The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-07 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THE WEST INDIA AND MEXICAN MAILS.
The royal mail steam-ship Tav, Captain Sharp, arrived
on Saturday evening, after a fine run of 131 days from
Bermuda, her last port of communication. She was not
due until to-day, and her early arrival is, therefore,
another practical illustration of the continued improve-
ment in sailing of the various powerful steam-ships be-
longing to the Royal Mail Ccmpany. Her latest dates
are, Honduras. May 20th ; Tampico, 26th ' • Chagres, 26th ;
Carthapria, 29th ; Vera Cruz. June 2d ; Demerara, 4th ;
La Guayra, sth ; Trinidad, 6th ; Barbadoes, Bth ; Ja-
maica, Bth ' • Grenada, 10th ; Havannah, lltb ; St. Thomas,
16th ; and Bermuda. 20th.
She brings 2,000,000 dollars on merchants account, but
none on account of the Mexican dividends, 1,8300 z. of
gold dust, 520!b. of platina, 32 serons of jalap, 93 serons
of cochineal, 100 bales of tobacco, 26 cases of cigars, 55
packages of pines, 5 cases of tortoiseshell, 13 cases of tur-
tle, and 80 packages of sundries; the value of the whole
freight may he estimated at 3.000,000 dollars. The gradual
increase in the goods on freight by these ships is a strong
proof of the wisdom of the company in carrving cargo, only
a recent arrangement, and which is now forming a con-
siderable addition to the Southarnrton imports. The Tay
also brings the large number of 93 passengers.
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We haVe letters from Mexico to the 31st May.
The Mexican ports on the Atlantic were blockaded by
the American squadron, and an attack on the castle of
San Juan de Ulloa was expected immediately.
The port of Mazatlan and city of Guadalaxara bad both
declared against the government. The republic seemed
to he fast verging on anarchy.
Arista's army in the north is understood to have dis-
persed in great confusion.
About half the members of the new congress had been
got together. They elected General Bustamante president
of the body.

Senor Gorostiza had retired from the Ministry of Fi-
nance, and was succeeded by Senor Iturbe, who had
seized all the funds in the ports, including the English
dividends.
The light is removed from the castle of San Juan de
Ulloa, at Vera Cruz, during the blockade.

The Tay brings our usual files of West India papers,
by which we are glad to find a favourable change of the
weather has occurred in many of the islands, too late,
however, to repair the great damage the long-continued
drought occasioned. The Barbadocs Standard states
that they have had several showers. '1 he rain appears to
have been general; it continued to the end of the month.
The Trinidad Standard estimates the probable amount
of sugar likely to reach the home market, as the crop from
that island for 1846, at 22,000 hhds.. a decrease on the
past year of 1,265, and 2,000 hhds. short of what might
have been expected from the appearance of the crop at
the commencement. The crop of the coming year, it is
said, will prove a short one, probably not more than
17,000 hhds., arising from many untoward circumstances,
especially the frequency of fires. These fires continue.
In Naparima, the principal sugar district, a severe fire
commenced (16th) on Friendship Estate, and swept Espe-
ranee, Corinth, Concord, Ne Plus Ultra, Mr. Navet's Mon
Repos, and Mr. Andre's estates, and entered the suburbs
of San Fernando; a change of wind saved the town.
The fire ravaged an area of ground 5 miles in extent ; a
spark from a boiling-house chimney was the cause. A
similar conflagration occurred the following day at Cedros,
devastating the St. John, Union, Perseverance, and Loch-
maben estates, on the latter it destroyed canes sufficient
to make 150 hogsheads of sugar ; the village fell a prey to
the flames. Lord Harris, the governor, exerted himself
greatly during :this severe visitation, in giving directions
and using every effort to subdue the fires.
Immigration still goes on to British Guiana ; Berb!ce
has received 139 Coolies by the Raymond. and 260 by the
Britannia, and they have had 235 Portuguese by the
Planter, from Madeira, and a late arrival of 351 Coolies
by the Sir Robert Peel. The Madeira immigrants are
turning their attention to the cultivation of the vine.
In Demerara a favourable change has taken place in the
weather; constant and heavy showers have fallen. Grind-
ing has been resumed in several districts. The return,
however, expected from the canes is very small ; the crop
is variously estimated at 10,000, 15,000, and 20,000, or
not more than half the crop of the previous year.
The members of the House of Assembly at Tobago
continue to refuse to meet to transact any business until
the Chief Justice is suspended, on account of that officer
not furnishing them with a copy of certain documents
which they required. One or two slight showers had
fallen in Grenada, but the severe drought in that island
for the most part continued, and the estates are in a de-
plorable state. A smart shock of an earthquake was felt
at Jamaica, but was unattended with damage.

The Municipal Council of Metz have voted a sum
of 60,000.000 f. of the budget of that place, 0 enable
bakers to sell bread to the poor under the assize price.
The growth of apples in Normandy, from which the
cider is made, is this year so scanty that the measure,
which in ordinary years is sold for lf. 25c., is now quoted
at 4f. and upwards.
The German journals contain accounts of several fires
in Hungary, which are said to be the work of incendiaries.
The towns of Leibitz and Durant were on fire on the same
night. In the former 22 houses were destroyed, and in
the latter 101 houses and the Lutheran church.

A dreadful accident took place on Friday last on board
a steamer plying between Paris and Montereau. The
boiler of the engine exploded with great violence, and en-
gineer and two stokers were killed, and several passengers
dangerously wounded.
HURRICANE IN RUSSIA.—ST. PETERSBURG'', JUNE
22.—News has been received to. day from the interior of a
tremendous hurricane along the banks of the Volga,
which destroyed between 100,000 and 150,000 chetwerts of
flour, rye, wheat, linseed, &c., which were destined for
tbia place.
VIDOCQ'S LAST TRIM—Most of the Paris jnnrnals
announced some months ago that the celebrated Vidocq
was dead. The Democralie Pacifique, in giving this news,
followed it up with certain reflections, which he consi-
dered to be a libel, and commenced thereupon an action
against the responsible editor. The case came yesterday
before the Correctional Tribunal, and the editor, not ap-
pearing, was condemned in default to pay a fine of 501.
Galignani's Messenger.

TREASON rar A DOG.—An amusing story is told of the
boys of Heriot's Hospital, in )682. The Earl of Argyle
was in this year convicted of high treason, for refusing
the test oath without certain qualifications. The Heriot
boys ordered their watch-dog to take the test, and offered
him the paper. When he refused, they rubbed it over
with butter. He then licked off the butter, but spat out
the paper. They empannelled a jury, tried him for trea-
son and hanged him. —Steven's Memoir-sof Geo. Heriot.
EARLY DAYS OF HAYDON, THE ARTIST.—Mr. Hay-
don was born on the 26th January, 1786. at Plymouth
where his father was a bookse'ler of good reputation. lie
was educated at Plymouth Grammar School, and after-
wards
removed to Plympton, where his education was
completed in the same grammar school in which Sir Joshua
Reynolds acquired all the scholastic knowledge he ever
received. Haydon, in after life, was fond of referring to
this circumstance ; nor unwilling, indeed, to have it said
that his father. who drew a little himself, had given him
the Scriptural name in the thought that, as Plympton had
sent a Sir Joshua into the world, Plymouth might send
her Benjamin to follow. The boy evinced a love for art
at a very early period, and is said to have exhibited his
first fondness for his calling on the occasion of a print
which the servant had given him to keep him quiet. Thus
early initiated, he found materials for his purpose in Lis
father's house. He drew, read, and resolved; and, Rey-
nolds' " Discourses" attracting his attention, he became,
before he was eighteen years of age, an enthusiast in high
art, whose first word was Raphael, and his second Michael
Angelo. Thus irrecoverably a painter, he left for London
on the 14th of May, 1804, and entered his name as a stu-
dent of the Royal Academy. His skill and attention were
soon noticed. Prince Hoare introduced him to Fuseli, an
introduction which had something to do, perhaps, with
the after errors and eccentricities of his character and
style. Fuseli was fearless and outspoken, and Haydon
became the same. Fuseli, in painting, was violent in
action and exaggerated in expression, and Haydon was, at
once, his admiring imitator. Thus injuriously misled,
he never recovered from the false worship of his early
faith; but, through the whole course of a long and active
career, mistook Fuseli's exaggeration of attitude and
drawing for the tranquil grandeur of Michael Angelo and
Raphael.—Athcenerern.
AN EGYPTIAN FUNFRAL.—Another uncommon fune-
ral procession, that of Kharsheed Pasha, late governor of
Sennar, passed our house a few days after that of the
saint ; and as it was the most remarkable of all such spec-
tacles seen in Cairo since my arrival I am induced to de-
scribe it to you It was preceded by six camels, each bear-
ing two boxes filled with corn and dates, above and be-
tween which sat the distributor with a stick in his hand
to chive off the crowd that presssed upon him, making as
great a clamour as though they were all starving ; and
arrange to say, the most decently dressed persons were
the most importunate. Then followed three camels with
water; and then two buffaloes to be sacrificed at the tomb,
and the flesh to be divided among the poor. These practices
are always observed at the funerals of rich persons in Egypt,
and, I believe, throughout the East. About thirty reciters
of the Kur-an followed next, and about the same number
of Sheyksheaded a large body of Turks of the middle classes,
chiefly wearing the military dress. Then followed a tribe of
Chaooshes, two and two, in full uniform; and after these
walked about fifty grandees of all ages. Their dresses
were most picturesque, the varieties of colour they dis-
played rendering the group they formed by far the most
striking feature in the proce-sion. There were among
them some old men who had doubtless seldom before
walked in the streets of Cairo. One, bent with age and
apparently blind, was leaning on a youth who seemed to
be his son, and many were much exhausted. They had
all walked nearly a mile, and had to walk nearly a mile
and a half further, the last half mile exposed to the
burning sun. But to return to the order of the proces-
sion. Some boss walked next, each bearing a Kur-an ;
and they were immediately followed by a crowd of men
bearing incense in silver censors, filling the streets and
houses with clouds of frankincense and other perfumes;
while others, carrying sprinkling bottles of silver,
showered ',heir sweet contents around them on the more
distinguished of the spectators. Then passed the bier,
the appearance of which was not unusual: it was
covered with a red figured Cashmere shawl, and borne
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deafening yell hardly to be imagined. The led
horses of the grandees bore up the rear, and thus con-
cluded a spectacle as singular as almost any which can
have been witnessed in the streets of Cairo.—Corres-
pondent ,of the Times.

STANCE OF AFFECTION FOR A CHILD.--I wit-
d in the family of a native, named Alligator, an
nce of affection for a departed child, which, though

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hibited itself in this peculiar manner, was extremely
touching. The wife had treasured up the banes of the
little one, and constantly carried them about with her, not
as a memento mori, but as an object whereon to expend
her tenderest emotion, whenever they swelled within her
breast. At such times she would put together these
bones with a rapidity that supposed a wonderful know-
ledge of osteology, and set them up that she might weep
over them. Perhaps in her imagination, as she performed
this melancholy rite, the ghastly frame-work before her
became imbued with the comely form of infancy; bright
eyes once more sparkled in those hollow cells, and a smile
of ineffable delight hung where in reality was nought but
the hideous grin of death. I exceedingly regret that the
mother who could feel so finely was some time afterwards
overpersuaded to part with the bores o; her child.—Cap-
tain Stokes's "Discoveries in Australia"
NEW METHOD OF FINISHING BRONZE STATUES.--
The bronze statue of Iluskisson, just completed in the
royal brass foundry of the Bavarian capital, deserves an
especial notice, on account of a new method of chasing
which has been resorted to in this case. It is known that
newly-cut brass possesses a strong lustre, which destroys
the mellow aspect of the work, on which account artists
have resorted to the expedient of producing a sort of arti-
ficial patina by the use of mineral acids. For the sake of
imparting to the above work a uniform mellow appearance
without using acids, Inspector Muller has resorted to the
method of deed chasing. This has been perfectly success-
ful ; and the uniform tone which has been obtained in the
whole work bids fair that the patina, as it will appear in
due course of time, will be also uniform. By the use of
diferent sorts of files a really different grain of the metal
has been cut out, which the artist was able to produce in
accordance with the nature of the part thus treated. This
method is said to be a real advance in the mechanism of
the bronze-founding process.—The Builder.
GOVERNESSES.—In Russia the governess is held in such
respect that she is led forth as au honoured guest, taking
precedence of the pupil whose education she has completed.
fn England it would be difficult to ascertain her position—
charged with the sole care of the " precious jewels" of an
illustrious house—considered competent to cultivate their
minds—to form their manners—to enlarge their views, that
they may keep their position, and become all that is desired
in Engl sh gentlewomen—tire person who does all this, if
admitted into society at all, is thrust, unintroduced, into
a corner, and expected to retire when the younger children
are sent to bed—slighted by the servants, who consider
her a servant—and looked upon as a person to be dis-
missed as soon as done with by the mistress ! Fcr one
governess who receives a pension for past services—services
which can never be repaid—there are, protected and pros-
perous, a hundred ladies' maids; it is not at all uncom-
mon to meet with pensioned servants, but a pensioned go-
verness is a rara avis ; we find them in hospitals or work-
houses, when they are overtaken by ill health, or faded
into old age.—Art Union.
THE FRFNCH REVOLUTION AND THE PRESENT

CRISIS OF ENGLAND.—In days like ours, which begin
to familiarise men with the chances of political convulsion,
it may be well worth while to listen to the conceptions of
one who better knew the nature of the French Revolution
than perhaps any among the great actors of the time.
Napoleon was sitting by his fireside, in St. Helena, on
the 3d of September :—" To-day," said he, is the anni-
versary of a hideous remembrance, the St. Bartholomew
of the French Revolution—a bloody stain, which was the
act of the Commune of Paris, a rival power of the legis-
lature, which built its strength upon the dregs of the
passions of the people. * * * We must acknowledge
that there has been no political change without a fit of
popular vengeance, as soon as, for any cause whatever,
the mass of the people enter into action. * * * Ge-
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neral rule :—No social revolution without terror ! Every
revolution is in principle a revolt, which time and success
ennoble and render legal; but of which terror has been
one of the inevitable phases. How, indeed, can we un-
derstand that one could say to those who possess fortune
and public situations, Begone, and leave us your for-
tunes and your situations,' without first intimidating
them, and rendering any defence impossible? The reign
of terror began, in fact, on the night of the 4th of August,
when privileges, nobility, tithes, the remains of the feudal
system, and the fortunes of the clergy, were done away
with, and all those remains of the old monarchy were
thrown to the people. Then only did the people under-
stand the revolution, because they gained something, and
wished to keep it, even at the expense of blood." This
language is memorable. It ought to be a lesson to Eng-
land. Napoleon here pronounces that the great stimulant
of political revolution is public robbery. Privileges may
be the pretence, but the real object is plunder ; and the
progress of reason may be alleged as the instrument, but
the true weapon is terror. In England we are preparing
the way for a total change. The groundwork of a revolu-
tion is laid from hour to hour; the aristocracy, the church,
the landed proprietors, are made objects of popular libel,
only preparatory to their being made objects of public
assault. The League has not yet taken upon it the office
of the Commune of Paris, nor have the nobles, the clergy,
and the bankers been massacred in the prisons; but when
once the popular passions are kindled by the hopes of na-
tional plunder, the revolution will have begun, and then
farewell to the constitution. The habits of England, we
willingly allow, are opposed to public cruelty ; and in the
worst excesses, the France of 1793 would probably leave
us behind. But the principle in every nation is the same
—the possessors of property will resist, the plunderers of
property will fight ; conflicting banners will be raised,
and, after desperate struggles, the multitude will be the
masters of the land.—Blackwood.

STATIONS OF TEIE BRITISH ARMY.

ON TUS IST JULY, 1846

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