The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-03 00:00:00

THE LEVANT MAIL.

CONSTANTINOPLE, Nov. 7.—The principal event of
last week has been the removal from office of Rifaat
Pasha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the appointment
in his place of Shekio Effendi, formerly Amb rssador at
the Court of St. James's. Besides his mission to London,
he was engaged as a diplomatist in the negotiations upon
the settlement of the Greek question, and afterwards at
the conference of Adrianople. On the 31st of October
Sir Stratford Canning was admitted to an audience with
the Sultan, when be presented a letter announcing the
birth of Prince Alfred. The reception was in the usual
form. His Highness has himself had an accession to his
family in the birth of another son, being his third male
child. Illuminations and rejoicings are to continue for a
week.—Dr. Wolff is still at Me•hed, from which place he
was unwilling to proceed till he had received an escort
from Colonel Shen at Teheran. It is singular that, after
crossing the desert of Mero and escaping from the Turco-
man hordes, he should shrink from encountering dangers
and difficulties comparatively trifling.—Letters from Tre-
bizonde describe a very curious occurrence which took
place there last month. A Mussulman Cadi having been
murdered while on a journey, the assassins were seized by
the Pasha, and, instead of being punished according to
the usual forms of justice, were delivered to the kindred
of man, by one of whom their throats were deliberately
cut in the market-place. Such things were unheard of
during the administration of Redschid Pasha.
ALEXANDRIA, Nov. 6.—Things continue quiet in
Egypt. Many surmises are made as to what steps will be
taken by the Peninsular arid Oriental Company with re-
gard to the refusal of Mehemet Ali to allow their steamers
to ply any longer on the Nile. The general opinion is,
that they will have to remove their steamers and leave the
transit through Egypt entirely in the hands of the Paella.
—Mr. Bourne has done nothing as yet with regard to the
arrangements with Mehemet Ali for the transit of the
India mails through Egypt, and it is not unlikely that this
gentleman will have to return to England without effecting
anything.—Prayers have been offered to Allah at the
principal mosques at Cairo, by command of Mehemet Ali,
to stop the too sudden decrease of the Nile ; but, as this
is the season for the water to run off the land, this pro-
ceeding is by the initiated supposed to be only a manoeuvre
on the pact of the Pasha to induce the merchants to offer
him higher prices for his produce.—The works of the new
fortificatious of Alexandria, under the direction of the
French Colonel of Engineers, Gallice Bey, are progressing
very steadily. The stone employed for this purpose is
brought from some catacombs, situate about a mile and
a half from the Rosetta-gate.
Intelligence has been received from Syria up to the 27th
of October. That country still remains in a very unsatis-
factory state, occasioned by the weakness of the Turkish
governm nt, which is de-pised and set at defiance by the
various sheiks. Troops were arriving every week from
Turk'y, whose object, it appears, is to disarm the popula-
tion, and enforce the conscription. The Sheik Aboo
Ghosh had entered the towns of Jaffa and Saida, and mas-
sacred the Governor of each place. The crop of olives
will be immense this year ; but little or no advantage can
be looked for to the country, whilst the whole benefit
is absorbed by the temporary Governors of the several
provinces.

It is said that Abd El Kader has dismissed the few sol-
diers who still followed him, and that he has removed into
the interior of Morocco.
'I he Universal German Gazette states that the Russian
Government has issued an ordonnonce forbidding all the
inhabitants of Poland, without distinction, to marry be-
fore the age of thirty.
TUE WILL FORGERS.—The Agincourt. with Barber
and Fletcher on board, was at Simon's Bay, Cape of
Good Hope, on thelSth of September. There have been
no deaths on board except a soldier and child.
TRIBUTE TO MOROCCO.—The tribute has hitherto been
regularly paid by Sweden, amounting to 29.000 dollars.
The amount annually paid by Denmark has been 25,000
do!hrs, but these countries are firmly resolved to pay no
more tribute, even should the consequences force them to
estrblish cruisers off the coast of Morocco for the pro-
tection.of their commerce.

POPERY AT WORK.—We learn from Havre that six
Domarcan f,iars had taken their passage in the last
packet :or the United States, and two others for Marti-
nique. Eight other German missionaries, and 17 Ger-
man nuns, had also arrived at Havre, who were proceed-
ing, to the same destination. The latter intended to
fouud a hospital in the United States, and were accompa-
nied by three lay brothers.

TEMPERANCE SOCIETIES IN POLAND.—POLISH FRON-
TIERS, Nov. 11.—The cause of the temperance societies
has received a severe blow in the kingdom of Poland.
They had been particularly successful in those parts of
the kingdom which border on the republic of Cracow and
in Upper Silesia, where the country people, following the
exhortation of the clergy, renounced in a body the use of
brandy. But the Government has lately interfered to
check the temperance societies, and has published a cit.=
cular prohibiting them, and forbidding the clergy to pro-
mote by addresses from the pulpit an object which was so
beneficial to the country-people.—Hamburgh papers.

BLASPHEMY OF THE BISHOP OF TREVES.—Several of
the German journals publish a letter from a priest, named
John Rouge, to the Bishop of Treves, on his having made
a public exhibition in that city of a- robe which he de-
clared to have been th 4 which was worn by Jesus Christ.
M. Rouse comments with great severity on the conduct
of the bishop, and brings forward several arguments to
show that the delusion was a wilful one, as far as the
bishop was concerned. in one part of his letter, the
priest says, " Do not deceive yourself as to the affluence
of this multitude, and be persuaded thlit, if some hun-
dreds of thousunds persons performed a pilgrimage to.
Treves, millions are imbued like me with profound hor-
ror and grief at the sight of your disgusting comedy."
A Berlin journal states that the letter of M. Rouge has
produced a powerful sensation throughout Saxony and
Silesia, where it has been reprinted and circulated to an
enormous extent.