The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-27 00:00:00

TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 27, 1840.

By the arrival of the Great Western steam-ship,
Lieut. Hosken, R. N., we have received New York
papers to the 10th instant, inclusive. The Great
Western sailed from New York on the afternoon of the
10th, and arrived in Kingroad, Bristol, on the morning
of Saturday last, (the 24th,) having accomplished the
passage in 13 days and 15 hours. She brought 95
passengers, a very full number, considering the season
of the year.

The principal news from the United States relates to
the approaching Presidential election. According to
every probability General Harrison will be elected to
that office. As a consequence of his election the es-
tablishment of a national bank is confidently predict-
ed. Our facetious friend of the Morning Herald also
enumerates the following as among the contingencies
which will depend upon the success of the General :
" The old United States Bank will never recover her
reputation—Mr. Webster or Mr. Clay will take the
succession—the country will pass through another pe-
riod of speculation—another crisis—another revul-
sion—and the science of political economy will be be-
nefited by these experiments on the currency and on
commerce. Probably in 1843 or 1844, the next grand
explosion may take place."

Mr. Webster was particularly active in his exertions
for the return of General Harrison. With this view,
he had been journeying from one town to another, and
delivering addresses to the " citizens," in which he set
forth, in glowing terms, the merits of the favourite
candidate. The Herald furnishes us with a flaming de-
scription of one of " the conventions of the people,"
at which these speeches were delivered, which was held
at Richmond.

The commercial intelligence from New York is ex-
tremely meagre. On the 9th instant there was an in-
creased demand of bills for the Great Western. The
quotations on England were 0 to 9 per cent. premium.
The amount of bills sold was not large. The packet
carried out 240,000 dollars in specie. In stocks there
was more business doing, though prices had generally
declined. United States Bank fell off per cent.;
North American Trust and Banking Company per
cent.: Delaware and Hudson per cent.; Farmers'
Trust * per cent. ; Harlem 1 per cent. Money con-
tinued plentiful, and the value of most southern secu-
rities, as well as state stocks, was improving, under
the demand for investment.

There is little news of importance from Canada.
Several acts of incendiarism had been recently com-
mitted along the borders, but the New York papers
state that no suspicion rested on Americans as the
authors of the villanies, and that there was generally a
good understanding between the inhabitants on the
different sides of the line.

Chaplain A. Talcott, with a party of surveyors, had
left Canaan, Vermont, for the head-quarters of Con-
necticut river, for the purpose of tracing the sources
of the Magalloway river. The party were then to pro-
ceed along the dividing highlands to the Kennebec
road. Another party, under Professor Renwick, had
proceeded to the Restigouche bay, from whence they
were to trace the highlands, agreeably to the treaty, in
the direction of the Kennebec road. A third party,
under Major Graham, was employed in running the
meridian line for Mars' hill.

There is not much news from Mexico. Since th
receipt of previous advices no material change had
taken place in the aspect of affairs in the capital. The
government appeared to be mainly engaged in strength-
ening their position, drawing around them loyal troops,
and searching out and arresting persons known or
suspected to have been engaged in the late demonstra-
tion against the centralists. The revolutionary spirit
appeared to be quieted for the present. The prevail-
ing calm, however, was considered as the prelude to
an approaching tempest. The name of Santa Anna
was not mentioned. His is not a spirit to remain in-
active in the tumult of revolution. The Texian fleet
was off the mouth of the river Bravo on the Ist of