The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1852-01-06 00:00:00

rank a bottle of

•n the following morning
to he anotehended.

committed f,
At Nottingham, on Sunday night week, Mr. King, a
lace manufacturer, and a young lady, were walking along
the Trent-lane, a lonely spot, a mile from the town, when
they were attacked by three ruffians, who knocked them
down, and, robbing them of all they could take, beat them
most brutally, till they left them for dead. They have
not yet been captured.

or trial

The interment of the
on Tuesday, in St._ Pt

i late Mr. Turner, R.A., took place
aul's Cathedral. The full choir of

and the

assisted at the service. According to the present reguia-
tions of the Royal Academy, fourteen months must elapse
before the vacancy caused by Mr. Turner's decease can
be filled up. The election taking place once a year, and
then not till after it has been declared tore

months ; s,

deserving artists will be

during that time, pre•

_.
vented from assuming the respective appendages of R..A.,
and A.R.A., to which they ought at once to have been
admitted. .... . ...

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DEPARTURE OF THE AMAZON.—The splendid new
steam-ship Amazon, recently built for the Royal Mail
Company. took her departure from the Southampton
Water on Friday, with the West India mail. The Amazon
took out a large and general cargo :-500 bottles of quick-
silver for the Mexican mines, specie to the amount of
X 20,282, and 50 passengers. The ship, as may be sup-
posed, left in capital trim ; and it is calculated, from the
trials of speed she has already undergone, that she will
reach St. Thomas's in much less time than is usually
occupied in that voyage.

SOUTHAMPTON

ATTEMPTED MURDER
named Harris, a gardener by trade, was fully committed
on Wednesday, by the Southampton magistrates, to take
his trial at the Winchester assizes, for attempting to
murder his wife. While crossing, in the evening about
nine o'clock, a new made road not much frequented, i
order to get to their home, the man and woman
heard violently quarreling by the wife of one
pers and Miners, stationed at the Ordnance S
which is close to this road. Presently, the soldier's wife
as she passed them by,was alarmed with the cry of mur
dur ; she hastily returned and found the man and woman
struggling on the ground. She heroically seized the fel-
low as he was in the act of attempting to cut his wife's
throat with a gardener's knife, and pinned him to the
ground, but not before he had cut two gashes, several
inches in length, in the lower part of his wife's cheek.

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J no. Campbell, Stubbs, hence at Savannah.
Perseverance, Garner, hence at St. John, N.P.
Canada (a.), Lang, hence off Halifax 26th Dec.
Rio Grande, Ryan, and Tonawanda, Julius, hence at Phila
delphia.
WARM
Nantes, i
W.N.W.,
THE WELSH CUSTOM OF FUNERAL OFFERINGS. - PWLLH ELI, Jan. 4.—lt blew a terrific gale lest night frh.
In many districts and localities, the old and obsolete prac- S.W., and came round to the north this morning, and continues
Lice of the friends of deceased parties making presents or blowing very hard from that ()muter. The schooner Miriam
" offerings" of money at the altar to the clergyman offi- of Pwllheli, went ashore last night, about two miles east of th;
ciating at the burial of the deceased is still kept in force. harbour, but has not sustained any damage.
BAAUMARIS, Jan. 4.—The Kirkland, from Liverpool to
This custom is in law termed the " corse present," and Janeiro, is at anchor in Penman Roads, with loss of sails.
originated as a fee or offering to the priest, for his ser- Holm-lean, Jan. 4.—The steamer Town of Wexfor
vices for getting the souls of parties out of purgatory. By driven on shore at Trefadog this morning, and i- -
many persons in Wales, both churchmen and dissenters, become a wreck. Crew and passent.-- -
this practice has been deemed derogatory and illegal, inns- towed by the steamer Angli.
much as it is asserted that by a statute passed in the 21st Crew safe at Holyhead.
New Yoag, Dec. 23.—The John Riga, Haines, from Gal,.
year of the reign of Henry VIII. the custom of curse to New York, is on shore at Bog Island Inlet.
offerings was abolished, and declared unlawful. A cler- EDOASTOWN, Dec. I7.—The British Queen, from Dublin t
gynkan of the established church, the Rev. Mr. Morgan, New York, was totally wrecked near the Island of Maskegit
of Conway, has voluntarily abolished the practice, and Four persona perished from cold; remainder saved.
declared his intention not to receive any " offerings" for New OaLcaris, Dec. 17.—A severe storm was experienced at
Mazatlan about the middle of Nov. Five British vessels of war
the future. On several other occasions the practice has have appeared off Vera Cruz. The object of their visit is not
been discontinued, and a growing feeling against the CM- known.
tem appears to prevail.—Daily Netes.

3/c POINT, Jan,
riding at an

. 3.—The brig Abbeville, Si
cbor inside Carlingford

expected
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Jan3.—She has gone to pie

?oav, at 3 15

bulge and 4 schooners