The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-05-22 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM TEXAS.

NEW ORLEANS, APRIL 17.—8 y the steam-packet Nep-
tune, Captain Pennoyer, we have received Texas papers to
the 13th inst. We copy below the only news we tind in
them.

From the Civilian Extra 'of April 12th.
IMVORTANT NEWS FROM THE WEST.

By the steamer Dayton, which arrived this morning from
Houston, we have received intelligence that the Centralists,
under Arista, and the Federalists, under Canalos and
Zapata, have had a bloody engagement near Mier, on the
Rio Grande, in which the Federalists were totally routed,
with great numbers killed and wounded, the exact number
not being known.

THE CURRENCY —A bill requiring all the banks of this
state to redeem their notes at half of one per cent. discount,
either in New• York or Albany, has passed both branches of
the legislature.

On the 25th April a bill was brought before the Senate by
Mr. Adams, for the imposing of a duty on foreign silk.

FROM TOR PACIFIC.—The ship Congress, Capt. Water-
man, arrived here yesterday, after a very short passage,
having left Coquimbo on the 13th February. She brings a
cargo of the value of about 300,000 dollars, including 138,000
dollars in specie. The market at Valparaiso was overstocked
with American goods.—Brother Jonathan, New York paper
of 25th April.

We have received a copy of the St. John's (New-
foundland) Times of the 15th of April. The news
contained in this paper is of comparatively little im-
portance. It complains bitterly of the new burden of
taxation imposed upon the colonists—a complaint
winch will meet with a ready response on this side of
the Atlantic.

It will• he seen from our parliamentary summary that
the bill brought in by Sir P. Egertob, the conservative
member for South Cheshire, to enable the trustees of
the River Weaver navigation to provide out of their
surplus funds, an increase of church accommodation for
the population which the improvement of that river has
drawn on its banks, passed the second reading on Tues-
day evening by a majority of 76. We are glad to record
this evidence of an inclination on the part of the House
of Commons to despise the opposition offered by a
clique of canters in parliament, and brawlers out of
doors, to every measure the tendency of which is to
extend the usefulness and advance the cause of the
religion of the Established Church ; and we accept the
decision of the house upon this individual case, as a
favourable augury for the bill which is shortly to be
introduced by Sir Robert Inglis, the object of which is
defensible upon precisely the same grounds as the bill
whose second reading is now sanctioned, and whose
principle is thereby admitted. •
Our readers will no doubt remember the clamour
which was raised, by a few of the hacks of the minis-
terial faction, when it was first proposed by Mr. Tolle-
mache and others to apply a portion of the funds of
the navigation to the purpose of supplying the spiritual
destitution of that portion of the people of Cheshire
which is located in the neighbourhood. The parties
by whom that clamour was made—righteous, pious
men !—had no idea that a population of boatmen and
flatmen could have any need of a church ; so long as
there were beer-houses and conventicler, hush shops
and dram shops, what need could this degraded and
ignorant class have of churches ? How prompt was
each Whig landowner or mill-owner to lift up his
devout countenance and exclaim against the proposed
application of these funds as a job, and—what in
their saintly eyes was worst of all—a church job !
Alas, alas ! After all these denunciations made upon