The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-12 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN AND COLONIAL•

SERIOUS INSURRECTION AT LEGHORN.
The Piedmontese Gazette of the 6th states that Leghorn
was the scene of a new insurrection on the 3rd. The
decrees closing the clubs, and prohibiting tumultuotts
crowds, besides the orders for the arrest of severalyer.
sons, emanating from the extraordinary commismoinr
Cipriani, were the signal for it. The government
were torn down from the walls ; the people rushed I,nte
the square, and invaded the governor's palace. slel
troops appeared, and fired in the air; the people return
it by killing and wounding several; artillery was then
drawn up and swept the strada, but was ultimately re-
pulsed by a violent fusilade. The cavalry were also e,„:
pulsed. The troops retired with the governor to the
fortress. The military lost 60 men killed, other accounts
say 120 ; and add that a part of the military laid down
their arms and fraternised with the people, who were Prei
paring to attack the fortress. A provisional governmee
was immediately formed.

GERMANY.
The business letters from Frankfort take a very
heartening view of the probable course of affairs consequel
upon the Ministerial defeat on the armistice question; al,
the occurrence either of a civil or a European war is in the
annoyance of the moment confidently predicted. At tn.
same time. it is said the majority did not desire the resir
nation of the Ministry, or intend their vote to be under-
stood as one of want of confidence, and that many merell3:,
voted as they did from a feeling of indignation at Prussia
having departed so far from the power delegated, ,"
her as to conclude an arrangement of such a sweePlT;
and permanent character. The matter, however, has
had the effect of reviving all the tendency
to political
excitement which during the past two months Ils",
been rapidly subsiding, and hence in its operation 1113(2"
commerce it was likely to have a most injurious effeu:,
The Frankfort fair was going on, but the booths we
filled with loud and angry debaters instead of purchaser:
Previously to this, there had been a general tencleti
towards a restoration of confidence, and German socuP,:,
ties of all kinds were improving in the market. 'Af°°`;
was still abundant at 2 per cent., and the discount on
Austrian paper money was 8 per cent. .

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hadr madealarm that the town was nearly deserted, and the bow;
were all closed. Among the dismayed fugitives were rest'
of the local npdical profession, who chose to retire frog
the scene of. practice rather than encounter the virule-ny"
of the disease.
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NEWFOUNDLAND.—On June 26th, the new CuIITC.-
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St. Philip, at Broad Cove, Conception Bay, was COO.
crated. The Bishop preached.
A socialist banquet was lately held, and attended
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MM. Pierre Leroux and Proudhon, at which the latn
declared that he did not despair of being Minister 1'
Finance within three months.
A great number of workmen of Paris-20,000 it is sac
—are anxious to go with their families to Algeria, and t neof
cupy themselves in colonisation, owing to the wa"••
work, and the consequent misery which exists at Park,
but they require an advance from the state
state.
August, Ttatti
ROYAL CHRISTENING.—The 12th of°;.bo
in Mecklenburgh-Strelitz as the birth-day of the amp
Grand Duke, was this year made additionally interes'
by the christening of the young Prince, son of their rie„,t
Highnesses the Grand Duke and Duchess. The
Prince was held at the font by his venerable grandfatli
the Grand Duke. The august mother was sulfide°
recovered to be present, graciously receiving the con;
tulations of the assembly on the auspicious event.
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number of sponsors was twelve, the young Prince revrA,
ing his names, as follows:—George, Adolphus, Frednl
Augustus, Victor, Adelbert, Ernest, Gustavus,
Wellington ; may this last be an augury of future f.c,•;r
in European renown ! The sponsors were Queen the
toria, the Queen Dowager, the King of Hanover
Duke of Wellington, &c.
Ast the
A BOLD COACHMAN.—We mentioned recently v.A bi
Niagara Falls had been bridged, and had been cres__neeS
the engineer in a one-horse vehicle. The American Pa)
give the following letter from Mr. Ellet, dated the 41d
of July :—" This morning I laid the last plank 0.
foot-bridge on the Canada side, and then drove over out
back again in a buggy. 500 feet of the bridge was v(4,00t
railing on either side. My horse, though spirited,.
_."tto
along quietly, touched up occasionally with a whip, J_7_,e,
show him that he was in command and give him conlig
On returning, I directed one of the drivers to bring 0°.,,a
team, a two-horse close carriage, weighing over a ton and
a half. I took his place on the box and drove over rit
back. The horses went quietly; the flooring is but elgoiA
feet wide, 220 feet high, and 762 feet long, and gritbior
railing, over such a torrent as yon never saw, and to
will see anywhere else."

DREADFUL TRAGEDY.—Last week a female of unsound
mind, in Mr. Shaw's lunatic asylum, r.t Woodbrien
murdered an idiot girl, about 12 years of age, by straeF'
her with an apron string.
RAILWAY ACCIDENT.--On Wednesday,
the Ashton branch of the Manchester and Leeds RailtTis
Howard was committed for trial for neglect of du on
The prisoner had neglected to turn the points, iv.tte.
caused the one o'clock passenger train to run off the lint,
off The
train, afraid of their lives, but no one
Several passengers and the engine-driver ininne d. The
engine and some of the carriages were broken.
d Obser•
MATRIMONIAL SPECULATORS.—The Bradfor
ver, of Thursday, contains an advertisement, headed
ver,
Matrimony," from which we make the folloolouth
tract :—" Two gentlemen, about to emigrate t° their
Australia, are desirous of meeting with partners in 1
future life. They are members of the Established Chun
c_
and they would not wish the ladies' ages to exceed tvre;:"
decideaill
ty-five years. A few hundred pounds are
requisite." Cog'
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY e
ego
PANY.—RETIREMENT OF THE SECRETARIES.--W I 0
with unfeigned regret that Mr. Creed, and Mr. Booth e.t
in their resignations on Saturday. It Is not necessary o_7;
we should say of these gentlemen more than that th"'
Wes
and Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Great W 0,140
was injure
are universally acknowledged to be three of the au_A
railway men of the day. We believe that both Mr. Cm"-
and Mr. Booth join the direction.
THE CROPS IN IRELAND.—Tbe country reports
tinue to be favourable. The markets are well suPPod
with new grain, which is of very good qualitY. ,440
prices are consequently falling. The accounts show. 141
potatoes are to the effect that disease has attaeketiong,
kinds, but is not as virulent as on the former visitatioto
Ulster, which was comparatively free from the P° to'
disease, is now suffering in common with the other,,roo
vinces. It should, however, be observed that in foil
districts not more than a third or fourth of the er.'`
affected. the
THE WORD " HALIFAX."—Mr. F. A. Leylae--',4
designer of the new corporate seal, derives th,ce,
" Halifax" from two words meaning " Holy rotion.
Whitaker, the historian, gives a different interPre,,,oo'
--In the deep valley, then embosomed in the "than
where the parish Church of Halifax now stands Ln theb
stood anciently an hermitage dedicated to St. Jctay n
Baptist, the reputed sanctity of which attracted a 9
number of pilgrims from all quarters. Four JO'
which the modern town of Halifax is entered, stumitre
tinctly point to the Church as their common cw cbei
these were the roads by which the pilgrims apPliss
the place of devotion ; and hence the name of 116',illirP
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Holy Ways, fax being in Norman French, an old
noun denoting highways.' "
THE CHURCH.—The incorporated society for buil obo
and enlarging churches has during the last year be,
ems
to give assistance to one hundred and four par',ichfr
extend their church accommodation, in doing o.`"
less than 38 new churches will be erected.
The population of these 101 parishes and dis' 2061
64 ,
tricts is
The number of churches existing therein at pre- 18
sent is

To which will now be added ''
846
The present provision of church room will ac- 9%61
coin modate
Of which free sittings amount t 0............ . •
To this amount of church accommodation will 30,150
,-00
now be added
Of which will be free and unappropriated about weed,
SHAKSPEARE'S BETROTHING-RING.--A few. ptir
since, Mr. Crofton Croker, the well-known authounceoterf
chased, for a few shillings, of a silversmith in al°,h, co:;
a massive gilt ring of the time of Queen Elizahe__,'
taming the letters "W. A.!' in an untied "jot",
knot. The silversmith stated, in answer to 3°
made by Mr. Croker, that he purchased it fr°oo it bbin
woman of Stratford-on-Avon, in whose gardely wit
been found about five years ago ; but it is lable vw,
the last few days that an opinion of its pro tertailleiti,
nection with the great dramatist has been en'",,t's,s
and
On comparing the scroll with that on the :3°-re,
ring described in " Halliwell's Life of ShaksPeifiroal clbbst
with a similar scroll on a piece of painted glassiosioll:
Place, competent judges have come to the °never Was le
the ring thus singularly recovered by Mr. Cr°-„"tid
all probability the betrothing-ring of William iastetot
Shakspeare. The heraldry of love-knots, whicPanuer Pn-
to decide this question, exhibits in a curious to sepies.cs,
often branches of archaeological inquiry, in theTri aPP1•1009
significant, become of real use arid importanee„ profit its
tion. It should be observed that neither of tu7do olate
owners of the ring entertained the slightest !_lie of
value, and that it is beyond a doubt a genuine r.
period.—Gloucestershire Chronicle.
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MARRIED. by th,e,c oft
On the 10th instant, at St. Silas's Churc“' WILD
Cordeaux, Mr. J. PINNINGTON to Miss MARC*
PITHS.

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