The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-03-05 00:00:00

911-lii; LIVERPOOL STANDARD

SPAIN.

MADRID, FEB. 18.—The, first. fruits of the system of
miltiaty g•Pv,rii,etit in Spain have already appeared in
the Gazelle. General Roocali, notwithstanding his first
resistance to the orders of Narvaez, commanding him to
shoot his prisoners, has succumbed at last, and shot seven
officers within sight of the walls of Alicant, apparently
in euluiaiiim of the conduct of Cabrera, who, after a feast
al fresco within sight of the city of Valencia. executed
all the prisoners! We learn here to-day (but not from
any official source) that Bon6 has commenced reprisals in
a spirit of emulation which threatened to outdo the dim ts
of Roucali acid Narvatz, that he has caused fourteen of
his prisoners ( ncluding Senor Ceruti, uncle of Roncalil
to be shot in retaliation ! Another report says that the
Archbishop of Seville (the Rev. Cienfuegos Jovellanos)
has been executed in revenge by the insurgents of Car-
thagena! General Roncali has sent a despatch to the
government, stating that he was about to decimate the
prisoners taken at Aleoz. Alicant was closely blockaded
by sea as well as by land.

A conveyance company has been started in Sydrey,
New South Wales, and cabs and hackney coaches are
now plying for hire.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint John Grey
Porter Atthill, Esq., to be her Majesty's Attorney-
General for the Island of St. Lucia.—ldetn. [lf we
mistake not, says the Spectator, Mr. Atthill is a gentle-
man of colour.]
The pope consecrated as bishops four of the cardinals
on the 11th inst. This is the first instance, it is said, for
150 years, of the pope having performed this ceremony
in person. The Prince of Wirtemberg, Dun Miguel, and
all the diplomatic corps, were present on the occasion.
We have received the highly interesting information
from Copenhagen, that the Princess Royal of Denmark is
eneiente. If tins proves correct, a great many hopes will
be disappointed. Thus, Prince Frederic of Hesse, who
recently was married to the Grand Duchess Alexandrina,
second daughter of the Emperor of Russia, would lose all
hope for his succession to the Danish throne.—Cologne
Gazette.

The rnandement of the Archbishop of Paris for the
observation of Lent has just been published. it permits
the eating of eggs, butter, and milk during Lent, except
for the three last days of passion week, and butcher's
meat on the Sundays, Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thurs-
days, except in passion week. Persons who wish to eat
meat every day may do so by distributing alms, to be
employed toward the purchase of the old convent of the
Carmelites, and for the relief of the poor.
THE JEWS IN LITHUANIA.—The Emperor of Russia
has issued a new ukase containing several modifications
of that which had appeared ordering the removal to the
interior of the Jews residing on the frontiers. They are
to be allowed, according to circumstances, from three to
four years for their removal ; and it is further expected
that the Jews who have established manufactories will not
be displaced. The ukase also announces, that on the dis-
placement of the Jews, there will be a remission of taxes
for five years.—Globe.
" Last week," says the Pregres of Ypres, " about
nine in the evening, a ring was heard at the bell of the
house of one of the principal merchants of the town.
Every one was out, except the lady of the house. She
asked who was there, and received for reply, that it was
the conductor of one of the diligences with a parcel. She
opened the door, and, in place of a conductor, beheld a
man in a black mask. In alarm, she hastened to close
the door, but the mask was axle to slip into her hand a
letter and packet. The former directed the merchant to
keep the contents of the packet, which were gold coin,
amounting, it is said, to 1500 f."
The Moniteur Parisien of Monday contains the follow-
ing;—
" Government have received dispatches from the Island
of Tahiti, dated Ist and 9th of November, 1842. Vice-
Admiral Dupetit Thouars, who arrived in the Bay of
Papeiti on the Ist of November, to carry into execution
the treaty of the 9th of September, 1812, which the king
had ratified, had deemed it his duty not to adhere to the
stipulations of that treaty, but to take possession of the
island. Queen Pomare has written to the king to demand
the fulfilment of the stipulations of the treaty which as-
sured to her the internal sovereignity of her country, and
to pray that she may be maintained in her rights. The
king, by the advice of his Council, not finding in the
circumstances reported sufficient grounds for abandoning
the treaty of the 9th of September, 1842, has ordered the
execution, pure and simple, of that treaty, and the estab-
lishment of the French Protectorate in that island."

SYRlA.—Private letters from Beyrout, of the 17th ult.,
announce that a general insurrection is on the point of
breaking out in the Lebanon. The roads are no longer
safe tor travellers, and even the field labourers are com-
pelled to work with a musket on their shoulders. The
oldest inhabitants declare that a similar state of anarchy
never before existed in the Lebanon. A few days previ-
ously the detail lit/alive I,t iwu mountaineers were found
between Beyrout and Tripoli, who had been assassinated
and plundered by the troops of Essad Pasha, who refused
to surrender the guilty to justice. Essad Pasha was
exercising the most odoius oppression over the unfortu-
nate Maronites. He had lately insisted on the inhabitants
of Kasserouan paying a tribute of 30,000 piastres,
although the Porte had exempted the inhabitants of that
province from all tribute during three years. in conse-
quence of the losses they had suffered in the war of 1840.
The inhabitants, having been intimidated, paid part of
this sum ; but the British Consul having been apprised ct
this fact, commanded them not to pay any more.

MORMONISM.—The follo•Ying is an extrrct of a letter,
dated Dec. 28th, 1813 :—" Since you were here the pro-
phet, Joe Smith, has been two or three times arrested on
a requisition from the Governor or Missouri, but has
always contrived to have a hearing before his own muni-
cipal court at Nauvoo, and has, of course, always got
clear. He continues to send out his preachers through-
out the land, and when his dupes arrive here, to swindle
t hem of their all. lie occasionally puts forth a new reve-
lation. He, and most of his elders now have, in addition
to their lawful wives, other women whom they call spirit-
ual wives. When any of these worthies sets his fancy
upon ano.her female, whether married or single, Joe sets
her apart by revelation to the man who selects her as his
victim. In this way many a family is broken up. The
last revelation is that they must all be married again for
eternity ' • and in accordance with this the prophet has
recently been married to his lawful wife for eternity. He
says, that as there is no marrying or giving in marriage in
heaven, all men who have heretofore been married for
time only, and desire that connexion in the next world,
MUSE be married again for eternity. Many accordingly
have been so married. The prophet has been keeping a
tavern for some months past. He has recently added to
his establishment a bar, where he keeps all kinds of
liquors, and retails them out by the glass. He continues
to practice all his other fooleries as when you were here.
A great many people join him, and a great many leave.
Neither the temple nor the Nauvoo-house is half finished.
The whole Mormon community is becoming more and
more obnoxious to the surrounding community ; and we
anticipate a rupture at no distant day. The people can-
not put up with their fooleries much longer." Notwith-
standing these exposures, numbers of people still leave
this country almost weekly for this miserable place.