The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-18 00:00:00

s begun its westward i

ito Wallachia

St. Petersburgl

is to be the scene of a great Popish show or
~-fth, 15th, and 16th of August. The Pope himself
expected to be the star on the occasion.
Prussia has recognised the new: regency of Germany.
Berlin is still disturbed by the noisy workmen. The
Archduke John has formally accepted the office of Regent.
He was at Frankfort on the 11th.
In Italy the kingdom of Charles Albert is increased by
Venetian provinces. Proposals of peace from Aus-
tria have been rejected. At Rome, Pius IX. is receiving
lessons in Italian nationality from Count Mamiani. At
Naples the chambers have opened under ominous circum-
i-ances. The insurrection in Calabria is in full force.
The town of Ripoll, in Catalonia, has been taken by
"trera and made his head-quarters and basis of his ope-
The insurrection► is extending.

of the act of 1842 At a recent public meeting in the United States, a reso-
,doned or compro- lution was passed, calling on congress to make a grant of
set forth in eight acres of land to each of the crowned heads of Eu-
,d to enable rope, in order to provide for them when they are com-
- 1A... A

House whether wmcn appears in the
, in their opinion, turtnerinvt.,„.... ,rn Cross newspaper, published at Auckland ie
would be needed ' • and also to report whether such inves- New Zealand, will show the rate of wages being paid in
Ligation should be made by the same committee, or by that colony :—" Wanted six stonemasons : Wages from
commissioners on the spot, to be appointed under this 6s. 6d. to Bs. per day. Apply," &c.
bill. If it should be determined to pursue the inquiry by FALL OF A MOUNTAIN.—The rock known by the name
means of the election committee, then the committee of the Dent de Nave. which wnq 7-non c.. - era, .1, IA

_ toe valley of Montreux (Vane,
vy tne bpeaker to carry stroyed seven houses and all the persons in them
on the prosecution. It it should be determined to resort said that upwards of 2,000 head of cattle have b._
to a commission on the spot, then the Speaker should no- in the fields.
tify to the senior judge of assize the desire of the house, REVOLUTION IN MOLDAVIA AND WALLACHIA.—RE-
and the said judge of assize should nominate two barris- SIGNATION OF THE AUSTRIAN MINISTRY,—COLOGNE,
ters, not being members of the House of Commons, to JULY 13.—The march of the Russian troops into Moltla-
investigate all the circumstances. and to make a report to via is confirmed. The people have declared a republic,
the House. The noble lord said he intended to introduce and the prince has been forced to abdicate. It is reported
a clause to give idemnitv in certain cases T-T. •- • .• -

It is
killed

_e or revolution, and that the prince
I mild has been executed by his subjects. The Russian troops on
nittee of elec- the. Prussian frontier have moved to Gallicia. The Aus-
es of all the boroughs trian ministry has resigned.
TFIE A CiATTO PIM,' VT) A —l/.. M.. 1..., - _z_ • I

was also understood to say that a select

tions to pursaue ti

enumerated in E

J. Hanmer's bill

....,..
of the progress of the cholera at Moldavia, the visitation
was excessively severe. At Jassy, from the 17th to the
28th, 1,799 persons had been attacked, of whom 810 had
died, and 655 remained in the hospital, and 334 only had
4:' - been cured. The attacks were steadily increasing in sere.
THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. - rity. In St. Petersburgh, from June 24 to July 3, there
,ad , had been 5,063 cases, of which 2,596 had proved fatal, 198
It was rumoured on Thursday, that the government nhad been cured, and 2,269 remained
received information that the defeated insurgents intended
HANOVER.-The King of Hanoverunder treatment.
is described as by
to make another attemp
no means satisfied with the proceedings of the Frankfortt to establish the regime of plun-
der on the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille. Se-
Assembly. In his message to the Second Chamber, veral anonymous letters have been sent to M. Dupont de
munica, Archduke
ting the intelligence of the election of the com-
l'Eure, revealing the projects of the conspirators. Accord-
John his Majesty entered a sort of protest against the
ing to these letters, the intention is to set fire at once to
ulterior decision of the Assembly, announcing his inten-
his dictated
the house of General Cavaignac, and to the residences of
tion to quit kingdom rather than submit to be
the Minister of War and the Commander•in-Chief of the
Assembly rue 4-b
to by the Nate' ,-. T :- Garde Mobile, and thus to create confusion and .1..

on the noble lord's motions

Were agreed to

FOREIGN

IND COLONIAL.

__ -,,,u alarm in —-, -----“".,...",..- __..., vi tne Lieutenant urenerat.
It even seems doubtful whether the First Chamber will
The report circulated is, that there is a serious dissen- accept the election of the Archduke.
sion in the government. Evidence has been obtained, it DEATH FROM CHLOROFORM.—MiSS Maria S. of
is said, which so gravely inculpates certain members of
Desures, near Boulogne, about to undergo a trifling ope-
the late government, that it has been judged by some of ration, proposed to her medical attendant, Dr. Gorse, the
administration of chloroform, to which the doctor " un-
the present government to be unavoidable to apply to the
the Assembly for permission to prosecute them. To this willingly consented." She became almost immediately
another party in the government is firmly opposed, not unconscious under the influence of the vapour ; the opera-
on grounds connected with the merits of the que-'" tion was performed, but life became extinct. A judicial
post mortem examination was made and performed by
but from reasons of expedient" - - - -
Drs. Rouxel and (r,.. ~e D-__l_

the richest qurte

General Cavaignac him

The greatest activity has continued to be observed in
the departments of the War-office, &c. It appears cer-
tain that attempts at excavation nave been detected in
numerous places : one of these is close to the Chamber.
Much alarm enntimipQ to lin f.ll. ...A

was that her death was caused by they chloroform, in con-
sequence of "the abnormal organic condition of the heart,"
beside which there was " a spontaneous evolution of air
in the veins."—Abridged frorn the Lancet.
_ PARISIAN GALLANTING.—On Wednesday, says the

ULM I is ver
able how few persons are visible in the t•
streets orerularx-
public
walks, although the weather is fine. The officers of the
etat-major have been warned by General Cavaignac to
adopt extraordinary precautions, for that attempts would
be made to assassinate them at heir respective homes.
The Paris papers of Saturday refer, at considerable
fh, to the alarm which had existed during the preced-
es of the week, and show that, if the Government
' the rumoured intention of the disaffected to
once more in arms, there was no want
ress their criminal attempts. The
versed the city in strong patrols
of Fri,' .„ but no incident whatever
occurred to prove that the Alarming reports so industri-

of preparation to rep_
iv.tional Guards traverse,.
-;crht of Frid

throug

ously circula.ted had any foundation

Confidence was

slowly returning, and the efforts
of M. Proudhon and others in the Assembly to perpetuate
the horrible tyranny of " les ouvriers," from which
France and Europe so narrowly escaped in the late insur-
rection, occasioned serious anticipations. The party of
the Socialists and Communists in the National Assembly
and in the country is comparatively small, but is formidable
from its audacity and the terror it still inspires.

LATEST INTELLIGENCI

Paris re

ned perfectly tranquil on Sunday

precautionary measures for the maintenance of order were
a little relaxed. It was believed that within a week the
state of siege would be raised.

The Abbe Sibour, Bishop of Digne, is to be created
Archbishop of Paris. General Duvivier has died of his
wound, making the sixth general killed.

A Paris school for the education of young ladies, which
at the commencement of the Revolution had 265 pupils,
has now only 38._ _ _ __ _

A lady named Duhamel, of Orleans, and her three child-
ren, were found dead last week in their bed-room, having
been suffocated by the fumes of a stove.

On Tuesday, a'Garde Mobile was stabbed in the breast
on the Place de l'Hotel de Ville. The assassin, who was
arrested, said that, as the insurrection was soon to re-
commence, and as he could not take part in it, he wished
to pay the debt beforehand.
AN AFFECTIONATE BROTHER.—" On the arrest of
Auguste Blanqui," says the Union, " lists of proscriptions
were found at his lodgings, at the head of which figured
his brother, and his former schoolmaster, M. Massin !
His brother who devoted 800 f. from his modest salary to
pay for the board and education of Auguste !"
A careful calculation raises the number of men who
have been in one way or another removed from Paris or
imprisoned since the 23rd of June to the enormous a-
mount of 58,000, a full fourth of the adult male population.
These men are classed under seveial heads of slain, pri-
hers. Prima and npyitives.

CoNFIs(
COIU

....us of the lief°,
says the Assembly ou,_
, contist.,
ing one-third of the revenue of •all proprietors of every
sort for.three years, one-half to go to the State and the
other half to the tp,,,„4.- -

[ght to b

the principle thai"";;;Pert;7;;;I;;;;,'
ated.

is openly adN
Louis PHILIPPE.—in the French Committee of Fi-
nance, on Friday, M. Jules Fayre moved a resolutinn fnr
• -

gardens

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

the pictures,

were from t

connseiiiing we private estate of King Louis Philipp e. In membr fr Limerie., .. the course of his address, he asserted that the ex-king had Mr. O'Brien is a Roman Catholic.
lost his crown through his faults and his crimes. On this
M Mr. Commissioner Law has just decided, in a judgment
g
protesting against it. King Louis Philippe committed M. Thiers said,—" I cannot suffer that to be said without iven at great length, in the case of James Henry Han-
that the creditors under a former insolvency cannot claim I floor, a tattle x
faults, and serious fa ilts, which caused Ins fall i faults'
1.11,14,r A subsequent one. I fruit. •

,he present

on their arrival

ue scion party in Ireland. In the course of it, our
contemporary says,—" A tone of impotent scurrility has
been substituted for that of dignified defiance. The re-
bellion, in fact, has flashed in the pan, and pikes, rifles,
...ut are for the present laid aside. So now, of
course, the Roman Catholic clergy begin to make their
. _
Constitutionnel, two young Gardes Mobile and a Garde appearance, like policemen when a row is all over. In
Marine stood before the Palais National relating to a come fifty-seven clergy of the diocese of Killaloe, "as
few people who had stopped as they passed some epi- ministers of the gospel, and men, however unworthy of
sodes of the frightful war of which they had been the the exalted function, discharging an embassy for Christ,"
heroes. When they had finished every body shook hands declaring that they cannot deliver, or silently suffer to be
with them as they parted, and one of the women present delivered, any other message than that which they have
added, " I regret that lam not a pretty girl like Madame," been commissioned to deliver, viz., " Divine message of
pointing to an elegantly-dressed lady irho happened to be Peace, Patience, and Charity." This is all very good,
passing by at the moment, "or I would kiss yon all." but rather late in the day. These spiritual halcyons do
The lady blushed amazingly ; but with the greatest pos- not appear till the storm is passed and the calm is set in."
sible grace, she embraced the little Garde Marine who IMPROVEMENT IN IRELAND.—A number of the clergy
stood near her, and then both of the actors of this of Killaloe have just issued a manifesto in which they
charming scene hastened off in different directions one as affirm that during near half a century of Imperial legisla-
much confused as the other. tion their " ill-fated country has been continually sinking
THE CHOLERA AT ST. PETERSBURGH.—The following into deeper and still deeper misery." This is the very
is an extract from a letter dated St. Petersburgh, June contrary of the truth. Ireland is wretched enough, and
19 (July 1) :—" The cholera has now raged here for more we are the last to disguise her condition. But we cannot
than a week, and about 800-cases are reported daily. The •on the other hand, disguise the evident fact that she has
great mortality among the Moujiks has led them in their continually improved under the Imperial Legislature.
ignorance, to believe that they are being poisoned whole- Misery is comparative, and Ireland is much less miserable
i
sale, and yesterday several disturbances took place, in than she was fifty years since. There is not one test of
consequence of some of the people attacking persons whom prosperity that can be mentioned which will not prove
they suspected of strewing poison over the provisions ex- I Ireland to have risen considerably since the year 1800.
posed for sale in the markets. One Englishman here, an II In the year 1845 she consumed four times the quantity of
ironfounder, who employs about 3,000 men, will have a I tea, twice the quantity of sugar, six or seven times the
grand religious ceremony on his premises to-morrow, I quantity of coffee, two or three times the quantity of
Sunday, in order to keep his people's minds engaged, and I foreign spirits, and eleven times the quantity of foreign
to deter them from roaming about and falling into danger. timber, that she did annually at the time of the union.
It is said that the malignity of the disease is decreasing, The registered tonnage of Irish shipping has increased six-
as cases are now cured, whereas during the first few days fold since the same date. The quantity of land under cul-
none recovered who were attacked." tivation, the rental, the amount of agricultural produce
AN INTERVIEW WITH Ann-EL-KADER.--The Liver- and live stock, the roads, the bridges, the canals,
pool Times has been supplied with the following account the river navigations, the railways, the public and
of an interview with the captive African chief :—" Yester- private conveyances, the funded property in the pos-
day, who do you think I went and paid my respects to? session of Irish residents, the new churches chapels,
Henri Quatre's castle is now tenanted by Abd-el-Kader. schools, and charitable institutions, the actual con-
He is here a prisoner, with a suite of eighty persons ; but dition of the people at the two periods according to
such a tribe of disorderly unsightly beings ! The Count the evidence of trustworthy informants,—all establish
de Montebello asked for a private audience for his wife, beyond a shadow of doubt that, instead of Ireland having
an English lady, and ourselves, which was granted. On continually sunk into deeper and still deeper misery since
entering the court yard, the castle had the appearance of the union, she has continually risen, in spite of the way-
an encampment of gypsies, black slaves lying about in all ward and intractable character of the people, and the
directions ; and after half an hour's conversation with terrible visitations of Heaven.
Colonel Dumas about his unfortunate prisoner, we were
taken to his apartment, where, seated on a bed sat Abd-
i el-Kader, and never have I seen such a superbly magnifi-
cent head and countenance as the man has. Bring to
yourself one of those beautiful masterpieces of our Saviour,
and you have Abd-el-Kader before you. Notwithstand-
ing the ludicrous appearance all had to us a few minutes
before, respect and admiration made tears of sorrow almost
come into one's eyes at the sight of such a being a priso-
ner. Knowing whom we were, he shook us cordially by
the hand, without rising, and spoke to us through his in-
terpreter. Bef seems in deep grief, but with a tixed idea
that he shall have his liberty. He was without shoes or
stockings, according to the custom of his country. His
eldest child, an interesting little fellow, nine years old, he
desired to take us to see his wives and daughter. No
gentlemen, of course, went in with us ; but, save in the
singularity of their dress and manner, they have nothing
attractive about them. He has but one legitimate wife
...-1 L A. I -I- A.- -.4.- 1 1 • .

COURT AND FASHION.

The Queen and Prince Albert visited her Majesty's
Theatre on Saturday night.
Her Majesty will visit Covent-garden Theatre in state
on Thursday next. _

On Monday morning, the Queen and Prince, with the
young Princes and Princesses, paid a visit to the Zoologi-
cal Gardens in Regent's Park. Prince Albert afterwards
inspected Foley's marble group of Inn and the Infant
Bacchus, at Mr. Dickenson's, in Bond-street. In the
evening her Majesty went in state to Drury Lane Theatre,
on occasion of Mr. Macready's benefit. The Times re-
porter records a most enthusiastic reception.

On Wednesday, Sir Robert and Lady Peel gave recep-
tion to a brilliant circle of distinguished foreigners, the
-incipal members of the diplomatic corps, and of the
ng aristocracy, at the family residence, in Whitehall-
The invitations expressed that it was " to view
" and the hours appointed for the reception
illustrious
9 to six o'clock. The visitors,
were at once conancted to the goer,

where Sir Robert and Lady Peel welcomed the numerous
guests, assisted in the honours of the reception by their
youthful .daughter and Mr. Arthur Peel, fifth son of the

ground.

provid.ed with a aisplay of the -ciAolc,ezi