The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-10-26 00:00:00

I 12 15, p.m., on the
steam-ship America,

Francisco

clemency

receipt of your letter of the 18th inst., in which you re-
quest to be informed whether Sir Henry Bulwcr has been
accredited as Ambassador or Minister to the Court of
Rome, or to act there in any diplomatic relation on be-
half of the British Government, and also whether any
communication, official or otherwise, has been made by
him or others to Her Majesty's Government of any inter-
view with Cardinal Antonelli ; and 1 have, in reply to
your first question, to acquaint you, that Sir Henry
Bulwer has not been in any way accredited to the Court
and with respect to your second question, that

es not consist with Lord Derby's duty to answer any

hence for Boston. She arrived at I!
the 15th, having encountered a st-
the time of leaving Boston. After a deten-
tion of 1 hour
and 45 minutes she again proceeded to sea, and
experienced variable winds and weather. On the 22d, at
12 45, p.m., she passed the U. S. steamer Pacific, hence

3E; F,.N

forlsfeW York ; and ma

1 a.m., on

23d.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Lott, commander,
hence, arrived at New York on the 6th instant.
The U.S. mail steam-ship Franklin, from Havre, &c.,
arrived at New York on the 11th instant.
The screw steam-ship City of Manchester, hence for
Philadelphia, is reported to have arrived in the River
Delaware on the 13th instant. A meeting of British
residents in New York had been held at the consulate, to
consider the most suitable mode of testifying their respect
for the late Duke of Wellington. It was determined that
a funeral sermon should be preached in Trinity Church,
and that mourning should be worn. The New York
Democrats had a grand torchlight procession on the 11th.
On the 11th a run was taking place on some of the
Washington banks. A resurrectionist was shot at Cin-
cinnati on the 11th, in the act of disinterring a corpse.
General Scott was still continuing hs western tour. The
death of Mr. "William Pitt Adams, British consul at
Lima, is announced. The investigation into the charge
against Augustus G. M. Bowen and D. A. Comstock, the
former late cashier in the house of Brown Brothers, and
Co., and charged with embezzling upwards of £220,000,
and the latter with receiving the same as an accomplice,
was commenced at- New York police-court on the 11th
instant. The only evidence taken was that of Mr.
Brown, one of the partners, who proved the amount of
the deficiencies, and that Bowen had been prohibited
from loaning money to Comstock, By the evidence of
this witness it was shown that some curious alterations
had been made in the cash account•hook. The investi-
gation was adjourned until the following day. An
accident on the Boston, Concord, and Montreal Railway
had cccurred, by which six persons lost their lives. A
very destructive fire occurred at Cleveland on the 12th.
M. Petin, the French balloon experimentalizer, ascended
from Bridport on the 9th, with some companions, and
was carried along by a northwesterly current, until,
finding that the wind was driving him out to sea, he came
down and the balloon fell into the ocean. The adven-
turers were picked up by a boat. The balloon at one
time travelled seventy miles in one hour and five minutes.
A. vessel called the Rostand had lost twenty-two of her
passengers, when on a voyage between Panama_ and San

A corresponflent at Washington writing on the
instant, says, " The attention of the President has been
called to the reported outrage on the American flag by
the authorities of Cuba. The most prompt measures will
be taken to investigate the facts, and, if they should co-
roborate the reports now prevalent, ample satisfaction will
be demanded and enforced. To this end a special agent
will at once be despatched to Cuba in a Government
vessel. The Government cannot, of course, be governed

by rumours or unofficial reports. It
that. the rumour of an insult having

to offered to our

flag, of such an unprovoked nature, is generatiy utscre
dited. Spain has already given the United' '
the strongest, proofs of her good feeling in tip

States one of
iberation

of the nrisoners captured in the

she has now chang..
and desired to commit unprovoked outrage on o
certainly possible, bt...t
whole matter will at once he investigated,
vindicated, without filibustering. To imagine ourselves
•dge the insulted is an evidence of weakness." Most of the United

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States papers

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and our honour

speak in a ye:

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