The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

DEATH OF POPE GREGORY XVI.

It appears that his Holiness had been indisposed during
the last week of May, but that on the 28th and 29th of
that month he was deemed by his physicians perfectly re-
covered. His death was sudden, and may possibly give
rise to rumours such as followed the decease, similarly, of
several of his predecessors. In ordinary times, the de-
mise of a Pope would not occasion any sensation in the
political world, but such is not the case in the present in-
stance. Pope Gregory XVI. was more tolerant than most
others who had held the keys of St. Peter. He was fully
aware of a coming crisis in his States ; he foresaw, and
would by concession have obviated, the overwhelming
storm, that cannot otherwise be prevented bursting upon
Home at least ; but be was overborne by the cardinals,
who to the repeated entreaties of France and Austria,
and it is said England, refused concurrence in even the
slightest amelioration of the civil and political condition
of the subjects of the Holy See. Whether the death of
Pope Gregory will produce immediate revolt or outbreak,
it is not possible to predict.
_ _ _

The member of the Sacred College most likely to suc-
ceed Pope Gregory XVI. is the Cardinal Franzoni, Pre-
fect of the Congregation of the Propaganda. He is, how-
ever, considered friendly towards the Jesuits, and will be,
of course, fiercely opposed by France—a rower which,
through its wily and talented representative at the Roman
Court, is alleged to be playing a game in Italy upon which
the other Governments of Europe, Great Britain included,
would do well to keep an eye.
Cardinal Franzoni was born at Genoa on the 10th of
December, 1775. and is, of course. in the 71st year of his
age. Cardinal Acton might not improbably be selected,
and would in that case be only the second Englishman
that has ever held the Papal dignity.
The Presse mentions having received a letter from Rome
of the 30th ult., stating that " a surgical operation per-
formed on one of the Pope's legs produced a violent in-
flainmation in the limb on the evening of the 26th ; it
made such progress during the following days, that on the
30th the physicians lost all hopes of saving the august pa-
tient. Gregory XVI. bad long laboured under a chronic
affection in the legs, in consequence of his habit of re-
maining, during the greatest part of the day, seated at his
desk."

The French Minister of War has ordered that learning
to sing, on the Wilhelm system, shall be obligatory in all
the French infantry regiments.
Jenny Lind. the great Swedish songstress is engaged at
the Imperial theatre of Sr. Petersburg, at the rate of
£2,240 per month, exzlusive of presents.
RONGE.—The Spener Gazette states that John Ronge,
the celebrated reformer, has been acquitted by the tribu-
nal of Breslau. at the trial for the publication of the
work called " New" yet Old Enemies.

The Parisian Punch. Le Charivari, has been, by supe-
rior order, prohibited from being read in Vienna ; all co-
pies destined for that capital being seized in the frontier
post-office.

THE SACRED COLLEGE OF ROME.—This body at pre-
sent consists of 60 cardinals-2 of the creation of Pius
VII., 7 of the creation of Leo XII , and 51 of the creati-
on of Gregory XVI. France at this moment has only
two Cardinals i❑ the Sacred College, M M. de Bonald and
de la Tour d'Auvergne.
THE REG minx LECOMTE.—The sentence of death pro-
nounced by the Court of Peers upon the regicide Lecomte
was carried into effect on Monday morning, at a quarter
past five o'clock. The avenues leading to the Place de la
Barrier St. Jacques, upon which the scaffold had been
erected during the night, were occupied by a large force
of Municipal Guards, and very few spectators were per-
mitted to remain on the square. Lecomte arrived there
in a carriage, accompanied by his confessor the Abbe
Grivel, and having alighted, walked barefooted, and cov-
ered with a black veil, to the scaffold, the steps of which
he mounted with considerable firmness. The veil was
there removed from his head, and the sentence read to the
crowd. After a few instants' conversation with his con-
fessor, he embraced him, and with an air of resolution
delivered himself into the hands of the executioner. A
moment afterwards he had ceased to exist.

By the ship Achilles, arrived off Deal, on Thursday, we
have Port Philip papers of the 27th January. which is
about a week later than the dates via Sydney. The leading
topic of interest in the colony was the question of sepa-
ration from the government of New South Wales, which
is warmly advocated by the local press. Desertions con-
tinued to take place from the detachment of the 56th
Regiment, stationed at Melbourne, which is attributed to
the high price of labour, and the consequent disposition of
the settlers to conceal the men whom they find useful. It
does not appear that any of them had become bush
rangers, so that they must necessarily have found employ-
ment from the colonists in the frontier of the settlement.
The discipline of the regiment generally would, however,
appear to be defective. Some idea may be formed of the
progress of the colony from the number of animals slaugh-
tered within the police district of Melbourne during the
year 1845, which amounted to 7,266 horned cattle, 32,435
cheep, and 1,413 pigs.