The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-02-12 00:00:00

JEALOUSY AND REVENGE•

ROME, JAN. 3I.—A tragical specimen of Italian jealousy
took place in the beginning of this week at tha Pope's
favourite summer residence, the once famous but now
deserted sea coast town of Porto d'Anzio. The women of
that and the neighbouring town of Nettuno are celebrated
for their beauty, but the charms of a young girl, the
daughter of a fisherman of Porto d'Anzio, have for some
time past entitled her to a pre-eminent rank even in that
land of beauties. A .young man belonging to a noble
family of Orvieto, whilst casually sojourniug in Porto
d'Anzio, became enamoured of the fisherman's daughter to
such a degree as to overlook all differences of rank, and to
wish for a union with the object of his passion ; but his
parents put a stop to his matrimonial intentions by sud-
denly summoning him back to Orvieto, and keeping him
there in exnectation of some more suitable preject. The
young girl, thus unwillingly abandoned by her lover, was
soon after courted by one of her own townsmen, quite a
youth, and sun of the municipal secretary, who pro
fessed the most ardent afreci m to her, and offered
to marry her, although totally unprepared to meet the
expanses of the matrimonial state. Whilst these unsltis
factory proprsitions were pending, the Orvietan lover sent
a letter, stating that by the decease of his parents he had
become master of his own actions, and he should lose no
time in returning to Porto D'Anzio, to fulfil his promise of
marrying the fisherman's daughter. This piece of intern.
gence was favourably received by the old ma n and the young
girl, and their expectations were realised towards the end
of last week by seeing the amorous count arrive from Rome,
laden with presents for his intended bride. The necessary
preliminaries having been summarily arranged, the
impatient lovers, were united in the holy bonds of
matrimony on Sunday morning last, the bride !being
fashionably attired in the wedding dress and bonnet brought
by her husband for the occasion. It would be superfluous
to hint at the rage and disappointment of the discarded.
suitor. He passed his morning in smoking and playing at
hardty replying to the sarcastic remarks of his
friends, who expatiated upon the beauty of the
bride, and the becerniagness of her new dress.
In the afternoon, however, he was roused by
seeing the bridegroom and bride, with her father
and little brother, cet out for Nettuno, a neigh.
bouring town about two miles distant, in a carrel_
tiro, or chaise: He immediately left the billiard table, and
went home for his double barrelled fowling piece, telling his
mother that he was going to shoot a hare, whose heart and
liver he intended to have for supper that very evening.
Thus armed, he proceeded towards Nettuno, and waited for
his victims at a turn of the road between the bacteria and
the Villa Dotia. The bridal party meanwhile, returning
gaily from a visit to Nettuno and the church of San Roco,
came in sight of the assassin, standing with his gun in the
middle of the road. The bride was seized with a panic, and
exclaimed, " Oh, Dio ! There is Pa oluccie !" But her hush and
reassurred her, and told her there was nothing to be alarmed
at, as a proof of which he stopped his horse on reaching his
rival, and said to him, "Go ,d evening, Paolo ; where are
you going ?" to which the other replied, " D you not see ?
I am going to shoat a hare," presetting at the same time
his piece at the bride. S'ae shrieked out, " Spare our lives,
Paolo !" Her husband threw his arms round ber, but Paolo
sternly replied, " It is too late !" and, firing immediately
shot the bride through the heart with a bullet, and
broke her husband's arm with three slugs, with
which the first barrel of his gun was loaded. Seeing that
his rival was not killed, Paolo fired his other barrel
without effect, and was proceeding coolly to reload, when
the count urged his horse into a gallop, and mule at once
for Porto d'Anzio. The murderer, a youth not eighteen
years old, then struck into the forest-, and made the best
of bis way to the outlaws' asylum, at Campo Morto, a
vast estate belonging to the chapter of St. Peter, and
situated in such a pestiferous region of the Campagna
that it has always been considered as a sanctuary for
murderers and robbers, who have remained, time out
of mind, unmolested within its precincts, and employed
as labourers for want of more honest workmen.
Paoluccio, having the additional advantage of being god-
son of the arch priest of Campo Morto, doubtless thought
himself quite safe in this le treat; but the government has
lately found the bandit tenants of the sanctuary are too
much on the increase, or the malaria fever not sufficiently
active in thinning their ranks, so that the police authorities
are not so scrupulous in observing the traditional immuni-
ties of the place. The consent of the Dean and
Chapter of St. Peter's having been previously obtained, a
detachment of sbirri set out from Rome yesterday morning,
to make an inroad into the crime haunted purlieus of
Campo Morto. in search of the youthful murderer, who se
ruthlessly carried to their extremes the violent passsions of
ainore and vendetta.

PEmuTtox% Colasum—Two scholarships, of the value of
£5O a year and rooms, tenable for five years, and open to
ail persons under 19 years' of sv, will be filled up on
Friday, March 20. The examination will commence on
Tuesday, March 17.
(This evening Mr. Warren, M.P., will ask the First Com-
missioner of Works whether any and what steps remain to
be taken by her Majesty's Government to complete the
monument to Lord Nolson, in Trafalgar equare ; and, if so,
when the completion may be expected.

THE EARL Or HAREWOOD.—The medical bulletins from
Harewood House have within the last few days been of a
more cheering character, and sanguine hopes are now en-
tertained that the noble Earl will recover from the severe
accident that befell him on the 24th ult. Tho bulletin on
Tuesday was as follows :—" The Earl of Harewood is
going on favourably.—Harewood House, Tuesday Morn-
ing, Feb. 10."
The claims of 76 members of the House of Commons to
be wholly excused from serving on election committees, on
account of being more than 60 years old, have been allowed.
Among them are Sir W. Clay, H. Drummond, W. J. Fox,
Sir Do Lacy Evans, Sir James Graham, Right Hon. J.
Henley, J. Masterman, G. F. Muntz, Viscount Palmerston,
Lord John Russell, and R. Spooner. Sir George Grey,
Sir a C. Lewis, and the right Hon. H. Labouchere are
also excused during the time they hold their present
offices, having stated that they cannot attend without
material inconvenience to the public service.
THE HEAD of AN Assassm—The Journal Phrenologique
contains the following description of the peculiarities pre-
sented by the head of Verger:—•' The forehead, high and
narrow, offers no salient points ; there exists no predilec-
tion for the arts. The organs of imitation and credulity
are strongly developed. The upper region, seat of
benevolence, conscientiousness, veneration, and firmness,
presents only a horizontal line depressed in the centre,
these organs being nearly absent; on the other hand, the '
organs of secretiveness and circumspection are strongly
developed, as likewise:that of destructiveness. The organ
of self-esteem is exceedingly prominent, while those of
amativeness and philoprogenitivoness do not exist."
T E'S EAsoN IN AUSTRALIA.—A'Ietter fromplelbourne,
dated Nov. 12, says .—" This has been a very remarkable
season. The weather has continued cool. and even cold,
and rain has fallen in abundance. The country is conse-
quently green. Last year the season was similar, but not
so cold. The consequence was that the grass never lost
its verdure, and vegetables were, as they are now, very
abundant. t have generally observed that a protracted
and wet spring is followed by a cool and moist summer,
and, as Mr. Tooke observed, several seasons of like cha
meter succeed each other. It is a great matter to us to
have onr hot winds moderated. I believe that efforts are
making throughout the interior to keep up the water
which falls in winter so as to prevent its flow into the
sea. This, if extensively put into practice as population
and stock increase, will tend to moderate the summer heata.
Agriculture has been greatly extended this year, and the
crops look well. Our gardensahave, however suffered by
two pests—a small insect, an aphis, I believe, which has
attacked the cabbage tribe, and a green beetle, which
covers acacias, roses, fruit trees, and other shrubs, and
strips everything bare. But these insects are large, and
can be swept away, or carried off in a barrow to a hole,
killed with boiling water, and buried. But I have known
insects in these colonies—the:grub, which attacks barley,
far instance—so numerous as to be piled up in the corner
of n field like drifted sand, and on dying to poison the air
with their stench. They seemed to march in one direc-
tion, and on meeting with the obstruction of a bank or a
close fence to smother each other.

STABBING IN SELF Dri'ENCE. —On Monday last a young
man of genteel appearance and respectably eonnected,
named John P. Waterston. was placed at the bar of the
High Court, Edinburgh, charged with culpable homicide
and assault, in so tsar as on the morning of the Ist of
January, about two o'clock, he assaulted John Christie,
al labourer, and stabbed him with a knife in the
chest, in consequence oc which he immediately expired;
as also stabbed Martin Garrett in the shoulder, to
the danger of his life ; as Also Patrick Smith in the
face and arm, and Patrick Murray in the thigh, to
the:serious injury of their persons. The panel pleaded
" Not Guilty." It appeared from the evidence that a
party of Irish labourers, bent'on frolic or mischief, were
passing down the Earthen Mound which unites the old
and new towns, and were near the National Gallery,
when they set on the prisoner, who was coming up, and
asked him for whisky to keep New Year's morning, or
money to get it. The lad was laid hold ofand thrown down,
aseithe appearance of his clothing proved, and in a state
either of alarm or probable exasperation, and in the
apprehension of being garotted and robbed, he drew out
a pretty large knife and struck Garrett, Smith,, and
Murray with it, and was making his escape, when Christie
pursue-A
him, on which Waterston turned round and
stabbed him near the heart. The unfortunate man
Christie, unknown to Waterston, who ran away, died
almost on the spot. Waterston at once told the story of
his encounter to several friends and also to one of the
police constables he passed on his way home, and the
same day he was apprehended. After the preliminary
enquiry he was liberated on bail, until he appeared at
court to take his trial. After the full disclosure of the
facts of the ease, and it being evident that the knife was
used in self defence, and after very favourable evidence as
to character had been tendered, the Solicitor General
withdrew the charges, and the jury returned a verdict of
" Not guilty," amidst the cheers of a crowded court.

LIVERPOOL, TITUPSDAY.