The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-12-24 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS:

TAnIF F.—A circular letter had been addressed to officers of
the Customs, from the Treasury department, detailing many
arrangements to be carried into effect under the last Tariff law.
By those instructions the collectors of the Customs will require
invoices of brandy, gin, rum, wine, sugar, molasses, iron, and
all other articles charged with specific duties, to be sworn to at
the port of shipment, and accompanied by consular certifi-
cates, in the same manner as dry goods or other articles charged
with ad valorem duties. For want of these documents such
goods will be sent to the Custom-house stores for appraisement,
and the consignees will be required to give bonds, with penal-
es, to produce them within a given time.

WASHINGTON, November 23.—The city is filling up with
members of Congress, who are thus early on the ground for the
purpOse of securing good seats in the house, and making ar-
rangements for the election of Speaker. The candidates named
for this elevated station at. a Mr. Stevensoa, of Virginia, Mr.
Wayne, of Georgia, Colotlel Johnson, of Kentucky, Mr. Su-
therland, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Polk, of Tennessee. It is
said that Mr. Stevenson is to receive the appointment of mi-
nister to England, otherwise he would be elected with little or
no opposition, or he may be elected and resign after a month or
two.

if Mr. Stevenson is not a candidate, Mr. Wayne will proba-
bly be the Administration candidate, and, of course, the suc-
cessful one. The house will consist of about 240 members,
being about thirty morn than the last Congress, owing to the
new census. There will. be a large majority of Jackson men
in the house and a maj,arity against the Administration in the
Senate, including the nullifiers.
There is no doubt but a committee will be appointed early in
the session to investigate thoroughly the affairs of the United
States bank and the removal of Mr. Duane, The latter sub-
ject will not probably be discussed in the Senate until the no-
mination of Mr. Taney comes before that body.
The troops at Fortress Monroe were ordered a few days since
to embark immediately for Alabama, and two ships were char-
tered to take them thithrmr. It is reported that this order has
been suspended, or, rather, that the sailing of the troops has
been delayed, which, it is hoped, may prove true, as there
ap-
pears to be no occasion at this time for the display of a military
force in Alabama, particularly when the district attorney has
been dispatched on a pacific mission to the Governor of Ala-
i bama.

STEAM-BOAT DISASTER.—LOSS OF LIVES.-By yesterday's
mail we are put in posse:ision of the following awful disaster,
by steam. It appears 13,tv the Cincinnati Daily Advertiser, that
nine persons were buriea at the mbuth of the Ohio, and that
about twenty were left at Smithiand Hospital. The paper also
states, that the boat had arrived at Louisville, and that from
thirty-five to forty persons were killed or injured.—From the
Louisville Herald of the 15th instant.

ANOTHER STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—We learn from Capt.
Boggs, of the Free Trader, from Florence, that the steam-boat
Illinois, Capt. Bell, on her way front St. Louis to this place,
has met with one of those fatal accidents so common to our
steam-boats. Oue of hea. boilers collapsed, and an explosion
took place, by which twenty-eight persons were scalded, of which
number thirteen were scalded to death and lost overboard.
The accident took place in the Mississipi, about five miles above
the mouth of the Ohio.