The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-17 00:00:00

FRANCE

The candidates for the French presidency are Cavaignac,
Lamartine, and Louis Napoleon—the latter is expected to
win—The quondam Hotel Wigram is being fitted up for
the Prince, who says little and hopes much. The resig-
nation of the General was talked of ; he has consented,
however, to remain as a warming-pan for his probable suc-
cessor. Five of the ministers are expected to resign ;
General Bedeau, M. Dufaure, M. Havin, M. Fould, and
M. Vivien, are mentioned as about to take office; the
names of the deserters are Senard, Recurt, Marie, Bas-
tide, and Vaulabelle. The tinkers of the constitution
have all been turned off, except a few first-rate bands ;
the article is wanted in a hurry, and is promised by the
end of the month, when France is once more to know
what are her principles. A scheme for coining paper
money chargeable on landed property has been repudiated
by the Chamber. In a debate on the freedom of the
press, ministers had a majority of only nine-345 against
336.
The admission of MM. Dufaure, Vivien, and Freslon
into the cabinet, has already caused a serious division
amongst the Republican party. M. Ducoux, the Prefect
of Police, has forwarded his resignation, in an angry letter,
addressed to General Cavaignac, and his example has been
followed by several municipal councillors, M. Ducoux has
been replaced by M. Gervais de Caen. The Moniteur
states that the new ministry have resolved to raise the
state of siege, and to transport the insurgents of June to
Algeria.
The assignees of Louis Philippe have been ordered to
pay his debts, and to make an allowance for himself and
his family. Is M. Guizot to have nothing for keeping the
nation so long from cutting its throat ?

It is proposed to build another suspension bridge over
the Niagara, opposite Queenston, in Canada.
At the present time only 17 prisoners for debt are con-
fined in all the various prisons of Belgium.
The battle of the 24th ult., at Valencze terminated in
favour of the Hungarians, the troops of the Ban of Croatia
having retreated in confusion.
In Hungary, all bishops appointed by the sovereign
immediately perform every part of their functions which
relates to jurisdiction, before they have been confirmed
by the Pope.
The German poet Freiligrath, who had been charged
with having published a poem exciting the people to re-
volt, was tried and acquitted at Dusseldorf, on the 3rd
instant, and received an immense number of nosegays
from a crowd of his admirers who attended his trial.
The Roman correspondent of the Daily News says of
the Eternal City :—" Every hotel is closed up here.
There is not a single wealthy stranger in Rome. The re-
sident nobility have moved off to the mountains round
about. Most of the foreign artists have left months ago
in despair of employment."
Mr. Green made another ascent (his 201st), from the
Hippodrome, in Paris, on Sunday. Ile was accompanied
by four persons and a monkey, the latter in a parachute.
When at a certain height the cord was cut, and the para-
chute gently descended on a house in the Champs Ely-
sees. Mr. Green and his companions continued their
voyage and descended near Corbeil.
The Grampus frigate brings nearly two millions of dol-
lars from the west coast of Mexico and South America.
The amazing mineral riches of those countries are daily
developing themselves ; and, through all the vicissitudes
of commerce here, a profitable trade has been carried on.
From the Brazils, there is nothing very encouraging ; the
low exchange (22d. per milrea) precludes all profits on
goods. General Rosas has now definitively refused to re-
ceive our ambassader. Mr. Hood ; and it is high time that
some step should be taken with regard to the River Plate
trade. The Mexican government has proposed a reduc-
tion of 50 per cent. from the duties of the tariff of 1845.
NEW EXPLORING EXPEDITION IN AUSTRALIA.—We
learn by the last papers from Sydney, that Mr. Kennedy,
who accrmpanied Sir Thomas Mitchell in his last expedi-
tion into the interior of Australia, and who afterwards so
successfully explored the sources of the Victoria, is about
to st irt on another expedition of discovery, into an en-
tirely new region, it is called York Peninsula, supposed to
contain much valuable country. Its maritime boundaries
will render it in all probability, at no very distant period,

the seat of a new colony, if so it will form a valuable
depot for the shipment of horses todndia. His instruc-
tions are to proceed with his party in the Tam O'Shanter
to Roshingham Bay, in the parallel of 18 deg. S., and if
ready. under convoy of her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake,
to travel thence by land to Princess Charlotte's Bay and
Cape York, keeping the most convenient distance from
the coast. After communicating with the Rattlesnake,
or Bramble, at Port Albany, near Cape York, and receiv-
ing a supply of provisions to be forwarded by the govern-
ment in four months' time, the explorer will move down
the east coast of the Gulf of 'Carpentaria, to the water
Plaaetts, to ascertain whether this is the estuary of Lich-
ard's river Mitchell, and, if so, to follow it up to the junc-
tion of the Lynd. From the junction of the Lynd with
Mitchell River, the expedition is to strike off W.S.W. to
the Flinders, ascertaining its•souree, and from it to con-
nect the journey with Sir Thomas Mitchell's discoveries
in 1846, by the Bellyindo, or some other convenient point,
and thence return is to be made to Sydney. The party
will consist of twelve persons, under the direction of E.B.
Kennedy, Esq., namely, Mr. Ball, the young naturalist,
who accompanied him in the former expedition. Mr.
Cahow, who came out four years ago as a gardener, and
whose knos ledge of colonial plants is said to be consider-
able. Mr. Niblett, who is to act as superintendent, eight
other persons, and Harley, the aboriginal native who was
employed on the last journey. The equipment for this
party is to consist of 27 horses, 250 sheep, 47501b5. flour,
1428 pounds of sugar. 196 pounds of tea, 3 pounds pow-
der, 252 pounds of shot, and sufficient ammunition to
serve as protection in case of necessity. The instruments
employed will be a syphon barometer, by Chevalier, of
Paris, three large and one pocket sextant, two prismatic
compasses, an azimuth, an altitude circle, two artificial
horizons, and three feet telescope on a stand. The arms
consist of seven double-barrelled carbines, one single car-
bine, four double-barrelled guns, one rifle, and thirteen
brace of pistols. The expedition is also provided with two
very necessary aids for carrying water and crossing rivers.
For the former purpose there are two three-gallon kegs,
and twelve air pillows ; and for the latter, one water-tight
cart, and two life-preservers. Thus equipped, it is confi-
dently believed that no expedition hitherto sent out has
had greater promise of success.—Emigrant's Journal.