The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

ITALY.

At Turin fears wore entertained for the monarchy. The
Austrians had completely succeeded in all their operations,
and, with 20,000 men who had marched to join Radetsky,
they had passed the Mincio at several points. Even the
fortress of Peschiera was clOsed to the Piedmontese troops.
A fearful panic prevailed throughout Lombardy.
INsunuccrroN AGAINST THE POPE.—The legations
have broken out in open insurrection against the pope.
The cause of this movement, which menaces a complete
separation of the legations from the Pontifical States, is
the part which the pope has taken with reference to the
war of independence in Lombardy. A provisional govern-
ment has been formed at Bologna, charged with the con-
duct of the war so far as concerns the legations, quite
independent of any authority derived from Rome. The
question of the annexation of the legations with Tuscany,
or their union with the new kingdom of Upper Italy, has
been debated.

Our Spanish letters state that the Queen was better,
and that 2,000 convicts at Valladolid revolted, murdered
their guards; and fled into the country with the intention
of joining the Montemolinists.
THE CHOLERA.—We have just received advices from
St. Petersburgh by the Rob Roy. When she left the
worst stages of the disease were past, people's minds were
more easy, and business and activity were again visible.
The general impression is, that the effects of the disease
have been far more terrible than in 1831. It is calcu-
lated that 100,000 persons fled from the city of pestilence
in terror and alarm, the larger proportion of whom were
of the lower orders, who perished by thousands by the
road side, from exposure and famine, the villagers refu-
sing to succour them ; these will not be included in the
city returns. The public works had all been stopped.
The accounts from the interior are very distressing, par-
ticularly from Astrachan, where the chief and two sons
had perished. At St. Petersburgh, for some days the
cases were 1200 daily, and in the earlier stage very few
recovered, but latterly almost all were restored. It is
mentioned as a curious fact, that all the crows, with which
the city abounds, left when the cholera appeared, and
returned when its virulence ceased. There was a violent
thunder-storm on the 11th, which would have the effect
of arresting the disease, if there be really any faith to be
placed in the alleged cause, that it arose from the absence
of electricity in the air. The Emperor has behaved nobly.
He visited the city nearly every day, and suppressed by
his presence the risings of a popular tumult in his usually
decisive and well-judged manner. Fourteen of the Eng-
lish residents have died. The total number of cases from
the 4th of June to the 3rd of July (old style) was 15,414;
deaths, 8,700. On the 4th July, 3,843 cases were under
treatment.—Hull Packet.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

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GOODWOOD RACES.—TUESDAY, July 25.—The Craven
Stakes : The Hero walked over. The Levant Stakes :
Glauca, 1; Wet Nurse, 2 ; Czarina, 3. The Drawing-
room Stakes : A dead heat between Swordplayer and
Glendower. The Ham Stakes : Palmyra colt, by lon, 1;
Honeycomb, 2; Belus, 3. The Gratwicke Stakes : Dis-
taffina, 1; Surplice, 2; Hornpipe, 3; Wiasma, 4. The
300 sovs. Stakes: Van Tromp, 1 • Cossack, 2. Won in
a canter.—WEDNESDAY.—Goolwood Stakes : Chanti-
cleer, 1 ; Plaudit, 2 ; Remembrance, 3. Queen's Plate :
Footstool, 1 • Hero, 2. Stewards' Cup : The Admiral,
1 ; Landrail, 2 ; Prior of St. Margaret's, 3. 28 ran.—
THURSDAY.—Sweepstakes of 50 sovs.: Archery walked
over. Sweepstakes of 200 sous.: Picaroon filly, out of
Blue Bonnet, 1 ; Cynthia, 2 ; Flycatcher filly, 3. The
Sussex Stakes : Glenalvon, 1 ; Syrup, 2; Touchy, 3.
Sweepstakes of 100 sovs.: Helter Skelter, 1 • Malmes-
bury, 2. Duke of Richmond's Plate : Swordplayer, 1 ;
Maid of Lyme, 2. The Mole6omb Stakes : Mr. Milner,
1 • Uriel, 2; Highland Fling, 3. The Goodwood Cup :
Van Tromp, 1; Armin, 2; Miss Sarah, 3.— FRIDAY.
—Sweepstakes of 200 sovs.: Canada filly walked over.
Sweepstakes of 50 sovs.: won by Highland Fling. The
Chesterfield Cup : won by Marquis of Conyngham. The
Nassau Stakes : won by Canezou. The Richmond Stakes
of 25 sovs. each, won in a canter by Hornpipe. The
Derby Plate of £2OO, &c. : won by Flycatcher filly. The
Chichester Stakes : won by Passion Flower. Sweepstakes
of 15 sovs.: won by Pyrrhus the First.

SHERDON AND JACKSON'S SIX-MILE MATCH FOR
£2OO AND THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF ENGLAND.—This
exciting event, which has been looked forward to with
lively interest, came off yesterday week, at Hyde Park,
Sheffield, and attracted such a concourse of spectators as
rarely, if ever, assembled together on any similar occa-
sion. At the time of the start there could not be far
short of 10,000 persons on the ground. Soon after Jack-
son had entered on his last round he gave up the race,
and left Sherdon to finish the distance alone, which he
did in 33 minutes, amidst shouts of applauge from his
friends the Sheffielders, who win a pretty good stake.
COCK FIGHT EXTRAORDINARY.—A person noted in the
training of cocks for the above pastime went to a farm
house in the neighbourhood of Lee Fair, near Alverthorpe,
to purchase two game cocks. After the bargain was
struck, the " gentleman" commenced swaggering of the
good qualities of a cock of his training, whereupon the
lady of the farm house challenged, that one of hers should
fight his for a load of wheat, which was agreed upon. The
fight came off on Monday week, and to the astonishment
of the ," gentleman" his cock showed the white feather,
and ran away ! It afterwards turned out that it was a
hoax on the part of the lady, who had applied the pepper
box pretty freely under the wings and feathers of her bird,
which, at the " meeting in combat" bad blinded its op-
ponent. Of course the proprietor of the vanquished feeL'3
himself terribly aggrieved, and has since killed the bird.
—Cambridge Chronicle.