The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-03-31 00:00:00

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

We regret that we cannot make room for any part of the extra-
ordinary exposure of Dr. Arnold in the Northampton Herald
relative to the Rugby school.

Vie tibrrpool ,E•taiibai'l.

TUESDAY itrofiNlNG, MARCH 31, 1835.

The Liverpool American packets have, during the late
northerly and easteily winds, been considerably longer
on their passage than those of London. We,have re-
ceived our regular files from New York, but they con-
tain nothing later than what appeared in the Lon,lon
journals of nearly-a week ago. The letters of Mr. Lt-
VINGEITON, the representative of the United States of
.the French Court, to the Minister at Washington, are
.perfectly unique as specimens of diplothatic correspon-
dence. The subject of the correspondence is, of courser
the five millions of dollars alleged to be due to America
.by France. Indeed, what else could he' have written
about? It has been the only topic of discussion in the
political world of the republic for the last four months.
There is not a single letter which comes from New York
which has not a word to spare for, if not a considerable
slap at, the dollars. "Are the dollars to be paid ?" asks
an anxious correspondent who in general confines his
inquiries to cotton. "What about our claims?" asks
another, who never had a claim upon England for any
thing but tobacco. "Must we go to war about the five
millions r inquires a third, in an important postscript,
which he had broken the first seal of his letter to write.
In short, this dollar war of the imagination is the only
subject of interest or conversation.

We are not surprised, then, at seeing the correspon-
dence of the American envoy engrossed with it. But
notwithstanding his natural anxiety on so important a
question, involving one of peace or war; the honour and
interests of America, and an expenditure, in `bard dol-
lars, of a sum of money an hundred times the amount of
the sum in dispute, still we are glad to observe that Mr.
LIVINGSTON has a thought to spare on national economy
and other domestic matters. In his letter to the Secre-
tary of State, and which is published for the benefit of
the nation, he writes as follows, e%ery word of which
is worth a king's ransom, and which Mr. JOSEPH HuarE
ought to have engraved on brass and suspended from the
walls of his breakfast parlour :

Mr. Livingston to Mr. Forsyth.
LEGATION OF THE UNITED STATES.

Paris, llth January, 1835.
. .
Hon. John Forsyth:
Sir,—Believing that it would be important fur me to receive
the dispatches you might think it necessary to send with the'
president's message,
.1 ventured on incurring the expenv of a
courier to bring it to me as soon as it should arrive at Havre-

Only think of that; Master JOSEPH HUME! " Ventured
on incurring the expense of a courier" Let us see—
how much miight be the important outlay ? An ostler,
mounted on a Norman cob, changed seven times on the
journey, might trot from Havre to Paris in 'ten hours,
and gallop in six hours, the expense thereof, in either'
case, not exceeding three-pounds fifteen shillings, English
money, including ten fralies to the garcon. We can
understand frohl this how 'extensive was the risk whicir
tire ambassador ventured upon. No wonder that due
mention is made of the circumstance in his official
despatches, because how else could his extraordinary ex-
penditure have been accounted for ? It is of first rate
concernment that the citizens of America should know
that their Paris envoy, entrusted with the negociations-
relative to the five millions of dollars, had gone tire
extreme length of spending three pounds fifteen shillings
upon a courier

These despatches, the same letter in fact, contain some
other curious and extremely delightful episodes, Tlia
following is one-4
" The only letter I have received from home is one from my
family. This, to my great-satisfaction, informs me that 'tie
president wilt be supported by all parties, and Lain told that
this is the language of some of the opposition papers, but as they
are not sent to the legation 1 cannot tell in tchai- digree this sup-
port can be depended upon."

The dignity and the easy familiarity displayed in the
above passage are inimitable. The solemn grandeur
and the monotonous gravity 'of a state paper anti an
official document are relieved by -the interesting allusion
to family affairs. It evinces refined taste, and the GIOIA
admirable condescension, when the envoy informs hi*
government that he has received a letter from aunt
SuklN EN or uncle B, and that site or he assure hint
that the President will he "supported by all parties:'
But it possesses diplomatic virtues- of another kind-
The ambassador complains that none of the opposition
papers are forwarded to the legation at Park Does.
this arise from negligence or spleen, or -is it simply
economy? h is, at any rate, extremely illiberal on .thg-
part of General JACKSON'S executive, and 'x hope, now
that Mr. LIVINGSTON has called attention to it in hi*
iniportatit despatches, that the evil will be remedied.

The question to be debated, if not decided, last night
in- the House of Commons involves principles of far
greater importance than is discernible at a single glance-
Lord JOHN RUSSELL was to move that the house re,
solve itself into committee, " for the purpose of consider-
ing the expediency of applying any surplus revenue of
the Church of Ireland, which may not be required for
the spiritual wants •of the members of that church, to
the religious and MORAL instruction of ail classes of
145 community." .
The tortuous and disingenuous mode by which it Is
proposed to lead the house to the adoption of this. mo-
tion is worthy only of its propounder and his party. It
is framed for the purpose of netting as many votes a"
possible upon a subject of paramount, interest, and the
object, of it is to try the strength, of parties, and eta'
barrass his majesty's ministers: It`the house be induced
to. place a resolution of .this nature on its .-books, Sit
ROBERT PEEL Will be placed in this dilemma—he muse
either carry on the government with a millstone aboqt
his neck, under the weight of which helnust sink event-
ually, or he must recognise a principle which he and his
party, including Lord STANLEY and his adherents,