The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

On Friday afternoon an inquiry was gone into, at the

hing the deaths of

Charles Cooper, aged 45, Alice Cooper,
Charles Cooper, aged 6 years. It appeared from th

aged 43, and

inst a chalk-pit, anciilnmerii-iised as astable

being lev

with the adjoininifields

On Wed

the unfortunate occupant•

CAPE PRODUCE.—A. vessel arrived from the Cape of
Good Hope has brought an exceedingly various cargo of

skins of beasts, including some of goats, buffalos, zebras,
tigers, the rhinoceros, and other animals, besides 8,700
pieces of bones, 19,200 hoofs of animals, and a variety of
other productions. The importation of so extensive a va-
riety of skins, &c., is not usual, and evinces, in a remark-
able manner, the capabilities or resources of the Cape for
such resources.

On Saturday Mr. Dunn, the barrister, was sentenced
to eighteen months imprisonment for perjury, in having
sworn that Miss Burdett Coutts was indebted to him in
£lOO,OOO. The affidavit stated that he (Dunn) had re-
ceived from Miss Coutts a letter in verse, authorising him
to draw for £lOO,OOO, as compensation for the several
annoyances which he had suffered on her account. After
his imprisonment he is to find bail for his good behaviour
for two years.

FAMILY OF DEAF Mt
r~Naf 111111+PQ 11T, Leto rrt

-There is a sing

.ular family

seven boys and two girls

the most ineinstriousper9-le in the village

haveeadOpted the sea-taring life:and
have a boat and net in which they sail in pursuit of her-
rings, round the whole. coast. During the day the helms-
man directs the other by signs, and at night he carries
stones in his Pocket,. which he throws at them : one in-
tends a desire to stand by the halyards, and two to reef.
DEPLORABLE CASE OF DESTITUTION.—A 'much re-
ieighbourhood having been re-

ay, three of t:

speeted farmer in this
eently informed that a poor-manl

from his farm, was in the habit for som

!nt for tt

The poor man at one

confessed that himself and hi,

ly; for the last four

" had eaten nothing else but neeps with salt."
Drthy farmer on hearing this woful tale, instead of

a W ilham, -whom

)1- takii

his mother the c

Mm mu

inflicted a _fearful wound on his head with the weapon,
and afterwards ran it to the handle into his body imme-
diately above the heart, which caused instant death.
The fratricide is in custody.
On Monday an Irish family, consisting of tive children
parents, called in at the Union-house Hereford,
a journey from Newport.. They par-
- 1 afterwards retired to

k of the usual ref
t. On the follov

lig morning an unusual noise wa
ascertained arose from this family

•hich it v

the children, who had died during th
being over and breakfast past, this fa
their packs, and proceeded on their jc

corpse without farther

Union

REMARKABLE PROTEST OF A LIBERAL Pk

Earl of Radnor has entered upon the journals of the Hou

of Lords a protest against the Irish Measures, to the effect
that government having no store of food is not bound to
feed the people; " the supply of food," he observes,
" leads to injustice and disastrous consequences, because
such funds can only be obtained by taxation," which does
not fall equally, those on the verge of destitution them-
selves being obliged to contribute. In other parts of the
protest he advances the propositions that the poor ought to
rely upon their own industry rather than grants from go-
vernment, and that voluntary benevolence ought to re-

lieve the distress which is unavoidable.
The Gazette of Tuesday contains a Treasury warrant
making certain alterations in the postage arrangements re

o between

his country ant

le eember last

English postage of one halfpenny was charged on British
newspapers sent to Prussia, via Hamburg or Belgium ;
that halfpenny rate is now removed, and such newspapers
will in future go free. It is also directed, that in lieu of

ill rates of postage hitherto impose(
and pamphlets, not strictly new

on printet

papers

pers, sent from this
country to Prussia, an uniform British rate of sixpence for

otters, shall be adopted,