The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-03-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.—A grand ball, to be given by the Legis-
lative Body to the Emperor and Empress, is definitively
fixed for Easter Monday.
A ball is about to be given on behalf of the British
Charitable Fund, for which His Majesty has purchased
100 tickets.
The expose des motifs of the Bill presented to the
Corps Legislatif for calling out 80,000 men from the lists
of 1552 for recruiting the army and navy, states that the
bill is in the precise terms of that passed in the last
session, and that the number of 80,000 recruits per year
has never varied since 1830, experience having shown
that annual contingent to be necessary to keep up an
army of 500,000 men at the least, which effective force is
considered normally requisite in France.
The Emperor Napoleon has conferred the Legion of
Honour on Erard, the manufacturer of pianos.
Byron's fair and loved Countess de Guiccioli has be-
come a senatoress of France, her husband, the Marquis
de Boissy, having been just nominated to the Imperial
Senate.
Lord Stratford de Redcliffe was on Wednesday admitted
to a private audience of their Majesties, in the apartments
of the Empress, at the Tuileries.
ITALY.—Letters from Florence, of the 2d, state that
the police had forthwith sent off an English officer, just
arrived from Corfu, whose visit to Florence was supposed
to be connected with the organization of a revolutionary
Propaganda Committee. He is said to be a brother of
Mr. Craufurd, M.P. for Ayr. The Austrians had occu-
pied the fort of Belvidera and the fortress of Basso, and
directed the Tuscan artillery to be removed therefrom.
Three persons bad again been arrested at Sienna for po-
litical offences. The policy adopted in Lombardy had
excited general indignation and terror.
The Parma Gazette, of the 18th ult., publishes a
decree, in which the Duke of Parma names Baron
Thomas Ward, at present his Plenipotentiary at Vienna,
to the post of Minister of his Household.
The Australian Correspondent:, the semi-official charac-
ter of which is well known, contained in its number of
the Ist an extremely violent article against England on
the subject of the Madiai. It calls upon the Government
of Tuscany to firmly maintain the sentence.
SPAIN.—The Cortes was opened by Royal decree
without a speech on the Ist. M. Martinez de la Rosa
was elected, almost unanimously, President of the
Chamber of Deputies. The Ministry had sustained a
defeat in the Senate. The four secretaries elected belong
to the Opposition. The Senate refused to admit the new
Senators before the constitution. A proposition put
forward by several Senators to inquire into the demands
of Narvaez, Sieyes, &c., had been rejected by the Senate.
GERMANY.—In the sitting of the Germanic Diet, on
the sth inst., the reinforcement of the federal military
service was negatived. The new Zollverein has been rati-
fied by all the States. It was to commence on the 10th
instant.

The political condition of Bavaria is stated to be ex-
tremely critical ; military precautions are redoubled, and
the Council of Ministers have forwarded a despatch to
King Maximilian, who is at present in Naples, urging his
immediate return to his capital.

TURKEY.—Advices from Constantinople to the 20th
ult. state that the Russian Envoy's (Prince Menschikoff)
mission bears reference to the Holy ,Shrines, in which
matter the Porte has resolved to demand the intervention
and arbitration of Prussia.—ln one of the letters of the
19rh it is observed that French and English despatches
which arrived just after the Porte had accepted the
Austrian proposals by no means encouraged the Turkish
Cabinet to resistance. The Porte may propose the arbi-
tration of Prussia in the question of the Holy Shrines,
but it will hardly be accepted, as the Russian Cabinet
peremptorily insists on the publication of the firman in
favour of the Greek Church which M. d'Ozeroff obtained
some time ago, but which has until now been a dead
letter.—The news of the victory gained by George Petro-
vich at Limljani, in the southern extremity of Monte-
negro, is confirmed. The Montenegrin Commander at-
tempted to keep his undisciplined troops from indulging
in their villanous habit of mutilating the corpses of their
enemies, but in vain-40 heads were carried away as
trophies. "We have positive information," says the
Oest. Correspondent, " from the Ilerzegovine that the
ill-usage of the Christians exceeds all bounds. They are
robbed, if not cast into dark dungeons and strangled."—
A telegraphic despatch from Vienna of the Bth inst. an-
nounces that the status juo had been re-established in
Montenegro, all hostilities suspended, and the political
refugees removed to the interior. Kleeks and Sutorina
are guaranteed to Austria, and the Porte assures the
Bosniac Christians of its protection.

WEST INDIES.—By the royal mail steam-ship
Orinoco, arrived at Southampton with specie, to the
value of 51,443,106, we have intelligenoe from Jamaica
to the 13th ult. Emigration to Australia and to the
Isthmus was proceeding apace. The government ship
Glentanner was in Kingston for the purpose of taking
passengers to the former place. It was said that ninety
persons, principally of the better sort, had already en-
gaged births on board of the Glentanner, and it was
expected that a great many more applications would be
made. The sugar crop had commenced, and was ex-
pected to reach from 30,000 to 35,000 hhds., although
some apprehensions were felt with regard to the scarcity
of labour. The subject of mining was attracting much
attention in consequence of the reported success of the
Job's-hill and Mount Vernon mines. Trade continued
dull. The bank rate of discount was at eight per cent.
per annum.--Her Majesty's ships Imaum and Alban were
at Jamaica, the Dauntless at Barbadoes, the Calypso at
St. Kitts, and the Vestal at Havana.

THE PACIFIC.—By the Royal Mail steamship
Orinoco we have advices from the Pacific ports. The
dates from Valparaiso are to the 15th of January.
A memorial was presented to the Government some few
days since, advocating the construction of a canal con-
necting the river Maule with the Biobio.

The project of a new line of steamers to the south was
also in contemplation. The country was rapidly increas-
ing in material resources.

The steamer Bogota arrived at Valparaiso on the 12th
of January, with 215 passengers and .8'160.000 in specie.
The British bark Grenfells arrived on the 30th of Decem-
ber with utensils for the Santiago railway.
In Arica the exports of wool and copper had increased.
The new mole was progressing rapidly towards completion.
The Copiapo mines continued to produce largely. At
Coquimbo all was quiet, and an increased number of
labourers were employed in repairing the road from the
mines to Serena. The copper mines were producing
considerable profit, and it was believed that silver had
been reached in several places in Aqueros.
The British bark Elizabeth had arrived at Valparaiso in
42 days from Hobart-Town.

AFRICA.—The African Steam Navigation Company's
steamer Forerunner, Commander J. B. Atkins, on the
return voyage, entered the Cameroons, Calabar, and
Bonny, to the great delight of the natives and settlers.
At Fernando Po the Forerunner, as the first of the Afri-
can line, was saluted by the British consul, Mr. Bracroft,
with 15 guns, a display of flags during the day, and an
illumination at night. . _ _

The slave trade was almost extinct along the coast, but
at Sierra Leone several cases of kidnapping had been dis-
covered, and tried by his Excellency Governor Kennedy.
The English bark Lady Worsley, Captain Salter, from
Liverpool for Bonny, with a general cargo, went ashore
on the 15th of January at Bonny Bar. She was deserted
by the captain and crew, who went in three boats to Fer-
nando Po, taking with them a quantity of goods which
formed part of her cargo. Previous to the departure of
the Forerunner it was ascertained that the agent for the
ship at Bonny, Captain Wylie, in conjunction with Mr.
Thompson, had succeeded in getting off the vessel, and
anchoring her in safety on New Calabar with loss of
rudder only.
AUSTRALlA.—lntelligence has been received, rid
Panama, from Sydney to the 10th of December.
The screw-steamer Sydney sailed from Sydney on the
7th of December, with the mails for England, vid the
Cape of Good Hope. She had also a very large amount
of gold dust on freight.
The screw-steamer Great Britain was to leave Sydney
on the 20th of December, for Liverpool.
There was no sign of a diminution in the produce of
gold, and the mania, instead of decreasing, seemed to be
spreading with greater intensity. At Yarra Yarra upwards.
of 4,000 persons were encamped, most of them reported
to be doing well.

The yield of gold amounted to £1,000,000 per month.
Two government escorts had arrived at Sydney just
previous to the sailing of the Irene, bringing 15,000 oz.
from Bendigo, and 24,000 oz. from Ballarat.

The Meteor, which sailed from Sydney for London at the
end of November, took on freight 44,704 oz. of gold dust.
Gold was selling in Sydney at £3 9s. 6d. per ounce.

A correspondent of Bell's Life in Sydney, of the 10th
of December, writing from the Tuena gold-fields, says :
" I started from Goulburn at 10 a.m. last Monday week,
and reached Tuena by sundown the next day. The road
is very good—better than any road I know in the colony—
and the hospitality of the settlers on the way 1 shall never
forget. Everybody here seems to be doing well ; indeed,
I have not heard of one case of ill success, nor of any
person grumbling. lam told that numerous parties of
four are getting 15 to 20 ounces per day ; of course, there
are numbers not getting so much, but I am sure I am not
wrong when I say that, taking the number of diggers at
present on the ground, 11 ounce each per day is the
average yield. The Liverpool party are doing a good
stroke of business. The parties of Reynolds, Jones,
Vernon, Hawkins, and Cameron, and a score of others,
are realising a handsome independence. We only want
men ; the gold is in abundance here, and only requires
labour for the proper working. A man of the name of
Brown, I am informed, has sold GO ounces of gold dust,
which to-day he stated was the produce of one week's
labour. I have never seen a more picturesque part of the
country. I suppose, however, you do not want poetical
ideas ; but, in plain prose, every convenience is to be
had ; there is plenty of delicious water, and the grass
here could not be surpassed. There are large paddocks
for horses, bullocks, &c., at a mere nominal charge.
Provisions are both abundant and cheap. Before I return
to Goulburn I hope to make a fortune.',
The accounts of the harvest, received from various
quarters, were most favourable, and the land was pro-
ducing abundantly. Large crops were looked forward to
with confidence. Flour had gone down in Sydney to
-B'l2 per 2001 b., or about £23 sterling per ton.

NEW ZEALAND.—The following is an extract from
a letter dated Wellington, New Zealand, Sep. 6, 1852 :
" We are at present in a very awkward position here.
The return of a few people within the last ten days from
the gold fields, where they have been very successful, and
letters from others who left but a few weeks since, have
created such an excitement that it is hard to say what will
be the immediate consequences. I really believe that
hundreds will leave. It is not only the labourer, but the
mechanic and shopkeeper are also infected. The auri Nara