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

FRANCE

The expedition for Civiti Vecchia left Marseilles on
Sunday week. At one time it was supposed that there
would have been a serious delay, owing to the steam-fri-
gate Magellon getting aground on going out of harbour.
After much exertion she was got off, and the fleet, com-
posed of the Magellon, Labrador, and Montezuma steam-
frigates—set sail for Italy.

The expedition is composed of 3200 men, in infantry,
artillery, and engineers.

At Ceylon, a coffee estate, which four years since cost
£4,000 was recently sold for £4OO. _ _

The Frankfort joiirnals state that a plot for a republican
and socialist rising, and for the assassination of several
members of the German Parliament, has been discovered
in that city.

Prince Louis Napoleon has addressed a letter to the
Constitutionnel, expressing his disapprobation of the ex-
pedition to Civita Vecchia, because, in his belief, it is cal-
culated to endanger the peace of Europe.
Four fires took place in New York on the 12th ultimo.
Twenty-two houses, with one hundred and fifty-four
horses and twenty-five omnibuses, were destroyed. The
damage is estimated at 200,000 dollars. Amongst the
buildings destroyed is St. Barnabas' Episcopal Church.
The King of Naples has prorogued the Chambers ; after
so much hot work, time for cool reflection is needed. The
Hon. William Temple has not yet reached Naples, where
he is wanted - but he has turned up at Rome, where he
was not wanted. _ _

EXPULSION OF THE POPISH BISHOP MURPHY AND
CLERGY FROM INDIA.—The Bombay Times gives, as the
result of the enquiry before the Lieutenant-General, are-
commendation from the court to his excellency the
Commander-in-Chief for the immediate expulsion of the
Popish bishop and clergy from the Nizam's dominions.
A duel with swords took place on Wednesday in the
Bois Vincennes, between the Mayor of Montmartre and
M. de J—, The latter was very seriously wounded in
the breast. A political dispute, it appears, was the cause
of the meeting. M. Prudhon has also been wounded in
a duel, which both police and some workmen did their
best to prevent, but their vigilance was eluded by the
combatants.
TROTTING.—AN EXTRAORDINARY MATCH IN AME-
RICA.—TWENTY MILES PERFORMED IN LESS THAN
ONE HOUR.—The twenty mile match, for In ,500, Trustee
v. Time, came off on Friday, September 20, over the
Union Course, L. 1., and was won by the horse in gal-
lant style, having never been touched with a whip from
beginning to end. He accomplished the extraordinary
task, in harness, in fifty-nine minutes and thirty-five se-
conds and a half.

MR. WILSON IN AMERICA.—This gentleman's trip
across the Atlantic has commenced most auspiciously.
Having given six of his popular entertainments in New
York, where his reception was most gratifying, he pro-
ceeded to Boston, where he was greeted in the same
enthusiastic manner. He was to open the New Assembly
Rooms, in New York, on the 27th ultimo, and to give a
regular series of his entertainments. From thence he will
proceed to Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, &c.,
and so on to New Orleans, returning to New York
early in May.
Of the female immigrants who recently arrived in Mel-
bourne by the William Stewart eight were married within
twentv•four hours a'ter their landing. An offer
made to the ninth (a cautious Scotch lassie) was deferred
by the fair one, who, with some slight adumbrations as to
higher aspirations, professed her intention to " wait a wee
while." The Portland Guardian, in noticing the nuptial
arrangements, only regretted that the ladies had notibeen
landed in that delightful bay, where double the number
would have met eligible matches in half the number of
hours. " Eight weddings in twenty-four hours (quoth
our contemporary)—Pooh ! in Portland there would have
been sixteen in twelve I"—Australian Journal, June,
1848.

THE DRAMA IN AMERICA.—A theatrical warfare has
been going on in Philadelphia, between the partisans of
3fr. Macready and those of the American tragedian, Mr.
Forrest. The Yankees are not over particular when they
desire to vent their spleen on English actors ; and remem-
bering the feud aroused some time back by Forrest having
publicly " goosed" the " eminent" in Scotland, they
greeted Macready in " Macbeth" with sundry missiles,
including eggs, halfpence, &c. Of course the artist did
not secure either of these substitutes for bouquets ; the
former not being very odorous, and the latter insignifi-
cantly beneath the value of the metals this actor has been
accustomed to pick up. It appears, however, that he got
the majority of the cheers at the end of the performance.
Forrest played " Macbeth" the same night at another
theatre in Philadelphia, to a crowded and quiet audience.
A piece of lawless punishment is related in a letter pub-
lished in the Morning Chronicle, dated Monte Video, Sep.
15 : " A Roman Catholic priest was in the habit of visiting a
family named O'Gorman, father and two daughters.
With one of the latter, it appears, he was much
smitten, and at last persuaded her to elope with him.
He succeeded in getting out of Buenos Ayres to Entre
Rios, where they lived together, with the intention of
crossing the country to Rio de Janeiro as soon as possible.
The priest of the place they were in (an Irishman), sus-
pecting them from the retired way in which they lived,
betrayed them to one of the innumerable parties who
were in search of them ; they were brought to Buenos
Ayres and then shot in the Campamento, without trial,
and in cold blood. The lady was eight and a-half months
in the family-way ; the child was alive after the mother
was shot, and, at her request before death, was christened.
Of the firing party (twelve or sixteen men) drawn up to
shoot them (some of Roses' bloody gang) five or six could
not pull the trigger, and are to be shot for not doing their
duty."
SCIENTIFIC PROPHECY.—About nineteen years ago, a
Mr. Hait, of Wilton, Connecticut, then a remarkably
good student in his collegiate course, was suddenly de-
prived of his reason and memory. Under those circum-
stances his father, the Rev. Mr. !Tait, sent him to Hert-
ford ; but finding no relief he sent him to Dr. Chaplain,
of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The doctor said there was
no present relief for him, but that at the age of 36 or 37
there would be a change ; that the brain was too much
expanded for the cranium, and there would, at that age,
be a contraction, which would enable it to act healthfully.
His anxious father and family saw their hopes peremp-
torily deferred for nineteen years. That time has re-
cently expired, and, to their great joy, the prophecy is
fulfilled. The man began to inquire for his books as if
he had just laid them down, and resumed his mathema-
tical studies where he left them. There was no trace on
his mind of this long blank in his life, or of anything
which had occurred in it, and he did not know that he
was almost forty years of age. The circumstance of
greatest interest is, that whereas he went into this state
of derangement in deep religious anxiety, he came out of
it with a bright Christian hope.—New York Journal of
Commerce.

A TENDER WIFE.—At a recent sitting of the Court of
Assizes of the department du Pas-de-Calais, Catherine

Dehay, aged 59, was condemned to death for murdering
her husband at Bavincourt, arrondissement of St. Paul.
On the 28th of February last the husband suddenly disap-
peared, and the prisoner pretended that he had gone to
Arras and Paris to fight in the revolution. Some time
after she attempted to get possession of 'his property, to
which she was entitled as survivor by virtue of their mar-
riage contract ; but the notary told her that she could not
receive it until the death of her husband should be clearly
proved. On the 20th of August a-human head was found
lying in the middle of the road, and a little while after
part of a human leg, enclosed in a boot was also disco-
vered. The head was ascertained to be that of the priso-
ner's husband, and on a search being set on foot the body
was found interred in her garden. From the marks on
the head, it was evident that death had been caused by
beating the skull with a hammer. A number of disco-
veries were made in the house, and circumstances were
related by witnesses which left no doubt that the prisoner
had done the deed. It further appeared that she must
have kept the body some time in the house before burying
it in the garden, and that when it became necessary to
prove her husband's death she dug up the body, cut off
the head and limb, and placed them in positions in which
they were certain to be found, her expectations being that
it would be believed that they had been dragged there by
some animal. When the head and body were presented
to her, the wretched woman manifested not the slightest
emotion. She and her husband had long lived on bad
terms, and she was anxious to get rid of him to enjoy his
property.— Galignani's Messenger.
THE RAJAH OF SAUAWAX.—The friends of Sir James
Brooke have been much gratified by the satisfactory ac-
counts received by the last Overland Mail of that distin-
guished adventurer. After 15 months' absence he arrived
at Sarawak in the beginning of September, in her Ma-
jesty's frigate Meander, with his gallant friend Captain
Keppel, in the night, and was welcomed by his native
subjects with lively demonstrations of joy and respect, and
by a general illumination of the town, which had a very
striking effect. These people (the Dyaks) an interesting
race of periaecuted heathens, were anxious to show their
gratitude and attachment to a ruler who had rescued them
froin a barbarous yoke, and the continual inroads of pi-
rates ; and they seemed thoroughly to appreciate their
good fortune in the return of their Rajah, who, ever
since his lot was cast amongst them, has been striving with
all the resources of a powerful and humane mind, to con-
fer upon them the blessings of a paternal government and
the arts of civilized life, now combined with the glad tid-
ings of the Gospel under the auspices of the Borneo Mis-
sion. The Rajah found that, during his abscnca, in-
trigues and plots had been got up by the Brune Rajah with
some of the piratical inhabitants of Sakarron, to under-
mine his authority and shake the confidence of the natives.
But the presence of the Rajab confirmed them in their al-
legiance, and it was thought that all the attempts of dis-
affected and piratical chiefs would be frustrated, and that
the principal offenders would soon be brought to justice.
Sir James Brooke proposed visiting Brune, and forming a
treaty, if possible, with Salu. He would then make some
stay at Labuan, the seat of his government, to form that
new establishment ; and, in the spring, he will probably at-
tack the piratical rovers of Serebas and Sakarron. and so
cripple and disable the pirates as very much to impair
their future means of annoyance, while he forms leagues
with some of the neighbouring states, for mutual support.

IRELAND.

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An attempt was made, a few days since, to burn the
New Ross workhouse, by some of the female paupers, by
firing the " straw house." It was providentially got
under before the main building was ignited.
On Monday evening, about six o'clock, a large Spanish
vessel, with a cargo value over £lO,OOO, was driven ashore
near Wexford, and was totally lost. Crew saved. Ship
went to pieces immediately. Cargo completely destroyed.
The schooner Gem, of Belfast, laden with oats, and
bound to Liverpool, was totally lost on sunken rocks,
about twelve miles N.W. of the Arran Isles, on the 29th
of November. The captain, his son, and a Frenchman,
were drowned ; the mate and a boy saved, the former
much injured. The cargo was insured.

The Orangemen of the BeWait district have resolved to
abandon their meetings in public-houses, and have rented
premises for the future transaction of their business. On
Friday evening, as a means of making this arrangement
known, a soiree of the brotherhood was held in the Music-
hall. It is said that upwards of eight hundred persons
sat down to tea.

On Saturday last, Mr. Locke, vice-guardian of the
union of Kanturk, county Cork, was set upon by a num-
ber of the paupers, who were manifestly intent on de-
spatching him. Mr. Locke drew a dagger and wounded
one or two of them, but they would probably have suc-
ceeded had not the Roman catholic chaplain fortunately
come to his assistance, when his assailants retired. The
paupers accused Mr. Locke of over-severity.

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Loss OF AN AMEILICAN BARQUE.—On Friday week
the Henrietta, Jones, master, left Cork in ballast for
Swansea. The weather was unfortunatelyvery boisterous,
and on her getting outside the harbour, she missed stays
and went on the rocks, between the Cow and Calf. She
remained until Saturday morning beating fearfully, when
being no longer able to hold together, she went to pieces,
and shortly after not a vestige of the vessel was to be seen.
The Henrietta was a new vessel, not more than nine
months built. The captain and crew were with conside-
rable difficulty saved -.)y the Coast Guards.
THE SEVENTH OF DECIIMIBER.—Thursday being the
anniversary of the Shutting Of the Gates of Derry against
James. the event was celebrated by the Apprentice Boys
dining together as usual. The meeting was numerous,
the loyal enthusiasm undiminished—rather contrary, if
ipeseihte the cuetomary toaste were drank, 0eve...1...,..1
lent and appropriate songs sung, and the festivity pro-
longed till the small hours, when the ',arty separated
after a most joyous evening. The dinner took place at
the Bilton, when, it is needless to say, the fare, wines,
&c., were of the most recherche' character.
MURDER.—At Loughadreen, about four miles from
Cork, off the Skibbereen-road on Monday night week a
man was brutally murdered. The unfortunate victim James
Walsh, who was a fine hearty young man, servant to an
extensive farmer named Jennings, and was on the night
in question called from bed to look after the potato gar-
den, which was constantly watched. On going in com-
pany with a young lad, he discovered three or four busily
engaged, and sent for assistance and in the mean time ran
towards one of the party, when he was immediately over-
powered, and in an instant his brain strewed the field.
His head presented a most shocking spectacle. The only
clue to the murderers is a small portion of a spade handle
found on the spot.
STRANGE SCENE.—A few evenings since as Professor
Anderson was about to commence the performance of his
celebrated wedding-ring trick, when he inquired if any
lady in the room would favour him with her wedding-ring
for a few minutes. An old lady said he might have her's,
if he would assure her he would return it safe. The
Wizard pledged his word to return the ring uninjured.
As soon as he had got it fairly in his possession, he took
a hammer and commenced breaking the pledge of love
into pieces, when the old lady got up, and exclaimed with
a scream—" Is that my ring you are breaking in pieces ?
Is that the ring my poor husband put on my finger ?"
Not thinking the old lady intended anything serious, the
Wizard replied in the affirmative, when the old lady,
scrambling through the crowded pit, got upon the stage,
and the following extraordinary scene took place, which
was listened to with a fixed attention by the audience, (as
if Miss Faucit and Mr. Calcraft had been there, acting
one of their most impassioned scenes) :—She seized the
pieces, which the Wizard had broken, and looking on the
fragments of her ring, exclaimed, " You are a fiend ! a
monster ! ! the devil himself !! ! The curses of an old
woman be upon you! May the spirit of him who placed
that ring on my finger for ever haunt you !—I see him
now, pointing at me—mocking me !—telling me that the
tie of Heaven is broken, which bound us together on
earth, and that we shall not meet hereafter !" The dis-
tracted woman, in a state of frenzy, seized the Wizard by
the hand, and said—" If you have any pity for a heart-
broken widow—as you love the happiness of your own
mother, restore my ring, or I shall go mad " The Wi-
zard, alarmed at the old lady's excitement and powerful
language, replied—" My good woman, I will not harm
your ring, for, look, it is on your finger!" The old lady,
in a fit of joy, fainted, and was carried from the room.—
Dublin paper.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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COURT OF CHANCERY.-TUESDAY.
THE SCOTCH CHURCH, MANCHESTER.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. MUNRO.—This was an
appeal from a judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce. The question raised was simply whether the de-
fendant, (Mr. Munro,) who is the preacher in a chapel at
Manchester, connected with the ERtablished Church of
Scotland, should be prevented from preaching in the
chapel, because he had seceded from the Church and joined
the Free Kirk. His lordship, in delivering judgment,
said that the chapel had been erected on the special con-
dition that the religious services to be performed should
be in conformity with the rules and ordinances of the
Church of Scotland, and that the clergyman should be a
member of, and in communion with, that Church. Mr.
Munro having ceased to belong to the Church of Scot-
land, could not, therefore, any longer claim the right to
preach in the chapel in question. He did not, like the
large and respectable body that had, from conscientious
motives, seceded in Scotland from the Church, give up
the living which he possessed, but wished to retain the
living while he seceded from the Church. Under these
circumstances, his lordship affirmed the decree of the
court below, with costs.

IN RE NICHOLLS AND litwan.—An adjourned exami-
nation of these bankrupts, who were formerly joint pro-
prietors of the Eastham Hotel and Ferry, took place on
Wednesday last, before Mr. Commissioner Perry. Mr.
Yates, who appeared for certain creditors, examined the
first-named bankrupt at some length, and elicited from
him that, when he entered upon the Eastham-ferry Hotel,
in July, 1845, after leaving the Star and Garter, in Liver-
pool, he purchased 'furniture to the amount of £1,091,
which was paid for with money obtained from his brother-
in-law. He had no capital when he entered upon the
Eastham-ferry Hotel, the rent of which was £3OO, and
the ferry £2OO per annum. Two steam-boats (the Royal
Tar and the Clarence) were purchased for the use of the
ferry, the one costing £1,600 and the other £1,200. He
was joined by the two Messrs. Hilliar and others in the
purchase, and for the first three or four months, in 1844,
the business of the ferry was profitable, but had not been
so since. The bankrupt further admitted that he was
trading with the money of his credtiors, whose demands
amounted to £3,057, but explained that if the weather
had continued fine for any length of time, and the ferry
profitable, he would have been enabled to pay his credi-
tors, had time been allowed The joint liabilities of
the bankrupts were £2,400, and there was no property to
(I,3vide amongst the uninsured ,creditors, except the
shier Royal Tar could be sold forxaore then the leoura.

brances on her, which were £1,400. The-Commissioner
was of opinion that an amendment of the balance-sheet
was necessary, and the case was furtheradjourned forthat
purpose.
It is said that government intends to remove all the
equity business of Ireland to the Westminster Courts.
The action brought by Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P., against
the publishers of the Manchester Examiner, for libel, has
terminated in a verdict being taken, by consent, for the
plaintiff—damages, £5 ss.
The Recordership of Norwich, an office which was re-
cently vacated in so sudden and horrible a manner by the
murder of Mr. Jenny, has been given to Mr. Prendergast,
of the Norfolk Circuit. We believe that the Recorder-
ship of Bedford, lately held by Mr. Prendergast, will be
given to Mr. Burcham, of the Norfolk Circuit.
LIBEL.—In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, a
Mr. Leatham, of Dominica, obtained a verdict for £5OO
against the proprietors of Simmonds's Colonial Magazine,
for libels published therein in 1844, imputing to plaintiff
charges of brutality and cruelty, amounting to acts of
felony, during the disturbances in that island in 1844.
In the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday, in the case
of " Harman v. Hope and Others," after a trial of two
days, the jury decided that " the Hope jewels" belonged
to the plaintiff. A great deal of evidence was produced
on both sides, but the question was simply which of the
nephews of the late H. P. Hope were entitled under his
will to the possession of these jewels, valued at about
£84.000.

IMPORTANT DECISIONS IN WILL CASES.—The follow-
ing cases were heard before Slr H. Jenner Fust, recently,
and cannot be too generally' known, particularly by per-
sons who are so simple as to prefer making their own-
wills :—Mary Howell, deceased—probate refused on the
ground that the will was written on one side of a piece of pa-
per only, while the signatures were inscribed on the other.
Jonathan Birch, deceased—probate refused in conse-
quence of blanks having been left for legacies being filled
up with red ink. Jane Corner, deceased—probate refused
on the ground stated in the case of Mary Howell... Wil-
liam Sanger, deceased—probate refused on the ground of
the character of certain allegations made in the will. Es
ther Powell, deceased—application for probate opposed,
because the same will was signed by the testatrix
by two names, those of " Powell ' and " Watkin.” Pro-
bate granted on the testimony of a clergyman, who knew
the signature to be that of one and the same person.
In the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday, a car-
penter, named Avis, residing at 27, High-street, St.
Giles's, sued Mr. Nugee, a retired tailor in Harley-street,
for damages under Lord Campbell's act, arising out of
the following circumstances The defendant owned
some neighbouring houses to the residence of the plain-
tiff, in the course of some improvements to which it be-
came necessary to pull down a stack of chimneys. De-
fendant told the workmen that he did not care a d—
how they were pulled down, and, consequently, instead
of erecting a scaffolding, they put a coil of rope round
them and pulled them down by force. As was to be ex-
pected, on the bottom part being pulled forcibly one way,
the top of the chimney fell the other, and, tumbling upon
the roof and skylight of the parlour, fell across the back
of the plaintiff's wife, who was cooking
liar dinner at the
time, severely bruised her, and struck her down across
the fire. Her four children, of the respective ages of 13,
10, 8, and 6i years, were playing about her at the time,
but providentially escaped. A medical man (Mr. Fitz-
gerald) was called in, and found her severely injured in
the back, in the region of the kidneys. She was unable
to walk upright, and was confined for a month in bed,
and then began apparently to recover. She, however,
afterwards relapsed, azd died in the December following.
An inquest was held upon her body, and, from the evi-
dence of the surgeons who examined her, Mr. Fitzgerald
and Mr. Bloxam, her death was attributed to disease of
the kidneys, the origin of which was the accident from
which she had suffered. The present action was brought
in consequence, and a special jury, after a short consulta-
tion, the case having occupied the whole day, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—damages £lOO, and £5O for each
of the children, to be vested in trustees for their use. -

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