The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-03-26 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We quote with pleasure the following very sensible notice to
correspondents, which has appeared twice in a talented
local contemporary. We quite agree with him that the
system of taking advertisements at a lower rate than the
fixed scale is very reprehensible, and productive of much
unpleasantness :—" It may answer the purpose of some of
our contemporaries to insert advertisements at any price,
or every price, and whether they have instructions or not ;
but our settled rule, unalterable as the laws of the Medes
and Persians, is to publish only such business announce-
ments as are ordered and paid for according to our regular
scale of charges. We had rather, when general or local
news of importance may be scarce, occupy our space with
quotations from popular periodicals, and matter interesting
to particular classes of readers, than with advertisements
which do not yield a fair remuneration. The extent of our
circulation, the character of our subscribers, and the
la-
bour and capital necessarily employed in catering for their
information, fully entitle us to the advertising encourage-
ment of all parties, at our usual and very reasonable prices,
and we have no wish to impose upon any persons by as-
suming an appearance of patronage which we do not pos-
sess. Let those who will make up a page of advertise-
ments for show—we shall not consent to follow their un-
profitable example."

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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 26, 1841

By the New York packet-ship Patrick Henry, which
arrived here on Wednesday, we have papers to the Bth
instant. The Patrick Henry performed the passage in
fifteen days and ten hours. In another column will be
found as much of the inaugural address of General
Harrison as our: readers will feel any interest in Pe;
All tangible allusion to the various even" °I
interest in that country is purposely avoided in that
document, and the papers before us are also barren of
the information which was expected to 'arrive. The
authorities appear to treat the relations between this
country and the States in a more rational manner; and
Mr. Buchanan, on the Ist instant, carried in the senate
a resolution to the effect, that " the committee on
foreign relations be relieved from the consideration of
the resolution referred to them, which requested the
President to communicate any correspondence that had
taken place with the British Government on the
North-Eastern Boundary.
The President arrived at New York on the 3d inst.,
after having experienced the most boisterous weather.
As she was to leave on the 10th, we do not anticipate
she will convey to us any intelligence of a decisive
character. '

rusing,

Mr. M`Leod was to be removed to the state of New
York, as it was presumed he could not have a fair trial
near the place where he has been hitherto confined, on
account of the excited state of feeling amongst the
populace.

The advices from England had caused a decline in
the prices of cotton, which was previously looking up-
wards. Considerable sales had been made for export.
The prices had been for Uplands 91 to 11, New Or-
leans 9 to 111, Mobile 91 to 111. The importation
of dry goods had been very large, and the stock in the
market was very extensive. The stock of coals from
this part had, with the exception of about thirty tons,
been entirely sold out of the first hands. The last
sales were made at 7-50 to 8 dols. The money market
was inactive, and the advices from England had tended
to increase the depression. The banks, however, dis-
counted short paper freely. There had been a falling
off in the rates of Foreign Exchange. Bills on Eng-
land were at 107 to 108, and on France at 5 f. 30.
There was no demand for specie for shipment, and the
amount drawn from the banks had- been trifling.
Stocks were generally declining, and United States
Bank Shares had gone down to 161.

With respect to those outward demonstrations of
physical strength which the O'Connellite party are so
fond of making, and with reference to which we sub-
mitted some remarks in our last, there is an observa-
tion commonly made, that if there be treason in the
wind, it is better that it should exhibit itself than lie
concealed, or work in the dark, and, at length, take us
unawares and unprepared ; and on this ground some
fancy that the indulgent, conciliatory system pursued
by the Whigs, has an advantage. And this might be
allowed, if we had no choice but between such a sys-
tem and one whose fruits could only be concealment
and surprise. But we are not so circumscribed in aur
selection of remedies; we are not limited to a choice
of evils.

In the first place, we deny that the Whig system is
a remedy at all. A skilful physician may wish that a
disease should develope itself, and treat his patient
with a view to produce that effect ; but his final object
is cure—not merely to change its local habitation, but
to remove the disease altogether. But the Whigs
seem to contemplate no such purpose in their policy.
They bring out disorder, indeed, in a most superior
manner; but, having brought it out, they leave it
plenty of courage to the rebellious;
there, They give
but their system has no tendency to root out treason.
Their treatment has no analogy to that of the physi-
cian ; for it would confirm, not dislodge the malady of
the state. The utmost merit they can pretend to, is
that of procuring a little temporary peace by sneaking
compliances, and paying all the black mail which Po-
pery would levy upon them almost in advance.
In England we see merely the results of this most
contemptible and time-serving policy; we do not
and feel, as the Protestants of Ireland do, all thei
mediate misery and injurious consequences that flow
from it. In Ireland Popery is the favoured religion,
and the Protestant faith, barely tolerated in some dis-
tricts, is not unusually persecuted, nay persecuted even
unto death, in others. The peace procured by the
Whigs, or what they call such, is in fact obtained by
the sacrifice of Protestantism ; and what, we ask, is to
be the end thereof? England cannot desire to partake
in advantages (if any there be) procured by injustice and
wrong, and is bound, at all hazards, to put an end to a
system which produces such results. The administra-
tion of the Whigs in Ireland is founded on favount-