The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-01-12 00:00:00

-with a

tie, of tl
port
for .ha T

that. of the st

-rec-ive4 from Catalonia, on the 31st, from various quar-
ters, thq four Carlist bands were sweeping through the.
country. One of them consisted of not less than 500
Although Cabrera himself was not known to be
y present, it was not doubted that he directed

vement of these- forces. Government had marched
regiments into Catalonia and the P

aßque provinc

aid had

'e have been favoured with a copy of the following
letter, dated Her Majesty's steam-sloop Salamander,
Otala^ite, June 1 1846:--

‘!The_tiatilies here and at Huahine have proved them-
selve, }letter men than the French, having beaten them
.out of the field at that Island, added to which they repulsed
Uraine, a heavy frigate of sixty guns, and she returned
to Ohheite without having effected a single advantage
out of the many which they anticipated by the attack and

here, no c

le natives
latarl by the example of the Huahineans,
awl vary effective attack on the town; they came in
1)11,194 the hou:eq of the French officers who had madi
them =elves most obnoxious, killed am
many .oldiers, and retreated without 1

wounded

a great

losing a sing!

in a mos'

the=e unfrirtunate wretches afforded prime sport for the
motives. who picked them off every day. Upon the arrival
of the French Admiral in a 60-gun frigate they marched
out to attack Papeno with 1,400 men ; they were beaten,
and returned without having done anything but burnt a
church. and stolen a few horses. They returned after a
-nine days' absence, and the soldiers were allowed two days
to recruit their exhausted strength before marching upon
Bonnallia, which they did last Friday. They attacked
the native fort at six o'clock a.m. on Saturday, and were
cot cut up dreadfully. The steamer Phteton came up on
Baltr(lay afternoon with fifty-four wounded, amongst

Chief of the forces and the Governor's Aide-de-Camp ;
tlwv are expected hack to-day (Monday). There is no
.other news of consequence, except that her Majesty's brig
has .uffcred total shipwreck at New Zealand.
" P.S.—ThePhmton has just arrived with another cargo
of w'unded and dying ;. they are taking them on shore
f's sc possible; there are. I believe, about fifty.
There is not at present the lca,t possible prospect of our
getting out of this, let alone coming home."

AMERICA

—By the New York, Capt

Wlarmion, Captain Edwards, we have advices from New
York to the 18th ult., but the news is quite unimportant.
SEVERE WEATHER AND HURRICANE AT GENOA.—A

there as being of unparalielled severity. So much
snow had not been known to have fallen there since 1820.
The writer says, " The ice inside the windows of our cot-
tag- was often half an inch thick in the morning; the

seater on the butter frozen in layers, and oil congealed to
a solid mass in a mom with a fire ; the patient culture of
years in the vegetable kingdom has been destroyed; orange
and lemon trees, and almost all the perennials, except the
very hardiest and most sheltered, lost in a night. The
gardens are very wildernesses, the gardeners in despair."
In additirn to this calamity, the harbour has been visited

hose whic

occur in t.

Indies. The vessels were driven from their moorings,
and wrecked in the harbour in the old quarter, the Doria-
terrace ; crews lost, boats everywhere capsized, and men
swimming for their lives. Scarce a vwssel in the port, ex-
cept those immediately under the Molo Vecchio, but have
104 spars, bulwarks, figure-heads, masts, &c., and the
cargoes of many are so injured as scarce to pay the ex-
pense of unloading.
MESMERISM IN INDIA.—The Bengal papers are over-
flowing with mesmerism. A Dr. Esdaile has long been
amusing himself with this science, or pretended science,
and we some time since called attention to the ill success
of some of his experiments. It seems, however, that the
attempts to push mesmerism into notice had been so suc-
cessful, that it was deemed proper by the government to
appoint a medical committee to inquire into the merits of
the new practice. The committee consisted of the In-
spector-General of Hospitals, and six other members.
After fourteen days' laborious investigation of cases se-
lected by Dr. Esdaile, and treated in his own way, the
report is, on the whole. decidedly unfavourable. There
were many remarkable facts connected with these experi-
ments, which we cannot undertake to notice, but they are
narrated with much minuteness and care in the report of
the committee. Wishing to pursue their inquiries fur-
ther, they proposed to Dr. Esdaile that he should take a
hundred patients at random from Dr. Jackson's wards
(Dr. Jackson is surgeon to the Native Hospital), subject
them to mesmeric manipulation before the committee, and
chow
what proportion of the number could be brought
into the condition of insensibility to pain. But. this did
not suit Dr. Esdaile at all, and he refused to undertake
the experiment.