The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1852-08-17 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FIVE PERSONS SHOT.  On Friday afternoon last a man named David Davies was brought to Worcester county gaol on a charge of murder, he having shot a woman named Pardoe and wounded several others. The prisoner is the landlord of the Seven Stars public-house at Lower Svvinford, in Worcestershire, and the circumstances under which the murderous outrage was committed were as follow :—lt appears that on Monday evening last a number of railway labourers from the works of the Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolverhampton Railway,who had been drinking at the prisoner's house, quarrelled and turned out to fight. On their return to the house they continued to make a great disturbance, and the consequence was that a crowd of persons collected in front of the inn. At this period Davies came home, and was much annoyed at the collection of the crowd in front of his house, which consisted for the most part of noisy boys. though there were some men and women among 'them. He endeavoured roughly to disperse them, and struck several with his vralkinc- stick. on which they hooted at him and threw stones. The prisoner immediately rushed into the house in a vioreut passion. declaring that he " would blow their b— heads off," and went up stairs, followed by his son. The prisoner had two guns, a single and, a double barrel ; these he fetched out, and his son got out the powder and shot. The guns were immediately loaded, and the prisoner went to the bedroom window, and, leaning out, presented the the gun and fired among the crowd in the street, exclaim' ng, " Here's into ye, ye—," using i a foul expression. Immediately afterwards he exclaimed, " I've given 'em a sweep; and I'll give 'em another," and he immediately fired again. His son assisted him to reload, and altogether four shots were fired and five, people were wounded • one killed on 'the spot. The injured 'Persons were—Killed : Mrs. Pardee, wife of a hallier and mother of six children, one of whom she was looking for when -fired upon. Wounded : William Woolridge, miner, wounded in the neck, and not likely to recover ; Hannah Fletcher, a bricklayer's wife, shot in the legs • James Haywood, also wounded in the legs : and Mrs. lirentale, a middle-aged lady, wife of the manager at the establishment of Mr. F. T. Raiford, wounded in the abdomen, thighs, and legs, while aiding Mrs. Pardee, who had once been a servant in her employ. Mrs. Pardee, on being raised from the ground, was carried into a house, but she appeared to have died instantaneously. The guns, when found in the house, wore both loaded with powder and shot, ready to fire again. The affair has created intense excitement. The son was also committed, but admitted to bail.  JENNY LlND._Extract of a letter from the Hague : " The fair songstress, with .her cara sposa, has been sojourning at the pretty watering place of Scheveningen, on the Dutch coast, within a couple of miles of this place. She has much improved in health from sea-bathing, and both will proceedimmediately for Gottenburg." THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY has made anothcr,;but again fruitless attempt to obtain from the Autocrat of France the liberty of the Emir who languishes in the prison of Amboise. Last year, when Louis Napoleon was surrounded by difficulties which might serve as an excuse, he was all readiness to release Abd-el-Kader, and lavish of courteous and pleasant phrases towards the Noble Marquess. Now that his will is law, and he has no excuse for delaying the fulfilment of a promise to which we have it under his own hand that the honour of France is pledged, Mon Prince" is as deaf as a post and as silent as the grave. Nevertheless, "le pouvoir n'a rien change de mon cceur." The Noble Marquess seems to doubt this. We believe it. The " cceur " of "Mon Prince" was always the earae.lohn