The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-17 00:00:00

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FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICAN PAPERS.

By the Acadia, we have received New York papers to
the 31st and Montreal to the 29th ultimo.
The canvass for the Presidential election was proceed-
ing with much spirit. Large tneet'ngs, characterized by
great order and quiet, were being held in every part of the
country, and the prospects of Clay and Freelinghasen con-
tinued brilliant. President Tyler had formally withdrawn
from the contest. His retirement restores the Demo-
cratic party to its former entireness. Mr. Clay says, with
.regard to Texas, that, so far from having any personal
objections to the annexation, he should be glad to see it,
if without dishonour, without war, with the common con-
sent of the Union, and upon fair and just terms. Slavery
be considers to have nothing to do with the question, he
deeming it to be an institution whichwill inevitably be-
come extinct by the natural increase of the population.
He concludes his letter by stating, that if, in the event of
his election, annexation should become a matter for con-
sideration, he should be governed in his course by the
state of fact and public opinion existing at the time, but,
above all, he should be governed by the paramount duty
of preserving the union entire. M. Polk is in favour of
a " tariff for revenue, such a one as will yield a sufficient
amount to the treasury to defray the expenses of Govern-
ment, economically administered."
Captain Barstow, of the packet-ship Cambridge, which
had arrived at New York, picked up, on the 12th alt., the
crew of a boat belonging to the French fishing schooner
Avenie, of Honfleur, France, in lat. 44 36, lon. 53. They
had been separated from their vessel thirty-six hours, by
a violent gale of wind and thick :fog, when they boarded
the Cambridge ; and they judged themselves to be sixty
miles from their vessel. They were entirely destitute of
provisions and water. Captain Berry, of the Vicksburgh,
on his passage from New Orleans to New York, was also
the instrument of rescuing seven persons, the captain and
crew of the British schooner Orange, which had been lost
on the voyage from Jamaica to Matanzas. One boy,
named W. Roscoe, died soon after from exhaustion, fa-
mine, and exposure, they having been in the boat during
fourteen days.
The quotation of Exchange on London had advanced
to 1091 to 110. Shipments of silver to the amount of one
million of dollars had been made.
An extensive conflagration had occurred at Boston, by
which upwards of thirty buildings were destroyed, and the
loss amounted to about fifty thousand dollars.
The usual cotton circular, of Mr. T. P. Stewat t, will be
found below.

Our accounts from Montreal, to the 29th ult., state
that the following list, comprising men of great talent, is
confidently asserted to be the Ministry selected by Sir
Charles Metcalfe :—President of the Council, Mr. Viger ;
Secretary, Mr. Daly; Attorney-General for Upper
Canada, Mr. Draper; Attorney-General for Lower
Canada, Mr. Sherwood ; Solicitor-General for Upper
Canada, Mr. Chabot; Commissioner of Crown Lands,
Mr. D. P. Papineau ; Receiver-General, Mr. William
Morris; Inspector-General, Mr. Merritt. It is also re-
ported, that the present Ministry do not think it advisable
that the existing Parliament should he again called
together. If this is the case a dissolution and general
election may be speedily expected.
The great public works of the province are proceeding
rapidly ; but, unfortunately, are the cause of repeated
outrage and breaches of the peace amongst the Irish la-
bourers employed upon them. The prospects of agricul-
ture this year are stated to be very good. The wheat
raising in the lower province has been peculiarly success-
ful, the crops having suffered but little from the fly, the
usual curse of the Canadian farmer, and hardly at all
from rust. The accounts from Upper Canada are also
very flattering. Trade, in every branch, was dull.
The intelligence from Vera Cruz, to the Bth ult., had
been brought to New Orleans by her Majesty's sloop-of-
war Rose, which had been despatched with the English
snails which were intended for the Tay, which ran aground
on the Colorados reef. We learn that the Mexican au-
thorities were recruiting sailors for their navy rapidly.
Santa Anna had placed the remains of the unfortunate
General Sentamanat at the disposal of his family, in the
United States. It seems that there was truth in the
statements that the Mexicans mutilated the dead body of
Sentamanat, though Santa Anna utterly disavows the act,
and has ordered Ampudia, the officer under whose orders
the outrage took place, to give a strict account of his
conduct. The French and Spanish ministers in Mexico
have addressed strong protestations to the government
against the summary executions of the prisoners taken in
the rash expedition under Sentamanat.
It is said the proposition has been made to " suspend
all the constitutional forms of government during the war
with Texas, and invest the President with uncontrollable
power to raise money and do any thing else which he may
deem necessary."
The election for a President of Texas was to:take place
last Monday. Burleson and Jones were the candidates;
the first was in favour of annexation, the latter against it.
Jones was supported by the influence of Houston, the
late President, but it was believed the popularity of Bur-
leson would elect him. Jones was openly in favour of
an alliance with England, and the establishment of a
policy unfavourable to the United States.
The New York papers give the following extract from
a letter, dated Bluefields, Musqueto Shore, South Ame-
rica :—" This port is now in possession of the English.
and a British flag is flying here. A. tonnage duty of
fifty cents per ton on all vessels trading here or any part
of the Musqueto Shore is to go in force on the 31st of
August in the present year. An English man-of-war has
been here and landed a Governor and some arms. It
appears they are going to take possession of the coast as
far down as Boco del Toro. The report here is that the
man-of-war has gone down to blockade Salt Creek."
San Fernando, in South America, is stated to have been
destroyed by flood; but the accounts are meagre.