The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

Louis NAPOLEON BUONAPARTE
" ODILLON BARROT."

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—The Great Western steamer,
with the West Indian and Mexican mails, arrived at
Southampton on Friday. She is the bearer of 37,313 dol-
lars, onaccount of the Mexican bondholders, and 2,000,000
dollars‘bn merchants' account. The news, both political
and commercial is unimportant. Sugar, in Jamaica, was
falling. At Barbadoes, the yellow fever had broken out
among the troops. About one-third of the artillery, and
a proportion of the 66th Regiment had fallen victims. At
Jamaica, there was a good deal of sickness among the
troops,. including those stationed at Newcastle and the
lowlands, and many deaths had occurred. At Saint Lucia,
also, sickness prevailed. Mrs. Darling, the wife of the
governor, was one of the victims. Mexico was quiet, and
trade a little better.

AN INDIAN PRINCESS ABOUT TO VISIT QUEEN VIC-
*TORIA.—There are in New York two interesting young
Indian girls, one of the Mohigan tribe, about twelve years
of age; and the other a beautiful maiden of seventeen, a
princess of the Chippewa tribe, with jet black hair, three
feet long, who has arrived bete with a view of visiting
England to pay her respects to Queen Victoria, whom
she appears fully resolved to see before she returns to her
=five place. —New York paper.
The Pope is still at Gaeta, to which place it is under-
stood that the official correspondence of the Holy See is
for the present to be addressed. Positively refusing to
listen to the expostulations of the Provisional Govern-
ment at Rome, he hai named a commission to govern the
country in his absence. The mandate is, of course, dis-
regarded ; and General Zucchi, the principal commis-
sioner, remains at Bel9gna, waiting till circumstances
may put it in his power to march on Rome and restore
the fugitive sovereign.
THE KOH-I-NOOK.—This famous diamond (the largest
and most precious in the world), forfeited by the treachery
of the Sovereign at Lahore, and now under the security
of British bayonets at the fortress of Govindghur, it is
hoped will ere long, as one of the splendid trophies of our
military valour, be brought to England, in attestation of
the glory of ouCartris in India. The mischievous super-
stition attaching to the possession of this unique and
invaluable diamond might be utterly crushed by this re-
tributive consignment.
FRENCH SUPERSTITION.—It was generally understood
that the fishing population of Boulogne had unanimously
determined to vote for Cavaignac, but on the day before
the voting a fisherman returned from his avocations, and
proclaimed to his fellows that during the night he had
seen in the firmament a huge letter " N," formed by a
combination of stars. This, he alleged, was tantamount
to a conimand from heaven to vote for Louis Napoleon ;
and the entire body, moved by one common impulse, gave
their suffrages accordingly to the fortunate Prince.
LONGEVITY.—The following extraordinary case of Lon-
gevity is to be found in Paris Girard do Bury was
born on the 17th of December, 1716, and has, conse-
quently, entered his 103 d year. He is the senior advo-
cate of France, and is in full possession of all his faculties.
He placed 900 f. (X 36) in the Lafarge Savings Bank, which