The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-22 00:00:00

LATEST FROM SOUTH AMERICA

We have received, through the " Boston Mail," advice.
from Buenos Ayres and Montevideo to the 6th ult.
There had been a severe and important naval engagemen
between the squadrons of Buenos Ayres, under:Commodon
Brown, and Montevideo, under Commodore Coe. Victor)
crowned the efforts of the latter, and the blockade o
Montevideo has been raised in consequence.

The above intelligence, brought by the South America,
we were enabled to give in a third edition of Tuesday's
STA2iDARD. About eight o'clock in the evening of that day
the Caledonia arrived in the river. She departed from Bos-
ton on the day appointed—namely, Saturday, the 2d instant.
On the following day she encountered a heavy sea, and, on
Sunday, the 4th, the weather was so tempestuous that she
was compelled to lie to, having lost one of her quarter boats,
and several of her crew having sustained serious injury.
After braving most severe weather, she at length arrived
at Halifax, at six o'clock on the evening of the 7th
instant. At a quarter past six o'clock on the evening of
the Bth, she set steam for Liverpool. Notwithstanding that
she had boisterous weather nearly all the way home, she has
performed the voyage in eleven days. She has brought home
53 passengers, a list of whom, with an abstract of her log, we
have subjoined. The Acadia arrived out on the 2d instant.
She also appears to have experienced much tempestuous
weather. The additional information brought by the Cale-
donia is not important. With reference to the case of Col.
Grogan, the Boston Morning Post, in the following para-
graph, throws some new light upon the affair :
" The dragoons who kidnapped Colonel Grogan do not
belong to what is considered the regular British army. The
regular soldiers, when placed on the frontier, have deserted
to such an extent, that the government has been compelled
to raise a force in the province for frontier service • and to
this force the dragoons belonged. The men and officers are
chosen from those who are the loudest in their profession of
loyalty to the Queen, and most bitter in their prejudices
against the republicans of the States. They draw their pay
and rations from the British government ; and although they
cannot be considered the most fit men to preserve peace on
the frontiers, they are the most unscrupulous tools of tyranny,
and those who would naturally be chosen to do the work that
they were lately engaged in."
The natural consequence of the unsettled state of affairs
relative to great Britain, and of the increasing difficulties, is
great pressure on the money market, inactivity of business,
and a general depreciation of stock. The complaints of the
inanimate state of business were general. There was but
little current money in circulation, and the exchange brokers
were entirely without occupation. United States Bank shares
were at 5.1. At Philadelphia, on the 29th ult., United States
Bank notes, to the amount of 3,000 dollars, had sold at the
board of brokers at 66 cents on the dollar. Exchange on
England. for the packet of the Ist and for the steamer, was
at% to 10 per cent. premium. Bills were very scarce and in
great demand. The cotton market was still inactive. Great
fears had been entertained that, owing to the small demand
for cotton in this country, and the probability of a large
crop, the dealers would be distressed, and the planters unable
to obtain anything like a saving price. It is stated, however,

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that the prospects of a large crop is extremely doubtful. The
Macon (Georgia) Messenger of the 213 t ult. has the follow-
ing, from which it appears that a failure in that district wag
apprehended :
"A few weeks since, the prospect of a large crop was never
more favourable. But for the last three weeks there has
been more or less rain evefy day. (except three or four,)
which has greatly changed the prospect. Great injury is now
daily taking place from the rot, worms, and other causes
incidental to a wet season. We can now say, without a
doubt, that the crop must be short of an average one ; and if
the rains continue, that it will be almost a total failure."
The news from Canada is scanty and unimportant. The
death of the Governor-General seems to have thrown a gloom
over the society of the colony. The funeral of his lordship
took place at Kingston, on the 23d ult. The day was ob-
served as one of mourning and solemnity. The shops and
places of business were all closed, and trading and mechanical
operations were entirely suspended. The flags of the vessels
in the harbour, says one of the papers, "drooped mourn-

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fully at half-mast,„ and the people in the town everywhere
put on, along with the garments, ' the spirit of heaviness.' "

BRITISH STEAM-SHIPS ON THE LAKES

A good deal of solicitude has been produced on the fron-
tier by the British government building several armed steam-
ships on the lakes, and the opinion prevails that it has been
done in violation of the treaty between Great Britain and
this country. The Albany Evening Journal gives the facts
in the matter. . .

A treaty or arrangement was made in 1817 between the two
countries, by which it was stipulated that the naval farces to
be maintained upon the American Lakes by the respective
parties, should thereafter be confined to the following vessels
on each side :

" On Lake Ontario, to one vessel not exceeding 100 tons
burden, and armed with an 18 pound cannon.
" On the Upper Lakes, to one vessel not exceeding a like
burden, and armed with like force.
" On the waters of Lake Champlain, one vessel not ex-
ceeding like burden, and armed with like force."
It is further agreed, that if either party should thereafter
be desirous of annulling the agreement, and should give six
months notice to that effect, the agreement should cease to
be binding after the expiration of the six months. The Bri-
tish government gave notice to the President of the United
States in November, 1838, that the Government had found
it necessary to increase their armament on the lakes.
Mr. Van Buren seems to have supposed that it was per-
fectly proper and safe to let the British government have as
Ilfarrguuetiaer lefodrecfeenuopeonsa on ourthe lakepsarat.s it pleased, and to leave the

A. CANDID DOCTOR.—In the course of an inquest held on
Wednesday, Mr. Wakley said that a short time since he held
an inquest on the body pf a person who had been slightly
bitten by a dog,
unlike those of hydrophobia. and was attended sedulously
The deceased had shown symptoms not
by a surgeon up to the time of his death. Mr. Wakley, ex-
amining the surgeon, asked him the cause of the death of his
patient, and the surgeon, with great naivete-and frankness,
answered, " I cannot positively tell. Ido not know whether
be died from the effects of the bite or from those of the medi-
cines I administered to him."

lINATIO

ND COMMITTAi

OF GENERAL WASHER

,GEP WITH COMMITTING MUILPI

THREE YEARS AGO

LEWES, TUESDAY.--Yesterday General Washer was
brought before the Earl of Chichester, Mr. Sergeant D'Oyley,
and Mr. Blackman, the sitting magistrates, charged with the
wilful murder of Hannah Devonshire, alias Smith.

Several witnes
the pit, and
Briggs having I

deposed to the position of the body in
also to the rumour of a man of the name of
n charged with the murder, after which,

Jane SaxtO'n deposed that she exchanged a pair of specta-
cles with the prisoner about two years ago. The spectacles
produced are the pair witness received from him. She has
had them in her possession ever since. When the Prisoner
exchanged the spectacles he put on a pair belonging to wit-
ness, and said he could see very well in them, and that he
had a pair at home that be thought would suit witness better.
The prisoner then brought them, but slid not tell witness
where he got them, but that they were too hold for him.
Witness never thought about the spectacles until Tuesday
last, which made her say when last examined that the spec-
tacles had only just come up. Witness handed the specta-
cles to the constable last week.

In answer to a question by. the prisoner, the witness posi-
tively swore that she only received one pair from him.
The prisoner said his wife brought the pair of spectacles
produced from London, and that he gave the last witness two
pairs for her one pair.
William Smith, the man who lived with the deceased up
to the time of her death, recollected her having a pair of
spectacles. Witness said the ones produced were them, and
that he could select them from amongst a hundred pairs.
They had a glass broken, which was put in, and ears added
to prevent them falling off, by Mr. English, of the Cliff,
Lewes. Witness added, that the glasses suited him very
well ; he tried them on and felt satisfied they were the pair
in the deceased's possession when she left home.
The prisoner, in answer to the charge, declared he was as
innocent of the crime alleged against him as the first day he

was born.
The Noble Chairman said it was the opinion of himself
and brother magistrates. that the prisoner should be com-
mitted for trial on the serious charge of murder.
The prisoner was then fully committed to take his trial at
the next assizes, and the witnesses were bound over to pro-
secute.