The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1835-10-06 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

HOLYWELL MILE, P.P. ENTERED OR NOT. 2to 1 agst Queen of Trumps (tk) Btol it first Verbena 2to 1 agst Touchstone (taken) 10 to 1 agst Birdlime (tk) 3 to 1 agst Intriguer (taken) 115 to I agst Corioranus (tk)  11Am:tam—01i. the 2Gth ult., at Chalfont St. Peter's, W. Shutt, Esq., police magistrate, to Eleanor, daughter of Mr. Sergeant Peakc. Oh, what a cruel man the Beak!  He's Shutt Nel up for life to indulge a Peake!—(pique.)-- Age. AN UNFiniTUNATE Entron.—Papers from St. John's, Newfoundland, to the 14th ultimo, have been received. A meeting had been held for the purpose of taking into consideration the case of Mr, Winton, editor of the Public Ledger, who had his ears cut off by some ruffians, (who. it is said, were instigated by other parties to this act,) for maintaining the liberty of the press and good government. It was resolved to enter into a subscription to support the liberty of the press, and to afford some degree of compensation for the irreparable loss he had sustained.'  -erators--ip Taus:—A settler on the•western road (Sydney) was missing from his small farm. His convict overseer gave out that he had gone off privately to England, and left the property to his care. This was-thought extraordinary, as the settler wa's not in difficulties, and-was a steady prudent individual; the affair, however, was almost forgotten, when one Saturoay night another settler was returning with his horse and cart from market. On arriving at a part of the fence-on the road-side, near the farm of his absent neighbour, he thought he saw him sitting on the fence ; immediately the farmer pulled up his mare, hailed his friend, and, receiving no answer, got out of the cart and went towards the fence; his neighbour (as he plainly appeared) quitted:the fence, and crossed the field towards a pond in the direction of his home which is supposed he had deserted. The farmer thought it strange, remounted his cart and proceeded home. The morning .he went to the neighbour's cottage, expecting to see him; but saw only the overseer, who laughed at the story, and said that his master was then near England. The circumstance was so strange, that the fanner went to the •nearest justice of the peace, (I think it was to Penrith Bench,) related the above, and stated that he thought foul play had taken place. A native black, who was (and I believe still is) attached to the station as a constable, was sent with some of the mounted police, and accompanied by the farmer to the rails where the latter thought he saw, the evening before, his deceased friend. The black was pointed Out the spot, without showing him the direction which the lost person apparently took after quitting the fence. On close inspection, a part of the upper rail was observed to be discolouted ; it was scraped with a knife by the black, smelt, ati tasted. Immediately after, he crossed the fence and took a straight direction for the pond near the cottage; on its surface was a semi, which the black took up in a leaf, and after tasting and, smelling, he declared it to be "white man's fat." Several times, somewhat after the manner of a bloodhound, he coursed round the lake, at last darted into the neighbouring thicket, and stopped over a place containing some loose decayed brushwood. On removing this, he thrust down the ramrod of his piece into the' earth, smelt it, and then desired the spectators to (fig there. Instantly spades were brought from the cottage, and the hotly of the absent settler was found, with skull fractured, and presenting every indication of having been some tine immersed in water. • The overseer, who was in possession of the property of the deceased, and who had invented the story of his departure for England, was committed to gaol, and tried for murder. The foregoing circumstantial evidence formed the main accusations. He was found guilty, sentenced to death, and proceeded to the scaffold protesting his innocence. Here, however, his hardihood forsook him; he acknowledged the murder of his late master; that he came behind him when he was crossing the rail on which the farmer thought he saw the deceased, and, with one blow on the head, felled him dead, dragged the body to the pond and threw it in ; but, after some days, took it out again, and buried it where it was found. The sagacity of the native black was remarkable; but the unaccountable manner in which the murderer was discovered, is one of the inSert.r-. able dispensations of providence.—Martin's Australia.