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

GERMANY.

BADEN.—Baden, with the exception of the fortress of
Rastadt, is completely cleared of insurgents, all of whom
have crossed the frontier into Switzerland, where they have
been disarmed, and deprived of thirty pieces of artillery
which they carried with them. At the date of the latest
accounts, Rastadt still held out.
Letters frcm Cologne of the 17th instant state that the
preliminary elections in that town have taken place, and
that almost all the men elected are Moderate Constitu-
tionalists. Very little interest was shown on the subject
of elections, and large numbers of voters declined exert-
ing their constitutional right, partly from indifference and
partly from fear of giving offence.
THE NEW CONFEDERATION.—The Prussian Staab-
zanzeiger of the 17th announces that the confederation
of Prussia, Hanover, and Saxony has been joined by the
following German states—Hesse-Darmstadt, Save-Wei-
mar, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Oldenburg, Nassau, Electo-
rate of Hesse, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Saxe-Meiningen,
Saxe-Altenburg, and Anhalt-Dessau-Kothen. The same
journal contains a rescript, announcing the final estab-
lishment, at Erfurt, of the " Federal Court of Arbitra-
tion," determined upon by the triple alliance. It consists
of seven members ; three for Prussia, and two each for
Hanover and Saxony.

RATIFICATION OF THE DANISH ARMISTICE.
The armistice entered into by the plenipotentiaries of
Prussia and Denmark, with the view of arranging terms
of peace, were duly ratified and exchanged by those
powers at Berlin, on the 17th instant. No time has been
lost in carrying forward these preliminary proceedings,
which have received the prompt and earnest attention of
both parties, and that augur well for an amicable adjust-
ment of the dispute, which we hope will be founded upon
a just and solid basis. 4.3 soon as the territory in Schles-
wig shall he marked out by ti;►e German and Danish com-
manders-in-chief for the occupation of the Prussian and
the neutral troops, the blockade o f the port., will be
raised.

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WEST INDIA. AND AMERICAN MAILS.

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday, July 21.

The Royal Mail Steam Packet Cornpany's ship Thames,
Captain G. Abbott, arrived here at seven o'clock this
evening, with the usual British and foreign West India
and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieutenant Strover,
R.N., Admiralty agent.
The mails from the Gulf of Mexico, Havannah, and
Nassau, were brought up to Bermuda by the Clyde, and
there transhipped to the Thames. On the homeward
voyage the Thames experienced fine calm weather for the
first seven days, and afterwards strong breezes from the
north-west with heavy swell. She brings sixty passen-
gers, amongst whom are Mr. Ussher, Her Majesty's Con-
sul in Hayti, Judge Lees from Nassau, Lieutenant-
Colonel Baney, Royal Engineers, and Lieutenant Ram-
say, 48nd Regiment, from Bermuda, &c. The freight
list comprises 281 serons cochineal, 51 cases cigars, 10
casks arrowroot, 4 live turtles, and 52 packages sundries ;
also the following specie-19,990 dols., on account of the
Mexican dividends, and 386,672 dols. on merchants ac-
count. The total value of specie being only £81,332
sterling.
This steamer brings the usual advices and files of
papers from various parts of the West Indfes, Mexico,
&c. The despatches from Jamaica and Honduras have
not, however, reached us, and it appears they have mis-
carrted between Kingston and Bermuda, owing to the
frequent transhipments of the mails from one vessel to
the other. The Dee brought the Jamaica mails to Ha-
vannah, where they were put on board the Clyde, which
vessel carried them on to Bermuda, where they were
;lain transferred t 9 the Thltlnel.

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.