The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.-FRIDAY

Sir Denis Le took the oaths and his seat for
the city of Worcester.—Several railway bills were read a
third time ; amongst them the Liverpool and Bury Rail-
way, Liverpool and Bury and Manchester and Leeds
Railway Amalgamation, Manchester and Leeds Railway
Extension, Manchester, Bolton, and Bury Canal Naviga-
tion and Railway, and Manchester and Leeds Railway
Amalgamation, and the Oldham, Manchester, Liverpool,
and Birkenhead Junction Railway.—On the motion of
Mr. Duncombe, the petition of the Duke of Brunswick
was ordered to be printed.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE GREAT WESTERN

By the steam-ship Great Western, Captain Mathews,
which arr►ved in the Mersey shortly before midnight on
Friday. we have received important accounts to the 25th
inclusive from New York.

Our accounts from Wa,hington by this arrival reach to
the 24th ult. inclusive. The Oregon treaty had been
finally ratified by the Senate by a vote of 11 to 1 I; and
the document itself, we are informed, has now arrived, in
charge of General Armstrong, United States Consul at
this port. Great credit was accorded to Mr. M`Lane, as
the chief instrument by which this happy settlement of
so perilous a source of contention has been brought about.
Mr. Buchanan, it was anticipated, would now assume the
vacant seat upon the supreme bench. Rumours were also
current that Mr. M Latse had solicited a recall from the
important post he now holds, and it is stated that he will
be elevated to the State Department. Robert Dale Owen,
son of Robert Owen, is noted as a candidate for the
London embassy.
Important intelligence had been received from the Rio
del Norte. According to the accounts published in the
American journals, it would appear that General Arista,
at the head of an army of 15,000 men, had established his
head quarters at Monterey, and had sent proposals of an
armistice to General Taylor. General Taylor is said to
base replied that he would meet him at Monterey. It
also appears that the Mexican general, Canales, and a
force of 1,500 men, were concentrating at Reynosa, a
small town about sixty miles from Matamoras, to which
place an American force of 800 men, under Colonel Wil-
son, were proceeding. The Executive is said to have
abandoned the projected attack upon the castle of St.
Juan d'Ulloa, at Vera Cruz.
The domestic affairs of the Union are interesting. The
discussion of the new Tiriff Bill, after occupying the at-
tention of the House of Representatives for several days,
bad been fixed for decision on the 2d of July ; prospects
of the bill had somewhat improved. The Warehousing
Bill had been made the special order of the Senate for the
Ist July. Congress had also been engaged in irregular
discussions touching upon the Oregon question, the an-
nexation of Texas, the Mexican war, &c. The President,
on the 16th, had transmitted to Congress a Message rela-
tive to finances, accompanied by a report from Mr. Secre-
tary \\Talker upon the tariff, &c. The President states
that the increase of revenue rendered necessary by the
war with Mexico, can be met by reducing the duties to a
revenue standard, imposing duties on free articles, and
modifying the duties on others. Additional authority is
asked for the issue of Treasury notes. The Secretary's
report was also read. He estimates a deficiency in revenue
for the next fiscal year at 19,620,000 dollars, but antici-
pates receipts from different sources which will reduce
this to 15,000,000, leaving 4,000,000 deficit. This deficit will
also be reduced if the tariff is modified according to the
pfrnv!sions of the house bill introduced by the Committee
of
`Nays and Means. The entire receipts, with this mo-
dification, are estimated at 30,000,000, but leaving still
the deficiency mentioned of 15,000,000. The warehouse
system proposed, it is estimated, will further reduce this
amount, and the graduation of the sale of public lands
half a million more, leaving still over 12,000,000 deficit.
To meet this the Secretary recommends a resort to loans,
or issue of Treasury notes, or both, as circumstances may
render it most desirable, and at the earliest dates, and at
such rates of interest as may be agreed upon. On the
24th tilt. the Message underwent a severe criticism from
lelr. Webster.
The proffer by the British Government of a friendly
mediation between the United States and Mexico had
been received with but lukewarm favour, and formed a
topic of wide discussion in the public journals. The news.
papers also discuss the claims of various candidates for the
next Presidency. Scott, Calhoun, Benton, and others are
named ; and hints are even thrown out pointing to General
Taylor, the victor of the engagements of Palo Alto and
Iteseca de la Palma. It appears from official documents,

that the total losses of the Mexicans, at the engagements
of Palo Alto and Reseca de la Palma were 240 aid 755
men, respectitely.
Our accounts from Canada by this mail are of a most
interesting, but at the same time, most mournful and har-
rowing nature. On the night of the 19th ultimo a large
audience were p resent at the Theatre-Royal, Quebec. A
fire broke out on the stage, and, the destructive element
spreading with great rapidity, the spectators became
A fearful confusion arose from the rush to the

alarmed

the staircase trom the boxes gave way, all escape
was rendered hopeless, and the mass of human beings
within the buildings were involved in destruction. Forty-
six bodies, when the last accounts left, had been taken
out, but it was impossible to estimate the true extent of
loss of life resulting from this fearful calamity.

THE CHOLERA.—Letters from Persia state that this
Iful diease is making frightful ravages in the interior
h hns travpHpd thrntivh

A letter from Rome of the ]Bth ult. says, that when
Cardinal Falconnieri came to kiss the feet of the new
Pope, his holiness said to him :—" Your brother is in

is rising gradually cut of the sea, and they produce well-
authcnticated au+hority for the fact that it is actually ele-

a rate that threatens at no di&tant day to reader useless all
the best harbours on the island.

TUE RESULT OF GAMING.—A Frankfort journal stetes
that a Russian baron, who had lost large sums of money
at play at Baden- Baden, has recently gone mad, and is
now in a lunatic asylum. At Hamburgb, says the same
journal, the son of a high functionary at Bonn, having
lost all his money at the gamine-table, snatched up the
gold, which was lying on it, Bud endeavoured to escape,
but he was arrested, and is now in confinement.
ADULTERATED HOLY WAFERS.—An English ship
had conveyed to Gijon, a port of the Asturias, a large
cargo of great and small holy wafers, in which have been
detectrd portions of wheat flour, potato, plaster, and
whites of eggs, to produce consistency and bright colour.
The use of animal substance renders these wafers impro-
per for the holy sacrifice, and the Bishop of Oviedo sent
a circular to all the curates of the diocese, forbidding
them, and-r pain of sacrifice, to use these wafers. [lt
must be a shock to the faith'ul to find that the veritable

blood o

arist can

TvIIE HARVEST IN FRANCE

be adulterated.—En. 1..5. J
:.—A. great many fields of
t down in the environs of

Paris. The crop ;s not heavy in the ear, and the straw is
very short, as was to be expected, from the long drought,

callea an average crop. The late rains have had so bene-
ficial an effect upon the artificial grasses, that they are in
full flower, and quite ready for the scythe. It is very rare
for the second crop to be fit for mowing so early in July.
If the weather should be favourable, the third crop will
be fit to cut in August.

Private letters from Rome of the 29th ult., announce
that the six cardinals comprising the temporary corn•
mission of government had disagreed among themselves,
and that Cardinals.Laoribruschini, Mattel. and Bernetti,
bad tendered their resignation. A full amnesty was to
he published in a few days. The Pope signed, on the
28th, the pardon of Professor Orioli, Minister of Public
Instruction during the revolution of 1831. His holiness
intended to permit the construction of railroads through
the Papal dominions, and to introduce various reforms in
the administration. Several inhabitants of Rome having
teen arrested, and the Governor being unable to assign
any satisfactory reason for that measure, the Port ordered
the prisoners to be immediately restored to liberty. The
Military Commissions of Bologna, Ravenna, and Rimini,
had been dissolved.

LOVE.—We have now a most curious affair here which
may greatly embarrass the Porte. A young and handsome
Christian being the neighbour of a Turkish girl, she falls
in love with him, and invites him to turn Turk and marry
her. He refuses. The girl's father then offers him one
hundred thousand piastres if he will comply with the re-
quest of his daughter. Ile says—" I will not change my
religion for any consideration." The girl then declares
that, to cut the matter short, she will herself turn Chris.
tian. The father alarmed at this makes known the case
to the Government, who is now discussing the affair. In
the meantime the girl has been placed under surveil! ince
or arrest. Now, what the Sultan promised to Sir Stratford
Canning was, that he would not execute persons originally
Christians, who, after becoming Moslems, returned to
their original faith, and this is the first instance in which
a Turkish woman bas here expressed a wish to become
Christian. If the Turks allow this, they may now tear
out a few more leaves of the Koran, and if they go on in
that way nothing bur the cover will remain at last.—Cor-
respondent of the Morninu Herald.

THE POPE ELECTED BY A MISTAKE.—His Holiness
the present Pope Pius IX. has been elected by a mistake,
or rather, be was, as those familiar with elections in

" Merr►e Engl Ind" well know, be was set up as a candi-
date without the intention of his being finally elec►ed. It
occurred thus :—When the cardinals are duly " fixed" in
the conclave, they begin in the evening by giving the name
of one whom they have no intention should be ultimately
chosen ; this is done to see to whom are the general ten-
dencies of their likings directed, or, in plain Saxon, as a
" feeler." It appears that on the second evening of the
conclave the cardinals. according to established usage.

gave in the names of those whom they did not intend
should be elected pope; and Cardinal Giovanni Maria
M &alai RFrretti, nrchi;ishop of Imola, and now Pius the
Ninth, was appointed to call out the names as they came
out of the urn, and to his grrat surprise he found the first
seven or eight billets marked with his own name. His
feelings at so unexpected an honour, when it reached the
fourteenth slip that his name was written on, were so ex-
cited that he fainted. Nevertheless, the calling of the
names went on, and to the great surprise of the Sacred
College, his name was found to have the requi-ite number
of voices, v;z , two-thirds of the number of the cardinals
present.—Florence, June 24.
MASSACRE. OF EUROPEANS AT MADAGASCAR.—
Private letters received at Paris give detailed accounts of
a horrible massacre of some French and English by the
Hovas.—We quote the following account of the murder
of an English soldier, who bore all the tortures inflicted
upon him with the heroic firmness of a martyr ;—" Dur-
ing the struggle an English soldier, dangerously wounded,
had dragged himself to some bushes, where he lay con-
cealed. From his hiding-spot he w;tnessed the horrible
tortures inflicted upon his companions, and for forty-eight
hours endured all the torments of thirst and hunger.
Hoping, then, that his life would he spared, he left the
bushes, and advancing into the midst of the Hovas, gave
up his musket, and requested some water, pointing to his
wounds at the time. The chief Marsoumana sent to in-
quire the will of the governor, who ordered the soldier to
be put to death. The Hovas then stripped him, and with
their knives stabbed him in different parts of the body.
The soldier, who was on the ground from weakness,
raised himself by an heroic effort, and, standing, submit-
ted without uttering a word to the tortures inflicted upon
him. Perceiving that the Eeglishman, who was covered
with blood, derided all their attempts to shake his cou-
rage, they commenced tearing out his nails. He shut his
eves and calmly submitted. A dagger was then driven
through his heart, his body cut in pieces, and his head
paraded on a pole."

IRELAND.

On Monday, a party of six Terry Alts were captured at
Borrisoleigh, where they had attacked a house.
In the Queen's County, a man named Quin, living at
Upper Famans, was killed in a sort of faction fight.l Quin
had beaten a man named Dorling, who gathered some of
his friends to be revenged. Seven of them set upon
Qa:n, and beat him to death. Five of the cowardly
assailants are in custody.
STRIKE AMONG COTTON.SPINNFRS.—The cotton-
spinners in the employment of the Messrs. Lepper, of
the Lodge Mills, Belfast—the most extensive firm in that
branch of manufacture in Ireland—have this week struck
work, in con,equence of a proposed reduction in th.-ir
prices.—Banner of Ulster. [We thought we were to
have no reduction of wages, when free trade was granted.
-En. L. S.]
At Leighlin-bridge, in the county of Carlow, there was
a serious riot on Wednesday week. About two hundred
persons, under pretence of wanting work and food, com-
menced breaking up the public roads, and threatened to
plunder the houses. The mob was fast increasing in
numbers and daring, when a detachment of the 93.1 High-
landers and a strong body of police were brought in from
the surrounding stations, and tranquility was restored.
The ringleaders will be prosecuted.
Tit c I RISII CHURCH AND TILE MINISTRY.—Lord
Ebrington, one of the new Lords of the Treasury, in
answer to some pungent questions that were put to him
on Thursday, by a Wesleyan minister, at Plymouth, thus
expressed himself :—" As the sum of £lOO,OOO a-year was
given by the state to the Protestant Dissenters of Ireland,
he had no objection that the surplus reeenue of the Irish
Protestant Church should go to the Roman Catholics.
(Great uproar.)" We entertain not the least doubt that
the present ministry will sacrifice the Irish church to pro-
pitiate O'Connell. unless they are restrained.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF A MAGISTRATE.—
On Thursday week an attempt was made to assassi-
nate Charles Ferrall, Esq., of Dalystown, J. P., near
Loughrea, in the county of Galway. This gentleman ob-
served a strange man at his parlour window, looking ,in
very intently. He asked his business ? " Charity,"
replied the fellow. He was told there was nothing for
him. Whereupon he presented a paper to Mr. Farrell,
, which be refused to look at. This movement was evi-
-1 dently intended to arrest the attention of that gentleman,
for the fellow drew a pistol from his breast,and was in the
act of cocking it, when Mr. F. rushed towards him,calling
to his servants. The intended assassin was apprehended
after a run of three miles across the country, and on his
person were found two ball cartridges, together with the
loaded pistol. He was identified at the gaol of Loughrea.
His name is Burke, and he had just been liberated after
six months' imprisonment for robbery.
MR. O'CONNELL AND TILE NEW MINISTRY.—At the
meeting of the repeal association on Monday last, Mr.
O'Connell spoke respecting the course which was to be
adopted towards the new ministry. He professed his de-
termination never to abandon his advocacy of repeal, but
said that he wished the people of England would bid for
Ireland, and that he should like an instalment of repeal
this year. He adverted to Sir R. Peel's speech, declaring
that there should be perfect equality between England and
Ireland, an I said that it was but an abstract of his own
speeches, an echo of his own requirements. Ele was de-
termined to bring the question of repeal under the con-
sideration of the Howe of Commons in the earliest part
of the next session. With regard to the pending elections,
he said that he would return a repealer for Dungsrvan if
he could ; but that he was resolved not to uffer any
vexatious opposition. He would urge the electors to re.
turn a repealer, but at present he bad no candidate pre-
pared. He afterwards declared his intention of opposing
any proposition for extending to Ireland the English sys-
tem of out-door relief to the poor.