The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-03-07 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDAR&

letter from Colmar of the 29th, which it deems-deserving
of fuliconfidence:—On the evening of the 29th, on the
installation of the Preach Provisional Government's
Commissioner, the news arrived that there was fighting at
Carlsruhe. A postscript to the same letter says that a
rising has taken place in the Baden country ; the tri-
coloured flag is hoisted everywhere; and Mentz (Hesse
Darmstadt) is in open rebellion.
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he Pacha of Egypt has left Alexandria for Malta, for
the benefit of his health.
Lord Hardinge and suite arrived at Cossier, on the lgth
ult., and proceeded across the desert to )Kenneh,- and
from thence he intends proceeding to Thebes, and, pro-
bably, some of the neighbouring temples, -and -was- ex-
pected to return to Alexandria on the 26th.
Tom Thumb had a narrow escape from drowning,
from a collision of steamers on the Mississippi on the 6th
ult. There was a great confusion in the boat, but Mr.
Barnum picked up the mannikin and bore him safe to the
shore.

The King of Prussia is about to send a scientific expe-
dition into Negroland, in search of some vast and splen-
did ruins of an ancient city, which a Mahmnmedan tra-
veller, whose work has been translated from the Turkish
by Dr. Rosean, asserts that he discovered during his
wanderings in Central Africa.

Dr. Wrsemanlti;TaUsed to be inserted in the Roman
(official) Gazette, a rather strong paragraph, to the effect
that he has no connexion with the London Tablet, and
that he is " very far from being a party to its exaggerated
notions ;" and that he is no collaborator of Mr. Lucas
the editor.

THE TRIAL OF LEOTADE AT TOULOUSE.—The people of
Toulouse have become so excited at the disclosures made
on this trial that they have sacked the .establishment of
the Christian Brethren in that town. The general of
the order has summoned the brethren to tell the truth,
no matter what may be the consequences, and not dare to
screen the murderers of the unfortunate Cecille Combet-
tees.

THE INDIAN MAlL.—Apprehension has been enter-
tained that the outward Indian mail was destroyed during
the recent disturbances in France. Official information of
its safety has, however been received. The Admiralty has
ordered one of the best steamers to proceed direct to
Malta, to meet the mails that were to leave Hong Kong
on the 31st of January. Calcutta the Bth, and Bombay
the 16 of February, and to convey them direct/to South-
ampton.

SUICIDE OF A CLERGYMAN AT MALTA.-013 the morn-
ing of the 23d of February, the Rev. Robert Irvine, M.A..
Incumbent of S. John's, Waterloo-road, Lambeth, who
occupied apartments at Barker's (Princess Royal) Hotel,
was found in his bed room with his throat cut, and dead,
evidently having committed suicide. The deceased had
lately arrived at Malta fr nn Tunis, and no cause has as
yet been discovered for his committing the act, though
it is rumoured that some of the rev. gentleman's friends
and acquaintances had witnessed in him for several weeks
previous a change of manner.
SLAVE-HOLDING JURISPRUDENCE.-The Charleston
Courier contains a list of criminals recently sentenced by
the City Court of Charleston for various crimes. Among
them we noticed that one man. for a highway robbery,
was sentenced to a few months' imprisonment and a
slight fine; while ano her, William Smith, for negro steal-
ing, (abducting negroes from their masters), is to be im-
prisoned until the first Friday in September next, and
then hung by the neck until he is dead. So it seems that
in South Carolina negro stealing is a vastly greater crime
than robbery.—New York Evangelist.
STATE OF EUROPE.—If the symptoms of France are
menacing, the state of Europe is so too. Spain is dis-
organised—ltaly on fire—Switzerland in legalised re-
bellion against order and religion—Austria smouldering—
Belgium, and, perhaps, Holland, ready for revolt—Poland
is smarting from recv t—Germany agitated

by wild

.:ent chastisme.,..
though, as yet. aimless desires-4

ireece stands

on me edge of military revolution—and, finally, Rome
herself, the centre of religious subordination, holds out
her hand to Democracy—not fanciful, abstract Democracy,
but such as the nineteenth century beholds her—and tells
her that " She shall reign."
IMPORTANT MOVE.—A bill has been introduced into
the Legislature of Alabama, the object of which is to pre-
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vent the separation of the families of negroes, and to
exempt them from sale by legal process. A motion was
made to indefinitely postpone the bill; but it was lost
by a large majority. A good, a glorious move !
holders will not belie their better natures, or much longer'
tolerate injustice, by submitting to the terrible moral
wrong of separating families, and a cold blooded traffic
in slaves. Will the Kentucky Legislature, following the
Alabama, legalize the marriage of coloured persons, and
forbid the desecration of home ties ? Will churches, in.
obedience to the Word of God, insisting upon these mat-
ters declare, that no man ought to separate families, and
traffic in human flesh for money ?—Louisville Examiner..