The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-22 00:00:00

ITALY.

BOMBARDMENT OF BOLOGNA.—A conflict has taken
place between the Austrian troops and the Bolognese, in
which the former were repulsed; but they subsequently
raised reinforcements and bombarded the city. The Au-
strian general, on the Bth instant, laid a heavy contribu-
tion on Bologna, and to secure its payment requred hos-
tages. This demand gave great offence—the people re-
sisted, and the tocsin was sounded. A dreadful conflict,
we are told, ensued ; but the details are not given. The
Bolognese, however, captured 27 of the enemy's troops,
and drove the main force out of the city. Shortly after-
wards the Austrian returned, and commenced bombarding
that town ; two of the palaces were soon in flames, and
the faubourg pillaged and burned. The Austrians lost 40
men killed and 50 prisoners ; the Bolognese 15 killed and
wounded.
Latest advices from Rome state that the populace were
in a most excited state. An address to the French Re-
public, demanding intervention, had been signed by the
people. The Chamber approved of this address, and sent
it to the Ambassador, who replied that be would forward
it to his Government. The following list of
.the new
Ministry had been communicated to the Chamber of
Deputies :—Count Fabri, Interior ; Di Rossi, Grace and
Justice ; Lauri, Finance ; Guarini, Commerce and Indus-
try, and, provisionally, Public Works; Count Campello,
Arms ; Perfetti, Police, ad interim. The Epoca states
that his Holiness has dismissed the Ministerof Arms, Count
Campello. The Patria of Florence, of the 10th, pub-
lishes a letter from Rome of the Bth, which says that the
Cardinals were flying from that city.

The Portuguese government has ordered a young Spa-
niard, named Aguilar, to leave Portugal, because he had
written some republican verses in an album kept at an
inn at Contra.

DREADFUL CASE OF SUICIDE.—A case of suicide, rare
in Germany, occurred two days past on the Hanover-Hil-
desheim line. Professor Michelsen, of Kiel, stepped
from the waggon at the station, placed his head suddenly
under the wheel of a locomotive on the point of moving,
and in an instant it was severed from his shoulders.
THRILLING SCENE.—We learn that a fearful scene oc-
curred at the Suspension-bridge, at Niagara Falls, yester-
day afternoon. Four men were passing over the bridge,
when it was struck by one of those sudden and strong
gusts of wind which frequently rush through the chasm
with the tremendous force of a hurricane, and so twisted it
as to turn it bottom upwards. The men caught the wires,
and in this position—suspended 200 feet above the resist-
less waters beneath—they were enabled to maintain them-
selves until the alarm was given at the Falls, a mile and a
half distant, and the whole population rushed to the res-
cue. The bridge was restored to its former position, and
the men saved. We have not learned the particulars, but
can well imagine the deep sensation of the spectators, as
well as those whose lives hung upon a thread, as it were,
during the time which intervened between the accident
and the rescue.—Huron Gazelle, July 21.
COLOGNE CATHEDRAL.—The sixth hundredth anniver-
sary of laying the foundation stone of this unfinished
cathedral was celebrated with much royal and sacerdotal
pomp on Monday. The most characteristic event of the
day was an accidental one. Shortly before the arrival of
the king, a band of peasants going on the annual pilgrim-
age to the chapel at Cafen entered the city by the bridge
of boats. It was composed of very old men and women
in their provincial costume, dusty and footsore with their
day's march. They walked in two long lines, the women
first, with folded hands, chanting the Ave Maria : a priest
in full robes followed, breviary in hand and the crucifix
borne behind him. Then came the men, aged, bald, and
wrinkled, stooping under the weight of years and toil;
many of them were the very types of the peasant in the
etchings of Holbein's " Dance of -Death ;" most of them
repeated aloud a prayer as they walked along. Several
covered carts closed the procession, carrying the baggage
and a few children, half-delighted, half-scared by the great
floating banners and the noise and rush of the great city.
They all rested for the night outside the walls, and re-
sumed their march next day, having still three day?
journey before them. It was a fragment of the life of the
middle ages brought suddenly on the scene; and it was
almost tie only event of the day that let an impression
.of tnese or depth of feeling.