The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

degree.

Louis Philippe completed his seventy-fourth year on
Tuesday.

The Bank of Belgium has just decided that it will not
discount bills at more thau thirty days' date. _ _ _

A Te Deum was performed at Vienna, on the 12th ult.,
in thanksgiving to God for an abundant harvest, and yet,
on the 16th, only four days afterwards, there was a rise in
the price of bread in that city.
Prince Alexander of the Netherlands, formerly an aspi-
rant to the hand of Queen Victoria, has been attacked by
an alarming pthisis, brought on at the recent races, where
he overheated himself. _ _ _ •

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-Sir W. Colebrook is appointed Lieut.-Governor of Bri-
tish Guiana. Sir Edmund Head is to succeed Sir W.
Colebrook in New Brunswick. Governor Light retires
for the present, meriting alike repose and reward.
The number of cases of cholera since its appearance in
the southern governments of Russia towards the middle
of July last, amounted, according to official reports, to
639, of which 401 terminated fatally.
A distraint has been put into the palace of the Prince
and Princess of Capua. The illustrious couple and their
children were left with bare walls. The seizure was for
debt. The prince is brother to the King of Naples : the
princess was the celebrated Miss Penelope Smith.
Accounts from the West Indies state that the mortality
among the Coolies in Demerara had but slightly abated,
and it appears very questionable if the constitution of the
Asiatics is much better suited for sugar cultivation, under
the influence of the malaria there prevalent, than the Eu-
ropean.
The wife of the well-known ex-police agent, Vidooq,
has just committed suicide at St. Mande, where her hus-
band had some years ago attempted to establish a paper
manufactory. She had been for some time suffering
from a tumour, which the faculty lately declared to be in-
curable.
A letter from Vienna states that a crime, having great
analogy to the murder of the Duchess de Praslin, has been
committed in the environs of Agram. In an excess of
rage, caused by the jealousy of .his wife, an Hungarian
baron murdered, under circumstances of great atrocity,
his wife and his young son, and then committed suicide.

ANOTHER PRASLIN AFFAIR.—The Countess of Goer-
litz has been found burnt to death, at Darmstadt, in her
own palace; and, though suicide was at first industriously
attributed, suspicion, from various circumstances, has
fallen on the husband. The matter, however, has been
hushed up by the tribunals, no doubt, in consideration of
the rank of the deceased party.
The Prince of Canino (Lucien Buonaparte), who has
lately been .playing some pranks in Rome, Florence,
Venice, &c., by groaning at the Austrian representatives,
and otherwise creating disturbances, has been arrested by
order of the Pope. He has been commanded to confine
himself to his palace, and if he disobeys this order he will
be lodged in the Castle of St. Angelo.
FERRARA AND NAPLES.—The eagle of Austria has
shown the white feather and bent both her necks beneath
the imperious honesty of Rome. Ferrara has been sur-
rendered to the Papal troops, and a just cause is trium-
phant. The triumph, it is true, has been effected by
something of questionable means. Out of the antique
armoury of the Vatican the Pope has brought out the wea-
pon of excommunication, and hence the result.
Advices from Berne to the 3rd instant continue to re-
port the preparations for internal conflict in Switzerland.
The half-canton of Exterior Appenzell has followed the
example of Zurich and Schaffhausen, and has by a unani-
mous vote supported the decisions of the federal govern-
ment. There was little doubt, at the date of these letters,
that all the cantons whose delegates voted with the ma-
jority would decide for enforcing the decrees of the Diet.
RIVER PLATE.—Count Walewski has arrived in Paris,
from his post as Plenipotentiary on the Rio de la Plata.
This sudden removal is an evidence that the emissary
from the cabinet of the Tuileries finds himself in a posi-
tion of such an extraordinary character as to require an
immediate and personal communication with the govern-
ment. The adoption of some extreme course will be the
inevitable consequence of the recent movements on the
great South American estuary.
BRAZILS.—The Columbus, Captain Green, arrived at
Liverpool, on Friday, from Pernambuco, after a fine pas-
sage of thirty-one days, having sailed from that city on
the 6th ult. The intelligence, with the commercial news,
is, however, unimportant. Indeed, the only item of in-
terest is, that the reports of the elections having produced
commotions in that intendency turn out to have been un-
true. Dates from Bahia to the 20th August had been re-
ceived in Pernambuco. Exchange was at 274-d. The
Columbus has also brought advices from Maranham to
the 21st August. Things in that town remain in almost
atatu quo.
JUGGERNAUT.— The contribution of 60,000 rupees,
formerly paid by the East India Company to the temple
of Juggernaut, is still to be continued. The subject was
under discussion last court day, and this was the result.
It is pitiful and humiliating to the last degree that the
company should be under any pecuniary obligations to
the priesthood of the Indian Moloch. It is painful, in-
deed, to reflect that money, disbursed in such a way by
Christian men, should go to the support of brutal orgies,
and to the exhibition of a monstrous piece of carved wood,
under the wheels of whose car so many frantic devotees
commit self-destruction.
The advices from South Australia, to the sth of May
last, give most 'cheering accounts of toe state and pros-
pects of that colony—agriculture was thriving, stocks in-
creasing, money plentiful, and trade and commerce
flourishing; while the shipping in port were loading large
quantities of copper and lead ores, the produce of the very
prolific mines of that colony. A report of the second an-
nual general meeting of the South Australian Mining
Company, held at Adelaide, in May last, exemplifies the
extraordinary progress of mining in a high degree—a di-
vidend of 50 per cent on the capital being resolved on,
and a still larger one being expected at the next meeting.
The banks, also, have reaped some of the advantages, in
consequence of the general prosperity produced by the
success of the Purra Burra Mines, having received during
the two years of its working, £2,600 for interest and dis-
count. The Australian Colonies jointly are likely to prove
of the utmost value and importance as an adjunct to the
British empire.
Loss OF THE STEAMER CLEOPATRA, AND NEARLY 300
LIVES.—This vessel steamed from Bombay on the 14th
of April last, with orders for Singapore, and had on board
nearly 200 convicts. Her crew comprised 70 persons, the
chief portion of whom were Europeans. There was also a
detachment of Marines on board, who had the safe keep-
ing of the convicts. Amongst the officers in charge of the
ship may be mentioned—Capt. J. A. Young, Commander;
Lieut. Eden, Lieut. Ralph, Mr. F. W. Nott, Mr. T. G.
Croad, acting-master, son of the venerable Bishop of
Bombay, and Mr. J. Soady, son of Captain Soady, R.N.
Four days after the departure from Bombay, a fearful
hurricane came which continued with unabated violence
for three days, the 17th, 18th, and 19th. Great havoc was
occasioned in all directions among the shipping. It is
very probable that the Cleopatra had, at the time of en-
countering the storm, reached the Malabar coast, off
which, there is too much reason to believe. she foundered,
with every human being on board. Although vessels had
been sent out, not a vestige of her could be discovered.
NARVAEZ, PRIME MINISTER OF SPAIN.—The French
government received on Wednesday night, by a telegra-
phic despatch from Madrid, the news that her majesty
Queen Isabella has appointed a new ministry, of which the
following. is the composition :—President of the Council
and Minister for Foreign Affairs, General Narvaez ;
Minister of the Interior, M. Sartorius ; Minister of
Finance, M. Orlando ; Minister of Public Instruction,
M. Ros de Olano ; Minister of War, M. Cordova. The
ordinance which constitutes the new ministry was pub-
lished in the Gazette of the 4th. Madrid is perfectly
tranquil. The great political fact commented on by the
Paris papers is the sudden formation of this new ministry.
The Union Manarehique, in an article on the subject, ex-
presses no faith in the stability of this Cabinet, as, it says,
the versatility of the Queen is such that no act of her's
can be depended on. " There is nothing stable in Madrid
but instability, says our Paris contemporary, " and for
that reason do we regard the sudden accession of Narvaez
as one chapter more to add to the history of Folies

d' Espagne."
MEXICO.—The West Indian mail steamer has brought
little further news from the seat of war. It appears that
General Scott, with his army, left Puebla on their march
for the city of Mexico on the 7th of August, and, by a
circuitous route—a road thought to be almost impassable
by the Mexicans—it reached San Augustin on the 17th.
They then proceeded towards San Ange, where they fell
in with General Valencia and 5,000 men and 20 guns. In
the course of the night the Americans surrounded, and on
the following morning completely routed him, taking the
whole of his artillery. The general escaped. The army
next attacked Churrobusco and San Antonio, where they
met with great resistance from the enemy for a time. In
the course of three hours, however, American discipline
and tactics prevailed, and the enemy, notwithstanding
their great superiority of numbers, were completely
routed, losing a great many by death, as well as nearly
3,000 prisoners. The Americans were rapidly proceeding
towards the city of Mexico, to put a finishing stroke upon
the business, Alm; §ftrata WU gent out a messenger to

General Scott requesting him to propose terms of peace,
whereupon General Scott halted, and an armistice has
since been signed. 'Commissioners from the city have
been appointed, who are to meet Mr. Trist, the American
envoy, to endeavour to come to some terms, so that the
city may be saved, and hostilities suspended, at least.
The commissioners appointed are decidedly men of peace,
and when the last advices left it was fully expected by
men of all parties that the long pending war would, in the
course of a very short time, be put an end to. Great
sickness prevailed among the American troops. The cli-
mate was beginning to tell upon the constitntions of the
Americans. No official account of the battle had arrived
at Vera Cruz when the Teviot left. The account only
reached Vera Cruz on the day previous to the sailing of
the Teviot. Great rejoicings took place, and congratula-
tions were exchanged by the Americans.