The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-02 00:00:00

AMERICAN PAPERS.

By the steam-ship Acadia we have received New York
papers from the 9th to the 16th ultimo inclusive.
The New York Herald states, upon the authority of a
private correspondent in Washington, that there is the
strongest probability of a law passing both Houses of
Congress, authorising the United States government to
take military and civil possession of the Oregon territory.
The Navy. War, Treasury, and Postoffice reports have
been published. In order to meet the apprehended de-
ficiency in the revenue of 1845 the Secretary recommends,
in the Treasury report, the imposing a duty of two cents
a pound on coffee imported from the countries of its pro-
duction, or three cents from Europe. Also a duty of five
cents a pound on tea costing not more than twenty-five
cents, over twenty-five cents and not exceeding thirty-
five, seven cents a pound ; and so on with the other grades.
These duties, he calculates, would yield a revenue of about
4,000,000 dollars, viz., 2,500,000 dollars on coffee and
1,500,000 dollars on tea. He also recommends a light-
house duty of six cents a ton on all vessels engaged in the
foreign trade, which, he supposes, would produce about
230,000 dollars per annum. From these items, viz.,
duties on tea and coffee, tonnage light-house duties, and
one or two other small charges, he anticipates a revenue,
in round numbers, of 4,500,000 dollars per annum. He
also recommends the adoption of a warehousing system.
The stock market presented a buoyant aspect, and
business generally had improved. In Foreign Exchange
we quote sterling bills on London at 1081 to 1084 ; on
Paris at 5.324 to 5.30. The transactions had not been
very large. Domestic Exchanges were in a healthy con-
dition. - _ _ -

We have advices from Kingston, Canada, to the sth
ultimo. The House of Assembly had addressed to the
governor a vote of confidence in his late ministry, to
which his excellency had made a suitable reply, in the
shape of a message, in which he expressed a hope that
public business would not suffer delay. It now appears
that the late ministry and its partisans are throwing every
obstacle in the way of Sir Charles Metcalfe. The mayor,
aldermen, and common council of Kingston had issued an
address to the governor, assuring him of their strong and
unaltered confidence in his administration of the govern-
ment of the colony.
Intelligence from Galveston, Texas, to the 2d nit., had
been received at New Orleans. A second attempt had
been made to sell the vessels of the Texan navy by public
auction, but without success.
The Yucatan commissioners, it was reported, bad re-
turned from Mexico without effecting a treaty. It was
generally believed, at Sisal, that the Mexican troops would
march against Yucatan about the middle of December.
We have also dates from Kingston, Jamaica, to the
26th November. A proposition was before the assembly
to protect the interests of graziers by imposing heavy
duties on foreign cattle. A dispensary was about to be
established in Kingston.
The Savannah Republican has dates from Havannab
-to the 25th of November. The governor-general bad
issued a new decree relating to the admission of foreigners,
to the effect that foreigners visiting the island must have
a passport signed by a Spanish consul, on the production
of which they will be permitted to land, and, within
twenty-five hours, must present themselves at the office
Of the government secretary for a permit of residence.

Louis Philippe has dismissed eight mayors ofcommunes
for attending the levees of the Duke of Bordeaux
Belgrave-square. •
he National of Monday last fixes the amount de-
nded by his majesty for the Duc de Nemours, when he
becomes regent, at £40,010 a-year. Ministers it is said,
are of opinion, that half that-amount will be enough.
DE. VALLEY.—A letter has been received from Lord
Canning, one of the Under Secretaries for Foreign Affairs,
containing the following gratifying passage :—" I am at
ttosesame time to acquaint you, for the information of
those gentlemen who waited upon his Lordship on the
14theinst., that the Court of Relive, at Lisbon, has pro-
motitilonh that cea decision in favour of Dr. Kalley, by virtue of
v
gentleman will have been liberated on bail."

A few days ago, a woman, 26 years of age, the wife of
a furniture broker, at Fontainbleau, in the absence of her
husband, suffocated herself, her daughter, aged nine
years, and her son, aged five, with the fumes of charcoal.
When the husband returned, he found them all dead.—
Galignani.

AN OLD SUIT.—The Royal Court of Paris has been
occupied for several days past in hearing a cause in which
the King of Bavaria claims 61,000 f., 5 per cent. rentes, as
a creditor of the estate of M. Bombards, who died in the
year 1713. The same fund is claimed by the heirs of M.
Albert de Luynes, Prince of Grimberghen, to whom the
Elector of Bavaria, when he became emperor under the
name of Charles VI., transferred his rights as a creditor
of the Prince of Grimbeeghen. This affair refers to a
subsidy of 9,000,000 f., which Louis XIV. and Louis XV.
granted to Bavaria during the war of succession.

Madame Catalani, who for twenty-two years enchanted
the world by her vocal powers, and who, by her truly
liberal conduct in her profession and general amiability of
character, gained universal admiration, died, as we learn
by a letter from Rome of the 12th instant, in the De'bats,
at her villa near Sinigaglia, in the Roman states, after a
very short illness. She had attained only her 59th year,
having been born at Simigaglia in 1784. She- made her
first appearance before the public on the stage of Venice
when 15 years old, and retired into private life in 1831.
She married a Frenchman, M. de Valabregue, a native of
Burgundy, who died in 1838, and by whom she had three
children. Madame Catalani is is said to have left a fortune
amounting to 8,300,000 f.
FRANCE AND ENGLAND.--The following passage
occurs in the speech of the French King, on the opening
of the Chambers on Wednesday :—" Serious events have
occurred in Spain and in Greece. Queen Isabella 11.,
called so young to the cares of state, is at this moment
the object of all my solicitude and of my most affectionate
interest. I trust that the issue of these events will be
most favourable to two nations well disposed towards
France, and that in Greece, as well as in Spain, monarchy
will strengthen itself by the mutual respect of the rights
of the throne and of public liberty. The sincere friendship
which unites me to the Queen of Great Britain, and the
cordial understanding existing between my government
and hers, confirm me in that confidence."
WHOLESALE EXECUTION.—HAVANNAH, Nov. 14.—
You will search in vain in the papers of this day for the
usual details of the arrest, trial, and condemnation, the
private history, and exaggerated anecdotes, of the seven
criminals executed this morning—not a word upon the
subject. The official publication of the proceedings will
appear in three or four days. I say seven were executed,
but one of them had been dead 24 hours. To avoid, as
he supposed he could, the disgrace of a public execution,
he cut his throat; but the authorities were determined
that the "spectacle" should not thus be curtailed of its
original extent. His corpse was brought out, tied to the
stake, and shot with the others. It is said, but I will not
be sure that such is the exact fact, that these men were
part of a regularly organised band of robbers that existed
in the mountains previous to the time of Tacon, and
which he either dispersed or destroyed. Recently, some
depredations of the few remaining—and they were men
of substance, having their little property and living de-
cently—caused their arrest, trial, and condemnation. We
are told that seven more will shortly share the same fate,
and that it is supposed the band will be utterly extermi-
nated. As an instance of the prompt and severe justice
of the present day, take notice of the official article in
the Diario of the 9th, announcing the condemnation of
two soldiers, followed by a short but forcible address of
General O'Donnell to the troops. It appears that these
soldiers encountered an English captain and another per-
son, who were asking their way through the streets; they
decoyed them into a retired spot and robbed them. Next
day the captain made known the case to the English Con-
sul, who made an official report to the Governor, who
very soon caused the culprits to be arrested. Oni the
tenth day from the commission of the act one of the per-
petrators was executed, and the other put into chains and
hard labour for ten years. It is said that the English
captain and the Consul, when they found how severe was
to be the punishment of the robbers, interceded for their
lives, but the Governor declined ameliorating their sen-
tence in any way. Blood alone could wipe out the stain
upon the character of the army, and give assurance to the
peaceable citizens that protection, and not oppression, was
its vocation. Since the days of Tacon, not only are in-
stances of robbery, or other acts of violence, of rare
occurrence, but when the criminals are caught, their
punishment is swift and sure.—Louisiana Courier.