The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1846-11-24 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE HOMICIDE PARDONED.—The Home-office is proUna, guarded by the lion (standard of England), and ceeding in the course of liberating convicts, and in some holding the sceptre. It may be well, perhaps, to inform respects with injustice to the accused themselves. At the the public, who must for some time back have noticed the York Assizes in 1844 a man named Daniel Donovan was absence of the figure of St. George from the new crown found guilty of homicide in having killed a person during pieces, that such emblem has been entirely discontinued. a riot arising out of religious differences, in the streets of A WOMAN FOUND WlLD.—About three weeks ago, a Bradford, and was sentenced to transportation for life. young woman, 22 years of age, and of the name of Ca- Ever since that time the friends of Donovan have extberine Stewart, living in Brown-street, in the Merkinch, erted themselves to prove an alibi,—that is, that he was left home, and nobody knew where she had gone, until a in another place at the time of the offence, and they sucday or two ago she was discovered in the woods of Lea- ceeded in interesting Lord Morpeth in the cause. Nov, ohdin, some herds having been attracted to where she lay this plea must have been established or not. It is possible, by her shrieking or singing. She had rolled herself up in though highly improbable, that the witnesses, jury, and moss till she had made herself as round as a ball. She judge were all mistaken, and if Lord Morpeth and Sir bad thus lived for seventeen days, subsisting, it is sup- G. Grey were satisfied upon the point, a free pardon posed, on nothing but moss. She was taken home imme- ought at once to have been granted ; if not, use prodiately, almost reduced to a skeleton. She is recovering, priety of such an excercise of the royal prerogative of but on account of the great shake such an unexampled mercy on their part, may be doubted. What, however, state of existence, for so long a time, must have given the is the course taken ? The• Home Secretary has sent out constitution, the progress is naturally slow. It was never a pardon provided that the man's conduct has been good thought she was wrong in the mind, though she was ob- since his transportation, and upon condition that he does served duller than usual for some time back.—lnverness not return to Great Britain, thus perpetuating the senJournal. . tence of banishment. The alibi, then, which would of A BRITISH FRIGATE FIRED ON BT THE PORTUGUESE• course be a complete exoneration, is apparently made the ground of annulling the sentence, and yet the man is —ln the intelligence given in another column, brought from Lisbon by the Marys, "The American frigate' is treated as a criminal ! We never remember to have read said to have been dismasted by the batteries of Oporto. of anything so absurd and at the same time so mischievous —it is as much as saying that a man may be half guilty We copied the statement as we found it ; but we think that the America, British frigate, must be meant, as she and half innocent—a proposition which, we suspect, will had just been ordered by Admiral Parker to Corunna, receive no countenance from the law-officers of the with instructions, as she passed Oporto, to demand satis- crown, or any lawyer in the kingdom. faction for an insult recently offered to a Mr. Noble, a