The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-30 00:00:00

OVERLAND MAIL FROM BOMBAY.

The Extranidinary Express in anticipation of the Over-
land Mail from Bombay arrived on Wednesday. bringing
accounts eieht days later from Bombay, and twelve days
later from C ticutta, than those w hich appeared in our last.
The dates now come to hand are—Bombay. May 20;
Calcutta, May 11 ; Madras. May 15 ; Delhi, May 10.
The polit cal news is not important. The Punjaub was
tranquil ; the fart of Kote Kangra was expected to sur-
render without an actual resort to arms. In Western In-
dia the sufferings, occasioned by the scanty fall of rain
throughout the two previous years were likely to be re-
lieved by an early monsoon—signs of the near approach
of which bad become apparent ten days earlier than usual.
The pressure of the money market continued severe,
though the pinch was somewhat less tight than formerly,
and the want of confidence was even more heavily felt than
the scarcity of cash. No further bankruptcies of any note
had oreurred • Cholera was committing sad ravages in the
Bombay presidency. One-fourth of the men of the 22d
Native Infantry had in a few weeks been cut off by it ; and
many of the villages of the Concan were depopulated or
deserted. One sad case is stated of the women of her
Majesty's 60th Rifles, who had caught the seed of the dis.
ease between Pooney and Bombay—whither they were
about to have proceeded to join their husbands at Kurra-
chee. On the 18th, six of them were carried to their
graves together. The weather in the Jullundur Dooab
was peculiarly fine, and the troops in the highest health.
In Scinde and Lahore the heats were setting in. _ _

CALCUTTA, MAY 9.—Here in Calcutta there is little
stirring except wind and fire. The former has been
blowing very strongly, but quietly of late; and the latter
has been sweeping off a goodly number of huts in various
parts of the town. On the 6th, there were fires in three
or four different places; and one of them, described in
eight lines of one of the papers, is said to have destroyed
above eleven hundred houses ! There was another con-
flagration yesterday, which destroyed a vast number of
native tenements, and one or two lives.

A few days ago, Baboo Mutty Lall Leal proposed to
the Dhurma Subba, a Society of Orthodox H.ndoos, to
petition Government for some enactment in favour of the
re-m,rriage of Hindoo widows. It appears that his pro.
posalcaused a great stir in the meeting, and was loudly
exclaimed against. This same Mutty Lail, some time
ago, offered a reward of 10,000 rupees to any Hindoo who
would marry a widow. The prize has never been claimed.
There h s. it is sa;d, been an attempt at a counter' revolu-
tion in Burmab, for the purpose of restoring Tharawaddie
to the throne. The friends of the ex-king, however, ap-
pear to have lost heart when the time fur action arrived.

PORTUGAL.

Letters-from Lisbon of the 16th instant state, that,
notwithstanding the dissolution of the provincial juntas,'
serious disorders had broken out in Lisbon. The populace
had atta,!ked the houses of persons suspected of holding
Conservative opinions, and, having broken their windows,
assembled before the hotel of the -Due de Palmella, de-
manditigr the dismissal of the Queen's secretary, as well
as of the generals commanding in the provinces. The
Septembrist papers had already commenced a violent op.
position to two of the new ministers. The Due de Pal-
mella had applied to the bank and io the principal capi-
talists for advances of money to the government. Private
letters represent the Duc de Palmella as going on success-
fully in the work of pacification.
Further intelligence, to the 20th, gives a still more
unfavourable view of the state of aff•sirs. That the Pal-
mella ministry was tottering; the Cobralist pa, ty in com-
plete possession of the court; and the Kines German
councillor standing between the nation and the fulfilment
of the royal promises lately held out to the people.

BRAZIL.—The Crane packet brings accounts from Rio
Janeiro to the 11th of May. Commercially, they are of
Tnerxcbange snowed a slight improvement,
being then quoted 26i to Politically, they are of more
importance. The dissolution of the old, and the formation
of anew adMinistration are anr.ounced, but from the tone
of the Emperor's address when opening the session of the
legisiature on the 3rd of May, it would appear that the new
men are even more determined than their predecessors not
to give way on the points in litigation with this country.
It is more particularly intimated that, on the question of
the Act of Parliament." subjecting Brazilian vessels, sus-
pected of being engaged tn the slave trade, to the jurisdic-
tion of English tribunals," the most uncompromising
opposition will be continued to so ut justifiable an inter-
ference with national rights.

FRANCE.—We learn by the Paris journals of Wednes-
day, that the French Navy Bill had rased the Chamber
of Peers, exactly as wP anticipated, without even the sem-
blance of a division. The Count de Montalembert pointed
to the example of England, which country wisely gave
precedence to the shipping interest, contending that un-
less France followed the same line of policy, by'encou-
raging her merchant marine, she never could hope to be
a naval power of the first rank. During the last twenty
years the merchant marine had been every year declining
more and more, owing. as he argued, to the reciprocity
treaties of 1822 and 1826, which ought now to be can-
celled. The Minister of Marine replied to the objections
of Count Bugnot and Count Montalembert, in much the
same way that be had already done in the Chamber of
Deputies. Our obkct in noticing M. de Montatembert's
speech is to call attention to the observation of the Jour-
nal des Debats, that should the reciprocity treaties be
annulled, America would immediately retaliate, by exclu-
ding French wines and silks. .Ls to England, continues
the same high authority, France need not fear retaliation
on account of the free-trade priticiples into which that
country has entered. The decline of the French shipping
interest is, by this paper, admitted; nor is the cause as-
signed denied, but the difficulties in the way of remedy
are such as to forbid the abrogation of the reciprocity
treaties.

Col. Trelawney, governor of St. Helena, died on the 3d
May, aged 60.
On the 30th ult., nearly 400 buildings, principally smell
shops, were destroyed by fire at Smyrna.
The number of insane persons in France. which in 1835
was 14,486, had increased, in 1841, to 19,738.
The .13,,5t0n Herald Pays that, on Wednesday week,
two pair of soles were cooked by the heat of the sun alone,
on the stalls at the back of the Boston fishmarket, and
were afterwards partaken of by the bystanders.
The Queen has appointed James Macaulay Higginson,
Esq , to be Governor of the islands of Antigua, Mont-
serrat and Barbuda, St. Christopher, Nevis Anguilla, the
Virgin Islands, and Dominica.

an Saturday a shower of hailstones fell at Caerleon
and neighbourhood doing much damage to the crops.
Some of the hailstones measured three inches in circum-
ference.

The Friend of China says a report is prevalent among
the Chinese in Canton, that positive orders to open the
gates to foreigners have been received from Pekin ; and
that proclamations to that effect w ill be issued by the local
authorities.

The King of Saxony, in his speech from the throne,
said that he was disposed to admit the principle of pubii-
city in the proceedings of the criminal courts, but that at
the same time he felt the necessity of proceeding with
caution.

Twu WISEACRES.—The New York Herald announces
the arrival of Robert Owen, the socialist, on a mivion of
peace from England. The editor says—" Nlr. Owen
called and had an important interview with us on the
peace of the world and the destiny of the human race."
On the 11th instant, the forest near Monza, in Lom-
bardy, was almost totally destroyed by a dreadful hurri-
cane, 4000 trees having been torn up by the routs. The
country was covered with birds killed by the hAI. The
storm extended to the Venetian territory, where it also
did great damage.

DISAPPEARANCE OF A LAKE.—A curious phenomenon
has recently occurred near Imst (Tyrol), the Erertmgt-
ferner Lake, in the Oetzthal, having unexpectedly va-
nished during tbe 22d and 23d ult. The water disap-
peared through an opening in the earth, without causing
any damage or loss of life.-7'yreler Bots.
The number of emigrant pasßengers arrived at Quebec
during the week ending the 30th May, was 4,792, making
the total from the opening of the navigation 10,094, against
7,215 at the same time last year. Of this number there
is not one returned as a cabin passenger, and the greater
part of them are from Ireland.

Prince Waldemar of Prussia has left at Alexandria
about 400 large chests, containing specimens of natural
history, curiosities, and a rich collection of manuscripts,
written in the language of Asia, which he had made du-
ring his long journey in India. These chests are to be
shipped for liamburgh, whence they will be forwarded to

Tun NEW POPE.—The new Pope is in his 50th year,
having been born at Ancona on the 31st of January, 1797.
He was appointed cardinal in 1838, and his nomination
was published in December, 1840. The new Pope is said
to be a man of great firmness, but of conciliatory man-
ners. The election appears to have taken place before
the arrival of the foreign cardinals at Rome. His holi-
ness has taken the name of Pius IX.

PROFANITY.—The Academie Roy.* de Musigne, at
Paris, has produced a new opera, entitled 6` David ; Opera-
Iliblique, en troise aetes." --The music, by M. Mermot, a
young composer, is said to possess considerable merit.
The character of David is performed by Madame Stoltz ;
and the other characters are Sate, his daughter Michal,
Jonathan, Goliah, and the Witch of Endor. Notwith-
standing the present rage for the production of French
pieces on our stage, this opera certainly will never appear
in an English dress.—Morning Paper.

The trial of -Dr. Conneau, for his participation in the
escape of Prince Louis Napoleon from Ham, will anon be
held before the correctional tribunal at Peronne. Neither
the commandant of'the citadel nor the two keepers have
as yet been released from prosecution. The only person
who has as yet been discharged is the porter who was in
attendance on the prince.
The pope's army consisted in 1840 of 14,600 men, not
including a reserve of 6,000 men, and 3,000 national
guards •for Rome and Bologna. The annual expense of
keeping up this force was 1,756.029 Roman scudi, or about
£380,000. The territory of the church contains a popu-
lation of 2,908.115 inhabitants. The revenue is about
50,000.000 francs, or £2,000,000 sterling.
A STRANGE PROVISION. —lt has lately been decided
by the Court of Amsterdam, that the law which ebliges
the State to provide for the seventh child in any family
where the -first six are living, is still in vigour; in conse-
quence of which the State was condemned to pay to a man
named Hoogland, 250 florins per annum (X2l) till his
seventh child shall have reached the age of 18, or provide
for it till that time.- This sentence was confirmed by tha
Court Royal of La Hague.
Tim COST OF; WAR.—The expense to this country, in
specie, of the revolutionary war, was estimated at about
135,000.000 dollars. Between the years '76 :and 1781,
Congress issued 357,476,541 dollars of continental, or
paper money, which, during that time, depreciated to a
very low standard. In add:tion to this issue, Congress
obtained a loan• from Holland of over 4,000,000 dollars,
and froin France of nearly 4,000,000. The war of 1812
cost this country between 100 and 150 millions of dollars.
The first year of the Mexican war will, according to pre-
sent calculation, cost from 50 to WO millions.—New
York paper.

A TIPPERARY MAN A NEW ZEALAND CHIEF.—It i 8
stated that Heki, the New Zealand chief, who has given
such opposition to the Brit;sh authority in that colony, is
a native of the county of Tipperary. His real name is
Hickey. lie emigrated from Ireland some years ago, and
was sbipwr ecked on the coast of New Zealand, and taken
into the interior of the island by a hunting party of the
natives, and sold as a slave to one of the chiefs, who
adopted him as his son, cot him tattoed, and gave him his
daughter in marriage. On the death of the old chief, his
Irish son-in-law was chosen as his successor on account
of his skill in war. Previous to his elevation to the high
rank henow holds, he changed his name from Hickey to
Heki. the latter harmonizing better with the language of
the aborigines.—Tipperary Free Press.
WHEAT CROP IN THE UNITED STATES.—At a meet-
ing of the board of trustees of the Maryland Agricultural
Society for the eastern shore, which was held on the 14th
of May, among the business transacted it was " Resolved
—That in view of the importance of disseminating correct
information in reference to the prospect of the growing
crop, we deem it proper to state that in the opinion of this
board, at least one-half of the wheat crop of Talbot county,
has been destroyed during the last ten days of Hessian fly,
and that so great ravages have not been committed by
Hessian fly since the year 1817; that on some of the best
land, wheat has been ploughed up, and other portions are
so much injured, that they will not be worth harvesting."
—New York Mercury —The accounts from the Conti.
nent respecting the crops and the state of the gain
markets are exciting a good deal of interest. The simul-
taneous falling off of supplies of wheat and other grain in
all the European countries, especially in Holland, Belgiuni,
France, Italy, and England, is the first real indication of
the di ficient harvest of List year. Stocks in intermediate
hands, between the farmers and consumers, are very in
considerable, except the bonded stock in England. The
torrid heat is doing great damage to the crops in the South
of Europe. Complaints are very gemral from Fiance re-
garding wheat and rye, and the accounts from the Rhine,
Holland, and Belgium, and the North of France, leave no
doubt that the rye crop this year is a failure. :The potatoe

•
disease has appearsagain in many localities in Europe,
and at a period two months earlier than last year.—Bell'a

Messenget

TRIAL IN CORSTCA.—An interesting case was tried by
the Court of Ass z, of Bastia (Corsica). on the 9.h inst.
In 1837, the sister of a seaman in the Fiend) navy, named
Capriata, was, during the absence of her brother, seduced
by a young man named Cte,aroni, under a promise of mar-
riage, but when his victim had become a mother, and

urged him to do her justice, he refused to keep his engage-
On the velum of the brother, the latter, indignant

Cmsaroni, and after arguing with him on the point of ho-
nour, said, that if be would marry his sister he would give
him all the money that he possessed. Cmsaroni replied,
that so far from wishing to have money in order to marry
his sister, he was willing, if she would marry another man,
to make her a handsome present. Capriata, irritated by
this baseness, drew a pistol from his pocket and fired it at
the seducer, who was severely wounded in the neck. Ca-
priata then fled and found his way to Sardinia, where be en-
tered into business and prospered. Ctesaroni. ro m after
receiving his wound, sent for the sister, and, after exhort-
ing her to forgive him, declared that. if she should reco-
ver, he would offer her his hand. He did recover, and
they were married. Capriata, when apprised of this event,
and that his brother-in-law was doing everything in his
power to prevent him from receiving the punishment le-
gally due to his act. resolved to return and deliver himself
up to justice. His case was admirably pleaded, and the
brother-in-law neglected no effort to obtain a light sen-
tence. The jury declared by their'verdict, that Capriata
had been provoked into the commission of his crime, and
the Court, taking into consideration the circumstances of
thv sae: arntencen- ram- to way iota
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IRELAND.

Mr. Smith O'Brien has proposed that the intended fes-
tival on his liberation from prison should, take place on
Sept. 6th, the anniversary of the liberation of O'Connell.
At the Dublin Commission, on Wednesday, the Rev.

Simon Birmingham, a Roman Catholic priest, pleaded
" Guilty " to a charge of unlawfully marrying a Protes-
tant and Roman Catholic. Sentence deferred.

Compensation amounting to nearly £2,000 is sought of
the town and vicinity of Clonmel, by parties for tbe plun-
der of private property during the' late provision riots, fur
which over sixty persons are now in gaol abiding trial at
the ensuing assizes.

.
A fine vessel capable of carrying freight to the amount
of 400 tons was launched on nursday at Cork. This ves-
sel bas been built to order for the Cork Screw Shipping
Company, and is the fifth vessel now afloat of this enter-
prising company. _ _

Lasi week, a fire broke out in the hemp and flax_ store
of the Limerick. county gaol. The roofs of three large
wings fell in with an awful crash, all the flax and hemp,
with the treadmill and machinery, being comple'eiy de•'
stroyed. Nothing but the bare walls of the store escaped.
O'CONNELLISM ON THE WANE.—The repeaters of
Cork have been dead beat on the question of election of
certain. II arbOur Commissioners. The Town Council,
notwithstanding the instructions of Mr, O'Connell,
elected four gentlemen anti-repealers, but the election be.
ing void through certain informalities, the strength of the
parties was again tried, and the same gentlemen elected
in opposition to four repealers.
At Maynooth, the improvements under the new parlia-
mentary grant are surprising. Grand walks are now to
be seen, where a few months ago stagnant pools emitted
their fetid smell; dell ware, has been substituted for the
" pewter platter," by the inspectors,. and the new wings
are to be commenced next month. The exercise ground
has been also improved ; the ball courts, &c. put in ex-
cellent. order. All the porters, &c. of the college have
livery now for the first time.
THE MYSTERIOUS DEATHS AT LIMERICK.—An in-
quest was held last week, at Limerick, on the bodies of
the seamen of the Anne Simple, from Liverpool, now ly-
ing at Limerick, namely, Patrick M'Breorety, Robert
Tobin, and Redmond Browne, who died suddenly the
week before last. After a lengthened investigation, it
was proved by the seamen and the doctors, who held a
post mortern examination, that it was by drinking the
water of the Shannon, poisoned by the sewers of the gas
works and other sewers that deceased came by their
deaths. Verdict accordingly.
CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY,—In the Dublin Queen's
Bench, last week, three persons named Scully, Danville,
Miilcrest, were indicted for conspiracy, under the following
circumstances. In April, 1845, Mr. Duffy (who is a very
popular gentleman) on his return from dinner at Dalkey,
went into the sta.ion house of the Atmospheric Railway,
to look at the machinery, and while there, he was charged
by the prisoners with having committed an indecent assault
on Scully. He repudiated the charge, and brought au
indictment against the prisoners, on which they were tried.
The prisoners were acquitted.
There was a somewhat stormy meeting of the Repeal
Association on Monday. Mr. J. O'Neill was in the chair.
A long letter was read from Mr. O'Connell, in which,
after giving credit to Lord Lincoln for good intentions, lie
pronounces his lordship's three bills of " but very little
value to the people ;"—and then goes on to express his
regret and sorrow at the efforts of some " juvenile mem-
bers to create dissension and circulate distractions among
the repealers,"—denies that he will ever abandon, post-
pone, or compromise the repeal cause—and earnestly
solicits the faithful people of Ireland -to assist him in ex-
cluding division and strife from the association.—Mr. M.
J. Barry. of the Nation, entered into an eloquent defence
of himself and friends. The rent was £lO6.

SCANDALOUS OUTRAGE.—The Rev. Joseph Garbett,
after performing the ceremony of marriage at Bruff
church on Saturday, was accosted by Mr. Bevan, one of
the bridal party, who placed a handsome yellow flower in
his breast-coat. As usual, there was a crowd around the
church-door, and a man stepped out of the circle, saying,
" Mr. Garbett, you must remove your colours." The
rev. gentleman, in surprise, asked him what he meant, and
this person, whose name is M'Carthy, immediately said,
" You must remove the Orange"--a command at once
followed up by a fellow in the crowd, who rushed at Mr.
Garbett, tore the flower from hia breast, crushed it with
savage glee between his hands, and then trampled
the broken flower under his foot. Two policemen
fortunately came up, and identified the offenders, who
are to appear before the petty sessions for this disgraceful
assault upon a clergyman, at such a place, and under such
circumstances.—Limerick Chronicle.
UNPLEASANT DIP.—On Saturday morning, a young
gentleman went to bathe in the Lee, above the Pipe Wa-
terworks, at Cork. After swimming about for some mi-
nutes, he returned to the bank, and was proceeding to
. dress himself, when a Durham bull moved stately form
towards him, pawing the ground, tossing his head, and
switching his tail. The bather, perceiving the acquaint-
ance becoming rather close, shook his coat at the animal
to deter him, but this appeared to be taken rather as an
invitation to advance, and the animal came on at an ac-
celerated pace, when the poor wight was compelled to save
himself- by jumping into the river. - Ile was so sooner sub-
merged than the bull took his clothes on his horns, and
pitched them one after the other after him into the water.
The gentleman caught his clothes and hung by the bank,
trying occasionally to escape, but the bull guarded the
bank so as to prevent a retreat. Ile was thus kept in the
water for three hours, until discovered by a person pass•
ing on the opposite bank, and a boat was brought to his
assistance.

June :30, ➢846.

THE POTATO CROP.—Of last year's crop large quan.
tities arrive daily at orr gnat'!. They come principally'
from the Carberrys. On Tuesday. while a number of
boats were following in quick succession, a. sloop laden•
with 50 tons, was dropping down the river to try her
chance in Waterford or elsewhere, the owner not wishing
to part with the cargo for the prices obtainable here.
And yet the poor are paying 71d, and Bd. a weight ! We
susl•ect that, if he had sold them here, he would have
found the speculation as " safe " a one as it is likely to
prove in Waterford. We have heard the opinion ex-
pressed by gentlemen who look at the matter with an in-
telligent eye, that we must expect the disease to manifest
itself, under probably modified forms, for two or three
years, and that then, like the disease among the cattle, it
will die away. At present, notwithstanding occasional
exceptions, the prospects are most promising. Any of
the new crop that we have seen at table are free from even
the appearance of disease cr taint. A gentleman who ,is
a large grower, and who planted, as an experiment, a
quantity of the produce of last year literally black from
disease, examined the bed on Monday, and found not so
much as a leaf discoloured-- the roots were invariably ex-
empt. Of all his potatoes he gives the same account—
long as he is growing, he never had a finer looking crop.-
From other gentlemen we have heard similar statements
respecting- the produce both from diseased seed and
sound. We must not, however, expect to escape without
some loss.—Cork Constitution.

"SPORTING" INTELLIGENCE.—The following incident
is given in a report of the Bellewstown races published in
a Dubiin paper. One of the actors is well known on the
racecourses in this country :—" A short time preiious to
the start for the first race a most unpleasant fracas took
place between Mr. Allan M'Donagh, the well-known.
steeple-chase rider, and Mr. G. N. Hamilton, of Morn-
ington, who recently acted as the friend of Capt. Smyth,
on the occasion of his receiving a hostile message from Mr.
M'Donagh, but r, fused to allow Captain Smyth to meet
him. Mr. Hamilton was standing on the racecourse
when Mr. M'Donagh walked up to him, and, addressing
him, said, 'Hamilton. you are one of the greatest scoun-
drels and cowards I ever knew, and but that I fear you
would bring me into the Queen's Bench, I would horse-
whip you within an inch of your life,' at the same time
shaking a small stick or cane, which he held in his hand,
over his shoulders, and telling him to consider himself
horsewhipped, adding, I will serve your blackguard com-
panion the same way the first time I meet him. Mr. Ha-
milton then said, 'Your present conduct proves to me that
you are just the scoundrel I always took you for.' Mr.
M'Donagh again repeated, that, but for fe-i of being
brought into the Queen's Bench he would thrash him;
whereupon Mr. Hamilton said, 'I pledge you my honour,
sir, I will not bring
.you- into the Queen's Bench if you
strike me.' Thee, have at you, and be d— dto you,'.
replied Mr. M•Donagh, striking Mr. Hamilton on the
shoulders with his cane, and afterwards across his face.
Mr. Hamilton immediately struck at Mr, M'Donagh, and
some one present handed him a stick ; on seeing which
Mr. M'Donagh fled, pursued by. Mr. Hamilton, who over-
took and dealt him two or three severe blows, which cut
him on the head, and thus stands this very unpleasant
affair for the present."