The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

FR A N•C E

The Presse still continues its fierce attacks on England
and the British Ambassador. This paper charges the op-
position journals with having supported Lord Palmerston
against the French Government, and concludes by ad-
mitting that the existing difficulties are great, and the
more so as M. Thiers and his journals lead the British
Government io expect to obtain an advantage sooner or
later. " Difficult though the present situation of affairs
may be," says the Presse, "still it is equally serious for
Great Britain, and she suffers more from it than does
France."

The most important item of intelligence received from
Paris by the papers of Saturday, is the success of the
King of the Belgians in procuring a reconciliation be-
tween M. Guizot and Lord Normanby. That very trum-
pery quarrel is, it appears, to be settled in the way we
supposed early in the affair. M. Guizot was to explain
away the offensive character of his words, and the Mar-
quis of Normanby would accept the explanation.
The Municipal Council of Paris voted, on Tuesday, a
sum of 600,000 f. (1:2,1,000) to defray the expense incurred
by issuing tickets for bread at a reduced price to the indi-
gent poor of that capital.
The Court of Cassation decided, on Tuesday, that a
Roman Catholic clergyman, who had ceased for years to
fill the functions of his ministry, and had even become a
Protestant, was not justified in marrying !
The trial of the National, (Paris paper) upon two seve-
ral charges connected with the Montpensier marriage, has
terminated in a signal defeat of the Government. At this
we sincerely rejoice ; and rejoice all the more, because
every approach towards a well understood liberty of the
press in France, is an advance in the path of true consti-
tutional freedom. The charges against the National
were, first, an " offence against the King's person ; " and
secondly, for " having blamed his Majesty for the acts of
his Government, making him responsible for the same."
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The first charge was not altogether unfounded ; it im-
puted to. Louis Philippe an eagerness to " finger .the
dowry " of the Infanta, and an indifference to the honour
or welfare of France, when :either was opposed to family
aggrandizement. The second was purely of a political
character, and involved a revival of the question which
produced so much controversy about ten years ago—" the
King reigns—he does not govern." The odium which
M Guizot's tricky and dishonest policy in the affair of the
Spanish marriages has provoked, the contempt which is
felt towards him, and the more than suspicion that he re-
ceived his instructions from the King, where the motives,
we doubt not, that induced the jury to give a verdict of
acquittal on )- tl) -lints. Ur- -

coool t .iaer the circumstances, it
was a just and salutary verdict ; for the plaintiff did not
come into Court with clean hands.

SPAIN.

Madrid payers of the 19th and 20th have arrived. The
Marquess-de *Viluma -has resigned the presidenci of the
senate ; his successor has not been appointed, but the
names of General Serrano and M: Armero have been men-
tioned for that high post. •

Advices were received at Madrid on the 19th, of a suc-
cessful incursion of a band of Carlists, under the com-
mand of the Cabecillas, and other leaders, on the city of
Cervera, in Catalonia. They surprised and dispersed the
garrison, and killed one and wounded another of the civic
guard, making the remainder prisoners. After remaining
five hours in the city they evacuated it, carrying off the
treasure. It was reported that cries of " Long live
Charles VT. and the constitution of 1812" were heard.
Other letters state that the Queen Mother would
probably retire to France ere long. A formidable cabal
had been formed against her, in which were the King and
his family. Every moment the state of affairs was be-
coming more and more complicated. Should the Queen
Mother be obliged to withdraw (and nothing was deemed
more likely, from the means employed so to decide her,)
a violent explosion would, it was expected, instantly en-
sue. There is superadded a report of a certain misunder-
standing between the Queen and her royal consort.

THE RIVER PLATE. -By it from Buenos
Ayres we are inforined that the Paraguayan ruler, Signor
Lodez, had not only issued a decree suspending hostilities
against the confederation, but had actually disbanded his

ANTIGUA.—The ceremony of laying the corner-stone
of the parish church of St. Paul's was performed by his
Excellency James Macaulay Higginson, Esq., Governor-
in-chief, assisted by the bishop (the Right Rev. Daniel
Gatewood, Davis, D.D., first bishop of the newly consti-
tuted diocese) in his office, on Friday, the 15th of January.
On the 10th instant a grand banquet was given to Mi..
Cobden at Rome, by the Chamber of Commerce of that

ital.
cap,.. ROYAL Polar.--The Jovrnal des Debate announces,
that the King of Bavaria is about to publish a fourth vo-
lume of poems.
A STRANGE BIBLOMANIA.—On the Bth inst. died, at
Padua, Count Leopold Ferri, leaving a perfect unique
library, it being composed of works written by female
authors,. amounting to nearly 32,000 volumes.
The Emperor of Russia has issued a decree prohibiting
conversions to any other creed than the Greco-Russian
religion. Any person abjuring that religion is to have his
property confiscated, and if he does not recant Within a
given time he is to be confined for life in a convent.
The King of Bavaria has become so infatuated with a
Spanish dancing-girl, named Lolla Montes, that on his
desiring to create ler Countess Von Starenberg, and en-
dow her with some of the Crown domains, his Ministers
have resigned, and • there exists an idea of declaring him
mad, and of calling his eldest son to the throne.
There are at present probably 200,000 or more quarters
of produce, consisting principally of wheat, beans, peas,
and Indian corn, ready for shipment at Alexandria, and
the greatest activity reigns at the several wharfs where the
lighters receive their cargoes, thousands of camels, don-
Ides, porters, &c., all jostling with each other, and fight-
ing for precedence.
FAMINE. AT MALTA.—The . commercial avidity with
which all . grain 13 boned .UP at, Malta, for the wants of
surrounding countries and England, at such enormously
high prices, threatens to bring about serious consequences.
Our correspondent writes that there is only about one
month's consumption of wheat in the place' People in
the country are starving ! t and a respectable inhabitant of
Casal Lbbug states that the poiir are boiling the heads of
clover for soup !!! In England, all the ports are open for
the introduction of grain of every•desuription. . The Go-
vernment should follow the same example here, and ought
instantly to take off the duties on pulse until the approach-
ing harvest, otheralae the most &eft)" consequences must

ensue. . .
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AFFECTING DEA-TR.—The sudden and affecting death
of Mr. Charles Thornton Cunningham, Lieutenant-Gover-
nor of St. Christopher's.and of the Leeward Islands, and
son of the RCT. .T.. 14: Cunningham, Vicar of Harrow, is
announced' in the West Indian papers which haye ju?t

driven in.

irro'ni'l'uthe co;t7trtry'Vliasseu"'te;7o,llTe—sea—t---ofoovernment,
in apparently vigorous health and cheerful-spirits, to open
the neWly=elected. Houses of Legislature. After transact-
, iug some business with his private secretary, and despatch:
mg a note to invite .someotheers in a French ship-of-war
just come into port to luncheon at Govertnent-house, he
I rode down to the mail-office to meet-his letters and a box
icontaining a picture of a Inueb-beloved sister, recently
deceased in England. He had stated to- more than one
I perso», that his earnest desire to
possess the.pietutie Was
not unmixed with fear a.s to the effect. the sight .of it
might produce upon him. So strongly had this appre-
heusiott fastened it,...7e1f on his miad, that, on the orrital of

the box at Government-house, he sent a servant in quest
of a friend who might be with him -when the' box,was
opened. Having failed in finding him, he proceeded to
open the box. His butler, who was present, reports-that
he looked at the countenance earnestly, turned pale,
whispered a few words to himself, walked hastily, up to
his own room, was heard almost instantly to fall as he
entered it, and his servants following up stairs, found him
stretched on the floor a corpse.
AN INCREDIBLE STORY.—The following is an extract
of a letter from Tanjore :—" In a neighbouring-village a
tragedy has been enacted, which for barbarity has few
parallels in the history of crime. An opulent farmer's wife
formed a liaison with a neighbour, and the intrigue was
successfully carried on for several months. On the day
" in question, the farmer purchased a leg of mutton, with
which he ordered his wife to prepare him a savory dish.
It was accordingly done ; but in the interim, the paramour
coming in, the woman treated him with the, nice things
she had in readiness for her husband. The lover and his
mistress partook of the dainties, and while they were yet
eating, the woman's son, a fine young lad, returned from
school unexpectedly. He saw his mother- in company
with a stranger enjoying herself, amithreatening,to report
the circumstance to his father he fled back-to school. The
guilty pair then held a consultation, and it,was deter- .
mined to murder the boy, to amputate a limb and dress it
into a curry, of which the lover said if the husband eat he
would shortly die. The unnatural mother then proceeded
to the school, and unfortunately prevailed on the boy to
go home with her. In execution of her plans she mur-
dered the child, cut off a leg, cooked it, and had-the meal
ready against the arrival of her husband. The<unsuspect-
ing good man came at the usual hour, but the moment
he entered the house, a cow he was bringkw ,up ran to
him and snuffed him, and then flew at the woman to butt
her. This she did repeatedly, when the farmer thought
that the cow wanted straw, and going to the hayrick he_
pulled out a handful, when, to his horror, the-body of his
murdered son tumbled out mutilated. The parties have
been apprehended, and the case is now before-the.antho-