The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-15 00:00:00

MONDAY

Their Royal Highnesses the DuChess of Kent, the Duchess
of Gloucester, and the Princess Sophia visited her Majesty,
on Saturday. at Buckingham Palace.

His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Major-
General Sir Edward Bowater, equerry in waiting, and Cap-
tain Seymour, groom in waiting, attended Divine service,
yesterday morning, in the military chapel, near the Welling-
ton Barracks, i❑ St. James's Park. His royal highness and
the gentlemen in waiting were in military uniform.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH

(From the Thnes)

Medical statistics appear to have occupied much attention
of late years. Few will question the great importance of the
subject whether viewed in relation to pollees. physiology, or
practical medicine. It contributes, as Dr. Hawkins justly
observes, the key of several sciences, showing in a convincing,
simple, and summary manner, their gradual progress, their
actual condition, their relations to each other, the success
which has resulted from their observation, or the deficiencies
that remain to be supplied.
Statistical data, illustrative of the state of health and dis-
ease in any particular county, district, or locality, is of essen-
tial value in the study of the philosophy of medicine. It
points out to the physician the comparative merits of various
modes of practice, the history of disease in different am and
latitudes, the increase and decrease in different maladies, and
the tetidency of certain situations in life, temperament, at-
mospherical vicissitudes, &c., in multiplying the character of
those multifarious diseases to which flesh is heir.

Medical statistics is, comparatively speaking, a science of
modern date. It is a singular fact that the first writer on this

subject should have been unconnected with the medical pro-
fession. As far back as 1662, Captain John Gaunt, " citizen
of London," published a work on the comparative births and
deaths of different cities, years, seasons, and sexes, and com-
parative mortality of disease. Dr. Hawkins observes that
this writer "displays a singular genius for observation, in a
field where no footsteps could be traced previous to his own."
Since that period Sus,milch, Odier, Heberden, Blane, Rich-
man, Finlayson, Villerme, Tutelet, Casper, Orsini, Gordini,
Balbi, Marsnall, Hawkins, Far, &c., have contributed most
largely to the advancementof this branch of knowledge. The
first weekly bills of mortality extant appear to have com-
menced on the 29th of December, 1603, in the first year of
the reign of King James. An account of the number of
burials was, it is true, published as far back as the year 1594,
but this was only in consequence of the plague that pre-
vailed the year previously. In 1597 the publication of the
bills was discontinued, the plague having ceased. The first
bills of mortality related only to the number of deaths with-
out specifying the particular diseases, excepting the pesti-
lence that then raged. In 1611 the worshipful Company of
Parish Clerks was incorporated. whose especial province it
was to prepare the bills of mortality. These clerks were also
empowered to appoint in each parish two searchers, all of
whom were old women. Their duties are thus pointed out
by Gaunt :—" When any one dies, then either by tolling or
ringing of a bell, or by bespeaking a grave of the sexton, the
same is known to the searchers corresponding to the same
sexton. The searchers hereupon repair to the place where
the dead corpse lies, and by view of the same, and by other
inquiries, examine by what disease or casualty the corpse
died. Hereupon they make their.report to the parish-clerk.
It is not, however, until of late years that the bills of mor-
tality have assumed a scientific or useful character. The
valuable documents annually issued from Somerset-house,
and prepared under the eye of the registrar-general of births,
deaths, and marriages, have thrown much light on patholo-
gical medicine. It is to the second annual report relating to
the mortality in the metropolis and provinces during the year
1838 that we are desirous of directing public attention. To
this report the registrar-general has appended a valuable
letter from Mr. Far, embracing a comprehensive view of the
tabular statement it contains. The author states, that during
1838, 342,529 deaths were registered, out of which 330,559
were traced to an assignable cause. The rate of mortality in
1838 was higher than in the latter half of the year preceding.
This circumstance Mr. Far attributes to the rigorous weather
which set early in January, which exercised a baneful influ-
ence over pulmonary affections and the diseases incident to
old age. It appears that in 1838 the number of deaths re-
corded was, males, 170,04-1 females, females, 167,485. In
the middle of the year the population was, males 7,668,245,
females 7,885,615, total 15,533,860. The usual rate of mor-
tality was consequently, males, 2-28, or 1 in 44, females,
2-12, or lin47 ; mean of the two sexes 2-20 per cent-1 in
45.

In the cases of 6465 males, and 5505 females, the causes of
death were not specified. It is clearly established that the
duration of life in men is less than in women. In 1838 the
mortality of the former was 7 per cent. higher than the latter.
This discrepancy is attributed to difference of organization,
dissimilarity of habits, and occupations involving different
degrees of exposure to the accidents, hardships, and dangers
of life. During the year 1838, 2811 women died in child-
birth, while 8359 men and only 3368 women died violent
deaths.

-Epidemic diseases appear to have proved very fatal. 31,321
males and 33,555 females died of small pox, measles, croup,
thrush, diarrhoea, dysentery, cholera, hooping-cough, and
influenza. Of diseases of the nervous system, 49,704 died;
26,047, of convulsions 7,672 of water in the head ; and
2,178 of inflammation of the brain—three common diseases
of children.

Convulsions and water in the head are exceedingly fatal
affections in ill-ventilated dirty neighbourhoods, where the
inhabitants are poor, and the mothers are illfed. Nervous
diseases are 23 per cent. more fatal to males than females.
Of diseases of the organs of respiration, 90,823 died ;
]1,690 males, and 9,488 females died f inflammatory affec-
tions of the throat, larynx, air-tubes, lungs, and pleura. Con-
sumption is 8 per cent. more fatal to women than men. The
higher mortality of English women by consumption is as-
cribed to the in-door life which they lead, and partly to their
tight-lacing and clothes compressing and preventing the
healthy expansion of the chest and exercise of the lungs.
In this way they are deprived of free draughts of vital air,
and the altered blood deposits tuberculous matter, with a
fatal and unnatural facility. It is computed that 31,000
English women died in one year of pulmonary consumption !
In alluding to the prevalence of this opprobrium medicorum,
Mr. Far justly observes, " Will not this impressive fact in-
duce persons of rank and influence to set their country-
women right in the article of dress, and lead them to aban-
don a practice which disfigures the body, strangles the chest,
produces nervous and other disorders, and has an unques-
tionable tendency to implant an incurable hectic malady iq
the frame ? Girls have no more need of artificial bones and
bandages than boys."

Diseases of the heart and large blood-vessels appear to
have been a common cause of death. Men are more liable
to these fatal maladies than women : out of the cases re-
gistered, 2032 occurred among the former, and only 1530
among the latter. _

Diseases of the digestive organs were less fatal than in
1837.

Diseases of uncertain seat, affections which implicate a
variety of organs in which the distinction of parts is quite
subordinate to the distinction in the essential nature of the
morbid products include dropsy, which is but a symptom of
a disease, inflammation, hemorrhage, mortification, &c.
All cases on which a coroner's inquest is held is classified
under the term sudden death. In 1838, 3012 cases of this
character were registered ; 1840 males, and 1172 females.
Internal hemorrage is the most common,cause of this cala-
mity. Out of 10,000 males (i-
-5 die suddenly, and 5-1 out of
10,000 females. Women have less chance of dying suddenly
than men, in the proportion of 10 to 18.
Intemperance is proved to be a prolific cause of disease
and death. Intoxicating liquors can never be taken for any
length of time without deteriorating the health. The con-
stant stimulus produces chronic affections of the brain,
spinal cord, stomach, and intensities, and by unnaturally in-
creasing the action of the heart and circulation of the blood,
lays the foundation for incurable cardiac diseases. Indul-
gence in spirits takes away the appetite, wastes the limited
means of the artisan, deprives his family of food, firing,
clothing, and clean ventilated lodgings—leads to dissolute-
ness of every kind, and must therefore be considered one of
the indirect but certain causes of epidemics, fevers, and
other diseases. 63 cases were ascribed to starvation, 24
infants died for want of maternal nourishment, 12 of inani-
tion, 2 from exposure to cold, and 15 from want of the com-
mon necessaries of life.

Violent deaths are divided into voluntary and involuntary.
They were very numerous in 1838. In the aggregate 11,727
persons died violent deaths, of whom 8,359 were males, and
3,368 females. The number of suicides registered amounted
to 1,058 (males 751, females 307). It is found that the ten-.
tency to suicide increases up to the age of 60. The rate of
increase is nearly 50 per cent. in every ten years.

As a general summary, it may be stated, that during the
year 1838, 36,709 persons died from ordinary, and 85,506
from specific, inflammation ; 19,122 from the terminations of
inflammatory affections ; 15,125 from hcemorrage ; 2,821
from careinomatous disease ; 60,861 from tuberculous mala-

dies 2,256 from disordered secretions ; 2,512 from depraved
nutrition ; 47,773 from diseases of the nervous system ; 5,564
from old age; and 11,727 from violent deaths.
To be continued.)

OFFICIAL CONFIRMATION OF THE PACIFICA-
TION OF THE EAST.

The annexed letter has been received at the office of the
Oriental Steam Company from their agent in Alexandria,
and would seem to remove all doubt, if any yet existed, of
the submission of the Pasha of Egypt to the requisitions of
the allied powers :
`• To the Managing Directors of the Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Navigation Company, London.
"Alexandria, N0v.26, Noon.

" Gentlemen,—We have only one instant to inform you,
that the Eastern question is at length brought to an amicable
conclusion.
" The pasha has consented to evacuate Syria, and to give
up the Turkish fleet, which, however, Commodore Napier
allows him to retain until the treaty be ratified in London.

" The commodore is at this moment with his highness,
arranging, we believe, the port of embarkation of the troops
from Syria, which is the only point remaining to be settled.
In haste, we remain, gentlemen, your obedient servants,
" BRIGGS & Co."

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY,

A letter published in the Commerce, of Tuesday, from
Frankfort, confirms our announcement of some days since,
relative to the organisation of a military force by the Ger-
manic powers as a measure of precaution against the formi-
dable levies made in France.

ST. JEAN D'ACRE AND ALGIERS.—The weight of shot
thrown at a broadside by Sir Robert Stopford's squadron
amounted to 12,4341 b ; by Lord Exmouth's 10,0581 b ; being
a difference of 23i61b, or equal to the armament of two line
of battle ships. With the exception of the Talbot's three
quarter-deck guns, none of the shot fired at St. Jean d'Acre
were less than 32-pounders, whilst at Algiers more than two-
fifths were under that weight—a most essential consideration
in firing at stone walls.

A letter from Cherbourg states that since last Wednesday
evening cannon have been fired there every quarter of an
hour.—The Phare de la Manche says, " Ever since Thurs-
day the Belle Poule has been crowded with people anxious to
view the coffin of Napoleon. It fills nearly the whole of the
chapelle ardente, but the splendid sarcophagus made at Paris
is not exposed, being still inclosed in the case of oak made to
preserve it from injury on being carried on board, and in its
subsequent removals. The whole of the coffins form a mass
weighing 4,4001b5. They remain covered with a pall of violet
velvet. At the head is placed an imperial crown with a crape
veil, and at the foot is suspended a gilt lamp. The whole of
the roof and sides of the chapel are hung with velvet sprinkled
with silver stars, and ornamented with silver cords, fringes,
and tassels. The chamber is lighted with six lanterns, one
at each corner of the coffin, and one on the two sides of the
altar, which is placed behind against the bulk-head of the
officer's berth. It is supported by two large gilt eagles. The
whole produces a rich and imposing effect.

DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE

It is admitted that the present season has, thus far, been
highly favourable to farming operations in the north. In all
directions the winter wheats present the most promising ap-
pearance.—Newcastle Journal.

CURIOUS TRANSMISSIONS THROUGH THE POST.-011
Friday, a quantity of game passed through the Bath post-
office ; and on Saturday morning, a halter was sent to ayoung
man in this city, ready for his convenience, if ever he should
want to hang himself.—Bath Journal.
During

—urmg the months of August, September, and October,
the quantity of coal shipped at Newport, Monmouthshire,
exceeded 50,0p0 tons per month. The shipping price is now
lOs 6d per ton ; but an alteration was to take place on the Ist
December, and it is expected to be lower.
There has been a run on Mr. O'Connell's National Bank
at Sligo last week, which, however, ceased after some days.
The effect had to bring down the market in that neighbour-
hood. The Sligo Champion asserts that the tory landlords
and agents refused the notes of the bank before the run be-
came general, and urged the people to hasten to the bank and
get gold for their notes. This, it is said, they did from spite
to O'Connell.—lrish paper

BETTER THAN A DOZEN.--" Well, Pat, how many chil-
dren have you now.?" " Why, thin, it's better than a dozen
I've got, any how.' " Better than a dozen ! Six months
since you'd only ten." "That's thrue—and I've only jist
one more now. But sure, yer hanor, isn't eleven better than
a dozen for a poor boy like meesilf ?"

CLERICAL PATRIOTS.—At the late Carlow election three
Protestant clergymen espoused the cause of Father Maher,
and voted for Mr. Ponsonby. They are the Rev. Messrs.
Spray, of Carlow ; Thomas (we believe), of Galway ; and
Durden, of Oldcastle, in the county of Meath. Having
spotted themselves for preferment, we wish them joy of their
new alliances, no less than their prospects of reward.—
Dublin Evening Mail.
THE SCOTT MONIIMENT.—We understand that Mr. Dick
has received £lOO from Liverpool, in aid of the auxiliary
subscription for the completion of the monument in Edin-
burgh to the memory of Sir Walter Scott. We shall hail
this as an earnest of the interest felt by our countrymen
generally in this national tribute; and we are happy to
learn that something about £l,OOO only is now wanted to
complete Kemp's original design.— Caledodian Mercury.

MORTALITY AMONGST STOCK.—We regret to announce
a serious loss which Mr. J. Monkhouse, of Southfield, has
sustained. It appears from the report current that some of
his cattle were affected with the disease prevalent in the
neighbourhood, but none of them considered dangerously ill
until Monday last, when twelve being loosed from their
bands, reeled to and fro to all appearnce quite delirious, and
continued in great agony four hours, when death terminated
their sufferings. There has not been such a case known

since 1747, when the murrain was raging.—Carlisle Patriot.
CHELTENHAM.—We are proud to be enabled to record
that the inhabitants of this loyal borough have subscribed
during the past week between £5OO and £6OO towards liqui-
dating an old debt upon the General Hospital and Dispensary,
the whole of which was raised through the individual exer-
tions of the Rev. Francis Close,
in in commemoration of the
happy event of the birth of a " Princess Royal." The elec-
tors of Cheltenham should bearmind that this noble col-
lection has been accomplished without one single shilling
from my Lord Segrave or his " Liberal" brother, the Hon.
Craven Berkely, M.P. ! ! !—Cheltenham Chronicle.

THE HUXLEY MURDER. —Thomas Brooks, in custody
on suspicion of being concerned in the murder of the keeper
Hensall some time since, was finally examined on the charge
at Tarporley, on Friday last, and had the benefit of the atten-
dance of Mr. Parry, solicitor, of this city, as his legal ad-
viser. A great variety of depositions were produced, as
having been sworn to by the witnesses in the case, and some
additional evidence was taken. After a lengthened examina-
tion, Brooks was committed to Chester Castle, charged with
wilful murder, in order to take his trial at the ensuing
assizes.—Chester Chronicle.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT—HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY,
DEC. 10.—Parliament was this day further prorogued until
Tuesday, the 26th of January. At half-past two, the Lord
Chancellor, the Marquis of Normanby, and Viscount Dun-
cannon, took their seats on the woolsack ; and the Usher of
the Black Rod having been directed to summon the Com-
mons to the bar, Mr. Ley, the chief clerk, attended by seve-
ral of the officers and messengers of the House of Commons,
made his appearance. The commission having been read,
the Lord Chancellor declared the house prorogued, in the
usual form, till Tuesday, the 26th of January next, •` to be
then here holden." There were a large number of ladies
and strangers present to witness the proceedings.

THE MURRAIN.—We are sorry again to announce that
this malady is still spreading its infectious influences more
widely in this district, and more particularly amongst the
milk cows. In the neighbourhood, and at Penrith, almost
all the dairy cows are affected ; in consequence some of the
principal milkmen have been obliged to give up carrying the
milk to the town to sell, and it is thrown out and wasted.
The disease has also broke out amongst the swine, and it is
also reported, but with what degree of authenticity we are
unable to assert, that the hares which feed on the fields where
sheep affected with the disorder may have fed, are also liable
to the complaint, and have taken it.—Carlisle Patriot.

FOREIGN LOANS.—There seems every prospect of having
no fewer than six foreign loans in the money market shortly.
Belgium has led the way, and France is about to follow.
The expenses of arming are two much for Austrian ways
and means, and, it is generally thought, she must have re-
course to borrowing. Russia, it is said, has stole a march
on France and Prussia ; a loan to her government has actu-
ally been contracted by Hope and Co., of Amsterdam, in a
four per cent. stock at 90. Brazil is feeling the pulse of the
European capitalists ;
and Texas has commissioners in Eng-
land to borrow for her improvement. The resources of the
money market, here and elsewhere, are likely to, be severely
tried.—London Journal of Commerce.
A MAGISTRATE CONVICTED OF SWEARING.—At the Bre-
con Petty Sessions, held at the Guildhall on Saturday last,
William Williams, Esq. a magistrate of the county of Brecon,
appeared on an information laid against him for profane
swearing, while acting in his magisterial capacity on the 21st
of November last. Witnesses having been examined in sup-
port of the charge, the magistrates stated, that they were of
opinion the case was clearly proved against Capt. Williams;
but, as there was some difference of opinion as to whether
the oaths and curses were profane or not, they retired for a
short time, and afterwards returned into court and pro-
nounced the defendant guilty, and convicted him in the pe-
nalty of five shillings, the amount fixed by the act of parlia-
ment, and costs. The case excited intense interest, and the
court was crowded.—Shrewsbury Chronicle.

THE GIRAFI,ES.—The recent-importation of two giraffes
into this country as a commercial speculation, for the pur-
pose of sale, is an event which could hardly have been 911-
culated upon by the zoologist. The two animals in question,
which are now reposing near the London Docks to recover
from the effects of their voyage, have been brought over
from the United States, into which they were imported from
Egypt, so that these stately natives of the desert, whose
successful removal from their native plains seemed visionary,
have thriven in three several quarters of the globe. The
three giraffes, which are novc in perfect health at the mena-
gerie in the Regent's Park, were caught in the deserts of
Dongolah in 1834 and 1835, and have successfully rewarded
the exertions of the society, the female again showing signs
of soon obtaining a brood. An active member of the Zoolo-
gical Society is sanguine in the attempts which he is making
to import a live hippopotamus into this country, which, if
successful, will be unprecedented in the annals of natural
history.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE ON PARENTAL SEVERITY.—Mr.
J. R. Malone, of Fitzwilliam-street, Dublin, was summoned
by an inspector of police, on Friday week, for having cruelly
treated his daughter, a young lady about 15 years of age. By
the evidence adduced, it appears, that the young lady was
confined in her bedroom for upwards of two months, during
which period no One was allowed to visit her, het father alone
bringing her the scanty meals afforded her. The poor girl
frequently complained to the servant, through the key-hole
of her door, of her not having a sufficiency of food. She
never had a fire, got no dinner, and only a meagre breakfast.
The servant had frequently given her food, by tying it up in
a cloth, which she fastened to a string let down the front of
the house by Miss Malone from her bedroom, and which was
then drawn up again. People passing the streets were in the
habit of giving the young lady assistance, in consequence of
which she had been imprisoned, for the last month, in a back
room. In order to convey a drink to the wretched captive,
the servant used to fold a sheet of paper, tube-shape, and
thus give the water through the key-bole. The witness
stated, that the girl had not a change of linen for sixty days,
and was obliged to make her own bed, &c., &c. One of the
witnesses had often received notes from her, and had often
sent her money as well as sustenance. The inspector broke
open the door of the room, and brought the young lady to
the police-office, which was crowded with people anxious to
see the interesting victim. Informations to the above effect
were sworn to.

SECOND EDITION.

Standard Office, Twelve o' Clock

By the Britannia, which left Boston on the Ist in-

scant, we are put in possession of papers to that date
from Boston, to the 3d instant from Halifax, and to
the 30th of November from New York.
The Great Western arrived at New York on the
morning of the 24th ult., having left on the 7th of the
same month.

The British Queen reached the same place on Satur-
The log book shows that she experi-
d of weather during the voyage.
Captain Roberts, of the British Queen, nobly rescued
five men from an untimely grave in the middle of the
Atlantic. The sufferers were the master and the four
survivors of the crew of the brig Margaret, of Severn,
bound from the Bay of Chaleur to Leith, and found
totally wrecked on the 6th November. The men had
been 52 hours exposed to the tempestuous elements
without food or raiment.

day, the 21st

enced the worst 1

The Caledonia, Capt. Cleland, arrived at Halifax on
the 17th November, at 3 P.M., and sailed at 9 P.M.
for Boston, which she reached at one o'clock P.M. of
the 20th.

General Harrison would have 234 votes as Presi-
dent, and Van Buren 60.

Eight persons were killed and many wounded by the
explosion of a steam-boat near Mobile.
The following are the most important extracts from
the papers we have received :
(From the New York Herald, Nov. 30)
STATE OF THE COUNTRY.

This country is in a very interesting condition, as " ladies

are who love their lords." General Harrison, the new Pre-
sident, does not take office till the 4th of March. His cabi-
net ministers, and his chief appointments, are the principal
topics of discussion among 500,000 politicians, the rest of
the population, nearly 15,000,000, looking on or attending to
their own business.

According to the best sources of information the Clay in-
fluence in the cabinet will prevail over Webster or any
other. If so, John Sargeant will be Secretary of State, John
Davis Secretary of the Treasury, and three friends of Clay
will till the other cabinet posts.

The Collector of New York is the next important appoint-
ment, and for that the Clay influence has selected R. C.
Wetmore, and the Webster influence named Edward Curtis.
But a great many changes may take place before next March.
These are the probabilities now.
Next Monday Congress meets. Mr. Van Buren delivers
his last message on Tuesday, and the leading topic will un-
doubtedly be the embarrassed state of the finances. A
bankrupt law will again be attempted, and in the absence of
political excitement, it may pass—but what kind of a one no
one can tell. A revision and increase of the tariff imposts
will probably be postponed to the new congress, which does
not meet till December 1841, unless General Harrison should
call an extra session. If he does, he cannot get one together
sooner than September next.
There is some anxiety in regard to the probable action of
the legislature of Illinois, in regard to means necessary to
meet the January interest on the debt of that state, and also
in regard to the case brought befOre the Court of Errors of
this state, against certain holders of Illinois stock. The
mere fact of the institution of this suit caused many con-
tracts for the stock qf Illinois, about being closed in the Lnt-
don market, to be cAcelled, and the credit of the state has
suffered severely. She has now but a few weeks to appro-
priate means and raise money to pay an instalment on her
debt. Last year she was in the same predicament, and
was saved only by the interference of those interested
in the preservation of her credit. She is now again in
the same position, with a far less chance of being pre-
served by the same means. Pennsylvania, last spring,
was similarly situated, and was compelled to pass a tax bill
to raise her credit. The only course open to Illinois, if she
expects to be able to borrow the money requisite to the
finishing of her state works, and thereby rendering her past
outlay available, will be to appoint a special commissioner to
settle the pending lawsuits. She must select one who will
not be disposed to compromise the interests of the state, in
order to show half the proceeds. Having done this, she
must pass a tax bill sufficient, at least, to place the prompt
payment of the interest beyond a shadow of a doubt. She
may then, with some chance of success, make application,
in the market, for means to pay the arrears due to her con-
tractors, and to finish the public works.

In commercial and business affairs the country is improv-
ing every day. There is some doubt about the resumption of
the United States Bank in January next, and if she does
resume, there is more doubt about its permanency. But in
spite of these untoward events, the nation was never richer in
produce and manufactures, and we must do well.

MONEY MARKET.
SUNDAY, Nov. 29, 6 p.m.—The transactions at the stock
board, yesterday, were heavy, and again prices declined.
United States Bank 4 per cent ; Stonington per cent ; Can-
ton + cent ; North American Trust and Banking Co. per
cent ; Dry Dock 1 per cent ; Paterson improved l per cent.
2
Sales of bills on Philadelphia were made atdiscount, which
is a decline on Baltimore 1i discount. Sales of state stocks
were made as follows :

5,000 dls. Illinois 6 per cents 7O
2,000 dIS. Arkansas bonds
14,000 dls. Massachusetts 5 per cents (at Boston).. 98 a 984-
MONDAY, Nov. 30, 6 P.m.—The stock market has pre-
sented no very material change in its general features to-day.
Some descriptions have improved, and others have declined.
N. Am. T. and Bk. rose per cent. ;-Delaware and Hudson
2 per cent. ; Canton Is per cent. ; Paterson 1 per cent. ; Har-
lem declined 4 per cent. ; Stonington 2 per cent.; Dry Dock
1 per cent.

There has been some increased demand for foreign bills to
go by these packets. The supply of good bills in the market
has not been very large, and many purchasers have been hold-
ing back, waiting larger supplies from the south. The rates,
to-day, have been a little more firm, as follows :—On Lon-
don 8-1- a SI, or d. 4 81 a 4 83 the £ sterling; on France
f. 5 17% al. 5 20 ; Amsterdam 401 a 40-} ; Hamburgh 36i ;
Bremen 78. At these rates there has been less demand
for specie for remittance, and the premium on silver has
fallen.

IMPORTANT FROM NORTH BEND.-GENERAL HARRISON'S

CABINET

We have at length received important private despatches
from Cincinnati, giving us much information relative to the
composition of General Harrison's cabinet, and the policy
of his administration.

We learn that Mr. Clay, at the suggestion of his friends,
declines altogether to form a part of the new cabinet, and
that it is expected by them and him that Daniel Webster
will, or ought also to decline, should he be offered a place
there. It is furthermore stated that General Harrison will
select his cabinet from the following names :

SECRETARY OF STATE.—John Sergeant, Horace Binney
Edward Everett, Wm. H. Seward, John M. Clayton, Wm
C. Rivers, William Preston, John J. Crittenden, John Q
Adams.

TREASURY.—John Davis, Gulian C. Verplanck, John
Sergeant.

NAVY.—Gulian C. Verplanck, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge,
Samuel Southard, William Gaston, Theodore Frelinghuysen,
John L. Pettigru. _

WAR.—William Preston, William P. Mangum, Alexander
Porter, John Bell, Thomas Metcalfe.
AsTonNEy-GENERAL.—John J. Crittenden, John C.
Spencer, William Gaston, John L. V. M‘Mahan, Hugh
Legare.

POSTDIASTER-GENERAL.—Thomas Ewing, Elisha Whit-
tlesey, Oliver H. Smith.

MEXICO

Our advices from the city of Mexico are up to the 20th of
October, and from Vera Cruz to the 27th. Congress was
then in session. This body had declared, as the will of the
nation, that the executive government should not be clothed
with the extraordinary powers which they had demanded.
This is regarded as a rebuke to the central leaders, Bus-
tamente and Almonte, and coming from a central junto,
it must have great weight. The idle project of prose-
cuting a war against Texas was entertained at the capital.
A law had been passed, authorising the government to con-
tract a loan of 2,000,000 dollars, pledging for the payment,
the 17 per cent. duty, and the President is empowered to
issue bonds for the amount, which are to be sold to the high-
est bidder, within thirty days from the 18th of October. Two-
thirds of this sum was to be appropriated to carrying on the
contemplated war against Texas.
TEXAS.

Galveston papers of the 15th have been received. The
Texan Congress had organized with the lion. Mr. Hull
as Speaker pro. tern. of the House, and Vice-President Bur-
net as President of the Senate. Tne President's Message is
long and well written. It gives a flattering account of the
growth of this young republic, its resources and population.
The government and people have experienced great embar-
rassments from the derangement of the currency.
The loan commissioners had not been able'to effect a sale
of bonds.

The President deprecates a war with Mexico, and states
his reasons in full.
The commisssoners to run the boundary line between the
United States and Texas, had been compelled to suspend
their operations for want of means.

LIVER THEATRE, CHURCH-STREET

FIRST NIGHT OF A NEW AND SUCCESSFUL

DRAMA.
MR. ELTO

RE-ENGAGEMENTof theFRENC ROPE-DANCERS.
Mr. and Mrs. RAYMOND EVERY EVENING.
riiIHIS present TUESDAY EVENING, the 15th instant,
I will be presented a new and most successful Drama, en-
titled,

THE CAVALIER;
Or, a Tale of
Hargrave, Mr. Elton, as originally acted by him at the
Theatre Royal, Haymarket.
The Chiarini Family on the Royc.
After which the laughable and successful Farce of
CHARLES O'MALLEY,
The Irish Dragoon.
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Charles O'Malley
Jenny Jinks Mrs. Raymond.
The Chiarini Infant Children will appear in the PAS DU
SAVOYARDS.
To conclude with a Drama called
THE WIFE OF CORNHILL ;
Or, The Fatal Secret.
Robert Laidlow (with a Song), Mr. Chas. Bland.
On WEDNESDAY Evening, the 16th, and THURS-
DAY, the 17th instant, the admired Drama of EUGENE
ARAM, in which Mr. Elton will sustain the principal cha-
racter, as originally acted by him in London. With other
Entertainments. To conclude with, for the first time in
Liverpool, MASTER HUMPHREY'S CLOCK; or, the
Old Curiosity Shop. With Illustrations by Mr. Parker,
from the original work.
On FRIDAY and SATURDAY, the 18th and 19th inst.,
THERESE ; or, the Orphan of Geneva. The part of Car-
win by Mr. Elton. With other Entertainments.

Tickets and Places to be had of Mr. J. FoGG, at the Box-
office, from Eleven to Three.
Boxes, 3s. ; Pit, 2s. ; Gallery, 6d. Second Price, Half-
past Eight, Boxes, 2s. ; Pit, Is. ; no Second Price to the
Gallery. Doors to be opened at Half-past Six. Perform-
ance to commence at Seven precisely.
Private Boxes, to contain Seven, to be had on application
at the Theatre, Price £1 ls.
A limited number of Season Tickets on Sale, at the Box-
office. Stage Manager, Mr. C. F. MARSHALL.

THE CARACCI
NOTICE.

1/ER. BENTLEY being desirous that the celebrated Pic-
-1- VA tures of Scriptural Subjects, by these great Masters,
should be seen by all classes, with a view of diffusing a taste
for the Fine Arts, has fixed the Terms for the Evening Exhi-
bition of these Actures at SIX.PENCE, that rate to com-
mence at Five o'clock. The Union Room is brilliantly
lighted by Gas whenever the daylight begins to decline.
Slater-street Union Gallery.