The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-12-26 00:00:00

FOREIGN.

Since the 3rd August, nearly twenty thousand persons
have dieri of cholera, in Poland.
The Madrid journals of the 16th inst., announce that a
plot for the assassination of Gen, Narvaez had been disco-
vered, and that thirteen persons had been arrested ill
consequence.

The Moniteur Toscan, cited by the Nazionale, of Flo-
rence, of the 15th inst., says that his Holiness the Pop.
informed M. Courcelles, Envoy Extraordinary of France,
that his stay at Gaeta would be but short, though ha
wished to show that he appreciated the hospitality that
had been offered him. It is said that the Pope would
proceed to France immediately the news was received of
the election of the President. He is therefore most likely
now on his way to that country. Marseilles will most
probably be the port where he will land.
SUDDEN WEALTH IN CALIFORNIA. A letter dated
San Bias, Sept. 26, 1848, and published in the Morning
Herald of Saturday last, says—" One man in one day
gathered gold to the value of £l6O sterling, a.-.d though
this is a sinvilar cage, yet the common wages offered is
£3 49. per day, with subsistence to any man who will dig
for a certainty in preference to working the speculation
on his own account; but this is almost universally re-
jected ! for every one is discontented with his day's tabour,
and removes to another part of his diggings, who doesnOt
pick up the value of from £6 to £8 a day. One gentle-
man who employed eight Indians, cleared in three days
£320 by gold, ao.I £l2O by tnerchandie; in all £5OO. 4,
blanket that cost 16s. sold for more than £2O, and eves
now they are selling wholesale in San Francisco fur £3 a
pair. Bowie knives, worth from Bs, to 12s. each, sold
for £l2 sterling. A•aother searcher in four weeks made
£l2OO. One man left, after a few days' collecting, with
25105. weight of gold, and another is said to have sent
down 1251b5:

On Priday, Mrs. Twynam, wife of D. Twynamcof
Bishopstoke, destroyed herself by blowing out her brain,
with a gun. She was subject to mental deranvenent.
In the reign of eitarb.s 2nd no provincial town in thir
kingdom contained 39,000 inhabitants ; and cmly four
provincial towns contained so many as 10,000,inhabitnts.

A correspondent of the Morning Herald in• describing
the gold country of Catifornia, says "„old, to the value
of £9, has been• given for two bottles of brandy," and
that "five loads- of earth which had been dsg• out and
sold for £l6t) yielded after washing £4000."
A GOLDEN DiscovEn7.—At the recent sale' of th
effects of the late Rev. ,Miles Barton, of H;i4le,• amour
other articles, an antique chest was purchased by the Rev.
Mr. Price, of Lonzroti, to whose residence it was removed.
On examinimt the interior narrowly, Mr. Price wise sure
prised by finding secreted therein the sum of £240, whick-
had evidently reposed insecurity for a long series of years..
The treasure was immediately returned to the proper
parties.—Preston Cvnedian.

INTENTIONS OF TM& AttTOCRAT:—The Frankfort Jour:,
nal, of the 19th, says that Russia remaking great prepa-'
rations to decide the fate of Europe by the sword. This'
is the reason of her forces being concentrated on the fron-•
. tiers of the empire. The Einperor is reported to have sail'
,he would not permit the'people to revolt against his bro-
ther of Prussia, and is prepared to march 500,000 men to
his assistance. Shou!d This-be-the easei, the war of opi-
nion will then begin in earnest.
A UL MORDER.—A ease of mm-dry. occurred at;
Glencunny, -near Enniskillervi• on• Sunday week, of a
man named Wilson. The unfortunate man had gone to
bwreedh, {who was
vrinmiigas, in the middle of tite night was awoke by p.-.rsonS
through the windbw,- and infOrming- Wilson,
(
woodranger to the- Earl of Enniskitlea,) that
s
there were people in the wocd stealing-, timber. Wilsost.
'immediately arose, but had ant'proceeded: further than
the dOnr, when he was shot dead;and his body waf,after-
wards.tbrown into the Sillies river.- The • body was dis-
coverecrthe day following.

THE STANFIELD HA LL Maktrcus:—Rash. was of
Thursday conveyed to Stanfield Hall, under a, writ of
habeas corpus, granted by Mr. Justice Wighwmam ins
order to be present at the reception of the deonsiii°lls.°L
Eliza Chestney, the servant who was so seriously wounded.
The witness declared her belief that the prisoner was tha
man who shot her, acknowledging that she bad had but
an imperfect view of his features, and relying principally'
upon the form of his head and person as the.gcound og
his identification. The wig which was found at Itash'l4
house was placed upon his head and confirmed the,witness,
in her belief as to his identity. The prisoner cross-,
examined the witness with his accustomed coolness and.
astuteness: but without impairing the effect of her testi-4
merry, arid 'at the runritrYturrtrl ttt caztntntttttrrttcWWl
taken back to Norwich Castle. No success has attended;

the uninterrupted search for the firearm

THE LATE MURDER AT BRIDGEZTORTIL—A fortnights
ago we gave the particulars of a diabolical murder att
Bridgenorth, sapposed to have been perpetrated by a wo-
man named Catherine Mercy Newton, epon- her own me...-
oer, by stabbing her with a fork and' then setting_her ors
fire. It appears that the deceased had' the interest of £5OO
for her life, and at her death the prisoner was to have
£2OO of that sum, and the interestof the remaining £3OO
for life. Impatient of her mother'S-long .life' she. was
constantly ill-treating her, many parties having heard her
threaten her-life, and say that she had had enough of her
property, and once she attempted to strangle the poor old
woman. On the night of the murder, deceased went to
tPe her daughter, who was the housekeeper at Mr. R.
Dyer's, and the other servant, Mary Col-field, left them
totether. It appears that a quart of rum was fetched,
two-thirds of which was drunk that: night. About two
o'clock in the morning Mr. Dyer awake his servant in
consequence eta smell of fire, and on getting assi4ance
the old woman was fouptl lying dead at the door ,of this
brewhouse, with the upper part of her body horribly burnt,
and there were traces of oil which appear. to have been
used for the-parpose of facilitating,the operatica of the
flames. The medical evidence, however, would lead to
the supposition that deceased had
.been strangled before
the burning. _ Her daughter was founds:tting on the-sofa,
quite drunk, and so totally careless-of the fate et her pa-
rent as to tell one witness that '• she now felt as happy as
if she were in heaven !" On Wednesday night.(having
been committed by the magistrate) she was conducted
amidst the yells and groans of avast assemblage of the
populationao the gaol, protected' by an additional force
of the police and constables.—Worcester

SHIPWRIMICS AND Loss OF :Wnm.—Several disasters
occurred off the Irish coast during the storm of Friday'
week. A brigantine from Palermo, supposed to be that
Milton, of 'Y'armouth, laden with fruit and olive oil. was
driven on shore in Newfoundland Bay, and all bands, sir

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in number; were lost. The vessel went to pieces in five
minutes, and hundreds of the country peopla- flocked to
the plunder of the wreck. A French schooner from Ro-
chelle, bound to Waterford, and the brig Free Trader,.
bound from Galatz to Sligo, with corn, went. ashore im
Dunworley Bay, and became' complete wrecks. Crews
saved by means of rockets and the coast guard. At
Glandore a schooner was dashed to pieces and all hands
• '^^l At How Strand, the barque Severn., of and to.

pertsn.—
sleep—
ers, dßoirt,chfair-odmcSrte.scJac:hnm'sa.stwierthy
whams
coast guard saved the lives of fifteen of the crew out of 17-
dweareckaendd. sleTehp;
The other two were drowned' in the surf. At Newcastle,.
county, down, the British barque Bee, 572-. tons, Thomaa
Mui -, master, five days out from Liverpool, belonging torl
Hatrusb & Co., New Ross, went on shoranearDick's Bay.,
rtgootall of
y deals

ne man was lost

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rest being saved by means of the rocket-apparatus. Thar
Grace Darling, of Dundalk, from New York, with Indian.
corn, M. Dorsi', master;, for Newry, was wrecked at New—.
castle. Crew saved. Off Cooley Point, the pilot boak‘-
Betty Jane, of Whitestown, on the look out for vessels,
was upset and swamped, and 5 of the_crew were drowned..
On the following morning the brig Pandora, of Wexford,
was totally lost at the North side of, the Bay,—all. hen&

driven

ashore at a place called Howe's Strand, in Courtreasherry
Bay. Four of the crew were saved by taking to the beat,
but the remainder, eleven in number, .remained in the
ship, and it is understood have all perished, as the sea
completely SA ept her decks. She now lies on the rocks a
total wreck. The cargo, being, timber, will be partially
saved. Another wreck took place at the Broad Strand,
in the above-mentioned bay. A large French brig, of
about 300 tons burden, came on shore, and is now high
and dry on the rocks. She is called the Puchet, front
Bourdeaux to Liverpool,. with a general cargo of wine,,
fruit, &c., the greater part of which will be saved, should.,
the weather be moderato. The captain's. son, who was
on board, was drowned in attempting to reach the shore,.
and the rest of the crew had a narrow escape.

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DIED,
On the 22d instant, at Edinburgh, deeply regretted, aged. 46,
MARY, the beloved wife of Mr. GEOKQE !VALERA, late of
this town, and youngest daughter of Mr. James Dighton.,
Hampton Court, Kirk Braddan, isle of Man.

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26, 1948

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