The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

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BRITAIN AND BELGIUM.—The cable
to connect Dover and Oitend will be
first favourable opportunity, when the north-eas
portion of Europe will be placed in elect
tion with England

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NOTTINGHAIki.-Tho waters are again out in ti
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A LONDON SWINDLER, last week,

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shipbuilder, at Cilasgow, from
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:er, aged 24, was tried at

HENRY IIoRLEa, a shoemal
the Central Criminal Court, London, on Thursday last,
for the murder of his wife, by cutting her throat on the
16th of November last. He was found guilty, and sen-
tenced to be hanged.
MR. W. NEALE, a butcher of Leicester, found in a
heifer he killed, a knife, eight inches and a quarter long.
It was found in the brisket at the back of the shoulders,
having partly worked its way through the entrails. The
knife is corroded and jagged.

—Mary Ann Parr, an inmate of
the Bingham workhouse, Nottinghamshire, has been com-
mitted for trial for the wilful murder of her illegitimate
child, which she confesses to have suffocated by squeezing
it against her breast until it could no longer breathe.
THE CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY have purchased
the valuable estates at Putney, in East Surrey, called the
Cedars, and College of Civil Engineers, and the Rectory

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:e at Ealing, in Mid

for distribution amongst

its members.

THE MASTER of the Rolls, last week, on petition,
allowed a Mr. Smith, a minor, of 17, entitled to property
of £20,000 a-year on coming of age, a thousand a-year for
University expenses whilst at Oxford, and the payment of
a private tutor.

RAILWAY AMALGAMATION.—At a special meeting of
the London and Northwestern Railway Company, on
Saturday, General Hon. George Anson presiding, it was
unanimously agreed to a:lopt the recommendation of Mr.
Robert Stephenson, M.P. and Mr. James R. Hope, re-
specting the North Staffordshire Railway Company.
A FATAL BED.—A young couple, at Astwood Bank,
Studley, purchased recently, a bed at a pawnbroker's in
Birmingham, which had been kept in a cellar. On their
using it, they were seized with a fatal disease, which
baffled all surgical skill, and in ten days they had fallen
a prey to the malady. The bed wee burned.
FELINE FEAT.—A domestic eat, frequenting Messrs.
Sims and Co.'s coppersvorke, Llanelly, recently leaped
through the entrance-hole into a burning furnace, darted
around the interior, and made her exit through the a •me
passage, escaping with her toes slightly scorched. Puss
has since recovered from the effects of the exploit.

PREPARATIONS FOR Cun.lsra.tas.—There were libe-
rated from bond last week at tho Hull custom-house 103
cwt. currants, 145 lbs. nutmegs, 402 boxes oranges, BF'
lbs. pepper, 2,573 gallons rum, 41 cwt. raisins, 2,'
gallons brandy, 3,595 gallons wine. Duty was also paio

on 4,177 lbs. coffee, 1,765
THE WESLEYAN SCHISM.—A third party has sprung
up in the Wesleyan Connexion, under the name of
the Mediationists, whose professed object it is, by the
suggestion of a middle course, to effect a reconciliation
between the Conference and the " Reformers," but whose

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tobacco

_ anus, more likely
I wider extension.

efforts are, according to present ap
to end in giving to the schism a stil.
THE MURDER NEAR STAFFORD.—The investigation
relative to the_ murder of an aged couple, named John

and Jane Blackburn, at their -farm at Ash-flats, near
Stafford, was completed on Tuesday, when the jury re-
turned a verdict of wilful murder against Charles Moore,
Edward Walsh, and Peter Kirman, or Kerman, and they
were committed for trial.

DANGEROUS JOSE.—On Tuesday, when the excite-
ment of Jullien's masked ball was at its height, a
"dummy," representing a lady, was thrown from the
upper tier of boxes into the pit, which caused considerable
injury to a gentleman upon whom it fell, and rendered
him insensible for some time. The perpetrator of this
mischievous joke escaped undetected.

TRIALS FOR. MIIRDER.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Thursday, Jeremiah Too:ey, 29, labourer, was
indicted for the murder of Alexander Downes, at Penton-
ville.—Amelia Elizabeth Burt, 30, a good-looking woman,
was indicted for the wilful murder of her child by throw-
ing it over the Hungerford Suspension-bridge into the
river. Both prisoners were acquitted on the ground of
insanity.

DEATH IN THE QUEEN'S PRISON.—On Wednesday an
inquest was held in the Queen's Prison, on the body of
Mrs. Mary Bagley, aged 56, the widow of an extenEivc
farmer in Cheshire, who was sent to the gaol for contempt
of the Court of Chancery, in not producing certain deeds

and papers relating to her estate. She Wits received in
December, 1850, and died on Tuesday last from diseased

heart and dropsy

A TRANSPARENT FAN CY.—A German residing in
Paris lately lost his reason from grief at the death of his
wife, and fancied himself made of glass. He was accus-
tomed to tell people not to approach him too near, lest
they should break him ; and for the same far he scarcely
moved, and could with difficulty be persuaded to eat.
Last week he hanged himself. A letter left on the table,
stated that he had voluntarily put an end to his existence,
to avoid being broken to pieces.

EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDENT.—On Thursday morning
Mr. Thomas Mitchell, of Ongar, in rising from his bed,
put his hands up over his head, giving a hearty ya;l n,
when one of the leaders at the beck of his neck snapped,
and his head was forced half round. Surgical assistance
was shortly at hand, but his head could not be restored
to its proper position. The pain on the movement of any
muscle is most intense, and he is considered to be in a

perilous position.—Essex Standard

PATENT LAW AMENDMENT.— A bill to substitute
stamp duties for fees on letters patent for inventions has
just been printed. Several clauses in the Patent Law
Amendment Act, with the schedules of fees, are to be
repealed. A similar schedule of fees is inserted in the
present bill. It is declared that letters patent shall be
subject to avoidance on non-payment of the stamp duties.
The duties are to be under the management of the Inland
Revenue Commissioners, who are to provide proper
stamps for the purpose.
A BLIND INCENDIARY.—On Saturday week, a blind
man, named John Ballsorn, was discharged from the Lis-
keard union workhouse, and was shortly afterwards
charged with assaulting the mayor. A short time after
he was locked up, smoke was seen to issue !rom the prison,
and it was found that he had actually set fire to his bed of
straw, and, hut for timely aid, would have been smothered
to death. When rescued, it was found that he had lucifer
matches in his possession. He was subsequently com-
mitted for trial for the offence.

EXTRAORDINARY SERMON.—Considerable excitement
has been created in Rotherham in consequence of the
novel conduct of the Rev. R. Moseley, M.A., the vicar.
It has been customary to hold a subscription dress ball in
December, and this year it was announced to take place
on Thursday last. On Sunday the vicar entered the pul-
pit and read the advertisement of the ball from the novo-
paper, and laid particular emphasis upon certain stewards'
names. He held up the stewards and the bail to ridicule
and contempt before the congregation, who were consi-
derably amazed at the bare mention of the ball in a
parish church. The stewards felt themselves aggrieved,
and they, with the ball committee, held a private meeting
at the Crown Hotel, Rotherham, where they passed a
resolution giving the vicar the opportunity of making a
public apology thrioLuLgsh.ll,itemsaomsreEmxeTdßiuA medium
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OF DROPSY EFFECTED BY THEIR USE.MI', George
Rowley, of Tobago, had suffered from this for up-
wards of five years, during whicllAilciod he underwent
the operation of tapping five ti cf. His malady was most
skilfully treated by several ctitioners, notwithstanding
which he got gradual! orse, his strength and health
failing so fast as to nder any hope of recovery almost
vain : as a last re urce he tried Holloway's Pills, and by
persevering in eir use, according to the directions affixed
to each bo e was completely cured in a few months, and
is now ored to a good state of health.