The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-08-25 00:00:00

WEST INDIA MAILS

The Royal Mail Company's packet-ship Teviot, Capt.
Allan, arrived at Southampton on Wednesday at seven
o'clock, bringing mails of the following dates :—Jamaica,
24th ; Jacmel, 26th ; Porto Rico, 29th ; Demerara, 19th ;
Tobago, 21st.; Trinidad, 21st ; Barbadoes, 24th.; Granada,
25th.; St. Vincent and St. Lucia, 26th; and Fayal, Aug.
13th. She brings seventy-three passengers and a large

The Spanish steamer Genii, on her passage from Cuba
to WatabanD, with passengers and mails, burst her
boilers, killing the captain, engineer, ten of the crew. two
passengers, and severely wounding eight men. Letters
were supposed to be lost. The failure of a large mercan-
tile house of St. Jago de Cuba was spoken of.
We have our usual files of papers, but they contain lit-
tle of interest to our readers. A good deal of rain had
fallen generally throughout the islands, but not adequate
to the wants of the agriculturists.
His Excellency the Lieutenant• Governor of Jamaica
had issued his proclamation further proroguing the Bon.
Hothe of Assembly to the Ist of September.

A SPANISH ROBBER-FEARFUL SCENE

M A DRID AUGUST B.—An act of singular ferocity took
place a day or two ago in the prison of Salamanca. A no-
torious robber and murderer, of the name of Patino, the
terror of the surrounding country for years, was lately
captured and tried by court-martial. He was at first
sentenced to be shot, but the military authorities think-
ing such a mode of punishment too honourable for such a
miscreant, obtained its commutation to strangling by the
garole. On the morning of the 3d inst., the turnkey pro-
ceeded, as is usual, to inform the criminal that the Judge
of First Instance, accompanied by the escribano, had ar-
rived to announce in form his sentence, and to transfer
him to the condemned chapel, preparatory to his execu-
tion. lie was found with one of his lees released from
the fetters, having skilfully employed a file for that pur-
pose which he had concealed on his person. Though still
bound to the iron bar which traversed the dungeon, he
flung himself on the turnkey, seized the massive key,
struck him on the head, and dashed him against the wall
outside. He then locked the door, and shut himself up in
the cell. The officers of the prison, the judge, and the
chaplain, implored him to cease such fruitless resistance,
and to open the door, or pass the key through the grating.
He refused, and uttered against them the most horrible
imprecations. A blacksmith was called to undo the lock,
but did not succeed, its massive strength resisting all his
efforts. Half-a-dozen strong men then tried to break
open the door with crowbars and heavy pieces of timber.
They succeeded, and the door fell in fragments. The fu-
ry of the criminal then rose to its height. He placed
himself behind a strong beam, which went across the up-
per part of the door, on the inside, and brandishing the
formidable key, actually broke the head of the first man
who attempted to effect an entrance. The wounded man
was dragged out by the legs by his comrades. The others
tried to enter in a body, but it was impossible ; the door-
way was too narrow. For more than a quarter of an hour
he kept them at bay, and answered to the entreaties of
the officers and the prayers of the priest with the most
/Y. - io a obeceni•ies.
He then flung the key at their heads with his utmost force,
and severely wounded two persons.
Seeing all entreaties uselessf a party of soldiers were
called to the spot. The officer of the guard once more
summoned him to surrender, but he replied with the
grossest ribaldry and the most insulting gestures, and
howled defiance to the whole garrison. The soldiers were
ordered to load their muskets; while they were doing so
he wounded the officer with a piece of lime stone. The
priest, seeing that he was about to be shot down like a
wild beast in his den, entreated the men to fire low, so as
to disable but not to kill him, in order that some chance
might yet remain of repentance. A shot was fired, but it
missed him. The ruffian fell back to a dark corner of
the dungeon, as far as his chain permitted, and from thence
flung stones and pieces of mortar at his assaulters. An-
other shot was fired through the grating and broke his
leg. The wound rendered him savage beyond all descrip-
tion. He bellowed, and howled, and foamed in rage;
and still, dragging his smashed and bleeding limb along,
flung missiles at the soldiers, who yet did not dare to ven-
ture into the darkness of the dungeon. A third shot was
fired, and his right shoulder was broken. The arm fell
lifeless by his side, and he lay on the ground. He called
out that he surrendered, but only because he could no
longer resist. They entered, and he was dragged along
the floor, bathed in his blood. As they were in the act of
replacing the broken fetter, he collected his remaining
strength, and with his left hand struck the turnkey with
the iron on the head, and laid him at his feet. Three or
four men threw themselves on him, and completely mas-
tered him. He was subsequently visited by the priest,
who employed every effort, but in vain, to bring him to a
sense of his condition. His exhortations and prayers were
replied to with the filthiest obscenity and the most horrid
execrations. To the last moment he continued the same ;
and even on the scaffold, seated on the fatal chair, with
the cold instrument of death about to clasp his bare neck,
this monster in human form expired shouting to the
horrified crowd about him curses and imprecations on
God and man.— Times.

It is rumoured that Lord Normanby is to succeed Lord
Hardinge in India.

The Legislature of Newfoundland has passed an Act
for raising £250,000 towards rebuilding St: John's.
Parliament has voted £30,000 for the relief of the suf-
ferers by the recent conflagration at St. John's Newfound
land.

The Pope has received an antograph letter from Louis
Philippe containing expressions of the highest esteem.
The only living brother of Napoleon is now the Prince
de Montfort, ex-King of Westphalia, who is in his sixty-
second year.

sword as the final vindicator of their national liberties."
Mr. O'Connell made a speech in reply, in the course of
which lie said that " lie could not approve of the doe-
The child of a gentleman at Quebec, who was supposed trines Mr. O'Brien urged, and, until he (hinged them for
to have been drowned, was found in the streets rif that others, it was impossible for him to ccalsce with that
city the other day with some Indian squaws, who had gentleman; for he believed, that if they adopted his
adopted her. principles, they would be all liable to a charge of high
1 I DESTRUETIVR FIRE NEAR ROUEN.—On the n;ght of treason. (Hear, hear.) That was his candid opinion as

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ay, the

he large cotton manufactory

The principles promulgated

of Messrs. Deshayes-Besnard, at Saint Sever, was burn'
to the ground ; the loss is estimated at 350,000 francs