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The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-08-02 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FOREIGN NEWS.  FRANCE.—The movements of the Emperor and Empress still form matter for speculation. It is reported that the Empress will shortly repair to Trianon, while the Emperor makes short excursions to the northern departments and the camp, which is to be removed from Helfaut to Boulogne, on the very ground that was occupied by the famous camp of Napoleon. On Monday a note from the Russian Government was presented to M. Drouyn de Lhuys by M. Kisselef. Its terms amount to an intimation that Russia is willing to negociate, but upon the condition that all her demands should be complied with. M. Drouyn de Lhuys showed the note to M. de Persigny, who instantly set out alone to St. Cloud, to lay it before the Emperor. The French Government is highly indignant. Monet, ex-Municipal Councillor and Officer of the National Guard has been convicted at Grenoble of the murder of Viscount Dampmartin, the Mayor of Uzes, on the 30th of September last, and is sentenced to death. The circumstance of the murder may be briefly recalled. The Mayor was shot on the threshold of his own house, at an early hour of the morning, as he was about to start for Nismes to meet the (then) President of the Republic. The characteristics of the proceedings at this trial very strongly remind one of the notorious Peytel case, so vigorously followed out and commented upon by the English writer Thackeray. Several witnesses saw the assassin fire the shot and run away, but could not identify his person with that of Monet. The authorities, therefore, caused Monet to dress as he was supposed to have dressed on the presumed occasion of his firing the shot, and compelled him to discharge a gun, at the same place at the same hour, and at the same stage of the moon. The hesitating witnesses were then asked whether the " impression" created by this rehearsal of the scene was that which they felt on the morning of the murder. Some of them answered in the affirmative. Two who could not be got to do so were arrested in Court. Monet has, since his sentence, attempted suicide in a very singular manner. He broke a bottle of wine, and with the pieces of glass stabbed himself in several dangerous places.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-07-26 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

MURDERS AND SUICIDE IN ITALY.—The city of Bologna was the scene of a horrid tragedy on the 10th. Soveral large drops of blood under the windows of a well-known gentleman, named Dr. Accussi, roused the attention of some people, as it seemed as if those drops must have fallen from some wounded person who had gone to the window. Cries, groans, and. lamentations being also heard to issue from the same house, the police were called, who after repeated summons to open, which were disregarded, had to force open the outer and some inner doors, when a frightful tragedy presented itself to their view. Accussi and his maid-servant were found lying dead in one room, both, evidently murdered ; while in the next lay Dr. Gieuseppe Salvi, Dr. Accussi's nephew, who, from a sharp surgical instrument in his hand, was conjectured to have been the murderer of the other two, and to have afterwards committed suicide, to avoid being arrested. The cause of this melancholy event is attributed to family dissensions, but nothing certain has yet been elicited.—Galignant's Messenger._... PAnis.—lt appears that the late Prefect of the Seine, who has just become a member of the senate, and who has presided over the municipal works of Paris since the 2d of December. not being a sufficiently fast man for the superior authorities, has been succeeded by M. Hausaman. Report says that he is to propose a loan of 200 millions of francs (eight millions sterling).to be devoted to works f At this rate Paris will in ten years be completely altered, and, except the larger monumental buildings, the completion of which was mainly due to the late Louis Philippe, its whole aspect will present an entirely new physiognomy. The greatest improvement would result from the abolition of the octroi, and substitution of a house tax. This would allow of theunlimited extension of Paris beyond its present narrow and inadequate limits, and introduce life, energy, and private building operations into the suburbs, as we see in London.— The Builder.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-05-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE IN LIVERPOOL,  YESTERDAY.  Yesterday morning, a man named John Slattery, who had only arrived in Liverpool from Ireland on Sunday, committed suicide in Sherwood-street, being at the time under the influence of delirium tremens. An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, when Thomas Ronan, who keeps a lodging-house in Sherwood-street, gave the following evidence :—The deceased came to my house yesterday about nightfall. I knew him in Ireland. He was a native of Clonmel, and thirty years of age. When he came to my house he appeared quite deranged in his conversation. He was raving about " Peelers," (police-officers) in Liverpool, hunting him for drowning his brother, and he wanted me to go bail for him. I made arrangements to send him back to his friends in Ireland, by the packet of to-morrow ; put him in bed with a young man, a returned emigrant, and went to bed myself in the same room. He was raving all night, and wanted to jump through the window. He said his mother and brother were hunting him. Between six and seven o'clock this morning, an alarm was given that the deceased had cut his throat. I had just then dropped asleep, having had no sleep during the night. As soon as I was called, I jumped out of bed, and found deceased with his throat cut. I held him up, and he died there and then in my arms. A small knife covered with blood was found by the bed. Yesterday evening, about eight or nine o'clock, I was asking him what made him rave in that way, and he said it was from the horrors of drink. He said he had been drinking whiskey on board the steamer on Saturday, and he got nothing yesterday. He said he had been tee-total for seven years before he broke out. James Kenely, a returned emigrant, who slept in the same room as the deceased, corroborated the last witness's statement, and added that about six o'clock yesterday morning he went down stairs to light his pipe. In about half an hour he returned, and then found the deceased lying in the bed with his throat cut. Before witness got out of bed, he saw the deceased go to his waistcoat and take something out. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-05-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE IN LIVERPOOL,  YESTERDAY.  Yesterday morning, a man named John Slattery, who had only arrived in Liverpool from Ireland on Sunday, committed suicide in Sherwood-street, being at the time under the influence of delirium tremens.. An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, when Thomas Ronan, who keeps a lodging-house in Sherwood-street, gave the following evidence :—The deceased came to my house yesterday about nightfall. I knew him in Ireland. He was a native of Clonmel, and thirty years of age. When he came to my house he appeared quite deranged in his conversation. He was raving about " Peelers," (police-officers) in Liverpool, hunting him for drowning his brother, and he wanted me to go bail for him. I made arrangements to send him back to his friends in Ireland, by the packet of to-morrow ; put him in bed with a young man, a returned emigrant, and went to bed myself in the same room. He was raving all night, and wanted to jump through the window. He said his mother and brother were hunting him. Between six and seven o'clock this morning, an alarm was given that the deceased had cut his throat. I had just then dropped asleep, having had no sleep during the night. As soon as I was called, I jumped out of bed, and found deceased with his throat cut. I held him up, and he died there and then in my arms. A small knife covered with blood was found by the bed. Yesterday evening, about eight or nine o'clock, I was asking him what made him rave in that way, and he said it was from the horrors of drink. He said he had been drinking whiskey on board the steamer on Saturday, and he got nothing yesterday. He said he had been tee-total for seven years before he broke out. James Kenely, a returned emigrant, who slept in the same room as the deceased, corroborated the last witness's statement, and added that about six o'clock yesterday morning he went down stairs to light his pipe. In about half an hour he returned, and then found the deceased lying in the bed with his throat cut. Before witness got out of bed, he saw the deceased go to his waistcoat and take something out. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-05-03 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

FRIGHTFUL SUICIDE IN LIVERPOOL,  YESTERDAY.  Yesterday morning, a man named John Slattery, who had only arrived in Liverpool from Ireland on Sunday, committed suicide in Sherwood-street, being at the time under the influence of deliriu,;. tremens.. An inquest was held on the body yesterday afternoon, when Thomas Ronan, who keeps a lodging-house in Sherwood-street, gave the following evidence ;--The deceased came to my house yesterday about nightfall. I knew him in Ireland. He was a native of Clonmel, and thirty years of age. When he came to my house he appeared quite deranged in his conversation. He was raving about " Peelers." (police-officers) in Liverpool, hunting him for drowning his brother, and he wanted me to go bail for him. I made arrangements to send him back to his friends in Ireland, by the packet of to-morrow ; put him in bed with a young man, a returned emigrant, and went to bed myself in the same room. He was raving all night, and wanted to jump through the window. He said his mother and brother were hunting him. Between six and seven o'clock this morning, an alarm was given that the deceased had cut his throat. I had just then dropped asleep, having had no sleep during the night. As soon as I was called, I jumped out of bed, and found deceased with his throat cut. I held him up, and he died there and then in my arms. A small knife covered with blood was found by the bed. Yesterday evening, about eight or nine o'clock, 1 was asking him what made him rave in that way, and he said it was from the horrors of drink. He said he had been drinking whiskey on board the steamer on Saturday, and he got nothing yesterday. He said he had been tee-total for seven years before he broke out. James Kenely, a returned emigrant, who slept in the same room as the deceased, corroborated the last witness's statement, and added that about six o'clock yesterday morning he went down stairs to light his pipe. In about half an hour he returned, and then found the deceased lying in the bed with his throat cut. Before witness got out of bed, he saw the deceased go to his waistcoat and take something out. A verdict of temporary insanity was returned.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-04-19 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

DANGEROUS EXPERIMENTS.—A letter from Munich, dated the 10th inst., says :—Professor de Liebig was last night giving a lecture on chemistry at the palace, before Qacen Maria, Queen Theresa, King Louis, the younger branches of the Royal family, and some persons belonging to the Court, when a bottle of oxygen gas being improperly handed to him by his assistant, who took it for another bottle, an explosion took place, and the bottle flew into a thousand pieces. Fortunately, the explosion occurred in an inner room, the door of which was open. Still some fragments of the glass passed through the door, and slightly wounded some members of the Royal party who were sitting in the front rank. Queen Theresa was cut in the cheek, and the blood flowed in abundance; Prince Luitfold was slightly wounded in the forehead, Countess Luxburg in the chin, and Countess Sandizoll in the head. None of these wounds will he of any consequence. - •  HORRIBLE SUICIDE IN ANtEnicA.—On Friday night last, at about one o'clock, the inmates of the St. Charles Hotel, in this city, were startled by the heart-rending screams of a female, whose husband had fallen from the window of the third story, and was a corpse beneath it. This unfortunate man—Mr. Edward Snyder, of Dubuque —being greatly depresond on account of business reverses, had become partially deranged, and deliberately purposed to commit suicide. On the day preceding his melancholy death ho had procured a razor for the purpose, but his wife, discovering it, concealed it between the beds. On Friday he obtained another, and at about one o'clock, while his wife was sleeping, slipped to the window, opened  1853.  it, leaned far out, so as to be sure to fall, and then plunged the razor into his throat, through all the arteries, nearly to the spinal bone, and fell upon a shed below, and thence to the ground, covering himself and everything around him in a pool of gore. The frantic cries of his wife, who, awakened by the falling of the window, was soon by his side, with bare feet, and in her night clothes, gathered together a number of persons, who bore the corpse into the hotel, where the coroner's inquest was held early in the morning. He had been a man of considerable property, and returned, two years since, from California, where a great portion of his means were swept away in the flood of 1851. He had been married about three weeks to a lovely and intelligent wife, the feelings of whose lacerated spirit are not to be described by language, or alleviated by human sympathy.—Keokuck (Iowa) Dispatch, March 3. Row AT
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-03-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

WORKHOUSE.—At this time theresre not, out of upwards of 2,000, more than twenty young men end about ten young women pronounced by the medical officer to be capable of working the mills. 'CAPTAIN BROCCN, of the steamship Roscommon, who was instrumental in saving fifty'-three lives from the un'fhrtunate Queen Victoria. has been presented by the passengers with a handsome gold chain. TWELVE SEAMEN have been sentenced to one month's imprisonment each for violating their agreement to serve in the British ship Jenny Lind, on a voyage from Liverpool to San Francisco. THE Preston Chronicle states that arch and extensive vein of copper ore has lately been discovered in the Earl of Lonsdale's royalty, near Gilierthwaine, and not far from the head of Ennerdale Lake.  • Two Max in custotiv, M`Mahon and Robinson, have been identified 13,7 witnesses es the parties who perpetrated the brutal *assault and robbery at Mr. Howard's shop in Manchester. THE WHITEHAVEN SrEAM 'NAVIGATION COMPANY have disposed of their steamer the'Earl of Lonsdale, which is henceforth intended to ply between ports in the Mediterranean.  IN a case at the Police-court, the other day, the magistrate recommended the ejection of that large class of vulgar and immodest women who are employed at some of the stalls in St. John's and -St. James's market. Ma. .10111,T ATKINSON, the collector of government taxes for the municipal district of West Derby, is now in Lancaster Castle, and it appears that he has failed to pay up certain sums received by him on account of taxes for the municipal district of West Derby. Mn. master of her Majesty's steam ship Encounter, lately stationed here, has been dismissed from the service for drunkenness. The Encounter has left Portsmouth for-a cruise in the Irish Channel, and will perhaps pay another visit to the Mersey. TLEOI4I,-.S DERBYSHIRE, cheesemonger, Toxteth-park, was committed for trial en Friday, charged with forging a figure in a bill presented to him by Mr. Mansell, smith, Simpson-street, whereby'-S7 paid on account by the person was changed into £l7. SE'rERAL JEWS, it is said, have realized £200,000 by exporting goods from London and Liverpool to Australia. A member of parliament has cleared £90,000 by some old Australian Agricultural Company's shares, which he believed to be nearly worthless. ON'the 7th and Sth instant, 5,263 horses and vehicles passed Wapping, opposite the railway. In Regent-road, Great Howard-street, Walter-street, Blackstone-street, and Boundary-street, there were counted 10,543 carts and 2,05 coaches. SUICIDE or AN'
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-03-22 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

ROMANTIC SUICIDE.—Great scandals have arisen in connection with two recent suicides in Paris. The Corm. Camarata, a cousin of the Emperor's, committed suicide by blowing his brains out, leaving a box with some letters and papers to Mdlle. Marthe, the actress, who was in England. She, however, returned to Paris, when the authorities demanded the box, as containing family papers, should be delivered up to the Emperor. As she refused to give it up, a rigid search was made by the police, but nothing belonging to the Count was found ; and Madlle. Marthe refused to say where the box had bees deposited, the commissary made some observations which were construed by her into a menace. This visit shook the nerves of Mdlle. Marthe, but she had promised to sup with some friends, and she contrived to appear gay during the evening. On her return, she told the portress not to come into her rooms until late the next morning, as she felt fatigued, and wished to sleep longer than usual. At the same time she asked for a charcoal brazier, to enable her to warm some coffee. She had given all appointment for the next morning to a gentleman who arrived at nine o'clock, and rang the bell of MdlleMarthe's apartments, without receiving any answer. He then went to the portress, and obtain'd a key of the apartment. On going into the bedroom he saw that the bed was unoccupied, and the door of the boudoir was fastened on the inside. The door being forced open, the root= was soon filled with thefumes of charcoal, and Mdlle.Marthe was lying dead on the floor, and near her three charcoal braziers—two of her own and one she had borrowed from the portress. She has, it is said, left property to the amount of nearly twenty thousand francs a-year. Chris-. tian burial, it is said, was refused to the Count, bUt granted to the actress.
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-04-05 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CHAN.. CELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S proposition to levy the house tax down to £lO a-year was rejected. This was a proposition to which we strongly objected, from very different motives ; but it was positive dishonesty in those who advocated the application of the system to other classes. The men belonging to the latter class obtained a large share of political power by the Reform Act, and the use they make of it is to free themselves at the expense of those above them. We cannot believe that any system of direct taxation would be so equitable as that of indirect, which levies upon each consumer an amount proportionate to his extent of consumption; but, supposing that it should be adopted, whether by way of Income-tax or Houseduty, it would be the height of injustice to exempt any man who claims to enjoy the privilege of the franchise. In that case, however, it would be a species of political suicide, for the effect would be to throw the whole of the burden on a portion of our own countrymen; whereas, by a judicious system of Customs duties upon imported goods, a part of the burden is borne by the foreign producer. It has been found, in numerous instances, that a reduction or abolition of duty on importation has enhanced the price of the commodity to the profit of the foreigner, and consequently the injury of our own people.—lf French brandy, with a duty of 15s. a gallon, can now enter into competition with British made spirit§ paying about half that amount, what would be the prospect for the latter, if both were upon an equality ? Even in some of the Excise duties the public are benefited, as in the instance of the Malt duty, which is now paid without complaint by beer drinkers, while its abolition would render necessary a doubling of the present Incometax. So long as indirect taxation can be made available for national requirements, without crippling the springs of industry, or:unnecessarily depriving the public of the means of enjoying those luxuries of foreign growth which custom has made necessaries, it is impossible to devise a system which will press with more equality and prove less burdensome. Direct taxation should only be resorted to under an emergency such as we trust we may long be spaieo from;
The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1853-08-23 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

THURSDAY. CITILD MURDER AT LIVERPOOU—Mary Ana Ho dkinsort, aged 35, was charged with the wilful murder of her infant child at Liverpool, on the 4th instant. The prisoner pleaded not guilty, and during her trial appeared perfectly calm and collected. The, faets.of the ease have already been published in our columns. The husband of the prisoner was a brewer, an lived with his family in Rigby-street. On the night previbus to the morning of the. occurrence, (Thursday, the4th instank) the child was sleeping with its father and mother, and in the middle of the night the prisoner called her husband up, and complained of being ill, saying she was dying. A woman, named Kenyon, who lodged in the house, was called to the prisoner's assistance, when she (prisoner) repeated that she was dying, and that the baby was lying dead beside her. That was, however, a delusion, the baby being at the time in bed, perfectly well. Mrs. Kenyon represented to the prisoner the absurdity of the notion which possessed her mind, and administered to her a little brandy, after which she seemed better. On being again put to bed, the prisoner slept the greater part of the, night, and in the morning her husband got up and left her. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Kenyon was alarmed by the cries of the prisoner's children, and immediately rushed up stairs, when she saw the prisoner with a knife in her hand. She said,, "1 have done it ; the child will be no more hungered." The deceased had a large gash in the throat, and appeared to be dead. Mrs. Kenyon got hold of the prisoner, and restrained her from further violence until assistance arrived, and she was then secured, and given into custody. She again repeated that she had done it ; that Mrs. Kenyon and some others instigated her to the act, and that one of them had sharpened the knife for her. The nisoner was taken to the Northern Hospital, when a surgeon belonging to the establishment pronounced her to be of unsound mind. She had previously been attacked in a similar way on the birth of one of her children, and was for some: time out of her mind. Several witnesses bore out the statements. Mr. Thorburn, sur. geon, -who examined the prisoner immediately after the occurrence, expressed his confident opinion that she was in an unsound state of mind ; he added, that one of her relatives committed suicide under similar circumstances some time ago. The Judge briefly recapitulated the facts of the case, observing that the occurrence was a painful one ; but the only question for the jury would be whether, when the prisoner committed the act, she was in such a state of mind as to be accountable for her conduct. The jury immediately acquitted the prisoner, on the ground of insanity, She was detained in custody, to be disposed of according, to her Majesty's pleasure.