The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-26 00:00:00

E LTVERPOOL STANDARD

FOREIGN

AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT 'WESTERN.
Advices have arrived from the United States to the 7th
nat., inclusive, by the. Great Western, Captain Mathews,

Thursday after noon, after a fine run of fourteen days.
The Geelt Western ronveyt d special messengers from
the American Government tcilMr. AV Lane, and from Ca-
nada to the Home Administration. It is stated, and con-
fidently so, that the former brings the Oregon notice to
Mr. M' Lane, with instructions for its due delivery to the

Government

The bearer entertains that belief

t (says the Wash-

"The form in which the notice way
ngton correspondent of the Courier and Enqui, er). wa,
:0 set firth the preamble and resolution as it pas-ed Cori-
zrt-s, and then• to append to it a formal notice on the part
if the Government of the United States "
The proceedings in the U "I (2' - entir'

ause of ongress a.,
minteresiing. The lirt-bster and Ingersoll committees had

sent into Maine for witnesses.
Relations with Alexi•;o had-assumed a more threatening
aspect. The latest accounts from Rio Grande state that

limit Porter and three men had been shot by the 'Alexi.
cans. Further desertions had ttken place. Fears for the
safety of the American force prevailed at Washington.
The receipts into the "Unite,l States Treasury during
the qua:ter ending the 31st of March last were 7,868,870,
dollars; expenditure, 4,483,897 dollars.
It would appear that considerable doubt exists as to the
payment of the interest due on the debt of Penr.sykania.
The Princeton steam-frigate was under orders for the

Gulf of Mexico.
Late accounts from Canada have reached us. The
journals publish an additional despatch from the lion.
W. E. Gladstone, dated April _I, upon the memorial of
the Mo:.tteal Board of Trade:—" It announces (says the
Montreal Courier) that .should the repeal of the corn
l-,ws pass the British -Legislature, the Canadian Patlia;
ment will be alLwed to do as it pleases with the 3s. duty
on Arnetican wheat. Attd it. does not appear that any op-
position will be shown to the repeal of the 2s. inive,ial
duty on flour. It hiso enunciates pl.tinly the prineinl,

hut Great Britain will not in future grant Letter Comm( r
cial terms to her colonies th m she.allows to other coma
tries, aid will nut revive the system which onr

rev a led

Iction of

lunial
oc

•ds doing

unts from

Cruz to the JEltt

of April have

had called foith go-

a, via tl

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s that sera

705 bill

count ry
Luthe

w,)s proclaimed in the opening speech of the chief officer
cit the S ate : this spirit, in-action,we now see Wore eur

The Constilutionnel announces that Ibrahim Paella is
bout to visit London in about a fortnight—a visit which

The Chi,.ese " Tale" of Robert Thou!, Esq., British
'Consul at Niugpo, China, has just been translated into
German, by Professor Beazer, of Leinsic.
',DISSECTION IN THE EAST —The Grand Seignior has
just promulgate d h
an order that the bodies of female shies

the students in medicine for dfssection
Letters and papers from Newfoundland, to a
April, bring very disastrous accounts of the seal fisin.ry, a
great number of. vessels having been lost or datoaged, and

Bth of

many lives sacrificed.
The committee for the relief of the sufferers hp t

£08,774. had a balance of £93 4CB and haz: depotite
three int- cent. interust, £73.371.
SCARCITY OF SERVANTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA
letter has been recuroly ruceivtd in this town fn
in Port Adelaide who sta
that tart that she wivs

morning the woman eame to her and informed her that she
was about to leave, and on being asked the reason, she said

A letter from

THE EVAAGELICAL ALLIANCI
men of the 25 L ult. ar.m.u, ces the arrival there of s.c
Protestant roioisters from America on their way to Lon-
don to attend the General Union. which is to take place in
August. They are about to travel in Germany, in order