The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-21 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We should have been very glad to comply with the request
of " A Subscriber," if we had received his communica-
tion a few hours sooner. It shall, however, be inserted on
Friday.

Ebe Ziberpool &tanbatt.

TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL 21, 1840.

We have been favoured with an extract of a private
letter, dated Monte Video, Feb. 1, from which it ap-
pears that the French seamen had, at length, all em-
barked. It is said that the French had advanced, or
were about to advance 300,000 dollars to Rivera, that
he might assist Lavalle. It is also stated that the
French Admiral would leave in a few days, and that he
would take the greater number of his vessels to Buenos
Ayres, for which purpose he had lately landed naval
and military stores, among which were 1,500 muskets
and 24 battery guns, twelve and twenty-four pound-
ers. Some thought that this was to precede the per-
manent possession of Monte Video. From Buenos
Ayres the accounts received at Monte Video were to
the 18th of January. Nothing was said as to the rais-
ing of the blockade. The letter proceeds to say, "We
have just heard that Oribe has passed from Entre Rios
to this province, Rivera continues to take men for the
army, and this leads us to think that affiiirs are not so
satisfactory as his party would have us to suppose, and
the, few purchasers from the country is evidence of the
unsettled state of affairs."

The steam-ship British Queen, Lieutenant Roberts,
R.N., which left New York on the Ist of April, ar-
rived at Spithead on Thursday evening, having made
the passage in fourteen days seven hours, deducting
allowance for difference of longitude in time. The
British Queen brought fifty-six passengers.
The papers brought by the British Queen contain
copies of further letters between Mr. Fox, the British
minister, and Mr. Forsyth, the Secretary of State
.of
the United States. In another column we have given
the most important portions of this correspondence,
which appears to have created considerable excitement
in the political and commercial circles. Its tone ap-
pears to be of a decidedly more hostile character than
that of any which has preceded it. It is evident that
the parties were approaching a rupture. From the last
letter of Mr. Fox it would appear that all further ne-
gociations at Washington were suspended. He says,
" It will be the duty of the undersigned immediately to
transmit Mr. Forsyth's note to her Majesty's Govern-
ment in England, and until the statements and proposi-
tions which it contains shall have received the due con-
sideration of her Majesty's Government, the under-
signed will not deem it right to add any further reply."
Some of the American papers treat the tone and
character of Mr. Forsyth's communications as a mere
political movement on the part of the present Govern-
ment. The people of Maine are chiefly loco-focos, and
the President and his Cabinet fear the loss of the state
at the approaching presidential election, unless some
decisive measure is taken by the General Government.
It is for this reason that Mr. Forsyth uses the follow-
ing language :—" But no apprehension of the conse-
quences alluded to by Mr. Fox can be permitted to di-
vert the Government and people of the United States
from the performance of their duty to the state of
Maine. That duty is as simple as it is imperative.
The construction which is given by her to the treaty of
1783 has been again and again, and in the most so-
lemn manner, asserted also by the federal Government,
and must be maintained, unless Maine freely consents
to a new boundary, or unless the construction of the
treaty is fOund to be erroneo'.is by tha decision of a din-
interested and independent tribunal, 'selected by the
parties for its final adjustment."
In the debate which ensued in the Senate, after this
correspondence was communicated by the President,
Mr. Webster expressed deep regret that the two coun-
tries were likely to come into collision. Whatever
might be the disposition of the two governments, he
was fearful of the consequences that might result from
the embittered feelings among the residents on either
side of the line. Mr. Williams (from Maine) rejoiced
to find that the question was likely to be brought to a
speedy issue.
The Sub-Treasury Bill was still lying on the table of
the House of Representatives. It would not, proba-
bly, be taken up till late in the session, and after the
spring elections.
A bill authorising the Secretary of the Treasury to
issue 5,000,000 dollars of treasury notes, and to re-issue
them as redeemed, so that the whole amount at any
time in circulation shall not exceed 5,000,000 dollars,
had passed both branches of Congress, and wanted
but the signature of the President to become a law.
The legislatures of Virginia, Maryland, South Caro-
lina, North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Ohio, and
Indiana, had adjourned,without adopting any measures
hostile to the bank, or intended to compel a premature
resumption of specie payments. In Illinois an alter-
native was presented by the legislature of resumption
or forfeiture of charter. The banks closed their
doors, and in a few days the legislature legalised
the suspension until its next session. In Mississippi
banks and credit of every description see► to be an-
nihilated. In the specie-paying states, money was

abundant on good security, at a low rate of interest.
Business continued generally in a very depressed con-
dition. Prices were low and falling. The freighting
business from the southern ports was remarkably good,
and vessels were in great demand.
A controversy was going on in the New York pa-

pers respecting the course pursued by Mr. Bates, o.
the house of Messrs. Baring, Brothers, and Co., to.

wards 'Mr. Jaudon, at the period of the difficulties of
the latter gentleman, as agent of the United States
Bank, in August last. This dispute seems to have been
finally arranged.
The news from Montreal is to the 28th, and from

Toronto to the 25th of March. Much attention was
directed in both the Canadas to the proceedings relative
to the boundary question. It is affirmed that no
military preparations were going forward on the Maine
frontier which were not purely defensive, and such as
the sudden irruption into the disputed territory last

year fully justify.
The New Orleans papers state that the federalists of
Mexico, abandoning in despair their attempts to over-
throw the existing central government, had established
a new and separate republic, including some of the
northern provinces, which they had called the "Republic
of Rio Grande," and which they had organised by the
appointment of a President and other officers of state.
Jesus de Cardenas was President, and Canales chief of
the army. The new government was calling for
volunteer aid, and expected to receive it from Texas
and the United States. The property of the church

and the convents, including their large landed estates,
will be appropriated for the pay and bounty of volun-
The provinces included within this new organi-
sation are New Leon, Zacatecas, Durango, Chihuahua,
and New Mexico. The federalists were concentrating
themselves in those places where their numbers were
greatest, and their resources most abundant. Their
first object was to capture Metamoras, which was

teers.

Part of the
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garrisoned by less than 1,000 Mexicans.
new republic is within the limits of Texas.
population of these provinces is said to comprise the
hardiest and most manly portion of the Mexican
people. The state of Yucatan had also declared for the
new republic. A party of Camanches, about 500 in
number, had invaded Mexico, destroyed and pillaged

in every quarter, and killed 200 of Arista's troops,

General Arista intended to make a movement on the
Rio Grande, with 2,000 men and a heavy train of artil-
lery. The strength of the central army, under Arista
and Canalizo, is stated at 4,500 men.
Dates from Houston, the capital of Texas, had been
received at New Orleans to the 12th of February.
They contained little of interest or importance. All