The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-03 00:00:00

FUR_EIGN COLolviiii,

AMERICA.
The royal mail steam-ship Britannia arrived at this port
at three o'clock on Saturday morning last. She departed
from Boston on the afternoon of the 16th ult.; and from
Halifax on the evening of the 18th. She has thus made
the run across the Atlantic in ten days. She has brought
over thirty-three passengers.
From Boston to Liverpool.—Mr. E. G. Tuckerman,
lady, and two children; Mrs. Col. Torr ns, and servant;
Messrs. A. S. Thornton, Wm. Munroe. jun., C. D.
Hazen, George W. Warren, Samuel B. Dyer. Wm. L.
Beal, Vincent Wesener, Samuel Shaw, Frederect W.
Lincoln, A. L. Montant, Louis Dutremez, T. Kulen-
kampff, J. H. Bryden, Edward Stevening, John Siter, C.
N. Siter, A. Robbins, George Dance, Robert Knox,
Cooper, Macalister, A. P. Mantant, and Miss Knox.
From Halifax to Liverpool.—„Messrs. C. A. Phillips,
Alan Ker, Watson, and McFarlane.
The United States journals are chiefly occupied with
the state elections and their probable effect on the coming
presidential contest. The candidates for the presidency
are understood to be Mr. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, on
the whiff interest, and Mr. John C. Calhoun and Mr.
Martin Van Buren on the side of the democratic party.
The elections so far were in favour of the whips, but the
advantage was trifling.
The transactions in Exchange for the steamer were
moderate ; but the limited supply of bills enabled holders
to be firm at the following quotations :—London, 1091 to
1091; Paris, 5-25 to 5-22&; Amsterdam, 40. Specie was
enquired for to be shipped to France, and 200,000 dollars,
ti silver, were going by the next Havre packet. The
rates of freight to Liverpool were one-eighth to three-
sixteenths of a penny for cotton in square and round bale ;
turpentine and flour Is. 6d. pet barrel.
In the New York Herald, of the 7th ult., appears a
brief letter from Mr. James Gordon Bennett, dated " Ed-
inburgh. 14th August, 1843." The following is Mr.
Bennett's account of his reception by Mr. O'Connell, at
a meeting of the Repeal Association :
" I have collected a variety of curious incidents and
sketches which will take some time to arrange and record.
One of the most curious is a singular scene which took
place at the Corn Exchange, Dublin, in which Daniel
O'Connell cut a conspicuous figure. You will see some
account of it in the newspapers ; but it is so laughable
and droll that I will have to devote a full letter to its
causes and consequences. I paid a shilling at the door of
the Corn Exchange, out of curiosity to see the inside of
that building, and I must say it is well worth the money.
The cause of Daniel's ebullition was, I understand, ho-
cause his anti• slavery speeches were published in the
United States, especially by the Herald, and thus stopped
the flow of rent from that quarter. This is, however, a
different question from repeal, on which I have collected
some authentic information. There mar be a rebellion
or insurrection in Ireland, but never a legal repeal. Both
parties in Parliament are beginning to talk of conceding
to Ireland, and it is supposed that it will be done."
The yellow fever was still prevalent at New Orleans.
The number of cases reported for the month of August
was 188, of which number 90 had been fatal.
From Canada we learn, that the Colonial Government
has caused to be entered in the Court of Queen's Bench
a nolle prosequi in the indictments for the crime of high
treason against L. J. Papineau, T. S. Brown, and Dr.
O'Callnghan, on which true bills had been returned by the
grand jury at Montreal.
The intelligence from Texas is to the 22d August. The
papers confirm the account of the disposition felt by both
Mexico and Texas to enter into peaceful negotiations. It
is stated, that Santa Anna, in a verbal communication
with the British Minister, expressed his willingness to
suspend hostilities on the part of Mexico, if General
Houston stayed his operations on the part of Texas. He
is further represented to have said, that he would receive
propositions for a permanent peace, but would not enter-
tain any proposition having for its object the separation
of the department of Texas from Mexico. It was further
officially communicated from Captain Elliott, that Gen.
Adrian Wall had been authorised by the Mexican govern-
ment to arrange with the commissioners appointed by
Texas the terms of an armistice already agreed upon, and
that hostilities would immediately cease on the part of
Mexico. Commissioners were to meet at Loredo last
month.
The news from Mexico is to the 23d August. The most
important item is the new tariff, issued by the President
on the 14th of that month. By this the importation into
the republic of numerous articles—as saddles, harnesses,
&c., hats, furniture, piano-fortes, toys, and playthings of
all kinds, articles manufactured of iron, steel, tin, zinc,
&c. ; in fact, almost all kinds of hardware and jewellery,
is prohibited under pain of forfeiture. The prohibition
is to take effect in four months from the promulgation of
the decree in the capital, as to all cargoes which may ar-
rive at any port on the Gulf of Mexico, and in six months
for those which may enter ports in the Pacific. All articles
of merchandise in the republic, " which ought never to
have been introduced," were to be exported within six
months, or they will be liable to seizure.