The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

A letter from Rome states that the Papal government
intends sending a nuncio to Mexico, where his Holiness
had not been hitherto permanently represented.
The passage from Hong-Kong to San Francisco has
been made in 33 days; and from China to New York in
two months and two days.

A telegraphic communication from Pittsburgh an-
nounces the destruction, by fire, of the cathedral in tha3

A novel importation has been made into San Francisco,
the steam-ship Ohio having brought to that port upwards
of NO cats. They cost at the port of embarkation about
50 cents per head, and sold at San Francisco from 10 to
20 dollars each.

A Telegraphic dispatch from Brussels of the 17th an-
nounces the resignation of the Belgian Ministry. A dis-
patch from Berlin of the 17th states that at the close of
the Dresden conference it was decided that contingents of
the federal army should be left ready, with a view to meet
certain eventualities.

The Univers declares the note from the Pope to foreign
powers calling for the removal of the French army, as
published in the Independance Beige and other papers, to
be a fabrication. The Constitutionnel confirms the ac-
counts from Rome of the bad disposition of the Pope's
soldiers.

WEIGHTS AND MEA SURES IN LIVERPOOL.—During
last year 17,74) places using weights and measures in
Liverpool were visited by the inspectors, whilst the con-
victions for fraud were only 528, or three per cent. In
the previous years the per centage was respectively 10 and
53. The average deficiency of the weights was 61-64ths
of an ounce ; and 1,462 weights were rejected as irrepa-
rable. The amount received in penalties was £313 ISs. 6d
The new American steam-ship Humboldt, which left
New York on the 6th instant, arrived at Southampton on
Sunday at noon. She left the former port the day before
the Asia, which arrived here on Saturday night. She
has, however, made the pasqa2,e in less than twelve days.
She proceeded, after landing her mail, to Havre.
A most important meeting of shipowners was held at
South Shields on Monday last, when a petition to the
House of Commons, calling for an inquiry into the effect
of the repeal of the navigation laws, and a review of the
other Acts affecting British shipping, was agreed to.
a proceed Ts
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forthwith,rY route, left
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thmeiorrningfor
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baggage,
by railway, to replace the Queen's Royals, who
oTuthowena4i3tTirndugesfdoary Light Infantry, on
which is to be sent after them to Cork, thence to embark
for the Cape of Good Hope. The 46th, from Preston, are
to replace the 43rd in Dublin. It is rumoured here that
the 12th Royal Lancers, one of the finest light cavalry
corps in the service, will be sent to the Cape, in the event
of the next advices showing no probability of a speedy
termination of the Kaffir insurrection.
SYMPTOMS OF IMPROVEMENT.—A letter from Cavan
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season—about
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stnna—t 10,707
twice as much as last year—in this country. The condi-
tion of, the people, too, seems gradually improving, even
in parts of the country where there had been the deepest
destitution during the famine. Labourers are become so
scarce that the faimers who formely paid but Bd. per day,
sairdeersiodwietg.ladAtoltoggeet ptehxere:aiffenaicresdahreanddescindtedllsy. pbeer day,
tterin btbee-
county of Cavan, especially as regards the labouring clas-
ses."

THE SHIPPING INTEREST.--The Shipping Gazette
has a smart article on the necessity of combined action on
the part of the shipowners, fur the purpose of obtaining
the repeal of " the destructive measure by which our
merchant navy has been consigned to ruin." The argu-
ment drawn from the probability of reciprocal concessions
from foreign maritime countries is thus ably replied to :
" The man who would now, after the experience of a year
and a half, advance such an argument, must be not only
ignorant of geography, but devoid of common sense. We
would advise him to consuit a map, and he will then see
that there is not a country in the world which could give
to England anything like an equivalent for what England
has given away. We say this commercially merely; the
political consideration is too vast, too serious a subject to
enter upon here. We say it, also, without any reference
to the difficulties, from heavy taxation and other causes.
under which the British shipowner labours, as compared
with foreign countries which are arrayed in competition
against him. We shall be told, no doubt, that the Belgian
Government has consented to treat British vessels in their
ports, as to charges, &c., as their own national vessels:;
and Mr. Labouchere or Mr. Ricardo may exclaim, ' See
the good effects of the repeal of the Navigation Laws.'
But we consult the map, and we find that his Majesty
King Leopold has not a foreign possession or a colony
under the control of his vast dominions. On the other
hand—whether we look north, south, east, or west—we
find the ocean studded with the possessions of Great Bri-
tain; for hers is emphatically, not merely a sea-girt
empire, but the empire of the ocean. The concession,
therefore, of Belgium, is the ironical reciprocity which the
free traders in navigation give the British shipping inte-
rest ! In our journal of Saturday last, we said that it was
only now that foreign maritime nations were preparing
for the competition which they are to carry on against
England. Since then we have seen the arrival at St.
Lucia, in the West Indies, of a Prussian vessel to load
sugars for England, which the colonial journalist says is
the first arrival of the kind they have had there since
the repeal of the English Navigation Laws. Where will
a British vessel find a Prussian colony to load a cargo
from ?"

WALKS IN TowN.—We prefer the country a million
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weather is showery, you may get out in the intervals of
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A LADY'S DILEXIMA.—In looking over the " Corre-
spondence" of some of our more fashionable papers, it
will be perceived that most of the " Answers" relate to
complaints on the part of the fair half of the creation, re-
specting the ravages which atmospheric Influence makes
with the complexion. In lieu ofblnOm and beauty, they
expatiate on a long train of pem6nal disfigurations, in the
shape of pimples, tan, free - &c.—eruptive horrors, all!
And what is a lady to . She has her bane: where is
She to look for her idol() ? Why, it is " before her,"
in Rowlands' K dor—a mild, soothing extirpator of all
setfa
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nature
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effects. It neutralizes atmospheric extremes, and pro-
motes the healthy action of the microscopic vessels ; and
thus—

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