The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-12-01 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Intelligence has been received from this colony to the
7th October, by the troop-ship Apollo, which arrived at
Spithead, on Thursday afternoon. Colonel Somerset,
with a body of 1,200 men, had been scouring the ravines
bordering on the rivers Keiskamma and Beka, and had
captured about 3,000 head of cattle. Most of the Stellen-
bosch burghers had returned to their homes, as they were
unwilling to submit any longer to the hardships which,
thee had previously been compelled to endure. The
Kaffirs bad made several proposals for peace ; but the
governor was determined that they should comply with
his terms, which required them to give up their arms,
and to restore the cattle which they had stolen.

The Bey of Tunis, Ahmed Pacha, arrived in Paris on
Sunday week.
The Paris papers announce the death of the celebrated
historian, Michelet, whose late work, called " Priests,
Women, and Families," excited so much attention.
Captain Hutton, a gallant officer of the royal navy, has
just received the appointment of Governor of the Island
of Ascension.
Her Imperial Highness the Grand Duchess Mary,
niece of the Emperor of Russia, died on the 17th instant,
aged 21.
Roma, Nov 10.—The new pope's spirit of liberality to
the Jews begins to produce its sweet fruits. Shops of
every description are now opened by Jews in many places
without the Ghetto.
The King of the Belgians is expected in Paris, and it is
rumoured that the object of his visit is to endeavour to
arrange the differences between the English and French
Courts on the subject of the Montpensier marriage.
Mr. Cobden, in the course of what his admirers call his
crusade, has arrived at. Seville, and held forth there on the
subject of Free Trade. He has since been feasted at
Cadiz.
It appears, by accounts from Algiers, that the storm on
the night of the 2d, which did so much damage at Mi-
lianah, was severely felt on the coast. Not less than nine-
teen vessels are said to have been lost.

Among the many memorials lately received by the pope,
is one from the Animals' Friend Society of London, pray-
ing him to prohibit the cruel sports of the bull ring in
Spain, and the inhumanity practised towards animals in
the streets of Rome.

THE RIVER PLATE.—The Paris Presse announces upon
authority that the settlement proposed by Mr. Hood of
the differences between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video
bas received the sanction of France, and that orders have
been transmitted to Baron Deffandis to sign at once.
EFFECTS OF GAMBLING.—To show to what extent a
ruinous passion for gambling is carried, we may cite the
case of a free coloured fireman on board a steamboat on
the Mississippi, who, after hating lost all his money at
cards, pledged his own freedom, which he also lost, his
free papers being the stake, and was actually sold by the
winner to a slave-dealer !—Pennsylvania Inquirer.
A dreadful accident occurred on the sth ult. at Zeiten
Bournow, near Constantinople. A chimney which was
building at the imperial manufactory, and which had been
raised to the height of nearly 150 feet, suddenly fell down,
and more than 100 of the workmen employed in its erec-
tion were crushed. Of these 50 were dead when extri-
cated from the ruins. The accident is attributed to the
false calculations of the engineer.
A SUSPENDED BISHOP.—At a diocesan convention held
at New York the first week in October, the only business
of importance was the question whether ex-Bishop On-
derdonk should receive his salary, notwithstanding his
being suspended from office on the ground of immorality
and impurity. After a most tumultuous debate, the reso-
lution directing the treasurer to pay him over the sum of
2.500 dollars annually, out of the episcopal funds, was
carried by 169 ayes against 76 nays.

SPAIN.—The Madrid papers of the 18th mention that
thirty-one ladies of high rank were to receive the decora-
tion of Maria Louisa, as a remembrancer of the Royal
marriages. On the lith the theatre of Cruz was honoured
with the visit of the Queen and her august Consort. The
Timpo charges the government with employing unlawful
means among the electors of Cordova, with the view of
prevanting the return of Senor Pacheco, the opposition
leader. The authorities of Toledo are accused of similar
atrocities.

TAHITI.—A memorial, signed by the magistrates, the
established and dissenting ministers, and persons of every
religious persuasion, as well as men of political parties in
Beverley, has been sent to John Townelev, Esq., M.P.,
to be presented to Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's
principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, requesting
his lordship to use his influence, in a friendly remon-
strance with the government of France, on behalf of the
exiled inhabitants of the island of Tahiti ; and also re-
questing the French government to allow the poor people
to retire, along with their Queen, to another island.
Such reasonable requests cannot surely be refused.
CRACOW.—The Cracow Gazette of the 17th publishes
a long account of the formal taking possession of Cracow
by Austria on the preceding day. A salute of 21 guns was
fired, there was a service at the cathedral, and all possible
demonstrations were made by the Austrian authorities.
The public buildings were illuminated, but the feeling
shown by the people was that of deep melancholy. The
new arrangement is condemned unanimously by all the
French papers ; some from a real regard to Poland, and
others for the sake of embarrassing the ministry. It is
becoming the general belief that a storm is rising against
M. Guizet, which he will not be able to withstand. Al-
ready some of the papers have been obliging enough to
name his successor—M. Mole.