The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1850-02-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HOUSE OF • COMMONS.-FRIDAY  After a short incidental discussion respecting one of the sessional orders, the debate upon the address was recommenced by  The Marquis of GRANBY, who, confining himself to the paragraph in the speech to which the amendment was directed, and  jesty's subjects, combated the ',pinions of Mr. Villiers as to the real causes of agricultural distress. At large meetings through. out the country the language universally held had been that under present prices it was impossible for the occupiers of land to cultivate it profitably; that they must haveprotection against foreigners. This, however, was a subject which involved the interests, not of owners and occupiers of land merely, but of  muourers, wno zar outnumbered those engaged in other pursuits, ar,d who had been worse off since the free trade measures. On the other hand, the Marquis adduced evidence to show that our present manufacturing prosperity was temporary and transient, if not unreal.; but suppose it to be real, the answer was, our manufactures are protected ; with . . _ _ what justice, then  The West India steamer Medway arrived on Friday with the mails, a valuable cargo, and nearly two millions of dollars on merchants account. Our Jamaica news is to the 7th of January. The island was healthy. The sugar market lower-17s. 11d. to 19s. per hundred pounds; pimento, 31. The Rum Duty Bill had, without the appropriation clauses, been sent back to the House of Assembly. The session would quietly terminate. Medway's news from California is to the Ist of December. Gold was still abundant. Sickness, however, prevails. Nicaragua accounts state that all was quiet. Vessels of war from England and America were anxiously expected to protect interests. Trade was dull at Valparaiso, and the Indians were reported to have risen, threatening the peace of Valdivia. It was rumoured the rising would be put down by the governnient of Chili. Insurrections were also taking place at Bolivia. Trinidad accounts are favourable, crops promising. • From Antigua we learn the weather was propitious, and the island free from yellow fever.  The only other news of importance is the loss, by drowning, it is supposed, of a special courtier with important despatches for Lord Palmerston, from the charge d'affaires at Bogota.  The celebrated sculptor, Bartolinl, died at Florence on the 20th ult., aged 77, after a short illness of three days. Intelligence from Santa Fe states, that thirty-two Californian emigrants had been murdered by the Indians on the plains.  Messrs. Jones, Ball, and Poor, of Boston, have in their possession a single lump of gold from California, weighing six pounds !  _ . The project of the marriage of the Princess Louisa of the Netherlands to the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway has obtained the official consent of his Majesty. It appears from subsequent accounts that Dr. Achilli did not " make his escape" from the Castle of St. Angelo, but that he was " liberated by the government authorities."  The house of Rothschild has taken the proposed loan of thirty-three million francs to his Holiness, so that if want  of his return  :Come, we may speedi.  ltinued  ly anticipate hearing  Accounts from Brazil state that the establishment of Senhor Tavares, for the growth of mulberry trees and pro. pagation of silk worms in the province of Rio de Janeiro, was very flourishing; having produced, in twenty-one days, I,llBtb 3oz. of silk of excellent quality. Lamartine is about to turn romance-writer ; and he has had the extraordinary good luck to find speculators who have bound themselves to pay him £20,000 for a certain number of romances—at the rate of £l,OOO a volume, or thereabouts. One of these romances is already in the bands of the publishers. Letters from Stockholm of the 15th say that a ministerial crisis was imminent. The minister of war, General de Hohenhausen, was to retire, and be replaced by Count Loewnjelm ; and Baron R. Palmsljerna, formerly minister of Sweden at St. Petersburgh, was to become minister of foreign affairs.