The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-10-12 00:00:00

LATEST FROM AMERICA.

The steam-ship Washington arrived on Saturday $t
Southampton, bringing advices from New York to
23rd. The screw steam-ship Sarah Sauds arrived at rye
York at midnight on the 22nd ultimo ; and on the sin,
day the royal mail steam-ship Britannia arrived from P,(it,
ton to repair damages received on the 14th, on her o,i,e
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our financial summary. The Washington has brotal
no political intelligence of interest. No later Rdvical""„
been received from the seat of war in AlexicooTiul
siderable doubts were entertained of the speedy termius'
tion of the war. The non-publication on the part of de
government of the official despatches of General Sco.g!,
respecting the battles before Mexico and the arraistlS;
which followed them, had excited fears in some milt,
lest the position of the American forces should not be '"
favourable as was at first imagined. of
Thc -atural = ,d; thr ,duct of some

.e natural indignation a. Lie conuctu
the repudiating States which lately found vent in tUd
English newspapers, had been seized as a reason for ~
flicting fresh injuries on the foreign creditor. The Sta,,,
of Illinois, in particular, while taxing itself for the repaY4-
ment of its debt,. had expressly exempted that portion
its liabilities which is chiefly held by foreigners, from all'
participation in the money so raised. • fl'•
Considerable excitement had been created in New
by the failures in England. Great satisfaction was, 10,,
ever, at the same time expressed by the commercial crod
munity' on learning that the bills of Prime, Ward, 8‘
which were refused acceptance by Overend, GurneY, -
Co., had since been honoured by that firm.
tiened, did not exceed 80,000, so reduced had
Up to the 14th ult., 3,000 deaths had occurred at Se's'„
Orleans from the yellow fever. 20,000 persons had ben:
attacked, and the population of the city, on the day toe.c
in consequence of desertions.
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On Thursday, three men were killed at BusbY'S ---
lery, Dublin, by the bursting of a large vat of whislinP,,,i
The train from the North, which should have arri,,c't
here at half-past nine, had not arrived at eleven,
night. We fear that it was detained by some accideatidt
The Antelope steamer from Rio came up the river
tira" e
night, but we could not obtain the intelligence in it becow

fa; the country edition.
age The Birkenhead, steam-sloop, Commander lag st
will not have her defects repaired and be ready for sea
Portsmouth before the Ist of November. golnap
The latest Swiss news states that two of the sist
Catholic Cantons, Übri and Zug, have resolved to
re
the decrees of the diet.
" Bunbury," the sporting correspondent of the Q,.,,kes,
Herald, places as the winner of the Csarewitch '7"-. the
Slander, Inheritress, Woodpigeon, or Reminiscence'
probability of success being in favour of the foralere" ()lose
A'congress of Jewish reformers is to meet in the to the
of the month at Berlin, to discuss questions relative Aer it
reforms which may be introduced in Judaism, to rat'
better adapted to the wants of the century. t niiae
EAST INDIA AND CHINA TRADE.—In the first
months of 1846, the tonnage employed in these.
18-t7f
entered inwards in Great Britain was 296,952, 38 335•
-- the quantity employed was 335,297increase,_
40 „, sco
The quantity of tonnage entered outwards in 16
324,637 ; in 1847, it was 334,485—increase, 9,848. s
three
Rickar
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and Co, East India Agents and Merchan
d 'bank director
in 1842. In the two other cases
Mr. Little, the chief partner, was electe
moFrAelfLaUeureESs.—oirhe small2anme
uonft.yesleiredssaL.announdces
Imite
Bernouli and Mr. M. J. Soares.Rutland'
The Dukes of Marlborough, Beaufort, and n
" being the only three dukes owning yachts, have to
on the London Standard to substantiate the ea/171%rhe
which it has given circulation as to smugglefe* pr:o0
Standard replies, that " the story refers to a
claiming ducal rank, but not recognised in the ,ber
peerage."—[We give the particulars of the case in 00'
column.]
COLLISION.—On Saturday, a collision took plane 1101
junction of the Keymer Branch Railway with the -behEit,
the- parties are 111 r.
and Brighton line, between two trains. It appears fr6t
as the Lewes up-train was crossing the rails, the_ tip.
down-train came along and ran into it, smashing th,,iog
train engine and the horse-box, and otherwise daint%sd
the carriages. Neither of the trains was very heavYtosl
althouol several of the passengers sustained contuss
no tim7is were broken, and no life was ,cesl
THE CHOLERA.—The Augsburg Gazette annou.ao,
that the cholera is approaching Moscow with rapid gel its,lt is even said that some cases had appeared in that c:4O,
A family belonging to the higher classes, which was r•o(
ceeding from Saratoff to Moscow, lost two servants clierld
the journey, and on their arrival at Moscow, a 0%3 Of
its nurse died. Colonel Stalupin, an aide-de-caVrild
the Emperor, who was at his estate near Saraterr,
failen a victim to the scourge. The cholera had likes"

appeared at Odessa.
THE LATE EXTRAORDINARY MARRIAGE AT r coo,
The trial as to this singular case is postponed for
night ; and the Rev. Mr. Whitelegge, the Presbyrte'bo
minister who officiated at the late romantic marriageii ba
addressed a letter to the Cork Reporter, in whieuntli
says—" I did not know of the intended marriagen
within half an hour (or less) of its taking place' Whe,atia
M'lntosh, the father of the lady, called upon me, ev_se;
that the Roman Catholic bishop had granted a ljceta'
that the priest was waiting, and giving such a represe;o
tion of the case as to induce me to go, without a MeTed the
delay, to his house. There, ag he had stated, I fo° toe
Catholic clergyman waiting. Mr. Roche made tOnarrY
Til
visible, nor any threat or compulsion usedtenrem7s 13:1e°5ePlic2.