The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-06-08 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

The packet-ship Stephen Whitney, Captain Popham, ar-
rived at Liverpool on Saturday afternoon from New York,
whence she sailed on the 15th ult. By this conveyance we
have received New York papers to the day of the vessel's
sailing, and Canada papers to the 12th. Their contents
are not important.
The case of M'Leod was to be heard at New York on the
day the Stephen Whitney sailed.
The Canada pars state that his excellency the governor-
general had been il'uffering from a fresh attack of gout. His
lordship had been unable to leave his bed on the 10th ult. ;
but although experiencing severe pain, the symptoms of the
renewed attack were not, it was said, of a nature to cause
alarm. The province remained tranquil.
Monetary and commercial matters at New York remained
nearly in the state they were at the despatch of the advices
previously received. The shares in the Bank of the United
States were quoted on the 13th (the 14th was set apart at the
suggestion of President Tyler, as a day of public humiliation,
fasting, and prayer,) at 171. On the subject of this bank the
Philadelphia Inquirer says—
" We learn that that the directors are, busily engaged in
making a trusteeship intended to secure the circulation, the
deposits, and foreign balances, amounting in all to about
5,000,000 dollars. To this end, they have appropriated se-
curities of one kind and another which are estimated to be
worth 12,500,000 dollars. The arrangement will be com-
pleted and carried into effect as speedily as possible. The
notes and deposits, it would therefore seem, are perfectly
safe, although some delay rciay•take place before their final
liquidation."
The Journal of Commerce publishes a letter, dated Callao,
February 18, which gives a brief account of the convulsion
in Peru and Bolivia, a rumour of which reached us the other
day, via Valparaiso. In Peru, Colonel Vivanco had been
proclaimed supreme chief in the departments of Cusco, Are-
quipa, Puna, and Moquegua ; and, notwithstanding General
San Roman, who had been placed in command of the former
by Vivanco, had declared against him, with about 1000 men,
yet he appeared to be rapidly gaining ground, as the whole
community are klescribed as being decidedly against the go-
vernment of Gamarra. In Bolivia a general rising took
place on the 21st of Januar', headed by Generals Lara and
Irigoyen, who bad proclaimed General Santa Cruz supreme
protector.
The new republic of Yucatan, which recently separated
from Mexico on the same principles that Texas separated
from that state, had established a constitution on the most
liberal political, religious, and commercial principles. All
religions are protected, and the freedom of the press is gua-
ranteed, The New York papers publish a decree, which
contains the spirit and essence of the new constitution.

MONTE VIDEO AND BUENOS AYRES.
Extract of a letter r eceived in Liverpool from Monte Video,
dated March 31, 1841
" The Buenos Ayres fleet, consisting of one brig, bearing
the pendant of Admiral Brown, and five small craft, appeared
off this port on the 29th instant, and anchored this morning
at the mouth of the harbour ; but whether the intention be
anything beyond bringing our fleet to action or not is not
known. On taking his position Brown saluted the town with
21 guns, having the flag of the republic at the foremast head.
It is rumoured that the port will be placed under blockade,
but we do not credit it. The public mind is so much taken
up with the event that business is out of the question. The
present paralysation will continue so long as the vessels con-
tinue in this quarter.
" Our fleet was at Colonia a few days since, but it is feared
it will not be able to cope with that of Buenos Ayres.
" A direct property tax is to be levied to raise 60,000 dollars
monthly to defray the expenses of the war with Buenos
Ayres."
The rate of exchange on England was 75 to if premium,
with a fair amount of business for the Stephen Whitney and
the Britannia.

LARGE TROUT.—A fine common trout was taken in the
Wansbeck, below Sweethope Mill, on Tuesday last, by Isaac
Milburn, Sir John Trevelyan's gamekeeper. It weighed
41b. 40z., and measured in length 20-i inches long, and girth
10 inches. Its flesh was pink, and its stomach contained
many minnows and grubs.
REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.—Mr. Baines retires from
ill health. Sir William Molesworth resigns because he can-
not help it. William Beckett, Esq., and Lord Jocelyn,
eldest son of the Earl of Roden, are the two candidates on
the conservative interest. With such candidates, and with a
favourable register, the conservatives have an opportunity
of winning both seats, and of wiping away the disgrace
brought upon Leeds by its treatment of Sir John Beckett in
1837.
COMMERCIAL DISTRESS IN JAMAlCA.—Extract ot a letter
addressed to a lady of Bristol, received by the last West
India mail, and dated Kingston, Jamaica; April 19, 1841
" Times are wonderfully altered in this island. We are in a
state of general bankruptcy ; such universal distress, both in
the agricultural and commercial interests, is unprecedented.
A long drought of eighteen months, a scarcity of labour, and
even that granted reluctantly at high wages, and no market
for the little produce realised to raise the means to pay for it,
with numerous other evils, tend to paralyse all the efforts or
the planter, whilst the merchant is scarcely better situated.
The banks afford no accommodation ; the heavy failures daily
occurring thereby create a want of confidence, and there is
no vent for an overstocked market. All those evils, com-
bined with others too numerous to detail, and which would
not prove very interesting to you, render our commercial
interest in a most unparalleled state of distress. When we
are to look forward to brighter prospects it is impossible to
conjecture. I have long foreseen what was likely to happen,
and have been guided accordingly in all my transactions ; I
will not trouble you more on this subject, which must be
anything but interesting, to a female, but a merchant-man
would scarcely know bow to Ml up a letter without touching
upon these topics. I have given a true picture, and it will
tend to convince the good folk in England of the result of all
their wise measures. A failure has just taken place at Mon-
tego Bay to the amount of upwards of £50,000 sterling.