The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1838-03-02 00:00:00

CANADIAN INTELLIGENCE.

(From our Second Edition of Tuesday.)
The, Columbus arrived in the river' thii morning, hav•
ing left New York on the Ist initant. We extract from
the .American papers such intelligence as appears most
importint. It appears that-perfect tranquillity has not
yet been restored.
(From the Detroit Dail,/ Free Press of Jan.ll.

The steam-boat Erie teas forcibly taken from this port on
Tuesday night, by a body of men belonging,- it is supposed, to
the patriot force on Whitewood Island. The alarm bells were
rung,,and our citizens generally rallied as.f4oon as possible to
the wharf, but before any considerable number had collected
the boat and • her men were out of the reach of our authorities:
We understand that the proper officers proceeded yesterday to
the seat awes, to recover the boat and arrest the offenders,
. The following is.from the Detroit Gazette of the 15th ult. :
Hayin.g.,been inforped that patriot forces at the mouth of De-
troiritver had retired from Whitiwood and`Were
owa-
nising themselves upon an American island nearby, for hostile
:preparations against. Canada,. Governor Mason, of this city,
took passage in the steam-boat Erie, for that point, on Thurs-
day morning, to ascertain the truth of the report, and' to take
measures accordingly.
,‘The boat arrived •at Sugar Island, be-
longing to our goverotneut, in the course ofyll'hursday evening,
which they found in • the occupation of about 300 armed men.
After entering the camp, QoVernor Mason. immediately had an
earneSt conversation with the officers, in command—remon-
strated with them against their illegal occupation of our tern--
airy —assured them that it could not be suffered with impunity,
,;and urged them to abandon their enterprise. We are gratified
to state that the appeal had its effect, and that the Erie, in the
course of the night, took the whole force, with its effects, from
the island, and put it upon the mainland, whence it was to dis-
perse, and the men return to their homes. •
In the Legislature yesterday the following preamble and
resolutions were offered :
" Whereas, recent occurrences of an atrocious character, the
assemblage of armed bodies of men, on both sides of the boun-
dary line separating the United States from Canada, the com-
mission of high handed acts, in violation of the laws of the Uni-
ted States, by troops illegally armed and assembled, and the ex
traordinaty state of excitement and exasperation manifested by
the inhabitants, not onlyof. Canada, but of this state, render the
presence of 'ran 'efficient and competent force of the United
States absolutely necessary on _the frontier of the state; there-

fore.
" Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the state of Michigan, that the Governor of this state be, and
hereby is required, without- delay, to apply to the President of
the United States that a force of at least two regiments of the
United States troops, with due proportion of artillery, may be
ordered to the Canadian frontier of this state."

(From the Rochester Democrat, Jan. 25.)
The Canada war not yet ended I—Letters were received in
this city last evening direct from Brantford, Upper Canada,
which state that upon the day it was written, and before it was
mailed, five expresses had passed through that place for Toronto,
with the intelligence that the patriots had risen in considerable
numbers in the London district, fur the avowed purpose of
rescuing the individuals imprisoned in the jail in that district.
The letter adds that "before this reaches you the jail will
doubtless be taken, and the prisoners released."

(From the New York Commercial Advertiser of the 31st.)
to• waft CAI4ADA.—We have the Montreal papers of the/sth
instant. The members of the executive council were expected
at Montreal, from Quebec, to attend upon Sir John Colborne
and organize the Government anew, under his administration.
The following extracts are from the Transcript :
The rainours which had been for some days current, and
which, for obvious reasons, we refrained from noticing, have
not only continued to circulate, hot have produced their ef-
fect; and' he French Canadian population have been leaving
the city and iSland of Montreal for several days past. We
are far from wishing unnecessarily to denounce them, or wan-
tonly to wound their feelings; but certainly there is in this
something, very reMarkable, something which seems to de-
mand explanation. While the British population.are, one
And all, in a state of the utmost tranquillity and confidence,
this sudden bustle-and 'confusion of French departure bespeaks
on their ,part a remarkable timidity; or it indicates a know-
. ledge, an expectation of some intended outbreak, which in-
duces them to seParate them Selves from their British fello,w-
. cOlonists,,And- retit.e from what they suppose to be the 'field 'of
approaching comet. Some satisfactory explanation: is due to-
their `own Ichariicter, and we look for it accordingly.
On Wednesday Morning the last of the.murderers of the un-
fortunate Chartrand was 'lodged in jail.. He occupies the same,
cell witOilberf„' the murderer of the lamented Lieut. Weir.
tie was captured by Mr. M`Gillivray, concealed in a cupboard
in a garret of a house in L'Arcadie. He has neither confessed
. .
'nor denied his guilt. •s
The Detroit Morning Post states that Sutherland, having been
arrested and charged with a high misdemeanour, which was ex-
amined before Judge Wilkins, of the United States' District
Court: 'The court:decided that the evidence was not sufficient
to justify a committal, and he was discharged.
'Mr. Van Rensselaer,.of Navy Island, was at Syracuse at the
last accounts.—Buffalo Star.

. LATEST. NEWS FROM AMERICA.
COTTON.—The New Orleans True American says, " Tbe banks
of the Mississppi hqve been somewhat unfortunate in their cot-
.
ton"speculations this season. What With the snagging and burn-
ing of steam-boats, and the inroads of the lightning on their
Liverpool ships, the balance is likely to be on the wrong side of
the account."
LOSS OF FOUR STEAM-BOATS—BURNING OF THE
MARMOR A AND CUMBERLAND STEAM-BOATS
( Frees the New Orleans Merchant, Jan. 23.)

A fire was discovered at en early hour this morning on board
the steamer Marmora, from Machitoches, Waded with cotton,
1203 hales, which communicated with the Cumberland lying on
the.starboard side, and the Chickasaw on the larboard. The
Alarmora and Cumber land were whollY.deEtroved, and the upper
cabin of-the Chickasaw was nearly destroyed beforethe engines
succceded in stopping the flames. The Cumberland was light.
At about half past ten the bulls of the Marmara and Cumberland
slid from their moOrings and sunk into the river. No account
of the fire which caught near the boilers has come to our know-
ledge.—The loss estimated by the Picayure is 80,(X.10 dollars.
The steamer, Pittsburg, from New Orleans to Red River,
struck on a snag, on' the night of the. 16th Jan., three miles
below Baton Rouge, and sunk in two hours. The cargo,
estimated at 15,000 dollars, with the tessel,is entirely lost.

• ORATORIO ON BEHALF OF, TH POOR.—The Oratorio for
this truly charitable object in the present season of distress,
is annoaced for Tuesday evening next, at the Theatre Royal,
when Handel's sublime .Oratorio of the Messiah is to Le per-
formed. The Grand March and Chorus from Beethoven,
" Crown ye the Altar," will be alsO introduced. There is some-
thing strikingly appropriate in .the name of the bratorio cho-
sen, to the object which: it •has to serve. We need hardly
express our confident anticipations that the house wily he an
evidence of the overflowing charity of the public.