The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS .-FRIDAY, - RIDAY,

Sir Denis Le Merchant took the oaths and his seat for
the city of Worcester.—Several railway bills were read a
third time ; amongst them the Liverpool and Bury Rail-
way, Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds
Railway Amalgamation, Manchester and Leeds Railway
Extension, Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Naviga-
tion and Railway, and Manchester and Leeds Railway
Amalgamation, and the Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool,
and Birkenhead Junction Railway.—On the motion of
Mr. Duncornbe, the petition of the Duke of Brunswick
was ordered to be printed.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF TEIE GREAT WESTERN

By the steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews,
which arrived in the Mersey shortly before midnight on
Friday, we have received important accounts to the 25th
ult. inclusive from New York.
Our accounts from Washington by this arrival reach to
the 24th ult. inclusive. The Oregon treaty had been
finally ratified by the Senate by a vote of 41 to 14; and
the document itself, we are informed, has now arrived, in
charge of General Armstrong, United States Consul at
this port. Great credit was accorded to Mr. M`Lane, as
the chief instrument by which this happy settlement of
so perilous a source of contention has been brought about.
Mr. Buchanan, it was anticipated, would now assume the
vacant seat upon the supreme bench. Rumours were also
current that Mr. M`Lane had solicited a recall from the
important post he now holds, and it is stated that he will
be elevated to the State Department. Robert Dale Owen,
son of Robert Owen, is noted as a candidate for the
London embassy.
Important intelligence had been received from the Rio
del Norte. According to the accounts published in the
American journals, it would appear that General Arista,
at the head of an army of 15,000 men, had established his
head quarters at Monterey, and had sent proposals of an
armistice to General Taylor. General Taylor is said to
Dave replied that he would meet him at Monterey. It
also appears that the Mexican general, Canales, and a
force of 1,500 men, were concentrating at Reynosa, a
small town about sixty miles from Matamoras, to which
place an American force of 800 men, under Colonel Wil-
son, were proceeding. The Executive is said to have
abandoned the projected attack upon the castle of St.
Juan d'Ulloa, at Vera Cruz.
The domestic affairs of the Union are interesting. The
aiscussiou of the new Tariff Bill, after occupying the at-
tention of the House of Representatives for several days,
had been fixed for decision on the 2d of July ; prospects
of the bill had somewhat improved. The Warehousing
Bill had been made the special order of the Senate for the
Ist July. Congress had also been engaged in irregular
discussions touching upon the Oregon question, the an-
nexation of Testis, the Mexican war, &c. The President,
on the 16th, had transmitted to Congress a Message rela-
tive to finances, accompanied by a report from Mr. Secre-
tary Walker upon the 'tariff, &c. The President states
that the increase of revenue rendered necessary by the
war with Mexico, can be met by reducing the duties to a
revenue standard, imposing duties on free articles, and
modifying the duties on others. Additional authority is
asked for the issue of Treasury notes. The Secretary's
report was also read. He estimates a deficiency in revenue
for the next fiscal year at 19,620,000 dollars, hut antici-
pates receipts from different sources which will reduce
this to 15,000,000, leaving 4.000,000 deficit. This deficit will
also be reduced if the tariff is modified according to the
provisions of the house bill introduced by the Committee
of Ways and Means. The entire receipts, with this mo-
dification, are estimated at 30,000,000. but leaving still
the deficiency mentioned of 15,000,000. The warehouse
system proposed, it is estimated, will further reduce this
amount, and the graduation of the sale of public lands
half a million more, leaving still over 12,000,000 deficit.
To meet this the Secretary recommends a resort to loans,
or issue of Treasury notes, or both, as circumstances may
render it most desirable, and at the earliest dates, and at
such rates of interest as may be agreed upon. On the
24th nlt. the Message underwent a severe criticism from
Mr- Webster.
The proffer by the British Government of a friendly
mediation between the United States and Mexico had
been received with but lukewarm favour, and formed a
topic of wide discussion in the puolic journals. The news-
papers also discuss the claims of vari 'us candidates for the
.next Presidency. Scott, Calhoun, Benton, and others are
teamed ; and hints are even thrown out pointing to General
Taylor, the victor of the engagements of Palo Alto and
ueloca de ulna. It appears from official documents,

the best harbours on the island

THE RESULT OF GAMING.-A Frankfort journal states
that a Russian baron, who had lost large sums of money
at play at Baden-Baden, has recently gone mad, and is
now in a lunatic asylum. At Hamburgh, says the same
journal, the son of a high functionary at Bonn, having

lost all his money at the gaming-table, snatched up the
gold, which was lying on it, and endeavoured to escape,
but he was arrested, and is now in confinement.
ADULTERATED HOLY WAFERS.—An English ship
bad conveyed to Gijon, a port of the Asturias, a large
cargo of great and small holy wafers, in which have been
detected portions of wheat flour, potato, plaster, and
whites of eggs, to produce consistency and bright colour.
The use of animal substance renders these wafers impro-
per for the holy sacrifice, and the Bishop of Oviedo sent
a circular to all the curates of the diocese, forbidding
them, and-r pain of sacrifice. to use these wafers. [lt
must be a shock to the faith•ul to find that the veritable
body and blood of Christ ctrl be adulterated.—En. 1..5.]
'lnc HARVEST IN FRANCE.—A great many fields of
barley have been already cut down in the environs of
Paris. The crop is not heavy in the ear, and the straw is
very short, as was to be expected, from the long drought.

lied an average crop. The late rains have had so bene.

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full flower, and quite ready for the scythe. It is very rare
for the second crop to be fit for mowing so early in July.
If the weather should be favourable, the third crop will
be fit to cut in August.
Private letters from Rome of the 29th ult., announce
that the six cardinals comprising the temporary com•
mission of government had disagreed among themselves,
and that Cardinals Lambruscbini, Mattei, and Bernetti,
bad tendered their resignation. A full amnesty was to
be published in a few days. The Pope signed...on the
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