The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-06-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.—EXTRACT OF A LETTER, PARIS, JUNE 8  This is Saint Medard ! (the St. Swithin of Frdnce), and it has rained incessantly all day, as it has done in fact for the forty days that have preceded it. Will you believe that the gloom which, had this been the 9th instead of the Bth of June, would have been produced by a continuance of rain and cold, is considerably enhanced by the recollection that this is Saint Medard? A report prevails on the Bourse (of all places!) that the astronomers predict that a favourable change will take place on Saturday. Let us hope that this is something more than a mere stock-jobbing rutnour, for the weather is the sole influence now felt at the Bourse, political excitement being for the moment in abeyance. Should the weather improve, we shall yet have a good harvest, but this is the critical moment. We have had much rain and a very cold temperature, but no material injury has yet occurred to the corn crops. The vintage will, however, in any case be a failure. You already know that irreparable mischief has been done to the vines of Bordeaux and of Burgundy. The prospect in Champagne may be collected from the following passage in a letter I read yesterday, from an officer of the Regiment of Artillery, now on its march from Paris to Metz, and dated Chalons sur Marne : " The vintage in this country will be the worst on record. Our cannoneers will, on passing through Champagne, have drunk more Chaimpagne wine than the whole vintage of the present year wall supply."  The pope has given authority to a company of the duchy of Modena, to construct a railroad from Rome to Civita Vecchia.—French paper. A visit can be made, by steam from New York, to the great western wonder, Niagara Falls ; and the whole expense of going and returning does not exceed thirty dollars. It appears, from a recent statistical account, that from 1829 to 1843, a period of fourteen years, there died in France 2254 persons who had attained the age of 100 years. being an average of 161 per annum.—Galignani. The Hon. Robert H. Morris, recently elected mayor of New York, celebrated and signalised that event by subscribing to the pledge of total abstinence. The King of Prussia saved his life a few days ago in the deer-park near Potsdam, by seizing a rifle from an attendant, and killing on the spot a furious stag, which has often done mischief, and was running in full career at his Majesty. The King of Prussia has presented three beautiful vases from the royal porcelain manufactory at Berlin, to a confectioner at Cologne, as an acknowledgment for a perfect and most accurately-worked model of the cathedral of Cologne, made of sugar.  On the 24th ult. about noon, an elderly man, who was pursued by some gendarmes, but for what offence is not stated, rushed into the cathedral at Cologne, and, ascending to one of the towers, threw himself off at a height of 180 feet. The violence of the fall was so great, the body was literally broken in half.  The state of New Jersey is much excited, owing to one of the most horrible murders ever recorded having been perpetrated within its limits. On Monday, the 22nd ult. some villains got into the house of Mr. Parke, a wealthy landowner, living near Belvidere, murdered him, his son-in-law (Mr. Castner,) Mrs. Castner, and her child in her arms, and then robbed the house. Two men are in custody on suspicion of being the monsters.