Northern Times. — 1860-01-04 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ALLEGED ZRUTAL 'MURDER ON THE  HIGH SEAS.  On Mortaay, at the 'Null Police-court,' .William Lorensen, a l'etmen, eight2en years of age, attended kefore the stkpendiary • magistrate, Mr. Travis, and made ,-the followingkleposition ursn oath :—" lum a • seaman Lon board theiDutch-schooner Maria. She arrived in Bull the se r four -weeks ago, from Marseilles. -.She sailed from that port to:. gull ; she sailed from Malta to Trieste, and thence to Marseilles. Theyhad onboard. one able seaman, two ordinary seamen, the cook, the mate and mater. The coal's name was Fritz Lausman, and. he was shipped at Hamirargh. His age was sixteen, and he hail never been to .sea before, and. the .day zafter he left gareburgh he^was sent aloft-to furl one of the sails. .He Was veryineeh frightened, and only-partly did the-work. Whenishe came down.-on the deer the captain and the mate beat the lad. On that occasion he got )0 -lashes' with a ocpe's end. Whenever Lausman could noimork he w.asbeaten, and the-captain and mate had a violent hatred against him after the first-beating. He was -beaten a day or two after the-first time -because he eouldelat remember the names of-the different ropes. On that .occasion he got 20 lashes with- a •eane. He called- outterribly, ana there were marks all .ever him, The c.aptain and anatc,heat him many times afterwards. On the-.lest day he-was beaten he :got 8G lathes, but the captain threatened to give him 160- lashes. The day 'before he died he. was not beaten; but they tied his head •l his-lege. They then pit a piece- of wood behind his neck, and another behind his knees, then tied-both-pieces of weed together, having first-made the deceased:bend double. In this state • they threw him about Ihe deck, and .the mate threw chains upon him. On tenor twelve different days he was treated in this way, sometimes twice. a day, remaining.so tied for half an hour and sometimes for an hour. The-captain also made him drink urine, 'but this the witness slid not see. The captaia hungered:the. deceased. When lie was tied up, and.tite.charns,were upon him, he cried out that he could.fust breathe, and could endure •it Aso longer. The day Osefore he died the chains were upon him for neruly half tan thour—from the time he was tied up to -the time/ he was liberated. He was tied up at half-past five, andtat midnight he was ordered to go to the pump. .Wherehe got hold of the pump he fell down, arida:ever speke.ggam. He died about ten o'clock the next morning. That was on the 13th -of August, and the vessel was off .a-small island belonging•to Sicily. In the evening, when the sun went down, deceased was thrown overboard in his £leeping clothes. There were marks all ever the .body,,except the chest. There were also many small holes and wounds. The body was coloured red and blue. About four weeks before.deceased died, on one .day he gotffirst ten lashes, then :twenty, then forty, and then-oghty ! The face of deceased was 14'0 swollen with blows thatche could not .be recognised. -Sometimes he had -to take off his clothes, and:receive lashes on the bare -skin." The Danish consul and the t-cellector of custems,at were corresponded with by -the magistrate, and the.case is to be further inquired  .PRESENTATION DF CHELTENHAM AND WEST GlAUCESTER.—The,akucestertlite Chronicle states that Colonel Berkeley will retire frost the representation of Cbelterham at the net election. It has been at length determined to bring the _gallant colonel forward as a eunclifigte for the representation of West Gloucester whonaver an opportunity may occur. The ,prospectus of the Bank of Turkey has been Lisosunedd,ono. War abelisftoornif tehrceodinresieettorsofinzCngoinisstah wptnhoaht isanosntdli Constantinople p capital Frenchfperaoiont aumd. merchants, pad Greek merchants and Armenian bankers; the latter are Messrs. Russell Mice, Gladstone, M. cEe.ssitioondoacadausatcrtt, andtes areß R. f rrra umbei dilLas nTetrel:Tyfainiscet. the example of the Bank of England, readers the question of suceess.one of management. is to b 3 paid up,, A letter from Milan in the Times, 'states that the coming interview Igtween King Victor Emmanuel:and Garibaldi .is to settle a plan according to which Ganbedi is to be named Commander-in-Chief of all the ,National Guard of the kingdoni, with full powers of organising it according to the tenour of the Pierlmontese law, which is valid for Lombardy likewise, and may be introduced into Central Italy. At this moment the National Guard is altogether localised, and has no common centre of activity. Garibaldi's name at the head of the National Guard would give it at once the character of a national force. Frans AND RESCUE or