The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-18 00:00:00

LATEST FROM THE UNITED STATES.

The rbval mail steam-ship Britannia,. Captain Hewitt, ar-
rived at this port on Wednesday, at one o'clock. She left
Boston on the forenoon of the Ist instant, and Halifax on
the afternoon of the 3d. The Britannia has had an exceed-
ingly rough passage from the moment of her leaving Boston.
She has encountered a continued succession of strong breezes
and variable winds, with thick foggy weather. On the morn-
,ing of the 4th instant, in lat. 44 20, long. 61 20. she passed
the Grent 'Western steam-ship.
The markets at New York were generally dull. Small
quantities of cotton had been taken for export, the prices
varying as follows :—New Orleans, 6 to 104, Uplands, 5/ to
9, Florida, ditto, Alabama, 6to 104. Flour was excessively
dull at 4 dollars 46 cents to 4 dollars 62 cents. A moderate
business has been done in stocks, Ohio sixes having ad-
vanced, and Indiana and Harlem railroad slightly declined.
,The transactions in Exchange for the packet were to a mo-
derate extent. The rates were, on London, 106 to 1064,
France, 5-45, to 5-424.
The domestic news in the papers is not of any general
interest, the population of the several states having their
whole attention absorbed by electioneering matters.
The transalantic mail steam-ship Calendonia, which sailed
from Liverpool on the 18th ult. arrived at Halifax on the
30th, after a passage of twelve days twelve hours. She
would reach Boston on the 2d instant.
The accounts from Canada, are to the 26th ult. Lieute-
nant-Colonel Cameron, C. 8., of the 79th Highlanders, is
dead. The British Statesman finds great fault with the
election for justices of the peace, they being, according to
that authority, of the lowest description. Mr. Morin had
been gazetted as a Commissioner of crown lands. Most of
the English Canadian papers were condemning the conduct
of the Governor-General, charging him with rewarding
rebellion and despising loyalty. The appointment of Mr.
Edward Gibbon Wakefield to an office of high authority, was
talked of. It was feared, that, if such an appointment did
take place, the British party would be exasperated with the
assumption of a threatening attitude.
War was still raging between Texas and Mexico. A ru-
mour was prevalent that the mediation of the United States
had been offered, in the hope of bringing about a reconcilia-
tion between the two powers. It was said that Mr. Web-
ster, by instruction of the President, had addressed a letter
to the American Minister, at Austria, inclosing a copy of
instructions which had already been forwarded to Mr.
Thompson, at Mexico, directing him to express in the name
of the American Government, the hope that it might be
deemed to comport with the interest of the Texan Govern-
ment to suspend any offensive military operation which
might be in contemplation against the Mexican Republic,
until the result should be known of the negotiation which
Mr. Thompson bad been directed to undertake.
Papers of later dates mention the arrival of General Al-
monte, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
from the Mexican Republic in the United States. He had
been formally presented to the President, to whom he deli-
vered the following address :
" The letter which I have the honour to place in your Ex-
cellency's hands, sufficiently manifests the sentiments of true
friendship which animate his Excellency, the President of
the Mexican Republic, towards the Government of the
United States. I can assure your Excellency, that mine are
in perfect accordance with these, and that during the period
of my stay in this country, as the Representative of my Na-
tion, I will omit no endeavour to consolidate the friendship
between the two nations, which, by their political importance,
in this hemisphere, by the similarity of their institutions,
and for other reasons, no less worthy to be considered, but
which it would take much time to enumerate, are called to
remain in a state of eonstant amity and good understanding
with each other, not only for the promotion of their recipro-
cal welfare, but also from the fact that they are the protec-
tors and perpetrators of true Republican principles in the
vast American Continent.
" May Providence favour my desires !"

The following is the reply of the President :
" It affords me pleasure to receive you as the representa-
tive of the Mexican Republic, and nothing will be wanting on
my part, compatible with the honour of the United States,
to encourage that friendly feeling between the two countries,
which you represent to be the chief object of your mission.
Every motive of public interest leads me to hope, that your
mission will be signalised by confirming and strengthening
the bonds of amity and friendship which should always exist
between neighbouring states, and nothing shall be wanting
on my part to bring about so desirable an end."
Meanwhile it appears from papers received from Galveston
to the Bth ult. that the Mexican and Texian forces had met,
and that the latter had been victorious. The accounts are
full of rumours, and but little that bears the stamp of per-
fect authenticity can be met with.

THE AFFAIRS OF THE LEVANT.

(From yesterday's Times.)

Our private correspondence from Alexandria of the 26th
ult., received by express, announces the departure of the
British Consul-General Barnett for Cairo on the preceding
day. The last dispatches received from Mehemit Ali were
dated Zagazik. Letters from Dimietta and from Siout in
Upper Egypt give some melancholy accounts of the misery
prevailing in that province in consequence of the destruction
of their cattle. The oxen are described as dropping dead
suddenly as if, struck with a musket ball.
Letters from Cairo of the 17th of the Ramazan announces
that the unexpected and unseasonable rising of the Nile had
carried desolation throughout the country. The floods had
carried away the corn stores at Boulac, which had been but
lately filled. Persons wishing to pass from old Cairo to the
new town were obliged to make use of boats, and the houses
of Cairo were flooded by the waters of the canal of Halie, a
circumstance unparalleled in the annals of Egypt.
Boghos Bey, in consequence of a repreco 'ration- made to
him by Colonel Barnett, and the Russian M Krah-
mer, had ordered the Custom-house officers, not to opeu any
chests or parcels addressed to any of the consuls.

From Constantinople we have letters to the 27th ult. in-
clusive. No account of the rising of the Druses and Maro-
nites appears to have reached Constantinople down to the
27th ult. So confident was the Divan that the Syrian ques-
tion was settled since the adjustment of the difficulties started
by the European Powers, that it had intrusted Essad Pasha,
on his arrival at Beyrout, to lose no time in organizing the
government of Lebanon according to the plan, submitted to
and approved by the Ambassadors. He was accordingly to
dismiss Omar Pasha and appoint two Calmacans, who were to
govern, under his control, the Druses and Maronites.
As respected Persia, the Porte receeived on the 23d, via.
Trebizond, intelligence of the most pacific nature from that
country. No recent engagement had occurred, and a Per-
sian corps of army assembled on the frontier, near Bajazid,
had consented to withdraw to a considerable distance into
the interior, on an assurance from the Ottoman authorities
that the Turkish forces collected in the neighbourhood would
likewise fall back. The roads, however, in that quarter con-
tinued to be infested by Kurds, who plundered indiscrimately
the caravans and travellers of both countries.
The Porte seemed to attach the utmost importance to the
events now passing in the Moldavo-Wallachian principalities,
for, notwithstanding the solemnity of the Ramazan, it never
ceased an instant to devote its attention to the affairs of
Wallachia. On the 21st Sarfet Effendi, the first interpreter
of the Imperial Divan, left for Buchorest, furnished with the
most precise instructions relative to the government of that
country. On his arrival there, he was to appoint a provi-
sional administration, composed of three members, who were
to rule the principality until the election of the new Prince
and his installation, in virtue of the sanction of the Sultan.
This election was to be made by the general assembly of the
deputies of the several districts, out of a list of five candi-
dates. Those candidates were Messrs. Campiniano, Stirbeg,
General Kisselef, Valpi, and Georges Philipesco. All the
chances were in favour of the latter, whose election was re-
garded as certain.
Rifaat Pasha, the new ambassador of the Porte in Vienna,
embarked for that destination in the Costendji steamer on
the 27th.

The Sultan intended to accredit a Minister Plenipotentiary
in Berlin.. Talat Effendi, former Charge d'Affaires in France,
was to be invested with that mission. _ _

Prince Nicholas Voghorihes, son of the Prince of Samos,
had left, with important despatches for the Governor of
Moldavia.

Emir Effendi took his departure. for Verna, with the
Servian deputies, on the 20th. This Envoy, who was the
bearer of the beret of his Highness, confirming the election
of Prince Alexander in the place of Prince Michael, was to
proceed thence to Belgrade, to invest the former with the
decoration and insignia of his new dignity.

The Malta Times of the 2th instant announces that a pre-
cautionary naval force was to be stationed on the coast of
Syria. " The very serious news, it says, " which we pub-,
lished in our last evidently requires a force to be sent to the
coast of Syria forthwith. We have seen the departure of the
Indus, and we doubt not that other ships will follow. The
Howe and the Inconstant are talked of. They are taking in
six months' provisions. We imagine a considerable force
will be sent."

RAILWAY THROUGH VIENNA.—The Austrian government
has authorised the construction of a railway to traverse Vi-
enna, and unite the station at the north with that of the south
of the country. The carriages are to be drawn by horses.
The marriage of the Princess Augusta of Cambridge will be
announced to parliament immediately on its meeting, which
is expected to take place early in February, and a provision
to be settled on the Princess will be promised by the minis-
ters. The ceremony of the marriage will, it is expected, take
place at Rumpenheim, the residence of the late Landgrave
Frederick of Hesse, the father of the Duchess of Cambridge;
and the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, Prince George and
the Princess Mary of Cambridge, will, accompany their rela-
tive to the continent, to assist at her nuptials with her
cousin Frederick William Charles George Ernest Adolphus
Gustavus, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz.
The time for the ceremony is not at present known, but is
expected to take place in toe spring of nent year.—Court
Journal.
ALICE LOWE AND LORD FRANKFORT AGAIN.—At the
Bow-street Police-office, on Saturday, Alice, Lowe, whose
name has acquired so muchnotoriety in connection with Lord
Frankfort, appeared before Mr. Twyford, the sitting magi-
strate, accompanied by Mr. Wolff, from the office of Mr.
Flower, the solicitor, in Hatton-garden, to apply for a sum-
mons against Mr. Vaughan, the pawnbroker, under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—Mr. Wolff said he was instructed by
Miss Lowe to apply for a summons against Mr. Vaughan, to
compel him to give up to her a quantity of jewellery and ar-
ticles of vertu, which had been pledged by her at his shop.
He (Mr. Wolff) stated that Miss Lowe had been tried at the
Old Bailey on a charge, brought forward at the instigation of
Lord Frankfort, of stealing the articles in question, when,
after a lengthened investigation, she was acquitted, and on
leaving the gaol the duplicates of the property were, as a mat-
ter of course, instantly delivered up to her, but when she ap-
plied to Mr. Vaughan he refused to part with the property
unless an indemnity was given him. A friend of the appli-
cant attended to give the requisite indemnity, but in the in-
terim Mr. Vaughan had been served with a writ of action on
the part of Lord Frankfort, and had therefore again refused
to give them up. There were a great number of articles
pledged, but at present Miss Lowe only applied to redeem
three of them.—Mr. Twyford said he thought the applicant
was entitled to a summons, but he wished to know under what
particular act of parliament Mr. Wolff had applied to him.
Mr. Wolff said it was under the 39 and 40 Geo. 111., cap. 99,
which commanded a pawnbroker to show cause why he re-
fused to deliver up property on the production of the dupli-
cate together with the principal and interest for which it had
been pledged. Mr. Twyford wished to know what power he
had under that act? Mr. Wolff said if Mr. Twyford was
satisfied that the case was made out, he had power to order
the pawnbroker to deliver up the property, and if he should
refuse, he (Mr. Twyford) could commit him to prieon until
lie complied. Mr. Twyford : Well, you may have your
summons. (Turning towards Alice Lowe) Pray, how old
are you ? Alice Lowe : I shall be twenty in February. Mr.
Twyford : Are you sure that you have made a regular
application to Mr. Vaughan to deliver up the property?
Alice Lowe Oh, yes ! I offered him both principal and in-
terest, and tendered the duplicates. He says he is aware that
I am entitled to the property, but he is afraid to give it up,
in consequence of the writ of action having been served on
him. Mr. Twyford again said that the applicant could take
a summons, and the parties, having thanked the worthy ma-
gistrate, withdrew. The applicant was driven to the court in
her own private carriage, her coachman being in livery. She
was attired in the same garments she wore at her trial, but
appeared to be in much better health. On Wednesday the
parties again appeared before Mr. Twyford, when that gen-
tleman postponed his decision until March, by which time
the action brought by Lord Frankfort against Mr. Vaughan
will have been decided.