The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-03 00:00:00

LATEST FROM ROME.

The Moniteur publishes despatches from Gen. Oudinot
dated Santucci, the 24th of June, from which it appears
that he had made no advance, and was fortifying himself
on the breach. These despatches narrate all that occurred
to the 23rd inclusive, but add nothing to what has been
already published.

The loss on the side of the French in the operations of
the 22nd and 23rd amount, according to those despatches,
to about 20 killed and 60 wounded. Amongst the former
were three captains, one of of Coquinnes and two of the
line. A captain and lieutenant of the 36th Regiment
were amongst the wounded.
Another battery of siege pieces of the Ist Regiment of
Artillcry left Grenoble on the 28th ult. for Toulon, where
it was to be embarked for Civita Vecchia; and letters from
Marseilles, referred to by the National, state that rein-
forcements to a considerable amount were embarked on
the 26th for the same place. The same letters add that
negotiations were still going on between the French and
the Roman governments.

A letter received by a gentleman in New York, states
that it is Mdle. Jenny Lind's wish to appear in that city,
previous to her final retirement from the stage.
Count Zichy, the late governor of Venice, has been
condemned to ten years' imprisonment, for having taken
flight from that city last year, instead of defending his
post. Zichy is the brother-in-law of Prince Metternich.
The crops have entirely failed in South Russia. Num-
bers of the poor people have perished of famine, and the
scurvy, which has broken out there with unexampled
virulence, is making the most frightful ravages.
A skirmish took place at Diippel on the 24th ult. The
firing continued more than four hours, and ended with
the retreat of the Danes. The Germans had 13 men
kilted and 1 wounded, but the losses of the Danes are
thought to be more considerable.

Epicures about to emigrate to New Zealand will learn
with pleasure, from a book lately publ;shed by Mr. Power,
that a little fish closely resembling the Thames whitebait,
and fully equal in flavour to that metropolitan delicacy, is
found in great numbers in several of the New Zealand
rivers during the spring months.
Some persons employed in clearing out a cellar adjoin-
ing the cloisters of the cathedral at Cologne, where several
Roman remains have recently been found, on the 21st,
discovered a Roman apartment. The walls are covered
with paintings, and the floor is of mosaic, of admirable
workmanship, and in good preservation. The remains
of a gigantic column were likewise found.
NARROW ESCAPE OF THE BISHOP OF JAMAICA.—The
Jamaica Despatch gives the particulars of an accident
which befel the Bishop a few days previously. It appears
he was proceeding from his mountain residence, when his
horse fell down a precipice nearly 250 feet deep. His
lordship had a narrow escape. His fall was arrested
within a few feet of the surface of the road, by his clutch.
ing and clinging to the branch of a tree.

The port of Ancona has been effectually blockaded by
ships of war of the Austrian navy. The Austrian Minister
on notifying officially that measure to the French Charge
d'Affaires at Vienna added, " that the sole object of the
Austrian Government is to co-perate in the re-establish-
ment of the Pontifical authority (Ancona being occupied
by the Austrian troops in the name of his Holiness), and
that the blockade shall be raised when that object shall
have been effected."
A letter from Berne of the 23d inst. announces the
conclusion of peace between Austria and Sardinia on the
following conditions :—The evacuation of Allesandria ;
payment to Austria of the expenses of the war; Modena
and Parma to be ceded to Piedmont in lieu of Lombardy ;
an offensive and defensive and alliance between Austria
Piedmont, and the latter to furnish a contingent of 20,000
men. [This news seems t.) be a little premature, as the
treaty is still in abeyance, owing to the pecuniary demands
made by the Austrians.]
A late number of an American paper, the Boston Times,
says : " On Wednesday we shall issue a second edition,
but no first edition."
According to Mr. Macaulay, the vulgar proverb that
the " grey mare is the better horse," originated in the
preference generally given to the grey mares of Flanders
over the finest coach horses of England.
STRANGE STORY.—A letter from St. Jean Pied-de-Port
of the 12th of June, in the Memorial de Pyrentres, gives
the following curious story :—" Curiosity has been excited
on our frontier for the last two months by the presence of
a youthful and handsome couple, who established them-
selves in the village of Arneguy towards the commence-
ment of April. The lady was in what is called `an inte-
resting situation.' The inhabitants respected the incog-
nito of the strangers, whose generosity in the distribution
of alms and presents excited public curiosity to a still
greater degree. The truth, however, has at last trans-
pired. The case was nothing less than the establishment
of the rights of the child to the crown of Spain by its
birth at Valcarlos, in the Haute-Navarre. It is well
known that the Princess Josepha Fernanda de Bourbon,
daughter of Francisco de Paula, who was born at Aran-
juez in the month of May, 1827, was married about a year
and a half ago to a M. Jose de Grielle y Rente, born at
the Havannah (Cuba), in the month of September, 1818.
This marriage was not sanctioned by the Queen ; and it
was this state of things that induced the couple to visit
our country for the purpose of securing a proper birth-
place for the infant, whose mother is cousin-german to
the King of Spain. On the 29th the child was born. It
was baptized the same day in the church of Valcarlos. It
godfather was the maternal grandfather of the child, Don
,Francisco de Paula, who was represented by a M. Aguirre,
ex-deputy of the Cortes, aad Commander of the Order of

Isabella the Catholic. The infant received the following
interminable Christian name —Raimondo Roberto George
Francisco de Paula Antonio Jose Lorenzo Bonaventura. If
fortune should one day raise him to the throne of Spain
he may make his choice."