The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

SWITZERLAND.

The advices from Geneva to the 10111 instant state that
tranquillity appeared to have been completely restored.
There were no apprehensions of further disturbance, and
business had been resumed. The people had met in ge-
neral council, and unanimously agreed to the folio wing
decree :
The grand council is dissolved. The resignation of
the council of state is accepted. A provisional govern-
ment, composed of ten members, shall be immediately
elected by the general council. A new grand council is
convoked for the 25th instant. The number of deputies
is reduced by one-half. The electoral colleges of arron-
dissement are reduced to three—viz., one for the city,
one for the communes of the left bank of the lake and of
the Rhone ; and one for those of the right bank. The
constituent power is conferred on this great grand coun-
cil to prepare a revision of the constitution to be submit-
ted to the votes of the people. The paid guard shall be
disbanded. All the (Image dor.e in the affairs of the 7th
shall be charged to the council of state which has re-
signed, and the officer who commanded in chief the armed
force of the government.
The people next proceeded to elect a provisional go-
vernment, when James Fazy, Louis Rilliet, Leonard
Gentin, Bordier, Francois Janin, Balthasar Decret, Cas-
toldi, Pons, Nloulinie, and Fontanel, were unanimously
chosen, and immediately issued a suitable proclamation.

Louis Philippe has ordered three carriages in London
for the use of his future daughter-in-law.
It is likely that Lord Dalhousie, late president of the
Boird of Trade, will be appointed governor of Bombay.
The number of the Spanish refugees who have been sent
to the Castle of Blaye since the escape of the Count de
Montemolin is 13.
The Montreal papers mention a sad calamity in the up-
setting of a boat near Cedar Island, when crossing the
Channel to Point Frederick, by which seventeen lives
were lost. _

Among the persons apprehended on account of the re-
cent bread riots in Paris are two young women, who were
disguised in male attire. Ti ese girls male themselves
remarkable for the virulence with which they excited the
mob.

Letters from Adrianople state that on the 12th of Sep-
tember a dreadful fire broke out in that city, which con-
sumed upwards of 600 shops, 50 houses, besides caravan-
series, baths, mosques, &c. This is the second conflacra-
tion that has taken place in Out city in the space of a
month.

Mr. Waghorn's last express performed the passage
through Egypt, a distance of upwards of 250 miles, in the
extraordinary space of 20 hours and 50 minutes, from the
dropping of the anchor of the Semiramis at Suez, to the
starting of the Ardent from Alexandria. The express was
carried on horseback across the desert, a distance of 84
miles, in five hours and a half.
By papers from New Zealand we learn that on the 16th
of May an attack was made on the British station in the
Valley of the Hutt. It was repulsed, but we regret to add
that six men of the 58th Foot were killed, and four
wounded, by the natives (Maories), led on by Rangia.
haeata, who took so active a part in the slaughter of our
countrymen at the commencement of the disputes in the
northern parts of the colony.
Ominous symptoms of wrangling and disquiet are
showing themselves in the states of the Papacy. Some
of the Pope's subjects think he does not go fast enough :
others are more reasonably apprehensive that he may go
a little too fast. Very recently he has been denounced
as an intrns—a traitor end enemy to the Church ; and an
anonymous libel, attributed to no less a person than Car-
dinal Della Genga, has been circulated in the Romagna,
in which this accusation is repeated in the brcadest and
coarsest language.
A BOLD HIINTSMAN.—There was a grand wolf-hunt
last week at St. Laurent-en-Caux by the pack of the Vis-
count d' Ambray, which was attended by more than a hun-
dred of the most famous sportsmen of the country, and
viewed by 3,000 spectators. Three wolves were killed. A
green sportsman from Bacqueville was so panic-struck at
seeing a wolf coming towards him, that, instead of firing,
he dropped his gun and fell. The wolf made an attack
upon him, and tore his face, but his wound was but slight.
Galignani's Messenger.
Loss OF A RUSSIAN BRIG OF WAR.—By the United
States frigate Constitution, from the Pacific, via Rio de
Janeiro, we have an account of the loss of a Russian Go-
vernment brig, near the harbour of St. Peter and St. Paul,
on the coast of Kamschatka, in the month of October.
1815. The vessel was from Okotak, with a cargo of wheat
for the winter supply of the colony, mounted six guns, and
had a complement of 30 or 40 men, besides 16 passen-
gers, most of whom were women and children. One pas-
senger only, a girl about 18 years of age, the commander,
and about ten of the crew, succeeded in reaching the shore
in safety. The remainder, with the exception of a man
who was crushed to death by a gun, found a watery grave.
The vessel and cargo were a total loss ; and it was sup-
posed that much suffering would ensue among the colonies
in consequence, as their only resources were thus stopped.
COLONIAL APPOINTMENTS.-110 doubts which have
been so lone entertained as to the destination of Sir
Benjamin D'Urban are at length definitively set at rest by
his a;,pointment as commander of the forces in the Wind-
ward and Leeward islands. This extensive command (of
which Bar badoes is the head-quarters) comprehends the
whole of the British West India Islands, with the ex-
ception of Jamaica and some minor dependencies. Sir
Benjamin D'Urban has appointed Captain Kirkland, of
the 20th Foot, to be his military secretary. The doubts
expressed as to whether Lord Cathcart might not con-
tinue to retain the appointment of commander of the
forces in Canada, although superseded by Lord Elgin in
that of Governor General, would seem to be without
foundation, as we understand an offer of that important
command was made to Lieutenant General Sir James
M'Donnell, and, although the offer has been for the pre-
sent declined by that gallant and distinguished veteran,
little or no doubt is entertained that ultimately either he
or some other general officer will be sent to till up the
vacancy which the retirement of Lord Cathcart will
create. With respect to the Cape of Good Hope, we are
informed that the command of the forces, under the
governorship of Sir Henry Pottinger, has been offered to
Alexander Woodford. Sir Alexander has not as yet signi-
fied his intention of the offer.—Britannia.
TIIEQUEZN OF SPAIN'S WEDDING JEWELS.—Messrs.
Starr and Mortimer have sent out an agent to Madrid
with between £30,000 and £40,000 worth of jewellery.Mr. Cave, the gentleman in question, had the honour of
displaying his magnificent wares to the queen and royal
family on the Ist instant. He was at the palace from
two to five o clock. The queen purchased a diamond
bracelet for £1,400, and another of emeralds for £6OO,
great concern at his not having arrived be-
and expressed
fore, as she would then have made more extensive pur-
chases. Mr. Cave expects a large order for plate. His
jewel boxes were sealed up at the Spanish and French le-
gations in London, as if they contained despatches, and of
coarse he arrived here without their being opened. At
the custom-hou,e they did not exactly know what to make
of it, and sent him to the residence of Senor Isturiz, the