The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

UNITED STATES

The fine packet-ship Yorkshire, Captain Bailey, reached
e Mersey on Friday, after a highly

)speroustrip. She

sailed on the 16th ult., and has brought intelligence some
ten days in advance of the previous arrival, and a week
later than the arrival at London this week. The papers

by this ship speak of a desperate battle, which, it was be-
lieved, had taken place between Santa Anna, with 30,000
men under his command, and Generals Worth and Wool,
with 7000 men. Santa Anna had left his position at San
Luis Potosi, and marched upon Saltillo, to give the Ameri-
cans battle. Another rumour stated that General Wool's
cllumn had been cut off in attPmpting to join that of Gen.
Worth—that the latter had been driven back by the Mexi-
cans from Saltillo to Monterey, and that General Taylor
was Shut up in the last named place. But there is evi-
dently much conjecture mixed up with these accounts,
and probably some - to the strength ()I

DIOCESE OF HEREFORD.—The Rev. Josiah Bartlett,
a prisoner in the Queen's Bench, on account of a series of
libels on his sister-in-law, has received a monition from
the Bishop of Hereford, requiring him to reside on his
benefice, the rectory of Ivington. Mr. Bartlett, in reply,
'claims exemption from residence, by reason of his forci-
ble detention by order of the Judges, who, acting on evi
dente falsely given, and from divers other causes, have been ex zetne coast, opposite Cable
xagger in Ex- misled in their intention impartially to administer thelaw. to Youghal, where they both offered for sc...
1, however, .._ ~..,-ed Mr. Bartlett expresses his determination to attempt to thecary's shop, the dead body of a male child, age,
s respecting the issue of the set aside the decision of the Judges, and in the event of years. The authorities were informed of the circumstanct
c.l a ; and this feeling, coin- the Bishop of Hereford determining to persist in his mo. and the parties were arrested. Upon being interrogated,
?,ii
clergymen nination of the Mexican nition, to apply to the Court of Queent's Bench for a pro- they coolly acknowledged that this child was a nephew of
,_,6s to carry on tne war, and the difficulty Mr. Polk hihition to stay the right rev. prelate's order. theirs, who had died in their house, and that they brought
supplies,
additionallyl iad
unpopularrendered R
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recentlyTx E B i soul
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ik: him to the doctors to get something for the body that
would keep the life in themselves and their children. The
' with cousin Jonathan. The next arrival will probably alized the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Ripon on the description they gave of their suffering was frightful in
bring something decisive respecting the Mexican war. subject of the forms and services used at the consecration the extreme. On more than one occasion they had deter-
There had been much talk in Congress, but little had of St. Saviour's Church, in that town, by one of his lord- mined to
thkill and eat the cat, only they feared it would
been done, and the proceedings, as far as we have glanced ship's clergymen and a few laymen. The memorialists, poison e four
m.
LABOURERS.—During the past three
__ possess little European interest. Congress still after exprelsing their regret at being reluctantly, though RIOT BY o
shr
ovelF
Ads tig7lit the--- cgs, and the position of t' Pr conscientiously, obliged to absent themselves from the
days, vast bodies of labourers, carrying spades and
the habit of assembling ." ' Cork Wr

kmericnns ur

illision with the Mexican troop
eased deter'

bined with the expi
Cone►

curse-strit A€ . ,ce-
-lon every side for rushing so hastily into consecration, proceed to state that they were so fully per- have been in .. ,_..„ -cur tilt ..._ .. urn-
-1 to be only now commencing, had suaded that efforts were made on that occasion to procure house, and on one morning they carried off the bread
trates that a police force should attend the future transits.
a large assembly of clergy, in order to honour and' pro- taking to the temporary Workhouse for the inMates, in.
-A's to this country mote both principles and practices utterly opposed to the consequence of which an order was made by the magis-
*"-- of the Reformation, and subversive of the Protestant faith, that
orning, about nine -O'clock, a report was
Union House was attacked by a mob over
,rrned with spades and shovels, and that
`9 level the entire building. Immedi-
of police was despatched, but on
tomanism and ultra pro- arriving at the 1v orkhouse, it appeared the mob had left
tvoured to conceal from the for the city, after breaking in the outer gate. After leav-
informed members of our ing the Workhotise, the mob went along by the South
closer approximation to the Infirmary, where they met a van loaded with bread.
'tie and practice. Main- They immediately upset the van, and distributed the bread
- - , at ..4-•
• . .1 t.--. 1 Aons and a • .1
Puronnate.
__ „ ~.i. 1 amongst them. They then moved on to George's-quay,

the war, which apps
been most unenviabl
The following is given

packet :
'f To' Great Britain.—Corn, bush, 112,672

ur- made teat tint
uit 600 labourers,

heese,

'eas, bush, Z,JI
Beef, tcs, 201

Turpentine,

they threatened ti
ad insidiously inculcated
fanprionsly nrofessinz to ately a large part

where they broke into t

street, and

Undamental error their stocks