The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-09-08 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL NEWS

THE FRENCH IN TAHITI.
The Boston Advertiser publishes the followin
portant intelligence from Tahiti. The latest accou
have previously _ seen reported the fact of a cc

curred between the natives and the Fr

t will be obse

toe statement now given adds, -
the town had been evacuated alike by E
French :

"FROM THE SOCIEr

by a recent arrival at
:n received from Tahiti to

New Bedford, advices
"-TA 15th. The n

flood made a vigorous assault upon the French garri
and had driven them from the land. The European
dents hid been compelled to flee with their effect
board the French vessels of war. After the evacuz
of the town the French vessels opened a fire upon it

THE CAFFRE WAR.--The South African COMMeI
Advertiser of the 20th of June, received by the Gu
Captain Paine, arrived at Liverpool, which on her NO
from Zanzibar called at the Cape, contains the &Jim
official despatches relative to the late engagements •
the Caffres on the frontier. This paper, which is five(
later than previous advices, gives no other intelligenc
consequence than special reports from the chief distri

CANADIAN TRADE.—Considerable anxiet
I by some of the Canadian papers as to the
growing disproportion between the exports and
imports of the province. The Toronto Globe of a rt
date has an article upon the subject, from which it
pears that in 1841 the aggregate imports of Canada

evince

not far short of £5,000,0'60, as folloics

At Montreal..
At Quebec....
At other ports

£4,015,(

In 1845 they were still gmter, amounting to ai
£5,300,000. This does not include the freights, char
interest, &c., a small portion only of which remain
the country, and it is stated that at least £7,000,000 e
be annually paid to the foreign creditor. But on
other hand the exports of the province by which this I
sum should be paid, have not, in either of the two y
mentioned, reached £2,000,000. The value of proi

exported from Canada in those two years is set dowr
1844, at £850,000; in 1845, at £550,000. In this su
large 'deficit has annually accrued against Canada—a
Um; of which, the Globe says, has not been paid, but
.still standing o❑ the account current between the Em
merchant and the colonial trader. The business of
country is mainly done upon credit, and the settleme
the account, which must come ere lung, is looked fon
to. with no little apprehension. This is certainly a r
unpromising presentation of commercial affairs in Can
but the best authorities agree in deeming it accur
The next ten years will offer many problems, political
commercial, for the Canadian authorities and peopl
solve.—American Paper.

A SECOND BERNARD CAVANAGH.—Lord
ners visited at the workhouse John Harden' a pa
diseacpd mind, who is now for thirty-three days
tasting a particle of solid food. The unfortunat,
little altered in person, except about the region
stomach, which is sunk in, and quite reduced.
compelled, with great difficulty, to take a noggin or
of broth in the twenty-four hours.—Limerick Chroia.
.flow TO MAKE GuANo.—A gentleman walking on
beach in the vicinity of Harwich observed a man by
engaged with a pickaxe, raising a material from the lc
pait of the cliff, and on asking the man his employm
was told "he was raising stones for manure." This ra
red our friend, who became more minute in his
The man observed, " These, which look
stones, are crystallized fish, and, although very hard r
will, when put through a mill, crumble to powder.
master ships a treat quantity of it to London, there t
ground, and then mixed with guano to give it weight,
Bury Post.

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