The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1843-11-21 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CABRERA.—This remarkable partisan may still be called a young man; he is not more than thirty-nine years old. In appearance, Cabrera is about the middle stature, rather slight, and not ungracefully formed. To a stranger, his countenance is not indicative of the ferocity which has made him so remarkable even amongst the sanguinary leaders of the Carlist bands ; and his demeancur, when not under the influence of intense excitement, is mild and gentle. Even when affected by some overwhelming feeling, his external manner betrays little of the tempest which rages within : it is not boisterous nor loud, but rather that of deep, calm, concentrated, yet deadly determination. On one occasion only it is recorded that this habitual calmness completely abandoned him. This monster, who is not. redeemed by another virtue, wept like an infant snatched from the bosom when the tiding's of his mother's death reached him. He loved her much ; and her murder turned to gall whatever little of earthly feeling made his heart still human. He shut himself up in his apartment during two days, without admitting an individual, with the exception of one favoured servant, a relative it is said, to witness the agony of grief to which he abandoned himself, and which almost deprived him of consciousness. How bitterly he avenged his ill-fated parent need not be told.—Mirror.  NATURALISTS IN PRlSON.—Perhaps to none can imprisonment prove more irksome than to those whose delight has been in exploring mountain, wood, and field. Yet two naturalists, who were confined together in the King's Bench prison, contrived to pass their time somewhat agreeably in philosophic investigations. One, the son of an eminent ornithologist, employed his leisure in performing chemical experiments, and became a firm believer in alchemy, although he failed to produce gold enough to effect his liberation. Fancy-work carpentry was a favourite occupation with him ; and his ingenuity was also displayed in converting watch keys into duelling pistols for fleas to settle their affairs of honour. The other prisoner had once possessed a very extensive and valuable museum, which was dispersed on the eve of his difficulties. Sixteen years he dwelt within that prison's high and dingy walls, never going beyond them for a moment, yet he was ever full of etomological enthusiasm and worldly hope, always fondly deceiving himself that in a few more weeks his case in chancery would terminate in his favour, effecting the-thy the replenishment of his purse, and his immediate liberation. Year after year rolled over him, snatching away the bloom from his cheeks, and sprinkling his hair with grey, yet this one hope never abandoned him. " A few weeks more," he would say, " and I will be rambling once again on my native mountains in Wales. Look here at the prime nets I have just contrived for collecting specimens when I leave this place." In his window sill he raised , luxuriant sweet peas, nasturtiums, and other pretty climb Then he had, as company, some choice a ins, singular cross-breeds of white, brown, and tortoiseshell mice, and many caterpillars, ose transformations were a great source of amusement to him. His reading was chiefly confined to the scientific magazines, which were his newspapers ; for the record of some naturalist having caught some rare insect, or a new species, at such and such a place, was to him the most important of all intelligence then stirring in the world. The capture of the rare wood-leopard-moth. one of the many insects he had succeeded in alluring to his window by means of a bait of new honey warmed, constituted the grand incident in his life of long imprisonment. These amusements  ing planting  culinary or conservative art, in which he was greatly enccuraud by his fellow prisoners, who highly applauded `' ,  yea in inventing new so He was at once the Linr  .s and the  e. In one resoec captives we I  had occasion to  d, all p  s heath