The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

PRUSSIA

The Prussian Assembly met at Brandenberg on the
27th ult., but there was nit a sufficient number of mem-
bers present to constitute a house; in consequence of
which Count Brandenberg refused to bring the Royal
Message forward, and the Chamber was adjourned to the
day following. This failure of a house is not a favourable
incident, and bespeaks a rreater sympathy than was rep.
resented, with the recusant part of the Assembly, who
attempted to persist in their sittings at Berlin, in defiance
of the Royal authority.
Erfurth has been declared in a state of siege, after a
fight between the people and the soldiery, in which the
latter had the advantage, the National Guard having
refused to support the authorities, and even threatened to
join the side of the populace. The quarrel arose from
the popular opposition to the distribution of uniforms to
the Landwehr.

THE BRAZILS.
News from Rio de Janeiro, of the 15th October, ac-
quaints us that another ministry had been formed on the
29th of September, of which Viscount de Olinda was the
Premier. The new cabinet is Conservative ; that gone
out was Liberal. Trade at Rio was exceedingly dull,
with the exception of coffee, which was in great demand
at improved prices. As it regards piece goods, there had
been such a glut of imports, that it was impossible to get
rid of the articles, even at a ruinous depreciation of their
value. Exchange on London 2nd. to 24d.

Certain information has arrived in Paris to the effect
that Ibrahim Pacha died on the 10th ult., and had been
succeeded by Abbas Pacha.
The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last
to Mademoiselle de Praslin. The happy couple are to be
established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Pras-
lin, the boy's mother, which had been newly cleaned and
decorated for the occasion.
Letters have been received from the Cape of Good
Hope by the last arrival from Sir H. Smith, which de-
scribe his complete success over the Boers, and the pacifi-
cation of the extensive district which threatened so lately
to be the scene of a protracted war. Sir H. Smith had
imposed a contribution upon the Buers which would de-
fray the commissariat expenses of the troops employed,
and would leave a small garrison in a fortified post at
Blom Fontein to maintain order. At the last dates Sir
H. Smith and the forces employed, with the exception of
those appointed to defend the post, were on their return
to head quarters.

HEROIC CONDUCT—ALEXANDRIA, Nov. B.—A vessel
bound for Aden, with coals, having lost the master by
death when about twelve days' sail from her destination,
the crew conspired to take possession and dispose of her
on the coast of Arabia. However, the captain's daughter,
Miss Arnold, a young woman of the age of twenty, was
on board, and she, having received some intimation of the
piratical intentions of the men, armed herself with a pair
of pistols, secured all the fire arms, and getting the mate
and another man to join her, bravely forced the mutineers
to work the ship to Aden, where they are now in confine-
ment.

REVOLTING SPECTACLE.—One of those wretched spec-
tacles which are seen wherever the system of African
slavery is tolerated, was presented in the streets of our
city on Sunday morning last. A gang of negroes, con-
sisting of both males and females, accompanied
by a white man, on their way to a southern market,
passed along Chesnut-street, as the bells of the various
churches were calling on Christians to assemble at their
respective places of worship. In front of the procession
was a large waggon, in which were thickly stowed several
women and children. This was followed by forty-three
men and boys walking, several of them chained together,
the whole under the charge of a man on horseback. This
miserable spectacle excited the honest indignation of our
citizens, who regarded, it as a direct insult offered to them,
and the day, aad the hour.—Louisville .Examiner.
VIRGIN SILVER.—From the Swedish official paper, of
the 27th of October last, we learn that on the 14th of
September, the workmen employed in the King's mine,
which is one of the Kongsberg silver mines in Norway,
found a lump of pure native silver, weighing 208 lbs. ; and
on the 6th of October another lump of virgin silver,
equally pure in quality, of no less weight than 436 lbs.,
was dug out of the same mine. It is a fact worthy of
being recorded, that about twenty years ago this mine was
offered for sale in London for the sum of £10,000; but the
capitalists of that day had not sufficient confidence in the
treasures it was represented to possess, to advance this
comparatively small price. Subsequently the Norwegian
Government was strongly urged by the scientific of that
country to work the mines at the expense and for the
benefit of that state. The operations were commenced,
and prosecuted with vigour ; and fora considerable num-
ber of years this mine has annually yielded to the Govern-
ment of Norway a much larger revenue than the price which could not previously be obtained for the mine ,
itself.

GENERAL i1e14.--it is generally believed that General
136 m has escaped the search made for him by the Austrian
authorities. If he be captured, he will be shot without
mercy—a fate for which he is prepared by the most daring
spirit and the most extraordinary intrepidity. General
IMm is the son of a Gorman, but was born in Poland.
His reputation as an artillerist statids high ; it is, however,
of his wallinehing courage, and perhaps of his relentless