The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-10-02 00:00:00

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MURDER OF A CHILD BY HIS FATHER.-
last this town was thrown into a state of excitement i.
port that a little boy, about II years of age, named IN
Brain, had been poisoned by his own father,' who is a g
man's servant out of place. Unhappily the rnmour w
well founded ; the man had been taken into custody, at
body of his child discovered in a barn, situated on the
don .road. The circumstance was immediately made k
to Mr. E. Eagles, the coroner for the county, who orde
post marten: examination of the body of the child to be
and on Thursday morning an inquest was held. Severn.
nesses were examined, from whose evidence it appeared
Brain had administered arsenic to the child. Brain sa
one of the witnesses, " I have taken some poison in 3
and 1 gave my child some ; I thought of dying togeth
He added, that the child had lost his money. The jur
turned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner, Ja
Brain: He was then committed to take his trial at the assizes. We understand that his wife is living, but she been an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum for some tim Abridged from the Bedford Mercury.
We regret to learn that another fatal accident happened
the North :Midland Railway, on Wednesday, at the sa
place as that on the previous Sunday, namely, Anibergs
near'Belper, in Derbyshire. Two workmen, in the employ
a railway contractor, were walking on the line, when tt
saw a train coming laden with coke ; to get out of the
of this train,' they unfortunately stepped upon the pars'
line of rails, not perceiving that at the same moment a pi
engine was passing in the opposite direction ; before it v
possible to stop the engine, the men were both knocl,
down ; one of them was killed on the spot, and the otl
had his skull fractured, and is not likely to recover.—Di
caster Gazette.

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WHY STRIVE %VITT! FATE!—
which he says be can assure me,
thoughtful silence, and telling off the circus's,
position, one by one, -upon his fingers ; .'Fred, ,
have taken my affidavit, would not have heard of sue
backs Quilp to my astonishment, and urges me to ta,
—staggerer, number one. My aunt in the country s,
supplies, and writes me an affectionate note to say
made a new will, and left sue out of it—staggerer, si,
two. No money ; no credit ; no support from Fred,
seems to turn steady all at once ; notice to quit the old h
ings—staggerers, three, four, five, and six. Under an
cumulation of staggerers, no man can be considered a fa
agent. No man knocks himself down; if his destiny knock
him down, his 'destiny must pick him up again. The" I'u.
very glad that mine has brought all this upon itself, and I
shall be as careless as I can, and make myself quite at limo
in spite of it. So go on my buck," said 11r. Swivellei., taik;
his leave of the ceiling with a significant nod, "and let u,
which of us will be tired first." Dismissing the subjee,
downfall with these reflections, which were no doe'
prof • -

` Quilp offers me th

ound, and are indeed not altogether unknown
systems of moral philosophy, Mr. Swireller shook
spondency, and assumed the cheerful ease of an irr
clerk.—Master Humphrey's Clock.

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OUR CATHEDRALS.—For my part, I am old
enough to prefer God's sanctuary to a room, and t
of the church to any of recent date. They chin
our everlasting sympathies. I love, too, with Et
an old cathedral. All its inspirations are heaven'
to tread on holy ground" the pillared arches ove
and beneath my feet the bones of the dead."
" long-drawn aisles and fretted vaults !"
arches, so like the sacred grove in 0-

ne Jewish tem
whose forms the art of man has aptly borrowed t
sylvan beauties of nature. I love the subdued melt
which streams through painted elass:

angels, and all the company of heavc..
tyrs, and holy men of yore, are emblazoned in
I love to worship where my fathers worshipper-
that every scroll, every stone, every relict of
the outward and visible emblem of the faith
to the saints, perpetuated in the -church, a
ordained ministers appointed to be preached lint
shall be no more. Bishop after bishop, priest aftt
lie buried in this cathedral ; since the earliest awe
had knelt and prayed, and blessed his flock, on
spot, perhaps, where I then stood, that a thousand y
become as one day : but the same everlasting gosp
they preached was in my hand; the same prayers. I
songs of praise rose up on high ; and glory was as(
the same Triune Jehovah, "as it was in the begii
now and ever shall be, world without end." T
aPbstolical exclamation with which the book alit
sealed our assent to the same things—nothing added,
taken away. But how did the word resound in r
Not in the unmeaning lifeless form which modern in
has substituted for ancient practice : it rose and
accents loud, solemn, and universal ; accents whi
voice might have responded to, every ear heard, anu every
heart :felt to its inmost core, throughout that immense
edifice.—/Japublished JourNal.

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