The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-07-06 00:00:00

INQUESTS.

The following inquests were held yesterday, before P. F.
Curry, Esq., at the Coroner's Court :
DEATHS FROM DROWNING•—On the bodies of John
Roberts, aged eleven years, who had lived at No. 13,
Dawson-street; and of David Lloyd, aged twenty-two,
who were drowned in a pit adjoining the Stanley Dock.
on Sunday. It appeared from the evidence that on Sunday
afternoon the boy Roberts and two others went to the
Stanley Dock. Roberts and another boy took off their
clothes and went into the pit to bathe. They found the
water too deep for them, but the other boy got hold of a
piece of rock, and was saved. The man Lloyd coming up
at the time, jumped in to try to save life, but lost his own
in the attempt. The body of Lloyd was got out, but
nearly an hour after he went in, and that of Roberts
shortly after. Verdict, accidental death.
On the body of a child found near the railings adjoining,
St. Paul's Church-yard. The body was that of a still-
born child. Verdict, accordingly.
On the body of James Williams, a fisherman, aged 30,
who had been for some time past much addicted to drink-
ing. On Friday night he went to his home, No. 1 court,
Lancelot's Hey, more sober than usual. Shortly after he
sent a party who was in the house for a pickled herring,
but on the return of the messenger he was found seated
in his chair dead. Verdict, died by the visitation of God.
On the body of John Grant, an infant, aged six weeks
old, who had been overlain by his mother. Verdict, nc-
cidentally suffocated while in bed.
MURDER OF A SAILOR.—On the body of Charles
Gamble, aged 38, who was a seaman on board the
American ship Monmouth, now lying in the Bram-
ley-Moore Dock. It appeared from the evidence
that on Sunday, the 13th ult., the vessel arrived in
this port from Portsmouth, and in the evening he and
several of his shipmates left the vessel and got drunk.
Afterwards the deceased and two or three of his shipmates
went to a brothel in Peter-street. After they had been
there a few minutes, one of the shipmates missed the
deceased, went to look for him, and heard his voice in a
house opposite. He kicked at the door, but the people
would not allow him to come in. He then called for
police constable 573, and told him of the circumstance.
The constable knocked at the door, and it was opened,
1 when the deceased came out, and both the witness and
deceased being drunk, they were sent out of the street by
the officer. The deceased turned back into the street,

followed by his shipmate. There iwas then a crowd in
the street, who attacked the deceased, and directly he
called out that he was stabbed. The police then came
up, and had the deceased removed into a house in the
same street. It was found that the deceased had
been stabb?d in the side, under the right shoulder. He
was removed to the Northern Hospital, and died on
Friday night last from the effect of the wound. It was
found that one of his ribs had been cut completely through.
Verdict, wilful murder against some person or persons
unknown,

RE-APPEARANCE OF POTATO BLIGHT.—Mr. John
O' Hagan, a farmer, in a letter to the Dvblin Evening
Post, dated " Ballyragget, county Kilkenny, June 28,'
says :—" I have lately been over a considerable extent of
the conterminous portions of Kilkenny and Queen's
County, and regret to say that the dreaded potato-blight
has again appeared in several localities. I have this day
inspected the crop in the neighbourhood of this town,
and although the blight has, in but few instances assumed
a decided form, yet incipient symptoms are apparent in
almost every field." With respect to the potato crop in
the county Down, the Belfast Banner says :—" A gen-
tleman residing in county Down informs us that the dis-
ease which, during the last few years, has been so fatal to
the potato crop in general, is decidedly present in his
early-planted potatoes this season. This is the first in-
stance of the re-appearance of the epidemic in question
which has yet been reported to us." The general ac.
counts from Ireland still describe the potato crop as
entirely free from disease, and as promising a most abun-
dant yield.

SUPPORTING A CHARACTER.—A gentleman who per-
sonated a naval officer at the late Birmingham Fancy Ball,
was asked where he had received his wound ? He replied,
at Waterloo !

CURE FOR WARTS.—A correspondent of the Collage
Gardener says :—" There is a very useful property be-
longing to the ranunculus arvens, or common crowfoot,
which I do not think is generally known, and which I should
like to see recorded in your valuable publication. On break.
tock of the growing plant in two, a drop of milky
I be observed to bang on the upper part of the
stem ; if this is allowed to drop on the wart, so that it hr
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