Northern Times. — 1860-02-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDER OF A SPANISH SAILOR IN LONDON.  At the Thames Police Court, on Tuesday, Peter Philip Perio, a Portuguese seaman, was examined on a charge of wilful murder. The man who is supposed to 'have met his death by foul means was named Jose Rico, a Spaniard, who came to this country in the ship Lion. It appeared that on Friday last a black man,`named John Cole, was charged with stealing a quantity ofwearipg apparel, the property of the deceased and another foreigner named Phillippe, in a boarding-house for foreign seamen, kept by a Greek named John Seymour, whose nephew was murdered in the same house a few years ago by one of his lodgers. On the evening of the day on which the charge of robbery was heard at the above court, the deceased Rico, who had given evidence of the robbery, was found dead in his bed, with marks of great violence on his body externally, and with nine of his ribs broken. The murder is supposed to have been committed, not from motives of revenge in consequence of the evidence he gave at this court, but for the putpose' of robbing him of his money. Marnio Martino, a Spaniard, and a " Portuguese Brazilian," absconded from Seymour's house just before RicO was found dead in bed, and great suspicion attaches to them. When the prisoner was apprehended, he was in bed, within a few feet -of Rico, when the latter was found dead. A man was going upstairs towards the bedroom, and found a hat on the stairs. The man called out, " Whose is this ?" to which the prisoner replied directly, "It belongs to Rico." There were contusions on the body of the deceased, besides the fracture of nine of his ribs, indicating peat violence, and that he had been jumped upon. There were marks upon his face, and his nose appeared to have been pinched as if to stop his breathing. Seymour, the landlord, stated that the deceased was in the yard at the rear of the boarding-house, at five o'clock, ' and at seven he was found dead in bed. The prisoner was the only other person in the house at the time, and his bed, as just stated, was close to that of the murdered man. Mr. Yardley (the sitting magistrate) said this was especially a case for the police to investigate and collect evidence. There was not a spark of evidence against the prisoner—nothing upon which he could detain.him for an hour. The prisoner, when asked if the hat belonged to the deceased, said " Yes." That was in his favour. The running away of the other foreigners did. not affect the prisoner. He could not detain any man in custody without evidence, and the prisoner must be discharged..  FOREIGN OPINIONS OP ENGLISH WoNEN.—From a recent number of the Etoqe Beige, a journal conducted With considerable talent, we.extract the subjoined paragraph :—" At the last Chantilly races, a lady well known in the fashionable circles at Paris, inoculated with the English passion for betting on horses, lost 15,000 f. Het husband, ignorant that she had any stake on the race, entered the grand stand in great glee, having won 20,000 f. on Black Prince ; observing his wife did not partake of his joy at this good fortune, he offered to share his gains with her, upon which elle avowed her" loss. Like a kind husband, he immediately paid it, saying however, ' I must take a house for you madam, in the country, there is no longer any question about that, and never let me hear of your betting again.' In England, women who possess an independent fortune, bet like the men. The daughter of a great English poet, Ada, the sole fruit of his unfortunate marriage, fell a victim to her passion for betting. Having staked an amount of £BO,OOO on the Derby, she lost three quarters of it (or 1,500,000 f.) all her personal fortune. It was her ruin: her husband, inexorable, allowed her a small pension, upon which she retired to an estate in Rutlandshire. Six months after this exile, the poor lady died of despair."  A