The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-03-22 00:00:00

CANADA.

Extract of a letter from a young married lady, who settled
with her husband, father-in-law, and other members of the
family, hi the State of New York, ibout four years ago, and
removed last summer to Toronto, in Upper Canada :
" We have been in great commotion here, Tryvhoura:
nclifliffinlickviTaWatigikjarnes both slept
with their-muskets ready to load at a moment's notice, and
w.llen•We, went to rest at night it was with a feeling that, be-
fore morning, we might be in the midst of the horrors of
war. The Americans certainly are infatuated ; they keep
coming'aeross in small parties to the frontier villages, burn
'ind destroy, as much as they can, turn the people, even
women and children, naked into the bitter •frost and snow,
and, in short, commit all manner of atrocities, and then pre-
tend they are trying to liberate Canada! My father and
every one else here says, if you had anything but a parcel of.
fools at the heid of the' government at home, they would at,
once declare war, against America, and put an end to the
harassing state the people here are kept in. It is firmly be-
lieved that the United Stites government is at the bottom of
it all, and a national war, all agree, would be infinitely pre-
ferable to being open to the assaults of pirates and banditti,
who call themselves American citizens. James entered a
volunt,eer, company to avoid being called out in the militia,
and'one day the Governor reviewed them ; he told them he
had, ascertained the Americans' grand object was to anni-
hilate the British, and spare neither women nor children—
plans were found on the persons of many of the prisoners to
this effect. Had they succeeded in their invasion at Pres-
cott, they were to have come on to Toronto ; they would have
met with a warm reception: the Governor had well prepared
for them. lam thankful we are well out of the States, and
regret that we had not come to Canada at first ; we should
all have been more happy and contented, everything here is
more like home, and the people are a different set of beings
from the Yankees.
" We have met with a great loss in the destruction by fire
of our beautiful church here • but we have service in a large
room, and also the chapel belonging to the college."

SOT
1838 .
MONTE VIDEO, 29thU DeH c., AMERI
.—Sin Since our last, arrivals
have continued to be numerous, by which our market has
been over-stocked still more, and caused still further decline
in important articles. Salt has become next to unsaleable,
and only got rid of slowly, at 10 rls. fanega on board. Flour
has declined to 12 dollars per barrel in small parcels : to force
it by wholesale it would hardly comniand 11 dollars. Do-
mestics sell at losing prices. Lumber has declined, and
will soon be unsaleable. The great demand for produce has
still increased ; besides which, very little is coming in, on
account of the rainy season and other circumstances. Hides
have risen from 25 rls. to 33 rls. per pesada, and will go still
higher : other articles have also risen. Exchange has ad-
vanced to 48d. two months' credit.
Extract of a letter, dated Monte Video, 28th Dec., 1838 :
" The great demand 'for produce, together with the small
quantity here, has caused an advance in price of from 18 to
25 per cent., which, combined with the very high rate of ex-
change, operates much against purchasers. The government
of Buenos Ayres have made an emission of sixteen and a half
millions of paper dollars, and, in consequence, the dollar has
depreciated to 13 dollars for 1 dollar Spanish. Produce was
difficult to be purchased with paper, no confidence being
placed in it : no nutrias have arrived from the country for
nearly two months, and they were becoming scarce. All
imports are low, and almost unsaleable, while exports are
increasing rapidly.

NAVAL ECONOMY.

(From the United Service Gazette.)
There is, it would appear, scarcely a single branch of the
naval service in which our present cheese-paring administra-
tion have not cre Ited distrust and dissatisfaction. Among
their latest performances of this description we may mention
their recent regulations in reference to her Majesty's pilots—
regulations which have so intensely disgusted those expe-
rienced veterans, that the Powerful was detained until Sun-
day last at Sheerness in consequence of the impossibility of
finding any pilot at that port who would take her in charge.
It appears that the Queen's pilots at Sheerness, Taylor and
Deans, have lately been subjected to certain new regulations,
which have been the means of disgusting completely these
old servants of the crown. After some 30 years' service, and
the pilotage of so many hundred ships, they have been called
upon to prove their qualifications," and have, moreover,
been assigned. duties in the dock-yard which are entirely
foreign to their office, and which have never hitherto been
required at their hands. Considering that about four years
ago the retaining pay of the Queen's pilots was reduced from
6s. to 3s. a-day extra work, without further remuneration,
they seem to consider, and justly, that they ought not to be,
nay, are determined not to be, the victims of any further
exactions. Taylor having taken the Zebra to 'the Downs,
did not return to his duty in time to take charge of the
Powerful ; and Deans was nowhere to be found, having, in
fact, struck work. In this dilemma Captain Napier was con-
strained to report to the Admiralty that the ship could not
get round to Portsmouth for want of a pilot, and it was not
until one had been despatched from the Trinity House that
his vessel was enabled to proceed on her voyage.
Since writing the above, we have been informed that in
consequence of pertinacity of Sir John Hill, the superin-
tendent of Sheerness dock yard, in requiring duties at their
hands which have before been expected, Taylor and, eans,
two of the best pilots in her Majesty's service, have thrown up their situations in disgust. It is possible that the Ad-
miralty may have directed that these valuable men should
perform extra duties in the dock yard, for the extra 3s per
diem ; but even if this be the case, the suggestion is believed
to have originated with the superintendent—a genuine chip
of the Admiralty block.
We have heard, by the way, that now tint Captain Na-
pier has arrived at Portsmouth he has met with the utmost
difficulty in manning his ship, Jack having got into his head
a notion (founded on the captain's penchant for a propelling apparatus) that he has a " treadle' (" treadmill")
on board.
Such is the rumour circulated by the Admiralty and its tail.
The leading cause of the captain's difficulty, however, will,
we believe, be found in the fact, that he is too good a judge
to rest contented with the idle lubberly vagabonds, whom
the anxiety not to appear contumacious towards the Ad-
miralty, and the necessity of the case, would seem to have
imposed on her officers commissioning ships at that port.

• The Hull Chamber of Commerce has invited Lieutenant Watson to come from Liverpool and estimate the cost of a
line of telegraphs from that port to a line communicating with
the metropolis.—Hull paper.