The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-01 00:00:00

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HOUSE OF LORDS.—TUESDAY
The Earl of RIPON made a ver
his conduct, with respect to the
of Nocton, and declared that he had been most unjustly
aspersed by the imputations cast on him.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the, the House
should go into Committee on the bill for frcilitating the
employment of the poor in Ireland; and a disc ,scion en.
sued, in which Lord Monteagle recapitulated the misery
of Irelane, and confessed his inability to see his way out

y vehement defence of

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present crisis

After some further debate, the bill passed through

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL

AMERICA

The steamer Hibernia arrived at Liverpool on Friday,
with date; from the United States to the 15th instant.
The war with 'Mexico still continued, and still without
eor important results. The president, with

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the approval of the Senate, has offered nr gotiationr, with
the Mexiran goverment for the restoration of peace,
and the adjustment of all questions at issue between the
two countries. Public confidence is not so strong that
this attempt at pacification will prove successful. The
presidentsolicited of cone a=s an appropriation of 2,000,000

dollars, to be used at his discretion in aiding the negocia-
lion. The application failed. The use which he intended
to make of it can, of•course, only be matter of conjecture.
No further progress has been made in the active pro-
gress of war. Toe American army on the Rio Grande
numbers above 15,000 men, and is steadily, but very
slowly, making its way into the interior. Catnargo is still
the farthest point reached by any considerable portion of
the forces, though preparations continue for a march• to
Monterey. So far cs any enthusiastic intelligence has
reached, no organised opposition is to be expected. , Pa-
redes still remains at Mexico. The enthusiasm of the
people in favour of the war, seems from the latest ac-
count: to have flagged, and the hope is entertained that
the President's mission may find them dispos..d to open
negociations which shall end in peace. It is suppoz,ed
that a large indemnity will.be demanded for the expense of
the war ;—and that the American executive will offer to
purchase California.
The yellow fever prevails at Vera Cruz, and has in-
flicted great mortality on the American troops. _

Congress adjourned on the 10th. The Sub-Treasury
Bill.haa passed, to take effect on the Ist of January. The
new Tariff Law goes into operation on the Ist of Decem-
ber. The Warehousing Bill has became a law, and the
bill has been passed with regard to the transit trade into
Canada.

The potatoe disease threatens to prove disAstrous to the
crop. It is yet too early in the season to judge of its ra-
vages, but they are known to be extensive and severe.
In a review of the session of the Congress, the Neto
York Courier and Inquirer has the following respectirr,
the Tarn Bill.—Of the success which will attend this ef-
fort, conjectures can only be formed. The hill was passed
in the Senate by the casting vote of the Vice-President,
Mr, Haywood of N.C., an administration Senator, hay-
irg resigned his seat and not so voting. An election in
hi, state has since been held, and has resulted in the com-
plete triumph of the Whigs. A Whig Senator will there-
fore take his place at the next session. The vote of the
Vice-President, moreover, has given great offence to the
people of his own state, Pennsylvania, who are almost
unanimous in favour of protection. Elections are also
soon to be held in several of the States for members of
Congress; and although the new members thus elected
will not take their s ats until a year from next December,
any marked expression of the popular will upon this sub-
ject, would produce a decided effect in the action of the
coming session. The Tariff question will be made a pro-
minent point atissue in the elections ; and the general be-
lief is. that the .principle of protection will derive a consi-
derable augmentation of popular strength. The new Ta-
riff, therefore, cannot safely be regarded.
In passing the bill.to give the President two millions of
dollars to negotiate. ith Mexico, the House of Represen-
tatives adopted a clause, by an overwhelming majority,
excluding slavery from California and all other territories
that might be ceded to the Union. Congress has also
prohibited slavery in Oregop for ever, and the prospects
are. that no slave state will hereafter be admitted into the
Union.

The whole of the correspondence relative to the Oregon
treaty, between Messrs. Buchanan and M`Lane, and the
debate thereon during the secr,t se s,ion of the senate, has
been published in the New York Herald. The govern-
ments of the two countries are directly at issue in inter-
preting the clause regulating the navigation of the Colum-
bia, the American wishing the right limited to seventeen
years, and ours that it should he perpetual. Mr. Bucha-
nan's last letter to Mr. M'Llne directs him to inform
Lord Aberdeen that the trea'y was ratified according to
the American construction of that clause; and he in reply
stated, that as the British understand it, the right is per-
petual. The Herald sugge•ts that the best plan of settling
the dispute is to "people the country, drive off the Hud-
son Bay Company, and then insist upon our own con-
struction."

In Canada, there still prevails considerable agitation on
topics which have been forced into notice by the recent
commercial changes in British policy, as well as by the
warehousing and tariff bills of Congress.—A large public
meeting was held at Montreal on the 10th instant, to adopt
measures for carrying on the St. Lawrence and Atlantic
Railroad. It was numerously attended, and committees
were appointed to solicit subscriptions tocarry on the work.
A Quebec letter, dated August sth, states that the ship
Elizabeth and Sarah, bad arrived off the city from
It llala, after having lost no less than 44 of her passengers,
with the captain; the ship, according to the statement,
having bee❑ supplied with putrid water.
The steam-ship Caledonia, arrived out at Halifax in
eleven days.
The steam-ship Great Western arrived out at New
York in fifteen days, on the 10th instant. She may be
expected on her return in a few days.

The steamer Cambria, which sailed hence for Liverpool
on the Ist instant, carried out accounts of a very strong
market here, produced mainly by the unfavourable ap-
pearance of the coming crop. The advance noted in my
circular for that packet has been followed as usual by a
comparative pause in business, which has enabled pur-
chasers to buy on easier terms, as prices may be said to
have occasionally fluctuated an eighth of a cent, in their
favour—not, however, more than the usual difference be-
tween an active and an inactive market. The notice of
the arrival at Boston of the steamer Hibernia, with Li-
verpool dates to the 19th ultimo, was received here by
telegraph on Monday, 3rd instant. Her accounts were
not of that satisfactory character looked for by operators
generally, as holders at Liverpool appeared disposed to
supply the market freely at the currency then ruling.
Early on Monday, the 10th instant, the steamer Great
Westerc arrived with Liverpool dates to the 25th instant,
which advices being less flattering even than those by the
previous steamer, the ope rations have been checked in a
great degree, as holders here are withdrawing their sup-
pies, except at the full currency previously existing, and
are small cellars, even at those rates. In fact, if cotton is
no better under the last advices, it is certainly no worse,
and these accounts have consequently had no influence on
our market, and it has continued throughout the week
just brought to a close, like that of the preceding one, in
a very inactive state. The sales for the week ending the
Bth instart were 5,000 bales ; since, to this date, 4,000
bales, with a firmer market yesterday at my quotations,
which are similar to those in my last circular.

It is, of course, too early to indulge in any but general
remarks with regard to the prospect of the crop now ap-
proaching to maturity. It is certainly in a precarious
position, and it is barely possible that it can equal that of
the last season, while the probabilities now are, that it
will be considerably less, even with a later frost than we
have had for ten years.

Exchange has been in rather better request, and the
rates have slightly improved. Freights are also firmer at
the quotations.

POTATOES IN CANADA.—We hear a good deal, in par-
ticular localities, of damage done by rot to the potatoes.
The early crop is abundant, and of very good quality.—
Montreal Gazette.

The Connecticut House of Representatives, by a vote of
111 to 63, have voted to submit to the people the question
of tio amending the constitution as to aSolish all distinction
of colour in respect to the privilege of voting.
Intelligence has been received at St. Petersburgh that
the greater part of the town of Berdiansk, in Southern
Russia, was destroyed in the month of July by fire. It is
only 11 years since the town was founded.

A letter from Palermo, in the Auasburgh Gazelle,
states that on the 7th a violent shock of an earthquake took
place at Syracuse. Several houses had been thrown down,
and 20 persons were said to have been killed. The heat
in the island is described as extraordinary.
The trial of Henry, the regicide, at Paris, closed on
Thursday, when he was declared guilty by a large majority.
The discussion by the court, after bearing the evidence,
is said to have been most animated, some of the Peers
pronouncing him insane, and consequently guiltless,
while others maintained that he h-id acted with premedi-
tation, and with a perfect knowledge of what he was
doing, and insisted on his being condemned to death.
INFERNAL MACHINES.—Two officers of the Belgian
Customs, stationed at Rouvrois-sur.Cethain, seized. on
the night of the 13th, a cart containing, in two cases, 250
pistols with daggers made to dart out by a secret spring,
the value of which is estimated at 1500 f. They were
manuiactured at Liege, and destined for Paris. The
driver was, or at least pretended to be, ignorant of the
nature of his load.
TALMA'S WIDOW.—An old woman of the name of
Proche, upwards of seventy years of age, living in a very
humble dwelling in the Rue de Tournon, in Paris, not
having been seen by the porter for two days going out to
execute ber little commissions, be became alarmed, and
going to the door, saw through a crevice the body of the
old woman lying motionless on the bed. He immediately
sent to the commissary of police, who arrived, bringing a
medical man with him ; but when the door was broken
open it was evident that she had been dead some time.
On examination it was found that the cause of her death
was a long-standing complaint, for which she had never
received any advice. On examining the papers of the de-
ceased, documents were found which clearly proved that
she bad been the wife of the celebrated Telma, from whom
she had been divorced.