The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-22 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

A jury of Prince George's country, Maryland, set aside
the will of the late Mr. Townsend, because the testator
liberated, by his will, all his slaves and other property.
The steamer Styx has captured thirteen slave vessels
during her services on the coast of Africa. They comprise
brigs and brigantines, and altogether amount to 2000 tons
of shipping which that steamer has removed from the
traffic. All of them have been condemned.
Accounts from Hanover state that King Ernest is se-
riously indisposed. His Majesty has been suffering from
a severe influenza, but it was feared that it had taken an
alarming character, and some apprehensions were felt on
the subject.

The "failure of Messrs. Dubois and Co. the largest
bankers in Havre, is confirmed. The bank consisted of
a body of shareholders, and was known as Messrs. Dubois
and Co.'s Commercial Bank. The paid up capital of the
concern was 4,500,000 f. (X 180,000), and the total liabili-
ties are stated by some parties at 12,000,000 f. (£480,000).
OPENING OF THE ELBE.—On Tuesday last, the steam-
ship Marshall, Captain Raas, arrived in Hull from Gluck-
stadt, bringing the first news of her own departure, and of
the breaking up of the ice in the Elbe. He took his de-
parture on Saturday, and after encountering much ice in
the river, which stove one of his bowplates (she is an iron
steamer) had the damage repaired in Cuxhaven, and pro-
ceeded. Captain Raas informs us that, in his opinion, it
would be about a fortnight or three weeks from the date
of his departure before the river would be clear up to
Hamburgh.

CONVERSION TO PROTESTANTISM OF A MEMBER OF
THE INQUISITION AT ROME.—The most reverend Signor
Lingi de Santes, Rector of the principal parish in Rome,
La Maddalena, Qualfficator of the Inquisition, Member of
the Theological College of the Sapienza, and of various
Academies. and one of the most eloquent preachers in
Italy ; has solemnly abjured the errors of Romanism. turned
his back upon all human grandeur, and united himself to
the rising Italian Church, and is now preparing for the
great work of the Mission, in the Evangelical College of
Malta.—Translated from an Italian paper, by a Corre-
spondent.
CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—We have two days' later news
from the Cape of Good Hope, viz., to the 14th December.
This arrival confirms the belief previously entertained,
that Umhala is not incere in his submission to British
authority ; for though living under its protection, he is
evidently affording shelter and assistance to those in arms
against her Majesty. Pato still continues to elude pursuit.
Sandilla is kept a prisoner at Graham's Town, and is libe-
rally fed at the expense of the colony or the state, while
his brother Dundas succeeds to the chieftainship, and,
being inimical to the British, rallies the scattered tribes
around his standard in the fastnesses of the Amatola,
whence the probability is they will only be dislodged, as
before, by the employment of an adequate force.
THE AVENGER.—A court-martial took place at Malta,
on the 31st of January, on board the Trafalgar, on the
survivors of the unfortunate steam-frigate, Avenger, viz.,
Lieut. Francis Rooke, Mr. John Larcom, William Hill,
and James Morley, boy. Rear-Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis,
Bart., presided. A narrative of all the circumstances
connected with the lamentable event was put in by
Lieut. Rooke and read. This officer was then examined.
Other testimony was also given, from which it appeared
that no blame whatever could be attached to Lieut. Rooke
and his three surviving companions. At the close of the
proceedings on the 31st January the Couit was adjourned
to Tuesday, the Ist of February, on which day the Court
re-assembled, and fully acquitted the prisoners. They
expressed a doubt whether the Avenger had the Admiralty
charts of the Mediterranean on board.

Among the advices from America we find one of a rather
curious character touching the famous Mississipi debt. A.
citizen of that state, by name Robins, has stated the di-
lemma of the honest people to be this; they wish to pay
their debts and they have funds to do it with, but these
particular debts of which we talk were illegally contracted
by the Government; and if they submit to being taxed
for the purpose of paying them, they will be giving their
sanction to an illegal proceeding. The case is undoubtedly
a knotty one ; but happily Mr. Robins has his solution
ready. He is " deputed' to meet the Mississippi creditors
and to make to them a proposal that they shall send
round—[their hats, we were going to say, but something
to answer the same purpose]—from house to house among
the good citizens, who will, he undertakes for them, joy-
fully pay their, luota towards the discharge of the State
debt, and redeem their characters for honesty without
compromising the constitution by admitting the legality
of an legality of an illegal act.
Advices from Paris state that the reform agitation con-
tinues with undiminished vigour. The great reform
banquet, however, has been postponed from Sunday to
Tnesday, to obviate the danger of excitement among the
populace on their day of recreation. The agitation is
spreading rapidly through the provinces, and addresses
had arrived from Chartres and Amiens to their deputies,
exhorting them to resistance. These addresses were
signed by bankers, lawyers, municipal councillors, officers
of the national guard, and electors. Similar addresses
were on their way from Blowis, Tours, Rouen, Havre,
Arras, and Lille. Deputations were . coming from the
provinces to attend the reform banquet. The_ govern-
ment contradicts the statement that artillery, ammuni-
tion, and other military supplies. had been distributed
from the fort of Vincennes to various points of Paris.
It is said that the king has consulted M. Dupin on the
legality of the banquets, and that he has said that minis-
ters have no legal right to impede them, and that such a
proceeding would put the country on the brink of revo-
lution. The partisans of the government still maintained,
however, thst ministers were resolved to stop the banquet.
SINGULAR SUICIDE.—At the latter end of January,
Dr. Horace Wells, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut,
committed suicide at New York. The deceased claimed
for himself the honour of being the original discoverer of
the use of ethei and chloroform in surgical and dentistry
cases, and visited London and Paris for the purpose of
stablishing his claim to the original discovery. It appears
that Dr. Wells was in the habit of producing intoxication
upon himself by the use of chloroform, and, under one
of the paroxsinis produced by the intemperate use of
this powerful agent, sallied forth into Broadway, and
threw vitriol upon the clothes of some of the unfortunate
girls who there promenade at night. He was taken into
custody, and, for the purpose of drowning the conse-
quences of the exposure, committed suicide by inflicting
a desperate gash in his left thigh, penetrating the femoral
artery. Beside him, when discovered, lay a razor, a pen-
knife, and a phial, labelled " Pure Chloroform," from
which there is no doubt that he used his own medicine to
destroy the sensation of pain in the act. A person had
obtained from the deceased, a few days previous, a phial
of vitriol for the purpose of throwing upon some of 'the
girls, who, he said, had injured him, and it is supposed
this in his intoxicated state must have operated upon him.
He has left a wife and one child. _

107A40NTES.:411;; AT Mu NlClL—There is confu-
sion in the North of Europe as in the South, but the
cause is not equally dignified. Munich has been in a kind
of insurrection, on account of a Royal mistress, just as
Naples has on account of constitutional liberty. The
honours heaped by the Kink 'of Bavaria on his Spanish
paramour, Lola. Montes, Countess of Lansfeld, have
caused a disgust which has at length exploded with consi-
derable violence. The proximate cause of the manifesta-
tion arose in the University. There, as in other German
universities, the students form themselves into associa-
tions, with distinctive names and badges. A new one
was ately formed,, under the auspices of Lola Montes.
This seems to have caused great irritation ; at length the
members of it, on their appearance at a lecture, were hissed
and hooted in such a way as to oblige the professor to
dismiss the club. The next day there was the same up-
roar. Prince Watterstein, the minister for foreign affairs,
interfered, as it appears, with success, a promise being
given that the interruption should not continue. Never-
theless, on the ninth of the month; several of the Alma-
nea—the name taken by the members of the new associa-
tion—were attacked furiously in the street and obliged to
take refuge in an eating-house. They sent a message to
Lola Montes for protection, who boldly walked' to the
place on foot, but being recognised by the mob she was
in her turn compelled to seek for refuge, which she did not
seem likely to find, when the king, being apprised of what
was going on, left a file he was giving at the palace and
hurried to her aid. Offering his arm, he led her to
a church opposite the palace. There the melodramatic
lady first threw herself at the foot of the altar, exclaiming
" God protect my best, my only friend," and then sallied
forth pistol in hand. Not at all touched by this display,
the mob became furious, and one of them wresting the
pistol rival, her hand, pinned her by the throat against a
wall. From this rough hug she was fortunately rescued
by the gendarmes, who eventually conducted her to the
palace. The authorities then announced that the Univer-
sity should be closed for a year. On this the irritation
increased, and some disposition was shown to come into
collision with the military, sonic of whom it is said had
without orders made a charge in the morning and shot
down two or three people. Either on that night or the
next, the house of the mistress was sacked by the students,
Lola Montes having barely time to save herself by flight.
The King, it is said, aided by the general irritation, has
consented to her expulsion, and reopened the University.
Such are the singular and disgraceful scenes which have
been occurring at Munich. On the 12th, tranquillity was
nearly restored in Munich, though Lola had reappeared
dressed in male attire, and made a last attempt to pene-
trate into the royal palace. Some ten or twelve students
of the Alemanna Association, her body guard, escorted her.
The moment the return of the royal mistress became
known, the people assembled, and strict inquiry was made
to discover her hiding-plaee. Fortunately for her, Prince
Wallerstein, who still retains his seat in the ministry,
caused her to be arrested by gendarmes, placed in a post-
chaise; and sent off to Switzerland. She reached Augsburg
in the afternoon. Three students accompanied her in
the carriage with the two police-officers. On leaving
Munich she said " The king will abdicate, and follow
Me into exile." Intelligence has been received that Lola
Mentes had arrived at Lindau, on the Lake of Constance,
on the evening of the 13th, and was to leave the next day
for Switzerland.