The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

THE INSURRECTION IN BARCELONA.

The private accounts from Barcelona are dated the 19th
inst. The fort of Montjuich had ceased to fire upon the city
.'r'e the morning of the 18th. A number of soldiers and
officers, taken prisoners by the insurgents, and who were de-
aci wed as having joined the movement, had been permitted
to quit Barcelona. Many of them had already reached San
Feliz, where General Ean Haien had collected a force of
nearly 10,000 men. The garrison of Barcelona bad consisted
of 12 battalions of 700 or 800 men each, and 600 cavalry.
The latter had been quartered at Barlellonetta, where they
became an easy conquest to the National Guards, having been
left without orders from the military authorities. The ar-
tillery had been likewise captured without any resistance from
a similar cause. The losses on the side of the troops are
estimated at between 400 and 500 men, with several general
officers, whose names, however, are not mentioned.
Letters from Girona of the 19th state that the movement
had not extended beyond the walls of Barcelona, and that
the rest of Catalonia was tranquil. The report of the rising
of Lerida and Solsona was unfounded. General Aristizabal
had joined General Van Halen with 1,500 men.
A number of commercial letters from Barcelona, dated the
18th, reached Paris on Tnursday, the writers of which de-
clared themselves at a loss to account for the cause of the
insurrection. Some ascribed it to the discontent occasioned
by the contemplated reduction of the Spanish tariff: others
to the enforcement of the law relative to military recruit-
ment ; and others to a plan for depriving General Espartero
of the regency, and appointing in his stead the.lnfante Don
Francisco de Paula. The insurgents appear, in fact, to have
had no definite object, nor chiefs of any note; "and if,"
say our Paris letters, "we are to judge from the joy mani-
fested by the Christino refugees in Paris at the news of the
outbreak, from their disappointment at the turn which affairs
had taken, and the resolution of Espartero to proceed at
once to the theatre of the disturbances, it would warrant the
belief that they were fomented by a party which has been
long seeking to creat disorders, at any price, in the capital of
Catalonia."

Advices have been received from Madrid to the 20th in-
stant. The Cortes opened the business of the session on the
15th, by the election of its chief officers ; a president, four
vice-presidents, and four secretaries : all were elected by the
opposition. The ministerial candidate for the presidency
was S. Acunha ; the successful candidate was S. Olozaga.
The result forced upon the regent the alternative of a disso-
lution of the Cortes or a change of ministry; and he adopted
the latter. S. Olozaga himself is spoken of as the head of
the new cabinet. An additional office is to be created; the
ministry of commerce and colonies being detached from that
of marine.
On the 20th, General Rodil announced to the Cortes the
events in Barcelona up to the 16th, and stilted that Espartero
meant to leave Madrid on the next day for Catalonia, with
his escort and three battalions. The congress immediately
voted an address to .the regent, promising him its support
against the revolutionists. Madrid itself was tranquil.

TOBACCO VERSUS WOMEN. —A curious circumstance
connected with the cultivation of tobacco in Virginia is worth
noticing. The planters, in the beginning of the 17th century,
being ad bachelors, regarded themselves merely as temporary
sojourners in the colony. The London Company, which
was established in 1606 for the colonisation of Virginia, with
a view to their steadiness, sent out a number of respectable
young women to supply the settlers with wives. These ladies
were actually sold for 120 lbs of tobacco each, being the
quantity considered equivalent to the expenses of the voyage.
—Notices relative to Tobacco, by D. A. Thompson.

THE THREE SOVEREIGNS.—The following anecdote has
often been told by the Emperor Alexander, and is amongst
the traditions of the Russian Court :—ln 1814, during the
period that the allies were masters of Paris, the Czar, who
resided in the hotel of M. de Talleyrand, was in the daily
habit of taking a walk (in strict incognito) every morning in
the gardens of the Tuileries, and thence to the Palais Royale.
He one day met two other sovereigns, and the three were
returning arm-in-arm to breakfast in the Rue St. Florentin,
when, on their way thither, they encountered a provincial,
evidently freshly imported to Paris, and who had lost his
way :—" Gentlemen," said he, " can you tell me which is
the Tuileries I—" Yes," replied Alexander, " follow us, we
are going that way, and will show you." Thanks on the
part of the countryman led them soon into conversation.
A few m nutes sufficed to arrive at the Palace ; and as here
their routes lay in opposite directions, they bade each other
reciprocally adieu. " Parbleu !" cried all at once the pro-
vincial, " I should be glad to know the names of persons so
amiable and complaisant as you are ?" "My name ?" said
the first—" oh certainly ; you have perhaps hear" d of me, I
am the Emperor Alexander !" •'A capital joke, exclaimed
the gascon ; "an Emperor !—and you, addressing the
second individual, " who may be ?" " I, ?" replied he ; " why
probably I am not wholly unknown to you, at least by name
—" lam the King of Prussia !" " Better and better," said
the man ; " and you, what are you, then ?" looking at the
third person. "I am the Emperor of Austria!" " Perfect,
perfect," exclaimed the provincial, laughing with all his
might.—" But you, monsieur," said Emperor Alexander,
" surely you will also let us know whom we have bad the
honour to speak to ?"—" To be sure,"I replied the man, quit-
ting them with an important strut, " am the Great Mogul !"