The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1840-10-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

NEWS FOR ENGLAND. (From Bennett's Morning Herald.) The excitement on the subject of the approaching Presidential election is hourly increasing. The whole country, from Maine to the confines of Louisiana, is in a state of commotion. Never since the great contest between the federal and democratic parties in 1801, has there been such an intense, all-pervading feeling of interest and anxiety on a political question. Four weeks will bring us to the time of commencing the choice of Presidential electors, and the intermediate period will be occupied almost exclusively in preparations for the great struggle.—Several of the states have their annual elections during these four weeks, and the result will stimulate the excitement to increased activity, if that be possible. _ _  The late state election in Maine resulted most disastrously for the friends of Mr. Van Buren, and the sanguine hopes of the whigs have now grown into absolute confidence. Mr. Webster, who is regarded as the exponent of the views of the whig party, in his elaborate speech to the merchants of this city on Monday, avowed in direct and explicit terms his preference for a national institution, to regulate the currency of the country, and although he premised that he spoke for himself alone, and disclaimed any authority to make an exposition of the doctrines or intentions of the new administration, still his declaration is looked upon as a decisive indication of the policy of the party, and as evidence of the determination of the whigs to establish a National Bank, in the event of General Harrison's election.  During the Presidential campaign, the whig orators, and all the authorized organs of the party, have studiously abstained from any discussion of their own principles. The party opposed to Mr. 1 Buren embraces such a variety of discordant materials and is so heteorogeneous in its composition, that any distinct avowal of its doctrines would disband and scatter it to the four winds of heaven, at once. But by sinking all minor differences of opinion, waiving the discussion of all disturbing topics, and agreeing to coalesce for the expulsion of the Administration, they have gone on with great harmony. It is not often that the whigs agree, but when they do, their unanimity is wonderful.  The growing expectation of whig success seems to have had a beneficial influence on trade and business generally. It has already created confidence in certain quarters, and Gen. Harrison's election, with the adoption of any new measures, will give an additional stimulus that will be temporarily advantageous to the country. THE FLORIDA WAR is apparently no nearer its termination than when General Jessup intrigued General Scott out of the command of the army. There has been no wholesale massacre since the destruction of the settlement of Indian Key. Almost every mail brings an account of a man or woman murdered, and occasionally we hear of three or four killed at a time. On the 6th instant, a scout of 30 men, under Lieut. Hanson, was fired on by an ambuscade, near Wacahoota. Orte man killed, and four wounded. On the 7th, the house of Mr. Dorsey, two miles and a half from Chattahoochie, was plundered and burnt; Mr. Dorsey had previously removed with his family to Alabama. On the same day a young man named Geiger was killed by the same party of Indians. His body was found on the 10th, horribly mangled, his head cut off and taken away. These accounts are, now and then, interspersed with the history of the capture of an Indian, the destruction of a cornfield, or the fight of a squaw.—lf then, there is no additional energy infused into the war department, this war will, no doubt, last through the present century.