The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

The valley of the Meuse is one sheet of water, owing to
the late rains. In Leige people are conveyed from house
to house in boats. The waters are still increasing, and if
the rains continue, the most fearful consequences are en-
tertained. From Malines to Brussels, on each side of
the road, the waters extend, for a quarter of a mile, se-
veral feet in depth. The cottagers in some places are
unable to descend below the first floor of their dwellings,
and all communication with the neighbourhood is kept up
by means of boats
FRANCE

—A discussion took place in the chamber of
deputies, on Monday, on an amendment to the paragraph
in the address relating to the foreign policy, to the effect,
that it was desirable that the course of action pursued by
France should be independent of England. M. Guizot,
in replying to M. Remnant, the mover, maintained that
such was the case ; and said that, if it did not imply a
censure on the government, he would not have opposed
the amendment. M. Thiers attacked the ministry for in-
terfering respecting the annexation of Texas, in deference,
he said, to England, M. Guizot replied, that they inter-
fered at the instance of the Texan charg‘ d'offaires at
Paris. On a division, the ministry had a majority of 68,
which is considered a great triumph.—The French minis-
try gained another triumph, on Tuesday, in the chamber,
having defeated an amendment on the right-of-search
question by a majority of 73, with a full house. Thus the
absurd procrastination by the opposition of the discussion
on the address, which has already occupied fourteen sit-
tings to the exclusion of all real business, has had no other
effect than a series of defeats of the party.

AM ERICA

'From our Second Edition of Tuesday last.)

By the packet-ship Yorkshire, -Captain Bailey, which
arrived in the river this morning, we have received New
York papers to the 18th ultimo, being four days later than
previous advices.
In Congress on the 12th ultimo, on the motion of Mr.
Allen, the joint resolution for giving the twelve months
notice to Great Britain of the dissolution of the treaty of
joint occupation► of the Oregon territory was taken up,
when Mr. Allen moved that the resolution be postponed
t') the 27th ultimo. Mr. Wcstcott argued for a longer
postponement, and moved the substitution of the 10th of
February. Mr. Calhoun said he should vote for the
longest time, and the 10th of February was fixed on after
a short debate, by a majority of 32 to 18.
On the motion of Mr. Hannegan, his resolutions de-
precatory of a compromise on the line were also post-
poned to the same day. Of course the postponement of
the debate has been variously interpreted. Some think
it a favourable symptom, indicating the complete post-
ponement of the whole business to another year, and
another Congress. According to the Washington Union,
the act of giving notice is looked upon as a peaceful mea-
sure, merely empowering the President either to continue
or to open negociations. The public excitement was
rapidly cooling down, and the tone of the advices is much
more pacific than any we have received from the States
for some time.

The famous article of the London Times of the 4th De-
cember, relative to the corn laws, had been received in
New York, and is freely commented on in the journals
before us. There had not been time to ascertain the
effect which the announcement had had upon the Ameri-
can markets, as the intelligence was only received on the
15th ult. The effect, however, was anticipated to be, that
prices of flour and grain would particularly feel the influ-
ence of such accounts, and that a very extensive demand
for those articles, and large speculative shipments, would
take place. Every one seemed on the very tip-toe of ex-
pectation of the news by the Hibernia steam-ship from
this country, to the 4th ult., and until that arrived, busi-

ness was in a great degree suspended.
A project has been introduced into the senate for build-
ing a steam navy. It was in the shape of a bill from the
naval committee, which has been ordered to be printed.
It appropriates 5,165,000 dollars, and gives authority tc
the President to build ten steam-ships, and to complete
all the ships on the stocks.

New York, Friday, Jan. 17.
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[lade in Gene-
see, for export, at 5 dots. 75 cents, and in Southern at 5
dols. 75 cents. a 5 dols. 871 cents.
COTTON.—There was a moderate enquiry to-day, and
the sal,.s amounted to about 600 bales. We could not
learn of any change in rates, but rather more cotton has
been brought out on the market, which gives the buyer a
greater choice in his selections. We continue our quota-
tions, as follows :

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LIVERPOOL CLASSIFICATION

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CONGRESSIONAL COMPLIMENTS

House of Representatives, Washington, Jan. 10,1846

Mr. Hudson rose on a privilege question. He sent to
the clerk's desk a copy of the Union, containing a long
and severe attack upon him by Major Heiss. The clerk
read it at length.

Mr. Hudson defehded himself. It was a fact that the
president's message and public documents were formerly
returned printed in about a fortnight. It was not so now.
Mr. M'Connell, of Alabama, called the gentleman to
order. He had no business to abuse the organ of the ad-
ministration. (Laughter.)
Mr. Hudson said h© had no inclination to play upon
that organ. He would leave the management of the dis-
cordant notes in the hands of the gentleman from Alaba-
ma. (Laughter.) Mr. Hudson said the question was,
whether an officer of the house should attack the house, or
a member thereof. The doorkeeper might as well call the
members to account for words spoken on that floor.
Mr. Al`Connell rose to order.

The Speaker : The gentleman will state his point of or-
der (he pronounced the word point, pint )
Mr. M'Connell said, he would state his point, not his
pint (pointing to his throat, as if he had swallowed about
that measure.) Mr. M'Connell stated, that Ritchie and
Heiss would not touch the gentleman with a ten-foot pole.
Mr. Hudson would not reply to the gentleman from
Alabama. After referring to the delay of the printing last
year, saying that it was not their fault, but the fault of the
conduct of the engraving committee, he left his case in the
bands of the house.

Mr. Davis, of Kentucky, submitted a resolution, that
J. P. Reiss, a person in the employ of this house, having
charged upon a member of that house falsehood, &c., be
dismissed from the office which he holds under this house.
He was going on to defend this motion, when
Mr. M'Connell called him to order. If the gentleman
takes up the gentleman from Massachusetts, it is dirty bu-
siness in dirty hands.
The Speaker called to order.
Mr. Davis : I have no reply to make to a drunken
blackguard. (Sensation.)
Speaker : The gentleman from Kentucky must not in-
dulge in such language.
Mr. Davies : I beg pardon from the speaker.
Here Mr. M'Connell left the house, in company with
Mr. Sims, of Missouri.
The votes were soon after taken, and we need scarcely
refer further to the proceedings of this body We find in
the, recorded proceedings one member calling another a
" liar," and another " a scoundrel." Asa sample of their
Oregan eloquence, we give the following :
Mr. Kennedy, of Indiana, was the victor among some
thirty combatants for the floor. He said the people out
west got their education in wrestling with bears. They
were not even afraid of lions. If the British lion got into
our path, it must get out of the way. The west was not
for war, but they would not give up their country to dicta-
tion. He himself was a quaker : but he would fight for
his nation. England was not so much, after all. If the
British lion put his nose into our affairs, we would run
the eagle's talons into it, and make it spout blood like a
whale. He did not stick to party here. The Whig party
are true as the other party on national honour. We will
people the whole west. Put a single pair of human beings
out west, and visit them twenty years afterwards, and
you'll find their number twenty, and so we'll go on with
thousands and millions in that ratio. Our institutions
should and would spread. Cuba, California, Oregon, all
would come within the widening circle. The British go-
vernment was the worst government in the world. (Mr.
Pakenham was in the house during part of the speech.)
On her brow was written " Mene, Mene." (Here the
Hebrew quotation failed amid roars of laughter.) The
British lion must get off our territory, if it costs millions
of lives and oceans of blood. That is all the war spirit in
the west.

Mr. Chipman, another honourable member of Con-
gress, said he went for the whole of Oregon. He was not
like the man who went for the middle extreme. He was
not for steering between Silly and Charybogue. (Roars
of laughter.) Mr. Chairman, said he, what is the
question? (Loud laughter.) We hear great talk about
being s.!ared by a lion in place of a wolf (referring to
Mr. Holmes's speech on Oregon). He was not and
would not be afraid of English lions. He gloried in the
speech of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Adams.)
He had had prejudices against that venerable man, but
they were all dissipated by his noble position on Oregon ;
though his head was white with blossoms [noises, I be-
lieve, blossom], he was in favour of the rights of his
country ; he had touched the hearts of the nation with a
live coal from off the altar of patriotism. The brightest
page of history would record the name of Adams, who
was the breathing living history of his country's diplo-
macy. Mr. Chipman then went on to distinguish "joint
occupation" from " joint occupancy." He gave his
views upon arbitration, by supposing that some loafers
would gather around him and ask him to arbitrate about
his own coat, to which his right was " clear and unques-
tionable." Our right was as clear to Oregon as his right
was to his coat. It did not come by Adam's will; it was
by the will of Omnipotence, whose plastic hand had made
this continent for our governing hands. Lewis Cass, of
Michigan, he said, would do great things. 'Alich!gan
would take the conquest of Canada by the job ; Michigan
would take Canada in ninety days, and give it back to
England for the pleasure of taking it again. lie then
went into a defence of his former views on " Education
warring on Democracy. He repeated it. It thwarted tha
ways of Providence, and made men Whigs. (Laughter.)
He .seemed to be afraid of war, but he was not afraid.
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IRELAND.

DRUNKENNESS IN CORK.—There were 622 drunkards
committed to Bridewell by the constabulary, during the
month of January. The number committed in January,
1843 was 100 ; in January, 1844, 173; and in January,
1845, 315.
COWARDLY ArrAcK,—On Sunday week, a ferocious
attack was made by two men, on a lady named Bennett,
residing at Monaghill, Lower' Ormond. When on her
way to church, the two ruffians walked up to the car on
which she was sitting, and one of them snapped a pistol
twice at her without effect, while the other struck her
a heavy blow with a " wattle." £lOO reward has been
offered for their apprehension.
AWFUL MURDER.—On Wednesday evening, as a man
named Madden, who was in the employment of Mr. Stoney,
of Portland, was going home from his daily labour, he was
shot by some assassin in a grove convenient to the en-
trance-gate to Mr. Stoney's house, near Portumna. The
assassin, not satisfied with shooting his victim through the
body, literally dashed his brains' out with a spade.—Bal-
linasloe Advertiser. _ _

TREASURE FOUND.—On Monday last, as some men
were digging in a field at Borrisokane, they dug up up-
wards of 1,000 pieces of coin ; the large pieces were
broader than a shilling, but much thinner; they were
coined in Henry IV.'s time, and passed for a groat in
those days ; seven of them weigh one ounle ; the small
pieces are about the size of a sixpenny piece, but quite
thin ; they appear to be the silver penny of Henry 11.
The silver pieces were not more than five or six inches
under the surface of the earth, and must have lain there
for unturies.—Nenagh Guardian.
CORK ELECTION,—Mr. A. M'Carthy, the " enor-
mously rich" nominee of the Repeal Directory, has, of
course, walked over for the seat in Cork vacated by the
retirement of Mr. Serjeant Murphy. The election took
place on Saturday, and the proceedings passed over quietly.
On the same day Alderman Timothy O'Brien, ex-Lord
Mayor of Dublin, and, if not "enormously rich," a sub-
stantial trader, was returned to the Saxon Parliament as
member for " Cashel of the Kings," vice Mr. Serjeant
Stock, who, like his brother of the coif, declined playing
the fool in Conciliation-hall for the amusement of the
overgrown children who frequent that interesting locality..
REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—On Monday, the usual meet-
ing of this body was held, and notwith,tanding the ab-
sence of the Liberator, the " hall of sedition" was well
filled. Mr. James Kelly, M.P. for Limerick, occupied
the chair. King Dan's vicegerent (Mr. Smith O'Brien)
brought up a report condemnatory of the government's
proposed arrangement with reference to public works in
Ireland, and, commenting on the intended repeal of
the corn laws, argued that no compensation was in reality
afforded to the agriculturists by the measures which Sir
R. Peel proposed to give as an equivalent—they being
such as ought in justice to be enacted, irrespective alto-
gether of the corn laws. He was himself in favour of
moderate protection, but if the people of Ireland were
willing to submit to the change, he was ready to acquiesce.
Mr. J. O'Neill and others having addressed the meeting,
the rent was announced to be £263. _

MELANCHOLY CIRCUMSTANCE.—Two MEN SHOT.
—lt is our painful duty to announce a most melancholy
circumstance, by which two human beings have, in an
instant, been hurried into eternity ; and, it our authority
be correct, we fear that the tragical occurrence was
brought upon themselves by their own misdeeds. The
melancholy affair took place on Sunday evening, the Ist
instant, at Dreenan, within two miles of Maghera. It
appears that two men, named Downing and Mulholland,
who are Protestants' were on their way to the house of
the former, when they met a party of men, numbering
about thirty, who were conducting themselves very bois-
terously on the highway, and as our informant states, were
singing Ribbon songs. An altercation ensued among the
parties, but from whom the provocation emanated, we
Patriot tell. Downing and his companion were forced to
run for their lives, being overpowered by numbers ; they
succeeded in obtaining refuge, in Downing's house, when
1 the mob came up and surrounded the house. The Pro-
, t test---6 - self-defence, fired out, and the shots
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lived for some hours afterwards; the body of the second
sufferer was not discovered for some time, when it was
found in a moss-hole, adjoining the road-side, and into
which it is supposed the unhappy man had fallen after re.
ceiving the shot. The names of the deceased are Henry
M`Williams and John Higgins, both Roman Catholics.—
Londonderry Sentinel.
IRELAND AND FREE TRADE.—AS a result of the mi-
nisterial declarations bacon has fallen four shillings a cwt.
and hams two shillings. This, it is remarkable, will be
agreeable intelligence to the pork-curers in the counties
of Cork, Waterford, Limerick, and Kerry, and to the
dry-smokers of Billybrack and other localities in the
county of Wicklow. Turning from produce to land, we
have the following " authentic particulars on competent
authority :"—Tidgeon-park, an eligible property, within
three miles of the city of Kilkenny, very well circum-
stanced, was sold in 1836 to Mr. De Montmorency for
£10,600. On account of an alleged defect in the title, he
got out of the purchase. That defect, if it ever existed,
has been since cured, and the same property brought to a
sale in 1814, when £8,500 was offered and refused for it,
as being totally insufficient, as the rental amounts to £5OO
per year. It was again offered for sale in Master Goold's
office, on last Friday, when no person could be got to bid
more than £5,300; and though very much pressed a pur-
chaser who offered a year ago £8,400, would not consent
to have it knocked down to him for £6,ooo.—Dublin
Illail.—[lk. Wexford paper says that pigs which averaged
435. to 445. per cwt. a fortnight back, could not bring
at the fair of Tagbmon on Wednesday, and a complete
panic seemed to have seized on buyer and seller. A let-
ter from Tralee, of Monday's date, says, " Grain, if
bought at all, was purchased at much lower quotations
than the previous day. Pork, beef, butter, eggs, all
commodities in fact, but potatoes, tumbled. Potatoes,
however, I regret to say, from the progress of the rot,
advanced a third, and this, as I stated a few days since, at
a period when the rate of remuneration for agricultural
labourers is 24d. oer day, and diet—a few wet lumpers."]

GOVERNMENT PRECAUTlONS.—Wementioned onTues-
day the arrival at Cove of a vessel (the Atlas) with Indian
corn. Another (the Adirondock) had arrived on the same
mission about a fortnight previously. They are large
American liners, registered 1000 tons, and between them
they have brought, probably, about 5000 barrels of corn
meal and Indian corn. They were reported at the Custom-
house on Tuesday, and yesterday commenced discharging
the meal at Han[bowline, whence it will be supplied as
occasion may require. The corn, or a portion of it, they
will bring to the quay, for conveyance, for grinding, to
the Lee Mills, which have been taken by the firm of N.
and I. Cummins, for either the Messrs. Baring or the Go-
vernment—the latter is the general opinion, and we believe
the correct one. A vessel similarly laden is said to have
sailed for Waterford, and another for Limerick, and seve-
ral others are, we understand, expected here. This is a
prudent and commendable precaution, and let Govern-
ment have the praise of it. We said, when liberal jour-
nalists were scribblin7.„ and liberal orators were spouting,
about their apathy and heartlessness, accusing them of not
caring for the lives of a starving people because they were
&c., that ministers felt more keenly than their re-
vilers the responsibility of their situation, and the result
has proved it. Commissary-general Hewetson and two
other officers connected with the commissariat department
have been for some months in the city instituting inquiries
and communicating with Government, and it is the in-
formation received from these and similarly authorised
agents in other parts of Ireland, that Sir R. Peel relied on
in his statement in the Commons. Indian corn, when
properly managed, makes, we understand, an excellent ar-
ticle of food, and perhaps when Sir Robert spoke of de-
posing the potato, it was by this that he intended to supply
its place. The proper management, however, is, we be-
lieve, a matter of some difficulty ; but Government, we
presume, will take measures to teach the people how its
conversion into bread is to be effected.— Cork Constitution.