The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-26 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews, at'
rived in the mersey shortly before noon on Saturday
She left the wharf at fifteen minutes past two o'clock on
the afternoon of the 9th inst., and made this port in 13
days 161 hours, the shortest passage she has accomplished
during the season. She brought 31 passengers.
The Great Western spoke the Boston mail steam-ship
Caledonia on the afternoon of the 21st inst., inlat. 51 deg.
30 min. W., long. 12 deg. 18 min. W.
The contest for president has been virtually decided l°
favour of Mr. Polk. It is true, complete returns hale
not yet beenb
e been
received
receivedfromr
a one-half
from States
the h
that
States,at but
give b
those
that have
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greatest number of votes and deemed the most doubtful;
New York, Pensylvania. and Virginia, have all returned
electors favourable to Mr. Polk by very small majorities.
On the result of these States depended the success of the
democratic candidate.
The first steam-vessel ever despatched from the United
States for any parts beyond the Cape of Good Hope had
sailed from New York on the 4th. It was the steam Pro'
peller Midas.
Severe frosts and snow are said to have been experi-
enced in different parts of the United States at the close,
of the past month. In Canada, also, we have tidings °'
the near approach of winter.
Money was abundant, the demand for foreign exchange
active, and shipments were about to be made to Europe.
The Great Western is said to have brought half a million
of dollars. The quotation on London was 110 to 11°4'
Stocks had fallen—a result of the elections, it is given out.
Freights were active, with a disposition to advance'
Tobacco, per hogshead, 30s. to ,355. ; naval stores, 25. 6"'
to 3s. ; measurement goods, per ton, 30s. ; heavy
355. ; ashes, 255. to 30s. ; beef, per 3041 b., ss. to ss. 6d.
Seamen's wages had advanced generally from one to three
dollars, and the rate to Europe, with small stores, Was
15 dollars per month.
In Canada the Governor-General is succeeding 9
glori-
ously. 42 conservatives are elected, 23 radicals, and
doubtful. This leaves 10 more returns to come in, °
which a fair proportion are sure to be conservatives.

It is probable that the dinner to Sir H. Pottinger Will
take place on the 17th December.
The progress of the eclipse of the moon agreed dos&
with the calculations, as already published.
The French, by the latest accounts, seem trying what
debauchery and vice can do to confirm their ill-gotten
plwer in Tahiti, in vain. The Tahitians in crowds bale
retired to the hills, and are resolved to be neither cor-
rupted nor subdued. At home, it is finally arranged that
Mr. Pritchard does not return to the consulate of Tahiti,
but in lieu thereof Lord Aberdeen has cffered to appoint
him British consul in a neighbouring island. The gentle-
an an appointed, or to be appointed Mr. Pritchard's stfe'
redl°ibrie, is
yet
td
wtoebaereaa.l
autho-
rity, that it is a fact; if so, Lord Aberdeen, it is presum-
?soumreadn, Catholic.upon
m o s t This
presum-
able, was ignorant of the religious opinions of his protege.
But whether or not, if the gentleman in question be a Ro-
manist. public steps, it is clear, must be instantly taken
to prevent his going out to Tahiti as British consul. The
notion of a Romanist consul giving proper protection to
Protestant uniasionaries in that island, is preposterous.
The cause of all that has happened there is the resistance
Romanist error has given to Protestant truth; and for
England to send to Tahiti a liomanist consul is to aban-
don her missionaries and the Tahitians also.—John Bull.