The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-12-07 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS,

We have received some valuable information relative to the
conduct of the Superintendent of St. Martin's Market,
which we shall bring before the public on Tuesday next:
and our friends, who are in the habit of attending the
market, may rest satisfied, that the insolence of the Secre-
tary of Scotland Ward, and his unjust appropriation of the
land allotted to their convenience, shall not pass without
censure. Nor do we care that he is countenanced by the
liberal members of the town-council, who we know are al-
ways willing to conceal or palliate the errors of their sup-
porters. The public shall know why this coarse and il-
literate booroccupiesland for breeding poultry, &e., which
was specially set apart for the convenience of the market
people.
The favours of several correspondents are unavoidably de-
ferred.

Eibcipoot ei-,tant(ittb.

FRIDAY MORNING, DEC. 7, 1838.

IMPORTANT FROM CANADA.—Since our last we have
bad another arrival from New York. The packet-ship

Orpheus arrived here on Wednesday morning in four.

teen and a half days from that city, bringing letters
and papers from New York to the 20th ultimo, from
Lower Canada to the 16th, and from Upper Canada

to the 14th.

The Orpheus spoke the steamship Liverpool on the
21st ult. in lat. 40. 10, long. 67. 30. The steamer was

proceeding in gallant style, and was expected to reach
her destination in twenty-four hours after she was

spoken. Considerable anxiety continued to be felt ai

New Yotk when the. Orpheus sailed ; but the appre-
hensions of the public were greatly allayed by the
very shrewd conjectures of the leading journals of the
city. —The Morning Herald, for instance, remarked
that "great anxiety was felt for the Liverpool. From

the 20th to the 27th of October, the weather on the

coast of England was extremely severe, and when the
steamer Live? pool came out of the port of Liverpool,
the wind was fresh west, with a heavy head sea. She
was last seen 30 miles from Tuskar, at three o'clock

P.M., on the 21st ult. She was then making rapid
headway considering the weather. The probability is,

that she experienced the same if not worse weather
than the Great Western, run out of fuel, and is now

either beating about the ocean or has put. into Ha
fax, Madiera, Bermuda, or some other port." St

more accurate was the " guess" of Mr. Bennett in a

subsequent paper, when he says that "Captain Fayrer
most likely steamed about one-third of his way against
head winds, severe gales, and awful seas, when he
discovered that the quantity of coal on board would
not be sufficient for the trip, but might last to steam

back to Liverpool, which he has probably done."
The Morning Herald states that the Great Western
had experienced head winds and heavy seas almost
throughout. the passage, and that she was considerably
damaged by the severe gales which prevailed, Her
bowsprit was carried away—she lost spars—and her
bulwarks, &c., were more or less injured by the tre-
mendous seas which were continually sweeping her.
Some of her cargo was also said to be damaged. It
was expected that she would sail for England on the
221 ultimo; so that, in all probability, we may anti-

cipate to hear the news of her arrival at Bristol in the I
course of today or to-morrow, especially after• the
very extraordinary passages of the last three packet
ships. The Liverpool would probably leave New
York about the 3(1 instant, in which case she may be
expected to reach Liverpool about the 16th or 17th in-
stant. We have no doubt that her outward passage
has been accomplished in as short a space of time as
might have been reasonably expected, when the wea-
ther which she must have experienced is taken into
consideration. The fact that the Orpheus has crossed
the Atlantic in fourteen days and a half affords
the strongest evidence that there has been a strong
westerly wind prevailing, for some days, between
*this and New York; and yet, in spite of this

obvious disadvantage, we find that the Liverpool
was likely to reach New York in sixteen days and
two hours—a passage fully equal, if not superior,
to any accomplished by the Great Western, under si-
milarly adverse circumstances. We sincerely trust
that the performances of the Liverpool on her voyage
home will still further tend to establish her character
as a fast, safe, and most sea-worthy vessel.
The news brought by the Orpheus from the United
States is not of much importance. Little was doing
for shipment in cotton. The last quotations were
upland, old, 112 to 131; new, 131 to 142; New
Orleans old, 12 to 141-; new, 14 to I 5 A-; new Florida,
14 to Aki ; old Mobile, 121 to 15 ; -new, 15 to 151.
The stock in the market was not large.
The news from, and relating to, Canada are of the
highest importance. An active correspondence was
going on between Mr. Fox, the British minister, and
Mr. Forsyth, the American Secretary of State, relating
to the state of the northern frontier, and the insurrection
now in progress in both the Canadas. The New York
Morning Herald slates that the best feelings existed
between the,\ two governments ; but it acknowledges
that the connivance shown to Mackenzie, eel. Ming,
/fanny Wright\,, and the other agitators for revolution,
Airmust necessaril' tend "to excite the slumbering
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flames of sympat ' oughout the republic." Clubs
were organised in ' on, as well as in other parts of the
States, to aid. and vathize with the revolutionists.
At Baltimore, Phila Iphia, and other places, the press
of both parties had begun to express approbation of
the schemes of the patriots. In this alarming state of

things it is difficult to conceive in what way a war
between England and the United States can be avoided.
The New York Dail!, Express states that, judging
from the movements of troops from Montreal towards
Upper Canada, it is not probable that the insurgent
force can maintain itself much longer. It says that
the condition of affairs' upon the frontier is, indeed,