The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-19 00:00:00

SPAIN.

Christina has entered Spain ; she reached Girona on the
Ist. and left the next day for Mataro. She was expected
to reach Albacete on the 10th. The government is likely
to have a serious affair on hand, and it is reported that
war will be declared against the Emperor of Morocco, on
whose territory very lately the Spanish consul was mur-
dered. There were some trifling disturbances at Cadiz on
the 22d. Some soldiers having been insulted by the in-
habitants, the garrison was called out, and three of the
pertubators slightly wounded. Madrid journals and cor-
respondence of the 10th instant state that the marriage of
Queen Isabella to her cousin Count Trapani is considered
nearly certain. The last despatches from Roncali are
dated the 29th ult. Early that morning, the insurgents
of Alicant had made a vigorous sortie, to destroy the bat-
teries in progress of construction, but had been repulsed
with some loss. The siege artillery had not been landed.

The general diet of Hungary had adopted, without any
discussion, by a majority of 41 against 8, a motion for
the emancipation of the Jews.
Letters from Berne state that the Queen of Spain has
remitted £l,OOO towards the establishment of a catholic
school at that place.
ALGIERS.—A camel-mounted regiment has just been
formed by the French Governor of Algiers. The animals
seem as capable of being taught military exercises as
horses are.

ISTHMUS OF PANAMA.—The American journals are
full of their president's inviting a congress of commercial
nations at Paris or London to form a national (not private)
association for making a canal between the Atlantic and
the Pacific.

The Viscount de Contades died a few days ago at
Paris, from the following comparatively slight cause :
Walking along the street only a few days before, he fell
and broke his thumb. The pain brought on a fever which
terminated his life.

A letter in the Rhine Gazette says—" The divorce of
Prince Wasa from the princess of Baden is definitely
determined on. It is stated that the Princess will repair
to Manheim to her mother, and her daughter will follow
her.

The olive crop in the north of Portugal has been ruined
by the late frosts ; unhappily, too, it has been materially
injured for years to come. The bulk of the branches have
been broken off by the congealed weight upon them, and
the fruit cannot be replaced for ages—torde crescentis
olince. It is calculated that two thirds of this great source
of the farmer's wealth is entirely destroyed. As the oil
crop will thus be insufficient, it is proposed immediately
to light the streets of Lisbon with gas.
AN AMERICAN DUEL.—A cold-blooded murder, under
the name of a duel, bas lately been committed at Wash-
ington, which caused the death of a young man 18 years
old, respectably connected, named Cochran. The duel
was fought with rifles—the distance 50 paces. Young
Cochran received his opponent's ball in the forehead, and
of course survived but a short time. The affair has
created a great sensation, and it it is to be hoped some
measures will be taken to put an effectual stop to this in-
famous and cowardly practice.
Hobart-town papers of the 18th of October have come
to hand, which notice the arrival of a vessel, called the
Sisters, from New Zealand, having on board several fa-
milies who had left Nelson in consequence of the alarm
created by the late massacre of the natives. The same
ship brought a request from the local Government to Sir
Eardley Wilmot for the assistance of troops, and the
promptitude with which that request was met is alluded
to by the papers in the highest terms of praise, the Sis-
ters having arrived on the Friday, and 100 soldiers being
on their way to New Zealand the following Sunday.
There is nothing else worth notice. Wheat was 3s. 6d.
to 3s. 9d. per bushel, flour of first quality £lO per ton,
and potatoes .£5 to £6 per ton.