The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-07-01 00:00:00

THE PAPAL STATES

The Univers states, in a letter from Rome of the 20th,
that the garrison of Rome is to be increased by 1,500 men
more. It adds, that General Gemeau having demanded,
in consequence, of the Papal government the occupation
of several military posts, the latter has granted some, but
refused others, among which were the Collegio Romano
and the Pontifical palace of the Quirinal. The Austrians
have advanced to Otricoli. Monsignor Matteucci was,
while visiting the prison of San Michele at Rome, accosted
by several political prisoners with violent insults and im-
precations, and one of them threw a bottle at him, which
slightly wounded the reverend prelate. It is believed an
Anglo-French company, at present represented at Rome
by M. Montelar, will undertake the execution of the great
railway line from the Adriatic to the Tuscan line.
A letter from Rome, of the 20th, in the Constitution-
net, contains an account of several events calculated to
produce disturbances, which the correspondent attributes
to the Mazzinians. It confirms the fact of the explosive
cigars we mentioned a few days ago, and odds that a strict
inquiry having been set on foot by the police, several par-
cels of cigars were found in the very magazines of the
Government, sealed with the Government seal, and
charged with fulminating powder contained in a small
tin tube. In consequence of this discovery several arrests
have been made. Signor Bonifazi, the bookseller, had
his premises set on fire, but disastrous consequences were
happily averted by timely assistance. Since then he has
received threatening letters menacing him and his family
with death. The police, according to this letter. have
some hopes of discovering the murderer of ignor Evan-
gelisti, a man having been discovered lurking near the
house of Colonel Nardoni, armed with a double-edged
stiletto, which exactly corresponds with the sort of
weapon which the surgeons declare has been used in
stabbing the above-mentioned victim. Two brothers,
named Cincinnati, have been condemned by default to
hard labour for life for having thrown stones at some
French soldiers at Frascati, one of whom has since died of
—;Yed in

a contusion received in consequence.
The Bologna Gazette of the 18. h gives an account of
an encounter between two detachments of Papal troops
and six robbers, in the vicinity of Bologna. Three sol-
diers were wounded by the fire of their adversaries, but
one of the latter having been killed, the others took to
flight and escaped.

Forty men have just been tried. and most of them con-
victed, for sedition and treason, in the Swiss canton of
Fribourg.

A young lady lately appeared in male attire at St. Louis,
and one of the editors says that her disguise was so per-
fect, she might have passed fora man, had she hada little

more modesty.

CHLOROFORM A PROPELLING POWER.—Experiments
with chloroform as a propelling power, in the place of
steam, are now making in the port of Lorient; and there
is reason to hope, from the success which has already
attended them, that they will result in causing a conside-
rable saving to be effected in cost and space.—Galignani.
It is confidently reported that Lola Montes is about to
reappear upon the stage, and that large offers have been
made to her by Barnum. It is certain that she spends
her time in practising the half-forgotten steps and graces
of her youth, and is taking lessons most assiduously from
the ballet-master of the opera.
Jenny Lind's movements still occupy the American
press. On the 9th she closed her engagements with Bar-
num, at the end of the 93d concert, paying to the `• gene-
ral" 7,000 dollars, in addition to the sum stipulated to be
forfeited should she not finish her 100 nights' entertain-
Barnum, it is stated, has made £120,000 by the
, and Jenny £BO,OOO.
DESTRUCTION OF ARCHANGEL BY I•IRE.—Mr. Handy-

side, of Derby, has received a letter from Russia. The
writer says :—" The fire in Archangel occurred on the29th
of May, old style, (11th June). The whole of the better
part of the town is destroyed. The houses of the foreign
merchants are, with very few exceptions, burned to the
ground. The tire lasted only about twelve hours, but in

that time one hundred and fifty houses, extending over a
length of two versts (14 miles) were destroyed. Arch-
angel is built almost entirely of wood. Many of the
foreign merchants are sending their families abroad. Many
families are living in barks on the river, in tents, and
under any temporary shelter that can be found. Of the
direction of the streets not a vestige remains. No lives
Derby Reporter.

were lost

SUPPOSED CAPTURE OF A SLAVER.—BV the British

schooner John Wesley, from Nassau, we have papers con-
taining the following item :—A steamer, having a disabled
brig in tow, bad been seen from the Caicos, and, from the
circumstances mentioned in the following paragraph, it is
conjectured that the latter was a captured slaver—" Capt.
Coverley, of the schooner Nancy, arrived on Friday from
the Caicos, informs us that on Sunday. the 13th ult.. he

heard at intervals, the whole of that day, heavy cannon-
ading to the leeward of Lnrimores, Gaicos. On first hear-

ing it he supposed the tiring proceeded from some vessel
in the vicinity in distress, but could see nothing to
strengthen this impression. The next day he saw smoke
as from a steamer, and later on that day a steamer having
a brig in tow stood in close on Lorimores, and then bore
away to the north-west. The brig's rigging was much
cut up, and one of her masts was gone, as also one of the
steamer's. She was probably a slaver, which, after a long
chase, the steamer had succeeded in capturing."—New

York TribunP

LAW INTELLIGENCE

On WedLesday a tradesman of London obtained a ye
diet, with £lO damages, as compensation for injuries su

tained in conse

compromise t
£5O.

Fie action for £2O, but th-e plaintiff demanded

IRELAND.

The Lord. Lieutenant has appointed Robert Ball, Esq.,
LL.D., to be secretary to the board of Queen's-Colleges,
in Ireland.

A man was killed by a boiler explosion at the Clogbroe
flour mills near Cork a few days since. A verdict of pan.
slaughter was returned against the enzine driver.
Prince de Joinville, son of the late King of the French,
and three of his royal relatives, have been lately .visiti,ng
the Lakes of Killarney, with which they were delighted.
They sojourned at Cotter's Hotel, on the lake.
Sir Coleman O'Loghlen and Mr. O'Hea have sent in
their resignation as standing law-advisers to the Dublin
Corporation, on the ground that cases have been submitted
to other barristers. This led to a four hours' discussion
with the municipal body last week, and the acceptance of
the resignation is postponed.
A peculiarly savage crime has been committed near
Dundalk. While a young man was proceeding to mass
on Sunday morning, accompanied by his sister, a gang of
ruffians attacked him and put him to death before his
sister's eyes. The young man's father had lately taken a
piece of land from which another had been evicted.

The impression now generally prevails that the result
of the Irish census shows the population to be less than
six-and-a-half millions. In 1831 the copulation of Ire-
land was 7,000,000; in 1841 it was 8,176,01'0; and at the
same ratio it is calculated that it should, under ordinary
circumstances, be at present nearly 10,0 t 0.000.
SHOCKING SUICIDE.—The Cork Constitution contains
an account of a shocking suicide by a private soldier of the
40th Regiment, who, having been disappointed in forming
a match with a young woman, the daughter of a pensioner,
purchased half a pint of oil of vitriol, which he swallowed,
and, strange to say, survived until the next day, when
death put an end to his torture. His name was Alfred
Winstanley, and he was a native of England.
The emigration drain from Ireland has not been much,
if at all, diminished, although it might by expected that
the small farmers were, in general, waiting to gather in
the present harvest, and take its produce with them across
the Atlantic. No doubt, however, the flight of emigrants
will be much increased after the crops shall have been dis-
posed of. 1 t is said that the thinning of the congregations
in the Roman Catholic chapels of some districts' has
become most remarkable.
The sale of Encumbered Estates in Ireland progresses
slowly. There were three estates in the order of sales
for Tuesday, but owing to the wretched attendance, along
with other causes, the attempt to dispose of even a single
lot was unsuccessful. Two properties only were lint up,
one of which was situated in the county of Limerick, and
was of considerable extent.; the second, which was in the
county of Galway, was but a trifling affair, and offered no
peculiar attractions for the random speculator. During
the short time which the Court sat there were
but two or three bids made, and those at so low a figure
that the proceedings were abruptly brought to a close,
and all the sale: adjourned.
BREACH OF PROMISE.—TWO actions of this tender na-
ture were tried at Dublin on Monday. The first was
" Nowlan v Sullivan," the plaintiff being a young though
portion'ess lady, the daughter of Captain Nowlan, and the
defendant, being a rich millowner. The contract was ad-
mitted, but the defence set up was that the lady had re-
leased him from his vows, that she was consumptive, and
that consumption (organic) was contagious. The jury
awarded the lady £lOO damages and costs.—The other
action was brought by Miss Catharine Edwards, for being
jilted by Mr. Richard Rafferty—and the jury arrived at
the same conclusion, that the capricious lover should pay
£lOO. with 6d. addition to her costs. The plaintiff in this
case was the daughter of a millowner resident at Tulla.
more. She was wooed, and her consent to marriage won.
by the defendant, an extensive farmer, who, however,
afterwards married another woman.

CAT AND MICE.— A few days since a cat, belonging to
Mr. David Reid, a farmer, living at Killen, near Holly-
wood, brought forth kittens, all of which, with the excep-
tion of one, were drowned, and about the same time it
happened a memoer of Mr. Reid's family discovered a
brood of young mice, which he carried home, believing
puss would make a meal of them ; but, to his as;onish-
ment, the young " varmint" met with quite a different
reception from their natural enemy. The cat took them
up one after the other in the most affectionate manner,
and deposited them gently by the side of the young kit-
ten. She has since sh, wn them all the fondness of a
parent, without making any distinction between her own
and the adopted ; and the " happy family" continue to
live on the best terms with each other. The mice, though
far front lying on a bed of roses, seem perfectly "at home"
in their new abode, and suckle puss with avidity, without
as yet any unpleasant circumstances arising to mar the
uninterrupted good feeling subsisting between &I.—Bel-
fast Chronicle.