The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-09-24 00:00:00

THE LINERPOOL STANDARD.

Another ecclesiastical act of rebellion against the state
has 'jest been committed in Piedmont., by the Archbishop
of Cagliari, who has followed the example set by the
Archbishop of Turin in fulminating an excommunication
against the executors of a Royal edict of the year 1836,
concerning the administration of certain pious founda-
tions in the Island of Sardinia.

Another revolution has taken place on the Continent.
For a considerable time a contest has been going on be-
tween the people and the Elector of Hesse Cassel, touch-
ing the right of levying taxes without the sanction of the
Hessian Chamber. Both the Prince and his subjects
have seemed equally determined, and the struggle resulted
in a state of siege being declared. This extreme measure
so exasperated the people, that they rose in arms, when
the Elector and his Ministers 112 d, on the night of the
12th instant. into Hanover.

Some Belgian swans were engaged the day before
yesterday in making meteorological observations on the
heights of Belleville. Having raised to a certain height
some kites farnisbed with pointed needles, they drew
from The clouds, although the weather was perfectly
serene at the time, flashes of electricity similar to those
of lightning in a storm. Suddenly one of the gentlemen,
says the Paris Petrie, was struck by ailash,andthrown to
the _ground, in a state of insensibility. 'He had,it appeared,
neglected to hold by the glass handle, which served as a
nonconductor, and the fluid, descending i)l7 the cord,
struck him. He was soon after restored to animation,
but his right arm remained paralysed, and there is a doubt
whether he will ever recover the perfect.use of it.

QUEEN ISABELLA ON HORSEBVGIC.---A 'Madrid lette
The Queen and the King Consort rode out loge-
afternoon of the Ist instant. Site was mounted
iful Andalusian horse, and•galh-cied through the

ther on ti

windows.
the Queen

As they approached the 'Church of Santiago,
was obliged to dismount, owing to the saddle.
big too loose. She mounted again, but this time
girths were so tightened that the horse, after galloping
ew Tards,

;ani- to rear, and finally endeavoured to
mself upon the ground. The Queen alighted
again in the utmost good humour, while the King Consort,
in his•stirill voice, began to rate the ,equerry for his care-
lessness. Things were soon made up again, and the royal
couple rode to Retiro."

FUNERAL OF LIEUTEN... ~—Theremainsof the
fortunate Mr. Gale were interred en Wednesday week

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aal a, aa•• o/14 UVII/GLVA y au isvrvcaua. X.ll.
attended the funeral, among whom were many English.
An of investigation, made by the Mayor of Caudera,
confirms the details of the fatal accident previously given.
`,ted that on Friday and 'Saturday Mr. Gale war

1 It is

When asked what was the matter with hi►m, he replied
that he could not tell, but felt sick at heart. On Sunday
the day of the ascent) he was more cheerful. His last
s the 114th he had made. Mr. Clifford, director
me at Vincennes, has organized a balloon

of the H

ascension for the benefit of the deceased's family. Mr.
Clifford, his wife, and the Messrs. Goulson, proprietors of
the balloon, are to go up together. M. Meller, one of
the principal inhabitants of Bordeaux, has commenced a
public subscription for the family.
The Nepaulese ambassadors leave Paris, on their return
to India, this day. Lord Normatthy, the English am-
bassador, gave them a grand farewell ball. Louis Napo-
leon presented to the chief a magnificent gold-hiked
in return for the presents be had received. This
produced a great effect on the ambassador. He
expressed his gratitude in the warmest manner, the more
so as he perceived the name of Napoleon on the hilt. He
placed the sword on his heart, put his hand to his brow
in sign of thanks and gratitude, and declared he would
suspend the costly weapon to the belt of gold, adorned
with pearls and diamonds, to which his own sword of
His excellency. having heard that
•eappeared at Paris, evinced the most

present

I state is attached

ardent curiosity to visit that celebrated personage •, and,
having spent a whole day in the chase, succeeded finally
in detecting the abode of the fair object of his search.
But he was doomed to be disappointed, for the capricious

sign, that she could receive no one at late an hour

pas Inerne un ambassadeur

MANY A SLIP BETWIXT THE CUP AND THE LIP.—A
correspondent of the Daily News gives the following

before the affair at Missunde there occurred the following
laughable instance of the fortunes of war. A small de-
tachment of the 3d battalion of chasseurs was out patrol-
ling in the neighbourhood of the village called Hummel-
feld, about eight or ten miles south of Missunde. Ttie

a peasant that there were aboutan equal number of Danes
in the village, marched his men up to the entrance by bye-
paths and behind hedges, and then suddenly rushed into
the place with his whole party, hurrahing at the top of
their voices. The Danes, taken by surprise, fled like so
many sheep, leaving several of their companions prisoners
to the lieutenant and his men. In examining the houses,
it was discovered that the Danes had been surprised in
the act of sitting down to a good dinner, levied from the
larders and farm-yards of the inhabitants. The dinner
was not wasted ; the tables were speedily occupied, and
the good fare was served up to the patrol, with the good-
will of friends and countrymen, by the poor villagers.
The officer in command of the party had the unutterable
satisfaction of devouring the greater part of a roast turkey
provided for his unfortunate opponent, and declared after-
wards that he had never made a better meal in all his
life."

A YANKEE COURT OF JUSTlCE.—Yesterday the room
of the Third District Court was the scene of a very bloody
affray between three of our citizens. Dr. Dupas and Mr.
D. Veau have been partners in a saw-mill in the Third
Municipality, and, having lately dissolved partnership,
some legal proceedings I

.iave taken place between them.
Dr. Dupas, in settling the accounts of the partnership,
was assisted by Mr. Severe Wiltz, Alderman of the Third
Municipality. Yesterday the parties met in the Third
District Court, to try a rule arising from these legal dis-
putes. The rule had been tried, and Judge Strawbridge
had left his seat and the room, when an altercation arose
between Dr. Dupas and Mr. Veau, the former charging
the latter with not accounting for money he had collected,
and the latter pronouncing it a falsehood and a calumny.
Mr. Wiltz, seeing the dispute was approaching a serious
issue, interfered, and stood between the parties, when
Veau addressed to him some very abusive language, calling
him a liar and a calumniator, with reference to Mr. Wiltz's
endorsement of Dr. Dupas's charges. Thereupon Mr.
Wiltz, who is a gentleman of powerful frame, struck Veau,
knocking him down on his knees. Before he rose, Mr.
Veau drew a dirk and stabbed Wiltz in the breast. Wiltz
turned to leap over the railing separating the clerk's stand
from the portion of the court-room allotted to the bar,
and as he did so, Feau gave him another severe cut in the
thigh, but at the same time fell heavily himself, as if he
were dead. It appeared, afterwards that he had been
stabbed in the back by Dr. Dupas, who avowed the act as
one ch • -

..ione in defence of his friend. The knife, which was
a very sharp one, struck the spinal column, and immedi-
ately paralyzed his lower limbs. In the meantime, Mr.
Wiltz had leaped into the judge's stand and drew a pistol,
when l►e cried out—" Gentlemen, I am badly hurt," and
fell in the stand. The gentlemen were then taken up by
their friends, and physicians sent for. In a little while
they arrived and examined their wounds. Mr. Wiltz was
able, with the assistance of his friends, to go down the
steps, and was put into a cab and carried home. His
wounds are severe and painful, but not dangerous. Mr.
Veau was entirely prostrated by his injury, and it is
feared that it will prove mortal. The gentlemen engaged
in this unhappy affair are all highly respectable Creoles,
and men of families.—New Orleans Delta.
ANECDOTE OF JENNY LIND'S TOUR ON THE CONTI-
NENT.—The following anecdote of this wonderful canta-
trice, and no less wonderful woman, has just been related
to me by an eye-witness. It is so characteristic of the
Nightingale that I send it to you :—From Stockholm
Jenny Lind went for a short time to the springs of Ems,
and from thence proceeded to Schlangenbad, on her way
to England. A town of some importance lay in her route,
and it was not only known that she must pass through
that town, but information had also reached some per-
sonal friends of hers residing there she would tarry with
them two or three days. The announcement of this fact,
of course, created great excitement. A couple of
amusement-mongers in the town hired the public ball
there, and fitted it up in anticipation of engaging the
Swedish Nightingale for a concert. They even went so
far as to sell several hundred tickets, at exorbitant prices,
for the concert in embryo. As soon as Jenny arrived this
pair of speculators called on her, and inquired what they
should pay for her services one night at a concert. - " I
do not wish to sing for you," replied Jenny Lind. "But
we will pay you liberally for your services." "T do not
wish to sing for you," replied the renowned cantatrice.
" We have already engaged and fitted up a hall, and sold
tickets at high prices, and will pay you 3000 dallars for
us for one night." " I cannot sing for you." " Name
your price ;we will give it." " I will not sing for you,"
was the inexorable reply of Jenny Lind. The gentle-
men could scarcely conceal their indignation as they re-
marked, " This decision of yours, Mademoiselle, almost
ruins us. We have expended 700 dollars in decorating
the hall and making arrangements for a concert, at which
we bad no doubt you would sing." Jenny Lind im-
mediately counted out 700 dollars, and placed it in their
hands, at the same time expressing the hope that they
were satisfied, " inasmuch," she added, " as your ar-
rangements have been made without my knowledge or
consent." The managers expressed themselves satisfied,
and withdrew. The next day Jenny Lind announced a
concert for the benefit of the poor in that town. The
receipts amounted to several thousand dollars, every
farthing of which was devoted to charity. Eccentric
amiability !—London Correspondent of the New York
Herald.

IRELAND.

The crime of 44 crop-lifting" is rapidly on the increase
in Ireland.

Sir Robert Peel's will does not allow his executors to
invest money in Ireland. So much for the Connaught
Plantation scheme.

The Rev. John Gregg preached a sermon in Irish at the
parish church of Doon, county 'Limerick on Tuesday, to
a most numerous and attentive class of bearers.

The Orangemen of Armagh are about to erect a memo-
rial worthy of their late county grand master, James
Watson, Esq. Lord Dungannon is among the promoters.
The vast estates of the Earl of Mountcashel, in the
county of Antrim, are now in the,market, and will be set
up for sale in four divisions, on the Bth of 'November.
The Earl of Meath has given a reduction .of 20 per
cent. to his ten,,ntry, to be applied to the improvement
of their farms.

The Kilkenny Moderator, of Sat urday, announces
the particulars of a desperate affray between .the
police And a perty of marauders, in which the former 14p-
pear to have been the greatest sufferers. ,Of the body of
_eonstabluary engaged., two 'have been severely, and one., it
feared, _fatally wounded in .the encounter.

The Encumbered Estates COD' missioners are about to
place another large property in the market, consisting of
the fine estates of Viscount Girt, situated in the most
desirable partof the county (JfGalway.
_ _

It is said that a marriage is likely to take place between
a noble earl who possesses extensive estates and a splendid
mansion in this county. and a certain lady resident in
Dublin, who is possessed. of immense wealth. The MT,-
riage would raise her to the rank of countess, and save
one of the 'finest properties in Ireland from the auction•
room of the 2ncumbered Estates Court.— Dark Examiner.

Last Sunday evening week, thousands of men, with
carts and horses, were engaged in the counties of Tippe-
rary, Kilkenny, Limerick, Clare, King's, and Wexford,
cutting,down and carrying away 'the crops from the farms
of tenants heavily in arrear of rent. These fellows
marched, in bodies of hundreds from farm to farm, to the
terror of the honest tenantry, who have fairly discharged
their engagements, and who consequently are marked "
as enemies to " tenant right."
3r. Cullen has written a letter to the Under- Secretary
for Ireland, assigning his reasons for refusing to accept
the situation tendered to him by the Lord Lieutenant.
The new Roman Catholic primate can have no connexion
with any institution so " dangeroui" as the Belfast Col-
ilege—more particularly as the Pope has ordered him to
try and lead away his flock from such " poisonous" pas-
turage. Dr. Cullen, being a good shepherd, is determined
to comply with the injunctions of his Holiness.

THE l'oeisn SAVIOUR OF IRELAND.—In a rescript
addressed to Dr. Cullen, his Primate in Ireland, the Pope

says,—"Nobly do you provide for your clergy and people,
when you hastened to communicate to them all that devo-
tion wherewith you are yourself wonderfully imbued, to-
wards the Most Holy Mother of God and Most Gracious
Virgin Mary, by whom ,every faithful soul is said by Cyril
to be saved. Under the guidance and auspices, above all,
of her to whom it is given to destroy all heresies, let Us
hope in this raging tempest for the very present help of a
merciful God, and let us expect it with confidence."
A fierce faction fight has taken place at Sneem, in the
county of Kerry. The parties had been purchasing reap-
ing hooks for the purpose of cutting their corny but they
turned them to a very different purpose, for they cut and

mangled each other .with them- in a shocking- manner.
Several of them are not expected to recover. There were
women, too, engaged in the fray, busily employed in
gathering stones for those who were not armed with sticks
or reaping hooks. The magistrates have committed

several of the rioters. There were but two policemen in
the village ; and all they could do was to take down the
names of the principal rioters.
' TUE LINEN TRADE OP BELFAST

—The first spinning

facto]

one-and-twenty years old. Now it is said that there are
more than £20,000,000 invested in spinning in Ulster,
and 300,000 or 400,000 spindles at work. Lord Clarendon
states that from 1839 to 1847 the increase in factory
labour has been in Scotland, MI per cent. ; in England,
30 per cent. ; and in the north of Ireland, 52 per cent.

The exports of linen from Belfast amount in value to four
millions-300,000 persons gain a livelihood by the linen
trade—and the exports this year are a million more than
they were last. The Belfast damasks, now, we believe,
surpass Dresden, and there is scarcely a table of the
higher aristocracy that is not covered with them. The
mere fact of our most gracious Queen having services in
this damask must have contributed to an immense exten-
sion of the trade.

THE SEA-SERPENT AGAIN.—The Irish papers contain
further accounts of this monster. A writer in the Cork
Examiner says he had a grand sight of it in Ballycotton
Bay, when crossing in a yawl. Its appearance he thus
describes :—" Imagine a creature at once like an eel and
a serpent—the head like a serpent in its formation—the
neck more like that of a conger eel, thick and covered
with a mane. The eye was immense, and partook more
of the reptile than the fishy brightness. It consisted of
a jet black pupil, encirled by a dull white rim, and an

outer circle of flaming red, as red as the gills of an ordi-
nary fish. Its mouth was not only furnished with a for-
midable row of teeth, white as the whitest ivory, but two
tusks protruded, one on each side, that glittered like
silver in the sun, and measured somewhat from two to

three feet in length. In the latter particular it reminded
me of the walrus, which is similarly furnished. Its mane
resembled that of the leoline seal, or common sea lion,
each hair of which, as some credible authorities inform
us, is so strong and thick as to answer for toothpicks. In
spite of the flaming outer

e of the eye, and its for-
midable tusks, the appearance of this marine monster was
not by any means ferocious ; on the contrary, its aspect
was rather benevolent and indolent than otherwise."
The creature, we are told, shot like lightning past the
boat, and a shower of small fish fell from his mouth into
the bow, these fish having the power of communicating
tremendous electric shocks. The writer imagines the
length of the cre'iture to be about 150 feet.

PROTESTANT ULSTER-POPISH CONNAUGHT.

We have on more occasions than one brought before
our readers the happy and prosperous condition of the
province of Ulster, in contrast with the miserable and
degraded character of the people of Connaught, as one
instance among many of the blighting effects of Romish
superstition on all classes of a population brought within
its withering influence, though they may be•surrounded
with all the appliances which, if rightly used, would ren-
der them thriving and contented. The Times, in its dis-
gust at the synod of Thurles, is betrayed into some truths
which have long been strangers in its columns. We ex-
tract the following from that journal of Tuesday last :

" From the synod of Thurles it is no little relief to pass to
the late proceedings at Belfast. In the former place, sur-
roundedliy a desolation unparalleled in Europe, a conspiracy
of priests, aided by a set of foreign meddlers, resolves that the
people under their influence shall remain as ignorant, as per-
verse, and as wretched as they are at this moment. In the
latter place, under the very same laws and with no greater
opportunities, we behold a population educated, industrious,
thriving, and happy. On this side the Atlantic no community
can show so rapid a development of the arts and manufactures
during the last twenty years, or so great an increase of popu-
lation and wealth, as the city of Belfast. The contrast is so
striking as to assume a providential character, as if designed
for the express purpose of convincing mankind that prosperity,
under heaven, depends on the man, and not on the soil, situa-
tion, or even political condition. Hardly a good reason can be
assigned why Galway should not at this day present the same
busy scene as Belfast. The latter city has to import from
Great Britain every ton of iron and coal that she wants for her
factories or her foundries. Flax—the staple manufacture of
Belfast—can be grown and worked just as well in Connaught
as in Ulster. As to cheapness of labour, the advantage of
course lies with Connaught. But when Lord Clarendon, in his
reply to the address of the Ulster Flax Society, observes that
more than 0€20,000,000 have been invested in the machinery of
factories In Belfast since 1829, and between 300,000 and 410,000
spindles are now at work in that city, we are brought at once
to the cardinal difference between that city and Galway. Who
will risk millions, or even thousands, in Connaught? Men
will plant vineyards on the sides of a volcano up to the very
brink of the boiling cauldron; they will place their whole for-
tunes at the mercy of the winds and the waves; they will build
cities under the level of the ocean, and drive mines under its
bed there are no bounds to their daring when the caprices of
nature are all they have to fear; but there is one thing they
will not do—they will not commit themselves, the hard earn-
ings of their lives, the inheritance of their fathers, and the
hopes of their families, to the power of a rude multitude that
knows no law but its passions, and no teacher but a fanatical
and unscrupulous priesthood.
" Unquestionably in the greater part of Ireland, and parti•
milady in the west, religion has made an evil alliance with the

.........„
spirit which calls itself independence, and is in fact sedition.
The ambitious prelates who have recently hurled their censures
from Thurles are the men who have ever laboured might and
main to insulate the Irish people, and to prevent them from
acquiring any common ground with the rest of the nation.
Their object has been to keep the Irishman, nothing but
an Irishman, contrary to that law of amalgamation by which
in this island so many different tribes constitute at last one
powerful and fortunate unity. Thera is nothing whatever that
so much brings together men of different creeds, that furnishes
so many common topics of interest and conversation, and
tends to amicable and candid discussion, as a common ac-
quaintance with literature and science. This, then, is what
the Roman Catholic prelates of Ireland have ever dreaded, and
what they are now labouring to avert. They see, as they
think, in the Queen's colleges a means of unity, and they
accordingly are working their own creed as an engine of dis-
union. It is the Roman Catholic system in its most repulsive,
most ungracious, and most unheavenly form that these pre-
lates are setting up as a barrier between England and Ireland,
between loyalty and dissatisfaction, between the sovereign and
the subject. Hence it is that their communion, elsewhere
comparatively
.tolerant of science, and even friendly to social
improvement, in Ireland relapses into a dark superstition, that
loves to know nothing, to be nothing, like the rest of mankind.
Dr. and his colleagues are not merely Roman Catho-
lics, nor merely Irish Roman Catholics—the true ruling prin-
ciple and true name for their creed is separation from En-
gland."