The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

GERMANY AND NORTHERN EUROPE.

BADEN.—The Grand Duke of Baden, by a proclama-
tion, dated Frankfort, the 2nd instant, declares null all the
measures of the provisional government, announces that
imperial troops are about to enter the Duchy, and he pro-
mises an amnesty to all, except the chiefs, who may have
taken part in the insurrection, provided they make a vo-
luntary submission before any combat with the troops
shall take place.
The Cologne Gazette announces that the troops of
Electoral Hesse have refused to march against the insur-
gents of the Grand Duchy of Baden.
THE DANISD WAR.—COLLISION WITH, AND DEFEAT
OF, THE PRUSSIANS.—Accounts from Hamburgh of the
sth instant state that on the 31st ultimo the Prussians,
under Prince Salm-Salm, were surprised and defeated at
Aarhuns by the Danish Hussars. The prince was cap-
captured, having sustained serious wounds, with several
other officers. The Prussian troops had many killed,
wounded, and taken prisoners; they also lost fifteen horses.
The Danes had nine killed and twelve wounded.

The American lady, whose discovery of a telescopic
comet was recently rewarded by a gold medal from the
King of Denmark, is not more than four or five and
twenty years of age.

REBELLION CLAIMS IN CANADA.—The Montreal
Herald furnishes the subjoined narrative of one claim
under the indemnity scheme :—" I see," says a corres-
pondent of that journal, " that a claim is laid by one
E louard Major, for the sum £5OO, on account of rebellion
losses. That the loyalists' may take a proper view of
this affair, please insert the following :—I was attached to
th Koyal Regiment as an assistant engineer at the en-
g igeruent of St. Ens tache. During the engagement,
Edouard Major fired at me, and knocked off my cap ; my
rifle was empty at the time, but I ran up to him, and
struck him across,the face with the barrel, which floored
him—(see the mark on his nose !) I then took him pri-
soner, and from his pouch took about twenty or thirty
cartridges. He claims £5OO ! Does he come within Mr.
Boulton's amendments ? If so, farewell to the principles
of loyalty that were instilled into me and my children,
and to generations before us. So, Mr. Major was to get
£5OO, partly paid him by the writer, for losses sustained
in trying to blow his brains out. Mr. Major turned out
to be an eligible subject, even under Mr. Boulton's amend-
ments, which restricted the claimants."
HORSE-RACING IN EGVPT.—A number of English
gentlemen, under the patronage of his Highness Said
Pacha, have succeeded in getting up a racing match at
Alexandria, which is to come off on the 29th instant.
Letters from Cyprus announce that the locusts had
made a dreadful havoc among the crops. The greatest
fears were entertained that the attempts to prevent the
ravages of these destructive insects would be useless, and
that this beautiful island would shortly become almost a
desert.

Her Highness the Ranee Chunda Koonwur, of Lahore,
mother of Dhuleep Singh, escaped from her guard and the
fortress of Chunar during the night of Wednesday, the
18th of May. No particulars of her escape have tran-
spired, but the native report is, that she bribed two of the
sepoys of her guard, who aided her and escaped with her,
it is believed, towards the hills of Mirzapore or Bewail.
SIAMESE TWINS.—The Siamese twins, who have been
living some years, with wives and children, on their own
plantation in North Carolina, are said to be on their way
to New York to embark for Europe, with a view to con-
sult the most eminent surgeons on the practicability of
an operation to divide the ligament that binds them toge-
ther. It is farther said that one of their sisters had been
adopted into the family of the Emperor of Siam.—New-
ark Advertiser, U.S. (April 13.)
A frightful tragedy has taken place at Cyprus on hoard
the Ottoman schooner San Spiridion, bound to Bevrout.
Twenty-five prisoners, who bad been put on board by the
authorities, rose in the night and stabbed the captain.
The crew abandoned the vessel, with which the convicts
immediately set sail, and, although an Austrian steamer
was despatched in pursuit, the schooner got clear off, and
it was supposed would cruise as a pirate vessel amongst
the islands of the Greek Archipelago.
A SYMPTOM OF IMPROVEMENT.—The Boston papers
announce the promotion of Robert Norris, Esq., (a co-
loured gentleman,) of Boston, to the office of justice of the
peace. Mr. Morris was admitted to the bar some five
years ago, and has acquitted himself with credit to the
coloured people, and no doubt his promotion is the fruit
of merit and industry. This shows that talent and worth
are appreciated among the wise and virtuous in that
country, notwithstanding the repeated attempts to slander
them by saying that they never can become equals in that
country with the whites.

AMATEUR FARMING IN AMERICA.—A letter has just
been received by Mr. John Cadbury, of Birmingham,'
from the well-known advocate of the temperance princi-
ple, John Hockings, familiarly known as the " Birming-
ham blacksmith." Mr. Hockings emigrated some few
years ago to the United States, and has now fixed him-
self at Burlington, Racine County, Wisconsin, U.S.,
from whence he dates his letter. We extract one or two
passages, for the pu-pose of affording information to in-
tending emigrants to that part of the new world. " The
way in which I spend my time is this : in the spring and
summer I work my farm, for I do not keep a hired man;
my crops will not pay for me to have one, except in har-
vest time (the crops here do not average more than fifteen
bushels to the acre). The seasons here are so short that
there is not time to cultivate land like that in the old
country, for wheat put in the ground in April is cut in
July, thirteen weeks after sowing. Now take the price
of your seed, your labour, ploughing, pay Gs. a day for
harvesting, and pay £2 for thrashing by a machine 100
bushels, then take it 50 miles, and all- you can get for it
is 2s. 6d. a bushel. * * We have always about five
months of winter; this year we shall have six months or
more. The long winters make the farmer's life a very
laborious one, for to sow wheat before the winter sets in,
the frost is so severe that it has invariably on my farm
killed one-half the produce. We cannot begin to plough
in the spring until April, and by the time the wheat is in,
it is time to get in your Indian corn for your cattle and
pigs; before you have done that you are getting late for
potatoes, and before you get through with them, your
Indian corn is spoiling for want of hoeing. By the time
the corn is hoed, the wheat harvest is ready ; and although
I work from sunrise until sunset the longest day in sum-
mer, I scarcely find time to get in my hay; and by the
time I have got in my hay, winter is on me again."
A BLOW IN PREPARATION FOR THE ROMISH CHURCH.
—The long-promised assault on the ancient doctrines of
the Romish Church is announced for Saturday next; and
you may judge with what intense interest the conference
is looked forward to by all classes. The work of the Ab-
bate Leone is now completed, and will be read and com-
mented on in a public seance. It is anticipated that his
apparition as preacher of a new doctrine will cause more
emotion than any event of the kind since the days of
Luther. The Catholic world is ripe for a reform; and
anything presenting the appearance of a just and salutary
change will be eagerly caught at. The history of Leone
is curious and interesting. He is of a good Roman fa-
mily, and was from his earliest youth devoted to solitude
and study. Being an orphan from his childhood, he was
allowed to follow the bent of his own inclinations, and