The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-10-09 00:00:00

ITALY.

PROHIBITION OF THE BIBLE.—In the sitting of the
Chamber of Deputies of Turin, of the 28th ult.. M.
Battini asked a question of the Minister of the Interior
concerning the manner in which liberty of conscience was
understood by Government, since the Bishops had
threatened dealers who sold Diodati's translation of the
Bible, and the Minister of the Interior had prohibited the
sale of that book ? The Minister very laconically answered
that the measures alluded to were perfectly constitutional!
The subject then dropped.
THE INQUISITION FOILED.—A correspondent of the
Daily News writes from Rome—" A grand escape of
condemned, or, more properly speaking, accused priests,
took place on the day before yesterday from the Inquisi-
tion, where they were confined, some for having acted
as regimental chaplains, some for having blessed the Re-
publican troops, and others for similar offences against
ecclesiastical decorum. They succeeded in effecting a
subterranean excavation from their dungeon to upper day,
or rather night, for they made off about one o'clock after
midnight, without being molested by the French sentries
in the neighbourhood, for, as it had been denied that
there were any prisoners in the vaults, the soldiers did
not consider themselves obliged to watch very strictly.
Some women of the Trastevere quarter are said to have
assisted considerably in the liberation of the prisoners, of
whom from nine to thirteen are variously stated to have
escaped. A few, amongst whom was M. Gazzola, of
literary and newspaper fame, refused to leave the prison,
some alleging that, being accused of pecuniary peccadillos,
flight would be equivalent to a confession of guilt ; and
some unfortunates, finally, were prevented from profiting
by the general move, and emerging with their companions
to ' riveder le stelle,' by the dreadful predicament of one
of their number, who, being a very stout man, got jam-
med in the escape hole, and fixed himself so firmly in the
wall by his own efforts, that, finding return as tedious as
to go o'er,' he was obliged to remain until the affair got
wind, and lie was captured midway. The French artil-
lerymen, walking from the neighbouring guard-house,
saw the first prisoners escape, and pretended not to ob-
serve them.

The fortress of Comorn has surrendered to the Aus-
trians, and hostilities have therefore ceased.
Eight Jews have been elected members of the House
of Assembly in Jamaica.
INTOLERANCE OF TRUTH.—In the Baths, at Lucca, a
British officer has received notice to quit, for giving a
religious tract to a sick man at the hospital.
A New York mercantile writer states that from ten to
twelve millions of dollars of specie are expected to arrive
in the United States from California during the autumn
months.
Advices from the Upper Missouri state that a battle
occurred on the 4th ultimo between the Pawnee and the
Omahu Indians, resulting in the defeat of the Pawnees,
with the lose of much property, forty-two horses, and
twenty warriors and chiefs.
The quantity of port wine exported from Portugal
during the first six months of this year was 21,451 pipes.
A considerable number of the trees of liberty planted
in Paris were removed privately during Saturday night,
by order of the Government.
The Feuile du Commerce, published at Port-au-Prince,
gives a long account of the proceedings at the nomination
of President Soulouque to the title and dignity of Emperor
of Hayti.
The Cologne Gazette of Wednesday, affirms on the au-
thority of Vienna letters of the 27th, that Kossuth and
his companions were already safe on board a British man-
of-war.
Several of the German republican leaders, who fled
from Baden, and among them Struve, have been ordered
to quit the Swiss territory ; and have already taken their
departure, it is said, for England.
Even in Vienna the publication of the mock amnesty
and mock constitution granted by the Pope has been re-
ceived with indignation and disgust. The Vienna journals
of the 28th are unanimous in protesting against the intro-
duction into Rome of a system of government so opposed
to the wishes of the mass of the Roman people.
EMIGRATION.—During the first seven months of the
present year, no fewer than 143,222 emigrants arrived at
New York from Europe. There is an increase of 32,818
over the number arriving in the same time last year, and
the number is fourfold that which arrived in an equal
time of 1844. Of the first-mentioned number, 101,220
belonged to Great Britain and 34,142 to Germany.
A gentleman in England, as yet unknown to the Cana-
dian public, has offered to make a gift of the means neces-
sary for opening 500 schools in the interior of Canada.
The Montreal Gazette of the 12th states, on positive
information, that by the last mail a despatch was received
on the subject of the Rebellion Losses Bill, forbidding a
single claim to be paid under the act, until the British.
Government is satisfied that not one rebel nameis recom-
mended on the list.
Loss OF THE CHINA MAIL.—A letter from a lady,
who is a resident at Ningpo, states that the March mail
from England was lost in the Torrington, on her passage
from Shanghae to Ningpo. The ship went down at her
anchors, and the mail-bags in her, but the crew and pas-
sengers were saved. The writer's letter is dated June 21.
Her Majesty's steamer Antelope, from the lonian Is-
lands, arrived at Malta, on the 25th ult. ; she reports that
the two revolutionists, for whom, dead or alive, the Lord
Commissioner had offered 1000 dollars, had aotbeen taken,
and the island of Cephalonia was still disturbed. The
.Sharpshooter (steamer) and the Racer (brig) were there,
and the fleet cruizing in the vicinity.
It is said the French government has received news
from Constantinople, from which it appears that Russia
has presented a new ultimatum of a very energetic cha-
racter, and that the Russian agents were endeavouring to
gain over a portion of the Divan and of the population.
It was said that the refugees had been allowed to with-
draw from Turkey, and that no attempt had been made to
stop them.
THE BLESSINGS OF SLAVERY.—Eight slaves recently
attempted to cross the Ohio river, below Maysville, in
order to get into Ohio and secure their freedom. There
were too many of them for the skiff, which upset, and
lour were drowned. The other four clung to the bottom
and cried for help, which came to them in the shape of a
gentleman who had them all put in gaol for their masters.
Another slave, who was helping them across, was flogged
to the extent of the law-39 lashes.
THE POPE ON THE STAGE.—A good deal of conversa-
tion has been excited by the production of a piece at the
Theatre of the Porte St. Martin, Paris, bearing the ambi-
tious title of Rome. The hero of the piece is no less a
personage than the Pope himself—the actual present
living Pope, Pius IX. His Holiness having in his younger
days served as an officer in the Russian campaign, con-
trived like a romantic young officer to fall in love, was
disappointed, and then, renouncing the world, entered
the Church, rose to be Pope, threw the world, with the
best intentions, into flame, and had to fly. All which
circumstances are boldly woven into a play. We have
also put on the stage Mazzini, Garibaldi, and some other
well-known heroes; the whole winding up with the entry
of General Oudinot at the head of the French army, at
which point the prudent dramatist stops.

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BRITISH SOVEREIGNS NO LONGER A LEGAL TENDER
IN BELGIUM.—The following significant intimation ap-
peared in the London papers of Wednesday :—" The
Afoniteur Belge contains a royal ordir.ance annulling the
legal currency of English gold in Belgium. Until the
3d of this month only the exchange of sovereigns is per-
mitted at the rate of 25 50 against other money or notes
having legal circulation in Belgium."
GEORGEY SHOT.—The Vienna correspondent of the
Times says—" It is universally said that Georgey has
been shot by Count Edmund Zichy, whose brother was
hanged by Georgey's order in the Danubian Island of
Csepel.—lt is not positively known whether the insur-
gent chief fell in a duel or not. The account which I
have heard is, that Count Zichy walked up to Georgey,
who was sitting in a coffee-house, and shot him dead on
the spot."
AUSTRIA.— CHANGE OF MINISTRY—VIENNA, OCT.
I.—The dissensions in the cabinet, on the Hungarian and
German questions, have reached a crisis. The portion of
the cabinet expected to go out is the most liberal, and
represents the principles of the March constitution. A
courier has started for London, with despatches to Collo-
redo, who is invited to accept the ministry of foreign
affairs in the new cabinet. Schmeriing is talked of as
president. The new policy will be to sink the constitution
of March 4, and to assume a very decided attitude on the
German question.
MELANCHOLY DISASTER.—The following catastrophe
happened at Lyons a few days ago. A young artist,
named Pinel, was returning in a came with some friends,
from a pleasure trip to Montluel. It was dark, and the
water party rowed themselves towards a small luminous
point, with the intention of asking shelter for the night.
But, alas ! the light proceeded from a water-mill, and in
a few seconds the canoe was dragged under the wheels,
then rapidly revolving. Three of the crew were disposed
of instanter; they were torn and submerged. A fourth
young man saved himself by his presence of mind. At
the moment of the wreck he seized the wheel of the
mill, clambered into the interior, and there remained,
turning round with the wheel until rescued from his
perilous situation.
DOCTORS FOR CALIFORNIA.—It appears that the gold
country has excited cupidity in every shape. According
to the French papers, a certain number of adventurers
were preparing to proceed to the Sacramento, and offer
their medical services to the diggers, who, it would ap-
pear, are greatly in want of doctors. In order to give
plausibility to their assertions, they have hit on a strange
trick, by which they enrol themselves clandestinely
among the profession. The widows of medical men are
carefully sought after, and offered very handsome sums
for the diplomas of their husbands, with which these en-
terprising gentlemen intend to practise in California.
The poor gold-seekers seem really condemned to every
kind of deception.—Lancet.

The Constitutionnel says,—" The Governments of
England and France have agreed to approve of the con-
duct followed at Constantinople by the two countries.
We are assured that they have sent a collective note to
St. Petersburg, and that they have-adjourned their answer
to the questions put by the Ambassadors, in the event,
which is fortunately not at all probable, of a violent rup-
ture between Turkey and Russia, until after the answer
w hich the Russian Government will make to the repre-
sentations which have been addressed to it in favour of
the Ottoman Porte."

The Genoa Gazette states from Sezze (Roman States),
that on the 20th ult. a M. Boffi, an advocate, while on his
way to his country house, was attacked by several brigands,
who, after having taken him to a wood, on the territory
of Sans Larenzo, demanded a ransom of 75,000 francs
of his family. The latter being unable to pay so exorbi-
tant a sum, the body of the unfortunate man was found
dead the next day with 11 wounds upon it.
THE BRAZILS.—The Seagull packet, Lieut. Smail,
commander, has arrived with the Brazil mails, having left
Rio Janeiro 16th of August, Bahia 2ith August, and Per-
nambuco 30th August. She brings on freight about
£24,000. At Rio nothing important of a political nature
had transpired ; business transactions for the month of
July were characterised by much flatness ; the march of
European politics continued to impede that activity which
might otherwise have been expected in produce. Of im-
ports the receipts were moderate, and the arrivals were
principally confined to the last week of July ; the market,
in the interim, was without animation, and its monotony
only occasionally relieved by some inquiry for re-export.
The Constantinople correspondence of the Times, pub-
lished in a second edition, states that the time required to
obtain the replies of the Emperors of Russia and Austria
will occupy from twenty days to a month, and it is only
then an eclaircissement can take place. The Turks thena-
selves do not expect an unfavourable termination of the
affair; but, nevertheless, all the available troops have
been ordered from the frontiers; the army of Roumelia,
40,000 strong, is ordered to hold itself in readiness to
march at the first signal ; and the principal redifs, or local
militia, have been embodied. The castles of the Bospho-
rus are to be fortified ; the greater part of the fleet is armed
and equipped, and can, in the course of a few hours, cast
anchor at the mouth of the Black Sea, so as to defend the
entrance of the Bosphorus.
AMERICA.—The North American mail steamer Niagara
arrived at Liverpool on Tuesday, with advices from New
York to the 19th ult.—A serious difficulty had arisen
bstween the United States Government and the French
Minister, M. Poussin, which has resulted in the offer to
him of his passport. We learn that it originated in a
question of salvage, which dates back to the blockade of
Vera Cruz during the Mexican war.—The " Henry Clay"
had been towed up the river. It was found that her
lower deck frame and hull below were not materially in-
jured. The rosin and flour had not been damaged by fire.
—Canada continues tranquil. Lord Elgin had arrived at
the Niagara Falls.—From Mexico we have advices to the
21st ult. It is asserted that England has offered to
mediate between the whites and Indians in Yucatan, on
the basis of certain concessions to be made to the Indians
by the American Government, together with the assign-
ment to them of a portion of territory, to remain exclu-
sively theirs.
The trial of the Macready and Forrest rioters com-
menced on the 12th ult., at New York, and excited great
interest. The first four days were occupied before the
jury were sworn, and the trial had not concluded on the
leaving of the packet. Some strange scenes had occurred
during the trial. One of the jurymen complained that
Mr. Smith, one of the counsel for the prisoners, bad
abused, insulted, and trifled with the jury ever since the
trial commenced. Mr. Smith, to the juryman: "The
only reply I have to make is, that you are a very unfit
man to sit on this jury."—Juryman, rising and speaking
snore warmly than before : " Mr. Smith, you tell a false-
hood,"—Mr. Smith, to the court : " There, your honour,
you see how it is."—The court intimated to Mr. Smith
that he had brought all this about by his public appeal.
WEST INDIES.—The mail steamer Medway, which ar-
rived at Southampton on Monday, has brought about
£192,000 in coin and bullion. The legislature of the
island of Jamaica was assembled on the sth of September,
when the Governor addressed the members in a lengthy
speech, replete with statistics on the financial condition
of the colony. He urged them to apply themselves reso-
lutely to the business of the country, and at once to ena-
ble the several parishes to raise the customary taxes. The
House of Assembly agreed to a reply on the night of the
6th, couched in terms which plainly indicated its deter-
mination to adhere to the same line of policy as that
which brought about the former rupture. The members
of the house favourable to the Government did their best
to substitute a milder address for the one agreed to, pro-
mising to raise the ordinary revenue ; but the amendment
was lost by 24 to 14. The number of the country party
had been augmented by the general election ; and among
the new members returned was a Mr. Price, a black man,
for the parish of St. John. The country party having a
large majority, it was generally believed that they would
carry through the house the bill reducing the expenditure,
which was passed by the former house, and rejected by
the council ; and another dissolution, therefore, was ex-
pected. On the very first night they showed their supe-
rior strength by displacing the former speaker, who, it is
alleged, was favourable to the legislative council, and
electing in his stead Dr. Morales, one of the country
party.—Her Majesty's steamer Plumper, Commander
Nolloth, arrived at Jamaica on the 31st of August from
Port-au-Prince, with the extraordinary news that Gen.
Soulouque, president of the Haytian republic, had been
declared emperor, and had assumed the imperial func-
tions.

CALIFORNIA.—The last accounts from California (to
August Ist) indicate that all the parties now engaged in
mining will have an opportunity of retaining the produce
of their labour, and of returning home with considerable
savings. The average yield is uniformly spoken of as an
ounce per day, and as provisions and clothing are at pre-
sent cheaper at San Francisco than in England, there is
nothing to prevent those who may preserve their health
and escape plunder from leaving with a handsome balance.
The number now estimated at the mines appears to be
25,000, and consequently the monthly produce ought to
be between £2,000,000 £3,000,000 sterling. Making
allowance for exaggeration, and also for the probability
that this rate of produce can only be obtained during a
few months of the year, it is sufficiently large to lead to
the supposition that distinct effects will be observed from
it when the eason closes, and the miners return to San
Francisco with their hoarded gains. It must be borne in
mind also that the present number of workers will be
largely augmented every month. In July alone no less
than 3,614 persons arrived at the port. A very great over
supply of merchandise still exists, and continues to in-
crease by fresh arrivals, the consequence of which is that
the market is quite glutted. The only articles that leave
good results are lumber, ready-prepared wooden houses,
dried fruits, and preserved meats, and now and again a
sale of champagne. " Dry goods" continue abundant,
and dull of sale. Some unusually large specimens of gold
have lately been brought to San Francisco from the mines.
One large lump, weighing 14alb. troy, was bought for
$3,560 on account of the house of Barron, Forbes, and
Co., of Mexico, and is said to be intended as a present to
her Majesty Queen Victoria. This is an irregular-shaped
slab, one side of which is all pure gold, and the other side
quartz, weighing about one-third of the whole, streaked
with lines of fine gold : its length is 60 inches, breadth 5a
inches. Another specimen was raffled two days ago for
$1,500: it weighed 71b. 10oz. troy of pure gold. Its in-
trinsic value is less than this; but all the large lumps sell
high as curiosities. The steamer California arrived at
Panama on the 25th ult. in 21 days from San Francisco.
bringing 51 passengers and about £500,000 in gold.
Considerable alarm had prevailed at San Francisco, in
consequence of a riot which took place on the 16th of
July. Seventeen men were arrested and tried before the
Alcalde, and two gentlemen selected by the people, on
charges of robbery and attempts to commit murder; the
ringleaders were convicted and sentenced to hard labour
in such penitentiary as the governor may direct, with
fines of from $250 to -B'l,ooo each. Very rich deposits
of gold had been found on the north fork of the American
river. The American steamer Empire City sailed from
Jamaica for New York on the sth of September, having
sailed from Chagres on the 29th of August. She had on
board 50 passengers from California, and it was said gold
dust from Ban Francisco, valued at 51,000,000. Gold