The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-15 00:00:00

ITALY.

At an interview of the Minister of Sardinia in Paris,
the Marquis of Ricci, with General Cavaignac, on Monday
last, he formally demanded the armed intervention of
France in Italy. General Cavaignac replied that he had
anticipated the demand by opening a negotiation with the
British Government on the subject, the result of which
would appear in a mediation between Austria and Pied-
mont that would preserve Europe from a general war.
The Austrians had taken possession of Parma. King
Charles Albert had arrived under the walls of Milan, and
was determined to defend it to the last extremity. He
had with him fifty thousand men. Radetsky had, on the
4th instant, arrived in the neighbourhood of that city.
Advices from Turin of the 7th, confirm the news of the
evacuation of Milan by the Piedmontese army, in conse-
quence of a capitulation and the retirement of that army
beyond the Ticino. Letters from Rome of the 2d an-
nounce the definitive retirement of Count Mamiania.
That minister has made the following propositions to the
Chamber of Deputies :-1. To open a voluntary enrolment
in all the cities of the state. 2. To extend the mobilisa-
tion of the National Guard to 12,000 men. 3. To autho-
rise the Minister of War to employ foreign soldiers to the
amount of 12,000 men. 4. To employ a foreign general
officer to take the command of the troops. An address to
Tuscany, Sardinia, and Naples, for the prosecution of the
war, was voted in the chamber.

The abolition of capital punishment has been voted by
the National Assembly of Frankfort by a majority of 238
to 146.

Several students belonging to the Academie Legion at
Vienna, have been severely wounded, at drills and reviews,
by the awkwardness of their comrades, whose unskilfulness
in the use of their weapons is equalled by their unwilling-
ness to obey the orders of their officers.
NEWFOUNDLANH.—Two new churches have recently
been consecrated by the bishop, one at the populous settle-
ment of Heart's Content, the other at Foxtrap, on the
south shore of Conception Bay.
The recent advices from Sydney bring intelligence of the
Tractarian heresy, which has long been working in Aus-
tralasia, having at length borne its natural fruit in the
secession to Popery of the Rev. Messrs. Sconce and Ma-
kinson, incumbents of St. Andrew's and St. Peter's, in
Sydney.
ARRIVAL OF THE " JOHN WILLIAMS" AT TAHITI.—
Extract from a private letter from the missionary printer;
—" Saturday, April 22d, 1848. I have just heard that a
vessel will leave here to-morrow for Valparaiso, so that any
letters or communications we may have for England, will
meet with a quick conveyance. We arrived here (Papeete)
this afternoon, after a long trial of our patience by calms
and contrary winds. As we 4eared the land, we observed
a canoe putting off to us containing two natives. They
came on board to sell some fruit, but as soon as they dis-
covered the nature of our ship, they filled a bucket with
oranges and refused any manner of payment for them,
however, prevailed on them to takeiifeW- biZilits,-
which they were much pleased. * * * I cannot speak
favourably of this part of the island • for cursed war has
rendered it almost a wilderness." Another letter says :
" I am now in the Mission field—the South Seas, Tahiti,
—the birth-place of that Mission which is now fast
spreading over the vast Pacific,—lies before me. We had
some rough weather on our passage from Hobart' Town
to Tahiti ; indeed, great fears were entertained for our
safety. * * But in the midst of these dangers, we
experienced the kind care of our Heavenly Father, so
that we suffered no evil. On one of these gloomy morn-
ings, we saw the spar of a vessel sweep by us, belonging
to some ship which had not so freely escaped the- tempest
as ours."—Patriot.

IRELAND.

4
(From our Second Edition of Tuesday last)

DUBLIN, MONDAY NIGHT.
All is quiet in the South. Mrs. Smith O'Brien was
a passenger by the midday train to Dublin to-day.
Before O'Brien started, he was told that he could not
be allowed to speak or move, when he replied to General
M`Donald, " I have played the game and lost. Had I
won, my power would have been unlimited ; and I am
ready to pay the penalty of having failed. I hope those
with me will be leniently dealt with. I care not what
happens to myself."
On Saturday the eight persons charged in Dublin with
the conspiracy to murder an inspector of police were dis-
charged on entering into recognizances to appear when
called on.

At Clonmel, the arrest of Dr. O'Ryan and F O'Ryan,
jun., produced such excitement that the populace would
have attempted a rescue but for the overwhelming force
of artillery. At Carrick. on-Suir not less than ten horse
loads of pikes have been captured, and destroyed by the
police in the open street.