The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

JEWS IN PRIJSSIA.—A. letter from Berlin, 16th inst., in woman having been miss by her neighbours for some days the Gazette of Upper Germany, has the following; with repast, inquiries were made of her son as to where she was, in ference to the proposition now before the Prussian Council answer to which the son stated, that she had gone a few miles of State, on the subject of excluding the Jews of that couninto the country. On his leaving the house yesterday morn- try from the liability to serve in the army :—This ',proposition ing he told his wife that he was going to Dowlais to get his has led to a conference between M. de Humboldt and M. pay, and particularly ordered her not to look under the bed. de Stollberg. In a letter M. de Humboldt says r—lll-naAfter he had left, the wife, excited by curiosity to know what tured rumours have been current on this subject ; but if it was her husband was so anxious to conceal from her, went public opinion be against the principles involved in the proto a neighbour's house, and told two women of it, who agreed position, Ido not hesitate to regard it as contrary to sonnd that the wife ought to see what it was. The three women policy and liberal feelings. It does not belong to man to lathen returned to the house, and raising the foot valiance of terpret the decrees of God. The ages of barbarism show the bedstead, were horror-struck at observing the body of the to what an extent the human mind may err ! M. de poor old woman under the bed partially wrapped up in a Humboldt adds that complete emancipation appears to him sheet, and quite dead. The alarm having been given, the su- to be a necessity of the times. The Academy of Sciences perintendent of police was sent for, and from the information has just given a noble example of tolerance. 1t has admitted obtained by him suspicion pointed instantly to the son as the as member, on the proposition of M. de Humboldt, the murderer, and the more readily so from the son being the learned philosopher, Dr. Riess, of the Jewish persuasion. person who was two years since committed for the murder of In the present state of things, this choice cannot fail to create a poor Irish girl, an unfortunate woman of the town. In a profound impression." that case, the evidence not being deemed conclusive, Edwards On Thursday night, between eight and nine o'clock, the was acquitted on his trial at the assizes. Information was city of Canterbury was thrown into the greatest state of immediately given to the coroner, Mr. I'. Davis, and at live alarm in consequence of a disturbance created between the o'clock last evening the coroner and a respectable jury as- military and police; the origin of which was, that two prisembled ; having viewed the body, the inquest was adjourned vates, one named Dyson, of the 3d Light Dragoons, in an until six o'clock, Monday evening, in order to allow time for intoxicated state, molested everybody they came near in the the post mortem examination of the body. The police are in streets, especially females, broke several windows, upset the active pursuit of the murderer, but have not as yet succeeded goods of the tradesmen, and otherwise annoyed them. The in capturing him. assistance of the police was obtained, and they were conSHOCKING