The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-27 00:00:00

THE EVENTS AT BARCELONA

The accounts from Barcelona come down to the 16th in-
stant. Some two thousand men, half of them soldiers, were
at work restoring the ramparts. A war contribution of
3,000,000 francs had been imposed on the city. Thirteen
soldiers were shot on the esplanade on the 13th. They were
taken for execution by lot, being part of the troops who were
arrested after the Captain-General entered the city, and who
were decimated. Seventy-four other prisoners had been sen-
tenced to ten years' hard labour in the presidios, seven to six
years, two to two years, and fifty-five were discharged.
The Paris Message,. and Moniteur say—" M. Ferdinand
de Lesseps, the Consul of France at Barcelona, was pro-
moted, by a royal ordinance of the 16th, to the rank of offi-
cer of the royal order of the Legion of Honour." By all the
Paris papers, with the exception of the National, the favour
conferred upon M. Lesseps was hailed as a dignified reply of
the French Government to the calumnies of the British and
Spanish press. On the Bourse it was deemed an intimation
of " King Louis Philippe's resolve to assume a decided atti-
tude with respect to Spain."
The last advices from Barcelona repeat, as on good autho-
rity, a report that the Spanish Minister at Paris had been in-
structed to demand the recal of M.. Lessens, the French Con-
sul at Barcelona. On the other hand, the French papers as-
sert, with an air of satisfaction, that the conduct of the Poli-
tical Chief Guttierez had been disavowed by the Spanish Go-
vernment, and that the amnesty about to be issued by the
Regent was on a large scale.
The Morning Post publishes an " authentic narrative of
the events at Barcelona," which, it says, may be regarded as
official in respect to the facts. The main statements are,
that the insurrection originated with the Republican party,
and substantially was limited to that party ; and that neither
the French Government nor M. Lesseps took any part in the
revolt, the very great activity of the French Consul being
solely directed to works of humanity. If this representation
is correct, every charge against him is unfounded. And the
Political Chief is directly accused of falsehood in his report
on the conduct of M. Lesseps. The Post adds, that the
French Government defends its representative only because
it believes him to be falsely accused. We have now abund-
ance of officially accredited assertion on both sides : time
must decide on which side the officials have "lied like a
chambermaid."

SUMMER IN WINTER.—On Wednesday last, the shortest
day, Mr. Ashworth gathered in his garden, opposite the
Swinton station, a beautiful nosegay of flowers, consisting of
wall-flowers, pinks, piccotees, polyanthuses, marigolds, vio-
lets, &c.—Doncaster• Gazette.

NOVEL FEATURE IN THE CORK CORN TRADE.--Rilther
a novel, at the same time hazardous, speculation in the corn
trade has been carrying on in our markets for the last two
months. An English gentleman, named Lyttelton, having
suddenly made his appearance at the Corn-exchange, has
been purchasing large quantities of black feeding oats, with-
out any regard whatever as to quality. This he immediately
ships on board a vessel for London, which he has previously
chartered for the purpose, without putting it through the
process of kiln drying. We understand that his speculations
have, as yet, been most fortunate, one cargo, which he pur-
chased about six weeks since, having reached the Thames,
from our harbour, in the short space of three days. We,
however, doubt much of the practicability of his preventing
the corn from being heated during the voyage, while the
present wet weather continues, as it must inevitably be in
some measure damp, when it is shot from the bags into the
bold of the vessel.— Cork Examiner.