . 9 —y4 .. Fair supply.
Fine
Receipts since Ist instant bales 12,7)0
Exports ditto
Taken by spinners 4,800
Taken on speculation
Stock in city 73,0»0
Amount on sale
Receipts at ports of the United States since Sep-
tember Ist, 1843 2,016,855
tt f same period last year.. 2 374,406
Of year before 1,670,623
Total exports from the United States since Sep-
tember Ist, 1843 1,611,842
f t at the same period last year 2,0 5,889
year before 1,456,611
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool, 4 to 9-32 d. ; Havre, i to 4c.
If" The unsettled tone of our market, alluded to in my last eir.
eular, per Caledonia, of the 14th inst., continued until we were
placed in possession of dates from Liverpool to the 4th instant,
per Acadia. on the lyth inst. Holders assumed a firmer position
on the receipt of these articles, and generally demanded a small
advance. This, however, was not acceded to by purchasers,
and the business transacted, consequently, was limited. The
market was again fully supplied, at previous rates, on the second
day, and some disposition to press sales was manifested. This
has resulted in a reduction of one-eighth to a quarter of a cent
on the lower grades, with which the market has been more fully
supplied. Holders of finer cottons are generally unwilling sel-
lers, even at the above extreme quotations, and some factors
still refuse to submit a bale at present rates, considering that
the coming crop does not present indications of a very large
yield, although the plant is unu,ually strong and forward.
Sales for the week ending 17th inst , 0 bales ; for the week
ending '24th inst., 3,800 bales; since, to this date, 2,400, with a
firmer tone at the present quotations. Receipts of the new crop
at New Orleans, 640 bales, up to the 25th instant ; a few small
parcels have also reached this city from Charleston. Freights
have advanced, and are firm. Exchange is also improving, and
several shipments of specie have been made.
P.S —SATURDAY, 1 P as —The inquiry, which has been mo-
derate, has resulted in sales to the extent of 1,400 bales since
noon on Thursday, and has been freely met by holders in small
parcels. there being but few li,ts in the market, which are held
rather firmly at quotations.
Freights are still tending upwards. Some few engagements
were made yesterday, at -16(1. for square hales to Liverpool ;
and, as the packet of the 6th is full. and the succeeding one
nearly so, the rate will not probably be lower."