The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

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a cemmission should be appointed instead of a committee.—
Lord J. ItussELL defended the conduct of sir Harry Smith.
and, sketching the history of the colony, showed that he (Sir
Barry) was only following up a policy which had been previ-
ous v entertaned and acted upon by former Governors. The
war which had recently broken out was similar in character to
former wars, and c:_ald not, therefore, be attributed to any
Changes of policy on the part of Sir Harry Smith, who was
charged by some parties with having acted tyrannically to-
wards the natives, while by others' ,ing too

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the Caffre and other
—After a rather length•
ed, and the numbers were—For
the original motion, 59; against it, 129; majority, 70. The
Douse again divided on the amendment of Lord John Russell,
which now became the original motion, and the numbers were
—For the motion, 128; against it, 60; majority, 68.—The
house adjourned to Monday, the 28th instant.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

A French company has obtained a contract from the
Pontifical government for lighting Rome with gas.

The Pope has appointed two more cardinals, viz., Car -
divas! Fornari, late Apostolic Nuncio at Paris, and Cardinal
sonnet. Archbishop of Rheims.
The Charieari, alias Paris Punch, has been seized for
as H.B.istr, representing M. Faucher shooting an arrow
from a child's bow into a plaster head, supposed to repre-
sent the constitution, This serious affair afforded some
amusement to the opposition journals.
The Hobart Town papers of December notice the arri-
val of Lieut. Pate, under sentence of transportation for
'even years for the assault upon her Majesty. It is said
be displayed no symptoms of insanity during the passage,
Smith O'Brien had arrived at Hobart Town from Port
Arthur. He was cheered by his countrymen, and es-
corted by a deputation to the Freemasons' Hotel. New
Norfolk was to be his future residence.
The new route from New York to San Francisco, vii
Nicaragua, is to be in operation the let day of July. The
company's arrangements are now completed. The line,
we understand, is made up for the present as follows:
Mc Vanderbilt is to run a line of steamers of the first-
class (among which is the celebrated Prometheus) be-
tween New York and San Juan de Nicaragua. From the
latter place the passengers will go in steam-boats con-
structed for the purpose, up the river San Juan to the
lake, I hence across the lake to Virgin Bay, and thence by
a good road, made by the company, to San Juan del Sur,
on the Pacific—a distance of 12 miles and SO chains.
Thus the entire land transit between New York and Cali-
fornia will be reduced to the short space of 12 miles.
KOSSUTR'S IMPRISONMENT.—The question of the
Hungarian and Polish refugees, without leading to any
great complications, still causes some embarrassment to
the Porte. The Austrian Government insists on a conti-
nuance of the leaders being still detained at Kutaya. The
Porte, moved by a sentlment of humanity as well as by a
sense of its dignity and independence, refuses to admit
esty dillference being made amongst the refugees, and de-
clares that it cannot keep the leaders in the interior of
the empire whilst the others are allowed.to go free. In
addition, the Constantinople journals declare that the
Porte only engaged to keep the refugees in the interior of
the country during the space of one year; after that pe-
riod it considers itself at liberty to act as it pleases.
Stites DAL ATTEMPT OF TUE MURDERUR LAPOURCADS.
—Lafourcade, the man condemned to death, on Wednes-
day. for the murder of Mad'lle Lebel, and the attempted
murderer of Mad'lle Rihault, having, when first arrested,
attempted to commit suicide by opening a vein with a
piece of glass, a strict watch was kept on him, and imose-
-diately after his condemnation he was most carefully
searched. Nothing was found ; but, before leaving his
eell, one of the turnkeys had the idea to thrust his fingers
in his hair, which is very thick and long. To his surprise
be felt a sharp hard substance, and presently drew forth
the small blade of a knife. Lafourcade had, he admitted,
kept it secreted in his hair ever since his arrest, and he
said that his intention bad been to commit suicide to avoid
the ignominy of the scaffold.—La Patrie.
PERSECUTION OF CHRISTIAN CHINESE.—The over-
land Singapore Free Press has the following :—" The
chief event of a local nature which we have to notice this
month is the occurrence of a very extensive movement in
the interior of our island against the converts to Christia-
nity amongst the Chinese pepper and gambier planters.
A simultaneous attack was made upon the bangsals or
plantations of these persons in all quarters of the island by
their heathen compatriots, instigated it is believed by the
secret societies, which exert such a baneful influence over
our Chinesepopulation. Upwards of 30 bangsals were plun-
dered, and the unfortunate owners and their Coolies dri-
ven out. The police in the interior was augmented, and
warrants issued against a number of persons, but a very
determined resistance was offered, and the police were ob-
liged several times to fire in self-defence, by which it is
believed ten or a dozen of the Chinese were killed. A
party of military was sent out to strengthen the police,
but it was afterwards deemed advisable by the authorities
to suspend the further execution of the warrants, and to
recall part of the military. The Chinese are indisposed to
submit, saying they wish to be allowed to fight out their
quarrel with their Christian countrymen, and that the po-
lice have no business to interfere in the matter. The ut-
most they can be brought to concede is, that it' no further
proceedings are taken in executing the warrants, they will
not give further annoyance to the Christian converts.
They threaten the most determined resistance should any
attempt be made by the police to apprehend any of their
body. In most of the plantations all work has been sus-
. pended for some time, and the effects of these lawless pro-
ceedings are likely to be most disastrous to all concerned,
Several of the parties first apprehended were tried at the
Sessions of Oyer and Terminer, and being convicted were
sentenced to transportation to Bombay. This does not
seem however to-have made much impression, as the Chi-
nese appear to rely:on their powers of combined resistance
to avert further measures against thorn."