The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-02-18 00:00:00

TIE LIVERPOOL --STA-NDA RD.

On t
ad

as in favour o;

GRAHAM refer

T any r

coma) ercia
Mr. LAI

UCHERf

ration 1;

s"w "s
I t

',000,000

resolved
had, in t

T greater means (
life must

AflinitiesßillKromn-Tuerday tbe_2stb, at the requestoaLseveral
noble lords who would not be able to attend in theirplaces on
that day. He should regret if the postponement halthe effect
of preventing the noble lord from being present, but.it was his
full intention to bring on the question without further delay.

Lord Mormr.Aonii then diew attention to the4mportance
of establishing a communication by railway between Halifax
and Quebec, and uro•'ed_ the house not only to advance this
peat national object, but to take care that neither the Colonial
nor the Home Government stood in the way of its accomplish.
ment.

Lord STANLEY supported the object, and counselled prompt
and energetic action, as.best suited to the interests ofthe coun-
try and thehonour of the government.
Earl Gaßy, in reply, admitted the importance of the work,
and said the subject was now occupying the serious _attention
of her Majesty's government.

• GBAM Arrr. —The Bavarian government has ordered
that from each county a nraeter tradesman, a manufactu-
rer, and two journeymen wall be .eent at its expense to
the London Exhibition. The masters are to receive
£26 12s. 6d. each. the men £l7 Iss. eacb, for their tra-
velling expenses. The government will also send over
scientific men tareport on the results of the Exhibition,
and point out in-what way the information gained may be
made available for the 'promotion of Bavarian industry.
DENMARK. —Advices from Ham burgh of the 12th
instant state, that the Austrian commissioners, Count
Mensdorff, and'Baron Warnstadt, had left Hamburg for
Kiel. The mission of count Von Sponneck has been
brought to a satisfactory •termination. The count passed
through Harnburgh on the 11th, on his way to Kiel,
whence he will proceed to Copenhagen. The Assembly
of Notables will be speedily summoned, either at Schles-
wig or KieL The Danes have given up 1000 of the
Holstein prisoners.
MURDER IN CALIFORNIA.—Mr. Edwin Moore, a re-
spectable young gentleman of Bolton, has been murdered
by the Indians at the mines in California. His brother
was with him at the time, and gives the following account
of the murder. As Mr.. Edwin was eating his breakfast,
on the 26th October last., a party of Indians, about five or
six in number, came to their tent. They had a gun, a
rifle, and an ld pistol, but no apprehension was felt of
them, as they had always been very peaceable. Mr. Edwin
Moore gave his brother some medicine, and then went
away with the Indians. About half-anehour after, Mr.
H. Moore saw- an Indian stealing his gun from the tent
door ; but he pursued him and wrenched it out of his
hands. He then cried out for his brother Edwin, as he
could not see the spot where he was at work, on account
of a large rock intervening. Receiving no answer, Mr.
Henry Moore went down to the place, and, finding blood
on the ground, he conjectured that the Indians had thrown
his brother into the river. He followed the stream for
about a quarter of a mile, and then turned back. When
he got to a few yards nelow where the blood was, he saw
Mr. Edwin Moore lying on his back, in the middle of the
stream in about three feet water. Mr. Henry Moore rushed
in and hauled him out, but he was quite dead „and cold, hav-
ing received five wounds on the head chest with an axe,
each one of them sufficient to deprive him of life instan-
taneously. Mr. Henry Moore hastened to a cabin ten
males off, and obtained the assistance of five men, who.
helped him to bury his brother. That night, a party of 28
men of all nations, well armed, prepared to attack the In.
diens in their village, if they refused to deliver up the
murderers. On the following morning, as soon as they
got near enough, the Indians let fly a volley of arrows at
them. An affray ensued, and in it:seven of the Indians were
killed, including two women shot by mistake.
Valleyo, on the bay of San Francisco, has been chosen
as the future capital of California.
A STRUGGLE FOR THE BLOOD OF A MURDERER.—
The following extraordinary story is told in a letter from
Ysiatl, in Sweden. dated the 20th ultimo, and published
in the Daily News:—" This morning having been fixed
for the execution of a journeyman butcher, named Mar-
cusson, and a woman named Botilla-Nilsdotter, for
having murdered the husband of the latter, a vast num-
ber of persons, of all ages and both sexes, and especially
of peasants in their national costumes, arrived last even-
ing, and bivouacked in the town all night. Although for
upwards of sixty years no execution had taken place in
the province, and for upwards of eight years none in all
Sweden, it was not so much curiosity which attracted the
multitude as the desire to swallow a drop of the blood of
the criminals at the moment it should spurt from beneath
the axe of the executioner ; it being the popular belief in
Sweden that it renders the weak strong, cures all sorts of
maladies, and secures a long life. When the scaffold was
erected, the people assembled round with cups, glasses,
bowls, some even with large saucepans, to catch the
blood. The soldiers had the greatest difficulty in forming
and keeping an open space. The two culprits, who were
very penitent, arrived on the ground at seven o'clock,
and after listening to the exhortations of the priests,
gave themselves up to the executioner. The woman was
first beheaded, then the man. The anxiety of the spec-
tators was very great, and the moment the man's head
was severed they broke through the line of soldiers. The
soldiers, to drive them back, lustily employed the butt
ends of their muskets (the muskets were not loaded), and
a desperate conflict ensued. At last the crowd succeeded
in reaching the scaffold ; but, in the meantime, the police
had placed the bodies in a cart, and had sent them off
under a strong escort of cavalry. They had, however, to
take the precaution of removing, by spades and pickaxes, .
the portions of the road on which drops of blood hap-
pened to fall, to prevent the people from lapping up the
blood. When the bodies had got fairly off, the crowd
gradually dispersed : two hundred of them were griev-
ously injured, and a great number had received severe
contusions."

A JEALOUS WIVE.—A grim matron of 50, named
Madame Torteau, dressed with all the eccentricity which
on the stage, is represented to be peculiar to English
women appeared on Saturday before the Tribunal of Cor-
rectional Police to lay a complaint of adultery against her
husband. When the case was called on the names of •28
witnesses, summoned on both sides, were presented to the
President. " Twenty-eight witnesses !" cried the judge
in astonishment : " I will not hear them—three on each
side are enough, and let the parties choose three each."
" M. President," said the defendant earnestly, " three
are not enough—l must have eleven at least." " No,
sir; you shall have three, and no more." man ac-
cused, M. President, should be allowed to prove his inno-
cence by all possible means. When Galileo, M. Presi-
dent—" " What have you to do with Galileo ? You are
'accused of adultery, and in such a cause we will only hear
six witnesses—three for the accusation—three for the
defence." This decision caused evident mortification to
the 22 rejected witnesses, nearly all of whom were old
women. The plaintiff then entered the witness box with
great solemnity, and said_she complained of her husband's
adultery. "My wife is an old fool, M. President," cried
the unfortunate Torteau, " and insupportably jealous.
By her stupid jealousy she has caused me to be condemned
to fifteen days' imprisonment for neglect of duty as a
National Guard. It is enough to drive one mad to be tied
to such a woman, and I often think of blowing out rni
brains or running away to California." " But let us hear
the plaintiff," said the judge. "Ah !" exclaimed_Madame
Tortean with a profound sigh, " ah, sir ! his conduct to
me is shameful ! ' " Good God !" cried the defendant
passionately, " no husband in the world could be more
regular than I was, but you disgust me with my home with
your infernal jealousy." ""I have long seen, sir, that my
husband's conduct has been irregular." "Oh !" groaned
the defendant. " Yes, sir," continued Madame vehe-
mently, "he goes to his office at eight o'clock in the
morning, and ought to return home by ten minutes past
six at the very latest; but it is sometimes a quarter past,
and sometimes half-past. And yet, M. President," con-
tinued she,'bursting into tears, " he is only a simple clerk,
and I have 3000 f. renter.'° " But come to the point,
madame," said the judge. " Oh, sir, the thought makes
me tremble and almost faint. Well, sir, on the 20th of
December last I was ' --t

looking out of my rindow to await
the return of this monster, when I saw him enter a house
opposite. It was as if you had plunged a dagger into me.
I hurried down stairs, went to the house, and asked to
whom the gentleman had gone. 'To a woman who lives

here,' said the concierge: ' And is she pretty ?' I asked
faintly. 'Very !' Sir, I was almost dead, end fell sense..
less on a chair. And that is the proof of the adultery."
"M. President, M. President !" cried the defendant,
" hear my answer to that mad old fool. The woman in
question keeps an office for the sale of stamps, and I went
to purchase some stamped receipts for my master. Being
accustomed to do so, I naturally exchanged a few words
with and that ;^ olleged As it

is all my ask. adultery.
appeared that the jealous Madame Torteau had really no
other ground for her allegation, the tribunal gave her :a
severe rebuke for taking up its time with such nonsense,
and, to her great mortification, dismissed the complaint.--
Paris paper.

ROMAN BANDITTI.—The Daily News publishes the
following letter from Rome, apparently translated from a
foreign paper, giving the following additional particulars
respecting the bold plundering of a town in the Roman
States by Il Passatore :—" On the 25th of this month,
the theatrical corps of Portico Popoli was playing the
Death of Caesar,' Porlim Popoli is a small town of
about 4,000 inhabitants, inclosed by a high wall, entered
by two gates, and scarcely three miles from the town of
Forli, of which it is a. kind of suburb. By eight in the
evening, the hours when the theatres open in Italy, all
movement has disappeared from the streets, windows are
closed, and the inhabitants have retired to their homes,
the coffee houses, or theatres. This activity in the

is still more

_ It may then be under-
., rorlim Popoli, and particularly on an even-
Ing when the theatre was open, the streets should be so
deserted at; to make possible the occurrence now to be
related. The first act of the piece had termi-
nated, and the curtain had just fallen, when sud-
denly it rose and disclosed—instead of the actors, who
bad disappeared—ten brigands of the band del Passatore
armed with muskets and cr ',es 1--

complete

stood how

tevelled them so
as to command the entire range of the pit and boxes.
At the same moment another party, consisting of thirty

house, the issues of which were guarded, and, armed
with sabres and pistols, menaced the spectators. A
moment of stupor, during which no one dared move,
elapsed ; when the chief of the brigands advanced to the
fnntlinhta nrtri ipnv.es ...te 41, _r

the town, said—' Gentlemen, you -see by these that you
are entirely in our`power : any resistance on your part
would lead to disasters which I should be the first to
deplore, but which it depends on ydu to avert. Listen,
then, to what I have to say. T am about to callthe names of
several among you : as I pronounce a name, let him who
bears it step forth from his box and repair to his house,
in company with one or two of my friends, who will assist

him to bring hither all his hoards, and that without de-
frauding us of a porpetto.' This said, the orator dis-
played a paper, and commenced reading the fatal roll.
Submission was inevitable. A dozen carbineers formed
the sole police of Forlim Popoli. Six of these were in
the theatre, and had been gagged by the brigands. The
six others, surprised in their guard-house, had ventured a
The burgomaster was the first victim.

vain resistance