The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The official report of the Ban Jellachich, of the victory
over the Magyars, bas been published from Titel, near
Peterwardein, from which it appears that the Magyars
were driven into the Pomschanze, (Rornadriaggeres,) with
the loss of 500 men killed and 200 wounded ; indeed, some
accounts say the Magyar loss was more considerable.
Ottinger, who commanded the Imperial cavalry, contri-
buted much towards gaining this victory.

An attempt was made to assassinate the Prince of
Prussia on the 12th, as he was passing through the village
of Ingelheim.
DENMARK.—On the 12th, a Russian fleet arrived at
Alsen. A skirmish took place at Fredericia on the 6th.
The Holstein Colonel, St. Paul, was killed by a cannon
ball. _

The King and Queen of the Belgians are making a pro-
gress through Belgium, and have everywhere been re-
ceived with great enthusiasm. At Liege and other large
towns magnificent fetes were got up, and all classes of the
population exhibited the most loyal demonstrations.
Advices from Stockholm state that a destructive fire
had occurred at a place called Lidkoeping, the site known
as the old town having been reduced to ashes, sacrificing
the church, the market-place, and a number of magazines
containing grain, salt, cured fish, and other articles of
merchandize. It was enumerated that 800 inhabitants
had by this catastrophe been reduced to poverty.
Mr. Macresdy, previously to his departure from Boston,
presented *lOOO to the fayilies of the unforturate men
who fell in the late riots..

BRAZTI,.--The Alecto steamer has arrived at Falmouth,
with dates from Monte Video, April 9 : Rio Janeiro, April
26 ; Bahia, May 2; Pernambuco, May 8; Fayal, June 4.
She brings despatches from theßritish ministersat Buenos
Ayres and Rio, and the French Convention of Peace, as
signed by Rosas, for the ratification of the government of
France. A large French squadron was lying at Monte
Video. The Portuguese inhabitants were leaving Per-
nambuco as fast as possible, in consequence of the feeling
against them. _

Sr. DOMINGO.—On Tuesday a vessel arrived at the
Hague from St. Domingo, bringing the intelligence of a
complete defeat of the Haytian military power on the
frontiers of St. Domingo ; the letters bringing the intelli-
gence were dated April 30, and state that General Santana,
with an army of 800, attacked the Haytian army on the
22nd of April, at Savanna Numero, where, after a fearful
slaughter, they were completely routed. The Domingans
gave no quarter, consequently they took no prisoners of
war ; but the number of the Haytians dead, who remained
on the field, were not less than 600. Three generals and
several superior Haytian officers were killed. The Domin-
garts fought most valiantly; finding their muskets quite
useless, they threw them down, and made an attack sword
in hand. This unexpected attack threw the Haytians into
confusion. After the engagement the Haytians fell back
to Azua, and after reducing the city to ashes, they crossed
the tlaytian boundary.
Lieutenant Beale, lately returned to New York from
California, has in his possession a watch, encased in a big
lump of pure California gold, 234 carats fine, with a brass
cable chain, with large lumps of gold attached to every
other link, hammered in the roughest and richest pro-
fusion. Big lumps of gold were hammered together
round the watch, till the whole, excepting the face, was
encased in the precious metal. The key was a " chunk "
of gold, with the pipe inserted in it for use. Altogether,
it was one of the ugliest looking and richest and most
valuable watches in existence.
NATURAL RICHES OF CALIFORNIA•—The Consul of
the United States, at Mazatlan, Mr. Parrott, writes touch-
ing the varied natural riches of the new El Dorado :
" But the riches of California do not consist in gold alone.
All the precious metals are there found, in greater or less
profusion, as well as the rarest and most valuable jewels.
Two mines of silver have been lately discovered, one of
which is known to Lut few persons, who jealously keep
the secret. Platinum is also known to exist in consider-
able quantities. A rough diamond, nearly the size of a
hen's egg, has been found by one of the miners in the
Sacramento Valley. General Vallejo says that it was
brought to him by the finder, who demanded =B-180,000
for it. Emeralds of large size are frequently met with,
but their value is scarcely known. Three or four new
quicksilver mines have been discovered, one of which a
very rich deposit, lies between the valley of Santa Clara
and San Joaquim. The Forbes mine, however, is the
only one worked as yet. The extent and value of these
quicksilver mines is not equalled by any other locality in
the world. Beds of coal have also been found near the
coast, but cannot, of course, be worked under the present
state of things. There are but fifty women in the town
of San Francisco, twenty of whom are Americans. The
arrival of a ship-load of female emigrants would bee cause
of public rejoicing, and all the single ones would receive
offers before they landed." We may mention such a
cargo is now en route.

AMERICA.
[From Second Edition of Tuesday last.]
The Canada Mail Steamer, Captain Judkins, arrived
in our river at one o'clock this morning, bringing mails
to the 30th ultimo. She brings 150 passengers. The
Caledonia's advices had been received in New York
on the 28th ultimo. The Canada, as we find by her
log, " backed out of dock at noon on the 30th and
proceeded to sea, moderate winds and fog." 31st,
" Light winds and dense fog, clearing at intervals."
June Ist, same weather. June 2nd, " Light airs and
fog ; sounded several times ; 0.40 p.m. moored to
wharf at Halifax, and landed mails, &c.; 3 p.m. left
the wharf, and proceeded to sea." But for the inter-
ruption by fog, the passage of the Canada would pro-
bably have been the fastest yet made.
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER FROM CALIFORNIA.—By the
arrival at New York of the steam-ship Southerner
we have advices from San Francisco to the 14th April.
She brought with her Lieut. E. F. Beale, of the U. S.
Navy, who was the bearer of dispatches to government,
and had made the passage viii Panama and Chagres to
New York in 44 days, the shortest trip yet accomplished.
Tho Herald for Europe says :
" The ai rival of Lieut. Beale, in the Southerner, with this
late news from California, with a lump of gold weighing eight
pounds', threw Wall-street into a state of the greatest excite-
ment and delight. Mr. Aspinwall, of the house of Howland
and Aspinwall, was surrounded with crowds of eager brokers
and merchants, all curious to catch a glimpse of the eight pound
There was no mistake about it. There was the pure gold fresh
from El Dorado. No gold ever attracted more attention, or
was more coveted than that lump."
The steam-ship California arrived from San Francisco at Pa-
nama on the 6th May. She will however only bring two or three
days later than Lieut. Beale, who left the former port in the
Oregon. Labour was very high at San Francisco, and the num-
ber of vessels laid up very great. The price of goods had de-
clined considerably on account of the large stocks and the ex-
pectation of more to arrive. There was no end to the gold ;
its richness and abundance more than confirm all past accounts.
Even common labourers were getting rich. Lieut. Beale re-
ported that he had seen one lump weighing;2slbs. The Herald
say,sl-7 _ _ _

We regret that Lieut. Beale is not acquainted with the
quantity of gold dust shipped in the Oregon. Most of the arti-
cle in the market is probably on board the California."
A large emigration was taking place from all the parts of the
Pacific, and a hundred thousand men were expected to be dig-
ging before the close of the summer.
whole towns were aesertea ny we
men, who are rushiva to Calitornia. Their wives and children
were left to the tender mercies of the Indians. From Valpa-
raiso and the adjacent parts there was the same onward nish
to the golden land. Nearly all the merchants were preparing
to emigrate.
THE FLOOD AT NEW ORLEANS.—The following is the latest
telegraphic despatch relative to this sad disaster:—

"Charlestown, May 28, P.M.
"We have dates from New Orleans to the 23rd instant. No
progress had been made towards stopping the great creva'se,
although the efforts were being vigorously continued. The
water was still on the rise, and the flood had extended to within
four squares of the river on Carondelet-street. St. Charles-
street was seriously menaced. The water in Bayou street and
Julia-street was but three inches lower than the great inunda-
tion of 1831.

" Great iears were apprehended of the levee breaking along
the New Canal.
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"The ship Isaac Newton, from Liverpool, is reported ashore
on the flats, near Bombay Hook.—Philadelphia, May 28, 1849."
The cholera was raging in the west, and was very fatal. Ship
fever and cholera also prevailed to an alarming extent on board
the Western Riven steam boats. There had been fifteen deaths
on board one vessel from New Orleans to St. Louis.
THE GREAT FIRE AT ST. Louis.—The extent of this dis-
aster is, it is thought, now discovered, so far at least as the
destruction of property is concerned. The number of steamers
burnt is twenty-three, together with three barges and a canal
boat. The value of these and their cargoes is 8439,000. The
total amount of damage done is estimated at 53,000,000. The
whole, or part, of fifteen blocks of streets, containing several
hundred houses and stores, have been destroyed.

CANADA.—The news from Canada is of little importance.
The excitement continued ; and the result of Sir Allan M'Nab's
visit to Great Britain and the decision of the home Govern-
ment with respect to the Indemnity Bill was looked forward to
with great impatience. Lord Elgin had lost popularity with
both parties. We give the following from the Montreal cor-
respondence of the New York Herald, as to the general feel-
ing of the people. •
" In the midst of the clamour raised by the rebellion losses,
the great object in view has been momentarily lost sight of by
the masses ; this object—reform in the constitution—is, how-
ever, not lost sight of by the acting party in the state—the
mercantile and landed interests. By them the rebellion
losses are looked upon as a mere drop in the bucket, although
considered valuable as an instrument for their purposes. As
soon as the news is received from Fngland, they will begin to
agitate. If the rebel bill is disallowed, the agitation will be
for free navigation of the St. Lawrence, and protection in the
home markets. If allowed, it will then be for annexation er
independence. Once settle the rebel bill, which is required to
agitate or sooth the masses, and the wealth and influence of
these two powerful parties will be directed towards the consum-
mation of one of these objects. The Lower Canadians, as a
body, are favourable to annexation ; and the Upper, rather
than submit to French domination, will also go for it in a body."
A resolution had been carried through parliament by a ma-
jority of the Radicals and French Canadians praying the Go-
vernor-General to remove the Government from Montreal, and
to bold parliament each alternate four years in Quebec and
Toronto. Sir Benjamin D'Urban, the commander of Her
Majesty's forces in Canada, and a very popular officer in the
colony, died on the 25th ult., aged 72, his death it is said being
accelerated by his recent fatigues.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Tuesday, May 29.
The market for Flour and Grain has not changed materially
since the sailing of the last steamer. There is a good home
demand for Flour, which, added :to some 15 to 20,000 barrels
taken the week past for export, has given some firmness to
holders, and the lower grades of City, Troy, and Waterford are
less plenty, and firm in price.
The EXPORTS from this city to Great Britain and Ireland
for the week ending on the 22nd inst. were 7891 brls. Flour and
103,599 bushels Corn_

FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool, engagements are making at Is.
lOid. per brl. 'on Flour, and 6d. per bushel on Corn.

COTTON MARKET.

Cotton is now about cent higher than on the departure of
the last steamer. It gained iths and has fallen back ith under
the Caledonia's news. The sales a mere trifle; no urgent de-
sire to sell, and still less to buy, for shipment at least. Freight
only id. per lb.
The market continued active from the 22nd inst., the date of
our last report per Hibernia, until 26th inst. The daily sales
averaged 2000 bales and prices further improved cent. The
telegraphic accounts of the news per Caledonia from Liverpool,
of the 12th inst. checked operations; and the receipt of the full
advices per mail on the 28th did not improve the tone of the
market. Holders for the two days past have generally been
indifferent about selling and buyers awaiting later intelligence
have shown no disposition to operate- A few hundred bales
only have been disposed of, ar prices in favour of the buyer.
Purchases could be effected at the following quotations :
Uplands. Florida. 8- Texas.
inferior'. 63 to 61 to 6a to
Ordinary 61 to— 62 to— 61 to
Good Ordinary 63 to 7to 73 to
Middling 73 to 73 to 73 to
Good Middling 72 to 73 to 72 to
Middling Fair 73 to 72 to Bto
Fair . 71 to Bto 81 to

Fully Fair Bto St Sf to 84 to
The crop is estimated at 2,650,000 bales, of which 2,525,000
had already come to market. The Courier and Enquirer says ;
—" The export to Great Britain already exceeds that of the
whole of last season, and as the vessels now loading for that
country will carry, as near as can be estimated, about 130,000
bales, the total, without adding any more ships, will be
1,460,000 ; an export not exceeding that of any season, save one
which reached 1,470,000. The vessels loading for France and
other places may carry 80,000,making a total export of 2,080,000
bales to all foreign parts, when the vessels already loading are
cleared."

The Peace Society, which intends to carry on the
affairs of the world by arbitration, had a great meeting at
Exeter Hall, on Monday, at which Mr. Bright mace a
long tirade against the Times journal, in which he main-
tained that the only justifiable war was rebellion, and
argued that civil bloodshed was, in cases righteous though
all else was indefensible. Mr.. Cobden followed up the
blow by an equally sagacious, and equally ,navel demon.'
stration in the House of Commons.

IRELAND.
The potato disease has unmistakeably appeared in Skib-
bereen union, and other places in Ireland.
In the first five months of last year, the Irish post offine
yielded £29,000 ; this year it has produced only £9,000
a most astounding fact.
The queen has contributed £5OO towards the relief of
the destitute Irish, and several members of both houses
have followed her example.
The remains of the late Dr. Carmichael were found near
the place where the fatal accident occurred. His money,
amounting to £2OO in notes, was untouched.

The lady of Edmund Mormoy, Esq., of Ballyclough,
mar Limerick, died suddenly a few days ago at Monks-
town, in consequence of taking a quantity of laudanum
in mistake for other medicine.

Lord Stanley has paid the passage-money of a great
number of his poor Irish tenantry, provided them with
clothes, given a small sum of money to each, and sent
them off to America.

The late surgeon Carmichael has bequeathed a sum of
£16,000 to be divided between the College of Surgeons
for the establishment of prizes, the Medical Benevolent
Fund Society, and the Richmond Hospital School of
Medicine.

We learn from the Cork Examiner that, on Saturday
week, thirty-five valuable cows, " the property of a noble
earl, living not a 100 miles from Mitchelstown," were
sold for rent and arrears amounting to £4OO. The cattle
were sacrificed at £l5O. The rent roll of the nobleman
is £40,000 a year.
DEPARTURE OF TWO OF THE STATE PRISONERS.—The
sentence of ten years' transportation each has been carried
into effect upon Mr. John Martin and Mr. Kevin
O'Doherty, the editors respectively of the Irish Felon
Tribune newspapers. On Saturday morning they were
conveyed from the Richmond Penitentiary to Kingstown,
where the Trident war steamer was waiting to take them
to Cork Harbour, when she will land the prisoners at
Spike Island.

Archbishop M' Hale has published a long letter, addres-
sed "to Her Majesty Queen Victoria," describing the
frightful destitution of the west, 'and concluding with a
request that Her Majesty will be pleased to dismiss from
her councils those unprofitable servants at present in
place, and, in their stead, call thereto " able men, such as
fear God, in whom there is truth, and that hate avarice;
who, in their administration, will reflect some portion of
the beneficence of the Throne."

BRUTAL MURDER.—On Saturday week, a barbarous
murder was committed near the village of Conna, in the
count) of Cork. The victim was a yodtig woman, aged
20, and the supposed murderer a young boy, named Jas.
Dooly, the son of a labourer. She had been sent on an
errand, and was found dead on a country road, herlace
and head being so brutally mutilated, apparently by the
blows of a heavy stone, that it was scarcely possible to re-
cognise her. The motive for the commission of the crime
has not transpired.
FREE TRADE—ENCUMBERED ESTATES.—We transcribe
a very sensible letter on the subject of free trade and emi-
gration, addressed to the editor, by Mr. James Grattan,
ex-M.P. for the county of Wicklow. This gentleman,by
birth and education a whig, has been long since cured of
his whiggish philosophy ; and, under the operation of bit-
ter experience, has become a protectionist, more sound
and chastened than any Bentinck, Stanley, or Disraeli of
them all. He is of the school whose principles have for-
cibly developed themselves at the late Gloucestershire
meeting; and holds that if the foreigner is to have the
protection of free trade in corn, the people of the United
Kingdom should have the counterbalancing advantage of
a free trade in everything else; in manufactured goods,
tea, sugar, coffee, chicory and tobacco—in spirits, beer,
and all other articles of popular consumption. If we are
to eat foreign corn, the cheaper for being untaxed, let us
consume our domestic corn, cheapened by the repeal of
those taxes on land, which disable the home grower from
producing it as cheaply as the foreigner. If a preference
for any market is to prevail, let it be a mere preference on
equality of condition.—Dublin Mail.
THE IRISH LANDLORDS AND THEIR ASSAILANTS.—
We do not want to palliate oppression, or even a harsh
exercise of a necessary right ; but it is absurd in Sir
Robert Peel to expect that the exhibition of an "indigna-
tion" which costs him nothing will reconcile landlords to
the usurpation of their ground by trespassers who will
neither till nor pay for it. What are landlords to do?
With heavy rates to meet, heavy incumbrances to dis-
charge, how are they to keep themselves out of gaol if
their land lies unproductive ? There is nothing more pre-
posterous than the nonsense which is prated and printed
in Parliament and the press. Were two or three hundred
paupers to squat themselves down on Sir Robert's estate,
or to take possession of the offices of the nonsense scrib-
blers in the public journals, how long would these gentle
professors of an economical sympathy suffer them to re-
main ? If they did not quit on command, would they
hesitate to call on the civil power to expel them ? and if
they proceeded to erect huts, would they hesitate to pull
them down ? and would they deem it fair or just were the
" indignation" of Parliament and of the country to be
evoked against them ?—Yet where is the difference ? Why
just here :—that Sir Robert and his echoes would suffer
only the temporary annoyance, while the Irish landlord,
in addition to the annoyance, suffers the inconvenience
and injury of being, first, robbed of his rent, and then
taxed to support the robbers on food better, perhaps, than
he is able to afford his family.—Cork Constitution.

COURT AND FASHION.
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The Queen and Prince Albert were present on Tuesday
night, at the Haymarket Theatre, to witness the admi-
rable performance of Mr. and Mrs. Kean, in Macbeth.
1 ne queen gave a state ball on Wednesday in Bucking-
ham Palace. The invitations comprised the whole of the
diplomatic corps, the ladies and gentlemen of the Royal
Househol,l, and the principal nobility and gentry, and
numbered about 1900. The suite of state saloons were all
opened. The Queen wore a blue silk dress, covered with
blue tulle en ruche, and ornamented with bouquets of
sweet peas and diamonds. Her Majesty's head-dress was
composed of sweet peas and diamonds, to correspond to
the dress. The National Anthem having been played,
her Majesty opened the ball at ten o'clock, in a quadrille,
others of the Royal circle joining in the dance.
At the Queen's State Ball at Buckingham Palace, a
Scotch reel was danced at one o'clock on Thursday morn-
ing, in which the Marquess of Breadalbane, the Marquess
of Douglas, Cluny Macpherson, Sir Michael Shaw Stew-
art, Mr. Dundas, Miss Baillie, Hon. Lucy Kerr, Lady R.
Russell, Lady C. Elliot, and other ladies and gentlemen
joined. Mr. Mackay, her Majesty's piper, attended.
The Queen, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, the
Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, visited the Duch-
ess of Kent on Thursday at Clarence-house, St. James's.
Her Majesty also honoured the Duchess of Sutherland
with a visit at Stafford-house.

Prince Albert dined with the Merchant Tailors, Lon-
don, on St. Barnabas day.
The Queen Dowager is still at Worthing. Her Majesty
rides out daily for two hours, in an open pony phaeton.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury entertained
Lord and Lady John Russell, and a select party, to
dinner, on Saturday, at Lambeth-palace.
Her Majesty has graciously given £lOO from her privy
purse in aid of the University College Hospital.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.
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REBELLION LOSSES IN CANADA.—In the majority in
favour of the bill for indemnifying the Canadian rebels
were—E. Cardwell, Sir T. B. Birch, W. Brown, A. Henry,
J. Heywood, Sir J. Walmsley, L. Heyworth, T. Thornely,
Lord Grosvenor, J. Jervis, and G. C. Leigh. In the
minority against bill were—J. W. Patten, J. Tolle-
mache, Sir P. Egerton, W. E. Gladstone, Sir R. H. Inglis,
B. D'lsraeli, and Hon. E. H. Stanley.

DIVISION ON THE PEACE QUESTION. —The Lanca-
shire members voted at follows :—For the motion, R. B.
Armstrong, J. Bright, J. Brotherton, W. Brown, W. J.
Fox, T. M. Gibson, G. Greenall, C. P. Grenfell, A. Henry,
J. Heywood, C. Hindley, J. Pinkington, Sir G. Strick-
land, and Sir J. Walmsley.—Against the motion, J. Dun-
cuft, T. Greene, R. Thicknesse, and J. W. Patten.—
Absent, Sir T. B. Birch, S. Blair, E. Cardwell, W. S.
Crawford, J. Hornby, Hon. Col. Lindsay, R. Walker,
and M. Wilson.

THE JEW BILL.—As vice anticipated, the Jew bill has
passed the third reading in the House of Commons, but,
as we also anticipated, by a diminished majority. The
first reading of the bill was carried (Monday, May 7,) by
a majority of 93, viz., 278 to 185. A division for re-
porting progress in committee, designed to defeat the bill,
(May 14,) was rejected by a majority of 119, viz., 241 to
122. A second division in committee, also designed to
defeat the bill, was rejected by a majority of 114, viz.,
225 to 111. On the third reading, however, these succes-
sive majorities of 93, 119, and 114 sank to 66, viz., 272 to
206, in the fullest house that during the session had con-
sidered the measure. We may add, that since last year
the Christian minority has increased 33, viz., 173 to 206.