The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-10-10 00:00:00

SPAIN

On the evening of the 22nd ult., there was an explosion
of the powder magazine, situate outside of the Bilboa
Gate, at Madrid. Several houses were more or less
damaged, and the number of persons killed is estimated
at between thirty and forty. It could not be ascertained
whether the calamity was the consequence of accident or
design. Several pesrons had been apprehended on sus-
picion._ _ _ . . .

The Supreme Junta of Saragossa has proclaimed that
all employgs who do not adhere to the pronunciamento
lose their places, and that those ejected as Esparterints,
shall be restored to theirs. Don Jose de Crof is named
commandant-general of the province.
Madrid has been placed virtually under martial law,
without the ceremony of a proclamation, and numerous
arrests have taken place at the sole will and pleasure of
the government and its dictator, Narvaez. The Spaniards
have already found out that they have exchanged their
King Log for King Stork with a vengeance.

Accounts from Saragcssa, post, of the 25th, show
the complete falsehood of the telegraphic accounts given
from that town. Instead of the town being blockaded or
hard pressed, the Eco of the 25th says,—" Some de-
spatches have been exchanged between the Captain-Gen-
eral Lopez Banns and the Central Junta of '-aragossa.
The general declared that he would not attack the town,
unless himself attacked. Alcaniz had adhered to, and
imitated the rising of Saragossa.

The Gazette of the Grand Duchy of Hesse announces
the accouchement of the Grand Duchess Maria, wife of
the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia, of a Prince, at St.
Petersburg, on the 20th ult.
GENERAL JACKSON.—The rumoured death of this
great and good man has no foundation but an indorsement
upon a way bill between Cincinnati and Wheeling.—
Boston Post.

A diligence between Dole and Niogret was nearly de-
stroyed by fire a few days ago, from a piece of tinder used
in lighting a pipe having fallen upon some straw. Before
the fire could be extinguished it had made such progress
that the passengers were nearly suffocated by the smoke.

The Journal des Debats announces, that the French
government has obtained from that of Piedmont a further
reduction of duties on the importation of wines and bran-
dies, on porcelain, and on Parisian elegancies. It has
conceded in retui n an abolition of some tonnage duties, a
diminution of the duties on rice, white lead, and cattle.
The duties on spirits introduced by the Savoy frontier
will be reduced one-fifth for that below 22 degrees, and
one-sixth for that above it.

THE INSURRECTION IN THE PA PAL STATES.—
ROME, Sept. 21.—According to the latest intelligence
received here, the bands of insurgents at Bologna have
been broken up, and many prisoners have been made.
It is mentioned that an Englishman has been taking part,
as an amateur, in this mountain warfare. Captives con-
tinue to be made, and the gaols are filled with prisoners
of all classes. The Grand Duke of Tuscany has con-
sented to send back all the rebels who may take refuge
in his territory.—Brussels paper.
HORRIBLE MURDER.—An inhabitant of Lommel, in
Belgium. suspecting that his wife had misconducted her-
self with an officer of the Customs a few evenings ago,
reproached her with infidelity. A violent quarrel took
place, and the woman became so exasperated that she
went to the room of the Custom-house officer, who lived
iu the same house, and taking a pair of loaded pistols from
his table, returned with them, and discharged one of them
at her husband. Having wounded but not killed him, she
deliberately fired the other into his breast, and completed
her object. The next morning she attempted to destroy
herself with the sharp edge of the cover of a pot in which
some coffee had been brought her. She made a severe
and ragged wound in the throat, but did not accomplish
her purpose.—Galignani's Messenger.
ARRIVAL OF THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The Royal
mail steamer Tay, Commander Hayden, arrived on Thurs-
day evening, with Mexican and West Indian mails,
bringing twenty-seven passengers, and on freighl 300,000
dollars and 240 serons cochineal. Her dates of leaving
are :—from Tampico the 19th August, Vera Cruz the Ist
of September, Havana the 9th, Nassau the 11th, and
from Bermuda the 20th of September. The Tay brings
dates from Demerara to the 4th September, Jackmel to
the 10th, and from St. Thomas to the 15th. The royal
mail steamer Clyde brought the Windward Island mails
to Bermuda. The mails by the Tay were not landed at
Falmouth, but taken to Southampton. Among the pas-
sengers by this arrival is a Mr. Cueto, from Vera Cruz,
who is the bearer of all despatches from General Santa
Anna. The Royal mail steamer Thames brought the Ja-
maica mails to St. Thomas, and dates from that island to
the Sth September, and also accounts of a serious fire
having taken place at Kingston on Saturday, the 26th of
August, particulars of which will be found elsewhere.
UNITED STATES.—The packet-ship Hibernia, Bunt-
ing, which left New 'York on the 19th ult., arrived here
on Sunday morning. The Stock Market was active and
money continued abundant. The Havre packet, of the
16th, took nearly two thousand dollars in specie, but
there was no disposition to send that commodity to
England. The supply of bills was good, and but little
alteration had taken place in the rate of Exchange, which
was on London 109 to 1091, and on Paris 5.23 to 5.22.
In cotton much business was doing amongst speculators.
A destructive fire had occurred at Boston, by which up-
wards of twenty buildings, chiefly of wood, were de-
stroyed. The Halifax Herald states that two American
schooners had been observed by Captain Darby, off Sable
Island, and within the British *fisheries. The schooners,
it appears, were wreckers, which went to the island for
the purpose of plundering the wrecks and stealing cattle.
Captain Darby, finding that. he colild not come within
gunshot of them, proceeded immediately to Halifax and
reported the circumstance to the admiral, who, next
morning, despatched the man-of-war steamer Hermes to
the island. The steamer returned to Halifax, after being
satisfied that the two vessels were there, .
and that they
were acting contrary to the treaty. Nothing,, it appears,
was done to them ; for, from their position and the
breeze that was blowing, a steamer might have taken them
after a chase of three hours at the farthest. One blank
shot was fired at one of the schooners. By an arrival
from Mexico, on the 18th ult., intelligence was received
of a contemplated renewal of hostilities between Mexico
and Yucatan. The Yucatan commissioners had returned
with the news that no treaty had been concluded. and that
the commission was dissolved. The Mexican commis-
sioners had returned to Vera Cruz.

I R E t. A N D,

" REPEAL CAVALRY-CLONTARF MEETING."

The following advertisement, headed as above, appears
in the Radical papers.
The committee for this great national demonstration,
being apprised of the intention of many Repeaters to ap-
pear mounted at " Conquer 1-lill!!!" Cloctarf, recom-
mend the following rules to be observed for the regulation
of the cavalcade at this first

MUSTER AND MARCH OF THE MOUNTED REPEAL

VOLUNTEERS!!!

Ist—All mounted Repealers of this city, or from the
south and west sides of the county, to muster on the open
ground, Harcourt-street Fields, on Sunday the Bth of
October, at 12 o'clock at noon, and form into troops, each
troop to consist of twenty-five horsemen, to be led by one
officer in front, followed by six ranks four abreast, half
distance, each bearing a wand and cockade, distinguishing
the number of his respective troop.
2d—Chat regulation w nds and cockades will b? fur-
nished by the committee to such gentlemen of the city or
county as shall apply, and be approved of, to head each
troop.

3d—That no person shall be be permitted to join the
cavalcade without a cockade and wand ; and that nntil one
troop is complete no second troop be formed.
N.B.—The committee will make the necessary arrange.
ments, to prevent delay or confusion, at the turnpike

4th—Each horseman to take and keep the place assigned
to him on joining his troop, and remain in rank until dis-
missal of the parade in the meeting field.
sth—That such troops as shall have formed by half-past
twelve o'clock do proceed in their order at slow time by
the following route:—Harcourt-street, Stephen's—green
west, Grafton-street, Westmorland-street, Sackville-st.,
Britain-street, Summer-hill, Ballybough-bridge, Clontarf-
road.

6th—The mounted repealers from the northern parts of
the county to muster and form, as above pre-cribed, at
the southern extremity of the Howth-road, and bring up
the rear of the Dublin cavalcade to the meeting-field,
Conquer Hill.
7th—That the chairman and members of the committee,
bearing wands and cockades, do form the mounted staff
in advance ; and that the muster march and parade, at
the meeting-field, shall be under their sole order and di-
rection until dimissed after the proceedings of the meet-
ing have commenced. . .

Bth—That the horsemen on the meeting ground shall
keep a proper distance from the platform, so as not to
incommode those attending on foot; and it is earnestly
requested. on the other hand, that no obstruction or inter-
ruption will be offered to the cavalcade by those on foot
or in vehicles, so that the order and regularity of the
march may be preserved.