The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-07-10 00:00:00

SUSPENSION OF HOSTILITIES AT ROME.

Hostilities at Rome have been suspended at the express
desire of the Roman Constituent Assembly, all further
resistance being deemed useless. A deputation imme-
diately waited upon General Oudinot. in order to arrange
the terms of submission. These important facts were
communicated to the French government on Tuesday,
by the electric telegraph, and officially announced to the
Legislative Assembly by M. Odilon Barrot. The follow-
ing is a copy of the dispatch referred to :
" On the 30th of June, the Roman Constituent Assem-
bly passed a decree in the following terms :
" The Assembly ceases a defence which has become
impossible, and remains at its post. It charges the
Triumvirate with the execution of the present decree.
" At the same time, the Commander-in-Chief of the
Roman army demanded at seven o'clock, a suspension of
hostilities, and announced the prompt arrival at the
French head-quarters of a depution of the municipality
of Rome."
The Tuscan Monitor asserts, that on the 23d ultimo, a
capitulation was seriously entertained by the majority of
' the assembly • but they were deterred from making a
proposition of that nature by three or four of the minority
who had spoken strongly in condemnation of it. Private
letters from Rome state that the inhabitants were much
incensed at the prolongation of the war, and that great
disorganisation was also visible among several corps of
the garrison. These circumstances, no doubt, hastened
the resolution of the above dooroo.

The above intelligence throws into the shade the debate
in the assembly regarding the bombardment of Rome,
which would otherwise have been read with avidity. It
still, however, possesses some interest.
Ten members of the consular body at Rome drew up
a joint protest on the 24th ult., which was forwarded to
Gen. Oudinot, remonstrating against the bombardment
of the city during several preceding days and nights, by
which the lives and properties of innocent persons had
been endangered. General Oudinot replied, that he had
no alternative; for he was only acting upon the orders
of his government, which were absolute. M. de Corcelles,
in a dispatch to the minister of war, condemns the pro-
test as untrue, and denies that the city had been bom-
barded at all. The walls alone, be says, were aimed at,
and not a single bomb had been thrown into the town.
These statements, equally positive on both sides, are so
conflicting that we cannot attempt to decide between
them.

The funds closed lower on Wednesday than on Monday;
but at that time the offer of capitulation by the Romans
was not known, or they would doubtless have advanced.

GERMANY AND THE NORTHERN STATES.

The Baden insurgents have experienced another defeat.
A severe fight has taken place in the villages of Malasch
and Muggensteine, between Carlshrue and Rastadt, in
which the Prussian troops were completely victorious.
Mieroslawski has retired to Basle, and Sigal has suc-
ceeded him in command of the insurgents. The Prussians
have taken the outworks of the fortress of Rastadt, and
will probably soon be masters of it. This formidable in-
surrection, therefore, teems on the point of being sup-
pressed.
In Hungary, Reab has been taken by the Imperialists,
according to some accounts after a severe fight, in which
Gorgey's army was defeated ; according to others, as the
result of an orderly retreat of that officer, without the
intervention of a battle. On the 18th of last month, a
corps which had advanced to Neuark, Ofal, and Fouliborg
reached Lublo ; another has been directed to Gorlica ; a
third in two divisions has been directed on Graab and
Kowarnick. No resistance was offered to them in effect-
ing the passage of the Carpathians. Notwithstanding
their valiant resistance, it seems as if the Hungarians
must be speedily overpowered.

A Popish Council is to be held at Hong Kong this year,
"to devise means to propagate the faith, and obviate the
mutual rivalry which so frequently leads to dissension
among the missionaries."
A hitherto unknown race of people have, it is said,
been discovered in the interior of Africa. They occupy
the kingdom of Bari. They are black in colour, and very
tall, but destitute of the usual negro features.

THE DISTINCTION OT CASTE IN INDIA.—The Arch-
deacon and several of the clergy in the diocese of Madras,
have signed a declaration against the continuance of caste
among Christian converts. The Bishop of Calcutta has
signified his entire concurrence; and it is believed Knit
the whole subject will soon be dealt with more resolutely
than has hitherto been the case.
STRANGE PHENOMENON.—Numerous groups were
assembled in different parts of Paris on Tuesday, looking
with much interest at a star in the west, which shone with
great brilliancy although the sun shone powerfully at the
same time. Some of the groups were composed of from
100 to 200 persons.—Galignani's Messenger.
The Bishop of Adelaide mentions in his journal that on
a visit to that remote part of his diocese, Western Austra-
lia, he met with a native black woman, who having been
educated in the native school had married a white man
(such is the scarcity of females) and taught him to read !
The savage black female became the teacher of the civi-
lised white male.

A FACT.—We announced that " the German Rump
Parliament had been expelled from Stuttgardt." It is a
literal fact that the said rump made an earnest request to
the minister to be allowed to continue its existence a few
days after the summons to quit had been given, in order
that—iLmight get its things home from the wash ! The
appeal was irresistible ; the minister granted the requi-
site two days; with the view of enabling the Parliament
to make a clean shift of it. It is satisfactory to learn
that the Imperial :Legislature of Germany had some-
thing at the wash: But for the above intelligence, which
we can assure our readers is strictly accurate, the fact
might have been doubted.—John Bull.
THE POPE AND THE ROMANS.—The celebrated
Father Ventura has just written a letter from Rome, in
which occurs the following passage :—" My dear friend,
the idea of a bishop who cannonades his diocesans—of a
pastor who slaughters his sheep—of a father who sends
death to his children—of a Pope who would force his
reign on three millions of Christians—who would re-
establish his throne on ruins, on blood, on the bodies of
the slain I This idea is so monstrous, so scandalous, so
absurd, so horrible, so contrary to the letter and spirit of
the Gospel, that there is no conscience but is revolted by
it—no faith that can hold to it—no heart that does not
shudder—no tongue that is not forced to malediction—to
blasphemy ! Better far a thousand times lose all that is
temporal—the world itself, if necessary—than give such a
cause of scandal to the people! * * * * * * * *
It is probable that Rome will sink under the attack of
the French arms. How can France be resisted ? It is
possible that the Pope will re-enter Rome holding the
sword instead of the crucifix, preceded by soldiers, fol-
lowed by the executioner, as if Rome were Mecca, and
the Gospel the Koran ; but he will never reign in the
hearts of the Romans. In this respect his sovereignty is
ended for ever. He will only be the Pope for a small
number of the faithful. The immense majority will re-
main Protestants in fact, for they will.skiure. religions

services, so great is their hatred for the priesthood. Our
preaching w ill be in vain. It will be impossible for us to
make a church beloved, or even tolerated, by a people
who have learned to hate and to despise it in the person
of a chief who has been imposed on them by force, and
a clergy dependent on that chief. It will be impossible
for us to persuade them that the Catholic religion is the
m other and guardian of the people's liberty and happi-
ness. The strongest arguments, the most touching and
efficacious, those, in fact by which, two years ago, we
made religion triumph in the most rebellious spirits, in
the hardest hearts—these arguments are for ever taken
from us. Our ministry will become barren—we shall be
hooted at and despised, if we are not pursued or
massacred." The effect of all these proceedings on the
Roman Catholics is extraordinary, but very encouraging.
Father Ventura further writes :—" People will no longer
confess themselves, or communicate or hear mass. There
is no longer any preaching at Rome, because no one will
listen. Everything that is presented by a priest, or smells
of a priest, is shunned." The correspondent of the Daily
News (himself a priest) tells us that " The Pope's tem-
poral power is ruined, and the conduct of his advisers will
soon ruin his spiritual dominion also. Already, an edition
of 4,000 Protestant Bibles (Dodati) have been printed
and eagerly bought up, &c." And mark now what Father
Ventura adds, in words that must have wrung his heart
with agony :—" Thus my labours of twenty years have
been lost, and Protestantism is de facto implanted in a
portion of the good and religious Roman people." We
have not room for further commentary. Of Father Ven-
tura we need only say that he was the man selected out of
all the papal priesthood to preach O'Connell's "eulogium"
in Rome, and that his address was printed in all the papal
papers of Ireland, and the author lauded as the most elo-
quent of " sacred orators." Those papers have not, how-
ever, found it convenient to give insertion to his letter.