The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-05-25 00:00:00

mining her eyes, found a pin driven into the centre of one
of them, and which he immediately extracted. The poor
woman has lost the sight of this organ, and it is supposed
that the pin was among the cotton, and was thrown into the
eye by the violence with which she shook it.
WEYMOUTH.—A man named George Trent, who lives at
East Burton, near Winfrith, in proceeding homewards last
week, saw an old pair of cloth trousers lying on the pebbles.
They appeared as if washed up by the sea. On examining
them he found in one of the pockets a leather note-case, con-
taining four Bank of England notes, to the respective
amounts of £5. £2O, £5O, and £l,OOO. The £l,OOO note
has been sent to the Bank of England, by whose means pro-
bably it may be traced.
STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—On Tuesday last, a female, in
stepping from a steamer on to the pier at Blackfriar's-bridge,
London (owing to a man checking her whilst in that position),
missed her footing, and was plunged into the river. The
boat went a-head by order of the captain, the paddle wheels
beat against the woman and cast her on shore. Much ex-
citement was occasioned at the inquest, and the jury found
the captain guilty of bad management and gross negligence.
He refused to stop the steamer or put back, though told the
female was in the water and might be rescued.
FATAL. ACCIDENT.—We regret to state that at the review
yesterday on Durdham Down, a horse mounted by a gentle-
man became unmanageable, and ran against some ladies who

were among the spectators. One of them, Mrs. Anna
Sophia Leach (who, in the absence of her husband, Mr.
Henry James Leach, was resident at the house of his mother,

Mrs. Hugh Leach, in Queen-square), was struck down, and
the horse trampling on her forehead occasioned a serious
fracture. She was conveyed to an adjoining cottage, where
the surgeons of the regiment under review, and other pro-
fessional gentlemen, instantly attended to afford assistance,
but the wound had proved fatal before the lady reached the
cottage.—Bristol Journal, Saturday.
APPALLING MURDER.—Accounts reached town yesterday

of the dreadful assassination of a most respectable country
gentleman, Mr. Hall, of Merton, near Borrisokane, who, at
the hour of midnoon on Wednesday last, was shot upon his

own lands, by order of the agrarian or ribbon conspiracy.
The bullet passed through his brains. He was dead ere his
body reached the ground where he fell. There can be no
reason assigned for this mysterious and horrifying atrocity,
but that Mr. Hall presumed to exercise the rights of a land-
lord. He was, in politics, a liberal—in private life a gentle-
man, benevolent and universally beloved.
THE LATE FIRE AT WYNYARD HALI

An address of

condolence has been presented by the inhabitants of Wolvis-
ton and the neighbourhood to the Marquis and Marchiness
of Londonderry, on their arrival at Wynyard, in which a hope
is expressed that the hall will again shine forth in, all its for-
mer splendour, and continue, as it used to be, the seat of
genuine British hospitality. The noble owners replied in
feeling and grateful terms for this considerable sympathy on
the part of their tenants, whom they assure that oft and re-
peated visits shall*be made to the baronial hall of NiTynyard..

THE SUGAR QUESTION.—The following extract from a
letter sufficiently shows the opinion of Sir T. Y. Buxton on
the question which is now agitating the House of Commons :
" I can have no hesitation in saying, that, in my opinion,
the best and wisest course that we can pursue is to enforce
the prohibitory duties against slave trade grown sugar, that
is, against the sugars of Cuba and Brazil. It seems to me
one of those questions in which ordinary rules are to be dis-
regarded, and in which considerations of political advantage
must be made to yield to the superior law of moral duty. We
cannot admit the produce of Cuba and Brazil into home con-
sumption without giving a vast impulse to the growth of
sugar in those countries ;
,or, in other words, without giving
the strongest encouragement to the slave trade."