The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-01 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1853.

Among these will be M. Morlot, Archbishop of Tours,
M. Savelli, his Minister of the Interior, and M. Viole,
the Nuncio at Vienna.

AUSTRIA.—The last bulletin of the state of the Em-
peror of Austria's health annonnces that it is completely
satisfactory. The wound is not deep, and it had begun
to heal. His Majesty had on the 21st affixed his signa-
ture to several state papers.
A. Te Deum was sung in the Cathedral of Vienna, on
Sunday, the 20th ult., to return thanks to the Almighty
for preserving the life of the Emperor of Austria from the
hand of the assassin. The day before he was wounded
the Austrian Emperor sent to Italy 12,000 cwts. of lead
for bullets, and 550 ducats as a gratification to the
wounded soldiers at Milan.

RUSSIA.—The Journal de Frankfort announces 'that
the Emperor of Russia has appointed Prince Menschikoff
to the command in chief of the three corps d'arniee as-
sembled in Bessarabia and on the Turkish frontier.

SPAlN.—According to the electorial returns, drawn
up in the Ministry of the Interior, the combined opposi-
tions had not obtained more than 70 nominations. Thirty
deputies remained to be elected in consequence of double
elections.

The season continued extremely rigorous. A man and
hiv- wife residing on the banks of the Manzanares had
died of cold. Two stage coaches on their way to Madrid
were stopped near Biutrago by the snow and 10 or 12 ad-
ditional mules were required to extricate them from their
perilous position. Several stage coaches were two days be-
yond their time, and others were waiting the melting of
the snow to quit Madrid.

THE MAURITIUS.—By the Indiana, arrived at Ply-
mouth, we have advices from the Mauritus to the 9th of
June. A fair number of emigrants had left for Australia ;
others were preparing, but their ardour was somewhat
abated by the Melbourne accounts to November. There
is little fluctuation in the sugar market. Large purchases
have been made. The following is an approximation to
the price :—Vacuum clairced, 5.25 to 5.75 ; fine yellow,
4.60 to 4.75 ; good ditto, 4.35 to 4.50 ; middling. 4 to
4.25 ; low, 3.60 to 3.75. Shipped and left to the Bth of
January. 1853, 82,097,083 lb., against 74,502,910 lb. at
same time in 1852. Freights, £3 23. 6d. to the United
Kingdom. Rice has risen from sc. to 10c. over previous
prices. Stock on hand on the 7th of January, 1853.
143,760 bags.

TURKEY. The Count de Leiningen has demanded
the cessio to Austria of the two ports of Kieck and Sutori-
na. which Turkey claims as forming part of her territory.
Austria would, it is said, make a cases Belli of it. On
the other hand, France and England support the Porte.
It was reported in Paris that the Austrian Government
had proposed to Louis Napoleon to occupy Geneva, while
an Austrian division would enter the canton of Ticino. It
is not known what answer has been given. _
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We have strong ground to believe that Prince Menschi-
koff has been sent from St. Petersburgh to Constantino-
ple upon a special embassy for the express purpose of de-
claring, in the name of the Emperor Nicholas, that, as
head of the Greek Church, he cannot submit, or allow
the Eastern Church to submit, to the conditions of
the firman recently obtained by the French Am-
bassador with reference to the holy shrines in the
Holy Land ; and, if this be the case, it would seem that
the negotiations opened between Russia and France on
this subject have led to no result.
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna brings the im-
portant intelligence that, by accounts which had just
arrived from Constantinople, the Ottoman Government
had refused to accept the ultimatum presented to it by
the Count de Leiningen in the name of the Austrian Go-
vernment. The despatch adds that not only the Count
de Leiningen, the Austrian ambassador extraordinary,
but the whole of the Austrian legation had left Constanti-
nople. The Ottoman Porte immediately placed itself
under the protection of England and France.
The steamer Croatia had her steam up, ready to start.
Business was at a stand-still. Universal consternation
prevailed, and the exchange had risen ten per cent.

INDIA.—By the steam-ship Adria, which arrived
from Alexandria at Trieste on Thursday, after a passage
of 140 hours, we have later intelligence from India.
The Burmese occupy the Aen,g Pass with a large force.
Pegu has been again occupied by a large force of
Burmese. They raised the Beige (of the town) on the
Bth and 9th of January, and marched to the defence of
Schoygyt upon learning that General Steel was advancing
upon that place.
The Burmese have retired from Prome and from
Meadami.

It is said that a revolution has taken place at Ave, by
which the old king has been deposed and driven out, and
that the new king has recalled the troops to Ava, and
desires peace.

Fever and diarrhoea prevailed among our troops, and
were increasing.

Trade in India was languid.
Exchange was firm at 2s. id. in Calcutta.
The insurrection in China caused considerable devasta-
tion.

The Pottinger has brought (to Suez) 21 boxes of gold
dust from Australia.

AUSTRALIA.—By the Cape mails of the 18th Jan.
we have received some further intelligence of the gold
fields brought by the Frances llenty, which sailed on the
Ist of December, with 70,000 ounces of gold and 58 pas-
sengers ; and the Lochnagar, with 4,000 ounces of gold
and 16 passengers : both vessels being ladenwith valuable
cargoes of wool for the English market.
The accounts from the diggings show a continuance of
the astonishing yield of gold from the mines lately
opened, and mention the discovery of fresh deposits on
the Koorong River, which bid fair to eclipse all previous
discoveries, the metal being of exceeding purity, and
fonnd more commonly in the form of small nuggets than
in the scattered state which renders the laborious opera-
tion of " washing" indispensable in other places. From
the Echunga diggings, near Adelaide, the intelligence is
equally favourable. " Pounds weight f gold," writes the
government commissioner, " are spoken of now as com-
monly as ounces were formerly." Still great numbers of
persons are disappointed, and the general rate of wages
shows a downward tendency in the price of labour. Pro-
visions had fallen considerably in the market, and sup-
plies are pouring in from all quarters, so that the appre-
hension of famine at one time entertained had entirely dis-
appeared.
The local legislature at Melbourne had proposed to es-
tablish an export duty on gold, which had caused much
excitement, and a popular demonstration on tho subject
had been threatened. The proposition, however, was
abandoned.

Numerous vessels were loading for Landon, but most
of them would probably proceed by way of Cape Horn, the
passage by that route being most favourable about this
season. The Sydney mail steamer was advertised to start
on her return voyage to the Cape on the Ist of December,
and may therefore be hourly expected. The Great Britain
was to follow on the Ist of January.
In the last official accounts received from Van
Diemen's Land, it is mentioned that some mines of coal
which were opened in 1851 in the vicinity of Hobart-
Town were being worked successfully. The coal is an
anthracite of indifferent quality, but its proximity to the
market, and its consequent comparative lowness of price,
had caused a great demand for it.

THE KAFFIR WAR.
SERIOUS LOSS OF LIFE.-ARRIVAL OF THE

INDIANA.

By the steam-ship Indiana, which arrived at Plymouth
on Saturday, we have advices from Cape Town to the
24th of January, thirty-nine days later than those by the
Lady Jocelyn, which left on the 16th December, and
reached Plymouth on the 24th January.
General Cathcart, with 2000 men, had then enterod the
Orange River Sovereignty, to settle disputes between the
powerful Basuta chief, Moshesh, and the Sovereignty
farmers, on the subject of plundered cattle. Assistant-
commissioners Hogge and Owen had previously investi-
gated the whole case, and decided that certain fines
should be paid by delinquents of all classes and com-
plexion. The fine imposed on Moshesh was never paid,
and Gen. Cathcart, under date Dec. 13, demanded of
that chief, within three days, 10,000 head of cattle and
1000 horses, and, in default. threatened to take them
himself, or make reprisals. Moshesh came into the camp
the next day, and had a " parley" with the Governor.
On the 18th Moshesh's son, Nehemiah, came in with
3500 head of cattle. On the 19th, no more cattle appear.
ing, Lieut.-Colonel Eyre, with the cavalry brigade, two
guns, and one brigade of infantry, encamped on the Upper
Caledon Waggon Drift, leading to Molitsani's country.
On the 20th this force, accompanied by his Excellency in
person, marched at daylight in three columns.
The ferce consisted of detachment of 12th Lancers,
under Lieutenant Clough ; a demi-brigade of 12-pounder
howitzers, under Captain Robinson, R.A. ; two compa-
nies of the 43rd regiment, under Major Phillips ; and a
detachment of Cape Mounted Rifles, under Ensign
Rorke.

According to Colonel Cloete's official despatch, the
Basutos, to defend their vast droves of cattle, first fired
on him and Captain Tylden. An attempt at parley by
the Governor was answered by a shot, when two rounds
of shrapnel caused the enemy to fly from the southern
angle of the Berea towards Thaba Bossigo. The despatch
proceeds :

" The infantry, strengthened by a company of the 43rd
regiment, under Captain the Hon. Percy Herbert, were
now brought up, and the columns advanced, crossed the
deep mountain stream ' Rietspruit,' and were posted on a
commanding knoll at its junction with the Little Caledon
River, on the Thaba Bossigo plains, covering the ap-
proaches by which Lieut.-Colonel Eyre and Lieut.-Colonel
Napier's columns were to join. While in this position,
the enemy were collecting in fresh patches of horsemen
in all directions. Those approaching within distance
were driven back. On the clearing allay of a thun.
derstorm and rain, the enemy suddenly displayed his
whole force. Masses of horsemen were observed to
move from the Thaba Bossigo Poort, to turn the General's
right, while large bodies extended along the front. These
movements were conducted with the utmost order and
regularity. Lieut.-Colonel Eyre's division joined at five
p.m., with 1,500 head of cattle, which it was necessary to
secure, for which purpose some kraals in a commanding
position were ordered to be occupied. The enemy, who
had now mustered not less than 6,000 horsemen, made
every effort to assail the troops moving into their bivouac,
repeating their attacks on front and roar, but were
repulsed by the troops. The demi-battery, by a round
of canister, silenced the enemy's fire, which had been kept
up till eight p.m., when they disappeared from the field,
having suffered severely."
Lieut.-Colonel G. Napier states his force to have been
—l2 Lancers, 114 rank and file, under Major Tottenham ;
Cape Mounted Rifles, 119, under Major Somerset, and
says, " Having collected a great number of cattle, I com-
menced driving them down the north-cast side of Be-
rea mountains ; when half way down, 700 mounted men
attacked the rear, who retired. On the open ground the
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In this contest,' begun early in the morning of the 20fh
of December, and not closed until 8 p.m., 6,000 mounted
Cafes are said to have been engaged, 4.t the elm, Col.