The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-11-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

DETECTED CONSPIRACY IN BR US

(From the Courrier Beige.)
While France has been convulsed by etizeutes, Spain by
insurrection, and the United States and England by agita-
tion,
.the world beheld the tranquility of Belgium with
astonishment. It was scarcely possible that this state of
things could continue, for Belgium is every bit as constitu-
tional, and, consequently, must " go ahead" as fast as other
nations which keep continually progressing in their onward
course. The powers that be are not a jot less stronger,
therefore, we also must show some signs of life, and thus
this night have we also had our conspiracy. It was not the
police, however, who threw any obstacles in the way to pre-
vent this explosion, which has been inevitable ever since the
fetes cif September. The funds of the police are inefficient
to provide for the safety of the state. There can be no doubt
that the conspirators were all in earnest in this affair, and
" meant business."

In one of our suburbs, two new six-pounders and two
field-pieces, with harness, ammunition, &c., all ready to
sweep the streets of our tratquil city.
Six persons have been arrested during the night ; amongst
them is the attendant of the V. P., together with the captain
of those who were wounded in September.
Two generals have escaped by flying the country.
The foundry at which the balls and cartridges were manu-
factured has been discovered. Four pieces of cannon have
also been seized, and are at the Hotel de Ville.
Attempts have been inade;to seduce the non-commissioned
officers of the garrison, but they immediately denounced
them to their superior officers.

To-morrow was the day fixed upon for the breaking out of
the conspiracy. The conspirators had extended their rammi-
fications throughout Ghent, Antwerp, Liege, &c. Had it
broken out in the night it might have been successful, as the
officers who live in the suburbs could have had their throats
cut before they could have arrived at the barracks. This is
the cause of the order given to the officers to return to the
town.

The pieces of artillery were received at the Tivoli Gardens.
The conspirators consisted partly of Orangeists, and partly
of true patriots ; each of which party had its Diego Leon
represented by the two Generals. V. D. S. and V. D. M.,
who have taken to their beds. The brother of the former
has been arrested. Of a truth, Belgium is a country of
imitators.

We have also received the following details :
During the whole of yesterday afternoon the police and
authorities were on the alert. Thousands of rumours were
afloat respecting the goings and comings of those function-
aries. It was at first thought to relate to a band of robbers,
which it is well known has extensive ramifications in the
city. This, however, better informed people said was caused
by a conspiracy against the welfare of the state.
The law officers, accompanied by the police agents, re-
paired to the different quarters of the town to make domici-
liary, visits at the residences of the parties suspected.—
Amongst others they proceeded to the house of M. Deere-
hen in the Rue d'Argent. They were compelled to break
open the doors, and seized several articles. Gendarmes then
went in pursuit of M. Decrehen, who was arrested and
taken to the bureau of public safety. He is reported to have
bad a violent altercation with the Minister of War. As M.
Decrehon alighted from the carriage before the door of the
Minister of the Interior, he succeeding in escaping, but was
subsequently recaptured. Large bodies of people assembled
about the streets, and troops are stationed about the town.
M. Decrehen has been interrogated, but nothing is as yet
known. Some other arrests have taken place, and the guards
at the posts about the town have been doubled. A battalion
of the 16th has just arrived at Brussels.
The authorities declare that they have discovered the traces
of widely extending conspiracy. The ministers assembled in
council this morning, and several expresses have been sent
off by the King.

COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

WEST INDIES

Her Majesty's packet Magnet, Lieut. Griffith, arrived at
Falmouth on Monday morning, having left Barbadoes Sept.
5, St. Lucia 6, Martinique 7, Dominica and Guadaloupe 9,
Antigua 11, Montserrat, Nevis and St. Kitts 12, Tortola 13,
arriving on the same day at St. Thomas, where she received
the La Guayra and Leeward Island mails, ex the Tartarus
steamer, and those from Jamaica, to Sept. 20, brought up
by the steamer Flamer. On freight £9OOO.
Her Majesty's packet Seagull had arrived at St. Thomas,
and expected to leave with the next West India mails on
October 7,

The French government has issued an ordinance, which
appears in an official advertisement in the Barbadoes papers.
The following is the chief contents :

" The port of Port Louis, situated in Grand-terre (Gua-
daloupe) is open to the importation of foreign merchandise
enumerated in the tables A B C attached to the ordinance of
the Bth of December. 1839, under the conditions and restric-
tions set forth by the same ordinance, and by that of the sth
of February, 1826. as regards the importation of the same
merchandise in the other parts of the French Antilles already
open to foreign commerce.

The failure of Messrs. William Jenkins and Co., of Lon-
don, we are sorry to learn, has had a very injurious effect on
several of the West India merchants, and other individuals
who had extensive and confidential dealings with the unfor-
tunate house in question.

It had been moved in the Barbadoes House of Assembly,
" that the militia bill of this island, as now constituted, has
failed in its object of raising an effectual militia force ; and
that this house being of an opinion that there is no existing
necessity for such an establishment, under the present orga-
nised state of the country (having a police for the preserva-
tion of internal order), deems its repeal advisable," which
was rejected by a small majority. A subsequent motion was
made on the ruinous expense entailed by the keeping up of
the militia of the island, which terminated in a like manner.
Sr. LUCIA.--The Palladium states :—" The first subject
of local interest here is the change of language in our courts
of justice, announced by proclamation to come into effect on
the Ist of January next. Much as we approve of every step
made in our local institutions to approach the great model of
the parent state, we cannot but sympathise with the num-
bers of our fellow-inhabitants whose ruin will be the inevita-
ble consequence of this measure. Already are lawyers,
merchants, planters, and others seized with the panic ; and
we hear but of preparations to quit the colony, and carry
what little may
,be remaining of their wrecked fortunes to
other countries. Our population was thin enough before :
how it will be now, unless the valuable, though long-neg-
lected, capabilities of the island attract at last the notice of
British enterprise.

" The introduction of British sterling, as the only legal
money of accounts, has also made a great sensation, and
would have been hailed by every class as a decided improve-
ment, but that it has been brought to pass in a bungled man-
ner, leaving the cut-money in circulation without a tangible
sterling value.

" His Excellency Lieut.-Col. Graydon, being called to
13arbadoes by busineas of emergency, took his departure of
Wednesday morning for the neighbouring island of Marti
nique, to meet his Excellency Lieut. Gen. Maister, anc
proceeded with him in the steamer to head-quarters. Capt
Caldwell, of the 92d Highlanders, is confided with the ad•
ministration of the government during the absence of Col
Graydon, which is expected to be of but a few days' dura
tion."

The House of Assembly at Jamaica had been prorogued
by proclamation from August 31 to October 5.
We extract the following from our advices and from the
Jamaica papers :

. .
" CARTHAGENA.—By the arrival of the Jane Ann, at
Kingston, on Thursday last, we have intelligence from Car-
thagena to the 7th ult. Carmona still continued to blockade
the town, and prevented the vessel landing her cargo. The
Pickle and steamer Hydra were both there; but remained
passive. The Attorney-General, it is understood, has given
his opinion that the blockade ought not to be recognised,
and that all commanders of her Majesty's ships would be
perfectly justified in protecting vessels carrying provisions
'under the British flag ; but in the absence of positive orders
from the commodore, they are afraid of the responsibility.
In the meantime, what little trade there is between the coun-
tries suffers. The sloop Mermaid, another vessel with pro-
visions from this port, had also been warned off the coast by
Carmona's fleet, and had sailed two days before the Jane
Ann, but has not yet arrived. _

" Several deaths had taken place in the town from Car-
mona's shots. The Government Admiral, Tonon, was still
absent ; nobody seems to know where. Rio le Lache, how-
ever, is reported to have declared for the government party !
What effect this will have time will show. Upon these mat-
ters a correspondent, under date of the 7th ult., thus writes—
" ` We are still besieged ; last night the cannon on the
walls poured forth a tremendous shower of grape, &c., as
there was an attack on San Felipe. The Popa, too, has not
been idle : several houses have eyelet holes in them from
cannon balls; all the world here are sleeping and even living
below, as they sometimes cannonade:in the daytime. * *
Pepe Pazos' lady (Candelaria Eckart) was killed by a cannon
shot on the 29th ult. The ball went through three partitions
before it reached her. There have been two or three other
deaths, but of a more lingering character, caused by splinters,
&c. What has become of Admiral Tonon ? We have no
intelligence of him since the 19th ult., when he came from
Baru, and had a little skirmish with Podilla.

" I suppose you wiil have heard that Rio la Hatche has
pronounced in favour of the Government of Bogota, and
they say that Herran was at Cucuta in July last, on his way
hither, via Maracaibo. For this reason some say that Tonon
has gone there to bring his troops—verenaos' !"