The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-06-10 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

of the accused immediately after the poison was adminis-
tered, and the orders he had given to wash the body with
vinegar, to clean the floor', and to have his clothes and
those of deceased placed in a boiler in the washhouse.
The crutches of the deceased, who was lame, had been
burnt, it appeared, by the orders of the Countess, who
had said that she could not bear the sight of them. The
proceedings were adjourned till Monday.
AUSTRIAN SUPERSTITION.—The police tribunal of
Vienna, a few days ago, condemned an old woman, named
Fritzingher, and her three sons to a year's imprisonment
for swindling, by pretending to be able to obtain the libe-
ration of souls from purgatory. Amongst other things it
appeared that an old lady of sixty became afraid that the
soul of a lover she bad had thirty years before might still
be in purgatory, and she consulted the woman as to what
she could do to release it. After some conferences, the old
woman offered to summon the soul to earth for 600
florins, and the old lady gladly consented. One day the
woman took her to a wood, and showed her at a distance
a person who bore a striking resemblance to the deceased.
That she said was the soul from purgatory. The vision
made signs that he was not yet in hell, but that his time
of purgatory was not accomplished; and he indicated that
she was to return again in a week, when he would confer
with her. At the specified time the old lady went to the
wood, and the woman showed her a figure representing a
lion, which she said was the guardian angel of the soul.
On the forehead of the lion was a placard with the figures
" 100" in large characters. " Does that mean that he has
100 years more to remain in purgatory ?" " I will see,"
said the sorceress, and she proceeded to make sundry
incantations, after wl•ieh she said that it meant that she
was to give 100 florins more. " But I have not so much
money," said the credulous lady. The woman signed to
the lion, and presently a "0" disappeared from the pla-
card. " The lion intimates that he will let you off for
10fl ," and the 10fl. were paid.—On another occasion she
made an angel appear from Paradise and inform a sorrow-
ing family that a young girl who had died a few months
before, was in heaven. For this good news the family
gave all they possessed.—Journal des Debats.
IMMORALITY AND CRIME IN PARIS.—A census has
recently been taken in Paris, and one result is, it is said,
that between half and two-thirds of the adult female
population are abandoned women, licensed by the police,
or living with or under the protection of men, without
being married: About three-fourths, it appears, of the
females who call themselves rentieres and proprietaires
are of loose character ; and of dress-makers, shop-girls,
and such like, there is not one in ten who is pure. In a
word, such a mass of scandalous immorality was perhaps
never collected within so small a space as that which now
exists within the walls of Paris. But this is not all. The
number of professional housebreakers, assassins, and
thieves, is greater in Paris, in proportion to the popula-
tion, than in any other city of Europe. Moreover, an
immense part of the population are plunged in the direst
misery, and the means of existence of another great part
are far from sufficient. People who see Paris, and see its
gorgeous shops and gay boulevards, its promenades and
aristocratic mansions, little think of the guilt and the
vice, the hunger and crime, which are to be found in its
lower quarters. On the surface, there is no city so gay
as Paris—hardly any which appears more wealthy ; but
descend to the lower strata of the population, and you
will be scandalised or horrified. And to think that this
horrible mass is at times maddened with political excite-
ment, and that it has been carefully drilled in the fanatic
belief that " property is robbery," and the rich thieves!
BURNING OF A SHIP.—Loss OF MORE THAN 200
LlVES.—Calcutta journals give the following particulars
respecting the burning of the ship Kurramany, laden with
Coolies for the Mauritius :—" The Kurramany was at
anchor at Cowcolly on the night of the 6th instant. At
ten o'clock the alarm of fire was given by one of the
Coolie women aft, and the pilot, Mr. Porter, who hap-
pened to be awake at the time, alarmed the captain. The
ship was on fire simultaneously fore and aft, and so rapid
was the progress of the flames that the pilot, who had
gone forward with the captain to endeavour to unshackle
the chain, and get before the wind, she then riding flood
tide, was obliged to abandon the attempt and take refuge
on the bowsprit. Four hundred people were crowded on
the poop. Some made a rush for the quarter boats hang-
ing to the davits. A number of the Coolies got into one
of these, the tackle falls of which weie•carried away by
their weight, and many of these poor wretches were thrown
out and drowned ; though by this means the boat escaped
destruction and floated up on the flood, and was picked
up crowded with Coolies, the next day, by the Ratler.
The captain and pilot, with the chief and second mates,
got down on the jib-boom, which had fallen under the
bows, and were there buffeted by the Waves, with a heavy
sea running, till the second mate could hold on no longer,
and sank ; and the other three were eventually picked up
by the boat of the Union. Great fears are entertained
that the leadsman, a fine young man of the name of
Clarke, is lost, as he is missing up to this. Only 103
men have as yet been saved. It is said that before the
alarm was given the crew had passed their bundles into
one of the quarter boats; this casts great suspicion upon
them. Every search was made by the steamers Union
and Ratler, the next morning at daylight, for any poor
wretches who might be seen floating about between Cow-
colly and Saugor, and several were picked up ; but it is
to be feared that the loss of life is immense. From' all
that has been reported on the subject there appears to be
every reason for supposing that the ship has been wilfully
set on fire."

POLITICAL MISCELLANY..
A Cabinet Council of two hours• duration took place at
the Foreign Office on Friday.
Mr. Newdegate has written to the Herald to say that
the meeting at Tamworth was not held there out of disre-
spect to the late Sir Robert Peel.

Mr. Johnstone, of Alva. was on Friday returned for the
united counties of Clackmannan and Kinross, by a majo-
rity of C 5. And in Argyllshire, no opposition is antici-
pated to Sir Archibald Islay Campbell.
It is rumoured that Mr. W. C. Macready, the trage-
dian, is to be proposed at the next election as the repre-
sentative for the Tower Hamlets, in consequence of the
long absence in America of George Thompson, Esq.
Capt. Scobell is the Liberal candidate for Bath, vacant
by the elevation to the peerage of Lord Ashley. Mr.
Sutcliffe, long a resident in Bath, is the Conservative can-
didate, and there is every prospect of his being elected.
It is intended at the next election to supersede Mr. F.
Peel, the present member for Leominster, on account of
his free trade and religious opinions. Mr. Hawkins, of
Blue Gates, has been requested to contest the borough on
Protectionist principles.
MORE CONVERTS TO PROTECTION.—Last Thursday,
the mayor of Kilkenny, at a meeting of the board of
guardians, after describing in powerful language, the
rapid deterioration of every interest in the country, an-
nounced that he had become a convert to the principle of
Protection.
In a further letter to the Times, Sir Robert Peel says he
will "leave public opinion to judge of the taste and lan-
guage of Mr. Young's letter" (it has already judged of
his) ; and gives his late address to his agent, assuming a
patriarchal right to advise his tenantry on the Protectionist
meeting. Sir Robert has evidently "caught a Tartar" in
Mr. Young.
The following letter from an elector of Tamworth, who
is not a Protectionist, forms a brief but fitting commen-
tary on the letter from Sir Robert Peel :—" To the editor
of the Morning Herald. Sir,—As an elector of the bo-
rough of Tamworth (and not a Protectionist) will you
allow me to express my regret that Sir Robert Peel should
have returned thanks to his constituents for committing a
breach of the peace, in which I hope and believe no other
elector took part. I am. sir, &c., SAMUEL HANSON.
Tamworth, May 31, 1851,"

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The Court of Queen's Bench has again, and definitively,
rejected Mr. Barber's application to be replaced on the
roll of attornics. Load Campbell stated that if he was
not guilty, he must have been wilfully blind.
In the Court of Common Pleas, yesterday week, a rule
was granted for an attachment against Lord Adolphus
Vane for not attending as a witness in a railway cause.
When the clerk to the plaintiff's attorney went to serve
Lord Adolphus with a subpoena, his lordship intimated his
intention of not attending at the trial, and told the depo-
nent that he might be d—d. His lordship also said,
" D—n you, the court, and all of you."
AN EASY SHAVE.—At the Banbury County Court, last
week. a summons was granted on behalf of Mr. J. B.
Austin, chemist, against Messrs. Pidding and Co., of the
Borough, London. Mr. Austin had received a circular
offering him the agency of a " Depilatorie, or Hair Re-
mover," which was warranted to rapidly shave off the
beard with such closeness that it would not reappear within
a few days, and not only without injury to the skin, but
leaving behind it a refreshing coolness. A sample was
enclosed, and Mr. Austin tried the article upon his osyn
beard. In two minutes not only the beard but the skin
came off, and before night Mr. A.'s chin was in such a
state of torture and inflammation that he was compelled
to have recourse to cooling lotions for ease. He laid his
damages at £4.
A MONSTER LAW-SUIT.-4n the Vice-Chancellor's
Court on Wednesday, Sir J. K. Bruce, on taking his seat,
addressed James Parker, and said, " I believe you are a
member of the Chancery Commission. I beg you to bring
pointedly before the notice of the commissioners the case
of `Jones v. Price,' a Welsh case, which came before me
yesterday. I have already spoken to the Solicitor-Gene-
ral on the subject, and shall be glad that such a case be
brought before the notice of the commissioners." During
the argument in this case his honour had the briefs of one
of the defendant's counsel handed up, and, after examin-
ing them, observed to Mr. Bethell that he must have had
upwards of 500 brief sheets to read, and that, supposing
as there had been seven counsel engaged, he might mul-
tiply that amount of paper by such number, the unfor-
tunate parties to this Welsh suit were at the hearing
oppressed by more than 3,500 brief sheets of paper.
LIABILITY OF INNKEEPERS.—At the Liverpool assizes,
Mr. Wilde, of the Neptune Hotel, in this town, obtained
a verdict in an action brought against him for a sum of
money which had been stolen from the commercial room.
A rule was lately obtained by the plaintiff for a new trial,
on the ground of misdirection, and on Thursday the ques-
tion was again argued in the Court of Queen's Bench,
when the rule was unanimously discharged by the judges,
thus leaving the verdict in Mr. Wilde's favour untouched.
Lord Campbell said, if the learned baron had told the
jury that it was the duty of the traveller to take the money
into his bed-room with him, that would have been a mis-
direction ; but here it had been left to them to say whether,
under the particular circumstances, there had not been
negligence on his Dart in the manner in which he had dealt
with the money in the presence of other persons. There
Icould be no doubt of the common law liability of an inn-
keeper to take care care of the goods befogging to his
guests ; but he could not be held responsible for the
guests' own negligence.