The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-10 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.
TheTaris papers of Wednesday are destitute of political
news. Our Paris friends are looking with intense interest
to the news from this side the Channel, and the utmost
anxiety was shown to know the result of the deliberaticns
of the Privy Council on Monday last, on the Tahiti ques-
tion. The Commerce says that the Prince de Joinville is
about to return to Paris, where he is expected to arrive
abcut the 20th of the present month.
The Constiletionnel gives the following extract of a
letter from an aid-de-camp of the Prince de Joinville to
the French Consul at Cadiz, dated on board the Pluton,
the 17th u!t.
"The Admiral has reveived orders to keep possession
of the island of Mogador, in which we have placed a gar-
rison. The possession of the island is equivalent to that
of the city, and fulfils all our desires, insuring us a gua-
rantee for the complete satisfaction of all our wrongs.
The city will remain in a state of blockade, and conse-
quently the Emperor will be deprived of the large revenue
he derived from its customs, which is wounding him in
his most sensitive part. The campaign is thus brought to
a close."

FRANCE AND ENGLAND.—We beg to congratulate the
country on the truly gratifying intelligence of a probable
arrangement of the Tahiti question, and a termination to
all fears of a rupture between ourselves and France. M.
D'Aubigny has been moved from Tahiti ; his conduct has
been made the subject of apology, and satisfaction will,
we are told, be made to Mr. Pritchard for the ill-treatment
he has received. The former officer had been previously
censured by his superior, Captain Bruat, and this addi-
tional stamp upon him, accompanied with a due measure
of satisfaction to the injured person, appears to be a suffi-
cient recognition on the part of the French government
of our charge against D'Aubigny.—Times.
The losses sustained by the Emperor of Morocco since
the commencement of hostilities with France are esti-
mated at 30,000,000 francs, and this loss is every day in-
creased by the cessation of commerce.
At Franconville, France, the other day, a drunken
man, whilst sleeping on a bench, set himself on fire by
crushing a box of lucifer matches in bis pocket, in turn-
ing, and was burnt to death.
A letter from Gibraltar, published in a Madrid paper,
reports that the Bey of Larache and the Emperor of
Morocco's son, who are at Tangier, are charged by the
Emperor to accede to all the demands of France.
SPAIN.—Senor Cardero, the late political chief of Ba-
dajos, has been banished to the Canary Islands, after
some weeks' imprisonment at Cadiz, without trial, and
without an accusation being brought against him. His
only crime was that of being friendly to Espartero.

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE EMPRESS OF AUSTRIA.—
It is stated, that on the 26th ult., at the moment the
troops were filing off before the Emperor and Empress
of Austria, four piers, that supported 2171 iron railway,
near her majesty, fell down and killed two men and in-
jured several others, amongst whom were two captains,
very severely.
The Gibraltar Chronicle of the 29th ult. says :—" The
Governor has received an official communication, in which
it is stated that the Moorish subjects who fled from Tan-
gier are allowed to return there. The same despatch adds
a caution to all British subjects who may visit Tangier at
present merely from motives of curiosity, nor to enter nor
remain in that town. This, however, does not apply to
official persons, or to persons having commercial relations
with the place.
THE MORNION TEMPLE.—One of the editors of St.
Louis Reveille, having lately visited Nauvoo,"thus speaks
of the new Mormon Temple : " The system upon which
this temple has been building is the exaction of labour
every tenth day from every man who cannot purchase his
exemption from the task with money. It will be, if ever
finished, a very imposing looking edifice. It stands in a
high and commanding position, a prominent object, rivet-
ing the stranger's eye at once, and, upon near inspection,
the style of architecture is found to be more than com-
monly attractive, from its singularity. It is like nothing
else ; and, unless we may be allowed to designate it as the
Mormonic order, it certainly has no name at all. The
stone is of excellent quality, quarried in the neighbour.
hood, and very good mechanics have been at work upon
it. The massive caps of the columns are already carved
from huge blocks, showing a gigantic round human face,
like the broad full moon. The columns are made to rest
upon crescent moons, sculptured on the face of the stone,
resting with the horns down, and with a profile of eyes,
nose, and mouth, upon the inner curve. What idea this
is meant to convey we could not learn, though the im-
pression is irresistible, that the church is built upon
moonshine,"
MEHEMET ALI.—A youthful prank, played by an old
gentleman of eighty, Mehemet Ali, has frighter.ed the
Levant, and but for the more juvenile pranks of the
French, would have caused still greater affright. His
sage highness, the Nestor of the Mediterranean, went to
a party, committed an excess, and got so uprorious and
extravagant, that no Irishman, before the invention of
teetotalism, ever equalled it. He beat his women, cuffed
his minister, cursed his physician, broke his pipe, and
flung his fez out of the window. At last he sent for
250,000 purses, and, flinging himself into a boat, set sail,
or oars, for Cairo, bent on gaiety, but acquainting his
worthy Alexandrian subjects that he was bound for Mecca.
The feast in question was given by Mehemet's daughter,
the widow of the Defterdar Bey ; in honour, too, of the
wedding of one of the family. The old Fasha was invited,
and was served, of course, alone, with viands the niost
spicy and drinks the most exc'ting. The drink was riot
wine, for that is forbidden by the prophet ; it rather re-
sembled that drunk at Irish temperance halls, where
whiskey is prohibited, but where cordials concocted of
alcohol, disguised with ginger and pimento, are swallowed,
as not only compatible with the pledge, but highly ho-
nouring it. So Mehemet's tipple was more of the spicy
than the spirituous • and instead of making him good-na-
tured, it made his highness very much the contrary, for
he set abont beating all the women, to the horror of eu-
nuchs, black and white. He then made off, as we have
described, in a tangent, Ibrahim going to all sorts of de-
vices to send his physicians after him, smuggling them
first into the house, and then into the boat. Such is a
meagre and true outline of an event which has much
alarmed politicians, and even the Alexandrians, although
their affright was considerably intermixed with laughter.
There was neither conspiracy nor revolution. It was not
a deep-laid plot of Ilbraham's, nor yet the Marquis of
Lavalette, French consul, nor yet of any hostile Turk ; it
was simply the political effect of a social orgie.—Exa-
miner.