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

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Chronicle reports the sudden death of
, an old and respected inhabitant of Tin-

too heartily of cucumbers.
THOMAS ROBERTS, a labourer at Whitlessey, Cam-
bridgeshire, has died of lock-jaw, occasioned by a small
wound in one of his heels, caused by the point of a shoe

tern Abbey,

froin partakin

THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS hare issued orders
to their officers, when they make a seizure, to give a

written notice to the owner or agent specifying thegrounds
of detention. The board will also in future hear evidence
on both sides, given on oath.

A PARISHIONER or SHEFFIELD indignantly complains
that, whilst there are not thirty free sittings in the parish
church, an advertisement should appear in a local paper,
between two others for the letting of a theatre and public-
house, offering " to let;" any one three sittings in a pew.

LYNCH LAW AT ASFIBURTON.—A few days since two
lads having been detected pilfering tradesmen, the com-
plaining parties, instead of ushering them into the presence
of a magistrate, tied them hand to hand, and publicly
whipped them out of town—a rather summary mode of

proCeeding in these dales

THE CHOLERA.—The Board of Health have, in con-
sequence of the recent news from abroad, expressed their
formal opinion to the Government that two medical
officers should be specially appointed to take such steps
as may seem best calculated to meet and mitigate any
attack of cholera upon this country.

" QUITE TIM LADIES' (NOBLE) NAN."—We under-
stand that the Earl of Fife has sent upwards of twenty
sets of Parisian fashions for the use of the ladies of Elgin.
These have been distributed among the dressmakers of
the town, in terms of his lordship's request. A similar
present has been mado to the ladies of Forres.—Elgin
Courier.

SUICIDE Crt? A LADY.—A young lady named Hyne.
daughter of a clertryman residing at Plymouth, committed
suicide on Thursday week, by hanging herself from an oak
tree growing on a cliff` over West Mill Lake. Grief for
the death of a sister is supposed to be the cause of the
melancholy Het—the grief being increased by the removal
from her of the sister's child, a little girl.

SUICIDE IN HANOVER-SQUARE.—On Wednesday an
inquest was held on the body of Mr. Thomas Taylor,
agerl.s3, in the drawing-room of No. 4, Princes-street,
Hanover-square, London. It appeared that he retired to
bed on Saturday night, and not making his appearance in
the morning, the servant knocked at his bed-room door,
and not receiving any answer, went in, when she found
her master hanging from a press bedstead, with a rope
round his neck. She called the footman and they cut
him down, but life was found to be quite extinct. Ver-
dict, "Temporary insanity."

THE CROPS IN SOUTH WALES.—The weather, with
the exception of a few thunderstorms, has been extremely
fine for the harvest. The principal bulk of the wheat is
now housed, and the crops are acknowledged by three-
fourths of the farmers to be a full average. Complaints
are made:respecting beans and peas being affected by the
blight. A few more fine days will finish the harvest of
barley and oats, which are most promising. We regret
to state that every day brings stronger proof of the pro-
gress of the potato disease. In the district surrounding
Aberzevenny it is becoming most alarming.
AREAL BULL FIGHT.—On Monday morning, a des-
perate encounter took place between -two two-year-old
bulls on the land of Mr. Guy, of Hatrisey, Lewes. It ap-
pears that Mr. Elwyn, whose farm adjoins Mr. Guy's,
has a bull which broke through into a field where Mr.
Guy's bull was grazing. A fearful conf•ict took place be-
tween the animals. They fought with the most fearful
violence for upwards of a quarter of an hour; and our in-
formant says that one of them had his horn broken off
close•to the head. They fought till they were almost ex-
hausted, when the man on the farm succeeded in separating
them.—Brighton Gazette.

SUICIDE.—A person named Meek had re-
le time past in Green Arbour-court, Old
London, where, it is generally believed„ he had
ated considerable property by working at his
SS a and collecting rents. Between eight

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...esday morning he came out of his
house, and entered into cheerful conversation with some
vintners' porters. Shortly afterwards he sallied forth
jot° the Old Bailey, and deliberately cut throat in the
He staggered once or twice, and then fell
ground, the blood at the time. gishing from the
wound, which lie had inflicted with a knife.

open stree

ITCTIVE FIRE AT MESSRS. Wifs'ltAM'S SHIP
YARD.—On Wednesday morning, about two o'clock, a
fire broke out in the extensive range of premises belong-
to Messrs. Wi2ram and Co., the well known ship-
builders of Blackwall. The engines soon arrived, and
were worked with full vigor for some considerable time,
when the firemen at length got the mastery over the
destructive element. The damage done may be thus
narrated:--The greater por:ion of the -store-houses
destroyed, a portion of the mast-house burned, a consi-
derable quantity of timber and stores consumed, and
serious injury to the steam machinery, &c. The firm was

not insurCd

ESCAPE OF A PRISONER FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—
On Tuesday last, while three men who had boon appre-
hended for poaching at Norton Disney, on the night pre-
vious, were being conveyed by four keepers, in an open
carriage, on the'Midland Railway to Lincoln, for exami-
nation by the magistrates, one of them, named William
Harrison, suddenly placed his hand upon the top of the
carriage, and leaped out upon the line, while the train
was going at full speed through Skellingthorpe Wood.
He appeared not to have sustained any injury by his
dreadful leap, for although he was pitched over upon the
embankment, be instantly arose, and, after beckoning to
the keepers to follow him, rapidly darted into the field,
sad escaped.—Lincalizthire Chronicle.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT BRIGHTON.—About four o'clock
on Saturday morning a fire broke out in that fashionable
locality known as Brunswick-terrace, in a house belonging
to Philip Salomons, Esq.., high sheriff of Sussex. Mr.
Salomons had recently purchased the house, and for the
last few weeks it had been undergoing a thorough alter-
ation. The fire lasted from four to eight o'clock, when
one of the noblest mansions on Brunswick-terrace was
completely gutted. It is calculated that the house was
worth from £3OOO to £4000; it was insured in the Alliance
Fire Office. The adjoining houses, it is supposed, have
sustained damage to the amount of £lOO each.

BURY ST. EDMUNDS.—Mr. John Stuart, the recently
elected member for this borough, having accepted the va-
cant office of vice-chancellor, the Conservative electors
held a meeting on Wednesday, at which it was resolved
to support Mr. Henry James Porteous Oakes, eldest son
of Mr. Oakes, of Norton Court, and head of the banking
firm of Oakes, Bevan, and Co., as successor of the hon.
and learned gentleman, whose seat will be necessarily va-
cated by his well-merited professional elevation. Mr. H.
J. P. Oakes has consented to stand, his politics being
identical with those of Earl Derby's Government.—
Morning Herald.

ATTACK UPON BRITISH SHIPPING IN THE DARDA-
NELLES.—Oar Gibraltar correspondent sends us the fol-
lowing communication :—" Captain George Reed, of the
British barque Polly, of Newcastle, which vessel arrived
liera on the 16th from Taganrog and Constantinople,
makes the following report :—' On 3d July, at one
o'clock, a.m., whilst the barque was coming down the
Dardanelles, the Turks fired 12 guns of round and grape
which carried away one of the topmast
a erect quantity of small rope, and cut
„..ff topsail into ribbons ;,dispatched the boat to the old
_Ale of Europe, with thelurlash pass given him at Con-
stantinople, and two dollars which they (the Turks) de-
manded ; but as the boat approached they fired at her,
would not allow the crew to land, and even refused to
take the pass. The captain could not bring the vessel to
an anchor, in consequence of a strong current running
down, and a gale of wind blowing, the windlass being
broken at the time. Captain Reed gives publiciiy to this,
in order that some notice may be taken, to prevent the
like occurring again,' "-'Shipping Gaieties

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