The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-05-23 00:00:00

ITALY.

The sixth anniversary of the constitution was celebrated
at Turin, on the 14th, with great pomp. The King, the
members of the legislature, the ministers, and all the great
civil and military. authorities were present at the solemn
thanksgiving offered up in the cathedral, which was decked
out with tri-coloured flags, and other symbols interspersed
with appropriate inscriptions, while the National Guards
were drawn up in parade on the square outside. The troops
of the garrison lined the Piazza Vittoria Emmanuele and
the adjoining streets. The King, on leaving the cathedral,
was received with loud cheers by the assembled multitude,
and the progress of the royal family to the palace is de-
scribed as a triumphal procession, so great was the enthu-
siasm of the people. The King afterwards reviewed the
troops in the Piazza Castello.
GREECE.

The belief in well-informed circles is general that the
Greek insurrection will now subside, and tranquillity, for
a time at least, be restored to the provinces on the frontier.
The complicity of Russia in the dispute is undoubted.
The Muscovite sympathies of the Queen unite with the
ambition of King Otho for a larger territory; men in
power, and men desirous of it, are equally anxious for an
extension which would increase their importance, their
authority, and their wealth ; and the chimerical aspira-
tions of the people are turned to account by the designing.
The influence of the Czar in Greece is deeper and more
enduring, and therefore more dangerous, than his most
inveterate reviler on an English platform has ever asserted.
It is not a thing of yesterday ; it did not commence with
Menschikoff mission or the Seymour conversation : it ex-
isted before Otho was thought of for the crown, before
Capo d'lstrias fell by the assassin's dagger, before Greeae
itself was ever named, save as a part of the Pashalic of
Janina. The real Russian strength lies, not in the cliques
or coteries of Athens, but in the hearts of the people—in
the deep fanaticism which forms the basis of the Greek
character. It is not generals and senators who form the
agents of the Czar, but needy and ill-fed priests, sprung
from the ranks of the people, the brothers and cousins of
the savage borderers who have precipitated themselves on
the Thessalian towns.

A Paris despatch gives the following on the authority
of the Moniteur :—The now avowed complicity of the
Greek Government in the insurrectional movement on the
Turkish frontier has given a fresh impulsion to acts of
brigandage. Piracy is every day on the increase in the
Archipelago. The commerce of Smyrna is in a state of
great alarm. Special and energetic measures are about
to be taken for the safety of navigation. It is certain
that the Czar has furnished to the Greek Government
military subsides amounting to 1,000,000 of drachmas.'
Macedonia is invaded by 2,000 adventurers and rob-
bers, commanded by Chanis Karatasso, a former Aide-
de-Camp of the King of Greece. This band is committing
every unheard of atrocity. In one place they burnt alive
160 Turks—men, women, and Children—in their mosque.
The Semaphore, of Marseilles, states that M. Bourree is
the bearer of verbal instructions for the French Minister,
M. de Forth-Rouen, and he will have, moreover, to demand
from the Hellenic Government the interests due since
1828 on the hundred millions advanced by France. If
the answer of the Greek Government be not satisfactory,
French troops will occupy Athens, the Pirteus, and the
most important points both of the mainland and the
Archipelago. The insurrection itself is nearly at an end,
Fuad Effendi having 15,000 men in Arta. The real
nature of the abortive rising against Turkey is no secret.
Accounts were received in Paris on Thursday that the
Russian Government has insured to the Greek Govern-
ment a subvention of a million of drachmas per month.
A curious fact has also been ascertained : the Greek
Govtrnment has granted letters of marque to the pirates
who at the present moment infest the Levant.
WEST INDIES.

the Magdalena, royal mail steam-ship,
arrived at
Southampton.da Jamaica, accounts of the 27th
ult. state that the legislature had been prorogued by
nMe
Governor Barkly, who had left S
rd uesy
Spanish Town for a tour
through the north-western parishes of the island, with a
view of forming a correct estimate of their actual condi-
tion. Cholera had appeared in Spanish Town, and four
fatal cases are reported. Several deaths from scarlet fever
had occurred at Kingston. The weather was very close,
with the thermometer ranging from 98 to 100 degrees.
A great number of fires, principally of small extent, had
occurred in the rural district of Barbadoes.
AUSTRALIA.

By the royal mail steamer Magdalena, accounts have
been received, via Panama, from Sydney to the 21st of
February, being a fortnight later than those by he Marco
Polo. From Melbourne only three days later. At Sydney
the rate of interest had been raised from 4 to 5 per cent.
The latest accounts from the mining districts as given by
this arrival are from a correspondent of the Sydney
Herald and are dated Braidwood, Feb. 16. " Since my
last I have to report great prosperity among our gold dig-
gers. The new diggings on Major's Creek are turning
out even better than the most sanguine could have antici-
pated, and the success that has attended many is most cheer-
ing. I mentioned in my last that there were about 1000
persons on the diggings, and 700 at work. I may now say,
1100 persona located or walking about; of which number

about 750 or 800 have licences, the other 300 being wo-
men, children, and nondescripts. As to the remunerative-
ness of these new diggings, I cannot enumerate all the
parties who are successful, but merely give a few of those
whose success has more immediately come within my
knowledge. A party of Tour the week before last, took
upwards of 40 ounces of gold out in the week, being an
-average each man of £36 10s. Another party, numbering
ten, I believe, are taking out their 12 ounces per day,
Brown's party are doing remarkably well, as likewise
M`Donough's, and very many others. There are stores and
sly grog shops in abundance,—the former well supplied
with every requisite for a gold digger's purpose, and cheap ;
the latter with every enticing beverage to lure and debase
the man. There are still a number digging on the pri-
vate lands of Mr. Badgery. I believe upwards of 100
licenses have been issued, and they seem all to be doing a
fair stroke."

In New Zealand to the 21st of January, no material
alteration had taken place in the price of flour, which was
quoted at £23 per ton, and wheat lOs a bushel. Sawn
timber 16s. per 100 feet.
From the Canterbury settlement we have Lyttelton
papers to the 18th of January. The importation of stock
was going on briskly, 180 head of cattle, 40 horses, and
1,500 sheep having just arrived. Mr. Morris, a midship-
man of the Carnatic, had been drowned during a squall in
the harbour.

A destructive fire took place at Hobart Town on the
21st of January, which destroyed property to the value of
$400,000. Crown lands in certain localities command
a high price. In the township of Gladstone, the upset
price of which was £2O per acre, land has been sold at
£5lB per acre.

AMERICA.

ARRIVAL OF THE ARABIA.

By the British and North American Royal Mail steam-
ship Arabia, Commodore Judkins, we have intelligence
from New York to the 9th, Boston to the 10th, and Hali-
fax to the 11th inst.

The Arabia sailed from Boston, at 3, p.m., on the 10th
inst., and arrived at Halifax, at 10 30, p.m., on the 11th;
aud, after a delay of an hour and a-half, she again pro-
ceeded to sea, passed Cape Clear, at 1 25, p.m., on the 19th,
ajid arrived in the Mersey 126, p. m., on Saturday, after
a passage of about 9 days 17 hours.'

The Arabia brought 178 passengers, and $188,253 in
specie on freight.
In the Senate, on the 9th, Mr. Ingersoll delivered a
speech on the European war, advocating the immediate de-
claration that free ships make free cargoes, and that the
United States would not permit the search of American
vessels, or the overhauling of the papers.
The Nebraska Bill was still before the House of Repre-
sentatives.

According to the Herald, the Government had resolved
on energetic measures in regard to the Black Warrior
affair, the dispatches from Madrid having given great dis-
satisfaction.

The efforts to raise the Ericsson had not proved success-
ful, although divers had penetrated into the cabins and
closed the portholes. An immense canvas sheet, which
had been passed round the vessel, was rendered nearly use-
less by the strong current. Captain Ericson, in a letter to
the New York papers, asserts that the trial-trip was a
complete success, a speed of eleven miles an hour having
been obtained with a low pressure of steam.
Four persons had been killed near Philadelphia by the
explosion of a steamer's boiler.
On the 9th a fire broke out in Forsyth-street, New York,
and, before it was extinguished, destroyed upwards of
$60,000 worth of property.
The New York Chamber of Commerce had memorialized
Congress, in relation to the rights of neutrals, and the im-
portance of taking advantage of the existing state of affiars
in Europe to negotiate treaties with the different maritime
powers of, the world for the protection of the rights of
neutral vessels, and to establish the American principle,
that free ships make free goods.
The El Dorado, the Star of the West, and the George
Law had arrived with late advices from San Francisco, and
a total amount of $2,174,520 in gold dust. The road from
San Juan del Sud was in good condition. The California
papers continue to give encouraging accounts of mining
operations. At Yankee Hill, near Columbia, a piece of
gold, weighing twenty-seven pounds, had been dug up by
a man who the day before had not sufficient money to pur-
chase a breakfast. Walker and his band had evacuated
Lower California, and gone no one knew where, perhaps to
Texas. They drove off' three or four head of cattle, belong-
ing to the rancheros of California. A quicksilver mine
had been discovered in the coast range of mountains,
about seventy miles south of Pacheco's Pass, and said to
be equal in richness to the new Almada mines. The
markets at San Francisco were moderately active. A
steam-boat explosion had occurred in San Francisco Bay,
by which 36 persons were killed.
The captain of the steamer J. L. Stephens reports that
Santa Anna was blockading Acupulco on the 22d ult. The
J. L. Stephens was fired at, and boarded by a Mexican
naval officer, and compelled to turn back. During the
detention of the steamer at Acupulco shots were frequently
exchanged between the Mexican steamers and forts, but
without effect. Santa Anna, with 5,000 men, it was ex-
pected, would make an attack on the town during the
night. The Diario Official gives a general account of an
action at the Cayanes, between Santa Anna and Alvares,
in which the latter was defeated, and it was confidently
expected that he would fall into the hands of the victors.
It is stated that two hundred of his followers were routed
and about twenty killed. There was no longer any doubt
of the execution of Guzna. This officer, while raising the
standard, of revolution, was surrendered to the Mexican
troops by his aide-de-camp, Cano, who, as a reward for
his treachery, received two hundred doubloons and the
rank of lieut.-colonel. The police of the capital had dis-
covered a conspiracy, at the head of which was Cendefas,
a friend of Alvares.

The British minister, Mr. Doyle, had interfered to obtain
the party of American and English captured at Guazamas
a fair trial.

According to letters from Havana, the captain-general
was pushing to, the utmost all measures for the defence of
the island, in the event of a war with the United States.
The military force was estimated at 12,000 men. The
correspondent of the New York Daily Times again re-
ports the landing of three cargoes of slaves.