The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-05 00:00:00

THE BRAZILS

News from Rio de JanehO,(Tihe 15th October, ac-
quaints us that another ministry had been formed on the
29th of September, of which Viscount de Olinda was the
Premier. The new cabinet is Conservative ; that gone
out was Liberal. Trade at Rio was exceedingly dull,
with the exception of coffee, which was in great demand
at improved prices. As it regards piece goods, there had
been such a glut of imports, that it was impossible to get
rid of the articles, even at a ruinous depreciation of their
value. Exchange on London 231 d. to 24d.
Certain information has arrived in Paris to the --c"

that Ibrahim Pacha died on the 10th ult 4 and had been
succeeded by Abbas Pacha.

The Count de Grammont was married on Monday last
Ito Mademoiselle de Praslin. The happy couple are to be
established in the apartment of the late Duchess de Pras-
lin, the boy's mother, which had been newly cleaned and
decorated for the occasion.
Letters have been received from the Cape of Good
Hope by the last arrival from Sir H. Smith, which de-
scribe his complete success over the Boers, and the pacifi-
cation of the extensive district which threatened so lately
to be the scene of a protracted war. Sir H. Smith had
imposed a contribution upon the Buers which would de-
fray the commissariat expenses of the troops employed,
and would leave a small garrison in a fortified post at
Blom Fontein to maintain order. At the last dates Sir
IL Smith and the forces employed, with the exception of
those appointed to defend the post, were on their return
to bead quarters.
HEROIC CONDUCT—ALEXANDRIA, Nov. B.—A vessel
bound for Aden, with coals, having lost the master by
death when about twelve days' sail from • her destination,
the crew conspired to take possession and dispose of her
on the coast of Arabia. However, the captain's daughter,
Miss Arnold, a young woman of the age of twenty, was
on board, and she, having received some intimation of the
piratical intentions of the men, armed herself with a pair
of pistols, secured all the fire arms, and getting the mate
and another, man to join her, bravely forced the mutineers
to work the ship to Aden, where they are now in confine-
ment.

REVOLTING SPECTACLE.—One of those wretched spec-
tacles which are seen wherever the system of African
slavery is tolerated, was presented in the streets of our
city on Sunday morning last. A gang of negroes, con-
sisting of both males and females, accompanied
by a white 'man, on their way to a southern market,
passed along Chesnut-street, as the bells of the various
churches were calling on Christians to assemble at their
respectivepkce.s of worship. In front of the procession
was a large waggon, in which were thickly stowed several
women and children. This was followed •by forty-three
men and boys walking, several of them chained together,
the whole under the charge of a man on horseback. This
miserable spectacle excited the honest indignation of our
citizens, who regarded, it as a direct insult offered to them,
and the day, and the hour.—Louisville Examiner.
VIRGIN SILVER.—From the Swedish official paper, of
the 27th of October last, we learn that on the 14th of
September, the workmen employed in the King's mine,
which is one of the Kongsberg silver mines in Norway,
found a lump of pure native silver, weighing 2081b5.; and
on the 6th of October another lump of virgin silver,
equally pure in quality, of no less weight than 436 lbs.,
was dug out of the same mine. It is a fact worthy of
being recorded, that about twenty years ago this mine was
offered for sale in London for the sum of £lO,OOO ; but the
capitalists of that day had not sufficient confidence in the
treasures it was represented to possess, to advance this
comparatively' small price. Subsequently the Norwegian
Government was strongly urged by the scientific of that
country to work the mines at the expense and for the
benefit of that state. The operations were commenced,
and prosecuted with vigour; and fora considerable num-
ber of years this mine has annually yieldad to the Govern-
ment of Norway a much larger revenue than the price
which could not previously he obtained for the mine
itself.

GENERAL 13i;M.--"it is generally believed that General
.130 m has escaped the search made for him by the Austrian.
authorities. If he be captured, he will be shot without
mercy—a fate for which he is prepared by the most daring
spirit and the most extraordinary intrepidity. General
lii m is the son of a German, but was bore in Poland.
His reputation as an artillerist stands high ; it is, however,
a his uaflinching courage, and whop* of hie relentless