The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-28 00:00:00

SPAIN,

Letters from Madrid mention, that the government had
obtained possession of the bull granted some time since by
the Pope of Rome for authorizing the solemnization of mar-
riage between Maria Christina, ex-queen regent of Spain,
and Munoz, her well-known paramour, and legalizing it
whenever and by whomsoever performed, whether by prelate,
parish priest, or friar of " orders gray," or of any other com-
plexion. This singular document, it is believed there, will
be laid before the Cortes at their approaching session, in jus-
tification, together with her participation in the O'Donnell
insurrection, of the extreme measure adopted provisionally
by the Regent Espartero of embargoing the payment of the
dower stipulated by settlement on Maria Christina's marriage
with the late king.
The Madrid Gazelle, of the 11th inst., publishes an am-
nesty of the regent for all private soldiers who took part in
the revolt of the 7th of October. The officers are excepted.

NEW SLAVE-TRAFFIC

(From the Jamaica Standard of Nov. 9)

The slave-traders appear to be a very ingenious as well as
persevering class of men. Not content with the traffic in
black slaves, they have for some time past resorted to a new
mode of raising the wind by seducing young white women at
New York, to whom, it is reported, they hold out the most

brilliant prospects in order to induce them to embark for
Havanna; from whence they are taken to the Coast of
Africa, and there sold to the chief who will give the greatest
number of slaves for them. " One alone (says the Caraccas
Gazette) has been known to sell for a whole cargo !" Black
slavery possessed ameliorating qualities, to which this has
clearly no pretensions ; and we know of no punishment too
severe for wretches who could be guilty of such cold-blooded
and unnatural depravity. The following extract of a letter
from Havanna is painfully conclusive upon this subject :
" I have just been informed, on the most undoubted au-
thority, that the captain of the brig Bolador has taken with
him to the coast of Africa, a very handsome young Ametiean
woman (who was seen on board at the time of his sailing,
and previously thereto by many persons resident in this city,)
whom he intended to offer, instead of money, in exchange
for slaves. It is said that the same thing has been done
before by others, and that from fifty to five hundred Africans
are readily given for a white woman, whose worth is deter-
mined by her youth and beauty. In behalf of humanity, I
would be happy if I could concientiously declare that I doubt
the truth of this assertion, but so great is the degree of de-
pravity to which the habitual committal of crime has reduced
the slave trader, that I believe deeds equally revolting to
human nature are of frequent occurrence with them. In the
case of the young woman on board the Bolador, the only thing
doubtful is, whether this poor creature, thus condemned to a
life of infamy and slavery, was a consenting party to her own
misery." . . .

We advise the Americans to look to this : it is a blot upon
their escutcheon.

DISCOVERY OF A MURDER COMMITTED EIGHT

YEARS AGO

At the Oise assizes two young men, named Quin and
Henrique, were tried on a charge of having murdered a young
woman named Landrieu, under remarkable circumstances, as
long ago as 1833. The facts of the case are as follows :
On the 14th of July, 1833, a young demoiselle named
Landrieu, residing at Jaux, had gone to the fete of Venette,
village not far from that in which she herself lived. A.
young man named Benoit Quin, who was paying his addresses
to her at the time, and Felix Henrique, who was also one of
her admirers, likewise proceeded to the fete in company with
several other young persons. As the party were on their
road, talking together of the pleasures which they anticipated
at the fête, Henique mentioned that there was a young woman
to whom he had paid attentior6, who refused to listen to his
suit, but said if he found ber at Venette he would make her.
He added some remarks of a coarse character, and others of
the party then began to rally Quin on his want of success
with the demoiselle Landrieu, after 18 months' attentions.
On their arrival at Vinette, Quin, as he had expected, met
his beloved, and, after they had danced together for some
time, took her to a cabaret called the Comet, in company
with Henrique, fur the purpose of getting some refresh-
ments. There they all three were shown into a private apart-
ment, and a scene occurred, the details of which have only
lately become known through the partial confession of Quin.
Henrique, who appeared soured and irritated by feelings of
jealousy, applied the most grossly-abusive epithets to the
poor girl; and, as soon as he had exhausted himself upon
her, pretended so quarrel with Quin about some difference
between them in their accounts. Henrique claimed 45 cen-
times of him, in which demand Quin did not appear disposed
to acquiesce. The quarrel continuing. the young woman
sent and borrowed a sum sufficient to pay him, and the mat-
ter appeared to have terminated.
The apprehensions of the poor girl did not, however, cease
with the quarrel, and she called the garde champetre, named
Peuvrel (whom she had sent for the money) on one side, and
with much earnestness asked him to accompany her home,
telling him she would reward him for his trouble; his duties
prevented his leaving Venette, but he offered to see her to
the outskirts of the village. He accordingly accompanied
her, as did also Quin, upon whose arm she was leaning, as
far as the last houses on the road to Flandre. He there left
them, telling the young woman that she had nothing to fear,
as she was in the company of her bon ami, and saying to
Quin that if anything happened he should hold him respon-
sible. Henrique, in the meantime, had remained at Venette
for a short period, but soon afterwaads was seen to take the
same road which Quin and the young woman had pursued.
The poor girl did not return home that night ; and the next
day her absence was still unaccounted for. She was searched
' for in every direction, but in vain. No tidings could be
heard of her. When Quin was questioned he stated that he
had quitted her for a momentary purpose, and that she hav-
ing continued her course he did not again overtake her. This
story was not believed, as it was improbable, and the conduct
of Henrique excited suspicion, from his anxiety to make it
appear that there could not have been any foul play.
On the 18th of July, four days afterwards, the body of the
unfortunate young woman was dragged from the river in a
state of partial putrefaction, especially the face, the neck, and
the stomach. In short, the post mortem examination left no
doubt of the gross violence of which she had been the victim.
Suspicion was strongly directed against the two young men at
the time; but no evidence of their guilt having been traced, the
matter passed over, and was nearly forgotten. Eight years
had elapsed, and the murder remained undiscovered, when,
in July last, a woman named Bruyant made a disclosure,
which put the guilt of Quin and Henrique beyond the pos-
sibility of a doubt. She stated that her son (since dead) was
Ine of the party to the fete of Venette in 1833, and on his re-
urn home on the night in question, was an unseen witness
If the violence and brutality of these two young men towards
he deceased. He was afraid to interfere at the time, or to
nake it known afterwards, and, although he communicated
he secret to his mother, it was with the strictest injunctions
o silence that he did so. He had another motive, besides
'ear, for this apparently remarkable conduct ; he was at the
me paying his addresses to Quin's sister, and could not bear
se thoughts of denouncing him whose sister he contemplated

narrying.
The prisoners, who, in the face of this revelation, persisted
n an obstinate denial of their guilt, were convicted, and sen-
tenced to 15 years' imprisonment, with hard labour (travaux
'orces)—L'Audience (Paris journal.)

iEPEAL ASSOCIATION-MONEY GONE ASTRAY
-DISAPPEARANCE OF THE GOLDEN EAGLES•

PUBLIC HUE-AND-CRY.
Stolen or strayed—lost or mislaid—
A Hundred-pound Bill and two Golden Eagles;
Supposed to have been lost, after coming by post,
At the Mayoralty-House—or applied by its Host
To feed his nine couple of Beagles.
Whoever will give information
Of the thief to the undersigned Yankees,
Rewarded shall be with a pretty tarnation
Almighty abundance of—Thank'ye's.
The most remarkable business of last Monday's sittings at
the Corn-Exchange, was the acknowledgment of sundry re-
mittances of American sympathy, and the discovery of some
gross frauds on the exchequer. " Mr. Ray read a letter from
the Boston Repealers, which stated that a bill of exchange for
£lOO and two golden eagles, that had been sent by post in
the month of September last, had been mislaid or lost. The
eagles were worth about ten dollars each ; but of bill or
eagles there was no account." The bill, it appears, was
made payable to the order of Daniel O'Connell, Esq., and
the letter conveying it addressed to the liberator. The right
hon. the lord mayor denied the receipt of any such letter or
enclosures, and boldly imputed the theft. to some " thief
connected with the Post-office." The I ankees, however,
make a shrewder guess, and " still indulge the hope that in
the hurry and excitement attending your municipal election,
the packages may have been received and overlooked.—Dub-
lin Evening Mail.

LORD HOWICK
NANDDE THE FISHERMEN OF
SURLAND.

I have learned your misfortunes ; I pity them much ;
But those who go fishing must count upon such,
And my friends in your borough won't let me subscribe,
Lest it pass for a weakness, it not for a bribe.

Men must toil for their bread, against losses must hoard
If still they are starving, must call on the board ;
Of true destitution that call is the test,
And the rules of their Union will do all the rest.

You ask me to help you, in charity's name,
But modern Intelligence laughs at the claim ;
For the mind of this century never can brook
To have its Wing tied to one little, old book.

Peel quotes it; lie's welcome; we care not a straw ;
There's 'Malthus against it, and his is our law;
And our prophets, who sit on three thrones in the Strand
Say " This giving of nlms is the curse of the land".

Excuse me ; vet truly I pity your case,
And pity is something from one not in place ;
My bosom bleeds for you, but 'tis not our creed,
That,
besides a man's bosom, his purge too, should bleed.
VERRIO

guswas.—The ashes of the commonest fire are melan-
choly things, for in them there is an image of death and ruin
--of something that has been bright, and is but dull, cold,
dreary dust—with which our nature forces us to sympathise.
How much more sad are the crumbled embers of a home ,
the casting down of that great altar where the worst among
us sometimes perform the worship of the heart ; and where
the best have offered such sacrifices and done such deeds of
heroism as, chronicled, would put the proudest temples of
old time, with all their vaunting annals, to the blush !
Master Humphrey's Clock.