The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-04-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

SCRAPS FROM THE NEW YORK PAPERS.

, PENSACOLA, Feb. 20.—The steamboat Watchman, Capti-
Vincent, arrived here• Yesterday morning ~from Tampa... Bay:
She left Tampa on Wedtiesday,.but ,brings no news of conse-
quence, concerning the Indian, war. On Tuesday last, the
troops to the number of 1050 under command of Gen. Gaines,-
left Cantonment Brooke in pursuit of the enemy, it having been.
ascertained that a considerable liirce had assembled near Tam-
pa. Capt. Vincent reports that on the day of his departure,
some tiring was heard in the direction of the line of march of
the whites. Seventy friendly Indians are with General Gaines'
command. They have been placed under the direction of Capt.
Saunders, formerly suttler of the troops at Tampa Bay. Capt.
V., further informs, that few days before he sailed, three hostile
Indians had been captured—one of them believed to be a spy•
He came to cantonment Brooke pretending to be drunk.
When he found that his device would not avail him, he attemp-
ted to make his escape and was killed.

SUPPLY OF ARMS TO THE SEMINOLES.—BV a letter from
Mr. Whitehead, dated Key West, Feb. 10th 10 are informed
that there is, in his opinion, no truth whatever in the opinion
that the fishing boats from the coast of Florida to Havana have
obtained any supplies of arms from that place.
AtivEr.t.ous.—A lunatic recently jumped from a third story
window, at Richmond, Virginid; on to the cellar door below,
and thence rebounded into the gutter, without experiencing the
slightest injury.

Montreal Exchange, Feb. 29, 1836.
Our Housp of Assembly have agreed to the resolution of
granting supplies for only six months, from 17th Jan. to 17th
July next: Eleven money bills were thrown out on Friday
Oikht last by the. legislative council, and it was supposed that
the Six ►nonths Supply bill would share the _same fate to-day
(Monday) iu the same chamber.
A letter from
.our Annapolis correspondent announces the
at rival there of His- Britannic Majesty's brig of war Wanderer.
from Rio de Janeiro, having on board Mr. Fox, British Minister
to the United States,

Talking of storms,' said Paddy, the other day? to a friend
of ours, 'at Pembroke, my dear sir, we had the heaviest I ever
saw, considering the size of the town.'
RATHER PARTICULAR IN THESE PATRIOTIC TIMES IN THE
SOCTII.—The recruits for Florida, under the command of Dr.
M'Farlane, presented a very fine appearance yesterday, in their
neat-grey uniform. We wish them success.
If it would not be too much trouble, we would be, obliged to
Capt. Marks to call at this office and settle his printing bill
before he lelves.—N. Orleans Union.

M rs. Peak, who was to have been recently hung in Vermont,,
has•died a natural death. This is thought to have been very
providential, as the badness of the roads at this season of snows.
is such as would have made the travelling exceedingly incon-
venient to the numerous crowds who would, as is the custoui in
this country, have flocked to the gallows to witness the. interest-
ing spectacle of deptiving-a human creature of life.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.—if true;—We extract from the
Donaldsonville ( L.) Eagle of the 14th Feby.
"We learn from a respectable person, arrived here, that the
Canianche and several other tribes of Indians have declared
war against Texas, and will second the operations of General
Santa Anna, who is now advancing on San Antonio at the head
of 5000 men, and 25 pieces of artillery. The Indians force, it
is said, amounts to 10,0(X) warriors, and S(X) cavalry. This re-
port accords perfectly well with the departure of the 6th rest
ment of United States troops froni Jefferson barrack, from the
Mexican frontier, where they - are, to be joined by •General
Gaines, who is to-take the command."
If thisrumour prove correct, which God forefend, then indeed
the friends of Texian liberty have every thiugto'fear-', a bloody
and savage war must ensue, the confequenee.Of which will be
terrible, and may for ever seal the chance of TeXian independ-
ence. _ _ .

Santa Anna, perhaps, has offered the numerous holds of
Indians, who inhabit our frontiers, and those of MeXieb, the
whole of Texas as a reward fin• their services, in case they
should expel the colonists.—This measure would be politic ou
his part.

PLUNDER OF FIRE ARMS BY THE PEASANTIit

We lately mentioned the wreck, at Ballvcotton, of the
Magnificent, from Liverpool for the Cgalt 'Gui9ea. The
wreck occurred on the 18th ; the vessel went to pieces, and the
greater part of the cargo was, we believe, lost. 'fliere were on
board several hundred stand of fire-arms; of 'some of these the
police got possession, and fur safety were conveying them on a
car to their station, when they were surrounded by :formidable
party of country people. The police were few in namber,,and
being indifferently provided with ammunition, they were unable
to offer any effective resistance The car was therefore at-
tacked, the arms seized, and cal ried off in triumph by the assail-
ants.—The police have since been on the alert; but, so far as
we can learn, though they on Saturday night succeeded in cap-
turing seven of the persons concerned in the attack, of between
seven and eight hundred stand of arms of which the country
people are believed to have possessed themselves, they have re-
covered but a single gun. What these misguided people can
want with fire-arms, it is not fnr.us to say, hut theirdispositions
are not so peaceful, nor the times so tranquil, as to render their
retention of them a mallet of indifference.
Besides the arms, the plunderers obtained a quantity of gun-
powder. Some, if not all of this was damp from exposure to
the sea water, and we have heard that a house, th,e inmates of
which sere drying a quautity of it in a pot which they placed
near the fire, was nearly' blown down by the explosion.

Lord Grey has formally retired from Brookes's club, dis-
gusted with the persons that have recently gained admission
into that once respectable society—their principal reeom:nen-
dation being that they are joints of Mr. O'Connell's tail.—
Dablin Eveniny Mail.
It is rumoured at Haddington that Mr. Steuart, member for
the Haddington district of Burghs, has got a government ap-
pointment, in consequence of which there will be a new elec-
tion. It is to be.hoped the conservatives will be able to return
a " good man and true."—Berwick Warder.

THE GREAT FIRE IN BOND-STREET, LONDON.—A subscrip-
tion has been opened in London for the relief of the sufferers
by this dreadful calamity. The cases of the females, about forty
in number, who rented stands iu the Western Exchange, are
the most distressing, all their little property and their present
means of employment being destroyed. They are for the most
part persons who have been reduced by the vicissitudes of life
to depend upon their own exertions for subsistence. The
pictures which have been burnt are valued at £40,000, but they
were only insured at £3OOO.

UNSTA MPED PUBLIC A TIONS.—For some days past, consider-
able curiosity prevailed in town, in consequence ofan announce-
ment that an unstamped London periodical was to be had for
twopence, in a place on the North Bridge. The mode of sale,
though not uncommon, we believe, in London, was altogether
new in this part of the country. In a passage at the head of a
stair, a hole was made in the wall, without any other communica-
tion with the interior. The purchaser put his money into this hole,
and immediately a paper was passed through. The novelty of this
mode of evading the law attracted a good many purchasers;
and a-rather brisk .sale was carried on until about two o'clock,
P. M. on, Friday,'!when the parties tho fight proper to disconti-
nue-, the traffic, either. from a deficiency of the supply of papers,
or which is at least equally probable, because they found:that
the vigorousAneasuses.takea.bythe authorities to detect the of-
fenders were trenching-top okosely.upon their personal safety. to
.render it adyisabla Ter thomto continue the trade longer. We
undenstank.hOweyer, 'Oat' notwithstanding every effort has
been`made by the proper authorities, no clue has yet been
found,-f r the discovery and apprehension of the offenders.—
Edit:6o6h Courant.
A Mtittsii.—The•Roval Tar steam-vessel, engaged in the
service of the Queen' of -Spain, put into Falmouth on Sunday
last for a supply of coal, haVing on board- nearly two hundred
recruits,going.to join the British legion in the Peninsula,- and
amongst whom there was much dissatisfaction with the indivi-
dual who had charge of them. A collier, the•JOhn, belonging
to Mr. William Downing, having gone alongside the steamer,
about forty of the men were sent on hoard to assist in tranship-
ping the coal, and availed themselves of the opportunity, at a
signal given by a ringleader, to cut the John adrift, in the ex-
pectation probably that she would have gone ashore,, and so
enabled them to escape; the tide, however, carried her to the
harbOur'S mouth, where the mutineers finding they were going
out to sea, dropped, an anchor. On the following day the
steamer went down, and taking the collier in tow, brought her
back ; but the men refused-to submit, and set their opponents
at defiance. On Monday evening, after much Parleying, a few
were induced to yield, and a chain from the steamer having been
passed' round the mast of the John, she was towed out of the.
harbour. The whole eventually submitted, and the steamer
proceeded for Santander.--CoputOon.
Russia N PoLicY.—A letter of the 11th instant. from Lem-
berg, con tidos the following :7--.-'`,Since the end of. last month
three additional battalions of infintry of the line and one of
light infantry have entered Galicia.; the hulans and:hussars
have also received horses. The troops ere now nearly double
what they were less than a year. ago. The new levies of the
province' have received orders to march into Moravia and,
Upper Austr,in, where they will be
of. men taken away by the removal of these foie:, are more
than replaced. The concession .which t he. cou rt deeided to make
to the Russian government, as it regards Cracow, has only in-
creased instead of diminishing the pretensions of our insatiable
neighbour. All the civil, judicial, and inilitary arithotities of
Galicia are unrelentingly oppressed by the requisitions and de-
nunciatiiins of the Russian police, which wishes to convert them
into submissive executioners'; 'and who, if suffered to go on,
will place the subjects of Austria. on a level with, those of th?
Emperi4 Nicholas.: Much may.aisabe.said ou the purifications
of Cracow, an() the condemnation of .so tnany persons. without
any evidence being produced against them. There are.,already
600 persons ou.derillese sentences,.. and secret accusations :are
pending over nearly 200 independent citizens of Cracow. whom
t hey have still less right to bring to judgment.'!—Courrier
Francais.

SuNsuimEl—On Saturday evening last that galloping Lon-
don Ittininary which calleth itself the Son, shed the. light of its
countenance upon Daniel O'Connell—its daily custom in the
afternoon ; and gave th world to wit that it was glad—very glad
that Mr. Daniel O'Couhell had been invited to dinner at. Hull ;
inasmuch as the invite was "a well-merited compliment to th e
wise and patriotic government of L'ord Melbourne," and would
he "gall and wormwood, to the tories, and set them upon abus-
ing Mr. O'Connell With more recklessness and malignity than
ever;—though little need that great and enlightened statesman,
O'Connell, care for the stormy denunciations of the tories so
long as he has the whole of Ireland, and a great portion of the
influential and intelligent classes of England in his favour!"
Now, in the year MI, 6» 'one of the latter' days of October in
that year—that is to say, little more- than one short year ago,
this self-same London luminary, the Sun; blazed forth against
this self-game Daniel O'Connell precisely in form and fashion
following :—" It is surprising to us how a quick witted people,
like the Irish, can allow themselves to be gulled by such a shal-
low vacillating mountebank as O'Connell !--compared with whom
the ,weathetcock on St. 11lartin's steeple is steadiness- itself.
Yet the man has the impudence to talk of being unchanging in
.his advocacy t.f the interests of his 'poor countrymen ! ! Yes,
he who draws the last penny from the pockets of the starving
peasant. actually professes to weep tears of blood for the penury
to which he has himself reduced them.—Oh, rate philanthropy!'
Verily, we wish Mr. O'Connell much joy of his Sun ; and ad-
vise him to make the most of it whilst it shines cheerily, for
there is no knowing how soon it may " look sadly" upon him,
as it did at that time.—Morning Herald.
Hs DROPHOBIA.—A most melancholy instance of the insidious
fatality of this dreadful disease occurred at Ledbury on Satur-
day lasts Mr. Charles Emmett, who had for several years.been in
the employment of Mr. Ward, printer and bookseller, of that
town, allowed afavourile dog some mouths ago to lick his hands,.
which were chapped with the cold. A few weeks after this
happened the dog died, having exhibited symptomS of canine
madness. No notice was taken at the time, nor was any inis-
-]chief suspected to arise from the licking of chapped hands; •
,but the young man was taken exceedingly ill on 'Wednesday,
the 17th instant, and afterwards Symptoms of the malady ap-
Teared. Haying endured the most excruciating sufferings, be
died on the evening of Sattirday last. The deceased was a
young man of respectable family in the neighbourhood of Bristol,
and was highly respected bv.all who knew him. His awful
death has treated quite a sensation in the town of Ledbury.—
•Gloueestershire eh;

MA RC n.
Tuesday ....29
Wedne;day..3o
Thursday ..31
Friday, April 1
Saturday.... 2
SUNDAY... 3
Monday 4

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