The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

AMERICA.

;
Shortly befOrell o'clock on Tuesday morning the Brit.!ll'
and North American Royal Mail steam-ship cembrier
Captain Leitch, entered the Mersey, bringing 27 easse°'
gers and about 06,000 in specie on freight. The Cambria
left Boston on the 3rd instant, and encountered durill
the whole of the passage pretty stiff easterly winds, ivloe"
matereally retarded her progress.
The United States mail stelm-ship Atlantic, Cap
O°
West, arrived at New York on the 26th ult., after a Ws
of fifteen days from Liverpool; and the Africa on the
28th, after fourteen days' passage. The steamer Glasgelf.
from Glasgow. reached her wharf at New York on the
29th ; and the Franklin, from Havre, via Southampton,
at 9 a.m. on the 2d instant.
A meeting was held'at Philadelphia, on the 26th ult.,
protest against receiving the Pope's present of a-block '1
marble for the Washington monument.
Several horrible transactions have recently taken Plee
in Philadelphia. On the 27th ult., a man ate of poisoned
meat, from the effects of which he subsequntly died. a°
next evening a woman threw oil of vitriol on a 01
Bechler, which compietely burned out one of his eyes, are
otherwise shockingly disfigured his face. About the as°3' •
time a fireman was fatally stabbed by a rowdy ; and during
the'same night another man was stabbed by a thief, vibolll
he caught in the act of stealing his property.
A row occurred at Philadelphia on the Ist March, con'
earning the election of mayor, &c. Nothing serious, hen
ever, occurred. A letter of that day, concerning W.':
above, says :—" At the democratic ward election this
evening, for the nomination of 'candidates for ward attom
cers, a disturbance ensued, after the closing of the poll!,
in the first ward of Meyamensing. A mob rushed into
the house, seized the boxes, and destroyed the ballotsi
The quarrel, was between the old and young hunkers °
the party. Several arrests were made."
Leahey, the converted monk, undertook to lecture 10'
Baltimore, on the evening of the Ist inst., at Tecaperanc•
°
Hall, on the treatment of females at the confessions,•
Soon-after he commenced speaking, he was interrupte",
by some persons present, who finally rushed on the lee'
turer with sticks, dirks, and knives. The
police, 110 w
ever, were in attendance in strong force, and arrested
several of the ringleaders.
Lowel's Cotton factory at Columbia, South Caroline'had been burned to the ground.
According to the advices from the Mormon reel
received by way of Oregon, the Salt Lake saints be'
rebelled, and published a declaration of independence'
with a determination of setting up a republic of their oval'
At last-accounts, they were arming and fortifying thet°-
selves, for the purpose of resisting any force that el
United States might send against them with the view °
subduing and bringing them back to the Union.
Kinkel, the German revolutionist, who had been 0
New York, left that city, on board the Baltic, for Wash'
ington, on the 25th. He was to pay a flying visit to see'
ral dues in the South, where lie would endeavour toe!.;
cite the sympathy of the Southerners for the epoc or P 124
published Get * ioa an.
pamphletT he
ofA
Kossuth in the most violent terms, because he icemor
not say, in any of his speeches, whether he was fer
against the anti-slavery agitators in the United Stare:o,
moveerircaanhuittrier paavgeersy, Sdoencioeutyna
A bill has been introduced in the Legislature at Al' i,,ht
for thepurposeof vesting in Archbishop Hughesallther 'Pao
and title of the real estate belonging to the various Re°
Catholic congregations in New York and that diocese*the
At Cleveland, Ohio, nine ladies are studying
homoeopathic system of medicine. oil/
The Rev. Calvin Fairbanks had been found go"— .
stealing negroes, and sentenced to the Kentucky Peode°
tiary.for fifteen years.
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Some 460,000 worth of property, belonging to the •
moot Central Railroad, had been destroyed by fire.
From Canada our advices inform us that the publican 6,
of despatches from Earl Grey, on the subject orthe
bee and Halifax Railroad, had given rise to new sP,e°,7o.
tions as to the possible success of that scheme. '*-0
now- apparent," says a New York paper, " to ever9.,o,
that the Imperial Government desire to see these x'„4
vinces connected by a railroad for military purposes; .$1,40
that to any enterprise that will not forward these vw
they will give no encouragement."—Malcolm Cainero
ia
has accepted the newly created Bureau of Agriculture'cil,
connection with the PreFidency of the Executive Ceirs of
—The assumption by the Government of the liabilitivos
the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railway Company 0
recently been the subject of some animadversion if
portion of the Provincial press.—A commission is ebbaohlf
to be appointed to revise the statutes; but it is ere,.
not intended to alter the system of legal procedure.

ARRIVAL .OF THE BALTIC. lea
The steamship Baltic, Captain Comstock, which 051 01
from New York on Saturday, the 6th instant, in 1:11)7_,
the Atlantic, reached the Mersey on Friday Eat" cis'
She brought thirty passengers and 30,000 dollars in 01)§00
The Crescent City, from California, had arrived
efr at ;Dlf,
York, bringing 1,350;000 dollars in gold dust on '
and a large amount in the hands of passengers. „A 14
Two cotton factories had been entirely destroY7,oo4
fire : one of 2,600 spindles, belonging to David 11241,1t._„,tv
of Mooseneck.hill ;, the other of 3,6e0 spindles, at la
ate, belonging to J. T. Pitman, of Providence, the
being employed in,the manufacture of printing clot!"

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WEST LNDIES AND MEXICO-

The Great Western steam- ship arrived at Sout110.1;;0
on Thursday morning, with the West Ipdia and Me' to
mails. She brings 51,043,022 on merchants' see 00'
824,151 for payment of the Mexican dividends, Feb'
5408,535 in gold dust. Her dates are—Vent Cruz' OP
12 ; Chagres, Feb. 19; Jamaica, Feb. 20; St. Theloico.
Feb. 25. At the latest dates all was quiet in 111,
e 011,4
Vera Cruz was visited by a violennorth wind on 0" an'
of January. Fourteen ships were' driven e?
ashor 00
thirteen lives lost. The British brig Susan arieloit:
wrecked. The weather was very favourable in Jti th'
for taking off the sugar crops, but in many parts TV
',land the negroes were striking for higher wags' earlP
coffee crops promise to be good, and coming Incteito3:
Cholera has almost disappeared. The Oronoco ".
ship, which left Solon on the 2nd February, renc7ioo.
Thomas's in sixteen days, and sailed for San Sebas"