The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

AUSTRIA.

The prospectus of the Austrian loan, which has
long been looked for, was published on the Frank-
fort Bourse last Tuesday. The sum which the
young Emperor wants to boorow is 35,000,000 florins.

ITALY.

ROME, MAY 10--The papal authorities uphold
that they have conducted the trial of Edward
Murray with all fitting justice and impartiality—
that Murray was implicated in a most extensive
series of offences, of which two, of a capital nature,
called forth the indignant remonstrances of the Bri-
tish consul himself to the triumviri during the re-
public ; and that, furthermore, all observations on
this head are now useless, as the case had been de-
cided by the competent tribunal. Touching the
prisoner's state of health and place of detention, his
eminence states that although his life is not abso-
lutely in danger, he has been removed into the in-
firmary, where he receives all proper attention. The
Secretary of State is said to have disapproved of a
petition in Murray's favour having been drawn up
and signed by several British residents here for
presentation to the Pope, such a proceeding being
contrary to an edict emanated by the triumvirate of
cardinals, previous to the return of Pio Nono, pro-
hibiting numerously signed petitions from being
presented to his holiness. The petition, however,
having been actually sent, will most probably have
the effect of preventing the extreme sentence of
the law from being carried out in Murray's case,
and very likely his companions will owe their lives
to the same circumstance, as his holiness can hardly
pardon a foreigner, and cut off the heads of his own
subjects for the same offence. Later accounts
state that Mr. Murray has been sent to Ancona, it
is supposed for execution.
M. 'Tiers reached Rome on the 12th, and had an
interview with Cardinal Antonelli.

Dr. Achilli's action for libel against Dr. Newman
has made a great sensation amongst the friends of
the former in Rome, in consequence of a person
having been sent from England to investigate the
case, and disapprove the serious charges brought
by Dr. Newman against Dr. Achilli's moral con-
duct. I have it on excellent authority that a
Roman lawyer has been sent to Viterbo, Monte-
fiascone, and San Lorenzo Nuovo, about 70 miles
from Rome, which are the places where the immo-
ralities alluded to are pretended to have been coin-
mated, and the result of his inquiries tend strongly
to do away with the probability of such charges being
at all founded. He ascertained also that Jesuits,
lawyers, and Dominicans had been industriously
at work in the above-named towns, obtaining from
the ecclesiastical courts, the police courts, and
private individuals, every kind of document and
certificate which they thought prejudicial to the
character of Dr. Achilli, and liberally rewarding
whoever was ready to make a deposition against him.
Two women of very dubious reputation figure on
their list of witnesses, one of whom, named Bianchi
Geppina, they had even induced to undertake a
journey to London. in order to appear in court
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