The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

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shall always conform to their desires when expressed in a
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" The. most noble and the most dignified object of an eleva-
ted mind is not to seek, when one is in possession of power,
by what expedients it may be perpetuated, but to watch with-
out ceasing over the means of consolidating, for the advantage
of all, the principles of authority and of morality which defy

In the explosion of the 90-gun ship at Constantinople,
800 men perished, and 16 officers ; 163,were saved ; many
fearfully wounded.

A riot against the Christian population has broken out
at Aleppo. A multitude of Franks were killed, and their
houses sacked and burnt. The Turkish soldiers remained
quiet spectators of these outrages.
M. Dupin has been re-elected President of t`,e French
Assembly for the ensuing three months by a majority of
333 votes, out of 574 voters. M. Matthieu de la Drome
obtained 121; M. Michell de Bourges, 33.

TIIE TWO GERMAN TRAVELLERS, OVERBECK AND
BARTH, who accompanied the expedition of Richardson
to the interior of Africa, have been heard of 300 miles
south-elst of Tripolis, where they intended to await the
termination of the rainy season.
Prince William, uncle of the Icirg of Prussia, one of
the most beloved me -nbers of the royal family, has vo'ua.
leered to take a command in the army. The Prince is
the senior Prince in the family, being sixty-eight years of
age, and is the father of the Queen of Bavaria.

HOW THE PAPISTS OBSERVE THE SABBATH. - On
Sunday week, at the Palace, Madrid, a very brilliant ball
was given, at which the Queen and royal family were
present. The Queen opened the ball with Lord Howden,
and the dancing was kept up until five o'clock the next
morning.

A SHIP SUNK BY A WATERSPOUT.—A fearful accident
Las recently happened to the Maltese brig Lady Flora,
-which vessel left Malta on the 14th of October for Leg-
horn. On the same day, about nine p.m„ when about
thirty miles to the West of Gozo, she was struck by a
waterspout, and immediately foundered. One man alone
was saved by the brig Maltese, which was near, but all
endeavours to save more of the hapless crew were fruitless.
About nine men, among whom were the owner of the
brig and his son, have thus met a watery grave, the greater
number leaving widows and families in great distress.
A BALLOON ADVENTURE.—Senor Orlandi ascended
from Barcelona on the 27th ultimo, when—" His balloon
was wafted over the snow-covered muuntains of Valvi-
clrera, where it was enveloped in a thick mist, now and
then pierced by lightning. The intrepid aeronaut was
covered with a thick coating of hail, that fell incessantly.
Having ascended above the cloud, he caught another
glimpse of the sun, and, seeing that the wind changed in
a south-westerly direction, he resolved to descend to the
earth, which he could not in the least distinguish. The
wind drove the balloon with terrible velocity, and at last
it fell into the sea, where M. Orlandi, holding fast by the
ropes, managed to keep himself above water during three
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ttalicah being tarried out to 9Pit again. After trio hours
spent on the cold sand, he recovered his strength suffici-
ent to get up and look for shelter. He was stopped by
one of the coast guard. who had liked to have shot him as
a smuggler, or a bandit, but who, recognizing him as the
man of the balloon (et hombre del globo), took him to a
village and put him to bed. A subscription has been set
on foot for him, as, with the loss of his balloon, he has
been deprived of his only resource."
FUGITIVE SLAVE BlLL.—Frederick Douglass, himself
an escaped slave, and a man of high character and great
ability, writes in his raper as follows :—" For ourselves.
we shall calmly await the arrival of a man.catcher in
Rochester, when, if need be, we shall expose ourselves
to the severest penalties of this barbarous and inhuman
law. We shall see to it that no coloured man shall be
taken from Rochester, without a determined effort to
rescue him." One of the largest hardware and cutlery
houses in the city of Pittsburgh avers to have sold, to
.coloured men alone, since the passage of the Fugitive Bill,
upwards of seven hundred dollars' worth of revolvers and
bowie-knives ! At a numerously-attended meeting, at
Syracuse, one of the speakers, "a distinguished lawyer,"
turning to the marshal, exclaimed—" There is a fugitive
in my, house at this moment; if you dare to "arrest her
Y°111: stood !man arm my threshold," The southern
are no less alarmed. The L,vnehburg Republican
_ -"We warn the people to keep close watch, for
tlearly every southern community has now one or more
abolition emissaries in its midst, colporteurs, booksellers,
tract agents, school teachers, and such like characters,
who omit no occasion to poison the minds of our slaves,
and then steal them." The Boston Free Soiler narrates a
fact that must have been unpleasant to one of the parties
concerned. The Hon. Daniel Webster, expecting some
distinguished visitors at his house in Marshfield, sent to
Mr. J. B. Smith, a coloured man of Boston, who makes
a business of assisting entertainers on such occasions, and
desired to engage his professional services. Mr. Smith
having a very decided opinion of his own respecting the
Fugitive Slave Law and some other acts that Mr. Web-
ster has lately had a hand in, sent word to Mr. Webster
that " he would not go to his house for 100 dollars per
,day, and that there was not a coloured man in Boston
mean enough to enter the service for one day, of the
enemy of the human race." Mr. Webster tried to get
other coloured men but failed.

RAILWAY

AFFAIRS.

It is said that the Great Western dividend will be 4 per
cent. with £30,000 carried over. _

Mr. Rickman, the station master at Derby, has been
presented with a splendid embroidered purse, containing
£5BB, by the nobility, gentlemen, &c., travelling on the
Midland Railway,
GREAT WESTERN AND SOUTH WALES RAILWAYS.—
The Herald believes that an agreement has been provi-
sionally entered into between these companies on equi-
table terms.

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