The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

INDIA AND CHINA.

Intelligence from India arrived on Saturday, but
nothing of importance has occurred in that part of the
Empire. There has been a partial outbreak in the Ma-
dras Presidency, in which a young subaltern and a few
soldiers of the native infantry were cut to pieces; and an
idolatrous festival at Trichinopoly was the occasion of
considerable loss of life, upwards of four hundred persons
being crushed to death in the crowd. Bombay and other
parts of India were suffering from cholera.
The news from China, which reaches to the 30th of
August, brings an account of the assassination of the
Portuguese Governor of Macao under circumstances of
great atrocity, with the privity, or rather at the instigation,
as it would appear, of the Chinese authorities, to whom he
bad made himself obnoxious. While taking a ride, ac-
companied by his aide-de-camp, he was attacked by
eight Chinamen and dragged from his horse : the mur-
derers hacked off his head and hand, and disappeared.
His attendant was also severely wounded. Rewards had
been offered at Canton and elsewhere for the governor's
head. The Portuguese soldiers, to avenge the murder,
destroyed a small fort, and, in doing so, seven Portuguese
soldiers were wounded, and seventy-four Chinese killed.
Measures have been taken to protect the British subjects.

SPAIN.
FALL OF NARVAEZ.—On the 18th, the Queen of Spain
dismissed the Narvaez ministry, and, it is said, laughed
heartily when Narvaez blustered. A new ministry was
formed, but on the 21st Narvaez was restored ! The re-
action, however, was but short-lived, for on the evening
of the 24th a telegraphic despatch reached Paris. dated
Madrid, the 23d, announcing the definitive fall of the old
administration, and the entrance on its duties of the Clo-
nard ministry. An intrigue is said to be on foot for de-
throning the Queen, and placing De Montpensier on the
throne. Narvaez opposed this arrangement.

Jenny Lind is at Hamburg on a visit of a few weeks.
It is said that M. de Lamartine intends to retire to the
east, has given to him an immense tract of country,
situated within fe few hours' journey of Smyrna.
A powder-mill exploded at Rio de Janeiro on the 9th
of August, killing the foreman, assistant, eight free men
of colour, and 21 slaves.
The cholera has committed fearful havoc in Algeria.
Out of 905 persons attacked, in the garrison of Algiers
alone, as many as 523 have died.
In a recent book on New Zealand, it is mentioned that
when the first races were held at the settlement of New
Plymouth, several horses, owned and ridden by native
Maories, took part in the sport.
A decree has just been issued by the King of Naples,
which fully determines the separation of the administra-
tion of Sicily from that of the Neapolitan provinces of the
United Kingdom.
On the 12th instant, Mr. Kemp, a midshipman of the
Bellerophon, off Leghorn, was sent with eleven men to
embark some men ashore in a cutter. In returning, a
squall arose, the cutter filled, turned bottom up, and the
whole twelve were drowned.
Naples is described as being in a state of stupor from
the number of persons arrested. A great sensation has
been created by an attempt of the police to arrest the
Prince of San Giacomo. The king himself became bail
for him to the tribunals.
At Rome the measures preparatory to the withdrawal
of the French army were under consideration ; and an
official announcement of the Moniteur informs us that
General Hautpool is about to succeed M. de Corcelles, as
Minister Plenipotentiary to the Roman Court.
The Archduke John, having ratified the treaty of the
30th of September, resigned the dignity of Regent, and
committed to the hands of the Emperor of Austria and
the King of Prussia the powers and the duties which the
Germanic Diet confided to him in its sitting of July 12,1849.
A terrible loss of life has just occurred at Trichinopoly,
India. At an idolatrous festival, held at the top of the
high rock, which was attended by an immense concourse
of people, a sudden panic occurred, and the multitude
from above pressing upon those below, upwards of 400
were suffocated or trodden to death.
. In the affairs of Italy, the Morning Herald sees nothing
but a return to Papal sway as the issue of what is taking
place in France. Our contemporary says—" Even now
every ante-chamber and ministerial bureau in Paris stinks
of the surplice and the soutane. You meet reverend•
wearers everywhere, gay and debonnaire, full of life and
of motion."
STREET RAILWAYS.—A New York correspondent of
the Times states that railways on a new plan are to be
introduced into the streets of that city, whereby omni-
buses will be done away with. There will be but one
rail, placed on upright stanchions. The carriages will be
suspended from their axles, will hang near the ground,
and will be drawn by horses. The railway will not inter-
fere with the passing of other carriages.
No WAR WITH RUSSIA.—The Russian Emperor will
riot persist in demanding the extradition of his subjects
now in Turkey, provided no menacing interference takes
place on the part of a certain great western power—Eng-
land.—Times' Correspondent at Vienna. [Several papers
have alleged that war is imminent, because the Czar has
refused to receive the Special Envoy of the Ottoman
Porte ; but we do not think this will be the issue of the
question, or that there is truth in the rumour.]
THE BIBLE IN ITALY.—The Constituzionale of Flo-
rence quotes private correspondence from Leghorn, stat-
ing that five English Protestant Propagandists have
landed at Leghorn and inundated the town with Diodati's
trapslglion of the Bible. It appears that Protestantism is
making great progress among the country people, where
the Propaganda display the greatest activity; but that si-
milar activity is displayed on the side of the Jesuit party,
-who have imported loads of FatherCurci's pamphlels
against Gioberti and Italy.
From the Cape of Good Hope we learn that the most
formidable preparations were made by the colonists for
resisting the introduction of convicts. It was agreed upon
that as soon as the arrival of the Neptune should be as-
certained, the gong in the town-house should be tolled,
half-minute time, to apprise all the householders of the
fact, in order that they might be fully prepared to act up
to the engagements entered into by them in taking the
anti-convict pledge. Earl Grey is singularly fortunate in
having the death-knell of his colonial power tolled at so
convenient a distance from his sensitive ear.
ANOTHER DUEL IN FRANCE.—A duel was fought on
Monday in the Forest of Bondy between M. Thouret, a
barrister, and Lieutenant Petit, of Gendarmerie Mobile.
The weapon chosen by the combatants was the sword. ,
The parties having been placed on. the ground attacked
each other with extraordinary fury. After sometime
they became completely exhausted and were forced to
rest. They recommenced, and, after a long contest,
during which neither was wounded, the seconds disarmed
them, when they shook hands. The Lieutenant chal-
lenged the barrister in consequence of the latter having
told him during the State Trials at Versailles that he was
unworthy to wear the French uniform.
THE NEW JERUSALEM OF TUE MORMONS.—The Lat-
ter Day Saints, whose history, and the history of their
prophet, Joe Smith, form one of the most singular curio-
sities of the age, have at last, it would seem, located a
permanent site for the New Jerusalem. xpelled by
force of arms from Missouri, driven by the outraged peo-
ple of Illinois from the " holy city" of Nauvoo and their
great temple, scattered and impoverished, it was thought
that the community was dispersed, and would soon be-
come extinct. But the fragments were gathered together
in the prairies, reinforcements were received from Eng-
land and Wales, contributions of relief were collected in
the States, and the disciples speedily re-organised,
crossed the great plains, passed the Rocky Mountains,
and established themselves in the basin of the Great Salt
Lake. Here, removed a thousand miles from the civi-
lised world, they have built up a city, opened a successful
system of agriculture, and, at the next Congress, will ask
for a government for their little territory.

IRELAND.
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A ragged school is being built in Cork.
That splendid mansion, Mitchelstown Castle, is now
in the possession of the sheriff's officers. together with all
the splendid furniture, &c.—Cork Examiner.
Lord Roden has dissuaded several magistrates from
resigning their commissions, and will not countenance
expressions of personal sympathy carried to such lengths.
Two children were killed in the Belfast Workhouse last
week, by an over dose of medicine (calomel and opium)
given in mistake.
A splendid and complimentary address, most nume-
rously signed, has been forwarded from the Protestants
of Bardon to that distinguished nobleman and patriot—
the Earl of Roden.
On Saturday, the residence of Captain Ogle, at Dysart,
county of Westmeath, was attacked by a large party, of
whom a young man, named Flynn, was shot on the occa-
sion. The affray arose from some family disputes.
The King's County Chronicle says that a highly res-
pected and old magistrate of this county has received a
notice threatening him with the same death that Mr.
Cage got !
The Kilkenny Journal gives an account of the homi-
cide of a poor woman, the mother of five children, who
lost her life in a scuffle with a collector of poor rates, who
has since absconded.
The strictures of the press appear to have had a salu-
tary influence with the Marquis of Londonderry, as we
hear it rumoured that he has consented to grant some
reductions of rent to his Irish tenantry.
Three houses in Thomas-street, Dublin, were almost
totally destroyed by fire, on Monday night. A man who
leaped from one of the upper" windows was so dreadfully
injured that he was not expected to recover, and the infant
child of one of the tenants is missing,
THE PRICE or A MORNING CALL.—The Corporation
of Cork, on totting up the bill, find that her Majesty's
brief visit cost them twelve hundred pounds, being double
the amount that had been calculated. " The scenes that
have been enacted in consequence," says the Tipperary
Free Press," beggar description."
A Scotch farmer, of high repute, Mr. Caird, of Wig-
ton, is making a tour of inspection in the West of Ire-
land, at the suggestion of Sir Robert Peel, with the view
of ascertaining how far capitalists might be safe in co-
operating with the member for Tamworth in his new
scheme of colonisation for Connaught.
Mr. Francis Burke, a merchant of Dublin, cut his
throat on Sunday week, and is since dead. Mr. Burke
was one of the sureties for the completion of Mr. Brady's
contract for building the Galway College, and the con-
tractor not being in a position to redeem his contract, it
is supposed that the government called on Mr. Burke to
carry it out, as in duty bound.
Another high-spirited justice of the peace, Sir Gilbert
King, Bart., has addressed a letter to the Lord Chancel-
lor, tendering his resignation of the commission of the
peace for Roscommon county, as he does not agree that
Lord Roden's conduct, on the occasion of the Orange
procession of last July, is deserving of censure, and be-
cause he " feels much respect and esteem for his lord-
shirt's valiant and uncompromising Christian principles
sad conduct on all occwoua."