The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

has even the most tragic celebrity

Letters from New York state that Mr.
Bennet has offered Jenny Lind 1000 dollars per night for
200 nights, and made a further offer to place a carriage at
her disposal, and to pay every description of expenses
attending the concerts or operas. He has also proposed
to place £lO,OOO in the hands of her bankers in London
to secure the fulfilment of his proposal.
PROJECTED JEWISH TEMPLE ON MOUNT ZION.—The
Jews.have obtained a firman from the Turkish govern-
ment to admit of their building a temple on Mount Zion,
which they pray may equal in splendour that built by
King Solomon. A sum of £250,000 has been raised in
America alone for this purpose. The student of prophecy
I every Christian ought to be such a character—will
t as not the least important of " the signs of

note this
the time:

SAXONY.—The Berlin papers state that the Saxon
Chambers were opened on the 26th ult. by the King of
Saxony. In the royal speech his Majesty protests that
although the standard of German unity was disgraced in
the bands of those who seized it for criminal purposes, yet
his government would abide by that banner, and that he,
therefore, joined a league of German governments, which
promised to give the Germaption a C3IIIMOII and prac-
tical constitution. •
A RELIC OF WATFIELD.—The New York Observer
has a letter dated Newburyport, September 28th, which
states that the right arm of the celebrated George Whit-
field, which was removed from the body by some relic
bunter, so long ago as 1816, when the vault of the first
presbyterian church of Newburyport was under repair,
where the remains repose, has been lately restored to its
proper place. The arm was in the possession of some
person in England at least since the year 1825.
WEST INDIA MAIL.—By the steamer, just arrived, we
have dates from Kingston to the 22d of October. The
Retrenchment Bill, in the House of Assembly ; there
were 14 votes for the bill, and 19 against it, in the division
of the House. The County Union makes the following
statement :—" In the year 1840, in the parish of St. James,
seventy-five sugar estates were in cultivation. In 1849,
forty-nine !—and ere the next year shall have passed away
four more estates will be added to the obituary of our once
flourishing island."

ARRIVAL OF THE HIBERNIA.—By the Royal Mail
steam-ship Hibernia, which arrived at Liverpool on Wed-
nesday, we have advices from New York to the 14th, and
Halifax to the 17th November. The Cambria arrived at
Boston on the 10th, and the America at Halifax on the
15th November. The West India mail steam-ship Dee
arrived at Mobile on the sth. The Royal Mail steam-ship
Tay arrived at Chagres on the 26th October, and left on
the evening of the 30th for Carthagena, with the mails and
bullion for South America. Thence she sailed and
reached Kingston on the Ist November. The annexation
meeting appointed to take place at Montreal came off on
the Ist November, without causing any disturbance.

CANADA.—This country is still greatly excited. The
Montreal and Toronto correspondents of the Herald give
particulars of meetings in favour of the annexation move-
ment. They state that the feeling is becoming stronger
than ever, and that those who favour the project of se-
parating from Great Britain are becoming bolder and
bolder every day.

HEROIC HIIMANITY.—The Brazilian papers record
another act of honorable humanity on the part of Captain
Lisboa, who, it will be recollected, exerted himself in pre-
serving the lives of the passengers and crew of the Ocean
Monarch some time since. While stationed off Rio
Janeiro he hazarded his own life to save the lives of two
negroes whose boat had been destroyed in a severe gale of
wind on the night of the 7th of September. It was very
dark, and, the poor fellows' cries being heard, the captain
(Marques Lisboa) embarked in a small leaky canoe, with
a torch in his mouth, and witk the assistance of two men,
attempted to reach the rocks to which the negroes were
clinging ; but before he could accomplish it the canoe was
twice upset, and on each occasion the captain swam ashore,
righted the canoe, and again put off amidst the breakers.
He at last succeeded in rescuing them, amidst the cheers
and hearty huzzas of the assembled populace, who, by the
light of their torches, were witnesses of the bold and dan-
gerous exploit.
.THE SANDWICH ISLANDS SEIZED BY THE FRENCH.—
We have received startling intelligence from Honololu.
A French force has seized on the Sandwich Islands under
these circumstances :—M. Dillon, the French consul,
sent to the King, in September last, a most unexpected
demand, viz., that certain privileges should be given to
Roman Catholic priests in the island ; that a French cri-
minal should be set at liberty ; and that the duty on
French brandy should be abolished ! After due consider-
ation, M. Dillon received a negative reply. He instantly
declared that France was insulted, called a French naval
force into the bay, the ships opened their guns on the
fort, marines were sent ashore, the fort was stormed, the
defenders bayonetted, the cannon spiked, the royal flag
torn down, the French colours hoisted, and the Sandwich
Islands pronounced to be a French possession ! All the
other Foreign consuls have protested against this outrage-
ous and bloody act, and M. Dillon has sailed for France
to give an account of his insane commission, and, we hope,
to be condignly punished. He and his proceedings must,
of course, be disavowed.
We had the pleasure, the other evening, of listening
with astonishment to the transmission of music by tele-
graph over the wires from Boston to New York. We
happened to be in the office, No. 5, Hanover-street, in
this city, when there was a pause in business operations.
Mr. W. Porter, a young but skilful operator in the Bos-
ton office, asked us what tune we would have. We re-
plied, " Yankee Doodle ;" and to our surprise, he imme-
diately complied with our request. The instrument com-
menced drumming the notes of the tune as perfectly and
distinctly as a skilful drummer could have made them at
the head of a regiment, and many will be astonished to
hear that " Yankee Doodle" can travel by lightning. We
then asked for " Hail, Columbia," when the notes of that
national air were distinctly beat off. We then asked for
" Auld Lang Syne," the notes or sounds of which were
also transmitted. A friend called for " Old Dan Tucker,"
when Mr. Porter also sent that tune, and, if anything, in
a more perfect manner than the others. So perfectly and
distinctly were the sounds of these tunes transmitted,that
good instrumental performers could have no difficulty in
keeping time with the instruments at this end of the
wires. This is one of many telegraphic novelties.—New
York Herald. _ .

PORTUGUESE COURT GOSSIP.—Great complaints are
uttered of the parsimony of the court. There are no
entertainments, no balls, no routes, nothing that would
distinguish the Necessidades as being inhabited by people
in 'fashionable life. Parsimony, rather than actual poverty,
is said to be the cause. It was not long ago, that a man
who had bought up some of, the allowances of the do-
mestic servants, finding no Money forthcoming for the
payment of the wages and board wages which he regularly
bought of the servants, who were obliged to sell to him
in order to supply themselves with the common necessa-
ries of life, sued the treasurer of the household for pay-
ment, and at length execution issued against the goods
and chattels, produce, and effects, of her majesty at
Queluz. To avoid a more disgraceful scene, namely, the
moving of her majesty's property to the public place for
sale (as by a sheriff's execution), the money was paid ;
but not without an attempt to pay in bank notes instead
of specie. The other servants, stable men, &c., hearing

of this success, thought of another expedient in order to
save that sacrifice which the selling of their wages and
board-wages would entail upon them, perhaps 25 or 30
per cent., and actually struck for wages ; the king consort
was very much annoyed at it, and paid the money out of
his own private resources. A curious incident has hap-
pened which will furnish a subject for tea-table chat.
Donna Maria da Gforia was invited to a ball and supper
by the Philharmonic Society of Lisbon ;. she had accepted
the invitation, and preparations were going on to produce
the entertainment; it appears, however that the entrance,
as well as the building, are neither very commodious, and
that therefore it was decided she should enter through
the private dwelling Louse of the Baroness do Barcel-
lino's, whose husband is a strong progressita, whether for
electioneering purposes or otherwise, does not appear, the
queen was advised not to go, and accordingly she sent
—Correspondent of the Daily News.

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