The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-16 00:00:00

FRANCE.

The Paris journals are much taken up with an incident
which occurred on Saturday last, and which at any earlier
period would have caused much alarm. A body of students
amounting to 900 or 1,000 repaired in procession from
the Place de l'Ecole de Medecine to the house of M.
Laffite, in the Rue Laffite, when they complimented him
in the name of " the schools" on the " patriotic" speech
with which he had marked the termination of his acciden-
tal presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, on his con-
duct during the restoration, and his successful efforts to
overthrow it, &c. M. Laffite returned "an appropriate
reply," on receiving which the students proceeded to the
residence of M. Berranger (the poet), at Passy, delayed
on the way by a row with the police, who hung upon their
skirts and arrested some of the most tumultuous of the
body. The poet being abroad, his visitors felt much
umbrage, and had another scuffle with the police, in whose
hands they left some more of their friends, and then
dispersed.

The Committee on the address of the Chamber of De-
puties met on Saturday last, and after having heard the
explanations offered by the Keeper of the Seals and by
the Minister of Public Instruction, they commenced their
deliberation on the different paragraphs of the King's
speech.

It appears that on Friday the Minister of Finance in-
formed the Committee that it was his intention to present
the Budget for the year 1815 in the course of the present
month. He added that there would not only be a surplus
of revenue to the amount of 800,0001. over the expendi-
ture for the last year, but that the various deficiencies for
the year 1840, 1811, 1842, and 1843, would be reduced to
a sum of 350,000,000 f.
The French papers are fully occupied in discussing the
measures to be brought before the Chambers.

Dr. Kalley, after suffering an imprisonment of four
months in Madeira, has at length been released on bail.
The Portuguese Cortez was opened on the 2d instant,
by the Queen in person. Her speech contained nothing
worthy of particular notice.
The Magdeburg Gazelle says, that the Queen of Eng-
land is fully expected to visit the King of Prussia next
summer at Stolzenfels and Bouhl. The King of Bavaria
is expected to visit Cologne in the course of the summer.
The Malta Timeg suggests the introduction of a steam-
tug to the island, vessels being now confined to the " grand
harbour," although, when out of it, the wind would be
fair.

TILE FRENCH ARMY.—According to a recent decision
of the Minister of War, no officer of the army shall in
future obtain leave to marry, unless the person to whom
he is to be united should possess a revenue of at least
2000 f. per annum.
The Duke de Nemours, the future regent of the French,
has not waited for his dotation to give himself a munifi-
cent equipage, drawn by the finest horses that perhaps
exist in France. It is said that those superb animals are
a present from the Queen of England.—Parie paper.
The Swabian Mercury states, under the head of Darm-
stadt, that M. de Haber, who recently killed M. Sacharaga
in a duel, intends to surrender to take his trial at the
assizes of Alrey. His extreme punishment, if found guilty,
will, according to law, be three years' imprisonment in a
fortress.
RUMOURED MARRIAGE OF THE QUEEN OF SPAIN.—
The Auysburyh Gazette, of the 3d instant, in a letter
from Rome, affirms positively, that the marriage between
the Queen Isabella of Spain, and the Count de Trapani,
younger brother of the King of Naples, has been de-
finitely arranged. This same journal states, that the
proposal for this marriage was supported by both the
English and French Cabinets. The young prince is in his
sixteenth year.

TREATMENT OF JEWS IN RusslA•—The following me-
lancholy intelligence from the Russian frontier appears in
the Frankfort Gazette :—" The ukase, ordering the re-
moval of the Jews from the frontier districts into the in-
terior is at this moment being carried into effect. Nearly
one hundred thousand persons are affected by this mea-
sure. They receive passports which indicate their place
of residence, and they are expected to have all their pro-
perty sold off within a few days after."
THE TEMPLE OF JUGGERNAUT.—The Bengal Govern-
ment has just reported to the Indian Government at home,
in answer to their long-pending inquiry, that no pledge
whatever was originally given for the annual money pay-
ment of £6,0D0 to the Temple of Juggernaut, and conse-
quently that there is no pretence for its continuance. Its
own landed revenue will of course continue, but its own
votaries and patrons must henceforth supply the needful,
and not the British nation.

COLONEL STODDART ALIVE.—We understand that
what may be considered authentic intelligence has reached
town, to the effect that Colonel Stoddart is still alive, and
at large, though strictly watched, by orders of the Khan
of Bokhara. It is stated that he has been employed by
that Prince in the drilling of his troops. We also learn,

through the same source, that Captain Conolly is dead ;
but whether he has fallen a victim to imprisonment and
disease, or been put to death, is not positively ascertained.
—Globe.

AWFUL VISITATION.—CARLSRUHE, JAN. I.—Prin-
cess Augusta of Nassau, whose birthday was the day be-
fore yesterday, and who was in good health when she rose,
was suddenly taken ill, and so seriously, that she could
not receive the usual compliments on the occasion. A
paralytic stroke has deprived her of the use of her speech.
Fears are entertained for her life. She was visited yester-
day by the Court. Her husband, Count Von Brismark,
the Ambassador of Wurtemburg, does not quit her bed-
side.

ROM, MICAIOILY.—On Captain Crowdy, R.N., being
presented to his Majesty at the reception at the Tuileries,
on Friday last, the King did the gallant officer the honour
to say that he always saw with satisfaction a captain of
the British navy; Captain Crowdy, in acknowledging the
compliment, reminded his royal interlocutor that he had
had the honour of conversing with his Majesty on board
the Volontaire frigate, in the Mediterranean, in 1805.
" Ah ! " said the King, " you were first-lieatenant of
the Pilot, Captain Walpole. How is my old shipmate,
Admiral Sir Charles Bullen ? I hope he is well." This
is an instance of correctness of memory really remarka-
ble, considering the length of time that has since elapsed
(nearly 40 years), and the momentous events which have
subsequently marked his Majesty's career, so strongly
calculated to obliterate minor circumstances from the
mind.—Galignani's Messenger.
AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.—Galignani's Messetaller
announces the death of the Countess of Newburg, an
English lady of very eccentric character. This lady la-
boured under the delusion that she was the legitimate
daughter of the Duke of Orleans, the father of the pre-
sent King, and that when an infant she was exchanged
for Louis Philippe, who she declared was the son of a
gaoler. She published several pamphlets branding Louis
Philippe as an impostor, and the police more than once
was desirous of sending her out of the country ; but Louis
Philippe, well knowing that the woman was mad, refused
to allow so much importance to be attached to her ravings,
and she continued to reside in the Rue de Rivoli in the
full enjoyment of all her eccentricities, one of which was
to open an upper room of her apartments for all the spar-
rows of the neighbourhood, who were there provided
daily with food. The residence of the Countess was well
known from this circumstance, for hundreds of sparrows
were hovering about the place at all hours of the day. We
have not heard whether she has left a legacy for the future
provision of her feathered pensioners. The Countess was
about 70 years of age.
THE DUKE DE BORDEAUX.—During the debate on the
address of the French Chambers, in answer to the
King's speech, M. Guizot stated, that the Government
had for several years kept a watchful eye over the move-
ments of the Duke de Bordeaux ; that when the young
Prince bad repaired to Vienna, Dresden, and Berlin,
where France had Ambassadors, remonstrances had been
made against his presence there, which were immediately
attended to by the Governments of Austria, Saxony, and
Prussia. When the Duke proceeded to England, M.
Guizot was aware that in a country enjoying liberty and
publicity to such an extent the Government had not the
same means of repression as elsewhere. He, neverthe-
less, bad addressed a note to the English Government,
by whom it was received in a manner that responded
to his expectation. The Queen of England refused to
receive the Duke, and thus gave him a signal mark of her
disapprobation of his visit and sojourn in her dominions.
Encouraged, however, by the toleration they experienced
in that free country, the Legitimists had indulged in scan-
dalous scenes, which excited the attention of the French
Government. It again applied to the British Cabinet,
who protested its regret at not being armed with sufficient
legal means of repression, but at the same time it mani-
fested its displeasure in unequivocal terms to the authors
of those scenes, and left nothing undone to convince them
of its dissatisfaction at their criminal proceedings. The
speech of M. Guizot was most favourably received by the
Assembly.

SUTTEE.—The following horrible case is from the
Madras Athenaeum:--" A Brahmin died on the 19th,
leaving a young wife, aged 17, and other relatives, but no
children. On the morning of the 20th the woman declared
her intention of sacrificing herself on the funeral pile of
her husband, and a wealthy native having offered to defray
the expenses, preparations were made on a grand scale in
a secluded spot at about two miles from Lashkur. A spot
was chosen in the dry bed of a nullah, and four large posts
eight feet high were fixed, on which a sort of scaffold of
dry wood was formed, and underneath it were layers of
the driest wood and cow dung sun dried, and other inflam-
mable materials, so as to burn briskly when set fire to.
The preparations were completed about twelve o'clock,
soon after which the procession set out. One of the de-
ceased's relatives went first, bearing a small vessel con-
taining fire, and was followed by the women and others of
the family, and in the rear came the corpse borne by five
men on a charpoy. Considering the preparations which
had been made, comparatively few natives followed the
procession, which moved at a slow pace. On reaching the
pile the sacrifice appeared to view the preparations made
with a look of exultation, and took her seat by the dead
body, which had been laid on the ground at a little dis-
tance, where she remained upwards of two hours, sur-
rounded by a host of Brahmins of both sexes, performing
numerous ceremonies. When the body of her husband
was taken up, and placed on the scaffold, over which a
considerable quantity of dry straw was strewn, and oil and
ghee poured, the woman having walked thrice round the
pile, mounted it apparently with some reluctance by
clambering up on the outside, amidst the shouts of the
spectators. She took her seat on the right, and after a
short ceremony, putting her arm under the neck of the
corpse, with much composure stretched herself beside the
body, adjusting the hair of her head and her clothes. A
considerable quantity of wood was now put over what I
may call the two bodies, when a tremendous shout of 91)-

plause rent the hair, with clapping of hands and other
tokens of satisfaction. About a quarter of an hour wis
now spent in making requisite preparations, when torches
were applied to different parts of the pile. No sooner did
the flames arise than the unfortunate victim, unable to
endure the suffocation and pain, struggled vigorously to
extricate herself from the pile, and as the flames waxed
more fierce her exertions became almost supernatural, till
at last with a tremendous spring she landed on her feet
about ten paces from the pile, and entreated the bystanders
to save her from what she felt was too great a trial. The
Brahmins, however, insisted on her re-mounting the pile
and undergoing what was her own choice. She refused,
and was instantly cut down with a sword and thrown upon
the flaming pile. It so happened that several Mussul-
mans of the Alleegole were present, and, abhorring the
inhuman acts of the Brahmins, commenced upbraiding
them ; words and abuse ensued till the Moslems enraged,
drew their swords, cut down a Hoozooriah, and wounded
several. The multitude of spectators soon dispersed, and
thus was finished a ceremony at which every feeling mind
must revolt with disgust. Many such instances however
occur, and force or stimulating drugs are always had re-
course to to compel the unfortunate victim to undergo the
cruel sacrifice."

JERUSALEM.—The Bishop of Jerusalem, in his second
annual letter, just published, says The suspension
of the church could, under all the circumstances, be
scarcely avoided, but, in all other respects, no interruption
has taken place in the usual work of the mission; we
have been allowed regularly to conduct our several servi-
ces, and I may say, under much encouragement, consider-
ing the peculiar difficulties by which we are surrounded.
The testimony of God to the simplicity of the truth as it
is in Jesus, is borne on Mount Zion, in its true scriptural,
and ecclesiastical form. A friendly intercourse is main-
tained with all with whom we come in contact, whereby
inquiry is promoted. A mission in compliance with the
divine command, that' Repentance and remission of sins
should be preached among all nations, beginning at Jeru-
salem,' is maintained among the numerous Jews, who are
daily increasing, from among whom divers have been bap-
tized during the past year, and some are now under in-
struction. The attendance at the daily morning Hebrew
service, of converts and inquirers, is truly encouraging.
At the monthly celebration of the Lord's supper, there
are not unfrequently upwards of twenty Hebrew commu-
nicants, who, together with their Gentile brethren, par-
take of that blessed ordinance ; thus testifying on the
hill of Zion, that through him who, in this very place,
broke down the wall, having abolished in his flesh the
enmity, that he might reconcile both (Gentiles and Jews)
unto God—' both have now access by one spirit unto the
Father.' During the past year the interests of our
church and mission have also been extended to other
places in the Holy Land. A station has been established
in Safet and in Beyrout. The Jews at Jaffra and Hebron
have also been visited, where more permanent and regular
efforts will, we trust, shortly be established ; and if, by
by God's grace, we are enabled steadfastly and patiently
to pursue the course pointed out to us in his providence,
we are sure to see greater things, and to reap in due time
if we faint not."