The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

Tilt LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN 6- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.
AMERICA. •

The new trading ship Ivanhoe, Capt. Edwards, formerly
of the Sea, and late of the Ma'rmion, arrived at Liverpool
on Friday, after the remarkably short passage of 17 days
from New York. Her dates extend to the 10th of No-
vember. They give advices from Vera Cruz to the 21st of
October, which announce that all was quiet at Mexico.
At Queretaro the government was getting more pacific.
Senor Pena y Pena had ordered General Santa Anna back
for trial; but whether he would go was very uncertain.
His troops which he brought to Puebla, and those under
Alvarez and Rea, who joined him as soon as they heard
that General Lane was marching on, deserted him by
companies. He was at San Andres. All around the city
of Mexico there is a large peace party, and many of the
most respectable citizens in Vera Cruz, Jalapa, and Puebla
are ardently wishing for peace.
The Caledonia, steamer, arrived at Boston on the sth.
Charleston papers give particulars of the total loss of the
ship Empire, of New York, on the Coral Reef, near
Abaco, on the 17th ult., with 372 United States officers
and men on board, who were on the reef ten days. They
then shipped for Charleston, where 129 arrived in safety.
The helmsman was the only person lost. On the Sth
instant, in removing some sick persons from Baker-street
to the Temperance-hall, Mary-street, in Boston, opposi-
tion was offered by the citizens. The sheriff finally
stopped the riot, and sent the sick to the Al!mshouse.
The Fredericton Reporter announces that the boun-
dary dispute between New Brunswick and Canada is nearly
adjusted.

NEW YORK MARKETS.
(From the American Sun, Nov. 9.)
COTTON.—The market is depressed ; holders are anxious
to realize. The sales for the day are some 1200 bales, at
a decline of 2 to 4c.
FLOUR, &c.—The market unsettled, and in favour of
the buyer. The sales for the day are some 6,000 barrels,
including 2,000 N.Y. good Genesee at $6 20c. ; 1,200 bar-
rels Oswego at $6 31e. ; 1,000 barrels good Michigan at
$6 374 e.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool there is some corn offered at
6d. ; cheese and pork at 225. to 253. ; cotton at id. for
square bales. Coastwise freights are high. Vessels for
the East are very much wanted.
EXCHANGE.—At 1091 to 110 for sixty-day bills on Lon-
don ; and sf. 20c. for bills on Paris.
(Prom the Shipping and Commercial List, Nov. 6.)
COTTON.—The market has been very quiet for the last
three days, and some descriptions are again lower. Spin-
ners have been the chief buyers, the operators for export
having withdrawn from the market during the indepen-
dency of late advices from abroad. The sales are 2,600
bales, thus :

Upland and for. Mobile and N. 0
1700 bales,: 900 bales.
Inferior - none
Ordinary to good ordinary 7i to 7i c. 7i to 8 c.
Middling togoodmid 8 to 81 c. 8i to Si c.
Middling fair to fair ai to c. 9 to 9c.
Fully fair to good fair
Fine
Making a total for the week of 4700 bales.
The arrivals have been from—
Galveston, Texas 231 bales.
• South Carolina

• Total 435 bales.
Export from Ist to'3oth October 27,031 bales.
Export from the United States.
Sidce Ist September last 111,036 bales.
Same time last year 45,962

The packet-ship New World arrived here on Sunday,
with one days later news. An improved feeling prevailed
in New York. Freight had been engaged for a large
amount of specie by the steamer Caledonia. Bills on
England were selling at 1091 to 110. The American
steam-ship, Washington, arrived at New York on the 9th
instant, after a run of sixteen days from Southampton.

The cholera has appeared in an unequivocal,shape at
Constantinople.
It, appears that Mr. Stephen is still the Under-Secre-
tary of the Colonies, but absent on! leave. Mr. Merivale
is Under Assistant-Secretary.
The barracks of Seinele, in Turkey, capable of lodging
10,000 men, were destroyed by fire on the 27th ult. The
loss is £24,000.
THE PRASLIN TRAGEDY.—MdIIe. Deluzy has been
set at liberty, in virtue_ of an ordinance, declaring that
there was no evidence against her.
The statement that the Queen of Spain is enciente is
confirmed, and with this important addition—that the
fact had been communicated to, and accepted by, the
French Government.

The last advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that
no movement of an important character had taken place,
but Sir Henry Pottinger was organising his forces for a
grand coup in a few days.
By a printed circular issued from the Colonial Office, it
appears that prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in
the British colonies are in future to be styled officially
" Your Grace " or " Your Lordship," as the case may
be. _ _ _

It
said that two tenor singers have died prematurely
is
at Venice, from the over exertion required in singing
Verdi's compositions, and that prima donnes now stipu-
late that they shall not be required to sing in \ erdi's
operas.
Three large steamers, with engines from 200 to 300
horses' power, have been fitted at Bahia for the slave
trade. One of these has already arrived on the west coast
of Africa, where she embarked 900 slaves, and escaped
from the brig-of-war Sealark, by steaming away from
her during a calm.
NEW ZEALAND.—It is intended for the future to keep
a permanent naval force at New Zealand. It will con-
sist of one frigate, one sloop of war, and a steam sloop.
Orders have been sent out to form a naval depot at Auck-
land, and such stores as cannot be procured at that colony
will be sent out from England.
THE TERRORS OF EMIGRATION.—DreadfuI has been
the sufferings to which our emigrants have been exposed.
In one vessel, the Looshtank, out of 462 passengers, 272
died. The crew also all perished. Several vessels, which
fell in with them, sheared off on hearing their dreadful
conditiod. On reaching land the captain became insane.
ARCTIC COMFORT.—Dr. Rae, in his narrative of the
recent expedition along the arctic coast, states : "We had
not yet obtained a drop of water of natures thawing ; and,
fuel being rather a scarce article, we sometimes took small
kettles of snow under the blanket with us, to thaw it by
theleat of our bodies."
INFANT SCHOOLS AT ROME.—The Duke Sforza Ce-
sarini, who married Miss Shirley, the grand-daughter of
Robert, Earl Ferrers, has lately succeeded in establishing
an infant school at Genzano, near Rome, which has ex-
cited considerable interest from the fact of its being the
first school of that description which has ever been esta-
blished at or near Rome.

At half-past twelve, on the 20th instant,, his Royal
Highness William 11. Elector of Hesse, departed this life
at Frankfort, after a few days' illness. The deceased was
born on the 28th July, 1777, and succeeded to the elec-
torate on the 27th of February, 1821. He is succeeded
by his son, Prince Frederick William, born on the 20th
August, 1802, and who, since 1831, shared the reins of
government with his father.
The Paris papers of Thursday are of considerable inte-
rest. After a meeting of the British, Austrian, and Prus-
sian ministers, at the hotel of the President of the Coun-
cil, on Wednesday, a courier was despatched to Berne,
bearing offers of mediation on the part of the great
powers. General Dufour put all his forces in motion on
the 22nd, for the attack on Lucerne, whose government
Lad met, and, by a small majority of only three, deter-
mined upon an obstinate resistance.
COTTON FROM SOUTH AFRICA.-Advices from Port
Natal give a favourable account of the soil and climate of
that colony for the growth of cotton. The great difficulty
in the way of an extension of the cultivation would be a
deficiency of labour. The produce is said to be very
superior in colour, fineness, and length of staple. One
advantage which a planter there has over, the Americans
is, that the plant produces at Port Natal several years in
succession.
THE RECENT TRIPLE MURDER IN BRUSSELS.—It will

be recollected that about two months ago, the sister and
two female servants of M. Evenpoel were found horribly
murdered in his house at Brussels, and a large quantity of
property carried off. The culprits have at length been
discovered, one of them being a tenant of M. Evenpoel,
who, being in arrears of rent, communicated the fact to
an accomplice, and the murder and robbery were agreed
upon. The discovery of the murderers has created much
excitement in Brussels.
THE Boox FAIR LEIPSIC.—The Presse publishes the
following letter from Leipsic :—" The catalogue of the
books to be offered for sale at the approaching sale con-
tains 4,871 articles in that trade, comprising books jour-
nals, and geographical map -, being about 1000 less than
last year. But still the proportion of pamphlets written
in German increases. Amongst those pamphlets on reli-
gious controversy and scientific and political subjects, 76
were published by dissenters, 37 are relative to the high
price of provisions, and the necessities of the labouring
classes, and 10 on the potato disease."
THE CATHEDRAL AT CALCUTTA.—The consecration
of the new cathedral at Calcutta has taken place. Eight
years ago the ceremony of laying the " first stone" of this
sacred edifice was witnessed ; so that we might, from the
time it has taken in building, conclude that it rivals in
extent and magnificence its namesake of the British me-
tropolis. It will not, however, either for size or beauty,
stand a comparison with many a country church in Eng-
land. It may afford sittings for one thousand people
with some cramming, which is not a pleasant thing in
that country; and it has a mean, insignificant, and yet
tawdry look, inside and out.
THE SWISS QUARREL.—The following may be taken
as a brief statement of the facts and causes of this singular
war. The Sonderbund (or league of Catholic Cantons
having as they conceive, by a right of internal or municipal
government secured for them by the treaty of Vienna),
entrusted the supervision of public instruction to the
Jesuits, were remonstrated with by the Protestant Can-
tons, who accused the Jesuits ofintriguing, &c., and
required to have them expelled by the Cantons in which
they were located. This the latter refused to do, because
they maintained they had a right to manage their own
internal or municipal affairs, independent of the other
states of the republic, or even a majority of the Diet, or
general congress of the whole. There was a further cause
of difference between the Protestant and Roman Catholic
Cantons :—the Protestants are in favour of a more cen-
tralized form of government for the Helvetic Union ;
they want to have Switzerland less cantonal, and more
national—to do away with the separate and semi-indepen-
dence of each state, and give a unity of governMent and
action to them all. To this the Roman Catholi, Cantons,
being more conservative of old systems and customs, are
opposed, and deny the right of the Diet (1 which' the
Protestant or movement cantons have a majority) to alter
the constitution, as it has been secured .to them by treaties.
The Federalists having resorted to arms to enforce their
fancied right, the Sonderbund also armed in defence.
The two contending parties. in the republic .have each of
them ardent sympathizers everywhere.

STRANGE EXECUTION.—Hamburgh witnessed a curious
proceeding on the Sth instant. The scaffold was erected
as for an execution, before the principal front of the Ex-
change, and at twelve o'clock a large furnace, filled with
resinous wood, was placed on it. The wood having been
set on fire, the bell of the Town-hall was rung violently.
as is usual during the execution of decrees inflicting infa-
mous penalties. At one o'clock, the hour at which mer-
chants are assembled on the Exchange, the public execu-
tioner ascended the scaffold, followed by two of his
assistants, and, after having caused a drum to be beat,
proclaimed, in a loud voice, the name of a merchant who
had been declared guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, and
who had taken to flight. lie then displayed to the spec-
tators an enormous placard, bearing the name of the cul-
prit in gigantic'letters. He caused the next drum to be
beat a second time, after which he tossed the placard in
the flames. For twenty years no similar execution had
taken place at Hamburgh. By the laws of the city, when
a tradesman fails, the state of his affairs is immediately
examined into by a jury, nominated by the Tribunal of
Commerce, and the jury has to declare, on their oath, if
the bankrupt be irreproachable, if he be guilty of negli-
gence, or if he has committed fraud. In the first case,
the Tribunal of Commerce declares him innocent.: in the
second, he is _subject to imprisonment for a period more
or less long ; in the third, he is liable to be confined in a
house of correction for from ten to twenty years, and to
be exposed on the pillory ; but if he takes to flight, his
name is thus publicly burned by the hangman.
THE RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT POMPEIL—NapIes,
Oct. 2.—ln the magnificent street leading from the
ancient seashore, in the neighbourhood of the theatres, to
the so-called causeway of the Fortuna, and thence in a
direct line to the northern city wall, there has been exca-
vated a house that surpasses in richness and elegance all
that has been discovered previously.. The space of the
court-yard is open, has a mosaic pavement, and on the
walls fantastic pictures of the richest and most tasteful
style. At the sides of the atrium (court-yard) are small
sleeping rooms, with the following wall paintings :—Poly-
pheme, who receives a letter from Galatea by an amorino
riding upon a dolphin ; • Venus occupied with fishing ; a
Naicissus ; a few swimming gods of Love; a Victoria
upon a car; and several landscapes. In the background
of the atrium opens a tablinum (the reception-hall), with
chequered marble pavement. On the walls of this room
must have been wood paintings, as the spaces which they
once filled are still plainly seen, as also the charcoal re-
mains of those paintings. They were, perhaps, from the
.hands of those celebrated. masters who, according to Pliny,
preferred painting, upon wood. At the side of the recep-
tion-hall is a dining-room, where .are seen three large
paintings of full-size
,figures. They represent Hercules
with Omphale holding his club, and wrapped in the skin
of the Nemtean lion. Next, Bacchus as a boy, •and arm-
in-arm with Silenus, on a car drawn by two oxen, and
followed by Ba.cchantes. Thirdly, a Bacchanal procession
of triumph. Here were also the Triklinian reposing beds,
! richly adorned with silver. Behind the reception-hall is
the garden, with a fountain at the end, which is adorned
with mosaic and a small marble statue of Silenus. In
the centre is the water reservoir, adorned with rich marble
sculptures. , This dwelling joins a second open atrium
where the servants lived. Here was found a four-wheeled
waggon with iron wheels and much bronze ornament.
The kitchen contained many implements of bronze, and

Le traces of smoke were in many places still visible, after

the lapse of eighteen centuries. The dwelling had—what
is very rare—second and third stories, to which led a wide
staircase. Upon a small picture close to the staircase
lies a letter with the (scarcely legible) name of the
owner of the house, in oblique characters, and plainly
indicatinghis rank. It belonged to the Decurite or
senators of Pompeii. The house has therefore been
christened, Casa della Sonatrice. or dell' Ercole Übbriaco.
It is the newest excavation of importance.