The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney papers to the 14th of July have arrived, which
give a return of the revenue of New South Wales, exclu-
sive of Port Philip, for the quarter ending the 30th June.
From this it appears that the gross receipts were X 71,832
against £82,129 in 1813, showing a decline of £10,29i.
Prices for all articles of consumption continued low, and
the markets are not reported to be in a better condition.
Great hopes are, however, expressed of a revival of busi-
ness when the export trade should set in; and from the
estimates given in the papers, there is every reason to ex-
pect that tallow will before long become an almost equal
staple with wool. The decline in the import trade had
raised serious apprehensions respecting the sufficiency of
freightage for the produce in course of shipment to Eng-
land ; for, what with a good clip of wool, an increased ma-
nufacture of tallow and hides, and the ores received from
the mines opened in South Australia and New Zealand,
it was supposed that the homeward tonnage before the
close of the season would be found to a considerable ex-
tentinadequate for the purpose of the export trade. The
returns of the several banks had been published, and these
showed a healthy state of business. The late arrival of
emigrants, being for the most part the description of per-
sons employed in agriculture, had been speedily cleared,
and the majority found good employment. Portland Bay
is spoken of as a very rising place, and the government
were about to encourage emigration thither, it having of
late contributed largely to the Crown Land revenue.
There are accounts in these papers from New Zealand,
but the news is not of prominent interest. The tribes
were quiet and peaceable, but the conduct of the agents of
the Land Company is said to be anything but calculated
to secure harmony between them and the natives.

The opening of the railway between St. Nicholas and
Antwerp took place on the 9th inst.
According to the statistics of Paris, that city contains
only one baker for every 1664 inhabitants, but one wine
dealer for every 83. If this be correct, Father Mathew
would be a very useful person amongst us.---QuotidiEnne.
The Countess de Sonnaz, consort of the Grand Cham-
berlain of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, died recently
at Turin. The noble Countess's death was occasioned
by a most shocking and lamentable occurrence. The
Countess, while engaged in searching for some article in
a cabinet in her boudoir, by an unfortunate accident shook
the piece of furniture, which overbalanced, fell on the
Countess, and crushed her to death on the spot.
DR. WOLFF.—This gentleman has addressed the fol-
lowing letter " to all the Philanthropists of Europe. The
blood of the gallant officers Colonel Stoddart and Captain
Conolly, Englishmen by birth, and that of Todderwise, a
German, of Naselli, an Italian nobleman, and of a Greek
gentl-man, had been shed at Bokhara by order of its
ruler; and I do not know whether I shall not also fall.
And what is more 200,000 Persians sigh in slavery in the
land of Bokhara. Philanthropists of Europe, be roused
to activity. free the Persian slaves from captivity. I3ok-
bara is a beautiful country. Give liberty to the slaves,
and religion and civizilation to its inhabitants. Noble
Bavarians, Prussians, people of Baden, and Austrians,
join with England and Russia to effect that great work of
redemption from slavery, and plant the Cross of Christ
in the streets of Bokhara." To this Captain Grover
appends the following note :—" The above letter was t e-
ceived open by Colonel Sheil at Tehran, and only reached
me last Wednesday. That letter was written by Dr.
Wolff when he considered himself in great danger : had
its import been known to the Ameer the good doctor
would have been undoubtedly sacrificed. Dr. Wolff
could not have practised a deceit to save his own life, but

I would willingly have offered himself a sacrifice for otters.
1 The circumstance of his sending the above remarkable
1 letter open, by averting suspicion, probably saved him."

. .
FATAL STEAM-BOAT ExPLosioN.—,By the last ad-
vices from America we learn that the boilers of the Lucy
Walker steamer burst on her way from Louisville, for
New Orleans. All the upper part of the vessel was
blown into a thousond pieces. One man was blown up
fifty yards, and fell with such force as to go entirely
through the deck of the boat. Another was cut entirely
in two by a piece of the boiler. Immediately after the ex-
plosion the ladies' cabin took fire, and before it had been
consumed she sunk in twelve or fifteen feet water. From
sixty to eighty persons were killed and wounded—Mr.
Wren, of Zazoo, Mississippi, was thrown from the boiler-
deck, and fell near the bow of the boat in a state of insen-
sibility. When he recovered his senses, he saw his little
son, six or seven years old, in the rear of the boat, the
flames raring round the boy, the father, unable to rise,
watched the movements of his son with the greatest anx-
iety. Soou he saw the boy leap overboard. The river
was full of mattresses, and he floated on one of them until
saved by a rope from the Gopher. The 4ather saw his
rescue with feelings we need not attempt to describe. A
man, his wife, and four daughters were saved without in-
jury, though in different ways and places. Their meeting
must have been most joyous. A man was on the hurri-
cane deck with his wife and a little daughter, at the time
of the explosion ; he dropped the former aft into the yawl,
and she was saved, but with a sprained ancle ; he threw
the latter into the stream, and then plunged in and saved
it by swimming.