The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-02-17 00:00:00

The Earl of DALHOUSIE said that the report of the
commission had been that afternoon placed in his

Lord MONTEAGLE gave notice, that in the event of
the motion of Lord Beaumont, which stood for Monday
nest, for the appointment Gf a select committee to inquire
into the burdens on real property, being carried, it was
his intention to move the addition of these words :

"and also to inquire and report on the legislative exemp-
tions from the pecuniary liabilities proved by law in re-
spect to the taxation affecting real property,"

' The Marquis of CLANRICARDE' Imo. red. for a return of
11 murders, or attempts to commit murder, in Ireland
ince the year 1842. Crimes, he declared, prevailed to an

extent almost unprecedented ; and he accused the govern-
ment of very great remissness in not baying taken earlier
measures to repress the system of combined outrages,
which are now more general than had ever been known,
and given efficient protection to honest men in their ho-
nest callings. He referred to her Majesty's speech as
justifying the expectation that energetic means would be
instantly adopted, and described a number of outrages
wHen had recently been committed, and which proved
that there was no longer any safety for the pro-

absurdity of attempting to improve the agriculture of Ire-
land while no man was allowed to pursue the system which
he preferred. It was said thht people should not submit
to such intimidation, but the government itself had recom-
mended submission in one remarkable instance, which he
cited.

York, while he admitted that the late intelligence
was pacific, advocated the bill as a peace measure. The
question was resumed on the 28th, and was contested with
still more vehemence, the war party still insisting cn the
necessity cf the addition horn the immediate prospect of
Lord Sr. GERMANS offered no opposition to the mo- I contest;
tion, and informed their lordships that such a bill as Lord r The subject of the negociations with England relative
Clanricarde bad described would •be submitted to their to the Oregon territory was before the House on the 26th,
consideration on Monday next. 1 but without result. Mr Speitht (" the tallest man in

Lord FARNHAM bore testimony to the firm support he
had received from Government in one of the most dis-
turbed districts of Ireland; and Lord Grey, while agree.
ing that at whatever cost security of person and property
must be attained, urged that the opportunity should be
taken of considering the state of Ireland generally, and
accompanying any coercive bill that might be necessary
with measures of another kind, and having more compre-
hensive reference to the evils which have so long affected
Ireland.
The motion was agreed to, and their lordships adjourned.

. .
Congress ") made a sensible speech in favour of peace
and economy, and declared that the failure of Lord John
Russell to form a Cabinet, on the express ground that
Lord Palmerston, who was hostile to America, was ob-
noxious to Lord Grey, was, news which it made his heart
glad Co hear. This single fact regarding the attempted
change in the Cabinet, he Said, was conclusive of peace.
In the House of Representatives the question of the
notice to England on the Oregon territory had been dis-
cussed in a desultory manner,..a3 thintgh i a interest had
subsided. A motion that the Oregon resolution be taken
out of committee on the 7th February. was lost by 84 to
52, as it required a vote of two•thirds. Mr. Gni es, in
a long and able speech, contended, from a variety of data,
that the United States had no claim to the Oregon which
was not equally held by this country.
A writer in one of the papers, of the 31st, in concluding
a review of the state of parties in Congress, says,." The
probable prospect of the present state of things ut Wa.h-
ington is highly favourable to a peaceable termination of
our difficulties with England, of the success of liberal
principles in commerce and currency, and the probable
triumph of the measures brought forward by Mr. Polk."
Rumours were prevalent that Mr. Bu.:banan, secretary
of.statt, has resigned, and that the seals would be resumed
by Mr. Colhoun.
The weather had been very severe. At Utica on the
20th, the thermometer stood at 20, 23, and 24 degrees
below zero.
The adviccs from Canada are to the 27th ult. Conti-les
for the erection of fortifications at Kingston have been
declared. The works will cost £60,000. The papers state

that despatches had been received announcing t
ment of Lord Cathcart as Governor-general:

[le appoint-

bearing ti; the authoritie; o.f. Texas the aceeptauce of hei
eonsti!ution by congress. reached Cs;vesiou oi, the 12t1
ult., when PresideLt Jones immediately issued a proeia•

'nation convening the legislature of the state to meet at
Austin, on the 16th instant. to organise a state goveru-

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The news from Mexico is to 3d January, three days

later than that brought by the West India Mail. It fully
confirms the intelligence of the new revolution, under
Paredes. That revolution was complete. Paredes had
entered the city of Mexico, and was forming his Ministry
or Cabinet. There were reports that Mr. Slidell, the new
American Minitter, had been murdered by a Mexican
bandit, but they are disbelieved.