The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-12-08 00:00:00

PORT PHILIP,

Intelligence has reached Melbourne of another and still
more atrocious outrage committed by the blacks at Mr.
Waugh's station, near the Broken River, and which, I rerret.
to say, has been attended by a lamentable loss of human life.
The full particulars of this melancholy aqur have not reached
as, but there is no doubt whatever that it actually occurred.
Mr. Waugh—who must be known to many of our readers as
;be author of a work in New South Wales, which met with
;reat success in the mother country, chiefly in Scotland—

had .but recont,ly eorf,;e to Pori Philip from the Goulburn
Pie*, whore his father and family still reside, and had formed
the station on the lifoken River, where the outrage occurred
immediately on his arrival. It is not known at what time
the blacks attacked the station, for the massacre was not dis-
covered until the return of Mr. Waugh, who had been to
Melbourne to procure supplies, and found on reaching the
station, that the place had been attacked and rifled of every
thing, and that his sheep and shepherds, four in number, had
entirely disappeared. After some search the mangled re-
mains of two of the unfortunate men were found, and part of
the sheep recovered ; but of the other two men not a trace
could be obtained, though there is every reason to fear that
they have shared the fate of their unfortunate companions.—
Sydney Herald, July 13.

FOREIGN

AND COLONIAL MISCELLANY

The Prussian government has ordered four millions of ball-
xtridges to be manufactured immediately.

We note in a contemporary's columns the advertisement
of a lady for a husband. " None need apply under six feet."
—Whew ! but the lady goes in ferociously for Hy-men.—
New York paper.
The passengers who arrived in the United States in 1839
were 76,000, of whom 70,509 were foreigners, viz., from Great
Britain and Ireland 31,000, from Germany 19,000, France
7000. No fewer than 47,000 of the above arrived at New
York.

The French in Africa suffer seriously from the effects of
climate. We are told by the Sentinel de l' Armee, that the
17th Light Infantry, during its stay of five years in Africa,
where it so much distinguished itself, lost 2216 officers and
men.

According to advices from the Levant, the light vessels
and steamers of the allied squadrons are to keep up the block-
ade and the surveillance of the Syrian coast, while a detach-
ment of five sail of the line and two frigates blockade Alexan-
dria. The rest of the ships are to go to the bay of Marmo-
rizza.

A curious account is given, from Tubingen, in Wurtemburg,
of a new printing establishment, lately opened by M. Theo-
dore Helgerad. All the compositors and pressmen, 196 in
number, eleven of the former being women, are deaf and
dumb ; and have been educated at his cost for the employment
in which they are now engaged.

The late rumour of the intention of the Emperor of Austria
to abdicate is again renewed in another form.—The new ver-
sion is, that he has the intention to share the weight of affairs
with a co-regent : and that his brother, the Archduke Francis
Charles Joseph, who is heir-presumptive to the throne, will
be immediately summoned to take part in the government.
ARRIVAL OF THE REMAINS OF NAPOLEON IN FRANCE.
—The Belle Poule, frigate, commanded by His Royal High-
ness the Prince de Joinville, arrived at St. Helena on the Bth
of October last; on the 15th the remains of the emperor were
disinterred, and shipped on board the Belle Poule; and, on
the 18th that frigate sailed for Cherbourg-, at which port she
arrived on the 30th ult.

Accounts from Odessa state that the Russian fleet is being
dismantled.

The inauguration of the King of Holland took place on the
28th of November. It was of a very brilliant description.
Mademoiselle Cerito, who is now making a professional
tour through the north of Italy, has just created quite a fur-
ore at Verona. After her first performance in that city, the
horses were taken off her carriage, and Taglioni's young rival
was dragged home in triumph.

A private letter from Rome, dated the 19th ult., states, that
Cardinal Falzacappa, Archbishop of Civita Vecchia, died in
that city on the 18th ult. The deceased was one of the old-
est cardinals, having been appointed in 1823; he was 72 years
of age.
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FLORIDA.--UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE.—In nearly every pre-
cinct of Middle Florida, it is stated in the Tallahassee Star,
the troops in the pay of the United States attempted to vote.
" We are informed," adds that paper, " that at the precinct
of Chattahoochie, in Gadsden county, about 60 of them
marched up, and, on their votes being challenged, undertook
to take forcible possession of the ballot boxes, and threatened
to vote as much as they pleased, whether the judges liked it
or not. Though few in number the people of Chattahoochie
proved a match for douhle their number. They were all
withdrawn from the protection of the settlements, for the
purpose of storming the polls !"—Louisville Journal.