The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-01-12 00:00:00

YORKSHIRE CHRISTMAS GAME PIES

WLAWTON intimates to the Nobilnyr,-GenCri, Mer-
• chants, and Tradesmen of Liver„p6ol and the sur-
rounding Counties, that he is now prepared to receive orders
for the CELEBRATED DELICIOUS PIES, which are
introduced as a delicious savoury bonne bouche upon every
festive table in Yorkshire.

W. L. having lived in York many sears, is confident that
none can surpass him .inserving up the above-mentioued

articles.
• - •
Price from £2 2s. to £5 ss. each. All orders attended to
immediately. Families, Commercial, and Town Gentlemen,
will find every comfort at "The RAINI3OW," with mode-
rate charges.
Dealer in splendid very old Pale French Brandy, Fine Old
Wines, Jamaica Rum, Scotch Whisky, and London Gin.
Public Entertainments provided to order.
Knives, Forks, and Plate, Lent on Hire.
N.B.—Three days' notice is requisite to execute orders for
the above famous Pies.
A respectable, active, steady FEMALE wanted as BAR-.

MAID

NOTlCE.—Newspapers being frequently cut to pieces and
stolen from the Rainbow Hotel, W. L. hereby gives notice
that he will prosecute any person or persons who may be de-
tected in such dishonest practices.
• Rainboi-v Hotel, Basnett,Ftreet, Liverpool,
January 8, 1841.

RATHBONE-STREET WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
WINE AND SPIRIT VAULTS,
OPPOSITE THE MIDDLE GATE OP ST. JAMES'S

MARKET.
VIGHT Years ago, when the Proprietor fir opened the
12/ above Establishment, he had no connexio s to whom he
could appeal for support. Ile, consequent , felt the ne-
cessity of adopting some principle of trade from which the
Public would derive a direct advantage, -well as himself ;
otherwise he could not reasonably anti to a transfer of
patronage in his favour. To effect this, he directed his at-
tention to the following points, viz.—To make quality the
leading consideration in the purchase of every article for sale.
To sell for the most limited profit, to ensure a heavy and
quick return. To buy for cash, so as to command the very
choicest goods in the market, on the best terms. To per-
sonally superintend the business with competent assistants.
By adhering steadily to these rules,

EDGAR, ESTLIN has fully succeeded. The public soon
perceived and embraced the advantages of such a system; and
now the RATA BONE-STREET WINE and SPIRIT
ESTABLISHMENT stands unrivalled in Liverpool, not
only for the increase and extent of its business, but for the
cheapness and quality of its goods.

E. ESTLIN contemplates- making still further improve-
ments in his extensive Premises; and for the purpose of
reducing his extensive and splendid STOCK, by the most
prompt and certain means, to carry this object into effect,
he has reduced it to the subjoined prices.
The WINES on Sale are of full and delicious flavour; the
BRANDIES imported direct from Cognac; the WHISIES
from the Islay and Campbelton Distilleries; the RUMS of
the choicest import, (Jamaica,) and Bonded in 1834.
Splendid Jamaica RUM, 16s. and upwards ; interior lower.
The very finest MALT WHISKY, 20s. per gallon; inferior

ower
Real BRISTOL GIN, I Is. per gallon; inferior lower

DANSON AND M'NEILL,
55, DALE-STREET.
FINE OLD WINES.
Old Bottled PORTS, of the
1 485., , 425. and 6s. per dozen.
highest character
)itto DITTO, from 345., 305., and/245. „
_ vood, and fit for im- nd
mediate use l6s., 145., d 12s. per gallon.
SHERRIES, old and deli-65.,
485., 425., 3os., and 245.
cate Wines, pale, brown, per doz 1, and 18s., 165., 14s.
or gold and . per gallon.
MARSALA, (13r0nte).... 245. pe oz.; 10s. 6d. per gall.
LISBON, (dry or sweet).. 30s. - ; 13s. Od. „
MUSCATELL, (a deli- 1 265.
12s.
.Od. - FP ; I 1
cious Wine
CAPE MADEIRA j 17s. and 18s. per dozen; and
1. Bs. and 9s. per gallon.
A single Bottle or Quart of any of the above Wines may be
had at the same price as per Dozen or Gallon.

BRITISII AND FOREIGN SPIRITS.
WHISKEYS, Old Irish
(as used in Dublin) , 16s and 17s. per gallon.
DITTO, Old Scotch (Islay) 16s. and 17s. ~
DITTO, very good los. 6d., 125., and 14s. per gall.
British GIN, finest qualities 10s. and 12s. per gallon.
HOLLANDS, genuine old
Schiedam, direct from 325. per gallon.
Rotterdam
DITTO, also in Cases of 11 70 per dozen, Cases and Bot-
Dozen each, or 2 Gallons s.
" e ties included.
from bond, duty paid JJJ
BRANDY, (finest old pale) 365. per gallon ; 6s. per bottle.
DITTO, of fine quality
RUM, very fine old
DITTO, (very good)
A single Pint or Quart of any of the above articles can be
had at the same price as per Gallon.

TO FEMALE INVALIDS.
" No less than 31,000 females have expired from diseases
peculiar to their sex in one year."—See the Registrar. Gene-
ral's Report.

R. iiAiiPIELD, R.N. of the University of Edinburgh,
and Member of the R.N.,
of lurgeons, respectfully
announces to invalids, the above a rtling fact, as officially
stated by the Registrar-General, n informs them, tilat by
may be daily consulted (either sonally or by letter,) as a
Physician-Accoucheur, by patie suffering from those pe-
culiar diseases, which if unatten to, or improperly treated,
quickly bring the malady to a fatal lave, or by undermining
a previously good constitution, cause the unhappy patient to
suffer a lingering existence ; whereas by a timely application
to Dr. Bayfield, whose experience in the treatment of female
diseases for the last 16 years, he is warranted in slitting, that
the disease will not only be speedily removed, but elite patient
restored to her pristine state of health.

Dr. Bavfield may be daily consulted personally, at his resi
dance, No. 18, NORTIIAMPTON-SQUARE, GOSWELL-ROAD
LONDON, or by letter, post free, describing symptoms, &c.
and also enclosing a tee of 10s. or a post-office order to tha
amount—when the requisite medicine will be forwarded, tl
any part of the three kingdoms.

Baytield respectfully announces that his invaluable
SPASMODIC TINCTURE, so celebrated for affording im-
mediate relief in all cases of Spasms arising in the stomach,
bowels, and in the system generally, can be purchased only
of him at his residence, price 2s. 9d., 4s. 6d. and 9s. duty in-
eluded, in stopped bottles. One dose is sufficient to relieve
th© most violent paroxysms.

Mr. STEVENS, Chemiat, So--
122le,Agent St. John.street-road, London

ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE,
Gan CHARLOTTE-STREET, LIVICRPOOL

Mr. GOMERSALL'S Last Night but Four
Lasts Week of NAPOLEON, which will e pdrformed at
Second Price, and must be withdrawn r atlagt Novelties
in active preparation.
An Entire Change of SCENES IN T ARENA, by Mr.
Cooke's Troop of talented Artist , and Stud of Horses!
rPHIS EVENING, the 11th int nt, and during the Week.
I. to commence with a Dra of intense interest and
powerful moral, entitled
ITALIAN R VENCE ;

OR, THE DAUGHTER, THE WIFE, 4ID THE MOTHER.
Principal characters by Mr. W. J. Hammond, Mr. Emery,
Mr. H. Beverly, jun., Mrs. Weston and Miss Daly.
SPLENDID ROUTIN OF NOVELTIES IN THE

CIRCLE !

The whole to conclude with the grand Historical Military
Drama, interspersed with Marches, Military Manoeuvres.
powerful Tableau, Single Combats, General Engagements,
&c. &c. called
LIFE AND DEATH OP NAPOLEON !
Molly Malony Mr. Sloan.
Emperor Napoleon Mr. Gomersall.
By particular desire, and under distinguished patronage,
there will be another MORNING PERFORMANCE, To-
MORROW, (Wednesday,) at Twelve o'clock precisely, with
Mr. COOKE'S ARTISTES and HORSES, being positively
the Last Day Performance that can take place during the
Season.

In preparation, an entirely new Drama, written expressly
for this Establishment, the material from the most authentic
sources, founded on the WAR IN SYRIA, in which the
achievements of the British Navy became the admiration of
the World.

HOLLOWAY'S SANS PAREIL.
GREAT TREAT. 7
2"
The grand new Comic Pantomime, wit 11 the original
splendid Scenery, extensive Machine and Transforma-
tions, at HALF-PRICE.

i
911-11 EVENING, the nth, an 0-MORROW, the
1 13th instant, the entertainmen will commence with a
grand Scottish Legendary Drama,' terspersed with Combats
and Terrific Situations, entitled

EVIL EYE; OR, LOCFIfEL THE REIVER.
To be followed by a new la gbable Interlude, entitled
OUR MARY ANNE.

To conclude with the new magnificent—o Mic Pantomime, of
most peculiar and original excellence, expressly concocted
for the delight and improvement of all generations, as per-
formed in London with unprecedented success, entitled
HARLEQUIN JACK SHEPPARD.;
' Or, The Blossom (if Tyburn Tree.
The new and splendid Scenery, by Mr. Lay cock ; the exten-
sive Machinery, Decorations. Transformations, by Mr. T.
Tomlinson ; the Properties, by Mr. Kidgell ; the Dresses,
by Mrs. Holloway; and the Music arranged by Mr. Wright.
Jack Sheppard (afterwards Harlequin) Mr. T. Holloway.
Jonathan Wild ..
Clown Mr. Marsh. 1 Blueskin •Mr. Ponisi.
Poll Maggot.. Mrs. J.. Wood. 1 Columb4m jirs. Kemp.
Fairy Queen Mrs. Hutchinfon.

CHARITY BALL.
THE ANNUAL BALL, in aid o the Funds of the
I FEMALE ORPHAN HOUS and other Catholic
Charities of Liverpool, is appoint to take place at the
Town-hall, on MONDAY, the 15til ebruary.

LADY GERARD, LAFY PATRONESS.
Tickets, los. each, to be had at Messrs. Rociairr and
Castle-street; Mr. PARSONS' and Mr. PALNESIt'S.
Bold-street ; and at the usual places.
Doors to be opened at Half-past Eight.

LIVERPOOL BANKING COM ANY.
SEVENTH DIVIDEN
ADIVIDEND, after the rate of Six Cent. per Annum,
will be paid to the PROPRIET S, for the Half-year
ending 31st ultimo, upon application t the Bank, on or after
MONDAY next, the 18th instant.
By order of the Directors,
WILLIAM WILSON, Manager.

'THE Directors of the ROYAL BANK LIVERPOOL
1. having declared a DIVIDEND of 20 per Share, for
the Half Year ending 31st December 40, the same will be
paid on application at the Bank, Roy Bank Buildings, either
personally, or to any one duly authorised, on or after the 25th
instant. By order, J. CHAFFERS, Manager.
Royal Bank Buildings, 91h January, 1841.
N.B.—The Transfer Books will be closed from the 20th to
the 31st instant, inclusive.

LIVERPOOL UNION BAXIC.
-N
OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that a DIVIDEND
of FIVE PER CENT. on the 'apital Stock of the
Company, for the Half-year ending 31st December last,
(being at the rate of Ten per Cent. r Annum,) will be paid
to the proprietors on and after the Ist of February.
The Transfer Books will be closed from the 14th to the
31st instant, inclusive.

By order of the Board,
JAMES LISTER, Manager.
Brunswick-street, 6th Jan., 1841.

LIVERPOOL BOROUGH BANK.
NINTH DIVIDEND.
THE Directors of the Liverpool Borou: s ank, GIVE
NOTICE to the PROPRIETOR 'at they hereby
declare a HALF-YEARLY DIVID `D, at the rate of
Five per Cent. for the Half Year, o se paid-up Capital of
the Company, and that such Divi nd will be payable at
the Bank, on and after the Ist Feb sary, between the hours
of Ten and Three on each day.
By order of the Board,
JOHN JERDEIN, Manager.
Dated at Liverpool, this Sth day of January, 1841.
The Transfer Books will be closed until the 2d February.
Each Propridtor will be expected to producelis Certificate
of Shares on application for his Dividend/f required.

LIVE EtPOOL DS
TO BUILDS S.

THE SUB-COMMITTEE
204i50CK WORKS will be
ready, on SATURDAY, the instant, to receive TEN-
DERS for the CARPENTER'S WORK of several SHEDS,
to be constructed upon the margins of various Docks.
They will also be ready, on the same day, to receive TEN-
DERS for the SLATING of several of the before-mentioned
SHEDS.

Plans and Specifications may be seen, and further informa-
tion be obtained, at the Dock Surveyor's Office, in Trentham-
street, on any day from the 12th to the 22d instant.
The Tenders must be sealed, endorsed " Tender for Sheds,"
addressed to " The Chairman of the Sub-committee of
Works," and be left at this Office, not later than FRIDAY,
the 22d of January instant.

By order, DANIEL MASON, Secretary.
Dock Office, Liverpool, 711 z January, 1841.

ABSCONDED,
ifIN the 4th instant, TWO YOUNG MEN. The eldest,
'kJ HENRY HANSON, is 18 years of Ag feet 6inches
in height, dark llair, and very dark Eye. ows, a downcast
look ; dressed when he left home in a 10. _ dark brown frock
coat, buttoned close to the neck, and dr . trousers.
The other, CHARLES ALEX DER GRANT, 17
years of Age, light Hair and Eyes, bi d, open Countenance,
and fresh-coloured; had on a short dark brown frock coat,
drab trousers, shirt white, and the colar stitched to turn
linen marked C. A. G.

Whoever shall apprehend these Youths, and deliver them
up to Mr. Tiros. HALL, White Hart Hotel, Dale-street, shall
receive TEN POUNDS REWARD.

Whoever is found harbouring them after this notice will be
prosecuted.

MORAVIANS IN GREENLAND.
IT is confidently hoped that those who are e • . ying in
abundance the proverbial comforts of an "E • ishman's
fireside," will not suffer the condition and ne ities of the
Moravian Missionaries and their Christian .cks, residing
in Greenland, to be laid before them in vai • On that ice-
bound coast, where the cold is not unfre..ently 40 or even
50 degrees below the freezing point, scar. y any fuel grows,
and the measure of supply depends c. -fly upon the drift-
wood which is brought by the sea during the few weeks of
summer. The little brushwood which is produced in the
country is so applied : but in order to gather it, the Mis-
sionaries have to undertake a perilous expedition, of forty
miles, in an open boat, exposed to furious storms, and these
engaged are separated from their flocks for several weeks. A
recent letter observes—" You can hardly imagine how toil-
some and adventurous these expeditions occasionally prove.
We wish it were possible to dispense with the labour and
suffering they occasion." It sometimes happens that all the
fuel they can obtain is only sufficient to cook their food, but
not to warm their sitting rooms. Most of the buildings
where the children meet for school, are destitute of all means
of warmth. If a sufficient sum were contributed, coals, and
also stoves, where needed, could be provided, and conveyed
to the settlements through Copenhagen.
Again :—The perils to which the Moravian Greenlanders
are exposed in obtaining food for their households, often
prove fatal to heads of families, and the number of widows
and orphans in the settlement, left without their natural pro-
viders, is unusually large ; and as there are no wealthy neigh-
bours to apply to, they suffer greatly during the winter.
" We have had nothing to eat for two or three days, is often
their cry" (say the Missionaries); " but this we would not
mind if there were but food for our poor children." Thus
the families of many truly Christian men are exposed to the
greatest privations. Some friends in England and in St.
Petersburgh have established a fund, called the " Elias Cad"
(or Barrel of Meal of Elijah), from which the Missionaries
have been enabled to render aid to these poor starving fami-
lies ; but this fund greatly needs to be replenished.
The present appeal is strengthened by the consideration
of the extreme economy with which the Mission in Green-
land is carried on—four stations, with 24 male and female
Missionaries, costing only £489 in 1839, including near £lOO
for passage of Missionaries.

As the Moravian Mission funds are in arrear to the extent
of above £3OOO, it is impracticable to increase from that
source the supplies already furnished; but contributions to
the objects above specified will be thankfully received, for
account of the Liverpool Association in aid of the Moravian
Missions, at the following places. It will be desirable to
specify, that they are for " Fuel for Greenland," or " for the
the Elias Fund for Greenland," or, if given for " Green-
land" generally, the amount will be equally divided between
both funds.

Contributions received by
The Lady ISABELLA KING, Patroness of the Liverpool La.
dies' Association, Church-street, Woodside.
Mrs. SANDBERG, Treasurer, 19, Catharine-street.
Mrs. T. 0. COOPER, 22, Rodney-street.
Miss KAY, Toxteth-park.
Mr. Jos. CRISP, Church-street.
The BOROUGH BANK.
And at the STANDARD-OFFICE.
Also by J. FRED. FOSTER, Esq., Treasurer, and the Rev.
C. F. BAGSHAWE, Secretary to the Auxiliary Association
at Manchester.

SPECIFIC CURE FOR SPASMS.
TAR. BAYFIELD, R.N., Physician-Accoucheur, Mem-
ber of the University of Edinburgh, Member of the
College of Surgeons, &c. has the pleasure o announce to the
public and aged invalids especially, the he has discovered a
most invaluable Specific for the imme. ate relief and ultimate
cure of Spasms in the stomach an. .wels, as well as of the
constitution generally, by which z any valuable lives have
been preserved during an exten• ve practice for the last 16
years. He respectfully calls ti e reader's attention to the
following letter from a lady of rank, which he has selected
out of numbers he is able to produce.
Cheltenham, Plough Hotel..
" Lady R— presents her compliments to Dr. hayfield,
and will thank him to send her another packet of bis excel-
lent SPASMODIC TINCTURE. Lady R— his much
pleasure in thus bearing testimony to the benefit she ban de-
rived from taking it, according to the directions, since which
she has had no return.of her former distressing malady ; for
previous to a friend informing her of Dr. hayfield's remedy,
she had been for years a martyr to the moat excruciating
spasms. She therefore wishes to know whether Dr. B.
wishes her to continue taking the Tincture, it is now nearly
three months since she had an attack, but as she is about to
leave Cheltenham for the north, she wishes to have a packet
to carry with her.
" March, 1839."
TheYsTincture can only be purchased of Dr.
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Sole A—
Mr STP N" 3, Chemist, 122, St. Jolm-strest-road,lmtdon

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CHURCUIES!

LARGEST
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DitIENSIONS

STED VTOVES
GUINEAS.

CHURCHI

lIRD THE USUAL EXPENSI

Messrs.
h Castle-street; at the
Public Buildings in this

at the Agents

IC OF ASIA

IN TEN THOUSAND SHARES OF
£lOO. EAcu.

Charter for the Incorporation of this
)een settled, definitively by the Hon.

India Company; and arrange-
formation of the Branches at

I applications for shares unfit
SMITH, PAYNE, SMITH, and C. om-
HERRIES, FARQUHAR, an Co., St.
s to the Company, pre •••us to the
' the allotment of e Shares re-
ngland will by fiade. By the
Bank will be a iorized to corn-
payment of £250, I 1., the Capital
iovernment of India. Interest on the
will be allowed from the date of the Banker's re-
ceipts. The responsibility of the Shareholders in England
and in India will be limited to the amount subscribed by the
Charters from the Crown and the Indian Government.
Applications for Shares to be made to Messrs. D. & J. B.
NEILSON, 3, Exchange-court, Exchange-street East, Liver-
pool.

bard-s
James

closing of the re
served for dist]

terms of the Charter tt

being certifi(
instalments

CHESTER AND BIRKENHEAD RAILWA
REDUC77ON OF FARES, AND
TRAINS TO CHESTtR EVERY OTHER UR.
THE Public are respectfully informed that St m-boats,
to Monks' Ferry,leaye George's Pierhead, iverpool, at
the following Hours
MORNING, at 8;10, and 12 o'c k.
AFTERNOON, at 2, 4, and 6 o'c, ock.
A Steam Boat will leave N.lonk's Ferry, for Liverpool, on
the arrival of the Trains froni Chester ; and Omnibuses will
convey the First and Second Class Passengers only, to and
from the Grange-lane Station to the Ferry, free of charge.
Passengers by the Third Class Carriages will be booked
only at Grange Lane Station and Chester, and will have Ferry
Free, but will not be c aried by the Omnibus to and from the
Station.-
Trains will depart e

MORNING

ery day, except Sunday, from
ion, Birkenhead.

St

AFTERNOON

D minutes past 2

20 minutes past 4
20 minutes past 6,
ration, Cheater.

Brook,slreet S

MORNING

15 minutes past 8
15 minutes past 10
15 minutes past 12

heat, or

HE UNITED STATI

THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGI

The following are the principal points in the message
of the President of the United States, which arrived

herwyesterday by the Sheffield

gratulatory remarks on the favourable
seasons and abundant harvests enjoyed by the United
States, the Message goes on to state that, " with all the
powers of the world, the relations of the government
were those of honourable peace." It then proceeds to
advert to the north-eastern boundary question, in the
following paragraphs :
The excitement which grew out of the territorial contro-
versy between the United States and Great Britain, having
in a great measure subsided, it is hoped that a favourable
period is approaching for its final settlement. Both govern-
ments must now be conviinx.l of the dangers with which the
question is fraught ; and it must be their desire, as it is their
interest, that this perpetual cause of irritation should be re-
moved as speedily as practicable. In my last annual message
you were informed that the proposition for a commission of
exploration and survey promised by Great Britain had been
received, and that a counter-project, including also a provi-
sion for the certain and final adjustment of the limits in dis-
pute, was then before the British government for its consi-
deration. The answer of that government, 'accompanied by
additional propositions of its own, was received through its
minister here, since your separation. These were promptly
considered ; such as were deemed correct in principle, and
consistent with a due regard to the just rights of the United.
States and of the State of Maine, concurred in ; and the rea-
sons for dissenting from the residue, with an additional sug-
gestion on our part, communicated by the Secretary of State
to Mr. Fox. That minister, not feeling himself sufficiently
instructed upon some of the points raised in the discussion,
felt it to be his duty to refer the matter to his own govern-
ment for its further decision. Having now been for some
time under its advisement, a speedy answer may be confi-
dently expected. From the, character of the points still in
difference, and the undoubted disposition of both parties to
bring the matter to an early conclusion, I look with entire
confidence to a prompt and satisfactory termination of the
negotiation.—Three commissioners were appointed shortly
after the adjournment of Congress, under the act of the last
session providing for the exploration and survey of the line
which separates the States of Maine and New Hampshire
from the British provinces ; they have been actively em-
ployed until their progress was interrupted by the inclemency
of the season, and will resume their labours as soon as prac-
ticable in the ensuing year.
It is understood that their respective examinations will
throw new light upon the subject in controversy, and serve
to remove any erroneous impressions which may have been
made elsewhere prejudicial to the interests of the United
States. It was, among other reasons, with a view of pre-
venting the embarrassments which, in our peculiar system of
government, fin pede and complicate negotiations involving the
territorial rights of a state, that I thought it my duty, as you
have been informed on a previous occasion, to propose to the
British government, through its minister at Washington,
that early steps should be taken to adjust the points at dif-
ference on the line of boundary from the entrance of Lake
Superior to the most northwestern point of the Lake of the
Woods, by the arbitration of a friendly power, in conformity
with the seventh article of the treaty of Ghent. No anwer
has yet been returned by the British government to this pro-
position.

After a few cc

The Message then announces that treaties of com-
merce and navigation, on terms of reciprocity and
equality, had been entered into with the governments
of Belgium, Hanover, and Portugal. The adjustment
of the claims upon Mexico, Chili, and Colombia, are
then alluded to ; after which occurs the following par-
agraph relating to the Texian boundary question :

The commissioners appointed in pursuance of the conven-
tion between the United States and Texas, for marking the
boundary between them, have, according to the last report
received from our commissioner, surveyed and established
the whole extent of the boundary north along the western
bank of the Sabine river, from its entrance into the Gulf of
Mexico, to the thirty-second degree of north latitude. The
commission adjourned on the 16th of June last, to re-assem-
ble on the Ist of November for the purpose of establishing
accurately the intersection of the 32d degree of latitude with
the western bank of the Sabine, and the meridian line thence
to Red River. It is presumed that the work will be con-
cluded in the present season
s. The

financial arrangements of the United States
occupy four columns out of the six of which the Mes-
sage is composed. The President strongly repudiates
—ational Bank and a National Debt, and as
nmends the Sub-Treasury scheme. We

1 6 I strongly re

quote the following paragraph

The present sound condition of their finances, and the
success with which embarrassments in regard to them, at
times apparently insurmountable, have been overcome, are
matters upon which the people and government of the United
States may well congratulate themselves. An overflowing
treasury, however it may be regarded as an evidence of public
prosperity, is seldom conducive to the permanent welfare
of any people ; and experience has demonstrated its incom-
patibility with the salutary action of political institutions
like those of the United States. Our safest reliance for
financial efficiency and independence has, on the contrary,
been found to consist in ample resources unencumbered with
debt; and, in this respect, the federal government occupies
a singularly fortunate and truly enviable position.
When I entered upon the discharge of my official duties in
March, 1837, the act for the distribution of the surplus
revenue was in a course of rapid execution. Nearly twenty-
eight millions of dollars of the public moneys were, in pur-
suance of its provisions, deposited with the States in the
months of January, April, and July of that year. In May
there occurred a general suspension of specie payments, by
the banks, including, with very few exceptions, those in
which the public moneys were deposited, and upon whose
fidelity the government had unfortunately made itself
dependent for the revenues which had been collected from
the people, and were indispensable to the public service.
This suspension, and the excesses in banking and commerce
out of which it arose, and which were greatly aggravated by
its occurrence, made, to a great extent, unavailable the
principal part of the public money then on hand; suspended
the collection of mnny millions accruing on merchants bonds ;
and greatly reduced the revenue arising from customs and
the public lands. These effects have continued to operate,
in various degrees, to the present period; and, in addition
to the decrease in the revenue thus produced, two and a half
millions of dollars have been relinquished by two biennial
reductions under the act of 1833, and probably as much more
upon the importation of iron for railroads, by special legit-
lation.

Whilst such has been our condition for the last four years,
in relation to revenue, we have during the same period, been
subjected to an unavoidable continuance of large extraordi-
nary expenses necessarily growing out of past transactions,
and which could not be immediately arrested without great
prejudice to the public interest. Of these, the charge upon
the Treasury, in consequence of the Cherokee treaty alone,
without adverting to others arising out of Indian treaties, has
already exceeded five millions of dollars ; that for the prose-
cution of measures for the removal of the Seminole Indians,
which were found in progress, has been nearly fourteen mil-
lions ; and the public buildings have required the unusual
sum of nearly three millions.

It affords me, however, great. pleasure to be able to say,
that, from the commencement of this period to the present
day, every demand upon the government. at home or abroad,
has been promptly met. This has been done, not only with-
out creating a permanent debt, or a resort to additional tax-
ation in any form, but in the midst of a steadily progressive
reduction of existing burdens upon the people, leaving still a
considerable balance of available funds which will remain in
the Treasury at the end of the year. The small amount of
Treasury notes, not exceeding four and half millions of
dollars, still outstanding, and less by twenty-three millions
than the United States have in deposit with the States, is
composed of such only as are not yet due, or have not been
'presented for payment. They may be redeemed out of the
accruing revenue, if the expenditures do not exceed the
amount within which they may, it is thought, be kept with-
out prejudice to the public interest, and the revenue shall
prove to be as large as may justly be anticipated.

The available balance in the Treasury on the Ist of January
next is estimated at one million and a half of dollars. This
sum, with the expected receipts, from all sources during the
next year, will, it is believed, be sufficient to enable the Go-
vernment to meet every engagement, and leave a suitable
balance in the Treasury at the end of the year, if the reme-
dial measures connected with the customs and the public
lands, heretofore recommended, shall be adopted, and the
new appropriations by Congress shall not carry the expen-
ditures beyond the official estimates.

The first, and assuredly not the least, important step to-
wards relieving the country from the condition into which it
had been plunged by excesses in trade, banking, and credits
of all kinds was to place the business transactions of the Go-
vernment itself on a solid basis ; giving and receiving in all
cases value for value, and neither countenancing nor encou-
raging in others, that delusive system of credits from which
it has been found so difficult to escape, and which has left
nothing behind it but the wrecks that mark its fatal career.
That the financial affairs of the Government are now, and
have been during the whole period of these wide-spreading
difficulties, conducted with a strict and invariable regard to
this great fundamental principle, and that by the assumption
and maintenance of the stand thus taken on the very threshold
of the approaching crisis, more than by any other cause or
causes whatever, the community at large has been shielded
from the incalculable evils of a general indefinite suspension
of specie payments, and a consequent annihilation, for the
whole period it might have laAted, of a just and invariable
standard of value, will, it is believed, at this period, scarcely
be questioned.

THE THREE CARACCI.
UNION GALLERY, SLATER-STIEfET.

ARRANGEMENTS having been madfeythe Exhibition
of these Paintings in Glasgow, the prietor begs re-
spectfully to intimate, that they will be REMOVED at the
CLOSE OF THE PRESENT MONTH.
Jan. 7, 1840. JOHN BENTLEY

Keeper