The Barrow Herald and Furness Advertiser. — 1871-04-08 (Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England)

NITERS TROOPS. —By the arrival of the West India and South American Mail steamer further details have been received of the revolution in Uruguay. In spite of the defeat suffered by the Blancos on the Sanee, the civil war not only goes on, but has assumed a ferocity of character almost unheard of, owing to the cruelties employed by General Saurez, commander of the Government forces, at the battle of Saw. A. correspondent, writing on the subject, says that every prisoner was killed without mercy, and the helpless wounded were also put to the sword. . Another letter confirms the above—. On the 27th, the day after the battle of Sauce, a barbarous .affair took place in Panda, in consequence of the order of General Suarez that no quarter should be given. A small portion of the national army.under the command of General Fries, was surprised by a division of Suarez's troops, under Colonel S. Martinez, very superior in numbers. Martinez captured 30 prisoners, amongst them being a brother of Fries, and they were at once put to the sword. The soldiers were also punisheu by being placed in a kind of stockj known as typo bolirigno She man subjected m this suffers the most terrible torments, fully equalling anything the Inquisition or Chinese cruelty could invent. Many of the prisoners were not released until the blood issued from the nose, cars, mouth, and eyes." THE • MURDER or A DEAF AND DUMB YOUNG Womax:—At the Hull police-court, on Tuesday, Charles Sleight was charged on remand with the wilful murder of Maria Hailstone, housekeeper at the Deaf and Dumb Institute, Hull. The evidence went to show that the prisoner had admitted the crime to a warder and a policeman. Ile was committed for trial.  FLOGGING IN THE NANA% —A parliamentary return, moved by 31r. Otway, shews that in the three years 1867, 1868, and 1869, 238 seamen and 66 marines suffered corporal punishment. Thirty of th, sentences were s• court-martial; in 161 cases the punishment was Ordered by a captain commanding, in 86 by a commander commanding, and in 27 by a lieutenant commanding. In 45 cases the sentence was for theft; in 200 for insubordination; in nine for disgraceful conduct; in 28 for desertion; in 20 for drunkenness or smuggling liquor; in two for fighting. Twenty:fire of the summary t-tnishments were in ships whose complement NV - to 60; 38 of the summary and one of th martial sentences in ships of 60 to 120; 84 and seven court-martial sentences in ship to 250; and the remaining 127 summary court-martial sentences in ships of 251 complement  A report ta the Treasury on the increase and imperial taxation, und which was dram Mr. Goschen, while the right hon. gentlema the Poor Llw Board, was published on It shows that within a comparatively reeen the increase in direct local taxes has be  £8,000,000 to 16,000,000, of which the .1 portion has fallen upon urban districts. total increase, £2,000,000 are due to the pc £5,00,000 to town improvements, and £l,, to police and miscellaneous purposes. Mr. ( finds that the burdens on land are not heasi  they have been at various periods of this c nor so hcavy as they are in most foreign co House property in England is, howeve heavily taxed.