The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-20 00:00:00

ITALY.

The Croce di Savoia of the 15th inst. has the fol.
losvirg :
" We are assured that a concordat has been concluded
between Rome and the Sardinian Government. The
latter, it appears, agreed to the unconditional return to
their respective dioceses of Archbishops Franzoni and
Marengiu. and to the appointment of a new Nuncio to
Turin. It is net known whether the Nuncio is to be in-
vested with the powers enjoyed by his predecessor. The
object and result of these arrangements, which are partly
the work of the Court of Caserta, would be a political
league between Rome, Naples, Piedmont, and Tuscany,
in ':rater to obtain the evacuition of the Pontifical States
by V e French and Austrian troop 3."
The Grandour has arrived at Toulon from Civita
Vecchia, with letters from Rome, 108 passengers
from the army of occuption, and two bishops.
Everything, when the vessel left, appeared tranquil
in the Roman States. The arrest at Ancona by the
Austrian troops, and the condemnation to death by
the Papal authorities of a rntmber of the Roman
C.mstituent Assembly, had produced a painful sensa-
tion. It was hoped that the sentence would not be
executed.

The Opinione of Turin of the 14th quotes, from
the official report which has been just presented to
the Papal Government by advocates FILIPPO MAS•
SANI and LUIGI DATA; OLIO, who bad been named
syndics fir the t.udit of the accounts of the Roman
municipality under the Republic, a passage, from
which it appears that the rumours, which had gained
credit after the taking of Rome, of embezzlement on
a large scale by the civic authorities of those days,
were utterly unfounded. The passage is as folows
We believed we should be entering a labyrinth
en examining the expenditure of the first six months
of 1849 ; but to say the truth we have found nothing
at variance with the regulations, nor anything sa-
vouring of arbitrary conduct."
Letters from Florence,•in the Opinione of Turin,
state that Signor VIVIANI, a Sardinian subject, who
had been arrested a few days before at Leghorn, by
order of Count CRENNEVILLE, the Austrian military
commandant, has been released on the representations
of the Sardinian Ambassador at Florence, Signor DI
VILLAMARINA. It is stated that Count CRENNEVILLE,
thinking that the state of siege at present in vigour
at Leghorn, dispensed him from giving any explana-
tions on the subject of that arrest, had at first given
but a non-official answer to Signor DI VILLAMARINA'S
official application ; but that the Piedrnontese resi-
dents in Tuscany, who foresaw that, such a principle
once laid down, they would for ever afterwards be at
the mercy of any foreign military commandant,
threatened to petition the Chambers of Turin on the
subject, and make a much more serious matter of it
than was at first intended, unless Signor VIVIANI
were set at liberty without, delay ; a course which
was at last adopted, es stated above.

STRANGE MURDER IN LANCASHIRE.
On Friday morning the fact of a horrid murder and
robbery having teen committed on Lately-common,
between Marsland-green and the village of Bedford,
was brought to light by the discovery of the
body of the unfortunate victim, George Green, in a
pond near the road side. The deceased had been mis-
sing since Wednesday night, having left his home in Cul-
cheth, near Leigh, on Wednesday morning to go to the
Salford cattle-market, near Manchester, a distance of
from 10 to 12 miles, to dispel() of five calves, which he
had taken from neighbouring farmers on speculation.
The unfortunate man was upwards of 50 years old, and
' had lived in the neighbourhood many years, sometimes
as indoor farm-servant, but was employed more fre-
quently as outdoor jobber, and had gone once or
' twice a week to Manchester for some years to sell
and l,uy produce of any kind at a small commission.
This was his second journey only as a speculator on his
own account. On Wednesday he was accompanied to
and from Salford by John Msssey, of Bedford, la-
bourer, who drove the cart containing the calves.
Massey supposes him to have sold the calves for
245. or 255. They left Manchester to return home about
four o'clock on Wedneiday afternoon, and reached Mars-
land-green, two miles and a half from Green's home,
about nine o'clock. On arriving at Marsland-green the
deceased got out of the cart, and invited Massey to go
with him and smoke a pipe, but his companion de-
clined, and they parted. He Was next seen at Jacob
Thomasson's (his son-in-law) cottage, Marsland-green,
with whom he smoked a pipe of -tobacco. He stopped
Ihere about an hour, and then-said he would go home.
He left, as hia son-in-law describes it, " merry and feesh,
but not drunk," and Massey states that they had only
partaken of five half-pints Of ale between them
on their way home. He always' took the field road
home across the common (leading within half-a-dozen
yards of the pond where his body'has since been found),
according to the statement of Thomasson. The next
evidence of his progress in • point of time and
place traces him to within a hundred yards of
the lane where he would strike off across the
common. This was at John Green's beer-house.
Mrs. Green says she had been out foddering the
cows about a quarter-past 10 o'clock, when she heard a
knock at the door, and went to answer it, in the expec-
tation that the county police-constable had called to see
if the house was clear of company. When she had
opened the door the deceased asked her to fill him a
gill of ale, but she replied that she durst not do
it on any account at that hour, and he went away.
About this time a man named Thomas Collier says
ho was going up the lane (along which deceased would
have to go home), when he saw John Green, the beer-
house-keeper, smoking his pipe there. 'They walked
together towards the beerhouse, tillethey saw George
Green, the deceased, when John said he would tarn back
with George, and they parted. The two,Greens are not re-
lated. From this time nothing more -was heard of him
alive. His wife, to whom he had beet married about a
year, and by whom he had one child, merit in search of
him next morning, and some friencheisought him all
Thursday in vain. On Friday hise wife consulted
County Police-constable Massey, and by his advice a
pond on Lately-common, not more than half a dozen
yards from the field road he would have to pass

along, and half a mile from the beerdeouse, was ex-
amined. The nearest side of the pond, covered with green
weeds and stagnant, was only a toot or so deep, and ap-
peared not to have been lately disturbed ; but on the
further aide, where the water was deeper—perhaps
three or four feet in depth—there was water more free
hum weeds than might have been expected. It was
rather muddy also, but a steady gaze enabled the
searchers to discover, at the bottom of the pond,. a
straw hat. This was brought to the top and identified
as the hat worn by George Green. The brim was turned
over and pinned together, and on the hat being opened a
heavy green sod was found inside, the object having evi-
dently been to sink it by such means. Scarcely bad the hat
been found ere the body of the unfortunate man was also
discovered at the bottom of the pond on the same side.
On being taken from the pond the evidences of murder and
its object were palpable enough. The front and other
portions of the head were almost battered to pieces. Most
of the pockets of the unfortunate man were turned in-
side cut, and ell his money had been taken. In one
pocket only a short tobacco-pipe was found. The body
had been weighted so as to keep it down, and on the
surface of the water above it had been strewn some
dried branches of trees, no doubt to aid concealment
for a time. In the same pond, also, the probablein-
strument of murder—a short, thick, bent stick, appa-
rently part of the branch of a willow tree—w as found.
It is by no means a heavy or formidable instrument, so
far as weight and form gu; bat it is of sufficient thick-
ness to do serious mischief, being about tour inches
and a half in cireumlerence at one end and three
and a half at the other, and about eighteen inches
long. At the thickest end is a trace of blood, and
apparently a grey human hair. On the road in
front of the pond was discovered the trace of a recent
struggle, and on the grass close by its side a pool of
blood. On the further side of the pond, also, where the
body had been probehly first laid before putting it in the
water, the grass was found deeply saturated with blood.
The murder is supposed to have been committed by some
one well acquainted with the neighbourhood, teorn the
fact of the deeper side of the pond being known to the
murderer and having been selected for concealment. At
the end of the field, only 100 yards further on, is the
houso of a weaver and small farmer, hut none of its
windows overlook the spot, and the field is otherwise
rather
.retired and the place a lonely one.
A n inquest was opened on Saturday at Bedford, near
Leigh, and adjourned -to Friday next. The evidence
threw 110 light un the murder beyond what is given above.
Suspicion falls strongly upon a man who is under the
surveillance of the police, and who was at the house
where the inquest was held in a state of beastly in-
toxicetion.

LAUNcF.STON. JAN. 25.—The Ptilip Widen, from
L;)11,;uu, uu shut eou tile 11, b;, u:,t,tolee
of Tamar, but is expee:ed off withuut much damage.
OFF DOW:R.—lmperial, Adelaide, South Australia.