The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-07-03 00:00:00

MEXICO AND TEXAS

By a letter received in Elizabeth City, N.C. from an
officer in the Texan navy (a native of North Carolina), of
the 6th May, it is stated that the Texan government had
given Mexico until the Ist of June to acknowledge the inde-
pendence of Texas, and if they (the Mexicans) fail to do so
by that time, the 'Texans halal to send their whole -navy
down on the coast of Mexico, and wage an offensive war
against that country.

This intelligence came to the officer above alluded to,
direct from Commodore Moore, the commander-in-chief of
the Texan navy, who was immediately from the seat of
government.
From the Austin Sentinel of the 9th ult., we copy the fol-
lowing important news from the west :—An express arrived
in this city on Sunday, bringing a confirmation of the defeat
of the central forces at Guerrero. Colonel Zapata, as before
stated, was taken near Mear, by Gen. Arista, and at first
well treated, but subsequently decapitated, and his head
stuck upon a pole and placed in front of his own house at
Guerrero. This provoked the resentment of a brother of
Zapata, who raised about four hundred rancheros, and the
central army having divided into several parties, cut themall
to pieces. The people have taken fresh courage, and the
Federal flag again waves in triumph over the states of the
north.

VERA CRUZ, MAY 4,lB4o.—Yucatan is menaced of a po-
litical movement. A general political struggle in the interior
is fast approaching. It is reported that Bustamente will
tender his resignation and that Victoria Santa Anna and Va-
lencia will be the government candinates.—N. 0. Bee.

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received his passports, and is to leave in
a few days. As yet
we have no direct information from 801. • mai, as to the steps
she will take in this affair, but the known and most
uncom-
promising hostility evinced by the Bolivians against thead-
ministration of Gamarra, precludes the probability of any re-
conciliation in our affairs until this usurper is banished from
our shores.
Fnom EI:WA DOR.—Letters received in this city from Ga
aqu , dated April 3d, state, that the Republic of Equal);
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remained in a perfect state of tranquillity, under the govern-
ment of Flores and Rocheforte. That General Santa Cruz,
ex-
President of Peru, was still at Quito, watching with in-
tense anxiety every move in Bolivia, which was in a most
distracted and unsettled state ; and recent occurrences show
that he had there a most powerful party who were every
moment expected to proclaim in favour of him, and demand
his
immediate return. This was the general opinion in
`""Yuntil—and there was no doubt there existed a precon-
certed Am, between the Bolivians and La Fuente, the popu-
lar candidate for the Presidency in Peru, that they were to
recall Santa Cruz to the Presidency of Bolivia ; and that the
Peruvians would rise en masse, place La Fuente at their
head, and conjointly endeavour to expel from Peru, the
usurper Gamarra.

CORRES4PONDENCE.

JEWISH PERSECUTION AT DAMASCUS.

TO THE EDITOR OF ►3IIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SlR,—Will you permit me to address a few lines to the
friends of Israel, and to the public in general, through the
medium of your excellent paper? In consequence of the
late awful persecution of our Jewish brethren at Damascus,
we, the lecturer and members of St. Simon's church in this
town, have felt it our duty to publish the following protest,
humbly trusting that it will be followed up by all who are
willing to walk in the footsteps of Him, who, according to
the flesh, is of the seed of Abraham, and God overall, blessed
for ever, Amen ! Surely it is high time that something
should be done to alleviate the distress of God's ancient
people, the house of Israel. The promise of Jehovah is, " I
will bless them which bless thee" ; and it is evident, that all
who, even in this remote age of the world, are actuated by
sincere love and compassion towards them, have, under the
unchangeable covenant of God, an irrevocable right to a
share of the blessing. We must confess, that the recollec-
tion of such scenes of cruelty and persecution as they, the
poor Jews, have suffered, fills us with terror, and not merely
with feelings of sympathy and compassion for the sufferers,
but of alarm ani apprehension for the persecutors ; for it is
the uniform denunciation of prophecy, that however God
may appear to abandon his people to their enemies, and to
avail himself of their hostility, to discipline and correct the
scattered nation Israel, yet that he would punish with the
utmost severity the malignity of their enemies. How for-
midable is this denunciation against the Ammonites! " Be-
cause thou saidst, Aha,' against my sanctuary, when it was
profaned ' • and against the land of Israel, when it was deso-
late ; and against the house of Judah, when they went into
captivity : Behold, therefore, 1 will deliver thee to the men
of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces
in thee," &c. &c. (Ezek. xxv. 3,4, 7; also Is. xlvii. 5,6,
11.) Can the oppressors of Israel in these days hope to be
exempt from this punishment? Assuredly not! However
our poor brethren may appear for a time to be abandoned by
their God and King, they, beyond all question, are the un-
ceasing objects of his regard, the peculiar and chosen instru-
ments of his most important dispensations to mankind.
Let us, sir, petition our government, that something may
be done in behalf of these suffering people, and done speed-
ily, before more innocent blood be shed. We, as brethren
according to the flesh, are determined to stand by them, and,
if requisite, to shed our blood for them, for our heart's de-
sire and prayer for them is, that they may be eternally saved.
We cannot forget that the Apostles of the Lord Jesus
were Jews—that the writers of the Old and New Testaments
were Jews—and that our blessed Redeemer, Jehovah Jesus,
as concerning the flesh, was of the tribe of Judah! May the
Lord hasten the time, when " the Redeemer shall come to
Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob" ;
and they, the poor persecuted children of Israel, " shall re-
turn and seek the Lord their God, and David their King,
and shall fear the Lord and his goodness in the latter days !"
I remain, sir, your very obliged servant,
H. S. JOSEPH,
Chaplain to the Liverpool Workhouse, and
Lecturer to the Jews.
26, Great Newton-street.