The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

FEMALE HEROISM.—On the evening of the 6th instant,
a man named John Murphy entered the bedchamber of Mr.
Peter Duffy, of Solicitor's Point, Dundalk, and took from a
chest some clothes. His servant maid perceived the thief,
and instantly seized him. He then knocked her down ; but
she still kept hold, crying out for assistance. She was
dragged from the top room down the stairs into the hall,
where she succeeded in wresting the bundle from him, and
then ran to give the inmates alarm, who lost no time in pur-
suing, and succeeded in apprehending the ruffian, who was
fully committed.

Mr. Ashton Yates deposited £14,000 at the late election in
the hands of Mr. O'Connell towards defraying the expenses
attendant thereon ; and it is alleged that, from that hour to
the present, Mr. O'Connell has forgotten to refund one shil-
ling of the money to pay up the debts—or to reply to the
numberless communications that are being daily made to
him upon this subject. The radicals are outrageous at his
conduct.—Carlow Sentinel.

THE CHRISTENING OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.—OUT
readers will recollect, that a bottle of genuine water from the
river Jordan was sent to this country as a present to the
queen, to be used at the christening of the princess royal.
After that interesting ceremony, the water was ordered to be
carefully preserved, and the bottle sealed. It is, therefore,
almost superfluous to say, that the precious element is des-
tined to perform the same office at the christening of the
Prince of Wales.—Court Journal. _

WHALES AT DOVER.—The inhabitants of Dover, Folk-
stone, and adjacent places, have lately been surprised with
visits from some huge monsters of the deep. Three or four
times a whale has been "spouting" off Dover; and we un-
derstand that, in the early part of this week, two or three
whales and two sharks (though we doubt the latter having
appeared) have been observed off Folkstone, doubtless driven
upon that coast by the late rough weather.—Canterbury
Journal.

MONACHISM AT OxFortn.—Mr. Newman, vicar of St.
Mary's, the Virgin, is building several sets of chambers, for
the reception of young men (candidates for orders, or for
monastic institutions in contemplation), in his parish, at
Littlemore. And we beg to direct the heads of colleges to
an investigation of the fact, whether several young men,
bound by oath to celibacy and monastic vows, are not now
receiving a gratuitous education in the university, from par-
ties who have no special interest in them. The Bishop of
Oxford, where is he ?—Oxford Chronicle.

Lord Denman last week gave judgment in the Bridgewater
town council cause, respecting the ineligibility of townsmen
to hold office in the council who have a beneficial interest in
the property of the borough. His lordship said be was of
opinion that a lease was a contract ; but he had doubts in his
mind whether a person holding a lease under the old corpo-
rations, and being a member of the new body, was disqualified
by the words of the new municipal law. This, if correctly
reported, must be a very unsatisfactory judgment. It is,
indeed, no decision of the case.—Bath Journal.

SERIOUS Loss.—An unfortunate circumstance occurred
on Thursday week, in connection with Mr. Tucker, a clerk,
in the employ of Messrs. J. and F. Savage, of Bristol. He
came from Reading in the afternoon by the railway, with
bills and banknotes in his possession, to the amount of £365.
On leaving the terminus he proceeded to his residence on
Marlborough hill, and the next morning he discovered that
he had lost his pocket-book, containing the bills and notes.
The last time he had seen it was at Reading. The property
consists of eight ten-pound Marlborough notes, of Hillier
and Co.'s bank ; a one-hundred pound bank post bill, paid
at Reading ; a bill for twenty pounds, drawn by Wm. Fisher,
Stroud, a fifteen-pound Bank of England post-bill; and one
hundred and forty pounds in five-pound notes of Bristol,
Bath, and Bank of England notes. A reward of £5O is
offered for their recovery.

SUDBURY, Nov. 10.—We have the utmost gratification in
being enabled to state, that since her Majesty the Queen
Dowager's health first began to amend, the improvement,
although gradual, has been constant, and that her perfect re-
covery, should no unexpected relapse take place, may be con-
fidently expected. The distressing cough by which sbe was
so constantly disquieted has in a great measure been abated,
and she is able in consequence to enjoy every night several
hours of regular and unbroken repose. The salutary effects
of this refreshing sleep have already become apparent. Her
Majesty now sits up from eight to ten hours every day with-
out fatigue, and has attained sufficient strength to walk about
her room unassisted. Sir D. Davies still remains in attend-
ance, and, with the exception of Lady Gore and her daugh-
ters, constitutes the only addition to the ordinary party at
Sudbury-hall.

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—On Wednesday morning
last, as an engine was drawing a train of coal waggons from
the Haydock colliery, along the Dallam Lane branch of the
Grand Junction Railway, near Warrington, by some acci-
dent, a little boy seven years of age, named John Sephton, a
nephew of the engineer, was killed by the wheels of the en-
gine and waggon passing over him. It appears that the
neighbouring highway, Dallam Lane, is in such a state that
people cannot walk upon it ; and, consequently, they trespass
upon the railway. This boy had on several former occasions
been caught riding on the engine, and punished for it, and it
was supposed he was attempting to get upon the engine, and
had fallen. An inquest was held on the body on Thursday,
before Mr. Heyes, and the jury returned a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," with a deodand of 20s. on the engine ; at the
same time recommending that the trustees or surveyors of
Dallam Lane should be summoned for not keeping the road
in repair.

MURDER AT THE MANCHESTER WORKHOUSE.—On
Tuesday evening last, a barbarous and unprovoked assault,
attended with fatal results, was made on a poor old man,
named Peter Jackson, a pauper in the Manchester work-
house, by a fellow inmate, named Timothy Hetherington.
Those who witnessed the assault observed nothing in Jack-
son's conduct calculated to excite the angry feelings of his
assailant ; and it is therefore supposed, that the wanton
ferocity which he displayed was the effect of temporary in-
sanity, particularly as he had recently been subject to fits of
lunacy. Jackson was 67 years of age, and had been upwards
of four years in the workhouse, during which time he con-
ducted himself remarkably well. On Tuesday afternoon,

Jackson was standing in the men's day room : and Hether-
ington, the moment he entered, seized him by the collar,
threw him down on his back, and kicked him on the bead
and side several times with great violence. Several persons
happened to be within view at the time, who ran to the old
man's assistance, and gave Hetherington into the custody of
the police. Medical aid was procured for Jackson; but he
died on Thursday from the wounds which he had received.—
Yesterday, Hetherington was placed at the bar of the Bo-
rough Court, before C. J. S. Walker, Esq., charged with
wilful murder. The assault having been proved, he was re-
manded until the result of the coroner's inquest was known.
Last night the inquest was held at the workhouse, on view of
the body, before Mr. Rutter, when, in addition to the above-
mentioned facts, it was stated, that a fortnight ago the pri-
soner threatened to make a cripple of deceased, unless he re-
funded 18d. which the prisoner had lent him ; and Hether-
ington himself voluntarily stated, that he assaulted deceased
because he said he would not pay him. Mr. Snape, the
workhouse surgeon, deposed that the deceased came to him
for medical aid on Tuesday evening about half-past six
o'clock, and was then labouring under a great difficulty of
breathing. He complained of acute pain in his side ; and,
on a post mortem examination, it was found that one of the
fractured ribs had penetrated the right lung, which injury
produced inflammation in that part. There was much
effused blood under the skin, caused by external violence.
The left lune was also in a diseased state, deceased having
been labouring under asthma and chronic affection of the
lungs for some time previously. The external violenee he
had suffered was sufficient to account for his death. The pri-
soner was twice under restraint, about four months ago, in
consequence of mania, induced by epilepsy. From the tes-
timony of Mr. Robinson, governor of the workhouse, it up-
peared that the prisoner was 30 years of age ; that he was

dangerously violent when he received any provocation, and
that he had been frequently confined for outrageous conduct,
The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the

prisoner.—Manchester Guardian of Saturday

THE OPINION OF THE AMERICANS RESPECTING THE
AGITATION POR THE REPEAL OF THE CORN-LAWS.—We
have been favoured by a friend in Birmingham, with the fol-
lowing extract from a letter, received from a gentleman re-
siding in New York, on the repeal of the corn-laws. The
letter from which the quotation is made, was received in
Birmingham on Saturday last :—" The people here laugh at
the English about their agitation in favour of a repeal of their
corn-laws. I have asked a great many farmers, with whom
I am acquainted, respecting the price of flour, and they as-
sure me, one and all, that flour cannot be produced here
under five dollars a barrel,—and it is sometimes as high as
eighteen and twenty dollars a barrel. It is selling at the pre-
sent time at seven dollars and a half per barrel. A barrel of
flour weighs 196 lbs. It is well understood here that your
corn-law agitation is got up by the Manchester manufac-
turers, and the Yankees laugh at the English people for their
ignorance and infatuation. Bread is as dear here as it is in
England ; meat is dearer ; butter is also dearer, and these
are the three principal articles in housekeeping." We have
also another extract from the same letter, on the subject of
negro emancipation, which is worthy of notice :—" Things
are in an unsettled state here. There are constantly riots
and fights between the "Whites and the Blacks. The libera-
tion of the Blacks is considered the greatest curse that ever
happened in this country ; they are too idle to work, and are
the greatest thieves in existence, Eighteen out of twenty
who are tried for theft are Blacks • if a man offends them
they will set fire to his house. There was a black woman
executed since 1 came here, for arson. Joseph Sturge was
here a short time ago, for about six weeks, and was glad to
get away with his life. If they could catch him anywhere up
the country, in any of the slave states, they would Lynch
him."—Ten Towns' Messenger.

TAE MYERSCOUGII ROBBERY.—The following is the

confession of one of the men now in custody as being con-
cerned in this robbery, taken on the 7th instant :—Having
agreed with John Knowles, Thomas Wilding, Thomas
Wignall, and another they call Joseph, to rob the house of
rn at
John Cottam, iviayerscough, on the evening of Saturday,
the 27th of last
month,
I followed them to the house, and
about eight o'clock found them all awaiting for me in the
shippon. We all remained
there for a few minutes, when,
seeing Cottom open the door, Knowles went first; Thomas
'Wilding followed next, Jepson, and then
Knowles, Wilding, and Jepson, myself and Wignall.
had been in the house a
..bort time before I went in. found they had got some
,noney, and were insisting upon having more ; and when the
door was first opened, I said—shoot him, and some of the
others used threats. We were all in tlihouse I think about
an hour. After making search through
We fastened
the house, I went
up stairs, and looked into two of the r
the inmates to sonic chairs, left the housoeffians.d came straight
fix-kilns, not
away to Preston. 1 left the party near th.en
theti money.
not
te money,
far fenin Tulketh-hall. I think Knowles took all
egoeuttthatnh any
Just before I left them, Knowles was counting
and he then gave me eight hall-crowns. I did
more money until a day or two after the hand-bills about
when Wilding brought
robbery had been posted,
pounds more—one sovereign and two pounds in silver.ree i
said that was not a fair share. I don't recollect whether he
said anything in reply. I have had only four pounds in all.
I have spent ss. 6d. out of it. I saw Knowles leave the
stolen watch on the road. It was a small one. I asked him
what time it was, and he said it was not going. I received
the £3 in Lady-street, and Jepson' was there with Wilding.
We had several new pistols with us, and some of the party
said they came from Caton's. There were two old umbrellas
and twn pairs of stockings taken. I think Jepson had one
pair of the stockings, and I think the umbrellas were thrown
away. before we reached Preston.—Preston paper.