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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-15 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE AND DEATH OF A LADY. —About three weeks since, Miss Stabbins, who resided with her brother and sister at Worle, Somerset, after she had retired to her bed-chamber at ten o'clock, said to her sister, " I willsgo down and see if the street door is locked," which she did, but not returning, her sister went down purposely to ascertain the cause,. and found on a table the young lady's cloak, shawl, and her purse, containing several pounds, and the street door open. Having called up her brother and the servants. search was made in the village, and the neighbouring ponds were also raked, but she could nowhere be found. The dirtracted relatives continued making every inquiry, but could hear no tidings of her till Monday last, when her body was discovered by John Cox. in the river Yeo, in the parish of Congresbury, full five miles from the house of Mr. Stabbins, at Worle. No cause whatever can be assigned for the deceased's leaving ber home. She was 27 years old, and her person remarkably fine.  " THE THROWING AWAY OF THE TIMBER DUTIES A GREATER MISFORTUNE THAN THE DISASTERS IN AFFGEIANISTAN !!"—Let this atrocious proposition never be forgotton while the name of whig survives—let it he placarded at every public place—sounded forth at every public meeting. Tee remitting of £600,000 a-year to the industrious classes in England a greater nziefortune than the disgrace of the British arms—the imprisonment of British women at the mercy of licentious, savage murderers—the lost lives of 10,000 or 12,000 of our fellow-subjects, a spark kindled that may consume our Indian empire ! By what military disgrace-by what social calamity will Mr. Macaulay balance the surrender of the post-ojfice revenue? It must be by something equivalent to Napoleon's last Russian campaign. But mark the " miserable financier;" allowing him to make his balance sheet between military shame, political danger, and peril to the honour of English women, on one side, and pounds, shillings, and pence on the other, how does he complete his accounts? You must employ, says he, 10,000 more men in India—the cost of 10,000 men will not be more than £400,000 per annum, and you give away (to the industrious classes in England) £600,000 per annum. Indeed ! And where did Mr. Macaulay learn that a campaign can be conducted, anywhere, however near to resources, at the rate of £400,000 per annum for every 10,000 men ? Not, certainly, in Europe. The Duke of Wellington had seldom more than 40,000 men with him in the Peninsula, often less, and as a military economist his grace is confessedly unrivalled, yet we do not find that the four years' war in the Peninsula was completed, gloriously as it was, for less than seven millions sterling ; but we must not waste time upon such trash. Twenty millions sterling will not repair the disaster in Affghanistan, if that disaster can be ever repaired in a political and military light ; in other regards it is unhappily irreparable.— London Standard.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-09-16 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SAVAGE MURDER IN JAMAICA.  (From the Cornwall Chronicle.) Providence, was takinast: On Thursday 1 as Mr. Ali`Callum, the overseer on Prowas attracted% is usual ride round the estate, his attentionof crows hovering above e appearance of an unusual number a certain spot lying off the public road towards the sea b Ai' Callu ascertain the object of their ; he was thereupon induced to , a distance attraction, and, on advancing towards the place on ot? of about eighty yards from the road, he was horrified hosderving the skeleton of a human body, on which the birds apparently fully completed their horrid 'oanquet. Mr. lost no time in summoning persons from the estate, arid a ram minute investigation of the skeleton took place. The sex": wined by the clothing, which, , thoughttorn, appeared to be the deceased was deterthat of a girl about twelve or four,teoeon4Years old; with the the body was completely divested of flesh. the legs, on which exception of tho hands, the throat tsoas to have cut the skin remained, The arms were bound so forcibly with while i stick was through the skin, and thus stretched out impression accomplish extension ; the legs were also bound about the ankles greatest with the same substitute for corsage; a piece ofles loosely found driven up the left nostril, and the general on the minds of those who were present, appeared the unfortunate deceased had been violated by son:11100e, that who bad thus cruelly secured her person in order to plish their hellish object ; after which, to prevent detection, they had thus ruthlessly murdered her, and abandoned her miserable remains in the callous manner in which they were found. The deceased was a girl of fourteen years old, called Maria Duncan, the daughter of a black woman, named Mary Duncan, living in this town. Four negroes have been apprehended on suspicion. ___--,.•••.....••••••••iff xi  THE LATE RIOTS IN THE POTTERIES,— The examination, of Ellis, for high treason, was resumed on uedsauayw, aast Newcastle. The only witness examined during tle yw Mr. George Goodwin, cabinet-maker, of Hanley, n the , stated that on Tuesday, the 16th of August, be was e streets of Hanley, at two o'clock in the morning, near iho Rev. Mr. Aitkin's house, which was then on fire, and observed the prisoner, whom lie had known for a period of seven or eight years. The prisoner was within the area of the railings, and had his face blackened ; but he did not observe him commit any particular act. About 150 persons were present regaling themselves with wine, and many of them were lying about drunk. He afterwards met the prisoner about six o'clock in the morning, near the Royal Oak Inn. He had then washed his face and changed his appearance, and was in company with a large number of persons walking four a-breast, with many stragglers behind, who proceeded in the direction of Burslem, with the prisoner at their head. He declined to make any defence, and the pri, soner was committed to the next Stafford assizes for trial, high treason. for the very serious charge of
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-02-11 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

UNITED STATES.  The following ought to have appeared in our publication of Tuesday, but was unavoidably postponed : At a late hour on Sunday we had an arrival from New York. The ship Southerner, Capt. Palmer, reached the river with New York papers of the 13th ; they contain some interesting American parliamentary news. Iu the Senate, on the 10th, Mr. Calhoun moved a resolution, calling for information in regard to the case of murder and mutiny on board of the Creole, and asking what step the executive had taken in reference to the trunsaction, having for its object the redress of the wrong done to American citizens, and the insult offered to the American flag. On the 11th the resolution was taken up for consideration. Some debate having arisen on the proposal of an amendment to substitute " persons" for " slaves," Mr. Calhoun condemned publications which had applauded and justified the mutiny and murder, the tendency and object of which were to fortify the pretensions of Great Britain in hostility to the rights of the United States. He warned the south to awaken from their lethargy, and to guard against combinations now menacing their institutions. Several gentlemen having delivered their sentiments on this subject, Mr. Clay rose to deliver his. He had, he said, witnessed the occurrence on board the Creole with deep regret, because it added infinitely to existing difficulties with Great Britain. A case had occurred in which, by mutiny and murder, a vessel was thrown in the power of Great Britain. Were they to give up the murderers, or indemnify the United States, or not ? If not, then Americans were denied the freedom of their own coasting trade, and no vessel could sail from one port to another in the South Atlantic without incurring the risk of seizure. He hoped Great Britain would see the necessity of doing America justice in this case. Mr. Calhoun's resolution was adopted nem. con. In the money market at New York the principal topic of conversation was the dishonour and protest of a draft drawn drawn by Mr. Everett, the American minister in London, and negotiated there, on the American government, for 12,000 dollars.  Since the above was in type we have had another arrival from America, the Stephen Whitney, bringing New York papers to the 15th instant. The news is not important. The Herald of the 15th publishes some private correspondence from Mexico, which developer a singular state of feeling in the Mexican government towards both Texas and the United States. That paper states that from these details, and from the undisguised movements of Santa Ana, there can be no doubt but an attack will be made on Texas at no distant day; and if so, the war will continue till the AngloSaxon race plant their standard on the heights of Mexico herself.  The Money-market was light, and there was an exercise o the greatestcantion on the part of the banks. In the speculative stocks there was a general improvement.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHARGE OF MURDER.—THE WARRINGTON CASE. ante. they must go somewhere else. The witness then west John Gill, aged 24, was charged with the wilful murder of to the cabin, and the prisoner went down into his own yes- Sarah Mould, at Warrington. One count in the indictment set, and closed the batches upon himself. Shortly afterwards charged the prisoner with having pressed his bod,, against the witness heard a noise again, and went on deck, and her and his hands over her mouth, and so suffocated her ; found that the deceased was struggling in the water. He another count charged that he had suffocated her while atgave the deceased a shaft to get him out, and he said it would tempting to violate her person. The prisoner presented himnot reach him, and afterwards cried," He is there! He is self at the bar with a cool and steady demeanour, and pleaded there I" as if he wished to assist in getting him out. The not guilty with a firm 'voice. As it was certain that some of deceased cried out, 0 Dick ! Dick !" The stern rope was the disclosures would be indelicate, ladies were ordered thrown off, and witness and prisoner tried to get him out, but out of court. did not succeed, and the deceased was drowned. The pri- Nlr' BRANDT and Mr. Hur.ToN prosecuted ; had told deceased when he forbade him to come on board, KlNSand Mr. MONK defended. • that he was out of a situation, and he was afraid he would Mr. BRANDT save an outline of the case, and then prorob the boat. The weather was frosty, and the decks were ceeded to call the evidence. very slippy, and there was no rail round the vessel. The Mr. WILKINS requested that one witness, (Clough) who prisoner had been drinking hard and was drunk, and ex- was a most important one against the prisoner, should be pressed great sorrow. The prisoner said that he had gone kept apart from the other witnesses. He was called into below to go to bed when he heard the deceased come on board, and saw the deceased taking some ropes. Whether court, the other witnesses being out. William Savage, jun., son of the sexton of Warrington be touched him or not he could not recollect, but he slipped . Church. On Monday morning, the 14th November last, I and fell in. The Jury found him Guilty. . was sweeping the flags by the big gate when 1 saw a man. He was darkish complexioned, with a light coloured round It appeared that the prisoner had been in confinement from jacket on, and no hat. He was a tall man. He came through the 27th December. His character was favourably spoken the entrance gate by Mr. Harrison's, the clerk. He went of. vast the rectory back entrance. Peter Ford was at that time His LORDSHIP said he would consider the sentence, and ;flaking a grave. I heard of a body being found. I went the prisoner was put down. . from the churchyard for a minute or so, but I quickly reMANSLAUGHTER AT
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-10-25 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

GOSSIP OF HIGH PLACES.—A strange story has reached us, of so painful and delicate a nature, that it is with extreme reluctance that we allude to it at all ; but, as the matter involves royal and public, as well as private considerations, we should consider that we had failed in our duty to the public were we to preserve total silence on the subject. The " mishap," we are informed, relates to one of the most noble families in England, and the other party ins olved is of still higher rank. The Queen, we understand, has been appealed to, as the circumstances of the case imperatively demand that the injury should be atoned fur by a speedy marriage. The father of the " irresistible" is said to be on this point inexorable. But we must refrain, in the present state of the proceedings, from saying more on so delicate a subject, involving, as it does, consequences so important, social, political, and royal. —The British Queen.  A law suit, which had been pending 300 years, has just been concluded at Berlin by the Court of Supreme Justice. In this suit figured as witness the celebrated Comte d'Egmont, decapitated at Brussels in 1563, by order of the Duke of Alba. The parties pleading were the families of Arenberg and Manderscheid, and the cause was a sum of 200,000 thalers, (750,000 f.,) which the former claimed in virtue of the stipulations of a marriage concluded in 1517. Not less than 18 tribunals have been occupied with this case, and latterly that of Munster. The judgment of the Berlin Court has been, that the Manderscheid family should pay the sum claimed, but without interest, and that the expenses, amounting to about a half more than the original sum, should be equally divided. In this case the old Saxon proverb holds good, that " in gaining our suit we lose our money."  An account is given, in a letter from the Hague 15th inst., of an atrocious case of poisoning. The personseaccused of this crime are the nephew of the victim and the wife of the former. Their uncle, a very aged man, lived at the Hague, and they were his heirs. The uncle received from them, as a present, a pie, which, it appears, contained a quantity of arsenic. Almost immediately after partaking of it he became ill, and died. His wife and a female servant, who also ate some of the pie, were, at the date of the account, dangerously ill. The nephew was formerly a surgeon in the French army. Since his arrest it has been ascertained that, some time ago, he had fraudulently appropriated to his own use a sum of 8000 florins, which had been placed in his hands by his uncle for the purpose of being invested in a bank. The murder was, therefore, intended as well to prevent the disclovery of this crime, as to hasten the period when he was to inherit the fortune of the uncle.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-11-01 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE DUCHESS DE BERRT.  The Charivari publishes the following letter from Deutz, the betrayer of the Duchess de Berri : "Let the Royalists overwhelm me with their contempt, I have not the strength to complain; but those who, after having incited my treason, have so well turned it to their profit, ought, in my opinion, to be the last to throw the stone at me. I allow that all the world ate justified in calling me infamous, yet there are some whom I regard as more infamous than myself. Yes, Sir, let it be well known that all has not been told on the crime to which I had the misfortune to lend my name. Simon Deutz was willing to accept all the responsibility of the act. for the miserable sum which was paid for it. But a day will perhaps come when the veil, which now covers that terrible machination will be torn away, and each one will assume the part which belongs to him in the odious creme of 1832. In the meantime I can only beg the Orleanist journals to speak of me with a little more moderation. If they calculate better the bearing of their insults, they will doubtless comprehend that Simon Dentz has been in the hands of certain exalted personages but a vile instrument, and they will judge it proper to keep silence on his account. The police, they say, are fatigued with my importunities. lam really desolate. Have I not had reason in my time to complain of the importunities of the police ? Alas! was it not their cowardly and perfidious solicitations that robbed me of my honour, and it can be readily conceived that, however importunate I may now be to them, I have not the means of treating them in a similar manner. Strange! The police now despise me. They appear to blush at my acquaintance ; but if I had not been followed by them with M. Thiers at their head, who will dare to say that I should not now have been an honest man ? Remove M. Thiers and M. de Montalivet from the history of my life (I will for the moment only name those two), and I should remain what I always wished to be, the loyal and faithful servant of the august princess who had ever loaded me with kindness. How can they then escape from the odium that is cast upon me, who, by their infernal seductions,have so cruelly led me on to ruin ? What ! shall the assassin, who for a piece of money murders a man at the corner of a street, be reputed infamous, whilst he who placed the poniard in his hand and paid him the price of the murder, is allowed to walk with head erect and quietly reap all the profits of the crime ? " As to those honest men who cannot pronounce my name without a shudder, I ask of them neither pardon nor pity; and nevertheless, if they would be just, they would look on my part of the infamy as less glaring, and give a part to those who deserve it. This would only be distributive justice. (Signed) "
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-09-13 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE MARCH FROM CABUL.—(From the Agra Ukhbar, May s.)—The report that Akhbar Khan had taken his prisoners with him is, we are glad to say on good authority, unfounded. On his Sight he made them over to the charge of a chief upon whom he could rely, and who afterwards was murdered. The chief into whose power they then fell was, it is said, disposed to treat for their ransom. There is, therefore, a cheering prospect of their being eventually restored to us. which we confess we despaired of as long as they were in the clutches of Akhbar Khan, whose avarice, keen as it might have been, would have been a weak passion, compared with what be must have felt from his wounds, defeat, and the total ruin of his cause. This relates only to the prisoners at Lughman and the neighbouring forts ; those at Cabul have probably equal chances of safety, if a careful negotiation be set on foot. They are, we understand, more numerous than is supposed ; numbers of Sepoys and campfollowers having found their way back from the fatal march to Khoord Cabul. Of these, it is said several were sold to the Usbecs—a report which we had some time ago, and which is so far cor firmed by this revival of it. The expense of supporting any number of this class lends strength to the report. . . _  MISCELLANEOUS  s of the works of the nev' xpetted that in two months the firs  Prom the forward  houses of  The freedom of the city of Edinburgh has been conferred on Dwarkanath Tagore, of Calcutta, a wealthy Brahmin, landowner, merchant, and philanthropist.  The Admiralty has not the Power to stop the half-pay of any officer in the navy, except under an order from the Insolvent Debtors' Court.  Mr. Gregory, the gentleman who has been officially engaged in Manchester enquiring into the origin of the present insurrectionary movement, has been commissioned to visit Stockport.  FEEDING Fl GS.-It may be useful to state, that it is very injurious to feed pigs with any preparation of the water in which potatoes have been boiled. Potato water should be thrown away, as it is poisonous to the porcine tribe.  The sportsmen complain that thoueh there is abundance of birds in this part of the country they are very wild, and that a man must walk a good way before he bags a respectable lot.—Essex Standard.  An accident occurred on Friday, in Evers and Martins colliery, at Parkhead, near Dudley, by the sudden fall of a body of coal, whereby one man was killed on the spot, and two others so badly hurt that one of them has died since.— Birmingham Advertiser.  A species of gourd, known to botanists by the name of cucurbita leucantlia lagenaria, has this year attained au extraordinary size at the Jardin des Plantes. This plant, which assumes the form of a bottle pressed closely in at the neck and swelling out below, is 40 centimetres in diameter, and 60 in height. As it still continues to grow, it is not improbable that it may reach half a metre in diametre, and two-thirds in height.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1842-04-29 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

APRIL 18.—I scarcely know in what words to ,orrible sight which I witnessed on Saturday. ,o, who in August last murdered a whole family, f three females and a boy, his own near relatives,  day the penalty of his crimes. The spectacle of !d to the scaffold must be everywhere appalling : its peculiar forms render it still more terrific; arnstances attendant upon the execution of the  victim of offended justice in this instance formed ,f horror such as has seldom been seen. The  Log, man, barefoot, clothed in a loose white robe, id feet bound with cords, was conveyed in a I by two galley slaves, to the place of execution, ich led past the very house where his crime was Strong bodies of horse and foot opened and mrnful procession, which consisted of the ma; executioners, the Brotherhood of Mercy, call In the assembled throng to " pray for the soul rother who is going to suffer," and in the cen inhappy creature himself, pale and livid as a id drooping on his breast, and his eyes closed. ears past devoted themselves  who have for  and gratuitous labour of administering religition and advice to the prisoners confined in It this city, attended him on his way to the ['he crowd congregated on the occasion was er was seen before in Lisbon ; it was literally mass of living beings. I observed that every I to bear the expression of pity, though )rious Diego Alves, who was hung last year not the least commisseration was evinced as he ga lows. The cause of this difference in public hat Mattas Lobo had all along manifested the  ,w for his crime, whi^h the Others never did. )p posite the house where the murders were com F pea, and the sentence, preceded ion of the crime, was read aloud. The sufferer -e, and then with a convulsive shudder closed ,ed his head again. What a train of harrow_ ie glance must have aroused I There nich 11.. i had entered on that fatal night ; h which he had eAcaped ; the blood stains he let himself down  that hi  et uneffeiced ; in faces that had welcomed their  smiling  awful part of this sad  to be told. Arrived at the place of execution, was led to the ,00t of the gallows, where he  minutes in prayer. The-elder of the two me forward and commenced the usual exhorta.  couraged him to hope for mercy at the Divine bade him reflect that he had the advantage of precise moment when dea'h, which to so many  like a thief in the night, would come to him, and then he dropped down dead himself! The heat under which he stood bareheaded, and the painnt of the occasion, it i- supposed, brought on a xy. to which it appears he was predisposed. Surnce was soon procured, but unfortunately life In a few minutes after the scenes of this world or ever upon Mattos Loho himself.—Letter ire  AND SPAIN  Morning Herald,