The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN 4- COLONIAL IN7ELLIGENC

AMERICAN.

The fine American ship Liberty, Captain Norton, arri-
ved at this port on Saturday eveninglast. She left New
York on the evening of the 4th instant, and made her
passage in twenty-three days.
The intelligence from Washington is of some interest.
In the Senate, on the 29th ultimo, Mr. Allen brought for-
ward a number of petitions and memorials, signed by the
citizens of Ohio, including whole brigades of militia,
asking the immediate occupation of the Oregon territory.
The office of Secretary of State, had been conferred upon
Mr. Upshur, and that of Attorney-General upon Mr.
Nelson. General Thompson, 'United States Minister at
Mexico, had resigned, but no person had been named as
his successor. It is stated that the President intended to
nominate Mr. Spencer as Justice of the Supreme Court,
vacant by the death of Judge Thompson.
The annual state of the affairs of the Bank of the
United States, made to the stock holders on the Ist inst.,
shows that, at that period in 1843, the foreign indebted-
ness of the hank was 14,744,190 dollers ; while, this year,
it was 12,694.190 dollars; being a decrease to the amount
of 2,132,927 dollars. In the amount of stocks and se-
curities deposited in Europe there appears, also, a dimi-
nution of 5,686,887 dollars. The product of this amount
was 2,344,987 dollars ; exclusive of charges for interest,
commission, &c., to the amount of 205,059 dollars. If
the states issuing these stocks had paid the interest on
them, and others sustained their credit, the address says
they would have proved ample security.
The Message of the Governor of the State of New York
has been published. It appears that, on the 30th Sep-
tember last, the state debt had increased, as compared
with the same period in 1842, 517,073 dollars.
The interest in the repeal question was again reviving.
A meeting of the Irish inhabitants was held, in New York,
on the 3d instant ; being one, the Herald states, of a
series of simultaneous meetings which were to be held the
same evening throughout the Union.
The intelligence respecting the state of the cotton crop
is confirmatory of that contained in the last advices, and
no doubt now remains that the yield will prove short of
what was some time since anticipated. The accounts
touching this point, which are meagre, will be found in
the proper place.
Stocks were quiet. In foreign exchange nothing of im-
portance had been done. The rate on London is quoted
at 109 to 109 k.
In ashes little had been done. Pots are quoted nomi-
nally, at 4.50.,Pear1s 5.121. Flour was inactive. Ge-
nesse held at .624 to 4.62 g. Prime Yellow Beeswax sold
at 29 cents.

We have but little from Canada. The decision of the
home government in favour of Montreal as the seat of the
provincial government had been received by the Hibernia.
The intelligence was, of course, very upleasing to the
citizens of Kingston, and, indeed, of the whole upper
province, and petitions, with immense numbers of sig-
natures, against the removal, were to be forwarded im-
mediately to this country. A rumour that eleven men had
been killed in a riot on the Welland Canal is mentioned
in the papers. It is, no doubt, grt atly exaggerated.