The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-18 00:00:00

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Great excitement had been caused on the frontier by the
arrest of an American citizen, named Daniel Savage, by a
British officer. The arrest took place on the 11th ult., in
the plantation of Hancock, on the south side of the St. John
River, and within the limits of IVlaine, as defined by the late
trerty. The citizens, assisted by Captain Webster, com-
manding the United States troops at Fort Kent, turned out
to the rescue of the captive. A public meeting was held and
resolutions passed, complaining of the inroad upon the state,
and a representation of the case had been sent to the state
legislature.
The Court Martial

~..i on Commander M'Kenzie, for his
Somers Mutiny, which had been sitting
had closed, and its proceedingThs
mpae and jtience
udge-
"f.d to Washington. i
ue judgement was intense. It would
it generally uvi.eved, turn out to be incided, favour
that o
the
f the
comman was
der. Judge Betts had previously. de
had no authority to inquire into the homicide
Grand Jury
charged to have been committed on board the Somers, or
into the offence of mutiny or mutinous conduct by any of
the crew of the vessel. The Grand Jury thereupon threw
out the bill against Commander M'Kenzie for alleged mur-
der- M'Kinley one of the most prominent in the Somers
mutiny, and who was brought to l'•lew York in irons, had
entered an action against M'kenzie for false imprisonment,
in damages for 10,000 dollars.
The earthquake which had ravaged the West India
Islands had also been felt in New York and other places,
with, however, as little effect as in this country. It had
been succeeded by very stormy weather, which bad caused
considerable damage.
The correspondence between Mr. Webster and General
Cass, the American minister at Paris, in reference to his ce-
lebrated protest against the quintuple treaty for the suppres-
sion of the slave trade, had been published. It occupies in
all twelve columns of one of the largest American papers,
but, with the exception of General Cass's last letter and Mr.
Webster's reply, it is not very important.
The Convention between the United States and Mcxico
for the settlement of the debt due by rho hitter had been ra-
tified. The terms are very ouctuus for Mexico, and, conse-
quently, satisfactory to America. The interest up to the
present time is to be paid by the 30th April, and the princi-
pal five years from the same period. Although particular
revenues are set aside for the purpose, the United States do
not exclude themselves from a claim upon all the revenues.
The Columbia has brought a variety of statements highly
interesting and important to the cotton trade. Several of
the statements are subjoined for the information of our com-
mercial readers. All the accounts concur in estimating the
crop of cotton, last year, at not less than 2,200,000 bales,
while the majority set it down as high as 2,350,000 : the
.lest crop, by 180,000 bales, ever raised in the United
States.
The amount of the crop of 1842 having been pretty accu-
MelY ascertained, attention had begun to be drawn to the
PreePects of the stop of 1843. The weather, in several im-
r!tant cotton districts, had, up to the latter end of March,
been very unpropitious for putting in the seed. A letter
dated Macon, March 20th. saYs, Last year, at this time,
our planters were weeding out their cotton. Thus far, this
year, there has not been a much lanted, and, within the last
three days, we have had as msnow and ice as at any time
of the past winter, and this morning we found ourselves with
quite a snow on the ground." From Savannah the private
letters speak in the same unfavourable terms of the weather.
One Utter which we have seen, and which is dated on the
24th eft„ says, "
month, any prospect We have not, though near the close of the
pect of enjoying its proverbial dust." The
accounts fromP Mobile and New Orleans do not make any
"--- 1--;,,,, unfavourable for putting in the

conduct in the

several weeks,

ment bad been transmitit,
of the public to know the J

mention of /he weather
seed.

Sir Charles Metcalfe, who went passsenger on board the
steam-ship Columbia, and who was only three weeks on his
way from England to Canada, had arrived at Kingstown, the
rat of his future Government. Sir Charles Bagot was still
in a very precarious state of health, with slight, if any, hopes
The riotsh,
of the Lachene canal la-

of ultimate recovery. -
borers ha been reeated
The intelligence from Yucatan is to the Ist ult. There had
been some skirmishing between the Yucatans and the Mexi
cans, but Campeachy still held out ; and, although the M.exi-
Fans were
. bombarding it, the soldiers, who alone remained
,n the cap, were confident in their ability to make a suc
The besieging army was expecting rein-

cessfal resistance.
forcements.
Late accounts had been received from Hayti. Aux Cayes
had surrendered, after hard fighing, to the insurgents. The
main body was at Lisgone. The whole southern part of the
island was in their possession, including Jacmel,
and Aux Cayes. Jeremie,
Advices had been received from Point-a-Petre, Guadaloupe,
to the 26th of February, up to which time four thousand five
bsaunnlrtewdobi%lies had been dug out of the ruins, and two
hundred
shocks
the wounded were in the
Basseterre. had been felt since the out
proved so destructive.

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