The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-05-29 00:00:00

ITALY

It Contemporaneo of Rome of the 16th, says that M.
de Lesseps is the bearer of an order from the French Go-
vernment to General Oudinot net to attack Rome unless
solicited to do so.

La Speranza of the 15th, says that M. LeSseps was in
the course of the day to have an interview with the Tri-

teing sus

One division of the French occupied the meadows and
the heights between Montemario anti the tomb of Nero.
The Romans occupy Montemario ; another division of the
French being at Castel di Guido.
Colonel Roselli is named Commander in Chief of the
Roman Army.

Bologna still held out on the 10th.
Our correspondence from Turin is up to the 21st.
The appeal of General Ramorino had been rpi,,f,a

..,,,... tiller tins, rnree chairs were thrown from the
~, ~.... muppoNeu no wonia ne snot on the morning of the second tier to the stage, but fortunately injured no one.
2?nd. M. Costa de Beauregard is unwilling to accept Mr. Macready, pointing to the fragments strewn around
the Ministry of Foreign affairs. It is generally believed him, bowed to the audience and made his exit. In the
that peace has been concluded.
Several cannon balls have been found in the Vatican course of half an hour the-crowd dispersed." The best Gallery at Rome, and have been placed in the collection comment on these disgraceful proceedings is to be found
of coins, with the inscription, " gift of Pio Nem). in the New York Courier and Enquirer, which speaks
"
LEADER OF TIIE ROMAN ARMY.—Garibaldi is a native thus—" Reputations established by a single performance

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• —,' """ -',"“"5 i" 010 w Mr. Forrest, however, achieved for himself lastmuurt►night a
up the theatre at Genoa with the King in it), was forced distinction among actors and Americans of which no sue-
to run away from there, and for some years was employed censor will ever be likely to rob him. He is safe for ever,
as a partizan in South America; whence, on bearing of not only from rivalry, but from that envy from which it
the disturbances in Italy. he returned with a small band. often springs. He succeeded in doine last night what
He was pardoned by Charles Albert, and passed through even his had acting and unmanly conduct never did Nice in in November last, where he was feted and enthu- fore—he inflicted a thorough and, lasting disgrace upon
siastically received by a number of the Republican hot-
,)"
heads there. Thence he went to It'aly, and raised a body the American eh ratter.
of men about Rieti and in the mountains of the Neapo-
litan frontier ; but nothing was known of his history until
he was taken into pay by the new Roman government.

IRELAND.

Mr. Martin Keene, proprietor of one of the most ex-
THE HUNGARIAN WAR. • • tensive bookselling establishments in Dublin, has tailed.
The defeat of the Russians by the Hungarians,A farmer near Nenagh finding that the landlord can-
in the not seize between sun-set and sun-rise now works his
Jablunka Pass, appears to be confirmed, as also the tak-
plough by moonliolt.
ing of Buda from the Austrians by storm. Dembinski, at A young man, named Thompson, supposed to be in-
the last date (the 10th instant), was reported to be be- sane, murdered his sister on Monday last, at Belturbet,
tween Bartfeld and Eperies, at the head of 18,000 men, in by repeatedly stabbing her in the body with a knife.
advance of a much larger army, whose field of action was The sale of Mr. O'Connell's library commenced on
understood to be Gallicia, and a decisive battle was hourly Tuesday last, but none of the books (says the Freeman)
expected at Krosno. Carlsberg, it was also reported, had brought any thing like the prices which it might naturally
fallen into the hands of General Bern. At the same date, be expected they would realize.
a Hungarian army, amounting to 90,000 men, was at God. Maria Edgeworth, the celebrated Irish novelist, died at
ing, within twelve English miles of Vienna. The railway Edgeworthstown, county of Langford, on the morning of
from Vienna to Prague had been partially destroyed. Monday week, after a few hours illness. She was eighty-
It is said that an attempt had been made to take Buda three years of age, and the last years of her life were
by storm, hut the assailants were repulsed with great loss. passed in her native village in tranquillity and peace.
There is every reason to believe that the insurgents have A new phase in the picture of Irish destitution and
left the neighbourhood of Buda. crime is mentioned--the people watch the farmers plant-
We learn from Semlin that two complete battalions of ing potatoes, and come at night and dig up and devour the
regular troops arrived there on the 14th, and proceeded seed. The consequences of the robbery need not be dwelt
at once by way of Banoveze to occupy the right bank of upon.
the Danube, in conjunction with the fragments of Puffer's THE ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIMACY.—On Tuesday the
corps. Powerful reinforcements are also expected to election for the Roman Catholic primacy was held at
arrive within a day or two. Kniejanin is in the Csakisten Armagh. The three priests nominated are, the Rev. Dr.
battallion (district), not far from Tittel, with 7,000 men. Dixon. of Maynooth, dignissimus ; the Rev. Dr. Kieran,
The Russians continue to advance in great force through p.p., of Dundalk, dignior ; and the Rev. Dr. O'Hanlon,
Gallicia. but, in all probability, the only corps already in Professor of Maynooth College, dignus. The votes were
Hungary is that at Hardisch, and the vanguard of a —Dr. Dixon, 26; Dr. Kieran, 12; and Dr. O'Hanlon, 12.
second, amounting to 12,000 or 14,000 men, with 24 A gross outrage perpetrated on the household and person
cannons, under General Sass, in the Arva min y. Of of Mr. Sharpe, a steward to Lord Monteagle, at Mount
the movements of the Russians in the Banat, Transyl. Trenchard, in the county of Limerick, has called forth a
vania, and the Buckowina we know positively nothing. circular, addressed by his lordship to his tenantry in that
The operations of the Ban are also in mystery, and it is a district, in the course of which it is notified that all the
matter of doubt whether he has gone down the river to useful works for some time in progress there are to be
Peterwardein or ascended it as far as Modatch. suspended, and the persons employed thereon dismissed.
--- The Relief Association of the Society of Friends have
GREECE. published their report, from which it appears that the
Letters from Athens of the Bth instant announce the contributions, more than one-half of which came from
formation of a new cabinet, in which three members of America, confided to their care, amounted to £200,000.
the last administration had been retained, namely:— Indeed, money has been expended to an unprecedented
Messrs. Canaris (president), Kalifronas, and Glaraki. amount. The aggregate may be safely estimated at one
The ministry was composed as follows:—Admiral Cana. million and a half sterling. The advances by government
ris, senator, president of the council, minister of marine; amounted to nearly ten millions sterling.
General Tsavella, deputy, minister of war; M. Christides, A correspondent of the Limerick Reporter states, "that
of the interior; M. Chrestenides, of finance; M. Antono- on Wednesday last a conflict took place between the
poulos, deputy of justice; M. Kalifronas, deputy, retained country people and the police in the neighbourhood of the
the department of public instruction ; and M. Glaraki, Hospital, when one of the people was killed, and several,
was transferred from the ministry of the interior to that of it is feared, mortally wounded. It is stated that a number
foreign affairs. M. Rhally had exchanged the portfolio of of cattle, seized, had been impounded on Tuesday, and
justice for the presidency of the Areopagus ; and M. Ma- on the same night, the pound having been broken open,
vromicalis that of war, for a seat in the senate. M. Boul- every beast was driven off."
garis, former minister of finance, had alone retired with- Loss OF SEVEN LIVES.—On Monday a small farmer
out a compensation. from the parish of Drumholm, about two miles from
Much sensation has been awakened at Athens by a re- Ballintra, named Tunny, went out in a boat to a part of
velation of a negress, who declares that she is acquainted the Bay of Donegal, called the Waste Rocks, for the
with a spot, near Sparta, where a Turkish pasha bad bu- purpose of gathering sea-weed. He was accompanied by
ried 40,000,000 piastres (about £400,000), at the begin- his three sons, a servant boy, and two girls; and when
ning of the Greek revolution. The government has ap- they were returning home in the evening, a gale sprung
pointed a commission to make a search for this hidden up, the boat was upset, and the entire party, seven in
treasure, which will doubtlessly be found to exist in the number, were unfortunately drowned !
imagination of the informer. WHOLESALE EVICTIONS.—The two

is orth Tipperary
papers bring the particulars of one of the most sweeping
At Brescia the Austrians were continuing their course clearances of tenantry that has yet been recorded in the
of arrests ; 72 had been arrested within the last few drys. annals of southern evictions. Both these journals, one
Au extraordinary tax on all the inhabitants of twelve being the organ of the landlords, the other the not over
cautious champion of the peasantry, give, as in duty
years of age and upwards had also
each mposed, rang.
bound, two wholly different versions of the causes which
ing from six to two hundred livres on .
led to this wholesale depopulation. Of the fact, however,
The Preussische k'taatzanzeiger has letters from War-
of nearly 600 people being ejected from the lands of Too-
saw of the 22d, announcing the arrival of the Emperor of
mavara, the property of the Rev. Massy Dawson, there is
Austria in that city. The Prussian Ambassador at St.
no dispute.
Petersburgh, General Rochow, has followed the Czar to
Warsaw. STATE. OF THE COUNTRY.—The provincial journals
-,t,' last week supply accounts of two more brutal murders;
THE DANISH vv AR—HAMBURGH, MAY 23.—A flag
they were committed at Skibbereen, and at Park, in the
of truce had arrived from Fredericia to General Bonin,
King's county. The victim, in the first place, was an old
requesting a suspension of the bombardment of that town
until the result of a communication to Copenhagen, sent woman who was supposed to be murdered by another
woman for the sake of a small quantity of meal which she
by the Danish governor, had been received. General
Bonin has asked the delay granted for, but no further had received from the workhouse. The murder at Park
particulars are made known. A Berlin correspondent in was committed by two men unknown, who waited and
the Nachricter of to-day says that Russia demands the beat to death Daniel Troy. These journals have likewise
evacuation of Jutland, and that the Prussian ministr reports of several inquiries held before coroners on the
d
cannot decide between a close alliance with Russia, or toy
dead
make her stand at the head of Germany. deserted hovels. They died of starvation.
In the sitting of Frankfort on the 21st, nearly all the SINGULAR STATEMENT.—A gentleman called at our
office yd and mentioned the name of a entleman
conservative members, including Baron Gagern, resigned
holding aester situaay tion under the government of £BOO or
their seats. A motion was proposed and carried, that the
house should adjourn to the 21st of June, but the majority
£9OO a year, with whom he had had a conversation
not being sufficient to constitute it a legal one, the house the subject of destitution in the west of this county, whenn
adjourned to the 24th inst. the gentleman stated that there were more death. -
Gold to the amount of £4,000,000 was produced last by
year by the Russian mines. •

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isease and starva
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The Any Zealauder mentions that a ship of 400 tons, of ships arriving in Liverpool i. -11 ---"A .."
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the first vessel of a large size which has ever been built in Cork ;" :and be further said,
New Zealand, has been launched at the Great Barrier action !"—Cork Constitution.
island, and will be employed in the trade between New Ma. O'CONNELL'S LIBRARY
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