The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

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soellaneous measures had also advanced in
)n the 9th the Senate read a third time a bill
giving to the Secretary of the Treasury a discretionary
power to prevent vessels from the British North American
Provinces to load and unload cargoes in American ports.
On the 10th, in the House of Representatives, a resolution
was introduced instructing the Postoffice Committee to

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Inquire into the expediency of so amending the
for carrying mails to Great Britain as to require
steamers employed in the service to stop at the port c
Galway, in Ireland, going to and returning from
The curious fact may be added, that, on the 9th, one o,
the representatives of New Hampshire resigned his seat tc

Liverpool

go to the gold mines.
On the 6th a furious storm of
rienced o

and rain was expe

Lake A

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Hudson river bad also rise

was very active in all quarters. On the 9th a fine of
steamship for the Pacific was launched at New Yor'--
the 12th a second, of 1,700 tons woul?
yard, also for the Pacific. Both thr

leave the bu

Liverpool mail steam

their machinery on board and t;
The Arctic would probably leav

October, and the Baltic On the Ist o
the 9th tl

le Havre st

boldt would be launched in a couple of weeks.
Accounts from Nicaragua state that the American, At
lantic, and Pacific Canal Company's steamer Nicaragua
bad succeeded in ascending the Colorado to within abou
four miles from San Juan. It was expected sl
shortly be enabled to enter Lake Nicaragua.
from Valparaiso state that the Reciprocity Bill hac
law, and foreign flags were admissible on the same footin
as Chili vessels

become

rile continual stretching of the rope it has broken.
'ast we published the depositions of Ensign F.
Roome, of the 10th Native Infantry, and Ensign John
Carnegie, of the 28th Native Infantry, who were murder-
oust), attacked at Penn by some frantic natives. We hear
Letters I that the 0-- t these men has now been finally

..arge against,
aisposed of before the judge at Tannn
were found guilty, and the •-•

Twelve natives

ntence of the court was it

prisonment for one year and a fine of 100 rupees, fa"
the payment of which the men were to be
another twelve months. The trial lasted

veral days,

dun law (
Bhewndv, sat with the judges as ass
fair to Messrs. Roome and Cornegie to say that it wa
proved on the trial that they behaved with great judg-
ment after the attack was made, and that their assailants

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received not the slightest provocation to commit the
assault, and further that the truth of every word of their
depositions was satisfactorily proved by evidence.

WEST INDIES.—The Royal mail steamer, Tay, Capt.
ived at Southampton on Thursday with the

27th ult. She brings specie. value 1.916 dols. ; £l9 gold
British corn. £655 ; silver, £6lB ; and 1,114 francs.

iad been visited with copious rains. Great
ttention was being paid to the cultivation of cotton. A
tolerable amount of business had been done in imports at
Jamaica, but at somewhat reduced prices. Barbadoes
was troubled with a severe gale on the 16th August, which
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ma much damage. The news from Demerara, Trinidad,
and Antigua is of no importance. Exchange on London
at Jamaica.—Colonial bank, thirty days, 488 dols. ; ninety
days, 484 dols. ; private bills, ninety days, 480 dols. As
it resnects the irnrinrt trade the neennnte are /PC4 onennrao,_

ing, particularly from Jamaica. Fresh arrivals of manu-
factured goods continue to be poured upon markets pre-
viously amply supplied, and the result, as in almost every
other part of the world, is that remunerating prices can-
not be obtained. We are, however, almost tired of reite-
rating such statements.

UNITED STATES.—The United States mail steamer
Atlantic reached the Mersey on Friday morning, at half-
Cori of New Mexico as a rider, by a vote of 108 to 98.
past eight o'clock, and brings news three days later
ea`e than that brought by the Europa. The Texas
boundary bill, after two successive defeats, passed the
house on the 6th instant, with the territorial organisa-
The late floods in Pennsylvania had been frightfully
destructive of human life and property. Accounts from
Pottsville reported the loss of over 50 lives, but it was
hoped the statement would prove somewhat exaggerated.
There could, however, be no doubt that a very large
number of lives had been lost, and the destruction of
property was immense. _

CALIFORNIA.—The steam-ship Panama arrived at Pa-
nama, from San Francisco, on the evening of the 21st of
Autrust. brinffinff 2.300.000 dols. in onld rinst_ nyul ntynni-

240 nassengers. V The Panama left Acapulco on the 13th
of A.ugust, and on the 17th the cholera broke out among
the passengers with sudden and most terrible violence.
About 50 of the passengers are said to have died. The
steam-ship Empire City arrived at New York on the sth
instant, in eight and a half days from Chagres. She
brought in dust and coin, on freight, 756,002 duls. ; dust
and coin in the hands of the passengers, 400,000 dols. :
total, 2,156,000 dols. The news from the mines is ex-
ceedingly good, and the yields of gold are said to be daily
increasing as the waters recede. Extensive dams and
trenches have been made in several parts, for the purpose
of turning the streams. An anticipation is entertained,
that when the waters subside there will be found an
abundance of dust. There is great distress among the
Californian emigrants on the plains. The number is va-
riously estimated from 50,000 to 100,000 souls, the one-
half of whom will not reach California without suffering,
and one quarter without subsisting on their animals, or
enduring starvation. There are hundreds, more than
150 miles on the other side of the Sink of Mary's river,
that were out of provisions, or had but a few pounds to
sustain a wretched existence, with animals that could
never reach the desert by reason of the scarcity of forage.
A meeting was held at an Francisco, on the 14th of
July, to relieve this suffering. The notice calling the
meeting says that information, of a direct and reliable
character, has been received of extraordinary suffering
among the overland immigrants. Several who arrived at
Sacramento city state, that on the road they saw fifteen
or twenty dead bodies of persons who cane to their death
from starvation. Provisions gave entirely out, and the
only subsistence now left to the immense train still on
the way are mules and horses. The grasses have given
out also, and even the mules and horses, their only hope,
are dying. The steamer Cherokee also brought 1,610,989
dols. in specie to New York.

On dit that the Queen of Portugal is again in a state pe-
culiarly interesting.

A severe gale, almost amounting to a hurricane, has
been experienced at Cuba. The plantations suffered se-
verely, and the sugar canes were injured greatly.
The Trieste Observer, of the 9th inst., mentions the
arrival on that day, from Constantinople and Athens, of
Madame Luisa Ruttkay, sister of Kossuth. That lady,
with the permission of the Emperor, had conducted to
her brother his three sons; who had remained at Pesth.
The Pope has refused to enter into negotiations with
Sardinia, till a bishop who had given offence to the govern-
ment be set at liberty from the confinement to which he
had been subjected for recusancy. Meantime another
prelate is giving annoyance by playing the part of Thomas
A'Becket on a small scale.

The Times states that preparations are making to greet
General Haynau on his return to Vienna with a splendid
demonstration of loyal devotion, accompanied by an ex-
traordinary act of grace on the part of the monarch.
The garrison is to serenade him by torchlight, and the
Emperor is to place into his hands the object of his
ambition—the Marshal's " baton."

THE SIAMEVE TWINS.—A letter in the North Caro-
lina Star, dated Mount Airy, Surrey county, in that
State, alluding to the late story about the Siamese twins,
says :—" They were.at my office on the 20th of July well
and hearty, and as full of life as I ever saw them—speak-
ing of the prospect of their crop, also of their wives and
children. Of the latter they have nine as hearty chil-
dren as the State can produce in one family."
It is reported from Persia that an English traveller, Mr.
Morrison, has discovered at 'Hamadan the ancient Ecba-
tana. the tomb of Hepheestion, the celebrated favourite of
Alexander the Great, who died in that city 324 years
before Christ. An inscription, in excellent preservation,
is said to identify this monument, beyond doubt, with
Hephcestion, who, however, has always been supposed to
have died at Babylon. _

The Lille correspondent of the Boulogne Interpreter
states that the child of an Englishman, named Elliot,
was killed while performing there feats a la Risley with
his father. It appears that the little fellow, upon being
thrown into the air from his father's foot, instead .af
falling upon his feet, by some unlucky movement, fell
upon his head, which caused a dislocation .of the .neck,
and, as a matter of course, instant•death.