The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-10 00:00:00

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COBOURG.—THURINGEN, JULY 30.—Dori
of the 29th a great part of the little town of I
the principality of Cobourg, was reduced to ashes ; 27
dwelling-houses and 20 barns, sheds, &c., were destroyed.
—Hatnburgh Borsenhalle, August 2.
ITALY.—The Roman authorities are actively em-
ployed in unravelling a military conspiracy at Velletri.
It is affirmed that the recent arrest of fourteen officers and
non-commissioned officers of a Papal battalion stationed
at Ferrara, by order of the Austrian general, has reference
to the discovery of ramifications of the same plot, which
does not fail to keep the government very uneasy.
SPAIN.—The ministerial journal El Orden has ceased
to appear ; for the future, says the Heraldo, the govern-
ment does not intend to have any other organ than the
Gazette. Las Novedades. El Catolico, and El Offservado,
which suspended publication after the last decree on the
press, have not yet been able to find responsible editors
according to the conditions of that decree.
BRAZIL.—Her Majesty's corvette Daphne, 13, C,iptain
Fanshaw, arrived at Spithead at six o'clock on Friday
morning, from the Pacific and the Brazils. She sailed
from Rio on the 18th of June, having a freight of about
half-a-million of dollars on merchants' account. The
yellow fever, which had prevailed, was abating.

the night
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WESTERN AUSTRALIA.—From Perth, Western Aus-
tralia, the dates are to the 3d March. The Will Watch
had arrived with a number of the distressed needlewomen
sent out from London, and they had all found situations

immediately

NEW Z EAL AND.-- New Zealand papers of the 3d of April
hare come to hand ; from the New Zealand Spectator of
April 3 we learn that the settlers at Lyttleton are highly
indignant at the appointment of Mr. Fox, as agent of the
New Zealand Association, in the place of Mr. Godley.
The Midlothian sailed April 3, for England, with a full
cargo of New Zealand produce, the declared value at the
Custom House being £21,290 2s. 91. The most valuable
item—which indeed forms the bulk of her cargo—is wool,
of which there are 1535 bales, weighing 419,716 lb.

A DEPUTATION OF JEWS FROM JERUSALEM 15 about to
present to the Emperor of Austria an eiezant vase, made
from stones taken from the bottom of the Dead Sea.

PROFESSOR WESTPHAL, of Gottingen, discovered a
cornet on the night of the 24th ult. Its position on the
night of the 25th was 13 deg. 55 min. 20 sec. Gottingen
meridian.

The war steamer Harpy (supposed to have been lost)
reached Fayal prior to the departure of the Madrid from
Lisbon on the 29th ult., and was performing quarantine.
The Archer, which had been sent in search of her, had
not arrived there. The Harpy arrived on the 13th July.
A FRENcit MURDERER.—On the 14th instant will come
on the trial of Pradeaux, the wretch who assassinated four
wives in succession. The last of these murders, which has
led to the detection of the rest, was only discovered the
other day by a flower girl, whom he wanted to replace his

JEFFREY 'HART BENT, for sixteen years Chief Justice
of Demerara, died on the 25th Df June, aged 72 years.
He was a gentleman highly esteemed in public and private
life. The Demerara Royal Gazette announces the eleva-
tion to the vacant post of the chief justiceship of the
colony of Mr. Arrindell, Mr. Craig succeeding to the
attorney-generalship, and Mr. Smith being appointed
solicitor-general.

THE LATE MARSHAL EXCELMANS.—The Prince Pre-
sident had munificently rewarded the person in whose
house Marshal Excelmans was received at the time of his
fatal accident. The prince has since visited the house,
and examined minutely the chamber where the illustrious
marshal breathed his last. On leaving, the President ex-
presssed his warmest thanks to the persons of the Louse,
and left them further proof of his generosity. He has
also given different sums to other persons who assisted
the marshal.

THE ARCHBISHOP OF FRIBURG, in the Grand Duchy
of Baden, has condemned 140 priests to retire to convents
for a given time, as a punishment for having refused to
execute certain orders given by him on the occasion of
the death of the Grand Duke Leopold. This condemna-
tion was, it appears, published in violation of some legal
formalities, and the Government intends to proceed
against the Archbishop in consequence. On the other
hand, most of the priests refuse to obey the prelate's
orders, and it is not known what he will do against them.

A REBELLIOUS PORTUGUESE COURTIER.—A Lisbon
correspondent, who dates 22d ultimo, tells the following
court story :—" The Marquis of Vallada, a young noble-
man of large fortune, whose ruling passion seems to be
the love of display, has lately begun to indulge in the
distinction of having a chasseur in green and silver, with a
cocked hat and black plume, after the manner of ambas-
sadorial retinues, to follow his carriage on state occasions.
On Saturday last, when the Queen went to lay the first
stone of the monument about to he erected to her father,
her Majesty noticing, for the first time, the chasseur in
attendance upon the marquis, sent the Duke of Terceira
to that nobleman to express her displeasure at his as-
sumption of what seemed to imply a desire to appear dis-
tinguished above his compeers, and to signify her com-
mand, conveyed in the form of a wish, that he should
discontinue it. The marquis, who is a very bantam cock
for spirit, politely requested the duke to present his hum-
ble duty to her Majesty, and to beg that she would not
trouble herself with his domestic arrangements, adding
that the times of despotism had gone by, and that he
would have one, two, or a dozen chasseurs if he pleased,
without asking her permission to do so. Having said
this he immediately withdrew ; and, on arriving home, at
once wrote a letter to the Queen, resigning his office in
the royal household, and thereby putting it out of her
power to dismiss him, as he had every reason to expect
she would do."

HORRIBLE MURDER IN SPAIN.—A great deal of ex-
citement prevails at present in the province of Andalusia,
in Spain, in consequence of the discovery of a great crime.
A goat-keeper, named Tradilla, lived with his wife mad
ten children in a lonely part of the mountains of Alcala.
He conceived a violent passion for one of his daughters,
named Maria Josefa, aged 13. She rejected his advances
with horror, and frequent quarrels took place between
them. At length, to get out of the reach of her father,
the poor girl determined to marry. She accordingly, some
time ago, got a young farm labourer, named Antonio de
los Rios, to whom she had some time been attached, to
demand her hand of her father. This he did, and Tra-
dilla received him with great apparent courtesy, made him
stop all day, and at night provided him a sleeping-place in
a barn. When the visiter and all the family were plunged
in sleep, Tradilla rose, slipped to the barn, and bound
the legs and arms of Antonio. He then cut his throat
with a large razor. He afterwards knocked up his eldest
son, named Pedro, and told him to go to a deep ravine
at some distance, and dig a hole. Pedro shortly after
arrived with his spade and pickaxe at the place indicated,
and there found his father with the dead body of Antonio.
The young man started with horror, but Tradilla rudely
told him to dig a grave for the victim. He at first refused,
but intimidated by the dreadful threats of his father, he
set to work. As, however, he did not get on fast enough,
Tradilla knocked up his wife and all his children, and made
them help him. Maria was amongst them. On seeing
the body of her lover she fainted, but her father beat her
until she recovered, and then took a sort of malignant
pleasure in compelling her to work at the grave. From
this time Maria could not bear the sight of her father, and
he frequently shamefully ill-treated her. One day, a
fortnight back, he tied her to a tree and beat her most
severely. Her cries attracted her mother, brothers, and
some peasants to the spot. On seeing them Tradilla took
to flight. He was pursued, but when the pursuers were
about to seize him he resisted furiously, and struck right
and left with a large stick. In so doing he broke the arm
of one of his little children. Eventually he escaped, and
secreted himself among the rocks. His son Pedro in-
formed the local authorities of the crimes committed by
his father. They sent a strong detachment of the civic
guard to search the mountains, and after a while Tradilla
was secured and safely lodged in the gaol of Medina-Si-
donia. He readily confessed his guilt, and is to be brought
to trial in the course of the month. The body of his
victim was dug up, and after being recognised was interred
in the cemetery.

DEATH OF COUNT D'ORSAV.

Alfred, Comte D'Orsay, died at Paris on Tuesday last,
and perhaps no man of ruined fortunes and blighted hopes
ever left so large a number of admiring and attached
friends to mourn his loss. Ha was born towards the
commencement of 1798. His father was General Comte
D'Orsay, a distinguished soldier of the empire. His
only sister, the Duchess de Gram rnont, married, when
very young, into one of the historic French families, and,
we need hardly add, is one of the most beautiful and ac-
complished women in France. The count entered the
army when young. The reader of Lady Blessington's
" Idler in Italy," will look in vain for any notice of her
first casual recontre with the fascinating Lieutenant
D'Orsay at Valence, though she does remark that
singular coincidence, " Napoleon, when lieutenant, was
quartered in this town." The regimental mess happened
to be established in the hotel where Lord Blessington
alighted on his way to Italy, down the Rhone ; and a
chance acquaintanceship having ripened into intimacy, at
his lordship's invitation the count joined them in their
trips southwards. The regiment was just then under
orders to march with the Due d'Augouleme across the
Pyrenees, and the young French officer had to expect the
sarcasms of the uninitiated as to his motives for quitting
the service at that particular juncture. He braved the
imputation of cowardice—but he could well afford it.
The arrival of this strangely-constituted travelling party
at Genoa is thus chronicled by Byron :—" Milord Bles-
sington and epouse, travelling with a very handsome com-
panion in the shape of a French count, who has all the
air of a Cupidon dechaine, and one of the few ideal speci-
mens I have seen of a Frenchman, before the revolution."
A marriage was made up, unaer Lady Blessington's
auspices, between him and the daughter of her lord, It
was an walaappy and. .10.4 t Anfortunatv Aaiun; aud no

IRELAND

PRIESTS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.—The late D. F.
Gabbett, Esq., of the county of Limerick, has bequeathed
the sum of £3OO to this hard-working and extensively

useful society

A WOMAN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.-011 Tuesday
afternoon, a poor woman named Gerard, whlie standing
on the road at Clontarf, was struck by lightning in the
head, and seriously injured. She was at once removed to
Jervis-street Hospital, where her condition is considered
precarious.—Dublin Herald.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A PRISONER CHARGED WITH

Ma. EASTWOOD.—On Monday morning a
man named Finegan, in custody for being concerned in
the outrage upon Mr. Eastwood, attempted to commit
suicide in Dundalk gaol by hanging himself with his braces
in the Rater-closet. Being observed, he was taken down
almost dead, but was revived.

THE REVENUE OF IRELAND.—The net produce of the
revenue of Ireland paid into the Exchequer in the year
ended the sth January last, was £4,000,681 17s. 41d.:
Customs, £1,854,268 ss. 7d. ; excise, £1,318,911 6s. sd. ;
stamps, £451,534 ss. 11d.; Post-office, £5,000; small
branches of the Hereditary Revenue, £300; and miscel-
laneous, including repayment of advances, £340,667
193. sd.

ELECTION OF A SUCCESSOR TO ARCHBISHOP CULLEN.
—On Wednesday the election of a successor to Dr. Cullen,
in the titular Primacy of Armag!i, took place in the Roman
Catholic Cathedral of that city. The scrutiny of the votes
resulted in the following numbers :—" Dignissimus—the
Rev. Dr. Dixon, 21 ; Digizior—The Very Rev. Dr. Kier-
nan, 19 ; Dignus—The Right Rev. Dr. I\l`Nally, Bishop
of Clogher, 7."

GHOSTLY VOTERS.—The Kilkenny Moderator says :
" It has been ascertained by the poll-books used at the
county election that a considerable number of persons
known to have emigrated to America more than a year
since were actually brought up by the priests, and are
entered as voting on the poll-hooks ; but the number of
ghosts who recorded their suffrages for Messrs. Greene
and Shee was positively alarming."
EXECUTIONS.—On Saturday, the Ribb onrnan Berry
was executed at Armagh, for the attempt to assassinate
Mr. Chambre, which was so near proving fatal to the in-
tended victim.—On Wednesday, William Brophy was ex-
ecuted in front of Kilkenny gaol for murder. llis wife,
who was sentenced with him. has had her life spared. In
the 'press room, previous to being led out to the drop,
Brophy declared to all preseot, that he had neither hand,
act, nor part in the murder for which he was about to
suffer ; but he confessed that he falsely aceused his
sister-in-law of having perpetrated the foul crime.

MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.—Ardmore, Tuesday,
August 3, 1852.—A sad gloom has been cast over all
classes here by the occurrence of yesterday evening. As
Archdeacon Power (of Lismore) was nearing this place,
a sudden squall upset his yawl, plunging him, his two
sons, nephew, a boy, and fisherman who accompanied
him, into the angry sea. The Archdeacon and the man
were saved, after having been nearly two hours in the
water, no person having witnessed the accident ; but,
alas, the poor children were carried out to sea, clinging
to the keel of the boat. Their fate is, I fear, too certain.
One of the dear little boys was not more than ten years
of age—one of about twelve ; and the nephew about
sixteen—all most promising, and generally beloved for
their kind and amiable manners.—Cork Constitution.

THE 31ST REGIMENT.—Yielding to the outcry raised by
the organs of the Roman Catholic clergy, and in deference
to the expressed will of the sovereign people (of Garry-
owen), the authorities have deemed it advisable to remove
the 31st Regiment from Limerick to Fermoy The
Limerick Chronicle says :—" The conduct of the 31st in
this garrison has been soldierlike and exemplary, until the
fatal affray at Sixmile-bridge with a small detachment of
the regiment excited a feeling of animosity against all the
men. It is a remarkable fact that of the escort then as-
sailed upon a most arduous and responsible duty, only two
were Protestants, the remainder being all Roman Catho-
lics, and most of them `Tipperary boys.' Is not this
one elementary feature quite sufficient to efface the sup-
posed crimson hue of Orangism falsely applied to the 31st ?
Limerick cannot afford to lose a large garrison. The 31st
are to be replaced by a depot, which will withdraw an ex-
penditure of at least £250 a-week in this garrison,

A YOUNG LADY BURNED TO DEATII.—We (Newry
Telegraph) deeply regret to have to record the melan-
choly death, by fire, of Miss Fanny Wilson, of this town,
which took place on Monday morning, at the residence of
Dr. Erskine. On Sunday evening Miss Wilson went
down to the kitchen to make arrangements for tea, and it
is supposed that while standing with her hack to the grate
her dress had come in contact with the fire. Before she
was aware of the fact the blaze had reached as high as her
head. She screamed, and Dr. Erskine ran down to her
assistance. He seized a large shawl and endeavoured
with it to extinguish the blaze, but finding his efforts
fruitless, and his own dress on fire, he had recourse to
water, an abundant supply of which was at hand, and
in about a minute succeeded in getting the flames
subdued, but not until nearly every portion of the
young lady's dress was consumed, and her person dread-
fully burnt. Every means were used which medical skill
could devise to alleviate her sufferings ; but she lingered
in great agony until next morning, when she expired.
ANOTHER CUTTING OF THE ELECTRIC CABLE.-011
last Friday night a schooner belonging to Larne, and
bound to that port, anchored to the south of the Cope-
lands, to wait the tide, which here sets in with a very
strong current. On Saturday morning, while hauling in
his kedge anchor, the commander found he had caught
something heavy, which, on being brought on deck, ap-
peared to him to be a four-inch hempen hawser. His
crew bawled both ways, but not coming to an end, they
cut the rope. and pulled away seaward until they had on
board about 4011 yards of what they considered a fine new
rope cable. They then cut it a second time, keeping the
bight on board ; and setting to work afresh, they hauled
in 72 yards more, still without arriving at the end of the
rope. The captain cut through a third time, and with his
supposed hempen prize bore away for Larne, where he
arrived in the course of Saturday. He communicated to
the owner what he considered his good fortune ; but, on
that gentleman examining the prize, to his utter astonish-
ment and regret he discovered that his captain had pos-
sessed himself of a large portion of the hempen cable
which encased the electric wire of the Irish Telegraph
Company ! —Northern Whig.
FEARFUL OUTRAGES.—The Sentinel gives the follow-
ing list of outrages perpetrated on electors in Carlow
county :—" On Thursday last one of the most murderous
attacks it was our painful duty ever to record after a con-
tested election was made on a respectable Roman
Catholic, the son of a freeholder of this county, near
Lisnevagh, the residence of Captain M'Clintock:Bunbury.
At an early hour Mr. John Regan, an extensive road
contractor, proceeded with two men to raise some gravel
from a pit in the neighbourhood. On his arrival at the
pit about twenty men pounced on their victim, whom
they designated a Bruenite.' He was knocked down,
brutally maltreated with stones and shovels, and finally
left in a state of insensibility. Mr. Regan sustained a
compound fracture of the arm, had eleven wounds on the
head, one of which, it is feared, is accompanied by frac-
ture, as a splinter from the skull was taken off, and that
his body from head to foot was covered with bruises, the
effects of kicks and blows while lying on the ground.
Mr. Regan's father voted for Colonel Bruen and Captain
Bunbury, and the son is thus punished because his father
exercised the privilege of an elector in a county governed
by British law. Five of the parties concerned in this
inhuman outaage are arrested and committed to the
county gaol for trial at the assizes. On Sunday last, the
daughter of Mr. Andrew Kavanagh, of Orchard, was
assaulted in the chapel of Clonegal, and her cloak and
bonnet torn, because her father, a tenant of Col. Bruen,
voted for his landlord at the late election. A few nights
since, two gates belonging to Mr. Thomas Corrigan, of
Cappagli, near Ballon, were stolen, and eighteen head of
cattle and four horses, his own property, turned into his
wheat and oat fields, which were all but destroyed.
This injury was inflicted on him for voting for Colonel
Bruen and Captain Banbury. At a late market, held at
Athy, Mr. John Carpenter, of Straw Hall, near this town,
was violently assaulted, and his car broken to pieces, for
giving a split' vote to Colonel Bruen at the late election.
Mr. Carpenter, who is an aged man, would have been
probably murdered, such was the fury of the mob, but
for his admission into a house, from which he ultimately
escaped over a wall from his merciless assailants. Mr.
John Curran, of Black Castle, and other gentlemen, were
also violently es,aulted in Athy, and they owed
their safety to the resolute manner in which they defended
themselves. Mr. Curran voted for Colonel Bruen and
Captain Bunbury. Such is the manner in which respect.
able Roman Catholics are treated by the brawling and
unprincipled 4dvocates of civil and rcligioua liberty.""