The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Several communications masked for insertion are unavoidsAbly
postponed.
The interesting extract from the Hampshire Advertiser in our
next.

A correspondent has forwarded to us for insertion a letter, con-
taining one hundred and forty-eight pages of manusciint,
which would occupy shout twelve coil:ous of our paper. We
really have not had time to peruse it ; we cannot therefoae,
offer any opinion upon its merits : but as it is quite out of
the question that we should publish it, the writer, if he sets
any value upon the manuscript, bad better apply at the office
for its return.

'"tie tiberpool ,‘,L-.tanbarb.

FRIDAY "11011-V LNG, FEBRUARY 2, 1838.

Kr The Publication of the STA/DA RD commenced this morn-

lug at 6 o'clock.

BOMBAY.—By the overland communication, we have
intelligence from Bombay to the 30th Nov. The trade was,
rapidly improving. There was a good demand for all
descriptions of piece goods, and prices were fully as high
as they had been in the spring. The sales reported.
were 60 per cent. less in extent than at the same period,
of the preceding year, and it was calculated that there
was not more than a fortnight's consumption of any sort
on hand. The improved accounts received from Eng-
land to the 14th October had had the effect of raising the
price of cotton 8 to 10 rupees per candy. No vessel
had left for this port from the date of our last advices to
the 30th November, and only two, the Mermaid anti
Portsea, fur London. There were several vessels then
loading both for London and Liverpool, expected to sail
in all December.—Price of Cotton 110 to 125 rupees.--
The exchange Is. 1 lid to 2s.

NEWS FROM CANADA.—By the Roscoe, which arrived
here yesterday, we have received files of New York pa-
pers from the 2d to the Bth ultimo, inclusive.

From the subjoined extracts it appears that no move-
tnent of a decisive character had taken place in either
province of Canada, since the date of the last advices.
The rumoured attack upon Navy Island turns out to
be a sheer fabrication. So far from Sir F. B. Head hav-
ing met with a repulse from the rebels, he was not even.
in the vicinity of the alleged scene of action.
We are glad to perceive that there is a visible altera-
tion in the tone of the New York papers in reference to
the encouragement afforded to the insurgents by the ci-
tizens of the United States. All the respectable jour-
nals strongly deprecate any thing like interference on
on the part of the citizens, urging the necessity of pre
serving the amicable relations which have so long sub-
sisted between the United States and Great Britain.
Prudence, self-interest, and treaty stipulations undoubt-
edly conspire to render imperative an observance,of
strict neutrality.

We learn with regret that a partial collision had ta-
ken place between the lo)alists and certain parties who
had embarked from the Iruntier towns of the states,
which issued in the destruction of the Caroline steamer.
We feel confident, however, that no difficulty will arise
from the circumstance, which will, we have no doubt,
admit of a satisfactory explanation. Indeed, even upon
the admission of the republican papei from which we
have extracted the account, it appears that the (so called)
outrage was the isolated work of a small party—vo-
lunteers—and undertaken, as well as committed, without
the knowledge of the commander on the Canadian side,-
or any other responsible person;" and that neither Sir
F. B. Head nor Col. M'Nabb had any cognizance of the
affair.

The eloquent and appropriate address of Sir F. 8..
Head to the Legislative Council and the House of As-
seu►bly of Upper Canada will be perused with consider-
able interest: It is a document of great importance, as
affording an exemplification of the policy which Sir
Francis pursued towards the disaffected. The tribute-
which he pays to the hpyalty and devotion of the volun-
teers, who so promptly responded to his appeal, is ex-
tremely affecting.'

The proclamation of the President of the United
States will also be perused with interest, as affording a
conclusive proof of the determination of the executive
to deprive the rebels of any further reinforcements from
the States. Mackenzie and his followers will have to
fight the battle themselves. Of the result there can be
no further doubt.

With respect to Luwer Canada we believe it may be
safely said that there is nut a man in arms against the-
government at present.

We subjoin such extracts as are of importance.
(From the Courier and Inquirer, of Jan. 3.)
The affair of the Navy Island is assutring a very serious as-
spect. The position of the insurgents is undoubtedly strong;
their number is daily increasing, and their supply of arms, am-
munition, and all the sinews of war, receive daily augmentation.
There is no doubt that the state of feeiing along our frontier
threatens to implicate us in most uufuituuate difficulties with
England. A rumour was in circulation yesterday, that the
British minister had demanded his passports. This we can.
hardly believe to be true; but if our government do not cad
out some volunteer corps, enforce obedience to the laws, anti
compel our citizens to respect our neutrality, we should not be
surprised it Mr. Fox should feel it incumsent upon him to close
his mission. It is the duty of the federal government to make
use of all the means in its power to compel obedience to our
treaty stipulations and our national obligations. On this sub-
ject, at least, there can be no difference of opinion between all
tight minded men.
.

(From the Ccmmercial Advertiser, Jan. 3.)
FROM THE PRONTItitt.
We gave little enntidence yesterday to the magniloquent ac-
counts brought by the Buffalo and Rochester papers of the 28th„
of the action, as they chose to call it, at Navy Island, on the
27th. Our opinion is proved to be correct by the subjcined
P. S. in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. of the 29th :
" ToNAWANna, 12 o'clock.—l have just understood, and be-
lieve it to be true, that a few guns were fired at a battery about
to be erected on the Canada shore, and that a boat from the
Canada shore has been all around Navy Island, keeping close
to the shore of Grand Island, and, I believe has been complete-
ly around it. A few guns were fired at the 'boat without effect.
'that is all the war there is, and out a man from Canada on
Grand Island."
It would be amusing, if it were not so mortifying to the feel-
ings of every good citizen, to bear of the tremendous hubbub
into which the patriotic inhabitants of Buffalo were thrown, by
the (false) report, that some of the Canadian militia had lauded
on Grand Island—contrasting, as we must, their effeivestence
at this report, with the very honorable and honest part they have
taken in the invasion of the British territory, by the Navy
Island marauders. The whole population was up iu a moment
—a meeting was callettand held instanter—the sheriff was re-
quired to summon the military strength of the county, which,
by the way, cannot be great, as the militia have sent all their
Arms and ammunition to Navy Island, and every body was in
a &use of patriotic enthusiasm to match against the hold inva-
der. And two of the deputy marshalls, just appointed to pre-
vent violations of neutrality on our side, were among the fore-
most in the bustle! A happy selection of deputies Mr. Garrow
has made. _

--The fact of the matter is, that a few Tuscaroras, from our own
shore, bad gone to their usual fishing ground near the north end
of Grand Island, where the current is less rapid than at any
other place in the river. This was the dreadful invasion that
threw the patriotic citizens of Buffalo into such a flurry. -
These worthy gentlemen -have been quite successful in acting
out the ancient fable of the honest lawyer, as set forth in the
American spelling-book; they find au immense difference be-
tween the ox goring the bull and the bull goring the ox. •
( From the BI yi.do C tn. Adv. Dee.3oth.)
STEAMISOAT CAROLINE SCENT! TWENTY-TWO LIVES LOST !!!
8, A. m.—Gapt. Keeler, of the schooner Agues Barton, and
F. Emmons, of this Lily, have just brtrught news by express
from Schlosser, of au attack made this morning upon the steam-
boat Caroline, lying at that place, which resulted in the destruo-
tion of the hoar, and the DEATH Of TWENTY-TWO of her crew
—only 12 escaping!
It is stated that the attack was made about r o'clock, by
five boats of armed loyalists, cantaining -.lrtim l(k) to 150 men,
who guarded the gangways, rind critd • uo quarter !'

Captain Appletiee, of the Constitution, who went down as the
pilot of the Caroline yesterday, narrowly escaped with his life.
He received a flesh wound, anii was pursued into the storehouse
adjoining:. A MI% Durfee, lately belonging to the stage office
at the Eagle, in'this city, lies on the dock with his brains blown
oat..

The Caronie was then set tin fire, and finally drifted into the
current, and went over the faits.
We give the above, just Ras it was received, without vouching
fox any of the particulars. It may be proper to add, however,
that Captain Keeler, as we rare informed, saw the results of the
scene above described.
An express has beenstarted to ascertain fully the facts.
(From the Comr.tercial Advertiser, Jan. 4.)

DESTRUCTION OF THE CAROLINE,

The following account of this outrage—for outrage it assur-
-1..01y is—comes in au extlra. from the Buffalo Commercial Ad-
vertiser, issued ou Sunda y evening. Our readers will percieve
that it varies very essenti illy front the first hasty report which
we gave yesterday, with .a. timely caution that it was not to be
received without much q notification.
Throughout .yesterda.:7 ana to-day our city has been very
mccli excited in consegnence of the seizure and burning of the
Caroline and the killing of one of our citizens, at Schlosser.—
'The feeling generated.by these acts is altogether different from
the patriotic excitement which has prevailed here. It is far
deeper and moreuniversal. Indeed there cannot be, there is
not but one opinion on the, subject. The taking the life of
Durfee anti the wounding of other citizens, and the burning of
he 'Caroline,,are acts for which our government is bound to
demand the fullest and most ample atonement. The following
erne the facts as nearly as we could ascertain them. The Caro-
line cleared from this port the forenoon of Friday last, for
Schlosser, whither she went, and during the day, made several
"trips between that ,place and Navy Hand. One of her trips
'was made without showing her colors, in consequence of break-
iug healag staff. At evening she hauled up along the dock of
a landing place at Schlosser, and was made fast.

Several 'persons who were there at the time, and unable to
-obtain lodgings for the night, went aboard the boat to sleep.
..kmongst this number, we understand, were some volunteers
a'or.Navy' Island from Rochester. but it is said they had uo aruas
with them. The only arms on hoard were a few pistols, perhaps
half a dozen, and an old musket. A little after midnight the
boats from Chippewa came alongside.—Of their number, there
are various reports; they contained in all from 30 to 50 men.
dis they approached. the C'aroline they were hailed, but without
stopping to parley, they rushed upon her deck, armed 'with
pistols, boarding pikes and cutlasses, and a general melee
"ensued. The affair lasted but a few minutes; the boat was
.soon cleared of her crew and lodgers, towed into the stream
and set on fire.—She went blazing into the rapids, but probably
broke to pieces before going over the falls. The scene was an
appalling one, and required no adventitious aid to add to its
*sublimity. The story that the cries and shrieks of persons on
board were heard, amid the rush of the flames and the roar of
the cataract, we believe to be utterly unfounded.
Of the 33 persons who were on board in the evening, 9 are
,anissing.. Whether they made their escape, or were killed, it is
*impossible to say. It is not ascertained with absolute certainty
that any except Durfee was killed. lie was found lying on his
back on the dock, with a ball through his forehead, and re-
mained in the same position, a ghastly spectacle, until two or
-.three o'clock in the afternoon, when he was brought to town.
A Mr. King is severely wounded by a sabre or cutlass cut in
.the Shoulder. Captain Harding, of the brie Indiana, has a cut
extending from the left corner of the forehead to the nose. A
thick fur cap which he wore probably saved his life. A negro
is also desperately wounded. But two prisoners were taken ; ur.e
a boy of this city who was accidentally on board, and a Cana-
dian
from Grand River. Tee boy is already, or probably will
be released.

The funeral of Durfee was attended this afternoon by upwards
of 21k0 persons
We have endeavoured in the above to give a plain narrative
of facts, divested entirely of all colouring. The acts recorded
Speak for themselves, and they are those in which the whole
American people have an interest. The seizure and burning of
the Caroline, under the circumstances, was a most flagrant, out-
rageous violation of territory, and the death of Durfee was a
murder. There may be palliating circumstances, but if there
are, we have yet to learn them. What course it is proper to
pursue it does not become us to say. The affair is of that grave
character that government alone should decide upon it. We
do not apprehend any further aggressions, but it is well enough
to be prepared. On this point we have no doubt that proper
measures will be taken.

In conclusion,;-;ould caution all into whose hands this
may fall, not to give heed to the thousand rumours with which
the air is filled. Some of them are so absurd as to hear the
very marks of falsehood on their face, and a little examination
will show many others to be unfounded.
We have startling and serious facts sufficient to engage our
attention, without giving accuracy to idle gossip, or reports set
afloat for the purpose of subserviug sinister objects.
The Mr.: Durfee, who was killed, was a runner for one of the
linei of stages.
As we have said above, this attack upon the steam-boat was
a gro s outrage, and will doubtless be promptly disavowed, and
amply atoned for, by the British authorities—provided our go-
vernment can so far rouse itself from the convenient apathy in
w -del, it has b 'en slumbering for the last three weeks, as to de-
mand the requisite explanations. It is evident enough that the
outlaw,: was the isolated work of a small party—volunteers—and
nudertiken as well as committed without the knowledge of the
commander on the Canadian side, or any other responsible per-
son. Sir Francis Head was at Toronto when it took place,
and soi, we presume was Colonel M'Nab, who is speaker of the
House of Assembly. Whether the officer in command is to be
made responsible for not preventing the deed, depends, of
course, upon circumstances of which we as yet iguorant.
Much as we condemn the act, and deplore its consequences, we
are compelled by truth to say that we can see no good reason
why the plea of inability to prevent should not be just as avail-
able to the Canadian authorities, in reference to this act, as it
hat been-made be our own, in reference to the invasion of Ca-
nada t;rom the American shore, and by men calling themselves
American citizens.

But one thing we du not hesitate to say. The blood of him
who perished, or of them, if there ivas more than one, lies upon
the heads of all who have taken part in stirring up the wild and
criminal excitement that for the last three weeks has pervaded
our frontier population. Their conduct and the acts of others,
.:which they have encouraged, and approved, were the cr.uses of
:the event at which they are now so indignant. They have stir-
' red up the idle and thoughtless of their vicinity to invade toe
:the territory of Canada, and have supplied them With the means
—they have seen the peaceable Canadians—peaceable atleast
'toward the United States, against which they were engaged in
• no hostile act—tired upon by Americans at Navy Island, and
have chuckled with ferocious joy at the belief that several were
_killed—they have shouted with delight when they heard the
roar of the canon which Americans were firing at Chippewa,
or at Bri►ish subjects gathered together upon their own terri-
. torry—t hey have done all these things, and upon them lies the
• -responsibility for every drop of blood that is shed in t•onse-
queue.
Nor are the skirts of our national and state executives free
'from the sanguinary stain, It was their duty to prevent the
. crimes against Great Britain IA hieh have been daily committed
by American citizens, with absolute impunity; they have not
done it, and, if we may judge from the conduct and language
of their official organs, they have actually approved where they
should have most pointedly condemned; and the civilized
world will not sustain thee► in demanding reparation for an utrage, that is but the natural and almost necessary coo-
sequence of other outrages, which they have neither prevented
nor punished, and for which, therefore, they have taken upon
themselves the responsibility.