The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

Ernest, of Hanover, entered his eightieth year on the
6th ultimo. He is now the oldest reigning Sovereign in
Europe.
Two young ladies, whose names are given as Miss
Almira Fraim and Miss Mary Ward, have become regular
students in the medical department of the Memphis
Institute, America.
A manufactory of detonating caps at Abbeville, near
Paris, exploded on Thursday morning, by which consi-
derable damage was done to the village, and some lives
lost.
PEACE BETWEEN PRUSSIA AND DENMARK.—Accounts
from Berlin state that it was reported in well-informed
circles that peace had been concluded between Prussia
and Denmark on the basis of an ultimatum of M. de
Vredom.

We regret to notice that the sugar crop in the West
India Islands for the present year is less by about 19,000
hogsheads than that of 1849. Drought is assigned as the
cause of the falling off, which, under present circum-
stances of depression, is the more felt by our colonists.
The National Council of Switzerland met at Berne on
the Ist. After certain preliminary proceedings, Dr. Kern
was elected President, by 59 votes to 19. The new Presi-
dent delivered a brief address, in which he stated that he
would employ all his efforts to merit the confidence placed
in himby the assembly ; he declared his attachment to the
federal institutions, and his determination to seek progress
by the regular development of them.
MR. CASS AND THE POPE'S GREAT TOE.-A great deal
of trash is published about these warm days, in some of
the journals, in reference to the important position which
Mr. Cass, the American Charge at Rome, has taken, in
reference to the great toe of his Holiness the Pope. Some
philosophers censure Mr. Cass for refusing to kiss the
great toe, and others approve of his American spirit in
resisting the ceremony, as an insult to the constitution
and the eagle. As the old Jew said in the thunder-storm,
" What a great fuss about a piece of pork."—New York
Herald.

PORTUGAL.—The mail steamer Pasha, which arrived at
Southampton on Wednesday night, has brought advices
from Lisbon to the 29th ult.—Mr. Clay had presented a
note stating, that he would wait till the 11th of July for
the final decision of the Portuguese Cabinet respecting the
American claims, and in case he then receives no answer,
or one that is not satisfactory, he will demand his pass-
ports and leave the Portuguese government, subject to
such ulterior measures as may be adopted in the matter.
The chief of these claims relates to the capture of an
American privateer, the General Armstrong, by an English
force in the Portuguese harbour of Fayal, in the year
1814 ; and the total is said to amount to some 330,0004 r.
It was expected that the Portuguese government would
continue to reject the claim for the capture of the General
Armstrong ; but a council was about to be held to consider
the other claims.—The war department at Lisbon had
placed cannon and munitions of war in the forts at the
entrance of the Tagus. It is stated that British claims
were also being preferred against Portugal, and that Lord
Palmerston had made a demand insisting upon the faith-
ful execution of the treaty of commerce with reference to
the differential duty levied upon port wine for the English
market.