The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-11 00:00:00

OF THT

ARRIVAL

ASIA

We have received, by the arrival in the harbour of the
Royal Mail steam-ship Asia, Lang, commander, our usual
despatches from New York, of the 29th inclusive. -
The Asia left New York shortly after noon on the 29th
With 74 passengers, £54,500 value in AmeriCan gold on
freight, and the usual mails. During ber run she .endoun-
tered much ice ; and but for the detention in consequence
of repairing her floats, the Asia would have arrived in the
Mersey on Saturday night. She has, however, made a
fair average run, having steamed past the Rock Light-
house shortly after nine o'clock On Sunday morning.
The United States. Mail steam-ship Arctic Luce,
arrived out at New York on the 27th ult ; she had been
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compelled previously to put into. Halifax for coal, having
run• short like her sister ship Baltic, from some error in
the quantity shipped., Her accounts were telegraphed to
New York in advance.:.

The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic's non-
arrival continued to be a source of the gravest apprehen-
sions. From the discovery of a wreck in the Atlantic
shattered as from a collision some fears werq entertained
that she had been lost during such a catastrophe ; other
suggestions were, that her boilers had exploded, whilst the
fate of the President was regarded as the most correct
solution of the disaster. More generally, however, our
accounts express an-opinion confirmed by the facts of the
case ; and many more weeks must elapse,, apparently,
before all hope would be-abandoned. On the 23d ult. the
revenue schooner Daring, Captain Darby, sailed from
Halifax .on a cruise to Sable Island in .search for the
Atlantic. One. journal remarks, " this act, of courtesy
and humanity on the part of the Provincial' Government
will, we doubt not, be appreciated by our friends across
the bay."
Our accounts froin New York are not of, great political
moment. ,Mr. Clay's.motion for more stringent barriers
against the pursuit of the slave trade to Brazil: by American
ships had' been carried by the Senate.
Numerous petitions had been presented;iin favour of
' the proposed line of- steamships to Liberia. The Senate
had also sanctioned the
_French spoliation Measure, and
various memorials against the existing tariff had been
read. More formidable movements, however, had been
organized eut of the Chamber of CongresS, and on the
28th, in the House of Representatives, ad amendment
was'moved to a deficiency, bill by Mr. Stiong, seeking to
establish a Much higher duty on,iron, and also an increa-
sed, though not proportioned, duty on the rates on
woollens, Sm. • Some slight discussion ensued after the
presentation of the amendment, but the House shortly
closed its sitting 'without forming any decision.' Letters
from Washington .published, in' the New rOrk Journal
state; that the 'Whig party were by no means satisfied
with the proposition, inasmuch as the source was at least
suspicious, and the measure sectionll in 'its bearings.
Other projects were said to be in process of organisation
on• the *24th inst. Reciprocity with Canada would be
specially` discussed. ,Our accounts are not in other respects
important. • 1

General Henderson's prosecution at Nev Orleans for
complicity in the Cuban invasion had-broken down. Nu-
merous launches of clipper ships. &c„ are announced.
Philadelphia accounts state that all the funds required
for the semi-monthly screWsteathers.line to !Liverpool had
been subscribed. Four ships were expected to.bo on the
lipe. by Midsummer.

Letterslrorn Uavannah of the..22d ult. state that mili-
tary ,evolutions were frequent.
Jenny Lind.was shortly to return to New Orleans. She
will not return to London until 1852.

Chagres aceount;,oiiii;iiWult:, two days later, sre.
present no new arrlyals at Panatna.

Accounts from Canada announce that the Home Gov
ernment had-sanctioned the provincial postal scheme.
From Nova Scotia we learn that the Governtir opened
the Legislative Assembly with the usual kind of speech.

COMAIEILCIAL,

.. The mercantile ~reports from the leading, cities throughout
the States continue very favourable. Money was very plentiful
and available at moderate rates. The market for American
securities was:firm.

There was little doing in breadstuffs. Prices had, slightly.
declined.: Western Canal flour steady at. 8.1 75c. to 84 871 c. per
barrel.; Gennessee prime wheat,.,Bl 20c. to.Bl 22c. per 60 lbs.;
southern wheat, 81 ,6c. to .81 Sc. per BO lbs. ; Indian corn,
round yellow, 6r,c. to 68c. per bushel steady ; Indian corn,
southern white, 66c. to 68c. per bushel; Indian meal, 82 87ic.
to .83 per barrel.
The cotton market at New York was very inactive prices
having slightly receded for most descriptions, and-sales were
very limited. New Orleans and Mobile mid. fair to fair,l4ltp

0- per lb., or a fall of g cent. ; Uplands and Florida ditto,..l3i to
14 cents. per lb.—a fall of f cent.
Ffeights are inactive and unaltered in quotation.

The stock of provisions on band is very large—the demand
small. '

-Exchange on London in moderate demand at 110 to:101i ;•on
Paris, 5 10; on Hamburgh, 37 t0.37i. •

The Roman correspondent of the Daily News,,writiug
on the 31st ult., says—" The abdication of the Poiie is
very generally rumoured." • • -
The young and beautiful Countess Dembinski, who was
born Princess Csarloriska, is living with her ihusband,
Dembinski, in /sidssau-street, New York, where they
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keep a cigar shop.
The magnificent St. Charles Hotel, at New Orleans,
together with three churches and several stores, have
been destroyed by fire—loss, £1,000,000. At Milwarkie,
twenty-one houses and stores have fallen a prey to the
devouring element—loss. £120,000.
One of the chief places of amusement in Berlin—known
as Krolls—was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday week.
The three splendid saloons, when thrown into one, formed.
one of the longest galleries in Europe. The great pano-
rama of the Mississippi was inside, and was unfortunately
burnt. Two men were killed.

The Emperor of Russia has issued orders fot facilitat-
jag the recovery of debts, by reforming the extremely dila-
tory procedure of the Russian courts ; and the conse-
quence has been that many nobles had contracted debts,
and availed themselves of legal delays to set their crediT
tors at defiance, have-been arrested.

Eight thousand christians at Madagitscar were, in June
last, arrested while at worship, and sentenced to 'death.
Eighteen suffered, when the Prince Rakoolo, heir to the
throne, took the remainder under his protection, and in
spite of the orders of his mother saved them frOm further
injury. The grand--marshal, who received ordei.s from (he
queen to enforce her mandate, was attacked bythe prince,
who cut off one of his ears.

Mazzini, who is now established at Genevi, is, it is said,
busily plotting a fresh descent on, the States of the Church.
His levies, raised on. the Continent, are drafted to this
pcuntry, from whence they will be conveyed tO the scene
of action., ,Garibaldi, who, since the death of !that really
great soldier and unconquerable spirit, Bern, has become
the principal hero of the roving•chivalry of revolution, is
expected with two ship-loads of ragamuffins !from New
York., So runs the tale.

Sir"Cluarles Napier has taken leave- of 'the I dian army

with a lecture to its unthrifty subalterns on their 'proffi-
gate and (as he labours to convince them) very ungentle-
manlike habit of running into debt. Plenty of drill—
economy at mess—less of marching and countr marching.
—and a little more honesty and self-command 'on the part
of the youngsteis themselves, are the remedies which .he
prescribes for the epidemic propensity to " ride unpaid=
fox horses, and drink unpaid-for beer." The,regimental
officers in particular come in for a smart and not unde-

served rebuke.

FRANCL—Theltate of affairs in ,France is anything
but promising. The breach between Louis Napoleon and
the Assembly, so far from being healed, is grouting wider
and wider. The refusal,-all but certain, of the Dotation
Bill will leave the President of the Republic as much out
at elbows as our Indian officers habituallY arej according
to'Sir Charles Napier; and the) questicin may possibly
arise whether the chief of the state is liable tel arrest for
debt like the representatives of the people. The refusal,
on the face of it unjust and impolitic, is a mater of spite
rather than of necessity. At the same time a deficit of
one hundred and fifty-five millions is an awkward fact in
the republican budget, and an indifferent realon for in.,
creasing the public expenditure
SANG -FROM OF THE QUEEN OF SPAlN.—Litters from
Madrid, published in the. Daily News; say, " A curious
incident occurred the night before last. at a family ball
given by the Qiieenmother. Pena-Florida, a lnember of,
the Gonzales Bravo Ministry, is subject to intervals of
mental alienation. Although notinvited to Ole ball al-
luded to, he presented himself in full uniform, and, walk-
ing up to the young Queen, informed her in a loud voice
that it was already time 'she was introduced to her ances-
tor Charles the Fifth, and that he for his part intended to
levy 20,000 negroes, dressed in red, as a body-guard. The
Queen, without being disconcerted at this abrupt address,
told him to go and levy them without loss of time. Ihe
unfortunate man then bowed himself out, and was con-
ducted home!'

WEST INDIES.—The mail steamer Thames, which
arrived at Southamption on Wednesday' evening, has
brought the usual West India mails and 1,400,600 dollars
in specie and bullion, 'of which 500,000 dols. are in
silver and 900,000 in gold. The advices are almost wholly
anticipated by those received at Liverpool via the I,Jnited
States, the accounts from Jamaica being only e day later.
Kingston and Port Royal were comparatively free from
cholera, which still prevailed, hoWever, in the, country
districts of Jamaica. A dreadful epidemic was prevalent
in French Guiana, and the French authorities wer taking
active measures to check the progress of the disease. The
weather was generally fine throughout the islands, and
the crops bore a favourable appearance.
• MILITARY EXECUTION IN PARlE.—Gtith, the .carabi--
nier, who was last week but one found guilty of the deli-
berate murder of Capt. Terrers, and condemned tadeath,
was shot on Wednesday, soon after daybreak, in pursu-
ance of his sentence, on the Plain of Satory, at Versailles.-
,The movement of the troops at that early hout of the day
excitedllie curiosity of the inhabitants, and an immense
crowd soon assembled at, the place ,of execution. The
prisoner, was conveyed to the ,ground in a cellular van,
and was attended by the Abbe de Segur, who, since his
condemnation, had had frequent interviews with him.
On Guth being placed on his knees and having his eyes
bandaged, he exclaimed, "-The sentence is just—l die
repentant. May God forgive me." On a signal being
given-, the fatal discharge took place, and the murderer
fell, dead, pierced by several balls. The troops then
marched past the body, and proceeded to their respective
quarters.

STARVATION AMONG THE' OVERLAND EMIGRANTS TO
CALIFORNIA.—A letter in an Anierican paper, dated
Tuckee River, Emigrant Road, Monday, September 30,
gives the following account of the fate of emigrants on the
road to California :—" I have now been upon this horrible
road more than one tnonth, during which time I have wit-
nessed every grade of human suffering and misery., Too
ofter. have I seen families, who from all appearances had
been orought up-in the mijoyment of every luxury, feast-
ing upon the carcases of dead oxen. Captain Duncan, of
Michigan, stated to me. a few days since, that the best
food he ate for sixteen days was a faithful dog that had fol-
lowed him from home:; that he saved him as long as he
could; but finally killed him to preVent starvation, and
divided the meat among about twenty men. I have seen
hundreds so weak that they reeled and staggered as they
walked along the road. Saw one man from St. Louis, on
Homboldt River, a few days since, lying by the side Of the
road in the last agonies of death, caused by starvation.
Have just reached this point after a ten days' journey up
Homboldt River, where I found many persons without
one pound of provision, although four hundred miles from.
Sacramento city. And what makes their situation worse,
• they have suffered from starvation until they are so weak
they can scarcely walk. These people have
.been robbed
by the Indians, even to their blankets, although the nights
are cold and chilly, and it requires two or three blankets
to keep a man comfortable, yet many of these pedple have
neither blankets nor coats. ' The hostile Indians ,are very
numerous, becoming very bold, and aro killing the emi-
'grants daily. They conceal themselves in the thickets and
ravines, and fire upon the emigrants as they pass : those
on foot, being too weak to carry their guns, fall an easy
prey to the savages. The Indians have taken a great deal
of stock from the emigrants, and are consequently well
mounted ; and by picking up the firearms thrown away by
the weak and exhausted, they are also well armed.
FEARFUL MURDER IN PARIS.—M. Poirier Desfon-
taines, a wealthy manufacturer of bronzes, Rue de
Honore, has been brutally murdered by his servant, a
young man named Vion. The murderer cut his victim's
body into pieces, packed them in one or two trunks, and
sent them out of Paris by railway. The object of. the ,
murderer appears to have been wealth, and he absconded
after the murder, with a good deal of his master's pro-
perty, but he has been taken into'custoily. It appears that
a short time back the deceased engaged a new man-servant
at a register-office. The young' man had been with his
master little more than a fortnight, when one morning he
engaged two commissionaires at the corner of the Rue
Royal, to convey three trunks, which he said- contained
goods, to the Central Railway station, from his master's
house. The trunks were accordingly rethoved, from the-
hbiise by the men' while the servant told the Concierge
that his master had left for the railway station, and ,went
away himself;.: As, however, M. Desfontaities had .said
nothing to his neighbotrs about- goirig upon a journey,
their suspicions were aroused by seeing the shop shut up,
and they communicated with -the police. Shortly after-
wards it transpired that "a mutilated corpse had been found
at the railway station at Chateauroux, In a :trunk which
had been sent from Paris to an imaginary 'address, and,
which, on inquiry, was ascertained to be one of those
committed to the charge of the commissionaires by the-
man-servant. The other two trunks had been'taken •by
the apparent owner to Bourges. • The murderer, it ap-
peared, as the box was too small, had cut the body in
pieces, depositing first the trunk, then the legs, and then
the arms and head.. It is supposed that M.lDesfoutaines
had been murdered while he was asleep, as he was a very
strong, and courageous man, and that the murderer had
then posiesSed himself of everything of value in the shop.
On the shop being opened, an instrument for splitting
wood, stained with blood, was found, with which it was
supposed the skull of the deceased, which was hoiribly'
smashed, had been beaten in. A bloody piece of
a washhand basin containing water -stained with blood,
and other traces were also discovered, but nothing to in-
dicate the cutting up of the body. The ourderer was
arrested on Monday night, and, according to the Debats,
has made a full confession of his guilt. He had, it seems;
purchased one of-the trunks a short time before. :and be-
neath the mutilated body. was found the:blouse be was
accustomed to wear. He is a young man ;old Plienty,
years of age,' with a mild expression offelittu

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