The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-05-25 00:00:00

AMERICA.

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

ARRIVAL OF THE FRANKLIN. THE JEWISH POPULATION of Warsaw is rapidly de-
The steam-ship Franklin arrived off Cowes on creasing in consequence of the oppressive laws lately en-
Thursday morning, and the mails were landed at acted.
Southampton at four o'clock. She left New York THE HERRING PISH7LY in France occupies 685 boats,
measuring. together 14' 5 i 4 tons, and having crews amount-
on the Bth instant, and brings specie to the value
of 4,000 doll., and 160 passengers, mostly for Bre-
ing to 7,755 men.
CHOLERA.—We regret to learn that this terrible
men. Amongst her passengers was the Austrian disease has broken out in parts of Upper Silesia, where
minister. great misery and destitution prevail.
Feargus O'Connor had arrived out at New York. GERMANY has lost one of her most celebrated natural
The United States senate, it is supposed, would philosophers in the person of Dr. Pfaff, senior of the
agree to grant the extra compensation to the Collins Professors of the Royal University of Kiel, who has died
line of steamers. I at the age of seventy-nine.

The health of Henry Clay was declining still.
He had strongly warned his country in intervention
in Europe.
The latest accounts from Mexico state that the
new minister had embarked for the United States,
with full injunctions to effect the final settlement of
the Tehuantepec difficulty. Mexican affairs were in a
deplorable state. At Hayti much sickness prevailed.
Kossuth had met with a good reception at Lowell,
and large subscriptions had been raised.
The accounts from San Francisco gives the pro-
duce of the quarter ending 31st March, 1852, as 14
millions worth of gold dust.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN PIEDMONT.—A telegraphic
message, dated Turin, 17th May, announces that Count Ca-
your and colleagues have tendered their resignations, which
have been accepted. The Marquis d'Azeglio is intrusted
with the formation of a new Cabinet.
NICHOLAS As A HUNGARIAN.—The Emperor Nicholas
entered Vienna, we are told, " wearing the uniform of a
Hungarian general." The uniform of Hungary ! Thus
may the clothes of the victim be at times found upon the
back of the accomplice in his destruction.
LEGHORN, MAY 13.—The two brothers Aldborough
have been expelled from Tuscany. They had been con-
demned respectively to 10 and 20 years' imprisonment by
an Austrian court-martial. The case of the Englishman,
Erskine Mather, wounded by an Austrian officer with a
sabre, it is believed, will terminate by the payment of a
pecuniary indemnity.
FRANCE—A FREE COUNTRY !—One of the Arabs—says
the Daily News—in waiting o❑ an Arab chief, in Paris,
refused to attend the bidding of his master, saying that
"he was now in a free country !" This compliment com-
ing to the knowledge of the President., lie immediately re-
warded the true believer in the freedom of France with the
Legion of Honour. It is said that the President was quite
overcome by the delicate flattery !
JENNY LIN'D AND HER HtTSBAND.—A letter-writer in
one of the American papers discourses thus upon Jenny
Lind's matrimonial movement :—" Mr. Goldschmidt is a
small, ain, weak human article, extremely inclined to
take care of himself, and has just apostatised from the
Jewish faith to the Christian. He won Jenny by an assi-
duity of attention beyond all parallel. He never left her
side. Her tastes were his, her opinions were his own.
And in wedding him, Jenny firmly and legally so arranged
all her property that her husband will never be able to
touch a penny of it, and he submits to such a weekly
allowance of pocket money, &c., as, in her judgment, his
good conduct may deserve. These are all facts, and you
may depend upon them."

YANKEE ENTERPRISE.—The following is an extract
from a letter dated Sydney, January 27 :—" The Yankees
will soon get masters of this market, if we do not get a
better line of ships or steam communication between here
and England. The first clipper ship from the United
States arrived here last week. She left Boston five days
after the news of our discovery was known, sod made the
passage here in 95 days, bringing news from England up
to the 4th of October, whilst by the direct way we have
no later dates than the 18th of September. A portion of
her cargo consisted of wooden buckets' for the miners.
1 think we shall soon be sufficiently supplied with this
article direct from America. Please, therefore, not to
send us any buckets of this description."

ExrLosioN OF A POWDER MAGAZINE.—In the after-
noon of the 3d instant the powder magazine in the fortress
of Konigsberg was blown up with an explosion that shook
the houses of the town, broke the glass of the windows,
and damaged the roofs of many. The magazine itself was
completely levelled with the earth, and most of the build-
ings of the fortress are more or less injured. Three per-
sons were killed—a clerk of the works, the sentinel on
duty, and a labourer; of their bodies only fragments have
been found ; four other persons are dangerously wounded.
One account states that the explosion was wilfully caused
by the clerk of the works, a pistol having been found in a
position from which it is supposed he must have fired it
into a cask of gunpowder. No one outside the works has
been injured.

MADAME SAQUI.—A biographical notice in the Petrie
on Madame Saqui, who, at the age of 75 years, is now
dancing on the tight rope at the Hippodrome, states some
curious facts to account for her being compelled, at so
advanced a period of life, to continue a fatiguing and
hazardous performance. It appears that Madame Saqui
had acquired a handsome fortune many years ago, and
had resolved to retire, when her brother, who was the
manager of the Rouen theatre, was on the point of
becoming bankrupt with debts amounting to 60,000 f. ;
and to save his credit, Madame Saqui paid the whole
amount, and reduced herself to poverty, Since that time
she has never been enabled to accumulate sufficient wealth
to retire, and latterly, according to the Palrie, she met
with a terrible misfortune. She was returning from
Spain with about 30,0001., the fruit of her exertions, when
she was plundered of the whole by brigands.
CONVERSIONS TO PROTESTANTISM IN GERMANY.—AS
a counterpoise to the reports of the numerous perversions
from the Protestant Church to Romanism, the following
statistics will not be uninteresting :—.According to official
reports, 648 persons renounced Catholicism and embraced
Protestantism in Silesia last year. Of these 648 persons
269 were adults, and the remainder had already been con-
firmed. Independently of these, 466 Roman Catholic pa-
rents had their children baptised in the Protestant Church
in the year 1851. These figures are higher in comparison
than in the previous year 1850, for in the official list for
that year only 308 converts were entered, of whom 159
were adults. In that year also only 187 children of Roman
Catholic parents were baptised in the Protestant Church in
Silesia. It appears that many persons who had joined the
so-called German Catholic Churches, are now going over to
the Protestant Churches, on account of the greet obstacles
which have been put in the way of the German Catholics.
A TIGER STORY.—The following remarkable escape
has been mentioned in private letters by the last mail
from India. Two young officers, Lieutenant Hugh
Elliot, of the Bombay cavalry, son of Captain Charles
Elliot, Governor of Bermuda, and Lieutenant Rice, of
the 25t1,, were out shooting, when they fell in with a
tigress and two cubs. One cub was immediately killed
and the tigress wounded. They tracked her for half an
hour into the jungle, when she suddenly sprang out,
knocked over Mr. Elliot before he had time to cock his
gun, and seizing him by the left arm, dragged him away.
Mr. Rice had already discharged one gun when they
! attacked the tigress. He quickly got his second gun,
hut, from the extreme difficulty of firing without killing
his friend, could only aim at the body of the tigress, and
though he wounded her again, did not wound her
mortally. With admirable resolution he then seized a
third gun, and watching his opportunity till he could
see Elliot's head apart from that of the tigress, shot her
dead through the head, with his friend in her mouth.
The officers were 30 miles from camp, and did not reach
it for 20 hours. It is impossible to give too much credit
to the skill and coolness of Lieutenant Rice. Mr.
Elliot's arm is badly wounded by the bite, as well as by
the stones and rocks over which he was dragged, but no
fear is entertained for his life or his limb.
CONFESSIONS OF A FRENCH MURDERER.—A French-
man, named William Pradeaux, aged 33, has recently
confessed the committal of a series of most extraordinary
murders. Pradeaux, it seems, was condemned in 1841,
1844, and 1848, to different periods of imprisonment for
robbery. He some months ago became attached to a
young girl named Aline, who had been brought up at the
Foundling Hospital, and placed in the family of a trades-
man named Bertin. He demanded the girl's hand. The
ceremony was fixed for the Ist of May. In the night of
the 6th kill, just after the wedding had been resolved
on, Pradeaux entered the buildings of M. Michelet, a
weaver, in the Rue des Sevres, and murdered his carter,
named Emery, as he lay sleeping in his bed. He broke
open the iron safe in which M. Michelet kept his money,
and got off with between 5001. and 600 f. The next day
he spent nearly 200 f. in making purchases for his wedding.
Fifteen days later he murdered the widow Chateau,
keeper of a lodging-house in the Rue Vanneau, as she
was sleeping with her grandchild. He said, that he at
first stabbed her with a pair of scissors, and then stran-
gled her. When he saw that she was quite dead, he
opened a drawer, and took 300 francs in money, and a
quantity of jewels. The next day he made a present of
some of the jewellery to his fiancee Aline. On the 30th
of April a female named Suan, living in the same neigh-
bourhood, was found dead in her chamber from strangu-
lation, caused by a pocket-handkerchief bound tightly
round her throat, having been murdered and robbed by
Pradeaux. The next day—that which was fixed for his
marriage—he attempted to kill Madame Naudin, in the
Rue des Sevres. Just after he was captured, the friends
invited to his wedding assembled at the house of M. Ber-
tin, and Aline, gaily decked in bridal attire, awaited his
arrival with impatience. But after some hours' delay the
friends went away, and the Be rtins, to console Aline for
her disappointment, took her to dinner at Belleville, and
promised her a visit to the theatre in the evening. When
she learned that her destined husband was a murderer,
she rendered thanks to Heaven that the marriage had not
been accomplisbed.—Freucli paper.
THE SOULT GALLERY.—The sale by auction of the
pictures composing the celebrated gallery of the late
Marshal Soult commenced at Paris, on "Wednesday, in
large premises in the Rue du Sentier, formerly occupied
as show-rooms for pictures. The gallery of the late
marshal owes its renown not merely to the great number
of chef d' (euvres which it contains, but also to their spe-
cial character of mostly belonging to the Spanish school.
Out of Spain, it is the only collection, private or public,
that contains so great a number of works of the best
Spanish masters. It reckons not less than fifteen Murillos,
and amongst them " The Conception," The Nativity of
the Virgin," "The Flight into Egypt," &c. It possesses
eighteen works by Zubaran, four by Ribera, seven by
Alonzo Cano, two fine pictures of Herrera the elder, and
a great number of the best works of Sanchez Coello, Llanos
Valdes, Ribalta, Herrera the younger, &e., all painters of
great merit, and whose works are but little known out of
Spain. The amount realised by the first day's sale was
973.739 francs, exclusive of the five per cent. additional
paid for expenses. Among the most interesting pictures

as works of
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art which came under the hammer,
Vision of St. John," liyAlonzo Cano, 12,100 frank.
the Marquis of Hertford being the purchaser, between whom
and the Duke do Galliera the only competition took place
',eyond 6,000 francs; " The Vision of the Lamb," by 0
ist, 2,500 francs ; "The Vision of Goo
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