The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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Prince Francis 0
r of the Prince of Wasa.

A ,FEMALE RENEGADE.—A French woman, named
Juliette, was found, says the ToulonnaiB, in the deira of
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she earnestly entreated that she might not
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self.—Galignani.
The King or the French has received an autograph
letter of condolence from the Queen of Great Britain on
the occasion of the death of Madame Adelaide. The
letter is written in very affectionate terms, and exnresses

great sympathy for the King and Royal Family in their
grief, Her Majesty has also written a letter of condo-
lence to the King and Queen of the Belgians.
The French government has broken faith with Abd-el-
Kader. It has announced to him that it cannot con-
sent to his going to St. Jean d'Acre on any terms, and
that with regard to Egypt it must first see whether the

Pasha will agree to receive him.—lt has since been deter-
mined that Abd-el-Kader shall be imprisoned in a fortress
at Lamalgue, which is being fitted up for his reception.
General Espartero arrived early in Madrid on the 7th,
and thus avoided the demonstration prepared to greet his
return. The people, however, on hearing of his arrival,

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repaired-to his residence, and rent the air with deafening
cries. "Three times," says a letter from Madrid, " the
multitude have already burst into the house, determined
to see their idol. They rushed to his presence, they
lifted him from the ground, fell at his feet, and hundreds
of these wild-looking fellows wept and sobbed like child-
ren. Espartero cried like a woman."

A New York paper, after urging various reasons why
the capital of the United States should be removed from
Washington to New York, reserves,for its climax, the fol-
lowing conclusive argument :—" In less than a year we

Shall communicate (by means of railroads and the electric
telegraph) with the remotest points of the Republic—with
New Orleans on one side, Chicago on the other, and
Boston on the north. New York will then be just such a
place as the government of this great country ought to be
in—the great central city of the country and the great
centre of its decency, its dirt, and its fashions."

NEW ZEALAND.—An unpleasant state of things exists
in New Zealand, where the natives claim the sole right to
the " wilderness" or waste lands, and are aided in their
efforts to obtain them by the new Bishop, who has ex-
pressed his determination to assist in the maintenance of
their rights as British subjects by peaceful remonstrance
and petition to the Imperial Legislature. On the other
hand it is contended that the ownership of such lands rests
with those who reclaim and cultivate them. Early in
July a collision took place at Wangnini, between the na-
tives and the British troops, about 400 on each side, in
which the loss was considerable. Of the British, 3 were
killed and 11 wounded.

According to the last American papers, it appears that
a mail service for Oregon, by means of steamers on the
Pacific, will soon be established. " Two splendid
steamers," it is said, " have been contracted for, to run
on the coast of Peru, the starting point from Panama, or
rather Callao, to extend as far as the mouth of the Ore-
gon River, touching at the various places between these
two points. They are to carry the United States and
Oregon mail, in connexion with Mr. Law's steamers,
which are to ply on the Atlantic side, having Chagres as
the terminus, or depot. Two of the latter ate now in
course of construction. They are to be large, and of ele-
gant build and finish.

- CROSSING THE DESERT.—A new common road locomo-
tive carriage, on a large scale and of a novel principle, has
been invented by an intelligent engineor. namPti Marton,
for the conveyance of passengers and baggage on the de-
sert between Suez and Cairo. The Pacha has required a
committee of scientific men to report upon the adaptation
of the machine for the purpose contemplated ; and as that
report has been favourable, instructions have been given for
the construction ofan experimental one of 200 horse-power.
on three wheels of thirty feet in diameter, and possessing
a saloon for passengers, capable of accommodating one
hundred persons. Its speed is calculated at 20 miles per
hour, and is expected to be in operation in six or eight
months.

THE MONKS OF ST. BERNARD.—The Augustines of
the Great St. Bernard have received rather severe treat-
ment from the new-fledged authorities of that canton.
Not content with demanding from them a fine of some
X 5,000, these persons, headed by the notorious M. Druey,
have taken actual possession of the monastery. At two
o'clock in the morning they broke open the doors with
pick-axes, seized the keys, and rifled the house from top
to bottom. The baggage of casual inmates was rudely
searched. Soldiers are planted at the doors and windows,
with orders to shoot any yerson seen to carry away the
most trifling article of furniture. In short, every wooden
platter in the monastery has become the absolute property
of the canton of Valais. At Martigny, the infirmary_
house, to which the octogenarians of the hospice retire
for a somewhat milder air, and the enjoyment of such
ease as ague and rheumatism will allow, the same scene
was repeated.

LOLA AiONTES.-A letter from Munich says—" It ap-
pears that Lola Montes is increasing in favour at the
Court of Bavaria. The Queen has conferred on her the
order of St. Theresa, calls her ' My dear Countess,' and
admits her into her intimacy. The ladies of the Court, of
course, feel it their duty to caress the favourite, and, in
fact, she has all the world at her feet. The style of luxury
in which she lives passes all bounds, nothing equal to it
having ever been seen at Munich, even in the Royal pa-
laces. The whole of her sleeping-chamber, even the walls
and ceiling, is hung with guipure, lined with rose-coloured
satin. The mantelpiece is of Sevres porcelain, painted by
the first artists. The furniture is of the time of Louis XV.,
enriched with gold and silver. A description of her din-
ing-room would exceed those in the Arabian Nights'
Entertainments, and we shall content ourselves with stat-
ing, that the service isof massive gold, bearing the arms and
coronet of the Countess. To this is joined a revenue of
of 150,000 f., which is attached to her title, and of which
nothing can deprive her."