The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Arabia, Captain Judkins, which arrived yesterday
morning, we have intelligence from New York to the 9th
instant. The Arabia, which experienced very heavy
weather on the passage, brought 55215,000 in specie, and
the following fifty-six
PASSENGERS.—Mrs. Mulligan, Miss Jane C. Lawson,
Miss Douglass, Mr. J. Caldwell, lady, and three children;
Mr. A. W. Jaffrey, Mr. H. Sardheim,Mr.John Cameron,
Mr. J. G. Hagemeyer, Mr. F. G. de Lazarrage, Mr. G.
M. Holmes, Mr. Milner, Mr. Alex. Simpson, Mr. John
Leppin, Mr. W. Cochran, Mr. F. Griffin, Mr. Blank,
Mr. Longton, Mr. John Copley, Mr. W. Busing, Mr.
Thomas Boykett, Mr. Win. Critchley, Mr. H. Von
Keller, Mr. Wolgmeeth, Mr. A. B. Strange, Mr. S. J.
Withrell, Mr. J. P. Smith, Mr. G. F. Delcampo, Mr.
Fuller, Mr. C. Zaldeia, Mr. G. Barba, Mr. G. H. Booth,
Mr. John Weller, Mr. E. Wainwright, Rev. Dr. Barron,
Mr. Jennings, Mr. John Plank, Mr. Lloyd, Mr. C.
Keenstle, Mr. F. Kreet, Miss A. King, Mr. Rowley and
boy, Mr. Alex. Kirkwood, Mr. Geo. Marshall, Mr. A. C.
Bain, Mr. E. Lamette, Mr. H. Dierking, Mr. Moerder,
Mr. G. M. Rosenleaf,;Mr. H. Macfarlane, Mr. Tacher,
and Mr. Rosenfeld.
The U.S. steamer Baltic arrived at New York on the
6th lama. -
The Arabia passed the steamer Niagara at noon, on
Sunday, off Waterford.
All doubts concerning the Cabinet had been put to rest
by the Senate's confirmation of the appointments. The
following is the authenticated list :—Secretary of State,
W. L. Marcey ; Secretary of the Treasury, James Guth-
rie ; Secretary of the Interior, Robert M'Clelland ; Se-
cretary of War, Jefferson Davis ; Secretary of the Navy,
James K. Dobbin ; Postmaster-General, James Camp-
bell ; Attorney-General, Caleb Cushing.
In the Senate, on the 7th, Mr. Clayton offered the
following resolutions calling for copies of the papers rela-
tive to the affairs of Nicaragua :—" That the President
be respectfully requested, if compatible in his opinion
with the public interest, to communicate to the Senate
the propositions mentioned in the letter to the Secretary
of State, accompanying the executive message to the

THE ►SLY GROG TENTS in Melbourne still flourish,
though the proprietors are caught now and then and fined
X5O.

GOLD DIGGERS.—No less than 17 lb. of gold was
found by the police in one week on the persons of drunk-
ards in the streets of Melbourne.

A RELIC.—One of the most interesting relics in Phila-
delphia may be seen in North Second Street, viz., the
first lightning rod erected by Dr. Franklin, which still
stretches its attenuated finger towards the heavens.
AN AMERICAN PAPER informs us that Mr. Stephen-
son, the builder of the Britannia-bridge over the Menai
Straits, is on his way to Canada, it is said, to build a
similar bridge across the St. Lawrence at Montreal.
THE MAYOR OF MELBOURNE, Australia. has been
re-elected by the new council. His allowance has been
fixed at £l,OOO for the year 1853, and that of the Town
Clerk at £B5O.

IN Melbourne gold has been collected in the gutters by
children, and scraped up from the footway in Collins-
street. An old steam-boat paddlebox has been converted
into a " gold office," and is doing very well.
GOLD, it is stated, has at length positively been dis-
covered in New Zealand, about thirty miles from Auck-
land, in the Gulf of Houraki, where ten men obtianed in
one day about £4O. The Government bad issued pro-
clamations with regard to it.
A NEW FRENCH FLEET.-It is said that instructions
have been received in New York from Louis Napoleon to
contract for the immediate construction, in New York, of
a fleet of war steamers, but we don't know whether the
story is true or not.

RIOTS have prevailed at Charleston, Massachussetts,
caused by the alleged abduction of Miss Cochran, a
convert from Rome to Protestantism. The mob rose end

burned a Popish chapel, and did not disperse till the
military had fired upon them.
REPUDIATION OF MORMONISM IN NORWAY.'-di!
Norway, where not only all Christian sects, but the Jews
likewise, enjoy free toleration, the Government has de-
cided that the Mormons, not being Christian Dissenters,
shall not be permitted to perform any public act of wor-
ship or instruction in the Norwegian kingdom, or be
allowed to make oath before any court.

THE New York Herald reports that another expedi.
tion is being organised in New Orleans for invading the
island of Cuba, and wresting it from the possession 0(
Spain. A colonel of the late Hungarian army is to have
the command of the expedition. It is not known whether
the Lone Star Association has anything to do with it.
THERE is a good sprinkling of Chinamen in Melbourne,
to add to the other motley costumes of the town. One
day in December last, two of these, who had been in the
bush, entered Melbourne most awkwardly, ridiculouslY►
and yet more conceitedly attired, in soldiers' scarlet coats
and black upright caps.
ONE day in November, 1832, Mr. Hargraves, the origi'
nator of the grand movement of gold digging in the
Australian fields, arrived in Melbourne, after making s
circuit of all the principal gold fields of this colony. Like
any stranger newly come, he had to go from house to
house, and from street to street, to find a lodging for the
night. He eventually got shelter in a small public house.
AMERICA AND EUROPE.—The New York Herald says
—" The universal sentiment of the people of the United
States, regarding the relation of America to Europe, has
at length been spoken out in language unmistakeable, and
in the most solemn form, by the voice of their chief magie',
trate. The era of the trans-Atlantic colonization 01
America is closed that of its avowed self expansive
greatness, through its own vital energies, commences with
the inauguration of Franklin Pierce."

THE FRENCH COURT.—The ordinary days at the
Tuileries, when there is no reception, pass off, writes a
Pads correspondent, monotonously enough. The Ea'
press works embroidery, or needlework part of the even..
ing. About ten o'clock Bonaparte plays at vingt et lin
with the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and, after a
few tours de banquier, retires with the Empress. He
continues to display the warmest proofs of attachment to
his bride. All that she asks she obtains ; except ill
matters of public policy, there he is impregnable.

MURDERS in the gold fields are said to be on the in-
crease, but this is only because more bodies have been
discovered. There always have been, and there continue
to be, many murdcrs at the different diggings, and in
their vicinity, which arc never known. A gentleman is
seldom murdered ; but with the ordinary run of the
working men diggers—especially if a single man, wish no
wife to cause any vigorous search or inquiry after him—
what more easy than to make him drunk, or catch him
ready drunk to their hands, and then, if he has gold about
him he is sure to boast of it, and his murder often follows
as a matter of course, and nobody ever hears anything of
the matter.

MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—A letter from Adelaide
states that some of the passengers by the Cleopatra called
upon Captain Cumming to land them free of expense,
which he refused to do, and intimated that if they did not
immediately leave the vessel, they would be charged an
extra sum for each day they remained on board ! In con-
sequence of this intimation 18 of the passengers seized the
first opportunity of getting off the ship, which was offered
by a little craft employed in supplying water to the vessels
in harbour. This boat being already topheavy by the
weight of the tank it carried, was not at all suited for the
,conveyance of passengers. The natural consequence of
overloading it ensued ; it was capsized in a puff of wind,
and three of the passengers were drowned. The sufferers
were a clergyman, named Hiern, recently of Barnstaple,
Devonshire, his son, and Mr. Henry Holloway. Mr.
Hiern has left a widow and nine chileren, bereaved
strangers in a strange land.
A SCENE OF TUMULT IN THE AMERICAN CONORESS.-^'
The New York papers of the 4th, in reporting the pre-
vious day's proceedings, say :—lt was now eight o'clock.
The galleries were densely crowded, and the lobby mem-
bers present had greatly increased in numbers. So much
noise prevailed that it was next to impossible to compre•
bend the legislative proceedings. Members were con"
tinually going to and returning from the ante-room, in
which were liquid and solid refreshments. Amendments
to the navy bill were still discussed and voted on. Some
members, weary of the dry proceedings, had retired to
chat with lobby friends and smoke cigars. The falling of
a lady's fan from the gallery, hitting an honourable gen'
tleman below upon the head, but not seriously wounding
him, excited some little merriment. Just about this mo-
ment, a burly old member came into the hall with a hunk
of bread and ham in his hand, eating thereof most heartily.
The proceedings were frequently interrupted by the recep-
tion of messages from the Senate.
NEW LILY.—The Panama Star mentions a beautiful
lily, with a bulb-root, long oval leaves, and a stock four
feet in length, found only on one particular part of the
Isthmus, near Panama. It is named Espiritu Santo,
and is thus described : " The plant possesses little
beauty beyond what is contained in the flower itself,
which is of a most elegant and peculiar formation. The
outward part, which is smaller than a pigeon's egg, re',
sembles a curious-shaped vase, on opening the lid 01
which the most perfect and beautiful facsimile of the
dove is found within. The head is turned over its back,
appearing as if it were about to take its farewell of earth,
and soar to some brighter region. No person can see this
extraordinary flower for the first time without a deep
feeling of wonder and admiration at the perfection and
beauty displayed in its formation, and every succeeding
time it is met with the observer gazes upon it with in-
creased admiration and curiosity." The flower is else'
where styled the Paradise Flower, and if we remember
rightly there is a sonnet to it in a collection of poems, by
the Rev. J. W. Burgon, of Oriel College, Oxford.

•
FEARFUL PREVALENCE OF MURDER IN AMERICA*
—The latest American papers are filled with the detailS
of numerous revolting murders.—Four workmen in the
Glasgow mills, at Hadley, Mass., were attacked by seven
men some days ago, by whom two were so severely in-
jured that one has since died and another is not expected
to recover.—Among the ruins of a stable whith wag
burnt at Lawrence, Mass., on Friday morning, were
found the charred remains of a man, supposed to have
been murdered.—A sailor, named John M'Cabe,
killed a few evenings since in an affray with some rowdies
in Water-street, New York. He was intoxicated at the
time.—On the 4th instant, in Orange-street, New Yorks
Wm. H. Cotton was shot in the head by a pistol in the
hands of Peter Gillespie.—At Selma (Albany), on the
14th ult., Mr. George Sharpe, of Burnsville, was murdered
by a man named Noles.—The Memphis Eagle of the
22d February says Mr. Cawthorn, of Holly Springs, wag
killed in that place on the 16th, by a man named Roswell'
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ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—Great scandals have arisen in
connection with two recent suicides in Paris. The Corm.
Camarata, a cousin of the Emperor's, committed suicide
by blowing his brains out, leaving a box with some letters
and papers to Mdlle. Marthe, the actress, who was in
England. She, however, returned to Paris, when the
authorities demanded the box, as containing family
papers, should be delivered up to the Emperor. As she
refused to give it up, a rigid search was made by the
police, but nothing belonging to the Count was found ; and
Madlle. Marthe refused to say where the box had bees
deposited, the commissary made some observations which
were construed by her into a menace. This visit shook
the nerves of Mdlle. Marthe, but she had promised to
sup with some friends, and she contrived to appear gay
during the evening. On her return, she told the portress
not to come into her rooms until late the next morning,
as she felt fatigued, and wished to sleep longer than
usual. At the same time she asked for a charcoal brazier,
to enable her to warm some coffee. She had given all
appointment for the next morning to a gentleman who
arrived at nine o'clock, and rang the bell of Mdlle-
Marthe's apartments, without receiving any answer. He
then went to the portress, and obtain'd a key of the apart-
ment. On going into the bedroom he saw that the bed
was unoccupied, and the door of the boudoir was fastened
on the inside. The door being forced open, the root=
was soon filled with thefumes of charcoal, and Mdlle.Marthe
was lying dead on the floor, and near her three charcoal
braziers—two of her own and one she had borrowed from
the portress. She has, it is said, left property to the
amount of nearly twenty thousand francs a-year. Chris-.
tian burial, it is said, was refused to the Count, bUt
granted to the actress.