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

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 of Commerce that 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 the 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 numbered only 800
men, of whom 250 were in the hospital. The rest, being
badly fed and clothed, would, in the event of an outbreak,
join the mob.
In the neighbouring rebublic 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
Mosquera, the President of New Granada, to re-establish
the former Columbian confederation and establish a
monarchy. These accusations have frequently been
male spinet Pores, but w tiuut any:foundation 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
coerce that republic to join in the proposed confeddra-
tion.

Advices from Porto Rico, to the 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 ziegroes 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 England, but small vessels would bring more.
The estates had finished getting in the crops, and the
weather continued favourable for the coming one.