The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-08-09 00:00:00

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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

FRANCE. •
of Paris, AuctlsT 4.—The municipalcbuncil of the town
~. in its sitting of Friday, August 2, on the motion
re-
soh Bourgeois, one of its members, unanimously re-
._thr-,ed that it would go in a body, headed by the Prefect
the
Seine, to the King, in order to acquaint him with
e:,uneasiness and the alarm of the capital relative to the
""tling of detached forts around his good city of Paris,
and at the same time to beseech his Majesty to give
orders for the project to be indefinitely adjourned.
• HOLLAND AND BELGIUM. •
Aotwithstanding the accession of Leopold to the Belgian
throne, and the capture of Antwerp, King William con-
inues to give hiMself the title of King of the Nether-
!ands, and this is not contested by Louis Philippe, father-
fln-law to King Leopold. This is evident from the
)11"ring article, contained in the official intelligence of
the Aluniteur :
" The King has just received a cabinet letter, by
which his Majesty the King of the Netherlands informs
his Majesty of the birth of a prince of the Netherlands,
no to their Royal Highnesses the Prince Frederic of the
Netherlands and the Princess Louisa Augusta Wilhel-
Nina Amelia of Prussia, his consort. This letter of
V4tification .was transmitted to Government by M. de
• Iricies, Charge d'Affaires for the Netherlands."
"'e were of opinion that the kingdom -of the Nether-
-14,,,T1(1s was destroyed for ever by the revolution in Sept.,
41:3"' William 'is but King of Holland, unless the con-
.erence, resuming its operations, intend to return him
the sovereignty made by the treaties of 1815.
The Duke of Lucca, who has just adopted the Protes-
tant religion in Germany, is Charles Louis de Bourbon,
Infant of Spain, born in Madrid, in 1799. His mother
was Queen of Etruria. The Duchy of Lucca was given
!TI in 1815. He married, in 1823, the daughter of
King Emmanuel, of Sardinia. The result of this mar •
•I'age is a son, born in 1823. For several years back
.the Duke has been spending the revenues of his petty
IPstate in Germany. He is the first Spanish prince that
°as become a Protestant. He would be in an awkward
situation with respect to the Inquisition, if it were as
formerly, were he to return to Spain.

GERMANY.
FRANKFORT, JULY I.3(.—An increased degree of strict,
_flees_,.respecting passports, which has lately been ordered
Vienna, has, within these few days, caused much
sem-
b3rrassment to several strangers, who passed through this
city, intending to go to Vienna, and it is of essential im-
portance to travellers to be informed in time of the par-
ticulars. Henceforth it will be absolutely required that
every one who wants to enter the Austrian States shall be
rl"ided with a passport, signed by the Austrian legation
.11 this country. Accordingly the Austrian legation here
as refused to sign French, Russian, and other passports,
which were not signed by the Austrian legation at Paris,
St. .
Petersburgh, &c., though they were signed by the
leach, Russian, &c. legations here, which used to be
":,',lficient, and though part of them belonged to persons
who are well knoWn.-
, Of the Commissioners of the Central Board of Inquiry,
those of Austria, Prussia, and Wurtemberg have arrived ;
ripe Bavarian Commissioner is not yet come. However,
two latter are expected to arrive shortly, and the com-
mission will then proceed to business.
• AUSTRIA.
• - VIENNA, Jimy 25.---This morning their Imperial Ma-
.l.,esties set out on their journey to Prague. Great sensa
:'Oll has been excited on 'Change today by the news of
,
capture of Don Miguel's squadron by Napier.
fit is feared that troubles may ensue in Spain. Count
-'atopuzano Spanish ambassador here, has sent a courier
his
Madrid. A French courier has arrived from Paris;
14:,s despatches are said to relate to the affairs in the east.
court and most of the foreign ambassadors having
left us, the town is very dull; in a few weeks Vienna
will be more animated.
The Osservatore Triestino. says :—" On the 10th July
arrived here the North American frigate the United
states, Captain Nicholson, of 54 guns, 430 men. Com-
modore Patterson is on board. She came from Naples
11 fourteen days, from Palermo in twelve, and from
Messina in ten days. On the 12th arrived the. Constel-
lation, Captain J. C. Read, of 40 guns, 332 men, in
sixteen days from Naples and twelve from Palermo.
TURKEY.
ODEssA, July 15.—The.Neva steam-boat arrived here
Yesterday in seventy-two hours from Constantinople, and
brought the news that the Russian fleet and army, sent
by his Majesty the Emperor to the aid of the Sultan,
left the Bosphorus on the 10,-.11 instant to go to Feodosia.
After landing the troops at that place, where they are to
Perform quarantine, the fleet, as we hear, will by his Ma-
jesty's orders put to sea again, and not return to Sebas-
topol till it has remained at sea for the time appointed for
quarantine. Two transports, with part of the sick who

are to be brought into our Lazaretto, are already at an.
Thor in the road, and six more are to arrive. Count Or.
lot' is expected here every moment on board the Pen.
tderaclia corvette.

A GREAT CAVERN DISCOVERED.

About six weeks ago, as some workmen were em-
ployed in quairying stones in a liMeStone quarry situated
within seven miles of the town of Caller, and six miles
of Mitchelstown, on the old line of road between the said
towns, they discovered, at the distance of 20 feet from
the surface, an opening into the rock capable of admit-
ing the body .of one person. .Prompted by curiosity;
one of the men entered the opening and proceeded along
a sloping declivity which terminated, at the distance of
40 or 50 feet from the entrance, in an abrupt descent of
about 20 feet... Unable to proceed further,- he returned,
and having procured a ladder, he, accompanied by two
- or three of the workmen; proceeded to explore the ca-
vern. Having descended ..the ladder, they proceeded
along a passage about 300 yards in length, 40 f.-et in
breadth, and generally between 30 and 40 feet in height,
at the termination of which a superb cavern, nearly one
mile in circumference, presented itself to their view.—
This rand cavern seemed to be supported by 150 claystal columns, varying in height from 30 to 40 feet, and
in diameter from one to eight feet. In the middle of this
spacious cavern is placed a chrystalized petrefaction
exactly resembling a table, about seven feet in length
and two feet in breadth, surmounted with chrystal can-
delabras of the most curious construction. The subject
would be endless were I to enumerate the'variety of sur-
prising creations which nature has displayed in this sub-
terranean palace. At the distance of 700 or SOO yards,
and immediately opposite the entrance, lies another
Passage which led them into what they called the lower
Cave, which is about three quarters of a mile in circum-
ference, supported like the former cave by lofty. pillars,
and with the most fanciful productions. Hav-
ing proceeded through this cave they discovered an aper-
ture, which having ascended by a flight of eight steps, a
sight presented itself to their view capable of impressing
the strongest emotions of surprise and astonishment on
the mind of the spectator. It would be useless for me
to attempt a description of this astonishing hall, as no-
thing less than the descriptive powers of a Sir W. Scott
could render it even moderate justice ;—suffice it to say,
that it is • about three miles in•circumference, supported
' like 'the other caves with innumerable pillars, and
adorned with almost perfect imitations of all that art and
nature presents to our view. However, I cannot for-
bear remarking that in the centre of this magnificent
hall, and depending from its roof, appears a petrefaction
resembling the body of a horse, through which,' at the
distance of fifteen feet from the floor, issues a stream of
pure water, which, after forming several evolutions on
• its chrystalized bed, disappears, with hollow murmurings,
at. the furthest extremity of the hall. Through an open-
ing to the right in the last-mentioned hail, they de-.
scended, by a flight of ten or twelve steps, to a cavern
. called the long cave, which is about one mile and a half
in circumference, supported in like manner by superb
. columns, and adorned with many of the same imitations
nature and art. Amongst the imitations 'of art is a
hollow chrystalized petrefaction resembling a drum,
which, when struck upon, produces a sound, the rever-
beration of which will continue for several minutes.—
Having proceeded through the last-mentioned cave they
Came to a fissure in its right side, which led them into
what they called the cellar cave. This cave, unlike
the rest, is not supported by pillars, nor adorned
with those productions of nature for which the others are
so highly appreciated; but the spectator is amply Com-
pensated for the absence of those ornaments by the view
of a deep
and rapid river, which urges its subterranean
course through tue middle of the cave, and which, in
all probability, is the same which passes through another
celebrated cave, called the " Sheep's Cavern," a place
too. well known to offer any commment upon.—Corre-
spondent of the Tipperary Free Press.

The burning cliff at Holvvorth has, during the last
fortnight, become more immediately interesting, from
the extraordinary quantity of vapour expelled from the
numerous fissures which so abundantly present them-
selves on its surntnit and side. The internal ignition has
evidently much increased of late, and is visibly extending
its influence and making progress westward. Many ad •
ditional apettures have, within a short time, become
•aPParent, and are pouring out a profusion of very strong
sulphurous exhalations. Parties are daily visiting this
.extraordinary phenomenon.—Western Luminary.
INHUMAN CONDUCT OF-A PA R ENT.—On Saturday last, Israel
Asquith, a blanket weaver at Ileckmondwike, was committed
1.0 the Rouse of Correction, at Wakefield, by the' magistrates
!.t. Dewsbury, for cruelty to his daughter, a child fourteen years
r._aSe. It appeared that-this man had kept the girl at work in
'fit house with her legs manacled by means of two broad hoops
(4 iron, which were rivetted next to her skin, and kept close
together by means of a strong chain. The uncles of the Colt,
when tlie irons were removed, were found in "a dreadful state
of laceration. The reason assigned bV the unnatural father for
his conduct was that the
gir: had ruu away, and had stolen
something on Whit Monday, when the manacles were put on,
n oil'
and had never been take
Reel; I till the neighbours interfered last