The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-03-09 00:00:00

By Mr. SNOWBALL.—The men had had advanced notes.
James Darling, also a seaman on board the vessel,
corroborated this testimony.

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Mr. SNOWBALL, in reply, contended that the truth
was on the side of the captain, and that even if he had
shot Freeman, the ringleader, he would have been justi-
fied in law, as he resisted his lawful apprehension after
committing a felony.
The Magistrates, after a short consultation, left it to
Mr. Snowball to elect for the party assaulted, whether
he would prefer a summary conviction, or that the matter
should be sent to trial.

Mr. SNOWBALL, for the convenience of all parties,
elected the first course.
The CHAIRMAN almost immediately announced the
decision of the bench. Freeman was ordered to pay £5,
or be imprisoned two months; Jack, Trayner, and Fowler,
£3, or six weeks ; and the others to pay the expenses,
or_fourteen days' confinement.

Mr. AsPINALL thenPl;l;nd to call Freeman, as a
witness, to support the charge of attempting to shoot, and
kicking one of the crew, against the captain, and one of
wounding them with cutlasses, against the second mate.
Tne Court, after a short conversation, refused to enter-
tain eithet charge, the accuser being unable to prove that
the pistol was loaded ; and, as to the kicking, the evidence
was not only contradictory, but it was certain there had
been most unjustifiable conduct on the part of the crew.
The proceedings concluded at half-past five.

Before adjourning the court Sir E. Cunt addressed Mr.
Superintendent Ride, who had so promptly attended on
board the vessel to quell the mutiny, and expressed his
dissent from certain remarks which had been made on the
conduct of the police by the advocate for the prisoners.
The hon. gentleman complimented the superintendent, and
the men under his command, on the very satisfactory
manner in which they had conducted themselves on this,
as on other occasions, and said he and his brother magis-
trates felt every confidence in the Liverpool Police force.

The two men still at the Infirmary are progressing
favourably, but one of them is not yet pronounced out of
danger.

FIRE ON SHlPBOARD.—Yesterday evening, at a little
before seven o'clock, an alarm of fire was given from on
hoard the steamer Countess of Galloway, lying in the
Trafalgar Dock. The engines from the Prince's Dock,
and those from the Cook-street. Station, under the direc-
tion of Mr. Hewitt, were promptly on the quay, prepared
to render efficient service. The West of England Com-
pany's ongine was also present, but no great exertions
were required. The fire was confined to the engine-
room, and was speedily extinguished. The damage will
not be great.

THE CHIEF CONSTABLESHIP.—Amongst the candi-
dates for the office vacated by Mr. Dowling, are several
military gentlemen. One is MI:. Holden, son-in-law to
Mr. S. Cunard. Heis at present an adjutant in the army.
Mr. Holden's regiment is the 38,h Foot, which has recently
returned from Nova Scotia. He was appointed ensign in
August, 1840, and adjutant in November, 1848. Captain
Greig, the Staff Officer in command of the Pensioners in
the Liverpool district, also offers himself. Captain Greig
was born 6th September, 1807, and entered the 24th
Regiment as Ensign in the year 1828, being then twenty
years of age. His commissions are dated, Ensign, 15'h
May.lB2B ; and Lieutenant, by purchase, 24til March, 1834.
He was again promoted Captain 3d .VVst India Regiment,
16th June, 1843, for the purpose of being appointed Staff
Officer of the Pensioners, and received that appointment
on the 19t11 of October, 1843.
SHOCKING SUICIDE AT BRISTOL.—The neighbourhood
of Avon Crescent, Hotwells, was, on Friday, the scene of
a painful excitement, arising from a report that Mr. John
M'Lean, chief engineer of the Rose, Dublin steam-packet,
had destroyed himself by blowing his brains out with a
pistol. Shortly after three o'clock, he sat down to dinner
with his family, and, while partaking of some soup, he
suddenly stopped, and laving down the spoon, said he
had had enough ; he placed his arm on the table. and
rested his head on his, hand, appearing very queruious
with the members of his family. They, however, advised
him to go up stairs and repose for a short time on the
sofa, which he did, but, at the same time, appeared very
irritable, and spoke sharply to those about him ; shortly
afterwards deceased's son-in-law went to inform him it
was almost time to go on board, when he answered the
young man very abruptly; on the latter coming down
stairs, he heard the report of fire arms, and on going into
the room the deceased was discovered on the floor quite
dead. witl4.a discharged pistol near him, the ball having
entered behind the right ear, and come nut at the top of
the head. Tile skull was frightfully shattered, and the
brains scattered in all directions. It is impossible to
assign a reason for the commission of the rash act. The
deceased was many years in the employ of the Bristol
Steam Navigation Company, by whom he was very much
esteemed.—Bristol Mirror.

ANCIENT AND VALUABLE LACE.—We W0111(1 advise our
fair readers, who are admirers of ancient and costly lace, fas
what lady is not ?) to call and inspect some beautiful specimens
of Spanish point lace at the establishment of Mr. Braithwaite,
Bold•street. The articles, comprisini ladies' canes, collars,
&c.. are of the most rare and valuable workmanship. many of
them being upwards of three hundred years old. They will
well repay the trouble of a visit.
HOLLOWAY'S PILLS A NEVER-FAILING. REMEDY FOR
COMPLAINTS OF THE STOMACH, INDIGESTION, AND SICK
HEADACHES.—This extraordinary--medicine will effect cures
after every other remedy lors•lieen tried in vain. Persons
sill:ring in any way fr general debility, sick headaches,
bile, stomach or 1 complaints, may rest assured that a
course of Bless. s will effect a radical cure, bowel er bad
their casevntly be, as it is confidently asserted that this medi-
cine :iciest) directly noon the very rnainsnrings of life, that no
disease, however severe, can resist its influence. Every one,
therefore, who is subject to any of the ahove-roentioned dis-
orders should have recourse to Holloway's Pills.
A MOONLIGHT NIGHT IS JAMAICA.—There is some-
thing exceedingly romantic in the nights of the tropics.
It is pleasant to sit on the landing place at the top of the
flight of steps in front of Bluefields House, after night has
spread her " purple wings" over the sky, or even to lie at
full length on the smooth stones; it is a hard bed, but
not a cold one, for the thick flags, exposed to the burning
sun through the day, become thoroughly heated, and re-
tain a considerable degree of warmth till morning nearly
conies again. The warmth of the flat stones is particularly
pleasant, as the cool night breezes play over the face. The
scene is favourable for meditation ; the moon, " walking
in brightness," gradually climbing up to the very centre
of the deep blue sky, sheds on the grassy sward, the
beasts, lying down here and there, the fruit trees, the
surrounding forest, and the glistening sea spread out in
front, a soft but brilliant radiance unknown to the duller
regions of the north. The babbling of the little rivulet,
winding its seaward way over the rocks and pebbles, conies
like distant music upon the ear, of which the bass is sup-
plied by the roll of the surf falling on the sea-beach at
measured intervals—a low hollow roar, protracted until it
dies away along the sinuous shore, the memorial of a
fierce but transitory sea breeze. But there are sweeter
sounds than these : the mocking bird takes his seat on the
highest twig of the orange tree at my feet, and pours forth
his rich and solemn gushes of melody, with such an ear-
nestness as if his soul were in his song. A rival from a
neighbouring tree commences a similar strain, and now
the two birds exert all their powers, each striving his ut-
most to outsing the other, until the silence of the lonely
night rings with bursts, and swells, and tender cadences
of melodious song. Here and there, over the pasture, the
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intermittent green spark of the firefly flits along, and at
the edges of the bounding woods scores of twinkling lights
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journ in Jamaica.

ADVICE TO A NEWLY-MARRIED COUPLE.—Tail's
Edinburgh Magazine contains a useful paper, entitled
" The Working Man's Way in the World," from which
we extract the following excellent letter, purporting to be
the counsel of a father to his newly-married son and
daughter :—" My dear Son and Daughter,—l cannot re-
frain from following you with the expression of my wishes
for your welfare, and some counsels which my anxiety on
your account will not suffer me to suppress. y They shall
be few and short, as the more likely to be remembered.
You are neither of you aware, so much as you will be
some years hence, that each of you is more dependent on
the other than upon all the rest of the world put together
for the daily and hourly comforts and the peace of a heart
habitually at ease; that is mainly promoted by the little
nameless amenities without which the ripplings of life will
become waves of trouble. It is therefore desirable that
each snotuu near is always in mind that your temporal
destinies are indissolubly linked together, and a little
unkindness is a great wrong in either of you. After a
few months, I trust both your minds will settle down into
that incomprehensible consciousness of oneness which,
while it is the most mysterious, is also the sweetest,
purest, and loveliest of all human affections. But the
exquisite delights of such a relation can only be preserved
by each maintaining a course insuring the utmost confi-
dence and respect of the other. A cross look, an un-
seemly word, negligent inattention to known wishes—
will scatter the complacent comfortableness as a harsh
handling destroys the bloom of a fine piece of fruit. I
wish both of you may be able to avoid everything of the
kind ; it is better to be a little painstaking to suppress
the first rising of such sort of things than to destroy in
one moment the complacency which no after-care can
ever restore. lam glad to learn that my son is joined to
a companion whose departure from home is matter of
regret to all who knew her, and most so to those who
knew her best. If 1 mistake not, her capabilities and
aptitude to create domestic comfort are far beyond a
sack-full of gold ; and I trust his good sense, as well as
his affection, will afford them fair play. On the other
hand, I beg to remind my new daughter that the husband
has a thousand elements of disturbance in his daily avo-
cations to which the wife is an utter stranger; and it will
be her privilege, arid her title to the respect of all whose
respect is worth having, to make his own fireside the most
attractive place in the universe for the calm repose of a
wearied body or excited mind. The minor comforts,
which are the most valuable because the most constantly
in requisition, will depend more upon her looks, her
manner, and the evidences of her forethought, than upon
all the other occurrences of life. A long and diversified
experience of the ways of men compels me to the ungra-
cious counsel : Put no unnecessary confidence in any roan,
and be particularly cautious in dealing with a company of
men, be their individual worth whatever it may. Reduce
to black and white whatever is of the slightest, importance
to good understanding,' and expect nothing that is not
Po explicitly detailed and insured. My best wishes and
trembling prayers go with you. Your eff.ietioll/141 Father."