The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-10-10 00:00:00

FRANCE

A negro took his seat in the National Assembly, on
Thursday, as representative of Guadaloupe. Two negroes
and two mulattoes have been elected. _ _ _

Prince Louis Buonaparte has decided to sit for Paris ;
in consequence, new elections will take place in the de-
partments of the Yonne, the Charente Inferieure, the
Moselle, and Corsica.
The Times states that a joint-stock company of ,60
masters and. 6,000 operatives„is beinc, constituted in Paris,
to undertake the construction of the works on the Paris
and Lyons.

The' committee appointed to consider the best means
of disposing of the property of Louis Philippe and his
family have reported against oonfiscation, but suggest the
sale of so much of it as shall be sufficient to liquidate all
just debts.
THE VISTAGE NEAR PARIS.—The produce of grapes
is so abundant near Paris that the peasants fear to bring
any inferior quality inside the walls, lest they should not
sell for 6 centimes the two-pound weight, the amount of
entrance duty to which they are subject. The conse-
quence is that a regular fair of grapes is established out-
side the walls of Paris, to which the troops in particular
resort, and are to be seen loaded each with three pounds,
weight, which they purchase for lid., and which are duty
free. . _

MORE RIOTS IN FRANCE.—Very unsatisfactory ac-
counts have been received from Lyons. At an early hour
on Tuesday morning, a certain number of Gardes Mobiles
of Lyons, whose corps has been recently dissolved, pre-
sented themselves at the prefecture, to demand the
month's pay which had, they said, been promised them.
Being allowed to enter the hotel, they possessed them-
selves of it, and kept the prefect in custody for three
quarters of an hour. Crowds assembled around the
building; but a regiment of dragoons, returning from
exercise, charged them, and drove them away, also clear-
ing the hotel and releasing the prefect. The vicinity of
the prefecture was then occupied militarily. The alarm
caused was so great that the shops in the vicinity were
closed. At half-past nine o'clock a group of twenty
gardes mobiles disarmed the two sentinels of the Mont
de Piete. They then attempted to force themselves into
the guard-house, but the men occupying it having barri-
caded themselves in it, they did not succeed. They,
however, broke all the windows. At ten o'clock two
hundred mobiles presented themselves at the Hotel de
Ville, with a red flag. Being charged by the soldiers,
they immediately dispersed. General Gemeau and his
staff, accompanied by an escort, traversed the city. At
eleven o'clock the Place de la Prefecture and the vicinity
were occupied by the military. Groups of the mobiles
were traversing the streets, and it was said that some of
them had gone to the Croix-Rousse.

AUSTRIA.— Intelligence was received at Vienna on the
Ist instant from Pesth up to midnight of the 28th
September. The murder on that day of Count Lamberg,
the newly-appointed commander-in-chief of all the troops
in Hungary, was the signal for open insurrection. The
Diet, on the 28th, unanimously passed a resolution, to the
effect that, in the absence of a government, it elected, as
a provisional one, the committee of six who were appointed
a fortnight before to aid Bathyani in war matters—such
committee to have unlimited and full powers. Up to
midnight the national guards were under arms, and great
excitement prevailed.
WEST INDIES.—By the royal mail steam-ship Medway,
which arrived at Southampton on Thursday. we learn
that, at St. Domingo, tranquillity was restored, the shop-
keepers were experiencing a return of demand, and gene-
ral business was assuming a favourable aspect. The pre-
'el3Fesler—Atar bernT'Vaitrairibilrel to Ir7ak'a
currency, caused by the suspension of the Planters' Bank,
together with the restricted issues of the other banks,
the Commissioners of Public Accounts had met, and re-
commended the issuing of island cheques to the amount
of £50,000, under the act 5 Vic. chap. 55. It appears
that the revenue upon imports into Kingston, from sth
April to sth July last, had declined £10,502, as compared
with the corresponding period of last year.
In the Cape of Good Hope accounts received to the
30th of July, full confirmation is afforded of a fresh at-
tempt at insurrection by the Boer farmer Pretorius, whose
district was situated in the north-eastern fro-itier, beyond
the Orange river. To resist his intended aggression on
British territory, troops had been marched for Bloem
Fontein, the place of residence of the English agent,
Major Warden, who was doing all he could to strengthen
his position until the arrival of reinforcements. The
latest intelligence from Major Warden was dated the 16th.
Sir Harry Smith left Cape Town on his way to the fron-
tier on the 29th. Before his departure he received an
address from the inhabitants, who express perfect confi-
dence in his ability to quell the disturbance. The only
alarm manifested is for the safety of Major Warden, who
with his small force it is feared may not be able to cope
with the superior numbers collected by Pretorius, should
the troops sent forward be delayed by bad roads and other
difficulties. Pretorius, it is stated, relies on some of the
native chiefs ; and Panda, of the Zoola tribe, is reckoned
among his supporters. On the other had, the British
Governor anticipates the co-operation of Waterboer, Kok,
Moshesh, and others ; and under these circumstances,
with assistance from Natal, a speedy termination of dif-
ferences is looked for.. The reward offered of £l,OOO for
the apprehension of Pretorius had been circulated
throughout the colonies.
The proprietors of many of the German newspapers
have determined not to publish their journals on Mon-
days, in order to allow their workmen full liberty to keep
the Sunday.
THE YOUNG IDEA IN GERMANY.—We learn from an
advertisement in the Kolner Zeitung that a shocking state
of anarchy prevails in the school of Muffendorf, a small
village in the vicinity of Cologne. The children, it ap-
pears, are so dreadfully exasperated against the school-
master that they would have done him some grievous
bodily harm, but for the protection of a gendarme and
policeman who attend during school hours.

On the 24th ult. while the vicar of the parish of Es-
quilule, in the Pyrenees, was seated in the confessional
of his church, a young man knelt before him as if to
confess, but suddenly seized the vicar with one hand and
drew a pistol with the other. Before he could use the
weapon, however, several of the parishioners rushed to
the priests assistance and secured the assassin, who is
generally supposed to be mad.
FEMALE SERVANTS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA.—A private
letter, dated Finnessflat, near Adelaide, South Australia,
28th February, 1848, states that the season, which was
about closing, had been a very good one, but the scarcity
of farm servants, of both sexes, especially females, had
been a serious drawback to farm operations. The writer,
Mr. M'Harg, had offered as much as 15s. per week with
rations for female servants, without being able to engage
any ; the consequence was, that ,out of 200 milch cows,
he had been obliged, for a period of six weeks, to turn
out between 30 and 40 every morning without milking
them. His servants, he adds, were quite knocked up
with being overworked, and the whole neighbourhood
was in the same state. Eventually he engaged an ordi-
nary seaman, a hardy Highlander, who had never milked
a cow before. He, however, turned out remarkably well.
Cheese was selling at £6O per ton, or 62d. per lb., and
salt butter at 10d. per lb. Draft horses were in demand,
and fetched as high as £4O each for good ones.

LAW INTELLIGEKCE.
4,

It was decided, the other day, by one of the Scotch
Sheriff's Courts, in a claim of debt, that the societies of
Oddfellow•s, Foresters, Druids, &c., having centres, with
divisions and branches, are contrary to the 39 George 111.
c. 79, and, therefore, have no legal standing.

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

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The beautiful church erected at Manningbam, near
Bradford, by Mr. Hollings, was consecrated on Monday
by the Bishop of Ripon.
It is estimated that eight persons who have erected and
endowed churches at their own cost during the present
year, have together contributed £50,000 to the established
church.

The friends of the Rev. M. H. Miller, late vicar of
Scarbro', have recently presented that gentleman with a
beautiful carved oak box, containing 100 sovereigns, as a
mark of the respect entertained for him.
Lord Berwick died on Thursday week. The late lord,
who was in holy orders, was for more than half a century
rector of Thornton, in Cheshire, and, for nine of that
period, was rector of Berrington Sutton, in Shropshire.
He married, January 16, 1500. The Hon. Richard Noel
Hill succeeds to the family honours.

TRIUMPH OF TaVTti..—TO.--tfie- challenge from the
Priests' Protection Society to Dr. Hook's apostate curate,
Mr. Jephson has written a letter, dated Birmingham, 25th
September, 1848, in which he declines to hold this amica-
ble discussion, and says " lie is not at all disposed to enter
into a controversy in which his principles would again be
called into question."