The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FRIDAY.
Upon the motion for going into a committee of supply,
a discussion was raised by Mr. Bellew respecting the ap-
pointment of stipendiary magistrates in Ireland, in the
course of which Lord Eliot vindicated the appointments
made by the present government, and defended Mr.
O'Brien from the charges which had been made on a
former evening against him.

Captain BERNAL admitted that the explanation of Lord
Eliot was satisfactory, excepting as far as regarded Mr.
O'Brien, whose appointment he could not think the noble
lord had recommended.

Some discussion was also raised respecting the New
Zealand Company, and Mr. Aglionby pressed upon the
Government the imperative necessity of instituting a
strict and searching inquiry into the conduct and
motives of the founders and members of that company,
either by a commission or a committee of that house.
Lord STANLEY deprecated discussion, and said it was
probable that such an inquiry might be instituted during
the present session.
Mr. ROEBUCK said he believed it would be found that
fraud and folly also were at the bottom of most of those
transactions.

The house then went into committee, and the re-
mainder of the evening was occupied in the discussion of
the miscellaneous estimates.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

ARRIVAL OF THE EUROPE.-THREE DAYS
LATER FROM AMERICA.

By the Europe, Captain Furber, which arrived in the
Mersey from America on Friday, after a fine passage of
fifteen days, sce have received New York papers to the
3d instant, being three days later than those brought by
the Caledonia. The Richmond Compiler of the 30th of
March states, that the schooner Jane,—Vickers, of and
from Baltimore for that city, with sundry tnerchandize
and a deck load of lumber, was burned down near Pick-
ett's wharf, some forty miles down the ricer, and that the
captain and every soul on board perished in the flames.
The New Orleans Republican also states that the steamer
Osage, bound from Yazoo, with a cargo of 600 bales of
cotton, caught fire nearly opposite Jefferson's college, and
was consumed to the water's edge, when she sunk. Very
little of the cotton was saved. There were no lives lost.
Advices had been received that the disturbances in the
island of Hayti had assumed a serious aspect. The
whole of the national army and all the national guard
(militia) were under orders to march against the insur-
gents, and it was thought that there would be some fight-
ing.

1 Holders of cotton at New York had shown less dispo•
sition to press sales, and there had been a fair demand.
Prices had slightly improved.
The following statistics respecting the cotton market
we take from the New York Prices Current of April 3d ;
Stock on hand, 722,399 bales ; same time lost year,
446,448; same time the year before, 317,880. Cleared
to Great Britain, 432,644 bales; same time last year,
967,753 ; same time the year before, 559,515. Cleared to
Great Britain and other foreign ports, 619,264 bales ; same
time last year, 1,296,691 ; same time the year before,
859,392. Received Ist. September, 1843, 1,546,372 ;
same time last year, 1,913,852; same time the year be-
fore, 1,298,171.

The American ship Natches made her passage from
Callao to Canton in 53 days, being the shortest passage
on record.

By a Colonial Ordinance, all port, anchorage, and light-
house charges hitherto levied at the Cape of Good Hope
are abolished.

The grippe (influenza) continues to make painful pro-
gress in Paris. Diflering from former visitations of the
malady, it has this year proved fatal in very many cases.
The National states that Louis Philippe will pay his
visit to her Majesty, Queen Victoria, in the month of
June, and that he will be accompanied by Marshal Soult.
Accounts from Goritz state, that the disorder of the
Duke of Angouleme is decidedly cancer in the stomach,
and, consequently, that no hopes can be entertained of his
recovery.

A petition, divided into three parts, signed by anumber
of male and female operatives, and demanding the aboli-
tion of slavery in the French colonies, was presented to
the French chamber of deputies on Wednesday.
The Moniteur states the total number of copies of
newspapers printed daily in Paris to be 90,900, of which
52,600 are sent by post to the departments and foreign
countries.

A rich vein of cobalt has recently been discovered at
La Motte, in Madisonian county, Missouri. The ore has
been known in that spot for several years, but it was sup-
posed to be black oxide of copper.
ENCOURAGEMENT OF DRAMATIC LITERATURE.—The
Prussian has followed the example of the Austrian govern-
ment, and granted to dramatic writers a per centage on
the receipts of each representation of their productions.
As it should be.

Letters from Egypt announce that the pounding of
marble monuments into mortar is at an end—that the
Pasha had suddenly fallen in love with antiques, and has
given positive orders that no more shall be removed out
of the country.

THE SLAVE TRADE.—The slaver Josephine, Lieuten-
ant Jamieson in charge, one of the three slavers captured
by her Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt, arrived at Table
Bay on January 29, having on board 457 negroes—viz.,
240 males and 217 females. The other two slavers had
not reached port, but were daily expected.
WIRE BRIDGE IN AMERICA.—We learn from the
American papers that an iron wire bridge, sixty feet long,
has been constructed across the Miami Canal, Cincinnatti,
at a cost of 1,650 doltars ' this is the first bridge of this
description erected west of the mountains, and it is calcu-
lated that it will bear, with safety, a weight of 150 tons.
The Moniteur Parisian states that, according to the
lest arrivals from Hayti, the government of the island has
come to the resolution that no foreigners shall hereafter
have a tight to purchase or hold lands within the terri-
tory, unless they are subjects of governments who have
emancipated their slaves.
The Courier Francais announces that a most important
capture had been made near the Spanish frontier. Ten
individuals, who proved to be Carlist officers and privates,
were arrested by some custom-house officers. Within
the last fifteen days thirty-two arrests had been made, and
amongst them four of the most ferocious and sanguinary
Carlist chiefs.

FRANCE.—The Univers publishes an address from the
Bishops of Bourges, Clermont, St Fleur, and Puy, on
the liberty of education in France, addressed to the king.
This address inculcates the necessity of giving every sys-
tem of education a religious foundation, and complains
that the spirit which animates the university is irreligious,
and tends to substitute the domination of an incredulous
philosophy for the salutary influence of religion.
A CHURCH OF ROME MOVEMENT.—The legislature of
Indiana have wisely given the go-by, through an indefi-
nite postponement, to a bill " incorporating the Bishop of
Vincennes as sole to hold property for the use of the
Roman Catholic Church in the state of Indiana." Let
the legislative bodies of all our States act thus promptly,
in reference to similar propositions—and we feel as though
Popery in the United States would receive a mortal wound.
—American Paper.

GREECE.—Accounts from Athens come down to the
3th ult. inclusive. On that day King Otho closed in
person the session of the National Assembly, to which he
delivered the following address :—" I am rejoiced to see
the great work of the Constitutional Charter of Greece
brought to a close, and I present myself before you in
order to seal it by the prescribed oaths. I desire that the
constitution—that sacred and indissoluble tie between the
nation and the king—may produce and consolidate the
prosperity of Greece. The task for which I have con-
voked this National Assembly being finished, I declare it
to be closed." The capital was illuminated in the even-
ing.
Tin: RULING PAssioN.—An aged female mendicant,
named Margaret Kerzlerinn, who died the other day at
Musich, having lone been remarkable for a most miserly
disposition, earnestly requested, before her death, that
she might be buried in the cap she then wore, for which
she pretended to have a great regard, as being the gift of
a benefactress. Her sister gave the required promise,
and old Margaret expired in apparent content. The sis-
ter, in arr aying the corpse, took off the cap, and thinking
that the band which surrounded it might be made more
useful to the living than the dead, took it off, when lo !
bank notes to the amount of 1110 florins (about £94),
were found concealed under it. The old lady was evi-
dently anxious to take her money along with her.

DREADFUL OCCURRENCE AT HALIFAX.—The Hali-
fax Journal of the 4th of March states :—About two
o'clock this morning, a fire broke out in the Asylum fol.
the Poor, some three miles from town, and in the course
of two hours, the building was burnt to the ground. So
rapidly did the fire spread, that those in the house were
unable to save any of their effects—and awful to relate,
ten of the inmates were burned to death. One of those
burnt (Lydia Bowen,) had carried her child to a place of
safety, and returned to try to save something, but did not
herself again escape the devouring flames. There were
fifty-nine persons in the house, besides the family of
Capt. Timothy Bunker, the keeper. Capt. B. lost all his
effects and 40 dollars in money. There were 13 of the
paupers bed-riddenone of them we were told had not
walked for about twenty years.

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FORMOSA.—There are at. lying off the town
(Hong Kong) three junks which brought cargoes of cam-
phor from Formosa. A gentleman who had some con-
versation with a part of their crews has favoured us with
the following information derived from them. They have
brought about a thousand peculs of camphor from Hap-
ma-lan. a town situated near the northern extremity of
the island and containing about twenty thousand inhabi-
tants. They represent their native district as producing
in abundance sugar and rice, and the interior of the island
as abounding with large forest trees and inhabited by
Aborigines who wear no clothing, subsist chiefly by hunt-
ing, and procure their fire-arms and powder from the
Chinese. They cultivate rice to a small extent for the
purpose of distillation, and are extremely fond of ar-
dent spirits. They lead a wandering life, but never ven-
ture into the Chinese settlements ; they speak a language
peculiar to themselves, but have no books. The Chinese
occupying the northern portion of Formosa generally
speak the Fokien dialect, and one of the party remarked
that his ancestors had lived at Hap-ma-lan for four gene-
rations. They carry on commerce with most of the ports
on the Chinese coast, with Amoy, Ningpo, and Shanghai,
besides Macao and Canton. An officer of the first rank
resides in the district, which bears the same name with
the city. They say that rice is selling there for drs. 1.75
directlyul, white sugar at drs. 5 per pecul, and camphor
perrs P.
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want—Hong Kong Register, January 2.