The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-19 00:00:00

ATROQOt IkIURDE R.

ifircr TYGIiAM, Wednesday.

A:nost deliberate :nd cold-blooded murder.. Wa e OM"
Tilittfci this morning n. the nei..thbourhoo_d, of tieritendl
Birro'ngham, by a pung man twenty-four years of age,
namel:Franeis PrCsia Shoimaker, his. vietini being .4
respedable servait'Orl, of the. same -age, -to whom he
liatl • the last tires months being paying his addresses.
It Tests
02a;:- he sent for
,the poor under the
lann..Zer at a neighbouring hOuse, and
withir a few milttes niter 3:.'fr arrival he-had cut her
throatfront ear .z,o fieatlY sertiN: the head from
the hdp.: After perpettating the Grime ibt, murderer
rusli6fronttle scene of death and attempted to map,
but w,s speedily cardured
_AO secured. The priforter
admited -that it was jealetisk that proMptet him td
conatr.t"the— act.' Great ercitem Off e.!e vaild in the
Itunidiate neighbourhood of the dreadful trai-,Aeciy,

for Lamorisiere's army is going on
. Bondi& cY feom £2B to £32 are
paid ,ut of St. Peter's -pence." The fttttrits are sent
eff toAncena,, by way of Austria.
HI, steam frigate Forte was advertised on Saturday
to tak a mail to the Cape of Good Hope, but she has
been cdered into dock, te:rg found leaky at her stern-
post, vhich will, .coaSequently de y' her tome days.
She tees SirGeorge'Grey, the Goveiii(V.

ni7. FIGHT ANT) 'LONDON PAttl%tEN.--11111* mete

. betren .00 and 300_ cabmen einpleyed for conveying
pasOr;ers from the West End ' to Lendon Bridge
•Statio, on ' Tuesday morning; ' between ithree and four
. o'cloa, and,. many of them obtained 3s. 'fat each.
paaseger ; :a-otite Of thcm having sii ili their vehicles.
It 3 stated in a letter frobi ,l4luntsh thif.the inisriage'
of Croat Trani, younger brother of the King of the Two
Siailieovith the •Prineess Matilda; fourthdatighter of
the Bike iMaiimilian ,Rf Bavaria and sister of the
Emprst of Atistri4, has been OffittairY sanctioned by the
• King if Naples • , '
.., • , -
,#. . .
•• Mr.l3entinck intends to more that it be ad i6trtio-
tion e the. committee on the RepresentatiOn of the.
-Peopl, Bill not to protted further with the bill tilt
provissiLhas been made for giving to the countiee in
nglaid• that share in the representation to which they
may. :5 shown to be entitled by population and 413 y:
propety. - .
SizotTLAri, tr TFtit.—Mr. Whiteman, of the Lower •
Power,. kaa in his garden a small piece of iron.pipe,
nearli a foet in' length, and in this singular place *pair
of rolins have built a nest,,,,iii Which a female bird . has
deposted five eggs. Mr. Whitened': lint actually carried
the ripe or tubing abed with Lim', Edith' the bird and .
nest inside it... We have-seen the little cfcature flying
a otwuroom, and then returning very quietly to its nest; '
a paiently undisturbed .by the number of. persons to
1461 i it his been show-11,F Sf, F.,,zl.E.rpress.
A FIELD tent Eesb L'isst Tanitias4-7-The Marseilles
j o'urnalsr.epresent that rats- &tie lately increased' so much
in that tity, iz spite of the attempts id: gettley them' by
ineans•of trap*:poison,. &c., as to have become a e4iii6l4s
'nuisance infesting the streets at night, and even invad-
ing kittlens and larders in the day•-time. The journals •
say thatcats, apparently from fear, do not attack them ;
aid 00f -recommend the employment of • English ter-
_riers—dle of these dogs having completely exterminated
or driven away a horde which had taken up its residence
in %SA of the principal hotels. . .•. - : .
Citieettairt or Snu.v.tt.A.—Preat eicitentetit *as pro.;
clued at Vervier (Belgitini), a . reW, days' since; by the
appearance of a young lady, hindserrrely dresieckWalking
on. tic roof of a house. She was soon kookirisedi tiS an
inmate of the building; ill with fever, arid who id i Ai 0?
delirium had dressed herself, and attained that danger-
oui position. All endeavours to persuade her to come
down `by the way she had ascended proving truffles* two
slaters were sent to bring her down, but before they
reached :het Ahe Jumped riff. ' Strange to say, she was but.
little Wilted by, the, fall, as I:ter crinoline had swelled - -
P-
out and diminiabecl the velocity of her, descent.. .
.I'lm KING or
_PaiTssia.—No important change has
taken place iti the c-acififoli'of the raiiiiiii6e Inst week.
His Majesty has, however, corn§letely, recovered from
the effects, of the- cold. he had laboured. under._ QV. 99•0'd
Friday the-King-received the sacrament froththetii:iit f
of Dr. Stietlalage, thief of the.Oensistorial!Coupcil,4ho
visited his Majesty several' times during Passion Week;
and, after much converation on the topic of the com-
munion, the 'King expressed an earnest wish that the
Sacrament should be administered to him. •• -

Tits POPE'S Titookis.-7Last week Gen. Lamoriciere
reviewed
.t`o Ott lions of Swiss troopi and two bat-
talions of foreign 3"gers, which form the garrison of
Ancona. The commanders -Under N Lantoricike are
Generals Jialbermatten, Sitirnifli, and .411egr,inj. The
Ja.gers are to be under the, cornmaud 'two ttittrilir
&Sod's. • A`powert‘il body of Papal troops is to be eon-
centratcd near Folignn, and three of four flying corps
will maintain peace and order' in Umbria and the
Marches.

GpASG9W CATHEDRAL.—The new window presented
to Glasgow Cithedral by theThike of Hanniton, " har•
monises," shs the Glasgow. Herald, "with the, great
western window lately MN:l'hp •hythe munificence of
the .Brothers Baird; but in some implant points it is
essentially .different. In the west windoW Mink figutes
are grouped together in one panel or compartment ;
in the transept window each
,of
.the Six-panels into
which .it is divided .by •the mullions contains, only the
figure of an ancient prophet. These are Moses, Isaiah,
Jeremiah, Ez kiel, Malachi; and John the Baptist. To
our thinkti4, this window, as a work of art, is of mar=
vellous !Tient."

• .
llzmcAN AND 'sNTEBs.—The. following* description
.
of the two men-before the appearSitt fife' Thins : ---
" Heenan proceeded te. strip' to his waist. It seemed
iiiipessible tri regrain a murmur of admiratioW-4.-thq
appearance which he then presented.ln height he is
about six. feet two, with extraordinarily long arms,
deep chest, and wide and powerflil shoulders. His
---,ranee yesterday was truly formidable.
had developed the immense muscles
rind ion& frainin
till they appeared like
of • his .aring and shouiclei. . •
ln~ of skin.
IV;
:maces of . bone beneath the . thin ,
There seemed not an ounce of superfluous nesu.
ribs 01i" ke those, of ii greyhound, savtf.whern they
were. rossed by p`O in O:CeVs arid sinew;s, and as 'he ,
threw up his long sinewy arms and inflated his huge
chest with the morning air; he looked the riidgi formidable
of the tribe of gladiatorg: who have ever edteted the
arena. Every movement showed the sinews and muscles
working like lithe machinery• beneath thin fine cover-
ing and every .gesture was made with that natural grace
acid frietithii which alWayi seem to belong to the highest:
development of physical poWer.„ Sayers looked at him;
long and earnestly.. and as one who
_saw in his every
movement a dangerotiseustomer, and he too stripPcf ra
turn. The contrast between the mcn was then still more.
marked than before. Sayers is only about five feetsight;
his chest is not broad, nor are his arms powerftil,andlt is.
only in the strong muscles of the shoulders that one sees
anything to account for his tremendous powers othitting.:
Sayerp, too, looked hard as flint, but his deficiencies in
regard to his antagonist in height, weight;•and'itiength,
and above all; length of aim', made it almost a matter of
finiprise how he could hope to contest with him at aL"