The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-03-08 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIGHTFUL BRLTALITY.—We proceed to the case of another, Cummins (a cowherd, in the employ of a Mr.. Salter), which shows, that to impede any of the measures concerted by the conspirators against any of the offending voters was as unpardonable a crime as even the vote itself. A couple of assassins had been employed to waylay Mr. Saltet, who was a tenant of Colonel Bruen. They placed themselves armed in a ditch, commanding the road by which, on a certain day, Mr. Salter was expected to visit his grazing farm, and were 'then perceived by Cummins. Finding themselves discovered, they produced their pistols, and swore him on his knees to withhold all intelligence of what he had seen from Mr. Salter, and endeavour to bring him within reach of their ambush. The faithful fellow, however, had no sooner escaped front them than he sent a special messenger by a different route with warning to Mr. Salter, who was on the road, riding towards the spot where the murderers were in waiting, when he met tbat messenger and turned back. Irritated at Mrs Salter's escape, the ruffians (who were strangers; and supposed, from their clothing, to be Kilkenny men) -attacked poor Cummins while herding his master's cattle, knocked him down with a bludgeon, beat him on the ground, and cut off his ears, telling him as they went off that " he got that by breaking his oath, and warning his Sassenach master." He was found by his wife bleeding and insensible, and con.. veyed to his own house.—Reign of Terror in Ireland.  BazA Aus.—A correspondent in the Manchester Courier gives the following account'of the origin of bazaars :—" Bazaars, to the best of my recollection, have their origin in European Turkey, and were appointed for the general sale of merchandize accumulated from various parts of the known world, held periodically, when the manufacturers and consumers were brought together, and their various commercial transactions effected. They were introduced into England with another object, having a more philanthropic tendency, at the same time being a source of benefit to the speculator. The first, I believe, was that at present in Soho-square, and the regulation of it redounds much credit upon the parties connected with it. Coutts Trotter, Esq., in the onset, established it, with a view for the respectable employment of females, who otherwise (from the bad taste of drapers, and others, in employing young men in their shops to dispose of those wares strictly within the province of the other sex) would have been driven to poverty, or, what is more, to prostitution. The general working of this system saved many hundred females from infamy, and furnished many more with the means of obtaining a respectable livelihood, in preparing various matters to supply the stalls of these fair vendors of light merchandize. At one time it was feared that these interesting places would be the lounges of the idle and dissipated, and such might have been the case but for a most excellent regulation in having a number of staid matrons in various parts of the establishment, to report any indecorum which might creep in." How TO