The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-16 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-SATURDAY.

The House met at twelve o'clock for the furtherance of
public business, now that the session is drawing towards
its ciose; and its attention was chiefly occupied by the
discussion of the clauses of the Poor Law Amendment
Bill in committee. Some progress was made, and even-
tautly the chairman obtained leave to sit again this day,
at twelve o'clock.

Aner the house had resumed, some observations made
by Mr. WODEHOUSE, conveying a personal attack on
Mr. 'WAKLEY while in committee, drew from that hon.
gentleman a complaint of the unfairness and injustice of
the attack upon his private character, and an explanation
of the c!rcumstances so often publicly alluded to respect-
ing the unfortunate conflagration of his premises soon
after his first arrival in London.

Mr. WODEHOUSE admitted that he had alluded to the
occurrence referred to by the hon. member, said he was
perfectly satisfied with the explanation, and apologised for
what had fallen from him in the course of the discussion.
The house then adjourned.

FOREIGN AAD COLONIAL.

A N 1 ERICA.

Since our last we have received New York papers to
the 30th ult.

Coop ess adjourned on the appointed day, the 17th
ult., after having, upon the recommendation of the Com-
mittee on Fe:Helga Relations, rejected the Zoilverein
Treaty of commerce. The grounds upon which the re-
commendation is made are, that a measure such as the
one in question, revising the great subjects of trade and
revenue, should originate with Congress, not with the
executive, whose duties appear to them to be, to fulfil
the wishes of the people, as expressed through the agency
of their representatives ; and that the concessions made
by the United States are not repaid by those of the Ger-
man Unions. If, however, they say, Congress approves
of the arrangement, let them pass a law imposing the
duties contemplated in it. The Senate had also confirmed
several nominations, and, amongst others, the long-pend-
ing one of Mr. Cushing, as Minister to China.
Colonel Thompson, the special messenger to Mexico,
had returned to Washington shortly after the close of the
session; but the reply of the Mexican Government, in
respect of annexation, had not been made known. We
may, however, judge pretty accurately cf its general tenor
by a perusal of the following :—On the 18th ultimo a
messenger arrived with dispatches 1r m Senor Bocanegra
to General Almonte, the Mexican Minister to the United
States ; of which the Spanish journal published in New
Yo: k, the Miklos() de ARbos Mundos, gives the text.
Senor Bocanegra informs the general, in the most empha-
tic terms, that Mexico will never assent to the annexa-
tion; that the Government and the nation are immovably
determined to resist the project and reject all proposals
tor its consummation, whether accompanied or not by
offers of compensation ; and General Almonte is author-
ised and instructed to contradict, in the most formal man-
ner, any assertion or intimation of a different character,
which might be dissemi sated by the partisans of Presi-
dent Tyler for the purpose of producing a change in the
hostile feeling with which the people of the United States
generally regard the measure. We learn, further, that
the Diario del Gobierno, (the Mexican Government paper)
of the 14th ult., contains an official notice in relation to
an extraordinary session of Corgress, which had been
ordered to meet on the first of last month. The decree
of Senor de Bocanegra, Minister of Foreign Relations,
and which has been approved by Valentia Canalizo, the
acting President, sets forth, that the time of the Con-
gress will be occupied on the followitig important points :
" 1. In receiving the oath of the President, so that he
can enter at once upon the duties of his office.

"2. In giving to the glvernment the power to increase
the army, and furnish the necessary means for so doing.
"3. In empowering the Government to procure ample
pecuniary means and everything else that may be deemed
necessary in order that Mexico may recover Texas, and
preserve the entire national domain.
"4. In taking into consideration everything that the
Government may send to the Congress, to the end that
the Republic may be secured, and its independence and
honour preserved." -
Such is the substance of the measures which will occupy
the attention of the extraordinary session of Congress of
the Ist of June; thus materially lessening, at least for
the present, the chance of a peaceable and amicable set-
tlemant of the difficulties existing between the two re-
publics of Texas and Mexico.
The Diario is filled, for the most part, with govern-
ment documents and articles upon the all-engrossing sub-
ject of the annexation of Texas to the United States.
The Mexican editors, one and all, say that Texas always
was, and always shall be, part and parcel of the republic,
and that the people will contend to the death before an inch
of the territory will be relinquished. General Tonnell
had resigned his station as Minister of War and Marine.
A new minister would be appointed on the arrival at the
capital of Santa Anna, who was on his way thither.
Various conflicting opinions were prevalent as to the
probability of an extra session of Congress being called.
The Washington correspondent of the New .York Journal
of Commerce says, that the question was considered at a
special meeting of the executive, held on the 22d ult.
The Oregon question has been left in the same situation
that it wss at the meeting of Congress, no legislative
measure in reference to it having been adoptzd. This is
as it should be. So long as friendly negotiations are
pending, nothing calculated to produce unkind feelings
should be done by any party.
The treaty between the United States and France, for
the mutual surrender of criminals, others than political,
escaping from one country to the other, is now finally
ratified and completed.

Governor Polk has accepted the nomination of the
Democratic National Convention at Baltimore. It ap-
pears that the friends of the three candidates for the
Presidency are determined to sustain their respective
nominations ; viz., Mr. Clay, anti-annexation ; Mr.
Tyler, and Mr. Polk, annexation. Whether they will all
remain in the field to the end is matter of doubt ; but,
whether they do or do not, the result will be the same :
Henry Clay will, undoubtedly, be the next President of
the United States.

Philadelphia continues quiet.
President Tyler was married, at New York, on the 26th
ult., to a daughter of th elate Hon. D. Gardner, one of the
victims of the explosion on board the steam-ship Prince-
ton. The bride is described as young and beautlul, and
twenty-four years of age. The President is upwards of
fifty.

Money continued abundant. The Exchange on Europe
dull at 1C94 premium. In the Stock-market " fancies "
had fallen, but stable and dividend-paying stocks had ex-
perienced improvement.
The New York American reports, that the yield of
wheat is likely to be immense.

Extensive conflagrations have occurred at Boston and
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, the losses by which are
estimated at 100,000 dollars and £30,000.
The Canada parliament has been further prorogued
mitiLlJltArilufg,„Aleukte,.Pnd Ale!? to meet,rtia
entry into the seat of government, Montreal, on the
24th ult. _ _ _

Information has been officially received, that, by a de-
cree of the Mexican government, dated 31st March, the
towns of Taos, in New Mexico, and Paso del Norte and
Presidio del Norte, in Chihauhua, are declared open to
foreign trade. All articles which can be introduced into
the Mexican Republic may enter those places on payment
of the duties prescribed by the tariff and laws.
The Government paper of Havana, of June the 10th,
contains an official announcement, that, in consequence
of the late calamitous drought experienced in the island,
the Custom-house duties on various articles of food are
reduced to one•half of the previous rates.
Letters had been received in Jacmel, on the 11th ult.,
from Aux Cayes, stating, that the new President had ap-
pointed one of his black generals governor of that town,
and that the new official had plundered the mulattoes and
put a number of them to death. President Gurrier had
chartered the Dutch brig Napoleon, put an ambassador
on board, and sent her to the city of St. Domingo, to
the Spanish, to induce them to acknowledge the Hay-
tian flag ; but they refused, and wished the Presi-
dent to acknowledge their independence. Still later
accounts from Aux Cayes state, that affairs were some-
what settled, but it was thought that tranquillity would
not long continue as the rebel chief Acaua manifested con-
siderable reluctance to submit to the authority of General
Guerrier, who appears to act with considerable energy.
His cabinet consists of Mons. Hypolite, Minister of War
and of the Exterior; Mons. Paul, Minister of the Interior
and Agriculture • Mons. H. Ferg. Minister of Public In-
struction and justice, and Religion ; Mons. Landin,
Minister of Finance and Commerce ; all coloured men,
well educated and influential, and nopular with all parties.
On the 6th June the British barque Dominican, Captain
Salter, front London for Jamaica, was wrecked on the
tFlNolle, a coral reef in the vicinity of Aux Cayes, about
miles
abandoned. It.
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abtt-
gers took to the boats and stered for J • amatea.

SUMMARY JUSTICE.--At Caddo, Texas, on the sth nit,
a man was taken, ehtuged. with murder, and hung by the
, without trial. He confessed that he had been
hired by some Texans to murder.fire men 1 for 1,000 dollars.