The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-23 00:00:00

lug wit

ich as-the presence of Don- Miguel,' or of

ling with the of
.ich might give rise

to the question how far ex-

cl warrant our interference.
CDEEN remarked that this Government
ly cautious, because it had someho'w,
'y, obtained circulation that the

cause of the insurrection had the good wishes of the
British Government. The force we had in the Tagus was
sufficient to overawe the entire kingdom. We took a,
perhaps, too active part in placing the Queen of Portugal
on her throne, and we ought now to give at least such
support to her Majesty as would show that we disapproved
of the insurrection.

arl of ELLENBOROTIGEI could not say what our

large fleet in the Tagus was 'there for ; bait he could
safely say that, but for its presence there, the Queen of
Portugal would have met Don Miguel in London._,

Lorca BROUGHANI presented a petition from Liverpool
on the state of the criminal law, especially with respect to
juvenile, offenders. The noble lord t! ~:n entered, in an
elaborate speech, into the statistics of crime in this and
other countries, and called on the house, if they agreed
with him and the petitioners in their sense of the infinite
importance, of the subject, and thought that the time was

e Criminal law,

for a pr

Id at a very early

the prayer of the petition.
After some observations
and Earl GREI
their lordships

from the Duke of RicilmoNn,
ther business was disposed of, and

HOUSE OF LORDS.—FRIDAY.
arl of ELLENBOROUGH asked whether her Ma-
linisters would produce copies of a correspon-

deuce which had taken place between the.government of

heavy rai
armind

in last Christmas w
(la, St. Vincent, at

I.t Antigua a bill to as-
)f the land to that of the mother

fajor Yea, of the ith'Fiiiiliera
imilate the eurren

Ad passed the assembly. 164 emigrants from
sadeir arrived at Dominica .on the 19th of January. A
rt s ock of earthquakewas felt at Trinidad on the 13th
rn.ary. Lord Harris, the Governor of Trinidad, has
a premium for the best essay on the cultivation of
e sugar-cane in Trinidad. HiS lordship was entertained
dinner by the heads of departments, principal officers
of the garrison, and other official personages, on New
Year - ^f Portland. (seventy-six days

mars ,-
f January

s-aay. The Duke o.
.rom Madras) landed 172 male Coolies, 64 women, and
85 children at Port of Spain, on the '

2nd of January

one p.m. the whole had found employers

NEW ZEALAND
The bark Cecilia, Captain Pearce,•

contract Kauri spars, and a small quantity of copper ore,
arrived at Plymouth on the 15th inst., from Auckland,
New Zealand. The native chief Held, who formerly die-

likely to remain so. In the south the vigorous measures
of Governor Greyhave completely suppressed the rebel-
lious efforts of Rangbieta, whose brother was taken priso-

ndr in Cook

turbanees on the river Hutt. The course. pursued by the
new colonial government at Wellington has given entire sa -

tisfactiou

RIVEIt PLATA

The William Peile, Captain Sproat

from Monte Video, arrived at LiverpoOl on Friday. s She
left the Cisplatine capital on the ltith December, but up

[ling of importance hat

Tll E 'LTV R Pfo
VPSMERWESSAMIMINNORM'a

DREADFUL SHIPWRECK.—The fine ,paoket Creole,
which was long employed between New (Means and
Bordeaux, has been wrecked on the eastern coast of the
island of Cuba. She:left Bordeaux on the Sth of Novem-
ber, with 135 persons onboard, including crew and pas=
sengers. On the 19th of December she was driven on the
submarine rocks of Nuevitas, Canal of Bahama, and re-
mained in this perilous situation during two days and

nights. All hopes of getting her off, notwithstanding the
passengers added their exertions to those of the crew, be-
ing at an end, the captain ordered here masts to be cut off
by the board, and turned every effort to save the passen-
gers ; but before means could be taken the ship broke up.
Out of 155 persons, only 82 reached the shore. Among
those who were lost was the captain, M. Jules Cayol, who
refused to quit the vessel until every other living person
had been rot off. Those saved have been well-treated by

the inhabitants, and were expecting to leave shortly fe

New Orlea, s

BLACK SEA

Iter from 0

—The Sietle- quotes thq following
—osa, of the 29th ult. :—" The trade of
sa was never more flourishing than in 1846. In the
:e of that year, 1,441 vessels entered our harbour,

and 1,512 sailed from' it. The exports amounted to
22,763,055 effective roubles (91,052.220 f.), and the im-
ports to 7,745,047 effective roubles (30,508,4620, forming
together a total of 30;508,462 roubles, and showing an
increase, as compared with the amount of the preceding
year, of 4,318,360 roubles. The imports of 1846 con-
sisted of 5,840,803 effective roubles (25,363,2080 in
merchandise, and 1,9(4,605 roubles (7,618,4200 in spe-
cie. The wheat exported last year exceeded 2,000,000
tzetwers, representing .a value of 15,000,000 of effective
roubles (60,000,000 f.), the largest quantity of grain ever
)orted from Odessa in one year. There were still
725,000 tzetwers of
95.000 tzetwers of
30,000 tzetwers

of. 'fia; seed.'

instan

Saturday, the 31st
to run between

line of steam shit

New York and Bremen, touching at Cowes, was launched
at New York. She is built of white oak ; length of keel
220 feet, length of upper deck, 240 feet, extreme length
over all 260 feet ; breadth of beam moulded, 39 feet ;
depth of hold, 31 feet ; on the outside 40 feet ; Custom-
house measurement, 1750 tons; carpenters' measurement,
2350: she has four decks, the upper one will be flush fore

with ten fc

ana they weigh 20,000

are of cast

weighs 4U,000 pounds; she has an entire wrougnt-iron
frame ' • four cranks and shafts, each weighing 8000 poimds ;
the shafts are 20 inches in diameter, and 18 inches in the

feet diameter. The cabins are designed to accommodate
2.00 fiist, and about 72 second class passengers. Her
*eight capacities, and all the wants of the ship, including
coal, &c., will be 600 tons. She will be commanded by
Capt. Hewitt, late of the Havre packet ship Utica, and
will leave New York on her first voyage about the first of

EMIGRATION TO THE UNITED STATES.—MT. Seaman
has introduced a bill into the Houk of. Representatives,
the object of which is to prevent the evils arising out of..

ie pans

. .
fling sum, getting rid effectually of supporting them, and
throwing upon us the responsibility and expense of pro-
vhouse or prison accommodation for the trans-

viding

mat agents of the tnited States shall examine on oath or
otherwise, as may best serve the proposed end, all immi-
grants who take passage in vessels from the ports where
they are resident, and which vessels are bound for the
United States ; and if it appears that such emigrants havq
not been paupers or convicts, then the consuls are to give

effect ; but if, on the contrary, itap-
)ears that they have been the inmates of prisons or work-
houses, the consuls are to refuse the certificiates; The
certificates, when given, are to be duplicated, and a copy
sent to the authorities of the port for which OIL vessel
sails. Persons arriving .in ports of the United States
without such certificates are to be sent whence they came,
and the master or owner of the vessel from which any im-
migrant is landed without such certificate shall be liable to
a tine of £l.so.—American paper.

certificates to that

AN INDIAN BATTLE.—kietter from a gentleman at
Council Bluffs, dated on the 17th of December, to his cor-

respondent in St. Louis, states that on the previous day a
band of the Omahas were met by a band of the Sioux, in
the neighbourhood of
,the Bluffs, that a battle ensued be-

ween them ; and that the

killed 60 of t

before the conflict terminated. The following p'articulars
we find in a letter to the St. Louis Republican :—" ltwas
a cold-blooded butc,hery of women and children, in the.
absence of all the warriors of the village. On the night
of the 12th and 13th, the letter states. a war_party of

of the Omaha tribe of Indians, located at the time at
Wood's Bluffs, situated about 60 miles from. this place—
Belleview. •The men and warriors of the Omahas bad
left the-camp on a hunt ; and the Sioux, soon after they
reached the camp, discovered that they had only women

and children to contend with. The slaughter was terrible
73 were killed, and 19 mortally wounded. Two men
made their escape—one of them named Joseph Lafleche,

a trader in the employ OT nir. r
time in charge of a stock of p

He ran from the
ne of blood barefooted, and arrived at Belleview with
Sharp and Major Miller, the pre-

soth feet frozen

fact Ind they confirmed, on their return, the report of
Lafl They also reported that five of the Sioux In-
dian _Led, no doubt stabbed by the Omaha
Squaws. _ g2O miles further than the ground of the
massacre they found the place where the_ goods of the
trader had been divided among the robbers. "It seems,"
adds the letter, " that fate is against the Omaha Indians.
Four or, five days before this event took place, one camp,
lodging at Carbanne's old trading house, was'attacked by

s had been I
Goin

A by the well known
nen wounded, and

a war party of-Ayonas, commai
chief White Cloud, and four of tin

American paper, the following estimate of the supplies
that can be furnished from New Orleans, and which is
stated to be made by a long-established and extensive

louse iu

rleans, intimate

ly acquaintec

capabilities. of all the cultivated districts on the great
plain of the Mississippi, the produce of which passes by
New Orleans. The statement embraces, the probable
amount of provisions that have come or will come to New
Orleans, from the Ist September past to the 31st August,
1847." It is impossible (say the writers) to -say with any
a'coaracy, what portion of it will reach England, as large
ships cannot get to New Orleans for want of a sufficient
depth of water at the entrance of the Mississippi ; this
diffieulty.will be overcome next year by the recent dis-

covery of Cat Island Harbour, where vessels or th_e.
largest class can be admitted and laden with grain anc