The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-09-04 00:00:00

executed.

The Canada papers state that Lord Durham has
sent for Governor Prescott, of Newfoundland, for Sir
Charles Fitz Roy, the Governor of Prince Edward's
Island, and for Sir Colin Campbell, the Governor of
Nova Scotia. In Prince Edward's Island troops are
to be raised for her Majesty's service, and the usual
bounty paid whel they arrive at head quarters. ,

On the subject of Lord Durham's more recent pro-
ceedings in Canada we find some very cogent but just
remarks in the Morning Herald of Saturday last. Our
contemporary observes—" By the latest accounts from
Canada, Lord Durham's system of conciliation'
towards the traitors and their secret abettors, is de-.
scribed to be producing its natural results. The rebels
are, as a matter of course, strengthened in their senti-
ments of hostility to England, by the secret sympathy
with their courses, which they, very naturally, ascribe
to Lord Durham. The hesitation which has been
evinced to vindicate the law, appears to the adherents
of Papineau, a tacit recognition by the governor-gene-
ral, of the justice of their cause. They recollect that
he is the viceroy selected by the whig government of
England, notoriously, on the ground of his "liberal"
sentiments. They know that the whig government of
England owes much to the English friends of Canadian
" liberalism"--the Humes, and Leaders, and `Yarbur•

tons;—and they can scarcely avoid the conclusion that
the "liberalism" of Lord Durham is akin to the "li-
beralism" of the Roebuck party, and, by consequence,
akin to their own sentiments. Lord Durham's course
of action has favoured all these presumptions. His
lordship has carefully avoided countenancing the royal-
ists. He has never acknowledged their most merito-
rious services during the late rebellion. He has, on
the other hand, screened the traitors from the conse-
quences of their treason. He has violated the law, in
order to save them from the ordeal of a trial;—and
whilst, js we have stated, he has sedulously avoided
the slightest allusion to the loyalty of the volunteers
who so promptly aided the Queen's troops in baffling
the traitors, lie has fawned upon the American abettors
of treason in the Canadas

The same journal proceeds to remark :—" We have
always declared our fears that Lord Durham would,
by his despicable policy, thoroughly disgust the loyal
population of Canada! Our prediction would appear
to he, unfortunately, in the course of rapid fulfilment.
The loyal volunteers feel that their noble efforts and
sacrifices are not appreciated by the representative of
our 'liberal' government—and that feeling may, yet,
give rise to fatal consequences! The liberated trai-
tors, too, have recommenced their marchings, and
drillings. They are anxious, no doubt, again to try

their fortune in the lottery of civil war. Their luck
may mend, perhaps, if proved under the sympathetic
eye of Lord Durham ! The great man himself has
been again entertaining parties of American citizens
from the frontiers—including, doubtless, a fair sprink-
ling of the men who invaded our Canadian territories,

and put the Caroline steam-boat to its piratical uses !
We may expect, indeed, to hear shortly that Lord
Durham has been following out the soothing' system
by regaling at the vice-regal table, Bill Johnston, and
his brother cut-throats. Bill, by the way, is said to

have figured lately at a public ball; and as Lord Dur-
nam has given two or three balls to American citizens,
it is very possible that his lordship's dwelling may
have been the spot honoured by Bill's Terpsichorean
evolutions. Whilst, however, Lord Durham has been
‘eonciliating,,' the Americans, and toasting the health
of their President, how have the men of the United
States been acknowledging his lordships civilities ?
Let the following most expressive statement supply
the answer ! The narrative, be it observed, is taken
from one of the United States journals !
( From the New York Inquirer, Aug. 8.)
The steam-bo,t Bunker-hill arrived in our port yesterday,
having on board some 200 discharged Canadian volunteers,
who had been taken on board at Malden, to be landed at
Chippewa. They were dressed as militia usually are, as
suited their fancy, and their colours were as various as their
dresses. They were accompanied by their officers, and were
civilly behaved- Notwithstanding this, however, a number of
blackguards 50072, gathered round the vessel while she was dis-
charging her freioht, and commenced abusing the men, and
ultimately pelted the men with missiles. Captain Homans,
of the government steam-boat Milwaukie, having however
been applied to, he stationed sentinels to protect the stran-
gers, and the rabble dispersed. We trust a strong example
will he made of some of them for their disgraceful conduct.
The same game, we hear, was played at Toledo and Cleve-
land.

"This outrage, let it be noted, was committed on the

loyal subjects of the Queen of England—on men ad-
mitted to be 'very civilly behaved'—not at an Ameri-
can outpost, near the scene of the last disturbances,
but in the city of New York. The outrage in ques-
tion is, in truth, but an embodiment of those senti-
ments towards England, which animate the breast of
Mr. Van Buren and of the vast majority of his fellow-
countrymen ! And it is to the authors of such a dis-
graceful violation of all international courtesy that
Lord Durham delights to truckle !
" If Lord Durham shall remain in Canada, Canada
will, in all probability, be lost to the English empire.
Let Lord Durham be recalled—and let his place be
supplied by thirty sail of the line, and by thirty thou-
sand additional troops. Mr. Van Buren would then
adopt Lord Durham's policy, and truckle in his
turn!"

The advice of our contemporary is judicious. The
remedy which is proposed would, no doubt, prove effi-
cacious; but, alas! where are we to find thirty sail of
the line, properly manned, and thirty thousand addi-

tional troops. Thanks to the clipping and paring sys-
tem of the modern economists—the liberal philosophers
of the day, our naval force is crippled in its energies.
Thanks to the Irish agitators, our troops cannot be
spared from the Sister Island, where they are needed
to secure a semblance of tranquillity.
With respect to American news we have little to
add. The following are the most important ex-
tracts :

PHILADELPHIA, AUG. 13, 5 P. 111.—This iS "resumption
day," and the Whigs arc celebrating it with becoming spirit
on the banks of the Wissihiccan. The demand for specie
upon the banks of this city has, so far as I could learn, been
very limited. Several of the banks said they had not seen
any presentation of their notes for silver beyond what was
common for change before the resumption. Sundry draughts
from New York on several of our city banks, the United
States Bank included, amounting in all to 400,030 dollars;
were presented to-day; and, as the United States Bank had
balances to settle, it accepted these draughts, and gave the
bearer a check for the whole amount on the New York
banks, so that no .specie changed hands. This looks like the
good old-fashioned way of doing business,—a way which, it is
thought, has been brought about by the judicious manage-
ment of those who have taunted her for delaying the measure.
NEW Yong, AUG. 16, 4 P.M.—On Monday, the 13th
instant, the banks of New England, Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Maryland; and Virginia, resumed specie payments. Those
of Kentucky, doubtless resumed on the same day : and it
was understood, that those of Indiana and Illinois would
follow in four or five days. The resumption is general,
with the exception of some of the South Western States.
Of these, Tennessee will resume by the first of January,
Alabama and Louisiana at about the same period; and
Mississippi not till she cashes her next cotton crop—
if then. The fall in lands, cotton, &c., has proved
more disastrous in Mississippi, than any where else.
The resumption has aided to restore confidence, as confi-
dence brought about resumption. It is reviving business.
'1 he prospects of our full trade are good—better than we had
any reason to expect, thanks to the free banking law, steam
navigation of the Atlantic, and the return to specie payments.
The wheat crops are realized ablindantly; the corn has suf-
fered from thought. We shall have grain to export. Of
this Canada will want a portion, for the wheat-fly has com-
mitted great ravages in her fields; it is supposed, too, that
there may be an European demand. So these circumstances
will keep up prices. Mr. Biddle has met with some difficulty
in the organization of his branch bank in this city, in conse-
quence of the understanding that it could not, under the laws
of New York, sue for the recovery of its debts.
We are informed by good authority, says the New York
Courier, that measures are already in contemplation, which,
if carried out fully, will, in the year 1840, give the following
arrangement for steam packets from this port:—
Monday—For London. Tuesday—For Havre. Wednes-
day—For Bristol. Thursday—For Liverpool. Friday—For
Glasgow. Saturday—For Dublin.
Flour is selling at Cincinnati as low as four dollars per
barrel. It is coming down in all the markets about as fast
as the holders can make it convenient.—Boston

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Corn has advanced twenty cents. a bushel in Baltimore
within a week.

Very great alarm begins to be excited on account of the
continual rise in the waters of Lake Superior. Whole
farms, it is said, have been submerged, and wharfs and
streets rendered useless. Since 1835, the rise has been from
three and a half to four feet. An old and intelligent inhabi-
tant of Cleveland declares that be has seen the level of the
water seven feet lower than it now is. The pier at Monroe,
when completed, was six feet out of watei ; it is now nearly
immersed. A writer in the Toledo Gazette surmises that a
large river, which has hitherto discharged itself into Hud-
son's Bay, has been, from year to year, impeded iu its course
by the accumulation of drift wood, stumps, &c., similar to
that of the great raft of the Red River, till finally, it has be-
come completely dammed, and has cut out for itself a new
channel into some one of the great tributaries to Lake Supe-
rior. This theory is believed to have been derived from the
fur traders; but come from what source it may, the pheno-
menon demands the attention of our geologists and other
men of science.
WEATHER AT NEW ORLEANS.—After experiencing a
burning drought for some weeks, the Orleannis were relieved
on the 30th ult. by a flood of rain, accompanied with thunder
and lightning, which had the effect of removing from the
streets certain deposits, which were highly prejudicial to the
health of the residents.
According to Charleston papers, the heat in that city, du-
ring the last month, has been more unremitting and intense
than it has been for the last twenty-three years. The ther-
mometer of the 30th ult. stood as high as 95k.
The census of a house in Cross-street, New York, was re-
cently taking by a police-officer, when it was found to con-
tain an aggregate of over three hundred as miserable beings
as the eye of pity could wish to look at.

(From the New York Inquirer, Aug. 7.)
THE BLOCKADES.—The Washington. Globe received on
Thursday has favoured us with the annunciation of another
blockade -- that of the ports of Peru by Chili, so that now we
have the blockade of all the coasts of Mexico, even those
in the Gulf of California, and on the Pacific Ocean, the
blockade of the River Plate, and some of the ports of Brazil
which are in the hands of the revolutionists. This forms a
pretty considerable part of the Southern Continent, and we
should not be astonished, were it increased, by the blockade
of all Brazil by England, in case the slave trade in the former
country is not stopped, for we have seen a threat of the kind
held out in Parliament.

( From the Providence Journal.)
FRENCH BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN PORTS.—We are
surprised to find this arbitrary measure of the French Go-
vernment defended with so much zeal by certain. presses in
this country. In no view of the question can we see any-
thing but a flagrant violation of the rights of neutrals, an
unjustifiable interference with the trade and commerce of
other nations. If France has any claims upon Mexico, let
ber enforce them in a proper way, but not in such a way that
the loss shall fall principally upon England and the United
States.

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( From the New York Inquirer, Aug. 16.)
MOST DISTRESSING CATASTROPHE—N INETEEN PERSONS
DROWNED.-1I is our painful duty to record one of the most
distressing events which, it is presumed, ever happened in
nor immediate vicinity. This morning, as a boat, contain-
ing 2-1 or '25 persons, was passing through the Little Falls,
it struck upon Hunt's Rock, and immediately filled, and,
melancholy to relate, 19 persons, including children, were
drowned. None of the bodies had been found at the time we
obtained our information, except those of Mr. Haynes's four
children.—St. John's (New Brunswick) Gazelle.

GREAT FIRE IN THE PINES.—The Burlington VOW Jer-
sey) Herald says—" Calamities thicken upon us. Fires have
broken out in the pines, and the extremely dry weather fa-

yours their ragid enlargement. For one week they have
raged, commencing on the Martha Furnace tract, and sweep-
ing over various sections of pine land and cedar swamp.
While on Long Beach last week we could see this destroying
element at the distance of many miles, casting a light as
though a city were in fiamet. Owners of timber lands are
busily employed tiring against the,fonsuming enemy. It is
the greatest calamity of the kind ever known. From the
neighbourhood of Tuckerton to Burr's Mill the country has
been overrun at last accounts. One hundred thousand dol-
lars would not cover the damages already incurred."

Extract of a letter from New York, dated August 16:—
"On Monday, the 13th inst., the Banks of New England,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Maryland, and Virginia, resumed specie
payments, which has aided to restore confidence. The pros-
pects of our fall trade are good—better than we had any
reason to expect.

" The wheat crops are realised abundantly; the corn has
suffered from drought. We shall have grain to export. Of
this Canada will want a portion, for the wheat fly has com-
mitted great ravages in her fields; it is supposed, too, that
there may be an European demand. So these circumstances
will keel: up prices."

The Havannah papers are almost silent respecting the
French blockade of the Mexican ports. The only article re-
lating to that subject is the following:—
" Mexico, June 18.
"By letters from Vera Cruz received yesterday we learn
the arrival of the English packet with letters from London
dated the 14th, and from Paris the 12th of April. Baron
Deffaudis sailed on the 12111 from Sacrificios in the Corsair
for France, leaving M. de Lisle as Charge d'Affaires. Two
other vessels had sailed with sick for Martinique, as the sick-
ness called the vomit had begun to prevail in the Frnech
squadron. A frigate, it is sail, had sailed fur the Havannah
in quest of provisions." '

TUE QUEEN AND DR. HOOK.—Several of our con-
temporaries have been giving currency to the rumour
that Dr. Hook has been informed that his services as
chaplain to the Queen will be in future dispensed
with. The only foundation for this report seems to
have been an expression in Dr. Hook's preface to his
recently published sermon, in which he states that " it
was intended for the pulpit, and not for the press
but that "circumstances have transpired which seem
to require its publication." These vague terms have
been construed into an intimation from some person
about the court, acting under the instructions of the
Queen, that Dr. Hook would not be allowed again to
preach in the chapel-royal. The improbability of such
a proceeding is, of itself, sufficient to throw discredit
upon the rumour. The sermon preached by the doc-
tor is by no means calculated to give offence to her
Majesty, much less to her Majesty's ministers, as we
shall hereafter endeavour to prove. We had intended
on Friday last to have introduced a few remarks on
the subject matter of the sermon under notice; but we
found that we should not be able, in the compass of a
single article, to do justice to the question. We,
therefore, resolved upon another course— that of lay-
ing before our readers a series of articles on the pre-
sent condition of the Protestant Church of England,
in reference to her friends and her enemies, as well as
upon certain points of ecclesiastical policy which have
recently engaged considerable attention. In prose-
cuting this subject we shall endeavour to avoid all un-
necessary asperity, and to bestow upon it that calm
and deliberate consideration which its importance de-
mands. In the mean time, we deem it right to dis-
abuse the public of the impression which the report,
to which we have already alluded, is calculated to pro-
duce. The Leeds Intelligencer of Saturday last re-
marks—" In our last number we copied from the Age
newspaper an article, in which it was stated that the
rev. doctor had been dismissed from his office of Royal
Chaplain on account of having proclaimed bold and
vital truths in the ear of Majesty ; and we gave the
silly invention an unqualified contradiction. We now
repeat that contradiction because we see the fiction re-
iterated in the Times of Thursday, in the form of a
communication from a correspondent. Dr. Hook has
not been dismissed. He said nothing to excite the
Queen's anger; but much to attract her serious at-
tention and deep reflection. Her Majesty owes her
right to the Throne to the fact of her Protestantism ;
and Dr. Hook informed her—probably the first time
she ever heard it—that the English Protestant Church
is, in doctrine at least, a pure and apostolic church ,
and that the Church of Rome, which the English Pro-
testant Church shook off because of her corruptions,

is not, as it is popularly represented and supposed, the
Parent Church, but a branch of the pure stream

turned off, and mixing itself up with the sands of error
and the filth of superstition and gross worldly conta-
mination." The Intelligcncer, however, does not in-
form us what were "the circumstances", which led to

the publication of Dr. Hook's sermon. The Carlisle
Patriot supplies this deficiency, and gives the follow-
ing narrative of the particulars which induced Dr.
Hook to send his sermon to the press:—" When Dr.
Hook preached before her Majesty it was evident to
all who were present that his discourse produced a
more than ordinary impression ❑pon the royai auditor.
On her return to Buckingham Palace her Majesty re-
tired into the gardens unattended, but not unobserved,

for she was seen to weep. Her tears, however, were
not those of anger, for, in the course of the day, her
Majesty was pleased to command that there should be
conveyed to Dr. Hook the expression of the high sa-

tisfaction she had derived from his sermon. There
were, however, persons connected with the court who
viewed Dr. Hook's efforts in a different light. To
those who are disposed to deal "a heavy blow and
great discouragement to Protestantism" the orthodox
doctrines of Dr. Hook appeared to convey a rebuke
which, probably, their own consciences told them was
but too well merited. The first intimation which Dr.
Hook received of the kind offices which his friends at
Court were disposed to render him, was from a right
rev. prelate, who, on meeting him, exclaimed, " So,
Dr. Hook, they say that you preached a political ser-
mon to the Queen." Dr. Hook replied that be would
give his lordship an opportunity of judging of the
truth of that statement by sending him the sermon for
perusal. The sermon was sent and returned with the
strongest expressions of approbation. -Shortly after
another right rev. prelate, alluding to the report which
was in circulation, requested permission to read the

sermon, which, of course, was granted, and he also
spoke in terms of the highest commendation of the

discourse, and further advised Dr. Hook, as it had ex-
cited so much attention, and was exposed to so much
misrepresentation, to " print it, and shame the fools."
These are the "circumstances" alluded to in the ire-
face, which led to the publication of the sermon. Af-
ter this explanation it is scarcely necessary to add that

if Dr. Hook has been forbidden so preach again in the
Chapel Royal, which we do not believe to be the case,
her Majesty's sentiments towards that excellent clergy-
man have undergone an extraordinary change—from
what influence remains to be seen."

THE PORT AND, TRADE of LONDON.—In Our last
publication, in making some extracts from Mr. Elmes'
exposition of the Trade and Port of London, we ad-
verted to the comparison drawn by Mr. M'Culloch
between the number of shipping belonging to that
port, in contrast with those at Liverpool and other out-
ports; but it is but fair to remark that, whether from
a predilection in favour of London, or from accident,
he has made the comparison on a point peculiarly un
favourable to Liverpool,—for, as the capital of Liver-
pool is otherwise employedi it so happens that a vast
many of the British shipping engaged in the Liver-
pool trade belong to Whitehaven, Workington, and
other neighbouring places where they have more lei-
sure to look after shipping.
Had the comparison been made with the amount of
duties collected, or the number of ships employed, the
difference between the ports would not have been by
any means so great. In import of tobacco, sheeps'
wool, &c., the ports are about equal; whilst in respect
to the important article of cotton wool, and with
respect to amount of exports, Liverpool immeasurably
exceeds London.

We beg leave to call the attention of our readers to
an advertisement published in our to-day's paper, re-
lative to an English church now building at Athens,—
an object of great interest in itself, and rendered so
doubly by the associations connected with that cele-
brated city. For what educated man is not under the
highest obligations to Athens ? And what good mem-
ber of our excellent church will not rejoice to see its
branches planted in foreign lands, and especially in a
spot where the gospel was first preached by St. Paul him-
self ? Itis to be hoped that the benevolence and christian
feelings of the inhabitants ofLi verpool will be interested
in the effort now made to introduce the services of the
united Church of England and Ireland to the capital
of modern Greece. Mr. Leeves has long been occu
pied in the work of superintending the translation of
the bible into modern Greek; and it is desirable that
the nation which has received from England the pre-
cious gift of the scriptures in their native language,
should become acquainted with the pure and scriptural
liturgy of the Church of England, which has also been
translated by Mr. Leeves.