The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-10-22 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

CORONATION OF THE KING OF SWEDEN'.—A letter
from Stockholm of the Ist, gives the following account of
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not proceed to the church in the order agreed on. Their
majesties, not wishing to delay the ceremony, went there
in their carriages, and were greeted with loud expressions
of joy. After the divine service, the coronation took
place. When it was concluded, the prince royal and his
brothers, the Dukes of Upland and Ostrogothie, took the
paths of fidelity to the king, who embraced them both.
The act of homage of the states general also offered an
imposing spectacle; and after they had taken the oath the
vault of the church rung with cries of " Long live King
Oscar !" The weather having cleared up, their majesties
returned to the palace on foot, in the order prescribed by
the ceremonial. An immense crowd was assembled along
the passage, and the windows, roofs, and stands erected for
the occasion, were filled with spectators, who threw
flowers in the line of the procession, and greeted the king
with loud shouts of welcome and approbation. The queen
dowager could not, on account of her mourning, be
present at the august ceremony ; -but on the return of
their majesties to the palace, they proceeded to her apart-
ment to pay their respects. The Duke de Dalecarlie and
the Princess Engine were present at the coronation in a
tribune apart. The diplomatic corps and the foreigners
of distinction, on leaving the church, proceeded to the
inner court of the palace, to present their homage to their
majesties on their passage. The king, the same day, gave
a grand dinner of GOO covers. In the evening the city
was illuminated, and their majesties, accompanied by the
younger branches of the royal family, went through the
streets in au open carriage, amidst loud acclamations.
The next day the king received, in separate audiences, the
ministers of England and Denmark, who presented let-
ters of congratulation from their respective sovereigns on
his coronation. In the evening a fire burst out in the
northern faubourg, but was put down after one house had
been consumed. The king proceeded to the scene on
horseback."

The Hanover Gazette announces, that a treaty of com-
merce had been concluded between the- governments of
Hanover and Denmark.

The Belgian Government has declined ratifying the
recent public sale of th,. British Queen, upon the ground
that the sum named—viz., 170,500 f., was far below the
value of that splendid steam-vessel.
In the midst of a bull-fight at Rea, near Valladolid, on
the 19th ult., a platform continuing 1000 persons gave
way, and above 200 were more or less injured. Three
were killed, eight mortally wounded, and twenty severely
so. •

A Berlin journal gives an account of an extensive rob-
bery at Stockholm on the 27th ult. The offices of the
General insurance Compat.v were broken into, and pri-
vate bills to the amount ot 300,000 rix-dollars, and bank-
notes to the amount of 117,000 rix dollars, carried off.
The most remarkable excavator in modern times, in
any part of the world, has been the Pasha ~f Egypt. The
Mahmoodie canal alone is twenty-three leagues in length ;
no fewer that 313,000 men having been occupied for the
space of ten months in its construction. For some years
past, the number of workmen employed in hydraulic
works in Egypt has exceeded 350,000.—Bombay Times.

THE ,AMERICAN ICE TRADE.—The amount of ice
shipped from Boston last year, is stated in the American
papers to have been 55,000 tons. The cost to the shippers
is 12,430 dollars, or something less than Is. per ton; but
it is delivered on shipboard generally at 2-55 dollars per
ton. The average receipts for sales is 3;575,000 dollars,
leaving a difference of 3,562,570 dollars. from which the
freight is to be deducted: thus a princely sum remains to
go to the profit account. One firm freighted with it 101
vessels last season. It is regularly shipped to Bombay,
Canton, Madras, Calcutta, Mauritius, and all ports of
consequence in warm climates. One cargo was recently
shipped to the East Indies, and exchanged, pound for
cotton, and the latter taken to Liverpool, thus realizing a
profitable voyage.—American paper.
THE LATE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF THE KING
OF PRUSSlA.—Tschech, who attempted to assassinate
the King of Prussia, and who was sentenced to suffer
death upon the rack, is not only to escape that punish-
ment, as we were sure be would, but his life is to be alto-
gether spared. Strange to say, however, there seems to
be a difficulty in carrying this humane intenti,n into
effect, because the culprit himself will not ask for the
boon ! " You may do what you like with try body," is
his language, " but 1 defy you to bend the resolution of
my soul." On the ether hand, the King of Prussia has
declared that. " he will never suffer blood to be shed for:
an offence which was exclusively personal against himself
and that, rather than put him to death he would grant
him a free pardon." His Majesty's Ministers having
urged that suet, a proceeding might encourage other at-
tempts upon his life, he replied, " Well, then, if we can-
not find tiny other means of disposing of this man, I shall
be competed to do what Bernadotte did ten years ago."
The case bee referred to by his Majesty- was that of a
person who had been condemned to death for a libel upon
the King of Sweden, and whom it was wiShed to pardon,
but 'who, like rschec, refused to ask for his life. 'ln the
end, Bernadotte granted a general amnesty to all political
prisoners, which of course included this individual. It is
not often that mercy is put to so much trouble.