The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-16 00:00:00

ROME.

Letters received from Rome spew that the French Go-
vernment has lost all hope of getting better terms from
the Pope in favour of the Romans who in any way held
office under the Republican Government. These letters
state that the deputies of the Roman Assembly who had
remained in Rome since the dissolution of that body,
quitted that capital on the 30th, to the number of sixty.
They were accompanied for a considerable way beyond the
walls of the city by a crowd of the people, who cried out
from time to time, " Long live our deputies ; we shall
never forget them !" This demonstration made a great
impression as well on the Government as on the French
garrison. The deputies have embarked at Civita Vecchia,
some of them going to Marseilles and others to Toulon,
but the greater number going to Genoa. Eighteen have
already arrived at Marseilles.
Several French soldiers have been assassinated in the
public streets at Rome, in consequence of which General
Rostolan has issued a decree demanding the delivering up
of all kinds of arms within tweaty-four hours, and inti-
mating that all persons in whose houses such weapons
should be found hereafter should be tried before a council
of war.

The Pope has caused a medal to be struck, for distribu-
tion among the troops who assisted in his restoration.
How far it will be regarded by them as a decoration re-
mains to be seen.

The accounts from Germany state that the affairs of
Schleswig Holstein are still in a most embarrassed position;
the people of the duchy refusing to pay the taxes to other
than the German authorities.

The Russian question will be amicably adjusted, and
Austria will not go to extremities. Reports of the execu-
tion of the Hungarian generals at Aara are confirmed.
Comorn is completely in the hands of Austria. 18,000
Hungarians were sent home on the 4th.
Count Louis Bathyany, and thirteen other Hungarian
generals, have been sentenced to be hung.

WARSAW GOSSIP.-Tt is said that the honours con-
ferred upon the Prince Field-Marshal by the Czar, have
created great dissatisfaction and jealousy, especially in the
guards and imperial family. Since, independently of his
requiring the former to pay the same honours to Prince
Paskiewitch, with standards, &c., they pay to the Czar,
all members of the imperial house are obliged to stand in
the marshal's presence. Indeed, it is reported generally
at Warsaw that this subject led to the attack which car-
ried off the Grand Duke Michael. His imperial highness,
it is stated, presented himself to the Czar so soon as the
order was issued, remonstrated warmly, and declared that
be would never submit to rise or to pay the required com-
pliments. A hot discussion is said to have ensued, which
so much affected and irritated the grand duke that he was
attacked on parade in the manner known to all.—John
Bull.

The Jesuits have been restored at Naples, by the King,
at the urgent request of the Cardinal-Archbishop of Na-
ples. . _

VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.—The prospect of this colony
is gloomy. The convicts have driven the capitalists out
of the islands. Trade is much injured by the excessive
taxation on the produce imported from the neighbouring
colonies.

The oldest man in France, M. Jean Baptiste Robil-
lard, died on the Ist of October at Fontenay, near Paris,
.at the age of 113 years 4 months and 2 days. He was
born in June, 1736, liobillard retained the use of all his
faculties to the last moment.

FANATICISM.—The feast " the Holy Rosary," ori-
ginally instituted by Pius V., in commemoration of a
victory over the "Infidels" at Lepanto, in 1571, with
which subsequent commemorations of victories in the
wars between the Christians and Turks are associated,
was celebrated this year in the Church of Notre Dame
des Vietoires, at Paris, with extraordinary solemnity, in
honour of the recent triumphs of " the Catholic arms."
Mdlle. Lind has, at length, quitted the Rhineland, for
Stockholm, where it is her intention to pass the winter.
Mr. Lumley recently appeared at Ems, with a view to in-
ducing her to engage herself to his theatre for the next
season ; but Mdlle. Lind declined all proposals made by
the London manager. Judging by the past, we should
be justified in deducing from these rumours the certain
assurance of the lady's reappearance in the Haymarket.
DESTRUCTION OF `MOUNTAIN BRIDGE.—The Vedette
des Alpes states that, on the night of the Ist of October,
during a violent gale of wind, preceded by a thunder-
storm, the suspension bridge of Savines, in the Hautes-
Alpes, was carried away. This deplorable event has
plunged the inhabitants of the district into consternation.
The accident is attributed to the force of the wind,
although some think that the lightning affected the cast-
iron work of the bridge.
MRS. BUTLER'S CASE.--The long-vexed question of
divorce between Pierce Butler and his wife Frances Ann

(Fanny Kemble) Butler is at length settled. By the
decree of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia, on
the 22d day of September, 1849, the court ordered,
adjudged, and decreed, that " the said Pierce Butler, the
libellant, be divorced and separated from the bond of
matrimony contracted with the said Frances Ann Butler,
the respondent; and with all and every the duties, rights,
and claims accruing to either of the said parties by reason
of the said marriage shall henceforth cease and determine,
and the said parties he severally at liberty to marry again,
in like manner as if they never had been married." The
above is understood to be the result of an amicable
arrangement, and it is said that Mr. Butler is to allow his
divorced lady 1,500 dollars a year, and the children ere to
pass a part of their time with their mother.
AN UNREASONABLE LODGER.—" A few days ago,"
says a contemporary, " M. —, one of the most promi-
nent Socialists of the Mountain, arrived in Paris to resume

his seat in the National Assembly, and enraged a lodging
in a furnished hotel. On giving his name to the mistress
of the hotel, he said, ` Je suis un representant—rouge,
tout ce qu'il y a de plus rouge ; ' to which no reply was
made. He took possession of his apartment, and on the
folio wing morning, as he was leaving his bedroom, a gen-
tleman, who lodges on the same floor, was also leaving
his room, humming the air of a song which is not in the
repertory of the Socialists. M. --- was much annoyed,
• and instantly went to the mistress of the hotel to com-
plain of a reactionist being on the same floor with him,
and to demand that she should instantly give him notice
to quit, M. declaring that he would not permit the
reactionist to sleep two nights longer under the same roof
• with himself. The mistress of the hotel replied, that the
gentleman in question had lodged with her two years and
a half, and that she could not think of turning away a
lodger of nearly three years' standing for one of yesterday.
She added, `And, permit me to say, Monsieur, that for a
Socialist chief you give me a very poor idea of your social
feelings and your fraternity.' "—Galignani,
A MUSICAL MURDERER.—The Journal de l' Indre et
Loire, of the 7th instant, reports a most extraordinary
case of attempted assassination. M. Creton, bandmaster
of the Ist Lancers, had resided for four years at Tours,
and left there many honourable recollections. On the 2d
instant a man named Chivallon, remarkable in the de-
partment of the Indre et Loire for his talent as a player
on the cornet-a-piston, presented himself very politely to
our friend Creton and showced him a quintett of his own
composition, inquiring whether it could be performed by
his band. M. Creton replied, that he had only to distri-
bute the parts, and that when they were ready it should
be tried. At nine o'clock at night the fellow Chivallon
re-appeared at M. Creton's door, on the opening of which
he rushed in, presented a pistol, and said (still very po-
litely), "M. Creton, you are a dead man !" He then
fired a pistol, the ball of which was found in M. Creton's
shirt, its further course having been stopped by a girdle
which he wore. He was, nevertheless, wounded in the
hand. M. Creton's first impulse was to rise and throttle
the murderer; but the latter remarked, with great sang-
froid, " It is useless, M. Creton ; it is too late; you are
, a dead man !" M. Creton, however, felt sufficient vital
energy to continue the operation of, strangling, and he
would certainly have anticipated the work of Jack Ketch
had not a policeman arrived in time. The ruffian was
forthwith placed in confinement, and awaits the sentence
of the law. This strange scene was enacted at Ram-
bouillet.

CONTEMPLATED RAILROAD BETWEEN THE ATLANTIC
AND PACIFIC OCEANS.---By the last advices from Americs
it appears that two great conventions are to be held this
month in the valley of the Mississippi for the purpose of
oromotinß a line of railroad between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. One of the meetings is to be held at

St. Louis, the other at Memphis, each with the view of
advocating its claim to be the head quarters of this
gigantic conception ; the route from St. Louis is advocated
by the northern interest. while that which is proposed to
commence at Memphis is represented by the middle and
south-eastern portion of the Union. Memphis is one of
the many towns which have sprung up, mushroom like, in
the United States. A few years ago it was scarcely
known ; now it numbers 12,000 inhabitants, and is daily
increasing in magnitude. It stands on the east bank of
the Mississippi River, about 750 miles above New Orleans.
It is close to the boundary line which divides the States
Mississippi and Tennessee. Steam-packets of the largest
class ply regularly between it and New Orleans ; and its
great advantage over St. Louis is said to be, that the river
is navigable at all seasons for the largest steamers of the
western waters as high as Memphis, while the navigation
up to St. Louis is interrupted in summer by the want of
sufficient water, and not unfrequently in the winter
months the river is closed with ice as low down as the
Ohio.

MAGNIFICENCE OF THE TRINITY CONVENT IN Rus-
Sl.A.—This convent is important on account of its wealth,
and famous from the historical recollections connected
with it. It was in the beginning of the seventeenth cen-
tury the centre of the Russian opposition against the
usurpation of the Poles, who vainly endeavoured to reduce
it by force of arms and bribery. It suffered another siege
in 1615 ; and the peace of 1619, which for a time ended
the feuds of the rival nations, was signed within the walls
of Troitza Lawra. Here, too, the Czars Ivan and Peter
sought and found safety in 1685, when their lives
were threatened by an insurrection of Russian
praetorians, the Strelitzi. Peter was four years later
again compelled to fly to this sanctuary, and it was from
thence he defeated the intrigues and broke the power of
his sister Sophia. The convent escaped the French inva-
sion of 1812. The army of Napoleon surrounded it, hut
not a single French soldier entered the sacred walls. The
Russians are fond of alluding to this circumstance, which,
according to their belief, was brought about by special
interposition of Providence. It is to be presumed the
French geiierals had no idea of the immense wealth which
lies hidd 61 within the old walls. The convent is a vast
building, almost a little town in itself, with above seventy
cupolas and steeples, most of them richly gilt. It com-
prises a palace for the emperor, and another for the arch-
bishop, nine churches, a bazaar, and other buildings,—the
whole surrounded by a thick wall, 50 feet high. The
principal steeple of the palace is 250 feet high. It con-
tains thirty-five bells, one of them of fourteen hundred
weight. The Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Mary
(Irpenski Kathedrale) is said to be one of the finest
churches in Russia ; but the Trinity Church (Troitza,)
after which the convent is named, is thought more respect-
able. In it there is the tomb of St. Sergius, famed for the
profusion of gold and silver jewels with which it is orna-
mented. The frame-work of the canopy over it is of
pure silver, and weighs 12 cwt. But this is nothing com-
pared to the wealth collected in what is called the " trea-
sury of the convent," consisting of clerical dresses, orna-
ments, sacred vessels of astonishing value, and remarkable
for their workmanship. The value of precious metals and
jewels in this treasury is computed to amount to above,
fifty million pounds sterling. The episcopal dresses, altar
cloths, and palls are literally covered with pearls. It is
almost impossible to count the number of pearls in the
picture frames and dresses in Troitza. Many pictures
have broad frames of pearls and precious stones. In
Troitka alone there is said to be a greater quantity of
pearls than in all the rest of Europe ; and as the riches of
this convent have in cases of need been offered to the Rus-
sian czars, it is to Troitza the present emperor would turn
if Mr. Cobden's naive proposition of " stopping the sup-
plies" to Russia, were, for a marvel, adopted by the money
broker.—Frazer's Magazine.
MODERN POPERY.—An awful piece of tomfoolery was
performed in Naples on the 19th ult. It was the annual
ceremony of what is called the liquefaction of the blood
of Saint Januarius, the patron saint of the Neapolitans.
You are aware that the principal church has for centuries
possessed a big bottle half full of black dingy substance,
which is represented to be the blood of the saint; and
once a year this bottle is brought out for the adoration of
the faithful ; some prayers are muttered, and a lot of
mummery is gone through ; after which the bottle is
publicly shown, and the substance therein proved to be
hard and dry : then come more prayers and more mum-
mery, and lo ! the blood all at once becomes liquid.
" A miracle ! a miracle !" is the cry ; and the poor, ig-
norant, wretched people, squatted on their knees on the
cold stones, are gravely taught to believe that this
prezious miracle confers some inestimable advantage on
them personally, and on the nation at large. The repe-
tition of the solemn imposture yesterday was on a grander
scale than usual ; eight cardinals, and I know not how
many bishops, were present. After the usual singing,
bowing, walking, and other theatrical performances, the
famous bottle, with the famous blood, was produced ;
hard as a rock seemed the latter, and almost as black as
coal—a nasty mess to look at, by the way. Hey presto !
hocus pocus ! behold ! the blood is flowing down the sides
of the bottle, and is quite red ! The miracle is done !
Mr. Anderson himself, great wizard of the north though
he be, could not have conjured more cleverly. The Pope
was to have been present, but by some mistake did not
arrive in time. As, however, it was deemed prudent not
to wait, the trick was got through without him. But to
make up for this he had a special liquefaction all for him-
self, which was represented to the people as a special
miracle. How this liquefaction business is effected lam
not chemist enough to explain; but it is supposed that
the priest who exposes the bottle drops through the stop-
per some chymical substance which has the effect of
melting a few drops of the coagulated blood. Be this as
it may, I am bound to confess that the thing is very
cleverly managed, and really does great credit to the skill
of the Popish clergy in concocting and executing impos-
tures. I will not waste your time by moralising on the
infamy of prelates,' cardinals, aye, and even the Pope
himself, sanctioning by their presence such a scandalous
piece of humbug. Whilst the thing was on I looked hard
at the cardinals, expecting to see them laugh like Roman
augers when they met in private; but to my surprise the
good fellows played their parts so admirably as to remain
perfectly serious. Apropos of the blood of St. Januarius,
it is related that, when the French were here in Napo-
leon's time, the priests, with the view of incensing the
people against them, prevented the liquefaction from tak-
ing place. The bottle was brought out—the usual mum-
meries done, but the blood would not dissolve. "It is
by the express interposition of heaven, to mark its wrath
at French domination !" said the priests : and the people
believed them. Bnt this suited not the French general
in command at Naples. He sent down his aide-de-camp
to the holy men. " What !" said the officer with an oath,
and so the miracle can't take place this year ?" " The
holy saint so wills it !" answered the priests, making the
sign of the cross. " Pooh, pooh ! Be reasonable, now—
let's have the miracle !" " The blasphemer !" ejaculated
the priests. " Satan avaunt !" and they sprinkled the
place with holy water. " What ! are you really decided
net to let us have the miracle ?" " Impossible !" " Well,
then, my dear reverend fathers, I just give you formal
notice that if the blood be not liquified to-morrow morn-
ing, before nine o'clock, the general swears he will come
down and liquefy it himself !" Miraculous to relate, the
blood became liquid before the appointed time. I am
bound, however, to state that this liquefaction, in obedi-
ence to the French, brought a good deal of discredit on
poor St. Januarius. The people believed that he had be-
come Jacobin in politics, and accordingly transferred their
reverence and prayers to St. Antoine, or St. Somebody
else ; and it was a long time before the unlucky Jan got
into favour again.—Britannia.