The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIG_EXCE,.

SWEDEN.
Baron Stierneld, the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs'
has addressed to all the Swedish envoys a circular, dated.
December 18, respecting the recent treaty with the Western-
Powers. He says that Sweden, entertaining apprehension'.
(founded upon remembrances too well known to neediePeti"
tion) of Russian encroachment in the north, had, at the Pre"
posal of France and England, entered into a defensive treat)"
of alliance, designed to assure the integrity of the united.
kingdoms of Sweden and Norway. He points out, however;
that this treaty will not be of any prejudice to Russia ; it will,
not, in fact, come into application, unless through aggression
on her part ; and he adds, that it does not imply any change.
in the actual position of Sweden, for her declaration of new •
trality still subsists, and will continue to be adhered to at
hitherto. All hope of military assistance from Sweden and
Denmark in the coming spring would appear, therefore, to be
at an end.

THR. DANITBE.—By a telegraphic despatch from Galatz, of
the 31st December, we learn that the ice in the Danube had
become firm, and at that place and Ibraila about fifty ships
were frozen in, as well as all the others between those places
and Sulina. At the Sulina mouth, there were lying between
400 and 600 vessels, which, in consequence of a deficiency of
lighters, and contrary winds, could not go to sea.
PORTUGAL—The Madrid mail steamer, which left Gibraltar
on the 7th, Cadiz on the 10th, Lisbon on the 12th, and Vigo
on the 14th inst., has arrived, with specie value 24,600. At
Lisbon an immense fall of rain had done considerable damage'
Some of the Cintra railway works were destroyed. Exchange
unaltered. At Oporto freights were stationary, owing to a
flooding of the Douro. Wine shipments were slack. Exchange
irregular. The steamer Peru, with machinery damaged, Was
off Beleu on the 12th, waiting for rifatique. The Bosphorus
was at anchor, having coaled at Lisbon. Very heavy
The Minto steamer put into the Tagus. Spoke, on the 9th)
the screw-steamer Imperador, with troops for the East. 11
Ripon, steamer, left Gibraltar for Spithead on the 7th. Several
casualties had occurred, owing to the severe weather, 111'
Gibraltar. Exchange on London, 61 3-16.
WEST INDIES.—The steam-ship La Plata arrived on Wed-
nesday, with the usual mails. At Jamaica fever was veil
prevalent, and the mortality great. At Demerara some appre;
hension was felt with respect to the limited supply of iminl"
grants expected this year. At Grenada the weather Was
favourable for sugar operations. From Chili there is no par-
ticular intelligence. In Peru every symptom of another revo-
lution was apparent. At Valparaiso a gold fever prevailed:
and hundreds were rushing to the diggings, a distance of about,
fifteen miles. weather.

BY the steamship Pacific, which arrived on Thursday, we
have intelligence from New York to the sth instant. The
Senate continued unorganised. The House of Representatives
persisted in refusing to receive the President's Message until AUSTRALIA.
Congress was properly organised. The state legislature at The "White Star" clipper Ben Nevis, Captain Heron,
Albany was in a similar predicament to the senate, the mem- arrived in the Mersey on Thursday, with 80 passengers,
bers not being able to agree upon a speaker. Further riots 45,000 ounces of gold, and a general cargo, including 500
had taken place at Kanzas, the mob having gutted a govern- bales of wool, 300 bundles of rags, 2,400 hides, 4,600 horns,
ment newspaper-office, thrown the type into the river, and &c. The Ben Nevis left Port Phillip Heads on the 19th of
burnt the paper. Advices from Havana report several poli- October, having arrived at Melbourne on the 4th of October.
tical arrests, the prisoners being shipped off at once to Spain. The Ben Nevis arrived off Cape Clear on the Ist of January/
Mademoiselle Rachel had arrivedat Havana, in a very bad state and had been beating about in the channel ever since.
of health ; her medical advisers had prohibited her performing The ,‘ White Star" clipper Shalimar arrived out on the 15th
for several months to come. A duel of a desperate character of October, having left Liverpool on the 20th of July; sbe
had taken place between Senors Villagos and Paredes, mem- I was expected to leave for Liverpool on the 15th of November'
hers of the board of directors of the Cienfuegos Railway Com- I The Champion of the Seas was to sail for Liverpool on the
pany. The weapon used was the broad sword. The immense 25th of October.
strength of Paredes enabled him at the first cut to break down The papers contain no news
tes of
was rtathe guard of Villagos, and to cleave his skull nearly in twain. business in Victoria had been suspended till the new constita:
on
At the last accounts he was still living, but in a hopeless tion, which arrived out in the Shalimar, had been discussed
state. Advices from the city of Mexico to the 18th ult., state and proclaimed. Lola m
that the primary elections for the election of deputies to the ' Dance" at the Geelong Theatre Royal, on the 17th October-
' constituent congress had taken place. Great enthusiasm pre- ' Some fresh gold and copper " diggings" are said to have bee/impo to dance. All
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Guanajuato, Puebla, Oajaca, SierraGorda, and Guadalajara had Young, the governor of Tasmania, and the executive of Vanalso, it is said, pronounced, and the other smaller localities Diemen's Land, on the subject of transportation, the point a,.
had followed the example. The pronunciamientos seemed to 1 issue being a question of privilege between the two authorities,
be principally the work of General uraga. In molt of the which was abruptly terminated by the governor's proroguing
revolted points the National Guard had triumphed over the the session.
insurgents. At Cuantla de Morelos the Indians had corn- i The price of gold was 755. 9d.-the ounce. 30,000 diggero
mitted many outrages, assassinating and pillaging the inhabi- J were at the Fiery Creek diggings, and had partly brought
tants. Letters from Lower California communicate the defeat down from 8,000 ounces. The yield from quartz has of a fillibuster expedition under a Corsican, named Zerman, increased at Bendigo. During the week ending the 12th
by the Mexican forces under General Blancarte. Another ex- October, the escorts from Mount Alexander, Ballarat, and
pedition, a naval one, against Mazatlan, had also been dis- Beechworth brought 64,181 ounces down to Melbourne.
persed, and the vessels captured. Speaking of the difference
At the Melbourne wool sales, on the 11th October the priCCs
between the English and the United States governments re-
were in advance of those of last season. A superior flock of
specting the Central American question (the Bulwer-Clayton
wool in the grease was sold at Bd. per lb. The hide and tai-
treaty), the New York Tribune forms the opinion that Mr.
low markets quiet, and no changes to report since the sailing
Clayton's (the U.S. plenipotentiary) asseverations touching
of the Donald M`Kay. Freights to Liverpool ou wool
the intentions of the negotiators of the Clayton and Bulwer per lb. ;
30s. greatly'

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