The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-09-07 00:00:00

THE LTVERPOOL STANDARD, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1852

HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.—A daring
highway robbery was committed on Sunday morning, at

-tenant of the —'--- • A man named Knight, going up the New-road,
Esq., to be towards home, was attacked by three men, who knocked
him down, and after kicking Knight they left him for a
short time, and then again overtook him, and a furious
He

either at the Liver

1 or Birkenhead

DEATH FROM Porsow.—An inquest was held on Thurs-
day on the body of Charles M'Mullen, a man who lodged
in Albert-street. It appeared that the deceased came
home on Friday and complained of being ill, stating that
he had been in a disreputable house, and a woman gave
him a glass of punch, since which he had been veryun-

well. He also said he had been robbed of as much as
would keep him a week or a fortnight. He complained
of a pain in his chest, and a burning in his inside, and
drank cold water continually to relieve himself, saying
he wanted to cool his stomach. These symptoms con-
tinued, and the deceased became gradually worse, and
died cn Tuesday morning last. The deceased spoke of
the punch as being of a dark colour, but he never said
where the house he had been in was situate. A surgeon,
ade a post mortem examination, gave it as his
resulted from inflammation of the
_ on, but he was unable to say of
a were no marks of external injury on
uler these suspicious circumstances the
rued for further evidence. Inquiries

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were immediately instituted, with a view to the discovery
of the woman alleged to have given poison to the de-
ceased, and same information was obtained which it is
expected will result in her apprehension. The adjourned
inquest was held on Friday, when the jury came to the
conclusion that poison was administered, but it was not
known by whom.

HEALTH COMMITTEE.-At the weekly meeting on
Thursday, Mr. William Williams complained of injury,
done to his property in Cheetham-street, north of Aber-
cromby.square, from the want of drainage. The engineer
stated that the evil would be best remedied by carrying a
branch sewer from Oxford street along Back Vine-street.
A block of 18 houses in Abercromby.terrace, Chatham-
street, and Vine-street, would be benefited by the sewer.
The estimated cost was £lOO.—A conversation took place
respecting the making of a branch sewer to abate the
nuisance complained of, and it was ultimately ordered to
be carried out. and notice directed to be given accordingly.
-Mr. R. E. Harvey waited upon the committee in refer-
to t' of the foot.-- bet-

_ tne remora, tootwalk _ ween Mathew.
street and Harrington-street. Mr. Harvey stated that it
would be a great inconvenience to gentlemen occupying
offices, inasmuch as carts went close up to the side of the
buildings, and there was no room to pass.—After some
further conversation, it was arranged that Mr. Harvey,
-cdale, and the engineer should meet on the
-ation, with a view to determine what was

premises in qu,

best to be done.—The medical officer of health reported
that bowel complaints having become less prevalent, there
had been a corresponding decrease in the mortality of the
borough. In the week ending Saturday 181 deaths were
registered in the parish, and 80 in the extra-parochial
wards ; the aggregate being 20 less than in the previous
week, but 34 more than in the same week of the preced-
ing four years. Diarrhoea, dysentery, and cholera caused
66 deaths, being 19 less than in the week previous. Scar-
latina was fatal to 11 children, measles to 8, being fewer
than in any of the 23 weeks preceding. From typhus
7 deaths. Of the 65 who died from bowel
55 were children, and 11 adults. Of the total
ldren, and 79 adults.

re ivere

complaints
deaths 182

GENERAL NEWS.

A SPARROW, of a light cream colour, was
days since in the parish of Irongray, Dumfriesshire
CHOLERA has made its appearance at Rochester, and
three or four cases have proved fatal.— United Serrice
Gazette.

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THE Gloucesfe
Mr. James Sot

MARRIAGE EXTRAORDINARY.—Tbe following state-
ment is acknowledged to be true by one of the parties
chiefly interested, and is corroborated in a material point
by a highly respectable and totally disinterested individual,
viz., that on Wednesday the Ist instant, at the parish
church of Holy Trinity, in this town, there were united
in matrimony a pair of ardent lovers, the bride being al-
ready the wife of a third party, who was present at the
ceremony, and had previously given his consent. The first
marriage took place, we are told, thirteen years ago, the
bridegroom on that occasion being only fourteen years of
age. The union appears not to have been a happy one
and after existing about four years, the parties to it a—
to separate, and they had been strangers to each o.ner's
faces for nine years up to the present week, when the lady
intimated to her first beloved her wish to be absolutely
and for ever absolved from his allegiance and control, and
united to the object of her maturer choice. The consent,
we are informed, was most readily given, and the former
master of the fickle dame had the curiosity to appear in
person and witness the ceremony, which nominally (but
not in law) handed her over to another lord. The first
husband is a daily dispenser of drams in one of the
greatest thoroughfares of Hull.—Hull Packet.

ELOPEMENT.—An elopement took place last week
from Portsmouth, which has been the source of deep and
painful regret, not only to those who were intimate with
the family of which one of the parties to it was a.member,
but to the inhabitants of the locality generally. The
young lady concerned was one of the daughters of a
gentleman of considerable wealth, whose mansion is in
the immediate vicinity of Portsmouth, on the sea shore
and she herself was of very great personal attractic
accomplishments, and possessed in her own right, i.
said, of £2,000. She was 21 years of age, and the perso
with whom she eloped was her father's groom. It ap-
pears that, with a view to the result now stated, the
latter had some weeks since proceeded to London and
consulted with a legal gentleman of note upon the sub-
ject, asking him his opinion as to what danger, if any, he
should run in eloping with his master's daughter. He
also inquired as to what would become of the £2,000 to
which the young lady was entitled. To these inquiries
he had satisfactory replies, it would appear, the young
lady being of age, and the money clearly her own. He
was at the same time cautioned not to convey .
property whatever belonging to his master. Unon this
measures were taken, and one day last week tl-e pair
proceeded to the Fareham station of the South-Western
Railway, whence they proceeded to London, where, on
Saturday, we are informed, they were married by special
license. The groom is described as young, and of good
appearance.

BURSTING OF A RAILWAY ENGINE.—A serious acci-
dent, but happily unattended with fatal consequences,
occurred at the Lenton Junction, near Nottingham, on
the Midland Railway, early on Saturday morning. The
seven o'clock train from Codnor-park, heavily laden with
passengers, was passing at the rate of about thirty miles
an hour from the Erewash to the Nottingham arid Derby
line, when a slight explosion was heard, and suddenly the
train came to a stand-still ; but the air, for a considerable
space, suddenly becoming filled with vapour and smoke,
some time elapsed before it could he ascertained what had
happened. In the interim the terrified passengers rushed
from the carriages in all directions, and several of them
ran to a considerable distance from the line, fearing the
possibility of a second and more disastrous explosion. It
appeared that one of the tubes leading from the fire—
which, owing to having previously been damaged, had
bad a joint soldered thereto, and then been plugged--had
burst, forcing the plug into the fire, the hot water and
steam from the boiler following it, and damping the fire
out. Happily the fire-hole door was shut at the time, or
the driver and the stoker, who were standing close
to it, would have been killed on the spot. As it
was, the driver was so dreadfully scalded and burnt
about the face as to prevent him attending to his occupa-
tion for some time to come. It is much to be desired
that the patching and plugging of tubes in locomotives—
always a source of great danger—should he peremptorily
forbidden, both by railway directors and the government
inspectors.

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SrPPOSED MURDER, AT SHEFFIELD. -On Friday
evening, about half-past seven, two children, who were
gathering blackberries in a hedge-bottom, at Eastbank,
about a mile and-a-half to the south-east of Sheffield,
discovered the dead body of a man almost concealed
among the bushes that had overgrown the ditch. Upon
an examination of the body by persons drawn together
by the information of the children, it was found that the
right cheek was mangled by an extensive semicircular
wound, extending from the lower lip to down the chin,
following the lower jaw, and turning upward to the corner
of the eye. It was, likewise, found that there was a
slight cut from the right side of the nose downward,
crossing the larger wound, and that the jaw-bone was
broken. A few yards farther down the hill a pool of
blood was discovered, and marks upon the grass as
though a heavy body had been there, and been dragged
away. The right hand trousers' pocket was turned in-
side out, and the only property found on the body were
two small song-books and a new pair of lady's scissors.
Various parts of the clothes were much smeared with
blood. The appearance of the body led to the belief that
it must have remained undisturbed for a day or two, for
the blood was blackened, and the wound flyblown. At
an inquest, held on Saturday, evidence was given which
leads to the belief that the body was that of Mr. A.
Robinson, a travelling draper, residing in Spring-gardens,
Doncaster, bat who regularly visited Sheffield once or
twice a-week. After hearing this evidence the inquest
was adjourned to 'Wednesday.

A. TALE OF 41. PROSELYTE.—A. case, at whic'n of course
the profane smile, has just occurred in this neighbourhood,
showing how good intentions and religious zeal may at
times be imposed on by the worldly-minded. A gentle-
man, who takes more than ordinary interest in the spiritual
welfare of the Jewish race, fell in with one of the wander-
ers from Canaan, and attracted by his hook nose, sharp
eye, and block hair, began -to angle for a convert, texts
being thrown at him as tenderly as a fisherman flings his
artificial fly before a rising trout. The son of Israel fairly
began to nibble, till at interview after interview he appeared
to be fairly caught. He listened with an attentive ear and
a solemn face, and at last the good man proposed that be
should be formally -received into the Christian Church
preparatory to his producing him at the next anniversary
meeting as a live Jew converted by his eloquence, This
was agreed -to ; but first he had some worldly gear that
incumbered him, a little lut of jewellery worth £6O, that
he must convert into cash to seek a fresh mode of life after
embracing his new faith; and out of pure benevolence,
and as some return for the interest taken in his welfare he
offered it to his patron for £4O. At first there was some
hesitation as to taking advantage of the warm feelings of
the convert—his gratitude appeared to have overcome the
proverbial discretion of his race ; but at length the work
was completed—the £4O was paid, and the stumbling
block removed. The dinoilement may be easily divined.
The jewellery looks delicious by candlelight, but its worth
at the utmost is about £lO, and the Jew has fled unbap-
tized either to Duke's-place or the gold diggings.—
Chelmsford Chronicle.

THE MILITIA AOT..--A LOYAL AND DISLOYAL
SUDJccr.—Peter Sheffield, a rough, weather-beaten man,
about 50 years of age, was brought before Mr. Yardley, at
Thames-street. London, on Tuesday, charged with being
disorderly, and abusing :George Andrew Richards, a
dealer in China and earthenware, of Salmon-lane, Lime-
house. It appeared that the complainant had put up a
bill in his window dissuading persons from enlisting in the
militia under the new act, and condemning the discipline
clauses, for the purpose, as he now stated, of attracting
customers, when the prisoner, on observing it, attempted
to pull it down, telling the prosecutor that the act was
now the taw of the land, end the bill ought not to be there.
The prosecutor, on the prisoner then beginning to abuse
him, gave the prisoner in charge. The prisoner, on being
questioned by 'Mr. Yardley, said he had been both a soldier
and a sailor. He did not like to see the bill, which was
headed " Flogging in the :New Militia," and on the top
of it was an engraving of a man being flogged at the hal-
berds with a cat-o'-nine-tails' the blood streaming down
his back, and the officers and drummer-boys standing by
in full unifelm. If he was going out passenger in a ship
to-morrow, he would rather go in one where the captain
enforced discipline, than one where there was no discipline
at all. He had been in countries where, among large
bodies of armed men, flogging was sometimes necessary.
He had seen men punished with the cat, but they deserved
it, and he should like to know what the seditious bill
meant ? Mr. Yardley seemed to enter much into the
feelings of the prisoner, and commented severely on the
conduct of the prosecutor in putting up such a bill. He
did not think the prisoner had offended against the law in
attempting,to tear it down, and, having ordered the com-
plainant to take down the bill directly, dismissed the case.
ASTOUNDING BZWECT.—Within the last quarter of a
century we have made great progress in locomotion, but
certainly we were not prepared for the startling project of
Mr. D. S. Brown, who proposes to reach America in
forty-eight hours, and to make the voyage to India and
back in a
,fortuight 1 Mr. Brown says, " The events of
a year in the present age are equal to the occurrences of a
century in the past; projects which a short time ago were
received with ridicule have long since passed into realities,
and no longer excite our wonder:; such has been the case
with railways and steam navigation." Our correspondent
intends to put his theory into practice by vessels of quite
different construction to those at present in use, giving
them a greater depth of beam. He proposes to make the
under surface of the vessel, which is flat, of two inclined
planes ; the effect of this will be, when the ship is in mo-
tion, to raise her whole hull to the surface of the water,
thereby removing entirely the resis'ance at the bows,
which is stated to be the great obstacle of her progress,
being an illustration of the principle well known to every
school-boy who has thrown a stone slantingly on the sur-
face of the water, making what. is vulgarly called a "duck
and drake." By reducing the angles of the inclined plane
speed could be added to the vessel, which could be in-
creased from thirty to sixty miles per hour, and a ship so
constructed would be as little affected by the ordinary
waves of the Atlantic as a Gravesend steamer is by a
Thames ripple. The hull is of a square tubular form ; the
deck, bottom, and sides, being of great thickness, and,
in order to combine lightness with strength, they are in-
tersected throughout with hollow cells or cavities, con-
sisting of a series of central cells, surrounded by another
series of smaller cells; by means of these the weight of
the vessels would be reduced to one-eighth of the amount,
according to the number of series employed, and still have
nearly all the advantages of solidity ; whilst the form in
which the hull is made gives to it the strength of a tube,
enabling it to be made of almost any length with perfect
safety. If water obtains its wonted superiority as a
mode of locomotion, the velocity of a steam-ship might as
much exceed that of a railway-carriage, as the railway-
carriage now does the steam-ship. Unseen rocks could
not endanger a ship whose path was on the surface, sea-
sickness could not take place where there was no oscil-
lation and the size of the vessel would place her beyond
themercy of the wind and waves. In conclusion, Mr.
Browne hopes that the numerous advantages to be ad-
duced are a sufficient excuse for this attempt " to add
another feather to our wing," by projecting a ship worthy
of the ocean she is to traverse, and the two worlds which
she is to unite ; and that the scheme will receive the
attention that it merits, and which the importance of
the subject with which it is identified has a right to
demand.—Mining Journal.

MARRIAGES may be celebrated in bowers as fair as
those of Eden, but they must in the end be put to proof
in the workshops of the world.

PERFECTION IN OMNIBUSES.—The following is a de;
cription of a new omnibus about to be set up in tl
metropolis :—" First, the seats in the interior are a

separate, so that a person, on enterin;
perceive which is his place, instead of
his neighbour's lap. Second,
one at eac

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