The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-14 00:00:00

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LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL. •

The Swiss Diet have refused to accept the mediation of
France.

Abd-el-Kader has at last submitted to the Emperor of
Morocco.

It is believed in well-informed circles in Paris that M.
Guizot has so identified himself with the policy of Austria
in the Swiss affair, that he will find it necessary to resign.
A general insurrection has taken place in Sicily. The
constitution of 1812, guaranteed by England, has been
proclaimed throughout the whole island. The entire
country has risen up in arms, and the soldiers have re-
fused to fire upon or act against the populace.
THE PRASLIN TRAGEDY.—The Droll states that
Mademoiselle Deluzy has commenced a suit against Mar-
shal Sebastiani for the payment of an annuity of 3,000
francs (£120), bequeathed by the Duke of Praslin to the
governess of his children by a will executed in the year
1843. Mademoiselle Deluzy demands, moreover, that
several articles of furniture given her by her former pupils
shall be restored to her, and she further demands the re-
payment of a sum of money which, she asserts, was con-
fided by her for safe keeping to the late Duke of Praslin.
THE ALLEGED ATTEMPT OF COUNT MORTIER ON THE ,
LIVES OF HIS CHILDREN.—The circumstances connected
with the rescue of the children of Count Mortier, at the
Hotel Chatham, in Paris, on the ith of November last, at
the• moment when he was supposed to be about to immo-
late them, must be fresh in the reader's recollection. Since
that time his family have instituted proceedings for the
purpose of having his property placed in the hands of
trustees, and the count himself put into the hands of
guardians as a lunatic, which he has, however, resisted,
upon the grounds that he was not mad ; and that although
he might have determined to commit suicide to relieve
himself of the misery caused by his wife's misconduct,
yet that he had no intention of harming his children, and
that a determination to commit suicide by no means im-
plied alienation of mind.

The inhabitants of Chelsea, Fulham, Kensington, and
Hammersmith, are seeking to be formed into a parliamen-
tary borough.
An ingenious- Irishman has invented a " life-preserving
coat for landlords."

The steamer Tagus, with the heavy portion of the East
India mail, brought to Southampton, on Saturday,
£lOO,OOO in specie.
The Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh has ordered the,
prayer appointed to be used in the time of war and tu-
mults to be read in every church in his three dioceses. '
A rate of 7s. 6d. in the pound has been struck by the
guardians of the Tullamore union, although the last rate
of 3s. has not, and, according to the collectors, cannot
be raised.

COALBROOK DALE IRON WORKS.—We are sorry to
learn, that the colliers at these works are to be put on
half-work next week ; the iron-stone pits, we are informed,
are to continue in fall operation, in consequence of the
small stock of iron mine now on surface.—. Mining
Journal.

On Thursday morning a ship was seen on fire off Wey-
mouth. She was an American, of about 600 tons, and
thought to be laden with cotton, She continued to burn
to the water's edge, when she went down. Nothing is
known of the crew, but it is supuosed they were either
taken off or took to the boats.

The labourers of Nenagh-450 in number—have ap-
plied to the poor-law guardians for relief. They state in
their memorial that their food consists of turnips—one
scanty meal in the twenty-four hours—oftentimes only
one in forty-eight hours. They declare their willingness
to be content with only three days' work in the week, but
that this is not to be hoped for.
The Metropolitan Sanitary Commissioners expressly
state, that " there is no evidence that cholera spreads by
the communication of the infected with the healthy ;" and
they mention it as " a fact, altogether irreconcileable with
the notion of contagion, that as no human means have
succeeded in excluding it from particular spots, so no ex-
tent of communication with the sick has been able to
carry it into other places."
POISONED WELLS.—Any one passing Richmond-ter-
race, Clifton, durinc, the last week or ten days, must have
remarked the long string of doctors' carriages drawn up in
theneighbourhood. The reason for this formidable dis-
play was the existence of illness in almost every second
house, the inhabitants of which were afflicted with gastric
fever. It was not, however, until one death took place,
and several were in imminent danger, that the cause of
this extensive illness was discovered, when it turned out
to be produed by the use of a spring which supplied the
place, and whose waters had been imperceptibly poisoned
by a sewer breaking into it, and so greatly vitiating their
character as to cause gastric fever in every family using it.
—Bristol Times.

CULTIVATION OF COTTON IN INDIA.—On Friday a
meeting of the Manchester. Commercial Association was
held at their rooms in King-street, for the purpose of
meeting Mr. Petrie, assistant to Dr. Wight, superinten-
dent of the East India Company's farm at Coimbatore,
established for the cultivation of cotton from American
seed. Mr. Petrie produced samples of cotton grown on
the farm, which were pronounced to be equal to any that
had ever been brought from New Orleans, and which he
showed could be produced at a much lower price than
cotton from America. In the course of the proceedings
Mr. Turner (the chairman) stated that, by the permission
of the chairman of the East India Company, the experi-
ment was made at his (Mr. T.'s) suggestion, and it was a
remarkable fact that the suggestion had been sent to
Manchester, and acted upon, and the cotton produced
and delivered in Manchester, again in a space of time
considerably less than twelve months. The meeting ap-
peared well satisfied with the experiment.
I-Inaza,fl OF MIATT.I ARSCICIATIONT.—A-
of the Health of Towns Association was held on Saturday,
in the Hanover-square Rooms, London. There was a
numerous attendance. The Marquis of Normanby, pre.
sident of the asssciation, was in the chair, supported by.
Lord Ashley, M. P. ; Lord Ingestre, M. P. ; Earl For-
tescue • the Earl of Mulgrave ; Lord Ebrington, M. P. •
Mr. W. Mackinnon, M. P. ; Mr. Ewart, M. P; ; Mr. R.
Adair, M. P. ;. Mr. £ Ellice, M. P. ; Mr. Cardwell, M.P. ;
Mr. R. A. Slaney, M. P. • Mr. H. Tufnell, M. P. ;
Ge feral Turner; Mr. J. Heywood, M. P. ; Mr. W. S.
Craig, M. P. ; Mr. M. Baines, M. P. ; Mr. C, Forteseue,
M. P. ; Mr. H. Suffield ; the Hon. E. P. Bouverie, M.P. ;
Mr. R. Palmer, M. P. ; Dr. Bowring, M. P. ' • Mr.
Parker, M. P. ; Mr. C. P. Grenfell, M. P. ; Sir T. Birch,
M. P. ; the Hon. F. Byng ; Mr. R. D. Granger, F. R. S.,
&c. A deputation from Liverpool and other towns at- .
tended. Mr. Cardwell seconded one of the resolutions,
and alluded, amidst the cheers of the meeting, to the in-
tention of the Corporation of Liverpool to bring water
from the Lancashire hills.

LoAr BREG.---600d, sweet, and wholesome bread
being an indispensable requisite in every family who value
their health, we are proud to have it in our power to direct
their attention to Mr. Gibbon's announcement elsewhere,
at whose establishment we can confidently say they Will
meet with that greatest of all luxuries, "good bread;
and as Christmas is approaching, we may as well, at the
same time, notice the preparations he has made for supply'
ing his customers with everything rare and good in the
cake department.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY, 13th DECEMBER.—Wind S. moderate.
ARRIVED.—Ann and Jane, Smith, from- Calcutta—Mersey,
Shumway, from Mobile—William Penn, Michaels, Charleston
—Maid of Erin, Egan, from Pictou, and ater Witch, from St.
Michael's.
SAILED.-Berlin, Smith, Philadelphia—Ann Paley, Lister,
Lisbon—Corinthian, M`Phun, Leghorn—X L, Owen, Ancona—
Susan E. Howell, Burley, Baltimore—Ocean; Jones, and Bona
Pea, Brown, New Orleans—Ocean Queen, M•Bride, Apalachi-
cola—Speed, Grundell, Savannah—Joseph Yeoward, Jones, Pa-
lermo—Marchioness of Bute, Kenny, Mobile—Amphitrite,
Jullen, Bergen—Emma Heyn, Schmeer, Ancona.

All the vessels that have arrived here within the last three
days, experienced the hurricane of the 6th and 7th instant,
which is described as being exceedingly violent, commencing
from S. and S.W., and veering round to the N.W. and N.N.W.,
with a very heavy sea running, and occasionally severe squalls,
with hail and sleet. The reports of a few of the vessels are very
incomplete, and carelessly drawn up, as well as inaccurate.
_

Hibernia, (steamer,) hence for BOsion, was spoken Bth Dec.,
at 8 a.m., in lat. 50 42, long. 11, all well, by the Stirlingshire.
Prince of Wales, and Royal Saxon, from Calcutta, and Mar-
garet, West, from Batavia, at St. Helena, and sailed for tneir
destinations 26th Oct.

The Earl of Chester, that arrived here yesterday from Bom-
bay, lost bulwarks, stancheons, rails, cookhouse, &c., had her
boats and spars started, one of her forechain plates broke, and
topgallant forecastle filled with water, during the hurricane of
the Gth and 7th instant.

Mary Queen of Scots, Willcox, hence at Pernambuco.
Hannah Kerr, Muir, from Callao, and Wilton, Wilson, from
Rio Grande, at Cove.
COVE, 11th Dec.—Oxford, Goodmansen, from Liverpool for
New York, put in here to-day, with decks swept; out 23 days,
Spoke the Enterprise, from St. John, N.B. to Cork, with lossOf
foremast, bowsprit, anchors, &c.
FALMOUTH, 11th Dec.—The American Lass, Cumming, from
Liverpool to Sierra Leone, put in here to-day, with loss of bul-
warks, stancheons, and jibboom, covering boards split, leaky,
&c., having been struck by a sea whilst lying too, on the 6th
instant, in lat. 46, long. 6.

DIED.
On the 12th instant, at No. 8, Mount Vernon-road, after
few days illness, aged 53, SARAH. wife of SAMUEL WIL-
LIAMSON, Esq., and daughter of the late John Whinyates,
Esq.. of this town.
Same day, at his residence, Mount-pleasant, Col. CHARLES.
MOORE.
Same day, at her residence Bronte-street, aged 52 years, Mrs.
CATHERINE WCABE, relict of the late Mr. Thomas
M'Cabe, Blockmaker, of this town.

LIVERPOOL CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 13.
The supply of Stock at our market to-day has been smaller
than last week, and the quality generally inferior. We had a
good attendance of customers, and anything good readily sold
at high prices. Beef, sd. to 64d. per lb.; Mutton, 6d. to 7d.

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