The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-09-16 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

Since our last we hate had two arrivals frau New York.
The New liork packet-ship arrived on Wednesday morning,
brineing intelligence to the 19th ult. from New York ; and
the Britannia, North American royal mail steam-ship, which
entered the Mersey on Wednesday morning at 7 o'clock,
haying loft Boston at half-past two p.m. on the Ist, and
Halifax at a quarter to four on the 3d. The most important
items of intelligence brought by these conveyances relate to
the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, and
the tariff which was proposed in July last, and quashed by
the vote of the President Tyler, on the 9th alt. The con-
gressional proceedings in relation to these two matters have
been curious and interesting. We have given elsewhere all
necessary particulars connected with these two great ques-
tion. The treaty was carried by 39 to 9.
The Caledonia reached Halifax on the 31st ult., at 7 a.m.,
and sailed for Boston at noon.
The cotton crop promised. to be the most abundant ever re-
membered, and the quality was everywhere spoken of as ex-
cellent. Some of the new crop had been received at New
Orleans, Mobile, Savannah, and Charleston.
The merchants were preparing for the fall trade, and deal-
ers from the south were flocking to the city. The cotton
market bad been dull for some time past. But little business
had been done in flour which bad fallen to 4 dollars 87 cents
per barrel, with every prospect of a still further decline. The
rates of Exchange were on London 72 to 7i, and on France
5,35 to 5,37!_. A cargo of Liverpool Orrell coal had been
sold at 7 dollars 50 cents cash.

Lord Ashburton was to be invited to a public dinner at
New -York, at which the son of the man who signed the first
treaty with Great Britain. His lordship had met the autho-
rities at Boston.

--.another of those speculating money-dealing " institutions "
which have ruined so many persons in the United States,
spread immortality and extravagance through all classes of
the people, has recently failed in New York, and its stock,
amounting to six millions of dollars, is become " not worth
a dollar." Some of the most respectable business men in
New York are said to have been largely concerned in it. The
plan was to loan money on the security of real property and
other securities, on an interest of seven per cent., taking the
bonds of the parties and issuing its own, which were in high
credit, and upon them money was speedily raised, chiefly in
England, at five per cent. The cause of the failure is said to
he the depreciation of property since 1835.
The New York American states that the promise of the
cotton crop continues favourable to a very large yield, and
that the new was already coming freely into the market at
New Orleans, and selling at very low prices, ranging from
to Sc. The wheat crops had realised the utmost hopes.
The crops throughout the Canadas are represented as most
abundant.
Exchange was in fair demand at New York, and the best
city sellers asked and obtained 71 per cent. for moderate
amounts. The supply was not large, but was fully equal to
the demand.
Advices from Texas and Mexico state that a campaign was
projected by the Texians against Mexico, and that the yellow
fever was raging at Vera Cruz.