The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

ME LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN

AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

Advice% have arrived from the United States to the 7th
inst., inclusive, by the Great Western; Captain Mathews,
which arrived in the Mersey shortly after four o'clock on
Thursday afternoon, after a fine run of fourteen days.

The Great Western conveyed special messengers from
the American Government to Mr. M' Lane, and from Ca-
nada to the Home Administration. his stated, and con-
fidently so. that the former brings the Oregon notice to
Mr. M 'Lane, with instructions for its due delivery to the
British Government. The bearer entertains that belief.
"The form in which the notice was sent (says the Wash-
ington correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer), was
to set forth the preamble and resolution as it passed Con-
gress, and then to append to it a formal notice on the part
of the Government of the United States
The proceedings in the House of Congress are entirely
uninteresting. The Webster and Ingersoll committees had
sent into Maine for witnesses.

Relations with Mexilo had assumed a more threatening
aspect. The latest accounts from Rio Grande state that
Matamoras was blockaded by General Taylor. Lieute-
nant Porter and three men had been phot by the Mexi-
cans. Further desertions had taken place. Fears for the
safety of the American force prevailed at Washington.
The receipts into the United States Treasury during
the quarter ending the 31st of March last were 7,808870,
dollars; expenditure, 4,483,897 dollars.
It wouli appear that considerable doubt exists as to the
payment of the interest due on the debt of Pennsylvania.
The Princeton steam-frigate was under orders for the
Gulf of Mexico. _ _

Late accounts from Canada have reached us. The
journals publish an additional despatch from the 1-1011.
W. E. Gladstone, dated April 1, upon the memorial of
the Montreal Board of Trade :—" It announces (says the
Montreal Courier) that should the repeal of the corn
laws pass the British Legislature, the Canadian Parlia-
ment will be allowed to do as it pl,,,ses with the 3s. duty
on American wheat. And it does i,ot appear that any op-
position wilt be shown to the repeal of the 2ii imperial
duty onflour. It also enunciates plainly the principle
that Great Britain will not in future grant better commer-
cial terms to her colonies than she allows to other coun-

whs proclaimed in the opening speech of the chief officer
of the State : this spirit, in action, we now see before our

The Conslitutionnel announces that Ibrahim Paella is
about to visit London in about a fortnight—a visit which
our contemporary looks upon with nn small jealousy.
The Chinese " Tale" of Robert Thom, Esq., British
Consul at Ningpo, China, has just been translated into
German, by Professor Botteer, of LeiPSiC.
DISSECTION IN THE EAST —The Grand Seignior has
just promulgated an order that the bodies of female slaves

whoitie in the markws shall be given up by the owners to

the students in medicine for dissection.
Letters and papers from Newfoundland, to the 18th ( f
April, bring very disastrous accounts of the seal fishery. a

umber of vessels baying been lost or dathaged, an

tnanv lives sacrificed

The committee for the relief of the sufferers by the
Quebec fire, bad received 1:162.182 up to ,April 20, paid
£68,774, had a balance of, X 93 408 and he. deposited, at
three per cent. interest, £73.371.
SCARCITY OF SERVANTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—A
letter has been recently received in this town from a lady
in Port Adelaide who states that servants are so scarce In
that part that she pays her servant 16s. per week ; one
morning the woman came to her and intormed her that she
was about to leave, and on being asked the reason, she said
that the wages were not enouzh, that she had been offered
ss. a day by another person.—Poole Herald.

THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE.—A letter from Bre-
men of the 2511. ult. arinnu: ces the arrival there of eeveta►
Protestant ministers fr(,m America on their way to Lon-