The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN csr COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO.

The Washington, steam-ship, Captain Hewitt, arrived
at Southampton on Friday, after a fine run of 15 days
from New York, which place she left on the 18th. The
passengers for ngland were transferred to the Ruby, a
small steamer hired by the Ocean Steam Navigation Com-
pany, and, with the mails, despatched to Southampton.
The Washington then'weighed for Bremen.
The Washington brings 4630,000 in specie, and 42 pas-
sengers.
Further important and interesting news had arrived at
New York from the seat of war. Advices had been re:
ceived from Vera Cruz to the 6th October, and Mexico
city to the 2nd.
It appeared that open and undisguised hostilities had
broken out between Santa Anna and General Paredes. A
manifesto had been published by the latter, in which the
ex-president is denounced as an enemy to the Mexican
people, and Mexican nationality.
A telegraphic dispatch had been received at New York
from New Orleans, stating that news had been received
from Vera Cruz to the 6th ult.

Two engagements had taken place with the enemy near
Puebla, in which the Mexicans lost 100 men and the
Americans 15.

Santa Anna was atTepacan as late as the 26th October.

A sort of civil war had broken out amongst the gueril-
las, and a severe battle had taken place between the clans
of Jaranta and Canatozo. Thirty lives were lost.
The New York Courier, in its leading article, says the
disappearance of coin by each successive steamer and
packet to England is alarming—needlessly to a great
extent—the mercantile community occasioning more or
less tightness in the money market.
The cotton market was again lower, with a reduction of
from one-third to one-quarter cent per lb. The demand
was moderate. The sales for the 15th, 16th, and 17th ult.
amounted to 3000 bales.

The receipts of flour had been heavy, which had a ten-
dency to depress the market. Wheat remainedinactive.
A messenger had been dispatched from Washington to
General Scott, supposed to be the bearer of instructions
against further overtures for peace. The,near conclusion
of the war, therefore, does not seem probable.
The stock market was dull and declining. The exports
of gold to England, no doubt, tended much to cause the
depression. United States Treasury-notes had fallen to
par. The Burgundy, for Havre, was to kayo ontht• loth,
with 80,000 dollars in silver.

• Exchange on England was firm at 10 per cent., with few
sellers.

The New York Sun says :—" Wednesday the 17th was
one of the gloomiest days witnessed in the New York
money market since the last three years. Nearly all the
banks had ceased to advance loans, and commercial paper
of good standing was disposed of to private bankers at the
rate of 12 per cent. per annum. Everything is falling in
price. The rapid and extensive withdrawal of the precious
metals to ,England was almost the only topic of discussion
to-day. It appears that two millions of dollars, or as near
as possible, is the amount of coin exported from New York
and Boston since the beginning of the revulsion in Eng-
land."

The New York papers contain the whole of General
Scott's dispatches relative to his recent achievements in
Mexico. They are very lengthy, and embrace interesting
accounts of the whole of the battles.

SINGULAR MARRIAGE.—" We are about," says a
Frankfort letter of the 27th ult., " to witness a marriage
of a very singular description. Mlle. de Reichenbach,
daughter of the late Grand Duke of Hesse-Cassel by a
morganic marriage, was divorced from her first husband,
Count de Luktner. She then married M. Wolzdorff. a
councillor of the state, who died two years ago. She is
now about to re-marry her first husband, the political
differences which led to their divorce no longer existing."
Loss OF Two FRENCH MEN-OF-WAR.—The China
Mail received by the last overland India news contains
an account of the total loss of two French men-of-war
on the Corea coast. It says, " The French frigate La
Gloire (50 guns), Commodore La Pierre, and the corvette
Victorieuse (20 guns), Captain de Genouilly, were totally
lost on the coast of Corea, in August. It is reported that
they were four degrees out in longitude, and struck on a
quicksand at high water. The crew were landed on an
island, and two boats sent to Shanghai for assistance.
Her Majesty's ships Daedalus, Espiegle, and Childers,
went to their relief. The Daedalus has brought the com-
modore and part of the crew to this port ; the Eviegle
and Childers carried the remainder to Shanghai, from
whence they embark to Macao."
FEARFUL ACCIDENT IN A BALL Room.—At the Com-
mencement of the ball lately given at Algiers to the
Duchess d'Aumale, an accident occurred, which might
have been attended with dangerous consequences. A lustre
suspended in the middle of the room, and lit with gas,
suddenly gave way in one of the branches, and the gas
escaped through the room in a burning state. Fortunately
a person present had sufficient presence of mind to throw
the earth contained in some flower-stands over the mass
of flame, and thus deaden its effects. Mademoiselle
Lecheane, daughter of a merchant of Algiers, who was
designated to dance in one of the quadrilles with the
duchess, had her dress set on fire, and was burnt in the
shoulder. She was obliged to return home, but fortunately
no other disaster was to be deplored.—French paper.
The Tribunal of Commerce, at Seine, has condemned
Miss Birch, the eel( brated English singer, to pay 30,000 f.
damages to the manager of the French Opera, for alleged
breach of engagement. Of course Miss Birch can ap-
peal.—That this lady was not suited for the French stage
tew who knew her will doubt, and the indignation they
would have felt on her behalf will be much mitigated by
the regret of her attempting to appear there. With every
qualification to render her the first English singer of the
day. it is lamentable that she will strive after what she
cannot but accomplish indifferently. If she must appear
-on the stage, a determination regretted by all her sincere
admirers, the English stage was the proper place for her
abut—ltaly or Germany—we had almost added Kam-
schatka (only we have no distinct recollections of operas
in the wild regions of the north), would have been better
than France. Paris is the last place in the world she is
suited for.

Miss Catherine Hayes, with her name half Germanized,
is crowding the theatre at Bergamo, and anticipating
equal success' at Milan, where Miss Noble, another Eng-
lish vocalist, has gathered laurels at the Theatre Re. A
Mr. Curtis is also engaged as primo lenore at Parma.
Mesdames Parepa (late Miss Seguin), and Learti (late
Miss Susan Hobbs), and Miss Eliza Birch, are pursuing
their studies at Paris, under Signor Emanuel Garcia. the
instructor of the famous Lind. The nightingale declined
an engagement at the Paris Opera, and so did her rival of
Cuvent-garden, Mademoiselle Alboni, till she was over
persuaded to make trial of two night's performances,
when, it appears, she was received with an enthusiasm
equal to the Jenny Lind furore in England and elsewhere.
The Parisians are in raptures with Alboni's " elegance,
purity, and flexibility of style," and literally astonished at
the extraordinary compass of her vocal scale from Fin the
bass cleff to C sharp above the lines in the treble.