The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-06 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

On the Ist instant, a large number of mechanics assem-
bled in Berlin, and declared for the arming, and ex-
changed with the civic guard mutual promises of support.
They also engaged to stand by tne citizens against any
attack from the military. After coming to this decision,
they filed off. The proclamation of a republic was loudly
talked of in many groups.
The utmost indignation has been excited at Berlin, and
there is more danger now of an outbreak than at any time
since the days of March. Groups of unemployed la-
bourers continue to gather, and a proceeding by govern-
ment has set almost everything in a flame. Five barges
loaded with arms have been sent from the arsenal (which
is one of the few public buildings the citizens have allowed
the troll's to take charge of,) down the river, and this
circumstance having been discovered by the students, the
populace became fearfully excited, and took possession of
the barges, which they commenced unloading, and never
was a more thoroughly revolutionary scene witnessed.
The unloading continued for nearly three hours under a
burning sun, the crowd increasing every moment as the
event became known through the city, and the anger of
the populace swelling with every case of arms dragged into
their sight. The arms were again lodged in the arsenal,
which will doubtless be placed under a guard of citizens
again. _

-A
few days since, about a hundred schoolboys of Berlin
assembled for the purpose of giving their schoolmaster a
katzenmusik, or concert of marrowbones and cleavers, and
created such alarm by their earsplitting noises, that the
drums were beaten, and more than 15,000 civic guards,
with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, appeared to op-
pose the youthful rioters.

On the Nth ult. quiet and confidence were gradually
returning in Vienna. Business had resumed its proper
course. The damage done to the streets has been repaired.
The behaviour of the labourers during the excitement has
been admitted to have been exemplary.
IHE RIVER PLATE.—The Phoenix, Captain Rooney,
arrived here on Saturday- with dates from Montevideo to
the 24th of March. Letters brought by this vessel repre-
sent Montevideo as being in an alarming state. Mr.
Gore arrived in Her Majesty's ship Inconstant on the
18th, and Baron Gros in the French steam ship Magellan
on the 19th. Her Majesty's steamer Hydra, from Rio,
had arrived at Montevideo. Dr. Varela, editor of the
Comercio del Plata, was stabbed at his own door on the
night of the 20th of March. .

THE POPE AND THE SULTAN.—The following presents
have been remitted to the Nuncio of His Holiness, for
presentation to :—A magnificent saddle, enriched
with diamonds ; eight Arab horses of great beauty ; three
magnificent snuff-boxes, enriched with diamonds; four
decorations, for distribution at his pleasure ; GOO piques
of Damascus cloth, beautifully embroidered, and of vari-
ous colours (the pique is a measure of 227 inches); a
great number of Smyrna carpets ; 30 pieces of Angora
shawling ; and a grand decoration for Pope Pius IX., and
another for the Ambassador.

ANOTHER INSURRECTION AT VIENNA.—On the 23d of
May the ministry ordered the academic legion to dissolve,
and immediately to lay down their arms. A revolt instantly
took place—students and ouvriers immediately raised bar-
ricades. At ten o'clock a collision took placebetween the
soldiers and the people. The soldiers were repulsed, and
retreated upon the glacis, and occupied all the bastions.
Hostilities have not been renewed. The people called for
the maintenance of the academic legion, the removal of
the soldiers, the return of the emperor within eight days,
or the substitution of a prince in his place. On the 28th;
order was entirely restored, and passages opened through
the barricades, which, however, were not removed.
STEAM NAVIGATION IN BRAZIL.—The navigation of
the river Amazon by steam has been at length attempted,
the first essay having been made by a small steamer,
called the Guapiassu, drawing very little water. She pro-
ceeded from the city of Para to the river Negro on the
Gth of November,' and returned on the 27th of January
last, having occupied 82 days on the voyage, of which she
was 33 detained at the bar of the Rio Negros, and called
at twelve different places, stopping several hours at each,
going, and coming. The experiment completely succeed-
ed. The great difficulty apprehended was easily overcome,
that of procuring a sufficient supply of fuel. She could
not stow away more than 70 tons of coals, which were
only sufficient for seven days' consumption, whereas she
was 19 days with the steam on, and consequently obliged
to have recourse to wood. After trying several qualities,
they found four different qualities thereof; which answered
equally as well, if not better, than coals, obtaining a higher
degree of pressure, and a greater number of revolutions
from its use, at a much less expense ; that of coals for the
whole voyage would have been 2,925 milreis, whereas the
actual cost of the wood amounted only to 355 milreis,
occasioning, moreover, much less labour from the ashes
being more easily removed. The fireplace of the Guapi-
assu was constructed for wood, and the logs were cut to
suit it. Peru is highly interested in the navigation by
steam of the Amazon. A company is being formed at
Rio for improving the navigation of the river Mucury,
which communicates with Rio and the provinces of Minas
and St. Paulo, the two most productive, fertile, and best'
populated in the empire.-117orning Post.