The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-07-19 00:00:00

UNiTED STATS.

The British and North American Royal mail steamer
Britannia, Captain Hewitt, arrived on Saturday last at this
port. She sailed from Boston on the afternoon of the 2d,
and Halifax (off which she was delayed, by fog, thirty-six
hours) on the morning of the 6th instant. The passage from
the latter port occupied ten days. She has brought upwards
of sixty passengers from Boston and Halifax. Among them
is Mr. Cook, a special messenger from Lord Ashburton,
bearing despatches for Government.
We have received by this conveyance files of New York
papers to the afternoon of the Ist instant inclusive, Boston
to the 2d, and Halifax to the sth. Canada papers of late
dates have also been received.
The President and the Congress had disagreed on the
question of the revenue. As the Compromise Act would ex-
pire on the 30th of June, and as the legislation on the subject
contemplated by that act had not been matured, nor was
likely to be so in time, to meet this contingency a temporary
bill had passed both chambers, extending to the Ist of
August the dut;es in force on the Ist of June, and the laws
for collecting those duties. This temporary bill was called
" the little Tariff Bill." and upon it the President had put
his veto. As there were not two-thirds in either house to
carry the bill notwithstanding the veto, the measure is de-
feated. The effect of the veto would be, that the distribution
of the proceeds of the public lands would take place imme-
diately. The executive had determined to attempt to collect
the duties of twenty per cent. on all imports in pursuance of
the Compromise Act. The collection was to commence on
the sth instant at the United States custom-houses : the
proceeds would not, however, it was maintained, go into the
Treasury. The regulations required by the Compromise
Act to be made for a home valuation were to be prescribed
by law, and regulations prescribed by the executive power
atone are not, it is contended, law. Whatever duties were
paid would be so under protest.
With respect to Lord Ashburton's mission, the papers are
still without any specific information "In our foreign affairs,
referring especially to Lord Ashburton's negociations," the
New York American says, " the confidence of a favourable
result is still unshaken."

The State of Rhode Island had been the scene of a rebellion.
The universal suffrage party had, under the command of
Dorr, their irregularly elected governor, actually taken the
field. A force, amounting to between seven and eight hun-
dred men, fully armed, had taken up a porition near a place
called Chepachet, and thrown up field-works. The govern-
ment troops and the militia, to the number of nearly three
thousand, under the command of Major M`Neill, moved
against the rebels. But, before the attack commenced, the
universal sufferage party men, deserted by their leader Dorr,
broke and dispersed. Only one or two lives were lost
among the rebels, about two hundred of whom were made pri-
soners. A large reward has been offered by the Governor of
the State for the apprehension of Dorr, who had, however,
eluded pursuit, and, it was supposed, made his escape into
Canada.
Nothing remarkable had occurred in the money market.
Money is represented as abundant. First-rate paper was in
demand at from six to seven per cent. interest per annum.
New York State Stocks had, since the closing of the books,
fallen off one to two per cent. United States Six per Cents.
were daily taken for investment at par and interest. All the
States not now defaulters which had interest due on the Ist
instant had provided the means. Fears were entertained that
Philadelphia would not be able to continue her payments of
interest. _ _ . . .

The demand for bills on England for the Britannia had
not been large. The rates bad, however, slightly improved.
The remittances of interest on money borrowed in Europe
had affected them, but not to such an extent as would have
been the case, had all the States met their engagements. On
England the rate was 107 to l 07,1; on France. 5,37 A to 5,38 ;
on Amsterdam, 38f to 39; on Hamburgh, 341 to IC; and on
Bremen, 75 to 7f4.
The interest due on the first of July on the Maryland,

Illionis, and Arkansas bonds would not be paid. The in-
solvent States stand as follow :—Pennsylvania, Illionis,
Mississippi, Arkansas, Indiana, and Michigan.
Accounts from Port-au-Prince of the lith ult, had been
received at New York. They contradict the account pre-
viously received of a rebellion having broken out in St.
Domingo. President Boyer was seriously ill, and not ex-
pected to recover.
From Montevideo the accounts reach to the 9th of May,
but they do not contain any news of interest. The contend-
ing parties of Montevideo and Buenos Ayres remained with-
out any change in their relative positions.
The Canada papers do not contain any news worth ex-
tracting. The British and North American royal mail
steamer Caledonia, which sailed from this port on the 19th
ult., arrived at Halifax on the 3d instant, and proceeded on
to Boston, which she would reach on the sth.

COTTON TRADE

(From the New York Herald of July 1.)

At the extreme south, the condition of the currency is
such as to have a great influence upon the markets, particu-
larly at New Orleans, where all transactions are formed on
stipulations in relation to the exact character of the funds in
which payment is to be made. At Mobile the currency con-
tinues rapidly to depreciate, and the prices are governed ac-
cordingly. In the markets of Georgia and South Carolina,
the season is so far advanced as to render transactions slug-
gish, although the news by the Britannia, which had been
received, produced a favourable impression. The following
is a table of transactions at the leading ports :
STOCKS, SALES, PRICES, AND REMARKS.

Stocks. Sales. Prices. Remarks.
New York 31,000 4,000 51 to 9/ advanced
N. Orleans, Jan. 22 43,502 3,800 5 to 8 firm.
Mobile, „ 22 4,685 700 84 to 9i advancing.
Savannah, „ 25 5,517 230 4 to 8 firm.
Augusta, „ 25 300 4+ to 84 „
_

Columbia, S.C., 25
Charleston, „ 18

Market closed.
I 2,100 5 to 10 firm

The foll Owing table will show the comparative prices of
Liverpool classification at the leadinc, ports :
PRICES COTTON, LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION.

N. Orleans. Mobile. Savanb. Charlstn.
Inferior... 4 to 41 7 to 7/ 41 to 54 41 to 51
Ordinary
Middling
Middling fair
Fair to fully fair
_?/ to 10 8 to 8/

Good fair .: ..
Good and fine

12 to 13

The prices at Mobile are, of course, governed by the cur-
rency, which is depreciated 40 per cent. for specie. The
receipts of cotton are now very light at all the ports. The
following is a table of the receipts, exports, and stocks of
cotton in the United States :
RECEIPTS, EXPORTS, AND STOCK OF COTTON.

_____ _, __
1841. 1842. Incr.
Receipts 1,579,818 1,638,901 59,083
Exports to G. Britain 772,226 868,306 96,080
France .. 306,976 364,581 57,605
other ports 89,991 102,011 12,020
169,031 135,156

Stocks

ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY or ENGLAND

The meeting at Bristol has been a very successful one, and
the city has been actually crowded with visitors, including
the Duke of Cambridge and a long list of nobility. A cor-
respondent of the Times says, " not a bed is to bad at any
of the inns at any price, and even in private lodging it is
with difficulty that a decent apartment can be obtained. The
Royal Agricultural Society has converted this ancient city
into one immense hotel, and the suburbs into a stable for all
kinds of domestic animals. Whole acres of canvass are
stretched over the fields at the back of the Victoria-rooms,
and thousands of deal boards have been nailed together for
the temporary convenience and necessity of the occasion.,
On Tuesday evening, the mayor, Mr. G. W. Franklyn,
gave a most splendid banquet to his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge, and the other distinguished visitors
now in Bristol, at the Merchant's-hall. About ninety guests
sat down to a magnificent dinner, served on plate, provided
by Messrs. Niblett and Pring. His worship presided, the
vice-presidents' seats hein filled by the town-clerk, Mr. D.
Burgess, and Mr. J. Franklyn. His worship was supported
on the right by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
the Duke of Beaufort, and the Earl of Essex, and on the
left by the Hon. Edward Everett, minister from the United
States, the Duke of Riehmond, and the Marquis of Down-
shire.

The usual toasts were drank, and on the health of the
American Minister being proposed his Excellency returned
thanks in an eloquent address, in the course of which he
said the fundamental principle of his country, as they all
knew, was equality, and he confessed that he had errone-
ously thought that in the mother-country this was not so ;
but when last week he had met his Royal Highness at Cam-
bridge wearing a doctor's gown at the University of Cam-
bridge like the rest, and mingling equally with his fellow doc-
tors, and when now again he met his Royal Highness mixing
with the farmers of England, he was proud to confess how
erroneous had been his impression; and he must say that
this example set by his Royal Highness was calculated to
have the most salutary influence.
The implements and things exhibited in the show-yard
amounted in number to 99 specimens, including alt sorts of
novel inv,:ntions in agricultural machinery—ploughs, bar-
rows, chaff-cutters, rollers, thrashing machines, carts, win-
nowers, washing-tubs, &c., so numerous and ramified, that
a printed catalogue of 34 C.,sely printed pages gives little
more than a list of their names, and the names of the in-

ventors.
The ploughing match came off on Wednesday amidst a
continued fall of rain, by which numbers were deterred from
being present. It took place in a large field at Beggar's
Bush, close to Leigh-woods. The ploughing match itself
7vaa a pleasing sight, and had the weather been fine, would
havewe.t been one of the best of the whole " show." It was
and I arranged and well conducted. There were between 30
0_40,, ploughs in the match. With the exception of one
Vas`:igcri' which was drawn by three mules in the tandem
The spa
ofthe ploughs were drawn by two horses abreast.
an acre; ..ground to be ploughed by each plough was half
upright e-rided4 half acre was allotted and marked out by
o'clock the
atB stuck in the ground ; and at a quarter to one
whole of the "7, if it may be so termed, took place, the
returning baekt aonglis advancing in line across the field and
ploughing of thei;cirs and forwards till the conclusion of the
not cut deep, but With allotments. The furrows were
each other, and with rremarkable precision of distance from
were allowed, the pioueroarkable straightness. No drivers
and by his voice, or,
as
the farmers
hrran directed his horses by reins,
call it, it was all " Jeho"
work. The match lasted two hours, after which the
judges surveyed the ground!'"
The trial of implements took place on -Wednesday in a
in thepressence of Messrs. Parkes,
field near Sneyd-park,
Graham, and Legard, the judges,
Geo. Webb Hall
Ir.
steward of the ground. It cornmennededi‘
o'clock in the morning, and occupied the
ebout half-past five
trials being made of new inventions in almostwhole of the day,
tion of agricultural machines. several of whic every descrip-
eed by the judges to contain very considerable improvement
pronoun-
while others were of course declared to be failures.
On Wednesday, at 6 o'clock, the Council dinner, the
anticipated grandeur of which has
been so long the subject of
expectation, took place at the Victoria rooms' and was
attended by a company numbering more than 500.
After dinner the :ward of the prizes was read by the Duke
of Richmond.

RAILWAY TRAVELLI c IN ANIERICA.—It is a common
fact enough, that half the railway routes. that are travelled in
America are either temporary or unfinished—onelicrielabfa
reason,
among several, for the multitudinous accidents w
Tourney, within
wayfarers. At the vary out-set of ourLitohuor
scarce a mile of Philadelphia, we crossed ylkill over
a bridge, one of the principal piers of :I,loiZlisonyeetoti'hica°o:
plete, and the whole building (a covered
some dimensions) filled with workmen yet occuipnietdheinwiatys
construction. But the Americans are impetuous ,
1 1 Iren
of impr,Neroent, and have all the impatience of
about the trying of a new thing; often greatly retarding their
own progress by hurrying unduly the completion_ rt,ftil: .
their
works, or using them in a perilous state of incompleteness.
ei
We crossed one or two inlets from the Chesapeake of consi-
derable width, upon bridges of a most perilous construction,
and, indeed, which have given way once or twice in various
parts already. They consist merely of wooden
piles driven
onlyst •
into the water, across which the iron rails are laid, just
raising the cars above the level of the water. To traverse
with an immense train at full steam speed one of these creeks,
nearly a mile in width, is far from agreeable, let one he never
so little nervous ; and it was with infinite cordiality each time
that I greeted the first blush that hung over the water, indi-
cating our approach to terra firma.—Afrs. Butler, in Bent-
ley's, Mizterllany.