The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

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ALLEGED POISONING AT SIITTON.—The adjourned ino
quiry into the death of George Taylor, whose body was
disinterred after being in the grave two years, to ascertain
whether he had been poisoned with arsenic by Eiizabeth
Smith, his housekeeper, who gave him some doses on the
recommendation of Sarah Taylor, stepmother of the de-
ceased. was resumed at the Volunteer Inn, at Sutton-
upon-Trent. It appeared that the deceased died from
ulceration of the stomach, which the surgeon who at-
tended him in his last illness said, after bearing the evi-
dence, was caused by doses of arsenic. No trace of ar-
senic was found in the stomach and viscera, which had
been sent to London for analysis. The jury returneEe
verdict of manslaughter against Elizabeth Smith and
Sarah Taylor.
A ROMANCE.--A Colonel of Dragoons is on friendll
relations with a family in the neighbourhood of his quar-
ters. In the interchange of civilities an orderly is often
employed. The orderly, being a fine-looking soldier,
finds favour in the eyes of the fair daughter of the house,
as he gallops up to the door each day. Stolen glances are
exchanged. The young lady now herself brings down the
answers to the notes, messages, &c. Little conversations
ensue—the conversations lead to interviews—interviews
to confessions and vows—and the confessions and vows
to elopement and marriage. The Colonel is astonished--
the parents storm—and the orderly-corporal is deprived
of his " stripes" for prolonged absence. Denouement
The orderly appears in his real character; be is the so*
of a gentleman of high respectability in England ; the
young couple will be possessed of a competency—a com-
mission is to be procured for the soldier-husband—parents
are reconciled—all parties are pleased—and true love is
rewarded ! Our readers will wonder why we have been
giving these extracts from the note-book of some writer
of vaudeville or comedietta ; but, unless we are misin-
formed, the play has recently been acted in real life—the
scene, Edinburgh ; and the time, October, IS46.—Edin-
burgh Joulkfl. _ _ _

WIOEtRNi FOR LORD PALMERSTON.—The Morning
Post announces that the Russell ministry is by no means
at one on the subject of Lord Palmerston's policy.
Whether this be so or not, we cannot tell. But the
country is already pretty unanimous against it. Mean-
while the clouds are thickening around the diplomatic
horizon. The Northern Powers (taking advantage of the
disruption of the entente cordiale between France and
England) have, it is said, decreed the destruction of the
neutrality of Cracow. And it is alleg"d that in this stet/
France is not an unwilling witness. Indeed the French
Government has already resorted to a puerile persecutioll
of the Polish journals published in Paris, with an evirtelat
view to procure their suppression. It may be interesting
to copy the two solemn articles of the Treaty of Vienna
guaranteeing theindependence of Cracow. They are as
follow :—" Article 6.—The city of Cracow, with its terri-
tory, is declared in perpetuity a free, independent, and
strictly neutral city, under the protection of Russia,
Prussia, and Austria." " Article 9.—The Courts. of

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Bassist Prussia, and Austria, engage to respect, and to
cause% be r-apected for ever, the neutrality of the free
city of Cracnw, and of its entire territory. No armed
force can ever be introduced into it, under any pretence
whatever." To this treaty France and England are
parties, as well as the Three Northern Powers. And
they, therefore, are bound to remonstrate against the
guilt of its intended violation. The continental kings are
playing a desperate game. But they may rest assured
that a terrible retribution will follow the achievement 01
so infamous a breach of faith and honesty.
Mr. Grantley Berkeley has written another letter of
three columns in length, exposing the terms upon which
he became Lord Fitzhardinge's nominee for West Glou-
cestershire, viz., £2OO a-year and a room in a house its
town. The money does not appear to have been punctu-
ally paid. The letter goes at length into family matter,'
and private arrangements. The Times very properly de-

clined to publish-it except as an advertise-rnent; where-
upon Mr. B. waxes wrath, and sends a bullying letter to
the editor, which the Times remarks is worth inserting.
as a confession, under his own hand, of the scurrility,
falsehood, and detraction,' contained in the effusion to
which we refused publicity. He says, If I desired to
indulge in scurrility and abuse, falsehood and detraction,
judging from your remarks on my correspondence with
Mr. Harman Visgar, &c., I must hire a space in your
paper, but not ntherwise.' Surely he cannot think it un•
reasonable that if he ' desires to indulge in scurrility, &c.,
he should be at least obliged to pay for it. We have ad-
mitted his scurrility gratis quite long enough, and he has
no right to complain of his being compelled, as he says,
to hire a space' for any more of the same stuff he is
anxious to put forward. We acknowledge that we did
not fear even our advertising columns being degraded by
Mr. Grantley Berkeley's scurrility—as he confesses it to
be—when we made its being paid for as an advertisement
the condition of its being inserted. We fully anticipated
that we should thus exclude it from our paper altogether,
and our anticipations have been realised. We should per-
haps have spared him the humiliation of declining his let-
ter on the ground of its being made up of ' scurrility and
abuse, falsehood and detraction;' hut as he has given this
description of it, we are for once not ashamed to own that
we are of the same opinion as Mr. Grantley Berkeley."