The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-09-26 00:00:00

FRANCE

The Paris election is over. The successful candidates
are Louis Napoleon, Raspail, and Foulde. Louis Napo-
leon is already returned for L'Orme, La Chamnte, La
Moselle, and L'Yonne. M. Raspail, who is a Socialist, is
at present in prison at Vincennes, for aiding in a conspi-
racy to overthrow the National Assembly on the 151 h of
May. The moderate Republicans, composing the .Parlia-
mentary Club, have waited upon General Cavaignac, with
an assurance of their support against all Socialists, Bona-
partists, or any other class hostile politicians. M.
Marrast has been re-elected President of the Assembly for
another month. _ _

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The Paris papers of Thursday contain further additions
to the returns of the late elections for Paris. Prince Louis
Napoleon had received 116,014 votes, M. Fould 80,193,
and the Socialist, M. Raspail, 67.852. The other two
Red candidates, MM. Thore and Cabet, received respec-
tively 65,650 and 65,460 votes, thus bearing out the asser-
tion of Prince Louis's friends, on Wednesday, that his
election was in no respect due to the Communists•and So-
cialists, who displayed on this occasion an unanimity
" worthy of a better cause."
Paris remains in a state of tranquillity. Rumours of
a change of ministry are becoming daily more general,
though what better ministry can be formed out of the ma-
terials, the press forbears to say. The election of Prince
Louis has been officially announced. The greatest enthu-
siasm was manifested by the populace. and the shouts of
vive Napoleon" rent the air. A public triumphal entry
of Louis into Paris is amongst the on dils of the hour.
General Cavaignac is at his wits end. He is cruelly em-
barrassed by negociations with deputations from the diffe-
rent parties, which keeps the public mind in a state of
feverish agitation. .

MORE FETES FOR THE PARISIANS.—The report from
the Comite de Comptabiiite, on the proposition relative
to the indemnity to the President of the Nationai As-
sembly has been distributed to the membrrs. The 4!oin-
rnittee recommends that a supplementary sum of 6,000 f
a month should be allowed to the President, in order to
enable him to give grand fetes, which, like those already
given, encourage trade, and are important in a political
point of view, by enabling men of all parties to meet,
and by showing that calm and security exist.
PROPOSED PANTHEISTIC IDOL AT PARIS.—A scheme
has lately been put forth at Paris for converting the Pan-
theon, agreeably to its name, into an idol temple, in which
all religions are to be combined. An artist of the name of
Chevanard has been entrusted with the execution of it by
M. Ledru Rollin.

The foreign correspondence received in Paris on Satur-
day announces that the offer of mediation between the
Sicilians and the Neapolitan Government made by the
British and French Admirals has been accepted, and that
the neutrality of Venice has been recognized by the Aus-
trian Government.
The Dowager Queen of Naples, mother of the reigning
Monarch, died at Naples, on the 11th inst.
On the 31st ult. Ibrahim Paella was installed by the
Sultan, Viceroy of Egypt, in the room of his father, Me-
hemet Ali, the mental faculties of the latter having ren-
dered him for some time past incapable of discharging the
high and responsible duties connected with that office.
The Schleswig Holstein armistice has been accepted by
the Frankfort parliament on the 16th, after a sitting of
11 hours, and by a majority of 21—thus rescinding the
motion agreed to by the same wise legislators on the sth
inst., which went to reject the before named truce. Upon
that decision the ministers resigned their functions, and
the Administrator of the Empire has not yet been able to
find statesmen, able cr willing, to supply their room.
No SCARCITY OF FOOD.—It is estimated that the
harvest of the United States this season is sufficient to
feed half the people on the globe abundantly. With
scarcely an exception, every species of grain, fruit, and
vegetable, is yielding throughout the country an extra-
ordinary crop. Of beef, pork, butter, cheese, &c., the
same plenty abounds, and while our population are secure
of every comfort and luxury in the way of food, we shall
have a surplus sufficient to meet all the famine that may
occur in the Old World.—New York Sun.

A most horrible and revolting matricide has occurred
in Lisbon. A young girl of 20 murdered her mother,
decapitated her, and cut the arms and legs from the
body. The various parts were found in different streets;
but the head could not be discovered till the house was
searched, when it was found concealed near the girl, who
was cooking some provisions. The lover of the girl was
supposed to have been implicated in the murder, but she
resolutely refused to denounce him.
News from St. Petersburgh states that an emeute which
at first looked threatening, broke out among the poorer
population, who had become desperate on finding the
cholera re-appearing among them, and who had got up
the cry that the diet was in a conspiracy to poison them.
Large assemblages were collected, and the troops were
ordered out. Barricades were raised, and just before the
melee was about to commence, the Emperor appeared,
and, having dismounted from his horse, took his standing
on the first barricade, and assured the people that the
chastisement was of God's inflction, and must be submit-
ted to with resignation. This had the desired effect; the
people were satisfied.
HORRIBLE ASSASSINATION.—Mr. Robert Whitlock
Nicholl, eldest son of Whitlock Nicholl, Esq., Adams-
down, near Cardiff, was assassinated at Naples, on Sun-
day night, the 27th of August, under circumstances of
brutal ferocity. A party of young men had assembled to
see two officers to their ship, and whilst so doing stopped
on the Quay to have some oysters. A dispute arose
about the payment of them ; that, however, was settled,
but on proceeding further, Mr. Jessup, assistant-surgeon,
was pelted with glass bottles tand stabbed, but is now in a
fair way of recovery. Mr. Nicholl was still more the vic-
tim of these revengeful savages, having been stabbed in
the back, which caused his death almost immediately.
The murderer is in custody.
Some very disgusting horrors appear to have been per-
petrated at the taking of Messina by the Neapolitan army.
An eye-witness describes the war as not one of Christians,
but a desperate struggle of cannibals. The insurgents of
Messina, it is said, roasted Neapolitan soldiers and ate
them: about sixty prisoners thus served to gratify the
beastly appetites of the cannibals of Messina. Our con-
temporary the Standard makes a curious use of this fact.
" The LEestrygones," says our contemporary, " have ra-
ther improved in their taste for human flesh since Homer's
time, for we find in the Tenth Odyssey that these old
Sicilians ate their game raw, whereas Pope Pius's spiritual
subjects cook their meat. Oh, the humanising and civil-
ising spirit of Romanism !"
FRANKFORT.—A monster meeting was held on the
17th, at which resolutions denouncing as traitors the
members of the majority of the German Parliament who
had voted in favour of ratifying the Danish armistice
were agreed to, and the members themselves were called
upon to resign their seats. The language used by the
speakers was of the most inflammatory character, and
those present were to re-assemble the next morning. On
the 18th they again met and proceeded to acts of open
insurrection. Troops were called in, and, after a severe
conflict, they succeeded in dispersing the insurgents. We
regret to find that Major Von Auerswald (a brother of
the ex-premier of Prussia), and Prince Linchnowsky—
both members of parliament—were shot by the insur-
gents. A bullet entered the back of Major Auerswald's
head, coming out above his right eye; another struck the
young Prince through the body. The first dropped from
his horse almost senseless, the latter was pulled from his,
and both were most cruelly beaten. The old Major soon
breathed his last—the Prince was left in the dust, with
both his arms hacked by a hatchet. He was carried,
when the account was sent off, to a hospital, where he
was reported to be still alive, but in a desperate state.
There were some officers and 18 or 20 men killed of the
Prussian or other soldiers, and 60 wounded. Of the in-
surgents
about 27 killed.
GALLICIA.—A most horrible crime has been committed
at Lemberg. All the family of the rabbi of that city have
been poisoned. For some time past a bad feeling has
existed between the Israelites of the ancient faith and
those of the reformed creed. The government had given
to the whole commune one rabbi, at the wish of the re-
formed Jews. This was vehemently opposed by those of
the ancient faith ; the two sects became more and more
alienated, and the Jews of the ancient faith also demand-
ed a rabbi of their creed. A few days after this event they
commenced a violent attack upon the Rabbi Cohen, en-
tered his house, and insulted him in the open street, and
then the plan was conceived of getting rid of him altoge-
ther. A Jew, who had gone into the kitchen, threw a
large dose of arsenic into a pot. After dinner the whole
family and domestics, in all nine persons, fell ill. Medi-
cal aid was instantly procured, but the rabbi and one of
he children, at the date of the latest accounts, were al-
ready dead, and little hope was entertained of the others.
Several suspected Jews had been taken and confronted
with the servant, who, however, had not been able to
identify them.
THE " WIZARD OF THE NORTH " IN JENNY LIND'S
NATIVE CITY (STocxxoesi).—Mr. Anderson has re-
cently astonished and delighted the inhabitants of Stock-
holm, including royalty itself. He gives an interesting
account of some of his feats with the "Jenny Lind"
handkerchiefs, a few dozens of which he took with him
from England for the purposes of his profession. In per-
forming at Stockholm, he changed ordinary handkerchiefs
into these fine specimens in silk until his stock became
nearly exhausted, such was the eagerness to obtain them ;
and he was obliged to announce that he had no more.

The Queen herself sent for him, received him most gra-.
ciously, and expressed a wish to have one. He said they
were all gone ; but her Majesty said that " from what she
had heard of him. he could no doubt easily produce one."
He approached her Majesty, and requested permission to
look at the handkerchief she held in her hand. This fa-
vour was no sooner granted than in a mment—" change"
—her Majesty's handkerchief turned to a veritable Jenny
Lind naisluk. Her Majesty and her court were asto-
nished. A few days before he left the city ho was called
upon by an old lady, who carried a small basket, and was
of humble garb, but highly prepossessing appearance.
she asked him, after kindly salutation, if he had a Jenny
Lind handkerchief to dispose of. He made the previous
reply. The lady seemed much disappointed, and said he
had seen one of the handkerchiefs, and had come to pur-
chase a portrait of her dear daughter,—for this was the
mother of the songstress. He knew he had one still left,
and having said he had none, how was he to get over the
difficulty. He said he would see if there was. one left,
and, after a few minutes' absence, returned and asked the
old lady to look into her basket. She did so, and to her
great astonishment discovered a beautiful silk Jenny Lind
naisduk. The parent of the illustrious Swede gazed on
the portrait of her daughter with delight, and, after
thanking him profusely, proffered money for the article,
which Mr. Anderson accepted, but only to astonish her
the more; for when she got home she not only found the
handkerchief in her basket, but the money she had paid
for it also.

IRELAND.
The following paragraph appeared in our second edition
on Tuesday last :
CLONMEL, SUNDAY EVENING.—The excitement caused
here by the recent outbreak of the insurgents, has in a
great measure subsided, in consequence of the arrival
yesterday of the intelligence that the rebel camp had
been broken up. The insurgents, it appears, finding
themselves not well supported by the other counties, and
pressed so closely by the troops, a considerable number
of them have dispersed, it is thought, by command of
their rebel leaders, until some more favourable op-
portunity : the leaders themselves have as yet contrived
to escape the vigorous pursuit made for them. Doheny,
it is rumoured, is in the county of Tipperary, not very far
from Clonmel ; and a person suspected to be O'Mahoney
was very nearly captured in the county Waterford, a few
miles from Carrick, on Friday morning. Mr. Coulson,
R.M., with a military and police force, was scouring
the country that night, when early on Friday morning a
horseman was descried some distance off, riding away at
a furious pace ; Mr. Coulson immediately ordered the
Dragoons to give chase, which they did, and gained on
aim considerably, when he dismounted, made for the
mountains close by, and by that means escaped for the
present : his horse was taken, and proved to be one
which the insurgents had taken from William V. Stuart,
Esq., the High Sheriff of the county Kilkenny ; from
pistols, &c., found on the horse, it is conjectured that
the rider was O'Mahony. It was reported here on Friday
evening that some marines, who had ascended the Suir in
gun-boats, for the purpose of practising. had been at-
tacked on that day by the insurgents, and compelled to
fire cannon at them. I cannot describe to you the alarm
this town was thrown into on receipt of the intelligence.
On Saturday night, O'Mahony had another extraordi-
nary escape from airest. Mr. Coulson. magistrate, re-
ceived information that he was at his own house, and
might easily be secured ; he therefore set out with a
party of military and arrived just in time to find that the
bird had flown. O'Mahony had scouts on the look out,
and learned of the approach of the troops in sufficient
time to jump on his horse and dash off towards the
river Suir. which he crossed, and left his pursuers on the
other side.
The Clonmel Chronicle denies, " on authority," that
the Premier has received a summons to attend the special
commission as a witness.

The property in the residences of Smith O'Brien, at
Cahermoyle, and of Doheny, at Cashel, is in charge of
bailiffs under Exchequer writs.
A new rebel newspaper is to be published in Dublin, on
the second Saturday in October, with the title of " The
National." _ _

A Dublin paper makes the somewhat Irish announce-
ment, that the Disturbed" districts remain in a " con-
tinued state of peace."
Not the smallest excitement is shown by the public at
Clonmel about the trials—not so much even as during
an ordinary assize.
The Clonmel Chronicle still insists that Mr. Darcey
M'Gee, late sub-editor of the Nation, was in the county
of Waterford mountains during the late disturbances, and
led the attack on the Portlaw police-barracks.
A design to carry off the Marchioness of Waterford and
to hold her as an hostage, with the intention of destroying
her, should any of the rebels suffer death, has been pre-
vented by the vigilance of the Marquis.
Preparations are making at Knocklofty, the seat of the
Earl of Donoughmore, three or four miles from Clonmel,
for the reception of Lord John Russell. who, it appears,
is certainly to be examined as a witness at the special
commission. _ _

Mr. John O'Connell, by way of currying favour with his
quondam allies, has addressed an officious letter to Lord
Clerendon, asking his lordship whether, when "he de-
nounced as criminal the efforts of repeaters," his excel-
lency meant to refer to him.
THE ROTARY PARLIAMENTS HUMBUG.—Lord Clan-
carty has written in reply to Lord W. Fitzgereld's circu-
lar. His lordship considers the proposed plan impractic-
able, and even if practicable, not calculated to produce
the objects sought for. At the same time he appears to
approve of the new agitation.
.o.erostrioN TO THE PAYMENT OF RENTS.—At day-
break on Sunday week, about four hundred men, many of
them armed, assembled on the lands of Fort Robert, cut
down and carried off by nine o'clock the produce of seven
acres of land. Port Robert is near Ballineen, beyond
Bandon, and close to a police-station.
Mr. Doheny, the Irish rebel, has arrived in Paris. He
landed at Boulogne after many hair-breadth escapes, and
seems to be heartily rejoiced that he has avoided the fate
of some of his fellow-conspirators. Mr. Doheny regards
the cause of repeal as hopeless, at least for the present,
and grounds his flight on the conviction that further re-
sistance was useless.

A NEW-FASHIONED GRIDIRON.—A person who went
into-a wood at Coolmanuck, Clonmel, the other day, ob-
served a party of rebels enjoying their mutton in the fol-
lowing manner :—they had taken a sheep, and removing
an iron gate from its hinges, laid it flat upon a fire. On
this novel gridiron they placed the carcase, which they
had dressed and cut in two, and, as soon as it was done,
enjoyed their repast.
THE ATTEMPT TO ASSASSINATE BYRNE, THE POLICE-
MAN.—On Thursday, Byrne, the policeman, who was
stabbed in George's-street, on the 26th of July last, by
three Clubbists, attended at the head police-office, Dub-
lin, to identify the prisoners. The three men were
brought to the office along with about a dozen others, and
without any hesitation he pointed out Michael Moran as
the person who stabbed him, and John Joseph Moran,
and M'Cormick, as his companions on the occasion of
that outrage.
COLD-BLOODED MURDER.—On Monday, as three
young men were returning from a funeral, they happened
to go into a house of entertainment at Roskelton, to drink
some coffee. There they met with a man named Wright,
who has been teaching school and catechism in the church
of Roskelton during the last six months. Some jokes
were passed on Wright by a rival lover concerning a
sweetheart, when he drew a large penknife and plunged it
into the intestines of his rival, a man of the name of
Mullowney, whic:i caused instant death. Mullowney had
borne an excellent character, and was only twenty-one
years of age. The murderer has been committed.
THE MARQUIS OF WATERFORD.—Some few weeks ago,
when insurrectionary symptoms first manifested them-
selves, the Marquis of Waterford convened his tenantry
and labourers. A crowd of ill-disposed fellows also
gathered about him, and made several demonstrations of
dissent from his lordship's statements about the immensely
superior force which England would bring against the re-
bels. One fellow was remarkably forward, full of bluster,
and cried out,—" We don't care—we are able for them—
we are ready to fight them—wait till we get at them."
The noble marquis pointed at the noisy boaster, and said,
—" Come here, sir ; you want a fight—stand out and have
a round with me—let us see what you are made of, who
want to be at the troops ; come, sir, try your hand with
me." The fellow dropped his head and skulked away.
amid the derision of the spectators. It is hardly neces-
sary to add, that the circumstance was not without a good
effect on the spectators.

On Thursday the special commission was opened at
Clonmel. The judges on the bench were, the Chief Jus-
tice of the Common Pleas, the Chief Justice of the
Queen's Bench, and Mr. Justice Moore.
The grand panel of the county of Tipperary being read
over, and a grand jury being sworn in, Lord Suirdale as
foreman, Chief Justice Blackburn addressed them at great
length. He expressed his great regret that after so short
a period as that which had elapsed since the labours of the
commission over which he had presided, her Majesty
should have found it necessary to issue another for the
preservation of the peace. He regretted still more that
the crime which they had now to try was one of high
treason. His lordship proceeded to explain in what this
crime consisted, and to detail to the grand jury the history
of the seditions agitation against the crown and govern-
ment, which had commenced with inflammatory speeches
in Dublin, and had been consummated by the rising of
armed men in Tipperary, the raising of barricades against
her Majesty's troops, and the offering of warlike impedi-
ments to her Majesty's servants, when in pursuit of cer-
tain persons against whom warrants had been issued.
His lordship referred especially to the conflicts, which will
be remembered, between the insurgents and parties of
policemen. The rules with respect to high treason were
stated to be these: to convict of the charge of "compassing
the death of the Queen," it was only necessary to prove an
attempt to depose the "sovereign" from the government
and possession either of the whole or part of the dominions.
And, entering into measures with foreigners or others for
the purpose of invasion, or going to a foreign country, or
proposing to go there for that end, or taking steps thereto,
are overt acts, for the compassing or imagining of the
qneen's death ; and again, many offences falling under
the statute may be brought within the particular offences
alluded to. Levying war, and conspiracy to levy war,
are overt acts within this branch of the statute—that is,
the branch which makes compassing the king's death
high treason. The crime of high treason consisted alto-
gether in the intention. Proof of the commission of
overt acts would be required, and that proof must be ,
given by not less than two witnesses. And the law
with respect to high treason, which consists in the inten-
tion, makes it requisite for the crown to specify in the
indictment the overt acts or acts done, and the means
used by the person charged for the purpose of effecting
his object or design. Accordingly the indictment which