The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-01-18 00:00:00

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the meeting.

The proprietors then separated, every one evincing his
perfect satisfaction at the proceedings of the day.

By taking revenge a man is not even with his enemy ; bu
in passing it over he is his superior.
A man cannot call in a better physician than himself, if h
will take all the good advice he gives away to others.
Many are asking, " How can the people most appropr •
i
ately honour the infant Prince of Wales ?" I answer, am
who can gainsay ? " By founding a Royal Asylum for tin
poor factory cripples!" True, they have not been woundec
in the outside battles of their country, but they have beer
wounded in the civil wars of capital! Their strength bar
been wasted, their limbs have been torn, or crippled, or lost
in the strife of the leaguers—the strife of money-getting:
The Standard truly says of these child-tormentors, " Their
money is their country :" and Burke remarked of such like
men, " Their ledger is their Bible, their counting-house is
their church, and their money is their God."—Fleet Papers.
CURIOUS QUESTION.—M. Delahaye, Inspector-General
of the assurance company La Securite, resigned his situation,
and brought against M. Desprez, the director of the said
company, a demand of 7011. 28c. for arrears of salary. The
latter gentleman offered to pay this sum, but Delahaye re.
fused to give up to the company the papers and letters which
had come into his possession whilst in office. His advocate
maintained that in principle the correspondence belonged to
the party who had received it ; that if a ministerial circular
had decided otherwise with respect to a certain class of offi-
cers, that decision could have no influence whatever upon
private interests, and that it was the interest of his client to
retain the letters (all of which bore testimony to the able
manner in which he had discharged his duties) in order that
he might thereby be furnished with some means of defence
against the imputations alleged against him by the company.
In spite of the efforts made by the opposite counsel, the tri-
bunal rejected the demand of M. Desprez for the restitution
of the letters and correspondence, and ordered him to pay
the amount claimed as well as the costs of the trial.—Paris
Ipager.

UNITED STATES

The royal mail steamer Columbia arrived at this port on
Saturday morning last, having made the passage from Boston
in 13 days and 18 hours. She brings New York papers to the
31st ult., Halifax to the 3d, and Boston to the Ist instant.
In the proceedings in Congress, on the 22d ult., a member
of the senate presented a memorial from an insurance com-
pany at New Orleans, which set forth the loss the company
had sustained through the liberation by the British authorities
of Nassau, New Providence, of 38 slaves, which were insured
against capture or seizure by the British government. After
considerable discussion, the memorial was rererred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations.
On the 29th, Mr. Clay, in pursuance of a notice he had
given, laid before the senate three joint resolutions proposing
certain amendments to the constitution of the United States.
The first of the resolutions proposes to amend the constitu-
tion by restricting the veto power. The second proposes to

amend the constitution by vesting in congress the appoint-
ment of the secretary of the treasury and the treasurer of the
United States. The third resolution proposes to amend the
constitution by prohibiting the appointment to office of any
member of Congress during the term for which he was
elected. Each resolution has in view the same object—the
curtailment of executive power and influence, and the reduc-
tion of that power and that influence within safe and proper
limits. A long debate followed, the conclusion of which had
not been received at New York on the 21st ult.

On the 27th ult., in the senate, the following resolution
was carried ;

" Resolved.—That the President he requested to inform
the Senate, if in his opinion it may be done without detriment
to the public interest, whether any proposition has been made
to or received from the British Government since the 4th of
March, 1440, relative to a mutual right of search ; and, if so,
to lay before the Senate all such correspondence, together
with any instructions that may have been given since that
time by this Government to our Minister at England, re-
lating to that object."
On the same day a bill was brought in, and read twice,
for the postponement of the operation of the bankrupt law
until the Ist July.

The Secretary of the Treasury had submitted to Congress
his report, describing the President's plan for a new national
currency, and for a final adjustment of that question. The
report occupies a whole page in the New York papers. The
plan which it embodies proposes the establishment of a Go-
vernment Bureau with agencies—first, possessing the power
to issue 15,000,000 dollars of Treasury notes, from 5 dollars
to 1000 dollars, redeemable in specie at the point of issue,
and receivable for revenue everywhere; second, authority to
issue certificates of deposits made in specie, redeemable in
the like way as the Treasury notes ; and third, power to buy
and sell domestic bills of exchange at certain stipulated rates,
and within appointed times and distances.
The British ship of war Illustrious, 7-1, Captain Erskine,
arrived on the 30th December, from Porstmouth (England),
whence she sailed on the 16th November, having on board
Sir Charles Bagot, the new governor-general of British
North America. She is said to be the first English line-of-
battle ship that has visited the port of New York since the
revolution. On her arrival at quarantine, the British consul,
Mr. Buchanan, proceeded thither in the steam-boat Frances,
for the purpose of bringing his excellency up to the city, but
on account of the storm he decided to remain on board the
ship until the following day. A suite of apartments had
been taken for him at the Globe Hotel. It was understood
he would leave for Canada on the following Monday. The
Illustrious, would not come up to the city, as she was to take
her departure in a few days.
A justice named Wiley had been convicted of havinc, been
connected with thieves and bank robbers, for whom he had
negociated rewards on the restoration of their plunder !
The judges of the courts at Philadelphia, to whom the
grand jury had made a presentment against Nicholas Biddle
and others, on the alleged ground of their having defrauded
the Bank of the United States, had unanimously decided
against entertaining the subject. It was rumoured that the
officers of the bank would be indicted in some way.