The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-04 00:00:00

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FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 4, 1836.

We have received New York papers to the 10th of
February, at which period that city was suffering severely
from an intense frost, many parts of the adjacent rivers
being unnavigable.

On the Ist February the official journal of Washington
ntimated, for the first time, that an offer of mediation

lad been tendered to the United States government .by
he British resident; but whether that offer had-been ac-
cepted, or would be accepted, it says it
.had not been
"advised." Up to the latest date nothing further had
transpired on the subject. It.is also remarkable that Mr.
President JACKSON had made no communication to Con-
gress relative to the proffered mediation. Important
though the matter be, the people of the states and the
members•of the legislature know nothing of it officially.
If the president had been anxious to avert any hostile
collision with France, or 'prevent the interruption of
trade, it is reasonable to think that he would have taken
the earliest Opportunity of announcing the overture to
the national representatives. By all the rules of cour-
tesy he was bound to notice publicly the friendly and pa-
cific interference of the British government. In not do-
ing so he casts something like a slight4nn the disinte-
rested offer of Lord PALMERSTON. He not only does not
thank our illustrious minister for foreign affairs—he ac-
tually, like a surly kitchen-maid, slaps the- door in his
face without saying a word. Perhaps Mr. President was
❑ot at the time in the very best of humours, but that is a
poor excuse for his bad manners.
Upon the whole we adhere to our former opinion, that
this offer of mediation will not in the least shake the re-
'solution or retard the measures of General JACKSON. He
is too old a soldier to be out-manoeuvred by a dandy
statesman, or tricked out of his money by a shabby pre-
text for further, delay or longer credit. If England
chooses to pay the million, that is another affair; but
Lord PALMERSTON would hardly go the length of en-
gaging to do that, and yet we do not see why we should
not pay the' money to prevent France from going to war,
'as we paid Russia a few years ago in the matter of the
Russo-Dutch loan !

If his Majesty's ministers are allowed to proceed with
their pernicious schemes for rendering what a certain
knave calls " justice to Ireland," we do not see how it
is possible to avert a civil war in Ireland. The "jus-
tice" which the lawless scamp to whom we have alluded
demands, is power. He declares he will not be content
until the voice of numbers is permitted to prevail in Ire-
land. He will not be satisfied with a fair share of power
in the ratio of property and intelligence, because he
knows that the popish faction to which he belongs, and
the filthy priests whose servant he is, have little either of
the one or the other. He, for his ambitious objects, as-
serts that the wretched peasant who trembles in the pre-
sence of a Maynooth mountebank in the vestments of a
magician—who lives in a-hovel with his pig—who kneels
down before a bit of pate; mad.can be'persuaded that he