The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-01-30 00:00:00

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FRANCE

Paris was in a state of great di: quietude on Wednesday,
arising out of an immense assemblage of persons, mostly
Red Republicans, collected to witness the funeral of Col.
Rey, one of the chiefs of that political party. It was
greatly feared that at tl,e close of the ceremonial serious
disturbances would arise; but all passed over without the
least manifestation of riot or confusion.—The committee
appointed to examine the budget consists principally of
the ultra-democratic memb -'ssembly, being in
the proportion of ten to five

ers of the
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decree regarding the Garde Mobile, which is to be reduced
from twenty-five to twelve battalions, and then remodelled.

Several petitic
were presented on Thurstla
anger and disapprobation.
contrary sense.

for the dissolution of the Assembly
r, and received with marks of
There were also petitions in a

There are a great number of Italian diplomatic agents
at this moment in Paris, seeking to induce the French.
Government to adopt a policy of intervention. M. Taf-
fiti, who is there on an extraordinary mission from Charles
Albert, is now endeavouring, as the second best thing to
be done, seeing that he cannot charm the Government
into his views, to get a loan of a good general. Both
Marshal Buzeaud and General Oudinot have refused to
take the command of the Sardinian troops.

M. Balilay (de la Meurthe) I
dent of the French Republic by

Five Omni
on Saturday

of the Garde

elected Vic
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1. committed to the military p:

In the National Assembly on Saturday, the Hous
ded on the report of the committee appointed to consider
whether the bill introduced by the Minister of the Interior
for the suppression of the clubs should be declared of
urgency. The report itself decided there was no necessity
for urgency, and recommended its being referred in the
usual way to the Standing Commitee. On the division
there appeared for the report, 418 ; against it, 342. Ma-
jority against Ministers, 76.

CEYLON

We have received Tl 4
monthly Coluinbo Obsery

contain a variety of inform
tion against the British of
kingdom of Kandy, which
troops, though preparation:

thly

Ter, and the

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benaion of another re%
Congaleggda Banda, 1
tence of death recorde

to the insurr

sion and explanation of
the court, and implorin

of the nativ

would be spared, espec
lives of several of the
hands of his people.

been a mer

puppet

a suppre

by our

insurgent

were being made in appre-
The Kandian " Pretender "
en captured, tried, and sen-
nst him ; but from a confes-

Lhat chieftain, read by him before
mercy, it was thought his life
tly as it appears he had saved the
3ritish who had fallen into the
e is supposed, indeed, to have

A poor
uistering oaths to the
dence with, and not
had been
and in

in the POwer of oti

of the pretender,

divulging the hiding place
tried by court-marshal, convicted on strange - _pro-
bable testimony, and shot. A strong opinion prevailed
that :he poor creature was perfectly innocent of the
charge ; and the conduct of an official, Mr. Buller, in
pushing the prosecution to a conviction, is strongly com-
mented upon.

DENMARK.—SKIRmisii.--Intelligence has been re-
ceived of a skirmish between a Danish free corps and some
of the Holstein troops. The Danes were defeated and
dispersed, with the loss of 3 killed and 22 wounded and
prisoners ; some horses and arms were also taken.
The great prison of Sing Sing, New York, is supported
by the prisoners, who labour only eight hours in the day.
If eight hours only for a prisoner why it must be " Sing,"
sing, merrily sing. _ _ _

The Mexican mail, with £350,000 in specie, has arrived
and reports all quiet in the republic. At Tampico sales
of British goods were making freely, at profits varying
from 20 to 50 per cent.
The lower orders in Rome have treated with the great-
est disrespect a Bull of Excommunication. They tore
the announcements from the walls, bore them in ridicule
through the city, and then threw them into the Tiber.
Towards the end of last month, Constantinople was
visited by a violent storm, which drove a Turkish ship of
the line ashore, sank several vessels in the Bosphorus,
blew down several houses, and unroofed many others,
which were half filled with the heavy snow and hail that
fell.

PURCHASE OF CUBA.—On the sth instant the purchase
of Cuba was debated in the United States Congress. On
motion, the senate proceeded to the consideration of a
resolution, previously offered by Mr. Miller, of New Jer-
sey, calling on the President of the United States to
communicate to the senate any correspondence had with
the government of Spain for the purchase of the island of
Cuba.

Cape of Good Hope journals to the 10th December
contain the best of all news, viz., the tranquillity of the
colony' and the absence of all appearance of future rebel-
lion. Public works are forming, trade is increasing, the
people are becoming daily more prosperous rnd happy.
while his Excellency the Governor is ceaselessly engaged
in devising schemes to improve the morality, augment
the finances, and advance the general interests of the
country.

A LITTLE CALIVOILNIA IN SOUTH AUSTRALlA.—Dis-
patches have been received by the South Australian Com-
pany, from their colonial manager at Adelaide, dated 30th
Sept., from which the following is an extract :—" Capt.
R— tells me, that he has raised about 20 tons of ore
from the sett in Lynedoch Valley, and that he has dis-
covered (on assay) three and a half ounces of gold, in a
ton of the ores raised." Of course, no decisive opinion
can be formed as to the continuance of such ore, but the
fact that it has been found, and assayed by one perfectly
competent, is undoubted, and calculated to excite consi-
derable hopes. Smelting operations have also commenced
in the colony, by Messrs. Thomas, who have produced
copper ore, which on assay is found to contain 97 cent.
of pure copper. The first shipment has been made-15
ingots, containing about a ton and a half—and sent, per
the Thomas Lord, to Singapore, for sale. This is an im-
portant move in the history of that go-a-head colony.
Mr. Williams had arrived with his well-appointed smelt-
ing staff and operatives, and was on the out-look for a
suitable situation to erect his works for smelting, on Na-
pier s patent, the establishment of which must, necessa-
rily, produce a great effect on the mining interests of the
colony—perhaps of this country.

THE LAND OF LIBERTY.—About six months ago, a
man by the name of Edmunds, who called himself a
Scotchman, came into the lower part of the parish as a
teacher, and succeeded in getting up a small school.
After some time, however, it was discovered that the in-
struction of the rising generation was not his principal
object, and that he avowed himself publicly an abolition-
ist, denounced slavery, said that it was contrary to the
spirit of Christianity, &c. Our high-minded and spirited
citizens waited for nothing more; and a few evenings
afterwards a party of six or seven entered his school-room,
and, without ceremony, dissolved the relations existing
between master and pupil—led him out to a convenient
thicket, and substituted for his thin apparel a coat con-
sisting of the inside of a pine and the outside of a goose.
Twill not stop here to describe the unseemly and ludicrous
figure which he presented, as be wended his course up
bill and down dale, until he reached his place of refuge.
The next morning, it seems, the injured man applied for
redress to a neighbouring justice. While he was relating
his wrongs, " a few gentlemen, deputized by the citizens
of the neighbourhood," rushed in, and told him that if he
did not leave in five hours they would give him thirty-
nine lashes ; and if he did not leave in five hours after-
wards, they would give him thirty-nine more; and if he
did not then leave, they would put him to death by
banging 47-South Carolinian'