The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-12-08 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS

We cannot make room for the wretched doggrel signed ..Rosagr
Rosa."
The letter signed a " Burgess" should have made us better
acquainted with Dr. Carson and the subject alluded to. • ,
We cannot do justice to the admirable sermon, preached in St.
Andrew's Church, by the Rev.. J. Jones, in the limited space, VP
to which we are confined to-day • but on Friday we shah .
endeavour to publish a portion of his discourse, for the benefit
of those readers who have not had the good fortune to bear it
delivered.
We beg respectfully to intimate to the editors of English,
Scotch, and Irish newspapers, that our list of exchanges is so
full that, however desirous to reciprocate, we are unable to
do so without incurring a loss without the siightest chance 01
any contingent advantage. Their importunities are exceed-
ingly flattering, bul we cannot entertain them.

rfje Eiberpool

TUESDAY MORNING, DECEM BEI? 8, 1535.

New York journals have been received to the
November, and the important question they all ask,
"when is the war to begin ?"

None of them seem to entertain the slightest doubt
but that war is inevitable. Some of them indeed express
alarm, and profess themselves unable to state any of the
reasons for this inevitable war; but' none of them goe.
the length of denying the warlike tendency of the go'
vernments.of France and the United States.

The policy of the war is another question. We do not
choose to discus's.ais at present. The situation -of the
parties offers no alternative but that of conflict.
Let "us put the case in the most homely and intelligi-
ble Tight. M. JENA, a French general of approved cou-
rage, has lost one thousand francs at a Parisian gaming-
table, to citizen NUTMEGS, of Timberland, a banker by
profession, in the City of New York. M. JENA has a sort
of flitting and dreamy notion that he was cheated out of
he said francs by false dice or cards properly doctered for
The purpose. Still the debt is a debt of honour,and al-
though he demurs to the payment on the ground that he
has been cheated by NUTMEGS, he at length makes LIP
his mind to pay it and have done with the affair.

He is actually engaged in writing a cheque for the
money when he is visited by his friend Colonel EUAPEs
who asks him " have you heard the news ?"
"What hews ?"
"Why, that Citizen NUTMEGS has stated on the
Bourse, in the bearing of numerous friends, that if JENA.
do not pay him. the thousand francs before ten o'clock
this evening, he will call him out to-morrow morning."
The Frenchman drops the pen, coolly tears the cheque
to pieces, walks three times up and down his apartments
and replies—" So be it l—magnifique I fire ! peace! cha-
rity I pistols !—if that be the case, Monsieur DREAM I
must fight first,- and pay afterwards !"
Now this is precisely the case at issue between the go"
vernment of France and the United States.

JONATHAN has played the bully rather glaringly, and
with a degree of insolence natural, we admit, to his cha-
racter and his defective education, but sadly revolting to
good manners. He has said in his chop-house parlia-
ment, and without thinking that walls have ears, that if
France won't pay, he will compel her to pay! France
answers, "we are willing to pay, but we will not pal
under threat, or by compulsion at the point of the bay-
onet. We are bullied—we are insulted—we are me-
naced in the sight of all Europe—and, come what may
the menace must be withdrawn, the vapour brushed away,
and an ample apology tendered, before we pay down a
single sous."

This is a delightful state of things ! Governor JACK-
SON will make no apology, and the people of the United
States seem to sanction him in his obSab*. 'He will
make no concession whatever : on the contrary, we find
in the official journal of the government, the Wash-
ington Globe, of the 13th November, an article which we
subjoin, and which puts an end to all amicable negocia-
tion, and insults the King of the French in the most open
and galling manner. Citizens, read for yourselves!
The first part is a recapitulation of that portion of the
treaty which recognizes the debt, and the remainder
speaks the sentiments of General JACKSON and his ad-
herents
Translation of the ratification of the treaty of July 4th, 1831, by
the King of the French.
We having found the above convention agreeable in all and
earth of the dispositions therein contained, do declare by our-
selves as well as by our heirs and successors, that it is accepted,
approved, ratified, and confirmed ; and by these presents sign-
ed by our hand, we do accept, approve, ratify, and confirm it-
Promising, on the faith and word of a King, to observe it, and
to cause it to be observed inviolably, without ever contravening
it, or suffering it to be contravened, directly or indirectly, for
any cause and under any pretence whatever. In faith whereof,
we have caused our seal to be affixed to these presents. Given
at the Royal Palate, the thirty-first of August, one thousand
eight hundred and thirty-one.
By the King. LOUIS PHILIPPE.
HORACE SEB ASTIANI.
Let us suppose That the first violation of this .most sacred and
sovereign act was excusable, upon the ground that the Cham-
bers refused to appropriate—let us suppose that the delay of the .*
King, in the first instance, in bringing the subject before the
Chambers, and subsequent postponement of the fulfilment of 14f-
Serurier's promise—that the subject should be brought to the
consideration of the new Chambers at the earliest possible
moment—fully accounted for ; what is to satisfy the world at
large now, when the moue, is actually voted, for the continued
violation of that covenant on the part of the King, which he
has so solemnly vowed, on the " word of a King," shall be in-
violable—shall be " observed without contravening, or suffering
it to be contravened, directly or indirectly, for any cause or on'
der any pretence whatever?"

The world will say, 'whether the King, who has the Presi-
dent's express declaration, that no menace was meant by the
message—whether the King, who has Mr. Livingston's several
letters, disavowing for his government the false construction put
upon the message by the factions at home and abroad, to torture
it into insult—whether the King, who has already received
through the same channels whence the message reached hire,
the President's official approbation of Mr. Livingston's official
disavowal, twice repeated in his communications, does not, in
continuing to withold the payment of the indemnity, upon the
plea that this point is not sufficiently explained, contravene the
treaty, not for any cause which he is pledged not to allow to
operate, but for a mere pretence, which the terms of his ratifi-
cation still more emphatically forbid.
The public will be able to decide hereafter, if they cannot
now, what the promises and good faith of certain Kings are worth
They assuredly are very slow in fulfilling them, compared with
Republican Presidents. The ratification by the President wag
as follows :

"Now, therefore, be it known that 1, Andrew Jackson, Prod•
dent of the United States of America, have caused the said con•
vention to be made public, to the end that the same and every
clause and article thereto may be observed and fulfilled with
good faith by the United States and the citizens therseM •
In consequence of this, the President and Congress at circa
passed the necessary laws, giving France great privileges and
benefits under the treaty, which she has been enjoying ever
since, while not a dollar, has yet been paid to us.
"Look on this picture and on this"—Republican faith and
promises in America, contrasted with kingly faith and promises'
in France.

In the above extract, we beg leave to call attention to'
the following sentence :—" The public will he able to
decide hereafter, if they cannot now, what the promises
and good faith of CERTAIN KINGS are worth."
This, we say, is a wilful, studied, and deliberate insult
to France, and it is more than this—it is an insult, and'
intended to he an insult to all the kings in Europe-
Under these circumstances, is there any chance of the
dollars being paid without an apology, which is not now
to be expected, or war

A pamphlet, just issued from the press, has by accideo
come into our hands. It is entitled " Why is•PoperY
progressing 10" and it purports to be written by one
" DAVID THOM, minister of Bold-street Chapel, Lis;er-
pool."
We certainly have some dim recollections of Rota
Trtom ; but that he had a local or professional habitation
in "Bold-street, Liverpool," we learnt for the first time
on Saturday last., Deeming him, therefore, to be not 8.1.
together an unknown person, and conceiving that bit
opinions might be in unison with some particular class of
religionists, we were rather curious in wading through'
his publication.

We have done so most attentively. We have done, at
a late hour too, what few of his followers, we'suspectr
can say of even his best homilies delivered from his pul-
pit—we have read his pamphlet, from beginning.to end,
without falling asleep !
This might easily be accounted for on strictly philoso
phical principles; for, serious though the subject be, Mr'
THOM- has treated it in a manner which is irresistibly