The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-01 00:00:00

FOREIGN 1/V TELLIGENCE.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

the river on Thursday night, from New York. We have
ers to the 4th instant inclusive, three days later than the
previous advices. The New York Herald of the 4th gives
the following account of the state of trade :—" There is a
little movement in trade, not such as should be expected at
this season. The business at Philadelphia is described as
follows :—There has been but a moderate amount of business
transacted this week, the farmers and dealers in the interior
being engaged in seeding and cropping their corn.- It is ex-
pected that after next week, business, until. the closing of all
the canals, will become more active. The late foreign ad-
vices have produced no effect upon our market—the prices
of wheat and flour being too low in England to admit of any
shipment from this country. There has been no material
alteration in the money market or cotton trade since the last
advices.
On the night of the 25th ultimo, a range of new and sub-
stantial buildings, comprising five stores, and known as the
Preoleau's Block, in Charleston, were destroyed by fire. The
damage is estimated at upwards of 100,000 dollars ; but the
greater part is covered by insurance.
The intelligence from Canada is to the 26th ult., but it is
not of much importance. In the House of Assembly Mr
Dunscomb moved an address approving of the recent junc-
tion of parties, and expressing confidence in the new minis-
try. The following additional appointments have been made :
T. C. Aylwin to be Solicitor-General for Canada East, and
Small, Esq., Solicitor-General for Canada West.
The accounts from Yucatan, via New Orlean, confirm the
surrender of Laguna to the Mexicans without opposition.
The latter were waiting for reinforcements from Vera Cruz,
and would then proceed against Campeachy, where vigorous
preparations were making for their reception. It is stated
that the yellow fever had broken out amongst the Mexicans.
According to accounts from Brazil, by a recent law passed
by the Provincial Assembly of Pernambuco, the president of
that province is authorised to contract with any persons,
natives or foreigners, for the improvement of the manufac-
ture of sugar cane. These persons are to receive a salary
not exceeding four contos de reis, or 2,300 dollars per an-
num.
Extract of a letter dated Nassau, (N.P.) Sept. 17, 1842 :
" Since my last we have received most disastrous news from
the out islands. Most of the plantation houses and the salt
crop at Rum Key, have•been nearly destroyed, and the same
1 at Green Key at Watling's Islands. Harbour Island has also
I suffered severely. Several of the droughing vessels were lost
with most of their crews. The schooner Franklin was lost
off Cat Island, with all on board but the captain—among the
number a passenger by the name of Sanky, the performer, a
late resident of the States, with several hundred dollars worth
of property on board."

The British and North American royal mail steamer the
Columbia, Captain Miller, arrived on Saturday night at this
port from Boston and Halifax. She sailed from the former
city on the afternoon of the 16th, and from the latter port
(where she stopped eleven hours) on that of the 18th instant ;
and has made the passage in a few hours above thirteen days.
She has brought thirty-three passengers.
We have received by the Columbia New York papers of
the 15th and Boston of the 16th instant. The Halifax jour-
nals are of the 18th. ,

The Boston papers bring the news of the death of the Rev.
Dr. Channing. He expired at Bennington, Vermont, on the
evening of Sunday, the 2d instant. His disease was, it is
stated, typhus fever. He was in the sixty-second year of his
age. He had long been in a feeble state of health, which had
compelled him to relinquish active pastoral duties.
No material alteration had taken place in the money, stock,
or produce markets of New York. The stock market had
been extremely dull; and the advices from England by the
Columbia bad not had any effect on cotton or flour. The
exchange on London was from 107 i to 108+, and on France
from sf. 31+ to sf. 30. The transactions had been to a very
limited amount.
The Phoenix Bank of Charlestown, in the vicinity of
Boston, had failed. The whole of the capital of the bank had,
it appears, been loaned to two firms, without adequate se-
curity, the paper being so arranged, at the time of examina-
tion by the Bank Commissioners, as to elude the most careful
scrutiny. A dividend of profits, of three per cent, had been
declared payable on the very day that the bank stopped pay-
ment ! William Wyman, ex-president, and Thomas Brown,
jun., ex-cashier of the bank, and W. H. Skinner, of the firm
of tanley, Reed, and Co., had been arrested, and held to
bail in the sum of 100,000 dollars each, for their appearance
for examination before Mr. Justice Buttrick, at Charlestown.
The complaints charged that Wyman and Brown had em-
bezzled the sum of. 300,000 dollars from the Phoenix Bank,
and also that Mr. Skinner had conspired with them to per-
petrate the fraud, which is made larceny by the Revised
Statutes.
The Canadian news contained in the New York papers is
interesting. The acceptance of office by several of the mem-
bers of the new cabinet having caused the vacation of their
seats in the Legislature, the re-election of Mr. Baldwin and
Mr. Lafontaine had been opposed by the Conservatives.
Mr. Baldwin's opponent was Mr. Murney, who carried the
election for the county of Hastings by a majority of forty-
one. Serious riots had marked the course of the election,
the poll having on one occasion been closed. All the blame
of the riots is thrown on the Government party. Two com-
panies of the 23rd Regiment had been stationed in the polling
place for the suppression of the riots. Mr. Lafontaine's
opponent was Mr. Roe, who, at the close of the second day's
poll, was thirty-five votes a-head. At the final close, how-
ever, Mr. Lafontaine was in the ascendant, and was re-
elected.
The Parliament was prorogued, on the 12th instant, by Sir
Charles Bagot, with a short speech, simply thanking the les
gislature for the zeal and assiduity with which they had con-
sidered and perfected the measures of the session, as well as
for the supplies they had voted, and exhorting the members
to use their personal influence, in the several districts, to
promote the harmony and good feeling which it had been his
endeavour to establish.
The Governor-General had promulgated a letter from Lord
Stanley, Secretary for the Colonies, declaring that the Queen
had refused to grant :the prayer of certain petitioners, who
had asked the crown to make Toronto and Quebec alternate
seats of the provincial government. Kingston is to remain
the civil metropolis.
The bead-quarters and six companies of the second bat-
talion of Coldstream Guards embarked at Quebec for Eng-
land, on the sth instant, on board the troop-ship Calcutta.
Two companies of this battalion and two of the Grenadier
Guards remained at Quebec, waiting the arrival of the frigate
Pique. The 7th Hussars were also waiting the arrival of
tra n sports.
The West India mail steam-ship the Medway had arrived
at the Balize from. Vera Cruz, which she left on the 15th ult.
Mr. Curson, bearer of despatches from General Thompson,
the United States Minister in Mexico, came passenger by
her, and immediately set off for 'Washington, which lie
reached in the short space of twenty-three days from the
city of Mexico. It was understood, that the bad feeling
which had existed between the Government of Mexico and
that of the United States would be removed, and the dispute
between the two republics amicably arranged. General Al-
monte, Ambassador Extraordinary to the Government of
Washington, was on his voyage to the United States. Be
was intrusted with plenary powers for the settlement of the
questions at issue between the two Governments.
An expedition, it is stated, was fitting out at Vera Cruz,
the destination of which was Galverston, Texas. Troops
were collecting in the neighbourhood to form the military
part of the expedition. The iron war steamer the Guadal
loupe was at Vera Cruz, preparing to sail for Galveston, for
the purpose of reconnoitering the island, and capturing any
Texan vessels she might fall in with, previous to the sailing
of the expedition for the invasion of Texas by sea. Mean-
while, a Mexican force of 1300 men, under the command of
General Wall, had invaded Texas by land. On the 11th ult.
they completely surprised San Antonio, the frontier town.
Fifty-three of the principal' citizens were taken prisoners.
The Circuit Court was in session, and the judges and officers
of the court were made prisoners also. The proclamation of
the President, headed " The Enemy Again," ordered the
marching forthwith of the militia of Brazoria, Austin, Fort
Bend, Colorado, Victoria, Gonzales, Jackson, and Monta-
gorde countries against San Antonio ; the counties of the
upper Brazos and Colorado to march to Austin ; and the ci-
tizens of the other counties to hold themselves in instant
readiness. The orders of the Executive were direct, that, in
the event of the evacuation of San Antonio by the Mexicans,
hey were to be pursued beyond the Rio Grande and chas-
tised as " their audacity deserves." In the event of a formal
invasion, the western counties were to hold the invaders in
check, until the rest of the republic could rally to the rescue.
The President of Texas had revoked the blockade of the
ports of Mexico, in order to allow a more favourable oppor-
tunity for the mediation of England and the United States.
The Columbia made the passage from this port to Boston
in 13 days and 12 hours. The Britannia, which sailed hence
on the 4th ultimo, arrived at Halifax on the 16th, in a few
hours less than 12 days. She would reach Boston on the
18th.
The Belgian steam-ship British Queen, Lieutenant Eyk-
holt, sailed on the 7th inst. from New York for Portsmouth
and Antwerp. The packet-ship George Washington, which
sailed on the next day for this port, arrived on Sunday.

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THE OVERLAND ROUTE TO INDIA.
The following extract of a letter from an officer in the
Madras service, who proceeded to Alexandria vid South-
ampton, . the lit of June, 1812, by the
,Great Liverpool
Steamer, On. the Way to Bombay, may prove interesting:—
‘v e reached Alexandria on the lith, and the same even-
, ing, I proeeeded,with my luggage to the canal, where I found
, two large boats, one for passengers, and the other for luggage.
I got into the for Mer after seeing my luggage carefully stowed
away in the latter. At about ten p.m., all the passengers
were on board, and we were soon off, being towed along by
horses. We had no bed that night, but we arrived at Atfeh
on the Nile the next day, and embarked on board a small
steamer called the Lotus,. which left at four p.m. the next day.
We reached Grand Cairo at three p.m. the 19th of June, and
after visiting the city and dining at Hill's hotel, started in
the evening to cross the Desert, in vans drawn by four horses.
1 shared one with three fellow travellers. It is eighty-four
miles from Cairo to Suez. We changed horses seven times,
but it is trying work for the wretched animals, and the camels
too, to judge by the hundreds of their skeletons we,paased on
the sands. The vans not being on springs, jolted us awfully,
as the road is in places very rough and stony. It is cruel
work, the cattle employed being horribly chafed and galled,
so much so, that it is with difficulty the drivers can persuade
them to start, and they are frequently stopping. I had to
get out with another passenger and push the carriage on 16
times during the night, to make the horses move. We arrived
at Suez a six p.m. the 21st of June.
" I lost no time in searching a cabin on board the bon.
company's steam-ship Victoria. There were many passengers
of the May mail waiting here for the India steamer to take
them to Madras and Calcutta, but they were disappointed
owing to some accident, so they determined on going to Bom-
bay in the Victoria. We left Suez on the 22d of June, with
sixty passengers (about double the usual number), which was
any thing but pleasant, as the servants on board were not
sufficient to wait on so many. It was with difficulty one
could get a cup of tea, a second was out of the question, and
we had repeatedly to pray for water before we could get a
drink, and the Suez and Aden waters are both very salt, but
this is by no means the most disagreeable part of it, as the
vessel swarmed with rats and cockroaches.
" We vrived at Aden on the 29th of June, and took in
coals, which nearly smothered us, and covered every hole and
corner of the vessel with minute particles of black dust. It
was altogether a disagreeable passage. From some accident
the pumps were out of order, and the deck in consequence
always floating with foul bilge water. The crew was partly
English and partly Africans. We experienced very hot
weather in the Red Sea, the thermometer 94 degrees in the
shade. As we approached Bombay, we came in for the
monsoon rain and wind continually. We arrived at Bombay
the Stli of July.
" The deck passengers had a very uncomfortable night, as
it rained hard, and they were wet, as well by the rain as by
the sea, which constantly washed over them. I landed with
my luggage at two p.m., and shall proceed to join my regi-
ment about the 20th instant."

A rich mine of yellow amber, of a hardness equal to rock
crystal, has just been discovered in the neighbourhood of the
town of Zehderich, near Potsdam. This discovery is the
more remarkable, as up to the present time yellow amber has
only been found in the Baltic, or on the shores of that sea.
The Pacha of Egypt has forwarded to Sir C. Napier a
medal, splendidly enriched with diamonds, and a sword, the
hilt and scabbard of which are nearly all composed of solid
gold. These presents are of good workmanship, but which
will not bear a comparison with that of this country.