The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-30 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

The Rev. Dr. Gutzlaff is gone from Thorn to Warsaw.
He will return to China via St. Petersburgh.
The Pope has named Mr. Edmund Molyneux Seel, an
Englishman, his supernumerary secret chamberlain.
The patriarchs of Constantinople have consented to re-
cognise the independence of the Greek Church.
During a single week, 172,000 baskets of strawberries,
weighing 217 tons, were conveyed to New York, by the
Erie Railroad.

Two negro seamen have been tried by court-martial at
Brest and sentenced to death for the murder of the cap-
tain of the brig-of-war Adele off the island of Goree.

Letters from Constantine of the 20th- inst. announce
the discovery of a gold mine in the mountains between
Philippeville and the Zemmappes.
Letters from Perth, Western Australia, dated the 10th
of April, confirm the discoveries of lead and copper which
were described on the 13th inst. A company had been
formed for working the mines.
CRACOW.—The conflagration destroyed 300 houses, the
Dominican and Franciscan convents, the churches of St.
Barbara and St. Joseph, the Episcopal Palace, the Poly.
technic School, and several other public buildings.t Seven
streets have been burned down. The fire was evidently
the work of a band of incendiaries.

On Tuesday evening a young lady was ordained in the
English Lutheran Church in Seventh-street to the office
of deaconess. Deaconesses are a religious order of women
of this denomination who devote their lives to occupations
of charity, and take vows of celibacy. Tlie order has 'ueen
established far some years in Germany and has lately
introduced into this country. This ledy is the first who
has yet been ordained.—Banner of the O'OBS.
The San Francisco correspondent of the Times, in
speaking of the great fire which recently devastatsd the
town, relates that in one place the frame of a house was
laid as soon as the flames had passed over the ground, and
a space could be cleared foom the burning mass, and while
the foundation was quite hot. By nightfall the fabric was
up, and covered with a calico roof; and the building was
used as a gambling-house on the evening of the fire.
JUBILEE ON THE POPE'S RESTORATION.--The Pope
has ordered the celebration of an Universal Jubilee, in
commemoration of his restoration to his dominions. The
time is to be fixed by the Bishop's themselves in different
parts of the world ; it is to last fifteen days, and to carry
plenary indulgence of one hundred years for each separate
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prescribed by the Bishops in their several dioceses.
From Portugal we learn that the two American vessels
of war were still in the Tagus. They were expected to
sail on the 19th. with Mr. Clay, the American Charge
d'Affaires, who had pronounced the answer of the Portu-
guese government to the claims of the United States as
unsatisfactory, and embarked, after receiving his passports
and settling his private affairs. In the Cortes, both
houses had passed a vote of sympathy for the fate of the
late Sir Robert Peel.
TRAVELLING BY AMERICAN STEAMERS.—The follow-
ing is an extract of a letter from a gentleman who travelled
from Jamaica to New York by one of the American
steamers. He says—The passage was made in six days,
but such a set of fellow-passengers T hope never to see
again ; there were 250, and they seemed to be the very
scum of all nations. The constant smoking and spitting
was intolerable. I would never advise any one to go to
England by way of New York unless the steamer be at
least one-half empty. Every corner of the vessel was
crowded, and in consequence there was a total absence of
everything like comfort. Three waiters had deserted at
Chagres, and everything was hurry, confusion, and sel-
fishness. There was an enormous amount of treasure on
board. One passenger had £'60,009, another 820,000,
another 810,000, and so on ; a few were returning disap-
pointed and penniless. By far the bulk of them were in
wretched health, gambling was their great delight, and it
went on from morning till midnight, immense sums being
lost and won on board.

MONUMENTAL BLOCK OF GOLD IN QUARTZ.-Our
readers, we have reason to believe, are not generally ap-
prised of the interesting fact that a block of California
gold, bearing quartz, has been procured at the expense of
the State, to be contributed in the erection of the pro-
posed monument to the memory of Washington, at the
seat of our general government. The block of gold
bearing quartz is from the Mariposa diggings, near Fre-
mont's Mines, and weighs about 125 pounds. In shape
it is irregular, approaching a square, its sides varying
from eighteen to twenty inches in length. It averages
in thickness nine inches, across its surface diagonally it is
twenty-one inches by measurement. Very little gold is
perceptible to the naked eye, but it is estimated to contain
about 80 dollars worth. Governor Burnett has invested
our estimable fellow-citizens the Hon. John Bidwell, and
Judge H. A. Schoolcraft with authority to attend per-
sonally to the transmission of this block of quartz to the
States, and they leave in the Oregon, this day, to place
this offering of Californian wealth and patriotism by the
sides of those from her sister states.—Alta California,
June 1,
JENNY LIND IN AMERICA.—In Mdlle. Lind's Ame-
rican engagement it is specially agreed that she is not to
sing in operas, but simply in conceits, for two hundred of
which she is engaged, at £250 each concert, with addi-
tional profits, after the receipt of a certain sum by the
manager ; all her travelling expenses, by sea and land,
are to be paid, as well as those of her household, servants,
carriages, horses, &c. Belletti, from her Majesty's
Theatre, has also been engaged to sing at the same con-
certs on the most liberal terms, and Signor Benedict is to
receive 5,000 guineas to conduct the series. Barnum is
building a Monstre Concert-hall in New York expressly
for the occasion, and so great is the furore her antici-
pated arrival has created that tickets for Mdlle. Lind's
concert are already at a premium, and it is expected to
realise the enormous sum of twenty-five thousand dollars.
Preparations are also making to give her a triumphal
reception on landing, where she will be greeted with a
procession, in which forty young ladies of the first families
in New York will appear dressed in white, and she will
be conveyed to her hotel in an elegant carriage, drawn by
four milk-white steeds.

ONE HUNDRED PERSONS DROWNED.-011 Saturday
letters were received at Lloyd's from Madras and Mar-
tinique, communicating the melancholy intelligence of
the loss of an Indiaman, the Sulimary, from Bombay,
bound to England, and of the wreck of the French Re-
publican war brig Legere, lost between Fort de France
and Trinidad, both of which were attended with fright-
ful loss of human life. The Sulimary Indiaman was
riding at anchor off the coast, and encountered on the 24th
of May a dreadful gale of wind, in the height of which
she parted from her anchors, and was driven ashore, when
the splendid ship speedily became a complete wreck. An
attempt was made to save the passengers, of whom there
were several, by means of the boats. They were, how-
ever, quickly destroyed by the fury of the sea, and up-
wards of forty, including the captain, his wife, and
thirty-three seamen, perished. Another fridiaman, named
the Guna,•was driven ashore on the same coast about the
same time, and became a wreck. The crew of the vessel
were more fortunate; they all escaped. The loss of both
vessels ip said to exceed X 50,000. The sad calamity to
the L'Aigle happened on the 10th of June. She was
suddenly overtaken in a heavy squall, and almost in-
stantly capsized, and went down. Her crew and officers
amounted to sixty men. With the exception of two,
every soul met with a watery grave.
RELIGIOUS IMPOSTURE.—A case of some importance
was definitively judged on the 15th, at Casale, Piedmont.
It appears that a priest, named Don Grignaschi, had suc-
ceeded in secretly persuading some females and priests
that he was either Jesus Christ himself, or directly inspired
by him. This doctrine used to be imparted to the neo-
phites as a sacred mystery, and demonstrated by visions
and miracles. The matter having at last called the atten-
tion of the authorities, Don Grignaschi was prosecuted,
together with his dupes or accomplices, in the courts of
swindling or immorality. An able defence was made by
Advocate Brofferio, the well-known deputy, .vho founded
his arguments on the facts that Grignaschi did not teach
his doctrines publicly; that he did not attack religion,
since his assertions were founded upon it; and that his
principles were not contrary to those of the chlw.c.ll/ sic