The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-02-27 00:00:00

ITALY

Advices from Civita Vecchia, of the 12th instant, state
that the Neapolitan government is preparing an expedition
against the Roman States of 15,000 men, Neapolitans and
Spaniards. The Semaphore of Marseilles, of the 16th,
has advices from Rome to the 12th, which announce that
the Assembly had named an executive commission of
three members—MM. Armellini, Salicetti (of Naples).
and Montechi. It was stated that the Roman Republic
would have no president, but that the fun.:tions of that
magistrate would be exercised by three consuls.

A Te Deum was sung on the 11th inst., at St. Peter's,
at Rome, to celebrate the proclamation of the republic.
The regular clergy refused to officiate, and the mass was
celebrated by a military clergyman, assisted by the sol-
diers, who held the torches.
Amongst the miscellaneous proceedings of the United
States Conress are projects to establish a telegraphic
communication across the Atlantic to Europe, to form a
similar line across the American continent, and also a pro-
ject to form a line of railway from the Lakes of Michigan
to the Pacific.
DEATH OF PRINCE WALDEMAR OF PRUSSIA.—The
Wavle Gazette announces the death of Prince Waldemar
of Prussia. He breathed his last at Munster, at half-past
three o'clock, on the lith instant, in the arms of his fa-
ther, Prince William of Prussia, uncle of the present king,
and governor of Mayence. The prince was 32 years of
age, and died from the consequence of a fall received while
hunting. The prince was present at all the operations of
the campaign against the Sikhs, under Lord Hardinge.
THE TEMPLES AT JERUSALEM—The Sultan had granted
the Jews permission to build a synagogue on Mount Zion.
In this Cage there will be a Turkish mosque, and a
Christian cathedral, and a Jewish temple in Jerusalem.
Thus, the spirit of indifference and equality, which now
predominates in Europe, will be introduced into the Holy
Land. As we conceive that this chosen spot has been set

ligious confusion, we look upon this Measure as the first
step in advance towards the accomplishment of those
terrible and decided revelations which shall settle for
ever those disputed questions, which have so long shaken
the foundations of social and political order, concerning
the union and suoremacy of the Church and State. To
the building of this temple all Christians should look for-
ward with great anxiety, and we have much to say of its
future destinies.

LABUAN.—From Labaun, the accounts are to the 18th
of December, and are less unsatisfactory than those last
received regarding the health of the island. On the hill
where the new residences were being erected, there was
perfect freedom from sickness, and the dangerous locali-
ties were supposed to be very limited. Sir James Brooke
had exchanged ratifications at Bruni with the sultan, for
the occupation of the island of Labuan, and the sultan
had sent 300 labourers to assist in the construction of the
new town. He had also despatched letters to every part
of Bomeo,requesting the nati-es to trade freely with the
new settlement. The colony had been left for some time
in an unprotected state, but the Auckland and the Mean-
der had since arrived, and had landed eighty sepoys. On
the 3rd of December, Sir James Brooke had sailed from
Labaun to negotiate a treaty with the Sultan of Sulu.
Native boats are beginning to trade regularly from the
coast of Borneo, bringing various articles of provision.—
Times.

A FEW MORE FACTS FROM THE GOLD COUNTRY

Up to the sailing of the steamer, the gold from the
mines received in the United States did not exceed
4100,000, while the amount of specie taken by the
swarms of adventures who had already sailed was up-
wards of '-3'500,000; goods and provisions having also
been shipped to the estimated value of 8500,000 or
5600,000. Under these circumstances it was felt that
unless considerable arrivals of gold should soon take
place a severe pressure might ensue, since the goods sent
off, and for which the returns can only come at a distant
date, must be supplied by fresh importations that will call
for remittances.

Amongst other speculations a small river steamer has
been bought by a company to run on the Sacramento
river directly into the heart of the gold regions, and an
hotel, complete in all its parts, has been constructed at
New York, and shipped, with furniture and fixtures of
every kind, to San Francisco at a total cost of 410,000.
Captain Judkins reports that New York has been cleared
of spades, shovels, and all other implements with which
the ground can be dug and turned over ; and an American
gentleman, recently arrived from New York, states that
the bakers are almost worked to death, in supplying ship
bread, for the Each
of vessels which are sailing to the
land of gold. Each of these vessels takes out a cargo of
" notions,"—that is, of all manner of things that any one
has a notion of selling. The consequence is that the
shops and stores have been cleared, and that very large
orders have come to Europe.

A private letter, received by the last steamer, says :
"You may think the accounts of the gold discoveries ex-
aggerated, but I can assure you that they are not. The follow.
ing fact I hesitate to tell you because it seems incredible, but
it is nevertheless a fact. A Mend of the French Consul—and
the Consul has reported the same to his Government—went
out some days since to the gold region. He dug four days,
during whi-h time he got 401 b of gold ! There are plenty of
lumps found weighing from Ilb. to 21b. each, and it is said
that there is a piece in San Francisco weighing 251 b. Indeed,
an acquaintance assured me that he held it in his hand."

The advices from the Sandwich Islands also continue
to harmonize with those from other quarters. Several
persons, it is averred, had already returned to Honololu
with very large sums, and such was the excitement caused
by their statements that not less than 20 vessels, and
about 400 passengers, had left the islands, and every
available ship was still being pressed into the service.

POLITICAL MISCELLANY.

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Sir R. H. Inglis, M.P., has been seriously indisposed,
and is still confined to his house. _ . .

The new Jew bill for the future is to be designated as
" A Bill to return the Right Hon. Lord John Russell as
Member for the City of London free of expense."

At a public meeting of the merchants, shipowners, &c.,
of Leith, held on Monday evening, the Lord Provost in
the chair, a petition against any alteration in the naviga-
tion laws was unanimously agreed to.

JEWISH DISABILITIES'.—hI the majorityfor going into
committee on this bill we find Sir T. B. Birch, E. Card-
well, A. Henry, Sir J. Graham, W. Jackson, T. Thorne-
ley, Earl Grosvenor, and W. E. Gladstone. In the mi-
nority were Sir P. Egerton, J. Tollemache, Lord H. Ben-
tinck, &c.
A parliamentary reporter, in a letter to The Times,
suggests that a great saving of time might be effected in
the House of Commons, when a division takes place, by
the members simply passing through a turnstile, con-
structed so as to indicate the number that have passed.
The present cumbrous mode of " telling" sometimes oc- .
cupies two or three hours.
It is understood that Chevalier Bunsen, the Prussian
Minister in this country, has returned to his post invested
with full powers, not only from the Court of Berlin, but
from the Germanic Government at Frankfort, to enter
upon a negotiation for the conclusion of a definitive treaty
of peace between Denmark and those States of Germany
which thought fit to interfere by arms in the dispute rela-
tive to the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein.
THE AGRICULTURAL INTEREST.—Let the friends of
British agriculture take heart ! and let the despondency
which recent events have been so directly calculated to
create, be converted into hope and cheering confidence !
In the House of Commons, on Thursday, Mr. Disraeli
gave notice that on next Thursday week " he should call
the attention of the house to the present condition•of the
agricultural interest of the country, with a view to the
more equitable apportionment of the taxation to which it
is subject." This notice was received with demonstra-

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patriotic portion of the assembly.
REDUCTION IN THE ESTIMATES.—The Chancellor of
the Exchequer is able to effect a saving of £592,258 upon
the navy estimates for this year as compared with last,
and as nearly as much in the army estimates. The total
army estimate for 1849-50 is £6,142,211; that for 1848-9
was £6,520,835. showing a decrease of £378,624. The
number of men voted last year was 113,847 ; the number
now proposed (we, of course, exclude the troops in the
pay of the East India Company) is 103,254, a reduction of
10,593. But as there is to be an increase in the troops in
India, from 24,922 to 28,267, the real number of men to
be discharged is 7,248. Add this to the 3,000 to be turned
adrift from the navy, and we have ten thousand men
thrown, by the mistaken economy of the day,
into the already over-crowded labour market. But this
is not all, it is not the good and the well-conducted that
are to be discharged. No, the instructions are to get rid
of the dis•olute and depraved. If the officers can find
7,000 profligates in the ranks, men notorious for drunken-
ness, debauchery, violence, or theft, they are all to be let
loose upon society. The nation will thereby realize a
saving in the army estimates of £378,624. But against
this, how much must be set in the matter of police-rates
and prison expenditure?
A CURIOUS WITNESS.—In the Commons; on Thursday,
on the motion of Sir J. Pakington fora bill to prevent
bribery at elections, Colonel Sibthorp said, that he would
not oppose the motion, as the bill was to be referred to a
select committee, from which he hoped it would never
come out. The hon. baronet talked about the purity of
public men. Good God ! the purity of public men, where
was it ?—what was it ? (Hear, and laughter.) He had
always thought, and now boldly declared, that the Trea-
sury Bench was the seat where, above all others, the
grossest. corruption prevailed. (Laughter.) The purity
of public men, indeed ! Faugh ! Stuff! It was mere
moonshine. (Hear, and laughter.) It was impossible
for them to be pure. Bribery and corruption was part of
their system, and their impurity was as notorious as the
sun at noonday. (Hear, and laughter.) If there were to
be all this secret inquiry, no man would be safe. Bribery
and corruption existed, and doubtless would exist,—but
any man had a right to do what he liked with his own ;
that was only carrying out the vaunted principle of free
trade. He believed the bill to be absurd, to be full of
equivocations, and that it would prevent the purest and
most honourable men from coming to the house and co,.
scientiously taking the usual oaths.

IRELAND.

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The accounts from this country, alike from private and
public sources, are such as to afford little hope or prospect
of improvement. What with the wretchedness that pre-
vails, and the empiricism of legislation practised for its
mitigation, one is mournfully reminded of the description
given by the Roman historian of his country verging to
its downfall, when it could bear, he said, neither the
diseases that consumed it nor the remedy to relieve them.
Popery, idleness, and wretchedness are amongst the fester-
ing diseases of the country, and our enlightened states-
men speak of an endowed priesthood, an amended poor-law,
and an enlarged elective franchise, as the certain specifics.
The first is abandoned for the present, the temper of this
country wont stand it : the last is still kept in reserve.
But the fate of the Irish Government has already been
cast upon the great measure of amended Poor-law. Our
readers have already become acquainted no doubt with
its provisions, which, according to the most approved
pattern of Whig legislation, are so moulded, as to bring
about what ought most carefully to have been guarded
against ; he involving the peaceful and industrious north
in the ruin and misery of the west and south, and to
omit, what must be the main aim of any measure really
beneficial, the producing a spirit of industry and 'fore-
thought in the population. How long can this course be
continued in Ireland without implicating more deeply the
resources and energies of this sorely burdened country ?
No axioms are clearer than these-Ist, that England
can not, ought not, to maintain Ireland in idleness ; 2nd,
that the soil of the country and the labour of the popula-
tion are the only materials out of which capital is to be
produced, and any country rendered respectable and self-
supporting. Therefore, until reproductive employment
is set on foot, and a spirit of self-reliance infused into the
minds of the people, there is no hope of any lasting or pro-
gressive improvement. We look in vain for any symp-
tom of either, from the measures of trio se at present in
office. And as long as this state of things is suffered
to continue, we can regard Ireland in no other light
than as the " old man of the sea " on the shoulders of the
unfortunate Sinbad, paralyzing the industry, eating up the

resources, and disturbing the peace of this country, un-
happy in its connexion with, and proximity to her.
Whereas, had a different course been pursued, or were it
even now resolutely and honestly to be undertaken, Ire-
land, in no very long time, herself peaceful and compara-
tively prosperous, might become a source of strength and
rejoicing, instead of being the vulnerable heel of her
friendly and more peaceful neighbour.
We may call the attention of our readers to the ad-
mirable address of the late Mr. Canning's private secre-
tary, delivered in this town on Saturday, and reported
elsewhere.

There are twenty-four prisoners in Clonmel gaol, for
trial at the March assizes, all charged with murder.
Fourteen new cases of cholera took place in the Derry
workhouse last week.

" Twelve

The Limerick Examiner heads a paragraph,
inquests !—Twelve deaths by starvation in Clare."
Farmers are generally engaged sowing potatoes in the
counties of Limerick and Clare, to the great surprise of
the country gentlemen, who did not conceive that such a
quantity was reserved for seed. The cultivation of pota-
toes is also going on very fast among the farmers in parts
of Kerry. .

THE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.—" We
Irish are a poor people," says the Province of Munster,
" yet will it be credited that we send annually out of
Ireland upwards of £120,000 for fish, while our own seas
abound with it, and our people lie down despairingly, and
starve in idleness?" _ _

THE RATE IN Am.—Every northern post brings some
fresh manifestation of hostility to the ministerial project
for levying a sixpenny general rate in aid of the distressed
unions of the south and west. The flourishing county of
Down has taken the lead in the opposition, by the adop-
tion of an explicitly worded resolution on the part of the
Downpatrick Board of Guardians.
THE IRISH PRESS.—The Dublin Pilot, of which the
late agitator might be called the father, has ceased to
exist. It was started at his suggestion, and, throughout
the last eighteen years of his life, he made it the especial
vehicle of his palavering appeals to the heads, the hands,
and the pockets of the " hereditary bondsmen." The
first number of a new paper called the Press was pub-
lished on Monday, to succeed the Pilot.

The poverty-stricken people of the diocese of Meath
have subscribed £lOOO in aid of the Irish fund for the
support of Pope Pius the Ninth. If every county in Ire-
land contribute to the same extent only, the fund will
amount to thirty-two thousand pounds : and yet we see
Ireland on her knees at the footstool of the:British Trea-
sury, craving an alms of £50,000, to save her wretched
children from starvation and pestilence. The £32,000
will go abroad just as the £50,000 arrives on our shores.
And thus -is another proverb reversed. Thus the priests
rob Paul to pay Peter.
SHIP ON FIRE.—The ship (the Lord Sandon) destroyed
by fire at Kinsale, was a joint property, and was valued at

£2,000. She had just lieen fitted up for passengers to
America, and on the day of the accident there was a
quantity of tar put on board. The fire is said to have
been caused by the apprentices having lit a match on their
return on board from " larking " in the town on Tuesday
evening, which communicated with the tar, and thus ori-
ginated the fire, which raged with such fury as to render
every effort to save the ship useless. There was an
attempt made to scuttle her, but without success. She
had last year been insured against fire, but the insurance
was not renewed.—Cork Constitution.
Ma. DUFFY.—The trial of this gentleman concluded on.
Thursday, and ended in the discharge of the jury in con-
sequence of their not agreeing. The prisoner was again
removed to gaol, and will be tried on another indict-
ment. The Dublin Herald says that, on retiring, eight of
the jury were for a verdict of guilty upon all the counts.
The dissentient minority were believed to be unanimous
for a verdict of guilty upon all the counts except the first.
With the view to securing unanimity, the eight jurors
consented to acquit upon the first count, and having made
this concession, they were for the first time apprised that
Mr. Burke was for a verdict of acquittal upon all the
counts. In this view of his duty he remained perfectly
immoveable, and the, jury ware ultimately discharged.
Mr. Burke is a Roman Catholic. _ _

An important meeting of the clergy of the diocese of

Down and Connor and Dromore was held on Friday, in
the Clerical-rooms, Belfast. A large number were as-
sembled, many of whom had arrived from distant plat~ s,
in order to record their testimony on behalf of unshackled
scriptural education, and to seek at the hands of the State
that aid to which they are so justly entitled. The first
resolution was moved by the Archdeacon of Down, and
seconded by the Rev. Dr. Drew. In this resolution testi-
mony was given against the Board of Education as pos-
sessing a " destructive principle, that the holy Scriptures
may be excluded from the schools intended for the in-
struction of Christian children, at the will of any man
or body of men." Subsequent resolutions were moved
and seconded by various clergymen. A committee was

appointed to prepare addresses, which retired, and after
some time returned, bearing petitions to both houses of
Parliament, also a memorial to the Queen, which were
generally adopted by the meeting. The petition to the
Queen is to be intrusted to the Bishop of Cashel.
CHOLERA ON BOARD A PASSENGER SHIP IN LOUGH
FOYLE.— The ship Brutus, Captain Le Craw, sailed from
Liverpool on the 11th instant for Boston, United States,
with 211 passengers, and a cargo of iron and salt. The
water-casks were piled on the top of the iron, and owing

to the shifting of .the cargo, were stove in while at sefi:

The captain, fearing a scarcity of water, bore up for the
nearest port, and reached Moville on Sunday last, the 18th
instant. He states that on the previous day (Saturday)
he was not aware of any sickness being on board ; but on
his arrival at Moville he was apprised that many of the
passengers were unwell, and he immediately went ashore
for the purpose of obtaining medical advice, when the dis-
ease under which they laboured was pronounced to be
cholera. At this period (Sunday) there were eight deaths
new tie-s—OrdalOr rurciti
eight additional cases. On Wednesday and Thursday,
there were neither deaths nor new cases. The Ballast
Office placed in the ha nds of the authorities a vessel
provided with all the requisites of a well-regulated hos-
pital. This vessel is capable of accommodating from
twenty-one to thirty people. She will remain in the
lough, near Moville, under the charge of medical gentle-
men.—Derry Sentinel.