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

time ago robbed an auction-room in Smithfield of £lOOO
in bills of exchange, and had been concerned in various
other robberies.

-The casting of

THE GREAT BELL FOR MONTREAL
this, the largest bell ever yet made in the country, w
successfully completed on Saturday last, at the foundry of
Messrs. Mears, in Whitechapel. The quantity of metal
fused was about 25 tons. The founders, it is stated, in-
tend to give the public au opportunity of inspecting the
work when perfectly finished, previous to its shipment for
r'-^ada.

AWFUL FIRE, WITH Loss OF THREE LIVES.-
on Wednesday morning last, a fire broke out on the pr.
mises of the Queen's Head Inn, Newport, Monmouth-
shire, and nearly the whole of the premises, together with
the furniture, were consumed. Mr. Peplow, landlord of
the inn, Andrew Morgan, the ostler, and Mr. Perry,
maltster, of Clunton, near Bishop's Castle (the latter
staying there for the night), were all burne
TRAINING SCHOOL FOR SOUTH WALES.- _
has been definitively selected by the Welsh Education
Committee as the most eligible spot for building the pro-
jected Welsh training school for masters. The school and
premises will cover ten or twelve acres of land, and will,
we understand, accommodate about sixty students. The
system of training will be on the most approved princi-
ples of the training College of St. Mark, Chelsea.
On Friday a meeting of old Etonians was held in Lon-
don, Lord J. Manners in the chair, when resolutions were
passed expressive of sorrow at the abolition of Eton Mon-
tero, as likely to lessen the intercourse of Etonians, and
that any possible inconveniences attendant on its obser-
vance are capable of control. On the motion of the Mar-
quis of Londonderry, a memorial to the heads Eto,
College was agreed to, urging them to hear
mans before comino. J.- • •

.d to death

Carmarthen

ll old Eto-

Bills have been introduced into the House of Commons

by Mr. Strutt, Sir G. Grey, and Mr. Parker, for consoli-
dating into one act various provisions usually contained
in acts authorising the making of gas works for supplying
towns with gas—in acts with respect to the constitution

the making of water-works for supplying large towns with
water—and in acts for constructing or regulating markets

and fair
On F

[day aftc

was gone into, at the

Charles Cooper, aged 45, Ali(
Charles Cooper, aged 6 years

:ooper, agc

It appeared from the

built against a chalk-pit, and formerly used as a stable,
the roof being level with the adjoining fields. On Wed-
nesday the earth gave way, forcing the brick wall in on

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 8,709
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 arernark-
able manner, the capabilities or resources of the Cape for
such resources.

VERDICT OF MANSLAUGHTER AGAINST A PHYSICIAN.
—On Friday week, Mr. Wakley opened an inquest on
the body of Sarah Ellen Collier, daughter of a lady of
independent fortune, residing in High-street, Camden-
town, London, who is alleged to have died from the
effects of medicine compounded from a prescription fur-
£loo,ooo. The affidavit stated that he (Dunn) t...._ nished by Dr. Cronin, of Leicester-place, Leicester-
ceived from Miss Coutts a letter in verse, authorising him iquare. After the examination of several witnesses, and
to draw for £lOO,OOO, as compensation for the several the production of the prescription, in which was contained
- —1.:,.1, be hna a,,fr.....- , - AII ' prussic acid (in bitter almond water), the inquest was
od .sour adjourned till Wednesday, in order to analyse the mix-
FAMILY OF DEAF MUTES.—There is a singular family ture. Dr. Scoffern, Mr. Bell, Mr. Mooreson, and Mr.
Weathers, were then appointed by the coroner, and Dr.
of deaf mutes in Leamtown, Lochcarron. They are or- Venables by Dr. Cronin, to make the required analysis.
phans, seven boys and two girls, all deaf and dumb, and The adjourned inquest was held on Wednesday last, and
yet the most industrious people in the village. Strange to the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against Dr.
say, three of them have adopted the sea-faring life, and Cronin. The witnesses were-then severally bound to
have a boat and net in which they sail in pursuit of her- appear and give evidence on the trial, and Dr. Cronin
rings, round the whole coast. During the day the helms- was taken into the custody of the police. The room was
man directs the other by signs, and at night he carries densely crowded throughout the day.
stones in his pocket, which he throws at them : one in- - BORROWING CRILDREN.—On Friday, at the London
tends a desire to stand by the halyards, and two to reef. Mansion-house, a woman was brought before the Lord
-hen t foil,

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

his imprisonment he is to find bail for his good bf
for two years.

_
DEPLORABLE CASE OF DESTITUTION.—A much re- Mayor, charged with begging, w. _ae lowing conver-
spected farmer in this neighbourhood having been re- sation took place :—The Lord Mayor : And you have been
eently informed that a poor man residing at no g:reat dis- begging here ever since you came to town ?—Defendant :
tance from his farm, was in the habit for some time back The devil a halfpenny I ever begged in London in my life ;
of stealing his turnips, immediately sent for the man and if people come up to me and my poor family, and give me
's the case. The poor man at once a thrifle, you don't call that begging? It's quare sort of
-nd his family, for the last four begging when a body_ axes for nothing.—The Lord Mayor :
-alt." Where did you borrow these children.—Defendant : God
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1 it such

" had eaten nothing else but neeps

weeks,

• ------ mess your sow!, they're every one or -em my own.-
rated him with 2s. and aI Policeman : Two of the children belong to a woman

,t constant

twenty mothers

another woman, who als6 drives a trade in babies