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

FOREIGN MISCELLANY.

A SINGULAR PROOF 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 TOLERATION.—COMMUIIiCatiOUS 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 DEATH.—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,
strippinc, the child naked and suspending him by a cord
to the rafters 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.-014 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 me to
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.