The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

1111 'LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

ITALY,

LOMRARDY.—A letter from Innspruck of the 14th, in
the Ausburg Gaeztte, states, that after the taking of
Vicenza Marshal Radetzki had returned with the first
army corps to Verona. The loss of tha papal troops at
Vicenza is stated to have been 1,800 killed and wounded ;
the loss on the Austrian side 500 to 600 killed. It was
generally believed at Innspruck that an armistice would be
concluded between the contending parties.
King Charles Albert signed the deed of union between
Lombardy and the kingdom of Sardinia on the 10th inst.,
at his head quarters at Garda. The Piedmontese Gazette
of the 15th gives official news from Milan of the 13th,
stating that Vicenza, after a noble resistance, had fallen,
on the 11th, into the hands of the Austrians, after a loss
among the papal troop of 1800 killed and wounded, while
the loss of the Austrians was only a third that number.
The last advices from Rome bring the declaration of
the Roman Government, in which is resolved the difficult
problem of the separation of the spiritual and temporal
powers of the Pope. It has been read in the two Cham-
bers and has produced on the Deputies the best impression.
The Minister Mamiani, on being asked by a member if it
contained the sentiments of the Pope, replied, "I can
assure the Deputies that the declaration I have read has
been written with the consent of the Holy Father, and
with his entire approbation." Unanimous applause fol-
lowed this statement, and the greatest joy is exhibited at
Rome.

The steamer Rob Roy, which left St. Petersburgh on
Saturday week, arrived at Hull on Saturday. She brings
130 passengers, a general cargo, and £150,000 in gold bars,
supposed to be for Government, as the exportation of bul-
lion is forbidden to the merchants. _

The Swedes, 10,000 strong, were at Funen, and the
Danes, 25,000 strong, in Alsen and Jutland. The most
decided feeling of resistance exists among them, and they
insist on retaining Schleswig. A Swedish squadron of five
ships was lying in the Sound ; the Russian squadron was
supposed to be about the centre of the Belt. The Baltic
is alive with Russian, Danish, and Swedish men-of-war.
From Copenhagen we learn that the Danes have con-
demned several Prussian ships. Their crews are conti-
nued in a prison ship, under the guns of the Kronen bat-
tery, they having plotted to fire the ships in the harbour.

So great is the scarcity of lawyers in the colony of
Swan River, that a suitor was forced to send to South
Australia, in order to procure a solicitor qualified to con-
duct a suit in equity.
A considerable sensation has been caused amongst the
members of the Jockey Club, and the sporting circles of
Paris, by the announcement of Baron N. de Rothschild's
intention of selling off his stud, which includes several of
the best racing horses in France.
WHEAT IN AMERlCA.—Authentic calculations of the
produce of wheat in the United States of America show,
that upwards of forty millions of bushels are grown be-
yond the average consumption of the population of that
country.
Dr. Wiseman, Bishop of Melipotamus, has addressed
a circular letter to all the Roman Catholic Bishops in
France, Belgium, and Germany, requesting their attend-
ance at the opening of St. George's, in July. They are
requested to bring a mitre, and a " Chape rouge."
Accounts from Berlin of the 16th represent the disturb-
ances as entirely at an end, and the city more than usually
tranquil. A change of ministry had taken place, Baron
Arnim having given in his resignation, which was followed
by the resignations also of Count Schwan, Minisar of
Justice, and Count Konitz, Minister of War.
On the 11th instant, Mr. Henry Coxwell, the aeronaut,
made a perilous ascent in a balloon at Brussels. A post-
ponement having taken place on a previous day, he was
resalved that there should be no further disappointment.
and, accompanied by a friend, ascended when the weather
was in a most boisterous state. The balloon was carried
a distance of 55 miles in 20 minutes, and a safe, though
somewhat difficult, descent was made near Herenthals.
THE CHOLERA.—The last accounts from Moscow state
that the cholera morbus is making frightful progress. Of
four hundred and sixty-four persons attacked, from the
23rd to the 29th of May, no less than two hundred and five
died. The number of new cases on the 29th of May alone
amounted to eighty-nine, and the number of deaths to
forty-two. The cholera has also broken out with great
intensity at Jaruslau, Robinski, aad Kalouga, and thus
appears to be gradually advancing westward ; it is, in fact,
approaching St. Petersburgh.
COMBINATION OF CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY.—A
Methodist preacher last fall took a load of produce down
the river. Amongst other things he took down five
slaves. He sold them at. New Orleans ; he came up to
Natches, bought seven there, and took them down and
sold them also. Last March he came up to preach the
gospel again. A number of persons on board the steam-
boat, the Tuscatora, who had seen him in the shambles
in Natches and New Orleans, and now, for the first time,
found him to be a preacher, had much sport at the expense
of "the fine old preacher who dealt in slaves."—Ameri-
can paper.
DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—Dr. A. J. Burmester, a
professional gentleman at Malta, was very fond of prac-
tising pistol-firing, amongst other exercises, and used to
fire at a target in his dressing-room, and at night practise
at a candle. On the morning of the 29th of May he was
practising as usual, when his male servant entered, and
showing a disinclination to pass between the doctor and
the target, the latter jocularly turned the butt-end of the
pistol towards the man, and the muzzle towards himself.
In a very short time the piece went off, and the ball en-
tered the region of the doctor's heart. Medical assist-
ance was in vain. _ _

INDIA AND CHINA.—The Overland Mail has arrived,
and brines no news of importance beyond the confirma-
tion of the rising in Mooltan and assassination of our
officers. It appears, after the first quarrel, our men had
retired to a small fort outside the walled town of Mooltan,
where for twenty-four hours they considered themselves
protected, but the troops from Mooltan hastened to attack
the fort. Lieutenant Anderson being severely wounded,
was unable to rise from his bed ; Mr. Vans Agnew shook
hands with him and bade him an eternal adieu. He then
prepared to defend himself, but his pistols had been tam-
pered with ; and as the crowd of soldiers with which his
soldiers had " fraternised " entered the room, he cut down
the first assailant, but he was instantly shot, and his body,
like that of his companion, Lieutenant Anderson, and
that of their apothecary, Mr. Wilkinson, hacked to pieces;
and treated with great indignity. The new governor,
Chan Singh, was wounded and made prisoner by the
troops of Mooltan. There is no additional intelligence
as to the preparations for vindicating our honour, but
those mentioned at the time the news arrived are being
carried out. Mooltan is the strongest town in the Pun-
jaub, and it has been deemed advisable, considering the
hot weather and the approaching rains, to postpone the
expedition against the insurgents until October or No-
vember. The other parts of India are quiet. Commer-
cial affairs, both at Bombay and Calcutta, are somewhat
better than they have been for some time past ; and still
they have an upward tendency. There is little intelli-
gence from China, but that is highly satisfactory, the
Shanghae dispute having been brought to an amicable
termination.

BOHEMIA.-AWFITI. CRUELTIES.-011 the 15th, Prince
Windscbgratz was in complete possession of Prague.
The insurrection is ascribed to the machinations of the
Swornost faction. The Wiener Zeitung gives the fol-
lowing interesting details :—" Owing to the refusal of the
Prince to give arms to the people on the 10th, the Swor-
nost faction proceeded in large numbers to the residence
of the commander-in-chief, where they sang songs insult-
ing to the Prince, accompanied by hooting and threats.
The military on duty having in vain called upon the mob
to be orderly and disperse, and the fatal shot being fired
at this moment which deprived the unfortunate Princess
of her life, the Prince with great dignity and calmness
advanced in the midst of them, and addressed them to
the following effect :—" Gentlemen—lf it is your desire
to insult me, because I am of noble birth, go to my palace,
and do there as you may think fit. I will even give you
a guard that you may not be disturbed in your amuse-
ment. But if you act thus because I am commander of
Prague, and purpose making a demonstration in front of
this building, I tell you candidly that I shall prevent such
a step with every means at my command. My wife now
lies a lifeless corpse above stairs, and yet I address you in
words of kindness. Gentlemen, do not drive me to
severe measures." After this noble speech, under cir-
cumstances of so heart rending a nature, the Prince,
instead of being hearkened to, was roughly seized upon
by two Czechs, and dragged to the next lamp-post, where
a rope was soon provided—at this moment the Prince's
grenadiers advanced with fixed bayonets, and in less than
a second cleared the square and delivered the Prince.
Five minutes afterwards the artillery swept the streets.
Prince Windischgratz is spoken of as one of the most
distinguished Generals in the Austrian service. The
most awful atrocities were committed. Among others,
Wilhelm Weiss, a paper merchant, was crucified in
the true sense of the word. He "mid shot a couple of
in many streets
students in his capacity of Burgher Guard, for which his
house was first demolished, and himself literally nailed to
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SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday, two brothers
were amusing themselves at Byker, near Newcastle, by
jumping across an 'old pit mouth, when one of them lost
his balance on the side and fell in, and the other, observing
that, made an attempt to save him, and fell in also. The
accident was observed by an engineman, who was sitting
in the engine house getting his dinner at the time, and he
instantly rushed to the spot, and, by great daring. suc-
ceeded in saving one of the youths, who was upheld by a
beam across the shaft, a few feet from the top. In at-
tempting to rescue the other,. the unfortunate man sacri-
ficed his own life, both having fallen together to the
bottom of the shaft, in ivhich• there was seventy feet of
watery

IRELAND.
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Lord Ffrench has given in his adhesion to the Irish re-
peal league.

- Mr. Steele's remains will be removed to Ireland, with
the view of his being buried near his great leader,
O'Connell.

The last meeting of the Repeal Association was ex
petted to be held yesterday (Monday). John O'Connell
is laid on the shelf, and the physical force repealers are
now resolved not to halt in their course.
The Queen has sanctioned a pension of £2OO a-year to
Mr. William Carleton, the Irish novelist, and another of
£lOO a-year to the sisters of the late lamented Professor
M'Cullagh, of Dublin University.
THE REPEAL ALLIANCE.—The Bishop of Dromore has
given in his unconditional adhesion to the Irish League.
A rumour strongly prevails in repeal circles that Mr. John
O'Connell will decline joining the League.
Nearly 400 emigrants sailed in two days from Limerick
last week. The emigrants who have left the Shannon
since the season commenced, carried on an average £l5
each, which would cause a drain from the district of
£60,000 in specie within three months.
ON DlT—that the worthy Member for Limerick, find-
ing himself " too childish-foolish for this world," is about
to retire into a monastery for married gentlemen, among
the Trap formations of Dalkey Island. The private
letter of the Sainted BLAKE may have hastened this wise
resolution.

A Dublin jury have returned a verdict, with damages of
£5OO and 6d. costs, against the proprietor of a Waterford
newspaper, for libellous remarks upon Mr. Usher, a
Waterford landlord, who it will be remembered, was fired
at by an assassin last year, and whose conduct to his
tenants the newspaper represented as cruel and vindictive.
OUR LEASE OF IRELAND.—The Tribune, one of the
treason papers of Dublin, gives, in its number of Satur-
day, the rules for the new Confederate clubs. The article
concludes as follows :—" With five hundred clubs, of five
hundred men each, founded upon such a basis. and ani-
mated by such a faith, we will give the British govern-
ment just three months' lease of this island from the date
of their formation."

PROTESTANT REPEAL ASSOClATlON.—Postponements
seem fo be the order of the day. The Protestant repealers
have deferred their third sitting, with a view, no doubt, of
catching a few presentable recruits capable of taking part
in the next evening's performances. Lord Cloncurry,
they say, is to take the chair ; and for the twentieth time
it is asserted that Mr. Butt, Queen's Counsel, is to attend
and avow himself a repealer,
MR. JOHN O'CONNELL'S EXIT.—The deposed leader
has addressed a ponderous and stupid missive " to the
people of Ireland," conveying his ultimatum with respect
to the union of repealers. He has no stomach for the
thing—let his bishops and clergy say what they may. For
the life of him he cannot digest the " clubs," with their
pikes and rifles, and threats of physical force, with the
distant view of a colonial settlement floating before his
distracted vision. The postscript—like that of a lady's
letter—contains the whole marrow of the two mortal
columns of the Freeman's Journal. Here it is :—" P.S.
By way of postscript I add, that I should perhaps not have
used the word retirement,' but rather that of ' refusal to
join the new league.' I trust to labour still for Ireland as a
member of parliament, and at home by writing—where I
am precluded from speaking."
PREPARATIONS FOR REBELLION.—The Dublin Mail
of Monday, after condemning the spa' hy of the Govern-
ment since the conviction of Mitchel, closes with the
statement that there are organised in Dublin alone 40
clubs, each counting on the average 400 men, and com-
prising in the whole 12,000 fighting men well armed—
that the progress of the new club was rapidly extending—
that there existed in Ireland, at present, 100 such batta-
lions, with daily and weekly additions to their numbers—
that when 600 of such foci of rebellion, or 108,000 fighting
and armed men, shall have been organised, then will be
the time for the National Convention of 300 to be called
into action—and then will the signal be given for the ge-
neral insurrection by a declaration of independence, to be
carried on by that body as the Provisional Government of
Ireland. It is also expected that all these preliminary
steps will be taken before the middle of autumn.
A CRUEL HOAX.—A few days since some Brazilians
arrived at the Victoria Hotel, Cork, and by some means
got noised through the town that Ledru Rollin and La-
martine had reached the island. This spread like wild
,fire, and in the evening simultaneous meetings of the
Confederate Clubs of Blarney Lane, Ballinthamause,
Blackpool, and other " fashionable" localities assembled,
and addresses and duputations as the order of the day
were resolved on, and a numerous deputation from these
clubs waited on Mr. M'Cormack, requesting him to intro-
duce them to Ledru Rollin and Lamartine. " I don't
know them," said the won by host : " they are not in my
hotel !" And pray are they not of the party of French-
men that arrived here yesterday ?" " No, gentlemen,"
was the reply, " you have been shamefully hoaxed. Those
gentlemen are not Frenchmen but Brazilians, residents of
Bahia, and they have just left in a coach and four for
Dublin, on their way to London." The astonished De-
putation looked petrified, but of course withdrew.—Cork
Constitution.

FIGHTING PRIESTS.—Father Kenyon, of Templederry,
has addressed a letter to the Limerick Reporter, denying
a statement in that paper to the effect that he had retired
from political strife. He thinks that no honest Irishman
ought to retire until the country is delivered from her two
plagues or calamities, namely, ' Her subjection to a cruel
and greedy government of foreigners, and the prevalence
within her own borders of a system f trickery and trea-
chery, of tyranny and tergiversation, unexampled in all
past history, and known at present throughout the world
as balmy O'Connellism." He adds, that lie will continue
to combat these twin monsters for eight months, but if
after that time, the people of Ireland have not " Decent
habitations and national freedom," and the dignitaries of
the church do not cease to blow hot and cold ;" and
that, " If John O'Connell be still encouraged by a weekly
stipend and letters from the highest quarters, to rattle his
father's bones for our amusement; if we go on renewing
his bills upon our gullibility, and lend him our ears as
often and as long as he may need them ; then I, for my
part, will abandon politics, and occupy my future leisure
in cynical writings and amassing coins." In the Limerick
Examiner, a priest named Vaughan, uses equally violent
language. He thus concludes :—" A great occasion,
based on the union of Repealers, is now offering itself.
The country should rise with and assume again the colossal
attitude of '43. The moment the first field in Ireland
ripens into fertility, then up with the million host of Mul-
laghmast, and the daring of Mallbw ; and shame eternal
on the recreant who will not be for Erin and Repeal."
The writer of this epistle is one of Dr. Kennedy's clergy,
and will that bishop suspend priest Vaughan ? and if not,
why not ?
EXTRAORDINARY BALLOON ASCENT.—On Wednesday
Mr. Hampton made one of his most successful ascents
from the Rotunda Gardens, in Dublin. It was announced
that he would cross the Irish Channel, but this did not
prove a great attraction, and from the haze the object
could not be accomplished. The aeronaut was accompa-
nied by Sandham Symes, Esq., of Dominick-street, and
Mr. Bateman, of the " Shades." It continued to ascend
to a great altitude until the great body became almost be-
yond the range of observation, at which point it appeared
stationary for a considerable time. In fact no instance is
on record of so great an altitude having been attained in
Ireland. The balloon descended in the vicinage of the
Ashbourne road. The aeronauts landed in perfect safety
and with great ease. They first touched earth in a corn
field, but afterwards trailed into a meadow, where they
were immediately surrounded by a joyous and astonished
crowd of haymakers. The country people behaved with
the greatest civility, and used every exertion to aid in se-
curing the balloon. By some accident or mistake, in
those engaged in holding the prodigious bubble, it escaped
from the netting, and rose to such a height that it was
soon lost in the clouds. The voyagers returned to Dub-
lin. Mr. Hampton has written an interesting account of
the voyage, from which it appears that a gust of wind hav-
ing thrown over the balloon on one side, the men holding
on the netting got alarmed, and let go. Mr. Hampton
and Mr. Bateman were left hanging on to the netting ;
but at length the balloon slipped out of it, and having no-
thing but the silk to carry, it ascended very rapidly. It
was afterwards recovered in a field at Athearne, eighteen
miles from the town. It was safely folded up, and taken
to Athearne Castle.

RAILWAY AFFAIRS.

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In Whitsun week last year,the average earnings of the
railways per mile was £6l ; his year they were £52.

The traffic on the Chester and Holyhead railway, for the
week ending June 17, was £llll 14s. ld.
During Whitsun week no fewer than one hundred and
sixteen thousand individuals left Manchester by the re•
spective railways.

On Monday that portion of the East Lancashire railway
which connects the town of Accrington with that of Black-
burn was opened to the public. When the line through
Ormskirk is finished the distance from Liverpool to Black-
burn will be performed in about an hour.
The North Staffordshire Railway have agreed to give a
bonus of £4OO to Messrs. F. and J. Mills, for injury done
to the salt works of those gentlemen, at Sandbach,
Cheshire, and to pay damages if the works are not put in
working order within a prescribed period.
The requirements of a railway when detailed with any
minuteness appear absurd ; for instance, three million of
bricks, says the Railway Record, will be requisite in the
formation of a viaduct of 300 yards, in progress at Brier-
ley Hill, on the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton
line.
It is stated that Mr. Creed, who from the first projec-
tion of the London and Birmingham Railway, has been
the secretary to the company, has resigned his office.
Mr. Henry Booth, who now holds the joint appointment
of secretary, together with Mr. Creed, will, it is presumed,
be his successor.
The directors of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
have received the sanction of the shareholders to the imme-
diate consolidation of their share capital. Any means,
said the chairman, that could bring up their stock to nearly
its proper value, so as to enable those to sell who wanted
the money to meet engagements for calls on other stock,
would be a great advantage.
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At the special meetings of the shareholders of• the Bir-
mingham and Oxford Junction, and the Birmingham,
Wolverhampton, and Dudley. the bills for confirming the
agreement of November, 1846, for the sale of the line to
the Great Western, &c., and for the loop line from the
Birmingham and Oxford Junction, through Leamington,
were approved of.
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The ancient Collegiate Church of Edinburgh -bas'been
purchased by the North British Railway Company for a
waggon shed. The antiquaries made a stout resistance,
but the company have at length possessed themselves of
the edifice, the tombs of the Scottish Queens, for £17.000.
The remains of. the foundress, Mary of Guelders,,Queen
of James the Second,. have been removed to the Abbey of
Holyrood.