The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-28 00:00:00

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THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1852.

THE LATE FRAUDS ON EMIGRANTS.

On Friday, Tripe and Montague, who were on Tuesday
last convicted of frauds upon emigrants, were brought up
at the Central Criminal Court for judgment. The Re-
corder, in passing sentence, stated he should be guided in
doing so, not so much by a desire to punish them as by a

wish to hold out an example to others who might be dis-
posed to engage in similar frauds. Although, perhaps,
the full facts had not been arrived at, there was quite
sufficient evidence to satisfy the Court that the prisoners

were the guilty parties. Having no capital themselves,
they had induced other parties to meet at their offices,
and agitate the subject of forming a company, upon the
strength of which they had used their names, and repre-
sented the company as already formed and provisionally
registered, by which means they were enabled to perpe-
trate the cruel and heartless fraud of which they had been
found guilty. The sentence of the Court was, that the
prisoners be each transported beyond the seas for the pe-
riod of seven years. The prisoners were then removed.

MUTINY IN THE 30TH AND 41sT REGI-
MENTS, AND MILITARY EXECUTION.

CORFU, SEPTEMBER 16.—The 30th Regiment, sta-
tioned at Cephalonia, and the 41st, stationed at Zante,
have been infected by the gold fever, and a sort of plot
has been formed among the men to strike their officers
with the express purpose of being transported for a term
of years, and thus obtaining their discharge from the
service and a free passage to Australia. No less than eight
of these cases occurred in one month, and the men were
brought here to be tried by garrison court-martial. All
the men were found guilty, and of course according to
military law condemned to death. Seven, however, were
let off with transportation, but the general in command,
General Conyers, thinking that an example must be made
in order to check a crime, which would be encouraged
rather than checked if all were transported, ordered the
sentence of death to be executed in one case. It was
passed on Friday, and on Monday morning the prisoner
was shot in the fort of Vido. A company from each
regiment attended. The man marched on to the ground,
following his coffin, and the chaplain reading the burial
service. Twelve men were told off from the 49th regi-
ment, and they had to select a musket each from a stack
of twelve, ten of which only were loaded w;th ball, so
that no man could be certain if he were the executioner.
Tire sentence of the court-martial was read over to the

He then knel

t down only eight paces in front of his

twelve comrades, threw open his jacket ; the words,
, present, fire," were given, and he fell dead,
with one ball through his head and others in the chest.
Much interest had been exerted for him, as, although
only a private, his father is a captain in the army, and
many petitions were sent to the general, but he returned
them all with a simple notation, " mistaken humanity."

" ready

There seems to be a feeling here that the general should
have waited for an approval of the sentence by the autho-

rities at home

THE LANCASHIRE INIAGISTRACY..—From a list of the
county magistrates just published, we find that 479 gentle-
men have qualified as justices of the peace for this county,
viz., 32 in the hundred of Acnounderness, 62 in Lonsdale,
23 in Blackburn, 21 in Leyland, 121 in West Derby, and
160 in Salford. The 11::.t comprises the names of three
earls, one eldest son of an earl, two younger sons of an
earl, one baron, one younger son of a baron, one right
honourable, nine baronets, six knights, twenty-three
members of parliament, and tvrenty-eight clergymen.—
Preston Chronicle.

FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The accounts of the progress making by the President
of the Republic through the southern departments of
France, as published by the Moniteur, continue to de-
scribe his reception everywhere as most enthusiastic, and

He ar-
ntiv left for

the cries of " Vive l'Euipereur !" as universal
rived at Grenoble on the 21st, and subsequr
Valence. During his stay at Lyons, he was present at a

iven at the

theasie

amations,
a grand f

and was saluted w

and cries of " Vivo I'Empereur
to at that city on Monday, when an eques-

statue of t

e Emperor was inaugurated.
Ibtee Nationale is said to have rec

private and unofficial warni

ring dared to publish an articie, instituting
ison between Napoleon and Wellington, and

a corn

speaking in terms of high admiration of the English hero.
This article is attributed by report to the pen of M.
Guizot, and the spirit of the comparison between
Napoleon and Wellington is sufficiently shown by the
following sentences :—The emperor fell, the scaffolding
crumbled away, and he who raised it with heroic temerity
ouly survived his irreparable shipwreck for a few years in
exile. His fortunate rival, after a day by which the face
of Europe was changed, saw open before him another
career, which procured for him a new glory between
peace and liberty, and which has only just finished in the
midst of the unanimous regret and the gratitude of a great
country."

Moniteur of Thursday,
'irnpire. It concludes in a
intention of the Prince
for the establish-

There is a long article in the

on the manifestations for the
way which leaves no doubt of the
President to make an appeal to the people
ment of the Imperial regime.

" The long suite of apartments which
g i:ecorated or repaired at the Hotel de Ville will
be inausurated on the 10th or 20th of December by a
grand fete, which will be given to the Prince President."
Letters from Strasburg state that the waters caused by
the inundation of the Rhine were hourly subsiding.

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