The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

A correspondent of the New York Journal of Com-
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•' Shocking, however, as these cases are, both are out-
judicial murder of a young girl at
le mountains of Yuba county.

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while many affirm that the blow was struck in defence of
her person against a drunken assault. The better opinion
is, as far as I can learn, that the killing was unlawful, but
under palliating circumstances. It is of little consequence
to my present purpose to examine into the degree of crime.
with the creations of Napoleon the First; j I am merely to relate how a woman was punished by un-

lawful hands in this high noon of the 19th century.
" It seems that an example was needed in Downieville.
Little or no retribution had fallen upon former murderers
in that vicinity, and it unfortunately happened that the
dead man had many friends in the city, while the girl
elicited no sympathy. Her nation was despised, and she
was of a character which always draws more companions
than friends in California. The nnalay-headed monster
cried Blood for Blood.'
" The Mountain City is situate at the confluence of
two branches of the North Ynba, and is connezted with
• the opposite bank by a long bridge. The cord was thrown
over a crossbeam in the middle of the bridge, and thither
the multitude hurried their frail victim. Her bearing was
haughty and composed in the highest degree. She was a
beautiful girl, but neitherherbeauty nor unusual roundness
of form excited the slightest compassion in the majority.

"At this point of-the proceeding a young lawyer
mounted the bridge railing and denounced the whole affair
in words of more bitter justice than discretion. He was
not suffered to speak long; a dozen hands pulled him
down, and as many feet were vigorously applied to him
along the whole length of the bridge. When upon the
opposite.-, bank he was forbidden to enter Downieville
"again; under penalty Of being tarred and feathered.
" Even the perpetrators of this outrage should have
been shamed into common humanity by the next appeal.
A physician, well known in the place, stated, upon his
professional reputation and most sacred honour, that the
girl was enceinte, and demanded for her the reprieve which
was always grimed by the merciful common law of Eng-
land, even in the darkest ages, and most barbarous pe-
riods. But no ! Mercy to a murdress ! Time to give
birth to another of the viper's blood ! They hooted at
the idea. The physician was ordered to leave town within
three days, for having dared to disturb the majesty of the
people, arisen to assert justice.
" Meanwhile the girl had been looking on with the ut-
most nonchalance. At the failure of this last appeal a
scornful smile distorted her lip, and she at once began to
perform the last offices for herself. The manta was re-
moved from her head and given to her paramour, with a
watch, purse, and ornaments. Her black hair fell in
masses over her shoulders, but she calmly grasped the
noose, dangling near by, and, passing it round her neck,
concealed the hideous knot beneath the thick fall of her
hair. She made but one request,—that her bands might
be left untied and free to give the signal. Strange to say,
they did grant her one privilege, but one which, in cases
where the nerves were not made of steel, would have been
the most injudicious of all.
" She then drew a bunch of cigaritas from her bosom
and distributed them among the bystanders, reserving
one for herself. This she lighted and half smoked, then
drew it from her lips with—' I would do it again, the
maldito She did not finish the sentence, but
. dropped the cigarita. This was the signal; and her light
form shot rapidly up in the air, hardly struggling, so
powerful was the will that kept her free arms stiffly pressed
against her sides. There she bang, over that foaming
river—between sky and earth—the mark of deepest dis-
grace upon all our fair land."

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTEL—Gen. Cathcart, accom-
panied by his staff, will take his passage for the Cape,
from Portsmouth, in a few days, in her Majesty's steam
sloop-of-war Hydra, Commander Belgrave, which is
about to proceed to the colony, and to remain on that
station. The new Minie rifles, ordered for the Cape, are
not confined to the 43d Regiment, as stated, but will be
distributed amongst the best marksmen of the different
Regiments engaged. First Lieutenant Arthur Charles
Greville, of the 60th Rifles, ..serving at the Cape,
is appointed second aide-de-camp to the Governor,
General Cathcart. Mr. John Morgan, now her
Majesty's Consul at Rio Grande, is appointed Consul at
Bahia. Mr. R. H. S. Werry. now Vice-Consul at Miti-
lene, is appointed Vice-Consul at Bengarze. Mr. Chas.
Newton, of the British Museum, is appointed Vice-
Consul 'at Mitilene. The Rev. Samuel W. Steedman,
chaplain to the troops at Hongkong, is appointed to the
colonial chaplaincy of that island, in the room of the Rev.
Vincent John Stanton, resigned. Charles Henry Stewart,
Esq., is appointed Deputy Queen's Advocate at Ceylon.—
Observer.

Tax PRINCE PRESIDENT.—AIIuding to the matrimonial
projects of Louis Napoleon, the Times says :—" For some
time before the late coup d'itat, communications bad been
going on between the President and Christina of Spain,
with a view to a marriage between himself and one of the
daughters of her Majesty by her second husband, Munoz :
and if we are not misinformed, some pecuniary advances
had actually preceded this matrimonial contract. How.
ever this may be, the negotiation has now been broken off,
the money repaid, and the elect of the 20th of December
now looks for a consort among the legitimate issue of the
crowned heads of Europe. The court to which the atten-
tion of Louis Napoleon has been naturally directed is that
of Sweden, for the Queen of Sweden is a daughter of
Eugene Beauharnais, married to King Oscar, the son of
Bernadotte ; and their daughter, the Princess Charlotte
Eug6nie of Sweden, is said to be the object of this pro-
posal. We have grounds for believing that in this in-
stance the negotiation is actually on foot. The princess
is in her twenty-second year, and may be considered to be
French in her descent from both father and mother."
TRAFFIC RETURNS.—The traffic returns for the week
ending the 18th instant, on the undermentioned English
lines of railway, are as follows : 1852. 1851.
London and North Western £39,203 .. X 38,951

Midland ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire .....
London and South Western. ... • 8,468 .. 8,250
London and Brighton..
Great Western.
South Eastern
York and North Midland
Manches,Sheffield, & Lincolnshire 6,111 .. ,5,814
Bristol and Exeter . .
York, Newcastle, and Beeler. ick 12,718 .. 12,871
Shrewsbury and Chester . 1,462 .. 1,524
Shrewsbury and Birmingham._ 602 .. 580
Eastern Counties and Norfolk
Great Northern .
Chester and Holyhead. ...... 2,326
.. 2402
.
North Staffordshire
Leeds Northern
South Devon .. 1,515 .. 1,445
South Wales 1,282
The total receipts on the above lines being £179,890
against £172,481 in the corresponding week of last year,
the increase is shown to be £7,409. The number of
miles open on the above lines was, in 1852, 4,224, and
in 1851, 4,1171, showing an increase of 1061 rallies,