The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

AN D COLONIAL. A society of bankers and capitalists has been formed at
Frankfort, to buy foreign corn and flour to sell at prime
cost to the bakers.
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.
Sivori, the violin-player, is now at New York. His
The Tweed, royal mail steam-shin, Lieutenant George
Parsons, commander, arrived at S. nthampton on Friday
audiences are described as " the complete fill of the Taber -
evening, at five o'clock, with the usual fortnightly mails. nacle (the largest church in the town)."
She has experienced fine weather generally throughout An account is given in a French journal of a gentleman
the passage, with the exception of the two last days when committing suicide by cramming his ear full of gun-cot-
it blew very hard indeed, ton, and igniting it with a cigar.
The latest dates brought by the Tweed are—Demerara, Mr. Newman arrived at Rome on the 28th of October,
20th October ; Trinidad, 21st ; Jamaica, 24th ; Barbadoes, and had an interview with the Pope the next day, at
25th • Grenada, 26th ; St. Thomas's, 30th ; and Fayal, church. He occupies chambers in the Propaganda College.
The sale of gun cotton in Bavaria has been prohibited
13th 'November.
Her cargo consists of a small quantity of British coin, by the government, on the ground that, as it cannot by
dollars, and gold dust, 87 serons of tobacco, 24 tierces its appearance be distinguished from ordinary cotton, its
and 68 barrels of coffee, 1 tierce and 2 barrels of ginger, sale may possibly give rise to accidents.
618 ounces of silver, 13 cases and 122 kegs of succades, 4 The Duke de Bordeaux was married, on the sth instant,
cases of cigars, bees'-wax, &c. to the Princess Maria Theresa Beatrice, sister to the
The Company's steam-ship Ovde was at Grenada; reigning Duke of Modena, the only sovereign of Europe
Forth at Ilavannah ; Tay, in the Gulf of Mexico; Trent, who has not recognised the King of the French. The
in the Spanish Alain ; Eagle, at St. Thomas's ; and the princess's fortune is said to amount to 12 millions of francs.
Reindeer, at Demerara. The cholera has extended its ravages from Persia to
The news brought by the Tweed from the West India Bagdad, in which city about one hundred victims to the
Islands is of no importance whatever, with the exception disease were, by the last accounts, perishing daily.
hudred in all ad
that the crops are looking exceedingly well, notwithstanding Fuurteen
off. All then bazaarspersons were closed ;h thethen been
carried
ror
immense quantity of rain had fallen, more particularly in
prevailed, and many of the inhabitants had fled.
Jamaica. Such wet weather had not been experienced
REPUBLIC OF CRACOW.—The protecting powers have
for many seasons. Just previous to the sailing of the
packet it had moderated.
resolved to make an end of the independence of the repub-
lie of Cracow. so dangerous for the repose of its neigh-
Sickness had prevailed to some extent in Jamaica, but
hours, and to sanction its incorporation with the Aus-
the dThie storm of the 11th October was not felt at Vera sease was on the decline.
trian dominions to which it belonged before 1809. The
Cruz to any great extent. There was, however, a severe
Russian and Prussian commissioners having received or-
hurricane in some parts of Jamaica on that day. It ders from their respective governments to regulate certain
visited Montego Bay, Trelawnev, and Falmouth in parti-
affairs connected with commerce and manufactures, with
reference to that resolution, it is probable that this deter-
cular, and much damage was dune to some of the craft in
the harbour. niination will be published at Cracow in a few days.
A Mr. Rawle died on board the Tweed on the 16th of Thus, the extinction of the republic of Cracow, and its
November, and was buried at sea. He embarked at Trin-
reunion to Austria, may be considered as a fact accom-
idad, and was in a very infirm state of health at the plished. The three protecting powers have acknowledged
time. that the existence of Cracow, as an independent state, is
incompatible with the security of Germany; and as they
had established that republic alone, and without the co-

FOREIGN

PORTUGAL

THE INSURRECTION.—FALMOUTH, Nov. 19.—The operation of any other power, to try whether a shadow of
smack Marys, Captain M`Lennen, arrived in this port last Polish independence could be suffered to exist, result had
night from Lisbon,!having left the Tagus on the 11th inst. not justified their expectations. In fact, at the creation
at three p.m. From information received from Captain of the republic, and afterwards, in different treaties, those
31`Lellan, it would appear that Lisbon was in a state of powers expressly stated, that should circumstances render
great confusion and excitement when she sailed, and fears the existence of the republic dangerous, they reserved to
were generally entertained that the success of the queen's themselees the right to annex it again to Austria.—Augs-
troope were very doubtful, although no news had reached burgh Gazette.

of any decisive engagement having taken pine.- between

Saldanha and the popular faction. The Brirtish squadron
was in a state of instant preparation for recsiving and pro-
tecting
the queen and family, if deemed nectssary, and no The operative mesons and carpenters of Galway have
sailors or marines had landed. The Ame,ican frigate, given notice that they will not work under 4s. a-dar.
which had sailed for Oporto, was not only not ailiiwed to The National Club have raised upwards of £3OOO for
enter, but had been fired upon by the batteries and totally the Irish poor.
dismasted, and bad been towed into a neighbouring port. Numbers of vessels are now arriving at Cork with In-
Whether any loss had occurred Captain M'i.ellen did not dian corn, which is selling there at £lO 15s. per ton.
learn. Business was completely at a stand-still wia-n Ihe Dr. Nugent, domestic physician to Mr. O'Connell, has
Marys left. The Marys has brought no letters a hereby been appointed inspector of lunatic asylums, although the
to gain detailed information.—Times. situation had been promised to the brother-in-law of the
Lord Chancellor.

I R f; BAND

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. I The statement in the Dublin Evening Mail that
Cape of Good Hope papers have arrived to the 18 hof O'Connell had announced that the Repeal association was
indebted
September. The latest intelligence from Graham'- Town, to him shout £6OO has not been contradicted by
the neighbourhood of the caffre war, reaches to the 12;h any of the repeal party. Even the agitator did not notice
of the month, at which dote it appears the governor had it at the association meeting on Monday last. The state-
fallen back to Line Drift, on account of the difficulty ea.- ment in the Mail must therefore be true.
perienced in obtaining provisions for the troop:. Sir ENDOWMENT OF UNITARIANISM.—The government
has endowed four additional professorships of theology in
Andries Stockenstriim had, it is stated, left the command
of his forces, and returned to his farm, in consequence of connection with the General Assembly of the Presbyte-
differences with the governor. Acc-rding to these ad-
rian Church of Ireland; and in addition it is said that
vices, the aborigines continue their depredations, and a
two professorships in connection with the Unitarian body
large number of oxen and sheep have been swept away in this country have also been endowed.
are b
of n o righten. T
from several of those farms which were not thoroughly
protected. On the Baviaan river and at Bottas post the idea The prospects
of a famine winter is fading g
a nni
.Thetatest accounts
Coffees seem to have been irresistible.—Times. state that " corn and provisions of all kinds are becoming
more abundant, and, greatly to the satisfaction of all par-
THE WAR IN MEXICO. ties save one, the speculators and boarders are likely co be
(From a Correspondent who h the sufferers in the combination to uphold the market
as resided many years in
prices of food beyond their natural level."
that country.) Twelve months ago, owing to the great mass of notices
The news brought by the Caledonia, after having pe-
rused our various columns from the United States and of railway bills, the Dublin Gazette was increased to six
Mexico, certainly gives us a very different idea of the or eight times the ordinary dimensions. Now there isscarcely a railway scheme to be heard of, and the Gazette
future success of our Anglo-Saxon friends, from that be- is filled with proclamations from the lord lieutenant for
fore mentioned. The battle of Monterey was certainly presentment sessions, to adopt measures for the relief of
one of great slaughter, and the official returnQ, rne month the dest tute.
after its occurrence, had not reached Washington. The
general supposition however, seems to be, that the Government have hazarded a stroke of mercy at the
slaughter had been much greater than that which we first trial of participators in the Irish food riots. The
glean from the daily papers ; that it exceeds 800 killed rioters of Dungarvon, fifty-one in number, were brought
and wounded ; and notwithstanding the great clemency to trial at the quarter sessions, on Tuesday. Mr. Hatchet
which the endeavour to blind the world with the terms stated the case against the prisoners very leniently. They
y ,
which General Taylor made to the Mexicans are those,
pleaded guilty; the ringleader, Patrick Power, was sen-
'
not of a great and decisive victor, hut of one who was reseed to twelve months imprisonment, and the other
fifty were discharged without sentence on finding sureties.
delighted to make terms in any way. Private letters
At the Association meeting, on Monday, Mr. O'Con-
state that the invaders were so deep raielv off with regard
sell announced the heads of eleven bills which he has in
to supplies and ammunition, that they had in reality not
hands ; but as the bill mania seizes Mr. O'Connell every
another shot to fire; and we all know that these valiant
year, about the same season, we may conclude that the
men cannot charge with the bayonet, preferring, as their
present notices will not be more productive of legislation
brief historic lore leads us to believe, being behind trees
than their predecessors. They are a regular ruse, and
—and, in fact, carrying out the Indian warfare. We never the only inference we draw from them is, that the tribute
for an instant doubted the real moral courage of these our
is not absolutely abandoned.
race, but of course custom, instead of patient, accustomed
SHOCKING TRAGEDY.—On Wednesday night, one of
submission to their superior officers, has always been
their ct aracteristic. the most appalling events took place at Lurgan, near
Loughrea, when Mr. John Lalor, (brother to Mr. Lalor,
Ampudia had so admirably placed himself within the 1 inspector of national schools,) who has been for a con-
walls of Monterey with 7000 troops ; that although some
siderable time past labouring under insanity, set on fire
days previously, haying received distinct orders from
the house in which be resided at Lurgan, and it was con-
Santa Anna to retire from that place to Saltillo, was so sumed to ashes. He also shot his sister Sarah, aged 30,
convinced of success, that he-took this stand upon him- whilst endeavouring to induce him to leave the house
self, rather than join the two other wings of the Mexican when burning. The gun-shot wound inflicted on the
army ; and although he has not proved victorious,
sac-
cording to acknowledged warfare, he has not been beaten, sister at once put an end to her existence.— Galway Mere.
in having made terms by which hostilities are to be dis- SUPPRESSION OF THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—His
continued for such a while, taking all private property Excellency the Earl of Besbor °sigh has promised to do it.
t
ammunition, and six field pieces with him, thus allowin '
Santa Anna's great trap for the States' soldiers to takesaid his Excellency,
operandi is simple. " His will be a bloodless vic 1
will, ory and" an easy one. The
effect, by inveigling them into the passes of the mono- , modusput down the Repeal Association by giving places to all
tains, and between the passes. They now have . ~,,,,, oct_the leaders!" John O'Connell la_ marked down far a
bortraissionership of stamps or excise at £2,000 a-year—
thirty field pieces to act upon them, which, if well ma-
" say £2,000 ;" Captain Brodrick a stipendiary's com-
naged, must cut the Americans up; and the flying troops
mission in Tobago or some other warm locality; and then
will be thoroughly slaughtered by the Guerillas, who
tbere will remain but Robert Dillon Browne and one or
have a deadly hate towards their northern brethren.
two others worth buying at the lowest possible price. A
The day will ere now be rued when they penetrated into a
strange termination all this will be to a ten years' fierce
peaceful country, in the rapacious and unjustifiable spirit
which they have exhibited. The cabinet have indeed at agitation for a Repeal of the Union.
Washington disgraced their country and countrymen, by REPEAL ASS Repeal
meeting on Monday wa
emptying their coffers in such a pernicious warfare, in I enlivened by the presence of one of the Roman Ca-
having
pandered to the worst passions of their wester n i tholic bishops, Dr. Browne, of Elphine, and the receipt
brethren ; for which a just Providence will visit with a of more money than has for several weeks past been poured
into the repeat exchequer. The week's rent was an-
serious loss the most valorous of their tro ps.
flounced at £372 3s. 2d., of which £2OO came from Boy-
The fleet now remains actively employed between Pen-
ton, and £2O from Patterson, in America, and £B3 from
sacola and Matamoros, Vera Cruz, &c., &c. Report
the Roman Catholic bishop and clergy in Waterford. Mr.
states that it is their early intention to make an attack
O'Connell was present, and made a speech, abusing the
upon Alvarado and Tampico. After passing the bar at
Young Irelanders, for whom be declared" he did not care
these two places, the attackers will require to proceed at
twopence." He announced " that the Roman Catholic
least eleven miles in small boats up the river, the banks
prelates assembled in synod, last week, in Dublin, tad
of which are so thoroughly covered with wood of great
done him the honour of entrusting to his care certain pe-
thickness, that, with tact and zeal, the attacked will not
titions to Parliament, which they had agreed upon. One
allow a living man to enter either of their ports. The
of these was for an amendment of the Bequests Act ; ano-
wisest course would be, seeing their immediate danger, at
ther for an alteration of the marriage law ; arid a third,
once to attack the castle of St. Juan de Ulloa ;but of
complaining of the persecution of the religious orders un-
course we are unable fully to anticipate coming events.
der existing laws."

ALGERIA.
(From the Moniteur Alge?ien.)
OVERFLOWING OF THE ARRACH

UNIVERSITY 4. CLERICAL NEWS.

A frightful catastrophe took place the day before yes- OXFORD, Nov. 19 —The following degrees have been
terday. The Arrach, swelled by the heavy rains which conferred :—Bachelor in Civil Law: Rev. J. A II« ssey,
had fallen in the course of that day and the preceding fellow of St. John's Coll, ge, head master of Merchant
night, overflowed its banks and inundated the lower part Tailors' School, commutation.—Maslers of Arts; C. J.
of the plain of the Mitidjah. Towards nine o'clock the Parke, Oriel ; Rev. A. Forbes, lirazennose ; Rev. E. T.
inundation was increasing, and the water rushed on with Waters, Worcester ; Rev. W. Dalton, Pembroke, incor-
rapidity and fury. Of the eleven houses composing the porated from Trinity College, Dublin.—Bachelors of
village of the Matson Carree, seven had already disap- Arts: F. IL P. Bastard, Balliol (grand compounder) ;
peared, with all that they contained. Here and there 11. C. Butler, queen's; J. W. R. Roy, and j. R. Hes-
were perceived the wretched inmates hurried by the water wood, All Souls' ; S. T. H. Jervois, J. 11. Wot;ehouse,
toward the sea. Before they reached it they disappeared F. E. Tuke, J. W. Parker, and C. W. Goode, Brazen-
under enormous waves, occasioned by the collision of the nose; W. T. Browning, Exeter ; H. R. Wie'rnore and
waters of the Arrach with the high tide. All human sue- 11. S. Polehampton, Pembroke ; E. Eade, Balliol ;A.
emu- was impossible ; it was a frightful spectacle which King, Oriel.
nothing can describe. Towards ten o'clock the inn of La The Rev. Wm. Dalton has been appointed by the Lord
Nonvelle France, on the roof of which eight or ten per- Bishop of the Diocese Rural Dean of Wolverhampton.
sons had sought refuge, fell into the water. Seven of The Rev. J. A. James, of Birmingham, has refused to
them followed the course of the stream on the ruins of the assume the degree of D.D. conferred on him by the Uni-
roof ; it was in vain that attempts were made to rescue versity of Glasgow.
them, and they could not be induced to trust to swim- PREDOMINANCY OF THE CHURCH.—According to the
a-ring. They were soon overwhelmed by the water, and a last return of the Registrar General for England and
few moments afterwards an unhappy mother, with a child Wales, 70 per cent. of the population are baprised, 90.7
in her arms, was carried away, and also disappeared. per ceat. are married, and 85 per cent. are buried accord.
Nine persons were seen on a hillock, about a hundred fug to the rites of the established religion.
metres below the bridge, only part of which was discern- Sonon. AND MAN.—The Rev. Dr. J. Griffith is to be
ible. They had only a few metres of earth left. Two or the new bishop of this Diocese, vacant by the translation
three others were clinging to the ruins of the chimney of of Dr. Short to the see of St. Asaph. By the last returns,
the ten ; eight persons shut up in a house near the bridge the income of the vacant See was £2UOO per annum.—
uttered cries of distress, and called for help ; a few metres pose. [The Morning Herald of yesterday contradicts
further on was the roof of a house in the water, with this; and, with an air of authority, announces that Arch-
seven or eight persons in it. The greatest efforts were deacon Shirley will have the vacant Bishopric ] .
made to save the persons who were on the It hock, but The Church Building Society resumed its sittings on
nobody could get to them, and the gendarme Schmitt, Monday last, the Lord Bishop of London in the chair.
who had courageously plunged into the water to convey The payment of grants were ordered to seventeen parishes,
ropes to them, would have perished, but for the devoted I providing addit onal accommodation f. r 8124 persons; of
aid of Corporal Aubert, who bad himself a few moments ,
I which 2958 were free sittings. Several new applications
before vainly attempted to reach the unfortunate suf- I were examined, and votes of money granted ; including a
ferers. During this time efforts were made, though new district Church at Paddington -, Eecles, Lancashire ;
unfortunately without avail. on the right hank. Twenty i and another at Dukinfield, St. Mark's District, Chester.
men of the fish Company of Native Sharpshooters, com- LORD RECTOR. OV GLASGOW UNIVERSITY.—Thr elec-
manded by Lientenant Tirard, as well as some men he- tion of this office was proceeded with on Monday last, the
longing to the sth Chasseurs, threw themselves into the candidates nominated being the poet Wordsworth, and
river, in the hope of saving. by swimming, some of the Lord John Russell. The result of the gross poll was a
persons in danger. Their efforts were, however, useless, majority of 21 for Wordswoith, the numbers being 212
as the eurrent carried them away so strongly that ten of and 191 ; but as the election is conducted by sections, or
them were near perishing. A sergeant and two Native " nations," of which there are four, and each candidate
Sharpshootets were lost in this manifestation of devoted- having a majority in two of them, the Vice-Rector, Dr.
ness. About twelve o'clock a boat was brought to the Nichol', gave his casting vote in favour of Lord John
spot from Algiers, with four boatmen to guide it. These Russell. It is, however, surmised that, under the cir-
men speedily set to work, and, after four hours' perilous curnstances, bis Lordship will not accept the office.
efforts, succeeded in saving nineteen persons. By four SEE OF ST. ASAPH.—An order in council has just
o'clock the bridge had considerably fallen, and aid could been promulgated, carrying into effect the recommenda-
be afforded to the nine individuals spoken of above, who lion of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners that the Bishop
were also saved. The bridge of the ford of Constantina, i of St. Asaph do pay into the credit of the Ecclesiastical
which had been carried away by the waters, floated down j Commissioners, the fixed sum of £l,BOO by half-yearly
until it came against that of the Maison Cal r6e. As it payments, that being the excess of the income of the see
might prove a great obstacle to the flowing off of the over and above the sum of £4,200, which the Commis-
water, soldiers were set to work to remove it. In' art missioners believe would be a suitable annual income for
hour after, the circulation was restored, and no danger a Bishop of St. Asaph. The recommendation is made in
existed for either habitations or individuals. The troops, consequence of the provision for uniting the see of St.
in consequence, were permitted to withdraw. The num- Asaph and Bangor not having yet come into operation ;
ber of dead is now known to be twenty-three in all, and and the appointment to the bishopric, though made, is not
seven dead bodies have been as yet found. On the 4th, yet completed.
the loss in constructions and COOd3 was estimated by the Due SCORESBY'S SERMON TO THE FEMALE FACTORY
Mayor of Hussein Dey at 26.000 f. We just now have OPERATIVES.—On Sunday week, the Rev. Dr. Scoresby
learned that the principal bridges over the Mitidjah have delivered his promised lecture to the female factory opera-
suffered severely. Those of the ford of Constantina, of tives of Bradford and neighbourhood. Long before the
the Oued-el-Kebir, the Chiffa, and the Mazafran, are commencement of the service, the church was crowded,
destroyed ; those of Rovigo and Nhkea-Kbera have and many hundreds had to go away, finding it utterly im-
stood firm. It is to be feared that the habitations of the possible even to obtain standing room. The church is
colonists in the province of Algiers have suffered. considered to be capable of holding upwards of 3000 per,-
------ j pie, and of this number fully 2000 were mill girls. The
Mr. E. Eyre is to be appointed Lieutenant-Governor of scene was interesting in the extreme, and must have given
New Zealand, under Governor Grey, the worthy vicar the greatest satisfaction. It is the vicar's
Canada is shortly to be annexed to the United States intention it the request of the factory girls, to publish the
by magnetic telegraph wires, the contract for a line from sermon in a cheap form for their use. The teat was taken
Buffalo to Toronto being taken at 125 dollars the mile— from Numbers, 10th chapter, and part of the 29th verse,
4,000 dollars the entire distance. —" Come thou with us, sad we pill do thee good."