The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-07-23 00:00:00

ROME.

The Pope has caused a direct contradiction to be pub-
lished in the Roman Journal of the statement of Lord
Palmerston with regard to his having sent for Lord
Minto.

Letters from Rome of the I2th inst. inform us of the
general feeling of regret felt throughout Rome on account
of the sudden death of Sir Robert Peel.

FRANCE

A sergeant of artillery of one of the forts of Lyons
was shot dead by a corporal, while in the act of instruct-
ing the men in the exercise of the guns. The ball passed
through his heart, and wounded a grenadier who was
standing at some distance. The corporal had been
punished a short time before for some breach of disci-
pline.
Nineteen houses had been destroyed by fire on the 18th
instant, in the commune of Tremblay Le Vicerente, Eure
et Loire ; and six houses, with the whole of the crops and
11 cows, the same day, in the village of Chantaloup were
also destroyed, There is little doubt of this
,destruction
being the work of incendiaries.
The Vice-Consul of France at Rabot, writes under date
the Ist of June, to say that the drought which prevailed
in the south of Morocco has completely destroyed the
crops, and that a famine was apprehended.

On the evening of the 17th a corps of 2,000 Danes
entered Flensburg, and on the morning of the 18th a
slight skirmish took place between the outposts near
Bilschau. The Danes have also crossed over in force from
Alsen, and taken possession of the heights of Duppell, in
the Sundewitt. A serious collision between the armies
was expected every day. The Danish fleet kept up a vi-
gorous blockade of the Schleswig-Holstein harbours.
From Panama we have advices to the 29th ult. The
steam-ship Sarah Sands, Captain Thompson, was about
ninety miles below Monterey, on her passage up, taking
in coal. A number of her passengers had left her and
gone to San Francisco by land ; those who remained on
board of her were all in good health. The steamers New
World and Isthmus sailed from Panama on the 22nd of
June, both full of passengers.

WEST INDIES.—On Thursday, the Thames steamer
arrived at Southampton from the West Indies. The dates
of her news are—Vera Cruz, 15th June ; Havannah, 27th ;
Jamaica, 22d • Demerara, 18th ; Trinidad, 20th ; Barba.
does, 27th; St. Thomas, July Ist; Bermuda, 6th. She
has 47 passengers, also 282,700 dollars on merchants'
account. Guadaloupe and Martinique are still under
martial law, in consequence of incendiaries. Cuba is
+.asiquil, biu,hiAtlehvet, Eravattuali
cholera had declined, but in the city of Mexico it was
raging as well as in the interior. 44,8895' for Mexican
dividend and 386 serons cochineal, &c. At Jamaica bu-
siness improved since last advices. By the American
steamship Niagara we have files of Jamaica papers to the
Ist instant. The legislature assembled in extraordinary
session to remedy a defect in a loan bill passed;last ses-
sion, to raise £240,000 to efface the debt of the island.
The late bill limited the amount of interest to be paid, at
which it could not be procured ; the assembling of the
legislature, therefore, was to afford an opportunity, of
which it readily availed itself, of authorising the commis-
missioners in England to increase the amount of interest
on the required sum. On the Ist instant the assembly
would be prorogued to the Ist of October. Fine rains
had fallen, and the weather was favourable. The mail
steamer Avon arrived out on the 30th, with the English
mails two days before due.

IRELAND.

On the motion of Mr. O'Connell, the " Repeal Asso-
ciation" in solemn silence has agreed to adjourn, not to
meet again until required by the country.
The prosecution of the persons who were to have been
tried at the present Down assizes for the Dolly Brae riots,
has been abandoned by the Crown.

An Irish paper states, that on Monday last, a pauper
named Doogan fell into a pot of boiling stirabout, at the
workhouse of rallawillen, in Ennis. He remained in it
some minutes before the accident was discovered ; and
he died about eight hours subsequently, after suffering
intense torture.

The Wilhelmina, of Liverpool, Captain Robbins, lying
in the North Channel, after arriving from Alexandria,
with a cargo of Indian corn, has brought the head, hands,
and feet of a female Egyptian mummy, in fine preserva-
tion. The captain has also the hand of another mummy,
the nails on the fingers being tinged with red, as brilliant
as if coloured only a few days since.—Cork Constitution.
THE " DUKE" AND Da. CANE.—Dr. Cane having
written a letter to the Duke of Wellington, in reference
to his grace's reflections upon the loyalty of Repeal
mayors, while recently in the House of Lords stating his
objections to the proposed abolition of the viceroyalty of
Ireland, has received the following characteristic answer :

Apsley House, July 13th, 1850,

F. M. the Duke of Wellington presents his cOmpliinents to
Dr. Cane, and is concerned to find by his letter on theist inst.,
that the office of mayor of Kilkenny is of so paltry and incon-
siderable a nature, that its functions entirely consist in signing
some unimportant papers, which Dr. Cane describes as " pawn-
office declarations," but the purport of which the duke can
only guess at—and committing paupers, a class of society which
the duke believes, with regret, to he the most numerous at pre-
sent in that enigmatical country, Ireland.
The duke has, however, read the Kilkenny newspapers of a
shortly subsequent date, where Dr. Cane is reported to have
publicly asserted at a meeting of the corporation of that city,
that the office of the mayoralty was one of such consequence
that it required a salary of .4100 to support its dignity.
. . .

The duke is at a loss io reconcile this statement that in
which the office of mayor is alleged to be devoid of all dignity
nor can he see the " importance of civic functionaries described
by Dr. Cane as " mere automata acting under the direction of
her Majesty's constables."
F. M. the Duke of Wellington therefore regrets that he is
compelled to decline all further correspondence orcommuni-
cation with a gentleman, who, however patriotic, could stoop
to such political inconsistencies as those above alluded to.