The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1855-10-30 00:00:00

CANADA

A CORRESPONDENT of The Guardian, dating from Toronto,
October 6th, says :—The news of the fall of Sebastopol, which
arrived here on the 27th ultimo, has produced a most
enthusiastic outburst of joy throughout the whole province,
together with a profound feeling of thankfulness to the Al-
mighty, " who alone giveth the victory." Our city authori-
ties immediately assembled, and passed a resolution, calling
upon "the citizens to set apart one day to be observed as a
public festival and day of rejoicing through the city, and all
classes vied with each other in manifesting their delight at
the glorious result of the long struggle. At twelve o'clock
there was a crowded public meeting held at the St. Lawrence
Hall, when several eloquent speeches were made, and an ad-
dress of congratulation to Her Majesty passed unanimously.
At two o'clock, a splendid lunch was given by our excellent
mayor, G. Allan, Esq., to the city officials and a host of others.
In the evening there was a grand concert and an illumination.
Montreal, Hamilton, London, and several other towns and
cities have also appointed special days of rejoicing. Indeed,
every township and village has had its own joyous demonstra-
tion, according to its capabilities. Amazing quantities of gun-
powder were destroyed wherever a cannon could be procured
to explode it from, and where there could not, anvils and
other extempore artillery, not according to " Woolwich regu-
lation," did great service in swelling the din. Furthermore,
there was an immense destruction of tar-barrels, rockets, and
other pyrotechnics. In the flourishing town of St. Catherines,
a well-sustained cannonade was kept up for three nights suc-
cessively after the arrival of the news. But amid all this ex-
citement, I am happy to say, the sentiment of one of our
leading dailies—"in the midst of our jubilee, glory to God
should be above all things predominant," seems to be deeply
impressed upon the public mind.
There was a very important meeting held in this city a few
days since, at which delegates were present from Chicago,
Milwaukie, Oswego, &c., to hear the report of the engineer
appointed to survey the route of the proposed ship-canal from
Lake Huron to Ontario. It was gratifying to all interested
to find that the obstacles which were reported to be almost
insurmountable have, to a great extent, vanished, when ex-
amined by scientific eyes. The whole distance is about ninety
miles, and Lake Simcoe occupies most happily a situation mid-
way between the lakes, so that about forty miles may be
deducted from the whole length on its account. Then there
are two rivers, the one running into Lake Huron, and the
other into Ontario, the beds of which can be made available
for the canal. The chief difficulty is a lofty ridge between
Simcoe and Ontario, but even in this case a ravine penetrating
through it for a considerable distance has been discovered.
Were this canal completed, it would be the thoroughfare of a
most enormous traffic. The movement here has excited the
people of Montreal and Quebec, and meetings have been held
with the object of endeavouring to run the canal viii the river
Ottawa, instead of Toronto.

FRA.NCE. —The French Government issued a decree, of date
the 22nd inst., appropriating ten millions of francs for the
relief of the poor who may suffer from a deficient harvest. At
the same time, the prohibition to export wheat, maize, pota-
toes, and chestnuts, was renewed ; distillation from corn is
forbidden; the grain of Algiers is reserved for the use of
France ; privileges are conferred on vessels importing corn
and flour ; the charge of the railways for the conveyance of
flour has been reduced; and " severe measures have been pre:
scribed against jobbers who may attempt to effect any frau-
dulent rise in the country markets."—The health of the
Empress is now better. According to the Paris correspondent
of the Daily News, she was playing at billiards the whole of
Tuesday morning.—The following is from Marseilles :—" The
embarkations for the East continue here. Within a few days
about 10,000 men have left our port, and the local journals
announce that from three to four thousand of the 82nd Regi-
ment, the artillery, and the siege train, arrived from the 15th
to the 17th for the same destination.
BELGIUM.—The session of the Belgian Chambers is to com-
mence on the 13th of next month, and will be opened by the
King in person.
THE CHOLERA IN SPAIN.—A Madrid letter of. the 19th
says : —The cholera continues to hold its fatal course here ;
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years old.
DENNARIC.—A letter from Copenhagen says :—" Although
it was no secret that the King had contracted a morganatic
marriage with a former milliner of the name of Lolla Ras-
mussen, whom he has elevated to the rank of Countess Danner,
yet that step had never been publicly or officially made known.
It therefore caused great sensation when the King, at the
court and levee he held on his birthday at the palace of
hiss marriageistobe
Christiansborg in this city, caused her to be present, and pre-
sented to her the foreign ambassadors, requesting the latter
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SARDINIA.—His Majesty Victor
Emmanuel is fast recover-
ing, and presided several times last week at the council of
ministers. In a few days lie will, it is hoped, be able to re-
sume attaching the royal signature to official documents,
which power he had been obliged to delegate to the Prince
Carignano, while suffering himself from rheumatism in the
hand. - His journey to Paris and London is spoken of as fixed
for the 20th of next month.
A TIFITRIA ig +ll /waarl - --I
- the power which has
dared to become the ally of England and France, and to which
Italian patriots look up with hope. The cause of the quarrel
is this :—Count Casati, the son of a nobleman who; in 1848,
fled from Lombardy and became a Sardinian subject, entered
the diplomatic service of Piedmont, and, after having been
attaché to the legation at Constantinople for a year, was
transferred to Florence. The Tuscan government madeC no
objection to the appointment ; and the Tuscan Premier and
the Austrian minister at Florence exchanged visiting cards
with the new attach 6. But Count Buol stepped in and asked
the Grand Duke of Tuscany whether, "in his position as an
Austrian'arehduke, he- could think of receiving in his palace
a person who could not be received by his Imperial Majesty
or by any Austrian minister ?" The Grand Duke acted upon
the hint, and his prime minister first begged and then de-
manded that the attaché should be sent away on leave—a de-
mand so unprecedented that the Sardinian government
declined compliance, though it spared no pains to bring the
matter to an amicable termination. The Tuscan government
then demanded that the Sardinian minister himself should be
recalled, and the natural consequence was that diplomatic
relations between the two courts ceased. Sardinia might
have been contented with this state of things ; but Austria
will not permit her to be. Count Buol, in an interview with
the Sardinian minister at Vienna, boldly declared, that "as
the rupture between the courts of Florence. and Turin had
taken place in consequence of instructions sent by the Impe-
rial government, His Majesty the Emperor would not remain
out of the question, but was determined to consider it a personal
, one to himself." "We shall fix a time," continued Count
Buol, "in which the difference ought to be made up; it does
imtinatter_to_ns _whether.there be a Sardinian minister at
Florence or not; but if you do not settle the dispute, His Im-
perial Majesty will consider it a personal affair, and take mea-
sures accordingly." The question is, whether England and
France will permit Austria to execute her threats. Hitherto,
.the Marquis of Normanby, the English Minister at Florence,
has taken the part of the Grand Duke; but it is said that our
government has sent a diplomatic agent to Florence to bring
Lord Normanby to views more worthy of his position.