The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-27 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

The export duty on Bohemian corn has been raised,
with o ders to continue so until the Ist of June.
The demolition of the British Queen steamer in the
basin at Antwerp is proceeding with much activity.
It is said the Pscha intends reopening the ports for the
exportation of grain and pulse in four or six weeks.
There is no foundation for the rumour, brought by the
last Indian mail, of a serious misunderstanding between
Sir Henry Hardinge and Sir Hugh Gough.
Letters from Warsaw state, that the Emperor Nicholas
in his passage through that capital, had treated Prince
Paskewitz with great coolness, and bad even expressed to
him his disapprobation of the late political arrests.
The Queen of Portugal opened the Cortes on the 2d
instant. The only point worthy of notice in the royal
speech is the declaration that the government are resolved
to adhere to the treaty with this country for the suppres-
sion of the slave trade.

ALGERlA.—Letters from Marseilles bring news of fresh
razzias in Algeria, and mention a rumour that a division,
consisting of 2,500 men, under the command of General
Levasseur, whilst making a razzia in the province of Con-
stantine, were overtaken by a snow storm, on the night of
the 3d instant, of so violent a character, that the greater
part of them perished.
A Protestant conference is now being holden at Berlin,
to which all the Protestant States of Germany have sent
delegates. Their mission is to restore uniformity of be-
lief and of worship. But many so-called Protestant
congregations have already publicly disclaimed being
bound to belief in any stated creed, by whomsoever pro-
mulgated, and the labours of the conference will, pro-
bably, prove abortive.
NEW ZEALAND.—An extra number of the Straits'
Times states that intelligence has been received by the
Hawk of another conflict between Heki and the British
troops ; and quotes an extract from the South Australian
Journal, to the effect that the New Zealanders had again
repulsed the troops sent to attack his pah, killing and
wounding 127 men. He retired during the night from
the pah unobserved, with all his fo4s. Capt. Fitzroy
considers the island to be in such insr ity that he sleeps
within the barracks every evening. .
AN EGYPTIAN MARMAGE.—The marriage of the Pa-
cha of Egypt's daughter to Kiamil Pacha, has been cele-
brated in the Pacha's peculiar fashion, and while it wa s
going on, the Egyptian public, native and foreign, could
think of nothing else. The Eastern Harem was made as
far as possible into an European court, with " European
ladies lodged there for eight days," and " received at din-
ners and soirees,"—the " restaurateur department under
the direction of a committee of French ladies; and music
and balls, with a Mad. Hekykian (query, native or fo-
reign ?) for lady patroness." Outside the palace, there
was the Hall of Justice, turned into an Italian theatre,
with harlequin exhibitions, and bits from operas and bal-
lets ; free ingress for all ;—the Pacha in his state box, and
the other boxes filled with ladies of all denominations—
Jews, Greek, Turkish, and French. On the same princi-
ple, among the Pacha's dinner parties was an ecclesiasti-
cal one, where " the Catholic bishop, the Greek patriarch,
the Jewish Rabbi, and the idahomedan cadi, were to be
seen seated side by side." The tastes of his Mahomedan
subjects were consulted by exhibitions of mountebanks
and necromancers ; firing of cannon ; nightly illumination
of 1,800,000 lamps; the distribution of 500 tons of beef
and mutton and £5OO worth of small coin, scattered
among the crowd ; and processions of the bride's jewels"
and slippers, worth £7,000, "in glass cases." The mar-
riage procession was as magnificent as crowds and mili-
tary poms. Arab horses, beys without number, and white
satin wedding favours and orange flowers could make it.
The first day of the festivities there was a grand banquet
at the citadel of eight hundred covers. The ladies were
admitted to a magnificent supper given by the eldest
daughter of the Pacha, where, including the slaves, not
less than three thousand five hundred women, from all
nations, &c.. were present. All sorts of dances were per-
formed, Greek, Arabic, Bedouin, &c., and the last were
an European quadrille and waltz.