The Liverpool Standard, and General Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCS—The funeral of Marshal St. Arnaud has been
the event of the week, in Paris ; although, according to the
accounts transmitted by the London daily journals, the
Parisians did not show that respectful interest on the oc-
casion which a stranger might have expected to see dis-
played. The appearance of the streets and boulevards
through which the procession was to pass indicated rather
afae than the funeral of one whose death, particularly at
such a moment, must be accounted a national loss.
Amongst the English officers present were General Sir
Harry Smith, and his aides-de-camp, Colonels Taylor and
Holditch, sent especially by the Queen ; and Lord Arthur
Hay, aide. de-camp to Lord Hardinge. The decorations of the
chapel included scrolls containing the names of the battles
in which the marshal had taken part, Alma of course
holding the most conspicuous place. The African engage-
ments mentioned were Medeah, Thaza, Boghar, Ouaren-
zeris, Djidjelli, Bougia, Teniah, Tagedempt, and Little
Kabylia.—One of those pieces of personal gossip which,
from the public character of the persons concerned, occa-
sionally rise into general importance, has been agitating
Paris lately. Mad'lle Cruvelli, the delightful prima donna,
has thrown up her lucrative engagement suddenly and
without legal warrant ; so that her personal property has
been seized to make good the loss which the directorship
of the Opera will sustain by her neglect of duty. Several
reasons, more or less reasonable, were conjectured for her
capricious act. The favourite idea was that she had been
offended by her name not being given in the bills en vi-
dette ; though a few tongues boldly accused the fair can-
tatrice of yielding to a large sum, to visit America. The
true motive, which has now been discovered, is a more
feminine one. It seems that, at the same time with
Mad'lle Cruvelli, and to all appearance at the same mo-
ment, has also disappeared the young Baron Vigier, a
well-known Parisian; and it is said that the happy couple
are now safely ensconced in that terrestrial paradise, Brus-
sels. The wonder is, why they should have run away from
Paris, that being the place which over-ardent lovers gene-
rally run to. The reason alleged is this :—The baron is a
mere youth—considerably younger, indeed, than the lady
—and they have gone to Brussels for the purpose of
making their union indissoluble. The young man has an
immense fortune.

DENMABK.—On Saturday, the 14th, the great motion
in. the Danish Parliament came to a second and a final
reading. The proceedings began at one o'clock, and ended
at half-past five, when, after various votings as to details,
the whole motion—" That the Commons House do appoint
a committee of nine to draw up articles of impeachment
against the Ministry, grounded on their issuing the ordi-
nance of July 28, 1854, and on their infractions of the
budget"—was carried by the immense majority of 80 to 6.
Thirteen were absent, most of whom had previously voted
for the principle of the resolution. On Monday the
Danish Commons finally approved of the address to the
King. They renew the demand for a free Constitution in
the whole State, as in Denmark. The revolutionary act
of July is entirely ignored. The address was adopted
by 90 to 1.

Ausrnr.A..—An official announcement in the Wiener
Zeitung delicately intimates that the youthful Empress is
in a condition which gives the hope of an heir to the
throne of Austria. The Silesian Gazette says, that in an
audience given by the Emperor of Austria to the French
Ambassador on the lath ult., his Majesty declared that
his resolutions on the Eastern question would not be in-
fluenced by the results of the expedition to the Crimea,
whatever they might be, but by a sense of what was due
to German interests. They were, he said, fixed resolu-
tions, and he gave his word of honour that he would
maintain them.

RUBSIA.—A letter from Hamburg, of the 12th, says :
"We have to-day letters from St. Petersburg to the 7th.
The approach of winter was already perceptible, and it
was feared that the navigation of the Neva would soon be
interrupted. Men's minds in the Russian capital were
much occupied with the events of the war. Military pre-
parations, and the arrivals and departures of troops con-
tinued to take place on a vast scale. The trains on the
Moscow railway are constantly encumbered with all sorts
of military articles and with detachments a:soldiers to
form part of the army of reserve, assembled in that ancient
capital of the Empire. Strong doubts were entertained
of the Emperor absenting himself from St. Petersburg at
the present critical moment, and although preparations
have been made for a journey to the army of Poland, the
realisation of that project appears to depend on the even-
tualities of the war in the East. As to the movements of
troops towards Poland, they may be summed up in a few
words. The Imperial Guards, under the command of the
Grand Duke, heir to the throne, are proceeding by forced
marches from St. Petersburg to that kingdom, whilst the
different divisions of the Russian troops, which were sta-
tioned in Poland since the commencement of the war, are
being directed from various sides towards the Austrian
frontiers of Cracow and of Galticia, where they are estab-
lishing themselves in two fortified camps."

NEW ZEALAND.—On the 9th of June an address to the
acting Governor (Colonel Wynyard,) was agreed to in the
House of Representatives by a majority of 29 to 1, pray-
ing his Excellency to adopt and act upon the principle of
ministerial responsibility in the government of the colony.
To this address the Governor returned a most favourable
answer, immediately " sent for " Mr. Fitzgerald, who had
been selected by the House to move the address, and cora-
minioned him to " form a ministry," which should hold
office so long as they should enjoy the confidence of the
Assembly. Mr. Fitzgerald is understood to have com-
pleted his arrangements, and was to meet the House on
the 15th as the representative of the Government. New
Zealand has thus acquired the honour of being the first
among the Australian colonies to claim and to receive the
full benefits of constitutional government.

AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE AMERICA

By the British and Ni

th American Royal Mail steam-

ship America, Captain Lang, which arrived on Sunday
night, we have intelligence from New York to the 10th,
and Boston to the 11th, and by telegraph from New
York to the 12th inst. She brought ninety-seven pas-
sengers and $437,863.

The Canada, Captain Stone, arrived at New York on
the 6th inst.

The steamer Hansa, from Bremen, arrived at New
York on the 9th inst.

THE LOSS OF THE ARCTIC

The folloring further particulars of the loss of the
Arctic are taken from the Boston Daily Post, of the 11th
instant : _ _ _ _ _ _

" Up to the morning of the 10th, the loss of the
Arctic was unknown in New York. The greatest anxiety
existed, and Mr. Collins intended to despatch a steamer
in search of her.

W" The Collins steam-ship Arctic is lost. She left Liver-
pool on the 20th tilt., with 250 passengers, and a crew of
176. On the 27th ult., at twelve, noon, in a dense fog,
about forty miles from Cape Race, Newfoundland, she
came in contact with a large iron barque-rigged propeller,
bound to the eastward, with all sail set. The Arctic was
going thirteen knots per hour. The shock to the Arctic
appeared slight, but to the propeller it was frightful.
The boats were ordered to the relief of the propeller, and
one, containing the chief mate, boatswain, and three
sailors, left. It was then discovered that the Arctic had
sustained injuries, and that the water was pouring into
her bows. The pumps were vigorously worked, and an
anchor and chain thrown overboard, but, in spite of all
exertions, the water extinguished the fires, and the en-
gines stopped. Four of the five other lifeboats are believed
to have been well-provisioned, containing the engineers,
sailors, a few passengers, and all the officers, except the
captain and third mate, who left the ship at an early
stage. A majority of the passengers were working the
pumps and firing signal guns, and others launching spars,
under the direction of Captain Luce and Mr. Dorian, the
third mate, to form a raft. A panic suddenly seized all
on board, and a rush was made for the raft. A large
number got upon it, and into the boat. The sea was then
flush with the dead lights, and in a few moments more
the Arctic sunk, and all on board perished. At five
o'clock in the afternoon of the 28th the survivors of the
boat espied a sail, and raised a handkerchief to attract
attention, which they succeeded in doing, and found the
vessel to be the barque Huron, of St. Andrews, N. 8.,
Captain A. Wall, bound to Quebec, which took them all
on board. The raft was seen in the distance with one poor
man only clinging to it. A boat was immediately sent, and
rescued him. He stated that after the steam-ship sunk he
counted 72 men and four women on the raft, but at eight
o'clock he was the only one alive. During the night of the
28th Captain Wall hung out extra lights, fired rockets,
and kept a horn blowing, in hopes of falling in with the
remainder of the boats, but his endeavours were fruitless.
On the evening of the 28th he spoke the ship Lebanon,
Captain Story, bound for New York, by which eighteen of
the number were taken off. The Lebanon afterwards
transferred them to the pilot-boat Christian Berg, No. 16,
by which they reached the city. The fate of the propeller
and the other five boats of the Arctic is not known. The
propeller is supposed to have been the Charity, from Mont-
real for Liverpool. Capt. Wall, of the Huron, on the morn-
ing of the 28th, saw a singularly-looking craft bear to
leeward, but was unable to tell whether she was a steamer
or a sailing vessel. He says she had a nondescript ap-
pearance, and may have been the wreck of the propeller.
The following is the list of those saved in the sixth boat,
taken to Quebec by the Huron :—James Adry, ship's
cook ; Luke rearety, fireman ; Joseph Connolory, ditto ;
Richard Makan, ditto; Thomas Connoy, ditto; James
Connor, ditto; John Doury, ditto; Christian Morany,
ditto ; James Ward, ditto ; C. Callahan, ditto ; T. Wat-
son, assistant-engineer; R. Bryan, waiter; D. Barry,
ditto ; Erastus Miller, ditto. Arrived at this port in the
Lebanon, Edward Bryan, fireman ; Patrick Mahan, ditto ;
Thomas Garland, ditto ; Patrick Casey, ditto ; Patrick
Tobin, ditto ; Dobbin Carnagan, ditto ; Win. Nicolls,
Terescoe, Sicilly Islands, passenger ; Henry Jenkins,
ditto, ditto; J. Thompson, New Orleans, ditto; Captain
Paul F. Grann, New York, ditto ; Geo. H. Burns, Phila-
delphia, ditto ; Francis Doran, New York, third officer ;
Thomas Brennan, assistant-engineer ; John Connolly,
engineer's steward; Thomas Stanton, officer's steward;
James Callaghan, porter; Michael M`Laughlan, boy;
Peter M`Cade, waiter, picked off the raft. The following
are the names of the persons known to be in the ship's
boats :—The five boats which may have reached land or
been picked up are known to have contained Mr. Gurley,
the first officer ; Thomas Wilder boatswain ; Mr. Balane,
second officer ; Mr. Graham, fourth officer ; Wm. Moon,
New York, passenger. Also, Mr. Rogers, chief engineer ;
Mr. Drown, first assistant ; Mr. Walker, second ditto ;
Mr. Willett, third ditto ; Daniel Connelly, John Moran,
John Flanagan, and Patrick McCauley, firemen ; Mr.
Dingell, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Ivison, engineers ; and a
young man named Robinson, under instruction in the en-
gineers' department, besides sailors and quarter-masters.
Among those last seen on the quarter-deck, while fasten.
ing life-preservers on the females, who must have sunk
with the ship or perished on the raft, were Captain Luce
and son, Mrs. E. K. Collins, Master Coit Collins, Mr.
Brown and family, senior partner of the firm of Brown,
Shipley, and Co., of Liverpool; Mr. Thomas, importer of
hosiery. New York ; Mr. D. Adams, Brooklyn ; Mr.
Bowen, Cincinnati ; Mr. Charles Sprague, Michigan ; Ira
Muirhead, jun., Petersburg, Va ; Mrs. Hewitt and daugh-
ter, Fredricksburg, Va ; Mr. Wood, New York ; Mr.
Ysakey, Mr. Schmidt, Miss Merton, Falmouth, England ;
and a nephew of Mr. Bloodgood, hotel-keeper, Philadel-
phia, residing in Albany, the Duke de Grammont, of the

French Embassy, George Stewart, wife, and children,
Amelo, a coloured girl, and Mary the stewardess, Miss
Jones, Mr. Petrio and lady, Steward Hollis, Washington,
ditto, J. Cook, Opelousas, La., with many more. A Mr.
Comstock, brother to the commander of the Baltic, was
drowned by the capsising of a boat, while being lowered.
The above particulars were furnished by G. H. Burns, of
Adams and Co's Express, Philadelphia, who says he had
Government dispatches from France and England, re-
ceived from Mr. Buchanan, which he could not save.
There is a doubtful report that Mr. David Cannon is
among the saved."
The boilers of the lake steamer E. K. Collins had ex-
ploded, killing 23 persons.
The Indiana Free Banks' paper had been refused.

The democrats had been-siiccessful in the California
state elections. Nearly $2,000,000 in specie had been
shipped from San Francisco in two steamers. The British
and American ships-of-war Amphitrite and Armitise
were cruising off San Francisco Heads. They had over-
hauled several ships, and the Amphitrite fired into a
Dutch vessel to bring her to. The British barque Amelia,
Thompson, had stranded in St. Simon's Bay.
On the Ist October everything was quiet at San Juan.
In the interior, Chomorro still held his position in the
Plaza of Grenada, and had taken the three schooners on
the lake constituting Costollon's fleet.