The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-11-09 00:00:00

the heart with a pocket-knife, which cause

low's death in a few minutes afterwards.
victim was James Hudson. The man Nv
is Thomas Ridehalgh, a stonemason. The deceased ha
left a wife and four children, and Ridehalgh
one child. The deceased was about 20 years _
the prisoner is 27. A verdict of wilful murder ha's bees
returned against Ridehalgh.
On Monday, at the Mansion-house, a gentleman ap•
peared before the Lord Mayor, and cautioned the public
against a Pole by whom he had been taken in. The Pole
who hawked jewellery, had sold a watch to the gentlemnr

wire ant

satisfied to receive it at the rate of a trifle per week or
month, as most suitable to the convenience of his custo-
mers. Under these circumstances, a watch was left with
the applicant which was worth no more than £4, or at the
most £4 10s.' and the Pole departed gratified at the sale.
No more was heard of him until about three weeks since,
when the purchaser was astonished at receiving a London

lawyer's letter for the sum of twelve guineas

afterwards the copy of a writ

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES IN BRISTOL.—Dur-
ing the past week, for the first time probably since the

congregations of all denominations, at the various Roman
Catholic chapels in our city, devoting themselves between
the hours of service to the examination of the school
children. It may fairly be presumed that the greater
proportion of these audiences went to indulge a natural

but dangerous feeling of curiosity

The Roman Catho-

;ween 4

) conver

ns have been

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Italian missionaries alluded to above, was the principal,
instrument in the conversion of the celebrated Mr. New-
man.—Bristol Journal.

MELANCHOLY SUICIDE.—On Friday, an inquest was
held rt Shepton Mallet, on the body of Dinah White, an
interesting-looking young person, occupying the situation
of ladies' maid, in the family of A. C. Phipps, Esq. It
appeared in evidence, that she had been about to be mar-
ried to a young man living in the same town, after a court-

the- wedding had t

being assigned, the above individu,

visits, and formed a matrimonial connection with some
other girl. This circumstance had such an effect on the
mind of the girl that her faculties became quite unsettled ;
and, in a fit of temporary derangement, she cut her throat
with one of Mr. Phipps's razors. She was quite dead
when found.

THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE IN REAL, LIFE.—On
Thursday, a magpie flew in at the open window of a
dressing-room at Skene House, and ingeniously contrived
to pick a ring, belonging to Lady Agnes Duff, from the
upright stalk of a ring stand, and fly off with it in its bill.
Lady Agnes's maid, who was alone in the room at the
time, and witnessed the theft, without being able to pre-
vent it, was filled with consternation. The ring she knew
was a valuable one—worth 40 guineas—and she naturally
feared that the story of the magpie would hardly be ac-
cepted as a satisfactory account of its disappearance. A
workman, to whom she communicated the alarm, had
seen the bird fly out, and observed that it first perched on
the top of a rack of wood. By great good fortune, they
found, on going to the place, that the ring had been
dropped, and was lying on the ground.—Aberdeen Herald.
The Strand is likely to become another Paternoster-row
for publishers. The celebrated house " over against Ca-
therine-street in the Strand," originally Jacob Tonson's,
afterwards Andrew Millar's—then the elder Cadell's
(Millar's apprentice), and lastly the younger Cadell's,—is
again a bookseller's shop. Messrs. W. and R. Chambers,
of Edinburgh, have also established a London agency in
the Strand ; Mr. Orr has removed from Amen Corner ;
and in addittion to the Mr. John W. Parker, of Cam-
bridge,—in the Strand we are now to have Mr. John
Henry Parker, of Oxford—or rather a branch of him—for
Mr. Parker will still continue to make Oxford his prm-
ciral seat." The agency of the Oxford publications was
scattered among a variety of booksellers ; but Mr. Par-
ker's " new branch shop " will, of course, concentrate
the business.

THE
.BANK RETURNS, - The Morning Herald of
Saturday, says " The other securities' in the hands
of the Bank of England have increased to the large
sum of £20,409,897. In October, 1846, this item stood
at £12,175,968. Two effects, then, have been produced
by the late operations of the Bank. By making money
scarce, it has disabled bankers and brokers from carrying
on their business in the usual manner ; and has com-
pelled multitudes to come to its shop. At the same time,
under the sanction of the Government, it raises the rate
of interest to eight per cent. And this is ordered by the
Government, under the advice of the Bank Directors
themselves, and of Mr. Jones Loyd ; persons who are
above all thers deeply interested in raising the value of
money ! And now let the result be observed. First, the
public is cruelly harassed, by being deprived of the usual
accommodation. But see how the Bank itself fares : In
October, 1846, it had twelve millions of Stock, Bills of
Exchange, &c., paying it an interest of 4 or 5 per cent.,
or £500,000 or £600,000. It now holds twenty millions
of these ' other securities ;'—which, at the prescribed rate
of eight per cent., will pay it the enormous revenue of
£1,600,000 per annum."
THE CHOLERA.—The following extract from the work
of one who has had the greatest experience in cases of
cholera perhaps of any man living, may be useful at the
present moment ; it is from the work of Dr. Searle, late
of the East India Company's Madras Establishment, on
Cholera, &c. :—"Remedy in Prevention :—From the
force of circumstances in which some persons are placed,
in despite of their best endeavours to prevent them, de-
rangements of health will, nevertheless, take place; in
which case, in the majority of instances, the following
pills will be found a most excellent remedy :—Calomel
Socotrine aloes, and Castile soap, of each twenty grains,
made into twelve pills. One taken at bedtime for an
adult person for one, two, or three nights, or the half of
one reduced to powder and mixed with a little jelly for a
child, will reduce the secretion of bile, and tend thereby
to purify the blood, open the bowels, and excite all the
functions ; and in thus acting, will, with suitable absti-
nence, materially prevent the accession of cholera or any
disease ; and further, should it fail in so doing, it will,
nevertheless, prepare effectually the way for such other
treatment as the case may be found more essentially to
require."
FAILURES IN SCOTLAND.—The failure of Campbell,
of Islay, (reported on Friday) would have been severely
felt by the Glasgow banks, but they hold securities upon
his estates, which are not entailed, and of far greater va-
lue than his liabilities, which are about £600,000. A no-
tion prevails that Mr. Campbell was connected with a
large house of the same name in Glasgow, which is erro-
neous, as he was altogether disconnected with commercial
affairs. His stoppage is caused by investments in land,
share speculations, and expensive style of living. Being a
near kinsman of the Duke of Argyle, he maintained a
" tail " in proportion to his relationship with his grace,
which was both great and expensive. It is reported that
a noble lord residing in Lanarkshire has also suspended
payment. His liabilities are not stated, but he is known
to be connected with some very extensive distilleries, and
held shares in several railways connected with his part of
the country. A baronet, also residing in Lanarkshire,
figures in the list of bankrupts as a timber merchant,
namely, Sir Wyndham Carmichel Anstruther, who in-
herited, only a few years since, a fine estate yielding a
large income. It thus appears that the Scotch aristocracy
are suffering from the severity of the times as well as their
mercantile brethren.