The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-16 00:00:00

FORRIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE•

AMERICA.

By the French mail steamer Missouri advices have been
-received from New York to the 25th ult. The news is
not important. General Scott remained in quiet pos-
session of Mexico, whilst Santa Anna had resigned the
presidency, which was conferred on Senor Pena, an emi-
nent lawyer. Santa Anna was proceeding to operate
against the American garrison at Puebla, with a view to
restrict their supplies. It was hoped that peace would
result from the deliberations of the Mexican Congress,
which had been convened. Business was unsettled at
New York after the arrival out of the Cambria. Bread-
stuffs, from the great demand for local consumption and
the moderate supplies advanced in price; while cotton fell
1 cent per lb ; and exchange also receded 81 to 91 per
cent., being the range of bills per Missouri. The quota-
tions in the New York market on the 23rd October, (Sa-
turday,) for Uplands were from Id. to Id. per lb. above
those now ruling in Liverpool, being for " middling" 81,
" good middling" 81 to 9, and " fair" 91 cents per lb.
The purchases were chiefly for exportation.

WEST INDIES.—We find in the daily papers a dispatch
addressed by Earl Grey to the governor of Jamaica. The
Colonial Secretary sets out by alluding to a memorial from
the proprietors, merchants, and others connected with the
island of Jamaica, in which they represent the difficulties
under which they labour, and apply for assistance to be
enabled to surmount. them, and then proceed to state that
it had long become manifest that in the existing state of
affairs in this country, if the cultivation of sugar could not
be sustained by free-trade, it could not be sustained at all.
It was essential, therefore, to the welfare of all parties, to
commence without delay the experiment of bringing the
principle of free-trade, by progressive steps into full ac-
tivity, end maintaining the cultivation of sugar with a re-
duction and early extinction of the discriminating duties.
Earl Grey then proceeds to dwell upon the necessity for
the education and industrial training of the negroes, in
order to supply the demand for labour. He proposes to
relieve colonies from various restrictions, but indicates, in
the meanwhile, the main relief to be .he removal of the
restriction which prevents the free importation of labour
into the colonies. The government, therefore, will per-
mit, under superintendence, the importation of free ne-
groes, 13)„ special agreement, forliruited service, from such
portions of the African coast as are not directly connected
with the odious slave trade.
Sir R. Horsford is the new chief-justice of Antigua.
The new French loan of two hundred and fifty million
francs (ten millions sterling) has been taken by the Roth-
schilds at 75f. 25c.
Marshal Sebastiani has returned to Paris, and resides
in the hotel which was the scene of the late Praslin tra-
gedy.
DECLINE OF THE CHOLERA.—The Augsburgh Gazette
states, on the authority of letters from Southern Russia,
that the ravages of the cholera have very much decreased,
and that in some localities it has entirely disappeared.
The 30th of October, being the anniversary of the day
cm which Luther nailed his ninety-five Articles on the
church-door of Wittenburg (1517), and which was the first
great step to the Reformation, has just been solemnised
at Weimar.
Mr. George Fabricius, a German violinist and musical
composer, committed suicide a few days ago at Brussels,
in consequence or having, from agitation, failed in the re-
hearsal of a concert which he was to have given at the
Theatre- Royal.
M. Von Zagazouski, president of the tribunal for poli-
tical offences at Cracow, was murdered on the 4th instant.
He had gone out in the evening, attended by an orderly,
when he was suddenly fired at by some persons lying in
ambush and killed on the spot.
AN UNLUCKY MISTAKE.—The Marshal of the Russian
nobility, Von Whitebsk von Cechanowiek, a nobleman
well known by his extensive travels in Europe and the
East, was lately shot by a gamekeeper, who mistook him
for a wild Least, on account of ,iis head covering. The
dying man fully exculpated the innocent author of his
death.

The town of Weimar has purchased the house of Schil-
ler. It is now about to he restored, and the rooms to be
adorned with furniture of the same description as that
which was to be found there when the great man inha-
bited them. His room will be adorned with the same
paper. A museum will be formed in the house, in which
will be placed all Schiller's works, and all writings and
objects which are in any way connected wit his memory.
THE GORLITZ MURDER.—A letter from Darmstadt an-
nounces the arrest of a servant of Count Giirlitz, who was
also in the service of the unfortunate Countess, who, it
will be remembered, was found burnt to death, and of
whose murder the Count was accused. The servant is ac-
cused of attempting to poison the Count. Some soup
served up to the Count's table having a curious colour, it
excited suspicion, and on baing analysed was found to con-
tain a strong dose of poison. The father of the servant
has also been arrested.

ROMAN CATHOLIC PROCESSION.— Galignani relates
that the city of Cambray has just been the theatre of a
-procession, the like of which has probably not been seen
for a long time in any town. It consisted of the trium-
phal entry of Cardinal Giraud on his return to his archie-
-piscopal seat. Three triumphal arches were erected on
`the passage of the cortege, which passed amidst the ring-
ing of bells and the roaring of artillery. On his entrance
-to the cathedral, his eminence chanted a Te Deunz, which
was repeated by 500 or 600 priests. In the evening there
was an illumination and a display of fireworks.
BELGIUM.—The ordinary session of the Belgian Cham-
bers was opened on Tuesday by the King in person. The
speech from the throne, amongst other matters, stated
that " the efforts of government were directed towards
procurinc, external outlets for commerce. Pecuniary ad-
vances from government would be required in order to
-finicb ,alhvisy .CuatillS and the double lines of rail, as
well as to complete the materiel of transport, and to
finally close the account of the expenses of the first esta-
bliF:.unent. The Legislature would have to vote measures
necessary for perfecting and completing the organisation
-of public instruction.'
SUICIDE OF TIIF. COUNT GoaIER.—A letter from Au-
' Bernick (Pas de Calais) brings an account of Count Gomer
'having committed suicide. After his condemnation, the
Count was in a state of great excitement—so much so
that his family deemed it necessary to cause a domestic
to accompany him in his excursions. On Monday he was
out shooting in the wood in which the affair occurred,
:when he made some pretext to leave the domestic for a
few minutes, and retired behind a clump of trees. Shortly
after an explosion was heard, and, on hastening to the
. spot, the domestic found his master lying on the ground,
weltering in his blood, and quite dead. The count had
discharged his gun near his heart, causing instantaneous
death. The Procureur du Roi had appealed against the
sentence on the Count de Gomer, as not being sufficiently
severe.

GRADUAL RISE OF NEWFOUNDLAND AMITE THE SEA.
—lt is a fact worthy of notice, that the whole of the land
in and about the neighbourhood of Conception Bay, very
probably the whole island, is rising out of the ocean at a
rate which promises, at no very distant day, materially to
affect, if not to render useless, many of the best harbours
we have now on the coast. At Port de Grave a series of
observations have been made, which undeniably prove the
rapid displacement of the sea-level in the vicinity. Se-
veral large flat rocks over which schooners might pass
some 30 or 40 years ago with the greatest facility, are now
approaching the surface, the water being scarcely naviga-
ble for a skiff. At a place called the Cosh, at the head of
Bay Roberts, upwards of a mile from the sea-shore, and
at several feet above its level, covered with five or six feet
of vegetable mould, there is a perfect beach, the stones
being rounded, of a moderate size, and in all respects
similar to those now found in the adjacent land washes.—
Nevfoundland Times.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCES.—The Paris journals of
Wednesday convey the details of two horrible occurrences.
The first, that Count Bresson, peer of France, and am-
bassador of France at Naples (by whom, when ambassa-
dor at Madrid, the Montpensier marriage was brought
about) committed suicide by cutting his throat on the 2d
instant. In carrying through the Montpensier intrigue,
and accomplishing the double marriage of the two royal
sisters, Count Bresson probably imagined that he had
erected an edifice of honour; but, alas ! his hopes were
based in iniquity. and are justly frustrated.—The second
event is an attempt made by Count Mortier, peer of
France, in a fit of insanity, to murder two of his children
and to commit suicide with a razor. The Count was
found in his study, with his children about him, and the
razors upon the table ; and it appears that, instead of at-
tempting to kill them without their knowledge he had en-
deavoured to persuade them to consent to die along with
him, He was in the midst of an altercation with them
when the authorities entered. He was immediately al.•
rested and placed in a lunatic asylum.
HORRID BUTCHERY.—The origin of the recent distur-
bances in New Zealand is said to have been as follows :
A midshipman of her Majesty's ship Calliope, by accident,
shot a native through the head with a pistol. We assume
this view of the case to be correct on Governor Grey's
authority, as he is not a man likely to falsify facts, and
must be well aware of the real history of the calamitous
occurrence. The natives, however, would not suffer
themselves to be convinced that the injury was inflicted
by accident. They either did, or were determined to
believe, that their countryman had been deliberately
murdered, and swore to take bloody revenge for his
death. Now, it so happened that at about five miles'
distance from Petre, in the district of Wanganui, a Mr.
Gilfillan resided with his family, in a lonely farm-house.
On the evening of the 18th of April, Mr. Gilfillan, who
bad been into town, went to his stockyard to see that all
was right, and, whilst he was so engaged, observed a
party of six natives coming down the hill opposite his
'house. They approached, and entered into conversation
-with him. The family were all indoors, with the excep-
tion of Mr. Gilfillan, who for some time walked up and
down in front of his house talking and jesting with the
natives. Suddenly he felt a violent blow on the back of
his neck, and knew that he was severely wounded. De-
spite of this, and the number of his opponents, he con-
trived to make good his way into the house, and barri-
caded the door. At that moment there were in the house,
besides himself, his wife and three children, who were
subsequently murdered, as well as three others and an
infant, who escaped. Into the sickening details of the
butchery it would be unnecessary to enter. Let it be
sufficient here to say, that Mr. Gilfillan was persuaded
by his wife to make his escape through a window, as they
both believed that it was only his life which was aimed at.
He did so, and dragged himself, wounded as he was,
through the garden and the long fern, and so contrived
to reach a station where he might raise an alarm. it was,
however, too late. The next day, Monday, the 19th, a
policeman despatched to the spot found near the house
two children of Mr. Gilfillan's, who told him all the rest
of the family were killed. Proceeding a little further, he
found the bodies of Mrs. Gilfillan and her three children.
They were quite dead. Close to the spot the policeman
heard the cry of an infant, and, on entering the stock.
yard, he found it, perfectly uninjured, lying in the lap of ,
a young woman who had been seriously wounded in the
head. No traces of the murderers were to be found but
A bloody axe which had been thr4Wll Ppcn the ground.