The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-19 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA.
The Cambria arrived on Thursday evening from New
York. She left on the 30th ult., and brought 73 passen-
gers and £3OOO in specie.
The Britannia arrived at Boston on the 26th ult.
-s nothing new from Mexico; everything remains
government is daily gaining strength.

continues in an undisttirlied state. -
Britannia has had the effect of opening
•i the United States to the folly of

the eyes of the 16
t

n contributing their earnings to th

ye them

The excitemer

money-marke
t 109 to 1091.

is more easy

It of the

grain market i 5.
?an demand wou

k upon the government of the republic, and

for inciting to civil
M. de Lamartir

le is unfortunate

His book

s dropped almost still-born. It is
forgotten in a week. He made an efforton Thursday in the
Assembly, which has been followed by a check which fief
months since would have been thought an impossibility

Montt

he amendments which conveyed his ideas on the mo-
tritons question of incorporating in the constitution the
inciple of the English poor laws as they existed before

1, was rejected by an enormous majority,
1 parties in the chamber, except the so-

_ rs of Sunday state that the stormy sitting
l Assembly, on Saturday, had been termi-
ated by a resolution to leave to the Executive Govern-
ment the responsibility of sending special commissioners
into the provinces.

The Pa
of the Na

Warlike prep,
Turin. The

ITALY

Lrations continue to be made with activity
Austrians were said to be equally on the

The expec

FALL OF MESSINA

departure of which from Na

gin on the 31st

cornmenc

it one o'clock in

les and children, fore

,ers and the

taken refuge on board the French and British
-ds. All the property and valuable furniture
e nouses and palaces had been previously removed
ie interior, and literally nothing was left in thr

!s uuc rnairasses to place against the windows so as
Ike loopholes. Barricades and entrenchments were
din all the principal thoroughfares. Persons of all
s and conditions, including even priests, monks,

and children, bad laboured incessantly night and day in
unpaving the streets and forming barricades. During the
night between the 2nd and 3rd, a constant shower of
shells was interchanged between the citadel and the
town ; those thrown from the citadel were fatally destruc-
tive, those thrown from the town are reported to be ill-
aimed, and to have mostly exploded in the air. At eight
in the morning the troops landed east and west of the
city, when, after a fierce bombardment, Messina was
taken by the Neapolitan troops.
Later intelligence states that Messina, having been set
on fire by the Neapolitans, was abandoned by the inha-
bitants, who, however, had mined it, and, after retiring
from the city, sprung the mines, and blew the Neapolitans
into the air.

The National Bank at Athens has been authorised by
the legislature to suspend specie payments till April 1849.

The Empress of Brazil was safely-delivered of a son and
heir to .the throne on the 19th of July last.
A manufactory of woollen cloth has been established in
South Australia.

On account of the numerous conflagrations which have
occurred at Constantinople, the Sultan has ordered tim-
ber to be exempted from all duties until the year 1853.

The number of bakers in Paris is 604, who are divided
into four classes, according to the amount of business.
The first class consists of such as bake upwards of four
sacks of flour a-day, and the fourth such as bake less
than two.

OBSERVANCE OF THE SABBATH IN FRANCE.—M.
Bonte Potter, mayor of Lille, has, at the request of the
Municipal Council, called a meeting of the government
contractors, and requested them in future to suspend all
works on Sundays and holidays.

The Philadelphia American mentions that the Siamese
twins, After being in private life for ten Years, will start
this autumn on a tour of exhibition, as they each have a
wife and three children, and find it necessary to provide
for their increasing families.

MAJOR (LATE LIEUTENANT) EDWARDES.—This offi-
cer has been promoted to the local rank of major in the
Lahore district, in partial reward for his distinguished
services against the Moultan rajah. It is expected that
he will also receive an honorary distinction at the hands
of her Majesty.
SHAMEFUL INTOLERANCE.-The Governor of Malta
has withdrawn the annual grant of £lOO hitherto voted to
the Infant School at that place, and the Roman Catholic
Inshup, a
being termed a ' Protestant School," prohibited the pa-
rents of his flock from sending their children to it. One
little girl, who was receiving 16s. Bd. per month by way of
encouragement as a monitress, has in consequence been
compelled to retire!
FIGHT BETWEEN AN ELEPHANT AND A RHINO-
CEROS.—A few weeks since, at Albany, while a menagerie
was at.Galway, an elephant broke off some of the fasten-
ings to the cage of the rhinoceros, thus letting him loose.
A fight immediately took place between the two animals,
in which the rhinoceros was thrown to the ground. Upon
rising the rhinoceros gave the elephant several upward
thrusts with his prodigious horn, wounding him severely.
The rhinoceros then escaped to the woods.

THE DEAD SEA.—Some months ago a party was sent
out by the United States Government to explore the Dead
Sea. It appears that they have most satisfactorily com-
pleted their task, having been upon the sea in their boats,
or encamped on its borders, for some two months, and
their researches and estimates have been of the most tho-
rough and interesting character. They have sounded the
sea in all its parts, to the depth of 600 fathoms, and found
the bottom crystallised salt. The pestilential effects at-
tributed to the waters turn out to be fabulous. Ducks
were seen skimming over the surface, and partridges
abounded along the shore. The party are at present vi-
siting the most interesting places in the Holy Land.
AN INDIAN EXECUTION.—The New Orleans Crescent
of the Bth of August says,—" On last Saturday night, at
Mandeville on the other side of the Lake Pontchartrain,
an Indian murdered an Indian, by stabbing him with a
large knife. A son of the murdered man immediately
gave information to two of the tribe, and they took the of-
fender into custody. On Sunday morning a court, com-
posed bf 10 Indians, was formed to hear the case and pass
sentence. The proofs were most conclusive, and the pri-
soner was at once condemned to death. Whereupon he
was measured, his grave marked out, and he himself set to
work digging it. When the grave was finished a rifle was
placed in the hands of the murdered Indian's son for the
purpose of doing the execution. At the first shot death
was not produced; the second shot also took effect, but
did not kill, and the stoical violator of innocent life fell
into his grave, and was there finally killed, and covered
with earth as he lay.

CURIOUS STATISTICS OF THE LATE INSURRECTION AT
PARIS.--Amongst the insurgents tried and transported
to Algeria for the part they took in the insurrection in
Paris,, we find professional men, artisans, workmen, arti-
ficers, and every variety of trade and calling. It is some-
mhiOratuarkable that the number of cabinet-makers far
exceeds any of the others, though strange to say they
were " cabinet"-breakers— that is, they attempted to
break up the ministerial cabinet of the period. Of these
there are 213, of labourers 161, of mechanics and black-
smiths 107, of locksmiths 80, of masons 79, of clerks 59,
of poets and literary gentlemen 4, of writers of novels 2,
of knife-makers 1, and so on down along list of other
vocations. Amongst them are 7 architects and only 1
gunsmith. The total is 1830, so that 18 more would have
given one for each year of the world since the Christian
era. Three of the convicts are but 13 years of age, and
six of 14. The others range from 15 to 70, and one is
aged 76. _ _ .

-ZOOLOGICAL CIIIIIOSITY.—The Paria Prase gives the
following account of a young ourang-outang, which has
just arrived in France, and been added to the collection in
the Jardin des Plantes. The animal is only six months
old, but presents in appearance the aspect of a serious and
meditative child of three years of age. lie makes none of
those jerking movements, or contortions of countenance,
which are so characteristic of the " ape" species ; nor
Is that absence of sustained attention, so common to mon-
keys in general, in any way remarkable. He is calm--nay
Almost affectionate, and gives the keepers that pass by his
cage the most hearty shakes of the hand, with the same air
of semi-solemnity that would be assumed by an old Arab.
His diet is very recherche, consisting of chocolate, roast
meat, wine, and even liqueurs. As he comes from a very
hot climate, the greatest precautions are adopted for the
exclusion of cold, and the little creature is accordingly put
to bed between a large cat and a very shaggy dog, all three
animals being covered up with a thick mantle of wool.
During the day the ourang-outang is clothed in a red
blouse, after the fashion of the " Greek" design of the
curtains of the empire, and white pantaloons.