The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-08-07 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-WEDNESDAY.

In reply to a question from Mr. MI LNEs, whether it was
true that the Governor of Malta had refused to permit the
Italian refugees to land on the island, on the passports deli-
vered by the British consular agent at Rome,
Mr. HAWES replied that these refugees, several hundreds in
number, came from Sicily as well as Rome, and more were on
their way; that under such circumstances it was necessary to
take precautions, but that no individual who could show a
sufficient reason for landing was prevented.
Lord NUGENT inquired whether a proclamation which had
appeared in the newspapers, purporting to have been issued
by General Haynau at Pesth and Buda, was genuine.
Lord PALMERSTON said, her Majesty's Government, in
cnmmon with everybody else, had read the proclamation with
the deepest pain; but they had received no official communi-
cation upon the subject, and had therefore no official know-
ledge whether the proclamation was genuine or not.
To a further inquiry, whether, if it should turn out to be
genuine, the Government were disposed to interpose their
good offices, nay, their authority, to stop the perpetration of
such horrors, Lord PALMERSTON replied, that they must re-
serve to themselves the legitimate discretion to act according
to circumstances. _

Soon after the business on the paper had been disposed of,
Black Rod summoned the Speaker and the House to the
House of Peers, to hear the Commission read, which put a
period to the session.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.
FRANCE.

The President of the French republic returned to Paris
on Thursday evening from his tour in the west. M.
d'Arcourt has returned to Paris to advise with ministers
as to ti e means of putting an end to the resistance now
openly offered to French councils at Gaeta. M. d'Har-
court also complains of M. d'Corcelles and General Ou-
dinot, who, he says, seem determined to oppose all his
suggestions. The Cabinet met on Thursday to discuss
the matter, which resulted in MM. de Falloux and Mon-
talembert addressing letters of expostulation to Pius IX.
at Gaeta. A courier left Paris on Thursday evening with
these letters.

The latest accounts from Toulon state that the Medi-
terranean fleet still remained at the isl Ends of Hyeres,
waiting the arrival of its new commander, M. Parseval
Dechenes.

General Lavosseur has been appointed to the command
of the fourth division of the army of the Alps, in place of
General Arbouville.
The MonitPur contradicts a statement made in a Paris
paper to the effect that the Duke d'Harcourt, Ambassador
from the French Republic to the Holy See, had been re-
called. " There is no foundation," says the Moniteur.
" for the report. M. d'Harcourt demanded leave of ab
sence, which has been granted to him. The government
is fully satisfied with the conduct of M. d'Harcourt, and
never had any idea of recalling him."
A letter from Nantes, dated Tuesday last, states that
the President of the Republic has granted a full pardon
to all the political convicts sentenced in the western de-
partments to hard labour during the year 1832. It is a
remarkable fact, that the ex-King Louis Philippe resisted
every application made to him, no matter from what
quarter, for any commutation of the sentence passed on
these men.

A letter from Perigueux, in the department of the
Dordogan, states that in consequence of the productive
Larvest the price of wheat has fallen there 20 per cent.
It further mentions that the Indian corn and potatoes
throughout the department present the most luxuriant
appearance.
Jean Sournet, one of the most ardent disciples of the
Fourier school, appeared before the Paris Police-court on
Saturday to answer a charge of having distributed printed
papers in the street without a license. These papers were
entitled. St. Resurrection, Universal Felicity, and Cry
of Distress. He was sentenced to imprisonment for six
days.

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ARRIVAL k* tin WASHINGTON.

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The Washington Attived at Southampton on Saturday,
from New Yolk, Witti dates to the 20th July ;. the news is
unimpartlia.
The markets continued firm for ccrn, flour, and cotton,
and money was very abundant. The cholera had dimi-
nished, and the reports from the States in this respect
were cheering. The steamer Alabama had arrived at New
Orleans from Chagres.
Large quantities of gold had arrived at Valparaiso from
San Francisco, and bad been forwarded to England.
News had been received, via" New Orleans, from Ja-
maica, to the 2d of July. The Governor in his Speech in
the Legislative Assembly, urging them to receive the loan
offered by the British Government. It was expected that
the session would be short, as the members seemed in-
clined not to transact business.

The ravages of the cholera in St. Louis are frightful.
All who possessed the means having fled, the population
is reduced from 70.000 to little more than 30,000, of whom
1,200 a week, on an average, fall victims to the disease.