The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-15 00:00:00

said that Mehemet Ali's recent visit to Coustan
tinople has cost him_£2so,ooo.

Tile Lyons journals state that a meeting has taken place
in that city for the purpose of forming a free-trade asso-

ciution

ELOPEMENT.—A young married " princess," daughter
of an ea-King, eloped from Paris, on Wednesday nignt,
with a Dutch painter.—Para Cmcapondent 0/ the
Times.

Accounts from Algiers, coming through French sources,
say the Emperor of Morocco bad taken active measures
to check the enterprises of Abed-el-Kader.
The.petition presented to the King from Joseph Henri,
praying for a commutation of the sentence pronounced by
' the Court of Peers, having been preferred to the Council
of Ministers, it has been determined, after a long con-
sultaticu, that the sentence shall be carried into effect.
The Limerick Chronicle announces that the recognised
successor of Bishop Luscombe, at Paris. is the venerable
the Archdeacon of Ardfert, the venerable Mr. J. Keat-
inge. Mr. Keatinge is a native of Limerick, and ,has
alweys been a liberal in politics, and a supporter of the
Beard of Education in Ireland. The rev. gentleman has
for some time acted as Bishop Luscombe's coadjutor.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE HAMIWRGH THEATEE.—
On the morning of the 31st ult , while the workmen at
the Hamburg Theatre were hoisting to its place asplendid
bronze chandelier for gas lights, just brought from Lon.
don, and weighing above 10,8001 b., (he rope bro7.e, and
the enormous mass falling to the ground, was broken to
pieces, crushing two Englishmen who had come over to
superintend its being suspended.
ITALY.—According to offirial accounts from Leghorn,
about the late earthquakes. it appears that two villages,
Craona and Lorensana, were entirely destroyed, and that
27 districts, towns, villages, and hamlets, had more or less
suffered. The number of those who perished was 70; of
the wounded, 521; and of persons left without asylum,
through the destruction of their habitations, from 3,000
I to 4,000.

A PRINCE KILLFED A DUEL.--..GRATZ (Styria)
AUG. 21.—Owing to an altercation which took place at a
ball between the Prince of Tour and Taxis, Lieutenant
Colonel of Hussars, and Captain Schnedt, cif the Infantry,
a meeting with pistols took place, and the former was
killed on the spot, having received the bullet of his ad-
versary in the breast. The event caused a painful sensa-
tion at Gratz. The Prince of Tour and Taxis, of the il-
lustrious family of the same name, was only 35 years of
age, and universally esteemed for his amiable qualities.—
Globe.

In reference to the marriage of the Queen of Spain, the
Eco del Comercio asserted that three of the ministers,
Messrs. Isturitz, Sarz, and Armero, had resigned, in
consequence of a note addressed, to the Cabinet by Mr.
Bulwer against the Infanti's marriage. The correspon-
dents of the English journals, in• Madrid, bad waited upon
Mr. Bulwer to ascertain if he had entered such a protest,
and were assured by him that the report was totally un-
founded. The government was only waiting the sanction
of King Louis Philippe to the marriage of the Duke de
Montpensier, to annousoeit crfficially through the Gazette.
It was believed that the amnesty, published on the occa-
sion of the Queen's marriage, would be general, and only
exclude Don Carlos and his family.

THE CHOLERA IN INniA.—The dangers to which the
troops, under the guidance of their gallant leaders, were
exposed in the conquest of .Scinde were regarded with
pride by their fellow-countrymen at home; but a very
f different feeling will be excited by the perusal of the
} frightful details of tt e waste of human life that the occu-
pation of that country has occasioned. Nothing in the
I accounts from the seat of war, when the contest was
raging with the greatest fury, is half so sickening as the
statements lately received from India on the subject of
the mortality among the troops through the mere un-
healthiness of the place in which they are located. The
following statement, from the private correspondence of
the Bombay Times, presents an awful picture, displaying
a circumstantial minuteness that affords a melancholy
guarantee of its not being overdrawn :—" Who shall de-
pict the scene in the hospitals-? I speak more of the
Fusiliers, because of that I saw much ; every cot was
filled—delirium here, death there: the fearful shrieks of
pain and anguish. Men whom you had seen but a short
time before hale and strong, were rolling in at every door,
crowding every space—countenances so full of misery—
eyes sunken and glaring—shrivelled and blackened cheeks.
This, too, the work of five short minutes or less ? So
sudden was death with some that they were seized,
cramped, collapsed, dead, almost as fast as I have written
the words. Previous health and strength were no gua-
rantees ; men attending the burials of their comrades
were attacked, borne to the hospital, and buried them-
selves the next morning. Pits were dug in the church-
yard morning and evening ; sewn up in their beddings, cof-
finless, they were laid side by side, one service read overall."
RELIGIOUS AGITATION AT MADEIRA.--MADEIRA,
AUG. 17.—The religious agitation which has been carried
on in this island for some years has at length led to the
I committal of the most serious outrages on British persons
and property. On Sunday, Aug. 2, a body of Portuguese
subjects being assembled for religious purposes in the
house of Miss Rutherford, a crowd collected and de..
mended that their countrymen (the Calvinistas) should be
given up to them. This, of course, was refused ; the mob
maintained their position, and at length, at eleven o'clock
at night, broke into the house, searched it thoroughly,
and having found their countrymen in the kitchen vio-
lently assaulted them. At this moment the police and
solc:iery appeared, and at once dispersed the rioters, tak-
ing several of them into custody. These men were, how-
ever, discharged from confinement the next morning, on
the pretext that no one had appeared to make a complaint
against them. During the following week it became gene-
rally known that more serious attacks on British resi-
der c were meditated; and on Sunday, August. 9, at mid-
day, a crowd collected round Dr. Kalley's house. The
governor, the administrador do corcilho, and the British
consul, were on the spot with a guard of soldiers, but
no opposition appears to have been offered to the entrance
of rioters, who, having searched the house in vain for
Dr. Kelley, proceeded to burn and destroy his books,
prints, medicines, &c. Dr. Kalley, who had been much
alarmed during the previous night by various occurrences,
had left the house at three a.m., and was, during the
early part of these disturbances, concealed in the house of
a friend ; but on the arrival of the royal mail steamer in
the bay, escaped to it disguised as a female. The mob,
having missed their prey, threatened to search the British
consulate. but disisted from this on the consul consenting
to go off in his boat at their head, and show them that Dr.
Kalley was actually on board the steamer. That gentle-
r:Rim was shortly joined by his family, and proceeded in
the ship to the West Indies. Numerous other British
, families have been threatened. The Misses Rutherford,
; Dr. Miller, and Mr. Tate, and their families, are living
I on board a British vessel in the bay, the consul having
declined to answer for their safety, even in his own house.
Mr. Dyster and Mrs. Freeman, and families, are living at
the consulate. A letter, numerously signed, has been
presented to the consul, requesting him to apply for a
British man-of-war to protect British persons and property
in the island.—This is popery. She glories in her un-
changeableness ; and here is an illustration of the truth
of her boast that sbe changes not. She has ever adapted
herself to her circumstances. She speaks and acts as a
lamb or a dragon, as it suits her purpose. In England,
we have her lamb-like properties displayed, for those have
been, and at present are here, the most forcible weapons
of her warfare. In Madeira her dragon qualities are called
into exercise, for there. her softer qualifications are found
to be unavailing in shutting out the light of truth.