The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-05-30 00:00:00

SPAIN

A telegraphic despatch received through Paris, and dated
Madrid, May 20th, gives the following intelligence :
" The Cabinet is formed—the Ministers of the Interior,
War, and Navy are Messrs. De la Serna, Hoyos, and
Cuetos. The Minister of State is not yet named. The
President of the Council has announced to the Congress the
suspension of its sittings until the 27th.
" There has been a great deal of agitation, but all is tran-
quil again."

THE 'WHEAT CROP.—The Cincinnati Gazette says :
" We feel well assured, by information from the wheat-
growing region, that the growing crop promises more than
an average yield. The frost has not affected it to any consi-
derable extent."

The Trenton Emporium says :—" A farmer, residing in
the neighbourhood of Trenton, informs us, that the wheat
and rye never looked more promising at this season of tie
year. The prospect of an abundance of fruit, he also says,
is at present very good."

MILK IN BOSTON.—The consumption of milk in Boston
annually is set down at 2,000,000 gallons, and in London,
with a population 15 times larger, the estimated annual con-
sumption is only 2,500,000 gallons. One man brings into
Boston, over the Worcester railroad, about 200,000 gallons
yearly.—New Orleans Herald.

On Sunday a shoemaker of St. Cloud, named Briet, on his
return home at eleven o'clock at night, from the environs,
where he had been with some shoes, found his wife and his
child, aged six years, lying murdered on the floor. Their
heads had been battered in with a hammer. The police have
commenced an active search after the author or authors of
this atrocious murder.—Paris paper.
CLEVER FRAUDS.—The Journal de Calais of the 24th
instant states, that an ingenious fraud was discovered by
chance at Boulogne during the last week. A quantity of
British lace, inclosed in leaden boxes, conveyed by fishing
boats, was thrown carelessly on the shore and covered with
sea weed. At a convenient opportunity persons were sent
to carry the boxes into Bologne, which was done by conceal-
ing them in carts of sand. At Calais, a quantity of British
tuille concealed in beer barrels, constructed with a double
bottom, was discovered by a Custom-house officer, who,
having some suspicions, pierced them with a sword.
MONOMANIA CURED.—The Belgian journals relate the
following strange occurrence :—" A gentleman, named B—,
a nativt of Holland, has been confined in a madhouse at
Brussels for religious monomania. He one day got loose,
and climbed up one of the trees, with the design, he said, to
go straight to heaven. Those below who saw him climbing
up feared a fall, and the director of the establishment ordered
mattresses to be placed under the tree. Before this could
be done, he jumped down, came on his feet, and was but
little hurt. The shock, strange to say, cured his mental
alienation, and a few days since he left the madhouse per-
fectly well."

Two men, named Martin and Cantavella, both Spanish
refugees, were tried at Montpellier on the 17th inst., for the
murder of two Poles, named Adamousky and Schesky. It
was proved in evidence that the deceased were quietly play-
ing cards with another Pole, named Vezyk, in a cabaret at
Cette, when the prisoners came in, and, after asking the
landlord some questions, inquired who the persons were who
were playing. On his replying that they were Poles, the
Spaniards exclaimed that " all Poles were pigs!" On hear-
ing this Adamousky rose, and, going up to the intruder, told
him not to come quarrelling there, but to leave them quiet.
The other immediately drew his knife, and stabbed the un-
fortunate Pole in the stomach, who fell lifeless on the floor.
His comrades immediately rushed forward, and Schesky
was stabbed in the belly so severely that his bowels pro-
truded, whilst Vezyk was wounded in the hand. With
great difficulty the prisoners were got out of the house.
The third Pole ran and gave information to the police, and
the Spaniards were arrested on board a boat in the harbour.
The two Poles died the same day; Adamousky, without
having spoken a word, and the other, after having given a
full account of the transaction to the juge d'instruction. On
the trial the prisoners endeavoured to wake out that the
Poles had commenced the attack, but this was most fully
disproved. They were condemned to hard labour for life,
and exposure on the pillory.

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.-If the following statement,
given by a Radical paper, the Limerick Reporter. be a cor-
rect version of the affair, the " peaceful demonstration" at
Nenagh, has been attended with loss of life under:these cir-
cumstances :—" Mr. Brereton, who resides near Nenagh,
directed two of his men, one of them an Orangeman, to
watch his plantations on Wednesday night with fire-arms
suspecting that some persons might have recource to them
for green boughs, to adorn their houses at the approach of
Mr. O'Connell yesterday into Nenagh. It would appear
the interposition of Providence prevented any of the people
from having recourse to the premises of this, their well.
known friend, or dreadful, indeed, would have been their lot;
for,

horrible to relate, the Orange watchman having, it is
supposed, mistaken his fellow watcman for one of the peo-
ple, fired at him, shattering his abdomen all to pieces. On
last evening the unhappy victim of this sanguinary wretch
was not expected to survive many hours. We understand
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