The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

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FOREIGN

AMERICA
ARRIVAL OF THE

By the arrival of the royal mail steam-ship Hibernia,
Captain Shannon, in the Mersey. on Tuesday, we received
papers from tLe United States and Mexico. The Hibernia
left New York on the 2d, and Halifax on the sth instant.
She brings the usual ►nails, and forty passengers, and has
about £5,000 specie on freight. The America, which
sailed from Liverpool on the 22d ult., reached Halifax on
the 2d instant.

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In Cong.
Bill for the government of the new territorie

defeated, the House of Representatives refusing even to
entertain or discuss the bill which had passed the Senate,
and of which the tendency was to permit the establishment
of slavery in New Mexico and California. It seems pretty
well settled now that no bill looking to such a result can
obtain the assent of the House of Representatives.

of the Whig nomination to

General Taylor's acceptar
the presidency has at length appeared
The only other news of political interest is the state-
ment now received in an authentic shape of a battle, or
rather succession of skirmishes near Guanajato in Mexico.

and Parades with Jarante at the head of the revolters.
The victory is claimed for both sides, but neither appear
to have done so much in the way of fighting.
The dates from the city of Mexico are to the 14th ult.,
where the Government of Herrera seemed to be pursuing
its course without interruption or disturbance.

The American troops have now all left Mexico, and
that country is again delivered up to its own laws and
rulers. Among other effects of this is the re-enactment
of the old Mexican tariff.

Dulness pervades all branches of trade and commerce

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPA

The Royal Mail steam ship Europa, Captain Lott, ar-
rived at an early hour on Sunday morning, having made
the run from Boston to this port in ten days eight hours,
the shortest passage on record. She brings dates from
New York to the Bth, Boston to the 9th, and Halifax to
the 11th instant respectively.
Congress was to adjourn on the 15th instant.

It is-stated in the Journal q16;;;;;;;;71;i a proposi-
tion was before the Senate for the purchase by the United
States of the territorial rights, privileges, and immunities
of the Hudson' Bay Company and the Puget's Sound
Company. The proposition is said to be recommended to
Congress by the Administration.
The proposition is, to cede to the United States a tract
of territory larger than the state of New York, and for a
comparatively trifling consideration. The importance of
the cession cannot be doubted. It would include the
country and the military posts on the northern banks of
the Columbia river, and, says the Journal of Commerce,
" for ever prevent any collision between the United States
and England in regard to points which are unsettled by
the Ashburton and Webster treaty.', This of course
must refer to the Oregon, not to the Ashburton treaty.
At New York, on the 7th instant, a meeting was held to
ratify the union between the Provisional Committee and
the " Young Friends of Ireland." The Herald says that
between 30,000 and 40,000 persons were present.
From Yucatan we learn that the white inhabitants in
the neighbourhood of Sisal have been gaining power and
are gradually subduing the Indians; but famine will
shortly finish what the Indians have left. The poor
were already dropping off fast.
The accounts from Venezuela are to the 10th of July.
The Paez faction still held possession of the lake Mara-
caibo. The forces were under the command of Colonel
Weir, an Englishman. The foreign merchants residing in
that city had forwarded petitions to their respective Con-
suls-General at the capital, earnestly appealing to them
to send vessels of war for their protection in tho unhappy
position in which they were placed by the unsettled state
of affairs. They were apprehensive of a revolt among the
labourers and poorer classes of inhabitants, for the pur-
pose of plunder, owing to the scarcity of provisions and
want of employment, which is attributable to the pro-
tracted state of the civil war. Little reliance could be
placed on the troops in the city, which numberedonly 800
men, of wlizyn 250 were in the hospital. The rest, being
badly fed and clothed, would, in the event of an outbreak, I
join the mob.

In the neighbouring rehublic of New Granada there
are indications of some approaching change. General
Flores was in Panama in April last, and the Caraccas
papers say that a plot has been made between him and
Mosquora, the President of New Granada, to re-establish
the former Columbian confederation and establis,b. a
monarchy. These accusations have frequently beeu
Mat/2 Cdnst Rom, but w thout any:foundatiou it would

' appear; least, no distinct ground of accusation has ever
been made. This plot, it is said by the Caraccas editors,
extends beyond New Granada, involving a coalition be-
tween Flores and the Paez faction in Venezuela, and
when united they were to march on the Ecuador and
eoe
coerce that republic to join in the proposed confedera-
tion. Advices from Porto Rico, to tire 24th of July, state
that the inhabitants of Pouce were on the night of the
18th thrown into a considerable state of alarm by the
discovery of a plot existing among the negroes for a
grand insurrection. It was discovered by information
given by one or two negroes to their master, who on
ascertaining the truth of• it immediately gave notice to
the proper authorities. Three of the ringleaders were
arrested, and, after trial, two were condemned to be shot
and the other to be sent to the chain gang for 10 years.
The plan was an extensive one, and included all the ne-
groes on the south side of the island from Guayama to
Mayaguez. The rise was to be simultaneous in the dif-
ferent parts of the island, and the day fixed was the last
day of the month. They were to burn all the towns,
kill all the whites, and make a second St. Domingo of
the island. Since the arrest of the ringleaders confidence
was entirely restored. There was a great amount of
English shipping. £4 per ton was the last rate paid for

freight to grirgland, but small vessels would brink more.
The estates had finished getting in the crops, and the
weather continued favourable for the coming one.

WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS

The royal mail steam-ship Great Western, Captain
Chapman, arrived at Southampton, on Sunday, with the
usual West Indian and other mails. She had fair weather
on the passage, and arrived two days before she was due.
The intelligence from the British West India colonies
is of unusual importance, because we learn the effect pro-
duced there by Lord John Russell's proposition for West
Indian relief. The measures are evidently looked upon as
unsatisfactory in their nature, and totally inadequate to
relieve the extent of distress existing. The Jamaica
Dispatch strongly condemns the project, which it charac-
terizes as "an insult to the colonies, and an outrage on
the honesty and humanity of the nation," and thus con-
cludes,—" We tell ministers plainly that they will have no
supply from Jamaica. They may levy, if they will, their
taxes by orders in Council. Their unconstitutional
tyranny is quite equal to the effort, but taxes will not be
paid. The tax-gatherer may seize, but distresses cannot
be sold without a bidder." De Cordova's Intelligencer
says that the government measure " has inspired the in-
habitants of Jamaica with disgust and contempt." The
same paper then continues,—" Speculation is almost un-
known in Kingston. A great proportion of the stores in
the principal business streets is closed—hundreds of per-
sons born in the middle classes of society, and who were
formerly accustomed to support themselves respectably by

business occupations, are now walking about the streets
in the vain and fruitless endeavour to find work which

will enable them to gain their daily bread. With a defi-
cient population in as beautiful and fertile an island as
there is on the face of the globe, there is no employment
for any industrious man. Sorry are we to have to chro-
nicle this fact, and those who knew Jamaica in her better
days will scarcely believe it, but it is nevertheless too
true. Who then can wonder if dissatisfaction and dislike
should displace affection for England in the hearts of those
who have never yielded to any subjects of the empire in
t I lr -it- ' t' -* fort- '

,oyaity The business of ..ne past, wge, Alas, as
usual, been limited only to purchases for immediate con-
sumption. In the foreign trade there has not been any-
thing doing, no buyers having arrived." -
Several emigrants had arrived at Trinidad from Marti-
nique, not thinking their lives secure during the present
unsettled condition of the French West India colonies.

We have advices from Port-au-Prince and Jacmel,
Hayti. From Jacmal we learn that many respectable
persons had been arrested and cast into prison, some of
them having been confined in irons. The General com-
manding the arrondissement, who had recently acted so
praiseworthy a part in staying the pillage with which Jac-
mel was threatened, had been removed by the President
Soulonque for performing his duty. At Port-au-Prince
everything was tranquil, but the prisons were filled with
political offenders, many of whom it was thought would
be shot on the return of the President from his tour

through the southern part of the republic.
From Cuba we learn that the island was perfectly tran-
quil when the Great Western left, on the 27th ultimo. A
slight disturbance had occurred at one of the outports,
but it had been repressed by the energetic measures of the
Governor-General. The chief of the town, who was im-
plicated in the revolt, had fled. This is doubtless the oc-
currence that has been magnified by the American papers
into a revolution in Havannah, and which originated the
news in the New York papers of the sth of August.
brought by the United States steamer to Cowes on Friday
evening. The Captain-General of Cuba had seized a
slaver entering one of the ports with 150 negroes on
board. She had been brought round to Havannah. The
blacks would be brought round and apprenticed for seven
years, and would then be entitled to freedom and per-
mitted to leave the island, in virtue of the convention to
that effect between the British and Spanish Crowns.
Our Mexican advices represent political affairs as ex-
tremely unsettled. The Indians were about in large num-
bers, causing travelling to the interior to be very unsafe.
Some of the cities had called out the inhabitants to patrol
during the night, to prevent surprises from the band of
Indians prowling about for plunder. The Americans had
given up all the ports to the Mexican authorities, and the
national flag was once more hoisted in all the ports. The
Customs' duties were collected according to the old tariff.
The United States' army had nearly all embarked, and it
would very soon he entirely out of the Mexican territo-
ries, the approach of the sickly season on the coast
causing them to lose no opportunities offering for their
embarkation.

In Demerara the planters were all busy with their crops,
the weather being very fine, but labour still scarce.
St. Ttinalas's and St. Croix
order amongst the emancipated blacks had been restored,
and the negroes had returned to their work,