The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-09-07 00:00:00

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CIRCUMSTANTIAL EVIDENCZ

ExTRAoRniNA_.
small town of Cambo, near Bayonne, was the seene.of

the following strange occurrence on tile night opt me ztsi
inst, when an inhabitant of that place was shot dead
through the heart, on his way home. On probing the
wound, the doctor extracted from it a bit of printed paper,
which had been used by the assassin in loading his gun.
It was part of a leaf from Madame de Stael's celebrated
romance of " Corinne," and soon afterwards the corres-
ponding fragment was discovered in the pocket of a
douanier, residing near the murdered man's residence.
He has, in consequence, been sent to jail at Bayonne

The assassin must have been close to the victim when

French paper

fired.—
Earl Grey, secretary for the colonies, has addressed a
letter to Sir Henry Pottinger, directing him to establish a
kind of military colonists on the disturbed frontier of Caf-
freland. The soldiers of the 27th and the Ist battalion of
the 91st Regiment, now at the Cape, are to be discharged
if they will accept service in the local militia. These men
are to be settled on the frontier of the disturbed district,
and allotments of land to be assigned to them, so that
henceforward the charge of their maintenance will be
partly at their own cost, and partly, we presume, at that
of the colonial treasury. If the plan should answer, of
course it will be unnecessary to maintain so large a force at
the Cape as we have hitherto done, and the imperial ex-
chequer will be proportionably relieved.
ATTEMPTED MURDER AT PARIS BY A PRINCE.—A
very unpleasant feeling was excited in Paris on Tuesday
by a report that a prince (son of one of Napoleon's
marshal's) had attempted to murder his mistress. The
name of this nobleman was before the public some months
back as the plaintiff in a suit against his mother, in order
to get removed a judicial interdiction, granted against him
on the application of his family, for extravagant and irre-
gular conduct. The tribunal refused to accede to his
demand, and the prince has since, it is said, resumed his
former wild kind of life. The particulars of the attack oh
his mistress were not very well ascertained on Tuesday ;
but the rumour was, that after a quarrel he had stabbed
her more than once, and then fled to Belgium by the
Northern Railway. Her wounds are said not to be
dangerous. The nobleman is the Prince d'Eckmuhl.
THE EMIGRANT FEVER IN CANADA.—The Canadian
papers last received give dreadful accounts of the ravages
of the epidemic in Montreal, Toronto, &c. At the former
place, the Rev. Mr. Richards (a Roman Catholic) had
died, and the whole of the sisters of the Gray Nunnery
were prostrated by the malady. The number of immi-
grants that arrived to 2nd August was 20,886. There
were in the hospital at Toronto 640 ; 36 had died within
the previous week. On the passage across, in the Sir H.
Pottinger, 98 had died, and 112 were sick on her arrival.
The Virginius, from Liverpool, lost 158 out of 496 pas-
sengers. The total of emigrants to Canada was 60,000,
and of these 5000 to 6000 had perished on the passage, or
since their arrival. The accommodations provided for
them on board was not adequate, and the home govern-

ment is blamed. The deaths in the hospitals were very
numerous, and some most affecting incidents are related
of the desolation caused amongst poor Irish families.
SHIPWRECK, AND DEPLORABLE Loss OF LlFE.—Let-
ters from Aden communicate the loss of the barque Wel-
come, of London, 500 tons burthen, on the coast of Yam-
bro, West Africa, with most of her crew. She had been
chartered by the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga-
tion Company to convey coals to their depot at Suez. On
the 14th of April, though the weather was moderate, she
by some accident ran on a reef of coral rocks, S.W. of
Yambro. She was soon got off apparently without serious
damage, but after clearing the reef, settled down by the
bow, and in three minutes sank in 100 fathoms of water.
There was no time to launch a boat. The master, mate,
a seaman, and an Arab, saved themselves by clinging to a
boat bottom up, which they cut adrift when the vessel
foundered, and which was washed back to the reef. The
remainder of the crew, fifteen in numner, were drawn
down in the vessel, and all perished. The survivors got
the boat righted, and reached Yambro in 48 hours in an
exhausted state. The governor treated them kindly and
obtained them a passage to Aden. The names of those
drowned are not given. Most of them were from the
Thames.