The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-07-15 00:00:00

FuREIGN AND COLONIAL.

The war in Algiers, which has lasted fifteen years, costs
France upwards of three millions annually, and seems as
far as ever from any satisfactory termination. -
THE JUNIOR COLONEL OF EUROPE.—The Emperor
Nicholas bas appointed his grandson Alexander Alexan-
drow ich, an infant three months old, chief of one of the
battalions of Finlanders belonging to the Imperial Guard.

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GERMAN REFORMED CATHOLIC CHURCH.—The
church of the German Reformed Catholics opened at
Frankfort in June last, and, though only calculated to
contain two thousand persons, six thousand applied for
tickets of admission.

SPAIN.—A new candidate for the band of the Queen has
presented himself in the person of the Duke of Seville,
second son of Don Francesco de Paula, whose prospects
of success are, it is said, superior to those of his rivals,
Liasmuch as that England approves of his pretensions,
and France cannot fairly oppose them, seeing that he is a
member of the Bourbon family.

THUNDER STORM' AT HAVRE.—A. storm of thunder
and lightning burst over Havre on Sunday night, about
twelve o'clock, and lasted until five the next morning.
A copious rain accompanied this storm, which extended
to Bolbec, where a considerable quantity of hail fell, and
broke upwards of 2000 panes of glass. A number of
trees were also uprooted.
SYRlA.—Letters from Syria, of June 9, announce the
breaking out of a fresh insurrection in the Lebanon. An
engagement between the Maronites and the Druses had
taken place at Buccah, in the plain between the two
Lebanons, which bad terminated in a loss on each side of
from 100 to 150 men. The roads between Damascus and
Jerusalem are no longer safe; and no caravan can travel
by that route without a strong escort. The Arabs are
from 40,000 to 50,000 strong, and are plundering right
and left.

BRAZIL.—The Tornal do Comercio of the 3d May, re-

ceived at Liverpool from Rio on Friday, states that a re-
solution had been adopted in the Lower House, on the
second discussion of the budget, imposing upon cotton
manufactures of British origin destined for consumption
an extra duty on the amount recoverable by the general
tariff of twenty per cent.; which duty, however, the Go-
vernment is authorised to suspend immediately that the
restrictions upon the importation of Brazilian sugar into
this country are abandoned.

IMPORTANT FROM NEW ZEALAND.—The Midlothian,
Morison, from Sydney, N.S.W., arrived off Falmouth on
Monday, and landed a mail ; also the following report :
" On April 2d, in lat. 35 43 S., long. 177 56 E., spoke the
Mary, of New Bedford, whaler, which reported having
seen, three days previously, her Majesty's ship North Star
working into the Bay of Islands; also reports that the
natives there and the crew of her Majesty's ship Hazard
and the British troops had an encounter; that the flag
staff had been pulled down, and the town of Kororaika
burnt, about 100 of the natives had been killed and wound-
ed, and about 18 or 20 of the English ; the commander of
the Hazard badly wounded. The British residents had all
left for Auckland. Quietness had been restored."

The New York Weekly Herald mentions the following
interesting circumstance, in describing the trial of the
persons who stand accused of the murder of Joe Smith,
the Mormon chief. It affords a striking view of the state
of society in America, even when we make every allow-
ance for the scene of it—the Illinois territory :—'' The
jury is composed of two-thirds Mormons, and have been
in session during the whole sitting of the court. Every-
body almost attending court comes armed to the teeth,
and frequently muskets and rifirs will be seen taken out
of waggons with as much deliberation as if they were at-
tending a militia muster instead of attending a court of
justice. The Mormons are said to have expressed a de-
termination to take revenge in case the defendants should
not be convicted."

EXPULSION OF THE JESUITS FROM FRANCE.—The
leading feature in the Paris journals of Sunday is the
successful termination of Baron Rossi's mission to the
court of Rome, all doubt upon the subject having been
put an end to by the following semi-official announce-
ment in the Messenger of Saturday night :—" The king's
government had received news from Rome. Toe nego-
tiation confided to M. Rossi has attained itsohjelt. The.
Congregation of Jesuits will cease to exist in France, and
is about to terminate of itself; its houses will be closed
and its noviciates dissolved." The Debats accompanies
this communication with the information that it was only
six months ago that the government received information
of the re-establishment of the order of Jesuits in France;
that about that time it was ascertained that 22 houses had
already been fully completed. Although the law armed
the authorities with power for their prompt suppression,
yet the government preferred the more prudent course of
appealing, in the first instance, to the spir.tual autho-
rities.