The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-11 00:00:00

HOUSE OF COMMONS-FRIDAY.

In answer to Mr. HUAIE Sir G. GREY further stated
that if desired he would at once lay on the table the state.
'Went of the commissioners as to the great addition to the
labours of the police. He might mention that between
1830 and the present time no fewer than 200 miles of new
streets had been added to the duties of the metropolitan
force ; and, in reply to Sir R. 11. INGLIS, that instead of
the increase being 4000, it was only 500 .then ; and that
the report respecting a greater proportion of resignations
than usual in the force was wholly unfounded.
A discussion on the subject of fees in county courts
ensued at the instance of Sir J. DUCKWORTH.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in reply to Mr.
Bouverie, said he was not prepared to allow foreign sugars
in transitu to ye admitted at a lower rate of duty, if the
resolutions were not reported before they arrived.
Mr. S. WORTLEY intimated that on an early day he
should move that the law forbidding marriages within cer-
tain degrees of connexion should be repealed.
Mr. A. STAFFORD moved a new writ for Derby ; but
on a notice from Lord JOHN RUSSELL that he would on
Monday move that the writ do not issue until the 15th of
August, in order that the question might be fully and
fairly discussed the motion was withdrawn.
After some observations as to the memorial from
the Manchester Chamber of Commerce, at the instance
of Mr. BRIGHT, and to a despatch from Lord Harris at
that of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, the house went into com-
mittee on the sugar duties, Mr. BARKLY moving as an
amendment on the government resolutions the following
scale of duties : British plantation, from and after July
sth, 1848, to July sth 1854, inclusive—double refined,
&c., £1 ls. ; single refined, 18s. Bd. ; muscovado, 14s. ;
and molasses. ss. 3d. Foreign for same period : double
refined, &c., LI 7s. 9d. ; single refined, LI 4s*. Bd. ;
brown clayed, or equal thereto, £1 Is. 7d.; muscovado,
18s. 6d. ; molasses. 6s. lid. ; and after the sth July, 1854,
same rates as British plantation. lie did not make this
proposition in any hope that it would meet the views of
the colonists, but because he thought it a better plan than
that of the government, giving the British producer
an average protection of 6s. per cwt. for six years. The
amendment was supported by Mr. W. GLADSTONE, in a
financial and want of confidence speech, Mr. CAYLEY,
Mr. CARDWRLL, Sir GEORGE CLERK, Mr. C. BRUCE,
and Mr. H. BAILLIE, though not in preference to the
scale which he himself intended to propose. The speak-
ers in opposition to the amendment were, the CHANCEL-
LOR of the EXCHEQUER, Mr. LABOUCHERE, Mr. Wm-
sorr, and Mr. GODSON.

Mr. AfewArr expressed his intention of not voting
either way, after which Lord GEORGE BE'NTINCK moved
the adjournment of the debate, which was negatived by a
majority of 131 ; the numbers, 82 to 211.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, however, on condition that the
house would go into committee of supply, consented to
be adjournment of the debate until Monday.

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

FRANCE.

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The bureaux of the chamber continued on Monday the
discussion •of the project of the constitution, and more
especially of its preamble containing the declaration of
the rights of man. In three of the bureaux this declara-
tion was altogether rejected, in some others, it was post-
poned until after the discussion of the articles. The
declaration of the right of every citizen to employment
excited the strongest objections in all the bureaux,
grounded chefly upon the manifest impossibility of the
state answering such a claim. The right to relief, how-
ever, in the cases cf inability to labour, was generally
admitted. The committee on labour has resolved to pro-
pose the revocation of the decree of the Provisional
Government which limited the hours of work.
General Lebreton has been elected Questeur of the
National Assembly. The Reforme shows some pique at
this nomination, as affording an additional proof of the
military mania. " Nothing shines now (says this jour-
nal) but the epaulette,—there is no sound but that of the
sabre. It is a Pleiad of generals; the-soldier is Minister
—the soldier is Representive—he is the leader of party,
the Chairman of Committees, he is diplomatist, he is ques-
teur. One would say we had the Empire over again, with
the exception of its c_popees."
The Minister of War brought in a Bill for the formation
of a battalion of gendarmerie, which excited some emo-
tion, from the belief that this corps is destined to act in
La Vendee. The reporter of the Committee on the Bill
said so without hesitation ; but the Minister of War eva-
ded the explanations he was called on to make by stating
that this corps was destined to act against all the enemies
of the Republic.
The Gazette de France appeared On Thursday in mourn-
ing for the death of the celebrated M. de Chateaubriand.
The following letter has been addressed by the well-
known Abbe Beguerry to the Journal des Detects :
" Paris, July 4.

" Monsicur,—France has lost one of her noblest'sons.
M. de Chateaubriand died this morning, at a quarter-past
eight' o'clock. We received his last sigh. He died in
full possession of his faculties. So fine an intelligence did
of right conquer death and preserve in his grasp a visible
liberty. - The death of Madame. de Chateaubriand last
year, affected him so much, that laying his hand on his
breast he said,—` I feel my life attacked and dried up in
its source; it is now only a question of some months.'
The death of M. Ballauche, which followed immediately
after, was the last blow for his illustrious old friend.
Sinca that time M. de Chateaubriand seemed rather to
rush than to descend to the grave. A few minutes be-
fore his death M. de Chateaubriand, who had received
the sacrament on Sunday, embraced once more the cross
with the emotion of a lively faith and firm confidence.
One of the expressions which he repeated most frequently
of late years was, that the social questions which agitated
nations at present could not be solved without the Bible,
without the soul of Christ, whose doctrines and example
have denounced selfishness, this gnawing worm of all con-
cord.' Thus M. de Chateaubriand hailed Christ as the
Saviour of the world, even in a social point of view, and
be loved to call him his king as well as his God. A priest
and a sister of charity knelt at the feet of M. de Chateau-
briand at the moment he expired. It was amidst prayers
and tears that the author of the Genius of Christianity
rendered his soul to God.
" I have the honour, &c.,
" DEGUERRY, Curate of St. Eustache."

M. de Chateaubriand was born on the 4th of Septem-
ber, 17(S. He has left ten volumes of Memoirs, which
he could not be induced to publish during his lifetime.
M. Emile de Girardin was liberated on Wednesday after
an imprisonment of twelve days, eight of them an secret,
and two-and-a-half hours of the time in a cell under
ground.

The journals ofThursday arc still occupied with the late
insurrection, notwithstanding the continued existence of
the state of siege. _

The prevailing impression is that the late revolt
has inflicted a death-blow on communism, socialism, and
ultra-republicanism. All who in Paris were not in the
ranks of the National Guards are disarmed. Those who
fled into suburbs or departments are tracked, hunted
down, and captured. 100,000 soldiers are in the capital,
as well as 160,000 volunteers from the provinces. These
give a sense of security to the most timid, but the epoch
of the trial of the prisoners, and of the punishment (trans-
portation for those that may be convicted), is looked to
with anxiety and misgiving. " Their friends and asso-
ciates may, not be able to effect their release by force,"
say the alarmists, " but they are capable of feat ful acts of
revenge!"
The Reform 6 states that nothing has yet been decided
with respect to the place to which the insurgents are to
be transported. The Marquesas have been rejected on
account of their sterility. It is asserted that a number
of unemployed operatives, who did not take any part in
the insurrection, have united in a petition to be permitted
to form part of the new colony. They only require that
the Republic shall provide them with the instruments ne-
cessary for agriculture.
It is said that, according as the judicial authorities who
are investigating the causes which led to the late insur-
rection proceed with their labours, the facts developed
become more serious. Thirty-four additional warrants
were issued on Wednesday last, not against obscure
insurgents, but against persons who appear to have per-
formed an important part in the revolt, and who exer-
cised a decisive influence on the facts which preceded it.
The Paris papers of Thursday announce that the fune-
ral procession of the victims of the late insurrection,
which it was intended should proceed from the Place de
la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille, would stop at the
Madeleine, and that the bodies of the deceased would be
placed in the vaults of that church provisionally. The
reason given was that the vaults under the Column of
July were not yet ready for their reception. It was re-
ported, however, that this alteration of the programme
had been occasioned by information that the partisans of
the late insurgents intended firing upon Gen. Cavaignac
arid other distinguished persons in the cortege.
M. Carnot, an ultra-Republican, has been replaced, as
Minister of Public Instruction, by M. Banlabelle.
General Bedeau has declined the Ministry for Foreign
Affairs.

Of the insurgents who escaped being shoLor taken,
many are reported to be scouring the counW, hunted
like wolves by dragoons through the woods and fields.
Others lurk in Paris, in numbers which it is impossible
to ascertain. Nightly assassinations and crimes of a still
darker dye (even poisoned lint has been sent to the hos-
pitals) prove that the deadly spirit of mischief is even now
alive in the city.
A ruffian named Manchon, who turns out to be a
grocer's shopman, has been seized by the police ig.eonse-
quence of his having boasted that he is the one NWo fired
the bullet at Dennis, the sainted Archbishop of Paris,
displaying, in proof of his share in the assassination, a
portion of the pontifical belt, known to have been worn
by the Archbishop on the day when he was murdered at
the foot of the barricade. _

There is no political news in the journals of Friday of
any interest, which had not been anticipated in the de-
spatches the day before.
M. Lamartine has addressed a letter to the editors of
the Conslitutionnel and the Journal des Debats, in con-
sequence of a paragraph which appeared in the latter jour-
nal, accusing the late government of conniving at the late
insurrection. M. Lamartine replies by a general dis-
avowal, expressed in indignant terms.
M. de Girardin has addressed the following protestation
to all the Paris journals :—"Arrested without motive, and
imprisoned au secret' for eleven days on the most vague
grounds, and released in fine after a merely formal ex.
amination, and without any document produced against
me by which I could know why I was deprived of my
liberty on the 25th June, and why I was enlarged on the
sth July, my first act is to protest solemnly against this
sequestration of my person, and against the suppression of
the journal La Presse,—a double attack on my liberty and
property, which I reserve to myself the right of discussing
when La Presse shall re-appear, the bureaux and print-
ing-offices of that journal being now under the seals of the
government."
Contrary to what was expected, it was announced in the
Salle des Conferences, by General Lamoriciere, that the
state of siege would cease on Friday, or rather that it
would be seriously relaxed. Some restrictions will be re-
tained respecting the erection of barricades and the free-
dom of the press. It is said that the two journals La
Presse and L'Assemble Nationale, will, for the present,
continue suspended.
LAMARTINE.-M. de Lamartine is ostricised ! A por-
tion of his luggage has already proceeded to Marseilles,
whence he is going to cross the Mediterranean, accom-
panied by Madame de Lamartine, on a second pilgrimage
to Palestine.

THE FORCE or HABIT.—An illustration of this and
of the spirit of the times was strikingly exhibited in a late
sitting of an association, recently formed in Paris. The
members were discussing the rules to be established,
when it suddenly became known that fighting: was going
on in the streets of the capital. A member immediately
proposed that the debate should be adjourned, as blood
was being shed in Paris; but he was opposed by M.
Chaissaignac, who coolly observed that circumstances of
this description ought not to interfere with their pro-
ceedings, as their frequency would occasion too many in-
terruptions !
SAVED BY POlSON.—During the late insurrection in
Paris, a vivandiere, accused of selling poisoned brandy,
was on the point of being killed. Two members of the
national assembly, MM. G. Sarrat and A. Mie, for some
time sought in vain to save her ; at length, M. Sarrat,
seeing that it was useless making further attempts to
appease the exasperation of the crowd, exclaimed,
" Wretch ! if you have poisoned the defenders of your
country, you are unworthy of death by the sword ; you
deserve only to die by poison ; swallow your own liquor."
The poor vivandiere eagerly seized upon this means of
safety, and being set at liberty, joined the regiment to
which she belonged.

THE ALOCKADE OF TRIESTE.—It is said in the ac-
counts from Augsburgh of the 2d instant, that through
the intervention of the Bavarian and Prussian Ambassa-
dors, the blockade of Trieste has been withdrawn, and
that the only control hereafter to be exercised will be
confined to the prevention of the transport of the mate-
rials of war.

DENMARK AND GERMANY.—Accounts from Ham-
burgh of the 4th July state, that it was generally believed
that an armistice of three months had been agreed to
between Germany and Denmark on the following condi-
tions :-1. The Swedes withdraw from the Danish terri-
tory. 2. The Germans withdraw from that part of the
Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, called Schleswig. 3.
Schleswig to remain neutral ground. 4. The blockade
by the Danes of German ports to be raised immediately.
5. The vessels captured by the Danes to be released after
settlement of the act of contribution levied on Jutland by
the Prussian army.
THE WEST INDIA MAIL.—The royal mail steam-ship
Teviot, arrived at Southampton on Tuesday, from the
West Indies, with the usual mails. On her ,homeward

voyage she experienced fine weather throughout, and has
made a remarkably quick passage, having arrived at least
two days before she was expected. The Teviot brings in-
formation of an attempted revolt at Jacmel amongst the
blacks. About 1000 riotously assembled, and attempted
to destroy it by fire. The soldiers and inhabitants turned
turned.out, and saved the town from destruction. It.had
been set on fire in several places. When the steamer left
the inhabitants were hourly in expectation of another at-
tack; if so, fears were entertained for the safety of the
town. The consul had written to Commodore Bennet, at
Jamaica, for assistance. Many families, who had fled
from Martinique in consequence of the late disturbances,
had arrived at Porto Rico, and had taken up a temporary
abode there. The accounts from the West India is/ands
are still of the usual desponding character. There is a
great depression everywhere, and, in fact, no business be-
ing transacted whatever. Demerara was, in particular, in
a very distressed state. Great quantities of rain had fallen
at Jamaica, which had been useful to the sugar planta-
tions, the crop being expected to be a very good one, but
the rain had beerirdisastrous in another way. The quan-
tity which had fallen had caused inundations, and led to
great destruction of stock and property of all kinds. The
rivers rose to a great height, carrying down in their course
to the sea large trunks of trees and dead animal whose
bodies were to he seen floating, in vast numbers, on the
surface. The damage to the railway is stated to have
been immense.

It appears that the number of persons killed at Naples
on the 15th of May and carried to Campo Santo amount-
ed to 1,354, amongst whom were 891 Swiss and 200 bour-
geois. The woutlded taken to the hospitals were 1,207.
So common are fires at Constantinople, where the
houses are generally built with wood, instead of brick or
stone, that landlords are said to calculate that their pre-
mises will be burnt down once in seven years, and to fix
their rents in conformity with that supposition. • •
The stem-ship Acadia, Captain Stone, arrived in the
Mersey on Wednesday, with New York papers to the
21st ult. She was detained ten hours, between New York
and Halifax, by fog. She brought £26,000 in specie.
The Britannia had sailed from Halifax for New York
previous to the arrival of the Acadia.
THE CHOLERA.—Letters from St. Petersburgh con-
firm the accounts of the fearful progress of the cholera-
morbus. The malady broke out in the Russian capital
on the 24th ult., and an immense number of patients
have already succumbed beneath its virulence. Six hos-.
pitals have been prepared for the reception of cholera
patients alone. In Moscow the pestilence is decimating
the population. In two days (the 11th and 12th June),
of 222 patients, 122, or. more than one-half,-succumbed.
Orel, a town in Russia, was destroyed by fire on the
7th of June, and most of the inhabitants lost all they
possessed. Upwards of 1,237 houses, including 50 of
stone, 80,000 tschetwerts of grain, 100,000 ponds of flax,
and four bridges, were destroyed. The four stone churches
were much injured. The whole of this loss is •officially
estimated at 3,425,000 silver roubles. The Emperor has
forwarded the sum of 50,000 roubles to be distributed
amongst the poorer people, and the Ministers have also
sent 10,000 roubles for the same purpose.

IRELAND.

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True bills were found in Dublin, on Monday, against
D. Reilly, on a charge of illegal training and drilling.
Malignant typhus fever is making fearful ravages in the
county of Cavan. Within the last week three medical
men have fallen victims. . .._ •

The anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, on Friday
week, was celebrated with rejoicings in Enniskillen
,
Dun-
gannon, and other towns in Ireland.
Mr. Mitchel has arrived at Bermuda in health, though
rather depressed in spirits. On his voyage he was re-
markably silent and reserved.
Mr. Sergeant Warren died in Dublin on Thursday.
This eminent counsel was called to the, bar in 1806. The
equity law courts were closed for the day in consequence.
The Limerick Examiner gives a list of. fifteen land-
owners in Clare against whom the poor-law guardians
have commenced proceedings in the superior courts.
Orange flags have been placed on Louggall church,
Caledon, Killelea, Grange, Dungannon, and almost on
all the churches in the counties of Tyrone, Monaghan,
Down, &c.
UNANIMITY OF POPERY.—The Roman Catholic bishops
of Ireland have republished the resolutions against the
clerical agitatoit, but the hierarch of Cashel, Dr.
Slattery, has written to say that he had nothing to do
with the meeting in question.
The Rev. William Archer Butler, rector of Raymaghy,
and late professor of moral philosophy, in Dublin Uni-
versity, fell a victim to typhus fever last Wednesday.
The lamented gentleman died at Sharon rectory, near
Londonderry. He was only thirty four years of age, and
was possessed of brilliant talents and commanding elo-
quence.
Tux JULY ANNlVERSARY.—Preparations on an ex-
tensive scale are being made in Ulster for the celebration
of the Aughrim anniversary, but government, after de-
luding the Orangemen into anti-repeal declarations, are
now going to play the old game of coercion once more.
Troops are pouring into Ulster from every quarter south
of Dundalk, and an immense staff of stipendiary magis-
trates have been despatched to the north with orders to
put down the processions.
ROYAL IRISH YACHT CLUB.—The Dublin regatta took
place on Wednesday and Friday. The prize of £5O, for
yachts of 25 tons and upwards, was won by Mr. Hodders'
cutter Enchantress, beating Water Wyvern, Druid, Ata-
lanta, Charm, and Enigma. The prize of £25, for yachts
under 25 tons, was won by Mr. Sweetman's Daring,
beating Moonbeam and Zephyr. The £3O plate, with 20
sovs., was won by Mr. Pim's Charm, and the £3O cup by
Mr. Sweetman's Daring.
The best body guard that the Lord Lieutenant could
receive on his visit to the Great Southern and Western
Railway was afforded to him in the assemblage of the
navigators of the line. A heavy shower of rain fell as we
reached the junction, says the Irish Railway Gazette,
where the labourers of the company were drawn up in a
line parallel with the railway, with their spades and picks
on their muscular shoulders. They received the Earl of
Clarendon with a loud and hearty cheer, which was raised
with the strength of non-consumptive lungs again and
again.
THE CROPS IN IRELAND.-At the meeting of the pro-
prietors of the Bank of Ireland last week, the chairman
said it would be gratifying to the proprietors to hear that
Sir J. Young, one of the directors then at the board, who
had just returned from Ireland, stated that in each dis-
trict through which he had passed the crops appeared in a
very luxuriant condition, and that there was every pros-
pect of a most abundant harvest. The statement fully
confirmed the advices which the directors had received
from every part of Ireland.
SENTENCES.—The trials of the persons charged in
Dublin with illegally drilling and training took place last
week. The jury came out three times to take the judge's
opinion as to the intent. It was supposed that they would
have finally disagreed, but thellksult has been very differ-
ent. At half-past four they found them guilty, and the sen-
tence was, " Gogarty, the chief, to be transported for seven
years; Englishto be imprisoned for two years, and the other
eight for twelve months." The wailing of their friends
was pitiable. All the prisoners were strongly recom-
mended to mercy.
THE LATE MR. STEELS.—The remains of the Head
Pacificator were consigned, on Monday, to their last
resting-place in Glasnevin Cemetery, beside the ashes of '
his great leader. The funeral was announced to be a
public one, and no pains were spared to render the cere-
mony as imposing as impossible. But, alas for mob
mob popularity ! The corse of poor Mr. Steele, who had
services to point to, and who lost his whole worldly sub-
stance in hunting after shadows, was followed to the grave
by just 16 carriages and about as many jaunting cars, and
accompanied by a noisy group of mere boys, whose at-
tendance at the ceremony might have been advantageously
dispensed with.
IRISH AGITATION.—A number of peers and members
of parliament connected with Ireland have presented to
the Home Secretary a memorial drawing the attention of
the government to the present alarming state of Ireland,
and urging that measures be taken to suppress the con-
federate clubs, to prohibit the manufacture and sale of
arms, and to afford protection to loyal subjects. The
memorialists urge the government to enforce to the
utmost extent the powers afforded by the law, and if those
should be insufficient to apply to parliament for other
means. 'The memorial is signed by thirty-five peers
(among whom are Lord Monteagle and the Earl of Devon)
and thirty-six members of the lower house.
The " trainers and drillers" in Ireland have got a lesson.
One of the scoundrels is transported, and two others are
imprisoned for periods that will cool the " felon" fever in
their blood. Some others, we hope, will be sent to keep
them company. They were the initiators in the assassin
system, and Government has done well' to place the cul-
prits at the Bar. But it should not stop here. It is
mockery to be seizing the humbler instruments, while the
preachers of sedition—tbat is, the inculcators of assassin-
ation—are suffered to escape. Lay hold on them, but do
it impartially, without distinction and without exception,
and the land will soon have peace, notwithstanding the
bleating of what Mr. O'Connell used to call the bell-
wethers.

A warrant was issued on Monday under the Treason
Felony Act, against Mr. Martin, proprietor of The Irish
Felon newspaper. The officer entrusted with the warrant
has been unable to execute it, in consequence of the dis-
appearance of Mr. Martin, who is evidently keeping out
of the way to avoid capture. On Saturday, Mr. Martin
surrendered himself to the police, and was brought before
the magistrates, and, after an examination, was told that
he stood committed for two articles which had appeared
in The Irish Felon. He said that the reason he had got
out of the way was, that he wanted to get something like
a fair trial. The police had previously received orders to
seize The Irish Felon of that day, and had accordingly
seized every copy which they could discover. Mr. Reilley
and J. F. Lalor have declared themselves the authors of
the articles complained of, and that they are ready to take
the consequences, providing Mr. Martin be liberated.

3', Londonderry was visi-
tedTHUNDER STORM.—On Friday,
with a dreadful thunder storm. At the Rev. Edward
Bowen's mansion, Bogay, an electric bolt struck a stack
of chimneys, over the bed-room in which that gentleman
was sleeping. shattering them to pieces, a great quantity
of which fell down the flue, into the room. The fluid
then took the direction of the bell-wires, which it com-
pletely melted throughout the whole house, and marked
its track round the ceilings in a most fantastic manner.
So completely was the room filled with a sulphureous gas,
that when Mr. Bowen attempted to light a candle, he
found it would not burn until he got the windows and
doors opened. Another part of the fire struck the kitchen
chimneys, breaking them in pieces ; on its way down the
flue it tore the wall, which is four feet thick, in several
places, smashing the bricks, which are of the hardest kind ;
it also tore out the nails that were in the walls and ceil-
ings, finally making its way 'through the flags down into
the earth. The house is comMerably:ttamaged, but tio
personal injury was sustained.