The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-29 00:00:00

THE., 14.INEIMOOL STANI)ARI.

19th'bf :May reactkd New York by telegraph• on the 3d
.intent, and produced'ititefite excitement in the flour and
cornitszlyestern eapal flour reaching 9 dollars and
lama a litchiclif ?hbsetiuently~eceded however to 9+
an dollars. The receipts of 'bread stuffs by the canals
and r ers to the eastern ports are °man unprecedentedly
itphr
large scale compared with formeryears.
The growing crops are generally reported to be in fine
condition.

The Journal of St. Petersirurgii publishes a letter from
the Caucasus, dated Bth May, which states that on the sth
of 'May Colonel Stepstoff defeated Schamyl on the banks
of the river Assa, and forced him to retreat to Fortanga.
In the sittings of the three orders of the Prussian Diet,
on the 18th, a proposition for authorising marriages be-
tween Jews and Christians was carried by a majority of
2SI to 142.

The crops throughout Holland, Belgium, Prussia, Ge

many, and Italy, ar

promise to yield an abundant harvest. In the kingdOm of
Naples the harvest is nearly ended. The harvest in Egypt
also is expected to be very plentiful, and the produce will
probably far exceed that of 1846.
ACTIVE BENEVOLENCE.—It is stated In the German
papers that the principal merchants and the senate of Bre-
men have entered into a subscription of a million dollars
for the expense of public works, undertaken with the view
of affording occupation to the poorer of the labouring
classes, until the termination of the prevailing scarcity.—
The amount in sterling will be equal to £150,000.
The funeral of the son of Mehemet Ali took place at
Alexandria, on the 29th of May. A procession of 50,000
persons followed the body. Part of the procession was
formed by 1000 camels laden with provisions, and a num-
ber of live oxen driven by butchers, who slaughtered their
herds at the cemetery and distributed them to the poor,
and one hundred blind boys in white surplices, who
chaunted the funeral cry. The mob was excellently dis-
persed by an officer riding in the rear distributing small
coins.

ROME, JUNE 15.—Pope Pius IX., on the 15th. gave an-
dience.to the son of the Liberator of Ireland, and made a
eulogy of Daniel O'Connell in terms which must have ex-
cited the gratitude and admiration of the young member
for Dundalk. According to what has been stated, at the
moment at which the visitor rose, after having kissed the
feet of the " holy father," the Pope said to him :—" Since
I am deprived of the happiness so long since desired of em-
bracing the hero of Christianity, let me, at least, have the
consolation of embracing his son !" And, at the same
time the holy father' pressed him twice to his heart. It is
known that the Marquis Dragonetti, a Neapolitan, received
orders to leave Rome on the 21st. In an audience with
his Holiness, Ni. Dragonetti requested the revocation of
this measure. Pius IX. replied that he desired that the

orders of his ministers should be executed. When this
reply reached the knowledge of the people, great discon-
tent was expressed, and the preparations for the fete on
the anniversary of the ascension of Pius IX. were sus-
pended. M. Grasselini, governor of Rome, seeing these
dispositions, caused M. Dragonetti to be sent for, and
promised to obtain for him from his Holiness, a prolonga-
tion of two months for his sojourn. It has just been as-
certained that the words of the Pope were wrongly inter-
preted ; and confidence has re-entered the hearts of the
inhabitants of Rome, and preparations for the fete have
been resumed.

UNIVERSITY AND 'CLERICAL NEWS.

The Rev. E. R. Jones. M.A., Fellow of Brazenose Col-
lege, Oxford, eldest son of the Rev. J. Jones, -of this
town, has beenappointed to the incumbency of St. John's,
Derby.

During May and June last, 163 priests, and 166 deacons
were ordained for the Church of England.
The. Rev: Mr. Brooks, vicar of Nottingham, and

the churchwardens, having determined to remove a pic-
ture presented to St. Mary's Church through Archdeacon
Wilkins, thelate vicar, that gentleman has written to the
churchwardens, desiring them to abstain from any such
act, on pain of immediate proceedings in the Ecclesiastical
Court.

INCREASING NUMBERS IN THE CHURCH OF SCOT-
LAND.—The Home Mission Report of the Church of
Scotland describes the very rapid recovery of those con-
gregations of chapels of ease in Scotland whose ministers
constituted a chief part of the secession of 1843. The
re-action in-Scotland in favour of the Established Church
is most striking.

The Bishop Of Bristol has written to Lord Kenyon as a
leading promoter of the " Powis testimonial," to ask to be
admitted as a contributor of £lOO. His lordship says
that "it is true that he, as one of the church commis-
sioners, concurred in the recommendation of the union of
the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor, but that his assent was
given solely by reason of his sense of the importance of
the foundation of a bishopric of Manchester, and a con-
viction that it could not upon any other condition have
been admitted."

The Protestant Elector, a new publication, applicable
peculiarly to the present crisis, is advertised to be pub-
liihed in London three times a week. It is worth the
support of every friend to the continuance of our Protes-
tant constitution.