The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-20 00:00:00

FOREIGN AND COLONIAL.

AMERICA.

The following appeared in an early second edition of
the ST/05,3,01.D last week.
By the arrival of the Royal North American mail
steam-ship Hibernia, Capt. Ryrie, we have received New
York papers to The 31st ult., being eleven days later than
those brought by the Great Western. The Hibernia left
BoSten on the Ist last., and arrived at Halifax at half-
past six, a.m. on the 3rd, and left the same evening for
Liverpool at ten a.m.' and came up the river at eight
o'clock this morning, having been detained at Bell Buoy
from a quarter past -four, and has consequently performed
the passage from the latter port in less than ten days.
The eairatical crew of the ship Saladin, recently arrested
at Halifax, were put on trial in that city before the Su-
preme Court. on the 18th ult. Four of them—Anderson,
Travasgurs alias Johnson, George Jones, and William
Hezeiton—were first put on trial on the charge of piracy.
One of them pleaded guilty. The jury brought in, after
fifteen minutes' consultation, a verdict of guilty. On
the next day the prisoners all pleaded guilty to the charge
of the murder of Captain M`Kenzie. Carr and Galloway
were then tried for the murder of Captain Fielding. The
Court charged the jury that the crimes of Fielding, who
must have been the inducer to the original Tiracy , were
no palliation of the guilt of his murderers. The jury,
however, brought in a verdict of not guilty. A similar
verdict was returned after the trial of the same men for
the murder of Fielding's son. Carr and Galloway were
acquitted, the.j=ury being 'evidently strongly impressed
with the fact that these two were net engaged in the mu-
tiny, and -seeming to have concluded that all their subse-
quent acts were the result of force and fear.—The Court
met legain'oe Saturday, and was about to pass 'sentence
on the four convicts, when the Attorney-General with-
dree., the charge of piracy, retaining that of murder, to
avid the •exposure of the bodies after execution.—The
Chief Justice then proceeded to pass sentence. lie said
the fourtarisonars glad at first pleaded not guilty to the
indictment charging them with the murder of -Captain
3,l`Kereeie and others, bet the circumstances having been
inveitigated under another Charge, that of piracy, they
hail withdrawn that plea, and the whole facts had been
elicited. He recapitulated the nature of the shocking
crimes and barbarities of which they had been guilty,
from the contemplation of which the mind recoiled with
horror. There were eight men to be killed to accomplish
the purpose of their leader, and the four prisoners asso-
,ciated'withit he unhappy man, now no more, to perpetrate
the crime, which could not (as stated by their counsel)
.have been done under fear, for it could not have succeeded
'without the most consummate art and great boldness.
Three of their officers were destroyed, and also three of
their shipmates. Guilty fear afterwards overtook them,
and they hurled their seducer into the sea. His son, a
helpless youth, was then similarly destroyed. The trea-
sure fer which they perilled their peace here and their
happiness hereafter had vanished from their possession,
and they were there to receive sentence of death. They
had hurried their victims into the presence of their Maker,
but they themselves had to make their peace with God.
He concluded by passing sentence of death, by hanging,
in the usual form. The prisoner Johnson denied having
had any share in murdering the boy, and the
others also seemed hurt at the imputation. On Tues-
day morning, the 29th July, they were taken to the
place of execution on the Common. They ascended the
steps with a firm step, and appeared to be contrite. The
scaffold was surrounded by the military. The coffins
were beneath it, and the hearses outside, and before them,
in unconsecrated ground, the graves to receive them.
Hazleton and Jones handed in papers to a clergyman pre-
sent, confessing their guilt, and stated that they died in
peace with all mankind. The executioner then adjusted
the cords; the caps were drawn over their faces, and almost
immediately the bolts were drawn—the platform fell, and
the four unhappy men were launched into eternity. The
Swede struggled a little: those of Hazleton and Jones
were taken to the Catholic cemetery, and the others to
the poor-house burying-ground. The Rev. Mr. O'Brien
addressed the people on the occasion in the Church of the
Holy Cross, and the interment closed the last scene of
this dreadful tragedy, which was witnessed by thousands
of spectators.
No outbreaks have occurred amongst the Mormons,
with the exception that an anti-Mormon, while har-
vesting in his wheat field, was shot and wounded by
some one as yet unknown. The impression seems to be
that the anti-Mormons are secretly preparing to make an
attack on the Mormons in their city, when they shall
have procured sufficient strength. It is said that mes-
sengers have been sent from Nauvoo to hasten the return
of the twelve Mormon Apostles, who will choose a suc-
cessor to Joe Smith, on their arrival at the Holy City.
The wheat crops throughout the States are said to be
excellent.
An extensive conflagration took place at Brooklyn on
the 25th ult., by which twenty-six houses were either
wholly or partly destroyed ; the streets in which
the chief injury was done were Tallman-street, York-
street, and Bridge-street. The amount of property de-
stroyed is estimated at 100,000 dollars.
The Court at Philadelphia was engaged in the investi-
gation into the late riots ; the Grand Jury wished to enter
on the matter generally, but the Judge told them to con-
fine their attention to those matters specially committed
to them, and make a presentment of some fact of an in-
dictable nature, and they retired with this understanding.

ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES.—The conclusion
of the Louisiana election in favour of the democratic
party completes the house, which, according to the New
York Journal of Commerce, stands 33 whigs and 27 de-
mocrats. The senate stands 8 whigs and 9 democrats.
Intelligence has been received from Havana to the 17th
ult. The chief news from this quarter is the publication
of the facts developed by the investigations into the origin
and objects of the late conspiracy among the blacks to get
possession of the island. The council, after noticing the
history of the events, then proceeded to pronounce the
sentence of the law. Thirteen of the principal leaders
were condemned to death, and shot; among them Guigot,
accused by nine persons as being the emissary and
prime mover ; Gabriel de la Conception Valdes, alias Pla-
cido, the poet, who had 32 accusers, as being president of
the principal body of conspirators, chief instigator, first
agent, &c. &c.• Lopez, 14 accusers ; Pimienta, 29 ; Ber-
noqui, 9 • Andrew J. Dodge, 15. Thirty-six were
condemned to transportation, and imprisonment for
ten years and under. The manifesto says—" The At-
torney-General cannot have the least doubt but Mr.
David Turnbull, the representative who was in this
island, from Great Britain, as Consul of said nation,
our friend and ally ; abusing highly and powerfully the
confidence reposed in him, perhaps alone, or perhaps
united with other colleagues, if he did not conceive the
idea of destruction, at least he was the mover and the
focus from where emanated the present plan of conspi-
racy, and many other projects for the desolation of this
country."
The West Indian steamer Tay, got on shore between
Kingston and Havana, but was got off with loss of anchors
and cables, and proceeded on her voyage.
Accounts from Mexico have been received to the 30th
June. Extensive preparations are making by Santa Anna,
and its said that he meditates an attack on Texas. A law
raising fouy millions for the campaign had passed. and the
most extravagant statements are made in the New York
Sun as to his intentions.
The Milo for Liverpool, put back to New Orleans on
the 12th July, being too crank.