The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-09-30 00:00:00

AMERICA-UNITED STATES.

The New York Morning Courier of the 3d instant contains an
account of a battle fought in Mexico on the 14th of July, at
Ethla' between the government troops of that republic, consist-
ing of nine hundred men and three pieces of artillery, under
the command of General Canalizo, and the Federal troops
(Revolutionists,) amounting
.to six hundred men, commanded
by General Alavado. The action is represented to have lasted
half an hour, when the Revolutionists were completely routed,
and their commander taken prisoner, with three of the principal
officers, who were shot the next morning in the public square.
The loss of the government troops was comparatively small.
The interior of Mexico was said to be in a very agitated state,
and the central government was kept in a continual state of
alarm by. the dread of the revolutionary movements.
The Washington Globe of the 31st ult., states that by recent
intelligence received from Bogota, New Granada, it appeared
that immediate arrangements were about being made for cuttiug
a canal across the Isthmus of Panama; the project-had long.
been talked of, but was now likely to be practically realized.,
Several English inhabitants of Bogota had come forward. with
pecuniary assistance for its completion, and many natives of
character and capital, besides Americans, were-eager to possess
the credit of setting the work going. The Isthmus is about 211
miles across, and presents no obstacles that may not be over-
come easily and expeditiously. The government of New Gra-
nada seemed much disposed to encourage this undertaking, being
anxious that this narrow neck of land, which separates two
great oceans,and interposes a barrier to commercial enterprize,
should be thrown open to science and industry.
The New York papers were engaged in discussing the neces-
sity of having a police for that city, formed on the plan of the
London police. The existing force is denounced as being very
inefficient for the safety or the protection of this city. Oue of
the papers says:—"A. police oi ionised on a regimental sy stem,
with. different grades, promotion to accompany activity and good
conduct, the members of which should be totally in,le-pzuthmt of
the changeS of pity, On Mitt, through tne whole twenty-four
hours, and funds provided for the prosecution of offenders would
give to the inhabitants of this great city that safety and security
which. they-have a right to expect, and which is essentially ne-
cessary to its prosperity."
intelligence
The from Texas represents that district of coun-
try as returning to a state of comparative order and quiet. An
election for President was about to take place, for which there
were three candidates. A newspaper, called the Columbia Tele-
graph' had been established, which contained a good deal of
useful matter relative to the internal affair's of the country.
General Austin is the most popular candidate for the office of
President. The following extract of a letter from Galveston
Island embraces the most prominent points arising out of the
present peculiar position. A report that Santa Anna had es-
caped, and that the President ad interim was about to be im-
peached, turns out to be unfounded :---
"Both Santa Anna and Almonte are still at Columbia.
There is nothing yet decided as to their fate. My impressien is
that both will be spared, though their chance is much more
doubtful than it was two months ago There has been some stir
and confusion of late between the army and cabinet. All is set-
tled down, however, quietly and tranquilly. A report has just
reached us that, so far from the Mexican °troops at Metarnoras
invading Texas, they have disbanded, and scattered off in vari-
ous directions. We are preparing to give them a warm recep-
tion if they come, and such a defeat as Mexico never met with
before. lam inclined to think we shall not have much more
fighting to the northward of the Rio Grande."
. Business at New York was tolerably brisk ; but money con-
tinues scarce, and. in demand. The rates of exchange had va-
ried but little during the preceding six weeks. The transac-
tions for the packet of the Ist instant were chiefly at 711 per
'cent ,on England. Bills on Ilauaburgh and Bremen were
scarce.. -4.:

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

Frankfort letters, of the 17th instant, refer to the disturbancet
which, front other sources, we had learned had taken- place as
Coburg.
The Swiss question was -assuming a grave aspect. The
Gazette de France asserts that the hermetical blockade of the
cantons, threatened by France, had already commenced.
Letters from Lyons. of the 20th instant, announce, that "a
considerable fall, amounting almost to a panic, had taken place
in the price of silks. It was attributed to the scarcity of Money,
which has of late been felt in that city. Discount is very high,
and obtained with difficulty. The principal cause of this crisis
is Owing to the delay-of the merchants from the United States
in forwarding large remittances due to our commercial houses,
and, perhaps, also, but merely for a time, to the obligation un-
der which the founders of the bank are to pay in their share of
the capital (2,000,000 f.) on the 'lst of October."—Courrier
Fran cais.
The Augsburg Gazette announces, under date Constantinople,
31st ult., that, agreeably to the convention concluded by the
Russian Legation and the Sublime Porte, the latter had paid
60,000 purses, (E 280.000,) being the remainder of the war in-
demnity due to Russia.
AstsrEanata, September 22.—About half-past twelve o'clock
in the night a fire brake out, which was more fatal than any we
have had for some time. it began in the Cafe du Nord, in a
room let to M. Cannoeelli, a bookseller, for a warehouse. Some
adjoining houses are destroyed or much injured, and three per-
sons have lust their lives by this disaster, the origin of which is
not known.

Extract of a letter of the 15th inst., from Bayonne:—" Don
Carlos, has received within these few days 1,5d0,u00r in letters
of credit upon this place. It is believed that this money comes
from Russia and Holland. One thing is certain—namely, that
souse of these drafts bear the signature of two great Amsterdam
houses. Considerable purchases of provisions, clothing, and
ammunition have just been made at Bayonne by order of the
Pretender; and the contractors, whoa fortnight ago refused to.
give any further credit to the Carlists' agents, are eager, now
that they have received important payments, to complete former
orderstßa.uaArlynyrdliaAttv,ioassgpseearpseitdi.)oatfrhe themselves to execute new ones."
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is reported .to be still.wprse :below the Theis, where they say
almost the entire population of some plates has' died of it. In
1831 the great mortality was ascribed to the wet inclement sea-
son—now it is dry, though cool; and yet the disease is equally
fatal. lo Moravia it has appeared in some places, but is Very
mild as y.et, and we have only to wish that it may not be as ft
was five-years ago, when it spared us for a long time, but then
broke out with the greater violence.—Frankjim paper, Sept. 22.
A letter from Warsaw, of the 16th September, says—•‘ News
has been receiy,d. here to-day of an accident that has befallen
the Emperor Nicholas, on his journey between Censa and Tam-
buff, in the neighbourhood of the little town of Czerobor. The
horses ran away, the carriage was overturned into a ditch, and
the Emperor had a severe tall, in which his left shoulder was
dislocated. His Majesty was obliged to stop at Czeuebor.—
The last.accounts of his Majesty's health are extremely satin:
"cial account has-now been taken of the damage done
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Act factory."
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by the earthquake of the 12th of June. in the district of Cloud°,
in Treviso, where it was the most violent. Of 1,913 buildings
in the eight parishes of that district, 100 are entirely thrown
down, and 692 more or less damaged. The church which Canova
his native town, is happily uninjured.—
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of S
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As two gentlemen were shooting on the moors, near Osmo-
therley, on Wednesday, their dog was attracted to a hole which
he could not be induced to leave; on their going up to him,
they found him devouring a piece of beef, and they discovered
concealed in the hole a cask of brandy, a considerable quan-
tity of oatmeal, candles, soap, potatoes, and other property to a
great extent; which, as no robbery of similar articles had oc-
curred in the neighbourhood, they conjectured had been brougl A
by the thieves from a distance.—Hull Observer,