The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-06-27 00:00:00

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took down five

New Orleans ; he came up to
Natches, bought seven there, and took them dciwn and
sold them also. Last March he came up to preach the
gospel again. A number of persons on board the steam-
boat, the Tuscatora, who had seen him in the shambles
in Natches and New Orleans. and now, for the first time,
found him to be a preacher, had much sport at the expense

of " the fine old preacher Who dealt in slaves."•

VISTRCSSING ACCIDENT.-Dr. A. J. Burmester, a
profession3l gentleman at Malta, was very fond of prac-
tising pistol-firing, amongst other exercises, and used to
fire at a target in his dressing-room, and at night practise
at a candle. On the morning of the 29th of May he was

practising as usual. when his male servant entered, and
showing a disinclination to pass between the doctor and
the target, the latter jocularly turned the butt-end of the
pistol towards the man, and the muzzle towards himself.

In a very short time the piece went off, and the ball en-
tered the region of the doctor's heart. Medical assist-

ance was in vain

INDIA AND CHINA.—The Overland Mail has arrived,
and brines no news of importance beyond the confirma-
tion of the rising in Mooltan and assassination of our
officers. It appears, after the first quarrel, our, men had

retired to a small fort outside the walled town of Mooltan,
where for twenty-four hours they considered themselves
protected, but the troops from Mooltan hastened to attack
the fort. Lieutenant Anderson being severely wounded,
was unable to rise from his bed; Mr. Vans Agnew shook
hands with him and bade him an eternal adieu. He then
prepared to defend himself, but his pistols had been tam-
pered with •, and as the crowd of soldiers with which his
soldiers had " fraternised " entered the room, he cut down
the first assailant, but he was instantly shot, and his body,
like that of his companion, Lieutenant Anderson, and
that of their apothecary, Mr. Wilkinson, hacked to pieces;
and treated with great indignity. The new governor,
Chan Singh, was wounded and made prisoner by the
troops of Mooltan. There is no additional intelligence
as to the preparations for vindicating our honour, but
those mentioned at the time the news arrived are being
carried out. Mooltan is the strongest town in the Pun-

, considering the
hot weather and the approaching rains, to postpone the
expedition against the insurgents until October or No-
vember. The other parts of India are quiet. Commer-
cial affairs, both at Bombay and Calcutta, are somewhat
better than they have been for some time past ; and still
they have an upward tendency. There is little intelli-
unce.fron China, but that is highly satisfactory, the
having been brought to an amicable

d advisable

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BOHEMIA.—AWFITL CRUELTIES.—On the 15th, Prince
Windscbgratz was in complete possession of Prague.
The insurrection is ascribed to the machinations of the
Swornost faction. The Wiener Zeitung gives the fol-
lowing interesting details :—" Owing to the refusal of the
Prince to give arms to the people on the 10th, the Swor-
nost faction proceeded in large numbers to the residence
of the commander-in-chief, where they sang songsinsult-
ing to the Prince, accompanied by hooting and threats.
The military on duty having in vain called upon the mob
to be orderly and disperse, and the fatal shot being fired
at this moment which deprived the unfortunate Princess
of her life, the Prince with great dignity and calmness
advanced in the midst of them, and addressed them to
the following effect :—" Gentlemen—lf it is your desire
to insult me, because I am 8f noble birth, go to my palace,
and do there as you may think fit. I will even give you
a guard that you may not be disturbed in your amuse-
ment. Butif you act thus because I am commander of
Prague, and purpose making a demonstration in front of
this building, I tell you candidly that I shall prevent such
a step with every means at my command. My wife now
lies a lifeless corpse above stairs, and yet I address you in
words of kindness. Gentlemen, do not drive me to
severe measures." After this noble speech, under cir-
cumstances of so heart rending a nature, the Prince,
instead of being hearkened to, was roughly seized upon
by two Czechs, and dragged to, the next lamp-post, where
a rope was soon provided—at this moment the Prince's
grenadiers advanced with fixed bayonets, and in less than
a second cleared the square and delivered the Prince.
Five minutes afterwards the artillery swept the streets.
Prince Windischgratz is spoken of as one of the most
distinguished Generals in the Austrian service. The
most awful atrocities were committed. Among others,
Wilhelm Weiss, a paper merchant, was crucified in
the true sense of the word. He .iad shot a couple of
students in his capacity of Burgher Guard, for which his
house was first demolished, and himself literally nailed to
a cross. Prague is horribly devastated ; in many streets
there is scarcely a house to be seen that has not suffered
from the bombardment.

SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday. two brothers
were amusing themselves at Byker, near Newcastle, by
jumping across an old pit mouth, when one of them lost
his balance on the side and fell in, and the other, observing
that, made an attempt to save him, and fell in also. The
accident was observed by an engineman, who was sitting
in the engine house getting his dinner at the time, and he
instantly rushed to the spot, and, by great daring. suc-
ceeded in saving one of the youths, who was.upheld by a
beam across the shaft, a few feet from the ,top. In at-
tempting to rescue the other, the unfortunate man sacri-
ficed his own life, both having fallen together to the
bottom of the shaft, in which there was seventy feet of
water,