The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-09-19 00:00:00

MONTE VIDEO

The 2lionte Video Reporter of the 24th of June con-
tains intelligence of a victory obtained by General Rivera,
of which the following is the bulletin :

" Ensign Bustos, who has just arrived with the official
news of the glorious triumph of General Rivera, states
that at the moment of his departure the number of killed
was calculated at upwards of 400, and that parties of pri-
soners were arriving every moment. The enemy's army,
disorganized by this amazing defeat, will soon be buried
under the soil which it profanes with crimes.

" THE GENERAL IN CHIEF OF THE ARMIES OF THE

REPUBLIC

" Head-quarters, on the Heights of Solis Chico,
June 18, 1843.
. .. .. . _

" It is highly satisfactory to me to acquaint your Ex-
cellency, that you may be pleased to make known to the
Government and the public, that this morning the army
under my orders has obtained a complete victory over the
vanguard of the enemy, under the command, according
to the information given by the prisoners, of one Flores
(a Porteno), who dared to present himself before our brave
troops.

" The field is strewn with more than 300 slain, and up-
wards of 200 prisoners are taken.
" Ensign Bustos takes this first despatch, and a supe-
rior officer will follow with a detailed account of this im-
portant victory, which will probably (Heaven grant it !)
be the forerunner of greater triumphs.
" From this moment I recommend this army of brave
men to your Excellency, intending to do so with greater
earnestness in the next account, which will contain all the
details.

" God preserve your Excellency many years.
" FRUCTUOSO RIVERA.
"To his Excellency the Minister of War,
Colonel Don :Melchior Pacheo y Obes."

The report goes on to state, that no detailed account
bad yet been officially received, but that the rout of the
enemy was represented in private letters to have been
complete, and the loss greater than estimated in the de-
spatch, which was written on horseback, and sent while
the troops were still pursuing the enemy. The opposing
forces in this affair are calculated at 2,000 men, and the
object of their appearing in front of General Rivera's
corps, it is conjectured, was to draw his attention from
foraging parties in other directions. The concentration
of the whole of the cavalry and infantry upon the city is
cited in support of this conjecture.

SPAIN.

The Monifeur publishes the following telegraphic de-
spatches : _

" PERPIGNAN, Sept. B.—On the 7tb, at five o'clock
p.m., Fort Montjuich opened its fire against the Atara-

" A brigade of artillery, coming from Molins del Rey,
and 400 military from Igualada, have arrived at Gracia:
The auxiliaries of Vich, Villafranca, Manresa, and Berga,
are marching to co-operate with the Captain-General
against the insurgents. Colonel Zayas has assumed the
command of Nlontjuich."
" September 10.—On the Bth the position of Barcelona
was nearly the same. In the evening Fort Montjuich was
to commence the firing on the Atarazanas. It has dis-
mounted the batteries directed upon Barcelonetta and
upon the citadel. The Captain-General has caused the
canals to be cut which supplied the fountains, but there
are a number of springs in Barcelona."
Private accounts from Barcelona of the sth instant state
that Prim and his force withdrew on the 4th to some dis-
tance from the city, which enabled the Nationals of Sabadal
to enter the place. Echalecu, summoned by Prim to fire
upon the positions occupied by the insurgents, had refused
obedience to his orders. Mataro, Vinaroz, and other dis-
tricts had declared for the Junta. That
.assembly had
decreed the penalty f death against all individuals guilty
'uots against the personal security of the
of robber— -

Madrid of the 4th instant describe Sevill

Letters

1 a star

bad hoisted the banner of the Leniral duma.
kept constantly under arms. Madrid was tranquil.
PAR-is, Sept. 12.—0 n the Bth there was still fightir.

Accounts from Barcelona of the Bth mention that
several mansions were damaged. Three cannon shots
had traversed the apartments of the British Consul.
Prim's own Volunteers of Reus had taken part against
him, and many of the towns had declared for the Central
Junta, A rural Junta of Prim's had been surprised at
Sarria, and several of its members slain.
" A Central Junta had boera formed at Girona,

" Madri:l letters of the sth state, that government were
about to dismiss a great many superior officers and func-
tionaries oppoed to them. The partisans of Don Fran-
cisco have decidedly joined the Esparterists."

JERUSALEM

FROM DR. MACGOWAN'S LETTER-FILTHY STATE OF

PART OF THE CITY. &C

I was called on by a Jew about _
wcvne ado to
visit wno was dangerously ill. • As I approached
the house, which was situated in the Jewish quarter. I
was assailed by an insufferable stench, which I soon dis-
covered proceeded from the slaughtering place for the
city, and which is the most disgusting of all the many
nuisances it contains. It is a large square piece of ground
covered with fragments of carcasses in a state of putrefac-
tion, drenched with the gore of slaughtered animals, which
is constantly renewed. All these debris are allowed to
accumulate and lie exposed to the burning sun. The only
scavengers are the gaunt famished dogs of the city. num-
bers of which I saw scattered up and down the fields, de-
vouring the offal and fragments. Some of them who had
gorged themselves to the full, were stalking slowly away
from their horrid feast licking their gory jaws. The stench
arising from this Alcedama, or field of blood, is perfectly
pestilential. I have no doubt that it is the fruitful source
of fever and ague of the worst description.
The house of the patient was situated in one of the sides
of this same square, and surrounded by its tainted atmos-
phere. The poor Jew who was my guide led me into an
open court, wherein were two small low tenements, in one
of which was the patient, laid upon a mattrass on the floor.
The room was small, wretched, and dirty, and swarming
with vermin. I walked to the bed-side and spoke to the
poor sick woman, but she was unable to answer me. She
was lying on her back in utter helplessness, and her tongue
was brown and parched, as in the advanced stage of typhus
fever. She motioned with her hand to her right side, as
the seat of pain, and on examination I ascertained that
she was labouring under inflammation of the lungs, which
hail assumed a typhrid character. A female was seated
on the ground beside the patient, affected with leprosy,
who addressed me in Spanish, and to whom I delivered
my directions respecting the medicines and diet of the
patient, in the same language. As I ordered fowl-broth,
she gave me to understand that they had no means of
procuring it, which difficulty was soon removed. In the
adjoining tenement I found a young woman suffering from
ague, and a sickly child.
As I was leaving the lazar-house of sickness and misery,
I could not help alluding to the danger of their living in
such an infected locality. The poor Jew seemed almost
unconscious, and even indifferent to the evil. " What
can poor folks do ? " was his only answer to my remark.
I had small hopes of saving my patient under such unfa-
vourable circumstances. For ten days successively I
went to see her, at the end of which it pleased God to bless
the means employed for her relief, and raise her from her
sick bed. There are few cases which have given me more
hearty satisfaction than the recovery of this poor woman.
LETTER FROM THE REV J. NICOLAYSON.

Mr. Nicolayson gives in his letter, dated Jerusalem,
June 28, the following account of the establishment of the
mission at Safet ; to which station Mr. P. H. Sternschuss
and Mr. A. J. Behrens had been appointed :
It was thought advisable that I should accompany the
brethren Sternschnss and Behrens to Safet, to see them
settled there, on account of the peculiar state of things at
this new station. Tanoos Kerm, a native Christian, hav-
ing succeeded in purchasing a house there, we did not in-
deed anticipate any serious difficulty ; but still there was
reason to expect such occurrences, as might prove per-
plexing and discouraging to new corners, and also lead to
more serious consequences if not rightly met. Accord-
ingly, I left this with them and Tanoos Kerm and his fa-
mily on Monday, the 29th of May, and by God's good
hand upon us we have succeeded in establishing that sta-
tion permanently, I trust. Of this I have now to report
to you the particulars. Early on the day after our de-
parture from this we reached Jaffa, and had time and op-
portunity to engage a boat for Acre, and to start the same
afternoon with a promising wind. We landed at Acre in
the afternoon, and started next morning (the Ist of June)
for Safet. Having much baggage with us, we did not ex-
pect to make more than about half the distance that day,
and slept near the village of Rameh, at a copious spring
in the fertile mountains of Naphtali (Upper Galilee).
Thence we started very early next morning, and rode for
many miles through the finest natural scenery I have ever
seen in this country : whole forests, in fact, of the richest
olive-trees, afterwards succeeded by evergreen oaks, and
other forest-trees, in a very elevated but most abundantly
watered region ; little brooks and rapid rills rushing down
the hills in all directions, enough to enchant by the con-
trast to the parched dryness of the south. The depth and
ruggedness of the ravine that separates the last of these
delightful mountains from the dry chalky ridge of Safet,
makes a turn in the road necessary, which adds a tedious
couple of hours to the journey ; while Safet, " set on a
hill," is constantly clear in sight, but, near as it is, seems
to mock the a ttempt.of reaching it. Still we arrived early
in the day, June 2.

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIANITY AMONG

THE JEWS

JERUSALEM, MAY 4TH.—A sermon was preached by
the Bishop in St. James's, in behalf of the above society.
Prince Albert of Prussia was present. After the sermon,
a collection was made, which amounted to 7634—about 71.
MAY THE sTH.—This being the day of the annual meet-
;log of the society in London, a meeting was held in the
room adjoining the chapel, which was addressed by the
Bishop, Dr. Macgowan, Mr. Nicolayson, Dr. Kerns, and
Mr. Ewald. Collection 394 piastres, or £3 63.
MAY 21.—This morning, at a special Hebrew service,
at seven o'clock, Rabbi Eleazer, Rabbi Benjamin, Isaac
H irseh , and Simon Fraiinket, were baptised by the bishop
in the holy tongue.

Louis: Philippe has given the Cross of the Legion of
Honour, and a handsome present, to the postilion to whose
great strength, courage, and presence of mind, the royal
family owed their late narrow escape from destruction.
The National German Gazette of the 9th instant an-
nounces that a new conspiracy had been discovered at
Warsaw, and that more than 100 persons had been ar-
rested.

A letter from Guadaloupe announces the destruction.
by fire, of the Amedee-Constance, from Havre to Vera
Cruz. with a cargo valued at 500,000 francs. She had
nearly arrived at her destination when the fire, which is
supposed to have proceeded from the spontaneous com-
bustion of part of the cargo, made its appearance. The
crew were saved.

A NEW CRIME.—NAPLES, Aug. 2G.—The police are
extremely active in arresting persons charged with setting
fire to the clothes of women and children. It does not
appear, however, that the practice is put an end to ; for a
case has just occurred in which a lady was much in-
jured. It appears that the barbarity is accomplished by
throwing on the dress a fluid which takes fire of itself.
Great alarm prevails amongst the inhabitants, and a lady
now is seldom to be seen in Toledo-street. Very few
ladies, also, are to be seen in the church. Further politi-
cal arrests are spoken of, and it is said that considerable
reinforcements of troops are to be sent to Sicily.

THREATENED DESTRUCTION OF BAlllA.—Thefollow-
ing is a transcript from the Diario Novo, Pernambuco
paper, of the 31st of July last. It is given under the head
" Bahia, July 10 : "—The lower town of Bahia is
threatened with total destruction, owing to the heavy
rains having undermined the mountain which overhangs
the town ; already part of it has fallen, and buried the
Church of Pillar, the wharfs and houses in the neighbour-
hood, together with the vicar of that church and many
other persons. The mountain has also fallen in other
places, and it is expected that the lower town will be
abandoned altogether. Great consternation and distress
prevailed, and the heavy rains continued.

INSURRECTION AT ST. DOMINGO.—By the arrival at
Falmouth of the schooner Elizabeth, Captain King, from
Aux Cayes, St. Domingo, we have advices of the Ist of
August, and learn that the coloured population had risen
in that town, and proceeded to the plains adjacent, in
numbers about six hundred strong. The most extreme
threats of extermination had been used by them towards
the white inhabitants; the British merchants had, there-
fore, been preparing to embark on board the shipping in
the harbour with their effects. The commandant of the
port had sent despatches for reinforcements to the nearest
head-quarters, and also to the general in chief, who was
at the east of the island. The Waterville was to sail on
the 3rd of August, for Falmouth, for orders, and she may
bring more detailed accounts.

--T_

LOSS OF THE REGULAR EAST INDIAMAN,

Numerous errors having appeared in the published ac-
counts of the loss of the above vessel, Captain Carter, her
commander, has forwarded the following correct narra-
tive to The Times :

" The ship Regular, W. R. Carter, commander, 500
tons, left London, on the 22d February last, bound to
Bombay and China, with a valuable cargo of specie, iron,
steel, copper, &c. The passage was an ordinary one until
the Sth of May, when, scudding in a heavy gale from the
N.W., off the Cape of Good Hope, she suddenly sprung
a leak, which, in spite of the continued exertions of the
crew for four subsequent days and nights, gained con-
siderably upon them. On the: second day the water
gained upon both pumps three inches. The gale con-
tinuing with unabated fury and a tremendous sea running,
it was deemed expedient to lighten her, and about 80 tons
of copper, &c. were thrown overboard without any good
resulting. The crew were then divided into parties, and
the pumps assisted by baling at the fore hatchway. For
the two subsequent days the weather continued nearly the
same, blowing furiously with a mountainous sea. There
was no alternative but to scud before the blast, which was
done under a reefed foresail and close-reefed maintopsail.
On the 13th all hands became completely exhausted, the
pumps never having been left for four days and nights.
The ship, at noon, on this day, was in lat. 37 deg. 30 min.
S., and in Inn. 35 deg. 30 min. E., when the immense
quantity of water in the hold affected her steerage, and it
was evident to all she was nearly waterlogged. At three,
p.m., the water in the hold being nearly up to the beams,
and the crew, despairing .of keeping her afloat by their
exertions much longer, they were compelled to take to
their boats. At eight, p.m., they left her to her sad fate.
In the launch were placed eighteen persons, including the
chief and second officers and two female passengers ; in

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rY Captain Carter and four persons. Several
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VISIOII9 and water were placed in each boat.
now KO miles from the nearest land, scudding,

ic!i was only 23

mall l

and 6 feet 6 inches broad,) before a
furious Cape gale, direct from the land. About ten, in a
heavy squall of wind, each boat shipped a tremendous
sea. From the larger one every thing was obliged to be
thrown overboard to lighten her, water, food, compass,
charts, &c. The gig cleared herself as she filled over the
stern. So, on the top of a mountainous sea, the whole