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

PRUSSIA.

On the Ist instant, a large number of mechanics assem-
bled in Berlin, and declared for the arming, and ex-
changed with the civic guard mutual promises of support.
They also engaged to stand by tne citizens against any
attack from the military. After coming to this decision,
they filed off. The proclamation of a republic was loudly
talked of in many groups.
The utmost indignation has been excited at Berlin, and
there is more danger now of an outbreak than at any time
since the days of March. Groups of unemployed la-
bourers continue to gather, and a proceeding by govern.
ment has set almost everything in a flame. Five barges
loaded with arms have been sent from the arsenal (which
is one of the few public buildings the citizens have allowed
the tro'ps to take charge of,) down the river, and this
circumstance having been discovered by the students, the
populace became fearfully excited, and took possession of
the barges, which they commenced unloading, and never
was a more thoroughly revolutionary scene witnessed.
The unloading continued for nearly three hours under a
burning sun, the crowd increasing every moment as the
event became known through the city, and the anger of
the populace swelling with every case of arms dragged into
their sight. The arms were again lodged in the arsenal,
which will doubtless be placed under a guard of citizens
again. _

-A
few days since, about a hundred schoolboys of Berlin
assembled tor the purpose of giving their schoolmaster a
katzenmusik, or concert of marrowbones and cleavers, and
created such alarm by their earsplitting noises, that the
drums were beaten, and more than 15,000 civic guards,
with loaded muskets and fixed bayonets, appeared to op-
pose the youthful rioters.

On the 30th ult. quiet and confidence were gradually
returning in Vienna. Business had resumed its proper
course. The damage done to the streets has been repaired.
The behaviour of the labourers during the excitement has
been admitted to have been exemplary.
'IHE RIVER PLATE.—The Phoenix, Captain Rooney,.
arrived here on Saturday with dates from Montevideo to
the 24th of March. Letters brought by this vessel repre-
sent Montevideo as being in an alarming state. Mr.
Gore arrived in Her Majesty's ship Inconstant on the
18th, and Baron Gros in the French steam ship Magellan
on the 19th. Her Majesty's steamer Hydra, from Rio,
had arrived at Montevideo. Dr. Varela, editor of the
Comercio del Plata, was stabbed at his own door on the
night of the 20th of March.

THE POPE AND THE SULTAN.—The following presents
have been remitted to the Nuncio of His Holiness, for
presentation to Lim :—A magnificent saddle, enriched
with diamonds ; eight Arab horses of great beauty ; three
magnificent snuff-boxes, enriched with diamonds; four
decorations, for distribution at his pleasure ; 600 piques
of Damascus cloth. beautifully embroidered, and, of vari-
ous colours (the pique is a measure of 227 inches); a
great number of Smyrna carpets ; 30 pieces of Angora
shawling ; and a grand decoration for Pope Pius IX., and
another for the Ambassador.

ANOTHER INSURRECTION AT VIENNA.—On the 23d of
May the ministry ordered the academic legion to dissolve,
and immediately to lay down their arms. A revolt instantly
took place—students and ouvriers immediately raised bar-
ricades. At ten o'clock a collision took place between the
soldiers and the people. The soldiers were repulsed, and
retreated upon the glacis, and occupied all the bastions.
Hostilities have not been renewed. The people called for
the maintenance of the academic legion, the removal of
the soldiers, the return of the emperor within eight days,
or the substitution of a prince in his place. On the 28th,
order was entirely restored, and passages opened through
the barricades, which, however, were not removed.
STEAM NAVIGATION IN BRAZIL.—The navigation of
the river Amazon by steam has been at length attempted,
the first essay having been made by a small steamer,
Failed the Guapiassu, drawing very little water. She pro-
ceeded from the city of Para to the river Negro on the
6th of November, and returned on the 27th of January
last, having occupied 82 days on the voyage, of which she
was 33 detained at the bar of the Rio Negros, and called
at twelve different places, stopping several hours at each,
going and coming. The experiment completely succeed-
ed. The great diihculty apprehended was easily overcome,
that of procuring a sufficient supply of fuel. She could
not stow away more than 70 tons of coals, which were
only sufficient for seven days' consumption, whereas she
was 19 days with the steam on, and consequently obliged
to have recourse to wood. After trying several qualities,
they found four different qualities thereof, which answered
equally as well, if not better, than coals, obtaining a higher
degree of pressure, and a greater number of revolutions
from its use, at a much less expense ; that of coals for the
whole voyage would have been 2,925 milreis, whereas the
actual cost of the wood amounted only to 355 milreis,
occasioning, moreover, much less labour from the ashes
being more easily removed. The fireplace of the Guapi-
assu was constructed for wood, and the logs were cut to
suit it. Peru is highly interested in the navigation by
steam of the Amazon. A company is being formed at
Rio for improving the navigation of the river Mucury,
which communicates with Rio and the provinces of Minas
and St. Paulo, the two most productive, fertile, and best
pepulated in tl-e empire.—Morning Post.

IRELAND.

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Lord Cloncurry has sent £lOO Lwards the fund raising
for Mrs. Mitchel.

The final destination of Mr. Mitchel in now said to be
Se-nauda.

The bem:hers of Ireland have postponed the considera-
tion of the admission, of Dr. Gray and Mr. J. H. Dunne,
both repea'ers, as members of the Irish bar.
The United Irishman is declared extinct, and Messrs.
Devin, Reilly, and John Martin, have announced a suc-
cessor, to be called the Irish Felon, to appear as soon as
possible.
Mr. John O'Connell has advised that if the Irish Attor-
ner General dares to speak to any Roman catholic, the
latter should spit in his face. He (Mr. O'Connell.) would
know him no longer, and would feel degraded to Be seen
in conversation with such a man.

An Irish declaration agrinst the repeal agitation, which
is now going its round, has already received the signa-
tures of upwards of seventy peers, including the names
of the Duke of Leinster, the Marquises of Downshire,
Londonderry, Waterford, Donegal, Drogheda ; Earls
Roden Donoughmore, Glengall, &c., &c.
The Sheriff of the city of Dublin is about to publish an
explanatory statement, showing the groundlessness of
representation made in regard to the panel. He will show
that there were fifty-eight Roman Catholics on the panel,
and not twenty-eight, as asserted at the trial of Mr.
Mitchel.

The Protestant Repeal Association held a meeting on
Tuesday in the Music Hall, Abbey-street, which was
crowded in all parts. Eight hundred new members were
admitted. The speeches and Resolutions were strong,
on condemning the prosecution of Mr. Mitchel. The
meeting separated•in the most peaceable manner.
Mr. Mitchel, since his arrival at the convict depot on
Spike Island, has laboured under the deepest mental de-
pression. He does not regret the line of conduct he so
deliberately adopted, or its consequences to himself perso-
nally, but that his extreme dejection solely arises from the
irretrievable ruin of his domestic happiness.
MR. Mrreuxes POPULARITY.—HaIf-a-crown has been
refused for a copy of the last number of Mr. Mitchel's
paper. An admirable likeness of this gentleman, from a
daguerreotype taken by Gluckman, has had a prodigious
sale since Saturday week. One printseller sold upwards of
1,000 copies, and the demand is still exceedingly brisk.
RETRIBUTION.—A singular instance of retribution over-
taking the guilty is related in the Kilkenny Moderator.
A man named Long wa3 arrested, last week, near Avoca,
county Wicklow, for a murder committed 27 years ago on
a female whom he had seduced. The body was discovered
in a sewer by the sagacity of a dog, and the accused, who
absconded after the murder, was not heard of until the day
of his arrest.

TIIE REPEAL RENT.—The last week's collection for
this fund, as announced at the meeting in Conciliation-
hall on Monday last, amounted to the enormous sum of
TWELVE POUNDS ! The O'Connells are said to get
the lion's share of the subscription; if, therefore, the lion
is allowed to have his proportion this week, we would pot
give much for that which would fall to the lot of the
jackals.

At a meeting (private of course) held on Monday of
the- council of the Confederation, a motion, by Father
Kenyon, was put and carried, to the effect that the com-
mittee of the Confederation, hitherto composed of 150
members, be reduced to 21, to be chosen by ballot. An li
address, bearing the signature of William Smith O'Brien,
and advocating a direct. resort to arms, was submitted to
the new directory, and unanimously approved of. This
document is to be laid, forfinal adoption, before the open
meeting of the Confederates.
The assassinlike intimidation which preceded Mr. Mit-
chel's trial has been appropriately followed up. Mr.
Whitty, the foreman of the jury, has received no less than
five threatening letters of the most atrocious kind. One
of them was addressed to Mrs. Whitty, and menaced her
and her children, as well as Mr. Whitty, with Certain
death. We are informed, upon excellent authority, that
other 4 of the jury have certainly received similar commu-
nications, and it is stated that no one of the twelve have
escaped similar murderous notices.
THREATENED OUTBREAK..—It is-boldly stated—and it
seems with perfect truth—that on Saturday week there
were thousands of misguided men ready to deluge with
blood the streets of the Irish metropolis in a reckless and
hopeless attempt, from which they were only dissuaded by
the assurance that the time wss not ripe for open and ge-
neral insurrection. This, to say the least, is the infer-
rence to be drawn, from the meaning of Mr. Smith
O'Brien;'whoSe name as sponsor to the late insurrection-
ary appeal is a sufficient guarantee that its statements are
founded upon facts.
Is if prudent of Romanist writers to be complaining so
angrily of the composition of Mitchel's jury ? What if
they were Protestants ? Was not the prisoner a Protes-
tant ? Oh, but he was a Repealer ! And have not the
complaining Journalists been averring for the 'ast three
months that " the Protestants of Ireland" were Repeaters
too ? Have they not been averring it especially of the
Protestants of Dublin ? and if they did not know in their
hearts that the averment was false, why do they make
the Protestantism of the Jury a pretext of complaint and
discontent ?
An Irish paper has published a letter from the Earl of
Shrewsbuzy to Dr. Winter, avowing himself a convert to
repeal, as a preferable alternative to civil war, and calling
on the clergy to unite, in obtaining it. He thinks the
display of an organised body would compel the Govern-
ment to resign, and Peel-would then 'come in, and proba-
bly settle the church question, and so 'avoid the necessity
of repeal. It seems, however, from a subsequent letter of
the Earl, that the first was never intended for publication,
and that as it was—"-Written in the utmost privacy and
confidence, immediately- after the-successfult pdpular re-
volts at Milan, Berlin, and Vienna, and at a period of ex-
traordinary excitement and alarm at home, roach ofit
can only be regarded as the floating idea of the moment,
thrown out merely with a view of provoking an opinion
from those to whom it was thus privately and confiden-
addressed."

June 6, 1.848,

DEPARTURE or MR. MITCHEL FOR, BilltutrnA.--
The Cork Reporter, of Thursday, contains the following:
—" John Mitchel stands no more on Irish soil. lie was
removed at four o'clock this morning to -the Seoul
steamer' which arrived in the harboar yesterday, and
sailed for Bermuda this morning. If twelve months Pass
over ere he stands again, a free man, on his native shore,
Ireland deserves all the obloquy and disgrace that can be
inflicted on her. Bermuda is one of the strongest for-
tresses in the Queen's dominions, another St. Helena.'
THE "UNITY" OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURC....,, °'
—lt is pretty well known that a war has been for some
time raging between the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kim'
loe and the renowned Father Kenyon, the latter of W.
was suspended by his superior, for the utterance of a sew;
tious speech some week back. The priest of Templedem
refusing to swallow his words, or, like Father Bertnin.,,lP
ham, clothe himself in sackcloth and ashes, has sin',
taken his proper position as the spiritual leader of
Dublin revolutionists ; and scarcely had he entered uPt:
his new vocation wham an address, purporting to emanate
„
from his former parishioners, was presented to Bishop
Kennedy, reprobating the attacks that had been fl'.
upon him by certain parties for the course he had adopt
with reference to the brace of warlike priests whose anti
had brought such scandal on the diocese of Kilian°.
This was rather too strong a dose for the stomachs oftl
men who nailed the chapel doors against the entrance°
the priest appointed to do Mr. Kenyon's duty, and aci-
cordingly a counter-declaration, signed by some 12°,." '°
the Kenyonites, has been forwarded to the Bishop, i° 1,1"
course of which these undutiful children of mother chug
have protested against the Bishop's proceedings. AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—On Thursday, an informa,,nouv
was sworn by Mr. David Haynes, of Thomand-square'
before John Bagnell, Esq., that he had- reascn to be-
lieve that a hostile meeting was about to take place be"
tween Mr. William Buckley, of Sullivan's-quay, and Mr'
Abraham Haynes, of Ballygaggin. A warrant was °°-
cordingly issued, and shortly after Mr. Buckley was _.
rested and eld to bail ; yesterday Mr. Haynes gave skin'
lar bail, himself in £4O and two sureties in £2O each.
The dispute, it appears, arose on account of Mr. Haynes
shooting one of a flock of swans which flew from the pre,:
perty of Sir Augustus Warren to Sunday's Well.
that occasion, Mr. Buckley went on Mr. Haynes groull
and told him that no sportsman would be guilty of such
an act. Mr. Haynes retorted by ordering Me. liuckley to
leave his ground or —. The parties did not meet
again until Tuesday at the Monkstown races, when Mr.
Buckley rode up to Mr. Haynes, who was- also mounted►
and after a hasty interchange of epithets, the whip of
either gentlemen was brought into active service. TO
combatants being separated, Mr. Buckley retired to the
stand-house tavern, and wrote a hostile message, which
was duly delivered to his antagonist, but up to the time 0(
the swearing of the informations the-gentlemen failed in
procuring friends who would risk the consequences of at'
tending them to the sod.—Cork paper.