The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-02 00:00:00

id Canada; also, that the rive

tali() to the ocean. m ,y be op,

ct to no greater restrictions tha❑ now exist in passing
(rough the well and canal round the falls of Niagara, in

order that a revenue from tolls may be ensured to repay
the cost of the constructions of the canals connecting those

waters

Mr. Williams has given noiice of another series of re-

course, hostile to the free-trade policy of the home govern-
ment, but it is believed that Mr. Merritt will prevail.

of the po

tato-eropin Belgium are generally good

are large districts in which not the slightest symptoms of
disease have been discovered.
The following dreadful accident took place at the coal
mine of Ougr6e, near Liege, on Thursday. Four miners
were being let down into the mine, to resume their work,
when the rope broke, and they were all dashed to pieces.
The Prussian Universal Gazette, of the 23d ultimo,
announces officially the approval, by the King of Prussia,
of the nomination by the English government of Air.
Geobat, as Bishop of Jerusalem.
On the 20th ultimo, two young girls, embroiderers at
Berlin, committed suicide by lying down on the rails of
the Berlin and Potsdam ra!way, late in the evening. A
train passed over them and killed them on the spot.
The Anti de la Religion contradicts an unfavourable
report, which has been in circulation for some days past,
respecting the Pope's health. It states that it has re-
ceived letters of a late date which speak in most satisfac-
tory terms of the health of his holiness.
STRANGE SUICIDE.—A singular suicide took place a
few days ago at Ligueil (ludre et Lore). A man named
Mathurier, overcome by some domestic troubles, went
into a vine ground. and, having made a pile of fagots, set
it on fire, and, laying himself upon it, was consumed.
His body, which was not discovered till morning, had be-
come a calcined mass.—Galignani.
THE BOLDEST YCT.—A lady went into a store in New
York a few days since to purchase a shawl; just as she
was handing the clerk two fifty dollar bills, she received a
blow in the face from a well-dressed person, who ex-
claimed, " I forbade you buying a shawl," and snatching
the money from her hand evaporated. The lady fainted,
and on recovering the merchant expressed surprise that
her husband should have acted so ungentlemanly, but his
surprise was greatly incre,sed when the lady informed him
that it was not her husband, and that she had never seen
him before ! The hold thief however had made good his
escape.—American paper.

ANTI-MACHINE RIOTS IN FRANCE.—Alarming riots
took place on Saturday last at Elbeuf, a town situated on
the Seine, a few miles from Rouen. A new machine to
facilitate the picking of wool had been introduced into the
factory of Mr. Droux ; and some old women and children
having been, in consequence, thrown out of work, a feel-
ing of dissatisfaction arose among the whole of the work-
ing population ; and the exr irement at length arrived at
such a pitch that an attack was made upon the establish-
ment of M. Droux, for the purpose of destroying the ob-
noxious machine. The efforts of the national guard
against the rioters were be no means efficacious, and bad
not a detachment of troops of the line arrived timely from
Rouen, the consequences might have been very serious.
The mob was put to flight without loss of life, and seven-
teen of the ringleaders were arrested.
ESCAPE OF PRINCE LOUIS BUO'NAPARTE. —On Mon-
day, the prince succeeded io effecting his escape from the
fortress of Ham, after close imprisonment of some years.
Having assumed the disguise of a workman, he contrived
to elude the vigilance of the sentries ; to regain his free-
dom without any molestation from the battalion of in-
fantry that formed the garrison of the castle ; and to
arrive safely in London, where, we believe, he is at pre-
sent. It is well known that for some time past Prince
Louis has earnestly desired once more to see his aged
father, whose precarious state of health leaves little hope
that his life will be much further prolonged. His object,
as we hear, is to obtain passports without delay, in order
that he may at once hasten to share the retreat of his
father at Florence. The Morning Herald says—As the
prince escaped at seven o'clock of the morning of the 25th,
and as the event was not discovered for ten hours after-
wards, he could easily have reached the Belgian frontiers,
only 20 leagues distant, long before the telegraph itself
could have been set to work. The papers say be em-
barked at St. Valery.