The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-27 00:00:00

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life which invariably accom

serious skirmi,

PonteSisto, which ended in the death of four or five
soldiers and one civilian, besides a great number wounded.
nated in some satirical words spoken by
Hers in derision of the Roman infantry.
blows, and the French, as usual in
ev

u;ht on

y of the

ts, were worsted by the sudden
Reinforcements were brought on
and the affair became at last so serious that
lch troops was required to put an
the whole scene of action and

alion of I

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down the adjacent streets
had taker

Three French soldiers, who

eiuge in a passage and closed the door, were
the sudden entry of a tailor, who happened to

house, and ran in to escape the shower of rais-
ing between the combatants. The Frenchmen,
ves attacked, rushed out, charging bayo-
down the passage, and killed the unfortunate tailor
Le spot. It is unfortunately but too true that Rome
is in a still more fearful state of disorganisation than when
Pio Nono left his capital so glibly. On the Ist instant a
dispute arose in a wine-shop, between three French sap-
pers and some Roman artillerymen. From words they
came to blows. The Frenchmen were unarmed. One of
them, having already received a wound in his hand, seized

,ive in the

thinking thews(

dd of the sabre of one of his adversaries, who was in tho
tof drawing it, and threatened to use it. This threat
d a slight calm, when (the writer gives this only
a Roman officer entered the.wine-shop,

as a rumour,
demanded the

bre which the sapper still held in his
and, and went out again with it. But ho had no sooner
is back, when the quarrel commenced once more,
French soldiers received some severe wounds.
t court-martial of the division condemned the
to fiftee

turned h
and the

days' imprisonment, and a cadet, named
Venanzi, to a week's arrest. Again, on the night of the
4th, a French patrol, composed of a corporal and

two men,

, . .
ere suddenly attacked by a Roman patrol of eighteen
len. who charged the former at the point of the bayonet,
nocked them down, and inflicted several wounds upon
'ern. They were transported in the morning to the hos-
ital of St. Andrea. Some companies of soldiers of the

the event occurred, and the Piazza Branca was surrounded
with troops. A Roman citizen, who wanted to pass in
spite of the French sentinels, was bayonetted on the spot.

French general had ordered the surrender of all offensive
weapons, including sticks, on pain of trial by court-mar-
tial. The Roman Minister of War had refused to remove

troops, hut had removed the most
(t the French had even demand(

It mv,s said tl

direction of the police should be placed in their

PORTUGAL.—The King has applied to the Queen for
leave to pay a visit of three months to Germany.
The King of Prussia arrived on the evening of the 18th
at Warsaw. The Emperor and Empress of Russia went
to meet him as far as Wiernirvice.
The Diet of 87z0-'-

..,..cueri nas a sum' of nearly three
thousand pounds to send one hundred of their best work-
The King has also sent a large party at

men to London

ent of the propaganda in Rome,
ust issued an appeal to all Italy, calling
6tholics to subscribe funds for the erection
)f a Roman catholic cathedral in London. The appeal
he I issued some months back by the cardinal vicar•general did

Franzoni, has
upon all good

...ardina

he desired result

The King of Prussia, after his reconciliation with the
King of Hanover in Mecklenburgh, entered the bedroom
early, where the latter was still asleep, and put round his
neck the gorgeous and costly chain of the order of the
Black Eagle, which the hoary monarch was, of course,
equally surprised and gratified to find on awaking. This

chain leas been newly invented by the King of Prussia
himself, who has a great talent for ornamental design.
A letter from Seville announces that a frightful catas-
trophe had occurred in the garden of the Duke of Mont-
pensier, at Alcala del Rio. The prince had caused a
steam-engine to be placed in it for its irrigation, and the
10th instant was fixed for its trial, The boiler exploded,
and overthrew the building, burying under its ruins sixty
or seventy persons. Eight dead bodies, and sixteen
wounded had,been removed from under the rubbish
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N. P. WILLIS AND Ms. FORREST.—The trial of
Mr. Forrest, for a violent assault upon Mr. N. P. Willis,
commenced in the Superior Court of the state of New
York on the Bth inst., before Chief Justice Oakley, and
was proceeding at the date of the last mail. The assault

was not denied, but was justified by Mr. Forrest's coun-
sel, in consequence of Mr. Willis's conduct towards Mr.
Forrest's wife, and the unhappy differences that existed
between Mr. Forrest rnd his lady. It was expected that
the jury would return a verdict with small costs.

CALIFORNIA PROFITS.—To illustrate the " immense
profits" on sales of goods transported from New York to
California, we find in the New fork Courier a bill of
goods costing 120 dollars, and selling for 533 dollars 50
cents. This is truly a handsome profit on so small an
amount of goods, consisting principally of iron bedsteads
and writing paper. But out of this is to be taken the
charges, which we find amount to 533 dollars 36 cents.
This take❑ from 533 dollars 50 cents, leaves the crushing
nett profits 14 cents !—Conneclicut Courant.

Florence, IV.