The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

MELANCHOLY AND FRIGHTFUL

OCCURRENCE AT PLYMOUTH.

On Wednesday evening Miss Luke, daughter of
boot and shoe maker in George-street, died under very
distressing circumstances at a branch establishment in
trr.ion..street, which was under her charge. It appears
that for some time past an ill-feeling has subsisted
between the father and daughter, and that on Monday
last there was a dispute in relation to the sale of a pair
of boots, which were found to be ton small, and were
returned by the purchaser, a sailor, to Miss Luke, with
an offer of one-half the amount realised by the second
sale. The fact, whatever it was, so exasperated Mr.
Luke. whose temper is generally ungovernable, that in
the evening ho went to Union-street, and, although his
daughter is nineteen years of age, beat her mos '
severely with a rope. He then left the house, but
returned in a short time, took the rope; and threatened
to repeat the infliction, when the high-spirited girl
retreated to her bedroom on the second floor in the rear
of the house, opened the window, and jumped out. She
fell on a porch, and thence on to the pavement, a height
of 25 feet. Her skull was fractured so frightfully that
the brain protruded through her nostrils.

The guarantee fund for insuring the exhibition of
862 exceeds £292,000, and is daily increasing.
The monthly average price of Wheat for France,
published in the Monitcur, shows an increase of lf. 18c.
over the previous return.
It is alleged that large consignments of treasure are
being made by Messrs. Rothschild from Naples to Mars
If this be true, it may probably be on account
of the King of Naples.
Mr. Ayrton has given notice of a resolution pledging
the House of Commons to support ministers in adopting
constitutional measures to obtain the remission of the
paper duty during the present session.
The select committee appointed to consider the bill
for settling disputes between masters and operatives,
unanimously recommend the voluntary formation —Cif
equitable councils of conciliation, as a means of pre-
venting the growth of antagonism between employers
and employed, which generally leads to strikes.
Tile Queen has been pleased to order a conge 'retire to
pass the great seal; empowering the Dean and Chapter
of York to elect an Archbishop ; and her Majesty has
been pleased to recommend Charles Thomas LengleY
now bishop of Durham, to be by them elected Archbishop
of the said S:e of York.
It is stated that the late Mr. John Holmeas of
Bristol, whose munificent donations to charitable and
religious objects have from time to time been recorded,
gave away during his life upwards of £90,000; and
that it is supposed the sum remaining after his death,
which took place a few days ago, does not exceed £B,OOO.
COTTON SPINNING IN Bostßasr.---The operations of
the Oriental Spinning and Weaving Company, Bombay,
during the past year, have resulted in a profit equal to
6 per cent. The company was only recently established
by a number of Parsees. They declare a dividend of 5
Per cent , and vote a sum of Its. 10;000 for a bronze
statue to their late chairman.
COMMUNICATION WITH AUSTRALIA.--In the Thames
on Thursday afternoon a very elegant elejeuner was
served on board the Solway, to celebrate the inaugura-
tion of a new monthly "Black Ball" service between
London and Sydney, to which this ship is the third
dedicated. The chair was taken by Mr. T. M. Mackay.
A CURIOPS POACHER.—The Benphire journal states
that Charles Mackay, a Macduff fisherman, the other day
caught a large cod fish, whose stomach, on dissection,
disclosed the complete carcase of a hare. If there be any
foundation for the suspicious fears with which fishermen
regard a " mankin," surely this must portend something
fearfully calamitous. How the denizen of the deep
could have had an opportunity of committing a breach of
the game laws is something which it surpasses editorial
wisdom even to conjecture.
THE MILITARY RIOT AT HAMILTON.—On Wednes-
day morning, Mr. Dykes, procurator-fiscal of Lanark-
shire, and Capt. Mackay, chief constable of that county,
arrived in Edinburgh, accompanied by several inhabi-
tants of Hamilton, and proceeded to the castle, for the
purpose of identifying .a number of the West York
Militiamen accused of participating in the late riot a

Hamilton. The companies who arrived on Tuesday
were paraded on the Esplanade, and ten men baying
been identified, were arrested and conveyed by rail to
Glasgow prison, under a guard of twenty men of the
78th Highlanders.
MORTALITY IN THE POLICE FORCE.—Of the 12 Or
13 days of average illness in the year, less one day and
a half is from injuries received from violence or accident.
Some readers may be surprised to hear how few deaths
result from what they are apt to consider the special
dangers of the police—from assaults and accidents.
These assaults and accidents, together with all diseases
whatever, except three kinds, caused only 62 deaths in
five years against 155 arising from those three kinds of
disease. In the five years from 1852 to 1856, both
inclusive, there were -25 deaths from cholera, 41 from
fever, and 89 from consumption and other chest diseases.

During those years there was a single death from
diarrhma or dysentery—an evidence of both good diet
and temperance on the part of the men.-1/48 Jfartineare
it " Once a TVeek."

A FATAt FREAK.—On Thursday week, a little after
noon, a customer, on entering the shop of Mr Irvine
Bell, grocer and draper, Kirkpatrick-Fleming, was
awfully shocked at seeing the shop-boy, William John-
ston, a lad of fourteen, suspended by the neck from a
crook in the ceiling, and motionless. An alarm was
instantly given, and the body was eat down, but life
was found to be extinct. It appeared that only about
ten minutes before he was found dead ho had served
a customer in the shop, when he appeared in excellent
spirits, as was usual with him, and that no cause could
be assigned for his wilfully and wittingly committing
the rash act of self-destruction. On the other hand, the
boy, it seems, was fond of playing pranks, and on two
former occasions bad been seen amusing himself by expe-
rimenting in hanging from the same crook ; so that the
conclusion arrived at by Colonel Graham and the regis-
trar was that his death was the result of a dangerous
freak of this nature, in trying which, when once he had
suspended himself, he had been unable to give an alarm,
or to release himself from the fatal noose.—Theinfries
Courier.

SHOCKING CHILD MURDER IN NOTTINGRAMKTIIRE.
—A case of child murder, occurring under very distress-
ing circumstances, has taken -place at Southwel?, near
Nottingham. On Saturday morning last, a young
woman, named Elizabeth Hulyatt, left the South well
Union, where she had been confined of a female illegiti-
mate child, and proceeded to her parent's house,which is
about half a mile out of the town. The parents, on
necyount of the infant, refused to receive her, and oruelly
turned her out of doors. The unhappy girl being thus
left_ entirely destitute, sat down on a bridge, near her
father's house, and here she was seen half an hour after-
, wards by, an acquaintanee, to whom she said, in passing,
"Bill, took here." He looked, and perceiving a childappa-
-1 rently in its last agonies, he said, " Why, the child's
dying." She replied, "Yes, but they can't do anything
at Inc : there's no marks on it." Front this time until hall-
past two o'clock, a period of more than two hours, the
*girl nppeArs to have walked about the streets with the
dead- (Cid in her arms. She then went to Mr. Horne,
'Nam:giant of police, stationed in the town, and asked
him what she should do with it. He 'inquired when it
had died, and she said about twelve o'clock. He asked
under what circumstances, and not being satisfied with
the answers 'given him, said he should call in a doctor.
The girl thereupon began to cry, and subsequently con-
fessed that having been turned out of her father's house,
she did not know. what to do nor where to go, and she
had put the shawl over her babe's mouth, and her hand
over that, and had so smothered it. On Monday after-
noon an inqUest held before Mr. Newton, coroner,
when a .verdict of " Wilful murder" was returned
against Elizabeth Hulyatt. The prisoner was then com-
mitted for trial at the assizes, and was lodged in the
county gaol at Nottingham on Tuesday.

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HM.LOWAT'S Puts AND OmrmsNr.--Female complaints.
On, the mothers of England devolves much and serious re-
sponsibility in securing to their daughters robust health ;
frequently, alas! thoughtlessly sacrific...ed by culpable bashful-
ness at a particalar period of life When all-important changes
take plate in the female constitution, and upon the proper
management of which hangs.. future happiness or misery.
Neglect in assisting nature has consigned thousands of Eng-
land's lovely daughters to despondency, disease, and premature
death: Holloway's Pills, especially if aided with the Ointment,
have the happiest effect:4-in establishing those functions upon
the dne performance of which our social position depends, and
our race may h.; saved from &generation. Mothers and
daughters may safely use these powerful deobstruent remedies
without feeing the faculty.

Our readers have only to send a penny stamp and they will
receive, free by post, the " ONYn Guide," or nattiral
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strong nerves, sound lungs, and refreshing sleep, to the most
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and sickness, even during pregnancy, debility, nervousness,
palpitation, con 'h. asthma incipient consumption, dropsy,
constipation, flatulency, diarrheri, dysentery, biliousue4s,
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also children's complaints. Accompanied with numerous
auccessful cures, which had resisted all medical treatment and
seen-infidoned as kopeless. D. T. Bann 77, Regent-street
London. -
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