The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-09-25 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Mr. Anderson, a citizen of the Arkansas district, has
been lately murdered by his slave.
A child eleven years old, has been imprisoned at Naples
as a political offender.
The Dutch papers of Tuesday announce the sudden
resignation of the Ministry on Monday night. The King
had ordered the formation of a new Cabinet.
Mrs. Mitchell, mother of the Irish exile, arrived at
New York on the Ist instant and left next day for Wash-
ington.
Lord Mandeville and a friend have been robbed of pro-
perty value £l5O at Nymphis, near Smyrna. There is no
clue to the robbers.
The King of Hanover has addressed a letter to General
Haynau, complimenting him on his service in Hungary,
and conferring on him the cross of the order of the
Guelphs.
The Duke of Parma has given intimation to the Jesuits
to quit the States of Parma, the foreign members in
twenty-four hours, the native in the shortest possible
term, under penalty of being expelled by force.
NEWS FOR DIGGERS.-A Californian party had quite
a battle with some hostile Indians on the 16th of June.
After killing 100 Indians, and losing 13 of their men,
the diggers fled, leaving all their gold and six wounned
men to the mercy of the savages.

A solemn service has been performed in the Church of
the Italians at Madrid, as a thanksgiving to the Almighty
for the re-establishment of the Pontifical authority in the
capital of the Roman States. The Pope's Nuncio officia-
ted. The church was decorated with great magnificence.
A few days ago the bodies of a young man and woman
were found bound together in the river Loing, near Mon-
targis. On the bank of the river was a note calling on
the passers-by to pray to God for them, and intimating
that they had committed suicide in consequence of the re-
fusal of the father of the young man to allow their mar-
riage.—Paris paper.

The Times announces that the Turkish Government
had resolved not to surrender the Polish and Hungarian
refugees now in Turkey to the Russian or Austrian Go-
vernment. When this decision of the Tu►kish Council of
Ministry was made known to the Sultan, he declared, in a
most impressive manner, that the refugees should not be
given up, no matter what might be the consequences.
THE lONIAN ISLANDS.—The Milan Gazette of the 14th
instant has news from Cephalonia. On the sth, the
Malta steam-packet arrived at Corfu, having touched at
Cephalonia, and brought intelligence that the insurrection
had not been quelled—that the Governor had had a man
killed by his side—that the courts-martial were sitting
without intermission ; and that four insurgents had been
hanged and three shot.

The young Emperor of Austria and their Majesties the
Kings and Queens of Prussia and Saxony have had a
friendly meeting at the baths of Toplitz, whence they
adjourned to Pillnitz, the King of Saxony's country
house, on the Elbe. We are told to attribute no political
significance to this family reunion, and it is very likely
that no business of importance was really transacted at it.
But Kings and Queens, however harmless their intentions,
cannot be sociable together in these times without exciting
speculation.
HUNGARY.—The news from Hungary confirms the
opinion that the Emperor of Austria is disposed to deal
severely with the defeated insurgents. Even the fate of
Georgey was doubtful for a time, his Majesty having felt
inclined to send him before a court-martial. A remon-
strance on the part of the Czar is said to have dissuaded,
the Government from carrying out this design. Mean-
while, it is certain that the fugitive leaders have no mercy
to expect, and already a long list of names is drawn up,
to be forwarded to the authorities in all parts of the em-
pire. This list contains sixty nine personal denunciations,
including the names of Bern, Kossuth, Madame Kossuth,
Petofy, a poet, and Perczel.
DESCRIPTION OF KOSSUTH AND MADAME KOSSUTH.
The Austrian authorities have issued warrants for the
arrest of the chiefs of the late Hungarian insurrection.
Accompanying them are descriptions of the different per-
sons. The following is that given of Kossuth :—" Louis
Kossuth, an ex-advocate, journalist, minister of finance,
president of the committee of defence, governor of the
Hungarian republic, aged 45 years; born at Jess Berenv,
in Hungary, Catholic, and married. He is of middle
height, strong, thin ; the face oval; complexion, pale;
the forehead high and open ; hair, chesnut ; eyes, blue ;
eyebrows, dark and very thick ; nose, thin ; mouth, small
and well-formed ; teeth, fine; chin, round. He wears a
moustache and imperial, and his curled hair does not en-
tirely cover the upper part of his head. He has a white
and delicate hand ; the fingers long. He speaks German,
Hungarian, Latin, Sclavonic, a little French and Italian.
His bearing, when calm, is solemn—full of a certain dig-
nity ; his movements elegant, his voice agreeable, softly
penetrating, and very distinct, even when he speaks low.
He produces in general the effect of an enthusiast; his
looks, often fixed on the heavens, and the expression of
his eyes, which are fine, contribute to give him the air of
a dreamer. His exterior does not announce the energy of
his character." Madame Kossuth is thus described :
" Madame Theresa Kossuth, nee Meslenyi, wife of Louis
Kossuth, aged more than 30, is Catholic. She is tall,
spare, the face long, the complexion brown, the forehead
long, the hair and eyes black ; the eyebrows black, long,
and narrow; the nose rather pointed, the mouth regular,
the chin long. She speaks the German, Hungarian, and
Sclavonian languages. She is very haughty, and her look
is full of pride."
Early next year the Americans will have five steamers
of 1000 horse power, and 3000 tons burthen each, (con-
tracts at the rate of £16.660 per ship, and 10s. per mile,)
to run between New York and Liverpool. Some more of
the same description are nearly ready for the New York
and Havre, Southampton, and Bremen line. A Govern-
ment contract is nearly ready, to run regularly between
New Orleans and Vera Cruz, &c., &c. Splendid steamers
now run regularly and frequently between New York and
New Orleans, calling at Havannah, and making the pas-
sage each way in seven days. Besides the splendid
steamers of 600-horse power each, such as the Crescent
City, two more still larger, the Ohio, between New York
and Chagres. The steamers on this line now make the
passage between New York and Chagres (calling at Ja-
maica) within nine days each way, and arrangements have
just been concluded to call regularly at Jamaica. Five
large steamers are now on the Pacific side, to run between
Panama and Oregon, calling at San Francisco, Mazatlan,
Acapulco, &c.

THE PARISIAN SYNOD.—An episcopal synod has been
sitting in Paris during the present week which is not un-
worthy of passing notice. Besides bishops, it appears
that vicars general, " theologians introduced by the
bishop," and delegates from provincial chapters, have
swelled the numbers that make up the council. We find
that, among the knotty subjects which this council is to
settle, are " Profession of Faith"—(but we are not told
whether it is merely diocesan faith or whether it is the
general, universal Catholic faith) ; " Uniformity of Dis-
cipline," which we are surprised to see ; for we are con-
stantly told by our Popish contemporaries that there is
but one faith and that there is but one discipline in their
church, and that both are universally followed by every
member of it ; the " Question of the Immaculate Con-
ception"—stupendous mystery which a Parisian diocesan
synod undertakes to resolve, and whose interpretation will
be adopted by the Bishop of Rome, now at Naples, and
who hardly requires such interpretation if he be as infal-
lible as he pretends to be.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—The Inflexible war steamer has
brought intelligence from the Cape to the 2d of August,
brought thence by the Brilliant sloop of war, and commu-
nicated to the Inflexible at St. Helena. In consequence
of the repugnance shown by the inhabitants to receive
convicts, Sir Harry Smith had intimated that he had made
arrangements on the arrival of the Neptune, for the con-
victs to be turned over to the Seringapatam hulk, at Si-
mon's Bay, and there to be kept until further instruc-
tions regarding their disposal should be received from her
Majesty's government. The Anti-convict Association
was indefatigable in enforcing the pledge on all classes, to
place beyond the pale of social intercourse all persons who
either directly or indirectly favoured the convict measure,
or who furnished the ordinary supplies of provisions to
government which might be made available to the support
of the convicts on their arrival. All the official members
of council having resigned their seats, the estimates for the
year had not been voted, and the treasury was nearly
empty. Even the new members, whom Sir Harry Smith
called to the council, to keep the machinery of govern-
ment in motion, were compelled to resign the very day
they took their seats, in consequence of the popular dis-
approbation, which evinced itself on their leaving the
council chamber. They were jostled by the mob, kicked,
and suffered other acts of personal violence. The private
property of one of their number, Mr. Letterstedt, the
Swedish consul, and a person of opulence, residing at
Rondeboard, was attacked, and injured to the extent of
£2,000. His vessels lying in Table Bay were deserted by
the boatmen engaged to clear them, and he and his col-
leagues were unable to purchase the most ordinary neces-
saries of life, until they bad announced their resignation,
and apologised to the Anti-convict Association for having
accepted the office. One of the members, who held out
longer than the rest, was reduced, by actual want of food,
to take refuge in Gevernment House ; and when this was
known, the colonists went so far as to threaten to cut off
Sir Harry Smith's supplies also.

ADVENTUROUS VOYAGE OF AN AERONAUT.

Some uneasiness had been felt at Marseilles, says a
Paris paper, respecting the fate of an intrepid aeronaut
named Arban, who set out from that town in a balloon
on Sunday evening, the 2d of September, at 6 o'clock.
Letters from Turin have been received, announcing his
arrival on the 3d, at 2 o'clock a.m. (i.e., eight hours after
his departure,) at the Abbey of Stupini, not far from the
capital of Piedmont. We subjoin the itinerary of M.
Arban :—" Having set out on Sunday evening, the 2d of
September, from the Château des Fieurs (Marseilles), I
passed over the wood of Esterel at 8 o'clock, and my
experiments showed me that I was then at an elevation
of 4,000 metres. The temperature was already cold, but
dry, and my centigrade thermometer marked four degrees
below zero. The wind blew S.W., and carried me to-
wards Nice. For two hours I was enveloped in thick
clouds above my head ; my pelisse was no longer suffi-
cient to protect me against the cold ; and my feet suffered
most grievously. I nevertheless resolved to continue my
voyage, deciding to cross the Alps, from which I knew I
was not far distant; my supply of gas being sufficient to
raise my balloon above the highest peaks. The cold in-
creased, the wind became steady, and the moon lightened
my path like the meridian sun. I was at the foot of the
Alps ; the snow, the cascades, and the mountain torrents
sparkled in the light ; the abysses and rocks formed large
black masses, which served as a shade to this gigantic
picture. The wind rather baffled the regularity of my
course ; I was alternately obliged to descend and to
ascend in order to surmount the incessant peaks. It was
11 o'clock at night when I attained the summit of the
Alps ; the horizon then became clear and my course
regular. I then began to think of supper. I was 4,600
metres high ; and was obliged, as a matter of necessity,
to continue my voyage towards Piedmont. I saw only a
chaos before me, into which a descent was impossible.
After having supped, I conceived the idea of throwing my
empty brandy bottle into the midst of the snowy waste,
in order that any subsequent traveller might discover
some vestige of my ascent. At half-past one, a.m., I
found myself above Mount Viso, which I knew well, hav-
ing explored it on a former occasion. The Po and the
Durance thence derive their source. 1 recognised the
position, and discovered its magnificent plains. Before
this conviction had been obtained, a singular effect of
mirage, produced by the reflection of the moon on the
snow and the clouds, would have led me to imagine that I
was on the open sea. The west wind, however, had not
ceased to blow, and my exact observations showed nae
that I could not be much above the level of the sea. The
stars came to my assistance, and I descried Mont Blanc,
the position of which indicated that I was approaching
Turin. Mont Blanc, on my left, soared above all the
clouds, and resembled an immense block of crystal, which
scintillated with a thousand coruscations. At a quarter
to 3 o'clock, Mount Viso clearly showed me that I was
near Turin ; and I resolved to descend. I did so without
difficulty. I descended in the vicinity of an immense
farm ; several watchdogs greeted me, and my pelisse alone
preserved me from their rude caresses. Their barking
awoke the peasants, who were more surprised than scared
by my presence. They informed me that it was 2 o'clock
in the morning, and that I was in the village of Pion

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Forte, near Stupini, six kilometres from Turin. 1 passed
the night in the farmhouse, and the next morning obtained
a certificate from the mayor, attesting my arrival. I
reached Turin at 9 o'clock a.m., and in the evening I
went to the Theatre of Angennes. I could not help
meditating on the fact that on the preceding evening, at
the selfsame hour, I was at the Château des Fleurs, at
Marseilles, some 140 leagues distant !"

IRELAND.

Wheat is selling so low in Waterford as 14s. a barrel of
20 stone ; potatoes, 3d. to 4d. per stone.
From the Clonmel Chronicle we learn that a number of
pikes and daggers have been discovered by the police, se-
creted in houses.

The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin gave bis
flock liberty to eat meat every day last (Ember) week. in
consequence of the cholera. We hope they had enough
of it.

The Earl and Countess of Clarendon have gone to the
south on a short visit to the famed Lakes of Killarney.
" A magnificent stag-hunt" was " to be" on Thursday in
his lordship's honour.
Lord Stuart de Decies has laid out £lO,OOO on a fishing
station at Helvich, in the county of Waterford, where he
has established a curing station on the Scotch plan. The
noble lord's exertions have met with great success.
The potato disease is progressing with destructive ra-
pidity around Dublin, and in the counties of Meath,
Wicklow, and Kildare. Some parts of the country still
indulge the hope that the loss will not be at all so serious
as on any of the three preceding years. We trust their
anticipations may be realised.
The Clonmel Chronicle reports that " the success with
which the peasantry have defeated the claims of the land-
lords is everywhere spoken of," and that the " movement
men are ready for any emergency that may arise." One
of these emergencies was an attempt made on the lands of
Ballymore, Cashel, to collect the county cess, when the
bailiffs were assaulted and driven-off and one of them mur-
dered on the spot.
Irish agricultural produce, instead of "looking up," is
sinking year by year—we may say day by day. Since
1848, since this time last year, red wheat in Ireland is
reduced one-fourth. In the autumn of last year it was
at 245., now it is at 18. Barley, within twelve months,
is reduced one-third. This time last year it was at 155.,
now it is at 10s. 6d. Nor is the reduction in oats greatly
different. This time last year the price was 10s. 3d., now
the figure is 10s. ld.
EXTRAORDINARY CAPTURE.—Last week, during Divine
service, two young women entered the bathing-lodge of the
Lord Bishop of Cashel, at Stradbally, and collected plate to
the amount of £4O or £5O. After tying up the plate in a
cloth, the two damsels were tempted to taste of some
brandy that was in a decanter, and which totally overcame
them when they had got about 200 yards from the lodge,
where they were found laid drunk, with the booty along-
side of them.—Leinster Express.

ATTACK ON A BARRACk.—The Dublin Packet of
Tuesday contains an account of an attack by an armed
band, on the police barrack at Cappoquin, when one
of the storming party was killed, and forty-four pikes
were left behind them by the insurgents, in their flight.
It is stated that this affray had its origin in a drunken
brawl, which led to an arrest by the police, and an at-
tempt at rescue by a mob, resulting in an attack upon the
police station, in defence of which and of their lives, the
constabulary in charge fired out and shot one of the
rioters.

LORD STANLEY AS AN TRISH LANDLORD.—The Rev.
John Ryan, Roman Catholic curate of Coshel, in a letter
to the Tipperary Vindicator, says :—" With Lord Stan-
ley's conduct as a landlord his tenantry have every reason
to be content. He made within the last fortnight two
visits to his property adjoining this city ; he inspected the
farms and husbandry of his tenants and their houses;
and, after seeing every thing with his own eyes—relying,
as he ought, on nothing or no one but his own personal
knowledge—he made abatements to his tenants of £l5 to
to £2O per cent. The farms are generally what are called
old takes,' and the rents therefore not high. To one
tenant (P. Kearney, of Stephenstown,) he remitted one
year's rent out of two year's rent due by him, because
several of his (Kearney's) cows died lately of distemper,
and offered him liberal encouragement to build a respec-
table slated house."

THE RIBBON MASSACRE.—The Dolly's Brae iniesti-
gation has terminated. One of its most unpleasant fea-
tures is that there must be gross perjury, as Mr. F. Beers
has denied upon his oath the statements made by Francis
M'Phelan, John Paul, Thos. Morgan, and John M'Evoy.
These witnesses deposed upon oath to the furious de-
meanour of_Mr. Beers upon the bloody day in question ;
but that gentleman in the most solemn manner denied the
various particulars alleged against him. This is a terrible
exhibition in a court of justice. Nearly every one of the
Roman Catholic witnesses, when about being sworn, tried
to evade taking-the oath. Several of them put the book
to their mouth three or four times before they would kiss
it. Their conduct produced intense disgust in the mind
of every right-minded person present. The most of them,
too, had been arrested on the hill, behind the first ditch,
by the police, and are actually under bail to appear and
take their trial at the assizes. John Paul, one of them,

as ordered into custody for perjury.
POPERY IN GALWAY.—A sermon having been 'lately
delivered in one of the Roman Catholic chapels in Belfast
by the Rev. Dr. Cahill, on the infallibility of the Roman
Catholic Church, the same subject was taken up by the
Rev. A. Dallas, Rector of Watton, Hants, on Sabbath
evening, in the church of St. Nicholas. The rev. gen-
tleman met with a patient hearing until he came to speak
of the Virgin Mary in a way not agreeable to Roman
Catholics, when there were some interruptions, and im-
mediately a rush was made by a large number of Romanists
into the church, shouting and yelling like furies. A gene-
ral panic took place, especially among the female portion
of the audience, and it was with some difficulty that their
fears were quieted. In the meantime the rev. preacher
shortly concluded his discourse, and the congregation
retired amidst the yelling of a large rabble congregated
outside the church gate. Were it not for the presence of
a strong body of polio*, it is more than probable that
much injury would have been done to the church and
congregation. Such is a specimen of popish toleration.—
Banner of Ulster.

A NOVEL INTERMENT.—At the Cork Police Court, last
week, a woman was charged with "raising the wind"
under the following curious circumstances. Mr. E. New-
som informed the Bench that being aware of the various
modes that parties adopted to plunder the citizens, by
obtaining money from Church-wardens for foundlings, he
was determined to prevent it. Children were put on the
parish for support, who should have been supported by
their parents ; the nurses, also, plundered by getting
money for children who were dead ; and, as in the present
case, plunder was obtained by interments though found-
lings had not died. The prisoner bad obtained a parish
coffin for a foundling, which of course the citizens had to
pay for. This coffin she carried to St. Finn Barr's
church yard and interred there, which entitled her to a
certificate from the clergyman of the burial of the found-
ling. On the production of that certificate to him, the
prisoner would be entitled to the expenses of interment,
and what nursing money was due. This the prisoner had
done, but he (Mr. Newsom), thinking that all was not
right, went to the c:iurch yard and had the coffin dug up,
when, to his surprise, on its being opened, he found, it to
be filled with stones ! (Loud laughter.) The prisoner at
the funeral appeared deeply affected, and so desirous was
she that it should be deposited iu its final resting place
with every care and affection, that she would not allow
any person to touch it, and actually placed the coffin in
the grave herself.
A FEMALE SAILOR.—The Cork Conxtitution, contains
some strange particulars relative to a case of this nature.
The party in question, who went by the name of "Jemmy,"
excited suspicion as to her sex, and on being questioned
by the Head constable, said, " I will candidly tell you;
I am a woman—my name is Abigail Lindsey." Since her
committal to bridewell she has declared her desire to
resume her proper costume, and return to the place of her
birth. She says that many years ago her father and
mother, who were Irish, left Belfast and proceeded to
Halifax, in America, where her father carried on the trade
of a shipwright rather extensively, and amassed some
money, and at his death, which occurred nine years ago,
he left her in the care of a guardian with a property of
2,700 dollars a-year. Her parents had four children—
three sons and herself—she and a brother having been
born in Halifax. Sonic years since she became acquainted
with a man of the name of Ezekiel Bradford, who pro-
mised her marriage, but seduced her when sixteen years
of age. He was master of the ship Britannia, of St.
John's, which port he left never to return. Having been
delivered of a child, she determined through shame to
leave her native place, and go in search of Bradford,
whose life she sought to satiate her revenge. To effect
her object she five years back purchased a suit of sailor's
clothes and went to St. John's, where she entered on
board the ship Brunswick, Wright master, as cook and
steward. In this vessel she made three trips to London,
where she hoped to meet with Bradford, understanding
he traded to that port, carrying a dagger concealed on her
person, which she had determined to drive into his breast.
When about to leave the Thames on her last voyage in
this vessel, she espied her seducer walking along the
St. Catherine's docks, and she implored her captain to
permit her to go on shore for a few moments, but he
peremptorily refused, and she waited in the hone that a
boat would steer near the vessel, when she would have
sprung overboard, in expectation of being rescued and
landed on shore; but the anchor was weighed, and the
Brunswick floated down with the tide, and no boat came
near until she had lost all hope of overtaking Bradford.
Having retur ed to St. Jan's, she left the Brunswick
and went back to Halifax. Here she frequently met in
the streets her hitherto intimate acquaintances, hut her
dress and weather-beaten features prevented recognition.
She again returned to St. John's, and shipped in the
Calais as an able seaman, in which she made several
voyages, some of them to ports in Ireland, and, amongst
the rest, Belfast, which she longed to see. On her last
voyage to America, a sailor informed her that Ezekiel
Bradford traded to Cork, and finding the Beverley in St.
John's, about to clear for that port, she entered as cook
and steward. The voyage was boisterous, and the ship
having sprung a leak, all hands, "Jemmy" amongst. the
rest, had to take turn at the pumps, both day and night.
She says that she was always considered a smart, willing
" lad," and that she " was as well able to hand, reef and
steer and box the compass, as any able-seaman." Being
warned of the dreadful crime she would commit, and the
certain punishment that would follow her in this lite, and
after death if she committed murder, she declared her
feelings were completely altered, and that if she now met
Bradford she would not notice him. The heroine is a
rather tall, well-formed female, with dark, sparkling eyes,
, which she seldom raises from the ground. In manners
she is a complete sailor, having all the slang and careless
movement of the Jack-tar. When consulting about
change of dress, she looked for a moment regretfully on
her legs, which were encased in blue trowsers, and giv-
ing her thigh a sharp slap, exclaimed, " good bye, old
breeches !" Being visited by one of the sailors of the
Beverley, as he entered the room in which she was seated,

he cried out, "Ahoy, Jemmy Browne—how's all this, boy ?
—what makes you here, rummy ?" Ha! old shipmate,"
she replied, " here I am, bumped fast on a rock."
" How's all this ?" asked the shipmate. " Why, Jemmy,
my boy, they says your'e a woman ? ' This amused her
very much, and she laughed immoderately.