The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-02-29 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

30,000 Russian troops are assembled on the frontiers of
Galicia, ready at a moment's notice to march where the
Austrian government may think proper to employ them.

It is said that the well-known '.Je;uit Padre Ryllo has
been murdered, along with six companions, by the natives
of Nubia, near the frontiers of Abyssinia.
CAPE OF Goon HOPE.—A second edition of the Bom-
bay Times announces the pleasing intelligence that, by a
judicious arrangement of the troops by Sir H. Pottinger,
the whole of the Caffre chiefs, with their wives and fami-
lies, had been made prisoners, and that the war was at an
end.

MARTIAL LAW IN LOMBARDY.—The files of German
papers received in London on Friday, announce that the
state of affairs in the Lombardo-Venetian States of Italy
is becoming daily more critical ; and that martial law has
been proclaimed by the Austrian government at Milan,
Padua, and in other cities.
At a grand ball given by the Turkish ambassador, in
Paris on Monday, and at which the young Turks polked
with great delight with the ladies, the Marquise de Boissy,
late the Countess Guiccioli, of Byron celebrity, attracted
much attention. She is still conspicuously fair, and of
striking appearance.

RomE.LIThe reforming (!) and liberal Pope is now, in
his turn, besieged himself for a constitution,—which he
may not grant ! What right had he, then, as a petty
temporal sovereign, to stimulate other little sovereignties
to adopt reforms, in a direction where he could not, and
dare not, follow ? The correspondent of the ministerial
Globe is now preaching up pity for, and lenity with, his
late radical Holiness. Pius will cut a fine figure with
a representative, overhauling his infallibility. Let the
leaven work ! NN'e predicted this state of things several
weeks ago, when the Pii were in reforming extacies.
THE TRIPLE MURDER AT BRUSSELS.—On Saturday
morning at a quarter to nine, Rouseel and Vandenplaas,
accompanied by the chaplain of the prison and the Abbe
Trist, left their cells. The cortege proceeded along the
Rueaux-Laines and the Boulevard-de-Waterloo, as far as
the Gate de Hal, against which the scaffold was erected,
fronting the Rue Haute. Vandenplaas appeared to be
greatly cast down, but Rouseel walked with firmness. At
nine o'clock they arrived at the place of execution ; they
embraced their confessors, and Vandenplaas was then ex-
ecuted. The sound of the knife made Rouseel tremble
greatly, and his whole frame shook for some time ; but he
regained confidence, and gave himself up to his execu-
tioner, and soon after the crowd dispersed in silence.
THE WEST INDIES.—From Jamaica we learn that on
the north side of the island the plantations had been
visited with very heavy rains, which had done much
damage, destroying the roads, &c.: while the planters on
the south side were complaining of the continuation of
drought, and expressing great apprehension about the
crops. All the Windward Islands were in a state of great
gloom. the failure of the West India Bank and large mer-
cantile firms in England connected with West India affairs
having produced much depression in commercial circles.
The Trinidad (Port of Spain) Gazette has the follow-
ing paragraph in its leading article of January 18th on
the state of the West India colonies :—" The provoking
sangfroid with which all discussion on the disastrous
state of West India affairs has been put off by Ministers
until Parliament re-assembles in February is really more
bitter to endure than the most determined opposition to
all measures of relief proposed, or the most obdurate re-
fusal to abate a jot of the cruel policy of which we are
the victims. Neglect and indifference are oftentimes
harder to bear than downright injustice. There is more
of mercy in the fatal stroke which at once puts the victim
out of his suspense and misery than in the Ido not say
I will, and I do not say I will not' policy of the present
Administration." The yellow fever was making sad
havoc in the 88th Regiment, at Barbadoes. Colonel
Phibbs, of that regiment, died on the 27th of January.
Forty men had fallen victims to the malady, which is for-
tunately confined to the regiment.

awn Zvi u RDERS AT CAN

On Sunday, the sth of December, after being at church,
Messrs. W. Rutter, Small, Bellamy, Brown, Balkwill,
and M`Carte, embarked at Canton in a boat, about two
o'clock in the afternoon, with the intention of sailing a
few miles up the river, landing for a walk, and returning
to dinner. They had no guns with them, and only two of
them bad pistols. They landed at the village of Hwang-
chu-kee, and directed the boatman to await their return.
From the evidence of Chinese witnesses, it appears that
the villagers attacked the Englishmen. A few of the
working people shouted " Fankwei," (foreign devil,) and
threw mud at them, of which they took no notice. From
mud the people proceeded to throw stones. Tileir num-
ber increasing, hoes and farming implements were next
used. At last one of the Englishmen fired, and one of
the Chinese fell. The gong was then struck, with the
view of summoning the villagers. A large multitude soon
assembled, fought furiously with the Englishmen, and
overpowering two of them, continued to strike them after
they were down. The other four, after endeavouring to
appease the people by the offer of dollars, fled, covered
with wounds inflicted by pikes, poles, knives, and stones.
They were followed as far as the village of Hang Keaon,
where they were captured and brought back to Hwang-
chu-kee the same night. It is stated that they were then
confined for two days and two nights, during which time
they were without food, beaten repeatedly, and then
cruelly butchered. Marks of the cane, as well as of the
cords by which they had been tied up were visible upon
four of the bodies, and it was the opinion of Dr. Majori-
banks that inflammation having supervened, they could
not have been put to death for twelve hours, at least, after
being flogged. From the marks of cords on the arms, one
had been tied up on three several occasions, and the rat-
tans had been applied to the sides of the face as well as the
back. When it was ascertained that the unfortunate gen-
tlemen were missing, early on Monday Mr. Consul Mac-
gregor applied to the district magistrates for the release
of the party supposed to be held captive in the villages.
At noon, two boats, with about thirty Englishmen, left the
factories in search of their friends. They explored seve-
ral creeks in the neighbourhood of Hwang-chu-kee, but
without gaining any information.
In the mean time her Majesty's steam-ship Vulcan ar-
rived at Whampoa from Hong Kong, and Captain
M'Dougall, with about one hundred seamen and marines,
landed at the factories on Wednesday morning. In the
afternoon of Wednesday, it was intimated that one body
had been recovered by dragging, and that it would be sent
down in the evening. The Chinese authorities, by chop
dated the 7th, (Tuesday,) cffered 2-100 dollars for the
party, if alive, and 200 dollars for each body, if dead.
On Wednesday, they were aware of the murders ; an edict
of the Chief Criminal Judge called upon the well-disposed
to give up the guilty, and point out where the bodies were
hid. The body of Mr. M'Carte was sent in on Thursday
morning. Decomposition had not commenced. The
wounds were in all 44-36 incised, and 8 contusions.
Many of them would have caused death, the skull being
broken in several places. In the forenoon, the bodies of
Messrs. Balkwill, Small, and Brown were also brought in.
nnolorona woannts on oo.oh of then, tho Igrat
two having marks of the rattan on the back. Mr. Brown
appeared to have a gunshot wound, and, from their being
only one wound in his back, and a spear thrust in the ab-
domen, it is thought be was one of the two who fell at
the beginning of the affray. On Friday, the bodies of
Messrs. Bellamy and Rutter were brought down. Like
the other, there were deep wounds on the head and chest,
and the marks of ropes on the arms. Decomposition had
commenced, though blood continued to flow from one
corpse.
On the evening of the 20th, it was intimated to the
community that four of the murderers would be executed,
the following morning, at the village of Hwang-chu-kee.
On the morning of the 21st the Hon. Company's steamer
Pluto carried up the Hon. Mr. Johnson, Mr. Vice-Con-
sul Elmslie, and Mr. Meadows, interpreter to the Con-
sulate, to witness the execution. They were accompanied
with a guard of three officers and thirty men of her Ma-
. jesty's 95th Regiment. Four men were decapitated, but
from the fact of their being gagged, and the bodies buried
in the-strangers' burying ground, it was surmised that they
were not villagers at all. It is understood that steamers
have been sent for from Singapore, and men of war or-
dered down to the coast to be prepared, should any coer-
cive measure be necessary.

A garter has not been bestowed upon a Roman Catholic
since the days of James I. until the Whigs gave the vacant
blue riband to the Duke of Norfolk.
EXTRAORDINARY COINCIDENCE.—It is a strange fact
that on Sunday, the 13th instant, it was fifty-seven years
since the morning. service of the church was the same
throughout as it Was on that day. The last time that the
sixth Sunday after the Epiphany fell on the 13th of Fe-
bruary was in the year 1791, the year in which the King
of France and his family fled from Paris; and when " the
powers of the heavens," which had remained. unmoved
for ages, began to be so terribly shaken. Again in 1848,
has the King been compelled to fly from his country.
It is also remarkable, that each part of the service (in-
cluding the lessons, &c.), relates more or less to one
subject, viz.,
Gospel of the day.
the great series of events referred to In the