The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA.

The royal mail steam-packet Acadia, Captain Harrison,
arrived in the Mersey on Wednesday last at nine o'clock.
She left Boston on the Ist, and Halifax on the 3rd instant.
She brings New York papers to the 31st ultimo. The
Oregon question continues, almost to the exclusion of all
others, to occupy the attention of all parties, and although
there is considerable bluStering and ultra declarations by
many parties, we consider the news altogether of a pacific
nature. In the Senate, on the 18th, the following resolu-
tion, introduced by Mr. Allen, was read a first time. The
second reading, though urged, was rejected:—That the
President of the United States be and he is hereby re-
quired to give, forthwith, notice to the government of
Great Britain, that the government of the United States
will, in virtue of the second article of the Convention of
the 6th August, A.D. 1827, between the United States
and Great Britain relative to the joint occupancy of the
Oregon Territory, and after the expiration of twelve
months from the day on which such notice shall have
been received by the government of Great Britain, annul
and abrogate that Convention." The Washington cor-
respondent of the New York Tribune, speculates as to
the result of the vote in the senate upon this resolution,
and " guesses" that the following will be the numbers on
the division :—For blood and war, 24 ; for peace and the
pen, 30. In the senate, on the 29th ultimo, Mr. Hanne-
gan submitted a series of resolutions as follows :—" That
the country included within the parallel of 42 degrees and
50 degrees 40 seconds north latitude, and extending from
the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Ocean, known as the
territory of Oregon, is the property, and part and parcel
of the United States. That there exists no power in the
government to transfer its soil and allegiance of its citizens
to the dominion, authority, control, or subjection of any
foreign power, prince, state, or sovereignty. That the
abandonment or surrender of any portion of the territory
of Oregon would be an abandonment of the: honour,
character, and the best interests of the American people."
On the following day Mr. Calhoun opposed the motion
for the printing of those resolutions, and making them the
order of the day for the third Monday in January. He
said, they declared the question could not be settled by
negotiation, and conveyed an implied censure upon the
administration for offering the 49th line of parallel as the
boundary. Through Mr. Calhoun's address, conferences
were held yesterday and to-day between the leading Whig
and leading Democratic members of both houses on the
subject, at which the following conclusions were reached,
namely :—l. That there should be no war until compro-
mise and arbitration were exhausted. 2. That no rash
measure should pass congress. 3. That Mr. Douglas's
joint resolutions, assigned for Tuesday,' Jan. 6th should
be postponed.
The following is the information received as to the cot-
ton crop :—" In cotton little is doing here, or indeed else-
where—the prices ranging mostly above the orders, The
second growth, upon which reliance was placed by those
who, two months ago, estimated the yield at 2,400,000
bales, was in Georgia and Alabama cut off measureably
by the frost ; and the opinion seems general now, that the
yield this year will not exceed 2,300,000 bales at the out-
side. The receipts at all the ports of the United states
for the last five weeks have been lighter than in any cor-
responding period for several years ; and shipments there-
fore have been light too ; hence there are few cotton bills
of exchange offering."

The Standard says that it is highly probable that Lord
Cathcart will be the new Governor-General of Canada,
and thus the civil and military departments of the colony
will be under one head. There is no truth in the report
that Lord Canning is to be the Governor.
CANADA.—The news from Canada is not at all impor-
tant. The St. Lawrence had been visited by a succession
of gales, which had done much damage to the shipping,
accompanied with great loss of life. A subscription was
about to be commenced for the purpose of erecting some
memorial in honour of Lord Metcalf. Extensive warlike
preliminaries were being made on the Canadian side of
the line.

STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.---The accounts from
South Carolina, of the extent to which the provision
crops of that state have been destroyed, by the droughts
of last season, become more alarming. The first and im-
mediate effect which it has produced has been the hasty
emigration of those whose necessities were stronger than
the ties which bound them to their hearths. From the
district of Spartanburg alone it is ascertained that up-
wards of 2000 persons have fled from the destitution
which awaited them, to seek in the west some means of
support. The condition of those who remain may be con-
ceived when it is known that in the whole district not
more than one sixth of the usual provision has been
made, while in many neighbourhoods there are entire
fields which have produced scarcely a single ear of corn.
In this calamity several of the adjacent districts have
shared, and though, perhaps, not to the same extent, yet
so great is the destitution, that they are unable to provide
for the sufferers among themselves, much less for those in
other districts.—American Paper.
During last summer 56 theatres were open in Italy for
the performance of opera.
LADIES IN CONVENT.—There are 620,000 young ladies
at this moment receiving their education in French con-
vents.
A YANKEE CUSTOM.—The New York Herald of De-
cember 31st, 1845, has the following :—" A teller in the
Canal Bank, Mr. B—, has recently contracted a mar-
riage with the daughter of a rich broker, Mr. J—s,
and as the lady, although young, beautiful, and highly
accomplished, has it is said, a cross of the African blood
in her veins, the public are indignant, and agreeable to
an old custom, the happy pair are nightly serenaded by
the Sheet Iron Band, until the husband shall poney over
some five or six thousand dollars, which is given to the
Orphan Asylum. About five hundred individuals turned
out last night with all sorts of instruments, but could not
succeed in unkennelling Mr. B. They are to give a
fourth concert to-night.—Many of our most respectable
citizens are members of this band."

IRELAND.

The Earl of Enniskillen has arrived at Townley Hall,
Drogheda, from Florence Court, Fermanagh.
The grand jury of the city of Dublin on Wednesday re-
turned true bills against Mr. Duffy, for a seditious libel,
inserted in the Nation.

On Sunday evening week, a man named Leahy, a tenant
of Sir Matthew Barrington, Bart. was shot dead on the
lands of Drumbanny, county of Limerick.
On Wednesday last, an explosion of gunpowder took
place on board the splendid yacht, the Flower of Yarrow,
belonging to the Marquis of Conyngham, lying at Dublin.
Upwards of £5OO worth of damage was done.
SIR RICHARD O'DONNEL.—This truly patriotic ba-
ronet, who has effected more good in the poor province of
Connaught than all the " great, glorious, and free" ora-
tors, living or passed away, has offered to give £lOOO, if
the government will give the remaining amount, to con-
struct a safety harbour at Achill.
The Water ford Chronicle stated, a few days since, that
the Bishop of Cashel had presented £BO,OOO to his ne-
phew, the Hon. Mr. Daly, on the marriage of the latter
to a daughter of the Lord Lieutenant. The Bishop has
denied that he presented any pecuniary gift to the bride-
groom.
ATTACK ON POLICE.—On Sunday night week, the
Annaody police party, while on patrol, encountered an
' armed band of about twenty Rockites, near Aherne, the
seat of General Sir Richard Burke, Limerick, when a
conflict took place, and shots were exchanged, by which
two policemen were wounded, one severely, and some of
the Rockites, who retreated. All the city of Limerick
police left for the scene of outrage.
STATE OF LIMERICK.—The last number of the Lime-
rick Chronicle contains a frightful list of atrocities.
Another conflict had taken place with the police near
Castleconnel, in which one of the police was dangerously
hurt by a gun-shot wound. Two respectable farmers--
one named Leahey,fat Ballyneety, the other Lynch, near
Mitchelstown—have been murdered. A greater number
of houses than ever have been attacked, and an immediate
demand for fire-arms made, and in nine cases out of ten
a seizure was effected. _ _ _

The Rev. R. Taggart, Roman Catholic clergyman, is to
be tried at Downpatrick assizes, for having celebrated a
marriage between a Roman Catholic and Protestant, not
previously. married by a Pi otestant clergyman, contrary to
the 7th and Bth Victoria, chap. 81, which makes the of-
fence felony. The rev. gentleman had been admitted to
bail, on application to the Queen's Bench: A similar vi-
olation of the statute is said to have occurred in the South
of Ireland, within the last two months, and where the
celebration was of a higher order in the priesthood.
STOCKER° KIN G.—The Dublin magistrates have granted
informations against Mr. Abel Labertouche, the notary
and stock-broker, at the suit.:of Miss Maria Hill, for
having fraudulently converted to his own use the sum of
£6OO sterling, which that lady lodged in his hands to pur-
chase Government stock. This is the second or third
charge of a similar nature which has been preferred
against the firm. The failure of the house has been alto-
gether singularly disastrous in its results, several of the
sufferers having literally lost their all in the concern.
THE REPEAL EXCHN.QUEIt..—Mr. O'Connell (says the
Carlow Sentinel) on Monday kindly favoured the Asso-
ciation with a receipt for £4,643 which he had lodged in
the 3 per cents. stock, to the credit of the country; and
if that be all that is left of the repeal revenue, we appre-
hend the fools who paid their cash will obtain a Flemish
account of it. The Freeman's Journal, the organ of
Repeal, declared the amount of the sums received since
1840 to be £125,617 lOs Bd. The contributors to the
Repeal delusion may well ask what has become of the
balance, £120,974 lOs Bd. ?
DESPERATE ATTACIE.—On the 9th instant, twenty
policemen were sent to protect some labourers at work at
Carnadg Bridge, on the Shannon, who had been brought
from a distance. As soon as this was perceived, scouts
were sent off in all directions, and a mob of over 600
Molly Maguires arrived at Carnadg and commenced an
attack on the labourers and police, all 'of whom were
forced to retire. Unfortunately one of the police was
severely injured, and now lies in a dangerous state, his
jaw-bone being broken in two places, and eight of his
teeth being knocked out.