The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-26 00:00:00

Private letters from Buenos Ayres, dated the 24th of
July, state that things at Montevideo remain just as they
were, with a slight improvement in business. Complaints
are made in London and Liverpool of the irregular trans-
mission of letters by the packets. Duplicates of letters
have already arrived in England, the originals of which,
sent by the packets of the 28th of June and 21st of July,
have not yet come to hand.
The Commerce states, that the death of Count Torreno
has caused profound dismay amongst the politicians who
surround Queen Christina, of whom he was the soul.
The day he fell ill he was to have left Paris for Madrid ;
the day previously he dined with the ex-Queen of Spain,
and the preceeding days he was occupied in conferences
with several of the French ministers The object of his
mission to Spain was to accomplish a solution of the
present crisis in favour of the moderate party.
A year and a half ago a young Armenian, named Arakin,
got into a drunken scrape at Constantinople, and to es-
cape punishment he became, while under the influence of
liquor, a Mahometan. When he became sober he re-
pented, made his escape in a ship, and returned to his
former creed. He went back to Constantinople a few
months ago, and being found, he was required on pain of
death to embrace Nlahumetanism. This he resolutely
refuse to do, and he was beheaded. The murder has
excited great indignation, even in the minds of Turks.

A DISCOVERY OF A LARGE RIVER IN AFRICA.—
Lieutenant Christopher, of the Indian navy, who was de-
spatched from Aden upon a survey of the coast of Africa,
by Captain Haines, has succeeded in discovering a splendid
river to the northward of the river Jub, which he entered
and traced for one hundred and thirty miles. As he ad-
vanced he found it increase in width and depth, and, ac-
cording to the report of the natives (a civil and obliging
race) it continued to do so for the next four hundred
miles. The river is described to be from two to three
hundred feet wide, and sixty feet deep ; a clear mean-
dering stream, with banks in a high state of cultivation,
yielding all kinds of grain, which are abundant and cheap.
Lieutenant Christopher has named his discovery the
" Haines River."
DECEASE OF GENERAL JACKSON.—This truly great
man is now numbered with the dead. He departed this
life about the 22d of August, of hemorrhage of the lungs.
Many were the friends and many the enemies that he had
made during a long life devoted to the service of his country.
Men will forget party, and unite in doing honour and
paying just tribute, and awarding fame and glory, to the
hero of New Orleans. Long he was opposed to " the
wild Indian ;" and many have been the dangers in which
he has been placed, both when in the tented field and
when he filled the executive chair of the United States.
His miraculous escape from assassination by a maniac
must be fresh in the memory of all. He was re-elected
to the presidency, and his name and his opinions are hailed
by the democratic party with veneration and respect.—
True American.

By letters received at Devonport, from China, we learn
that a trial of the rates of sailing between the Wolverine,
16, sloop, Commander W. S. Johnson, and the Wolf, 18,
Commander C. 0. Haves, had been ordered by the Com-
mander-in-Chief, which had resulted much in favour of
the Wolf. Some interest had been excited in consequence
of these vessels having been constructed on the plans of
the rival shipbuilders. The Wolf was built in 1826, by
the architect of the Inconstant, while the Wolverine is
considered the crack vessel of the present surveyor of the
navy, the builder of the Pique, and was built ten years
later (1836) than the Wolf. The Wolf is commanded by
the son of her constructor. She is fitted with Captain
Couch's patent solid safety channels, a report of the qua-
lities of which has been made to the Admiralty on their
request, and is said to be so decidedly favourable as to
establish their superiority over the old plan.