The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

ITALY

Several journals speak of a great conspiracy in Italy,
the discovery of which has led to the rigorous enforce-
ment of the state of siege in Lombardy and Venice. It
appears that, at the beginning of July, a nobleman, who
had long been suspected by government, died suddenly of
apoplexy. The government commissioners, on affixng
the seal to his papers, found a sealed packet, which
contained a plan, signed by above 100 conspirrtors, of a
great and fearful revolt, the object of which was to assas-
sinate the Emperor, as soon as he came to Italy, and to
murder all the Austrian officers in one night in Venice.
The conspirators found only one accomplice in Verona,
twenty-five in Brescia, and the remainder in Bologna. It
is said that they have all been arrested.

The letters from Milan pourtray the state of that city
as if on the eve of some tremendous convulsion. Adhe-
rents of Mazzini have been shot by order of court-martial.
Martial law has been proclaimed. The garrison is ready
to fight. The artillery are standing at their guns, match
in hand.

During the past year the number of bears and other
wild beasts have rapidly increased, and their devastations
have been in proportion. In several districts they have
ventured to approach close to the towns.
The devastations caused by the inundations in the
Tyrol and Voralberg are very great, and at Innspruck
alone the damage is estimated at 300,000 florins. The
Danube has considerably overflowed its banks, and in the
vicinity of the capital every precautionary measure has
been adopted by the inhabitants.

IMPRISONMENT AT NAPLES.—I see by the papers that
the letter of Mr. Gladstone had a considerable influence
on public opinion ; that the people are astonished that
such atrocities can be perpetrated in the 19th century,
which boasts of its civilization. lam in the position to
give you some further details of Neapolitan cruelty ;
they may serve as a supplement to Mr. Gtadstone's letter.
The prisons are full of persons not yet tried ; their num-
ber amounts to 20,000, without including those who have
been arrested, but shortly after liberated. In this num-
ber there are about 10,000 imprisoned by measures of
police (misure di polizia), because some book or print
was found in their houses which aroused the suspicions
of the authorities. Signor Corrasio, an old man of
seventy-five, was sent to prison for having written some
extracts from Tacitus in his memorandum-book ; and a
certain Signor Sisto was imprisoned for having had in
his possession Guizot's Democratic en France. In Lecce,
Signora Arpa was arrested because she would not tell
where her husband, a wealthy barrister, suspected of his
Liberal ideas,, had fled. In Naples, a widow, Donna
Maria Ricci-Devernois, was doomed to six months' im-
prisonment, for having visited her son, a priest, who had
escaped from gaol, and was to leave his country for ever
on board of an English steamer. In the provinces the
houses of the Liberals are sacked and destroyed by the
rabble, instigated by the authorities ; and in Salerno,
Gen. Palma had flogged more than 20 persons publicly in
the market-place, in order that they should confess where
they had concealed their arms. In the councils of the
Cabinet the plan was discussed to establish an extraordi-
nary commission under the nameof Giunta di Stata, with
the power to pass the sentences without the judicial forms.
In Rome everything remains in the old unsettled state.
One of my friends writes :—" I can send you no news of
this place, where peculation alone is active, and every-
thing else—public feeling, commerce, Christianity itself—
seems to be in abeyance."— Correspondent of Daily News.

ALLEGED MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN

AT BLAENCWIII.
4.•
Considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbourhood
of Blaencwn, near the village of Conwil, Carmarthen, on
Saturday evening, by a report which was then circu-
lated, that a servant girl, named Ruth Jones. had been
found dead in Linparkmain Pond, having several wounds
on her person. _

It appears that Linparkmain Pond is about twenty
yards in length, and nearly the same in breadth, and not
more than a yard deep. A little way from the edge of
this pond the unfortunate young woman was found, lyinz
on her face in the water, and one of her hands clutched
fast and full of mud. She had all her clothes on, with the
exception of her cap. The handkerchief, which was
round her neck, was not in its proper place over her
bosam, but turned up behind.

The last time she was seen alive was on Friday night,
between nine and ten o'clock, when her mistress,
Mrs. Jones, ordered her to put some loaves of bread into
the oven, after which she was at liberty to go to bed. She
was then dressed in her working-clothes, but had no
stockings on. She gave no intimation to her mistress that
she had any thought of goirg out. She ate her supper as
usual, and there was nothing observed in her manner in
the least calculated to awaken any suspicion.
It seems that of late the deceased appeared a little de-
pressed in spirits, and at times she looked as if brooding
over unpleasant and melancholy thoughts; but there was
nothing in her demeanour calculated to excite alarm, as
she was generally a hearty girl, and in excellent health.

EXTRAORDINARY SWIMMING BET.—There is a man ait
Vienna who offers to stake from £5OO to £lOOO, against
all comers, that he will swim from Dover to Calais : the
money to be deposited beforehand with a London banker.
He has already swam, accordinc to his own account, from
Vienna to Presburz, down the Danube.

VISITORS FROM CHINA.—The listV
of foreign visitors to
this country, who have been attracted hither by the great
exhibition, has just received a very novel addition by the
arrival of a Chinese family of rank, per the Lady Peel, di-
rest from Canton, These interesting personages consist
of a Chinese gentleman of the name of Chung-attai, and
his wife Ahap, accompanied by her two sisters, and at-
tended by a female domestic. The three ladies possess
the genuine small feet constituting the reculiar charac-
teristic of the higher class of females in the celestial em-
pire. These denizens of the flowery land had hoped to
have reached England in time to be present at the opening
of the great exhibition, but their arrival has been much
retarded by contrary winds. Her Majesty has been gra-
ciously pleased to convey her royal commands to the la-
dies, through Colonel Phipps, that they will take an early
opportunity of proceeding to Osborne, for the purpose of
being introduced to her Majesty, and they leave Lbndon
for that purpose in a day or two.—Morning Chronicle.
DEATH FROM A FALL.—A melancholy occurrence, re-
sulting from the temporary ebullition of passion, took
place in the neighbourhood of King-street, on Sunday
evening last. An old man and his wife, Abraham and
Mary Cooper, both of them between 60 and 70 years of
age, who resided in Back Byrom-street, were heard quar-
relling together in the afternoon, a little after four o'clock.
What the cause of the altercation was is not distinctly
ascertained. Something, however, appears to have been
said which provoked the old man, and he either struck or
pushed his wife down the front steps (by which they were
both standing) into the street. The fall was a very
severe one, and it was said that the old woman struck
against a wall which was opposite to the steps. She was
picked up by some of the neighbours in a state of insen-
sibility. A medical man was sent for, but he announced
her case to be hopeless, and she only lingered until half-
past eleven o'clock. Information was conveyed to the
police, and the husband was taken into custody, to await
the result of the inquest, which is appointed to take place
to-day. The deceased and her husband had both been
seen seen on good terms with each other early in the
afternoon of Sunday.—Blackburn Standard.
CHURCH SLEEPERS REBUKED.—On Sundaynight week,
the lecturer at St. Peter-at-Arches Church, Leicester,.
(the Rev. Mr. Thorold,) stopped in the middle of his ser-
mon and addressed his congregation pretty nearly as fol-
lows :—" Brethren, I see many of the congregation asleep,
and I must request parties sitting near to them to wake
them, or I shall have to send some one to them. To find
people asleep is most disheartening to me, but, above all,
it is most insulting to the Almighty. I can make an
excuse for parties accidentally falling asleep from the heat
of the day ; that is a misfortune which may happen to any
one ; but the parties who regularly go to sleep in the
house of God, would be very much better at home. This
is an unpleasant thing to say, but I must discharge my
duty, and it is my duty to give this warning." In the
further course of his sermon, Mr. Thorold reproved the
slovenly or irreverent practice of sitting or lounging when
the congregation ought to be kneeling, and the practice of
staring i ound when they ought to be praying. The rev,
lecturer begged of his congregation to join audibly in the
responses, and not to leave the service to a kind of duet
between him and the clerk. It is almost useless to add
that, after the sleepers were " waked up," not a wink of
sleep did any of them get during the remainder of the
sermon.—Leicester Chronicle,