The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

ITALY,

The 'Marchioness Maria Pentini died, at Rome, on the
27th ult. She was the daughter of Gaspard Santini, who
was sent, in 1781, by the Empress Cath.erine 11. to the
Sovereign Pontiff Pius 'VI.

On the 2d instant, M. Cesar', one of the keepers of the
archives, was stabbed in the abdomen by an unknown
person, who immediately took to flight. The wound,
however, was not considered mortal.
The Pope, it is stated, is not unwilling to come to terms
with the Sardinian Government. provided civil marriage
and the secularization of church property be given up, and
the Archbishops Franzoni and Morongin reinstated in
office.

The Frankfort Journal attributes to the journey of the
King of Saxony to Italy an important political objea.
Being a relative of the King of Sardinia, his Majesty was
to use all his influence over King Victor Emmanuel, to
induce him to dismiss his ministers, with the exception
only of M. de Foresta, and to shake off the English in-
fluence.

A fearful illness. occasioned by eating blighted grppes,
which is mentioned by ancient medical works of Italy,
has broken out in Tuscany.

The National states that since the appearance of Mr.
Gladstone's letters, the rage and enmity of the King of
Naples have been stimulated to an extraordinary degree,
in support of which it cites a long list of fresh perse-
cutions.

LATEST FROM AMERICA.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAM SHIPS ATLANTIC
AND AMERICA.

By the arrival of these splendid vessels we have re-
ceived advices from New York to the 7th instant. The
Atlantic left that port on the 6th instant, and sdluted the
Rock Lighthouse on Sunday morning, at three o'clock,
having made the run against light head winds in ten (lays
ten hours and fifteen minutes. The British and North
American steam-ship America, with accounts from Bos-
ton of the 6th instant, reached the river on Sunday morn-
ing at a quarter to eleven, after a run, deducting the de-
tention at Halifax, of ten days fifteen hours and forty-five
minutes, equal to a run from New York of eleven and a
half days. The Atlantic brought 55 passengers and
110,000 dollars specie, and the America brought 50,000
dollars and 41 passengers. The Atlantic reports her own
arrival out at New York, which port she reached on the
3d instant, and was, therefore, only detained three days.
The movements of the other ocean steamers will be found
as usual detailed in our shipping intelligence, where the
details of the destruction by fire of the brig Jane are also
given.
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The intelligence by these arrivals is not important. Many
rumours were current about the proceedings of the pira-
ical band in Cuba, but little credit can be attached to
them, though it appears certain that the United States
Government had ordered several steam-ships to the Gulf
of Mexico, with reinforcements to check the invaders.
The Typhoon clipper ship had sailed for China. and the
steam-ship Golden Gate for San Francisco. The new
steamer S. S. Lewis, for the Boston and Liverpool line,
would sail from Philadelphia to Boston on the 21st inst.
She is to be the most splendidly furnished vessel and one
of the largest ever built in Philadelphia.

Rumours were current that the Government of Nicar-
agua had revoked the canal treaty formed with Mr. Van-
derbilt, but the report was not generally credited, and
letters were daily expected in New York announcing the
completion of the surveys for the canal.
During July the immigration into New York amounted
to 27,512 souls._

The total gold coinage at Philadelphia from January to
July was 27,260,751 dollars.

From Canada, we learn that, in the Legislative As-
sembly, on the 28th ult., Mr. Merritt's proposition for a
convention to consider the expediency of a legislative
union of all the British provinces, was rejected by a large
majority. One of the New York journals supplies the
following :—" No progress has been made in the Canadian
Legislature towards the settlement of the reciprocity
question. The government still refuses to concede the
navigation of the St. Lawrence to foreign vessels, until it
obtains •an equivalent from the United States. A pro-
posal was made in the Assembly last week, to open the
St. Lawrence to the vessels of all nations, but it was
opposed by the government. A motion against removing
the seat of government to Quebec, until after the expir-
ation of four years, from the time of its removal to
Toronto, has been negatived in the house by a vote of 48
to 12. It is considered certain that the removal will take
place during the present season. Mackenzie's bill for the
election of sheriffs, and Ross's bill for disqualifying per-
sons from sitting in the Legislative Assembly who may,
hereafter, be guilty of treason, haveboth been thrown out."
The following is the intelligence received from New
York, by electric telegraph, via Halifax.
" NEW YORK, AUG. 7.

" In cotton no alteration, with more disposition to buy.
Flour and grain dull, at Tuesday's quotations. Fire at
San Francisco ; three millions worth of property destroyed.
Money quieter; stocks a little better; two millions gold
dust arrived since last advices ; accounts from the mines
as good as ever."

CALIFORNIA

The steam-ship Empire City, with 1.700,000 dollars
from San Francisco, and with accounts from Chagres of
the 25th ult., reached New York on the 6th instant. She
brought advices from San Francisco to the Ist July. On
Sunday, the 22d June, the unfortunate capital city of the
Gold Regions, was again the scene of a vast conflagration,
supposed to be of incendiary origin, destructive of pro-
perty valued at £600,000 sterling. From the Alta-Cali-
fornian we learn that the fire included thirteen squares,
with five other squares situated between Powell and San-
some and Broadway and Clay. Of the origin of the con-
flagration, beyond the suspicion referred to, no conjecture
is hazarded. Several parties had, however, been arrested,
and preparations were being made to rebuild the burnt
districts. Life and property were in a very unsafe state,
and both in San Francisco and Sacramento " committees
of vigilance" had been formed. Numerous lives had also
been sacrificed by the Indians near the Mines. The Alta-
Cattfornian says :—" Accounts from the mines and
placers are very encouraging, especially in the rotten
quartz diggings. The prospect through the country for
good crops is excellent, and a vast amount of vegetables
will undoubtedly be produced. Our city is being built up
again very fast, some two hundred buildings having been
erected and many of them finished during the past week.
A horrible murder was perpetrated at Senora, last Friday,
by persons who took offence at an article published in the
Senora Herald. They repaired to the editor, Dr. Gunn's
room, dragged him from his bed, shot him through the
head, killed two other persons connected with the office,
and wounded or killed three or four other persons who
went to their assistance. There has been a Quartz Mining
Convention held in Mariposa county, at which some very
important resolutions were adopted." A San Francisco
journal says, " George Hubbard, a native of Scotland,
about forty years of age, who had been confined to his bed
in a house in Jackson-street for eight days past, expired
while being removed to the Plaza." One of the telegra-
phic despatches from New Orleans, on the arrival of the
Alabama, supplies the following mercantile report :
" Since the fire tbere has been more inquiry for some de-
scription of goods, but)the large and continually increasing
stock checks any material advance. Flour, quiet and
steady; coffee, very dull; cement and bricks, in fair re-
quest ; sugars, slightly lower ; provisions only in moderate
demand. There had been a number of additional cases of
Lynsh law, and the crime still prevailed to a fearful extent.
From the Mines the reports were conflicting, but generally
favourabla. The Quartz diggings continued to yield well."

We learn, by the Tobago papers, the sudden death of
his Excellency D. R. Ross, Esq., Lieutenant• Governor of
that colony, occasioned by his being precipitated, with his
horse and gig, from the side of the road into a ravine
about thirty feet deep, whilst returning from a public ball.
Strange to say, horse, gig, and servant, escaped uninjured.