The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-08-09 00:00:00

FOREirIN INMILIOFNCIt

UN ITIO§YATES,
The packet-ship North America, Captain Lowber, whicii
sailed from New York cn the 19th ult., arrived off this port
on Saturday night, after a quick passage of seventeen days.
She has brought papers four days later than those previously
in our possession.
There is no precise information given as to Lord Ashbur-
ton's negociation. The Bangor Courier says, " It is stated
here, and is true, that Captain Talcott and his surveying
party north of the St. John have been recalled, while the
party south of the river will continue their topographical
survey. This movement is supposed by some not only to
indicate, but almost to prove, thatboundary question'
has been agreed upon.' The Portland Argus, described as
a paper likely to he well informed on the subject, says, "No
settlement of any of the difficulties has yet been finally
agreed upon ; but we have no doubt that preliminaries
have been arranged, which, if carried into effect, will be
satisfactory to Maine. The final result may not be known
short of two or three months, but that it will be satisfactory,
when known, we have many reasons for believing." And
the Journal of Commerce, of the 19th ult., thus speaks of
the negociation generally ;—" We have abundant reason to
believe, that the negociation with England is substantially
concluded, and that, if everything is not finally settled in
every particular, nothing has been left in any other than a
safe and amicable position."

The Tariff Bill, which had been so long before the House
of Representatives, passed the house, on the 16th ult., by a
vote of 116 to 112. The bill would, it was expected, receive
the consent of the Senate by a bare majority of one. Whe-
ther, that expectation being fulfilled, it would receive the
approbation of the President was uncertain. The prevalent
opinion seemed to be that it would.
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A bad feeling prevailed between Mexico and the United
States. The President, in pursuance of a call of the House
of Representatives, had transmitted to the house the corres-
pondence which had taken place between the governments of
the two countries. The tone of the Mexican Minister's let-
ter is severely censured. The Americans, ridiculously
enough, affect to believe that it was written under English
dictation, for the purpose of provoking a quarrel with the
United States, while Lord Ashburton was negotiating for the
amicable settlement of the disputes between England and
America !
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No material alteration bad occurred in the money or the
stock market in the interval between the sailing of the Cale-
donia and the North America. Remittances for the payment
of the interest on the -Virginia State stock arrived at. New
-York on the 15th ult., but too late to be forwarded to Lou.
don by the Caledonia, from Boston, on the 16th.
The exchange on London was quoted at 1061 to 1061 ; on
Paris, 51. 40 to 50f. 45.
Accounts from Houston, the capital of Texas, had been
received to the 4th ult. The Congress met at Houston on
the 28th June. Next day President Houston delivered his
message, which was confined principally to a statement of
the embarrassed state of the national treasury. The Presi-
dent is for disposing of the public lands, as the most prompt
way of meeting the financial exigency. After briefly review-
ing the incursions of the Mexicans, and his own course re-
lative to the preparations for an offensive war, he submits
the whole matter to the discretion of Congress, recommend-
ing especially to their favourable notice the national navy.