The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-13 00:00:00

by Lieutenant Hosken, R. N., arrived at this port, from
The transatlantic steam-ship Great Western, commanded
New York, on Wednesday morning. It was announced some
time ago, that in order to accommodate the
.Liverpool trade,
it had been determined that this fine vessel should make
alternate voyages between New York and Bristol, and New
York and Liverpool. She accordingly left New York on her
first trip to this port, on the 28th ult. and has made her pas-
sage in twelve days and a half. She passed Cape Clear on
Monday last, at half-past three A. N. This is the shortest
passage ever made from New York, though the vessel went
greatly to the southward to avoid the ice, thereby increasing
her distance from the direct line, by 200 miles. Her average
speed was a fraction less than eleven knots per hour, in nau-
tical miles. The ship made 293 knots from noon of the sth,
to noon of the 6th instant. The time by the chronometer
occupied in making the passage, that is, in steaming from the
Wharf at New York, to the north-west Light-ship, where
she stopped to wait for the flood-tide, was 12 days 7i hours.
The Great Western has brought seventy-five passengers,
whose names are subjoined. Amongst the number, it will
be seen, is the recently appointed consul for the United
States at this port, James Haggerty, Esq.
In the money market confidence appeared to be reviving,
and the writers thereon, speak with hope and confidence.
The new tariff of_Sir Robert Peel, which opens a prospect of
the admission of many articles of American produce hitherto
prohibited, and the mission of Lord Ashburton, which holds
out a prospect that the differences between the United States
and this country will soon be amicably adjusted having con-
tributed greatly to this desirable result. There was a hope
also, that matters had arrived at that crisis when they must
mend from the impossibility of their being worse ; and thus,
for some weeks past, the money and stock market bad ex-
hibited greater buoyancy, and a stronger confidence was
every where manifested. The Banks of New York are stated
to be at ease entirely, and withal!, exceedingly strong, money
being plentiful. Exchange on London was 107 to 1071 city
bills : on France, 537 to 5 374: Amsterdam, 39 to 39} :
Hamburg, 35 to 351, and Bremen, 751 to 76.
There had been a fair demand for cotton, and a good
amount of business had been done. Prices remained firm at
former quotations. The transactions of the week amounted
to about 5,000 bales, the prices being for Upland and Florida
sto 9i cents, Mobile 10, Orleans 6to 91. The arrivals of
the week had been 7,996 bls. Total import from the Ist to
the 25th April 34,152. Total export in the same time 12,837.
Export from United States since Ist September last, 995,587.
Same time last year, 764,707. Same time year before
1,044,967. In the southern ports generally, the market was
heavy, and the amount of business small.
Considerable sales of flour have been made, Genessee sold
atsix dollars, and some inferior, qualities at five dollar. 871
cents. Troy and Michigan were held at six dollars ; Ohio,
five dollars 871 cents ; Southern, five dollars 874 cents ; Bal-
timore City Mills, five dollars 75 cents. From the West the
accounts all concur in representing the growing crop of wheat
as very promising, and very large in respect to the quantity

of acres sown

The Secretary of the Treasnry had advertised for " three
and a half millions of the twelve million loan," to be opened
on the first instant, and the money to be paid in three months
by instalments.

It was said, that the Treasury were about to authorise an
agent to proceed to Europe to negociate the whole amount.
The wants of the government appear to be particularly urgent.
Some surprise is expressed that the European capitalists have
not, considering the resources of the United States, eagerly
availed themselves of the opportunity of investing money to
such apparent advantage. A writer in one of the American
journals thus accounts for the apathy on the subject. "We
can only explain it by the humiliating reflectisn, that the dis-
honour which some of the States have cast upon their own ob-
ligations, is immeasurably reflected upon those of the Union,
and that, as we have indeed heard, is no uncommon expres-
sion of opinion, especially in continental Europe, capitalists
there will not trust a partnership while the bonds of some of
the individual partners are under protest. To provide for all
exigencies, and for ordinary expenditure, with interest of the
loans, a new tariff will be necessary. The subject has been
but slightly broached in the legislature, where it is evident it
will be violently resisted.

The banks throughout the south and west appear also to
have determined in good earnest to resume specie payments ;
and though this may cause some local distress, the country
generally will be greatly benefited.

Nothing further had transpired touching the tenor of Lord
Ashburton's instructions. He was still in correspondence
with the government of Maine. On this subject we extract
the following:—

" It is understood that Lord Ashburton has by the last
steamer, if he did not have them with him, plenary power to
settle the N.E. boundary question. Mr. Webster is unwil-
ling to make any proposition that does not meet the concur-
rence of Massachusetts and Maine. The governors of these
states have therefore been consulted, and special sessions of
the legislature have been invited. The Governor of Maine,
the state most interested, will soon convoke the legislature
in an extra session. The Kennebec Journal seems to hint,
that an arrangement could easily be made which would be
beneficial to both Maine and New Brunswick. ' Our neigh-
bours want a passage by land,' it says ; we want one by
water. Both could be accommodated without much incon-
venience to either. If the right spirit prevails, the matter
may easily be settled to the advantage of all concerned. if
it is not, the surveys must go on, and arbitration follow,
against which Maine has already protested.' Maine, no
doubt, for the free navigation of St. John's, will give afree
passage over the disputed territory. The province of New
Brunswick, however, will hardly consent to that."
The Lieutenant-governor. of New Brunswick, Sir W. W.
J. Colebrooke, had issued a proclamation, stating that it had
been announced to him that large quantities of timber had
been cut in the disputed territory within the last year, in vio-
lation of the prohibition announced in former proclamations,
and publicly announcing, that if any of the said timber should
be brought into the river St. John, it would be liable to sei-
zure.

Havana dates to the Bth ultimo had reached New Orleans.
The papers contained no political news. It was said that the
Mexican government had proposed to make a railway across
the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, to connect the Pacific and At-
lantic Oceans. As the distance is 200 miles, the expense, it
is presumed, will be greater than the Mexican government
can undertake. The Havana markets continue dull, with low
e who I prices.

LIST OF PASSENGERS

L. Darthey, Charles Bousfield, A. Ixlin, James Eddy,
Mr. and Mrs. Roberts and Miss Roberts, James Hudson,
James Cocker, Mr. Cooper, Mr. Mollan, James Stuart,
Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, child, and servant, Mr. and Mrs.
Watson, two children, and servant, Miss Peebles, G. H.
Booth, Mr. and Mrs. Paul, J. Bedele, Mr. Atcheson, J. B.
Meyer, Henry Lowndes, Mr. Alexander, Mr. Seymour,
George Dunn, Joseph B. Dunn, Mr. Briscoe, George Silvera,
F. R. Coy, Lieutenant Heat, Maurice Bower, Mrs. Inglis
and child, Mrs. Horner, S. Crocker, Charles Lamson, James
W. Cameron, L. C. Callet, A. Berry, E. Caylus, Mr. But-
terfield, John M`Glashan, W. Pehl, Alven Von .Amuluscen,
Mr. Spence, J. S. Marshall, James Holford, J. S. Allen,
John and Mrs. Parnell, three children, and two servants,
Mr. and Mrs. Hagerty, Miss Hagerty, and three children,
Mr. Kinney, J. S. Taylor, Louis Fouinett, Captain Wright,
J. P. Tumey, Wm. Hirst, Colonel Clive, Henry Cuestra,
Mr. Kelly.

AWFUL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT

(From the Baltimore American.)

It is our melancholy duty to record the most fearful and
fatal steam-boat explosion which has ever taken place on the
waters of the Chesapeake. The new and splendid steam-
boat Medora, built for the line between this city and Norfolk,
was yesterday rendered a wreck by the explosion of her
steam-boiler, attended by a fearful destruction of human life.
The Medora was just completed, and preparatory to being
turned out from the hands of the machinist, a number of per-
sons were invited to go in her on an experimental trip. The
day being pleasant, it is supposed that probably one hundred
or more were on board, including some of the directors of the
steamboat company and their friends, and a number. of the
hands engaged in finishing the vessel, putting in the machi-
nery, &c., and otherwise connected with the construction or
sailing of the boat.

Soon after three o'clock, p.m., the boat was about to start
from the wharf of the engine-builder, Mr. John Watchman,
on the south side of the basin, on the proposed trip. A gen-
tleman who was on board informs us, that the engine had
only made the second revolution, in order to back the Me-
dora from the wharf, when the boiler exploded with a loud
noise, carrying upwards a considerable portion of the upper
deck and those upon it, and blowing the smoke stacks high
into the air. The main force of the explosion was almost
exclusively towards the head of the boat, and the portions of
the boat around the boiler were torn to pieces. The boiler
itself, an immense one of iron, was thrown crosswise on the
deck. _

The boat was instantly enveloped in a cloud of scalding
steam, which was inhaled by some with fatal consequences,
while others suffered externally in their persons from its
effects. Our informant was in the after part of the boat
where the steam had no effect. He says that several per_
sons were forced overboard, and that one of them was
drowned. The boat immediately settled down in the water,
until her hull rested on the bottom of the river.
, While
In the centre and forward part of the boat there was a
fearful destruction of life and limb. Some of those on board
were blown high in the air, and fell on shore, in the water,
and on the boats lying near by. Others were crushed with
physi-
the splintered timbers, others scalded with the steam, while
i
those below the decks, not having time to escape; were either
suffocated by' the steam or drowned when the boat sunk.
ured,
and
dd
so
or
little dying.
When we reached the scene of desolation, we found a
large number of persons, among whom were several
cians, busily engaged in endeavouring to assist th
S. 0. great
personsTh on board, that
was the ctahrerycinognfauwsiao3n' thosethat who
were
prevailed,
There ate no doubt
as to the number and names of thewas known
no complete account could be obtained. _
some who were on board, whose loss will only be known by
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their not returning to their homes.
was stand-
in the head, and it was very doubtful
Mr. John C. Moale, the agent of the steam
yesterday whether he
would recover.
.bo,ulicthlininej,uN,r,eads
on board with his two sons. Mr. Moale had his right foot
dislocated, and was injured in the side and back. Soon after
of Mogre.,Mwoasalek'islleelddeasltmsoonst Wini
he was taken home he expired.
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we ahros
was also on board, was dangerously injured.
About 40 persons were wounded, not more than half of
whom survived.

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altar from a
A young lady, who was lately led to the
boarding school, confessed that she became
as
long'i as she
that she might be at liberty to lie in bed
as
breakfast !
pleased in the morning, and have buttered toast
cen t le in order
Central Criminal
presented a
THE ROEHAMPTON MURDER.—At tnlicei
jury
Court on Wednesday evening, the grand
number of bills; and, among others, they
d Of Jane Jones other-
returned a true bill
against Daniel Good, for the murder as an accessory alter
wise Good, and against Mary ""'
aftowrhtihche
true bill was also return-
contain no less than 3'.'• counts-
and against Mary Good
ed against Daniel Good for felony..
returned against Richard
the fact. Both the indictmentsAare very voluminous, and
smilCarootopetrh,
Gamble, for felony, and F
murder of the policeman Daly.
for felony. A bill was likewise
A calamity
HAMDURGS.—A FIRES AT HA
the town of ilarnbur h h
ainst Thomsai
g as not occu red
has just befallen
its history► with the exception ofthat t
which
in any portion of
13,
8 when the troops of Napoleon,
it suffered in 1
the city, set fire driving
• blunts from to the dwell' 40,000 inha
Persons, in the nearest environs, dwellings
of about 8,000
with such rapidity, they being
as
in
the
present
chiefly co r, that the
case, ith th • l' poor people
could only escape w their ives. Man
have occurred, among • y other minor con-
flagrations which an historian has
th to ree d
been
endwor y or the following, all
been inciary. In 160 G a numberof
Cathedral were destroyed by fire houses adjoining the
set fire to the street called Kno l'i and in 1615 an incendiary
sumed the whole of the two sides,c enhau-e, which con-
houses. In 1676 an incendiary containing 25 extensive
Cremon, and destroyed 3 fire broke out in the street
chandise amounting to 0 warehouses, with all their mer-
part of the city upwards of 400,000 crowns. That
the state of London destroyed resembles, in its general features
most of the old before the great fire ;it consisted, like
towns in Germany, of narrow, irregular,
and dark streets , the houses old-fashioned, awkward, and
cumbrous. The .
only exceptions were the modern handsome
houses erected insane of the streets.