17 FEBRUARY 1849, Page 8
The Paris Moniteur du Soir of Thursday announces that a
Republic was proclaimed in Rome on the 8th instant, and the Pope deposed.
Paris itself was quite quiet yesterday. The Sheridan packet-ship, from New York on the 27th January, arrived at Liverpool yesterday evening. The political news is not important. Slavery was still the subject of debates; letters from Mazatlan state that a gold field has been found North of the " placers " already described, which is far richer than any of them.