The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-13 00:00:00

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—.O of Thursday a great many trees of liberty
ming cut down, and various emblems of the public
L' Opinion Publique is sup-

legitithist

SUNDAY

from the

Prefect of bie

steamer. Sc

tates that the opera-
h put to sea on the

ant, in search of .the boats of the

Were nullifi

avy fog, which prevented
At midnight he could
made thirty miles to the

lighthouse of

hant,

and then from

continueC

) cruise. ~. plight, he pop
for the English C.

vessels making

cannel, but got

• hundred and fourteen political prisoners have been
Dm Paris to Cayenne ; 71 prisoners have been sent
Weans under sentence of transportation by court-

lit of 3,587,000 f. has been opened for defraying
,nses of the new penal settlement.

es is declared in a

the seamen and marines of the Niger, being overpo..
by numbers, were obliged to retreat, fighting their way
to their boats, with the disastrous casualties above reported.
The commander-in-chief, Commodore Bruce, in the Pene-
er in the New Prue- lope, 16,-steam-frigate ; Captain Lyster, with the Sealark,
Loch, the celebrated 8, and one or two other men-of war, arrived off Lagos,
'-opes that the King from Ascension, after the fight, and remaining there,
The journals of despatched the Niger to Sierra Leone, to complete provi-
,4 physicians sions, and to take down a detachment of the West India
'h. regiment, when it was expected the Commodore would
ail the members present, with the exception commence active operations against the slave dealers.
v, expressed an opinion that the malady is A MELANCHOLY TALE.—On Thursday morning (says
the Gazette des Tribunaux) some boatmen saw floating
,sador has assured on the Seine, near St. Cloud, a human body, which on
of the political refugees being taken out of the water was found to be that of a
shall be settled with as little delay as possible. lt is said young female, round whose neck was tied a very large
that the Porte likewise has sent a note to the court at St. stone. The identity of the body could not be ascertained,
James's, protesting against the intended return of Kossuth
but in a small tin box carefully sealed was found thef
ts.to England, as his direct emigration to America was ex- lowing writing :—" I have never known my paren
1), guaranteed as a condition of his liberation, and the Until the age of seven I was broug a worthy
the accomplishment of this condition the more female, who lived in a village in thedepartment of the it was of the highest importance to Seine-et-Marne ; and after that, until the age of 18, I was
understanding with Austria. A great in a boarding-school in Paris. Nothing was neglected
c -qed at Vienna by the intelligence for my education. It appears that I was the offspring of
-nd son of Don Carlos, criminal relations. My parents were probably rich, for
from b English governess. my schooling was always regularly paid, and every caprice
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GERMANY

sultatio

decided

becaus

maintain a g

Isensation has been
that Don Juan, Infante of Spain, seco
bad run away wife with at
The wife he Duke of Modena

was complied with

,ter signed

r the currer

entire family

WEST INDIES

Honourable blood, my child, flows in your veins; do not
disgrace it. The future is reserved for you. You will be
placed in a ready-made linen warehouse. As soon as
your apprenticeship shall be over, and you shall have
arrived at years of discretion, you shall be nlaced at the
head of an establishment.' Some days afterwards, in
fact, I was placed in a shop, and had been there some
years when the revolution of February took place. Since
that fatal period I have never heard of my family. Alone
in the world, and no longer hoping to see my mother,
abandoned, without counsel, I listened to the voice of a
seducer. For him I plunged a criminal hand into the
•

The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Thames arrived
at Southampton on Thursday evening. She brings dates
from Tampico of the 6th of December, Vera Cruz Bth,
Chagres 10th, Jamaica 14th, Barbadoes 17th, and St.
Thomas 20th. The Thames brings 1,251.472 dollars, of
which 81,000 are towards payment of ihe Mexican dividends
The Jamaica papers contain no intelligence worth
porting. The House of Assembly was
little progress had been made in public business.
cholera had slightly abated in Montego Bay, but the re.
ports from '•,e. in Hanover

In session, but

cash-box of my employer

iuspicion, ins

the country are iiotETOei

missed
deserted me

tne disease was raging with gr
Chester Castle district. From Tr
of a distressing nature. The small-pox also still exists at
.• .

A of attac
d

, fell upon a poor young man, who wu.
He for whom I had dishonoured myself bass.
Here, in a few lines, is the sad history of
ifortunate female who has sought in suicide a refuge
in remorse. I pray those who may discover my body
J give to this history all possible publicity. it may pre-
vent other parents from abandoning their children."

ney the reports are

in many of the islands seen fearfully violent
, particularly on the north side. •
The roduce mark was quiet, declined in vale,
with ple speculation.et Exchange onhad London :—Colonival
Bank, ninety days, half per cent. ; sixty days, one per
cent thirty a... _r•

ADVERTISEMENT.]
THE CAR PROILRIETORS, THEIR LAMPS, AND
THE COUNCIL.

alparaiso we learn that

volutior

out in that city, which v

Ate formida

f war of foreign z
ked all

ations lying

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their marine force for the pro-
PI SI MI tiles nrnwsz..t. Asi

To the EDITOR of the LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SlR,—The car proprietors of this town have so long been the
ictims of ti.arsh and unreasonable treatmentrand the Council

,ction of tl

carry on t

1,200 persons'were

business, even to the most minute detwfie, that they have no
choice but to solicit the sympathies o 'the public, and the pro-
tection of the local press.
A bye-law is now being attemp to be put in force, which
requires lamps to be lighted on trars at such times, from the
25th of September to the 25thd March (six months), as the
public street lamps are lighte . It is asserted that the streets

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

THE KAI

,er, Captain Lane, with the mails from the
Cape, Sierra Leone, and St. Vincent, arrived on Tuesday
at Plymouth, having left the Cape on the 2d December,
Sierra Leone on the 17th, and St. Vincent on the 23d.
The news, by this arrival is of the same disastrous nature
—the faithlessness of the local corps adding much to the
difficulties of the war. On the 6th Nov. sixty went over
in a body to the enemy, and from among these men, it is
suspected, a shot was fired which has deprived the country
brave and zealous officer, Colonel Fordyce, of the
He expired within a few moments after receiving
last words were " Oh, my poor regiment."
, of the 74th, Lieut. Gordon,
, and Lieut. Devenish, of the

74th.
the sho

In this fight Lient

74th, LieUt. Ricketts, ..
Beaufort Levy, also fell, or were so sere
to speedily result in death.

wounded as

Town, suff

was at King William's
effect, it is said, of the

!ring from

ironing n,
Port Eliz

f his dut

bad suffered fro.

'eat deal of
The fever

'e had been sustained

St. Vincent's was

but the island w

had very
could be

sickly. The Harbinger
ing fuel ; no labourers