The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-04-11 00:00:00

struck with stupor
to the c

ling- of the

each day thousands of workmen are thrown upon the
streets, and when the Constituent Assembly shall meet,
it will find itself in presence of 800,000 men and women
without work and without bread. Let the Provisional
Government shake off its stupor, and let great measures
be immediately resolved upon."

Notwithstanding ti

m declaration of

I. de La-

,reign malcontents, from the Poles to

the Irish, it is

'enerally supposed th

t the Republic desire

to make Italy

republic, and destroy all existit

principalities
The P

is pal
ng difficult

rs of Wed

lay demonstrate the in-

Republic

on any terms, and money is getting scarcer every day. If
it
,continues a fortnight longer, all houses will stop pay-
ment, and we are compelled to inform our friends that we
cannot execute any more orders but at one month's credit
from date of shipment. In France we have not, for the
last fortnight, delivered any goods unless the cash was
paid beforehand. You will be glad to hear, my dear Sirs,
that, so far, we have not sustained any loss, but it must
come if our government system continues. We are pro-
testing against it, and are determined, in the south of
France, not to be ruled by 35,000 Parisians."
The Paris papers of Saturday state that the republican
party were satisfied with the result of the election of offi-
cers of the National Guard. The utmost tranquillity

prevailed, but the approaching general election continued
to be looked to with some anxiety. A strange rumour
had got afloat, one which, if confirmed, would very con-
siderably reassure the public mind, namely, that Baron
James de Rothschild had been offered the Ministry of
Finance ?

ITALY.
The King of Sardinia entered Pavia at the head -of
30,000 men on the 29th ult., and left next day for Lodi.
The crew of an Austrian frigate in the roads of Naples
had compelled the captain to hoist the Italian national
It is reported that Savoy has declared itself a

Republic.

Oa the 30th, Marshal Radetzky was still at Brescia.
but the accounts state that he has not more than 15,000
men under his command, and that their position is very
critical. The Austrian army is stunned by the rapidity
of their defeat, and are in several places in a state of com-
plete disorganisation. Padua has protested against the
establishment of Venice as a separate Republic under the
name of the Republic of St. Mark. A great Italian union
is the wish of all the Revolution party throughout the
north of Italy. The Provisional Government at Venice
has intimated that it is willing to join a general Italian
Government, and that it is desirous, above all things, to
avoid

division. The Patria of Florence announces that a
political alliance, offensive and defensive,against Austria.
has been concluded by the King of ardinia with the
Pope, the King of Naples, and the Grand Duke of

Tuscany.
Letters from Palermo of the 28th ult. announce that
the Sicilian parliament was constituted ; that Admiral
Ruggiero, chief of the insurrection, had been appointed
Regent, and that the political separation of Naples and
Sicily was an accomplished fact.

The papers from Naples re
Well date the ministry was

tell to the 29th of March, at
still incomplete. An occa-

sional disposition to riot continued to be manifested, but
it had hitherto been subdued by the interference of the

military

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