The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-28 00:00:00

PREPARATORY TO THE REMOVAL.
The w hole has undergone a thorough REDUCTION,
And is at the present mement ready for Sale at the altered price .
Upwards of One Thousand Cloaks, commencing at a Guinea.
J. CRIPPS AND CO.,
110, BOLD-STREET.

B. ROGERS AND SONS,
MUSICIANS,
(Violins, Harp, French Flageolet, Violoncello, &c.,)
No. 40, RUPERT-STREET, BROWNI.OW-HILL, LIVERPOOL.
Balls, Quadrille Parties, Dinners, Sc.- attended.
Extra Musicians engaged.—Herald Trumpeters.
THE HARP STRUNG, TUNED, AND HIRED.
Strauss's and other New and Fashionable Waltzes, Qua-
drilles, Mazourkas, Gallopades, &c.

CAUTION.
HALL'S PATENT STARCH.'

rinHIS Article has so raised the jealousy of Common
Starch-Makers, that they are actually putting up the
common Article in imitation of the_ above, by calling it
"Patent White Starch," &c. &c.
The Patentee begs to request his Friends and the Public
to purchase it in complete Packages, as put up at his works,
with his label affixed thereon; and none is genuine without
his signature.
Wholesale Agents, J. & R. RAIKES, Leith Walk, Edin-
burgh.
Sandiacre, Nottingham, 10th Nor. 1838.

RIOTS IN THE UNITED STATES.

(From the New York Daily Express.)
HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY, DEC. s.—This morning the
locofocos commenced operations by a meeting in the court-
house, at which sundry threats were made that the arms in
the state arsenal should be taken by force, to drive the
tyrants, as they styled the governor, the senate, and the ca-
binet, rom power. About ten o'clock an order was sent
from the governor to the keeper of the arsenal to raise a
force to defend it; whereupon he enrolled a posse of twenty-
five men, and stationed them in the building. By this time
the locofoco branch of the House of Representatives had
met to go on with their movements and soon adjourned, when
a considerable mob collected in front of the arsenal. A com-
mittee was then appointed by the locol)cos to confer with the
friends of law and order, and induce them to withdraw, and
the keeper of the arsenal wo irk_himself that no arms
itlitiadle7talMsxrupe ,tlrOPWrie
dreir, and-soon after #g, -the
was
about of obtaining nu ftlktpietkmstaiacts. This Was
about one o'clock, p.in.
After thngarrison,of the arsenal had adjourned,_a consi
derable number of the voters assembled in Locus-street,lii:
front of Gleim's Hotel, where their orators delivered several
inflammatory addresses; but as a heavy rain was descending
at the time, they soon dispersed.

(From the Harrisburg Intelligencer.)
AWFUL STATE OF AFFAIRS.
The mob have actual possession of the capital of Pennsyl-
vania, and it is impossible for the legislature to meet, or the
business in the departments of government to proceed.
As the hour of half-past two this afternoon is appointed for
the meeting of the house, the Speaker deputed .Mr. Speak-
man to adjourn the houst: till to-morrow. hall was filled
with the rioters, who seized Mr. S. and forced him to retire,
when they all rushed out, and he was barely enabled to es-
cape without injury. In the scuffle the doors were broken,
and the bull otherwise mutilated.
The mob have now possession of the town, and mob-law
reigns supreme. The officers of the law make no attempt to
put down the disgraceful scene. No life is safe; but the
state authorities, we understand, have taken all the measures
possible under the circumstances, for the preservrtion of life
and property.
We appeal to the people or Pennsylvania to defend their
laws. The reign of anarchy has continued long enough. If
liberty be worth an effort, let that effort be promptly made.
The garrison, we understand, has issued a proclamation,
calling the citizens from abroad to hold themselves in readi-
ness to aid in preserving civil government, in case the rioters
persisted in their revolutionary measures.
The locofoco papers, we see, are pursuing their deceptive
course in the accounts they give of the scenes here, and are,
endeavouring to throw the blame on our party. But we ap-
peal to the representatives of the people, who will shortly,
no doubt, be obliged by the mob to adjourn the sessions busi-
ness and go home to their constituents, if our account be not
correct, or if anything so highly coloured as the actual truth.
Indeed, we have feared to represent the locofocos as bad as
they are, lest we might be subject to the charge of exaggera-
tion. It is awful to contemplate their doings.
LATEK.—A meeting of the Whigs was called in Philadel-
phia, to be held yesterday, if Dec. 7.) to consider the state of
affairs at Harrisburg. Great excitement prevailed in Phila-
delphia. The locofocos also called a meeting for yesterday
afternoon. The United States Gazette of yesterday states
that passengers who left Harrisburg late on Thursday morn-
ing bring information that a requisition had been made by
the governor for some military aid from the adjoining coun-
try, and that a few companies of volunteers were expected
in the course of the morning.

Di TIIIS MORNING'S MAIL.
Harrisburg Dec. 6, 10 A. M.
After I wrote of the morning session yesterday, nothing of
moment occured until the hour appointed for meeting of the
House of Representatives—half-past two o'clock, p. rn. The
mob had resolved that the body should not be permitted to as-
semble. For this purpose they as usual took possession of the
hall, and when Mr. Speakman, who had been deputed by
Mr. Cunningham to take the chair, advanced to the speaker's
chair for the put pose of adjourning the house from that place,
he was met by Thomas B. M'Elwee, and some of the Phila-
delphia county gentry, and peremptorily ordered to desist
from his purpose as he valued his life. The mob, at the same
time, made a rush upon him, but by active exertions of sonic
of the ringleaders, who I suppose, thought that the time for
slaughter had not yet come, as there were but few democrat
members in the hall, he was dragged from the stand and
through the chamber to the door, where the rush being great,
11.04 w-el door,s,were brokeu,slewn, and other iejuries.doneto -;
the hall. The court-house was
and the customary round of inflammatory and
sanguinary addresses made, but the meeting did not come off
with much eclat.
There was an evident diminution of feeling and of num-
bers. The democratic members of the legislature met in a
room at Wilson's Hotel, at seven o'clock last evening. Dr.
Fans was elected clerk, and A. P. Hughes, sergeant-at-arms.
A petition was then presented from Bedford county, contest-
ing the right of T. B. ISPElwee to a seat in the House of
Representatives, when they adjourned to meet again this
evening, at seven o'clock. The locofocos met at ten this
morning, but adjourned again without transacting any
business.
The Philadelphia papers of yesterday morning contain the
proclamation of Governor Ritner, giving a condensed detail
of the lawless proceedings of the mob at Harrisburg, which
had suspended the action of the legislature, and stating that
there still remained at Harrisburg a force, encouraged by an
officer of the general government from Philadelphia, who
are setting the law at open defiance, and rendering it unsafe
for the legislature to assemble in the capital.
He therefore called upon the civic authorities to exert
themselves to maintain order, and the military to hold them-
selves in readiness to repair to the seat of government to
assist in reinstating the supremacy of the law.
We also find an address to the people of the commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, from the speaker and eighteen members of
the senate, and an address from T. S. Cunningham, speaker
of the House of Representatives, giving a detail of the pro-
ceedings, and stating that the senate and house have been
dispersed and prevented from sitting by tumultuous and
riotus multitudes. The lives of the members have been threat-
ened and put in jeopardy, and officers of the state govern-
ment have been designated as the objects of attack. Offici-
als of the general goverment were there instigating these il-
legal and dangerous proceedings.
We learn from Washington that several of the administra-
tion, members of the Pensylvannia delegation, had left Wash-
ington for Harrisburg. Among others, the Hon. George
M'Keim, of Berks, who have gone on to join Ingersoll, to
contend for the supremacy of the locofocos, in contradistinc-
tion to the supremacy of the laws. Nothing had been ef-
fected in the way of compromise, and it was supposed the
locofocos were hollow and insincere in their profesaions, and.
had no wish to allay the violent proceedings at Harrisburg,
as they hoped to effect that by violence which they are cot
entitled to by right, and are anxious to prevent an "expose"
of their frauds at the elections.
The whigs remained firm, and refused to listen to any terms
until the mob was withdrawn, and the legislature left to act
untrammelled by violence. A great deal of excitement pi e-
vailed at Philadelphia. and the tory Ingersoll has certainly
obtained a most unenviable notoriety.
The military were to leave Philadelphia at eight o'clock
yesterday morning, in the railroad cars, to proceed to Harris-
burg, in sufficient force to put down the mob.
LATEST FROM PHIL A DELPHIA.—The steam-boat arrived
at about two o'clock this morning, bringing us the Philadel-
phia papers of last evening. A military detachment, under
General Patterson, left yesterday morning for Harrisburg,
and it was presumed that the mob would immediately disperse,
the legislature resume their functions, and order be restored.
The conference had been broken of by the locofoco com-
mittee on the departure of the troops for Harrisburg, it ap-
pearing to have been their object to prevent the moving of
the military mere than the interference of the mob.
Several volunteer companies, amounting to 1000 men, left
Philadelphia for Harrisburg at nine o'clock.