The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN .5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTUGAL,

The Nautilus, screw steamer packet-ship, Capt. Gor-
don, arrived at Liverpool on Friday, from Lisbon, bring-
ing papers and letters to the 15th inst. and having ac-
complished the passage in five days. Great uncertainty
and alarm continued to prevail. The return of Colonel
Wylde from Oporto was anxiously expected every hour,
and H. M. steam-ship Bulldog had been waiting in rea-
diness to convey despatches for several days. About an
hour before the Nautilus sailed, orders had been received
from the admiral for the Bulldog's immediate departure ;
and ere this she will probably have arrived at Southamp-
ton. H. M. ship Canopus, Captain Moresby, had on
board eight political prisoners of distinction, who had es-
caped from the prison, and placed themselves under Bri-
tish protection. Nothing further had transpired on the
subject of Col. Wylde's mission, and no dependence can be
placed on the rumours published in the Lisbon journals.

RIVER PLATE.—By the arrival off Falmouth of the
Danish brig, Ernest Lorenz, Captain Rohrs, we have had
a mail from Monte Video, to so late a date as March. 21.
The chief news relates to the assassination of Don Manuel
Rodriguez, the Bolivian minister to the Argentine republic,
which diabolical deed was done in the streets at Buenos
Ayres at noon-day, it was stated at the instigation of
Rosas. Oribe maintained his 5,000 men at Cerito. The
British and French had landed a larger number of marines
than they were wont to have at Monte Video.

WEST INDIES.—The accounts brought by the Clyde
from the West Indies still report favourably of the pro-
gress of the crops. From Jamaica it is stated that " the
prospects of the sugar planter are as favourable as the
most sanguine West Indian could desire: From all parts
of the island we hear that the crops are abundant, and
that the seasons are most propitious for their manufacture.
This cheering intelligence, however, is not without its
alloy. In many districts we find serious complaints of
want of labour. From St. Mary's, especially, these com-
plaints are loud. On one estate the labourers are said to
have shown so much unwillingness to work that canes cut
for manufacture have been perilled, if not wholly lost, by
an actual deficiency of hands to put the mill about,"
By a decree of the Ladrath of the canton of Glaris, in
Switzerland, all the young men are interdicted from mar-
riage before they are twenty.
AUSTRIA.—The little town of Rohrau, near the Hun-
garian frontier, has been entirely destroyed by. fire. It
was the birth-place of Joseph Haydn and his brother
Michael.

An article in the Austrian Observer states, in the ports
of South Russia in the Black Sea, and the sea of Azoph,
that they will be able to supply from the Ist of April to

y 3,631

DUTCH POTATOES.—The Commerce states that there
has been so great a quantity of potatoes planted in Hol-
land this year, that if the crop prove a moderate average,
one-fourth will be sufficient for the consumption of the
country, and the remainder may be exported.

A leiter from Hanover, of the Bth instant, states that
the royal ordinances forbidding the use of grain and pota-
toes in the distillation of brandy, and also their exporta-
tion to Prussia and the grand Duchy of Hesse Cassel,
those countries having by law prevented those articles be-
ing exported to Hanover, have just been published.
The largest naval force which the United States have
ever had afloat is now employed with the war at Mexico.
This force comprises 46 ships, 24 barques, 56 brigs, and
11 steamers, which have been hired as transports, and the
regular ships of war added to these make a total of 164
ships.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF SIXTY LIVES.—On the 9th
of April, at eight o'clock in the evening, the French brig
La Clarisse, of Granville, having on board 69 passengers,
and a crew of 14, was lost in the Philibert rocks, in one
of the entrances to the harbour of St. Pierre, Newfound-
land. The brig had missed the South-east passage into
the harbour, having been driven to windward. The vio-
lence of the waves was such as to preclude the possibility
of any assistance from the colonists. The number of vic-
tims amounts to sixty.
A LIE CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT AMERICA.
During a speech in Congress on the Wilmot proviso, Mr.
Brinkeroff, of Ohio, paused and-drew a half-dollar piece
from his pocket, and holding it up so that every member
of the houte could see what it was, said—" Sir, look at
this, sir,—look at it, and, see its inscription, Liberty' is
stamped upon it. Shall we strike it out and insert
Slavery,' or shall we hereafter, in the face of the world,
continue to use it as a circulating lie ? Yes for a circu-
lating lie—or shall we make it tell the truth, sir ?"
PORT WINE.—We are informed that the Junta of
Oporto have resolved that wines of the Upper Douro of
the vintage of 1846 may be brought into Oporto until the
20th June next. Upon wine of the first quality a duty
of 7,200 reis (about £1 14s. 2d.) a pipe is to be paid,
and the owner of the wine is to bind himself to export the
same to ports in Europe. Upon wine of the second
quality the duty is to be 600 reis (about 2s. 105.,) and on
wine for home consumption 6,800 reis (about £1 12s 10d)
a pipe. The entrance duty paid on wine of the first
quality is to be deducted from the export duty.