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

FOR:SIG,ZV _OU'ELLIGENCE.

THE. MEDITERRANEAN. 510
By the Peninsular, and Oriental Company's stsao.l".ter
Indus, Captain. Brooks, with. the India, China, and Me-q7b,
ranean mails,we have dates from Alexandria, Dec. 234-P:id o'
27 ; Gibraltar
_3l. The- Indus, brings 38 passengers, s"
freight two pa:ekages of specie, value not stated. Co/
At Alexanaria were the screw-ships Lady Jocelyn., - DIP
politan, and; Austrian corvette Venus,
and a large-fleet of merchantmen. 10ift
a Mexican. 50°5
From Gibraltar, we- have dates to the 31st ult. -inc'aSty'
The steam. transport Caroline left for Balaclava on, they
and not for England, as previously stated. Her 3SII otile
ship London, from the Black Sea, left Gibraltar an the ni
for England, in tow of the Prometheus steam-slooge
sailing transport Dunbar was at Gibraltar with u
,C7,a p. 4
powder,,shot, and, shell from Malta, which she would la
paratory to proceeding to Spithead. The Cambrian t so,
transport, which left Constantinople on the 21st instal' 91),,
Malta the 26th, put in to Gibraltar to coal on. the 30th'
has fourteen horses on board for England, in charge ci, oi'gr,
'eti v
grooms, the property of British officers who. have sell'
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the-
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The Swedish brig Solide put into Gibraltar on the 82rit 4
to land the mate and four seamen belonging to the :0.01
schooner Jane, Joseph Robinson, master, twenty days ° •Ilve
Maryport, bound to Marseilles, with a cargo of coals,
3,0
was run into by the Solide off Fuengirola, near gaily V,
previous night, about a quarter-past seven• o'clock. Cort
collision the five men got on board the Swede; and, OA tle
Robinson and one of the crew are missing, it is fear,.;
they must have gone down with the schooner. Wile„ !',
accident happened the vessels were not more than 60
from the land. --
WEST INDIES AND PACIFIC. osiesl/0.
The Tyne arrived on Friday with the mails. Her ,--jeto
Thomas
in Antigua, i°of•
for the Admiral 61;
saghtuießpnecMremeoudfde Medea :mcweoeantsii
detainedcoming to ttoh Sert e.
somethedays'
Cyane, of 20 guns, which refused to salute the Bri,tP,l iljt,t
United States slecT_D ri;
ty °fI:5;f::
The cause assigned by the Cyane was that an Amex' elssel)tp
ject (a slave) had been taken out of an American s' A 0
Antigua. At Demerara The weather continued dry' fired, 0
Francis Burke, a gentleman from Montserrat, had aritee! pi
British Guiana, and applied to government for a P`eiPed
protect an invention, to separate and prepare in all loft ,l
manner the fibres contained in the plantain, banana, so, op
other vegetables, for various manufacturing purpos4,iti°43
Grenada the weather continued favourable to the Pl3,7,rinillir
and some fine seasonable showers had fallen. Freya 'ioiS for
we learn that the crop of sugar which was making ,innool
usually good. At Porto Rico the cholera, after I,i7janiovi
some time about the outskirts, had entered San " le'
was committing great havoc among the inhabitants. 1001
fever was also existing at Martinique. Icl tr
From the Pacific we learn that a great
movementsquati
been discovered near Naciamento, ninety miles 9, DV
ception, in southern Chili. The Republic of Bolivilocl ,o'
come peaceful, and all the revolutionary
successfully quelled. From Peru we learn that th!ere Dote
tion was still in session, and many projects of law 55,0011,4,1/
brought forward by the deputies. Amon.. them Si',Lig Irtv
suppress freemasonry and prevent lodges from beei, an re'
another proposed that the Jesuits should be expel' their,"
same day a counter bill was introduced to legalize..,,porV
silence in the country. The most extraordinary and ni'l
proposition made is the project of law, introduced
Roca, to sell the Chincha Islands,

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