The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-06-01 00:00:00

BLOCKADE OF THE MEXICAN PORTS.

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The following letter was posted on Wednesday in the Under-
writers'-rooms, being a reply to one froth that association to
Lord Palmerston, on the subject or the blockade of the Mexican
Ports :
" Foreign Office, May 29, 1838.
"Si n,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 26th instant, and to ac-
quaint you in answer thereto; that the only information of the
blockade of the ports of Mexico by the French, which her
Majesty's government have as yet received, is drived from
official papers published at Washington on the 4112 instant,
announcing that an effective blockade of the Mexican ports
was declared on the 16th of April by the admiral command-
ing the French squadron in the Gulf of Mexico.—l am, Sir,
your obedi• nt humble servant,

" J. BACKHOUSE.

" Thos. Cort, Esq., Secretary to the Liverpoo!
Underwriters' Association."

A CONSERVATIVE SONG.

[The following spirited song, composed by Mr. W. H. Woakes;
M.R.A.P., was sung with rapturous applause at the Peel
Banquet, by Mr. J. G. cal.. --ee advertisement.]
Like a plain dealing soldiei has Wellington spoke, .
Ere the Crown shall go down, there are crowns to be broke,
Ere we give up the game we Milst have a new deal,
So stand fast with me round the banner of Peel.
Then fill up your cup and I'll All up my can,
• A fig for the Whigs and their Master King Dan !
We shall soon see them bOth to the right-about wheel,
If we only are true to brave Arthur and Peel.
Who does not remember—who o'er can forget
The field where the star of
,Napoleon set,
And say, shall it now be remembered in vain ?
Or that long track of glory, the triumphs of Spain ?
No! fill up your cup and fill up my can,
The Whigs like the French have mistaken their man :
The name of the Duke is a phalanx of steel,
And the mantle of Pitt is the banner of Peel!
It is useless to murmur for what is now past,
The conservative flag must be nailed to the mast!
The ship is still sound from the deck to the keel, • .
And will weather all stotnis when she's guided by Peel.
So fill up your cup and I'll fill up my can, .
A fig for the Whigs and the big beggarman;
For, trust me, they both in due season shall feel
That they've not seen the laSt. of brave Arthur and Peel !

One of the late Zlr. Wilberforce's plans of church reform, al
we learn front his life, was, that "one-sixth of the income of all
benefices exceeding £•I50 per annum, were the incumbent was
not resident, should be added to the curate's stipend."
Mr. Hyett, the late member for Stroud, came down from
London, to the election for this city, expressly to vote in favour
of Mr. Hope! Mr. Ilyett, and hislate colleague, Mr. Ricardo,
both resigned their seats for that radical borough, and both now
entertain decidedly conservative principles. What a tale does
this tell!—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
Mr. Grant, son of Colonel Francis W. Grant, M.P. for the
county of Elgin, has started for Inverness-shire in the tory in-
terest, in the room of Mr. A. W. Chisholm, who has accepted
the Chiltern Hundreds. It is said that Mr. Murray Grant, of
Glenmoriston, who contested the county on two former occa-
sions, will again take the field in the whig interest.
A GOOD MARKSMAN.— Our old friend, Captain Richard-
son, of this city, went out on Tuesday for a bit of sport, and,
with a new rook rifle, at a distance of nearly seventy yards,
shot a yellow hammer in the head with a ball. Before we would
venture a Yankee duel with the captain, we would imitate the
celebrated Bob Acres, and walk quietly away from the scene of
combat, to prevent us getting a bullet through our " small gut."
—Chester Gazette.
THE GREAT WESTERN STEAMER.—By the arrival of the
Sirius and Great Western steam-vessels, it is said that a large
sum has changed owners, many high bets have been laid On•
their respective speed, and the power of their boilers; it is like-
wise mole than whispered that several great capitalists, some
of whom are largely interested in America, have betted a large
sum that they will shortly produce a vessel; which, fitted up with
the boiler advertised for sale by Mr. George Robins, early in
June, will easily pass either of the above vessels, or any oilier
which may compete with her; they are also determined, as fir
as in their power, to introduce this into general nse—vit:, the
patent double tubular iron boiler, which will effectually put a
stop to the awful loss of life occurring froth the bursting of the
dangerous ones now in use. Certainly our own, enterprising
capitalists will not let slip the opportunity now offered, by the
formation of a company to apply this patent to vessels, roads,
railway carriages, &c.
STEAM FROM THE TYNE TO THE CONTINENT.—We have
much pleasure in congratulating our readers and ,the public ge-
nerally, on the fair prospect we now have of the speedy esta-
blishment of a weekly communication, by means of steam-ships,
from this port to the continent of Europe, via the Elbe and the
Rhine. This Means of communication has been long much
wanted, not only by the mercantile interests of this great port;
but by the gentry of the surrounding populous and wealthy
neighbourhood. During the past week several of the most in-
fluential gentlemen in this town have determined on the forma-
tion of a company for that purpose, the prospectus of *hick,
tre
are inforined, will be submitted to the public in a few days.
Newcastle has long been acknowledged the greateit inanufat-
turing and commercial town in the North of England; its situ-
ation on the lines and on the termination of several of the
greateit railroads in the kingdom; its close Connection b 0
means of that magnificent undertaking, the Newcastle and Car-
lisle Railway, with the west Coasts of England and Scotland
and the east coast of Ireland; its situation opposite to the ports
of Harnburgh and Rotterdam, the great depots of the merchan-
dise of the Continent,—the great highway to the several capitals
of Europe,—naturally point out our good old town as the half-
way house for all travellers to and from the northern parts of
this kingdom and the European continent.—Newcastle JeUrnal.