The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-05-20 00:00:00

tains the following letter from New Providence, furnishing
the intelligence that the negroes of the Creole had bee❑ for-
mally set at liberty :—" Nassau, New Providence, April 16,
18-12.—A special session of the Admiralty Court convened
this day to hear the charge of piracy against the 17 negroes
imprisoned from the Creole. The Attorney-General made
his motion for delay of trial, on the ground that it was im-
possible to obtain the necessary evidence here, and offered
for the perusal of the Court a number of affidavits of the
captain, mate, and crew and passengers of the Creole, show-
ing that sufficient evidence could be procured from the United
States, if time was allowed. After an examination of the
testimony offered, the Court replied, that were the captain,
crew, and passengers, as set forth in the affidavits, here pre-
sent to testify in this case, they should consider them as not
entitled to belief or credit, and should charge the jury to

that effect; and that no evidence could be procured to con-
vict the prisoners at the bar, for they were perfectly justified
in the course pursued on board the Creole, and were now
about to be set free. The Chief Justice then addressed the

negroes something in this style :—' It has pleased God to set
you free from the bonds of slavery ; may you hereafter live
the lives of good and faithful subjects of her Majesty's go-
vernment.' They were then set at liberty by proclamation."

RAILROADS IN FRANCE.—The Chamber of Peers assem-
bled on Monday, in their committee-rooms, for the purpose
of electing a committee to report on the railroad bill, brought
up from the Chamber of Deputies. This bill contains—first,
a general classification of the lines intended to be constructed ;
second, a second system of execution which imposes on the
departrtents traversed by those railroads the payment of
two-thirds of the value of the ground to be purchased. It
likewise enacts that the government shall pay the remaining
third, together with the expense of embankment, the execu-
tions of works of art and stations, leaving the cost of fixing
the rails and the materiel to the charge of the companies who
shall undertake to complete them. 3. The allocation of
funds amounting together to the sum of 126,000,000 f., appli-
cable to the following sections :
From Stratsburg to Hommartin
Dijon to Chalons....
Marseilles to Avignon
Orleans to Tours..
Orleans to Vierzon
Paris to Lille ..
For sundry expenses

11,500,000
11,000,000
30,000,000
17,000,000
12,000,000
43,000,000
1,500,000

126,000,000
The entire plan consists of seven vast lines of the first order,
setting out from Paris, and leading-1. To the Belgian fron-
tier, through Lille and Valenciennes. 2. To England, by one
or several points on the coast, to be hereafter determined. 3.
To the German frontier, through Stratsburg. 4. To the
Mediterranean, through Lyons, Marseilles, and Cette. 5.
To the Spanish frontier, through Bordeaux and Bayonne.
6. To the Atlantic Ocean, by Nantes. 7. To the centre of
France, through Vierzon, with a prolongation to be hereafter
determined, with a branch to Bourges. And of two lines of
the second order from frontier to frontier directed-1. From
the Mediterranean to the Rhine, through Lyons, Dijon, and
Melhouse. 2. From the Mediterranean to the Atlantic
Ocean, through Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette.
THE LATE ACCIDENT ON THE PARIS AND VERSAILLES
RAILWAY.—The Saint Germaine and Versailles Company
has taken fresh measures for adding to the precautions al-
ready observed in the service of the railroad. The number
of locomotives hitherto in use has been forty-five with six
wheels, and six with four. The council has decided on sup-
pressing the latter, until the doubt which has been raised as
to their safety shall be cleared up. The company has written
to Marshal Soult, requesting him to authorise the head en-
gineer to enter into communication with the committee of
artillery, "to examine, in unison with them, into the best
means of adding, if possible, fresh improvements into the
various objects used on the line, particularly the axletrees of
locomotives." A new steam-whistle of a peculiar kind has
been added to all the engines, to give information to the con-
ductors when to tighten the breaks in order to stop the
trains, or diminish their speed. Goods and luggage, which
hitherto were attached to the end of the train, are, for the
future to be placed between the waggons and the tenders.
Although the private regulations of the company, for fixing
the rate of speed, may be considered as efficient, as 9,064,364
persons have been carried on the line, since its opening, with-
out any case of death or severe ' njury having occurred, yet,
as a prudential measure, a diminution in the rate of going has
been prescribed. The most watchful attention has been com-
manded for the breaks, and the materiel in general, and the
strictest care has been ordered to be paid to keeping it in
perfect condition. In the present state of excitement it may
be well to observe that there have been conveyed on the Bel-
gian lines, from May, 1835, to December, 1841, 11,702,676
travellers, and that, out of this great number, only two per-
sons have perished in an actual railroad accident. The dis-
tance passed over in Belgium was, in 1840. 295,296 leagues,
and in 1841, 362,157, making a total of 637,433 leagues. On
the St. Germain and Versailles line the number, in 1840, was
126,746 leagues, and in 1841, 151,863, giving 282,609 leagues
in all. This gives for the companies in the two countries a
distance of nearly 1,000,000 of leagues for the two years, and
a transport of passengers almost amounting to 21,000,000,
since the opening of the lines.
A VERY AIN KWARD MISTAKE.—We find the following
story in the Siecle :—" Early in the morning of the day fixed
upon for the removal of the body of M. Humeral from the
ministry of finance to the church of the Madeleine, M. Gan-
nall, the embalmer, called and desired to see the minister.
The valet de chambre in attendance replied that it was much
too early, but M. Gannal persisting, and adding that he had
been sent for, and that the business on which he came would
admit of no delay, was shown into a bed-room, the valet
withdrawing as soon as M. Gannal entered. This gentleman
approached the bed, and, having prepared his apparatus,
raised the sheet, and was on the point of applying his lancet
to the carotid artery, for the purpose of injecting the pre-
serving liquid, when the minister, who was not the dead M.
Humann, but the living M. Lacave Laplagne, opened his
eyes, and, seeing the operator before him, armed, as he sup-
posed, for his destruction, cried out repeatedly—' Au secours !
al' assassin 1 The cry brought several persons to the spot,
but before they could enter the room, M. Gannal had rushed
into the corridor, exclaiming, ' The minister has come to life.'
The affair is easily explained. M. Gannal bad been sent for
to embalm the body of M. Humann, and when he asked to
see the minister, the valet, not knowing the object of his
visit, naturally showed' him into the bed-room of M. Lacave
Laplagne, who had already taken up his residence at the
ministry."
~lATe extract the following frightful narration from the
I,OU •
'11" de Luons •—" M. Larochette, between 35 and 40
the parentsaolt
years of age, belonging
... •
tion, formed an
to a family of wealth and considera-
tion,
were near 17'and 18,
ject of uniting an attachment to his niece, Mdlle. 8., between
had formally demanded her in marriage ; but
16th instant, M. tar
aercted to the alliance on many grounds, amongst
g threlationship, disparity of years, and a pro-
Cluny, near Macon daughter to another person. On the
r9chette went to the house of M. 8., at
daughter, Mdlle. b.
the fair of Solognv: )11 the Saone-et-Loire. He was gone to
given him to partake of th
but Mme. B. was at breakfast with her
the meal,
declined the invitation
Proposals.
from both mother and daughter, subject of his !Teal, and at once entered on the
ill receiving an indirect refusal
and seizing a knife, tear' 1,14.
places, and mortally wounded he: Larochette became in-
furiated,.bed Mdlle. B. in several
ianud her mother, who went
attempting to interpose,
to her rescue. Mdlle. D., also,
distress called in the
lta"rrest, has
received a severe wound. The cries
servants and some men from the vine
kept at bay by the desperation of the arsarasi
aselearge stone
,nbuatottihleoynweeroef
them stunned him by a blow on the head fsraoassen)
be was
which lie threw at him. While thus laid
Isvehcou secured, disarmed, dbieseanrmseendt,
fandor.
000vhe
or
tttoe a,
since
ey endarmes
been perfectly calm, but has refused to answer any questio
Mine. B. and her daughter are both dead. Mdlle. D. Xi
survives, but is in great danger.