The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

•rge bed of anthracite coal has been discovered

en the Sacramento River and Spitter's Creel

)1e Indian government has offered a prize of 5000
rupees, and the Agri-Horticultural Society its gold medal,
for an improved machine for cleaning cotton.
The late governess in Dr. Pusey's family was publicly
admitted into the Church of Rome, at Malta, on the 2nd
_February.

Two Of the French vessels destined for the expedition
to La Plate have been disabled by their machinery break-
dng down.

The Turkish fleet has been set in motion with a view to
Int in a distress on the part of the Porte against the
g Overnment, of Greece.
Father Roothan, the general of the Jesuits, has joined
the Pope at Portici. Throughout the kingdom of Naples
the members of the Order are taking possession again of
therm. houses and other property.
The Kiag of Denmark is said to be dangerously ill.
Should he die at the present time, the consequences
might be serious, as the succession to the throne is not
yet determined.

It is rumoured that General Lamoriciere, who had
given several symptoms of aberration of mind ever since
the fatal day of the trees of liberty, has at length been
pronounced in a state of raving madness.
Preparations on the most splendid scale are making for
the celebration of the marriage of the King of Sweden's
son with the Princess of the Netherlands, one of the
richest princesses in Europe.
On the 19th ult. the 17th regiment of the French army
eft the city of Rowe, and on the 24)th the I3th regiment
was to follow, both on their return to France. It is
Ipposed the whole of the French garrison at Rome will
,be changed.
,a 'he people, with their usual love of saying something
spit ist the powers that be, have a joke that Napoleon
built barracks, Charles X. churches, Louis Philippe
,fortiA, ations, and Louis Napoleon prisons,—each ac-
cording to his disposition.
,Letter, 3 from Malta of the 22nd ultimo state that the
Greek c
pe ple begin to feel severely the consequences of
the blocks. le, and would seem disposed to hold the King
.responsible ,for his acts, even though they pushed matters
to the extent of dethroning him. _

The PaeVe News of the 31st December, published at
San ,Francisco, says, "We perceive that the immense
iron,warehouse of Starkey, Janion, and Co., at the foot
of California-street, has been rented by the collector, and
will hereafter
,be
,used as a United States bonded ware-
lionse."

A few days ago ~as a young bride and bridegroom who
bad just sworn ete'roneualefdelity at the foot of the altar in
the Church of St.
the
female uttered
to receive the bene-
diction of the priest, a piercing shriek,
succeeded by a second one ande in a few moments gave
birth to a bouncing boy.—,G,ali
years of
Messenger.
' A young woman, about 20
secondage, the day before
yesterday, threw herself out of the°floor window
of a house in the Rue des Barres St;Pa
in consequence
of a quarrel with her lover. She fell on the head of a
pastier-by, who was killed on the spot, and she herself
received such r injuries that Ae•
, I life
.16 despaired of.;—
Polignant,

A letter from Rome states that the villain who threw a
hand grenade into the carriage of the Prince de Musignano
has been arrested. He was a student in the Hospital of
St. James, on the Corso. Fortunato Gatti, who assas-
sinated the French soldier belonging to the 53d Regiment,
was shot on the 17th, on the Piazzo del Popelo. He made
a confession of his crime, and died expressing sorrow for
his guilt. 10,000 individuals attended his execution.
Paris is becoming more excited about the approaching
election. The Socialists are making immense .exertions
to obtain votes for their candidates ; and as the Moderate
camp is split up into three divisions it is feared there is a
possibility that the former may succeed. The President
was on Friday riding about again distributing crosses and
money, but his popularity is said to Nave diminished;
the coldness between him and General Changarnier has
not subsided, each apparently mistrusting the other.
The late Mr.. Joseph Ilambro, a Danish Jew, but het et
of an extensive London banking firm, bequeathed to his
native city of•Coperthagen the ultimate interest, after his
sen Charles's death-, in a sum of 300,000 rixdollars (about
£22,8001, for theestablishment ,of charitable institutions.
Me. Charles Haaehro, the son 'to whom the legacy was
oven fOrlife,.has given up his life interest, on condition
that the•municipality of Copenhagen shall erect two pub-
lic baths and wash-houses for the poor, as in England.
'THE EttiirvroN OF Vrstzvxus.—Letters from Naples
announce the cessation of the eruption of Vesuvius on the
12th,ult. 'The lava had found an issue on the southern
side of the mountain towards Mauro d'Ottiano, and flowed
down in three directions, the principal stream following
the old bed. Notwithstanding this favourable circum-
stance, a good deal of damage had been done to property.
Of three persons who had approached too near to witness
the phenomenon more at their ease, one was killed, and
• the two others severely wounded by red-hot stones.
A letter has just been received from Natal, written by
'the wife of a respectable farmer who lately left Yorkshire
for that settlement. She says—" I will write again, and
tell you what I think of the country. At present I can-
not give an opinion, except that it comes up to my expec-
tations in many respects. I think with industry we shall
he able to get a livelihood. Young unmarried ladies are
in great request. They are the most inquired after of
anything I hear of. If they can take situations, they can
get from £25 to £3O a-year, besides they are in great
request to make wives of."
Mdlle. Jenny Lind appeared at Bremen on the 7th ult.
Previously she gave two concerts at Gottingen, one of
which was for the benefit of the poor of the town. The
students got up a procession with torchlights in honour
of the celebrated cantatrice, gave a concert at daybreak
under the windows of her residence, and afterwards con-
ducted her as far as Nordheim.—The incomparable Jenny
has recently given several most successful concerts in Ha-
nover, one of which was for the benefit of the poor of the
city. His Majesty King Ernest, who was present at one
of the concerts, has sent to the Swedish Nightingale the
appropriate gift of a golden goblet filled with ants' eggs,
the food of nightingales.
EXTRAORDINARY SCENE IN A SARDINIAN COURT. --
A tragic scene, of which the annals of justice offer few
instances, occurred on the 22nd ultimo, in the Court of
Appeal of Turin. The president was about to pass sen-
tence on a band of seventeen murderers, three of whom
had been condemned to death, and the fourteen others to
hard labour or imprisonment, when those convicts simul-
taneously rose at a signal given by their chief, and at-
tempted to disarm the carabineers seated by their side.
A frightful tumult ensued. The judges and part of the
auditory retired terror-struck, whilst the carabineers
endeavoured to master the revolters. A sergeant, finding
himself too closely pressed by one of them, named
Vincenzo Artusio, shot him dead with a pistol. This put
an end to the horrid struggle. Two other convicts were
dangerously wounded, and one of them was not expected
to survive.—Globe.
A pinnace, with 19 hands, has been upset in a squall,
between the Bay of ,Salamis and the Piraeus of Athens.
Six of the crew were drowned, and the remainder, with
the lieutenant, got on Pigeon Island, where eight, includ-
ing Lieut. Breen, were afterwards found frozen to death.
The others were alive, and are now likely to recover.
L'eut. Breen was the son of Dr. Breen, of Dublin, and
but in his twentieth year. When his death became known,
all the British, and even Greek ships on the station, had
their flags lowered, and so held them until after his inter-
ment. The officers have subscribed for a monument to
him at Malta. The following is an extract from Sir W.
Parker's letter of the sth February :—" Tie body of the
unfortunate lieutenant was found on the upper part of the
island (Lypso), under a bush, without his coat, which he
had nobly given to one of the surviving seamen, whose
sufferings from the cold he considered greater than his
own."

DEATH BY SPONTANEOUS 'COMBUSTION. The fol
lowing extraordinary occurrence is related in the Gazette
des Tribunaux :—" A few days ago, in a tavern near the
Barriers de l'Etoile, a journeyman painter, named Xavier
C—, well known for his intemperate habits, while drink-
ing with some comrades, laid a wager that he would eat a
lighted candle. His bet was taken, and scarcely had he
introduced the flaming candle into his mouth when he ut-
tered a slight cry and fell powerless to the ground. A
blueish flame was seen to flicker about his lips, and, on an
attempt being made to offer him assistance, the bystan-
ders were horrorstruck to find that he was burning inter-
nally. At the end of half an hour his head and the upper
part of his chest were reduced to charcoal. Two medical
men were called in, and recognised that Xavier had fallen
a victim to spontaneous combustion. The conflagration
of the human frame is frightfully rapid in its progress ;
bones, skin, and muscle, all are devoured, consumed, and
reduced to ashes. A handfull of dust on the spot where
the victim fell is all that remains."
ATTACK ON ENGLISH TRADING ESTABLISHMENTS IN
WESTERN AFRICA.—By accounts received from Angola,
on the western coast of Africa, we learn that the factory
of Messrs. Hatton and Cookson (of Liverpool), at Ambriz,
was set on fire by the black natives on the 25th November
last. The tire was got under, and the blacks driven off;
but, nevertheless, property to the amount of about £2600
was destroyed. An attempt was likewise made upon the
factory of Messrs. Horsfall, but it failed. Mr. Brand,
the British vice-consul at Loando, on hearing of these
occurrences, immediately applied to the commanding
officer of the British naval division on that coast, the
hon. Captain Hastings, who lost no time in despatching
her Majesty's ship Firefly, Captain Tudor, to the spot.
Some sort of arrangement was entered into between
Captain Tudor on the one part, and his Excellency "Jim
Thompson " on the other ; the illustrious personage lest
named being the plenipotentiary of the king, who, it
seems, by the laws of the country, is not allowed to come
within sight of the ocean.—Lisbon Correspondent of the
Morning Herald.
A CONTRAST ENOUGH TO MAKE ONE'S TEETH
WATER.--The Frontier Guardian of the 12th January
has the following as the latest news from the Mormon
settlement of Jowa :—" The people in the Salt Lake
Valley are but scantily provided with goods, wares, and
merchandise, notwithstanding the heavy stocks that were
taken there last year. They have gold there to purchase
with, and hundreds of men in the mines digging for more
goods ; groceries, farming utensils, glass, nails, paints,
oils, machinery, mill irons, bolting cloth, and about 20,000
good young cows, and 40,000 sheep, are wanted there.
Chickens, pigs, cats, and dogs, plenty in that place
already. They want turkeys and geese there still. We
hope to see trains of goods and emigrants starting from
this point to the Valley every week, from the Ist day of
May till the 15th day of June. Goods? goods ! is the
cry there, and gold! gold! is the response." Would
that we were within a reasonable distance of these flou-
rishing fanatics. They would not have to cry out "goods,
goods," for any long space, without having their long-
ings satisfied.

CALIFORNIA AS IT IS.—The Manchester Guardian
gives the following from a Scotchman, experienced in the
" diggings —Now, with regard to your future move-
ments, I can only say that I would not have you here at
this moment for all the gold I have the chance or expec-
tation of obtaining. It would be risking your life, and
sacrificing everything that makes life desirable, for you to
come here at present. I won't talk of privation, because
you will laugh at it, not having undergone anything of
the kind ; but men who have lived, and worked for a
living, in all parts of the world, shrink from the life they
have to lead in this barren region. C— is one instance,
and I will give you another. On leaving San Francisco,
we got two men to join our party for company's sake, one
of whom had travelled over all the world—lndia, China,
Spain, France. Germany, England, United States, South
America, and Mexico. He was a surgeon, and exercised
his calling as a means of livelihood during his travels.
Well, after our visit to the head waters of the Sacramento,
hp got cielc ; and one night, when about eighty miles
above this place, he slipped from our camp, and drowned
himself in the river, stating in a note left behind him that
death was preferable to such a life. By the next time I
write. I hope to have something decent laid up; and if
there should then be any shelter, other than a tent, to be
had in the country, you shall have the means to come
out, or to go anywhere your inclination may lead ; but at
present don't think of coming here."
INTERESTING INCIDENT.—A letter, written on board
the Rattlesnake, dated Cape York (Torres Straits), Oct.
16, 1849, gives an interesting account of a white woman
coming alongside the ship. The woman had been wrecked
three or four years ago in Torres Straits, when both her
husband and all but herself were drowned. One of the
blacks, who was out turtling, in a canoe, approached the
wreck, and carried her out through the surf, supporting
her with one arm and swimming with the other. The
natives took her to one of the Prince of Wales group of
islands, where she had since lived, being most kindly
treated by the men, but not so by the women. On hear-
ing of "a large war canoe of the white men" being at
Cape York, she prevailed on her friends to take her across
the main, which, after some hesitation, they consented to
do. She had forgotten much of her own language, and
had frequent recourse to the blacks when wishing to ex-
plain herself. She is not more than nineteen or twenty
years of age, and, though not pretty, has a soft feminine
and very pleasing expression ; and though living with
naked savages for several years, she had not lost the na-
tural feelings of womanly modesty, and appeared to feel
her situation, dressed only in a shirt, in the midst of a
crowd of her own countrymen. She stated that only
upon one occasion had any impropriety been attempted
with her by the natives, and then it was by an old man,
who received a sound thrashing for his misconduct. The
woman remained with her countrymen on board the Rat- I
tlesnake, and proceeded to Sydney.
INDIAN RAILWAY PATRONAGE.—The Guicowar,
Mahratta prince, who governs in a protected capacity the
important state of Guxerat, has extended his prompt and
effectual patronage to the project of a railroad between
his capital of Baroda and the Bunder or port of Tankaria,
in the Gulf of Cambay. It is extremely desirable in many
points of view that this scheme should be properly unjer-
stood. It is the first instance in which a native prince
has volunteered the investment, in any useful work, of
that capital which is hoarded in more than one royal
treasury, and which, where distributed at all, has usually
been devoted to the grossest purposes of sensuality or
intrigue. There was wealth enough at Lucknow to have