The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-03-18 00:00:00

GLEANINGS FROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS.

FLORIDA WAR.—Gen. Scott was at Savannah, Feb. 17th, to
embark in the Dolphin for Picolata, as soon as she should ar-
rive.
The Louisiana Morning Post, of Feb. 11th, says that a force
of 300 men, in addition to the 700 which had already left there,
were to embark for Florida, making 1000 in all from that city.
AN IMPROVED MODE OF DISSOLVING A DELIBERATIVE BODY.
—Most people are familiar with the free and easy manner of
Cromwell in walking into the English House of Commons and
telling the members to tramp ; and Bonaparte's summary deal-
ings with the congregated wisdom of a country, are pretty well
remembered. Indeed, sudden and unceremonious dissolutions
of these troublesome assemblages have been of frequent occur-
rence in the history of the world and some people have been of
opinion that Gen. Jackson might take it into his head to lead
his kitchen cohorts into the United States' senate, and order
every mother's son of the concern to go home and mind their
own business, on penalty of having their ears cut off as close to
their heads as he once intended to be the case with Mr. Sena-
tor Lacock. British legal prerogative has very often dissolved
parliaments, and British despotism has dissolved them still
oftner; but it has been left to the ingenuity of the Canadians to
attempt a dissolution in a new way altogether. The legislature
of Lower Canada came within an ace of being scattered to the
four winds of heaven, a few days since, simply by suffocation
and stench—as hunters have sometimes smoked out badgers and
woodchucks. We are not of opinion that this fashion of pro-
, roguing an assembly is either constitutional or expedient—nor
do we believe it to be strictly parliamentary, as we find nothing
in Jefferson's Manual which provides for such a contingency,
as however, it is a case prima impressionis we shall be cautious
how we decide positively until we have "looked into all the au-
thorities." But we fear We have not been explicit enough yet
in our statement of this novel movement of the Canadian re
formers: They burnt assaketida in the stoves with the evident
intent to dissolve parliament, and the experiment very nearly
succeeded, for it produced at least a temporary recess, and set
all the members to sneezing in inensely—so that all business
was suspended until they fumigated with rosin, and adopted
such other remedial measures as became graveiegigatoLs.under
the eiretinistances. In loOkinl on this lamentable legislative
catastrophe, it is consoling to know that our senate can never
run any risk of dissolution in this way; fora body that has lived
through the oratory of Messrs. Isaac Hill and John M. Niles,
is in no danger from assafcetida:
UNITED STATES' BA NiC.—The directors of the United States
Bank, in preparing to wind up the concerns of that institution,
have voted a service of plate to 'Mr. Biddle., for the faithful and
successful manner in which. his Glacial duties have been per-
formed. It should be a service of princely value, for he truly
merits it. Mr. Biddle, whom we neither know personallynor
by correspondence, has been the most abused and calumniated
man in the country. He has struggled against the gigantic
lower of the government controlled by passion, prejudice, and
intrigue. He has been accused 'of high crimes and misdemean-
ours, and the institution, which closes in a most successful man-
ner, has been declared bankrupt by our rulers, who well knew
its perfect solvency. An overruling Providence, in which all
should confide, has given him a great triumph lie has his foot
on the neck of his opponents, and it has been placed there by
the mild and unruffled course of his public duties, demonstrat-
ing by his acts and the issue of his measures that neither him-
self nor the institution' confided to his care have merited this
wholesale denunciation. Justice never sleeps : sooner or later
the injured is redressed, and public opinion is directed again to
its proper channel.
IMPORTANT LAW CASE.—Considerable interest has been
created for several days by a suit in the Common Pleas, brought
against the corporation by Daniel W. Lord and Rufus L.
Lord, for goods and property destroyed by the late fire, by
blowing up the houses, by order of the mayor. The amount of
damages being laid at 2,52,198 dollars 89c. At the time the or-
der for blowing up the houses was given, thirty or forty persons
were employed in the removal of goods. Considerable testimony
was given as to the value of the property, the annual amount of
sales of that house, &c. &c. The defence set up was, that the
law for blowing up buildings for staying fires did not contem-
plate to protect personal property. The jury brought in a ver-
dict for Daniel W. Lord, 156,274 dollars 80c.—and n. L. Lord,
7,168 dollars 50c. We learn that similar suits involving a mil-
lion of dollars will be brought against the city.—Counsel for
plaintiff, Sed"ewick and Lord; for the corporation, D. B.
Ogden and R. Emmett.

LOST.—The " General Court," as the legislature of Mas-
sachussetts is called, is a most multitudinous body, and some-
times subjcts the officers to very g-eat difficulties in more
ways tha❑ one. In the first place, it is half a day's work to
call the yeas and nays; and then. if it becomes necessary for
any purpose to pick out an individual, it is next to impossible
to find him, especially if he happen to be asleep, or unable
from any other cause to make noise enough to be heard amidst
such a host. Everybody has heard how hard it is to find a
needle in a haystack—and it is just so in the Massachussetts
State-house. One of the membeis (Mr. Thomas) unfortunate-

MARCH 18, 18'36.

ly got lost a few'clays since, and having neglected to send for
the city crier, it could not be ascertained whether Mi. Thomas
was in the house, or gone home to his constituents at Plymouth.
The trouble in.this case happened, however, from the represen-
tative's own obstinacy : he was called, but he would no more
come than Owen Glendower's spirits, nor would be answer to,
his name.

Id the late dile! between Messrs. Caldwell and Gwynn, at
Clinton, Mississippi, 400 persons were present °as spectators.
Caldwell died in about two hours. Gwynn received a glancing
ball in the fleshy part of the chest and is recovering.
" WErair PanTicluEa."—" John go up to Deacon Le
m --
nox's store, and tell him to send e a pound of his best raisins--.-
do you hear my darling !" " Yeth'm ! peth'inl" John posted
off, and was gone nearly half an hour. "Why you little rascal,
You've been gone nearly long enough to make the raisins.
Why did'nt you step quicker—the deacon haint been all this
time weighing out O. pound of raisins, has he ?" Yeth, he
hab too. Ile thaid how he must be very 'tickler—so he kept
me waiting till'he could get jeth one pound." " Why, -John,
I don't understand what you mean." " Why jeth as' he wath
goin' to 'empty the raithins out of the scales into a paper—he
stopped a good while and looked at it, and then he thilid he
guethed he'd got a very leetle too many for a pound—and he
must he werry partickler—so he took out one raithen,—and
put in a stein, jeth to make weight right."
SNOW ! SNow! SNOW !—From all accounts we shall have it
" hot and heavy" this year. To the west, in this state, it is 3or
4 feet deep. At Syracuse, according to the Onondaga Chief,
it began Thursday night, and continued unremittingly till
Monday morning following! The roofs of the buildings
were many of them broken in, and fears were entertained
for the safety of some of the• most formidable blocks in
the village. In our city of New York, it remains by the
severe cold were uninelted, and nothing but sleighs can go, and
they horribly, for throughout the streets the snow is drifted into
humps worse than the buirlis on the back of the Sea Serpent,
and enough to tear any sleigh to pieces, or to break any bodies
ribs, Re bobbing up and down over a short sea. It is proposed
to petition the corporation to macadamise these hillocks. Yes-
terday it began snowing again, and we dont know when it will
stop. The " Snow King" has come in good faith. To-day we
have had it again.

The following extract from the Charleston Courier, of Febru-
ary 18, appeared in the second edition of the lastimPoor.
STANDARD of Tuesday :

ST. AUGUSTINES, FIR, 15.
" The whole of the country, south of St. Augustine, has been
laid waste during the past week, and not a building of any
value left standing. There is not a single house now remain-
ing between this city and Cape Florida, a distance of miles,
ail, all have been burnt to the ground. On Sunday morning
last a dense smoke was seen in the south, in the direction
of Bulowville, and it was conjectured that the buildings
in that plantation were in flames; and it was known' that
there were none but Indians in that. direction. The smoke
was seen in the same direction. On Thursday it was re-
ported that General Hernandez'S houses at St. -.Joseph's
were on fire, and in the afternoon this report was confirmed by
two of the General's negroes, who, stated that they had, rode
from Meta Compra to St. Joseph's that morning, and 'came
within a quarter of a mile of the house, and bad a full view of
the burning- buildings. It is the opinion of many that after the
battle at Dunlawton, the Indians procured a large reinfosce-
ment and returned to attack Bulowville. The amount of pro-
pedy destroyed is immense; at Bulowville alone the buildings
are said to have cost 50,00 dollars. The properly destroyed
during the past week cannot be less than 200,000 dollars:

THEATRB ROYAL, LIVERPOOL.
The Last Last Night hut One of the new Opera of
THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE.
Fifth Night of the Drama of
THE JEWESS,
Both of which have been received with the most enthusiastic
- applause by crowded audiences on each representation, and
will be repeated this Evening and To-morrow.
Mr. WILSON awl Miss BETTS,
Principal Vocalists of the Ttieatre Royal, Otury-lane, are en:-
gaged for a limited number of nights, and will perform the
principal characters in The Siege of fLochelle.
Mrs. YATES,
O the salve Theatre, is also engaged for a limited period, and
will perform the character of 'the Jewess.
The siege of Rochelle and the Jewess will be ploduc-.
.'u
the immediate superintendence and' directio if
Mr. YATES,
Actin;-Manager of the Theatie Po:at, try-lane.
MIIIS present FRIDAY, March IS i!3G, will be pew--
lot med (fifth time here) the last ne pera, composed by
Bare, and produced this season with the realest success at the
Theatre-Koval, Drur v-lane, called
THE SIEGE OF ROCHELLE.
The Marquis de Valmour...Mr.
Clara Miss Betts.
To conclude with the New (band Operatic Drama of
THE JEWESS,
Eleazar., ..(a Goldsmith ) .... Mr. Stuart..
Bate! (the Jewess) Mrs. Yates.
The Box.office is open daily, when places in the LoWer Boxes
may be taken of Mr. Parker, from Ten until Three. No places
can be secured unless Tickets are taken.

Lower • Boxes, lipper Boxes,-3s. fish : 2s. 61;
Gallery, Is.
boors to be opened at Half-past Six, and the Petformance to
commence at Seven. •
A limited number of Season Tickets, not transferable, and
not admissible at Bene;its, to be disposed of. Application to be
made at the 80-I
-office.
liellines: Opera of LA SONN'AMBULA (the only version
from the 'original score, written for• Madame Malibran.) is in
preparation, and will be produced in a few days.
Madame 3TIESTIZ IS is engaged for a Fruited period, and will
make her Appeara ace at this Tbeatie on Easter Alon(lay..