The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-24 00:00:00

THE WAR IN HUNGARY.

Buda and Pesth have been evacuated by the Hungarians.
An immense force is being collected for the siege of
Comorn. A sanguinary conflict is said to have taken
place, but this news requires confirmation. The cholera
is raging in both the camps.
In Transylvania the Russians, under General Luders,
have been defeated by General Bern.
THE EMPEROR OF RUSSIA INSANE.—A correspondent
of the Daily News says, "The Russian Emperor has
shown latterly unequivocal .ymptoma of insanity. His
head seems to have been turned by the unexpected suc-
cesses of Russian arms in Hungary. After receiving the
dispatches which announced the occupation of Debreczin
by CeodajEff, the Czar was found dsncing about his room
in his shirt. It is said that he continued for three whole
hours to exhibit in this extravagant way the joy with which
the news of so quick a triumph had inspired him."
A letter from Constantinople of the sth inst. announces
the expulsion of the Hungarian Envoy by the Sublime
Porte, which was obliged by the ministers of Russia and
Austria to insert the following article in the Constanti-
nople journal of the 4th :—" Baron Splenyi, Captain of
Hussars in the Austrian army, who, since the war in
Hungary, has joined the rebellious Maygars, and consti-
tuted himself their agent abroad, has been ordered by the
Sublime Porte to quit this capital. He embarked on
25th June in the French mail packet Osiris, w''•
intention of proceeding to Paris." The same le' -74,:
that considerable ferment prevailed in Ser i...:Lns
intrigues had excited in the country a
moral agitation,
1 must produce an explosion 110 remote period,
notwithstanding the vigilance and abifity .df 'Prince
Alexander.

SWITZERLAND.—T.!ne federal conn`l•n`f 'Switzerland has
addressed a circular to the different cantons, setting forth
that, in consequence of the great.numbers of political refu-
gees who have sought an -.asylum in Switzerland, the
refugees have been divided among the different cantons;
and the council calls en 'the cantons to receive them, and
to exercise a strict surveillance over them, so as'to prevent
any attempt to disturb order, or the foreign relations
of Switzerland. The council says that it will neglect
nothing to hasten the departure of the refugees, and for
that purpose has applied to the French republic to receive
them, or at least to allow them to pass through the terri-
tory, and to the German governments to grant an amnesty
as soon as possible.
A letter received by a gentleman in New York states
that it is Mdllc. Jenny Lind's wish to appear in that city
previous to her final retirement from the stage.
During the festival of the Eve of St. John, at Madrid,
no fewer than 19 persons were stabbed in night quarrels,
and the journal which records this fact observes that this
number is three more than the average.
A SCENE IN A CONVENT.—The Madrid journals state
that a young lady, a member of an illustrious family, having
been prevented by her parents from marrying a young
man of obscure condition for whom she had conceived a
violent passion, was sent to a convent, and that there she
attempted to commit suicide by hanging and by setting
fire to her bed. The smoke having caused an.alarm, her
cell door was broken off, and she was discovered in a state
of dreadful agony, hanging by the neck with the flames
playing aronnd her. 'She was immediately cut down, and
prompt assistance being rendered, life was preserved.

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THE MORMONS IN AMERICA.—The Mormons, who,
after their expulsion 'from lowa, Missouri, and Illinois,
made an exodus to the Great Salt Lake Valley, have pub-
lished their first manifesto to all their brethren throughout
the world. It is a curious document, containing a strange
admixture of sense, cant, shrewdness, and impiety,
together with many interesting details respecting the
region in which they have taken up their abode. They
have commenced the erection of a city on a grand scale,
which is divided into nineteen wards, .consistin,„_.• each of
nine " blocks" of houses, each three-square. They in-
tend erecting a council house, oridges, bathhouses, schools,
colleges, and all the institutions of civilisation. A gold
mine was discovered, it is said, by a party of them who
had gone on an exploring tour through the northern part
of Western California. John Smith, the uncle of Joseph,
has been ordained " patriarch of the chinch." The culti-
vation of large tracts of land had been commenced, and
there is every prospect of a prosperous settlementt growing
up in this distant region. In their remote settlement
they will be joined by their proselytes from every quarter
of the world. Seven thousand English Mormons are said
to be preparing to emigrate to their new city ; and in the
Society Islands, it is said 2,000 converts have been made
within the past year. The leaders of the sect are about
taking steps to procure a territorial government, and
delegates will be immediately sent to Washington to effect
the object.
SINGULAR ROBBERY AT MADRID —lt was currently
related, after the Bolsa, that the house of M. Daniel
Weisweiller had been swindled out of 8,000 dollars in the
following manner: A man presented himself at the office,
stating that he wished to purchase gold to that amount
with bank notes, and the premium having been agreed
upon, the clerk who made the transaction went with the
gold, accompanied by tae usual collecting clerk, to the
Calle del Horno de la Malta, where they were to receive
the notes. They were shewn into an office, and received
by the person who had made the bargain, and the gold,
which was in ounces, was duly counted over, and stowed
away by the same person in a chest of drawers in the
room, which he locked, and then left the room saying that
he would go and fetch the notes. The two clerks waited for
some time without suspecting anything wrong, particu-
larly as they had the gold in the same room ; but at length
they got alarmed, and called out for him, without any
answer, while one went instinctively to the commode in
which he had seen the gold stowed away, and gave it a
good shake, but, alas ! no chink of gold responded. In
fact, the commode had been placed against a partition wall,
arranged, doubtless, for the purpose, and the swindler
had done nothing more than put the gold in on one side
and taken it out on the other, and made off. It was
found that he had lately taken the rooms, and put in a
few chairs, tables, &c., fitting up a room as an office, with
the design, no doubt, of effecting this robbery.—Madrid
Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle.
THE FOREST FIRES IN NEW BRUNSWICK.—The St.
John's (N. 8.) New Brunswicker of the 16th June, speak-
ing of the fires in the forest of that province, says it has
received a letter from Fredericton, under date of June 15,
which says :—" There have not been such fires in the
woods for many years as there are at present. The river
and the streets are completely covered with embers and
burnt leaves; persons are now at work carting water to
their places of residence, and the engines are in wating—
the soldiers are confined to barracks, all to be in readiness
in case the fire should enter the town. People are alarmed
to a great degree; The smoke in town is so dense that
you cannot see the sun ; in fact I can compare the city at
present to nothing but a smoke house. I am almost
blinded from the effects of it. The Supreme Court, now
in sitting, adjourned till to-morrow, the room being so
dark as not: o admit of their going on with business with-
out the use of candles. It is very calm at present. Should
the wind spring up there is no accounting for what will
follow." In addition to the above, we learn from the
Head Quarters that a large quantity of wood, standing
and cut. has been destroyed in that vicinity, and that one
farmer, Mr. Duffy, has lost several hundred pounds',
worth of property in this way. In the eastern section of
the province the fires are also raging to a fearful extent.
Seventeen houses have been destroyed in Albert county.
The woods on both sides of the road between Maguadavic
and Musquash are burnt the entire distance, except in
occasional places. The Miramichi Gleaner says, ' that
the steam saw-mill, owned by Mr. A Fraser, jun. at
Chatham Head, was destroyed by fire on the 12th June."
ALLEGED EFFECTS OF ELECTRICITY ON THE CHOLERA.
—The following is a letter addressed by M. Audrand to
the President of the Academy of Paris, respecting his
experiments on the absence of electricity in the atmos-
phere, as leading to the increase of epidemic diseases—
especially cholera, It is at this time exciting much at-
tention in Paris :—" M. le President—Since the cholera
has been raging in. Paris with more or less intensity for
three months, I have made daily observations of the
action of the electric machine, in order to ascertain if
there is not a certain relation between the intensity of
the scourge and the absence of the electric fluid, habitu-
ally spread in the atmosphere. The machine I have used
for my daily observations is rather powerful ; in ordinary
weather it gives, after two or three turns of the wheel,
brilliant sparks of five or six centimetres. I have re-
marked that since the invasion of the epidemic. I have
not been able to produce on any one occasion the same
effect ; during the months of April and May the sparks
obtained with great trouble, lave never exceeded two or
three centimetres, and their variations accorded very
nearly with the variations of the cholera : this was
already for me strong presumption that I was on the
traces of the important fact that I was endeavouring to
find. Nevertheless, I was not yet convinced, because one
might attribute the effect to the moisture of the air, or to
the irregularities of the electric machine. Thus I awaited
with impatience the arrival of fine weather and heat, to
continue my observations with more certainty. At last
fine weather, and, to my astonishment. the machine, fre-
quently consulted, far from showing, as it ought to have
done, an augmentation of electricity, has given signs less
and ess sensible, to such a degree that during the days of
the 4th, sth, and 6th of June it was impossible to obtain
anything but slight cracklings, without sparks. On the
7th the machine remained quite dumb. This new de- '
crease of the electric fluid has perfectly accorded, as is
only too well known, with the renewed violence of the
, cholera • for my part, I was not more alarmed than
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astonished ; my conviction was complete. I saw only
the consequence of the fact already supposed. It may
be imagined with what anxiety in these moments of the
crisis I consulted the machine, the sad and faithful inter-
preter of a great calamity. At last, on the morning of
the Bth. some feeble sparks re-appeared, and from hour
to hour their intensity increased. I felt with joy that the
vivifying fluid was returning in the atmosphere. Towards
evening a storm announced at Paris that the electricity
had re-entered its domain—to my eyes it was the cholera
which disappeared with the cause which produced it.
The next day, Saturday the 9th, I continued my observa-
tions : the machine at the least touch rendered with
facility some lively sparks. I have thought it my duty,
Mr. President, to give immediate information of these
facts to the Academy. The question ,to me seems now
perfectly demonstrated, that nature has provided in the
atmosphere a mass of electricity which contributes to the
support and maintenance of life. If by some cause this
mass of electricity decreases, or at any time becomes im-
poverished nearly to exhaustion, what happens ? Every-
body suffers ; those who carry within themselves a suffi-
cient stock of personal electricity resist, those who can
only live by borrowing electricity from the common mass,
this mass being exhausted, perish. This explains clearly,
and in a rational way, that not only cholera, but perhaps
also all the epidemics, which from time to time afflict
humanity, are caused by the decrease of electricity. If
this great fact was recognised and admitted in principle,
it would he, I believe. easy for medical science, which
possesses many means of producing and maintaining
electricity, to prepare itself to combat with success, if it
should again return, the scourge that now seems to be
arrested in its march."