The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-12-27 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE CANADA COMPANY.—A general court of this company was held on Wednesday, Mr. C. Franks, the governor, presiding. It appears from the statement laid before the proprietors that the quantity of land sold by the company to the 2d of December last was 3,681 acres, at an average of 255. per acre, and that the quantity leased was 15,925 acres, at 245. 10d., making together 19,786 acres, at an average of £1 4s. 11d. per acre. The land previously leased, and now converted to sales, amounted to 45,580 acres, which had realised an average of 14e. ed. per acre. The receipts in Canada to the 2nd of December last were £98,836 7s. 2d., while the receipts up to the same date for the year 1852 were only £51,149 7s. Bd., exhibiting an increase of receipts in 1853 over those of 1852 of £47,686 19s. ed. It appears that the amount of debenture debt now unpaid is £85,200, and that the funds in hand in London are £37,000. A dividend of £2 per share, free of income-tax, and payable on the 10th of January next, was declared out of the gains and profits of the company. A vote of thanks was unanimously given to Mr. F. Widder and the Hon. W. B. Robinson for their judicious and successful administration of the company's affairs in Canada.  THE MITEDEE AT lIAVANNAH.—On the morning of the 23rd instant, the famed Matilda Domiguez, the long favourite actress of the Tacon Theatre, whose personal attractions were almost irresistible, was brutally murdered by her husband, Jose Francisco Valdez. With a poniard he inflicted 32 wounds on his victim, and then stabbed himself eleven times, but without effect. In his wounded state he was taken to prison, where he now remains, and is recovering. Sentence of death has been pronounced upon him, and as soon as he is sufficiently recovered he will be garotted. With this tragedy the name of our supreme authority has been presumptuously associated in terms not flattering to his domestic virtues and attachments ; but as to the termination of the wretchedly brilliant career of the woman he should not be held accountable. What La Dominguez was as an actress is due to her extraordinary talents—what she became in morals and conduct the miserable wretch her husband should be answerable for, as forced upon her by his authority for the means of his own licentious existence, The story cannot all be written of this ill-fated daughter of an ill-fated mother, who perished in the same way, and for a like cause, by her husband ten or twelve years since—he, with the same weapon, terminating his own life, leaving the orphan Matilda to the chance care of relatives or charitable friends. Valdez attempted to kill himself after the murder of his wife; but, although he dealt himself several stabs, none were mortal, and he has a chance for reflection and the ordinary punishment, which will be administered, probably, under the administration of General Pezuela, to the relief of General Cando. The late residence of La Dominguez was thronged through the day, the 23rd, and on the 24th her body was borne to the grave, followed by thousands of our people, who forgot all but her worth on the stage and her years of ministry to their enjoyment as an actress. The remarkable circumstances of her life— the coincidence of its close with that of her mother's—the names mingled in relation to the cause which instigated the monster who killed her, whom he had forced into shame, and who lived by the fruits of crime that he compelled—were sufficient to create most intense and saddening feeling throughout our society, and there was not a pulse that did not cease a moment to throb under the awful impression of the event.—New York Daily Tunes.