The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-22 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

Don Carlos has made his escape from Paris.
The Earl of Elgin has been gazetted as Governor of
Canada.
Galianani says that a nephew of Abd-el-Kader, now at
school at Pas,y, in the course of an examination, distin-
guished himself in the history of France.—His uncle has
done the same.
Luther's original letter to the Archbishop of Magde-
burgh, protesting against the sale of indulgences, has been
discovered at Stockholm; it bears the date of October 31,
1517.

The gamekeepers and noblemen of Germany have the
right of firing at poachers, if the latter do not throw down
their guns on tl-e first summons ; and two men have just
been shot at Luneburg, in Hanover, under these circum-
stances.

Dreadful havoc has been committed among the sheep-
flocks of Van Dieman's Land, by numbers of wild and
ferocious dogs, which rush upon the animals like wolves,
and immediately destroy them. One farmer has lost
1,000 sheep, and anbther 700.
Toe principal streets and shops in Turin are now lighted
at night by gas made from Newcastle coal, which is
shipped to Genoa, and costs, including carriage to Turin,
about three guineas a ton. At the beginning of October
flex', the whole city will be illuminated by gas.

THE EXPENSE TO THE FRENCH OF ALGERIA.—The
sacr.fice of men is proved by some very correct statistical
accounts which have been kindly communicated to me.
I find that the average mortality during fifteen years is
100 men per day, in consequence of sickness or the fire
of the enemy ; making an annual loss of 36,500 indivi-
duals ; consequently, during these fifteen years since the
occupation, France must have lost 547,500 men.—Count
St. Marie.

The laws of intoxication are enforced with great rigour
in Sweden. Whoever is seen drunk is fined, for the first
offence three dollars; for the second, six; for the third
and fourth, a still larger sum ; and is also deprived of the
right of elections, and of being appointed a representa-
tive. He is, besides, publicly exposed in the parish
church on the following Sunday. For repetitions of the
same offence, the punishment is imprisonment with hard
labour.

A company has just been formed for the navigation of
the Volga by steam. A Dutch engineer, named Rontgen,
constructed an iron steamer, of 250-horse power, only
drawing two feet and a half of water, and had it conveyed
in pieces to Rybinsk, where it was joined together and
launched. It has been called the Volga, and is employed

in towing vessels of a peculiar construction to suit the

The dis'ance. from Rybinsk to Samora was done
in the first trip in te❑ days and a half, which formerly
took between three and four months.

Cape of Good Hope papers to the 24th of June inclusive
have just arrived, which put us in possession of four days'
later news from the scene of war. The information con-
veyed is brief, but important, as it shows that no more
fighting had taken place at Fort Peddie or its neighbour-
hood. nor, indeed, was any serious engagement expected.
Reinforcements were arriving, and the Governor-General
was only waiting the concentration of all the Burgher
forces, when he intended promptly to act on the offensive,
the result of which, we trust, will be the complete sub-
jug4tion of the Kaffir tribe.

The New York correspondent of the Morning Chronicle
states that a very novel use of the magnetic telegraph has
lately been made—no less than ,a marriage with the bride
and bridegroom two hundred miles apart during the cere-
mony. A young gentleman is now i❑ England, on bui-
ness for one of the wealthiest merchants of Boston, who
became the son-in-law of his employer the day before he
sailed from New York under the following circumstances :
—The business trip to England was contrived by the fa-
ther to separate the lovers, while a marriage with another
gentleman should be forced upon the lady. The clerk
who had won her heart chanced to be in New York on a
temporary errand, when the orders were sent to him to
embark for England without returning to Boston. The
lady entered immediately into conversation with him by
telegraph, and it was finally suggested and arranged that
he should take his stand with a magistrate in the telegraph
office at New York, and she with her confidential friend
at the other end of the wire in Boston. This was done,
and the marriage ceremony was duly performed by light-
ning. The bridegroom sailed, (a little over a month ago,)
and the secret was kept until last week, when some fresh
crowding of the rival lover on the lady's attention pro-
duced a disclosure. Measures are being taken to test the
validity of the marriage.