The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-16 00:00:00

THE POPE IN PRTBON.

MARSEILLES, MAY had hardly posted my letter
this morning when I was credibly informed of the follow-
ing startling intelligence—if any news now-a-days may
be so qualified. The Pope has been confined to prison
until he shall have consented to abdicate his temporal
principality. The Roman people are determined not to
forego their part in the Austrian war, and will take #no
excuse to relinquish it that the Pope may adduce. They
told him—" Since your holiness feels embarrassed in the
exercise of your two-fold duties, as a spiritual prince and
a temporal, forego the latter, and we will elect a king who
shall act for us in temporal matters with freedom and
independence." His holiness hesitated to abdicate.his
temporal Government, and was consequently put under
restraint in the:Castle of St. Angelo. J cannot guarantee
the.exactitude of this news, although it is credibly repor-
ted. Elowevez ,as n'est que le premier pas qui colite—
the Civic Guard having occupied the gates of the city and
the people taken the law into their own hands, what is
reported to have followed is most probable. The position
of the Pope has caused profound interest, only equalled
by delight. It is seen that Pius IX., in reviving Guelph
against Ghibeline, has committed an anachronism in the
19th century, for which the penalty will be the loss of
sovereign power to the Pope, henceforth a simple bishop.
—Post.

It is confidently stated that a treaty, offensive and de-
fensive, has been entered into between the Emperor of
Austria and the Czar.

MILITARY INSURRECTION IN SPAIN.—A military in-
surrection took place at Madrid on the 7th inst., at four
o'clock in the morning, which was suppressed after a san-
guinary conflict which lasted several hours. The number
of the dead was not known, but it was considerably
greater than in the insurrection of the 26th of March.
Among the killed was the Captain-General Fulgosio,
brother-in-law of Maria Christina. Thirty-four of the
prisoners taken—one half of them civilians, the other half
military men—were tried and sentenced to death by a
court-martial, and were about to be shot when the post
left. It appears from subsequent advices that only thir-
teen persons were shot—eight military and five civilians.
Eighty soldiers had been sentenced to imprisonment for
life. Some of the men who had deserted had surrendered
themselves.

THE DANISH DISPUTE.—The kingdom of Denmark
allows succession to the crown in the female line. The
present King of Denmark is also Duke of Schleswig and
Duke of Holstein. Of these he is reigning Duke, not
sovereign King. These Duchies do not admit of suc-
cession in the female line. They claim male succession
alone; and they declare that when the male line is in-
terrupted in Denmark by the accession of a Queen, they
must look for a Duke in the next male heir. Just as when
William IV. died, in England, without male heirs,
England passed under female dominion ; but Hanover
was yielded to the nearest male inheritor and divided
from England. To this the King of Denmark accedes as
far as the Duchy of Holstein is concerned. He acknow-
ledges that Duchy to belong to the German Confedera-
tion, and that it passes to the male heir. He contends,
however, that Schleswig is Danish, and as such admits of
female inheritance. To this Schleswig and Holstein
reply—that is, the German faction in both Duchies make
answer—that whatever Schleswig may be, she is by her
constitution indissolubly united to Holstein ; that no se-
paration can take place ; and that when a Queen ascends
the throne of Denmark, Schleswig and Holstein cease to
be united with that country, and pass to the next male
heir who, being a German, will carry both Duchies into
the Germanic Confederation, of which even now they are
declared by Germany to be a part.
AUSTRIA.—DREADFUL MASSACRES.—A communica-
tion from Sclut Micklos, of the 27th April, contains fear-
ful accounts of the cruelties committed at Barote. The
Illyrians and Christians revolted the same day at Kirkin-
da. They repaired in great numbers to the district stadt-
houses, released 110 men under arrest, and then went to
the Roman Catholic church, where they pillaged and de-
stroyed everything. Thence they went to a former as-
sessor, who fled, and endeavoured to conceal himself with
property amounting to 6000 florins. He was discovered,
and though be offered to deliver up all that he had if they
would spare his life, they cut off his head, stuck it on a
pole, and caused his dead body to be dragged through the
city fastened to a horse's tail. They then went to the
present assessor, and while he wrs attempting to effect
his escape they ot him dead upon the spot. Magazines
and houses were entered and plundered. Everything was
destroyed. Beds and furniture were thrown into the
ments, were destroyed by fire. Fifty-one hussars, who
were in the stadt-haus, fired upon them, but they were
too few in number. The rebels were furnished with long
poles, to the ends of which scythes were attached, and
with these they attacked the military. The riding-master
had his arm cut off, and Lieut. Count Zichy had a scythe
run through his body, and two privates were killed and
many disarmed. The revolt commenced at Neusatz,
where the Hungarian flag was destroyed, and a red one
hoisted in its stead. Emissaries from Servia are said to
have instigated the revolt.
UNUSUAL CONNECTIONS.—The quartering of Prussian
troops in Christianfield, a village of the peculiar sect of
Hernhutters, is described as having astonished the prim
and peaceful brotherhood not a little. But they made a
virtue of necessity, and did their best to lodge the men of
battle. General Wrangel and his staff took possession of
the meeting-house, the ground-floor of which forms the
the only inn of the place ; the house of the " sisters," and
the " widow sisters," were appropriated to other depart-
ments of the administration. As the community is only
600 in number, on whom 1,400 men are billeted, both
brothers and sisters are thrown into affliction and diffi-
culties by the sadden pressure of numbers upon space.
But war respects no opinions, and takes no account of in-
conveniences ; so the eagles were lodged in the dovecot,
as much out of place as a pile of muskets in the midst of a
gathering of " Friends." The troops appear to have en-
joyed the contrasts of place and people amazingly. The
costume of the men was a perfect rebuke to the gaudy
display of military uniforms, which they regarded with
the wondering pity of a philosopher looking at the war-
paint of a savage. The peculiar head-dress of the women,
and the unmistakeable " type " of countenance of all the
community, were equally matters of observation for their
guests, more especially the supernatural gravity of the
children, who are supposed to be some 40 years of age at
the day of their birth, and are never young at all. But
the brotherhood are prosperous and well to do, and for the
great essentials of " provant and supplies there are much
worse quarters than a Hernhutter's village.