The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-12-02 00:00:00

IMPJRTANT FROM MEXICO.

The following letter was received from the Merchants' Ex-
change Bulletin Board, New Orleans :
" VERA CRUZ, OCT. 1.
•' General Bravo has been appointed to the command of the
army destined for the north, said to be from. 18,000 to 20,000
strong. A detachment of 4,000, ender the command of General
Garay, was to have left Mexico for the same destination on the
16th ult., but the troops refused to march, on the ground of not
having received their pay. Within a few days past the govern-
ment has raised a loan of 800,000 dollars, which will enable it
to put their warriors ou the march for Texas.
" A brig of war, built at Baltimore for the Mexican govern-
ment, had arrived at Vera Cruz. She is intended to mount 11
18-pounders, with grenades, and to be commanded by Captain
Wise, who will take charge of the fleet said to be undergoing
repairs at Campeachy.
" The ex-President, Bustamente, who was some years since
subjected to banishment from this country, has been invited to
return. He is expected from France daily, and will probably
be appointed to the Presidency in place of the present ►ncum-
bent."

We have been favoured with files of Sydney papers to
the date of July 25th. The Sydney Herald of that date
contains the following pungent remarks on the colonial
policy of the present 'government. Our readers will
perceive that the same observations will literally apply
to the mode in which the Whigs exercise their patronage
" at home" :

" Tii6 'SUPPLEMENTARY' ESTIMATES.—The principle of
the present home government seems to be, to amuse the British
public with a show of reforming alleged abuses in the state,
while they seize with rapacious hands the rich plunder which
some of the colonial revenues afford. In proportion as the ve-
nal propensities of whigs are checked by the people of England,
so are the tugs made at the purses of the colonists, to provide
place and emoluments for the miserable hangers•ou of that po-
litical body. This corrupt system, which we believe to have
existence in every British colony, wherein Whig influence
prevails, is most strikingly manifested in the supplementary
estimates of the charges on the treasury for the present year,
which we have now before us. The account, we do not hesitate
to say, embraces items which clearly exhibit the most reckless
disregard for the opinions of the most respectable colonists, who
are thus plandeted for the maintenance of the political princi-
ples, which some of these estimates unfold, and to which we
purpose calling the attention of our readers, though not in the
order in which they appear upon the printed statement."

N
Nothing renders a man more despicable than duplicity
—it is a. complex vice, 'including in itself lying, fraud,
selfishness, and hypocrisy—it destroys all that confidence
which gives stability to human compact—it is a moral
leprosy which separates men from the society of the vir-
tuous—even truth itself becomes suspected when found
the companion of equivocation—and charity, which
" thinketh no evil," distrusts the good offices of "such
an one"—if its beginning be prosperous, its end is con-
temptible—in fine, if it be not the compound of every
other crime, it contains the elements of them. But,
odious and detestable as is this vice, it is not a stranger
in the world, though it finds chief fellowship with public
men; if somewhat shy, and susceptible of shame, in the
humbler walks of social life, she wears a brazen vizor,
and talks flippantly, and sometimes raves, when detected
and exposed to scorn and contempt in the senate—pointed
at by the finger of truth. We have seen men, and we
blush to think we are of the same species with them, to-
day advocating measures with all the earnestness of a
convinced judgment, and all the importunity of disinte-
rested zeal, who, in the brief space of a month, will op-
pose and deprecate the very same measures with as re-
solute a determination, and apparently deep feeling, as
if they had come to the discussion with minds confirmed
by years of preparation—and in both cases, if opposed in
their career, or questioned as to consistency, they will
add imprecations to arguments—deliberately lie in the
face of public records and moral evidence ; and, if in
dauger of exposure, skulk under the cloak of any paltry
evasion, the last subtertne of this vice, though much too