The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-08-03 00:00:00

E'SNINE

enutug, in 181
, execution she walked to the s.
is a cruel thing to die innocently, yet I freely
ne, and die in charity with all the world -
tressed in a white muslin-wo

martyr

gown, muslin cap
atin ribencl, and white riband round

bound with white s
her waist

Her appearance was very interestin

Morning Ac

,ertiser

THE NEW FLORIN is now current
rather broader piece than the fort

It is a large

Jossible in worse taste. The obverse presents the
crowned bust of the Queen, with the leeend in Gothic

being i

:haracters !

VICTORIA D. C

F. D. MDCCCLII
urd de

The reverse, an ex

weration of t

appeared on its predecessor; legend—ONE FLORIN-ONE-
TENTH OF A POUND. We have heard that the late go-
vernment contemplated contracting with some house at
3irmingham for the striking of the coin of the realm, a
umour which at that time caused us no little astonish-
Our surprise has, however, much abated after an
_aspection of this piece, which we consider as intended to
prepare us for a Brummagem mintage. While on the
t of the designation of this new coin, we may observe
florin, however unfit at this period of the
s not in other respects inapplicable, since in the
e ages the Italians had their florino d'ar

'gent() as well

as llorinci d'oro ; and with regard to the indications of its
current value, we have, as some people seem to have never
authority for the practice in ancient coins.

noticed

—Literary Gazette

THE BARONESS VON BECK.-At the Nisi Prius Court
at Warwick, on Wednesday, an action was tried involving
incidentally the merits of the case of the Baroness Von
Beck, whose sudden death in the police court, Birmingham,
last year,under very painful circumstances, will, most pro-
bably, be in the recollection of our readers. The action was
brought by a Hungarian, named Constant Derra de Mo-
roda, against George Dawson and others, to recover com-
pensation for detention in prison and other injuries, con-
sequent upon a charge of obtaining moneys under false
pretences. The trial occupied several hours, and a con-
siderable amount of testimony was produced on both sides.
Ultimately the judge, Mr. Baron Alderson, decided that
there was not evidence enough of malicious intent to sub-
mit the case to the jury. His lordship in thus deciding
said, " I very much regret this. I think it has been a very
wrong and very rash proceeding against this young gen-
tleman, because I do not think there was any reasonable
around for supposing that he had anything to do with the
Baroness Von Beck that was wrong, even supposing she
was doing anything wrong herself, bout which I say no-
thing, although I am disposed to think she was not. I
very much regret this, gentlemen." The plaintiff was
then nonsuited.

ATTEMPTED MURDER.—John Mitchell, aged 39, was
indicted at the Warwick assizes on Monday for shooting
at Sarah Mitchell, his wife, with intent to murder her.
Ou Sunday, the 18th of April, the prisoner, who lived at-
Winsan-green, near Birmingham, after dining at home.
went out to a neighbouring public-house, where he had
some ale. In the course of the afternoon he went home
several times ; and the last time he went, being then in
liquor, he took a loaded gun from a shelf and discharged
it at his wife. The shot entered her cheek, making one
large wound and several small ones. She fell down, the
wound bled profusely, and she was in danger for some
time. The prisoner immediately left home and returned
to the public-house, where he had a few minutes before
invited a policeman to have a glass of ale. That police-
man, hearing the report of a gun, went towards the pri-
soner's house, and met the prisoner, who said to him,
" I have shot the drunken —." The policeman went
on, and, finding what had occurred, returned to the pub-
lic-house, where he found the prisoner standing with his
bark to the fire-place. He apprehended him, and the
prisoner, as he was going to the station, asked if she
was dead ; and also said that he had loaded the gun with
the intention of doing it three weeks before, but his cou-
rage failed him. To another constable he said, " T wish
her head was in h—;" and the constable replying, " Not
so ; she is not dead ;" he answered, " T wish she was ;
she has been a torment to me ; she is a drunkard and a
dire

y woman." The prisoner was in a state of great ex-
_;itement at the time. The prosecutrix, in giving her
evidence, said that he had always been a good hus` -
her, and that when he loaded the gun three weeks

band to

before

rpose of shooting pi-
of the whole

she believed that he did it for the
geons. The jury found the prisoner g
charge, and his lordship obsery
fere to protect the prisoner fr(

ed that he could not inter-
)m thrtt

ishment whi

the law had assigned to his offence
ceeded in the usual form to

nd accordingly pro.
sentence of death upon

the prisoner,

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At Maidstone,
on Tuesday, an action to recover damages for a breach of
promise of marriage was tried. Mr. nirtescue, in open-
ing the case, said that the plaintiff was Miss Elizabeth
Barbara Ricketts, a young lady of great resnectability,
the daughter of a deceased naval officer; and the defen-,
dant was Mr. Dundas Irving, a young gentleman also
very respectably connected, and the son of a retired go-
vernment officer. Miss Ricketts, after the death of her
father, which unfortunately occurred while he was en-
gaged in the coast-guard service in Ireland, by the upset-
ting of a boat, lived with her mother in the neighbour-
hood of Blackheath, her mother being in the receipt of a'
pension from the government, which enabled them to live
in a position of great respectability, but of course not of
extravagance or splendour. The defendant, Mr. Irving,
also lived with his parents at Greenwich ; and it appeared
that in November, ISSO, the plaintiff and the defendant
were introduced to one another at a party, and he paid
her attentions which eventually ripened into affection,
and resulted in an offer of his hand. At this period the
plaintiff was about 23, and the defendant 24 years old.

The defendant was employed as en extra clerk in Deptford
Dockyard at a salary of £SO a-year, end upon his making
an offer of marriage to the plaintiff, her mother very pru-
dently suggested that such a salary would be inadequate
to the support of a wife, and that he had better wait until.
he obtained some promotion and an increase of salary,
which it appeared he anticipated he should shortly receive.
The mother of the young lady was also anxious that his
parents should be made acquainted with his intention to
marry her daughter, but the defendant requested that this
not be done, as he said that his father was very old,
and also in a bad state of health, and that if he got worse
he should be taunted with having been the occasion of it
by exciting him upon the subject of his intended marriage.
In March last, in consequence, as the defendant said in
one of his letters, of a long conversation he had had with
his mother, he asked the plaintiff to release him from his
promise; and upon her declining to do so, he absented
himself altogether from her mother's house, and finally
broke off the match. The jury found a verdict for the
plaintiff; damages, £25
ABDUCTIOIN

...,. —An incident of an unusual, not to say
romantic and extraordinary character, has given, within
the last day or two, a public notoriety to the name of a
small township in the neighbourhood -of Bristol, which,
after some recent electioneering proceedings there, was,
to say the least of it, quite unnecessary. The rector of
the parish has sundry fair daughters, and, not tinny
tr
weeks since, one of them (the youngest) was united in
the bonds of wedlock to the man of her choice, a gay and
dashing son of Mars, an officer in the Indian army.
Without the smallest intention of imputing sordid and
mercenary motives, we may mention that, in the neigh-
bourhood, it is said to be an acknowledged fact that,
with the young lady herself, " money" was the primal.)
~,t w considerationeek
o r s ion
since
—so
htihs,eiu
however,)blcrumour-10 thei —wtalY:
newly-married couple were staying for a while with 0-
father of the bride, when business called the young h-
b
bend to London or Southampon. On 1:, .._

an absence of a day or so, be
for his wife. He was first told

return, a
urally eno

on the road. To subsequent interrogate
the father, however, he received the st.c
pected reply, that lie would never see
" Young Lovell" in the ballad. lie

left to join bit
rics, addressed t

ins and unex-
3. again. Like
" sought her

found I

not : " it ' Wa- SCI.

the walls of this and other neighbov-

ge piacams,
ion as to the

e ctrbeat
te the ladyr l;
~L ages were co...ered 1,.
reward of fifty pounds for info,
of the missing lady, who is
forcibly abducted by a relation.
rumour in the neighbourhood is, that either the lady or
we beard it whispered in Bath on
'-''',s were not satisfied with the prospect of expa-
dived in the joining of his recipient by the
n ; that it was conjectured that his business in
1 was to secure berths for the passage; and that ad_
iabbulet
.ponent, public 'rumour, sayeth not. To add to the
Tuesday, that the carriage of the papa was seen to enter
the city rapidly that morning—that it bore a lady wrapped
closely in a large mantle—and that it drove swiftly to the
railway station—followed as rapidly by a man on horse-
ether witlitaokrewniothfoli'litslarebrseenochesetonts,
horse-
back. who appeared to have a determined eye to the qua-
lity of the suspicious, if not contraband, cargo. Here the
'r, so far as we can gather, rests at present ; but it has
.orded matter for much scandal among our gossips--
male and female--in club and coterie.—Bath Gazette,

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