The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-12-05 00:00:00

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25 per cent. advance

A great theatre is about to be erected at Brussels, in
which the machinery of the scenes and decorations is to be
moved by steam, with little or no aid from manual labour.
The application of the Duke d'Aumaule, son to the
King of the French, for the hand of the Princess Marie
Therese, sister of the King of the Two Sicilies, had been
acceded to by his Neapolitan Majesty.
The appointment of the Chief Judgeship of Wellington,
New Zealand, has been conferred upon Mr. 11. S. Chap-
man, of the Inner Temple, who has sailed in company
with the new Gcrernor, Captain Fitzroy, late member for
Durham.—Slandard.
L THE

-,OSS o TRANSPORT PREMIER.—An express
arrived at Boston with letters to Mr. S. S. Lewis, agent
of the mail steamers, and to Captain Hewitt, of the Bri-
tannia, advising of the loss, in the river St. Lawrence, of
the transport Premier, off Cape Chat. She had on board
a regiment of British troops, numbering, with their wives
and children, 360, all of whom were saved.--. New York
paper.

THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT AND THE SABBATH.—
fThe Minister of Marine has addressed a circular to all
the maritime prefects, desiring that no workman may in
uture be employed oc Sundays in the government dock
yards, except in cases of absolute necessity. The motives
assigned by the minister are—first, that men who do not
repose on the Sunday do not work with energy on the
other days of Me week, and, consequently, that it is not
profitable to the state to have labour performed on the
Sabbath ; and, secondly, that it is necessary for the state
to promote the religious observance of Sunday among the
labouring classes.

GERMAN LEAGUE DUTY ON IRON.—Extract of a
letter from Germany, dated 21st November, 1843 :—"The
duty question on iron will not be regulated before Decem-
ber, as the meeting at Berlin has separated, and will not
meet again until the middle of December, when their de-
liberations will be finally closed. It appears that prior to
their separation they agreed►to place a duty on pig iron,
metal, &c„ of £1 sterling per ton, and upon bar iron an
increase of duty of 305., making £4 10s. per ton ; and
this will of a certainty come into effect, unless strong
representations are made by the English and Belgian
governments, and steps taken to prevent this imprudent
resolve. In no case will the duty be enforced as early as
the Ist of January, 1844, but it will be February or March,
or even April, as our people require time for settling
their affairs.

THE NESTORIAN MASSACRE.—In consequence of the
great anxiety felt by the friends of missions to learn more
definitely the state of things among the Nestorians, we
have made application to the Missionary Rooms at Bos-
ton for the very latest intelligence received from the east.
In answer to this inquiry, we learn that the facts already
published in our paper, so far as they describe the
slaughter and overthrow of the mountain Nestorians, are
substantially confirmed by the letters of Dr. Grant.
Under the date of July 28, he says that " a blow has
been struck, from which it is impossible that the Nes-
torians can recover ; and to all appearance this is but the
beginning of greater calamities." The work of destruc-
tion was going forward, and Dr. Grant had no hope of
its ceasing till this people are finally crushed, and their
independence is gone. Dr. Grant reached Mosul on the
1-Ith of July. He left Asheta (the mission station) just
in season to escape the storm which burst upon that part
of the Nestorian country. He had not even time to hid
the patriarch farewell. Some of the publications in this
country represent the patriarch as among the slain ; we
are happy to say that this is not true. At the latest dates
he was at Mosul under the protection of the British con-
sul. In the midst of perils by sword and perils from
false brethren, the Nestorian Christians and our mis-
sionaries should be made the subject of special prayer in
the churches. We trust that they will be thus remem-
bered.—New York Observer.
A STRANGE STORY.—The New York Courier and
Inquirer says, that from recent dates of the Royal Ga-
zette and Guiana Times we have obtained some informa-
tion beautifully illustrative of the boasted magnanimity
of British forces in protecting the poor African from his
oppressors. We give the statement of the facts from
English authority, and leave our readers to judge how
appropriate is the boast, that all men, once under the
shadow of the English flag, are free. With facts like
these staring them in the face, how England has the as-
surance to prate to us about our slaves, evinces a degree
terly beyond our powers to conceive. It
Dutch Government Schooner Henrietta
ed in the river Demerara, bring-
W. R. Inglis,

ppeers that t

Elizabeth, recent!

►h her, under the char
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a score or more of Africans f:orn Surinam
This strange arrival produced no little astonishment arnorn

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—, duo upon inquiry it turned
out that these poor wretches were the remnants ofa cargo
of slaves taken in 1823 from a slaver named the Las