The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

LATER NEWS

The steam-

p Niagara, captain Ryrie, arrived at an
early hour on Sunday morning, having left Bostcin on the
14th, and Halifax on the 16th, instant. She has brought

the quickest run across the Atlantic on record, having
accomplished the passage from Boston to this port in ten
days eight hours, by chronometer, including the usual

stoppage at Halifax.
The news of the ratification of the treaty with Mexico
had produced a rise on the New York stock exchange, but
not to any very great extent.
Gen. Taylor is nominated as the Whig candidate, with
good prospect of success.
Exchange was tending downward, 110+ to 111 being the
motes. Trade was very stagnant, and the export

closing

pc,lc LU Europe was at iengtn Devilling to create an
unfavourable impression on the mercantile community.—
The shipments of cotton continued on a liberal scale.
The transactions in this staple at New York had been only
to a small extent, at a decline of k to 4- cent per pound,
since the sailing of the Hibernia. Flour was advancing,
and was too light for our markets. The news of the rise
in the price of Indian corn, on this side, caused that article
to advance at New York ten cents per bushel, equal to a
rise of about 3s. 6d. per quarter.
Cotton, at New Orleans, had declined about 4- cent per
lb., in consequence of the news by the Hibernia.

INDIA AND CHINA.—The Overland Mail has arrived,
and brings no news of importance beyond the confirma-
tion of the rising in Mooltan and assassination of our
officers. , It appears, after the first quarrel, our men had
retired to a small fort outside the walled town of Mooltan,
where for twenty-four hours they considered themselves
protected, but the troops from Mooltan hastened to attack
the fort. Lieutenant Anderson being severely wounded,
was unable to rise from his bed; Mr. Vans Agnew shook
hands with bin!: and bade him an eternal adieu. He then
prepared to defend himself, but his pistols had been tam-
pered with ; and as the crowd of soldiers with which his
soldiers had " fraternised " entered the room, he cut down
the first assailant, but he was instantly shot, and his body,
like that of his companion, Lieutenant Anderson and
that of their apothecary, Mr. Wilkinson, hacked to pieces;
and treated with great indignity. The new governor,
Chan Singh, was wounded and made prisoner by the
troops of Mooltan. There is no additional intelligence
as to the preparations for vindicating our honour, but
those mentioned at the time the news arrived are being
carried out. Mooltan is the strongest town in the Pun-
jaub, and it has been deemed advisable, considering the
hot weather and the approaching rains, to postpone the
expedition against the insurgents until October or No-
vember. The other parts of India are quiet. Commer-
cial affairs, both at Bombay and Calcutta, are somewhat
I better than they have been for some time past ; and still
FRANCE.
they have an upward tendency. There is little intelli-
formedMADAME LAFARGE.—A committee is about to be
• gence from China but that is highly satisfactory the
in the Paris house of representatives, to inquire ‘ ' . ,
Shanghae dispute having been brought to an amicable
into the state of prisons in Paris and the departments,
termination.
with a view to the release of prisoners who can establish, a
OHEMIA.—AWPIIL CRUELTIES.—On the 15th, Prince
any claim to that preference on doubts of their guilt, or -V
Windsch atz was in complete possession of Prague.
other favourable cause. Amongst those whose chances of gr
T
favour are considered the most sure, is Madame Lafarge, The insurrection is ascribed to the machinations of the
and the measure is suspected to have originated with a Swornost faction. The Wiener Zeitung gives the fol-
lowing interesting details :—" Owing to the refusal of the
fore the revolution of February, in her prison at Montpe-
view to her benefit. She had been reckoning upon this be-
Prince to give arms to the people on the 10th, the Swor-
lier, where she is regarded as a saint and martyr. Six nost faction proceeded in large numbers to the residence
of the commander-in-chief, where they sang songs insult-
the part of the queen, to whom she had applied for some months ago an official personage was sent to visit her on
ing to the Prince, accompanied by hooting and threats.
prints and books to relieve her solitude, she basing her The military on duty having in vain called upon the mob
claim upon the relationship between them. The gentle- to be orderly and disperse, and the fatal shot being fired
man employed found her engaged in forming a hortussic- at this moment which deprived the unfortunate Princess
ens, composed entirely of all the poisonous plants used in of her life, the Prince with great dignity and calmness
advancedin the midst of them, and addressed them to
medicine. Around lay some odoriferous flowers, some
the following effect :—" Gentlemen—lf it is your desire
fresh and some faded, and the gentleman, with French
gallantry, endeavoured to turn a compliment by congratu-
nu do there as you may think fit. I will even give you
toa insult me, because I am of noble birth, go to my palace,
a guardt. that you may not be disturbed in your amuse-
„ her upon being thus surrounded with flowers. ' Ah,
monsieur," exclaimed she, with a deep sigh, " do you notßut if
td if you act thus because I am commander of
gen Purpose making a demonstration in front of
perceive that they are withered ones ? She took up a men
t.
of the beautiful belladonna which lay near her, and r building,u '
tell you candidly that I shall iprevent such
handed it towards him with so much grace, that he who
means at my command. My wife now
latiheriasatseapliwfeiltehssevceo7 e above stairs, and yet I address you in
came to reprimand became from that moment her devoted
slave, and seized the gift with avidity, declaring that he
words of kindness.ps
hearkenedrentad,inwg
tentlemen, do not drive me to
would keep it as long as he should live ! It is now this
After this noble speech, under cir-
very official who has drawn up the report on the " dossier severe measures."
cumstances of so heart
roughly nature,
seizedth e
Lafarge," and who is to take that special case in hand be-
instead of being asa
fore the Assembly. The Paris correspondent of the Atlas, by two Czechs, and dragged to the next lamp-post, where
from whom these curious facts are derived, furnished a cu- arope was soon procd at this moment the Prince's
rious account of the apartments, or " cells,"-occupied by
grenadiers advanced with fixed bayonets, and in less than
the lady ; one of them replete with every article of ele- ag second cleared the square and delivered the Prince.
gance and luxury, including many of her own paintings Five minutes afterwards the artillery swept the streets.
and drawings, and amongst others a likeness of her hus- Prince Windischgratz is spoken of as one of the most
band (for the alleged poisoning of whom she is now con- distinguished Generals '
. . in the Austrian service. The
fined), with his own autograph at the bottom. This looks most awful atrocities were co • mmitted. Among others,
out upon a beautiful country, embracing the chateau where
a paper merchant, was crucified in
the crime took place. The other, containing her little bed, Wilhelm
the true sense of the word. He :lad shot a couple of
is gloomy and austere in furniture, having an air of the in his capacity of
students . Burgher Guard, for which his
most rigid monastic penance. The writer of the article house was first demolished, and himself literally nailed to
exclaims—" Is this womanguilty is she • t •
or
she a most injured martyr, or a most fiendish and con- scarcely a house
there is
summate comedian ? The debates upon her future fate
from the bombardment.
are expected to be carried on with as much passion, and
to excite as great a curiosity as those to which her trial
itself gave rise. The mysteries of social life in France are
too deep to fathom; and it would be presumptuous to
dare to condemn even those against whom the most mi-
nute proofs of guilt can be brought with success in a court
of justice.
M. Marrast presented the draft of -the constitution,
which occupied nearly an hour in the reading. It must
be borne in mind that this is only a project, which may
fill the greater part of the session before it is settled.
There is to be a president for four years, to which every
French citizen, thirty years of age, and of fair character,
is eligible. A vice-president is to be elected by the Na-
tional Assembly, which is to consist of 750 members.
There is to be but OTIQ chamber. ,'he miniaters.are to be

WEST INDIES.—The Royal Mail steam-ship Tay,
Captain Sharp, arrived at Southampton on Tuesday. His
Excellency Sir Henry Light, K.C.8., has returned to
England in the Tay. The Tay brings intelligence of the
wreck of the barque Lady Huntly, which was lost at sea
on her passage from Liverpool, on the 18th May, crew
saved, part of whom returned in the Tay. There is no
news in particular from any of the islands. The accounts
from Jamaica are still extremely unsatisfactory, business
being completely at a stand-still. The weather, however,
which for a long time had been very dry, had changed for
the better, and on the day the packet left copious showers
had set in, with every prospect of their continuance. The
Tay brings information of a serious insurrection having
taken place in Martinique. One family of whites had been
burnt to death by the blacks. The freedom of the slaves
had been proclaimed at Martinique and Guadaloupe, and
very great fears were entertained of the consequences.

SHOCKING AccrnENT.-43n Wednesday, two brothers
were amusing themselves at Byker, near Newcastle, by
jumping across an old pit mouth,•when one of them lost
his balance on the side and fell in, and,the other, observing
that, made an attempt to sq.ve him, and fell in also. The
accident was observed by an engineman, who was sitting
in the engine house getting his dinner at-the time, and he
instantly rushed to the spot, and, by great daring, suc-
ceeded in saving one of ,the youths, who-was upheld by a
beam across the shaft, a few feet from the-top. In at-
tempting to rescue the other, the unfortunate.roan sacri-
ficed his own life, both having fallen together ,to the
bottom of the 031:ftf iu then' WaS. seventy, feet of
rater.