The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

LOG OF TICE PATISTIL; FliOld NEWYOItV TO LEVERPOOL.

Feb. 20th.—Wind, W. • courses, various; 2 p.m. received
mails ; 2.50 p.m., proceeded slowly dowit the rivr ; 6 p.m. set
on full speed ; oderate and clear.
21st.—Wind, W. course, N. Ka E:.• =distance run, 225
miles from. the N. Ir. light ship; lat. 4 32.; long. 69 10. ;
fresh breeze and clear.

22nd.—Wind N.W.; oc.urse, N. 86;E:; .distance, 307 miles ;
lat. 40 49. ; long. 62 Itri; fresh breeze•and clear.
23rd.— Wind, N.N.W,; course, N 79 E.; distance, 317
riles; lat. 41 46. ; 10ng..53 26.; freelHireezaand clear.
24th.—Wind, southerly ; course,. N. 72 E. ; distance, 301
miles ; lat. 43 19.; 1eug..49 56. ; fresh breeze and hazy.
25th.—Wind southerly; course, N. 72. E. • distance, 274
miles; lat 44. 44 ; long.. 42 54. ; strong gales, with thick
weather.

26th. —Wind, souttlenly ; course, II; 62 E.; distance, 281
miles ; lat. 46 52. ; 2cag.. 36 54; fresh breezes, and clear, with
heavy sea.
27th.—Wind, S.SM.; course, N. 70 E.; distance, 293
miles; lat. 48 32. ; tong. 30 64..; streng breezes acd clear, a
heavy sea.
29th.—Wind, S.S•AV.; course, NZ 76 Si;:distance, 308
miles ; lat. 49 46. ; 27. ; strong;breezes and cloudy.
290.—Wind, S.S.W,; course, 111 .80 ; distance, 286
miles ; lat. 50 31. ; king. 16 01. • at 9:30 a. M., stopped
engines to repair floe;, 11-a.m., set on. full. speed; moderate
breezes and clear.

Mizell Ist—Wind; S.E.; course, vrationsi at 8 a.m. abreast
of the Old Head of Ican,sale; moderaki and•hazy.
2nd.—Wind, S.E:.; at 2.28, a.m.. arrived at the bor,. and
stopped to wait for tite•tide; 8.30 a.m.seton full speed, and
arrived in LiverpootaZO a.m.

The royal mail steamship Canada,. with.. brae European mails
of the 2nd February.: arrived at Halifax on the 19th,and had
seen nothing of the Pacific.
Disorganization still prevailed in:.the. senate. To• enable
him to arrange his committees without annoyance, Mr. Banks,
the newly-elected speaker, had lefthis, customary residence,
'and betaken himself to some concealed•. retirement. Several
discussions, which led to no result,. had. taken place in regard
to the affairs of Kansas; but after a-long,continued party eon-
.test, as to who should be appointad printer, the senate had at
last come to a decision.

threense Auras Queaatowe---In reference to, this
subject, the State Department had sent to the Senate a mass
of documents stretching back to IWO. Regarding this matter
the New York Herald says :—" We, published, on. Sunday,
several extracts from the London- newspaper press• on the
Central American•question. That from the London Times is
unexpectedly geaeroue and conciliatory, and the• flat-footed
protocol of the 'Thunderer ' for a pacific settlement of this
warlike entanglement is a refreshing novelty in its way.
* * This arrangement, if duly ratMedund carried
out between thetwo Governmeteteevreuld certainly make clean
work of the whole business; but we agree with the London
Globe, that the proposal to ' root out' that alleged `gang of
pirates and murderers' is just the point where the sha would
pinch. We could do no such, thing. Those men have expa-
triated themselves. They arc -no longer citizens of:the United'
States. We: are no longer rospoiesible for their aces ; and if,
upon a call Prom one native revolulionary party in Nicaragua,
acting against another such. party, GeneraLWallevr and his
followers have gone and conquered the coun.try, it is an affair
to be settled by the sovereigp people of Niceragua," Concern-
ing the proposed reference to an:rneutral third power, by Lord-
Clarendcu, the American press. does not appear to entertain
very sanguine hopes of its success, probably Om members of the.
press took too practical nview of the untenableposition which
has been assumed by the -American Union to, be deceived into
a hope that the United States' version of their own quarrel
will nceive favour at the hands of any impartial power.
Indeel they declare that such a thing as an impartial
power is not to be meta with. On this• subject the Herold
has an article, in which. the following remarks occur:--
" Perhaps no prominent State in the .world is so badly si-
tuated as the United. States is when subjects of international
differences are referred to what is theoretically denominated
a friendly power. The honest truth. is, we have no .friends
amongst the monarchs of Europe. A third and wholly im-
partial and disinterested umpire is not to be lowed; We do
riot complain of this. Prejudices exist in all the-governments
of Europe against the republic. It is natural and , inevitable
that it should be so. These prejudices result from the charac-
ter of the Union, which is a ceaseless enemy of absolutism of
whatever form. * * * * Now, in this condition of things,
we stand no chance in arbitration. Our rights are sure to be
sacrificed. *, * * * -We are, onrselveseto a great extent,
responsible for the fact, that, as a government; we have little
or no weight with the Cabinets of Europe. We have under-
taken an,exclusevely American policy, and: rather discouraged
all attempts to occupy a position in Europe at all correspond-
ing with,the wealth and resources of the republic. * * *
The remedy is still obvious,—the enforcement of the American
conatruction of the treaty.* the positive, refusal of the admi-
nistration either to arbitrate or recede,and let consequences visit
theparties interested as they shall incur them. If England can
afford to appeal to armeein such a cause we cannot afford to be
neutral. * * * * We have, therefore, no fears of a war
between the United States and England ; for upon the issue
raised by Lord Derby, of peace instead of war, the Palmerston
Ministry, if brought to the test, will, from the pressure
of public opinion, be ignominiously expelled from power."
Warlike discussions, and a consideration of the United
States' resources. in the event of hostilities form staple topics
of general conversation, and the American mind, as has lately
been the case with that of Great Britain, finds exercise in the
supposed invention of submarine infernal machines, plans for
several of which have been submitted to the Secretary of
War. One of these is thus described by the newspaper already
quoted :—" The Nautilus. Battery, a floating cylinder from which
radiates a circular battery of mortar-shaped tubes, charged
with shot and shell of a peculiar construction, which can all
be blown up together by an electric wire, connected with the
nearest lighthouse or fort. The ,guns are made of iron plate,
and each gun can be charged to the muzzle 'and exploded like
an immense bombshell, making, in a continuation of fifty-
three mortars, the force of five hundred shells, of the largest
calibre known in military service. This battery will cover an
area of a mile or more with a deadly irresistible shower of
cutting shot, and exploding shell and burning flames.
Another invention is a kind of floating fire-shell, of great
size and power, charged with Greek fire, and a kind of wedge-
shaped shot, which is also connected with the galvanic
battery."
Such fancies as these may tend to inflame a spirit of in-
creasing antipathy, and may, without doubt, by their influence
on the popular mind, tend to complicatestill further the
already sufficiently enlarged maze of boasting and discontent.
That they can ever serionsly sway the reason of the real
friends of American greatness, or act as an intimidation to
the British government, cannot be supposed for a moment.
Internal complications seem to thicken.
The latest accounts from Kansas state that the Abolitionists
there were organizing troops, erecting fortifications, and col-
lecting munitions of war at Lawrence, in order to be ready
for instant and effective service.