The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

THE RIVER PLATE.—Private letters from Buenos
Ayres, received by the Brazilian packet, state, that Gene-
ral Rosas had resigned the office of President of Buenos
Ayres for the thirteenth time, and also state that some of
his partisans are of opinion that his resignation is not
quite so great a farce as the previous ones have been ; but,
as intended to free him from the mortification of yielding
to the demands of the British and French governments.
It is said that he will retain the office of commander-in-
chief, and with it all real power, whilst be will throw the
odium of concession on the new president. The letters
from Monte Video state, that Colonel Silveira, who re-
cently pronounced in favour of the independence of the
Banda Oriental, at Maldonado, was at the head of 600
men, and that he had captured 2,000 horses, on which he
was remounting the cavalry of Rivera. defeated at India
Muerte, who were slowly arriving from Rio Grande. It
is certain that the advance of the squadrons of the Parana
and the Uruguay had compelled a large part of the Bue-
nos Ayrean forces to retire :into the province of Entre
Rios ; and thus set the eastern part of Banda Oriental free.
CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—Cape of Good Hope papers
to the 18th of January have arrived. Afracas had taken
place at Port Victoria between the Caffres and the troops,
in consequence of the military on duty attempting to ar-
rest one of the aborigines who bad stolen a blanket. Two
of the Caffres were wounded in the affair, and then the
riot was soon quelled. Tola, the chief, resided in the
neighbourhood, as well as his superior chief, Botman, and
showed every disposition to restore order, and the latter
had expressed his regret that any thing should have oc-
curred to disturb the good understanding hitherto sub-
sisting between the military and his people. A letter
from Port Natal, dated the Bth of December, 1845, in the
South African Commercial Advertiser of the 14th of Ja-
nuary, announces the arrival of the Lieutenant-Governor,
with his family, on the 4th of that month.
NEW ZEALAND.—Accounts from Auckland to the 22d
of November have been received. They are very unfa-
vourable. The correspondent of the Times says,—" Cap-
tain Fitzroy's proposals of peace having been scornfully
rejected, and there not being any probability of success
with our limited force against determined foes strongly in-
trenched, it was deemed advisable for the troops to retire
from their advanced position at Waimate to the vicinity
of the shipping, and there await reinforcements. They
are now encamped on the site of Kororarika, about 720
men, and preparations are being made to re•erect the
flagstaff for the fifth time! The arrival of Captain Grey
is so very recent that no prudent conjecture can be ad-
vanced how far he may be the man to remedy the mani-
fold errors of his unfortunate predecessor—that he will
cut and carve among the public officers, concentrate their
duties in the few working men among them, reduce the
expenditure to the income, and place the fiscal arrange-
ments upon a sure basis cannot be questioned."
The King of the Belgians cannot persuade any of his
subjects to form a ministry.
Narvaez has returned to power in Spain, and another
bloody revolution is considered as possible.
INDIA MISSION.—The institution of the General As-
sembly of the Church of Scotland, at Calcutta, was re-
opened on the 12th of January last. On the first day 250
pupils were enrolled; and before the mail left the num-
ber had increased to above 1500. What do the Free
Church seceders think of this ? Glasgow Constitutional.
Considerable agitation has been excited at Pisa against
the Vicar of the A rchb;shop, who has purohased the Pa-
lazzo Silupis for 300,000 f., in order to convert it into a
house for the Sisters of the Sacre Coeur, who are said to
ba connected with the Jesuits. A petition on the subject
to the Grand Duke has received 130 signatures from per-
sons of note, including many professors of the University.
A curious order of the police was issued at Berlin on the
2d instant. With a view of preventing the diminution of
nightingales in their natural state of liberty, it is decreed
that every person in Prussia who keeps a nightingale in a
cage shall pay an annual tax of ten thalers (forty francs),
and that any person putting a nightingale into a cage, with-
out giving information to the police, shall be fined thirty
thalers.

On the 27th ult. 47 houses were destroyed in the little
town of Albeg, in Saxony, and 120 persons were reduced
to misery. The loss is estimated at 200,000 francs (about
£8,333).

A COSTLY WEDDING ORNAMENT.—The Paris papers
inform the curious in such matters, that there is now to
be seen in a jeweller's shop on the Boulevards the diadem
of precious stones to be worn by the Princess Olga, of
Russia, on her wedding-day. This diadem is wo:th
18,000,0001. The large central diamond is estimated at
1,000,0001. This diadem is to be presented to the bride
by her Imperial father.
An affair took place on the 22nd ult. at Dorston, in
Prussia, between the Roman Catholics and Protestants,
in which 120 persons were wounded. It originated io a
pretended miracle, it being stated that a poor idiot girl
had mysterious marks impressed on her forehead. The
miracle was proclaimed by a Jesuit, with insulting lan-
guage to the Protestants ; and the excitement ran so high
that a military force was called in to the aid of the
Jesuit.
FAMINE ON THE CONTINENT.—We learn from Pia-
cenza that, on the 24th ult., the town was threatened with
a serious riot, from the Government having attempted to
raise the price of bread from ten to thirteen centimes the
pound. The populace having attempted to assail the
Government House, the Austrians on duty fired and
killed four persons, wounding several others. On the
following day several bakers' shop were attacked, until at
length the magistrates were compelled to post up bills,
announcing that the price was again reduced to its former
rate, and flour lowered 3f. a sack. The people appeared
to be pacified by this concession, but dragoons were still
stationed at the provision shops.
HORRID MASSACRES IN POLAND.—The painful im-
pression produced throughout Europe by the late desperate
and abortive insurrection in Poland has been greatly ag-
gravated by the atrocities which are said to have been per-
petrated at the instigation of the Austrian authorities in
the province of Galicia. The insurgents, who had got
possession of the town of Cracow, and had expelled the
Austrian garrison, forthwith crossed the Vistula and
marched in several columns into Galicia, where the con-
spiracy had numerous ramifications among the Polish
gentry and clergy, and where they expected to meet with
the support of the people. These anticipations were,
however, erroneous. The chief magistrate of the district
of Tarnow harangued the peasantry assembled at the mar-
ket of that town, and persuaded them that the designs of
the insurgents and the nobles were no less injurious to
them than to the Government. He exhorted them to re-
main faithful to the Austrian authorities, and ended by
offering a reward of ten florins for every rebel whom the
peasantry might bring in dead or alive. The measure had
immediate and horrible effect. More than 400 nobles were
massacred in two days. A hundred corpses were brought
into Tarnow to claim this blood-money ; and so great was
the slaughter that the authorities reduced the price of a
murder from ten florins to two. The whole district was a
prey to the horrors of a social convulsion which can only
be compared to the Bauernkrieg of the 16th century, or
to some of the scenes of the French Revolution. In the
midst of these tragical events, the cause of Poland seemed
to be entirely forgotten, and the attempt which has been
made to resuscitate her independence only revived those
fatal dissensions by which society in that country has so
often been distracted.

A BULGARIAN PRINCE AND A NEW ZEALAND

CHIEF.

At the soiree, on Thursday, in London, of the British
and Foreign Institute, Mr. G. F. Angus, a recent travel-
ler in Australia and New Zealand, exhibited a collection
of drawings illustrative of the scenery and manners of the
people in those countries. He was accompanied by a
New Zealand youth, son of the chief, Pomara, who, with
the whole of family, excepting only this youth, was
killed by a hostile party. This son, thus left without pa-
rent or protector, was taken by Mr. Angus to Sydney;
and there placed at school, but on returning to England
Mr. Angus brought the youth with him, to give him the
benefit of an English education, and afford him an oppor-
tunity of seeing this country, after some stay in which it
is intended that he should return to communicate the re-
sults of his acquirements to his countrymen. The youth
was dressed in his native costume, evinced great intelli-
gence, and excited general interest by his appearance and
conversation.

There was also present, as a visitor on this occasion, a
Bulgarian Prince, Alexander Stoilovitch, Exarque, Bey-
Oglou, who has come to England on a very interesting
mission. The Bulgarians, who inhabit one of the con-
quered provinces of the Turkish Empire, near the chain of
the Bolkan, and the Black Sea, are at present very much
in the condition of the Greeks previous to the establish-
ment of their independence; and, notwithstanding the
hatli-cherfff of the Sultan, Abd•ool-Madjed, which gives
to all the subjects of the Ottoman empire, whatever may
be their faith, equal civil and political rights, the local au-
thorities of Bulgaria, removed from the eye of the chief
ruler of the empire, and having no fear of public opinion
or the press, which no where exists throughout the inte-
rior, practice cruelties and oppressions at which every hu-
mane heart would shudder it they were fully detailed.
The Prince, being himself a Christian, but a member of
one of the few remaining families of the ancient Bulgarian
nobility, who continue in possession of their estates and
privileges, is anxious to interest the more intelligent and
philanthropic men of influence in Europe in the improve-
ment of his country. Instead of seeking to resist the op-
pressions under which his countrymen labour, by an
armed revolution, which so often only rivets the chains of
the unsuccessful more closely, he hopes, by the more pa-
cific, and more certain mode, of establishing schools, in-
troducing the press, and promoting religious and benevo-
lent associat'ons for the advancement of civilization, to
effect a slow but gradual amelioration. He has been re-
ceived in France by Monsieur Guizot and the French mi-
nisters with the greatest respect and cordiality ; and has
had a most favourable interview with the Earl of Aberdeen
and other of her Majesty's ministers, in this country. He
proposes to bring over some of the sons of the principal
Bulgarian families to England, and other countries in
amity with the Sublime Porte, for education in their
schools and colleges, and then return them with all their
stores of knowledge to their own country, as has been
done with so much success by the present Pasha of Egypt.
The Prince was introduced to the assembly by the Resi-
dent Director, Mr. Buckingham, who explained, in a pub.
lie address, the object of his visit at some length.
The Prince also addressed the company in French, and
expressed his gratitude for the cordial reception he had
met with in this country.