The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-18 00:00:00

IMPORTANT FROM NORTH BEND.-bIIUMEILAT. •r • ."•.

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

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CABINET. _
coliiisbkitr6ebi-tleheTirfrii)riiFrii 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.
ArTORNEY-GENERAL.—John J. Crittenden, John C.
Spencer, William Gaston, John L. V. M`Mahan, Hugh
Lezare.

of the Fire Insurance Companies were
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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-
temente 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 Hon. Mr. Hull
as Speaker pro. tem. 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 commissioners to run the boundary line between the
United States and Texas, had been compelled to suspend
their operations for want of means.

BER.
Nov. 7.—Barbadoes has beenD suffering, up to the 14th of
October, from a very severe drought, which created much
alarm for the ensuing crop. Our latest papers, however,
convey the gratifying intelligence, that a most beneficial
change had taken place in the weather. Between the 15th
and 19th the island was blessed with abundant and heavy
showers, reviving again the prospects of the planters, and
diffusing gladness throughout the land.

GLUT OF STEAM-VESSELS IN AMERICA.
In consequence of the competition in steam navigation,
and the increased number of steam-ships running hither and
thither,-from the east to the west, the days of departure from
both sides, of the Queen and President, are to be changed
from the Ist to the 10th of each month. This arrangement
is a good one for us, and equally so for the owners of the
steamers. and also for the passengers. Cunard's steam-ships
start from England on the 4th, and hence on the Ist of every
month, and, therefore, if the two "floating palaces" leave
on the 10th,`and the Great Western a week or ten days after,
as she probably will, time will be better divided, the com-
mercial public better pleased, and the whole world will move
on its axis easier:and freer, without the aid of so much grease.
The fact is, steam-ships have multiplied so fast that they
interfere somewhat with each other in the way of passengers.
It has so happened that Cunard's steamers and the " Presi-
dent" and " Queen" have left England and America on the
same day. Passengers thus having two conveyances were
placed like the ass of Buridan. But they divided—some took
to one steamer, and others to another, and neither came nor
went full, whereas if there had been a week between their
departures, both would have had a fair, if not a full comple-
ment. It has been estimated that the two " floatinc, palaces"
have lost upwards of 400 passengers by Cunard's steamers in
consequence.

Hereafter, however, all will be right, all will be smooth,
except the Atlantic in a gale of wind—all will go fast enough,
and all will go full enough, till a line of American steam-ships
are built and launched, and run as our splendid packets, "the
fastest sailers and the prettiest models in the world," have
been from the year '2O to this day.

CANDA.
The Canadian papers are filled with preparations for the
coming election. In many of the districts, particularly in
Upper Canada. the canvass is very animated. In some of
wails—a quantity of tar lying below in a the papers the governor-general is accused of interference
peen also c:, quantity
The fire was got under with the elective franchise, but no satisfactory evidence is
ee and four o'clock, when the truly affecting ca- presented to sustain the charge. The position of the gover-
ch had happened was too clearly revealed. The nor is a very embarrassing one. He is about carrying into
le whole inmates of the house, consisting of five effect a new system, giving to the people a greater influence
)mes Howie and his wife, and their two children, over the government than they have had hitherto, while he
-e and the other nine years of age, and a man of is at the same time called upon to exercise temporarily al-
',oinas Marshal, a sawyer, who lodged in the most despotic power in the one province, and finds it 1)111-
11d burned black amongst the ashes. From dent not to disturb existing arrangements in the other. His
....,e that no answer was given to the first alarm course is made the subject of severe animadversion on the
Je by the people who gathered about the house, it is arm one side, and warm encomium on the other. The tone of
ent that all the unhappy inmates had been suffocated in his answers to the various addresses made to him in his tour
their beds, before the fire was discovered; and it ii the most through Upper Canada was generally-acceptable to the peo-
,robable conjecture that the fire had originated in one of the ple. In reference to this matter, however, some of the pa-
It appears that the inmates slept in the middle pers suggest the necessity of selecting representatives 'in
The melancholy loss of so many lives, and
consideration of an entire family thus fatally destroyed, whose political principles the people have confidence, and
dye awakened the moat distressing feelings amongst the not those who have made vague promises to support the go-
c.)rumunitY.—Aberdetrn Comtilutional. vernor-general.
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take into consideration the depressed value of agricultural
produce, and to devise some means to advance the interest
of the farmers. It was agreed to call a general meeting in
Home District, for the purpose of petitioning the Queen to
give her assent to the bill passed by the assembly last ses-
sion, imposing a duty upon agricultural productsimported
from the United States •, also, that the Queen would recom-
mend to the Imperial Parliament to admit Canadian wheat
and flour, duty free, into the United Kingdom ; and further,
to bring under the notice of her Majesty the serious difficul-
ties under which the Canadas labour in the transmission of
their exports and imports.
The Governor-General is ordering surveys and estimates
to be made of the various public improvements which are
most strongly pressed upon his consideration, together with
correct returns of their present and probable revenues, for
the purpose of selecting the more important for immediate
completion. His excellency intends, it is said, to recom-
mend such as he feels will produce competent revenues to
the notice of British capitalists, for the purpose of obtaining
the amount necessary for carrying them into full operation.
There has been some slight local irritation along the fron-
tier and the borders of Lake Ontorio. A story was put in
circulation that a design was entertained by some sympathis-
ing desperadoes at Rochester to destroy the Canadian steamer
Gore, plying between that place and Toronto, but the captain
contradicted it. As the cold weather approaches, desperate
or mischievous men are setting schemes of evil a-foot, but
nothing serious is apprehended from any of their movements.