The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-06 00:00:00

AND BURIAL.

HORRIBLE MURDER, MUTILATION,

The Court of Assizes of the Bas-Rhin has just tried a
married woman, named Haumesser, of Elsenheim, for
the murder of her daughter. This woman, who pos-
sessed a detestable reputation in the village from her
impiety and obscenity of her language, and from the
violence of her character, took an intense antipathy to
one of her two daughters, Jeannette, aged twenty-one
years, and frequently ill-treated her in the most
shameful way, and often threatened to murder her.
On the 2nd of December last, the poor young female,
who was at home with her mother, was heard by
the neighbours to cry loudly for help from an up-stairs
room, and the neighbours afterwards heard a noise similar
to that which would have been occasioned by beating the
head of a person against a wall. One of the neighbours sent
her son, a boy of 13, to threaten the woman, that if she did
not cease ill-treating her daughter, she would send for the
police; but the woman in a furious rage turned the boy out
of the house, and fastened the door. He, however, looked
through thekeyhole, and saw her take up a large knife and
rush on her daughter.; at the same moment he heard
the latter cry " Holy Virgin ! protect me !" and then
he heard a strange noise, which he compared to that
which would have been caused by a calf having its throat
cut. All at once the noise ceased, but the woman was
heard for some time moving to and fro in her
house, as if busily engaged in some unusual opera-
tion; and after a while she was seen to go into the
yard to wash some articles stained with blood. The
neighbours, after some hesitation, sent for her husband,
who was at work in the village ; and the woman in
answer to his inquiries as to where Jeannette was
said that she had had to correct her for some
fault, and that she had gone away, but would no
doubt Boon return. .The man was satisfied, and
observing nothing unusual in the house returned
to his work. Two days, however, passed away,
and nothing was seen of the girl. The gendarmes
were then informed by the neighbours' of what had
taken place, and they went to the woman's house
to arrest her; but .having heard bat she had been
denounced, she took to flight across-the fields. She
was, however,.parsued, and taken into custody. About
the time of her capture a most horrible discovery was
made. A dog turned up from a hole. near a wind-
mill at some dist-met from the village some fragments
o! flesh, and on the hole. being examined there were;
horrible to relate, found in it breasts, part of a trunk,
the legs, and the intestines of a young female, also
the fragments of a skull—the feet and hands had dis-
appeared, probably from having been devoured by wild
animals. The woman, hearing of this discovery, related
with revolting coolness that the remains in question
Were those of her daughter, Whom she had
.thurdered
and dismembered; and she detailed With great minute-
ness the horrible operations. Among other things she
stated that after the murder she had smashed the skull
of her daughter to extract the brain, and had burned 1
the brain in the fire. The jury declared her guilty:
and the Court condemned her to death.

(Lord Palmerston returned to town on Wednesday from
Windsor Castle, and in the evening left for Broadlauds,.
for the holidays.
The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of the
Western College, at Plymouth, took place on Wednes-
day, amidst much rejoicing. The college was estab-
lished in 1752.
CRICKET.-011 Good Friday many of the various metropolitan clubs make it the "opening day" of the
season, selecting sides and playing matches among them-
selves.
A vote of £6,000 has been passed by the Victoria
Parliament to be applied to the exploration of the
Australian Continent, and a committee has been formed
to carry out the organisation and control of a party for
that purpose.
Seventeen of the crew of the hired transport Havering,
stranded at Plymouth, were brought before the Stone-
house magistrates on a charge of insubordination and
refusal to do duty, and were sentenced to two months'
imprisonment at Exeter.

NEW ENGLISH OPERA.—This undertaking, under the I
musical direction of Dr. Peeb, is to be carried out at
Drury-lane, and not at the Princess's, as prefiously
announced. The season commences on Easter Monday,
with an English version of Helevy's opera of the
" Queen's Musketeers."
ACCELERATION OF SPEED ON THE GREAT NORTIIEN
RAILWAY.—The Great Northern Company, with the
view of accelerating the speed of their trains between
London and Scotlan, have decided to introduce a larger
and more powerful class of express engines on the line
between London and York.
SINGULAR AND FATAL ACCIDENT.—A carman, named
Belcher, in .the employ of Mr Chamberlain, contractor,
of Belvidere-road, Lambeth, had just unloaded his cart
of bricks at Mr Newton's, Falcon-wharf, Bankside, and
the tide being low, he ventured down to wash the horse
and cart. He had not proceeded many yards before the
horse led the man beyond his depth, and before assist-
ance could be rendered both man and horse were
drowned.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT CLAPRA.NI.—On Thursday
morning, between six and seven o'clock, an attempt was
made to murder Mrs Mary Gay, aged 37 years, who
resides at No. 5, Park-place, Park-road, Clapham. The
man who attempted the murder was the victim's husband.
She had been separated from him for some time, but be
called on her .on Thursday, when they quarrelled,
and he drew a razor on her. She struggled violently
and saved her life. The man ran away, but was
captured by the police.
" FLOWERING SUNTLea " IN WALES.—On Palm
Sunday, the friends of the departed strew the graves of
the deceased with the choicest flowers and evergreens of
the season, throughout the whole of the Principality.
It is a beautiful and touching ceremonial, and one which
attracts great attention from all parties in Newport 0n
Sunday the sacred festival was duly observed at the
various burial-places, though the weather was not so
favourable as could be desired for such an occasion.
MR. FREDERICK DOUGLASS REFUSED AN AMERICAN
PASSPORT.—Mr. Douglass, while in Newcastle, recently
made application, through the American Minister in
London, for a passport, to enable him to visit Paris as
an American citizen. The reply made by the Minister
was, in effect, that the Constitution of the United States
did not recognise persons of colour as citizens ; the pass-
port was, therefore, refused. Through the kindness,
however, of the French Consul at Newcastle, the
required permission has been obtained .—Newcastir Daily
Chroilicle.
• l'sr Two EMPERORS.—We read in a Trieste letter :
It is said, and from the sources from whence I hear it I
believe it is true, that at the celebrated meeting of the
rival Emperors, which led to the armistice, and subse-
quently to the preliminaries of the treaty of peace at
Villafranca, when Napoleon and Francis Joseph were
'left quasi alone for nearly three quarters of an hour, the
former, addressing the latter, said, " Your Majesty
would do well to listen to friendly and well-meant
counsels. You are surrounded by traitors. Your
Majesty believes that your fortress of Mantua is pro-
visioned fox six months ; I tell you," etriphaticall raising his finger, "it has not food for as many days Test my information, and act accordingly." And so it.
proved, and afforded another lesson also of the infinite
superiority of the French over the Austrian system of
espiwinage.

THE AFRICAN Exeerarroaa—Mrs. Livingstone, the
wife of Dr. Livingstone, our celebrated traveller, has
just arrived from the Cape, per Mr. Duncan Dunbar's
ship Vittoria. At the railway station, the name of Dr.
Livingstoue on the luggage having caught the eye of
the bystanders, she and her sable attendant were soon
surrounded by a crowd eager again to see the great
geographer. Upon being informed, however, that he
was still iu the centre of Africa, they warmheartedly
inquired respecting his health, and shook hands with hor.
Mrs. Livingstone having proceeded from the Cape on a
visit about 800 miles into the interior to her father, the
renowned missionary Moffat, returned to the Cape upon
his journeying :Apia north to see Moselekatse, where he
hoped to hear of his sou-in-law. The missionaries from
the Loudon society had already proceeded onwards to
Sekeleta and the Makololo. Mrs. Livingstone has
brought with her an interesting addition to her family,
in the person of another little daughter, born in Africa ;
and has come with the hope of proceeding with the
steamer about to be sent by Government to the Zambesi,
and of at length rejoining her heroic husband.
:Are ENIPEROR'i tai READ.—A good on da is
getting an extensive under-currency, and is believed by
some ; I do not aver that I am of the number ; never-
theleas the tale tells well, and it may, therefore, be pru-
dent not too closely to test its accuracy. It is said that
the Emperor Francis Joseph, being disquieted by the
triple recurrence of a dream, had recourse to the coun-
sels of his mother, the Archduchess Sophia, who at once
summoned to her aid a " weird-sister "in whose
mystic talent she had herself confidence. Introduced
to the august presence, the crone demanded what
visions of the night had startled the Imperial
slumbers. The Emperor informed her that he had
dreamed of three mice ; the first perfectly blind,
the second so immensely bloated and fat it could scarcely
walk, and the third weak, poor, and almost dying
from starvation. The beldame appeared alarmed, and
at first professed her inability to afford any solution ;
but on being reassured and informed that under any
circumstances she might rely not only on protection but
reward, she took heart, and much to the astouishmeut
' of her Imperial :interrogators, replied, " The blind
mouse is your Majesty ; the fat mouse your Ministers;
and the worn-out, starving, and exhausted mouse your
people." Be the tale well or ill-founded, it is suffi-
ciently analogous to the present state of the empire ; but
the worst part of it is that the blind mouse does not at
present appear to have opened his eyes.-7Weste Letter.
ANECDOTE. or A GRAND DUKE—The following strange
but authentic anecdote is related of the Grand Duke
Charles, the husband cf the Grand Duchess Stephanie
of Baden :---akfter his death, the settlement of the liabi-
lities of the old civil list brought a strange infirmity of
the late Prince to light. "At the Palace of Carlsruhe,"
says the article, " a whole series of apartments was found,
which the late Grand Duke had successively locked up,
and which nobody had entered since. It had long
been au old mania of his to lay by everything he
received, no matter what, and no matter from
whom. :No one was ever allowed to touch these
things ; the Grand Duke himself abstained from doing
so, without ever taking the slightest notice of any
application for restitution. As soon as a room was suffi-
ciently full, he would lock it up, taking out the key, and
begin the same ceremony with another. When, after
his death, these mysterious rooms were opened, they
were found to be filled with an innumerable quatAtitY. of
precious things—costumes, all kinds of traPlogY., down
to children's playthings, recollection,:: of ehildh""aand
which the prince had never nsed. Aare, a quanta j' Of .
rouleaux of silver, ',belled "Captain's pay for :
Prince C harleap and, a vast lot of 20-k:re
(74, carefully; wrapped ul4; there, erpieces
drawers
tilled with' rouleaux of gold`; then snuff-boxes of the
greatest Value, rings, and 'other jewels to the amount f
more than a 'million in al*. These treasures,had lain
dormant there for many years, and yet, a short time
before his death, the Grand Duke had often been pinched
for money, which be could not get at a lower rate than
16 per cent.:

CORRESPONDENCE.

[Pre do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions
our correspondents.)

FORTUNATE TRADERS.-A BUDGET

CURIOSITY.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TIMES.
SIR,—I find in an official document the following
entry Molasses for distillation delivered from the
Liverpool bonded warehouses, free of dial", week ending
March 31st, 186 tons 19 cwt. 2 lbs.
Is it a fact that a drawback of 3d. per gallon is beipg
allowed upon spirits distilled from molasses? If it b
so, would you class that fact under - free trade" or
" protection." J. T.
April 5th,111860.

The Overland Australian, Bombay, and Mauritius
mails arrived at Dover at 4.55 this morning, and
despatched to London by the 5.20 train.
The Right Hon. J. D. Fitzgerald, late Attorney-
General for Ireland, and now one of the Irish judges,
is on the point of being married to a sister of ViscouLt
Southwell.

The celebrated Mdlle. Titiens is at present in Pans
on her way to London, being engaged at Her Majesty a
Theatre. Mdlle. Titiens has been singing at the Ope, s
House in Barcelona, where on her closing night tho
subscribers presented her with a laurel crown in silver,
with berries in gold.
The Kerry Pest notices a circumstance iihich indi.
cates the increasing prosperity of Ireland .--" The rag.
for taking land has become so great in this neighboui.
hood that very heavy fines are being paid, in additio2
to high rente, for any large farms now to be let. We
have known £BOO to be paid in one instance by a
working farmer, and £l,OOO was afterwards offered by
another farmer."

Two BOATS LOST.—TWO boats, with fourteen men on
board, were blown from the coast of Lewis during :•
very severe gale, and no hope is entertained of thi
safety of their crews. This great calamity has completely
paralysed the flshing in the neighbourhood, as the men
are exceedingly superstitious, and weeks may elapse era
they again proceed to sea.—Greenock Adeertiso.