Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-09-25 00:00:00

IrENEZU•LAN BOND 3.

A meeting of the Bondholders was held on Wednesday, in
the London Tavern. Mr. Fowles occupied the chair, and
called attention to a rerrt presented o the bondholders
several days before, which contained an acconnt•of all that
had been done to obtain a settlement of their claims from
the Government of Venszoula. It was stated in the
report that Mr. Mocatta, who had been sent to Vene-
zuela, to endeavour to obtain a settlement of the claims,
has returned to London, and the result of his mission
showed that all the negotiations which have been going
forward in resp2ct to this debt for so long a p.riod have•
had no object in view but that of interminable delay. It
was considered neither more nor less than a mockery for
the Venez ielan G 'vernment to send commissioners
to this country expressly nuthoriseri to adjust this
debt with the committee—inves i I one of those com-
missiones with the office of Charge d'Affaitea from
the Republic to Great Britain, and then repudiate the
agreement solemnly coudicted by such commissioners.
It was then suggested thafthe bondholders should lay the
circumstances before the Seere:ary of State for Foreign
Affairs, and solicit the inte- ference of her Majesty's govern-
ment to obtain jastice f r the bondholders. Resolutions
were adopted, expressing regret that the Venezuelean
Government had repudiated its agreement, alleging that
the cAiduct of the Venezculean G ivernment, in respect to
its foreign deb', hid bees m irked by a total want of good
faith—declaring that the Venezeulean Government hal no
serious intention to dejustice, and to continue negociatiois
for the liquidation bf the debt nider the circumstances,
was a mere mockery—and resolving that Lord Clarendon
should be requested to obtain that justice fo.n the bond-
holders from the Venezuelean Government, which they
were unable to obtain for themselves. The meeting then
separated.

EXPLOSION OF A STEAM THRASHING MACHINE —Oll
day afternoon, about three o'clock, an explosion of the
b nler o! a thrashing machine took p'aca on the farm of
Mr. Joseph Drake, called llor,kheath Farm, near Per-
brook, by which sad occurrence a man named Pearce, the
driver, suet iced such serious injuries that he did not
survive a s'c md—his left leg was blows off, his bowrli
protrudei, his watch wss scitter,d in fragments, bat the
case was found, the purse in his poaket destrojed, one
sovereign and a t shil ing piece being picked up in
various parts after th explosion. Toe unhappy sufferer
was a single man, and co2sidere 1 of very religious habits.
Another man was very seriously injured In the back part
of his head, but h pea- are en'ortained of his recovery.
The explosion created immerse havoo ii its immediate
locality.—Sussex Advertiser.
THE GREATEST STEM INVENTIO,I YET.—The Boston
Rouge Gaze/ te, under the above heading, has the following :
--" Wm. S. Martin, of th s city, h s invented an engine
which can be constructed, bailer and all, for &bent 50 dols.
The machine is so simple that we might with propriety say
it is merely an escape pipe, taking up no more room. The
steam is admitted into the centre of a drum or cylinder, in
which the shaft works ; from this power is applied directly
without farther friction. The other day we saw the
model of the engine pumping water about 20 feet and
throwing it into a reservoir at the brewery. This is the
apparatus wanted for getting in a cheap manner one or two
horse power to drive small machinery. Mr. S. Mania has
made application for letters patent, and when he gets. them
we think he has a fair prosp:et ahead to re din saw..thing
m from the result of his genius.

THE: CASE OF DE SALVI, THE QUEEN'S PRISON

AS 'AS 31N.

The course that was taken by the legal advisers of this
prisoner, upon his being brought up to take his trial last
week at the Central Criminal Court, for the murder of
Robertson, in the Queen's Bench Prison, appears to have
been quite unexpected on the part of this prosecution, /tad
the case, fcon this fact, and the other peculiar circum-
stances connected with it, appears to excite a great deal of
'interest. There can b 3 no difficalty now in stating sleet
'there is ne doubt that the motive far the cosinfssion o f
the desperate act which has placei the primer in his
present position, was a feeling of reveage against the
deceased in consequence of his having repudiated a
I debt doe to De Salvi, and which, it is sail, involved
the whole of his savings d ning the periol be was
in serv:ce, and amounting to between eight and nines
hundred pounds, The prisoner must, however, still haver
considerable means, or else have very powerful friends to
assist him in his defence, ae the fees paid to Me. Elwin
James, the leading counsel, who attended in his behalf at
the last sessions, amounted altogether to one hundred and
sixty guineas, and Sergeant Perry was also paid special
fees t , a large amount ; a third counsel, Mr. M Mahon,
being also retained in his behalf. The public is aware that
the prisoner, havirg been acquitted at the August segsionse
of the Central Criminal Cour, upon that count of 'he indict-
ment which, charged him w:th felo'iously wounding the-
deceased with ineent to murder him, was convicted upon
the minor charge of wounding wide intent to do grevious
bodily harm, and thereupon sentenced to fi leenyeer's penal
servitude. At the late teossiorns upon thepris oner being ar-
rained for wilful murder, a plea of entrefois acquit war
recorded for the prisoner. This plea 'e ,ing of a very novel
character, it may be as well to state is in the folio wit g terms:
—" The said Antonio de Salvi, in his own proper person,
cometh into court here, and having heard the said indict..
ment read, saith that our lady the Queen ought not
further to prosecute against him so much of the said
indictment as charged him with having, of has malice
aforethought murdered the said Robert Honierson
Robertson because he saith that, heretofore to wit, at the
General Session of the delivery of the Q teen's gaol of
Newgate, holden for the jurisdiction of the Central Crimi •
nal Court, at justice hall in the Old Bailey, in the suburbs
of tie City of Landon, on Monday, the 17&h August, in
the Soar of our Lord one th onsand eight hundred and
fifty seven, before Sir Samuel Martin, K ,fight, one of the
barons of our said lady the Queen, of her Court of
Exchequer ; Sir Richard Buiden Crowder, Knight,
one of the justices of our said lady the Q teen of her
Court of Common Pleas, au I others, their fell )ws, justices
of our said lady the Q teen, assigned to deliver the said
gaol of Newgate of the prisoner therein being, he, the-
said Antonio cue Salvi, was, in due form of law,
indicted, arraigned, and tried upon a certain indictment.
which charged him, by the name of Antonio de Satvi,
for that he had on eighth day of July, in the year of
oar Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven,
in the county of Surrey, and within the jurisdiction of the.
said court, unlawfully and • feloniously did stab, cot, and
wound one Robert Henderson Robertson, with intent
thereby, then and there, feloniously, wilfully, and of his
malice aforethought, to kill and murder the said Robert
Henderson Robertson, ag sinst the form of the statute in
such case made and provided. And Chet he, the said
Antonio de Salvi, further that saith upon the trial of the
said indictment he was lawfelly acquitted of the said
offence therein charged as aforesaid, as by the record'
in that behalf more fully and at length appears. And
he further) saith that he is the same identical person as
the said Antonio de Salvi in the said last-mentioned
indictment named, and not another and different peson,
and that the said &ben Henderson Robertson, in the
same indictment named, is the Fame identical pellet:
as is named in the indictment to which he, the said
Antonin de Salvi, is now here pleading, and not another-
and different person, and that the cruse of the deatls
and of the said 'supposed killing and murdeting
of the said Robert Henderson Robertson, was, certain
stabs, cuts, and wounds, for the inflecting of which with
intent to murder the said Robert Henderson Robertson,
he, the said Antonio de Salvi was so indicted, tried, and
acquitted as aforesaid; and not a:ny other stabs, cuts, and-
wounds, or stab, cut, or wound whatsoever, and not any
other cause or injury whatsoever. And this he, the said
Antonio de Salvi is ready to verify. Wherefore he pear
judgment, and that by the court here he may be d'smissed
and discharged of so much of the present indictment as
charges him with having of his malice aforethought
murdered the said Robert Henderson Robertson, and as to.
the murder and felony of which he the said Antonio de
Salvi now stands indicted, he saith that he is not guilty
thereof, and of this he puts himself aeon the country "
It is understood that on the part of the Crown a demurrer
will be entered to this plea, the effect of which proceeding
is that the facts stated in the plea are admitted, but it
will-be contended that they do not make out that the .
prisoner was ever placed in jeopardy noon the charge
of wilful murder, and that, consequently, the plea of
entrefa'is acquit cannot be supported.. Tnis will be argued
on the first day of the judges taking thee'r sews at the
Central Criminal Court next session, and if the point
should be decided against the prisoner, he will at once be
tried upon the charge of murder. The general opinion in
legal circles is, that the fact of a man,having been tried
and acquitted of wounding with attempt to murder, is no
answer to the charge of murder where the wounded person
afterwards dies; and it is bilievei that the only object of
the course taken in behalf of the prisoner is, that the jury
may have, formally, brought before them the facts that the
prisoner has been already tried and convicted of an offence
arising out of the same transaction, and sentenced to a
very severe punishment, in the hope that it may operate
upon their minds, and induce them to return a verdict that
will not affect the life of the unhappy prisoner.