The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-19 00:00:00

OF THE

LIVERPOOL LION
Is NOW
PERMANENTLY ESTABLISHED
At No. 1, 81VEETI1VG-STREET,
CASTLE-STREET,
NEXT THE JOURNAL-OFFICE.
GEO. B. HORRIDGE & CO., Printers and Publishers.

W. GRAPEL
to announce to his Friends and the
Public his retirement from active business, which he has
pursued for nearly forty years; and with much gratification, •
takes this opportunity. of returning thanks for the liberal pa-
tronage
and support given to bins tor so long a period: of late
years, his declining health has, in some degree, unfitted him for
the close attention which his duties required. In now retirinT,
he would earnestly solicit a continuance of that support for his
Successors Mr. JOSEPH DEIOHTON, Jun., of Cambridge, and
Mr. J. S. LAUGHTON, for many years past his principal As- •
sistant ; who, from their active business-like habits, he feels
assured will conduct the same with the greatest care and atten-
tion.
Church-street, 30th September, 1847.

J. DEIGHTON AND J. S. LAUGHTON
beg leave to announce their Succession to the Business lately
carried on by Mr. GRAPEL, as BOOKSELLER and STATIONER,
and respectfully to solicit a continuance of the patronage and
support their Predecessor has enjoyed for so many years. This
they will endeavour to merit by assiduous attention to the
wishes of all who may be pleased to favour them with their
commands.

All English Works of interest will, as usual, be kept on sale.
There will also be found in their stock a selection of French,
Italian, and German Authors, and the best English and Foreign
Editions of the Greek and Latin Classics.
In addition, they have made arrangements to receive, imme-
diately upon their appearance, the Classical, Mathematical,
Theological, and other Publications of the Cambridge and
Oxford Presses.
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Church-street, Ist October, 1817. .

CANDLES.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
ri A LARGE quantity of CANDLES having been
lately brought into this town from Warrington, at ,prices
ruinous to honest Traders, the TALLOW CHANDLERS of
LIVERPOOL, in self-defence, beg to state that they have ob-
tained Samples of the same from several Dealers, and having
weighed them at the Public Market Office, find they are inva-
riably from Ten to Twelve Ounces in the Dozen Pounds short
of weight; and believing that a profit thus fraudulently ob-
tained is as injurious to the Public as to themselves, they
therefore venture to hope that no Grocer will countenance so
disreputable a proceeding, and that no respectable House-
keeper will patronise those Dealers who connive at the same.
October 1. 1847.

NEW DURHAM MUSTARD,
OF THE FINEST QUALITY.
ONE SHILLING AND SIXPENCE PER POUND.
' Our supplies of new DURHAM MUSTARD have just ar-
rived, and we can recommend the quality this Season to be
very superior to any former year.
Families should observe that inferior qualities can be pro-
cured at much lower prices, but this article is manufactured
from the finest brown Seed, and but few Shopkeepers will give
the price for the article, consequently it has gained us such
reputation, that many other Houses are offering an article of
Mustard, of the second quality, at lower prices.
Families will find that one pound of the genuine Durham
Mustard will go further in domestic purposes than one pound
and a half of the second quality.
TO BE OBTAINED AT
HOLLIS AND COMPANY,
TEA DEALERS,
2, BOLD-STREET, AND 8, DALE-STREET.

SASS XMAS CHOCOLATE:
DR. DE LA MOTTE'S NUTRITIVE, HEALTH
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PREPARED FROM THE NUTS OF THE SASSAFRAS TREE.
Bold by the Patentee, 12, Southampton-street,
Strand, London.
THIS CHOCOLATE contains the peculiar virtues of
of the Sassafras Root, which has been long held in great
estimation for its purifying and alterative properties. The
aromatic quality (which is very grateful to the stomach) most
invalids require for breakfast and evening repast, to promote
digestion and to a deficiency of this property in the customary
breakfast'and supper :nay in a great measure be attributed the
frequency of cases of indigestion generally termed bilious. It
has been found highly beneficial in correcting the state of the
digestive organs, &c., from whence arise many diseases, such
as eruptions of the skin, gout, rheumatism, and scrofula. In
cases of debility of the stomach, and a sluggish state of the
liver and intestines, occasioning flatulence, costiveness, &c.,
and in spasmodic asthma, it is.much recommended.

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PROTECTED BY HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL
LETTERS PATENT.
ADDITIONAL PROOFS OF THE EFFICACY OF
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as one of the most important discoveries in Pharmacy,
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Rheumatic Affections of the Joints, diseases of the Chest, and
all Local Pains.
Prepared only by ROBERT ROPER and Sox, Chemists, Shef-
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SEVERE CASE OF HOOPING COUGH.
" Sir —A child of mine was very ill in the hoop'ng cough ;
when the fits of coughing came on she was frequently black in
the face. My medical man made use of the ordinary remedies
without much apparent effect, telling me it must take its
course ; but, having seen the advertisement of ROPER'S
ROYAL BATH PLASTER, I applied to you for one, when, to
my great joy, the fits became less violent and at much longer
intervals, until, in less than a week's time, she was as well as
ever she was in her life.—Yours, &c., " EDWD. BROADHURST.
" 14, Nelson-street, Hull, January 9th, 1847."
SEVERE PAIN UNDER THE LEFT BREAST.
" To Messrs. Roper and Son.
•
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" Bury, February 12, 1847."
Observe the words " Roper's Royal Bath Plaster" engraved
on the government stamp, and the Proprietor's Jac similes on
the back.
Sold by most Patent Medicine Vendors in the Kingdom.

`• H. MAIDEN, Chemist.

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE,

AMERICA.
The royal mail steam-ship Britannia, Captain Harrison,
arrived in the Mersey at two o'clock on Saturday morn-
ing. The Britannia having received the required repairs,
left New York on the 28th ult., and made the run to
Boston, whence she sailed as usual on the Ist, in thirty-
:seven hours. She brought seventy-six passengers; and
throughout the passage encountered strong easterly winds.
The steam-ship Hibernia, hence, was spoken on the 2d
instant, between Halifax and Boston.
The French steam-ship Union left New York for Cher-
bourg on the 20th ult., with but few passengers.
The Sarah Sands screw line-of-packet-ship would leave
New York for this port early this month. Her comman-
der, Captain Thompson, had been entertained in public by
his passengers on the outward run.
The contents of our letters by this arrival add little to
our previous information in regard to the Mexican War,
and the prospect of peace. The official despatches of the
commander-in-chief had not been received, though it was
understood that a special steamer waited at Vera Cruz
their arrival. No later accounts of any description had
been received from the interior ; and beyond the some-
what improved aspect of opinion with regard to the pro-
bable speedy termination of the war, we on this occasion
can report alone rumours upon which no reliance can be
placed ; to the effect, on the one hand, that Paredes had
entered the capital and deposed and arrested Santa Anna,
and, on the other, that Valencia, one of the chiefs of the
war party and friend to Paredes, had surrendered.
Monterey letters announce, that active operations had
been opened against the guerillas on the American line of
communication with Camargo. In Chihuahua affairs
were progressing amicably between the Mexicans and the
American traders.
The commercial accounts will be found in our usual
article.
Domestic affairs were somewhat more interesting. The
prohibition of slavery in airy new territory to'be acquired by
the Union had been resolved upon by the state convention
of Vermont. Several additional meetings in support of
General Taylor's claims to the Presidency had been held.
The epidemic in N criV Orleans was considerably abated.
A lamentable shipwreck occurred at Long Reach, Barne-
gat Island, on the 25th ultimo, in one of the equinoctial
ales of the season. The New Orleans ship Auburn was
driven on shore and totally lost, with her captain, mate,
and sixteen of the crew and passengers.

SWITZERLAND.
The accounts from Switzerland published in some of
the Paris papers are of much gravity ; a civil war appears
to be ituminent in that country. The canton of Berne
has adopted military measures on a grand scale. The
Excecutive Council issued, on the 7th, a decree summon-
ing to arms all men between the ages of 20 to 40. Argan
was also organizing its contingents, and even the land-
sturm, On the other hand, the brave cantons of the
Sonderhund were actively preparing for the struggle, and
the Helvetie professes to be acquainted with their plan of
operations. According to that print, they will not await
a declaration of hostilities, or even the arrival of the fe-
deral commissioners; their troops will assume the offensive,
and march into the enemy's territory the moment the
twelve Radical cantons shall have voted the measures of
execution. The movements of the Sonderbund's forces
are to be supported by insurrections, which are ready to
break out in the districts of Porrentruy, Soleurer St. Gall,
Tessino, the Grisons, End probably, also, Neuchatel.

Queen Isabella of Spain completed her 17th year on
Wednesday.
It is said that Narvaez accomplished his ends in obtain-
ing the office of prime minister of Spain by asserting that
the Progresistas were plotting against the throne, and by
promising her Majesty a divorce.
EMIGRATION TO AMERICA. —The emigration to New
York has increased much this year ; in the month of July
alone, 20,000 persons entered that port, and since the Ist
of April more than 84,000 passengers have passed through
the Custom-house.

Matters in Naples have assumed a most satisfactory as-
pect. The King intended granting an amnesty, and other
concessions. The Neapolitan funds had in consequence
risen to 104. The French fleet had left the Bay of
Naples.
The Madrid journals of the 9th, state the current ru-
mour that Gonzales Bravo would be taken into the
Cabinet; and that Narvaez, in order to make room for
him, would excnange the portfolio of Foreign Affairs for
that of War.
The West India colonies are about to send delegates to
meet at St. Thomas's, with the view of drawing up a
statement of their distressed condition, for the considera-
tion of the Home Government. The notion they appear
to entertain, that the restoration of the old differential du-
ties can be obtained, is, of course, utterly chimerical. But
the planters have just cause of complaint, and a united
remonstrance of this kind .must be listened to.
MURDER OF THE COUNTESS OF GOERLITZ.—The
Count de Goerlitz, who was accused by the German
Spectator and the Memhe.im Evening Gazette with the
commission of a terrible crime, has written a letter to the
Frankfort Journal, and several other papers, saying that
in order to reply to this horrible imputation, he has
accused these two journals of calumny before the tribunal
at Darmstadt.

HO-RSE-FLESH BANQUET.—About 160 persons sat
down yesterday to a horse-flesh dinner, in the Adler
Hotel, at Bornheim. The dinner was ordered by the
Frankfort "Society for the Protection of Animals" (Rum
SchtsCre de Thiere). We are enabled to state that horse-
flesh affords a very palatable dish. The dinner was
enlivened by many toasts and songs.—Frankfurter Jour-
nal, Oct. 9.
MADEMOISELLE ALBost.—The Parisian critics are in
raptures with Alboni and her " elegance, purity, and
flexibility of style," and literally astounded at the extra-
ordinary compass of her vocal scale, from F in the bass
cleff to C sharp above the lines in the treble. After her
Hungarian campaign, Mademoiselle Alboni will return to
Paris in January, and there remain till March. In the
winter of 1848 she will spend six months in the French ca-
pital. The directors already talk of having parts " created"
for her by the composers.
SHIPWRECK AND Loss OF LIVES.—The Commercial
Gazette states that on Sunday night last, about 10 o'clock,
a Russian barque named the Iris of Biornhergh, 400 tons
burthen, bound to Falmouth for orders, and laden with
Indian corn, with a crew of twelve men, was wrecked near
Gunwalloe. She was from Volo, a port in Turkey, near
Salonica. Three men were thrown upon the rock near
Gunwalloe Church, and three swam to the shore, but we
regret to state that six of the crew were drowned. The
vessel went to pieces and is a total wreck.
The last accounts from Paris state that Christina, the
Queen Mother, accompanied by her husband, M. Munoz,
had departed, artfully concealing her flight, from the
French capital, and carrying passports authorising the
bearers to travel under any name. By this time, it is
belicvel, she is at Madrid, where the field has been left
open t her by Serrano, who had absconded after accept-
ing hii large bribe. The Queen Mother was summoned
by Narvaez to establish the work which he had begun,
and to which, it is believed, the King of the French was
accessory.
The arrival in Paris of the ex-King of Westphalia
(Jerome Bonaparte) and his son has occasioned much spe-
culation. The matter is explained in this way :—The ex-
King solicits a pension in place of the dotation settled on
him by his brother the Emperor Napoleon. This has been
promised by King Louis Philippe, who is no doubt re-
joiced at an opportunity of disposing in this way of any
pretensions of another character that Jerome might have
raised, and which will be thus set at rest. His son, Prince
Jerome, begged to be allowed to enter the French army,
but this was of course refused by King Louis Philippe. A
bill granting the pension solicited will, however, be laid
before the Chamber of Deputies immediately after it shall
have sat for the transaction of business.
ENGLISH BUILDINGS IN CHINA.—A location on the
Canton river for warehouses. &c., and a site for a church,
have been at length obtained, and at Shangae our people
have got about 100 acres for building, with roads, drain-
age, &c., all their own. At Hong. Kong every public
work and building is now either finished or in progress.
except a government-house, for which a site and estimates
have been got. The Chinese people, however, at Canton,
Shinganese, &c., still look upon the English "barbarian"
as if he were "a bull in a china-shop," and threaten that
stone-cutters will be cut all into small pieces, bricklayers
"broken into a tile," and all and sundry "looked upon
as beasts," who dare to lift a little finger either in " sup-
plying with tiles, wood, granite, or other building mate-
rials," or in building for, or otherwise aiding and abetting
this " detested brood" in their design upon the country."
—The Builder.

FRENCH MORALITY.

The Paris papers of last week bring us the report of the
trial and the sentence of the now notorious Beauvallon.
We need not remind our readers that this man escaped a
capital conviction on the charge of murder, and that on
the recent trial of his accomplice for the perjury by which
such impunity had been secured, he rendered himself
again amenable to the law by returning with abundant
interest the false swearing which had been so serviceable
to himself. Nearly two months have elapsed since this
occurrence, and it having been ascertained in the interval,
by the preliminary inquiry which in France supersedes
the forms of our grand juries, that a sufficient case existed
for the prosecution, the prisoner on Friday was brought
to the bar of the Court of Assize to plead to the charge
against him. We cannot avoid observing the methods
by which, in France, a person moving in distinguished
literary society, and professing to correct and inform pub-
lic opinion, endeavours to exempt himself from an incul-
pation alleging that he had been swearing and suborning
false oaths in order to shield himself from the penalties of

murder.
e against Beauvallon was to the effect
The original charg
that he had laid a plot for involving a troublesome rival
in a duel, that he bad taken a treacherous and deliberate
advantage of his inexperienced adversary in every parti_
cular, and that he had at last coolly and circumspectly
shot him through the brain with a pistol of which he
knew the exact capabilities, and whichhe hadibrought
hot to the field from that very morning's practce. On
this charge he was acquitted by the evidence of his se-
cond, D'Ecquevilley, who swore that Beauvallon
,had
never seen the pistols before. For this evidence D Ec-
quevilley was tried as a perjurer in August last, and after
endeavouring to clear himself by challenging the witnesses
against him, and asserting that his family was ranked
among the noblesse of Franche Comtil in the 17th cen-
tury, was righteously consigned to infamy for the remain-
der pf his life. This judgment, therefore, decided that
the guilty foreknowledge of the weapons had been duly
proved. But, as Beauvallon on this occasion swore to
the contrary on behalf of Ids friend, even as his friend on
the former occasion had so sworn on behalf of him, he
himself now became liable to a similar charge, and the
some evidence which convicted the second is consequently
b Sought forward to convict his principal upon the sel
§.iine count, Ip dile niccestioni therefore, the eeveral

witnesses appeared to prove that Beauvallon had 'rises
early in the morning to practise at the target, that helad
called to inform persons of his intentions, that he had
deliberately gone through the exercise in the garden of
his second while his doomed victim was shivering in the
snow, and that the instrument was actually found black
and smoking from the discharge by the surgeon in attend-
ance. To all this Beauvallon replies simply by a contra-
diction, which carries, of course, the usual weight of such
affirmations from the mouth of such culprits. His grand
defence rests upon the demolition of the evidence ten-
dered by M. Meynard, which was mainly instrumental in
bringing the affair again before the public, and which
originatd these two trials of the second and his principal.
The attack which is to destroy M. Meynard's credit and
restore Beauvallon's character is conducted as follows :
Beauvallon alleges that Meynard's entire testimony is
the invention of falsehood and the suggestion of spite,
arising from the fact that the latter had been defeated by
him-self in a competition for the good graces of a certain
lady. In corroboration of this assertion, and as witnesses
to his own character, he adduces the only matter which,
beyond his own reiterations, he has hitherto employed in
the shape of proof throughout the trial. He produces in
court, with apparent reluctance, the private letters said to
be addressed by this very lady to himself, immediately
after that flight to Spain by which he had eluded the fine
imposed on him by law for the support of his victim's
widow. So singularly do they insinuate facts in favour of
Beauvallon—his compulsory participation in the duel—
his distraction even after so blameless and inevitable a
homicide—and, as if by prophecy, the persecution to
which malice and envy would subsequently expose him,—
that a suspicion as to the pen from which they really pro-
ceeded could not possibly be repressed. " Was not this
letter written for your awn defence ?" asked the Presi-
dent of the delinquent, observing that it had neither
postmark nor other proof of authenticity., The prisoner's
advocate adroitly demurred to such a question, which the
reader will perhaps answer for himself after perusing half-
a-dozen lines. " Believe me," says the writer, "it is not
necessary to have done people harm to be detested by
them ; it is sufficient to be superior to them in every re-
spect. Do you believe, for example, that you will ever
be forgiven your success in the world, your position at
the head of a widely-circulated journal, your book so
much applauded, and those honourable decorations which
you have obtained at the age of twenty-four ? Listen
tell you, that in less than three months you will pass—
you, so good, so upright—you, softness incarnate—for a
bully, with a hard heart and a pitiless hand." But, the
true force of the whole allegation will not be felt till the
reader arrives at the intimation that this lady, who admi-
nisters consolation, who deprecates treachery, who cheers
the spirit and confirms the piety of the exile, who so re-
joices at the intelligence that he is improving his " fine
qualities" by the example of a Spanish Ministry, and his
mind by the libraries of the Escurial, whose confidential
devotion is exposed, and whose secondhand praises are
repeated in order that the latent virtue of her beloved
correspondent may be made known to the world--is the
wife of another man !
That high sense of honour which murderers and adul-
terers never lose in France precludes, of course, the dis-
closure of the lady's name, and M. Beauvallon throws
himself with confidence on the delicacy of his countrymen
in relying upon the unattested letters of an anonymous
adultress for establishing his unsullied innocence and
clearing his clouded fame. We hope so bright an appre-
ciation of himself, and so just a calculation of his audi-
ence, as is shown by his selection of such a mouthpiece
to proclaim his merits, will not be lost in this country.
That they were not made without a little encouragement
may be gathered from the following fact. M. Granier de
Cassagnac, whose name figures with most equivocal credit
in this nefarious murder, who is the brother-in-law of the
assassin, and the owner of the famous pistols which were
lent for the deed,—who, at the late trial, endeavoured to
intimidate the witnesses by challenging a dangerous de-
ponent in the witness-room, and whose conduct was re-
buked in open court by the President, has so far retained
the favour and confidence of his former gossips in high
office that he has recently been despatched on a Govern-
ment mission to Rome, there to represent in some sort
the French nation, and advance French interests at that
pivot of Christian politics. With such countenance to his
friends and party, how hard it was of the Court of Assize
to sentence M. Beauvallon to eight years' imprisonment

COURT AND FASHION.

It would appear, by a letter from the Home-office that
her Majesty has declined to receive any presents for the
future. A box, containing a gold bird, sent to the Queen
as a present for the Prince of Wales, has been returned to
the donor.

ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCE OF WALES AND THE PRIN-
CESS ALI CE.—A Lilliputian Java pony, not more than 27
inches in height, generally accompanies the royal family
during their rides in the Home-park. On Monday while
the Prince and Princess were taking their exercise, at-
tended by the grooms and one of their governesses, the
Java pony having displayed some curious antics, the Shet-
land ponies ridden by the prince and princess, started off
at full speed before the grooms had power to secure them,
each bolting across the park in a different direction. The
Prince of Wales fortunately retained his seat, showing
great skill in the management of his steed. The Princess
Royal, however, not having the same command over hers
was thrown from her seat, providentally alighting upon
the turf without sustaining the least injury.
The Duchess of Kent had a narrow escape on Monday
evening, her carriage being run into by a runaway horse
in a spring-cart, as it was turning into the Waterloo-gate
entrance to the Home-park, Windsor. The carriage was
so much injured that her Royal Highness was obliged to
proceed to the Castle in the brougham of Sir George
Cowper, who fortunately was passing at the time. The
cart belonged to Hamilton Parkes, Esq., of Woodside,
whose butler and wife, and the cook, were in it at the
time. They were thrown out into the road. The butler
was rendered insensible for two hours from the effects of
a severe wound on the side of his head. His wife, who
remains in a dangerous state, had the skin from the whole
of the left side of her face entirely torn off. The cook
who (was covered with blood when picked up, escaped
without much serious injury.