The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-11-06 00:00:00

THEATRE-ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.

Second Night of the THREE NEW DRAMAS, whicA
were received last Evening with the most enthusiastic
applause.
Mr. HILL, the celebrated Comedian and representativeof
AMERICAN RUSTIC CHARACTERS, from the
Theatres-royal, Drury-lane, and Haymarket, and Royal
Olympic Theatre, London, and the principal Theatres in
the United States, is engaged for FIVE NIGHTS, and
will make his second appearance in Liverpool, this

Evening.
Last Week of Mr. RANGER, the highly suessful repre-
sentative of French Characters, at th4ic ,Theatre-Royal,
Haymarket.

rums present TUESDAY, Nov. 6, will be performed,
IL for the second time here, a new Drama, written by Mr.
Ranger, called
THE ROMANTIC WIDOW.
Marquis St. Croix Mr. Ranger,
As performed by him upwards of 100 Nights last season at
the Theatre-royal, Haymarket.
A fter which, second time here, a new Characteristic Sketch,
written expressly for Mr. Hill, by W. B. Bernard, Esq.,
author of the " Nervous Man," &c., and performed, last
season, at the Theatre-royal, Haymarket, with the greatest
success, called the
YANKEE PEDLAR.
Hiram Hodge Mr. Hill,
To be followed by a new Drama, second time here, also
written expressly for Mr. Hill, by W. B. Bernard, Esq.,
and performed in London with enthusiastic applause,
called

NEW NOTIONS ON THE GO-A-HEAD
PRINCIPLE.
To conclude with the Farce of
FORTUNE'S FROLIC;
OR, T,HE PLOUGHBY TURNED LORD.
TO-MORROW, (Wednesday,) for the BENEFIT of
Mr. RANGER, the New Drama of the ROMANTIC
WIDOW. Marquis de St. Croix, Mr. Ranger. After
which, the Comedy of WHO WANTS A GUINEA?
(compressed into three acts.) Solomon Swap, Mr, Hill.
To conclude with (hv desire) the Farce of MONSIEUR
TONSON, Monsieur Morbleu, Mr. Ranger.

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iriMe itiberpool

TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 6, 1838.

The Publication of the STANDARD commenced ibis
morning at 5 o'clock.

UNITED STATES.—By the Royal William, which
arrived here yesterday, after a passage of 151 days, we
have received New York papers to the 20th ultimo in•
elusive. They are exceedingly barren of intelligence,
being chiefly occupied with extended remarks on the
progress of the elections. From the statements of the
Evening Post it would appear that the democratic, or
Van Buren party, were triumphant in most of the dis-
tricts from which the returns had been obtained.
From Canada we have no news of the slightest im•
portance; at least we can glean none ft urn the Even-
ing Post, which is the only file that has reached us.

The New Orleans papers complain that the extreme
owness of water in the rivers will defer the business
The New Orleans Bulletin of October Bth

season.

says,—

. -
The Ohio is so low. as to put a stop to navigation, emelt
in skiffs and dug outs. Thus the channel of our earliest trifffe
is entirely blocked up. -A multitude of travellers who de-
scend the Ohio every fall, are detained. The harvestof corn
and wheat, finds no vent. The various productions of Ken-
tucky, Ohio, and Indiana, are kept hack, and in consequence,
much of the hurry and bustle, of the fall season is not wit-

nesscd in our streets. The same cause has shut us out, in a
great measure, from the Missouri and Illinois trade. A ma-
jority of the steamboats, we are informed, that navigate be-
tween our place and St. Louis, are either run aground or
laid up, on account or the shallowness of the water. Even
the flat boats meet with difficulty in descending the stream,
For though the channel may be deep enough to float them,
yet they are liable to run ashore on innumerable bars, formed
by subsiding currents. In this situation, numbers of broad
horns may be seen strung along the. whale length of the river,
many of them resting high and dry on the ridge of a sand
bar, awaiting the rise of the river. Under such untoward
circumstances, it would not he surprising, if the commence-
ment of a brisk business %%ere postponed a fortnight later
than usual.

The complaints of the drought do not, however, ap-
pear to be general, as will appear by the following ex-
tract from the Evening Post of the 17th ult.:—
Gal.:Ai. FLoon.—A -paper printed in Wilmington, North
Carolina, says that the late heavy rains have occasioned a
greater rise of the streams in the upper country of the state
than had been known fur many years—carrying away bridges,
and preventing the regUlarity of the Mails. The Tarborough
Press says that immense damage has been sustained in the
low grounds by the destructiOn of. crops, stock, fences. &c.,
and on the streams by the breaking of bridges, mills, &c.
The Indian hostilities .seem to have recommenced,
as will appear from the following :

INDIAN HOSTILITIES ON THE S.' \V. FRONTIER.—Gen•
Arbuckle, in a letter to the Governor or Arkansas, dated
FOIL Gibson, arim. says-.--`• Intelligence weis received
last night from Fort Jesup, which proves beyond a doubt that
war has certainly commenced." A letter from a Mr. Green,
dated about the 21stof August, at Lima, 25 miles eastof the
Tausse Washita, says : —We have direct information that
Captain Farmer and 30 of his men have been killed on the
Sabine, by the Indians, within the last three days. Blun-
dess', Lewis', and several other plantations have been sacked,
and their places surrounded since • Saturday, by hostile In-
dians. The road is completely lined with waggons for the
lower prairies."

Fires and steam-boat explosion's continue to be "the
order of the day" in the United States. We take the
following from the same journal :

FIRE AT NEW ORLEANS.—On Sunday morning, the ith
instant, a fire broke out in the engine acid car house at Car--
rolton, -on the Carrolton railroad, which, in half an hour,
completely destroyed the building, together with fifteen cars
and one locomotive. It is conjectured to have resulted from
the communication of the fire left in one of the engines. The
amount of property consumed Is -stated to be not less than
200,000 dollars, of which about 150,000 dollars were insured.
The loss will therefore fall heavily upon the insurance com-
panies. The Carrolton railroad company will also suffer
much from the delay and loss of time, before other cars .can
be obtained.
STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.---The steam-boat Governor Dodge
was snagged in the Mississippi on the 29th ult., with her
cargo of cotton.
STEAm-noA'r LOST.—The steamboat Rolla, on her passage
from New Orleans to this port, struck a snag about on hun-
dred miles below the mouth of the Ohit4 on Sunday the 2.3 d
ult. at 2 p.m., and souk immediately in about thirty feet of
water. The passengers and crew saved themselves. by
swimming ashore, and clinging to the hurricane deck, part
of which was above water. One deck hand was lost. She
was insured in this city for 12,000 doll.—three-fourths of her
Value—in three different offices. The Rienzi brought the
passengers and crew to this city yesterday.—St. Louis
Bulletin.

(Signed)

ilespecting'the Mexican blockade we have the fo
lowing- information :—• •
(From tlte, Eecnina Post of October 16th.)
The Chamber of commerce, in this city, have addressed a
.letter to Mr. Forsyth, in relation to the blockade of Mexico,
complaining, that it ,has • been rigorously enforced against
American vessels, which left the ports of this country pievi-
ous to notice of it being received here, and which had there-
fore been obliged to return. The letter also expresses an
apprehension that the blockade has been extended to the
ports of the Pacific, in which several valuable cargoes, which
left this city previous to any suggestion of the blockade, will
be placed in jeopardy, and the voyages ruined. The follow-
ing is the reply to this letter:—
Department
" Messrs. Robert Lenox, President, and Edward A. B.
Graves, Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce of the
City of New York.
" Gentlemen,—Your letter of the sth ult., though in due
time received at this department, has thus long remained un-
answered, owing to the absence of the President, to whom it
had been referred- for his consideration. I am now instructed
to.state to you, that aware of the great inconvenience which
the.restrictite measures adopted by the French Government
in the Gulf of Mexico and in the River Plate, would occa-
sion to our' Commerce, the President had immediately
ordered the•adoptiem of all measures which circumstances
admitted for the protection of the interests of our citizens;
and that everfexeition has hitherto been, and still continues
to be madh;'which may contribute fir diminish the evils
arising from the riiisting state of things. No information
has been received of the. blockade having been extended to
the Mexican pints of the Pacific Ocean; and it is taken for
granted that, in the event of such a measure being resorted
to, previous notice of the- intention will be given to this go-
vernment. The 'department is equally unapprised of the
probable duration of the existing blockade; but from the
sensation which its operation appears to have excited through-
out the commercial world, and the efforts understood to be
mode towards an adjustment of the dispute which gave rise
to it, the hope is entertained that it cannot be much longer
protracted.
" I have the honour, Gentlemen,
" To be, with great respect,
" Your obedient servant,
" A. VAIL,
" Acting Secretary of State."
(From the Evening Post of October (Bth.)
MEXICO.—We have a Tampico paper of the Ist September,
and Mexican journals of the 16th and 17th August. There
is little of. interest to be found in them. The Tampico Tele-
graph states that the Naticioso of Chihuahua is tilled with
accounts of robberies, murders. fires, and a thousand excesses
committed by the savages in Rosarion and Covachic, on the
neighbouring farms and dwelling-houses. The journal adds
that that portion of the country is in the greatest state of
destitution, and deprived of any source of protection from the
incursions of the Indians.
Improvements in paving are going on in Tampico, which,
says the Telegraph, will render the city passable in every
quarter.
A band of sixty robbers, well mounted and armed, assaulted
a caravan of mutes on the 17th of August, between Vert eyes
and Tepevallualao, despoiling the conductors of a large
quantity of silver, which they had concealed in their flour
sacks. These marauders are supposed to form part of the
league of robbers, the constitution of which we published
some weeks since.
The government of this city, says the Tampico Telegraph,
is execrable, the administration of justice intolerable, and
its politics incomprehensible.—" Matters. of opinion merely,
we presume.—Eveving Post.]
The Diann of Mexico contains several long communica-
tions on the subject of the culture of the silk-worm—the
climate of Mexico, the fertility of the soil, the vast quantities
of ground open to the experiments of the industrious, and
the ease with which the mulberry tree is cultivated, confer
on Mexico peculiar advantages for this pursuit. We doubt,
however, whether the peoplci have energy and perseverance
enough to make the manufacture of silk a branch of produc-
tive industry.—New Orleans Bee of the 6th instant.
From the following article in the Globe it appears that the
question of annexieg Texas to this country is for the present,
at leas!, disposed of
" We understand that the Texiau minister, en the occasion
of exchanging the ratifications of the boundary convention
lately published, delivered to the Acting Secretary of State
a note, in which, after stating in friendly terms that although,
since the note of Mr. Forsyth, declining the proposition sub-
Mitted by Texas for her admission into the Union, the ques-
tion of annexation had been considered by the United States