The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

GREECE.

The Times is giving a series of parsers on the blue books
just issued, with the documents and correspondence on
the Greek question, from which it would appear that the
whole sum in question is not more than £7,000, according
to Lord Palmerston's own account, and admitting the
veracity of even all Pacifico's claims, excepting that mons-
trous demand of the Portuguese debt, which no hypo-
thesis can admit. This was the maximum demand of the
complainants themselves, viz., £5,000 for Don Pacifico's
chairs, linen, and trinkets ; £1,600 for Mr. Finlay's plot
of land ; £BO compensation to four lonians, and a propor-
tionate sum for the boatmen robbed in the Achelous.
The chief claim is that of the notorious Pacifico—" Mon-
sieur, Senor, Mr., Chevalier, Rabbi, or brother," as he
has variously styled himself. Of this monstrous claim
the Times gives the following account :
" A custom, not peculiar to Greece, prevails at Athens,
of signalising the festival of Easter by burning an effigy
of the traitor Judas Iscariot, and, to add a little piquancy
to the rite, the image is usually made to resemble . some
obnoxious personage of the day. When this occasion
came round in 1847 the Greek police received directions,
in consideration of certain circumstances, to forbid the
exhibition, and when the populace repaired to the accus-
tomed scene of the performance there was no Judas to be
found. Next to Judas, however, in the eyes of the mob,
came a Jew; and as M. Pacifico's house happened to be
situated on this unlucky spot, the disappointed congre-
gation rushed at it at once, and the aaim is for damage
done."

The claim of Mr. George Finlay for £1,600 arises on
a piece of land, which he bought in 1830, with some more,
for 300 drachms, or about £ll. In 1836, when it
became necessary to provide the new king with a palace,
a spot was selected contiguous to Mr. Finlay's land, and
a small portion of the land purchased six years previously
was included in the garden, and £lOO offered as compen-
sation for it. The sum due in respect of this appropria-
tion is the simple point at issue. The other claims are
from lonians for losses by robbers on the river Achelous,
and the arrest illegally of four of them by the Greek
police. An apology for an " outrage" suffered by a
boat's crew of one of her Majesty's ships at Fatras, in
January, 1848, who, being without arms, were carried off
by Greek soldiers to theiguard.house, closes the list.

The King of Prussia is rapidly recovering from his
wound.

The latest intelligence from the continent goes far to
prove that the recent dispute between the French and
English cabinets is amicably settled.
The Messrs. Biddle, booksellers, of Philadelphia, have
contributed twelve hundred dollars for the benefit of Dr.
Dick,. the Christian philosopher.
The gates of Rome are now closed from eight o'clock
at night to five o'clock in the morning, and unusual
activity is observed among the French troops.
It is confidently stated that the Pope has, since his re-
turn, made three attempts to escape from Rome; but the
strict watch kept by the French has prevented it.
Our consular agent at Rome is pressing, for the second
time, on the Papal Government, claims of compensation
for damages sustained in their property by British subjects
during the reign of the republican Triumvirate.
SARDINIA.—The Archbishop of Turin had been found
guilty of resistance to the laws ; he was sentenced to one
month's imprisonment, and a fine of 500 francs. The
trial created a great deal of agitation.
JENNY LIND.—STOCKHOLM, MAY 23.—Jenny Lind is
to appear in six concerts, the first of which is to take
place to-morrow. Except for this there is nothing to
indicate that the renowned singer is now in the midst of
the Stockholmers. A certain coolness seems to prevail
between her and them.--Cologne Gazette.
Two dreadful fires broke out in the neighbourhood of
Constantinople, on the night of the 13th ult.—one at
Tophane and the other at Mahmound Pasha—and about
120 buildings were destroyed before the flames were ex-
tinguished. During the conflagration, a son heard his
mother cry for help, and rushed into a burning building
in the hope of rescuing her ; but both unhappily perished.
The legislature of Pennsylvania has chartered a college
for the medical education of females, to be established in
Philadelphia. The bill confers on the institution all the
privileges enjoyed by any other medical school in the
State. It is stated that Miss Elizabeth Blackwell, who
received the degree of doctor of medicine at the Geneva
College, and has since pursued her medical studies at Pa-
ris, will be a candidate for the chair of surgery.
CONTINUED REIGN OF TERROR IN ROME.—MORE
POPISH INTOLERANCE.—ROME, MAY 20.—The recent
outrage on the Chancellor of the British Consulship has
just been followed up by another hostile demonstration.
A gang of Government officials have broken into the
dwelling of Signor Sartori, collector of pew rents to the
British chapel, and seized all the books belonging to the
reading society of the English at Rome, though marked
with the stamp thereof. They also carried off books and
parcels belonging to Sir Drummond Hay from the same
house. The wife of Stertini has been ordered off suddenly
with her young children, Dandini, the policeman, declar-
ing that the name must be blotted out of Rome.
Countess Ciocchi and Countess Malvezzi are banished to-
day for having attended .the wounded in the hospitals.
The palace of Prince Canino has been taken possession of
by the police, and the correspondence of his two daughters
carried off. Their governess, Mde. Tarquini has been
ordered away. Some French officers who spoke rather
freely in the cafes have been told to beware ; but the sol-
diers swear they will throw the sbirri into the Tiber if one
is touched. Duke Litta, of Milan, at an evening party of
Cardinal Alliere, having spoken his mind as to clerical
encroachments in Piedmont, got next morning orders to
quit Rome, and was this morning taken up by a troop of
dragoons and hurried off.
A MOCK GUILLOTINE.—At the end of the carnival two
married women of Vidauban, Department of the Var, (one
of them wife of the president of the Montagnard Club,)
manufactured a lay figure entirely in white, and, after
attaching a chain round its neck, placed it in a small cart.
A number of the inhabitants then paraded it through the
village in solemn procession, accompanied by a number of
men carrying axes, &c., and bawling revolutionary songs.
After a while they formed a sort of revolutionary tribunal,
and the figure, which was called " Blanc," was gravely
tried, and, by the majority of the votes of the crowd, con-
demned to death, the principal judge, a man named Ar-
naud, saying, " Blanc ! you prevent us from dancing fa-
randoles, and therefore we condemn you to death !"
Thereupon, a man named Lucien seized the figure, placed
it on a plank, and at one blow with his axe severed the
head from the body. A bottle of wine had been placed
in the neck of the figure, and, this having been broken by
the blow, a resemblance of blood was produced. The head
was then cast into the crowd and torn to pieces by them.
This scandalous scene created a most painful impression
throughout the department. A few days ago four men
who played a principal part in the affair, and the two wo-
men who made the figure, were brought to trial on the
charge of exciting citizens to hatred of each other. The
men pleaded drunkenness as an excuse—the women de-
clared that they had only intended to amuse their children.
Four of the accused were acquitted, and the other two,
Arnaud. who had acted as judge, and Lucien, the execu-
tioner, were condemned to four and three months' im-
prisonment.—Galignani's Messenger.