The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

BUENOS AIRES.-Advices from Buenos Ayres of the
29th of June state that the House of Representa'ives had
confirmed the law authorising a monthly remittance of
5,000d015. to Messrs. Baring, Brothers, on account of
the dividend till some definite arrangement is made for
the liquidation of the foreign debt. The, return of many
of the old English residents for their native land seems to
have created some sensation in the Argentine Republic,
and their departure is mentioned in terms of regret. The
packet bringing three accounts is the bearer of 10,000 dis.
being the amount for May and June. By the same op-
portunity we learned the fact of the departure of Corn-
modere Purvis for Rio de Janeiro, having been superseded
by Captain Talbot, of the Vestal, till Sir Thomas S.
Pasley takes command of the station. Paz was reported
to have sailed for Rio Grande. The exchange on En-
gland was quoted 31d.

SYDNEY.--Sydney papers to the 12th of May have
come to hand, but being only a week later than those re-
ceived en Thursday last, they add little to the information
before made public. Business transactions continued ex-
ceedingly limited, and there was no actual improvement
in prices to notice. -Wool in grease was fetching id per
lb., and choice flocks is Id to is 2d per lb.; flour, accord-
ing to quality, was .0 to 411 per ton ; sperm oil was

quoted 122 to £2l per ton.
NEW ZEALAND.—Accounts from New Zealand state
that on the 12th of February an interview took place be-
tween Governor Fitzroy and the New Zealand chiefs con-
cerned in the massacre at Wairou. After a request to
bear from them their own account of the affair, which
was complied with by Rauparaha, his Excellency having
deliberated for some time, addressed the natives to the
effect that, as the English had in the first instance been
in the wrong, and the New Zealanders had been betrayed
into unlawful acts both by their ignorance of English law,
and by the great provocation they had received, no pun-
ishment should follow their offences. lie concluded by
assuring them that he would punish all attempts on the
part of the English to wrong the natives, and exhorted
the chiefs in their turn to exercise their influence to pre-
vent the natives from any similar infringement of their

mutual rights.
Dr. WOLFF.—After much correspondence, and obtain-
ing from our own government all the interference and aid
it feels authorised to undertake for the release of Dr.
Wolff, Captain Grover a few days since started for St.
Petersburgh, persorlagy to interest the Emperor Nicholas
in the same humane and holy couse.
FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT AT NIAGAD.A.—Miss Martha
K. Rugg. a young lady, left her home a few days since to
visit her sister. She was under the care of her brother-
in-law. Arriving at Niagara Falls, they stopped, with
the intention of spending a short time. On Saturday, in
company with a party from this city, they walked out,
and when on the bank just below the Falls, on the
Canada side, Miss Rugg suddenly left the arm of her
protector to gather some bushes growing on the very brink
of the precipice, and almost instantly lost her balance,
falling about 100 feet perpendicular. She was heard to
utter one fearful cry as she was falling, and all was still.
It was some 20 minutes before her companions could
reach her; when they did so, they found her still alive,
but she died in about three hours.—Buffalo Gazelle.

The Portland (U.S.) Argus states, that an Anti-
Swearing Association had been formed at Orono, and
about one hundred had signed the pledge.
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The expenses to France of the expedition against Mo-
rocco, ascertained at the Ministries of War and Marine,
amount already to upwards of 20,000,000 f.
MUTINY AT ICHABOE.—On the first week in July a
serious disturbance seems to have taken place at Ichaboe.
The number of vessels loading at the date of the letter
announcing the fact is represented to have been between
70 and SO, and the origin of the disturbance was from the
new corners attempting to take precedence of previous ar-
rivals in the loading of the vessels.
STRANGE CUSTOM.—By virtue of a very old cu,tms
in Belgium, particularly in Brussels, the reigning sove-
reign of this cout.try becomes godfather to the se% euth
consecutive son of any family, however humble their situ-
ation may be. The other night, the wife of an honest
mechanic, residing at No. 17, Rue de la Betterave, gave
birth to her seventh son, who will accordingly have the
honour of becoming the godson of his Majesty, the Kiag
of the Belgians.—Brussels Paper.
Two IRISH CLERGYMEN DROWNED AT ROME.—A
melancholy event occurred at Rome on the 28th ult. Two
ecclesiastics, students of the Irish Franciscan Collrge in
that city, were unhappily drowned whilst bathing in the
Tiber. One of the deceased, the Rev. E. F. Martin, was
in priest's orders, and had celebrated the holy sacrifice
the morning of his untimely death. His companion, the
Rev. R. A. Kavanagh, was ordained sub-deacon on the
previous Sunday. The former was an excellent swimmer,
but Mr. Kavanagh ould not swim, and it is conjectured
that one was drowned in the endeavour to save the other.
DANGERS OF THE AFRICAN GUANO TRADE.—A let-
ter, dated Sunday, received here on Tuesday, from Fal-
mouth contains a statement of a very extraordinary cha-
racter, the truth of which there seems no reason to doubt.
It is as follows;—" The Sam Slick, of London, arrived
off here (Falmouth) reports that Mr. W. Vaughan, roas-
ter of the merchant brig Courier, of London, having
touched at Bathurst (Gambia) on the 15th of June,
whence the Sam Slick sailed August 7th, made a declara-
tion to the authorities there that nearly the whole of that
vessel's crew, as well as the master and some of the sea-
men of the barque Margaret, of London, including the
Captains, had been captured by the Moors at Arguin,
upon the western coast of Africa, where they had gone
to procure guano. Seven men, including the chief mate
of the Courier, had been killed. The Africanus, of Lon-
' don, Captain Isemonger, lying off Portendic, having
heard of the tragedy, had ransomed a party of nine per-
sons,
including the captain of the Margaret, for £300;
and six of the party arrived at Bathurst on the 6th of
August, including the captain of the Margaret. Three
remained behind, unable to travel in consequence of their
wounds. The captain of the Margaret was three months
in captivity."
THE PIRATES OFF THE COAST OF BORNEO : ANOTHER
SLUE'S CREW MURDERED. By letters, whicla were
received at Lloyd's on Monday, from Singapore, we
learn of further horrible atrocities by the pirates off the
coast of Borneo. In addition to the capture of the
Belgian brig Charles, another unfortunate vessel, called
the Lucky Blass, a brig, 200 tons burthen, has been
taken by them, plundered, and afterwards set fire to, and
the whole of the crew and passengers, amounting, it is
currently reported, to eighteen persons, were massacred.
The wretches, there is no doubt, are the same who mur-
dered the Hon. Paul Erskine Murray and two seamen in
the month cf January last. A letter from a naval officer
on board the Harlequinus, dated Singapore, July the 3rd,
states, that her Majesty's surveying ship, Captain E. Bel-
cher, C. 8., hearing of the treachery perpetrated by the
natives, (the Sultan admiting the massacre of twenty-seven
Europeans and the capture of their vessels,) proceeded
along the coast. The Semarang returned to Singapore
two days since, with her commander, Captain Belcher,
severely wounded in both thighs, but doing exceedingly
well. The ship had been engaged in a fight with the
pirates, and they had burnt and destroyed no fewer than
eight piratical prows.
THE FRENCH AT TAHITI.—By a letter from Tahiti,
dated April 24, being later than our previous advicea, we
learn that events have occurred at that island, which, when
stated in detail, as they are sure to be in future accounts,
will place the character of French rule in the Southern
Pacific beyond all question. At the time werefer to " the
French have been cruelly murdering the natives by broad-
sides of canister and grape from their two heavy frigates!
The Queen had been upwards of twelve weeks living with
her family on board of our small ketch of war Basilisk,
and during that long period had not dared to put her foot
out of the vessel. The French had carried their unwar-
rantable measure of confiscation of the Queen's property
to so great an extremity that they had even seized upon
the little presents of poultry, and fish and fruit, which
her sincerely attached subjects had from time to time
provided for her. These trifles the French had appropri-
ated to their own personal uses ! " These proceedings
with relation to the Queen seem to savor a good deal of
persecution, and very little honesty. They are merely
unrelentingly severe and disreputable. 'Tis the tyranny
of the giant using his power like a giant, but in a little
way. Nevertheless, the great gun practice with grape and
canister, which is spoken of as a warlike service performed
by heavy frigates against an undefended people, is an af-
fair of too merciless a nature to be tolerated as the plan-
ned and deliberate exploit of the assumed to-be skilled
navy of a great and civilized nation.

LOSS OF THE BRITISH SCHOONER ORANGE.
The New York Tribune relates the following particu-
lars of the awful sufferings experienced at sea by the crew
of an English vessel :
"AWFUL SUFFERINGS AT SEA.—The ship Vicksburg,
Captain Berry, which arrived at New York from New
Orleans, fell in on the Gth August, in let. 26 27, long. 87
46, with an open boat containing seven persons, and took
them on board. They proved to be the captain and crew
of the British schooner Orange, which was lost on the
voyage from Jamaica to Matanzas. Their names were as
follow :—Alexander M`Donald, master ; William Young,
mate ; Edward Cook, Richard Evans, John Brown. Wm.
Roscoe, seamen; and Robert Wilkinson, cook. They
had been thirteen days in the boat, which was but 14 feet
long. When fallen in with they were in a very exhausted
state, and three of them bad to be lifted on board. The
youngest of them, Wm. Roscoe, was totally insensible ;
and although every exertion was made to restore him, he
survived but about three hours, and at sunset his body
was committed to the deep. During the first night the
mate was delirious, but has since, as well as the rest,
nearly regained his health. Their thirst was excessive,
and great care was taken in giving them water at first,
and it was not until the third day that it was satisfied, at
which time each persoa had taken about three gallons of
water.
" Capttin M`Donald stated that about the 24th of July,
at two a.m., when in lat. 22 45, long. 83 4, his schooner
was capsized in a sudden squall from the eastward. The
lanyards of the weather rigging were immediately cut
away, but the ballast having shifted, and the sails and
masts being in the water, it was impossible to right the
vessel. Fortunately, when she capsized, the jolly boat,
being in the bottom of the long boat, turned over, and
all hands succeeded in getting '
into it, and got clear of the
vessel, which almost at the same oment disappeared.
They were then left to the mercy of the waves, without
provisions or water, or even an oar. Part of one of the
masts was made use of to steer with, and the boat was
kept before the wind till driflight.
" During the day the linings and footboards' were taken
off and converted into a mast, on which was placed the
captain's shirt for a sail, and the boat wassteered
in a
southerly direction, in the hope of falling in with lend,
In the afternoon a barque was seen to the westward,
steering towards them, and, when about two miles off,
hove to for a sh,rt time, then hauled southerly for about