The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

FuKEIGN AND COLONIAL.

THE UNITED STATES.

The British and North American royal mail steam-ship
Acadia, Captain Earrison, arrived in the river shortly
after six o'clock on Thursday morning. She left Boston
on the usual day,, the Ist inst., spoke the Hibernia in the
Bay of Fundy on the 2d ; and from some cause sailed
from Halifax without the mails on the 3d. The run from
Boston, including the detention at Halifax, occupied
about twelve days and a half.
The Great Western, which sailed hence on the .12th
ult., arrived out at New York on the 26th, making the
run in 14 days 13 hours. She would leave again on the
9th inst., and will be due here about the 23d. T_hepas-
sengers, on the trip out, on reaching port, presented Cap-
tain Mathews with a:handsome complimentary letter, ex-
pressing satisfaction with the voyage, and with the excel-
lent accommodation of the ship.
Our advices by this arrival are—New York, 31st ult. ;
Washington, 29th ; Montreal, 28th ; Toronto, 25th ; and
Boston and Halifax, Ist and 3d instant. There are no
remarkable points in the intelligence.
The New York Herald, which has maintained that the
results of the elections out of New York will be equally
balanced between the contending parties, and that New
York will give the casting vote, says, " we are gradually
forming the deliberate opinion that the whig party is on
the eve of utter and final dissolution ; and, strange enough,
that at the same timethe election of Mr. Clay is far more
probable than it has been presented to our mental vision
for many months past." It argues, to support th;s con-
clusion, that the whig party in that quarter have given
way to, and become incorporated with the " native Ame-
ricans," whose influence:will be given in favour of Clay.
If this be true, and if the weight of the New York voters
influencing the whole bealso true, this is a matter of con-
siderable importance. But we have our doubts on this
head. The final result, will, however, very soon arrive.
A communication from Quebec of the 23d of October
says—
We learn from Captain Powell, of the schooner Relief, arrived
this morning from Richebucto, that the ship Catherine, from Que-
bec to Liverpool, was driven ashore.at Portneut; on Tuesday night, .
the 55th inst. It appears from the account which Captain Pagot
got from the survivors, that shortly after the ship struck, the cap-
tain called the men aft, and almost immediately after she was struck
by a heavy sea, which carried away the poop and all the upper part
of the stern, taking with it the captain, mate, nine of the crew, and
a passenger of the name of Hughes and his son, all of whom were
drowned. The remainder of the -crew, nine in number, were at
Portneixf."

A fine ship named the Mary King,sland, and loaded at
New Orleans for Liverpool, bad been almost totally de-
stroyed by fire, together with 1,700 bales of cotton, about
700 of which are said to be insured on open policies in
this town.

The ship Atlantic, hence for New Orleans, is reported
to have gone on shore on Carysford-recf, though it was
expected that she would be got off.
The New York American, in its article for the steamer,
says—

" We are on the eery threshold of the Presidenticd election, which
will be determined next week", although the result -will not at once
be ascertained ; and in the presence, as it were, of that great event,
there is a pause in almost all ordinary occupations.
"The accounts by the Great Western have rather-stiffened the
market here for cotton.

" The spirit of speculation in stocks is still active, and the abun-
dance of money encourages it.
" In Ohio the fact that both houses of the legislature are now
Whig, raised the value of the stock of that State, from the confident
belief that a free banking law, similar to that of this State, will be
passed, and then some 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 of the 18,000,000 of
the stock of the State will be absorbed as the basis for the circula-
tion of such new banks.

" In Pennsylvania, the county treasurers do not make their re.
turns till December; but it seems highly probable, from what is
known of the success of the collections under the tax law, that
sufficient means will be forthcoming to meet the interest that will
fall due on the Ist of February.
" We annex the usual list of quotations :

" Offered. Asked.
" United States 6 per Cents., 118
United States Coupons, 1962
United States 5 per Cents., 1853—..- lO6 107
United States Coupons, 1853
Exchanges, owing to the scarcity of good bills, had all
advanced, and the quotation on London is 110 to 1101.
T. J. Etewart's cotton circular says—
" Of the new crop the receipts at this port have been small, and
buyers as yet prefer making their selections from the old crop,
which seems to have the advantage in strength of staple. The
season has been favourable for picking, and without an early frost,
or excessive rains, it is probable that the yield will exceed that of
any former one. Freights for Liverpool are firm at quotations.
For Havre they are unusually dull."
Advices from Canada state, that the elections were pro-
gressing in good feeling, although there had been some
outbreaks in Canada East. The Montreal Herald of the
28th gives a list of members returned. The relative pro-
portions, 17 to 23, being a majority in favour of the Con-
servatives of 6, with 2 doubtful.
The Rev. Egerton Ryerton, D.D., had received the ap-
pointment to the superintendency of the Board of Edu-
cation for Canada West. lie came to Liverpool in the
Acadia.

There are rumours of further serious disturbances on
the Beauharnois Canal.
Four men have lately been Lynched in Fannin county
by the most sanguinary process. Their names were An-
drew Jones, Harvey White, L. Wray, and Mitchell, all
lately from Missouti, and all notorious for their rascality
before they left. The cause was for barbarously murder-
ing and robbing three friendly Indians. Upwards of 200
persons attended the trial and execution. Three others,
named Benjamin Jones, Jewland, and Harris, were ar-
• rested, and convicted of theft, and were made to hang
the others, and ordered to leave the country in ten days.

BUENOS AYRES.
The following extract of a letter, dated Buenos Ayres,
the 29th of August, gives some interesting facts relative
to the present state of affairs in that quarter of the
world :
" I wrote about ten days ago by the packet. We are still safe
front mortal harm in this land of strife and blood. In truth, we
go on so quietly, that we almost forgot we were in any danger till
we read M. niers' speech in the French Chamber, which I sup-
pose has led you all to believe that we do (what it almost convinces
us we ought to do) go in fear of our lives. But since the atrocities
of April, 1842, there have been no open causes for immediate alarm,
except an occasional assault or murder unauthorized by authority,
which is punished or not, according to the humour of the supreme
and single authority, or the condition and circumstances of the
offender. Generally speaking, the appearance of order and tran-
quillity is maintained in the city, and offensive cries and personal
insults become less and less frequent. But these are no true indi-
cations of the existence of a better feeling towards foreigners ; for
nothing is more certain than that the party now dominant would
delight to employ any means that would be effectual in removing
every foreigner from the Argentine provinces; and the war now
raging is in fact as much a war between the natives and the foreign-
ers as between Federals and Unitarians, the latter being friends of
the foreigners, at least in their present professions. Of the progress
of hostilities, if any progress is made, we are kept in a complete
state of uncertainty, because we cannot depend on the statements
made on either side, the press here and in Monte Video snaking it
a point to represent all occurrences in favour of its own party, in-
venting, suppressing, or denying, ad libitum. No one would dare
to publish a word, either true or false, unfavourable to the Govern-
ment. On this side the river there is the greatest possible unity of
counsel and action, for Rosas literally does all himself, using mi-
nisters and officials only to do his bidding, and plenty he must
have to do. He never appears abroad, and many persons have been, like myself, some time in the country without having had the
honour of seeing him. If he be disabled by illness (as he has been
on two or three occasions of late), an public business is at a stand.
We have heard a good deal of late of an interference on the part of
Brazil in favour of Monte Video ; but such an intention is as loudly
denied on one side as it is proclaimed on the other, and we are
waiting for an elucidation of the doubt. It is certain that the prin-
cipal Monte Videan General (Paz) has been to Rio de Janeiro, but
whether lie is to be there detained, or to receive assistance in pass-
ing on to Corrientes for the purpose of carrying on the war with
more effect, remains to be seen."