The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL,

WEST INDIES,

The steam-ship Medway has brought the West India
and Pacific mails, by which we regret to learn that the
cholera was prevalent at Kingstown, St. Catherine, Port
Royal, and Spanish Town, and that many had fallen vic-
tims. .In Kingston sixty funerals had been seen to take
place in one day. Those who had sunk under this dire
disease were principally the lower order of blacks, living
in confined and impure neighbourhoods. What added to
the calamity was, that there was a great scarcity of medi-
cal men, one orvrhom, Dr. Palmer, who had been most
indefatigable in his attendance upon his patients, died
from the disease in a few hours. There was also much
fever and other illness in all these places, irrespective of
the cholera. His Excellency bad ordered that a day of
general prayer and humiliation should take place on Fri •
day, the Ist of November. The Legislature was opened

on the 22d of October, in a long speech, which particu-
larly touched on the Loan Bill, urging the nec:ssitv of

settling ss early as possible the difference which hall oc-
curred regarding the raising of the money. Commercial
affairs in Jamaica, and in most of the islands, were ex-
ceedingly dull, rendered worse doubtless by the ravages
of the cholera.

arrival brines later advices from California. The
old seekers were still finding a good reward for their
_. The notion that nothing could be done in the
2.1., season had been abandoned, for it was found that the
,recions metal was to be obtained just as well in the wet
Is in the dry diggings. Business was very brisk at San

labours

Francisco, and the merchants were maki4 good profits.
A gale of wind did much damage at Sacramento, both on
sea and shore, on the Mt of September. The vessel
Elizabeth, from Leghorn, went to pieces, and several of

on board p

The as,

tant mayor of St. Ardeche, France, having
been arrested on a warrant charging him with being im-
plicated in the Lyons conspiracy, the people threw np
ades, and fired "on the_soldiers, who returned the
An officers of gendarmerie was wounded and an in-

surgent killed.
He is the brothe
M. Laurent.

The prisoner was eventually carried off.
r•in•law of a member of the Assembly,

OF CHRISTIANS.—CONSTANTINOPLE,Nov.
'xinst the Christian population has broken
A multitude of Franks were killed, and
iced and burnt. The Turkish soldiers re-
Ttators of these outrages. A letter - -
ived from - - (yirp-

2.—A riot
out at Aleppo
their houses s
mained quiet sp

,onstantinople additional
particulars of the outbreak :--;" At the commencement of
the insurrection_ the Christians had remained at home, or
sought refuge with honest Mussulmen. But their inha-
bitants were sacked, and such of them as were discovered
put to death or ill-treated. About sixty persons were
killed, and double that number badly wounded. Amongst
*--"ms are several Catholic priests, a patriarch, and
The consuls did not suffer, but
slighted. After two days of massacre,
and pillage, the authorties succeeded, with
-1 Bern and the Polish refugees, in orga-

pean proteges

their authority.►
incendi

the aid of Genf

nising system of defence, which, at least for the moment,
put a term to those abominations. The governor had
entered into communication with the pr.ncipal chiefs of
the revolt, and, on the evening of the 19th ult., he in-
formed the consuls and principal inhabitants that he was
in hopes of being able to restore tranquillity. We know
nothing here of what passed afterwards, as our advices
only come down to the 19th, at nine o'clock in the

IRELAND.

.~--

The Rev. Edward Naugle succeeds the Rev. Mr. Sey-
mour as rector ot-Achill.

On Saturday, Mr. Laurence Bochfnrd, son to the hotel
proprietor of Johnstown, Killkenny, being out fowling
near that village unfortunately stumbled and fell, when
his gun exploded and shot him dead upon the spot.
The excitement created by recent political and religious
events seems to have " told" in favour of the Repeal Ex-
chequer. Mr. John O'Connell's receipts on Monday
amounted to £l7 6s. Bd., or more than treble the contri.
butions of the week previous. The premier's manifesto
still forms the learned gentleman's stock in trade.
The storm last week was very disastrously felt at
Limerick. Several houses were stripped of their slates,
and the tide rose so high as to flood manyof the dwellings
and warehouses. The shipping also sustained severe in-
jury. The embankment on the Shannon was torn away,
and the sea chafed and swelled over the entire country.
At Cork also and other places many casualties occurred.
Several farmers lost great part of their stock, god the
Galway mail was upset. • Several lives were lost in con-
sequence of the floods.