The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-03-28 00:00:00

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE

The following dreadful suicide, says the Memorial Borde-
laie, took place, a few days ago, at Loubieng, near Orthez
(Basses-Pyrenees) :—" A young girl, the daughter of a farmer,
finding herself pregnant, and without hope that her seducer
would marry her, got together a large quantity of stubble and
dried plants, and, having made a pile of them, set fire to it,
and then placed herself on the burning heap. In her agony
she uttered loud cries, which brought two persons who wer
in the neighbourhood to the spot; but she was air

dreadfully burnt that she died two hours afterwards."
A LONG FAST.—The Censeur de Lyons gives the following
remarkable fact in the physiology of animals:—•' On the 2d
ult., a boy in the employ of the miller at the village of Tar-
cieux lost one of the flocks of turkeys under his charge, and
was not found till the sth instant, having remained the
whole of the 30 days without food. The poor bird was dis-
covered in a hole in the wall of part of the mill, into which it
had got, and from which it could not afterwards emerge. It
was lying with its head under its wing, in a sort of stupor.
At the commencement of its fast, the turkey weighed bei:ween
10Ib. and 121 b., but when found it was reduced to little more
than feathers, skin, and bone, weighing not more than 21b.
It was not dead, and the miller, following, the prescription of
the Tsfedicin malgre lui for mute girls and parroquets, admi-
nistered to his bird small quantities of bread sopped in wine.
After an hour, the attenuated animal opened its eyes, and
assumed an energy of motion like one in a state of intoxica-
tion, but has since become gradually better.
THE JEWS IN SYRIA..—A correspondent of the Times,
who signs himself " M. Solomon," gives the following case
of persecution, in which the tragedy of Damascus was nearly
reacted :—" A catholic clergyman intrigued with a girl of his
Hock in Sidon ; they decided on elopement, but waited until
a steam-boat should arrive at Beyrout, for Asmir, in Tur-
key. The boat arrived ; the priest appointed the girl to meet
him, and shaved off his beard to prevent detection ; but when
they arrived at Beyrout they missed the boat, and then

reefed their way to a small village, to be near at hand when
any.other boat should be ready. In the interim the father
of the girl came home. He asked for his daughter. The

mother observed the girl was gone on a visit to her sister,
but, sending to ask if the girl was there, the answer was that
she had not seen her. The father on this immediately went
to the French Consnl (Signor Corti), at Sidon, who expressed
his suspicion that the Jews were the guilty partici, and ap-
plied to the governor to send a force, which was acceded to,
and 40 soldiers were commanded to surround the Jews' quar-
ter of the town. Every house was entered by them and the
mob during the night. The next morning, however, a tra-
veller arrived at Beyrout, and being told the cause of all this,
he said he could clear up the business, as he saw two persons
on horseback, and knew the stable-keeper to whom the
horses belonged. On inquiry being made, the priest who
had engaged them and the route taken were made known,
and the fugitives were discovered. I need not say how happy
the poor Jews were at their miraculous escape from the tor-
ture and death with which they were threatened. It is a
singular coincidence, that at the very same time the Jews in
Jerusalem had also an attempt made on them, which was
frustrated at its commencement."

THE MONOMANIACS.—As it may interest some of, the
public who are curious in matters of monomaniacs, we can
inform them that the latest intelligence from Bedlam an-
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nounces that Stevenson, thk
sistance to the keepers of the
day to disencumber him of his immense mousta
long beard. He denounced as a gross personal ind
attempt to apply a razor to his face,
been polluted, he said, by any such sharp weapon of destruc-
tion. The keepers, however, succeeded in stripping him,
after no small force, of those hirsute embellishments which
bad imparted such interest to him at the Mansion-house,
and would have made him a great lion indeed at Bedlam.
So determined was Stevenson to preserve at least some por-
tion of his long-cherished beard, that be cunningly contrived
to conceal a part of it inside his neckcloth ; but the eyes of
the keepers were as sharp as their razor, and every hair was
shorn away. Stevenson is now confined on the ground floor
of the criminal ward of the asylum, as is also M'Naughten.
We hear that M'Naughten keeps up no intercourse with his
but evinces a disposition to get into con-

Dt chm an , made serious r

am who proceeded on Fri-

which had never before

fellow-prisoners.

fsation with

on their

admission, confined on

nd are con-

1 there until a careful obsery

ttion of their habits and
and harmlessness—shall

conduct—such as their cleanl

satisfy the authorities that it is safe to remove them to the
-.its on the first floor, and then, if they continue to
he confidence of the authorities, they are
removed to the second !loon, Oxford has already attained

apartuie

gaini further on t,

this envied eminence, and we think we may say, without fear

of contradiction, that there is not a man in or about the
prison, capable of judging, who does not regard him as per-
fectly sound in his mind on every subject. The same im-
--3vails as to M`Naughten,t hough not with the
same certainty, as the means of observation have not been
of the aple duration.—Observer.

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