The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-02 00:00:00

moored off the factories. The little sloop Rapid, anchored
in the Macao passage, would prove, we fear, but of little

service,

There are certain points also, commanding the
pproacbes to the factories and garden, which, without
delay, should be converted into defensible barracks ; to
aid in keeping which at least 50 men might be taken from
this garrison without our feeling their loss. Our last
report from Amoy runs thus :
" The rebels entered the town this morning, (the 18th,)
and firing is going on in all directions. The Hoppo has
fled, and his hong has been plundered and burnt to the
ground." _

- Another report goes thus :—" The insurgents landed
on each side of the city at day-break, their force being
variously reported at from 2,000 to 5,000 men. They at
once sacked the Custom-house, house of the collector,
and that of the Government banker, dividing the spoil
fairly. The mandarins defended the city resolutely,
fighting for their lives, and cut off the retreat of the rebels
by burning their boats. The citadel, however, was taken
at two p.m., and order immediately restored. The shops
are expected to be opened to-morrow. The British mer-
chants went through the city afterwards, and were well
received by the insurgent chiefs, who sent a guard to pro-
tect the foreign factories, and another guard to the
British consulate."

FATAL AFFRAY WITH PIRATES.—Her Majesty's screw-
sloop Rattler, Commander MeHersh, has had a desperate
engagement with Chusan pirates. The affair was a bril-
liant and successful one, but the loss to the Rattler was
as follows :—Killed : Geo. A. Pidcock, second lieutenant;
George Rider, quarter-master ; John Phillips, A.B.
Wounded : William Boyce, painter, severely; Ed ward
Ward, Ord., dangerously, 15 wounds; Peter Doige, A. 8.,
severely; George Wright, A. 8., severely; Douglas Col-
lins, A. 8., severely ; William Capon, first class boy, se-
verely ; Thomas Kelly, A. 8., slightly, stone bruises.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—We have intelligence
from the Cape to the 11th June. A letter from Cape
Town of that date says—" Nothing has occurred to dis-
turb the peace now happily established, not only within
the colony, but among the tribes along its borders."
General Cathcart's notice, dated the 14th of May, states
that rebellion is entirely extinct, and ample precautions
have been taken to preserve peace. The Frontier Times
of the 7th, however, speaks despondingly of the perma-
nence of the late treaty. The farmers feel little confidence
in returning to their homesteads, and the Hottentots
still infest Fish River bush, where they recently fell upon
11 some Fingoes, one of whom was shot.

Little is known of the condition and feelings of the
Kaffir chiefs. Some affirm that they are sulky, and
waiting to learn if they may be allowed to return to their
distrit ts.

The Orange River sovereignty is tranquil. The question
of its abandonment is warmly discussed at Natal, but
nothing has transpired for some time to throw much light
on its future prospects. The principal members of the
local Government are at variance with each other. The
secretary, Mr. Moodie, has been removed from office, and
Mr. Cloete, the recorder, suspended. Mr. Cloete has
arrived home, to bring his case more distinctly before
her Majesty's Government than could be done by letters.
The public at the Cape evince much interest in the
decision.

There have been great rejoicings on account of the
Constitution.

AUSTRALIA.—Accounts have been received from
Melbourne to the 27th of April, being eleven days later
than those by the last arrival. They were brought by
the Yarra to Singapore, and by the Anglia to Madras,
whence they have come overland, viii Marseilles. Messrs.
Wigram's new ship the Kent had reached Melbourne,
from England, in 84 days, and the Harbinger steamer,
belonging to the General Screw Company, bad made the
passage in 70 days, including six days spent in coaling,
so that her actual time was only 64 days. Nothing had
been heard of the steamer Adelaide, which left Plymouth
on the 3rd of January, and was therefore 114 days out.
At the date of the present advices the markets were bare,
in consequence of the non-arrival of the large fleets, in-
cluding altogether upwards of 100 vessels, that sailed
from this country in November, December, and January
last, and which, for a long period, were windbound in the
Channel. No details are given of the progress of the gold
production, and it is to be inferred that in that respect
everything was going on satisfactorily.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA

By the British and North American Royal Mail Steam-
ship America, Captain Shannon, which arrived on
Sunday, we have intelligence from New York to the 19th,
and from Boston to the 20th ultimo.

The America sailed from Boston at 0 15, p.m., on the
20th. She came " north about," and arrived in the river
at 0 25, a.m., on the 31st, having made the run in 10 days
7 hours and 15 minutes. On the 23rd she passed the
brig Conquest, bound west, and ship Britannia, from
Quebec for this port ; on the 28th, at 2 10, a.m.' in lat.
54 lon. 27, passed the steamer Niagara, hence for Halifax
and Boston ; on the 30th. at 9 30, a.m., passed the screw-
steamer Glasgow, from New York for the Clyde ; and at
8 30, p.m., passed the Royal Mail Steam-ship Africa,
hence for New York.
The America brought the following
PASSENGERS :—From Boston : Mr. J. P. Bayley and
lady, Mr. G,ugh and lady, Mr. Low, Miss Low, Miss
Levin, Mr. P. E. Ryder, lady, and son, Mr. Rashew and
lady. Captain Anderdon and lady, Mr. D. Wheeler and
two Miss Wheelers, Captain Ford, lady, and son, Mr.
John Stevens, Mr. A. Battersby, Mr. A. de Vivan, Mr.
H. Roser, Mr. A. Hibbard, Mr. L. M`Gee, Mr. L. Bon-
nernan, Mr. Moult, Mr. Hornte, Mr. Armada, Mr. G. E.
Farran, Mr. H. Covert, Mr. L. P. Holden, M. E. Taylor,
Mr. J. Lloyd, two Master Cartwrights, Mr. M'Kean,
Mr. W. A. Matthews, Mr. James Leishman, Mr. Tilton,
Mr. W. Blackmer, Mr. P. Deihl and lady, two Miss Cart-
wrights, Mr. M. Williams, Mr. 11. Page, Mr. M. B.
Seymour, Mr. Robert Brown, Mr. C. B. Hastings, Mr.
R. Balantine, Mr. Hegan, Mr. Chacon, Mr. J. Howcutt
and lady, Mr. Celgado, Mr. W. D. Hennen, Mr. Fraser,
Mr. Beard, Mr. Hastings, Mr. J. Bell, Mr. J. W. Waugh,
Mr. C. Patten, Mr. John M`Gee, Mr. James Stark, Mr.
N. Frankhan, Mr. J. Ogden, Mr. G. E. Balch, Mrs.
Vecliary, Mr. C. M. Campbell and son, Mr. Dasseldorf,
Mr. J. Jansberg; Mr. flogaret, Mr. Chutterton, Mr. C.
R. Humphry, Mr. G. Springer, Mr. E. Ely, Mr. H.
Morgan, Mr. Wm. Brown, Mr. Sheridan, Mr. Bermudez
and son, Mr. Echeveria, Mr. Echibarne, Mr. Ramani,
Mr. Maurrice, Mr. Agelvie, Mr. Russell.—From Halifax:
Honourable J. H. Peters, Miss Peters, Miss Cunard, Mr.
Starr, Dr. Avery, Mr. M'Donald, Mr. Thomas Kenny,
Mr. Tupper. Mr. J. B. Dufft,s, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Boyle,
the Misses Boyle, Mr. Campbell, Mr. Strong, Mr. Ben-
nett, Mr. Inches, Miss Docherty, Mr. Hancock, lady,
and two children, Mr. Mason, Mr, Leckie, Mr. Marshall,
Mr. Hazard, Mr. Davis, Mr. Witmore, Mr. Finlay, Mrs.
M`Lean, Mr. Finlay, and the Rev. Mr. Roy.
The Royal Mail steam-ship Europa arrived at Halifax,
from this port, on the 19th ultimo.

The U.S. mail steamer Franklin, from Havre and
Cowes, arrived at New York, at 5 a.m., on the 19th ult.
The opening of the New York exhibition by the Presi-
dent took place on the 14th ult.

At an early hour the Palace was besieged by applicants
for admission. Stern officials guarded the entrances, and
informed all who came that until ten o'clock none but ex-
hibitors would be admitted. At. ten, however, the jealous
gates unclosed, and red, and yellow, and white, and blue
invitations poured in at the different entrances. The
throng, even then, was excessive. The omnibuses, the
cars, the hackney coaches,all poured forth their live freight
at Forty-second-street, and ladies and gentlemen, at every
degree of temperature, ascended the stairs that led to the
interior.

Within the palace was even more imposing. Thorwald-
sen's noble series of " Christ and his Apostles," in the
Danish section, attracted much attention. Bright banners
flaunted from the galleries, suits of old armour, from the
Tower of London, frowned grimly on the scene, as if the
spirit of antiquity was wroth within them at the contrast
between our days, bright with intellectual progress, and
those good old benighted times in which they saw service.
And over all, the great dome stretched its painted canopy,
joining together the diverging naves, as the building itself
drew together widely differing nations.
The palace filled rapidly. At the intersections of the
naves, and all beneath the dome, the floor was soon parti-
coloured as a garden with brilliant bonnets and silks. The
platform in the north nave, which was to be the great scene
of interest for the day, began about this time to be ani-
mated. Members of the Senate, guests invited by special
request, militia officers, and the president of the Crystal
Palace, with his official staff, and a host of other persons
too distinguished to be well known, made their appearance
on the boards.

The Exhibition was attended by men of all parties.
Bishop Wainwright, who offered the opening prayer,
being supported by the Romanist Archbishop Hughes,
Mr. Prescott, the historian, Sir Charles Lyell, and Lady
Ellesmere and daughter, occupied positions near the plat-
form. Lord Ellesmere, who reached the city at an early
hour in the morning, having come express from Quebec
on purpose to attend the inauguration, was confined to
his room by a severe attack of the gout. Professor Wil-
son, Mr. C. Wentworth Dilke, Mr. Duncan, and the
other gentlemen of the Royal Commission, were also
upon the platform. After the prayer, a choral, composed
for the occasion, was sung to the tune of " Old Hundred,"
by the New York Sacred Harmonic Society, accompanied
by the National Guard Band, and members of other
societies and the organ.
Mr. Philip T. Heartt, of New York, had been appointed
consul to Glasgow, and Mr. James M'Dowell to Leith.
Air. Crampton, the British minister, had returned to
Washington from Halifax.

The Germans of Cincinnatti had burnt an effigy of Dr.
Jungham, who, in 1849, betrayed a number of his country-
men to the Prussian government. Two distinct shocks of
an earthquake had been experienced at Boston. During
the week ending the 2nd ult. there were twenty-five
deaths from yellow !ever at New Orleans. Mr. Franklin
C. Grey had committed suicide by placing himself before
a railway train. The papers announce the death of Mr.
Sprague, a merchant, of Boston. A Mr. John Harrison,
of Glasgow, had been drowned, by the upsetting of a boat
near Staten Island.

It is stated in a Washington letter that the President
was greatly embarrassed concerning the conduct of Mr.
Marshall, the U. S. commissioner, with regard to the
Chinese revolution. What made the matter still worse
was that there was no vessel in readiness to convey Mr.
Walker, who is to succeed Mr. Marshall, to the scene of
operations.

New difficulties are reported to have arisen to compli-
cate the negotiations between the United States and
British governments in respect to the fisheries.
Letters from Portland, Canada, announce the opening
of the railway between that place and Montreal.
At Aux Cayes, on the 27th of June, the yellow fever was
prevalent, both on shore and among the shipping.
Accounts from Port-au-Prince represent business as being
very dull.
Letters from the Rio. Grande state that the Mexican
troops were establishing encampments at many points.
From the city of Mexico we have telegraphic advices to
the 4th, and Vera Cruz to the Bth ult. The cholera con-
tinued to rage at Vera Cruz, and was on the increase.
The black vomit was also making terrible ravages, and
had frightened the physicians, who were unable to save
more than ten out of one hundred patients. Cholerawas also
very severe at Jalapa. A decree regulating the organiza-
tion of the government council, composed of twenty-one
persons, had been published ; also one regulating the in-
terior of the national palace. Santa Anna resides at Te-
cubeya, and boa telegraphic communication with the