The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

centralists at all hazards. The fort at Laguna had been
taken possession of by a handful of federalists, and the port
declared free to all nations. A military force of 300 to 400
men (federalists) was daily expected at Laguna, from Ta-
inaulipas, which, it was believed, would put to flight all who
...dared to oppose their principles.
Texas dates received are to the 18th ult.—Branch T. Archer
had been appointed Secretary of War. Eighty-five thousand
dollars in blank treasury notes had been stolen. No further
accounts of Mexican movements had reached the capital ;
and it was generally believed that no invasion of Texas would
be undertaken. A serious accident occurred at Austin, at
the anniversary celebration on the 2d. A cannon went off
while Col. Thomas W. Ward was loading it, and so shattered
his arm that it was necessary to amputate it near the shoulder.
This gentleman lost a leg at the storming of St. Antonio in
1835. According to the Houston • Star, a large party of
traders lately came from beyond the Rio Grand, and pur-
chased nearly all the goods suitable for the Mexican market
in the town of Bexar. The Texian ship Zavala is to be laid
up. General Hamilton had not left for Europe.

(From the _Dail!, Express of April 7.)
MONEY MARKET—CITY NEWS.
Mori DAY, P.M.—The Notes of the City Trust and Banking
Co. payable on demand, are no longer redemed.
The packet ship Baltimore, for Havre, took 320,000 dollars.
In the Senate of Pennsylvania on Saturday last, a resolu-
tion was passed to a third reading, authorising the Banks
to issue smal! notes for one year, as also an additional re-
solution, suspending for one year the operation of an act of
1828, imposing penalties for the circulation of notes of a less
denomination than five dollars.
The St. Louis Bulletin learns from a source to be relied
on, that the information has been received by the Fund Com-
missioners of Minos, that the money, a million and a half,
for the bonds sold in Europe by them, is ready for their
draft, and the whole amount of their certificates issued by
them on account of public works will be reduced in a few
weeks.
Flour was selling from boats at Cincinnati, Ohio, on Tues-
day last, at 2 dollars 691 cents per barrel.
Monda STOCKS.
y.—A very heavy business was done in North Ame-
rican Trust to-day, and at a decline of 7 per cent. The other
descriptions of stock remained pretty firm. United States
improved 1- • Delaware and Harlem remains firm ; 871 offer-
ed
ia for Manhattan, but none -sold ; Exchange on Philadel-
ph 95.

The prospect of a war with the United States is be-
coming so imminent as to call for the serious conside-
ration of the British nation, and more especially of the
mercantile community who are so largely involved in
their various transactions with that country. There
can no longer remain a doubt that a feeling inimical to
England, and which the occurrence of an hour may
rouse to open hostility, pervades and has long pervaded
all classes of the American people ; and, in fact, the
existence of such a feeling is scarcely attempted to be
concealed by the American government itself. It is,
therefore, time for us to inquire to what extent we are,
prepared for the impending contest, and what are the
probabilities that we shall come out of it with honour to
our character as a nation and advantage to the immense
nterests involved in its result.

But let us first consider whether any chance exists
of our being able to avert a calamity so serious as a
war with America must, under any circumstances, be
deemed. We are told that the feelings of bitter hosti-
lity manifested owards us by the American people are
not inherent, but have been produced by the insults
levelled against them by the English press ; that the
vexata questio of the boundary between the state of
Maine and New Brunswick may still be arranged sa-
tisfactorily to both countries, and when that object is
happily accomplished, that the minds of our transat-
lantic brethren will become more settled, and the kindly
feelings which ought to exist between us will, on their
part, be assiduously cultivated. We deny the correct-
ness of each and all of these premises. - The feeling of
hostilitytOwards.England is inherent in the American
people. They hate us with their whole souls ! The
boundary question may be prolonged—may be allowed
to wait its time—but will never be settled except upon
terms 'dishonourable to England or at the point of the
bayonet. America, as. a nation, does not wish for its
• final settlement on any other terms. She will accept of
concession; she will temporise and negotiate; but so
long as Canada presents her fertile plains, her broad
lakes and her noble rivers to the contemplation of the
restless cupidity of American ambition, the boundary
question will remain, morally and really, as much a
disputed point as if the genius of Lord Palmerston had
never mystified a protocol.

We have said that America hates us, and her hatred
prompts the wish to injure us ; but even that feeling,
hitter and deep as it is, might be innocuous if she had
not also been taught to despise us. Her conduct and
the tone of her negociations With us, upon the question
of the disputed boundary with Maine, has been marked
throughout by evasion and a disregard of faith which
no great nation has ever displayed so openly ; *even,
evasion and want of faith could never have been pushed
so far had it not been accompanied by contempt of the
power towards which it was manifested. We referred
the settlement of the boundary question to an arbiter,
chosen mutually by the two countries, and by the terms
Of the arrangement it was agreed that "the decision of
the arbiter, when given, shovld he final and conclusive,
and be carried, without reserve, into immediate effect."
Could anything he more binding, we ask, than the sti-
pulation here laid &Nil ? Yet the American govern-
ment, when an award was at length made, found a loop-
hole of retreat, and a British minister was found want-
ing in the necessary courage to -enforce compliance.
The government of America was fornially invited to
.proceed to the fulfilment of the terms of the award;
bnt the diplomatic agent by whom the invitation was
conveyed is told by that British minister—by Lord
Palmerston —that he was " nevertheless authorised
privately to intimate to the American minister, upon
any suitable occasion, that his Majesty's government
would not consider the formal acceptance of the award
by Great Britain and the United States as necessarily
precluding the two governments from any future modifi-
cation of the terms of the arr«agemtut prescribed in that
instrument !"—in other words, the American people
were informed that the award was so much waste
paper, and that England would not, and durst not,
enforce it. Need we wonder that America has learnt
to add contempt to the hatred with which she already
regarded us?

We cannot, then, but view a war with America as
inevitable. It is madness on the part of the English
people to doubt it, and wicked for a British govern-
ment to attempt to conceal it. The materiel has long
been prepared, and all that is now wanting is the word,
and the hand to fire the train. The day is perhaps not
distant when that word will be given, and we shall
better meet the onset by boldly contemplating its ap-
proach.

But let us not be misunderstood, or supposed to
regard with an eye of welcome a calamity so fatal, as
a war with America might be, to the interests of the
whole human race. We have no hostile feeling to-
wards the people of America, and we repudiate the
malignant slander which has attempted to fasten such
an imputation upon our conservative brethren. We
denounce the weak and vacillating policy which has
hastened the crisis at which we are now arrived; and,
as public journalists, it becomes a duty to warn our
countrymen against the evil results which a continua-
tion of that policy will entail upon them. We do not
advocate war, but we wish to see England prepared to
meet it ; and the first step towards such a preparation
must be, to spurn from power the imbecile ministry
whose cowardice and negligence have precipitated its
approach.

We do not advocate a war with America, but neither
do we fear its results. The temporary stoppage of
our commerce with tint country will produce, we are
aware, serious inconvenience. Our financial position
is not so favourable as to invite the outlay of money
which such a war must cause; neither are our rela-
tions with other countries so satisfactory as to be re-
garded with complacency. We arc well aware of the
strength of America, the number and efficiency of her
navy, and the spirit which animates her militias and
volunteers; but at the same time we know that Ame-
rica has her points of weakness as well as England,
.and we firmly believe that the result of a contest, come
when it may, will be productive of more serious evils
to the American people than they would wish at the
present moment to contemplate. Such a contest
might cause to England the loss of her Canadian pos-
sessions ; but it might also result in the separation
from the Union of the Southern StatQs, already suffi-
ciently disposed to murmur at the policy which sacri-
. fleet; their interest for the benefit of New England and
'!.• • Massachusetts. The nullification cry is not yet be-
*Si,; come so weak as to be roused again with impunity.
We freely admit that England is not at present so
51,4
4,4.1),!t,, fully prepared to meet the hostilities threatened by
.•America as she ought to have been. Eternal disgrace
ti;'srn , to the wretched policy which has rendered her so de-
y 13,1, LC,
14tz 4%.3ft."
ire.neeleSS ! But let not the American people imagine
Ahat she has not left virtue and energy sufficient to
,„,
4"rf 'iThcriable her still to assert her proud supremacy. We
•
. laugh to scorn the inflated vanity which pictures her
to itself, and parades her before the world, as sunk in
drivelling dotage, and doomed to mumble prayers for