The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-11-09 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

THE SMALL-Pox continues to rage at Corfu with great
virulence, and is rather on the increase. From the 14th
to the 20th ultimo, the number of new cases was 271, and
of deaths 41. The disease has also made its appearance
at Paxo and Cephalonia.

AN EXPLOSION of fire-damp took place on Saturday
night, in a coal mine in the commune of Dour (Belgium).
About 30 men were at work in the pit at the time, of
whom ten were brougbt up very much burned, leaving
about 20 at the bottom.

EAST INDIA MAPS.—The East India Company have
ordered to be lithographed, with a view of assisting the
Parliamentary inquiry into the operation of the Charter
Act, outline maps, representing, by distinction of colours,
the different native states, and specifying the superficial
area of these states and their population."
THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES.—By the last accounts
from Australia the aborigines had become troublesome to
the settlers in the interior, in consequence of the number
of men who had gone to the gold diggings and left their
wives and families in an unprotected state. The latter
were falling back on the towns and villages for security.
NEW ISLAND.—A continental journal says that an
island 100 feet in length and seven feet in height was
formed, a few days ago, in the Lake of Cleeveetz, near
Eutin, in Northern Germany, by the effect of the recent
hurricanes. In 1814 a similar phenomenon occurred ; but
in a few months the isle suddenly disappeared, and there
were twelve feet of water where it had been
THE Journal de Liege states that the

7 man who

lately swindled an English lady, the widow of a general,
of a considerable sum of money, has been arrested in that
town, in an apartment which he had taken under a false
name. He did not deny that he was the person sought
for, and declared himself to be Count J. B. Cheisa do
Dandini, sub-lieutenant of Dragoons, a native of Cassina,
in Italy, aged 25.

A DREADFUL ACCIDENT occurred on Sunday after-
noon at the Arenes Nationales, Paris. A rope on which
two rope dancers were performing at a height of 30 yards,
suddeuly broke, and they were both precipitated to the
ground. One was killed on the spot, and the other was
so dreadfully injured that he died an hour after. Tee
performances were stopped, and, the public, who seemed
greatly moved, left the place.

HIGH TREASON.—A court martial at Schlesv%
found one of the Danish officers who entered the service
of the provisional government in 1848, Captain von Was-
mer, guilty of high treason and rebellion. The accused
is condemned to be degraded from his rank, to have his
right hand cut off while living, to be then beheaded, the
body to he quartered and exposed on the wheel ; the head
and hand to be fixed on a pole near it. The King of
Denmark has commuted the sentence into imprisonment
for life.

HORRIBLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An American paper,
speaking of an accident on the Georgia State railroad, by
which two men were killed, gives the following parti-
culars :—" Among the horrible circumstances of this ac-
cident is the following as we are informed. One of the
firemen was caught by the feet, between the locomotive
and the tender, and held fast in this position, his head
hanging downwards, and his feet dreadfully crushed.
Neither the conductor, who was unhurt, nor the pas-
sengers, had the presence of mind to use proper exertions
to vottooo hi—, and filo poor folloK, in oconp on+roatca
them to saw his legs off. Finally this was actually done
by some one, with a common hand-saw, and the man was
allowed to drop to the ground, bleeding to death. No
effort was made to stop the hemorrhage, and the poor
victim of this more than savage stupidity and barbarism
soon bled to death. After the fireman was thus relieved
from his position, a bar of iron was obtained and the lo-
comotive and tender pushed apart, so that the feet were
rescued and dropped out from between them. This could
have been as well accomplished before as after sawing off
the legs."

THE CASE OF THE MADIAIS.—The Earl of Shaftes-
bury has received a letter from the Earl of Roden, the
head of the deputation to the Grand Duke of Tuscany,
from many of the Protestants of. England and the Conti-
nent, who have reached Florence to intercede for the
Madiais. His lordship states that they were unable to
see the Grand Duke ; they, therefore, stated the object of
their visit to the Duke of Casigliano, the Minister of State
for Foreien Affairs, who, in a courteous reply, informed
them that the "Madiais had been condemned by the or-
dinary tribunals for the crime of propagating Protestantism,
which is proscribed by the Tuscan laws as an attack upon
the religion of the state." He also states that—" His
Imperial and Royal Highness, in reserving to himself the
exercise of his high prerogative in such cases and at such
times as he may judge right, cannot permit any interposi-
tion in a case which concerns the administration of justice
in his states and his acts towards his own subjects." Lord
Roden, therefore, has hopes, for he says—" We feel that
that the substance of this answer is such as to induce us
to hope that, although our immediate request has been
denied, yet that it is the intention of his Imperial and
Royal Highness to extend his pardon to the Madiais at no
distant period.