The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

AMERICA.—The intelligence brought by the steam-ship
Cambria, which arrived on Saturday, is not important.
' The Caledonia reached Halifax on the 26th ult. The
news of the French Revolution had created a great sensa-
tion, and meetings were held, at which the Irish were the
most prominent. A change of ministry had taken place
in Canada, and it was expected that parliament would be
prorogued shortly. The discovery of a gold mine near
Quebec had occasioned much excitement.
The territory which the United States demand from
Mexico amounts to 751,000 square miles, raising, if re-
quired, the territory of the United States to 2,751,144
square miles, and reducing that of Mexico to 933,160
miles.

COOLNESS IN DANGER.—The papers recount a comic
incident of the Prussian revolution. In one of the barri-
cades carried and cleared away by the troops, the kernel of
the mass of beams, casks, furniture, and paling, flung
hastily together, was found to be a cab, with the unfor.
tunate " fare" still in it. It had been stopped and covered
up before he could get out. As soon as it was dragged
forth, he put his head to the window, and politely begged
the door might be opened, as calmly as if he had just driven
up in the ordinary course of things. He will, doubtless,
figure in Berlin history as an Englishman—for we have an
universal reputation for taking things coolly.
CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.—Advices to the 29th of Janu-
ary, which give most satisfactory accounts of the state of
the colony. Sir Harry Smith was proceeding rapidly on
his tour of inspection beyond the limits of the colony.
He has made the port at the mouth of the Buffalo, in
Caffreland, a British Dort, called East London ; Waterloo
Bay, in the district of Victoria, formerly the neutral ter-
ritory, is also provided for, custom-house officers are ap-
pointed for each, with a board for the improvement of
the " port of East London ;" and Mr. Charles Wolfe
and Mr. Thomas Nightingale are to proceed forthwith as
sub-collectors to open the new ports of Waterloo Bay and
East London, and to receive customs' duties thereat.
SHIPWRECK-150 LrvEs LOST.—Letters have been
received from Penang, dated February sth, relative to the
British ship General Wood, which, we regret to say, there
is too much reason to believe has foundered in the Chinese
seas, and every soul belonging to her, amounting to 150,
is supposed to have met with a watery grave. The ill-
fated vessel, it is reported, was chartered by the Indian
government for the transport service. She was an old
ship 800 tons burden, and left Singapore on the 2nd of
January for Penang, having on board 91 convicts, a de-
tachment of soldiers, several passengere, and a crew of
between 30 and 40 persons. Since that period nothing
whatever has been heard of her,

THE POPE DIVTDED.—TweIve thousand men (says the
IMbats) have marched from Rome to succour Lombardy
against the Austrians. The Pope, on their departure,
gave them his benediction in the following terms :—" As
Head of the Church, I am at peace with all the universe.
As .an Italian Prince, I have a right to defend Italy, my
country. I bless you. The cause you go to defend is a
holy cause; God will make it triumph. I bless you once
more. Fight and conquer in the name of the Lord."
Here is some confusion, surely. Which of the two per-
sonages between whom Pius IX. divides his identity draws
the sword, and which of them blesses it ? But it is the
fault of the Pope's position, and not his own, that he sees
his own image at once on both sides of the thaumatrope.
WEST INDIES.—The Medway Royal mail steam-ship,
Captain May, arrived on Tuesday morning at Southamp-
ton, at six o'clock, with the usual fortnightly mail, which
brings us the important intelligence of the capture of the
Upper and Lower Forts on the Oregon River by the boats
of H.M. ship Alarm, Captain Loch, the steamer Vixen,
and brig Daring, and a detachment of the 38th Regiment,
the whole in command of Capt. Loch, with Commanders
Rider and Peel in command of their own boats. The
Lower Forts showed much resistance, but the loss in the
boats was trifling—one man killed and a midshipman
wounded. The loss on shore was considerable. The
news by this arrival from the West India Islands is unim-
portant. They are all reported as being in a healthy state,
but the merchants complaining. Col. Henry Capadoce,
the acting commander-in-chief of the army at Jamaica,
died very suddenly on the Ist March, at Up Park Camp,
in the 70th year of his age.
Madrid letters of the Ist instant state that the utmost
alarm continued to prevail in that capital. Additional
troops had been sent for. The garrison was to be in-
creased to 13,000 men. The post-office had been con-
verted into a fortress. Arrests continued to be made.
General Chacon was taken into custody, and sent a pri-
soner to the citadel of Pampeluna, for having, in conjunc-
tion with other senators, demanded an audience of the
Queen to present a petition in favour of the prisoners
condemned to death. Fourteen persons were sent from
Madrid on the 31st ult. The &fib and the Clamor
Publico were seized on the same day. The university,
having been the theatre of some rioting on the Ist, was
closed by order of the government, as also the medical
school of San Carlos. It was rumoured that another in-
surrection would take place on the 2nd, but up to post
hour nothing had occurred to disturb the tranquillity of
the capital. The intelligence from the provinces was
satisfactory.

The Eii2ancipation of Brussels has accounts of fresh
disturbances on the Belgian frontiers. It appears that on
Monday last a band of about 50 individuals, almost all
drunk, proceeded to the factory of M. Defontaine, at
Halluin, a village contiguous to the gates of Menin,
threatening to pull it down if he (lid not instantly dismiss
all the Flemish workmen in his employ. M. Defontaine
was obliged to submit, and the workmen left the factory
amidst the frantic yells of the malefactors. The Mayor,
however, eventually expelled them from the village, and
the poor Belgian operatives have since resumed their situ-
ations in the factory of M. Defontaine. The Gazette de
Mbns, of Thursday evening, says that the " strike" of the
minor operatives is complete ; the conflict of the 3d has
exasperated them, and they are now overrunning the vil-
lages in large bands. The students in the Universities of
Louvain, Brussels, and. Tournai have resolutely raised the
standard of revolt against their rectors. Those of Louvain
have drawn up a protest against the Roman Catholic Uni-
versity, denouncing it as a retrograde institution, farbehind
the ideas of the present age of enlightenment, and demand
ing the adoption of a broader and more liberal policy.