The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

THE LEVANT MAIL.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7.—The principal event of
last week has bet n the removal from office of Ri'sat
Pas',a, Minister of Foreign Affai,s, and the appointment
in his place of Shekio Effendi, formerly Amb -s,ador at
the Court of St. James's. Besides his mission to London,
he was en.eaged as a diplomatist in the xi, getiations upon
the ,ettlement of the Greek question, and afterwards at
the conference of Adrianovle. On the 31st of October
Sir Stratford Canning was admitted to an audience wish
the Sultan, when he pres_ented a letter announcing the
birth of Prince Alfred. The tecepti, n was in the usual
form. His Highness has himself had art accession to his
family in the birth of another son, being his third male
child. Illuminations and rtj,iicings are to continue for a
week. Dr. Wolff is still at Me- hod, from which place he
was unwilling to proceed till he had received an escort
from Colonel Sheil at Teheran. It is singular that, after
crossing the desert of Mero and escaping from the Turco-
man hordes, he should shrink from encountering dangers
and difficulties comp,ratively trifling.—Leiters from Tre-
bizende describe a very curious. occurrence which took
plane there last month. A Mussulioan Cadi having been
murdered while on a journey, the as-a,sitis were seized by
the Pasha. and, instead of being punished according to
the usual forms of justice, were delivered to the kindred
01 man, by one of whom their throats were deliberately
cut in the market-place. Such things were unheard of
during the administration of Redschid Pasha.
ALLXANDRIA, Nov. 6.—Things continue quiet in
Egypt. Many surrpi-es are made as to what s.eds will be
taken by the Peninsular a d °dental Cotnp ith re-
gard to the refusal of Mehemet Ali to allow earners
to ply any longer on the Nile. The genera inion is,
that they will have to remove their steamers and It ave the
transit threueh Egypt entirely in the hands of the Pasha.
—Mr. Bourne has done wining as yet with regard to the
arrangements with Mehemet Ali for the transit of the
India mails through Egypt, and it is not unlikely that this
gentleman will have to return to En_ ind without effecting
anything.—Prayers have been offered to Allah at the
principal mosques at Cairo, by command of Mehemet Ali,
to stop the too sudden decrease of the Nile ; but, as this
is the sees- n for the water to run off the land, this pro-
ceeding is by the initiated supposed to be only a manoeuvre
on the pat t of the Pasha to induce the merchants to offer
him higher prices for his proiuce.—The works of the new
fortification.; of Alexandria, under the directien of the
French Colonel of Engineers, Galilee Bey, are progressing
very steadily. The stone employed for this purpose is
brought from some catacombs, situate about a mile and
a half from the Rosetta-bate.
Intelligence has been received from Syria up to the 27th
of October. That country still remains in a very unsatis-
factory state, occasioned by the weakness of the Turkish
governm nt, which is de-pised and set at defiance by the
various sheiks. Troops were arriving every week from
Turk whose object. it appears, is to disarm the popula-
tion, and enforce the conscription. The Sheik Aboo
Ghosh bad entered the towns of Jaffa and Saida, and mas-
sacred the Governor of each place. The crop of ayes
will be immense this year ; but little or no advantage can
be looked for to the country, whilst the whole benefit
is absorbed by the temporary Governors of the several
provinces.

It is said that A 13,1 El Kader has dismissed the few sol-
diers who stili followed him, and that he hatiemoved into
the interior of Morocco.
he Universal German Gazelle states that the Russian
Goveinn3ept has issued an ordonnunee forbidding ail the
inhabitants of Poland, without distinction, to marry be-
fore the age of thirty.
THE WILL FORGERS.—The Agincourt, with Barber
and Fletcher on board, was at Sinion's Bay, Cape of
Good Hope, on thellith of September. There have been
no deaths on board except a soldier and child. •
TR MUTE TO MOROCCO.—The tribute has hitherto been
regularly p,id by Sweden. amounting to 29 000 dollars.
The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25.000
doihrs, but these couryries are firmly resolved to pay no
more tribute, even shoild the consequences force them to
establish cruisers off the coast of Morocco for the pro-
tection of their commerce.

POPERY AT WORK.—We learn from Havre that six
Domm can friars had taken their passage in the last
parker, :or the United States, and two others for Marti-
nique. Eight other German missionaries, and 17 Ger-
man nuns. bad also arrived at Havre, aho were proceed-
ing to the same destination. The latter intended to
found a hospital in the United States, and were accompa-
nied by three lay brntheis.
TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES IN POLAND.—POLISH FRON-
TIERS, NOV. 11.—The cause of the temperance societies
has received a severe blow in the kingdom of Poland.
They had been particularly successful in those parts of
the kingdom which border on the republic of Cracow and
in Upper Silesia, where the country people, following the
exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a body the use of
brandy. But the Government has lately interfered to
check the temperance societies, and has published a cir-
cular prohibiting them, and forbidding the clergy to pro-
mote by addresses from the pulpit an object which was so
beneficial to the country-people.—Hamburgh papers.

BLASPHEMY OF THE BISHOP OF TREVES.—Several of
the German journals publish a letter from a priest, named
John Rouge, to the Bishop of Treves, on his having made
a public exhibition in that city of a robe which he de-
clared to have been that which was worn by Jesus Christ.
M.,Rnuge comments with great severity on the conduct
of the bishop, and brings forward several arguments to
show that the delusion was a wilful one, as far as the
bishop was concerned. In oue part of his letter, the
priest says, " Do not deceive yourself as to the affluence
of this multitude, and be persuaded th,t, if some hun-
dreds of thousunds persons performed a pilgrimage to
Treves, millions are iunbaked like me with profound hor-
ror and grief at the siert of your disgusting comedy."
A Berlin journal states that the letter of M. Rouge has
produced a powerful sensation throughout Saxony arid
Silesia, where it has been reprinted and circulated to an
enormous extent.