Litchfield enquirer., 1848-02-17
D0rrrgm Nems.
ARRIVAL OF THE SARAH SANDS.
ONE WEEK LATER FROM
 EUROPE.


 EUROPE.
 IDeeitne in BreOdsiufs-bnprOvemen in Lhe .MOHey .MGTket- COnttS.e1.t0I IatsIii-
 gence, &e. Sc.
 The steamship Sarah Sands from Liver pool 22d ut. arrived yesterday afterncob. She has undergone extensive alterations since she was here last, but is still propelled ny screw Oniy' She made the passage in l9 days, gaining three days only on the packet ship Isaac Wright Capt. Baily, which sailed from Liverpool 18th ult. and arrived yesterday morning.
 The general intelligence is not of great importance.
 Corn had slightly declined, and Cotton was steady. ..
 We also have an account of the death of the Earl of Powess He was shooting on the 7th of Jan, at his estate in Mohieone> ryShire, with his brother and two of his sons. A pheasant rose, at which ore of the sons fred, but the contents of the gun struck the Earl in the thigh, The wound WtS not thought very dangernnS, and fo some days recovery seemed to he almos: certain-bul an unfavorable turn came on, and the Earl died. somewhat suddenly. The Earl was 63 years of age, high con> servative in politics, and sat for 33 years in the House Ot Commons, as member for one of his fathers boruughs. He was a graad. son of the celebrated Lord Give, the con- querOr of India.
 Sir St. John Midway shot himself with pistol at his residence in London, on l7th ult.
 The Earl of Moray. family name Stuart, died at Darnavary Castle, Moray shire, on the 18th aged v.
 Mrs. Dawson, sister of Sir Robert Peel and wife of the Right Hon. George Dawson, died on Saturday, 18th at Bright> on.
 Switzerland.
 The Monastery of St. Bernard, wh ich has been known for centuries tp all Flu rope, by the pierv, courage, and benevo, ienc. of iIs hardy inmates, has not esca. ped he the ravag' S or plunder of the radical party in Switzerland-betwee which kingdom and the Sardinian do. minions it is situated. Although it's in- mates prolonged religious order agains, which no political accusation ha d ever been preferred, by decrre nt the ? d of Drcemb"r it was drprived of it's ecciesi- asticai patronage, and sentenced to pay a fine of i've thousa nd pounds s;erlng. IL vain the monks declared that the rx> action of such a sum would be their ruin and that it would ut an end tn the hos> p,tality which their house exercised for S0O years; the trdciat diet was ineXo> ranie, and on the 18th of December. at two o'clock in tn Ihurning, cer,a ,ain fed cal coHmiSSarieS and il body Oi armed S'diers entered the monastery, and ta- king an inventory nt all the goods and chatteis which il c n'ained, e ibli>hed military garrison within its ancient walls Aga nS this act of agrS>iun he monks have enle ed a solemn protest, bur what etf-ct that is likely to produce on the pubic ot EhoJe remains yet to b. aSrerIaincd.
 Ahmher account of this affair is given in letter oi th'- lth. which says: The l hospice of St Be- nard has been a bandon- ed by the monks; they have withdrawn to q vll'a, which they had built in Pied mont tour years back, in anticipation O the eVents which have since taken place :'"''i' e,,sgn', notwuhsl ,nGing all the Gas IuinnlrS which have been circulated on me SuhI""t was purely voluntary; the provincial Gnvernmrn; of the Vnll is dld not exEell them, and they are perfr cti. free 10 return They have not either been deSpol'd of their property, but ouly condemned tn il fne-a me sure cons mon tD them wilh all the tavorers of tn revolt agans' the Diet. The fine, be sides, imposed 1n this covenant, one of the richest in SwrZ 'rland does not a. mount to more than some d,.zeus of thou> sand francs, and ill be covered, and e> ven moe this year by he offerings oi travellers visiting the hospce, and by th' gifts of the mountain .nhabllauls ; for IS well known that the hospitality, which is to all appearance rxercrsed gratu'tou~> ly by the monks, in reality brings them in very considerable revenue.