The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-15 00:00:00

SECOND EDITION.

Standard-office, One o'clock

UNITED STATES.

By the Sheridan packet•ship, which arrived here this
morning, we have received New York papers to the
27th ult., being two days later than those brought by
the Cunard steamer. They contain the following most
important intelligence : .

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA.

rROCLAMATION

Whereas it has come to the knowledge of the Government
of the United States that sundry secret lodges, clubs, or as-
sociations exist on the Northern Frontier ; that the members
of these Lodges are bound together by secret oaths ; that
they have collected fire-arms, and other military materials,
and secreted them in sundry places ; and that it is their pur-
pose to violate the laws of their country, by making military
and lawless incursions, when opportunity shall offer, into
the territory of a power with which the United States
are at peace ; and whereas it is known that travelling agita-
tors, from both sides of the line, visit these Lodges, and liar-
rangue the members in secret meeting, stimulating them to
illegal acts ; and whereas the same persons are known to levy
contributions on the igncrant aid credulous, for their own
benefit, thus supporting and enrickieg themselves by the
basest means ; and whereas the unlawful intentions of the
members of these lodges have already been manifested in an at-
tempt to destroy the lives and property of the inhabitants
of Chippewa, in Canada, and the public proptrty of the Bri-
tish government there being ; now therefore, I, John Tyler,
President of the United States, do issue this my proclama-
tion, admonishing all such evil-minded persons of the con-
dign punishment which is certain to overtake them ; assur-
ing them that the laws of the United States will be rigor-
ously enforced against their illegal acts ; and that if in any
lawless incursions into Canada, they fall into the hands of
the British authorities, they will not be reclaimed as Ame-
rican citizens, nor any interference made by this govern-
ment in their behalf.

And I exhort all well meaning but deluded persons
who have joined these Lodges immediately to abandon
them, And have nothing more to do with their secret meet-
ings, or unlawful oaths, as they would avoid serious conse-
quences to themselves. And I expect the intelligent and
well-disposed members of the community to frown on all
those unlawful combinations and illegal proceedings, and to
assist the Government in maintaining the peace of the
country against the mischievous consequences of the acts of
these violators of the law.

Given under my hand, at the city of I.Vashington, the twenty-
fifth day of September, A.D. one thousand eight hun-
[L.s,] Bred and forty-one, and of the independence of the
United States the sixty-sixth.

JOHN TYLER.

By the President :
DANIEL WEBSTER, Secretary of State

The Herald says that the organization of these
lodges and secret societies is very extensive and per-
fect, and then proceeds to give the following particu-
lars, which are designated as a shameful violation of
neutrality. If there be any truth whatever in the nar-
ration, which we very much question, the men en-
gaged in the transaction were merely volunteers, and
altogether unauthorised in their proceedings.

ANOTHER ATROCIOUS INVASION OF THE AMERICAN
SOIL BY THE CUT-THROAT BRITISH SOLDIERY.—By a
letter from Alburgh we learn that another atrocious invasion
of our territory has been perpetrated by our amiable neigh-
bours, the British. On Sunday night last, a party of twelve
British soldiers, fully armed, crossed over into Alburgh,
Vt., from Canada, in three waggons. They then proceeded
to the house of Mr. Brown, which is situated four miles
this side of the lines, who is brother-in-law of Colonel Gro-
gan, one of the political refugees of 1838, and who has re-
sided upon this side ever since. This was about mid-
night. The brave band of British midnight assassins then
stealthily entered the house with bayonets fixed. A portion
of them proceeded to the bedroom of Mr. and Mrs. Brown,
and with bayonets at their throats threatened them with in-
stant death in case they made the least noise. The others
went to the bed where Col. Grogan was sleeping, seized, gag-
ged and bound him hand and foot, thrust a bayonet through
his leg, another into his side, and in this horrible state, nearly
-destitute of clothing, he was hurried into a wagon and driven
off into Canada. These are the circumstances of this infer-
nal affair, from a source entitled to the fullest confidence.
Colonel Grogan is an American, but for a few years pre-
ceding the outbreak of 1837, he resided on Caldwell's Manor,
some two or three miles from Alburgh, on the Canadian side.
An enthusiastic republican, he early in the contest became
an object of suspicion and hatred to the loyalist cut throats of
Canada. In the winter of 1838, the British soldiery sur-
rounded his house, drove his helpless wife and children to
this side of the lines, on foot, through the inclemency of a
Canadian winter, burned his house, and plundered and laid
waste his property, to the amount of upwards of 6,1►00 dols.
They will now complete their vengeance by murdering him
on the testimony of some perjured scoundrels, such as Bri-
tish gold never fails to procure.
The people now have some of the fruits of Mr. Webster's
truckling subserviency to English insolency. The murderer
M`Leod, who boasted that he assisted to massacre unarmed
American citizens, came voluntarily into the State against
whose peace and dignity the atrocious crime was committed,
and boasted of his participation it. He was arrested like
any other criminal, and ordered to trial before the State
Courts. The British Minister demanded his release. Mr.
Webster, our federal British Secretary of State, is very sorry
his power cannot reach the case. If the matter was left to
him, he said he would take the greatest pleasure in surrender-
ing up this wholesale murderer of American citizens. What
further license can the British ruffians ask, than is thus
given them by our Secretary of State, for any deed of
murder, or kidnapping, which their hellish passions may
prompt them to commit. The Canada Tories very well
know the powers that he will never trouble them.

If this alleged outrage took place at all, there are
not the slightest grounds for supposing it was com-
mitted with the sanction of the British authorities.
The account is written in a tone of exaggeration which
leads us to have some doubts of its truth, but that Bri-
tish magistrates connived at it is utterly absurd and
improbable. We can afford to bear the abuse of the
angry loco focos much better than they will bear the
chastisement our arms will inflict upon them in a cer-

tain contingency.
The New Era of the 27th contains the names of the
jury who were to try M‘Leod, and who, it says, are all
good men, candid, and intelligent.
The money market was brisker, and prices generally
improved. A large amount of specie was received on
the 26th.

The question of the corn trade was becoming very
interesting to the state. The Herald states that the
Canadas must be our first resource, as that country is
capable of becoming an immense grain-growing one
with proper encouragement.
Mr. Adams, of the firm of Scatchard and Adams,
printers, New York, had been brutally murdered. A
person of the name of J. C. Colt had been arrested on
suspicion of being the murderer.

SHOCKING CATASTROPHE--BURSTING OF A
BOILER.-SEVEN MEN KILLED AND NINE
SEVERELY INJURED.

At an early hour on Wednesday morning, the neighbour-
hood of Jersey-street, Ancoats, Manchester, was thrown
into a state of the greatest alarm and excitement by a loud
explosion of the engine boiler, and the falling of one end of
a three storied building, situate on a branch of the Roch-
dale canal, a little below Poland-street, belonging to Messrs.
John Elce and Co., machine makers• A number of people.
were speedily attracted to the spot by the noise of the explo-
sion ; and the scene of distress that ensued, it would be im-
possible to describe. Parents were seen looking for their
children, and wives for their husbands, fearing lest they
might be amongst the sufferers.

With respect to the cause of the explosion, nothing is
known with any certainty ; but, as the engine was not at
work, and can hardly have been short of water, there seems
to be little doubt that the accident was caused either by an
overloaded or a defective safety-valve, or by the boiler itself
being too weak to bear the pressure which it ought to have
sustained. It appears tolerably clear, from the circular end
of the boiler which was found in the yard, and which was
evidently the one nearest the engine, that the commence-
ment of the explosion was in that end. The injured parties
were in and over the engine-house at the time of the explo-
sion.