The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

ITALY.

',The Pope, in order to facilitate the transmission of
specimens of Roman industry in arts and manufactures
to the Great Exhibition in London, has ordered that all
productions approved of by the commission appointed for
that purpose shall be sent into England at the expense of
the -Government, which, however, will not hold itself
responsible in any other respect.
Ciceracchio and Carbonarello, the principal authors of
the proceedings in May, 1849, when the confessionals of
the churches in the neighbourhood of the Piazza del
Popolo were destroyed, have been condemned by the
Consults to 15 years' forced labour. Their accomplices
will :undergo a similar punishment, varying in duration
from two to five years.

For the last taro days there has been circulating in the
city an .anonymous pamphlet, entitled, " Rome and the
Roman States," and containing a severe censure of the
acts of the government. _

With the exception of a company or two in barracks
on the Piazza of the Holy Apostles, as guard to the
French embassy, nearly all the troops have been with-
drawn in the Transtevere and around the Vatican. The
Castle of St. Angelo is well guarded, and passages have
been constructed communicating with the Vatican, so

that in case of a popular outbreak the 600) French troops
could defend the quarters of the Pepe, or at all events his
Holiness could pass from the Vatican to the fortress by
this renewed communication.

The report of coal in California hai been contradicted
by an official report from a scientific gentleman.
In the West Indies and California, twenty-five, fifty,
and even ninety per cent, of the inhabitants of some
towns are represented to have fallen victims to cholera.

Mis Cathirine Hayes has made a triumphant debut at
Rome. Her reception was a perfect furore. She will
visit New York in May.
A letter from Turin, dated January 3, reports that Ge-
neral Bem died at Aleppo ,on the 11th of December, after
a short illness. He died a Mussulman, and thus received
all the honours due to his rank.

A riot took place in Genoa on the 3d instant. Several
persons were wounded. In order to insure the tranquil-
lity of Italy, the French Government proposes to station
sundry steamers along the coast.
SOMETHING LIKE A STORM.—Letters from St.
Petersburgh of the 25th ult. say that, on the 3d of Octo-
ber, a terrible tempest broke out at Kirgis, when the horde
of Korin generally establishes its camps, and 168 persons
were killed, as also were 205,600 sheep, 1,292 horses, 490
camels, and 360 oxen. During eight clays the soil was
covered with snow to the depth of 51 yards.
REVIVAL OF JESUIT CLAIMS TO PROPERTY.—The
South Carolinian states that Pius IX. has sent a Romish
bishop to California, who, in addition to his spiritual
duties, is to examine'and exhibit the titles of the old Jesuit
property in California, and who will, it is thought, lay
claim to one hundred and fifty millions of dollars' worth
of land, as the property of the early Jesuit missionaries in
that country.

A STRANGE FRENCH TALE.—The Echo de Vesone
says, a woodman, engaged a few days back in cutting up
some old trees, discovered in the body of one of them a
skeleton cased in rusty armour. The form and ornaments
of the armour show that it goes back to the time of the
religious wars. It is supposed that a wounded soldier
had got into the tree as a place of refuge, and when in a
state of exhaustion had fallen into the hollow.
AMERICAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE GREAT EXHI-
BITION.—The United States ship Ohio has been ordered
to prepare to carry contributions to the Exposition of
1851. One journal says, " The largest lump of zinc ore,
we believe, ever yet known to have been taken out of
mines of that metal, was received here on Saturday, and
sent to the Brooklyn Navy-yard, to be forwarded from
there to the Great World's Fair. It is from the mines of
the New Jersey Exploring and Mining Company, and
weighs 16,000 pounds ; average dimensions each way,
about three feet six inches." A second states that a
hale of Tennessee cotton, for the " World's Fair," at
London, had reached New Orleans.
FATE. OF A FRENCH BEAUTY.—On Saturday morning
a humble hearse, followed only by an old woman, leading a
dog by a string, left the rue de l'Hirondelle, near the
Pont St. Michel. It contained the body of a female,
who, under the Directory and the Consulate, had been
one of the most fashionable tnerveilluses. She was the
daughter of a poor fruitwoman of the rue St. Victor, but
her extraordinary beauty caused her to take to the pave.
Whilst leading that life she attracted the attention of
the late English Marquis of and he gave her an
hotel in the rue Caumartin, a carriage and four horses,
boxes in all the theatres, and the toilette of a queen. In
three fates of Longchamps, Tuberuse—such was her norn
de guerre—cast, by her luxury, all the Parisian aristocracy
into the shade. But some escapes caused the Marquis to
abandon her, and her own extravagance and orgies re-
duced her lower and lower. Her beauty at length also
faded, and she was obliged to become a seller of oranges
and oysters. She subsequently became a dealer in poultry
in the market, and so continued up to her death.—Paris
Constitutionnel.
THE GREAT FALLS OF NIAGARA.—On Tuesday even-
ing last our citizens were startled on hearing a loud and
terrific noise, resembling, as near as we can describe it,
the heavy booming of artillery in quick succession, which
shook the earth around us very sensibly. Part of the
Horse-shoe Fall on the Canada side had fallen, carrying
away about ten rods of the rock in length, by four in
width. The canal boat, which ha 6 been lodged
for the last few months on the brink of the rock
which had fallen, and which has excited the admira-
tion of all who beheld it, was also carried over with
the rock. It is now in the whirlpool, two miles down the
river, dancing attendance on the freaks of that great
maelstrom. The crash occurred about seven o'clock in
the evening, and it is indeed providential that it fell at
such an hour and at this season of the year. Had it been
in the summer, when so many thousands of strangers are
here, there undoubtedly would have been persons crushed
to death ; for it is precisely the spot whence so many
contemplate the grandeur of nature and behold the waters
of the mighty cataract above them rushing terrifically
over their heads that is now filled with huge masses of
rock which have fallen from above. The loss of this por-
tion of the rock has not in the least diminished in ap-
pearance the view of the Falls, but has, in our opinion,
added to the scene, which looks grander and more sub-
lime, if possible, than ever.—Niagara Falls Iris.
CALIFORNIA.—With regard to the mines, the accounts
are as flattering as ever. New discoveries are continually
being made. A gentleman who has lived for nearly two
years in the southern mining district told me, three days
ago, that the gold, though not so abundant and far more
inaccessible than formerly, still exists in immense quanti-
ties, both in quartz and in the earth, but that, until labour
cheapens, it cannot be worked on a large scale with profit.
This gentleman was engaged in a gold mine in Chili for
seven years, and I know him well by character ; his re-
port is worthy of credit. Then as to the prospects of the
other (the northern) mining district, from all accounts it
is equally good. A piece of stone, richly intersected with
pure gold veins, has lately been discovered at Navada
City, on Deer Creek, a tributary of the Juba river, which
is Rely to lead to great results. This stone has been dug
round to the depth of a yard, but it has not yet been as-
certained whether it is the head of a vein or only a
solitary lump of stone. Its richness is very great, and
the finder has refused 40.000 dollars for his claim upon it.
I had the story on good authority. A good many deaths
having lately occurred, has given rise to the belief that
the cholera prevails here. The doctors differ on the
subject, and when I recollect that at this time last year
there was an equal number of deaths among people who
returned from the mines, I am inclined to think that the
disease supposed to be cholera is not so, but a disease of
the country. In Sacramento city, however, cholera has
certainly prevailed for some time back, and a great many
deaths have taken place.—Times Correspondent.

GREAT CAVE IN THE STATES OF INDIANA.—We are
just informed by N. J. Coleman, Esq., who has recently
visited the Great Indiana Cave, that another immense
cavern had been discovered opening from the original
cave, which, in extent, curiosities, and mineral produc-
tions, far surpasses the old cave. `Zr. Coleman disco-
vered an aperture just before reaching Jacob's Ladder,
into which a large man could hardly enter, and desired
the party which accompanied him to explore it. The
guide and two or three of the party objected, as the aper-
ture appeared to descend rapidly, and they feared they
might meet with bad air. By a little persuasion, how.
ever, they were prevailed upon to make the exploration.
With much difficulty they descended some 40 feet, when
to their great astonishment they found thernselus in an
immense apartmeet, They immediately determined to
fully explore the race they had discovered. They found
t4t thic room °poner into others, and these into still