The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—The Journal des Debals of Saturday has
another article on the food question of the most discou-
raging kind.

LATEST FROM RIO DE JANEIRO, BAHIA, AND PER-
NAMBUCO.—The new ship Seraphina, Captain Taylor,
arrived at this port on Thursday morning last, from Pa-
raiba, in thirty-on:3 days and some hours, bringing the
latest accounts yet received from the above-mentioned'
ports, viz. :—From Rio to 20th February, being six days
later than by the packet ; Bahia to 29th February, being
twenty-one days later than previous advices ; and Per-
nambuco to 4th March. Exchange at Rio 381 to 29 ;
Bahia 29,1; Pernambuco 30. The Seraphina encountered
head winds all the passage to the channel, with heavy
weather during the past fortnight. The Beraza left Pa-
raiba two days previous to the departure of the Sera-
phina, and arrived here on Saturday.

The Court will leave Windsor for Buckingham Palace
this day.
A number of .men discharged from the public works
entered Youglial, last week, and broke into the bakers'
shops, carrying off quantities of bread.
William Pinney, Esq.. was on Saturday elected, without
opposition, member for East Somerset, in the room of
the late Colonel Gore Langton.
Mr. O'Connell arrived at Nevers on Easter Sunday.
He was too ill to be able to go to chapel, and therefore,
" with the permission of the Bishop, mass was celebrated
in the apartment of the Liberator,"
Of 671 schools in connection with the Congregational
Dissenting Union of England and Wales, 582 ye re-
corded, in their returns to the general board, that nothing
has leen done in thine localities since the defeat of Sir
James Graham's bill to advance the cause of education.
Poverty and the opposition of the Church (?) are the
principal reasons assigned. •
A DAMPER FOR 11fa. BAINES. -On Friday about
eighty of the electors of Leeds had an interview with Mr.
W. Aldam, the liberal member for that town. Mr. E.
Baines was one of the number, and presented to the hon.
gentleman a memorial, signed by only 800 electors, out of
a constituency of 4,000, against the government education
plan. Mr. Aldam said he would sive the memorial his
best attention, but he could not hold out the hope of
going to the length of the principles which acre expressed
in it.

DEATH AT A BALL.—On Tuesday a festive party given
by Lieut.-Col. Fitzmaurice, at his residence in Berkeley-
street, Cheltenham, was shocked by the awfully sudden
death of one of the guests, a young lady, named Quinear,
who had formerly been a governess in the family.. The
deceased had after supper danced a quadrille, and had
just partaken of an ice, when she was suddenly taken ill,
became insensible, and, though a medical gentleman was
present as one of the party, she expired within a few
minutes.

EMIGRATION.—The tide of emigration from Ireland
has set in. The report from Nenagh says, " thousands
are leaving the country in every direction." On Thurs--
day and Friday upwaads of 1,000 emigrants left the port
of Waterford. From the village of Castlecomer, Kil-
kenny, no less than 150 persons left for Quebec ; and it is
said that the means of emigrating will be supplied to,
about 1,300 persons. Many of the emigrants are of a.
respectable class, but numbers are also of a most wretched
description. Cork, Derry, Limerick, Sli,To—in short, all
the seaports—are sending forth emigrants to America,
in numbers never before approached.
CHARGE OF EMBEZZLING £9ooo.—The Dublin City
Grand Jury have found true bills against Mr. Henry
Lananze, "for embezzling and converting to his own use
£9OOO, the property of Mr. Clayton Brown, of Browne's-
hill, in the county of Carlow." The particulars of this
case, which will come on for trial in a clay or two, are
shortly these :—The prosecutor, Mr. Browne, some years
back, entrusted the traverser, Mr. Lananze, who was a
most eminent stockbroker and notary public, carrying on
business in College-green, with the sum of money in
question, to invest in Government stock, which he lately
found was not invested as directed, but lodged solely in
his own name; in consequence of which he had the power
of withdrawing it, and had withdrawn it, and converted
it to his own use shortly previous to the failure of his
business in January last.-

WHOLESOME AD VICE.—At the Roman Catholic Chapel.
in Tralee, on lady-day, the Rev. Dr. M'Enery is reported
to have addressed the congregation as follows :—" Inter-
ested and designing knaves have told you you were the
finest peasantry on earth; those who told you so were im-
postors. You are a patient people, warm-hearted and
religious ; but you are an unenlightened people, not half
educated, and very few degrees removed from barbarism.
* * * The time is arrived when you must help your-
selves, and thefirst step .to that is to till the ground.
* * Sympathizing nations feel your sufferings, and
are ready to assist you. • But if you do not shake off this
apathy, this torpor, which seems to be taking possession.,
of your very souls, and do all in your power to produce
food for the next year, instead of exciting their sympathy,
you will arouse their contempt, and you will become a by-
word to the nations of the earth, as a lazy, indolent,
mean people, who would rather trust to the bounty of
others than exert themselves."
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMIC BURNER.--The advancement
of science is a subject to which we ever devote our most ardent
attention ; and nothing of late has given us more satisfaction,
either in principle or in utility, than that of the universal
burner, an invention that is not only scientific, but so eco-
mises the use of gas as to render it publicly beneficial. Its
adaption is entirely novel, the great feature of the patent being
that of rarifying the gas previous to its being admitted to com-
bustion, which is a desideratum not hitherto attained. We
shall describe this burner more minutely next week. In the
meantime, our readers may see it burning in our publishing
office.

ELECTRO SILVER.—There is no subject, we believe, less un-
derstood by the public generally, than that connected with the
recent improvement in electro-plate. The attempts that were
made some years ago to imitate the sterling metal, proved in
a measure abortive, losing their colour. and becoming perfectly
useless when submitted to acids; invention, however, moving
on the wing of time, has altered the position of metals, the
original plating on copper has been entirely dispensed with,
and supplanted by the application of. silver by a galvanic pro-
cess to a metal, the base of which is composed ufap7ified
material and of the same colour throughout, so that when the
silver is worn off sr:tree)), any difference in appearance is per-
ceptible. But as Mr. Hand, whose advertisement appears in
another column, gives the fullest particulars, we refer our
readers to him.