The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-09-28 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

We have received by the packet-ship Cambridge, New
York papers to the Ist instant, being one day later than those
brought down by the last Halifax teamer. The Cambridge,
which left New York on the Ist instant, arrived here on Sun-
day morning. The Land Bill having passed the house of
representative, the Senate only awaited the signature of the
President to become law. The other great financial schemes
of the session were incomplete. A debate had taken place
in the Senate on the Revenue Bill, and the question recurred
on the amendment submitted by Mr. Buchanan in relation to
the act of 1832, whereby railroad iron was admitted free of
duty. The proposition was to increase the duty to twenty
per cent. It was opposed by Mr. Clay, but the amendment
was not put. The Bank Bill was expected to pass the Senate
the first week in September, and then, as was contemplated,
would be vetoed by Mr. Tyner, who, in consequence of the
previous veto is represented as the most popular man of
the day.
The Herald, in a late edition on the forenoon of the
packet's sailing, gives the following news from Texas, which
it styles highly important :"
" We have received some very important intelligence from
Texas. There appears to be a strong war feeding breathing
through that country against Mexico, which, in connexion
with the following order, may bring on a rupture in a very
short time ?

" War Department, July 14, 1841.
TO MESSRS. ROMAM, PRICE, M'DONALD, CUNNINGHAM,
O'RILEY, AND NEWCOMBE.

." GENTLEMEN,—Your communication by express has.
been this moment received. I regret that the President, in
the discharge of his public duties, has been called to Galves-
ton, and cannot, therefore, take the prompt action necessary
to the emergency that has arisen. The Cabinet have, how-
ever, been assembled, and unanimously agree, that no time
should be lost in repelling the invaders of our soil and vio-
laters of the rights of our citizens. We, therefore, au-
thorize you to assemble such force as you can command, for
the expulsion of the enemy, regarding the war us fairly
opened by this late outrage by the Mexican forces. Volun••
teers, to any number necessary for the accomplishment of
this object, we authorize you to call out. You will, of
course, use due discretion in distinguishing between traders
and soldiers of the enemy, taking care, however, to possess
yourselves of traders and their effects as an indemnity for the
loss of our citizens, and treat soldiers as the rules of war
direct.

" ' I have the honour to be, very respectfully, your obe-
dient servant, " ' R. T. ARCHER,
" ' Secretary of War and l'siavy.L.
.. ...... . _ .

" This was issued in consequence-
of the acquittal of Kin-
ney and Aubrey, charged with having been the means of the
capture of Captain Dewitt, and the proof, therefore, that the
Mexicans alone are responsible for that high-handed mea-
sure."

The exchange on London remained at 109 to 1091. In
the shares of the Bank of the United States an improvement
had taken place, the closing price at the second board on the
31st ult., having been 134.
CORN TRADE.—FIour in this market ranges from 5 dols.
50 cents to 6 dols. 75 cents a barrel. In the last day or two
the demand has decreased, and the supplies increased a
little.

As the time is at hand for operating on the new crop, it
becomes necessary for us to ascertain about what the
price of flour will be in this city during the fall. Conclu-
sions deduced from good authority would warrant perhaps a
small advance over last fall's prices, provided no great de-
mand for foreign supply interrupt the usual course of the
trade.

COTTON TRADE.—The market has been very heavy since
the arrival of the last packet. The whole decline may be put
at cent in this city. In the southern markets there is, as
is usually the case at this season of the year, but little doing.
The accounts of the growing crops are contradictory, but
there is nothing to lead to the conclusion that the yield will
be otherwise than large. _ _

THE COTTON CROPS.—COLUMBUS, MISS., AUGUST 9.
The Cotton crop, in this section of the country, bids fair to
be good, and, from all the information we can get, we give it
as our opinion, the crop will exceed the last, although there
are many planters in this vicinity who say their crops will be
cut off; others say their crop will equal that of '39. The
sandy lands generally will make light crops, owing to the
drought, but on the prairies there will be full returns. In
conversation with an intelligent gentleman, a few days since,
he stated it was his belief, that the receipts at Mobile, the
coming season, would be about 400,000 bales; our own opi-
nion is, 375,000. There can, however, be no certain calcu-
lation made at this time, as the numerous enemies, in the
shape of cut worm, army worm, &c., which the plant has yet
to contend with, may prove more disastrous than can now be
foreseen.

(From the Natchez Courier.)
SHORT CROPS.—We regret to learn the certainty that
many fine prospects of good crops have been blasted. We
have been allowed to publish the following extract of a letter,
describing the prospects of the crops on three plantations in
Adams county.

" I am now satisfied that three places will not tie more
than 775 bales, against 1,451 bales last year; and, in making
this estimate, I calculate largely on the product from the
bottom lands ; which, as yet, have not suffered to anything
like the extent the hills have. On 9-10ths of the upland,
there is neither forms nor blossoms, and we will get nearly
all the bolls the first time g bing over. We mug make some-
thing from the second growth to give us 775 bales, and, un-
less we have rain soon, we will have no second growth to do
any good. Our prospect is truly gloomy, but not much, if
any, more than our neighbours. In 1839 we had, at this
time, an abundance of forms and blossoms. Now, you may
ride over 100 acres without seeing a single form or blossom."

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE

(From the Oxford Herald.)

On Saturday, Mr. Sidney G. Selwyn was admitted an ac-
tual fellow of New College.

The Rev. Edward J. Wilcocks, 8.A., late of Lincoln Col-
lege, chaplain of the Scilly islands, has been appointed head
master of the free grammar school, Berkhampstead, one of
the best endowed schools in England.
The Rev. Simeon James Etty, M.A., late of New Coll.,
has been instituted to the vicarage of Wanborough, Wilts,
void by the cession of the Rev. W. Vaux ; patrons, e dean
and chapter of Winchester.
His grace the Archbishop of York has appointed the Rev.
E. Churton, M.A., of Christ Church, and hector of Crayke,
Durham, to a canonry in York Cathedral.
Rev T. Pitman, vicar of Eastbourne, to the prebend of
Wisborough, in Chichester Cathedral.
Dr. Vignolles, the dean of the Chapel Royal, has been ap-
pointed first chaplain to the lord lieutenant of Ireland.
J. P. Beard, 8.A., scholar of St. John's College, Cam-
bridge, to be second master of the grammar school, Ded-
ham.

Rev. R. Stainforth, M.A., late of Queen's College, Cam-
bridge, to the vicarage of Pontefract, Yorkshire, vacant by
the death of the Rev. T. H. Marshall; patron, the Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Rev. Charles Frederick Bryan Wood, M.A., to the vicar-
age of llarnwood, neap Gloucester, void by the death of the
Rev. A. B. Evans ; patrons, the Dean and Chapter of
Gloucester. _

Rev. William Pollock, M.A., to the perpetual curacy of
St. Helen's, Lancashire, void by the cession of the Rev.
James Furnival ; patrons, the Trustees.
Rev. John Sandford, vicar of Dunchurch, and chaplain to
the Lord Bishop of Worcester, to a canonry in Worcester
Cathedral.

Rev. S. Satchwill, curate of Godalming, to the rectory of
Covenham St. Mary, Lincoln, vacant by the death of the
„Rev. I'. Meyrick ; patron, the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. C. J. Vaughan, M.A., Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, to the vicarage of St. Martin's, Leicester.
' Rev. John Finley, M.A., vicar of Studley, to be domestic
chaplain to the Earl of Gainsborough.
Rev. Charles Tookey, M.A., to the vicarage of Upton
Henry)dsburY, Worcestershire, vacant by the death of the Rev.
n Green.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE. On Thursday evening,
about six o'clock, while a young girl, about seven years of
age, the daughter of a respectable family in Briato-street,
Edinburgh, was 'ital.,—
...Nog herself, along with an elder sister,
in drying bahy elothes on ide, she overbalanced her-
self, and fell to the ground from a height of three stories.
The girl's head unfortunately
against a stene which
was lying iu the back green, and she was killed on the spot.

TUESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 28, 1841

Lord Clifford has stirred up an inquiry the prosecu-
tion of which may lead to some good. What his lord.
ship's precise object in provoking the investigation may
have been, it is difficult to make out; we allude to the
questions which he put on Thursday to the President
of the Board of Control relative to the treatment which
certain Jesuits sent out from this country to India, re-
ceived from the authorities of the country upon the
occasion of a dispute between them and the Portuguese
priesthood at Goa. His lordship seems to have es-
poused the cause of our native emissary Jesuits, and
complains of their having been maltreated by the func-
tionaries of India, one of whom he accuses of having
used the torture to his clients ; he disclaimed any in-
tention of endeavouring to embarrass the government
by calling attention to the transaction.—ln reply to this
attack upon the Indian authorities, Lord Ellenborough
demanded the particulars as to the charge of torture,
which he peremptorily denied having ever taken place;
but Lord Clifford, of Chudleigh, the great organ of
the. English Romanists, and a Roman Catholic himself,
on being pressed upon this point, faltered extremely,
acknowledged that he did not believe the charge him-
self, and that he only mentioned it as a rumour. Hav-
ing got rid of so much of the Papist lord's attack, and
reprimanded him as he deserved for bringing forward
such an accusation against one of the judges of the
Supreme Court of India without having the smallest
means to support it, Lord Ellenborough next observed
that as to the Government here, " nothing which the
noble lord had said—nothing that he was likely to say—
could embarrass it ; but if by the course he took he
should create exasperation more than already existed
amongst the religious bodies in Madras, he would, with-
out doubt, increase the difficulties of the Government
there, while he would fail in doing good service to those
to whom he was desirous of rendering assistance."
From this it may be collected that the emissary Je-
suits at Madras have been already the source of some
trouble to the Government of that Presidency. But
there is nothing• surprising in this. Where have the
Jesuits ever found their way that they have not caused
trouble ? The party to whom we impute the blame,
however, is the Government which permitted these Je-
suits to make a lodgment in India under their very
rd alluded to the origin of the mission,
v
exactly similar to that which brought one
outNnLollosiercdC
toi was
l Gibraltar, and produced like results more re-
cently in that quarter—namely, a got-up requisition for
Irish Roman Catholic priests, under the pretext that
there were Irish regiments frequently stationed in In-
dia spiritual aid of their countrymen.
The Melbourne O'Connell Ministry, of course, gladly
availedreqrequiring;
themselves of the opportunity to gratify the
requisitionists, and the Irish priesthood at the same
time, and a certain Dr. O'Connor was sent out from
Ireland with ten or twelve Jesuits in his train, bearing
the title of Vicar Apostolic, and recognised under that
title by the British Government. The emissary doctor
and his tail were not long in the country till they got
into disputes de temporalibus with their Portuguese
brethren who were in actual possession, and what Lord
Clifford now in fact complains of is, that the English
Government did not take the part of the missionaries.