Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1890-04-26 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

RUSSIAN VIEW OF SIBERIA. The Grashdanin, a journal well accredited at the Russian Court, publishee a letter from a superior official who, at his own request, was recently transferred to a post at Nertchinsk, in Siberia. The details which the writer gives about the state of affairs in that unfortunate country are of particular interest in connection with the letters which have appeared in the press on the treatment of prisoners in Siberia. After describing the great hardships of a journey to Siberia, even if made with every procurable comfort, the correspondent says: "Living is absurdly dear in this country. Everything is five to six times dearer than in Russia. The people are wicked and depraved, given to gossiping, slandering, spying, and secret denunciations. Everything which is good and honest is mercilessly persecuted, and baseness is triumphant. In order to live in the way in which I hue been accustomed in Russia I should require 3,000 roubles per annum ; but my salary is o.dy 1,600. A wretched apartment costs 600 to 700 , roubles. The servants are all bad characters and thieves. They are generally lodged in a building detached from the house occupied by the master, The largest catch of soles in Mounts Bay ever (otherwise one would risk being plundered or murknown was landed at Newlin on Friday by a Brix. dered. We go to bed at 9 o'clock in the evening, ham trawler. She brought ashore 1,100.13., and they and after 10 nobody dares to go out without a rewere sold for £72. The Mounts Bay and other volver. The Government offices are in the same English boats along that part of the coast are not disheartening condition. Every official, whatever taking many mackerel; but the French boats are his powers may be, ill-treats hie subordinates, taking home 40.000 a boas. interferes with their private affairs, and inflicts The bony 01 a weii-nressea man, apparently about every humiliation on them. The small officials, 40 years of age, has been found on a small piece of who receive daily wages, are recruited from criminals forest land near the British Queen public house, at awaiting judgment or already coridemned. They are Wanstead. The throat was deeply cut, and the all thieves and drunkards. The high cost of living and windpipe and large arteries of the neck completely the inadequate salaries make it alniost impossible to severed. It is supposed that the unfortunate man, I find an honest man hers. I shall thank Providence who is understood to have been a clerk employed in if lam not thrown into prison during the three an office in Leadenhalbstreet, committed suicide. ' years which I now must remain here."  SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN LIVERPOOL On Sunday morning a gunner of the Royal Artillery, stationed at Seaforth, attempted to murder a man named Cornelius M'Marney and his wife, in Ben Jonson-street, off Seotland-road, Liverpool. The M`Marneys keep a sort of lodging-house, and early on Sunday morn I ngthey admitted the soldier,whosenarne is Arthur M'ilee, and he went to sleep in a back room. At o'clock some words had apparently occurred between him and Mrs. M`Marney, who about that time alarmed her brother by rushing into his room and shouting that she had been stabbed. She was bleeding profusely from the breast, and leaving the house to go across the street to alarm a relative, she fainted on the doorstep. Making i search n the house Mrs. M'Marney's brother discovered his brother-in-law, Cornelius M`Marney, lying in bed, also bleeding from a horrible cut, and only able to say that " the soldier had done it." 11I'Gree, after wounding the unfortunate couple, made off through the Lack kitchen and scaled the bac k yard wall. He had no shirt on, and was only attired in his trousers and stockings. Giving no reply to a neighbour who questioned him as to his condition, an alarm was raised, the assistance of the police obtained, and Nl`Gee was speedily ' captured. The knife he used--a sheath knife similar to that common to butchers—was subsequently found under a table wrapped in a stocking. His victims were conveyed to the Northern Hospital.