The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1839-06-21 00:00:00

HENRY FITZHUGH

-J. E. Small, Esq. M. P. P.
We subjoin the only extracts of importance con
ained in the latest New York papers.
(From the Morning Herald of May 25.)

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FRIDAY, MAY, 24, 6 P.M
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—There has been a fair business done in sterling exchange
during to-day. Some of the leading drawers ask 10 per
cent.; but sales have generally been made at 91 to 9-1 per
cent., the United States Bank drawing at the former rate.
The English news which reached us yesterday, although pre-
senting no material change from the last advices, has been
used by the bears at the Stock Exchange to produce a fall.
It will, therefore, be perceived that small amounts only have
been sold at receding prices. Bank of Commerce fell off 1
per cent.; Delaware and Hudson, + per cent.; Farmers'
Trust, 1 per cent.; Mohawk, 1 per cent.; Paterson, t per
cent.; Stonington, 1+ per cent.; Harlem, 11 per cent.; but
little is doing in Wall-street generally. Silver continues to
command a premium from its comparative scarcity, although
gold is plentiful. The former metal continues to arrive at
New Orleans from Mexico in sums of various amounts. The
The schooner Watchman arrived here on the 16th from Mata-
moms, with 21,587 dollars in specie to different firms. In
domestic exchange we notice no material difference in rates
since the last week.

TEXAS.—The Columbia, steam-packet, Captain Windle,
arrived last night, in 36 hours, from Galveston, bringing
dates from that place to the 12th.
THE FRENCH FLEET.—The Galveston Gazette of the 10th
instant has the following :—" The French frigate Neriad, 64
guns, the steam-ship Phaeton, and the Crusader, an 18 gun-
brig. arrived on Tuesday, and are now (Tuesday evening)
lying off this port. They are part of the blockading squadron
from Vera Cruz, and brought up Admiral Baudin, who is
now at Houston, having landed at Valasco, and gone to the
capital by land. Salutes have been exchanged between these
vessels, and the Texian steam-ship Zavalla, the fort, and the
navy-yard. The Zavalla and the steam-packet New York
have been alongside the Phaeton, and exchanged friendly
salutations with her officers. The President, among others
has been on board."

The Galvestonian contains various particulars of the arri-
val of the rare visitants. The Neriad, in entering the port,
got aground, and was towed off by the Zaralla. The com-
mander of the Phaeton had been on board the Texian steam-
ship, and expressed
.himself highly pleased with the vessel
and her arrangements. Formal visits had also been ex-
changed between the officers of the Neriad and the Zavalla.
President Lamar arrived in Galveston on the 7th, and de-
parted the same day on his return to Houston, through cour-
tesy to Admiral Baudin, who,had gone to the latter city.—
New York Evening Post, May 23.

(From the Boston Daily Sentinel of May 24)
FROM MEXICO.-By advices at New Orleans from Tam-
pico to May 4th, we learn that Bustamente and Arista were
at Victoria, and would probably reach Tampico in 10 or 15
days, if their courage to attack the place did not fail them.
Pedraza, the commander of the place, was recovering from
a severe illness, and the defences were yet incomplete, and
without sufficient force to man them. Meanwhile, Santa
Anna, April 22d, issued, through the minister Gorostiza, a
manifesto declaring that, inasmuch as the revolutionists had
favored and connived at the clandestine introduction of con-

traband merchandise, interdicted by the tariff, the legitimate
government would not be answerable to foreign Consuls for
any excesses which might be committed by the besieging
army, in the event of the capture of the town. A French
brig of war was off the port, awaiting the issue.

We have received a file of the Jamaica Royal Gazette

to the 14th of May inclusive. The accounts from va.
rious parts of the country are somewhat more favour.
able than the last. Great complaints are made againsl

the managers of certain estates in the Windward district,
who have induced the labourers to leave the estates on
which they were located, by offering them extra wages,
in order to get the crop off, and to prepare for the fol-
lowing. On this subject the Royal Gazette remarks—
" This system must be attended with the worst effects,
not only to the estate but to the labourers. To the
first, because the only chance of succeeding in the cul-
tivation of sugar, is having a peasantry from whom
continuous labour may be derived. And while this is
to be induced by every encouragement held out to the
people already located there, yet, it must also be at-
tended by a determined exaction of the labour of the
party being expended on it. But if they are allowed
to remain on the property and to labour elsewhere,
and the proprietor has to look for others similarly
situated on other properties, he is encouraging an un-
settled state amongst them—a plan by which they will
be enabled to exact any wages they please, and he re-
main entirely at their mercy as to the cultivation of the

estate."

With respect to the interference of the Stipendiary
Magistrates and the Baptist Missionaries between the
planters and the labourers, the Gazette says—" We
have heard with regret that certain of the Special Ma-
gistrates, even at this eleventh hour of stipendiary
misrule, are continuing to exert a baneful influence and
interference with magisterial authority, unauthorised
and subversive of all proper order. Indeed, there have
been cases reported to us of so flagrant a nature, that
it would be necessary to make them public at once,
but that we believe they will be reported to higher
authority, when we trust Sir Lionel will put such con-
duct down. The alterations about taking place will
require these gentlemen to act with more impartiality,
and listen to both sides instead of one. We, however,
hope, that stipendiary and Baptist interference is nearly
at an end, and if so, we are the last to wish that the
past should be even remembered. We would fain
look to this country, under a different system of go-
vernment, when all men shall be looked npon alike,
when the white man shall not be held up as a tyrant
and an oppressor, and the black man shall be looked
upon as co-equal in the various classes of society, in
which nature shall assign him, has being likely to be-
come one of the finest on the face of the earth. But
ere this will take place, contention must cease—the
ministers of religion must, instead of arraying them-
selves against wealth and respectability, and instilling
into the minds of the lower orders nonsensical ideas
of civil liberty, and discontent to their present situation,
teach them respect for their superiors and obedience
to lawful authority—those having magisterial power
must have justice ever before them, and swerve neither
to the right nor to the left, but administer the law
without partiality, favour, or affection. And although
the great staple of the island must decrease, if it will
be produced at all, and our island never can in conse-
quence be so valuable as it has been, yet we hope to
ee it the abode of peace and industry, of order and
contentment?'

The Planters' Bank was likely to be established on
a firm and permanent basis. Nearly 10,000 shares had
been taken up to the 14th ultimo. The circulating
medium of the island was extremely deficient. The
Gazette, on this point, remarks—" The great want of a
proper circulating medium, is becoming every day
more and more felt. We are now not only almost
entirely without British silver, but there is a great
scarcity of small checks and notes. Indeed the great-
est difficulty is experienced in getting even a five pound
check either at the Receiver General's Office or the
Bank, as neither British silver nor small notes can be
got—the latter having apparently been paid to the la-
bourers instead of coin, and not having yet found their
way again into circulation, or being withdrawn from
circulation, of which we are not aware. We trust,
however, that many months will not pass, till our cur-
rency and circulating medium will be placed upon a
proper and fixed base."

The intention announced by the government to
suspend the House of Assembly was still the subject
of much discussion in the island, and was naturally
producing much exasperation of feeling.

Our worthy representative Mr. Cresswell brought
forward his motion on the subject of the Danish
Claims on Tuesday evening, and once more obtained