The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

CABINET

We have at length received important private despatches
from Cincinnati, giving us much information relative to the
composition of General Harrison's cabinet, and the policy
of his administration.

We learn that Mr. Clay, at the suggestion of his friends,
declines altogether to form a part of the new cabinet, and
that it is expected by them and him that Daniel Webster
will, or ought also to decline, should he be offered a place
there. It is furthermore stated that General Harrison will
select his cabinet from the following names:—
SECRETARY OF STATE.—John Sergeant, Horace Binney,
Edward Everett, Wm. H. Seward, John M. Clayton, Wm.
C. Rivers, William Preston, John J. Crittenden, John Q.
Adams.

TREASURY.—John Davis, Gulian C. Verplanck, John
Sergeant.

NAVY.—Gulian C. Verplanck, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge,
Samuel Southard, William Gaston, Theodore Frelinghuysen,
John L. Pettigru.

WAR.—William Preston, William P. Mangum, Alexander
Porter, John Bell, Thomas Metcalfe.
ASTORNEY-GENERAL.—JOhII J. Crittenden, . John C.
Spencer, William Gaston, John L. V. M‘Mahan, Hugh
Legare.

POSTMASTER-GENERAL.—Thomas Ewing, Elisha Whit-
tlesey, Oliver H. Smith.

MEXICO

Our advices from the city of Mexico are up to the 20th of
October, and from Vera Cruz to the 27th. Congress was
then in session. This body had declared, as the will of the
nation, that the executive government should not be clothed
with the extraordinary powers which they had demanded.
This is regarded as a rebuke to the central leaders, Bus-
tamente and Almonte, and coming from a central junto,
it must have great weight. The idle project of prose-
cuting a war against Texas Was entertained at the capital.
A law had been passed, authorising the government to con-
tract a loan of 2,000,000 dollars, pledging for the payment,
the 17 per cent. duty, and the President is empowered to
issue bonds for the amount, which are to be sold to the high-
est bidder, within thirty days from the 18th of October. Two-
thirds of this sum was to be appropriated to carrying on the
contemplated war against Texas.
TEXAS.

Galveston papers of the 15th have been received. The
Texan Congress had organized with the Hon. Mr. Hull
as Speaker pro. tern. of the House, and Vice-President Bur-
net as President of the Senate. Tne President's Message is
long and well written. It gives a flattering account of the
growth of this young republic, its resources and population.
The government and people have experienced great embar-
rassments from the derangement of the currency.
The loan commissioners had not been able to effect a sale
of bonds.

The President deprecates a war with Mexico, and states
his reasons in full.

The commisssoners to run the boundary line between the
United States and Texas, bad been compelled to suspend
their operations for want of means.

BERMUDA

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Nov. 7.—Barbadoes has been suffering, up to the 14th of
October, from a very severe drought, which created much
alarm for the ensuing crop. Our latest papers, however,
convey the gratifying intelligence, that a most beneficial
change had taken place in the weather. Between the 15th
and 19th the island was blessed with abundant and heavy
showers, reviving again the prospects of the planters, and
diffusing gladness throughout the land.

MR. BEINDLEY AND THE SOCIALISTS.—The bold and ac-
tive exterminator of the vile sophistries of Socialism, Mr.
Brindley, has been engaged for the last three evenings in a
public discussion at the Macclesfield Sunday School. The
local advocates of the system having proved incapable of
contending with him, it was resolved to summon one of their
leading champions, a Mr. Lloyd Jones, we believe from
Glasgow, to enter the lists with Mr. rindley. The con-
troversy was carried on for the two first evenings without
interruption, but last night, driven to desperation, by the ex-
posure of the wickedness, deception, and fraud inherent in
the system, Mr. Jones, in reply to a point urged by Mr.
Brindley that no accounts had been published of the large
sums of money that had been received from the infatuated
dupes who had joined the "community," asserted that such
accounts had been published quarterly in their newspaper.
Mr. Jones was challenged to produce proofs of this, but he
declined doing so, under the pretext that he had not the pa-
pers with him, but pledged himself to produce them hereafter
to the chairman. Mr. Brindley, however, quickly produced
a set of the newspapers said to contain these quarterly state-
ments, and handed them over to Mr. Jones, who was then
called upon by the audience to gu to the proof of his assertion.
He manifested no desire to comply with this requirement,
and the audience for a long time indignantly opposed his
proceeding further with his oration till he had answered the
charge of wilful falsehood with which he stood arraigned.
This he failed to do, and was allowed at last to wind up his
speech amidst the hearty contempt and indignation of the
great bulk of the meeting. The large room was crowded to
excess ; and a considerable number of chartists were present,
collected, it is said, from many of the neighbouring towns, to
swell tne number that still exist in Macclesfield. At the
close of the proceedings, which terminated at eleven o'clock,
a vote of thanks was passed t.. the Rev. Mr. Burnet, who
had undertaken the laborious task of presiding as moderator.
The rev. gentleman observed, that not a single argument had
been adduced during the discussion that could in the slightest
degree weaken the truth of Divine revellation.—During the
early part of the week Mr. Brindley lectured at Congleton ;
and, as the chartists did not appear to hold a discussion, a
deputation, consisting of Mr. Brindley and several of his
friends, proceeded to the rendezvous of the chartists, and
challenged them to a discussion. But for the force of argu-
ment they substituted the argument of force, and assailed
the deputation with Pine yi9lcuce.---21facclesfield Courier.

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET

FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW AND SUCCESSFUL

DRAMA.
MR. E L 77 0 Ar,

RE-ENGAGE MENTof theFRENC II ROPE-DANCERS.
Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND EVERY EVENING.
PHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th instant,
will be presented a new and most successful Drama, en-
titled,

THE CAVALIER;
Or, a Tale of Trials.
Hargrave, Mr. Elton, as originally acted by him at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
The Chiarini Family on the Rope.
After which the laughable and successful Farce of
CHARLES O'MALLEY,
The Irish Dragoon.
Charles O'Malley

Jenny Jinks

Mrs. Raymond

The Chiarini Infant Children will appear in the PAS DU
SAVOYARDS.
To conclude with a Drama called
THE WIFE OF CORNHILL ;
Or, The Fatal Secret.
Robert Laidlow (with a Song), Mr. Chas. Bland.
O❑ WEDNESDAY Evening, the 16th, and THURS-
DAY, the 17th instant, the admired Drama of EUGENE
ARAM, in which Mr. Elton will sustain the principal cha-
racter, as originally acted by him in London. With other
Entertainments. To conclude with, for the first time in
Liverpool, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, the
Old Curiosity Shop. With Illustrations by Mr. Parker,
from the original work.
On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 18th and 19th inst.,
THERESE ; or, the Orphan of Geneva. The part of Car-
win by Mr. Elton. With other Entertainments.

Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. Foon, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Three.

Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price, Half-
past Eight, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; no Second Price to the
Gallery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Perform-
ance to commence at Seven precisely.
Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be bad on application
at the Theatre, Price £1 ls.
A limited number of Season Tickets on Sale, at the Box-
office. Stage Manager, Mr. C. F. MARSHALL.