The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.

Advices have been received from the Cape to the 7th of
April, being three days later than that brought by the
Hellespont. No engagement of any consequence had
taken place. It is evident the Caffres were in great force,
while Sir Harry Smith had not sufficient to do any more
than to act on the defensive until the arrival of reinforce-
ments. There had been a few skirmishes, with the loss
of one or two lives, in some harassing expeditions against
the Kaffirs ; but nothing further worthy of notice had
occurred. The journal, South African, in reviewing the
state of things asks the following :—" With the Gaikas
at open war, with a reinforcement to their ranks from the
Stambies, with the connivance of the Amagalekas, with
the Tambookies and almost every native chief throughout
British Kaffraria and the Sovereignty in arms. with the
Hottentot rebellious, and defection in the army to boot,
what actual prospect is there, we presuthe to ask, of a
speedy termination of hostilities ?"

Accounts from brussels, dated Wednesday, announce
that the ministerial crisis is at an end. The ministry
which had resigned is to remain in effice.
A general officer, at Madrid, having last week detected
his wife intriguing with an ecclesiastic, mortally wounded
the priest on the spot, and he died in 24 hours after.
The house in Berlin, wherein dwelt the celebrated Jew-
ish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn, has been purchased
by the. Hebrew community of that city, for the purpose of
founding therein, with the approbation of the government,
a school in which poor orphans may, without distinction
of religion, be taught some means of earning their bread.
A duel took place on Saturday morning at Versailles
between the Prince de Canino and M. Rossi, the son of
Baron Rossi, who was assassinated at Rome. The duel
was caused by M. Rossi having lain in wait for the Prince,
whom he struck in the face. After two shOts exchanged
severally at 30 paces and at 15 paces. a profound expres-
sion of regret was offered by the Prince of Canino that he
should hare been supposed to sympathise in an act which
he regarded with the utmost horror and disgust, arid both
parties shook hands.
WOMEN'S RIOT IN MADRID.—The Madrid correspon-
dent of the Daily News writing on the 23rd inst., says:—
" Within a few days the University, the cigar manufac-
tory, and the water-carriers have all had their emeutes, in
which there has been serious fighting. The women of the
tobacco establishment broke out in mutiny from the re-
duction of wages of new corners, from 8 reels to 21.
They assaulted the overseers and destroyed a great quan-
tity of cigars and furniture. To-day finding that the
promises by which they were quieted yesterday have not
been fulfilled, they have burst out into fresh rebellion.
The civic guard has been sent to reduce them to obedience,
but they defend themselves with stones; and their lovers
have attacked the civic guards in the rear and wounded
several. At the same moment I hear that the poor of
San Bernadino are in open revolt. The Asturian water-
carriers are fighting at the fountains, which are beginning
to fail with the drought and heat which has set in."

SOMETHING LIKE A RING.—We have seen a ring ma-
nufactured by Jacks Brothers, and intended as a present
for General Lewis Cass, which not only from its beauti-
ful workmanship, but from its size and design, is an
object of much interest. It is of very large proportions,
weighing six ounces, and being of solid specimen gold.
The plate is surmounted by a specimen of gold-bearing
quartz from Los Angelos, with the name of " Lewis
Cass" in raised letters. It opens by a spring, and dis-
closes tour compartments covered with glass, and con-
taining gold from Yuba, Feather River, Mariposa, and
Gold Bluff respectively. On the reverse of the plate is
the following inscription :—" Presented to Lewis Cass by
his friends in California." J. B. Bidleman, J. S. Hager,
J. R. Hardenbergh, Charles J. Torbert, Daniel Henry,
Oliver Charlie, John H. Seranton, G. B. Poet, Dr. J.
Bush, W. M. Eddy, F. D. Kohler, George H. Blake.
This beautiful specimen is to be sent by the next steamer.
—San Francisco Herald.
ANECDOTE OF THE PRINCE OF PRUSSIA.—We find
the following in a letter from Aix-la-Chapelle :—" A
wealthy Englishman arrived here a few da, s since with
his family on a trip to the Continent. As he had made
the same journey several times before, he was satisfied
with the assurance that his English Ministerial passport
would require nothing more than the vise of the Belgian
Ambassador. With this he arrived Aix-la-Chapelle.
Two police agents examined his pass, called him out of
his carriage, and told him he could not be allowed to
proceed further into Prussia till he had procured the sig-
nature of the Prussian Consul at Malines. In vain the
Englishman referred to his frequent former journeys, his
ignorance of any new passport regulations, undertook to
obtain in Cologne the very best `legitimation.' All was
useless. His family was sent on by the train, but he was
kept by the police at the station, It happened that the
next train brought the Prince of Prussia, who was on his
return from England. The English gentleman without
hesitation introduced himself to his Royal Highness and
explained his position. The Prince immediately invited
him to take a seat in his train, an offer, of course, thank-
fully accepted. As he took his seat, the Englishman ap-
peared not to know whether to laugh or be angry "at the
great contrast the sudden and extraordinary politeness of
the police agents present compared with their former
behaviour to him."—Constitutionnel.
LOVE AND SUICIDE.—The Paris Breit publishes a
remarkable account of a suicide, and an attempt at suicide
at La Chapelle St. Dennis :—" A tailor named Alexandre
had been long living with a female named Marguerite,
and had at length resolved to marry her, but the parents
of the female objected to the marriage. The female,
finding that her parents could not be induced to give their
consent, told Alexandre that she would quit him, on
which he declared that, if she did so, he would put an end
to his existence. Eventually they came to the determi-
nation to die together, and purchased a quantity of char-
coal for that purpose. Having closed up all the windows,
the fire-place, and the door, they embraced each other,
lighted the charcoal, and lay down to die. In a short
time the female lost all consciousness, but her lethargic
state did not continue long, and, turtling towards her
lover, she found that he was already dead. She now put
on more charcoal, and again fell off into a sleep, but awoke
a second time with no other effect from the charcoal than
a violent headache. Again she put on charcoal, and again
she lost her consciousness. This must have been near
the morning, for at daylight some of the people in the
house, struck by the peculiar smell from the room, entered
it, and found Alexandre lying on the bed quite dead, and
The female apparently so. On op, ning the window the
air revived the woman, and in a few minutes she was able
to relate what had passed.
THE EXTRAORDINARY MURDER IN BELGIUM.—In our
last week's paper we gave the commencement of the trial
of Count Hyppolyte Visart de Bocarene and his wife, on
a charge of having murdered the brother of the latter by
the forcible administration of nicotine. The sittings again
occupied the whole of Thursday and Friday. In the
course of the examination of the Count lie endeavoured to
give a new aspect to the case, by stating that his object in
studying the nicotine was to discover the best quality of
tobacco, which was proved by the quantity of nicotine it
contained, as he thought that study might be useful to his
father, who cultivated tobacco in America. On being
asked if he knew who was the author of the :rime, his re-
ply was, that it was his wife, who had given nicotine to
' Gustave and himself, mistaking it for wine. From the
interrogations of the court and the replies, this account
seemed highly improbable, and portions of the evidence
went to show that considerable violence must have been
used towards Gustave. The proceedings were again ad-
journed. The trial was still proceeding by the latest ac-
counts. The examination turned chiefly on the behaviour