The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

ROME-AN AVARICIOUS PRINCE

The body of the senator of Rome, Prince del Drago,
was transported with great pomp on the evening of the
28th from his palace to the church of St. Vincent and
Athanasius, surrounded with all the municipal splendours
suiting his civic rank. His death, according to the official
journal, filled the inhabitants of Rome with grief, but this
account must be received as one of the usual party-co-
loured statements of that publication, since the public
entertains no great regret for the defunct Prince, whose
avarice was such, that he died without having left any-
thing to the old servants who had been forty or fifty years
in his service, a proceeding quite contrary to the usual
custom of noble families and even ecclesiastics of high
rank in Rome.

A very curious circumstance took place in the church in
which the Prince was interred, the whole building being
found full of smoke on the following day, to the great
alarm and superstitious horror of the early visitants to
the church, who wisely concluded that Old Nick had been,
during the night, to carry off, as his rightful prey, the
body of the senator, and that the smoke vnd stench he
had left behind him were but the natural atmosphere of
his infernal abode,

The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud
Instinct with fire and nitre.

As the ecclesiastical authorities were reluctant to ad-
mit of such preternatural visitations, as applied to one
of their own adherents, they ordered the church to be
thoroughly examined, and the vault in which the Prince
senator had been interred, to be re-opened. This was
done ; but no sooner was the upper slab removed than a
burst of mingled flames and smoke, accompanied by a
most mephitic odour, drove the workmen from the spot,
and obliged them to seek the aid of a company of fire-
men, who soon extinguished Cm flames of his Satanic
majesty. This conflagration is attributed by some
persons to a spontaneous combustion of the gases arising
from a number of corpses in different stages of decompo-
sition in the vault, and by others to the effect of a piece
of lighted torch, dropped whilst lowering the coffin on the
preceding evening; but amongst the common people the
opinion is irrevocably fixed, and will be handed down by
tradition, that the senator of Rome, the old Prince del
Drago, was punished for his avarice by the devil, in pro-
pria persona, who would not even leave his mortal spoil
to moulder peaceably away in consecrated ground.

On the occasion of a late visit to Gottingen, the King
of Hanover has granted an unconditional amnesty to the
political offenders among the students of that University.
The wheat harvest has well commenced throughout the
Southern and Midland Counties, and we learn from ac-
counts from all parts of the di.trict that the crop is fine,
and that where not seriously damaged by being laid in the
course of the storms of wind and rain which have occurred
in the last three weeks, it will give a full average yield, if
not something beyond that. In the northern counties,
which are somewhat later, the aspect of the wheat is said
to be excellent ; the corn is well topped and remarkably
fine, and the yield will be abundant. In Scotland also
the appearance of the wheat crop is in general satisfactory.
►SALT TRADE OF CHINA. -It is stated in the late
accounts from China that a rumour was current of the
intention of the young Emperor to abolish the salt tax
throughout the empire. Should this report prove correct,
it will have an important bearing upon the East India salt
trade. The trade has hitherto been partially monopolised
by the Chinese government, and produces an annual
revenue to the state of about £2,030,000, but of which
not more than about £30,000 is paid into the Imperial
treasury, as the bulk of the proceeds of the tax is absorbed
in payment of salaries of the officers employed. The
Imperial government has established numerous companies
of satt merchants, who buy the article at a fixed rate, pay
the duties, and dispose of it to the best advantage within
a cert lin price. A number of revenue cruisers are ap-
pointed to protect the trade, the expense of which isborne
by the merchants.

BY ORDER OF THE MORTOAOEU

WILL be SOLD by AUCTION, on MONDAY, the
atbo
Six
r k a o'clock in the
erpooi , a
Even-
ing, at
Piece of LAND, with the Three DWELLING-HOUSES thereon,
severally occupied by Messrs. Jones, Lowry, and another,
situate on the north side of Green-street, and west side of
September
William
Hotel, next,e Pembroke-place,
(formerly called Eustace-street), in the township
thelstßdoala of
of West Derby, and near Pembroke-place aforesaid, containing
in front to Green-street 44 feet 9 inches ; in front to Stone.
street 45 feet ; in depth backwards, -On the west side, along a
common passage of 4 feet width' 43 feet 8 inches ; and then
turning off at an angle, an .tinning eastward along Land of
the Marquis of Salisbur o Stone-street aforesaid, 33 feet 7
inches ; and containi n the whole 189 square yards, or there-
abouts.
The above P ins are held under lease from the Marquis
of Salisbur , or the residue of a term of seventy-five years,
commencing on 29th August, 1844, subject to an annual rent
of .49 9s.
The Premises:produce an annual rent of .e 43.
For further particulars apply to Mr. M. J. HORS, Solicitor,
27. Lower Castle-street, Liverpool.