The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-09 00:00:00

CALCUTTA

The Indigo crop of the season is very favourably reported
upon, and the good accounts received of the appearance of
the plant have induced some parties to estimate the probable
quantity at 110,000 mounds, while others think it will fall
short of that considerably.

changea in the Adininistration—Aanges whitib are oakulet.gd
equally to weaken the Government and to impede Ora, ad-
vancement of the empire."
The latest quotation of exchange at Rio was 261 ; it had,
since the departure of the last packet, been as high as 271;
but, on attaining that rate, suddenly began to decline. Cof-
fee had, in consequence, risen in price.
An arrival, last evening, in a Danish schooner, called the
Charlotte, direct from Buenos Ayres, whence she sailed on
the 11th of March, has furnished us with the following later
information to the foregoing, extracted from a Buenos Ayrean
paper (the British Packet) of the 4th of that month :
No packets from Monte Video having arrived during the
week, our advices from that place do not come up to a very
I late date.

" It is stated that Rivera, in his flight towards Cerro
Largo, was overtaken on the 16th of February by General
Ignacio Oribe on the sources of the Santa Lucia Chica,
where he was attacked and routed, losing 200 men (killed)
and 300 prisoners, as also his carts and baggage ; and at the
date of the last intelligence he was reported to be hemmed
in with his remaining followers in the Rincon de la Florida
whence it was considered hardly possible that he could
escape.'

1"'On the 23rd President Oribe, in person, made a recon-
noissance as far as the Cordon, during which operation half
a battalion of Basque troops came over to him from the,
town.
" The head-quatters of the Confederate Army were, on
the 27 ult., at the Saladio of Chopitea, about two miles from
the fortifications.
" General Angel Nunez had landed, and was in command
of the besieging line. The lady and family of that officer
arrived yesterday in this city from off Monte Video.
" As the term of Rivera's four years' usurpation expired
on the Ist inst., and he was understood to have signified his
intention of retiring from the Presidency, modestly content-
ing himself with the command of the armed force, the form
of an election was to have been gone through on Wednesday
last, when it was expected that his vice-regent in Monte
Video would be dignified with the precarious title of Presi-
dent."

A French paper, quoting a letter from Bourg, says :
" The great object of conversation here is an eagle which a
sportsman has just killed, as astonishing as the roc of the
' Arabian Nights' Entertainments.' In its stomach were
found several diamonds and other jewels, small in size, but
of very fine water."

A deplorable accident has just occurred in Berlin. A
young lady, the daughter of one of the officers of the staff,
was wiping her face with a towel, when she suddenly uttered
a piercing scream, and the blood was seen to flow in abun-
dance. By chance a needle had been left in the towel, which
entered her eye so deeply as to occasion the loss of sight.

ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE THE VICEROY OF Lost-
BARDY.—IiiS Imperial Highness the Archduke Viceroy was
returning on foot. at about seven o'clock, from his ordinary
promenade, accompanied by one of his chamberlains, when,
on reaching the Place del Duomo, and at about fifty steps
from his residence, his Imperial Highness was accosted by
an individual of a certain age. The man held a petition in
his hand, and whilst he presented it on his knees to the au-
gust Prince, he abruptly struck him in the right side with a
small piece of iron, which had neither a sharp point nor. an
edge, and, therefore, produced but a slight bruize. Being
immediately arrested, the wean was forthwith recognised to
be a street-porter, of the name of Ichovanni Sinelli, already
repeatedly brought to justice for having made attempts on the
life of a person of high rank, and struck one of his agents,
because he alleged, in his monomania, that he was his cre-
ditor to an enormous amount. In the last twelve years this
individual has been several times sent to the Lunatic Hos-
pital, whence he has been discharged, whenever the physicians
have declared that his mental derangement had ceased.
Being restored to liberty, he was continually troubling the
authorities and his Imperial and Royal Highness with extra-
vagant demands relative to his pretended claim. Yesterday
evening, again, he confessed having attacked the august
Prince because he had not done him justice. The unfortu-
nate man had beforehand written down the plan of his atro-
cious design. In that note, which was found about him, and
addressed to the President of the Criminal Court, the fol-
lowing were found among other strange ones :—" I warn you
of the fatal mission which Almighty God, our Creator, has
given me. He orders me to sacrifice the Most Serene
Prince." His Imperial Highness, who was not at all
wounded, re-entered his residence quietly and in the best
humour.