The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-08-20 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-THURSDAY.

Mr. LABOUCHERE said the postal report was certainly a
recommendation that the suspension of the transmission and
delivery of letters on Sundays, which had lately been established
should be repealed, and that we should return to the transmis-
sion and delivery of letters on Sundays, accompanied by such
alterations and regulations as would ensure to persons employed
in the postoffice as much time to themselves on the Sunday as
was consistent with a due regard to the paramount interests of
society at large. The Treasury had not yet had time to deter-
mine on the course to be adopted. He had no doubt, however,
that the Treasury would be satisfied with the recommendation
contained in the report, and that those recommendations would
be carried into effect. (Hear, hear.)
In reply to Mr. Spooner, Mr. LABOUCHERE said that the
report had been printed.
Mr. Locici: expressed his gratitude to the government for the
promised step they had taken with the view of meeting the
wishes of the great body of the public on this important sub-
ject.
The members were immediately afterwards summoned to
the lords.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE ASIA.

We received on Saturday, by the arrival in the Mersey
of the royal mail steam-ship Asia, Charles H. E. Judkins,
commander, letters and journals from New York to the
6th. and rid Halifax, electric telegraphic accounts to the
Bth instant, inclusive.
The Asia left Boston shortly after one o'clock on the
afternoon of the 7th instant, steamed to Halifax in 34
hours 3 minutes; cleared thence with the mails after a
detention of 1 hour end 38 minutes; made Tory Island
after a run of about 7 days and 8 hours from Halifax ; and
arrived in the Mersey after a run from Boston, including
the detour to, and detention at, Halifax, of precisely 9
days 14 hours and 5 minutes. The Asia's run from Bos-
ton, therefore, although pre-eminent in one respect, is
somewhat longer than her great passage of June last,
which occupied 9 days 10 hours and 35 minutes. She
ran a greater distance in one day, however, during this
passage than has yet been accomplished on the Atlantic;
namely, 323 miles.
The Asia brought 110 passengers, one small box of
specie, the usual mails, and a valuable freight.
The steamships Georgia and Cherokee, had arrived at
New York from Chagres, with £60,000 worth of gold
dust on board.
In the Senate the Cempromise Bill, which had occupied
the attention of the house for so many months, was finally
disposed of, the bill being carried by a majority of 14.
The disputed question of territory between Texas and
New Mexico continued to create much anxiety. Infor-
mation had been received at Washington that 1,500 men
had volunteered to march against New Mexico, but that
the governor awaited an answer from Washington, and
the decision of the Texas Legislature. The New York
Herald reports that a president's message was daily
expected, declaring his intention to protect New Mexico
against any invasion by Texas.
A desperate affray occurred at New York on the sth
instant between the police and a mob composed of tailors,
in which some lives were lost. The disturbance was
caused !.1.), the tailors attacking the house of a man who
was said to be working at prices below those usually
charged.
The other intelligence is not of much importance. The
telegraphic report is as follows :
" The chief items since dispatch of Asia's mails are the
arrival of the Georgia and Cherokee steamers. with a large
number of passengers, and the California mails of the Ist
July, from San Francisco. The amount of gold dust on

freight, and that in the hands of passengers, is understood
to make the gross amount of nearly three millions of
dollars. AU accounts represent that the production of
gold will now immediately be greatly increased, the sea-
son for operating being just at hand, and prospects most
favourable. _ _

" The commercial community of New York have been
staggered with the stoppage of Suydam and Co., a house
largely engaged in the produce trade.
" Their liabilities are stated as high as two millions of
dollars, but with favourable assets. The failure will be
most severely felt in the west.
"The millers and the bankers of Ohio, Mississippi,
and Indiana will be great sufferers.
" Stock market to-day firm. Government Sixes of '67
sold to-day at 1111; %El, 115. Corn and flour market
very dull. Canadian in bond, 4. Cotton market shows
a decline of fully s since receipt of Cambria's news, and
large supplies offering."

THE OVERLAND MAIL.

The Extraordinary Express from India brings intelli-
gence from Madras to the 9th of July, Calcutta to the 2d
of July, and Hong Kong to the 22d of June. The
Bombay Mail has again failed. The news of the resigna-
tion of Sir Charles Napier is confirmed. Among the
reasons to which it is attributed is the disbanding of the
66th Bombay Native Infantry—a measure said to have
been resolved on and promulgated without once consulting
the opinion of the Governor-General, who, while willing
to defer to the superior military judgment and experience
of the head of the army, could not allow his own prece-
dence to be thus openly slighted without a protest. It is
believed that the Governor-General addressed an official
wigging to Sir Charles Napier on his undue stretch of
authority, which led the General to tender his resignation.
The Cawnpore Bank has wound up its affairs ; it is
expected to pay its shareholders in full.
The name of t,aptain T. J. Newbold, of the 23d Regi-
ment M. L. 1., and assistant to the resident of llyderabad,
an officer possessed of the highest scientific attainments,
appears in the obituary. The Surgeon-General D. Boyd,
Esq., is compelled by illness to return to England. He
has taken his passage in the Walmer Castle.
A number of Sikh prisoners, among whom were Narain
Singh and Golab Singh, having been embarked at Allaha-
bad, for Calcutta, under the charge of Captain Cawley, of
the Berhampooter steamer, mutinied on the voyage, near
Patna, and managed after slaughtering some of their
guards to escape. Thirteen out of thirty-nine have been
recaptured.
The Affreedees have again shown symptoms of hostility.
The Cabulese, under Dost Mahomed's eldest son, have
gained a signal victory over the troops of Bukhara, and
compelled them to evacuate Bulkh and Khooloom.
The commercial advices from India and China, instead
of showing the long looked for improvement, are, as re-
gards the demand for manufactured goods, more unfavour-
able than ever. Fortunately, 'however, owing to the
reduced state of our home stocks and the extended de-
mand from other parts of the world, these accounts are
not likely to produce the effects that would have arisen
from them at any former period.

The population of Prussia, on the 30th ult., amounted
to 46,330,186. _ _

It is said that a company of English speculators have
undertaken the manufacture of beetroot sugar on a large
scale in Austria.

Letters from Turin of the Bth inst. announce the
arrest of the Archbishop, by command of the Govern-
ment, and his committal to the fortress of Fenestrelles.

A hurricane which burst last week in Burgundy has
partially injured the vineyards of Clos Vougeot, and de-
stroyed the entire crop at Morey, Chainbolles, and
Grevy.

The correspondent of the Times at Rome, who takes
every opportunity of lauding the Papal government, says,
in his last letter, " The spirit of the Papal rule may be
divine, but every brands of its administration is infernal."
The sale of the splendid gallery of paintings of the late
King "William 11. of Holland was to commence on Mon-
day at the Hague. Every school is admirably represented
in the collection.

A Parisian journal states that on Saturday morning a
vast number of crows alighted on the trees of the Tuile-
ries gardens and the roof of the palace. It was necessary
to call out a number of riflemen, who killed 500 of them.
The total amount of California gold received at the
Mint of the United States, up to the Ist of .August, was
43'29,934,310, of which =518,350,000 were received at the
Philadelphia Mint. The gold coinage thus far this year
has averaged nearly two millions of dollars per month.
M. Teste, the Minister of Public Works during the
reign of Louis Philippe, having completed the term of
three years imprisonment, to which he was sentenced by
the Court of Pe2rs for having accepted a bribe, was set at
liberty on Sunday.
_ _ _

It is stated that the daughter of Millard Fillmore,
President of the United States, is an accomplished young
lady, about eighteen years of age, and now engaged in
the honourable employment of teacher of a public school
in Buffalo.

The damage done by the explosion of the laboratory
of the artillery, at Rendsburg, is much greater than first
announced. Ninety-one bodies have been buried, and
many more were still in the hospitals. Scarcely a house
in the town has entirely escaped from the concussion.
The Philadelphia Spirit of the Times states that at
Boston, a little boy, six years old, who threw stones at
his school-mistress, has been arraigned, tried, and sen-
tenced to he confined in the House of Reformation for
Juvenile Offenders till he is twenty-one years of age.
The Hanoverian Government, anxious to promote the
rise of its new free port at Horburg, on the left bank of
the Elbe, has granted, by an order of the 6th of August,
the remission of the stade duties on all goods arriving
from the sea to that harbour.

Although the Danes have officially stated their losses up
to the 10th instant, at nearly 500 dead, and 2700 wounded,
and 600 missing, General Willisen still keeps back any
official report of the losses of the troops under him, in
killed, wounded, and prisoners, at and since the battle of
Listedt.

The President of the French Republie has been
extremely well received at every place he has visited
iOduring his recent progress through the departments.
Splendid balls, banquets, and assemblies, were held in
,honour of him, and the speeches he delivered were
'•welcomed with enthusiasm.

An explosion took place on the 29th ultimo in a gun-
powder manufactory at Etterstad, a league from Christiania,
in Norway. Of ten men who were at work at the time,
six were killed on the spot, two were seriously injured, and
the other two could not be found. The violence of the
explosion was such that the windows of several houses at
Christiania were broken.

West India accounts published in New York papers re-
port that a terrible hurricane had been experienced on the
11th and 12th ultimo, in which several English vessels
were wrecked. The New York Journal of Commerce
says : " Two British btigs, at St. Kitt's, were wrecked,
and the crews, consisting of twenty persons, were
drowned. A British barque, from St. Kitt's for Europe,
put into St. Thomas on the 15th instant with the loss of
her spars, having been knocked down on her beam ends."
A few days since, the ecclesiastical police visited the
house of an English lady who keeps a school in Naples,
where foreign Protestant children are educated. The
authorities threatened to close the establishment, and
eventually did so. The matter is now a subject of cor-
respondence between our ambassador and the Neapolitan
government. A French Protestant lady, who also kept a
school, finding no protection in her minister, has had her
establishment closed, and is about to leave Naples,
although similar academies have existed in the city for
years. " War to the knife" is the cry of the Jesuits.
STATE OF ROME.—The following extract from the
correspondent of the Morning Chronicle presents a
ghastly picture of the consequences of violent and uncon-
ditional restoration of the papal tyranny in Italy :—" The
population of Rome, which was 180,000, is reduced to
130,000, no less than 50,000 either having been sent away
or voluntarily quitted it ; the inquisition re-established ;
the Roman Catholic religion shaken to its very founda-
tion ; the pope and clergy held in contempt and hatred ;
thousands killed by the sword or musket during the
siege ; widows, orphans, bankrupts, and distress in every
shape ; spies and sbirri prowling about the streets in
search of their prey (the liberals); diffidence introduced
into families; all social ties rent asunder; an empty
treasury ; papal currency at a discount of fifteen per
cent. ; all the medical men and lawyers of any talent
driven into exile ; commerce annihilated, and young men
of respectable families without employment, and many
without food."

THE POPE AND THE DUELLlSTS.—Referring to the
scene on the Civita Vecchia road, I am led to mention
the fact, that the noble guard who escort the Pope are
ordered to compel any person who refuses to salute his
Holiness to take of his hat, as well as to resort to force
it necessary, and to recount an affair arising out of these
orders which has just occurred between one of the same
corps and an officer of the French army. The French
officer not being in uniform as the cavalcade passed, did
not think it necessary to raise his hat, on which one of
the noble guard lifted it off his head with the point of his
sword. The officer, indignant at the insult, struck at the
guard and at his horse, when another member of the
same body riding up gave the Frenchman several blows
with the flat of his sabre. The cortege passed on, but
the officer, now in uniform, accompanied by a friend,
went to the quarters of the noble guard, and finding the
gentleman who struck him demanded the usual satisfac-
tion. The gentleman agreed to give it to a person wear-
ing the epaulettes of the French army, and the duel took
place at once in a room attached to the guard house, for
the purpose of avoiding public scandal. The choice be-
tween sabres and small swords was decided in favour of
the Frenchman, who chose the latter, and after a few
passes, the Roman being slightly wounded, the affair ter-
minated.—Correspondent of the Times.
A SCENE BEFORE THE POPE.—The correspondent of
the Times gives a curious account of the reception which
the Pope recently met with, during an airing which he
took with his court. The reader will be amused, despite
its sadder aspect, at the almost Flemislt aggravation of
detail with the accomplished colourist finishes his gor-
geous picture of the pope " in a flowing white robe, with
a wide crimson bat," in the midst of his scarlet cardinals,
just descended from their emblazoned and gilded car-
riages, and sunning themselves in the last rays of the de-
clining god of day, on a sudden encountered by a train of
carriages filled with foreigners (enemies of the Church !)
who, at the word of command, themselves, ladies and
gentlemen—at hap-hazard—forty in number—jump from
their vehicles, and on their knees await the blessing of
the corpulent representative of the redeemer. His Holi-
ness spreads out his short fat hands and utters a piece of
fustian—the eflect of which would be incredible were it
not vouched for by a correspondent of the Times.
" They all arose,' says that unimpeachable authority,
" the ladies weeping, and the men imploring blessings
on his sainted head—the whole were converted on the
spot, and all declared they were ready to shed their blood
in the service of the supreme pontiff." He admits, how-
ever, that they had no sooner reached the city and ex-
perienced the vexations of his "_sainted" government