The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-16 00:00:00

Palmerston had offered the direct iut
but hitherto without effect, Queen Donna -

7erence of Englani

Maria flatly

the wreck of its liest steamer of war Du(
She left t
sel, when
site Mataziuhos, and immediately sunk; all her crew,
eighteen in number, were drowned.

le Douro to tow across the be
;he strnek nn the reeks nailed

ue d'Oporto

It is said that the Queen of Spain has taken already an
insuperable aversion to her husband, and that she is about

to seek for a divorce

Cobden has been introduced by our Consul, Mr. Freeborn,
to the Pope, with whom he had a long interview, and was
most graciously received and listened to."
The number• of Roman Catholic priests in the United
States is 834, a number which shows an increase of 98 in
one year ; and there are 812 churches, 72 of which were
erected during the past year.

The French courts have sentenced M. Alexandre Du-
mas to furnish two volumes a month to the editors of the
Prene and Constitutionnel, in addition to his current en-

gagements, which bind him.tn supply them with eighteen
volumes a year. M. Dumas will consequently be com-
pelled to deliver three and a half volumes of novels in each
month, or to forfeit 100 francs for each day's delay.

Alexandre Dumas, the fettilletoniete, lately chal-
lenged M. de Melville, who had made some remarks re-
specting M. Dumas in the French house of peers, and in-
vited him to fix the most convenient hour for them to
cut each other's throats. M. de Maleville replied that he

the invitation, as

was unable to accei
honour to be a gentleman

HUMAN SACRIFICES.—The attention of Lord Pal-
merston having been called to a statement of the sacrifice
of nearly 100 human beings at Calabar on the occasion of
the funeral of a son of the late King, his lordship has
inctrurtpd the commander of the naval forces on the west

coast of Africa, to take such steps as appear to him most
expedient, with a view to inducing the chiefs on the coast
to discontinue such practices.
A STRANGE HAUL.—On the 21st ult. three persons of
Bourges, while fishing with a net in the river, brought out
a double-barrelled fowling piece ; the river has since been
several times more carefully dragged, and four more guns

:r, and were thro-wn

into the. Cher to prevent detection
been discovered in the river.—Galignani's
A silly affront offered by King Otho to the Turkish En-
voy at a ball has occasioned the withdrawal of the latter,
and riven great offence to his diplomatic brethren at

Tothing more

Athens. M. Coletti, who pulls the wires which regulate
his Majesty's movements, probably relied upon being
backed up by France in the event of a quarrel. But th
-
French government knows bet'

rolling, even in that remote quarter of Europe

The King

p-ologised

WEST INDIA MAIL.—The arrival of the Medway
steamer at Southampton on Monday night has brought
the West India and Mexican Mails. The accounts from
the island colonies have no further interest than that the
weather had generally continued favourable, and that the
prospect of the sugar crop had undergone no change for

the w;:Thise. The accounts received from the United States
at Jamaica had caused an advance in the price offlour and

barrel lower than it

s now in the London market

8391,713 on merchants

$130,000 in g

1,5 Q in Rearjs, -32

0,000 in old silver, 155 cases of cigars,
200 half barrels of arrow root, 94 se-

10 bales of tobaCeo

The decline of the Bombay