The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-01-22 00:00:00

The brig
Madr

s from China two days later
than those '9ninsular and Oriental Com-
pany's steamer Pekin, which arrived there on the 22nd
ult. The intelligence is confined to an account of the
destruction by the Columbine, Fury, and Phlegethon of
the major part of the piratical fleet under Shap.'ng-tzai at
the entrance of the Tonquin River. The Pekin, it will be
recollected, brought us news of the demolition, near
Hongkong, of a squadron of piratical vessels, supposed to
form part of the grand fleet under this redoubtable buc-
caneer. The intelligence now received apprizes us of the

We have reeeived tidin,
brought by the P

completion of the work of retribution. The pirate chief
has himself been fallen in with, and 58 of his vessels,
mounting 1,200 guns, and manned by 3,000 men, have
been totally destroyed by fire. Shap-'ng-tzai escaped
with six vessels and about 400 men.
From Canton we have nothing new beyond a fresh at-
tempt on the part of the Chinese authorities to support
monopoly for the sale of produce with the view of extort-
ing money ostensibly for the payment of the old Hong
debt.

ssels missing, the Sylph, Greyhound, Coquette,
and Anna Eliza, have not been heard of.

Forty-five of the French insurgents of June, imprisoned
at Cherbourg, have been pardoned; only fifty remain.
It was decided, in the United States Senate, the other
-day, that the Rev. Father. Mathew should be allowed a
Beat within the bar of the house. The division was thir-
ly-three for, and eighteen against.
It is stated in Paris that Cardinal Dupont, Archbishop
of Bourges, has left for Italy, on an extraordinary mission
4n the name of the whole of the French episcopacy, to
accompany the pope on his return to Rome.
The notorious American fanatic, generally known as
'4' Father Miller," who predicted the destruction of the
world and the second coming of Christ in the year 1843,
and formed a sect of some 40,000 disciples, died on the
20th of December, at the age of 68.
The German papers state, that a few days since a young
man who was living with his father, a servant in the Tu-
bingen hospital, stabbed his father, mother, and one of
..his sisters so dreadfully, that all three have since died.
Several of the nurses were also wounded, and it was with

difficulty that

another of his sisters escaped from the
seems to have committed these horrible

monst

crimes in co

scouence of a quarrel with his rattle

Goon SPECULATION.—A: gentleman some time ego
.purchased £5OOO worth of American flour, so as to ship it
at a cost of 223. per barrel. He sent it to California, and
as it reached San Francisco at a favourable juncture, it
sold there readily: at 86s. per barrel ; thus realising a gross
amount of £15,000. and a profit of about £lOOO to the
lucky speculator, who has provedithat there are easier me-
thods of obtaining gold than by grubbing for it in the
-Californian ravines,

REMARKABLE CASE OF LONGEVITY.—At this mo-
ment there exists at Strasburgh a woman named Barbe
E--, a native of Wurzburg, who was born on the first
of January, 1749, and has consequently entered her 102 d
year. She married at the age of 22, and became a widow
at 59. She is the grandmother of 37 children, and great
grandmother of 20, all living. This wonderful woman
enjoys robust health ; she reads wiL,--
possesses all her intellectual faculties.
PERVERT TO ROME.—Letters from Rome of the sth
inst., announce, that on the previous day, Cardinal Pa-
trizi, Vicar-General of the Pope, repaired to the church
of the Noviciate of the Holy Heart, at the foot of Mount
Janiculum, to receive the abjuration of Mrs. Helen Ca-
vendish, a relative of the Duke of Devonshire, who em.
braced the Romish faith. After the -ceremony the Car-
-dinel administered to her the sacrament of confirmation.
Princess Borgeese acted as godmother to the new convert.
THE POPE AND THE FRENCH BlSHOPS.—Cardinal
Dupont, Archbishop of Bourges, has left for Italy, on an
extraordinary mission in the name of the whole French
Episcopacy, to accompany the Pope on his return to Rome.
It is farther stated that the Archbishop has been autho-
rised by the French Government to assure the Pope that
the difficulties arising from want of money, which have
hitherto retarded his return to Rome, will be removed by
the advance of the necessary sums.
BOLD SCHEME TO ROB THE BANK OF FRANCE.—Ac-
counts from Paris state that a most audacious attempt to
rob the Bank of France was made on Thursday afternoon,
about one o'clock. A number of individuals, some dressed
as labourers and others having the appearance of gentle-
men, entered the cash-office and made a rush at the piles
of gold and silver. Quickly as the attack was made, an
alarm was raised and the guard arrived. Three of the
robbers were arrested and conveyed to the Prefecture of
Police.

,ectacles, and

GREAT SNOW STORM ON THE CONTINENT.—Accounts
from the French and Swiss departments continue to speak
of the severity of the weather, and the immense quantity
of snow that has fallen, and which has occasioned several
disasters. Travellers lost their way, and a rural letter-
carrier was found dead in the snow. In many cantons of
the department of the Ariege the snow has risen to the
coping of the houses. Many persons have perished in the
avalanches, which are frequent, and whole flocks of sheep
have been swept away. In the Jura the communication
is completely interrupted, and many persons have fallen
a prey to the wolves. In the streets of several towns the
snow is more than three metres in depth. In the Saone
and Loire the wolves, impelled by cold and hunger, boldly
entered the villages ; and in one a woman was devoured
by these animals, almost at the door of her house. In
other places the hells had to be pealed during the day and
night in order to serve as a guide to the traveller and to
the field labourers. At Luchon, in the Pyrenees, more
snow has fallen than has been known within the memory
of man. Much snow has fallen in Italy.
CRIME IN FRANCE.—At Mormant, neur Melun, a
woman named Pachant, on Friday, murdered her hus-
band. For many years the couple had lived together on
bad terms, and for years the woman had refused to share
her husband's bed. On Friday evening they supped to-
zetlier with their two children, and the man retired to
rest. The woman then made her little boy read to her,
and she told him when he went to bed to his father to lie
as far from him as possible. The child answered that he
would not go to bed for the present; whereupon she went
softly to the bedside to see if her husband was asleep, and,
~nn seeing that he was, exclaimed, "Oh God ! give me
courage to execute my design !" She-then went and took
a heavy stick from behind the door, and advanced to the
bed, as if about to strike. She, however, paused, retired
a few steps, and then returned. Again she raised her
arm, hut at; she paused, and retired from the bed, At
length surnolonino- up all her resolution, she returned
hastily, and sti-uck' her husband three violent blows on
the head. The ,man, who was dreadfully injured, gasped
out, " Arsene, Ars;.ne, come to me !" and his little boy
climbed on the bed. The woman still continued to strike
her husband on the head, and the little boy threw him-
self over his father to protect him. She, however, flung
the child violently aside, saving, " Let me alone, or I will
do the same to you !" and 'll,l continued to strike. The
little boy seized a knife and exci,2itned, " Mother, mbther !
if you do not leave off I will kill Lnyself!" but the boy's
sister, having that moment entered the room, took the
knife from him. The woman contina-ed to beat her hus-
band until sho was quite sure he was dead. She then
went to the house of his brother, and said ,I• 0 her nephew,
Celyi see how I have settled your uncle and at the
`78.._ tuggment the little boy came up weeping and said,
- "yoaliFr has killed my father !" Information having
been- given to the authorities, the woman was arrs.'sted•
'She doernot attempt to deny her guilt, but encteavouo to
excuse herself by saying that she committed the crime un
. a moment of passion cmecl.l by the unjust reproacLes of
the decease 4. • It appeared, however, that, she had long I
entertained the intention of committing the crime, having
frequently been heard to declare that it was impossible to

live with her husband, that either she or he must be put
out of the way, &c. It further appeared that on the
morning of the murder she had caretully selected the
heavy stick with which the crime was committed, and that
her daughter, having a presentiment of what she intended,
endeavoured to take it from her, saying, " Ah ! I know
what you mean to do !"—Galignani's Messenger.
EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT.—
The papers announce that the collossal equestrian bronze
statue of the great Frederick, the marvellous production of
M. Rauch, will be raised and uncovered, on the 15th of
October, next, the birthday of his present Majesty. The
whole, taken from its base to the summit of the mighty
soldier's hat, will exceed forty-seven feet in height, of
which the crowning equestrian statue will occupy nearly
eighteen feet.

‘7.JENNY LIND.—We are informed by a letter from Ham-
burg that Jenny Lind has signed an agreement at Lubeck
to go to America and the Havana in August or Septem-
ber. Her stay will be about a year and a half there, to
sing only in concerts and oratorios ; £30,000 to be placed
in the hands of Baring Brothers, before she starts from
England, or guaranteed with them ; equipage, servants'
expenses of every kind, paid for her ; and after a certain
number of nights she gets besides one-fifth of the profits ;
making fully £70,000 for the time. Besides this she has
reserved to herself the right of singing for charities as
often as she chooses.—Morning Chronicle. .

ASSASSINATION IN CORSICA.—A notorious Corsican
bandit-II named Tancredi, was few days ago tried before
the Court of Assizes of Corsica, on the charge of murder-
ing, at different times, a man named Morelli, a man
named Andre Natelli, a man named Dominique Martini,
and, finally, for attempting, on the 24th of March, 1849,
to murder some gendarmes. The several cases of
murder were clearly proved against the prisoner; and
it was shown that for a long time he had been
accustomed to carry off young girls to caves and

forests and there commit -violence on them, that he
had levied contributions on the peaceable inhabitants
of the villages, that he bad committed so many
excesses of all kinds, and had exercised such a system
of terror, that in some places the villagers had left
their fields uncultivated, and had abandoned their flocks
and herds. No one, in fact, ventured to resist the audacious
bandit • and tha people did not even dare to assist or give
hospitality to the gendarmes sent to arrest him. When
be murdered Natalli, the son of the latter was present,
and in an agony of despair cried, "Oh ! when will your
turn come ?" " Not until after your's," calmly replied
the bandit, as he reloaded his gun by the side of the
corpse. Notwithstanding the monstrous guilt of the pri-
soner, the jury in convicting him declared there were ex-
tenuating circumstances, and he was only condemned to
hard labour at the hulks for life.