The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-07-30 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD

church. The demand being still resisted, the pieces were
drawn up in the re•ir of the church in an alley running
from Christian-street, and an attempt was made to dis-
charge them, but it seemed that, owing to some water
having been poured into the touch-holes, they were fired
with difficulty. The infuriated mob then got a large log,
which they used as a battering ram, and with it they
broke in a part of one of the doors in Queen-street. A
parley then took place between the crowd and the mili-
tary within the building, the former demanding that the
Hibernia Greens should be dismissed. At length the
request was complied with, it being that they should
leave the church with their pieces unprimed and the pan
open. _

From this time the vicinity of the church was a scene
of wild uproar. Several attempts were made to break
open the church doors, and they at last succeeded. The
windows were smash-d, and the crowd immediately filled
the church ; but it does not appear that they did much
mischief to the interior of the building. On the church
being thus taken possession of, an alarm was given by the
tolling of bells, and a large body of military was marched
to the spot, when, some formidable demonstrations having
been made by planting pieces of artillery against the doors,
&c., the mob were induced to evacuate the building. The
military were shortly afterwards assailed by a body of men,
upon whom they fired, when several persons were killed
and wounded. There were now numerous threats of ven-
geance against the military.
The mob soon rallied in various places in the vicinity,
and the news of the collision soon spread in all direc-
tions. The mob soon obtained possession of three can-
nons, taken from on board two vessels lying in the river.
They also had procured a considerable number of muskets
and other fire arms. The cannon were loaded with vari-
ous substances, one of them with a thirty feet chain,
which killed or wounded a number of the military, parti-
cular the National Artillery, a company of Native Ameri-
cans. The firing with musketry was kept up briskly, and
the mob took shelter in and fired from the houses and
alleys in the vicinity upon the military, who changed their
position, and were drawn up in front of St. Philip's
Church, which recedes a short distance from the street.
The squadron of cavalry arrived on the ground about
half-past ten, and succeeded in capturing one of the guns
in possession of the mob at the corner of Second and
Queen and one at the corner of Third and Catharine,
which was taken to head quarters. They were fired upon
by a number of the mob, and some of them wounded.
As soon as the cavalry made their appearance the rioters
generally dispersed before they were charged on. By one
o'clock the military had entire possession of the ground.
The city was placed under militpry rule, the soldiers
daily and nightly parading the streets. By dint of the
most vigorous measures tranquility was restored. Several
of the rioters had been arrested.

The Mormons have lost their leader and prophet, Joe
Smith, who was murdered in cold blood by a gang of
ruffians, who attacked the gaol in which the prophet and
his brother had been placed for security. It appears that
great feuds have existed for some time between two rival
sects of Mormonites, and also between the Mormons and
the people of Warsaw, who have, it is said, determined to
drive the Mormons out of the state.

The Providence Journal, in noticing the general pros-
perity of business throughout the country, takes occasion
to remark on the rapid extension of the cotton manufac-
ture. One individual, near Providence, had received an
order for no less than 100,000 new spindles for a factory
in Rhode Island. Preparations were making for the erec-
tion of a new mill on Fall River, and in New Hampshire
a similar spirit of enterprise has been manifested in favour
of this branch of industry.
The latest intelligence as to the state of the Cotton
Market will be found in our last page.
No improvement had occurred in freights. The
amount offering for Europe was unusually small. Cotton
was taken for Liverpool at 3-16 to id. ; Flour, Is. 6d. ;
Provisions in barrels, 3s. 6d., in tierces 4s. to 4s. 6d. ;
Naval Stores, Is. 6d. to 25.; Tobacco, 255. ; Heavy
Goods, 225. 6d. per ton.
Exchange on England was quoted at 1051 to 1091, and
on Paris sf. 27k.
The latest advices from Hayti represented that all was
quiet in the island.
The Boston Atlas says that a letter, dated Lima, May
11th, states that a report was current there that the
French and English were in difficulties at the Society
Island, and that, when the vessel that brought the report
left, they were about to commence hostilities. The
French had imprisoned the English Consul.
Late ad vices from Cuba state, that the utmost tranquility
prevailed throughout the island. It appears that the re-
cent plot of the negroes bad been much more extensive
than was at first conceived. A vast number of negroes
had been arrested, many had been shot, and above one
thousand were confined in the different prisons awaiting
their doom. One of the plans which the revolutionists
intended to adopt was to put poison in the bread, whereby
they expected to destroy the entire garrison, consisting of
25,000 men. The poison was placed in the bakehouse
where bread is daily prepared for the soldiers. It was be-
lieved that several white men were implicated, amongst
whom were two Americans. General O'Donnell had
positively refused to liberate, at the instance of the British
Commissioners, any of the " Emancipados" or negroes
captured long ago by the British cruisers. There are up-
wards of 5000 of these unfortunate people, who, having
served their probationary term, are entitled to their free
papers upon the faith of the British Government. The
pretence is, that the moral and religious instruction of
these blacks having been neglected, they are unfit for the
enjoyment of freedom until they have been educated.
Their whole sum of knowledge, nowever, it appears, must
be obtained under the hard taskmasters to whom they are
re-assigned ; for, as their terms of service expire, they are
given up for a further term of seven years, on payment of
about 150 dollars per man, and about 85 dollars per woman.
The crops of coffee and tobacco have been greatly injured
by the drought, and every orange and lemon tree in the
island has been destroyed.
An official notification from the !Department of State
has bee❑ published, of the adoption by the authorities of
Cuba, of the following rules to be observed in all the
custom-houses of the island :

1. Every box of sugar, exported under the national
flag, shall pay a duty of five reals, and those under a
foreign flag, six reals.
2. Every quintal of coffee shall pay, in all cases, three
reals under the national flag, for a port of the nation ; four
reals under the Spanish flag, for a foreign port, and four
reals and a half under a foreign flag for a foreign port.
3. Molasses and rum are declared free from all duty.
4. Vessels going out, laden completely with molasses,
shall moreover enjoy freedom from tonnage duty.
5. Vesselswhich takeonboard more than athousand cases
of sugar shall pay, as tonnage duty, at the rate of six cents
per ton of measurement of foreign, and two and a half
reals of Spanish.
6. Vessels which take on board more than two thousand
bags of coffee, and more than three hundred pipes of rum,
shall enjoy the same advantages.