The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-23 00:00:00

CHINA.

The only event of any importance that had occurred at
Hong Kung was a meeting between Sir John Davis and
Keying, at the Bogue, on the 3d April. The greatest
secrecy bad been observed on both sides before, at, and
subsequent to the conference.

COMMERCIAL.

The import market, at Shanghae, was extremely dull,
and money was scarce. There was much want of confi-
dence amongst the Chinese. owing to the failure of an
extensive teabroker.

At Shanghae there had been another stoppage, the party
being the second principal native merchant. His liabilities
were E mall in comply ison with the preceding failure.
There was but little doing in tea. In green there had been
a few operations at high rates. Freights were £6 per ton,
and not likely to recede, as tonnage was much wanted.

BRA ILs.—Her Majesty's packet Swift, Lieutenant
Douglas, arrived on Wednesday from the Brazils. Sailed
from Rio, April 25 ; Bahia, May 5 ; Pernambuco, May 12.
Business at Rto has continued very restricted : a supera-
bundant supply of almost all descriptions of imports has
rendered sales very difficult; our primary article of export
has been brought to market in quantities very dispropor-
tionate to the demand, and the transactions of the money
market continue limited as heretofore.

THE WEST INDIA MAILS.—The steamer Forth, Cap-
tain Chapman, arrived at Southampton on Thursday
evening at six o'clock, with the usual mails and 130 pas-
sengers, amongst whom is the Earl of Elgin, Governor of
Jamaica, accompanied by his daughter and his sister,
Lady Charlotte Bruce. The drought continued to have
serious effect upon the crops, and the quantity of rain that
had lately fallen was not in the least adequate to the wants
of the agriculturists, who, during the last few months,
have been exposed to extreme privations in this respect.
Jamaica, Barbadoes, and Trinidad, seem to have expe-
rienced the chief weight of misfortune, though the whole
range of islands has not, in any one instance, escaped from
the unsatisfactory influence of the dry weather. The re-
turn of the Earl of Elgin to England on leave is adverted
to in the papers. Hi; administration of affairs in Ja-
maica appears to call forth general praise. The railway
has remained in gcod working condition, and the mer-
chandise traffic has considerably increased in the last
month. In Demerara the rain had been sufficient to break
up the drought in many quarters, and the manufacture of
sugar, after a pause of some months. had been resumed.
The estimates of the crop were various, and 20,000 hhds.
had been calculated as the probable amount of production.
NEW ZEALAND.—By the arrival of the ship Augustine
at Penzance, papers front Launceston, of the 28tb of Feb.
have been received. Through the medium of Hobart
Town, accounts have been received at Launceston, from
New Zealand, announcing the capture of the pah occupied
by the chiefs Kawiti and Heki, on the llth Jan. after a
cannonade which had breached it in several places. The
loss sustained in the attack on our part was 12 killed and
30 wounded. The Governor Grey was present at the at-
tack, and after driving the aborigines out, he published a
proclamation offering a general amnesty, which appears to
have been accepted by all but Heki, who had burned ano-
ther pah, and had retreated into the bush with his tribe.
We have received additional accounts from New Zealand
fourteen days later than this news, from which a e learn
that a pah, more strongly fortified than that which had
been lately stormed and taken by the British forces, had
been purposely set on fire and destroyed by Ileki, who
had resolved to take to the bush, as affording better means
of protracting the warfare than fortified places, which,
whatever the amount of resistance offered, must eventu-
ally fall into the power of disciplined forces provided with
artillery.
Brussels and Paris are now united by railroad.
General Lind William Russell is lying hopelessly ill at
Genoa.

The France says :—" We are able to state that in
September next there will be a meeting of the three
Sovereigns of Russia, Prussia, and Austria, at Vienna."
The accounts of the growing crops in various parts of
the continent are generally very favourable, and notice the
Prevalence of weather corresponding in brilliancy to our
own.

A Paris journal mentions the following as the probable
candidates for the Papal throne :—Cardinal Franzoni,
aged 71 ; Cardinal Castruccio Castracane, 67; Cardinal
Orioli, 61 ; Cardinal Micara, 71 ; Cardinal Polidori, 68;
and Cardinal Mattei, 54.
THE OLDEST SOVEREIGN IN EUROPE.—In conse-
quence of the deatn of the Pope, the oldest Sovereign in
Europe is now Earnest Augustus, King of Hanover, born
June 5, 1771. The next in age is the King of the French,
born October 5, 1773.

The body of the late Pope, after being embalmed, was
dressed in the usual robes, and laid in state in the chapel
of Sextus IV., in the Vatican, during the afternoon of
the 2nd instant, and was visited by a large concourse of
people. In the evening of the same day it was carried
with the urn containing the heart to the parish church of
Saint Vincent and Anastasius, and there deposited.
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OPEN TRADE WITH CHINA.—A letter from Ham.
burgh, of the 10th instant, states that the first two ves-
sels which had ever traded with China from that port ar.
rived, during the last week (tom Canton. Each vessel
brought a large cargo of tea, and the two cargoes had
been sold entirely to the house of Hertford, Brothers,
and Co., of that city, for 900,000 marks, or .£68,000.
The tiara or triple crown now used in the coronation of
the popes, is that which Napoleon presented to Pius VII.
There is another given by the last Pope Gregory XVI.
The tiaras and valuable mitres are kept in the Fort of St.
Angelo, whence they are brought on the occasions of co-
ronation, Ma Li... piftaseest<4 by I.T.poicon its formed of
white •elvet, on which the three crown. are wrought in
sapphires, emeralds, and rubies. On the top is a very
large emerald, surmounted by a diamond cross. It is es.
ticnated at 80,000 Roman crowns, or 428,000 f.

ROMISH HUMILITY.—The Emperor and Empress of
Brazil are on a tour of the provinces of Brazil. Before
quitting the city of St. Paulo, the following scene is de-
scribed-by the " Commissioner of the Journal do Corn-
mercio :"—" The morning service at the cathedral on
Good Friday having been concluded, one of the most
sublime and touching scenes took place at the palace.
The emperor washed the feet of a dozen poor people and
of one priest. This ceremony was performed in the
drawing-room, where the throne had been erected, and a
number of the first families were invited to be present,
and every male or female, decently dressed, admitted.
The twelve poor persons were clothed at the expense of
the emperor, and presented with money and the towel
which had been used in washing their feet. The solem-
nity of the act, and the humility of the sovereign kneel.
ing at the feet of the most misera -le of human beings,
thus imitating the bright example of our blessed Re-
deemer, and the conviction that this religious act sprung
from the spontaneous and unostentatious devotion of the
monarch, drew tears from the eyes of many of the spec-
tators."