The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-05 00:00:00

AMERICA

The steamer America reached this port on Wed-
nesday, with New York papers of the 16th ultimo. She
brings no specie. The wheat harvest has been got in in
fair order. Flour and grain markets dull. The new cot-
ton crop had a downward tendency. Bills on London,
1091 to . No news from Mexico beyond that Paredes
has escaped capture.
The commercial intelligence received from the United
State is not of much general importance, except in so far
as it applies to the state of the cereal crops, which, on the
average, will be superabundant. Eventually this may
become of considerable importance to this country, inas-
much as it will tend to keep prices moderate should we
have occasion for any considerable importation. The rate
of exchange was tending downwards, so that we are not
likely to have any further importation of bullion for a
considerable time to come. Nobody is, however, taken
by surprise in this case, as it has been calculated upon as
the natural course which business would take for several
weeks past. The reports of the southern states respecting
the prospects of the cotton crop, taken in connection with
the stock on hand in Europe, from that of last year, ren-
ders a moderate price for that article absolutely certain,
at all events, until the ensuing season.
SLAVE-HOLDING INVASION OF A FREE STATE.—It
was stated a few days since, that some Missouri runaway
slaves had been pursued into lowa, where they were taken,
and afterwards rescued. As a sequel to this, we learn
by the St. Louis Reveille that on the 7th instant " about
100 men, all armed, started from Farmington, Missouri,
for Salem, lowa, and we shall in all probability soon hear
of the recapture of the negroes, or the arrest of the abo-
litionists, and probably some bloodshed, which generally
laccompanies such lawless acts."—BWon .Emancipator.

THE WEST INDIES.
The royal mail steam-ship Tay arrived at Southampton
on Saturday. She left Jamaica on the 7th August, Anti-
gua on the 10th, and Fay al on the 26th. She has made
the quickest passage on record, having come up five days
before she was due.
Much excitement existed in Jamaica in consequence of
the stoppage of the Planters' Bank. The suspension was
occasioned by a rumour that one of the agents had de-
camped with a considerable sum of money, and an unex-
pected run on the bank in consequence. The demand
was met for some time, but ultimately the bank was com-
pelled to stop. Though considerable inconvenience will
be felt in consequence, we hope that no loss will finally be
felt, as it is said that the assets are £lBO,OOO, whilst the
liabilities are only £72,000. The effect produced by the
outward steamer's advices we have referred to elsewhere.
The Jamaica House of Assembly was opened on the 3rd
ult. by the Governor, who, in a very lengthened address,
recommended, among other things, " an inquiry into the
public debt as to whether it would not be desirable to give to
the whole of it the character of an English funded debt—
the establishment of a branch of the Bank of England—
an uniform acreage rate on land, to substitute the paro-
chial taxes on hereditaments and live stock, and the estab-
lishment of a commission for the general survey of roads,
bridges, &c. excitement.
died away. Arrivals of African emigrants continued to
take place. The Dutch bark Rhyn, Captain Brendlight,
arrived in forty-seven days from St. Helena, with 280
Africans. She received on board 334 at St. Helena, but
fifty-four had died on the voyage from dysentery. The
ship Glasgow, Captain Hamlin, arrived at Morant Bay
with a number of Africans on the 28th of July from Sierra
Leone. She left that place on the 28th of June, on which
day a captured slaver, having on board upwards of 500
persons, was taken in. The endeavours of the hon.
Captain Darling to produce and cure tobacco in Jamaica
have been attended with complete success. The samples
are equal to the produce of Cuba. The weather in the
West India Islands generally was fine and healthy.
At Port-au-Prince repeated executions of persons of
colour were taking place.

Russia has concurred with France and England in pro-
testing against the present pretensions of the German
Diet in respect of the Duchies.
Louis Blanc escaped to Ghent, from whence he pro-
c?eded to Dover, and is now in England, alike the coun-
try of refuge for the ex-King of the barricades of 1830,
and the would-be socialist dictator of 1848. The where-
abouts of M. Caussidiere is not known.

The Paris papers of Friday consider the speech of Baron
Wessenberg, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, to
the French and British Envoys, in respect of the offered
mediation of France and England as a refusal to entertain
it, and that it would become necessary, therefore, for
France to interfere with arms in Italy. _ _

FRENCH FORCE SENT TO VENICE.—In a Council of
Ministers held on Thursday it was decided that 4000
troops of the line should be immediately sent to Venice.
Three ships of war have been already sent from Toulon,
and have now most probably arrived at Venice. AR order
has been given to embark two regiments at Marseilles, and
Colonel D'Hilliers, chef du cabinet of General Lamori-
ciere, Minister of War, is about to leave Paris immediately
for that place. It is also stated that several officers, and
amongst them MM. de Vaux and D'Elchingen, who had
been put on half-pay, are about to be employed on active
service, and sent to the army of the Alps. The .libats of
Friday says that the sending of troops to Venice is a mea-
sure adopted with the concurrence of the Government of
Great Britain, and that the integrity of the Venetian terri-
tory will be guaranteed by the two powers. The eonsti-
tutionnel says that at a grand review at St. Petersburgh
the Emperor of Russia announced that he should send the
cross of the Grand Order of St. George to Michael
Radetski.

SUCCESSFUL INSURRECTION AT LEGMORN.—Letters
from Leghorn, of the 26th ult., mention that an insurrec-
tion broke out that morning, which was completely suc-
cessful. The established government had been deposed,
and a provisional government appointed in its room.
PEACE IN DENMARK.—The Rob Roy, which arrived in
Hull, on Thursday, brings official communications, stating
that an armistice between the German Confederation and
Denmark was signed at Malmo, on Saturday, the 26th of
August, to continue until the first of March. This news
is of the utmost importance to the mercantile interest, not
only of Hull, but of the whole of Great Britain.

'the Vienna papers publish accounts of a riotous move-
ment which took place at Vienna on the 21st lost., and
which originated in a proposed reduction of wages to the
workmen employed by the Government to the following
standard :-20 kreutzers, instead of 25 kr., to the men ;
15 kr. to the women ; and 10 ;kr. to young people under
fifteen years. The 22d passed quietly, and most of the
workmen returned to their work ; but the riot broke out
again on the 23d, and the combat between the labouring
class,s and the National Guards continued till sunset.
Some of the workmen were forced to retreat to the isles
in the Danube. Six labourers were killed and sixty
(among whom are ten women) wounded. The National
Guards have had one man killed and sixteen wounded.

BRAZILS.—Her Majesty% packet Petrel arrived at Fal-
mouth on Thursday, from Rio Janeiro, whence she sailed
on July 7, but subsequently received dates, when at
Bahia, to the 16th. She wailed from Bahia on the 24th,
and from Pernambuco on the 31st. It is reported, by the
dates to June 26, from the River Plata, that Rosas had
refused to receive Mr. Hood as the representative of Great
Britain-to the Argentine Republic, but that Captain Gore
and Commander Herbert had interfered to prevent Rosas
carrying out his offensive policy. There was no news at
Rio or the Brazils generally. The disquietude which
lately prevailed at Pernambuco had been put dawn. The
packet following had not arrived at Rio. The Petrel's
freight amounts to about £65,000. The Rio circular re-
presents trade as having been rarely so dull as it had been
during the mouth of June, but an Average amount of
coffee transactions had been effected at a partial decline of
prices.
Amongst the royal contributors to the fund for the
completion of the Cologne cathedral, are the Queen of
England for £350, the Emperor of Austria for 8000 flo-
rins, the King of Holland for 1000 florins, Archduke '
John of Austria for 300 ducats, and the Duke of Baden
for 2000 florins.

PAAISIAN STATISTICS.—There are at present 25,000
apartments to be let in Paris, chiefly those of which the
rent varies from 1,500 to 2,000 francs (X6O to £80).
There are 35 new houses finished on the Boulevard Beau-
marchais, and they contain but 35 lodgers—that is, one
oxi an average per house. As a proof of the depreciation
of the value of house property in Paris, it is sufficient to
mention that a house in the gue de Baune producing
3,000 francs (.£l2O s.-year) was lately offered for sale at
the upset price of 35,009 francs (41,400), but could find
no purgbager,

LONGEVITY.—The Moniteur of Monday announces
the death of Doctor Dufour, at Orthez, in his 104th year.
He preserved his faculties to the last.
A legitimate insurrection took place at Montpellier on
Tuesday last, but was almost immediately suppressed.
The Prefect and two magistrates were wounded and a
gendarme killed; six of the insurgents were wounded.
EDUCATION.—On the 20th of March, the Colonial
Government of Van Diemen's Land introduced their bill
for a general education scheme, which merged the Church
of England as one among many sects, by placing
,the
government of the local schools in " ministers of religion
of all denominations, having a pastoral charge of school
districts;" excluded the Church Catechism from all but
a few town schools ; and proposed a capitation tax of ss.
per head on every inhabitant. The bill was opposed by
all the non-official members of council, and thrown out
by seven to five.
THE PRESS IN FRANCE.—The French Republic, estab-
lished in the name and under the pretence of liberty, is
exhibiting itself in acts of despotism, such as France has
not witnessed for 60 years. Public meetings are prohibi-
ted ; mob orators are gagged ; a military Dictator
promptly suppressed all seditious journals ; a law has
been passed punishing with fine and imprisonment all
publications casting contempt on any part of the Repub-
lican constitution ; and General Cavaignac has now an-
nounced even to the respectable journalists of Paris, that
no hostile comments will be permitted. La Presse and
the Constitutionnel have ceased to have leading articles.
All the journalists of Paris have protested against the
tyranny. Gen. Cavaignac in reply, candidly said, " The
republic is still in its infancy ; it is too weak to resist the
journalists of the opposition ; when it shall have grown
you shall have a carte blanche to attack it." M. Thiers
on Tuesday followed up the protest of his literary
brethren, observing that the Republican government was
more arbitrary than even that of the Bourbons.

PIRATES IN THE CHINA SEAS
TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES.

At six o'clock, a.m., on the glorious first of June, as
her Majesty's sloop Scout was cruising on the east coast
of China, between Amoy and Chumno Bay, we were
hailed by .a fisherman, and informed that two large junks,
in sight, were pirates. Captain Johnstone immediately
made all sail in chase, and at nine thirty sent Lieutenant
Blake, Messrs. Goddard and Chatfield, midshipmen, in
the first and second gigs and jolly boat, who boarded and
took possession of the smaller junk without a casualty ;
found on board a crew of thirty-nine men, and an immense
quantity of firepots, gingalls, matchlocks, and one small
21b. gun, all ready for use. Leaving Lieutenant Blake
and Mr. Goddard in charge of the prize, Captain Johnstone
again made sail after the other junk, which in the mean-
time had set her topsail, and was endeavouring to escape.
At ten thirty he came up alongside of her, and summoned
her to surrender ; on which she opened fire from her 61b.
guns and gingalls ' • the ship recommenced firing, which
was returned with a great deal of spirit from the junk.
At one o'clock p.m. the prize ran up alongside of the
junk, and opened fire, with small arms and small guns.
A two p.m. sent pinnace, first cutter, first and second
gigs in charge of Lieutenant Josling, Messrs. Stanley,
Hatchard, and Chatfield, midshipmen, and Mr. Scriven,
master's assistant, to board ; but, owing to the height of
the junk, all endeavours were unsuccessful • and Captain
Johnstone, seeing that the boats were suffering severely
from the junk's fire, ran on board in the ship: and heading

the boarders himself soon cleared the decks. We had
one man killed and eleven wounded, including Lieutenant
Josling severely, and Mr. Stanley slightly.
The junk's crew consisted of one hundred and thirty-
five men, of whom twenty were killed, sixty-four drowned
by the sinking of the junk, fifteen wounded, and thirty-
six taken prisoners. We arrived here yesterday and
delivered them over to the mandarins, who seemed very
glad to receive them. The captain of the junk, who was
a noted chief, cut his throat and jumped overboard.
Amongst the first to come on board and congratulate us
was Captain Loring, our late much respected commander,
who had so often led us on to victory. We ,sail again in
a few days, as we are all very anxious to avenge the death
of our shipmate, who was respected throughout the ship.
I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obedient servant,
AN EYE-WITNESS.
Her Majesty's sloop Scout, Amoy, June 5.

TIIE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

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