The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-11 00:00:00

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Majesty's sloop Bose, and the senior officer of ihe block-
ading squadron. Captain Pelly deserves great credit for
securing such exclusive privileges for the Royal Mail
steamers. His services have been highly appreciated by
the British miniver and merchants resident in Nlexico.
Contrary to the established rules of blockade, the captain
of the United States corvette St. Mary, stationed off
Tampico, refused to admit the arrangement of his senior
officer, and prohibited the landing from the Clyde of 1080
bottles of quicksilver, destined for that place. They were
subsequently landed at Vera Cruz, and on the circum-
stance being communicated to the American Commodore,
he ordered the St. Mary to repair to Vera Cruz, and con-
firmed his senior officer's arrangementS, extending the
privilege of landing quicksilver and shipping specie to
both ports.
Her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius had gone with des-
patches to Tampico to bring away all money the property
of British subjects. Ninety thousand dollars were shipped,
and afterwards transferred to the Clyde at Vera Cruz.
General Santa Anna remained at Havannah. His
friends were active in exciting disunion amongst the
Mexican troops, on the plea that he alone could save the
country at this critical juncture.

The King of Hanover has perfectly recovered from his
late illness.

It is said that numerous piratical vessels are 'cruising
about the Archipelago, and that two traders have been
completely pillaged. _ _ _

. .
By the late amnesty of the Pope, no less than 6000
persons have been enabled to return to their homes. At
Rome atone 900 persons were set at liberty.
Charles. the former Duke of Brunswick, bas become
editor of a German paper, having relinquished all
thoughts of recovering the Duchy by force of arms,.

A VRTERAN.—CoI. De Breton, Aid-de-Camp of Mas-
sena, died at the Hotel Royal des Invalids, on Thursday
last, aged 92.
In consequence of the scarcity of corn in New South
Wales, it is believed 250,000 quarters of wheat, in addi-
tion to rye and oats, will be forwarded thither for the use
of the soldiers during the next six months.
The arrival of emigrants at Qu-bee, by far the larger
propo►tion being from Ireland, were this year, to the 27th
June, 21.203, being an increase of 4753 persons over the
same period of 1845. _

It i; said that Louis Bonaparte, the ex-king of Holland.
young man who lived with
his natural son. This act

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of the late ex•lcing will give rise to much discussion in
the Boiviparte fimily ; and it is thought that the Will will
be brought by Prince Louis Napoleon before the public

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ELECTIONS IN FRANCE.—These elections took place
on SAirrday. The result, in France, for the return from
Corsica will not be known for a week, is 270 Conserva-
tives. ISO Oppositionists, giving a maj oily of 90 for
Ministers. There are 90 new members. The Legitimists
have lost 12. There were a few rihts in the south.
A French journal affirms that at the conclusion of an
orgie which took place a few days ago in a restaurant of
the Boulevard des Italiens, a loretle. who made one of
the company, bathed in champagne—one hundred bottles
of that wine, .at six shillings per bottle, having been
emptied into a bath for that purpose.
One of Leuis Philipe's daughters has lately given birth
to a daughter. making the fourteen'h or fifteenth grand-
child of his Majesty. So rapid is the increase of the royal
stock of Orleans, that a formidable staff of nurses is con-
tinually on duty in its household. At this moment not
less than seventeen are employed.
The rye harvest in Belgium has begun ' • unhappily it
does not promise more than half the usual crop. Oats,
beans, and linseed will likewise produce but a moderate
crop, but the wheat is magnificent ; so good and abundant
a crop is not in the memory of man. The pc tatoes, how-
ever, want rain.
A few days ago, says a letter from Vienna of the 24th
ult., a young man, having a very melancholy air, who was
standing at the door of one of the churches at Tokay, drew
a pistol from his pocket as a newly-married couple were
leaving the church, and fired at them. As there was a
heavy charge of slugs in the pistol, he wounded them both
mortally. Immediately afterwards he drew forth a second
pistol, and putting the barrel into his mouth, drew the
trigger, and destroyed himself. It is not stated whether
the man had any hostility against the persons whom he
murdered, or whether he was insane.
MALLBRAN CANONIZED.—M. Beriot caused a 11101111-
mei,t to be raised in the church of Laeken to the memory
of his first wife, the lamented Malibrau. This monument
consisted of a statue in white marble, -representing the
celebrated c,intatrice as Norma, and was placed in a
chapel of blue stone, closed by a bronze onen.work gate,
through which the statue could be seen. The number of
I visitors attracted by this monument, however, displeased
the cure of Laeken, who caused a tin-plate to be nailed
over the door, pierced with a few holes, though which de-
tached parts of the statue only were visible, under the
pretext that some peasants bad knelt before the statue of
an " actress," and adored it as a saint! [is not the statue
of an actress as good to " adore," and as likely to help
its adorers, as the statue of any other person, however
saintly may have been the living original ?—Ed. L. S.l
REPORTED DEATH OF VAN AMBURGH. —There is
again a report of Van Amburgh's destruction founded on
the following letter, purporting to be from Voonsucket,
dated June 16,, which appears in a French paper. We
need hardly add that it requires confirmation :—" The
celebrated Van Amburgh perished here on Monday, in a
most frightful manner. He tad been exhibiting his feats
with his animals in a meadow, near Scituate, and a young
lady having asked him whether he dared enter the tiger's
cage at feeding time, he assured her there was no danger,
and immediately ordered an enormous piece of beef to be
thrown in. After a long contest the meat was taken pos-
session of by a fine tigress, who retired with it to a
corner. Three times Van Amburgh vainly endeavoured
to take it from her. The tigress roared furiously, and
lashed her sides with her tail. The audience began to be
alarmed, but Van Amburgh reiterated his assurance that
there was nothing to fear, and continued his struggle with
the tigress, who, at last feeling herself wounded, threw
Herself on her rash antagonist, knocked him down, and
buried her claws in his throat. In an instant the theatre
was deserted, leaving Van Amhurgh at the mercy of the
maddened animal, who continued to vent upon him her
rage until he became a lifeless corpse. After much diffi-
culty the tigress was shot, and the mutilated remains of
the beast-tamer recovered."