The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-02-20 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We have received the following donations from James Hatton,
Esq., Edge-lane:—
Soup Establishment £2 10 0
District Provident Society. 2 10 0
The " Verses to Agnes J--" do not suit IIF.
" Castigator" and " Penny PostaJe" have been received.
We must positively decline inserting any further communica-
tions on Phrenology. Our readers universally complain that
they are " sick of the subject."
ErtenTust.—ln our notice of the late soiree in our last paper.
the Latin proverb " Experientia &Ica" occurs, which by one
of those unaccountable transformations which take place con-
tinually in all printing offices, and though afterwards cor-
rected in the press, appeared as " Experientie duel." Our
contemporary of the Chronicle, whose pages exhibit a strange
compound of vulgarity, stupidity, and inane attempts at
wit, who must have seen that this was a "printer's error,"
attempts the facetious about it, and essays the pedagogue.
His three or four lines of notice to correspondents, which
...contain this bright idea, are, however unintelligible, from a
similar cause—namely, a printer's error. This will, perhaps,
teach him not to be so ready to cavil in future. At present,
while the public cannot find out what he means by his " eery
doceo," they must think him a " very" ass. We may re-
mark that the whole article alluded to, was copied, without
acknowledgment, and without any alteration but of the word
in• question,- by -the Chronicle. Our contemporary has nut
even the grace of a street beggar; for he begs alms from us,'
and abuses us for what he gets at the same time.

nit Eiberpool eStanbarb.

TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 20, 1838.

tz- The Puldiaation or the STAN n A it n commenced this morn-

ing at 5 o'clo-ek

LATEST NEWS FROM CANADA.—By the Hibernia,
Captain Cobb, which arrived here yesterday, we have
received New. York papers up to the 28th ultitno, inclu-
sive. We proceed to extract from these papers such
'extracts as hear upon the affairs of Canada.
It appears from the following, which we quote from
the New York Courier. and Enquirer of the 26th ult.,
that the scene of operations was transferred from Navy
Island to the upper part of Lake Erie:—

(From the All Argus of yesterd zy.)
FROM THE FRONTIER.

The scene of operations seems now to be transferred from
Navy Island to the upper part of Lake Erie—to Detroit, Mal
den, &c. Our latest advises from that quarter are via Toronto.
The Patriot of the 161 h contains Detroit dates or the 12th, four
days later than received from Detroit direct.

The Detroit Post contains the official despatches addressed by
Th. J. Sutherland, " brigadier general of the patriot army,
U. C.," Gen. Van Rensselaer, commander-in-chief, &e., &c.,
giving an account of the movements in that quarter. They are
dated at Bois Blanc, Ut C. on the 10th and I Ith instant. The
first despatch states that Sutherland found himself on the 7th
" at the head of a very respectable and gallant force," with
which, on the 9th, he landed on Bois Blanc Island, under cover
of the guns mounted on a small schr., captured the island,
pulled down the enemy's dag, and hoisted the patriot tri-color.
The British force, consisting of about two hnndred, principally
negroes and Indians, fled on the first fire, leaving moat of their
tamp equipage, a large quantity of ammunition, &c.
The second despatch details the loss of the schooner, with its
three pieces of artillery, two sixes and one nine pounder, a
small quantity of ammunition, and thirteen persons, including
4' Gen. Theller, Col. Dodge, and Captain Davis of the infantry,
and Col'. Brophey, of the engineers." It seems that in the at-
tempt to moor the schooner so as to bring her guns to beat
lipon a scow-built sloop that was preparing, as was supposed, to
attack Bois Island, she ran aground, parted her cable, and
finial!), drifted over to the British side, and within gun shot of
the force there, and was fired into and until after she had sur-

gendered.
'The "despatches" include also three proclamations by
Sutherland, addressed to' the " Patriot Army of Upper Ca-
nada," and " To the deluded supporters of British tyranny in
Upper Canada."