The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

By accounts from the Persian Gulf, we learn that the here-
ditary Chief Wally Khan and his followers had, at length, been
overcome, and that the roads through Persia had iu consequence
been free. Trade with the interior was reviving, and the exist-
ing tranquility promised to continue.

The vintage is just over in Austria. There are no complaints
of the quality of the wine, for the warns days of October hail
matured the fruit, but the quantity is so small, front the unfor-
tunate prevalence of chilling, winds at the season when the vine
is flowering, that it is calculated the produce will be little more
than one eighth of a good vintage.—FiankArt paper.
RAILROAD BETWEEN BRESELS 41N1; PARIS.—Thin pro-
posed undertaking is said to find favour with the French Go-
vernment. King Leopold is nitwit interested in it, and its
promotion is now said to be one of to, 41-tin objects of his late
visit to Paris. His Belgian Majesty has found a mine of wealth
in the Antwerp and Brussels rairroad, of which he is a large
shareholder. But in no country in the world are railroads
made so cheaply as in Belgium. . M. Mecus, a capitalist at
Brussels, has offered to the French Government to bring Paris
within eight hours of Brussels and thirteen (!) of London.—
French paper.
VIENNA, OCT. 6.—The dispute between the Greek Patriarch
and the Turkish Minister has produced a Hatti Sehariff, which
cannot be very agreeable to the Patriarch. Henceforth all
religious matters must be discussed in a Synod consisting of six
Bishops and two Counsellors, the Patriarch being president.
Besides these six Bishops no more may reside in Constantinople.
On the death of a Bishop his successor is appointed by a Sytidd,
and not by the Patriarch, and the Sultan reserves to himself
the right of confirmiug the election; on the other hand, no
Bishop can be deposed by a Turkish Minister, but only by the
Synod. This order of the Sultan places the Greek Church on
the European footing, and diminishes very materially the in-
fluence of Russia in the Greek Oriential Church.—Hamburg
Borsen Halle, Nov. 6.
PaINCR METTERNICH.—The Italian and Spanish nobility
have been ridiculed by English writers, for letting their houses
to travellers, as lodgings, as well as for minr trafficking mat-
ters, unbecoming, the rank of nobility. What shall we say to
Prince Metternich, that right band of Austria, that centre and
pivotof the Holy Alliance of the Potentates of Europe! It is
well known that the utountain of Johanisberg, on which the
Prince's castle is situate, produces the finest Toka.y wine in the
world; he knows its value, and disposes of it accordingly. He
will not supply any wine merchant with his nectar at a whole-
sale price; whatever quantity they want, they must purchase at
the same rate as if they were buying only a dozen bottles; nay,
so far does his Highness carry this retail principle, that nothing
is more common than for the inhabitants, at the foot of the
mountain, and in the neighbourhood, who can afford it, to send
up to the castle, to purchase a single bottle!
A private letter. from Naples, of the 24th October says,
"The cholera begins to rage in a frightful manner. This
morning there were 291 cases, and 96 deaths; among the latter,
is one of the sons of the Minister of Finance."
The Hurkaru (June 6) mentions that the ship Jadal Kurriu,
bound to Amboyna, with upwards of 300 persons on board, bad
been lost, and nearly all those persons perished.