The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-06-22 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL POLICE COURT.

YESTERDAY.
BITING A NOSE OFF.—A sailor named Patrick Regan
was charged with an assault upon the mate of a vessel.
The complainant, who appeared with his nose tied up,
stated that on Saturday afternoon he was on board his
vessel lying in the Waterloo Dock, when the prisoner
came on board in a state of intoxication. He met the
prisoner, who challenged the complainant to fight, which
the latter declined. The prisoner then pushed the com-
plainant, who got hold of him and both fell, the prisoner
falling upon the complainant, and when down bit him in
the hand, and also the end of his nose off. The police
were called, and the prisoner removed. The complain.
ant was then conveyed to the Northern Hospital, where
the end of his nose, which hung by a piece of skin only,
was set, and, according- to the evidence of the assistant
house-surgeon, was now getting better. The magistrate
fined the defendant £5, and in default of payment or.
dered him to be imprisoned for two months, with hard
labour.

CHARGE AGAINST THE CHIEF STEWARD OP THE CITY
OF MANCHESTER..—WiIIiam Macdougall, a respectable
looking man, the chief steward of the City of Manchester
steam-ship, was charged with robbing Mr. Arthur James
France, surgeon and purser of the ship, of £BO. Mr.
Owen, solicitor, appeared for the prisoner. Bates, one of
the detective police, stated that on searching, on board
the City of Manchester, he found two files in the saloon,
and under a pillow in a room to which the prisoner had
access, a skeleton key, which would fit the door of the
purser's cabin. He found that the door had not been
broken open, but the trunk from which the money was
taken had been forced open apparently by means of a steel,
and one was found in the steward's room. Witness asked
the prisoner what money he had given to his wife, and he
replied £l6 or £l7 in English and American money, part
being in American notes. On taking the prisoner to his
house his wife said, in his presence, that he had only given
her £5. The prisoner rejoined, " Yes, J put some money
in your pocket," on which she went up stairs and brought
down a purse containing about £23 iu English and Ame-
rican coin and five dollar notes.—Dr. Arthur James France
stated, that on going into his cabin on Friday morning
last, he found that his trunk had been broken into and
about £BO stolen from a cash box in it. It consisted of
similar money to that found in the prisoner's house.—ln
answer to questions by Mr. Owen, the witness stated that
he received £7 10s. per month and the prisoner £lO.
Had a brother a passenger in the ship. He had gone
to London. During the passage he bad ingress and
egress to his (witness's) cabin. Some other evidence was
tendered to show that the prisoner had little money in his
possession when at sea. James Campbell, the first engi-
neer, deposed to the prisoner having borrowed £2 from
him just before leaving this port, on the outward voyage,
and that he paid him £1 7s. 6d. back when half way across
the Atlantic on his way home. Mr. Bardswell, solicitor,
who entered the court shortly before the close of the case,
applied for a remand, but this was resisted by Mr. Owen.
The magistrate, however, granted a remand, until this
day, at the same time remarking that, as the case was so
slight, he would admit the prisoner to bail, himself in
£2OO, and two sureties in £lOO each.
WAREHOUSE ROBBERY.—John Shields was charged
with stealing a large quantity of ironmongery, chiefly
joiners' tools, belonging to Messrs. Cato and Miller ; and
Mary Surnners and Joseph Handy were charged with
receiving the goods, knowing them to be stolen. It
appeared from the evidence that Shields was an apprentice
to Messrs. Cato and Miller; but, about twelve months
ago, met with an accident amongst the machinery, by
which some of the fingers of his left hand were cut off.
The complainants paid his wages as long as he was ill,
and then he was placed in the store-room to take care of
it. The female prisoner having been taken into custody
on suspicion of having goods in her possession not lawfully
come by, she made a statement which led to the appre-
hension of the other prisoners. On examination of the
stock by Messrs Cato and Miller, it was discovered that
about £3O worth of goods had been stolen, and about £5
were recovered. The female, it appeared, had received
the goods from Shields, and disposed of them to various
persons,—part to Handy, who denied having purchased
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TO THE PROTESTANT ELECTORS OF
GREAT BRITAIN.
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FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN,— AS a quarter of a
century has elapsed since the appeal which I made
to the country in 1828, there are but few of you,
comparatively speaking, who can remember how
enthusiastically that appeal was responded to
throughout the land.
You are about to exercise your elective franchise,
and from the bottom of my heart I believe that the
future fate of England greatly depends upon the re-
sult of the next election. I therefore most earnestly
implore you to lay aside all minor differences, and
to unite, heart and soul, in securing the return to Par-
liament of such men as may be depended upon for
making the defence of those great Protestantprinciples
(which are the only true bulwarks of the civil and

religious liberty which England has enjoyed since
the Reformation) their first and leading object.

It would be worse than folly and madness to
blind ourselves to the open and daring attempts

which the Church of Rome is making to recover
her lost power within these realms, or to suppose
for an instant that she is less unscrupulous as to
the means which she employs to regain that power,
or that she would be less arbitrary and cruel in the
use of it (if gained) than she was when England, by
God's help, burst asunder her accursed yoke.
You have been told by a right hon. baronet who
has as many shades in his political opinions as there
are colours in the rainbow, that the question which
you have to decide at the approaching dissolution will
be "between Lord Derby and free trade;" but, strong
as my feelings may be as to the justice and sound
policy of allowing the foreigner to compete with our
productions, and to have the benefit of our home
market, without, at the same time, compelling
him to contribute equally with the home
producer towards the taxes of the country—this
question, I say, however important, on my
mind sinks into perfect nothingness when com-
pared with the preservation of Protestantism, and
I boldly and unhesitatingly tell you, that at the
coming elections the great question you will have to
decide, and the choice which you will have to make,
is between Lord Derby, the firm and unflinching
supporter of our Protestant constitution, or infidelity,
with Popery in her train.
You were gulled and deceived by professions of
resistance to the Papal aggression. Judge for your-
selves, how have those professions been carried out ?
How many Popish bishops have been prosecuted
and fined ? How many have ceased to blazon forth
their illegal titles since the passing of that most
contemptible of all contemptible measures, the Ec-
clesiastical Titles Bill ?

Deeds, and not empty words, are what the Pro-
testants of England demand, and I would point to
a proclamation which appears in the Gazette of
Tuesday, as affording us a pledge that we have
now at the helm a pilot who will steer the vessel of
the state by the old Protestant chart.
As you value the many blessings, civil and reli-
gious, which God has hitherto showered upon this
country, let me earnestly and fervently implore you
to make good use of the power which you will now
be called upon to exercise, by giving Lord Derby a
parliament which will enable him to uphold the
Protestant principles of our constitution ; upon the
maintenance of which England's greatness and hap-
piness entirely depend.—l have the honour to re-
main, Fellow Countrymen, with every respect, your
most obedient faithful servant,

WINCHELSEA and NOTTINGHAM.
Haverholme Priory, June 18, 1852.

CRYSTAL PALACE SEA-BATH 'I.:G.—A design is now
lying before the directors of the Crystal Palace Company
forlaying down incorrodible pipes from the sea at Brighton,
for the purpose of conveying pure sea water along the
slopes of that railway to a large reservoir at Sydenham,
where capacious plunging and swimming baths will be
established, in conection with the Crystal Palace. By a
simple extension of the plan, the water, once at the Sy-
denham reservoir, could be distributed through the prin-
cipal residences, places, hospitals, hotels, and public baths
of our great metropolis, and employed not alone for the
sanitary purposes of bathing, but also for supplying the
ornamental waters of the Crystal Palace, which, by the
acquisition of sea water, will surpass the hitherto un-
equalled jets d' eau of Versailles or the noble cascades of St.
Cloud. It has been ascertained from careful calculation
by the projector, Thomas Wright, C.E., that the metro-
polis could be supplied at the rate of 3d. per 100 gallons,
or one good bath for a penny. It is a remarkable fact
that notwithstanding our wealth, our boasted civilization,
and mechanical skill, we fall infinitely short of the Greeks
and Romans of ancient, and of most European countries
of modern times, with respect to our national baths; but
on the introduction of the marine water supply the great-
est achievement in hydraulics ever yet attempted will be
accomplished, and one well worthy the age we live in and
the justly celebrated mechanical and scientific preeminence
of the British nation.—Sun.

AN IMPERIAL DINNER TABLE.—The German journals
state that, during the residence of the Empress of Russia
at Schalangenhad, 150 fowls, six hams, four joints of roast
beef of forty pow-As each, sixty pounds of fish, and 1,000
eggs, have been ordered to be delivered every day, for the
supply of her table and that of her court and suite.

THE ORLEANS PROPERTY.—Last week several parcels
of land, part of the confiscated Orleans property, were put
up for sale at Neuilly. The first lot was put up by the
auctioneer at 400 fr. No bidders presented themselves.
The auctioneer made a speech, to assure the company that
they would have a perfectly good title to every lot that
might be bought. He gradually put the price down to
120 fr., at which sum the lot was knocked down. The
agent for the Orleans family at once protested publicly
against the sale. Upon this the lot was put up a second
time, and another person bought it for 60fr. only. The
agent formally protested again. Upon this the auctioneer
withdrew in a fury, and the sale proceeded no further.
TRAGICAL OCCURRENCE IN PARIS.—An umbrella
maker residing in the section des Arts et Metiers, went on
Sunday to the Commissary of Police, and said that he felt
some alarm in consequence of his brother, who was of very
eccentric character, and his wife, employed by him, not
having come for two days to the shop to work. The com-
missary went to the residence of the couple, Rue Chapon,
62. The door was broken open, and the brother and his
wife were found lying dead. Both were in their night
dresses. The husband was on the floor by the side of a
pan of charcoal ; the wife was in the bed. A written
paper found on the table stated that they had voluntarily
put an end to their existence, because they could not
agree. But as the body of the man was warm, whilst that
of the wife was quite cold, the commissary suspected that
the man had first murdered the woman and then com-
mitted suicide. A search was made, and a pair of pistols,
loaded and cocked, were found in a drawer, as was also
a paper containing opium. A glass containing a
little wine, with which opium had evidently been mixed,
was also discovered. In addition to this, there were marks
and scratches on the woman's throat, and on the chin
was a large bruise, corresponding to a blow from the butt
end of one of the pistols. A medical man who was called
in declared, moreover, that the female must have been
dead for more than twenty-four hours. A neighbour
stated that on the previous evening she heard the
two deceased quarrelling violently ; that the woman had
cried, " I insist that you let me out, or I will break
open the door i" that this had been followed by cries
and meanings ; that then there was the noise as of a
human body falling, and that afterwards all was silent.
It is supposed that the man had made the woman drink
the poisoned wine by threatening to shoot her. Some
hours after she was dead, he had no doubt lighted the
charcoal, and laid himself down by her side. To account
for his being found on the floor, it is assumed that when
nearly suffocated he got up with the intention of opening
the window, but that it was too late, The two deceased
had only been married a month, and the female was not
more than nineteen years of age.
EXTRAORDINARY CIRCUMSTANCE.—Extract of a letter
from a German living at Florence, to a friend residing in
Dumfriesshire :—" A curious event happened the other
day at Prato, a little town at a distance of about twelve
miles from Florence. A procession takes place there every
year on Good Friday, in commemoration of our Lord's
burial. It is a kind of pageant in which about 3,000
persons take part. To give you all the particulars
would fill more than an ordinary letter ; suffice it to
say, that Roman soldiers, on foot and on horse-
back, in the traditional ancient costume, and num-
bers of priests and monks, figure in it—the sup-
posed instruments of the torture, and the execution
of the Saviour of mankind, as the hammer, the nails,
the spear thrust in His side, &c., being, during
all the time, paraded about in the public streets ; even
the laver in which Pilate washed his hands is not forgot-
ten. The most imposing character of this exhibition
consists in everything being transacted amidst the most
unbroken silence ; not a pin is heard to drop, and sol-
diers and horses pass by without the least noise being
perceived by the ear (they put felt under their shoes
and their horses' hoofs), so that the whole resembles a
kind of phantasmagori called up by a magician's wand,
and flitting past like a dreamy vision. Well, the pro-
cession had begun and proceeded a little way, when
down came all of a sudden one of the most dreadful
hurricanes, accompanied with hail, thunder, and light-
ning, and torrents of rain. The city, which a few moments
before bad presented a sea of dazzling light from the
illumination of the houses and the torches carried by
every member of the procession, was in a trice plunged
into impenetrable darkness—the thousands of lamps and
lanterns being smashed, and the torches extinguished.
Fragments of glass wounded many people in their faces,
and the burning wicks, torn from their sockets, set some
ladies' dresses on fire ; besides, almost all were drenched
to the skin. The Roman soldiers, unmindful of the
prowess of their ancestors and prototypes, took to their
heels and left the Virgin Mary, who was carried about full
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LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 21

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.—The government has withdrawn for
the present session their bills creating new taxes.

HAMBURGH, JUNE 18.—The wool fairs at Leipsic and
other German cities were going off very briskly at higher
prices. Finest sorts sold at 16 to 18 dollars.

THE WEST INDIA MAIL.

The Royal Mail steamer Magdelina arrived at South-
ampton shortly after 12 o'clock this day (Monday). She
left Jamaica on the 25th of May ; Trinidad on the 27th ;
Demerara 271 h ; Chagres 25 ; St. Thomas' on the sth June;
and brings ,6,176,000 in specie.
At Trinidad and Santa Cruz Sugar crops would be
short ; at Barbadoes large. At Jamaica crops of Sugar
and Tobacco would be short, but superior. At Guatemala
the Cochineal crop had failed.
The accounts from Jamaica are as gloomy as ever, small
pox and measles still ravaging the lower classes at Kings-
ton and St. Anne's.

Weather had been more favourable.
Yellow fever was very virulent at Demerara.
The Lima steam-ship had arrived at Panama with a
large amount of dollars for shipment to England.
Cabanot had been elected President of Honduras.
Attempts were making to restore a federal form of go-
vernment in Central America.

The Magdalena brings 107 passengers, amongst whom
are the Bishop of Antigua, and Mr. Chatfield, from
Guatemala.

LONDON.

The Globe says, " All descriptions of foreign stock are
good, and in some there are advances. Mexican bonds,
old and new, are much better. Austrian scrip is rising
daily, with every propect of going higher, from the strong
influences which can be brought to bear on it by the lead.
ing houses who have negociated the loan."

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MONDAY

Several private bills were advanced a stage.
The Earl of ST. GEumaiNs presented, and supported
at considerable length, a petition for a repeal of the act
prohibiting marriages with a deceased wife's sister. The
noble earl adduced the usual arguments in support of the
prayer of the petition, contending that the marriages in
question were not contrary to Scripture, nor in the least
degree prejudicial to public morality ; that they were
permitted by the laws of most other countries, and that
their legalisation was desired and demanded by the great
majority of the people of England.—Lord LYNDHURST,
Lord CAMPBELL, the BISHOP of ST. ASAPH'S, and the
BISHOP of SALISBURY opposed any alteration of the
existing law upon this subject.—The petition was then
laid on the table.

Lord BEAUMONT proceeded at some length to draw at-
tention to the correspondence respecting the assault upon
Mr. Mather. The noble lord considered that the Earl of
Malmesbury had judged rightly in demanding reparation
for the outrage from Tuscany rather than from Austria, but
severelycensured the wantof firmness displayed by the noble
earl in the further. conduct of theaffair. He concluded by mov-
ing for the production of the instructions to Sir H. Bulwer,
in which the nature of the redress now demanded by
Government was stated.—The Earl of MALMESBURY
said he still considered that there was no excuse whatever
for the brutal outrage upon Mr. Mather, but at the same
time he could not think, with Lord John Russell, that it
was a national insult and outrage•upon the honour of
England, and that it ought to be avenged as such. An
English subject assaulted in a foreign country, was enti-
tled to exactiy the same redress as a native of that coun-
try, and no more; and he could not help thinking, there-
fore, that his predecessor at the Foreign-office (Lord
Granville) had acted wrongly in interfering before Mr.
Mather had endeavoured to obtain reparation from the
civil court of Tuscany. Lord Malmesbury then pro-
ceeded to vindicate the course which, considering the case
as one of personal injury, he had adopted, replying to
some of the observations of Lord J. Russell and Lord
Palmerston, and censuring Mr. Scarlett for having de-
viated from the instructions he had received. The noble
earl concluded by stating that he had advised the Govern-
ment to write to Sir H. Bulwer, directing him to reopen
the negotiations, and either to obtain from the Tuscan
Government the main and important point for which he
(Lord Malmesbury) had contended—namely, an acknow-
ledgment of its responsibility in such cases—or else to
close her Majesty's mission at Florence. (Cheers.)
(LEFT SITTING.)