The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-03-01 00:00:00

UNITED STATES.

The George Washington, Captain Burrows, which sailed
from New York on the Bth February, arrived here on Satur-
day forenoon. We have received by her the city papers to
the day of sailing, and Canada journals to the 31st January.
In the Senate, on the 4th ult., Mr. Calhoun made a pro-
position to refer to the Committee on Foreign Relations the
message of the President on the mutiny and murder by the
slaves on board the Creole, and the liberation of those slaves
by the British authorities in Nassau, New Providence. He
considered that prompt action on this subject was necessary,
as it involved important principles, paramount to any of
those which are now the subjects of negotiation between the
United States' Government and Great Britain. The mes-
sage was referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
The House of Representatives had been almost wholly en-
grossed by the debates arising out of the motion for a vote of
censure on Mr. John Quincy Adams, for having presented
an objectionable petition to the House. Mr. Adams was de-
fending himself vigorously and ably. He was in possession
of " the floor" at the date of the latest accounts from
Washington.
The Philadelphia banks remained in the state they were in
at the date of the previous accounts. Considerable distrust
was felt after the failures of the Girard and Pennsylvanian
banks : hence money was exceedingly plentiful in private
hands, which hesitated to invest it in stocks or to deposit it
in banks. The Legislature of Pennsylvania, which was in
session at Harrisburg, had before it a bill compelling the
banks of the State to resume each payments immediately.
Several clauses had passed the House of Representatives by
large majorities. The Governor of the State of Pennsylva-
nia had, it is stated, succeeded in obtaining nearly 400,000
dollars from the Pennsylvania Bank, which, together with
100,000 dollars in possession of the State Treasurer, hadbeen
paid to the loanholders and their representatives, leaving
300,000 dollars to be provided by the other banks, under a
requisition from the Governor. " Thus," says the Harris-
burg Intelligencer, " the State interest will be paid in a
few days."
The case of Mr. Jaudon was still before the Court of Ge-
neral Sessions. Witnesses had been examined in support of
the charge of conspiracy to defraud the stockholders of the
United States Bank.
The Bankruptcy Law bad gone into operation. The ap-
plications for the benefits of the law were numerous in the
principal cities. A New York editor, who had been a great •
advocate for theta v, was amongst the first applicants.
The accounts for Texas are to the 24th ult. The Texans
were still under apprehensions of an attack from Mexico.
Extensive preparations were making to repel it. A bill had
been introduced into the Senate, directing the president to
open the negotiations for annexiug the republic to the
United States. An act to fund the debt had passed that
body. The government had been authorised to issue 150,000
dollars in exchange bills.
Congress had passed a bill repudiating Texas liabilities
after the Ist of February. The old bonds or notes of the
republic were not after that date to be taken in payment of
government dues.
The brig Cumberland, 54 days from Monte Video, had
arrived at New York. The captain reported that an ac-
tion had been fought on the 12th of December, between the
Buenos Ayrean and Monte Videan fleets. The result had
not been ascertained at the time of her sailing ; but it was
supposed to have been in favour of the Monte Videan squa-
dron. The firing, which lasted two hours, was heard at
Monte Video.
Lima papers to the 16th of December had been received
at New York. Gamarra, who was in the south of Peru, had
sent an order to Lopera for the troops that were in the city ;
but Lafuente and Menezden refused to obey the order, be-
cause they apprehended a revolution if the troops left the
city. There had been three or four attempts to assassinate
Sir James Wilson, her Britannic Majesty's envoy, which had
caused a great sensation throughout the Peruvian republic.
It was generally believed that the infamous attempts were at
the instigation of General Lafuente.
The Pique frigate, from Portsmouth, •had arrived at Ber.•
muds. Several fatal cases of smallpox had occurred during

the voyage.
The New York money market, at the latest date, wns in a
depressed condition, without the chance of recovery. Sales
of all descriptions of American securities were pressed for-
ward, regardless of the sacrifice the seller must submit to
compared with recent quotations, the great apparent desire
being to get rid of them. There was no price for United
States' Bank shares, nor had there been for some days prior
to the sailing of the packet.
A New York cotton circular, after speaking of the state of
trade in that staple, which it characterizes as declining, rates
having fallen to 4 cent per pound since the close of Decem-
ber, gives the receipts for 1842 as 693,584 bales, showing an
increase of 108,417 bales as compared with the receipts
in
1841 ; the exports are stated at 373,977 bales, also showing
an increase of 93,519 bales as compared with the exports of
1811; while the stock, which is given of 258,584 bales, shows
an increase of 56,222 bales. The excess in exports to France
had been 66,878 bales, but to England only 23,575 bales.
Notwithstanding this, the purchases on English account were
most active. The present year's crop promised to be large

MESSRS. MARSHALL, THE MILLOCRATS OF
LEEDS AND SHREWSBURY, AND THE AGRI-
CULTURAL INTEREST.
(From the Shropshire Conservative.)
It is really extraordinary—how far beyond the bounds of
common sense, and simple reason, impudence will go, and
how much delusion may be practised on the public mind, by
those who possess a tolerable quantum of brass in their
visages, and loud declarations, with leaden tongues, from
senseless craniums. This is the case with the firm of Mar-
shells, the factory slave-drivers of Leeds and this borough.
These gentlemen profess liberal! principles, announce them-
selves the friends of the poor, and denounce the corn laws
as a great oppression—and compare the burdens of the ma-
nufacturers with the land, stating the former to be, insuffera-
ble. What is the fact Facts are stubborn things—and, as
one instance is as good as a hundred, let us show, in the case
of these very Marshalls, how oppression works. Marshall's
factory in this town, has been clearing, for the last 25 years,
a profit averaging £B,OOO per annum, and the last rate of the
factory, to the poor of the parish of Saint Mary's, was £528
—while on the other band, Mr. Gough, farmer, of Gravel
Hill, residing in the same parish, is rated to the poor, for
the same space of time, £l,OOO ! Where is the light burden
of the farmer here? We have no doubt, Mr. Gough would
be satisfied with one-eighth of the profit obtained by the
factory owners, although he pays 100 per cent. more to the
poor. What are the wages allowed by Messrs. Marshall to
grown-up women, 24 years of age or more, at the factory ?
Why this kind, liberal, anti-corn law firm, actually pay Gs.
per week, the hours of work from half-past five in the morn-
ing till eight o'clock at night—and more, if any of the factory
people (who have to come from the top of the building)
should be absent, from necessity, more than five minutes,
four-pence is stopped for the time lost—yes, four-pence for
five minutes is but 4s. an hour, and yet the work is only paid
for as we have stated. Upon a fair calculation, after rent is
paid, and scanty clothing, say for both 2s. per week, these
poor wretches have only, to provide them with food and
firing, six-pence three farthings per day ! Could not these
millionares give rather more than paupers receive for out-
door relief ? when granted. Have the Marshalls, at any
time, contribated one six-pence to any of the town charities?
A town the factory has burdened with the expense of pau-
pers, increasing the poor rates, &c. There is not in Shrews-
bury, a vestige of charity bestowed by these grinders of the
poor—no refuge for age, after long services—or for those
crippled at the mill. Oh, no, but these are liberal gentle-
men ! It is high time the poor-rate was levied in the form of
a property tax—then the taxation would fall on the right
shoulders.

'rue POWER or CONSCIENCE.—About 18 years ago the
body of a man was found bruised, cut, and mangled in Pit-
tencrief Quarry, near Dunfermline, as if he had fallen over
the precipice in the dark and had been killed. The body
was recognized to be that of a man named Stewart, a homer
in the town. It was known that he had been watching the
churchyard the night previous, along with some other persons
—his sister having been lately buried—and, as on such occa-
sions spirits were never wanting, it was thought that the
party had quarrelled, and that the homer had met with foul
play. An investigation took place at the time, from which,
however, nothing resulted, and doubt and mystery have
hitherto enveloped the whole transaction. Within these few
days an individual has returned from-America or the West
Indies, whither he had gone shortly after the homer's death;
and he has returned, he says, impelled by the never.-ceasing
accusings of his conscience to divulge to the authorites here
his having been a witness to the manner in which the un-
fortunate Stewart met his death. Ile states that he saw the
dead body brought out of the town house, where the watch-
men spent the night, after a dreadful scuffle within, and ter-
rible cries, and that the body was rolled and kicked about
the street. It would be improper to publish more at present,
as doubts are entertained of the sanity of the witness, and
some of the parties are now dead; but we doubt not the
matter will meet with all due attention from the legal autho-
rities.—Fifeshire Journal.
ME LATE COACH ROBBERY.—Two men and a woman
hare been apprehended as having stealing
concerned in stealin
the £2OOO, sent by Messrs. Cunliffes, Brook and Co. 'ban-
kers, from Manchester to Bury. No direct evidence hrs
been yet adduced against the prisoners, and they were
remanded until to-morrow (Wednesday.)
The inhabitants of Birmingham have petitioned parliament
to reduce the new police, and to relieve them from the charter
o° incorporation, which boon of whiggism they call a " great
grievance "!