The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-03-25 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

BRAZILS

Her Majesty's packet Petrel, Lieut. Cheser, arrived at
Falmouth, on Thursday, from the Brarls, after a tedious
voyage of upwards of two months, having sliled from
Rio de Janeiro on the 16th January.

From the Brazils nothing of general interest has been
communicated as having transpired since the dates fur-
nished by a recent mercantile arrival from thence.
From the River Plate we have had later dates from
Buenos Ayres, those now furnished being only to Dec.
11 ; but letters from Monte Video of Dec. 24 state that
some difference had existed between the Brazilian Charge
d'Affaires and the Monte Videan government, which
obliged this official to repair on Board a Brazilian man-
of-war, but the matter was looked on as of little impor-
tance at Rio.

The following British ships at Rio had cargoes :—For
London : the Liebe, Todd ; Richmond, Grayson ; and the
Fox, Duncan. For Liverpool, the Homely, Gibant ; and
Star, Pugh. _ _

Coffee,'superior, 3000 to 3,200 per arroba ; first good.
2,700 to 2,800 ; first ordinary, 2,400 to 2,600. Sugar
(campos). 2,600 to 2.700 per arroba ; seconds, 2,400 ; and
muscavo (browns), 1600 to 1800.
Exchange at Rio, 211 pence to 25. It appeared pretty
clear that the Imperial Government had fully resolved on
not renewing the commercial treaty with Great Britain.

Dr. Wolff has arrived at Constantinople, with the envoy
from Bokhara, who accompanies him to this country.
A young girl hanged herself at Amiens, a few days
back, from vexation at not being able to procure a new
dress to go to a ball !
The city of Moscow, having been founded in the year
1147, will celebrate in 1847 the ninth century of its exist-
ence. The Emperor wishes the iron railway between the
two capitals of the empire to be completed by that time.
Marshal Soult has issued an order prohibiting the
soldiers at Lille, who are freemasons, from attending
lodges, and ordering these who are not freemasons to re-
sist every attempt that may be made to induce them to
join the society.

The new trial of Walker and his cenfederates before
the Cour lioyale, at Paris, upon the charge of cheating at
cards, terminated on 'Tuesday. The Court pronounced
them guilty, and sentenced them to imprisonment for two
years.

SPAlN.—Lettcrs from Rome leave no doubt upon the
marriage of Count Trapani with the Quee❑ of Spain.
The King of Naples was expected in the Roman capital
to announce the important fact to his brother, and to
prepare for the ceremony. The proposed marriage was
agreeable to the Holy See, but it Would appear that
clidibts existed of its being acceptable to two ht least of
the great Powers, or, what is of more consequence, to
the majority of the Spauisn nation.
In the French Chamber of Peers, on 'Wednesday, M.
Teste presented the report of a committee appointed to
examine Count Daru's proposition to prevent excessive
speculation in railroad-shares. It suggests the greatest
possible freedom in the neocia,ion of shares; that sh,res
may be created before the companies putting them ii,to
circulation are legally constituted, but not without the
express sanction of the law. It is further recommended
that all shares should be inscribed by numbers in a regis-
ter, the shareholders receiving a receipt which shall serve
them as a guarantee for the bona fide character of the en-
terprise.

PoßTUGAL.—Advices have been received from Lisbon
to the 12th instant. A Lisbon letter of the 11th, gives
an account of a serious commotion in the district of Fel-
guieras, attended with the loss oe many lives, and the in-
cendiarism of several house. The tumult from which
these lamentable circumstances arose was occasien•d by
an attempt to levy and collect a new impost on wines.
The details are calculated to leave a bad impression of
the administiation of affairs in Portugal, and of the con-
dition of the people under the government of Senor Ca-
bral. A Lisbon letter of the 12th instant centains the

substance of the Convention entered into between the'
Barons Folgnza and Jonqueira and the government, for
the Conversion of Four Millions of Bonds of the Foreign
Debt.

THE CANADIAN It EBELs.—The quiet of our little vil-

lage was suddenly broken in upon by the arrival from the
south of 38 of the Canadians exiled to Van Diemat.'s
Land for the participation in the troubles of 1837. It is
nearly two years since the British Go% ernn.ent pardoned
their offences, and gave them 1 berty to return to their
homes. Since that time they have been at work •to earn
the necessary funds to enable them to reach their own
shores. They appeared healthy, well dressed, and in high
spirits, and spoke well of the treatment, they had received
at the hands of the British authorities. Two of tkem on
returning to their hones, where they had expected to
meet the smiles and joyful tears of their wives, found
that these last had supplied their places with other lords.
St. Alban's (Vermont) Republican.
REFORMATION IN PRUSSIA.—A letter dated Dresden,
Feb. 28th, says, " We have heard of a singular agitation
in the Roman Catholic Church in Germany. Dresden is
very full of it. There are no less than seven places that
I hear of where the seperation is going on. It began at
Breslau. with a priest of the name of Ronge, and has
made progress at Dresden, Leipsic, Berlin, on the Rhine,
and the circle of Bohemia. Considerable numbers in
some of the places have quite separated from the Pope
and gone back to the religion of the third century—very
like our Church. The snow is very deep; the train got
within ten miles of Leipsic, when the workmen could no
longer clear it way, and it stuck fast all night. The pas-
tor of a neighbouring spot. at the imminent danger of his
life, made his way, accompanied by two men, to the train,
and refreshed the passengers with wine, &c. The train
got to Leipsic at seven the next morning. The Elbe, it is
expected, will overflow, there is so much snow lying
around."

DREADFUL CALAMITY AT ALGIERS.—The Munileur
Algerien of the 10th inst. announces the occurrence in
that city of a dreadful catastrophe. At ten o'clock in the
evening of the Bth, the gunpowder deposited in the stores
of the park of artillery took tire, blew up that building,
and occasioned the destruction of various others. A por-
tion of the casem ated rampart, placed between the old
Spanish tower, called Pegnon, and the harbour, and the
houses built a2ainst t bat rampart, were entirely destroyed,
and their inhabitants buried under the ruins. The pavi-
lion occupied by the sub-director of the artillery, the
quarters of the operatives of the artillery and the engi-
neering departments, and the dwelling of the Commis-
sioner_ -

—.ex. of 'Marine, were levelled with the ground. The
horse of the director of the harbour experienced the same
fate, with the exception of the parlour. in which were
then assembled 20 persons. Shortly before the explosion
Madame Segretier, hearing her son crying in an adjoin-
ing room, left her guests t,) inquire the cause of his tears.
She proceeded thence to the dining-room to order tea.
when the house fell in and killed her. Only one lady of
the party, Madame Sylvestre, the wile of the Admiral's
secretary, was slightly wounded. 43 workmen of the ar-
tillery, 31 pontooners, 10 artillery soldiers, and 2 engi-
neers were found dead in their quarters, and 30 were
more or less desperately wounded. The serjeant-major
of the armourers and his wife and child equally perished.
The controller expired after undergoing the amputation of
his leg. Five other sub-officers suffered the same fate.
Commander Palard was al,o among the victims of that
terrible accident.

EXECUTIONS IN FRANCE.—The Memorial de Rouen
contains an account of the last moments of a criminal
sentenced to death for the murder in October last of an
old woman named Viver, who resided at Eu. From the
state the unfortunate woman was found in her room, it
was evident the sole object had been robbery of a sum of
2,900 f. in a bag belonging to a young woman residing
with the old woman. On the trial the culprit, as an ex-
cuse. stated, that attiking the woman on tha head with a
hammer, was solely for the purpose of stunning her, the
better to effect b.e robbery. " Had I intended to kill her,
I should have struck her more than twice." His appeal
in Cassation having been rejected on the 20th of Febru-
ary, the murderer, who is barely 20, talking with one of
his keepers, said " Look you. I have committed more
than 20 robberies, and if I committed murder only on this
last occasion, it is because the circumstances did not call
for it. They did r ght to sentence me as they have done,
for I feel I should have begun again." On being ap-
prized that the moment of execution was approaching, he
turned somewhat pale, but recovering his composure, said
" It may rs well be today as any other, only I thought
it would not be for a fortnight." On passing the cells
near his, which are quite dark. he consoled himself with
the idea that he had had light in his ; and after the usual
preparations had been made, he entered the van with a
firm step. He maintained similar resolution on arriving
at and on the scaffold The axe fell upon him immedi-
ately afterwards. A miscreant convicted of parricide
suffered death on the Cattle-market square, at Alencon,
on Saturday week. An immense multitude accompanied
him from the prison to the place of execution, " and this
time," observes the correspondent of the Riforme, " very
few women figured among the spectators."

TWELVE TOWNS PAYING THE LARGEST
AMOUNT OF WINDOW DUTY.

1M39,
ending
April 5,
1840.

1840, 1841, s 1842, 1843,
ending enning ending' ending
April 5, April 5, April 5, April 5,
1811. 1842.1 1843. 1844.

Bath. ..
Birmingham
Brighton ...
Bristol
Cheltenham..
Clifton .
Leeds
Liverpool
Manchester
Newcas,le• on-Tyne
Norwich
Plymouth ,
Y0rk........

15,912
XI Xi
22,4081 21,898 21,678121.551
1104:795532;
1151;209163 1105:584159111,249
15,377 15,056 14,952114,683
6,972 6,755 7,0121 7,122
7,818 7.850 7,9781 8,169
7,518 7,514 7,2381. 7,175
30,226 30,790 30,695129,830
19,343 19.157 19,724' 19.907
5,630 5,710, 5,6.53 6,010
6.892 7,1411 6,768, 6.674
12,848111,391; 11,259111,196

18,856
7,905
11,823
12,346
5,332

5,377
5,602
22,551
12,983

4,870
7%242
4,503