The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

MEETING INTERI
—On Tuesd

livered a lecture at the Educational I

gate-street, London. At the close of his spee'ch a wo-
man rose in the body of the ball, and demanded to be
heard. The chairman and his supporters on the platform
were petrified, and had not the courage to decide whether
the lady-aspirant should be heard.
the numbers on either side appeared equ

Al vote

man ruled that the decision was against the lady. The
lady protested that it was in her favour, and strong in this
conviction, she expressed herself determined to be heard.
Mr. J. Cowell Williams, the secretary to the society,
jumped off the platform, and assisted by one or two other
anti-state churchmen, attempted to eject her vi et armis,
from the room ; but she successfully resisted their attacks,
and notwithstanding the difficulties of her situation, went
on with her speech. At length a policeman was intro-
duced, and with the despatch usually practised by gentle-
men of his calling, thrust the ambitious lady from the
room, amidst loud exclamations from her that the con-
duel fence was wicked,

of the meeting in allowing such vi
blasphemous.

impious

CRUELTY TO A CHILD.—An inques
since at Milverton, Somerset, which disclosed great bar-
barity on the part of a young woman, named Elizabeth
Baker, towards a child two years and a-half old. The
deceased, Albert Marks, had been intrusted by the mother

few days

(who is in service at Pitminster) to a Mrs. Scott, who was
paid Is. 3d. per week for her charge. Elizabeth Baker
was the daughter of this person, and used to beat the
child cruelly with a stick, and on one occasion, when the
poor little fellow bad made himself dirty and wet, she
took off his socks and shoes, and put one of his feet close
'-eeping it there for soma

to the

of the grate,

,in spite of his cries. On a-post mortem examin-
ion the body presented a very emaciated appearance,
and there were several contusions upon the head and in
different parts of the body, evidently produced by blows.
There was a large contusion between the ribs and hip on
the left side, about three inches in circumference, burns
on the sole and the great toe of the left foot, and on the
centre of the upper margin of the frontal bone was an old
wound which had suppurated, about the size of a walnut,
internally. The jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter"
against Elizabeth Baker. This was the third child said
to have been placed under her care, and al three had
died. The coroner directed inquiry to be made as to the
causes of the deaths of the other two.

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NATIONAL WORK FOR FELONS.—A correspondent of
the Builder proposes that the new structure for the Na-
tional Gallery shall be absolutely and entirely of granite;
that the Millbank Penitentiary shall be removed alto-
gether from London, and that the felons should be em-
ployed in working granite on any convenient spot where
it abounds. The site of the Penitentiary would fe!ch a
very large sum, which would go far to effect the removal
of an accumulated felonry from amidst a dense population,
where they cannot be adequately employed, to a compare-
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wilderness, where they can. Hewing granite cannot
be done by machinery, and is bard work for man. It
consumes both time and labour, both of which we have to
spare, festering in our criminal prisons. Transportation,
as a punishment, is becoming impossible, and ceases to
terrify. The work to be done is extra to all legitimate
employment, and would give increased occupation to the
skilled artisan to finish the blocks, and to the builder and
labourer in the enlarged breadth and elevation of the
If it be objected that the expense of forming
felon-working estat

)lishment in a

granite di
in obtaini

will be out of all proportion to the results

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erial for a National Gallery, however ex-
tensive, it may be replied, first, that such an institution
must be speedily founded, apart from any other consider-
ation than providing the felon continuous labour ; and,
secondly. that with all our great national establishments
granite, of all things, will be in unceasing demand.

THE RAILWAY KING.—The case of the York and
North Midland Railway Company v. Mr. George Hudson,
the late chairman of the company, to obtain the restitution
or the value of a large number of shares in the East and
West Riding and the Hull and Selby branches, amounting
to upwards of £12,000, which, it was alleged, had been
taken, appropriated, and disposed of by him, without the
authority of the company, and in direct violation of its
acts and regulations, was commenced on Tuesday last,
before the Master of the Rolls. The Solicitor-General
appeared for the company, and stated that the present bill
was in the nature of a bill by cestui que trusts against a
trustee for appropriating to his own use the trust-funds;
and that the allegations in the bill, and the evidence to be
produced before the court, were of a very set
as regarded the character of Mr. Hudson. From these
allegations and such evidence it was argued that Mr.
Hudson, as chairman of the company, has taken advantage
of his position to benefit himself at the expense of the
company ; that as such chairman, possessing the seal of
the company, and having a casting vote and other powers,
he had from time to time altered the accounts so as to
make the dividends of the company considerably larger
than they really were; that he had procured his own
brother-in-law and his own solicitor to be appointed
auditors of the company, and by collusion with them had
been able to deceive the shareholders ; and that ho
managed to make all things pleasant to his brother direc-
tors by coin. shares with them in the booty he from time

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to time secured.
Hudson ; and, in a

Sir Fitzroy Kelly 1
nswer to such charg

present proceedings by the company against Mr. Hudson
were contrary to all law, inconsistent with equity, and in
direct violation of good faith. The argument was resumed
on the following day, and the Master of the Rolls said he
would give his judgment in a day or two.

AMERICAN RIFLE

—An improvemen
Idneed into this c

Jitors cliam for

it two important qualities; first, a simple,
peditious mode of loading at the breech ; and, seco...-
the cleansing of. the barrel secured at each discharge. The
loading at the breech is effected in a very ingenious
manner, and differs essentially from all other contrivances
adopted for the same purpose. A lever, working in the
line of the stock, and forming, when down, the guard to
the trigger, moves forwards or backward a slide with a
strong iron plate, in front of which, when back, the
cartridge is dropped through a slit in the side of the lock.
The iron plate becomes, when pushed into its place, the
bottom of the breech, the chamber of which thus becomes
occupied by the cartridge. In the centre of this plate a
small hole is drilled, communicating with the nipple, and
the fire of an exploded cap passing down to that
hole immediately finds its way through a perforation
in the wad at the end of the cartridge, and ignites
the powder within. The perforation in the cartridge
wad corresponds exactly with that in the iron plate,
and the wad itself, which is of sole leather with the
pasteboard case of the cartridge attached to it, remains
behind in the breech when the discharge takes place, while
the conical ball, entering the grooved part of the barrel
and taking the required spiral motion, travels upon its way.
When the gun is again loaded the wad left behind at the
previous discharge precedes the ball in its flight, cleansin'
out the oassavp '

`e, and ex-

1 nus the rifle never tomb , never, there-
fore, requires washing ; and, by the plan of loading at the
breech, riot only is the use of the ramrod dispensed with,
but shots can b 3 fired with a steady aim at the rate of
from eight to eight and a-half, or even nine per minute.
Even on a first trial at Woolwich, in hands totally un-
accustomed to the use of the weapon, 100 shots were fired
in 15 minutes, or at the rate of nearly seven rounds per
minute.

APPALLING SUICIDE OF DR. RICE, HEAD MASTER
OF CHRIST'S HOSPITAL.—On Thursday, an inquest was
held on the body of the Rev. Edward Rice, D.D., Head
Master of Christ's Hospital.—Susan Bancroft said She
was in the service of Dr. Rice, and that about a quarter
before nine o'clock on Thursday morning Mee. Rice
found Dr. Rice hanging by his neck at the foot of the bed,
and his feet at some distance from the ground. Mrs.
Rice immediately cut the handkerchief by which he was
suspended, and they lowered him gradually on to the bed.
A surgeon was afterwards sent for, but he showed no
sign of life. She had for some time noticed that he was
desponding and melancholy,
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very low. spirited, as he scarcely
.ever spoke when he was
spoken to.—Mr. Thos. Stone, resident-surgeon to Christ's
Hospital, said
months, when be was attacked with a very severe fever,
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he did on Friday last. Of late he was particularly
desponding, and the most trifling matters he magnified
into the greatest importance. So firmly was he (witness)
of
opinion that he was quite mad, that in consequence of
this he felt it to be his duty to inform Mrs. Rice of it,
and to request her to remove all things out of his way,
and that he should not be allowed to shave himself. Oa
Thursday morning, when she arose, she left Dr. Rice
asleep in bed ; but in a quarter of an hour she returned
to the room, when he still appeared to be asleep, and
some time after that she sent Miss Rice up stairs to see if
he was awake, but listening at the door and not hearing
him stirring, she went down stairs again, and the family
went to prayers. As soon as these were ended, Mrs.
Rice again went up stairs, and found him in the situation
the last witness had described. He was insensible and
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ulseless and quite black in the face. Witness performed
operations for the purpose of restoring respiration, but
without effect. The jury returned a verdict, " That Dr".
Rice committed suicide whilst in a state of derangement.
It is a singular fact that Mrs. Rice lost her first husband
five weeks after marriage by suicide at the house of her
father, who was so affected that he died a week afterward; i

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