The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-04-16 00:00:00

FOREIGN A ,\D COLONIAL.

The coral fisheries on the coast ofTrance, during the
last year, gave a produce of, says the Manileur Parisien
100,000 francs.

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The massacre of the Bishops Jinbert, Messrs. Chastan
and Manban, with 70 Christians, all Roman Catholics, at
Corea, is confirmed by the Friend of China. The same
paper adds, that in addition to the above, who were all be-
headed, 180 other Christians were put•to death by strangu-
lation.

RESPITE OF JOHN BROWN. AMERICA'S SLAVE
CASE -It is announced in ari American paper, by th-e last
_arrival, that "the young man sentenced to death for aid•
ing in the escape of a quadroon slave has been pardoned
by the Governor of South Carolina. He is, however, to
be publicly whipped."
FRANCE.—The government, it is•said, has determined
on abolishing slavery in its colonies. A sum of two mil-
lions sterling is to be appropriated, in imitation of the
English plan, in purchasing from the masters the liberty
of their slaves. The plan is not vet matured, but we may
expect to hear something decided on the subject before
the close of the session.

The French papers confirm the account, that the Porte
bad yielded to the demand addressed to it by Great Br.tain
and France that a formal assurance should he given, that
in future no renegade returning to Christianity be put to
death in Turkey. The following is the official note, dated
March 2, which bas been handed to the English and
French ambassadors :—" His"highness the sultan is irre-
vocably resolved to maintain the friendly relations, and
strengthen the bonds of perfect sympathy which unite him
with the great powers. The Sublime Porte engages for
the future to prevent, by effective means, any Christian
abjuring Islamism, being put to death."
ALARMING RUMOUR.—We in our last gave Cape news
to the Ist of December, but have since received some
papers of earlier date, in one of which we regret to ob-
serae mention of a report current in the settlement, that
slier Majesty's brig of war Rapid, of 10 guns, Lieutenant-
Commanding C. E. Earle, belonging to the Cape station,
lad been sunk near Benguela, after a smart fight with a
-Spanish slaver, and that every soul on board had perished.
Ilet. Majesty's steamer Thunderbolt had been despatched
to szcertain the precise circumstances in connexion with
this unhappy affair. The following officers were on
board the Rapid :—Lieutenant-Bommanding E. C.
Earle; second master, W. Studwell ; assistant-surgeon,
W. Maitland ; clerk in charge, H. Niblett.—Uniteci
Service Calcutta Gazette, February 9.
DR. -KLLLEY AND RELIGIOUS LIBERTY IN POE,
TUGAL.—The case of Dr. Kalley, who was last autumn
illegally,imprisoned at Madeira, on a charge of " blas-
bhemy and heresy," and " abetting apostacy and heresy,"
as .been tried at Lisbon and Funchal. On the 24th
February, the Judge Conservator at the latter place passed
the following sentence :—" Supposing the British subject.
Dr. Kalley, to have disturbed the public order of this
island, by preaching doctrines opposed to its religion, as
is sworn by the witnesses ; and considering this preaching
an abuse which degenerates into crime; nevertheless, the
said Dr, Kalley, as a Protestant, which he is, is not pu-
nishable, seeing that there does not exist a law to punish
in the person of the accused the act chareed. I, there-
fore, declare the accusation given against the said Dr.
Kalley irrelevant, and order him to be held clear of guilt."
Baffled on the religious question, Dr. Kalley's prosecu-
tors, it is said, are going to institute proceedings against
him as a disturber of the public peace.

IRELAND.

IRISH EDUCATION.—The proposed grant this year to
the National Board is £27,000, being an inci ease for the
year of £22,000.

A man .charged with the murder of Mr, Waller and
Miss Vereker, at Finnee, escaped from Nanagh gaol on
last week.

OLD AGE!! !—MORE THAN " FOUR-SCORE YEARS AND
TEN.—Mrs. Henderson, who nursed the late Archbishop of
Dublin, Dr. Magee, attended divine service in St. Audoen's
Church, Dublin, on Easter Sunday morning last at seven
o'clock. She is now one hundred and four years of age;
she walka to and fro from the church, and was a commu-
nicant at the Lord's Supper.--Dublin Statesman.
DEATH OF Ron Eat COURTENY, OF BALEDMOND, ESQ.
This well-known and extensively connected gentleman
died, at his residence, Ballyedmont, in his 87th year, on
Thursday. He was one of our oldest, and while health
of our most active magistrates, as welt as one of the most
considerable and improving landlords of the part of the
country in which he resided. For years that reach beyond
the recollection of many that read of his decease, he had
been in the habit of giving employment to a laree num-
ber of our labouring population, among whom notwith-
standing his decided Conservatism, he was popular, as
among those of his own class of life he was respected.—
Cork Conlervailve.

SIR R. PEEL AND THE STATE TRIALS,—The London
correspondent of the Dublin Evening Mail contains the
following :—" London, Monday.—The meeting of Con-
servative- members, held at Sir R. Peel's official residence,
Downing-street, to-day, was very numerously attended.
In the course of his statement, Sir R. Peel made this
important announcement.—That as the Government were
determined to bring Me evil doers and the disturbers of
the public peace to justice, it behoved them to see that the
inhabitants of Ireland were left no just grounds of com-
plaint. This announcement sets at rest the question as to
whether Mr. O'Connell and the other traversers are to be
brought up for judgment.
THE REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—An important question
continues to be urged by the Warder—ls the repeal asso-
ciation lawful? Its avowed object is the repeal of the
-union, which the government have declared they will re-
sist, even to civil war; yet it is allowed to prosecute that
end. Sooner or later it will come to this, that it must be
made unlawful, if (as seems now admitted) it be at present
no crime, to seek to make Ireland independent of the im-
perial legislature. Mr. O'Connell is convicted for seek-
ing it by intimidation and other unlawful means ; it is im-
plied that he may use other means if he will ; and whilst
that is law Ireland will be cursed with this agitation from
end to end. He himself alleges that it is anything but a
sudden passion of his which we might hope would pass
away ; " in looking for Catholic emancipation," he told
the association on the 29th of last August, " I always said
I looked to it only as a step towards repeal." This is not
exactly what he said before the Committee of the House
of Commons, when he was " looking for the Catholic
emancipation ;" but Mr. O'Connell will often puzzle the
historian.—lrish Correspondent of the Record.
O'CONNELL IN A QUA KE.—At the great Cork dinner
given to Mr O'Connell this week, the honourable and
learned gentleman thus alluded to the probability of his
imprisonment :—" I am as sure as any man that hears me
here that I will go into prison. (several voices : You
shan't!) I must, for others command. How is any man
foolish enough to imagine that I will not. There are three
ways of avoiding the prison. First would you recommend
me to make an abject submission ?—(Cries of No.')
Now we are perfectly agreed on that. The second would
be the result of a writ of error. I confess I know so
much of the judges that, though in my conviction as an
old lawyer, putting self out of the question I have the
clearest possible case, still never believe any one who pro-
phecies the result of law suit.—(Laughter.) Still, though
there ought to be a fair chance, don't rely on it at all.—
(Cries of Oh!') The third way of avoiding it would be
by the Government abandoning the present prosecution,
and holding us by recognisance, to come up at some inde-
finite period.—(Cheers.( Will the Government do that?
They will not. They cannot. They won't relax. They
cannot relinquish, from this manifest reason, they have
not the manliness to shrink from it.
MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—A dreadful
tragedy occurred in Dublin on Tuesday se'nnight. A
man named West, a painter by trade, resided in Essex.
street, wito his wife, a young woman of great personal at-
tractions, but unfortunately addicted to the shocking vice
of drunkenness. The parties lived together on very affec-
tionate terms whilst the wife remained sober, but when
she indulged in drink she became very abusive, and dread-
ful quarrels ensued between them. On the day in ques-
tion, when there were only an old and infirm woman, the
mother of West, and one of the children, a fine boy, about
eight years of age, in the room, one of these quarrels took
place. The man, in a frenzy f passion, seized a sword-
stick, stabbed the unfortunate woman several times
through the body, and then attempted to destroy himself,
the poor old mother receiving several wounds in her at-
tempts to save him from his frantic violence. Some of
the neighbours having come in and secured him, the un-
fortunate man begged eagerly of the bystanders to be al-
lowed to die; and after he had stabbed himself, prayed.
fervently for the welfare of his child. The deceased had
borne two children, and was enciente. The following was
the verdict of the coroner's jury :—" We find that the
said Mary West came by her death from the effects of
several wounds inflicted on her person by her husband,
John West, with a cane sword, at about eight o'clock in
the evening of the 2d of April instant, in a room occu-
pied by the said West and his wife, in the house, 45,
Essex-street."

AWKWARD EFFECTS OF THE DECISION ON THE PRES-
BYTERIAN MARRIAGE QUESTION.—The Derry Standard
gives the following "case in point " as the effect of the
uncertainty of the marriage law :—lt appears that a man
named Boyd, who was transported for bigamy some time
since at the Derry Assizes, by Baron Pennefather, has
recently returned from his banishment, exulting in his
liberty, and blazing out a full-blown martyr—a miracle
of " injured innocence." This man has actually written
to Baron Pennefather for advice in the dilemma in which
be finds himself placed by the unfortunate affection of hiR
two wives. Like Captain Macheath, in Gay's opera, he
exclaims—

" How happy could I be with either,
" Were t'other dear charmer away."
Here is a copy of Boyd's letter :—" Please your Worship,
—Maybe you don't mind, but I do, that I was tried be-
fore your honour nine or ten years ago, for having two
wives. I gave a guinea to a counsellor to get me off,
which he said be would do, because I was a Churchman
and it was a Presbyterian minister married me. Your
honour would not listen to him at all, but said that a
Presbyterian minister could marry a Churchman well
enough to one of his own, awl your honour sentenced me
to be transported for seven years. It would be a long
story to tell of the voyage out, and the horrors of Botany
Bay—(may your honour never know them!) When my
time was up I was let off, and, after living near another
year in the colony, I was able to get home. Here I am,
but I don't know what to do about the wives. My father
and mother died when I was in foreign parts, and lett me
a snug house with a bit of land, and the women are both
willing to come to me. Not wishing to get into more
trouble, or to come before your honour again, or anybody
like you, I want to know which of them has a right to
me. Your honour told me that I ought to have kept to
the first, but I hear their woraLips in London say that