The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-30 00:00:00

TO MOTHERS.

JEPSON'S BALSAMIC SOOTHING SYRUP,
for Children Cutting their Teeth, is an invaluable domestic
remedy for mitigating the sufferings of Infancy at that perilous
period, perfectly safe in its application, and so pleasant to the
taste that no child will dislike it. It gives immediate relief in
those sudden paroxysms of pain which so frequently produce
alarming consequences, and the regular application of it allays
the irritation and inflammation in the gums, soothing and
tranquillizing the system, and thus warding off serious and
often fatal r i results. Sold n Bottles, at ls. lad. and 2s. 9d. each ;
the larger size most advantageous to the purchaser.
JEPSON'S TEETHING POWDERS, prepared from the pre-
scription of an eminent 'Physician in extensive practice, are
admirably adapted to regulate the bowels of Infants when out
of order, and to remove that irritability of the system conse-
quent upon teething,, which so often renders an Infant uneasy 1
and fretful, and predisposes it to fever and convulsions. Their
action is mild and gentle, neutralizing the causes of disorder
in the stomach and bowels, determining a salutary perspiration
to the skin, and restoring the bowels to their natural and
i healthy condition whether n a confined state or unduly relaxed.
N.B. As these
timid Mother need be under no apprehension
in giving them to the tenderest Infant. They are perfectly safe
and
Sold'inhighlY beneficial.
Packets at is. lad. and 2s. 9d. each. The latter con
taming three of the former.
The Balsamic Soothing
.Syrup and Teething Powders may
also be had in boxes, containing a small bottle of the Syrup and
a small Packet of Powders, at 25., or the larger size of each at
4s. 6d., thus effecting a considerable saving to purchasers.
Prepared only
.by W. JEPSON, Chemist, Halifax; and sold
by Messrs. •Pnestley, 52, Lord-street; R. Lathbury, Castle-
street ; F. G. Jones, 5, Paradise-street
T.
P. Roberts 20, Rane-
lagh-street ; W. Jones, Berry-street ; T. Hogarth and M. Red-
head, Great George-street; W. Wagstaff, Great George-place;
D. Mackinlay, 33, St. James-street ; F. B. Sykes, 14, Upper
Eyre
Parliament-street ; J. Kirkus, Mill-street ;. H. S. Alpass and E.
Pearson, Toxteth-park ; G. H. Howell, Dale-street ; P. Straw-
son, 60, Lime-street ; Wingate and Hill, 36, Elliott-street ; R.
Broome and E. Tierman, London-road ; W. W. King, Soho-
street ; T. Lowe, 38, Islington ; C. W. Shaw, 2, Russell-street ;
J. W. Williams, 25, St. Anne-street ; T. A. Titherington, 30,
Oxford-street ; R. BlEtp, 54. St. James-place—Chemists and
Druggists ; and John Dignan, 21, South John-street, Printer—
Livee
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Churchyard
Messrs. Thomson and Foulkes, and J. Eastwood,
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Birkenpead. Wholesale Agents—Messrs. Thomas
Co. Liverpool. Also by E. Edwards, St. Paul's
l'rout, 229, Strand ;. Hannay and Co., 63, Oxford-
street ; Barclay and Sons, Farrmgdon-street ; Newbury, St.
Paul's; Sutton, Bow Churchyard;_ Sanger,Oxford-street ; and
Napier-street, Hoxton New Town, London ; and
may be
bengha,
of all respectable Chemists and Medicine Vendors.

GREAT FIRE
IN MARKET-STREET, MANCHESTER ;

ENTIRELY CONSUMING A LARGE SQUARE OF WARE-
HOUSES, OFFICES, AND SHOPS.
TN the last great Fire in George-street, Manchester,
nine large Houses had their Books burned in Iron Safes,
Closets with Iron Doors, Wrought Iron Fireproof (?) Safes,
&c. &c. &c. ; and again on the above recent occasion, a great
number of parties have suffered the same calamity. The only
Safe which brought its contents uninjured out of the burning
mass being the one alluded to below.

" Manchester, August 13th, 1847.
" GENTLEMEN In the late Fire in Market-street, which
entirely gutted the entire block of buildings of which my Ware-
house formed part, I have sincere pleasure in informing you
that my books, together with a quantity of valuable papers,
watches, &c., were preserved uninjured in one of your Fire-
resisting Safes, which I strongly recommend to the public.
" I am your obedient servant,
" THOMAS HAIGH, Woollen Merchant,
" New Brown-street and Market-street.
" Messrs. Milner and Son."

The outside of this Safe was partially melted: the contents
inside unsinged, being. steamed (boiled instead of burned) by
the evaporating principle of the Safe. Near to it a large
Wrought Iron Fireproof (7) chambered Safe, full of valuable
Books and Documents before the Fire, was found to contain
nothing but tinder and ashes after it !

In the numerous accidental Fires and experimental tests
which Milners' Safes have been exposed to—every description
of Safe in use—Fireproof (so called) or otherwise have been
burnt out beside them, confirming the recommendation of the
scientific and practical authorities who have tested them, and
the Patentees' during seven years' active working of their
patent, on a rapidly extending scale, have spared no pains nor
cost in effecting improvements, by which they are enabled to
pledge themselves at all times to supply the most complete and
secure depositories for Books, Documents, and Valuables ; in-
duding_the strongest Wrought-iron Safes, Closets, and Doors
in the World, lined with their unequalled Fire-resisting Cham-
bers. Out of upwards of 20,000 of their Safes in use amongst
the Manufactunng and Commercial Houses of Great Britain—
the class best able to appreciate their value—numerous cases of
exposure to accidental fire have occurred, from which Thomas
Milner and Son select the following as instances, in which they
are of opinion that no other Safe than their own would have
preserved its contents unburnt.
Fire at Mr. J. Blackaller's Ship and Chandlery Store, Spar-
ling-street, Liverpool; a strong and fierce Fire; Safe most
severely burnt outside; contents unsinged.
Fire at Messrs. J. and W. Walkers', the extensive builders,
Birkenhead; buildings entirely gutted, everything burnt in
them, including the contents of large Iron Safe and drawers
standing besides Milners'; the contents of Milners' uninjured,
and in use now.
Fire at Messrs. Garniss and. Co.'s, Park-lane; a very strong
ire; again the contents of Miners' Safe the only thing saved
on the premises.
Fire at Plimsaul Brothers', of Plymouth •, a very extensive
and destructive fire; a large Iron Safe covered with brickwork
with double Iron doors burnt out ; Milners' entirely preserving
its contents.

Fire in Queen-street, Glasgow ; a great number of Safes and
Closets burnt out; no books saved throughout the buildings
excepting Messrs. S. R. and Thomas Browns', in Miners'
Safe.

Milners' Fire-resisting Safes, Chests, and Boxes, suitable for
all classes of Buildings, impregnable Locks and Cash Boxes,
at the Works, 50A, Lord-street and Cable-street, and Show-
Qom, 15, South John-street, Liverpool.

RUPTURE.

COLES'S PATENT TRUSS is universally admitted
to be the most effectual instrument now in use for the re-
lief and cure of HERNIA. The pads resist the descent of the
Hernia when stooping or coughing. The following. opinions
are selected from a list too numerous for insertion in a single
advertisement . . .

‘7iieWieaiinimous in the opinion that Mr. Coles has at-
tained such a degree of perfection in the adaptation of Trusses,
that they can be worn almost from the birth, let the species of
reducible rupture be what they may—that they effect a greater
security to the patient, and with considerable less inconveni
ence than any other Truss."—New London Surgical Pocket-
book—Sherwood and Company.
" This is the only real improvement in the construction of a
truss that ever came under my inspection."—George Birkbeck,
M.D. John Borthwick Gilchrist, Esq., friend of the doctor's,
gave Mr. Coles a handsome testimonial of his case, in which he
says—" I may add, that this truly scientific discovery justly
entitles the inventor of such an instrument to universal confi-
dence."

"The
pressure upon the ring is not merely equalised, but
adjusts itself, without inconvenience to the wearer, to the dif-
ferent attitudes in which the body may be placed."—Wm.
Thos. Brande, Esq., Journal of Science, Literature, and the
Arts, of Royal Institution.
" That man who has the ingenuity to construct an instru-
ment which is calculated to alleviate so large a portion of human
suffering will ever be considered by me to be a great public
character."—Edmd. Belfour, Secretary Royal College of
Surgeons.
" They make a more uniform pressure on the ring than the
ball-and-socket pad can effect."—Sir A. Cooper, Bart., F.R.S.—
in his Treatise on Hernia.
" The varied positions of the body in stooping and coughing
do not alter the position of the pads, nor displace them."—
Thomas Callaway, Esq., Guy's.
" It is my firm conviction that his trusses will be found more
efficacious than any at present employed."—Henry Earle,
Esq. F.R.S.
" They are the best trusses that have ever yet been got up."
—Aston Key, Esq., Guy's.
" I consider these trusses calculated, beyond every other
truss I have seen, to cure this disease in its earliest and simplest M
form."—Gideon antell, Esq., F.R.S., 19, Chester-square.
Manufactured only by Mr. COLES, Truss Maker to tba
Forces,. 3,. Charing-cross, London.

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HOUSE OF LORDS.-TUESDAY.

The first session of the third parliament of her Majesty
Queen Victoria was this day opened by royal commission,
as was also the first session of the last parliament. The
following is

THE QUEEN'S SPEECH.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

Her Majesty has ordered us to declare to you the causes
which have induced her to call parliament together at the
present time. Her Majesty has seen, with great concern,
the distress which has for some time prevailed among the
commercial classes. The prospects of trade were at one
period aggravated by a general feeling of distrust and
alarm. Her Majesty, for the purpose of restoring confi-
dence, authorised her ministers to recommend to the di-
rectors of the Bank of England a course of proceeding
suited to such an emergency.
This course might have led to an infringement of the
law.

Her Majesty has great satisfaction in being able to
inform you that the law has not been infringed—that the
alarm has subsided—and that the pressure on the bank
and commercial interest has been mitigated.
The abundant harvest with which this country has been
blessed, has alleviated the evils which always accompany
a want of employment in the manufacturing districts.
Her Majesty has, however, to lament the recurrence of
severe distress in Ireland, owing to the scarcity of the
usual food of the people.
Her Majesty trusts that this distress will be materially
relieved by the exertions which have been made to carry
into effect the law of last session for the relief of the des-
titute. _ _

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Her Majesty has learned with satisfaction that landed
proprietors have taken advantage of the means placed at
their disposal, by the liberality of parliament, for the im-
provement of land.
Her Majesty laments that in some counties in Ireland
atrocious crimes have been committed, and a spirit of in-
subordination has manifested itself, leading to an organ-
ized resistance to legal rights.
The Lord-Lieutenant, has employed with vigour and
energy the means which the law places at his disposal to
detect offenders and to prevent a repetition of offences.
Her Majesty feels it, however, to be her duty to her peace-
able and well-disposed subjects to ask the assistance of
parliament in taking further precautions against the per-
petration of crime in certain counties of Ireland.
Her Majesty views with the deepest anxiety and inter-
est the present condition of Ireland, and she recommends
to the consideration of parliament means which, with due
regard to the rights of property, may advance the social
condition of the people, and tend to the permanent im-
provement of that part of the United Kingdom.
Her Malesty has seen with great concern the breaking
out of the civil war in Switzerland.

Her Majesty is in communication with the allies on this
subject, and has expressed her readiness to use, in concert
with them, her friendly influence for the purpose of secur-
ing to the Swiss Confederation the blessings of peace.
Her Majesty looks with confidence to the maintenance
of the general peace of Europe.
Her Majesty has concluded, with the Republic of Ecu-
ador, a treaty for the suppression of the slave market.
Her Majesty has given directions that the treaty should
be laid before you.
GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

Her Majesty has given directions that the estimates for
the next year should be prepared, for the purpose of being
laid before you. They will be framed with a careful re-
gard to the exigencies of the public service.
MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
Her Majesty recommends to the consideration of par-
liament the laws which regulate the navigation of the
United Kingdom, with a view to consider whether any
change can be adopted which will, without danger to our
maritime strength. promote the commercial and colonial
interests of the empire.
Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint a commission
to report on the best means of promoting the health of
the metropolis, and her Majesty graciously recommends
your earliest attention to such means as willbe laid before
you relating to the Sanatory reform.
Her Majesty has deeply sympathized with the sufferings
which afflict the labouring classes in the manufacturing
districts of Great Britain, and in many parts of Ireland ;
andler Majesty has observed with admiration the pati-
ence with which these sufferings have been generally
borne.

little more per annum. He concluded an argumentative
speech amidst very general cheering.
Lord J. RUSSELL said, that the measures of last year
respecting Ireland, referred to by the hon. member for
Middlesex, were in full operation, and would bethe means
of giving a considerable share of employment in the course
of the winter to the people of that country. It was the
intention of government to bring forward a measure to
improve the grand jury system ; and also a measure to
settle in an equitable manner the relations between the
landlords and tenants, which, in their present condition,
were the fruitful source of so many outrages in Ireland.
With respect to the speech of his noble friend (Lord G.
Bentinck), he must say that he appeared to have thrown
away a large share of very excellent indignation, merely
because it appeared to the government more convenient to
take the debate on Tuesday, when the whole subject
would come under the consideration of the house. Every
information, however, should be given on the whole sub-
ject to the noble lord, who had raised a song of triumph
on the present distressed state of the country, as if the
latter were a proof of the unsoundness of the principles of
free trade. From anything that had fallen from the no-
ble lord in the shape of argument in support of his asser-
tion, he might as well have asked the house to assume
that Tenterden steeple was the cause of the Goodwin
Sands. The fact was, that in a great commercial country
which sometimes entered into engagements beyond its
capital, such periods of depression must occur, and much
suffering must necessarily follow. He should be sorry if
our monetary laws could truly be said to have reduced this
country to a state of shame, bankruptcy, and disgrace, but
he could give credit to no such statement, and he had no
fear that ere long England would be again in a position to
enter into competition with any country in the world.
They were suffering under, certainly, a severe, but he be-
lieved a temporary calamity.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

After several que;tion—sliaCiileenpui to, and answered
by, her Majesty's Ministers.
Mr. AN STET moved for leave to bring in a bill to amend
the laws relating to Roman Catholic Charities. Until a
recent period, the law respecting superstitious uses made
it illegal to make any endowment for the advancement of
the Roman Catholic religion, which was held by the
Judges to be a conspiracy against the State and Church
of this country, until the enactment of the Relief Act in
1829. At present it was doubtful, in consequence of a
recent decision of the Vice-Chancellor of England whether
the Roman Catholic charities established at the period
when the law of superstitious uses was in force were not
at this day liable to confiscation. To meet that mischief
he proposed by a retrospective act to enact that Roman
Catholics should now for the first time be enabled to seek
in the courts temporal the due execution of their charita-
able trusts. At present their trustees might be guilty of
any mal-administration, and no one dared to ask for
for relief from it in the courts of law. As the Lord
Chancellor had introduced a general bill for the regulation
of Charities in Great Britain and Ireland, he now proposed
to introduce a bill which should have the same effect on
Roman Catholic charities which the Lord Chancellor's
bill would have on Protestant charities. In one word, his
bill would extend and carry out the provisions of Sir S.
Romilly's Charities Petitions Act. He also moved for
leave to bring in, at the same time, another bill for the
further repeal of penal enactments against Roman Catho-
lies on account of their religion. Many of those enact-
ments were obsolete, and otherg contrary to the spirit of
the age ; and his bill would render them conformable to
the constitution itself.
Mr. H. GnArrax seconded the motion.

Sir G. GREY had no objection to the introduction of
either of these bills ; but he warned Mr. Anstey that he
must make up his mind to encounter many obstacles to
the progress of the first bill, even from those for whose
benefit it was intended.

Sir R. INGLIS gave Mr. Anstey notice that if in his
first bill he intended to repeal the Law of Mortmain in
favour of the Roman Catholics, he would oppose it, as he
had opposed a proposition to repeal the same law in favour
of the Protestants. He should also feel it to be his duty
to oppose his second bill. He then reminded Ministers
that the Church of Rome was at that moment aggressive
not only in Great Britain, but in every state of Europe.
On a future occasion he would ask them by what authority
the Church of Rome had recently created and repartitioned
dioceses in England, and whether it had been allowed to
exercise such power in any Roman Catholic state in
Europe.

The distress which prevailed amongst the commercial
classes has effected many important branches of the reve-
nue, but her Majesty trusts the time is not far distant
vhdn, under the blessing of Divine Providence, the com-
merce and industry of the United Kingdom will have re-
sumed their wonted activity.

The Earls of Yarborough and Bessborough moved and
seconded the address in appropriate speeches.
Lord STANLEY followed in a speech of considerable
length, in the course of which he called upon Ministers,
with regard to Ireland, to throw themselves on their
country, and on their political opponents, who would
willingly, laying aside all party spirit, aid and assist them
in passing those measures which were required for the sal-
vation of that country. He approved of the course taken
bylthe Government in the assistance they had extended
to the commercial community, which, had it been afforded
sooner, would have been more effectual, but he gave them
credit for violating the law, for which he entertained no
doult'they required a bill of indemnity.
The Marquis of LANsDOWNE defended the policy pursued
by the Government.
Lord ASHBURTON condemned her Majesty's Ministers
for not having come to the determination of altering the
provisions of the Bank Charter Act.
Lord BROUGHAM was of opinion that the existing state
of things in Ireland could only be put an end to by the
intervention of the strong arm of the law, and approved
of'the course taken by the Government in calling Par-
liament together.
Ti.e noble lords who followed in the debate were the
Earls of RODEN, FITZWILLIAM, and GREY, when the
address was agreed to.

I,

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN (5- COLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

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AMERICA.

The new trading ship Ivanhoe, Capt. Edwards, formerly
of the Sea, and late of the Marmion, arrived at Liverpool
on Friday, after the remarkably short passage of 17 days
from New York. Her dates extend to the 10th of No-
vember. They give advices from Vera Cruz to the 21st of
October, which announce that all was quiet at Mexico-.
At Queretaro the government was getting more pacific.
Senor Pena y Pena had ordered General Santa Anna back
for trial ; but whether he would go was very uncertain.
His troops which he brought to Puebla, and those under
Alvarez and Rea, who joined him as soon as they heard
that General Lane was marching on, deserted him by
companies. He was at San Andres. All around the city
of Mexico there is a large peace party, and many of the
most respectable citizens in Vera Cruz, Jalapa, and Puebla
are ardently wishing for peace.
The Caledonia, steamer, arrived at Boston on the sth.
Charleston papers give particulars of the total loss of the
ship Empire, of New York, on the Coral Reef, near
Abaco, on the 17th ult., with 372 United States officers
and men on board, who were on the reef ten days. They
then shipped for Charleston, where 129 arrived in safety.
The helmsman was the only person lost. On the Bth
instant, in removing some sick persons from Baker-street
to the Temperance-hall, Mary-street, in Boston, opposi-
tion was offered by the citizens. The sheriff finally
stopped the riot, and sent the sick to the A!mshouse.
The Fredericton Reporter announces that the boun-
dary dispute between New Brunswick and Canada is nearly
adjusted.

NEW YORK MARKETS.
(From the American Sun, Nov. 9.) •
CorroN.—The market is depressed ; holders are anxious
to realize. The sales for the day are some 1200 bales, at
a decline of to lc. .
FLOUR, &c.—The market unsettled, and in favour of
the buyer. The sales for the day are some 6,000 barrels,
including 2,000 N.Y. good Genesee at 46 20c. ; 1,200 bar-
rels Oswego at £'6 31c. ; 1,000 barrels good Michigan at
S 6 371 c.
FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool there is some corn offered at
6d. ; cheese and pork at 225. to 255. ; cotton at id. for
square bales. Coastwise freights are high. Vessels for
the East are very much wanted.
EXCHANGE.—At 1091 to 110 for sixty-day bills on Lon-
don ; and sf. 20c. for bills on Paris.
(From the Shipping and Commercial List, Nov. 6.)
COTTON.—The market ha's been very quiet for the last
three days, and some descriptions are again lower. Spin-
ners have been the chief buyers, the operators for export
having withdrawn from the market during the indepen-
dency of late advices from abroad. The sales are 2,600
bales, thus : _ _

Upland and Tier. Mobile and N. a
1700 bales. 900 bales.
Inferior
Ordinary to good ordinary 7i to 7i c. 7i to 8 c.
Middling to good mid 8 to 8i c. 8i to 82 c.
Middling fair to fair Bl to 9i c. 9 to 91 c.
Fully fair to good fair
Fine
Making a total for the week of 4700 bales.
The arrivals have been from— .
Galveston, Texas 231 bales.
South Carolina

Total 435 bales.
Export from Ist to 30th October 27,031 bales.
Export from the United. States.
Since Ist September last 111,1136 bales.
Same time last year 45,962

The packet-ship New World arrived here on Sunday,
with one days later news. An improved feeling prevailed
in New York. Freight had been engaged for a large
amount of specie by the steamer Caledonia. Bills on
England were selling at 1091 to 110. The American
steam-ship, Washington, arrived at New York on the 9th
instant, after a run of sixteen days from Southampton.:,

The cholera has appeared in an unequivocal shape at
Constantinople.

It appears that Mr. Stephen is still the Under-Secre-
tary of the Colonies, but absent on leave. Mr. Merivale
is Under Assistant-Secretary.
The barracks of Seinele, in Turkey, capable of lodging
10,000 men, were destroyed by fire on the 27th ult. The
loss is £24,000.

STRANGE EXECUTlON.—Harnburgh witnessed a curious
proceeding on the Bth instant. The scaffold was erected
as for an execution, before the principal front of the Ex-
change, and at twelve o'clock a large furnace, filled with
-resinous wood, was placed on it. 'The wood having been
set on fire, the bell of the Town-hall was rung violently,
as is usual during the execution of decrees inflicting infa-
mous penalties. At one o'clock, the hour at which mer-
chants are assembled on the Exchange, the public execu-
tioner ascended the scaffold, followed by two of his
assistants, and,' after having caused a drum to be beat,
proclaimed, in a loud voice, the name of a merchant who
had been declared guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy, and
who had taken to flight. He then displayed to the spec-
tators an enormous placard, bearing the name of the cul-
prit in gigantic letters. He caused the next drum to be
beat a second time, after which he tossed the placard in
the flames. For twenty years no similar execution had
taken place at Hambnrgh. By the laws of the city, when
a tradesman fails, the state of his affairs is immediately
examined into by a jury, nominated by the Tribunal of
Commerce, and the jury has to declare, on their oath, if
the bankrupt be irreproachable, if he •be guilty of negli-
gence, or if he has committed fraud. In the first case,
the Tribunal of Commerce declares him innocent : in the
second, he is subject to imprisonment for a period more
or less long; in-the third, he is liable to be confined in a
house of correction for from ten to twenty years, and to
be exposed on the pillory; but if he takes to flight, his
name is thus publicly burned by the hangman.
THE RECENT EXCAVATIONS AT POMPEII.—NapIes,
Oct. 2.—ln the magnificent street leading from the
ancient seashore, in the neighbourhood of the theatres, to
the so-called causeway of the Fortuna, and thence in a
direct line to the northern city wall, there has been exca-
vated a house that surpasses in richness and elegance all
that has been discovered previously. The space of the
court-yard is open, has a mosaic pavement, and on the
walls fantastic pictures of the richest and most tasteful
style. At the sides of the atrium (court-yard) are small
sleeping rooms, with the following wall paintings :1--Poly-
pheme, who receives a letter from Galatea by an amorino
riding upon a dolphin ; Venus occupied with, fishing ; a
Narcissus ; a few swimming gods of Love ; a Victoria
upon a car; and several landscapes. In the background
of the atrium opens a tablinum (the reception-hall), with
chequered marble pavement. On the walls of this room
must have been wood paintings, as the spaces which they
once filled are still plainly seen, as also the charcoal re-
mains of those paintings. Th4y were, perhaps, from the
hands of those celebrated masters who, according to Pliny,
preferred painting upon wood. At the side of the recep-
tion-hall is a dining-room, where are seen three large
paintings of full-size figures. They represent Hercules
with Omphale holding his club, and wrapped in the skin
of the Nemvean lion. Next, Bacchus as a boy, and arm-
in-arm with Silenus, on a car drawn by two oxen, and
followed by Bacchantes. Thirdly, a Bacchanal procession
of triumph. Here were also the Triklinian reposing beds,
richly adorned with silver. Behind the reception-hall is
the garden, with a fountain at the end, which is adorned
with mosaic and a small marble statue of Silenus. In
the centre is the water reservoir, adorned with rich marble
sculptures. This dwelling joins a second open atrium
where the servants lived. Here was found a four-wheeled
waggon with iron wheels and much bronze ornament.
The kitchen contained many implements of bronze, and
the traces of smoke were in many places still visible, after
the lapse of eighteen centuries. The dwelling had—what
is very rare—second and third stories, to which led a wide
staircase. Upon a small picture close to the staircase
lies a letter with the (scarcely legible) name of the
owner of the house, in oblique characters, and plainly
indicating his rank. It belonged to the Decuriie or
senators of Pompeii. The house has therefore been
christened, Casa della Sonatrice. or dell' Ercole Übbriaco.
It is the newest excavation of importance.

THE PRASLIN TRAGEDY.—MdIIe. Deluzy has been
set at liberty, in virtue of an ordinance, declaring that
there was no evidence against her.
The statement that the Queen of Spain is enciente is
confirmed, and with this important addition—that the
fact had been communicated to, and accepted by, the
French Government.

The last advices from the Cape of Good Hope state that
no movement of an important character had taken place,
but Sir Henry Pottinger was organising his forces for a
grand coup in a few days.
By a printed circular issued from the Colonial Office, it
appears that prelates of the Roman Catholic Church in
the British colonies are in future to be styled officially
" Your Grace " or " Your Lordship," as the case may
be.

It is said that two tenor singers have died prematurely
at Venice, from the over exertion required in singing
Verdi's compositions, and that prima donnes now stipu-
late that they shall not be required to sing in ti erdi's
operas.
Three large steamers, with engines from 200 to 300
horses' power, have been fitted at Bahia for the slave
trade. One of these has already arrived on the west coast
of Africa, where she embarked 900 slaves, and escaped
from the brig-of- war Sealark, by steaming away from
her during a calm.
NEW ZEALAND.—It is intended for the future to keep
a permanent naval force at New Zealand. It will con-
sist of one frigate, one sloop of war, and a steam sloop.
Orders have been sent out to form a naval depot at Auck-
land, and such stores as cannot be procured at that colony
will be sent out from England.

THE TERRORS OF ENIIGRATION.—DreadfuI has been
the sufferings to which our emigrants have been exposed.
In one vessel, the Looshtank, out of 462 passengers, 272
died. The crew also all perished. Several vessels, which
fell in with them, sheared off on hearing their dreadful
conditiod. On reaching land the captain became insane.
ARCTIC COMFORT.—Dr. Rae, in his narrative of the
recent expedition along the arctic coast, states : "We had
not yet obtained a drop of water of natures thawing ; and,
fuel being rather a scarce article, we sometimes took small
kettles of snow under the blanket with us, to thaw it by
the beat of our bodies."
INFANT SCHOOLS AT ROME.—The Duke Sforza Ce-
sarini, who married Miss Shirley, the grand-daughter of
Robert, Earl Ferrers, has lately succeeded in establishing
an infant school at Genzano, near Rome, which has ex-
cited considerable interest from the fact of its being the
first school of that description which has ever been esta-
blished at or near Rome.

At half-past twelve, on the 20th instant, his Royal
Highness William 11., Elector of Hesse, departed this life
at Frankfort, after a few days' illness. The deceased was
born on the 28th July, 1777, and succeeded to the elec-
torate on_the 27th of February, 1821. He is succeeded
by his son, Prince Frederick William, born on the 20th
August, 1802, and who, since 1831, shared the reins of
government with his father.
The Paris papers of Thursday are of considerable inte-
rest. After a meeting of the British, Austrian, and Prus-
sian ministers, at the hotel of the President of the Coun-
cil, on Wednesday, a courier was despatched to Berne,
bearing offers of mediation on the part of the great
powers. General Dufour put all his forces in motion on
the 22nd, for the attack on Lucerne, whose government
1 ad met, and, by a small majority of only three, deter-
mined upon an obstinate resistance.
COTTON FROM SOUTH AFRlCA.—Advices from Port
Natal give a favourable account of the soil and climate of
that colony for the growth of cotton. The great difficulty
in the way of an extension of the cultivation would be a
deficiency of labour. The produce is said to be very
superior in colour, fineness, and length of staple. One
advantage which a planter there has over the Americans
is, that the plant produces at Port Natal several years in
succession.
THE RECENT TRIPLE MURDER IN BRUSSELS.—It will
be recollected that about two months ago, the sister and
two female servants of M. Evenpoel were found horribly
murdered in his house at Brussels, and a large quantity of
property carried off. The culprits have at length been
discovered, one of them being a tenant of M. Evenpoel,
who, being in arrears of rent, communicated the fact to
an accomplice, and the murder and robbery were agreed
upon. The discovery of the murderers has created much
excitement in Brussels.

THE Boor( FAIR LEIPSIC.—The Prase publishes the
following letter from Leipsic :—" The catalogue of the
books to be offered for sale at the approaching sale con-
tains 4,871 articles in that trade, comprising books jour-
nals, and geographical map ‘, being about 1000 less than
last year. 13ut still the proportion of pamphlets written
in German increases. Amongst those pamphlets on reli-
gious controversy and scientific and political subjects, 76
were published by dissenters, 37 are relative to the high
price of provisions, and the necessities of the labouring
classes, and 10 on the potato disease."
THE CATHEDRAL AT CALCUTTA.—The consecration
of the new cathedral at Calcutta has taken place. Eight
years ago the ceremony of laying the " first stone" of this
sacred edifice was witnessed ; so that we might, from the
time it has taken in building, conclude that it rivals in
extent and magnificence its namesake of the British me-
tropolis. It will not, however, either for size or beauty,
stand a comparison with many a country church in Eng-
land. It may afford sittings for one thousand people
with some cramming, which is not a pleasant thing in
that country ; and it has a mean, insignificant, and yet
tawdry look, inside and out.
THE SWISS QUARREL.—The following may be taken
as a brief statement of the facts and causes of this singular
war. The Sonderbund (or league of Catholic Cantons)
having as they conceive, by a right of internal or municipal
government secured for them by the treaty of Vienna),
entrusted the supervision of public instruction to the
Jesuits, were remonstrated with by the Protestant Can-
tons, who accused the Jesuits of intriguing, &C., and
required to have them expelled by the Cantons in which
they were located. This the latter refused to do, because
they maintained they had a right to manage their own
internal or municipal affairs, independent of the other
states of the republic, or even a majority of the Diet, or
general congress of the whole. There,was a further cause
of difference between the Protestant and Roman Catholic
Cantons :—the Protestants are in favour of a more cen-
tralized form of government for the Helvetic Union ;
they want to have Switzerland less cantonal, and more
national—to do away with the separate and semi-indepen-
dence of each state, and give a unity of government and
action to them all. To this the Roman Catholic: Cantons,
being more conservative of old systems and customs, are
opposed, and deny the right of the Diet (in which the
Protestant or movement cantons have a majority) to alter
the constitution, as it has been secured to them by treaties.
The Federalists having resorted to arms to enforce their
fancied right, the Sonderbund also, armed in defence.
The two contending parties in the republic have each of
them ardent sympathizers everywhere.