The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-01-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE MEDITERRANE:AI4.
By the Peninsular and Oriental. Company's steam-811
Indus, Captain Brooks, with the India, China, and Meter mails, ,we have dates froinAlexandria, Dec. 23 ;
27; Gibraltar, 31. The Indus brings 38 passengers, 912" -
At were screw,ships Lady Jocen;
freight two, packages of specie, value not stated.
Costa.
politan,Alexandria the
and. Austrian corvette Venus, a Mexican stores
and a large fleet of merchantmen.
re,
From Gibraltar we have (laths, to. the 31st ult. inclus,!thr
The steam transport Caroline left for Balaclava on the, 27c's
and not for England, as previously stated. Her ggief;9lti
ship London, from the Black. Sea,, left Gibraltar on the The
for England, in tow of the; Prometheus steam-sloop- f
sailing_ transport Dunbar was at Gibraltar with a car
rre°-
powder,,shcbt, and shell frona.Malta, which she would land P 4
paratory to proceeding to Spithead. The Cambrian st"'
transport, which left Constantinople on the 21st instant qe.
Malta the 26th, put in to Gibraltar to coal on the 30th-
hasiourteen horses on board for England, in charge olsevio,
grooms, the property of British officers who have serves
the Crimea.
The Swedish brig Solids put into Gibraltar on the2Bth,o
to land the mate and four seamen belonging to the Bo' 0
schooner Jane, Joseph Robinson, master, twenty days out fro„h
Maryport, bound to Marseilles, with a cargo of coals, whiire
was run into by the Solide off Fuengirola, near Malaga, n
previous night, about a quarter-past seven o'clock. In 1.1
collision the five men. got on board the Swede; and, as C,ln
Robinson and one of the crew are missing, it is feared riTO
they must have gone down with the schooner.. When '';'oo
accident happened, the vessels were not more than six
from the land.

AmCa.4B.IFIC
~;
The Tyne arrived on F
ship Medea, coming to St. Thomas's for the Admiral's
lANvithDthPe
quence of meeting there the United. States sloopnAilag.
WEST INDIES AND
at Bermuda, was detained some days in Antigua, in Croof
Cyane, of 20, guns, which refused to salute the British oliD,
The cause assigned by the Cyane was that an American °I $t
jAecnttig(auas.lavAl
Demerara
ebreaeriat
tthaekewneaotuht
Francis Burke, a gentleman from Montserrat, had arriveui
efeoTiltiAnumederidear3n,. veo-15:1;
British Guiana, and applied to government for a Patlii,"eni
Her M.,,efters
tp
protect an invention, to separate and prepare in an elu-lod
manner the fibres contained in the plantain, banana, aloe,
other vegetables, for various manufacturing purposes',.. 00
Grenada the weather continued favourable to the planta'l.Alil
and some fine seasonable showers had fallen. From Trin7o.
we learn that the crop of sugar which was making was fat
usually good. At Porto Rico the cholera, after ragiogod
some time about the outskirts, had entered San Juan.,4ol(
was committing great havoc among the inhabitants. `
fever was also existing at Martinique.
Oci
From the Pacific we learn that a great quantity of go-- coly
been discovered near Naciamento, ninety miles above be,
ception, in southern Chili. The Republic of Bolivia 1,3`;`,00
come peaceful, and all the, revolutionary movements had vstett,
successfully quelled. From Peru we learn that the CO2eiitg
tion was still in session, and many projects of law were 'Joe to
brought forward by the deputies. Among them was °via;
suppress freemasonry and prevent lodges from being a the
another proposed that the Jesuits should be expelled, an, re-
same day a counter bill was introduced to legalize thelitsit
sidence in the country. The most extraordinary and iiniSLiof
proposition made is the project of law, introduced 14
Roca, to sell the Chincha Island.%