The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-09-14 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THE PRASLIN MURDER.—We should not have tr anstown, near Carlisle, where a North American bear was wards ascertained that arrangements made would enable tence of death was recorded against him, which was, how- ferred to our columns—even had the great length of the kept chained to a tree in an unenclosed space- Rawson them to meet all their obligations.—The failure of D. and ever, commuted to 20 years transportation. Mayow papers not interposed a barrier—the voluminous doCW held out some crumbs of bread to the bear, which it took A. Denny, corn-merchants, of Glasgow, was also an- would appear to have been the ringleader in the matter. merits on this history with which the daily journals hale quietly from his hand. He then offered his hand without flounced. The liabilities are about £400,000, and the He had broken one of the legs from the iron bedstead on ,been crowded. They, especially the letters of the unforbread, when the bear, with both its fore-Paws, suddenly assets will not realize more than 6s. 9d. in the pound. A which he slept, with which he worked out the panel of the tunate Duchess de Praslin, overflow with inflated theorY; seized him by the arm, and dragged him within its circle, hear-y- portion of the loss will fall on the Scotch banks door of his cell. In order to prevent the light from ap- mischievous sentimentalism. and that exaggerated and throwing him down, and instantly commencing to worry and London discount houses.—ocele and and Co., steam- peering through the aperture which lie had made, he romantic tone of feeling and expression by which Frenee. him. An old man courageously seized the infuriated mill proprietors, of Venice, have failed, with liabilities to hung his bedcloths in front of it. He then wrenched off novels and plays are too generally pervaded, and which, animal byte collar, and Mrs. Cowen (Mr. C. being the amount of £30,000, and A. and C. Custo, of Genoa, the locks from the doors of the other Prisoners' cells, and we grieve to say, have been, to an alarming extent, introfrom home) of hold of its chain ; but both their efforts whose liabilities are £Bo,ooo.—The Bank of England re- they secreted themselves in a vacant 'cell, and awtaritetnd the duced into the " light literature" of our own country' proved ineffectual to relieve the unfortunate sufferer. ceived a government remittance on Wednesday, from appearance of the turnkeys. At about a_ quarter e to ix both by the cheap issues of translations of some of thS Two men speedily arrived with pitch-forks, and succeeded Russia', of £60,000, and a further sum of £30,000 is ex- o'clock a turnkey, named Alpass, whose,dut it was y obtained in-the most demoralising of the French works of fiction, an in forcing off the bear, and dragging the man from within pected.—On Saturday week the public in Glasgow were spect the prisoners in the morning, having obtained the original productions of English authors imbued %ma the cell of its reach. It made no attempt to turn upon its assailants, surprised by a rumour of the failure of the highly respect- keys from the governor (Mr. Barrett), entered the same spirit, and seeking popularity by the sat, Rawson was found to be dreadfully lacerated. He lin- aisle firm of Gemmell, Brothers and Co., and of William a prisoner. He had scarcely unlockedthedoor himwhen andstruck a which we could name, and of many of the most success;; shot. Kong. One cause of the failure was the non-arrival of deadly blow on the side of thehead, which knocked him, ful dramatic pieces, is to familiarise with crime ;to bre".