The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1854-01-31 00:00:00

FOREIGN MISCELLAIVY.

A SINGULAR PRoor of the unpopularity of the Queen
of Spain and her government has been given by the oppo-
sition journals. No allusion was even made to the Queen's
confinement in their columns
TURKISH TOLERA.TlON.—Communications from Con-
stantinople state, that not only is it true that a Turk has
lately been executed at Adrianople, for becoming a Chris-
tian, but that a Jewish Rabbi is under sentence of death
for blaspheming Mahommed.
A BOY FLOGGED TO DEATIL—The Daily Argus
(Madison, Indiana) contains the following harrowing re.
cital. The facts are said to have been established by judi-
cial investigation, and were related by the presiding judge :
—A beautiful, fair-haired, blue-eyed boy, about nine years
of age, was taken from the orphan asylum in Milwaukee,
and adopted by a respectable farmer of Marquette, a pro-
fessor of religion and a member of the Baptist persuasion.
A girl, a little older than the boy, was also adopted into
the same family. Soon after these children were installed
in their new home, the boy discovered criminal conduct on
the part of his new mother, which he mentioned to the
little girl, and it thereby came to the ears of the woman ;
she indignantly denied the story, to the satisfaction of her
husband, and insisted that the boy should be whipped
until he confessed the falsehood. The man proceeded to
the task assigned him by procuring a bundle of rods,
stripping the child naked and suspending him by a cord
to the raters of the house, and whipping him at intervals
for over two hours, till the blood ran through the floor,
making a pool on the floor below ; stopping only to rest
and interrogate the boy, and getting no other reply than
Pa, I told the truth—l cannot tell a lie ; ' the woman all
the time urging him 'to do his duty.' The poor little
hero, at length released from his torture, threw his arms
around the neck of his tormentor, kissed him, and said,
' Pa, I am so cold,' and died. It appeared in evidence
upon the trial of this man and woman for murder, that
the child did tell the truth, and suffered death by slow
torture rather than tell a lie. The age of heroism and of
martyrdom will not have passed till mothers cease to instil
holy precepts into the minds of their offspring. The man
and woman who murdered this angel-child are now in the
penitentiary at Waupun, to which they were sentenced for
ten years."
HORRIBLE FATE OF DISSERTERS.—On the night of the
21st October last, privates William Lemon, Thomas
Buckley, and Patrick Cullinan, 67th Regiment, deserted
from the detachment stationed at Tortola. They were
accompanied by a black man, named William Brooke, and
we proceed with the narrative in the words of William
Lemon; the sole survivor of this ill-fated party. "We
took a boat from the bay, the property of Mr. Percivall,
with an intention of deserting to Crab Island, thinking to
get a vessel to take us to America. On the third night of
sailing we came in sight of Santa Cruz ; our provisions
were then out, and the next day a gale came on, took our
mainsail, and drove us out to sea. Two large sea-birds
lodged in the boat during the night, which was all the
food we had for eleven days. Patrick Cullinan then pro-
posed to cast lots which should die ; this was done by four
pieces of straw, the shortest to die. It fell to the lot of
private Thomas Buckley. Cullinan then bound Buckley's
arm for the purpose of being bled to death. Buckley bled
himself with a knife, Cullinan and the black man drink-
ing his blood, and shortly afterwards they went mad and
jumped overboard ; but previous to this I bound Buckley's
arm up ; he being my comrade, I did not like to drink his
blood; he tore the bandage from his arm, and Cullinan,
with Brooke, the black man, drank off his blood again,
and then jumped overboard. Buckley soon after this died,
and I was left alone in the boat with nothing but his dead
body, which in about five hours I threw overboard. I then
tied up the helm and laid down in the boat, and let her
'drift before the wind. That night I caught a sea-bird
that lodged on the boat ; two or three days after this I
came in sight of land (St. Domingo). I ran the boat on
shore, and two of the coast-guard came and carried inc to 1
a hut on the beach, where I got some refreshment. I was '
then taken in a boat to Jacmel, before the English consul,
who kept me at his house until the steamer arrived, and
then sent me to St. Thomas's, from thence to Tortolo."
The above is corroborated by the English consul at Jacmel,
who states that Lemon landed at Saltour, St. Domingo,
having, as he stated, been three weeks at sea.—United
Service Gazette.

TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1854.

TABLE Timmia.—A woman has been sent to prw--df
Metz for making a table " talk " scandal about 90
women. The libellous table maintained a discreet taw
in court.
PUZZLES FOR POLL-CLERKS.—An American paPer t d
tracts from the poll-book at Nebsarka the following' sci,
free independent electors :—" Jane-e-tah-e-qnsh-grb,
Os-si-e-men-e-men-he, Mali-men- wan-e-kah, Pe-shah-in?
me-quah, Muh-at-tah-noh-no-to, Kah-ka-noh-ne-we-to-tv.;
MAD'LLE GEORGES, the great French actress, vilar.?
life, after having been a series of brilliant adventures,
been gradually declining, has been reduced to petitioslAZ
for the office of umbrella-taker at one of the doors of
Great Exhibition of 1856 !
4—.4,404
PROTESTA NT PROGRESS Or PIEDMONT.—,OunI.--- to.
ing the steady progress which Piedmont is making
of
wards religious as well as political liberty, the nature, ,
her advancement does not even yet seem to be fully APPSe
elated in this country. It appears to us, that although 7;,
measures which the Sardinian Government has alread.tjd'
troduced, and that which is now anticipated, do not paw
of any doctrinal contradiction to the dogmas of 801 l
they are in spirit essentially of a Protestant ehars&e,
The state is overrun by an enormous clerical army.
a population under five millions, it has thirty-five bisheri
more than eight thousand priests, besides the monks ents,
nuns, who are stowed in nearly five hundred convel
Some of these monastic orders subsist by begging;
majority of the priests possess a paltry pittance, conir7o,
ble only to that of the priests in Ireland. Thought,
much depressed, this immense ecclesiastical and mons:
army has been an instrument of civil disorder, by
deavouring to depose the sovereign temporal authorityd
setting over it the authority of the Pope. Sardinia
been able to sustain herself against such attempts, r,
she now proposes to make a further step towards eceleslsi
tical independence, by bringing the whole body of, ,
tef
clergy more under the control of the state. The cw
measures are, the suppression of the medicant orders,j;:
taming only those which are self-supporting and charita%
a reduction in the number of bishoprics and eanonri
with equalization, of emoluments, especially an increase
salaries for the poorer priests ; and finally, an eeelesiastv
commission to investigate and re-arrange church revel;
There is no doctrinal question here; but while, by
very nature of the proceeding, the government of the Int
asserts its supremacy over the indwellers, of all orders:
must win a grateful feeling on the part of the wort"rl
clergy, to whose comforts it will so tangibly minister,lo,
it must secure the confidence of its own people. The tc;
pith of Protestantism is independence of Rome,
Sardinia is thus by degrees establishing.—Spectator. 4
GROSS IMPOSTURE.--A gross imposture was 1314
practised at Venice, which excited the highest inter't
from the peculiar circumstances attending it. About 6,
latter end of last year a young man made his appearoja,
in that place, clad in the episcopal costume of the
He pretended to be a certain Giovanni Battista Fs
Apostolic Vicar-General of Fez, travelling for his heo.---Itt
and using sea baths. The reception he met with wig,
be called brilliant. At Venice, Gorz, Cividale,and L'dln.
he was received by the Catholic bishops as well as by
elite of society with the utmost distinction. He receic4
large sums of money for pious purposes, celebrated 1131',
in the largest cathedrals, and was about to receive ece'
the privilege of confirming bishops, when the police Inlet
fered in right time, and discovered: that the pretenuo
bishop was no other than a common impostor, born,i,
Petriolo, near Florence. He had been expelled, in 127;4
from the Ecclesiastical Seminary, where he had
reared, when he practised his imposture in several PlB.l
of Tuscany, where he read mass, exercised various der
functions, and committed all sorts of knavery. Thence 4
travelled, in 1852, with a false passport, to Malta, Afri'c,
Asia, and the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea. Firi
he forged a decree, as Vicar-General of Fez with whichA
was, at last detected at Venice. The episcopal insign,
which he wore had been fabricated from yellow metal
raper. It is rather strange that he should have been Ow./
to maintain his false position so long in high society'
Augsburg Gazette.