The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-12-24 00:00:00

IrutiElGN AND COLONIAL.

The Jewish writer, Lawbroso, who resides at Turin,
bas just embraced the Christian religion.
The cold was so intense at Turin on the night of the
6th instant that in the morning several sentinels were
found dead in their sentry boxes.

Spain is tranquil. It is reported that Zurbano is in
Madrid, watching an opportunity to put Navarez to
death. •

THE WORSHIP OF JUGGERNAUT.—The necessary
documents have been forwarded to India, to complete the
severance of the government of India from the idolatrous
worship of the natives in the Temple of Juggernaut.
There are i❑ France, says one of the journals, 3,500 ac-
tors, 2,900 actresses, and 16,000 individuals attached in
one way or other to the theatres, making a total of 22,000
persons living upon the budget of Thalia and Melpomene,
which is estimated at 30,000,000 f.
RIOTS AT BERN E.—The Constitutionnel gives a letter
from Berne, of the 9th, stating, that on the preceding
day, the anti-Jesuit party at Lucerne rose against the go-
vernment and attacked the arsenal, but was defeated with
the loss of several men. Two of the chiefs of the revolt
were taken, but two escaped to the outside of the town,
where a considerable force of volunteers from different
cantons had assembled, but were unable to act.
WATERSPOUT IN MEXICO.—At Yabu, during the
late hurricane, a tremendous waterspout passed through
the place, doing much damage. It was about twenty feet
wide. In its course it passed over two houses, driving
the roofs thrototh, and entirely destroying one. Five
children were killed in one of the buildings. The effects
were the same as if a violent river had run through the
town, leaving a kind of channel. Trees, grass, and every-
thing that came in its way, were torn up. Mechanics and
artisans were very scarce, and were receiving from four to
five dollars per day.—Amarican paper.
DISGRACEFUL OUTRAGES IN CANADA.—The Mon-
treal newspapers, received by the last mail-packet, record
a variety of daring outrages on property, attemps at assas-
sination, and other crimes, committed in that town, du-
ring the previous six or seven days. "In one instance,"
(says the Transcript) a peaceable habitats and his sister,
driven from their homes by threats of violence, have been
engulphed in the waters of the St.- Lawrence, with the
two boatmen who conducted them, and all the little pro-
perty tbey were trying to preserve; in the other, a das-
tardly attempt has been made to assassinate a respectable
citizen, by discharging a murderous weapon into his house,
at a time when it was reasonable to suppose that he was
surrounded by his family, who were to be made the wit-
nesses of the horrible crime. The other papers record nu-
men us similar instances of outrage. At Coteau du Lac.
on the 18th ult., (the first case referred to,) a citizen
named Christen dit Suntamour, was driven from his store
by the threats of the canal men at Beauliarnois. He em-
barked with his sister, Miss Adelaide Christen, a quan-
tity of goods, money to the amount of £l5O, and the two
ferrymen. From fear of the threats of the men, he un-
wisely loaded the scow too heavily. Shortly after :hey
pushed off the boat filled, it is supposed; the two ferry-
men eldeavoured to swim ashore, as nothing was heard of
them. The young lady was heard not far from the shore,
and after passing all the rapids of the Cascades was still
heard. Nothing was done to assist them, who, as well as
the ferrymen, all perished. The scow was found bottom
up at Isle Perrot. Many,pf the articles have since been
found in the possession of the cavaliers, and they refused
to give up anything.—ln the latter end of October a cow-
ardly attack was made at night on Mr. Tilton, a most
inoffensive man, in Griffintown. On the same evening,
two men were brutally assaulted by a gang of men, and
were both confined to their beds. On the following day
it was dangerous for respectable persons to appear abroad
in Griffinstown, and a military guard had to be procured.
The canaliers next day attacked the military, but was de-
feated. A methodist chapel was destroyed by the rioters,
and other Protestant churches injured. The canal men
in Beauharnois had renewed their Cork and Connaught
factions, and some conflicts had takan place. It was ru-
moured that four to six habi'ants, in flying from one of
the factions, got into a canoe, and were carried over the
rapids, and drowned.—At Quebec a mob of 400 to 600,
bearing tar barrels, and shouting for O'Connell and re-
peal, paraded Champlain-street, breaking the windows of
every house in which no light was visible. This destruc-
tion was indiscriminate ; Catholics, Protestants, Repeal-
ers, anti-Repeaters, suffered alike; and the windows of
the Catholic Church, the Mariners' and Wesleyan Cha-
pels, wherein no lights could have been expected were de-
molished. Huge stones were hurled for this purpose of
destruction ; in several instances breaking sash and panes.
Great damage was done to a tavern, when the landlord,
after in vain wearing the mob to desist, fired upon them
twice with small shot, and wounded two men. The police
were too small to contend with tne rioters.—The. Mon-
treal Register, a religious periodical, says, " This city has
been the scene of a series of riots, perpetrated by the ca-
nallers ; churches and private buildings have been attack-
ed and not a pane of glass lett, and individual's lives
threatened. The Methodist Chapel and the Baptist Mis-
sionary Church, situated in Griffintown, were attacked on
Wednesday night last, and nearly demolished. The sol-
diers have been since then constantly parading the streets
during the night time, and it has been founu necessary to
bring in a reinforcement. There is also a troop of cavalry
in town which has done good service. If the troops had
not been stationed in Griffintown last week, there would
have been a number of fires. We saw on Friday, In pass-
ing through Griffintown, a number of houses marked
Ready," and numbered from one to fifty (at least we
saw both of these numbers, though they might have ex-
tended higher.) These were the houses of Irish protes-
tants and Orangemen, and were intended to be burned."
The Montreal Gazette says, in allusion to this, that many
of the persons threatened with fire andslaughter, were not
Orrngemen, any more than the editors themselves, and
that " it is the slang of the ruffian party which hounds
these ignorant and passionate people on, to denounce
every Protestant, and particularly every Irish Protestant,
who exercises, against their views, the privileges due to
every British subject, wherher Catholic or Protestant, as
"an Orangeman. It is stated in the Montreal Times
that two shots had been fired into the room of Captain
Alleyne, c,.mmanding the detachment of t he 52d regiment,
at Lachine, and that one of the balls grazed his face. From
what we can imperfectly glean from these papers, one of
the original causes of these outrages was the use made, on
the eve of an election, amongst the lower orders, of argu-
ments relative to the constitution of King's College, To-
ronto.