The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-10-04 00:00:00

has succeeded, by great agriculturki enterpr
cruiting the squandered riches of his grandfather

Tandson of blucher, Gustaph, is married tc

lish lady, and lives mostly near the RI
JUVENILE ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.'--.

age, has thrown himself from the third stor:Vof a 114. use at
Burbage, in Leicestershire, apparently with a suicidal
intent. He had repeatedly run away from school ; when
his mother took him back the last time, he was sent up-
stairs to his bedroom ; and after his mother had gone, he
flung himself from the window. He received a compound
fracture of one of his thighs, severely sprained his wrist,
and knocked out several tet
SUDDEN DEATH.—The T

Thomas Silves

Buckingham, was on Monday night found lying insensible
in a street of that town. He was conveyed home, and
medical aid procured, but he did not rally or speak, and
death ensued in a few hours. The deceased gentleman
had been taking tea and spending the evening with Dr.
Southam, whose residence he left at about ten o'clock for
his home, about half a mile distant. ' In about half an
hour he was found on the way, as above stated.
310IIMONITES AT WESTON-SUPEU-MA.RE.—The disciples
of Joe Smith were on Tuesday'summarily ejected from the
fashionable watering-place of Weston-super-Mare, near
Bristol. A "regular down-easter," accompanied by a
"local," harangued, a concourse of people on the beach,
but they were met in crushing arguments by several clergy-
men and others. • After patiently hearing both sides, the
listeners rushed upon the impostors and drove them com-
pletely out of the town. The affair created considerable
excitement, and, but for the police and a few advocates of
free discussion, serious consequences might have resulted
to the Mormonites. •

PLA.YING CARDS.—In the new stamp act (16 and 17
Vict., cap. 59) which will take effect in a few days, there

vision to prevent the evasion of the duty on playino.
cards. It has been customary to cut the corners off cards
as described in the act, and to omit the ace of spades on
which the duty was impressed, selling the same as waste.
It is deemed expedient to prevent such a practice, and it
is enacted, that no playing cards, except such as shall be
bond fide spoiled, and rendered unfit, shall be deemed to
be waste cards ; and no playing cards except waste cards
sold, be sold otherwise than in packs, each pack containing
fifty-two, including an ace of spades duly stamped. For
exposing for sale cards other than described, a penalty of
£lO is to be imposed, and £2O on a manufacturer selling
I such cards. The cards may be seized by any officer of the

Inland Revenue,

DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.—A casualty of rather a pain-
ful nature occurred on the estate of Alva on Thursday last.
On the afternoon of that day, Mr. Charles Cardwell—at
present residing with his brother, the President of the
Board of Trade, at Alva House—was enjoying himself in
the sports of the field, in the course of which, and while
in a field on the banks of the Devon, near a place called
Chapelhaugh, he aimed at and killed a young leveret ; but
on the instant that the gun was fired, the gamekeeper on
the estate, who accompanied Mr. Cardwell, made his ap-
pearance, and received part of the shot in his arm, side,
and face, one of the pellets entering the right eye. Medi-
cal assistance was immediately obtained, and the game-
keeper still lies in a precarious condition, although it is
thought he is yet likely to recover. As may be imagined,
the mental anxiety of Mr. Cardwell, who has been the
innocent cause of the occurrence, is very great.—Falkirk
Herald.

CARRYING MATTERS VERY FAR.—A party of ladies
and gentlemen, amounting in all to eleven persons, arrived
at Berwick by the North British railway on Saturday,
whence they proceeded in three carriages to the plains of
Flodden. They had with them an infant of three or four
months old, and the object of theirvisit appeared to be to
"A this infant baptized with the waters flowing through
' of Flodden.. They.w 4 by. a c'-

--ty-were acempanieu._ .aergy-
man, reported to belong to Glasgow. The ceremony being
concluded, they 'returned to Berwick and left again by
railway for Edinburgh. The principals of the party were
reported to be Americans, and the father of the child is
said to have discovered that some 'of his ancestors were
slain with James IV. at the battle of Flodden. Hence his
desire to have his child baptized at that memorable
locality, and which had induced him to come from New
York. At , all events, he stated to some of the persons
whose services were engaged that he had travelled 3,000
miles for the purpose.—Edinburgh Advertiser.
CHASE AND CAPTURE OF A CHI:NV OF FRENCH SMUG-
GLERS.—The magistrate§ of Lowestoft were engaged last
week in investigating one of the largest seizures-that has
been made on the coast for twenty years, the prize money
of which will amount to upwards of £1540. The crew of
a French lugger, called the Abondance, of Dunkirk, Alfred
Philippe Morin, master, were charged with being found on
board that vessel, whichl had stowed in her 120 bales of
contraband tobacco, within the limits of that port. A few
mornings since, at daybreak, the coast guard had their
attention drawn to a lugger about half a mile outside the
Holm Sand. As the morning advanced and got lighter,

she stood further off, and continued staudingon and off.
At first she was suppoSed to be a fishing lugger; but her
strange movements soon excited suspicion, and it was de-
termined to go out after her. Lieutenant Joachim, the
senior officer, and several men pressed into their service a
steam-tug, and 'an exciting chase soon ensued after the
mysterious craft. After several hours' run she was come
up with, and boarded, and then they discovered the bales
of tobacco. The master, being interpreted, said that he
took the tobacco from a vessel at sea, which had too heavy
a cargo, and which, according to the laws of France, they
had a right to do. The bench decided that they must
convict them each in the penalty of £lOO, or to be impri-
soned until the fines were paid; but as it was possible
that some of the defendants might not know exactly what
they were doing, they would send a recommendation to
the government on their behalf.
WIFE-SI:AUGIITEIt IN LEEDS. —Early on Sunday morn-
ing week a sickening ease of wife-slaughter occurred in
Leeds, when a young woman, six months advanced in
pregnancy, fell a victim to her husband's brutality, who
is an Irishman named Michael Reynolds, a hawker of
mats. On the Saturday evening, after partaking of
supper, they went to the Fleece Inn, adjacent, and there
Michael became the worse for liqtior and struck his wife.
Between twelve and one o'clock in the morning she went
home, followed by,her husband and an aCquaintance. Here
the. husband made some advances towards a reconciliation,
but, upon being told that he had acted very differently
before strangers in a public-house, he struck her in the
face with a piece of whalebone, and subsequently with his
fist. He followed this up by seizing her by the nape of
the neck and flinging her, face downwards, upon the floor.
She fell upon her hands and knees, and, while in this
position, he kicked her with terrible force in a tender part
of the person, rupturing important vessels and tearing
open the flesh frightfully. She rose, clasped her hands,
Shrieked "Murder !" begged for a doctor to be fetched,
sank upon the floors which was deluged with blood, and
in about 20 minutes, before the arrival of medical aid, she
was a corpse. Reynolds, who had thus been guilty of a
double murder, as soon as he saw the fatal fruits of his
brutality, fled. A coroner's inquest was held on the body
of the unfortunate woman, and a verdict of" Manslaughter"
sgainst Michael Reynolds was returned.

-EXTRAORDINANY CHANGE pV. FORTVNE.—A sailor who
has just beconie the 'sudden possessor of property amount-
ing to £60,000, is a Scotchman, named Thomas Black, and
has lately been doing duty as a petty officer on board her
Majesty's ship Leander, now lying in Plymouth 'Sound.
It appears that he is connected with a highly. respectable
family in Perthshire, was well educated, and intended by
his parents for one of the learned professions. Seventeen
years ago, however, he ran from home and entered the
naval service, doing duty as a common sailor, and, having
acquired some reputation as a mariner, he was advanced
to the rank of a petty officer. This was his position when,
about nine months ago, an' advertisement'appeared in the
Times,informing Thomas BlaCk, if he were still alive,
that by communicating wii h certain barties therein

named he would hear of something to his advantage.
Thomas Black, however, did not read the Times, and for
months remained in ignorance of the " something," which
his next of kin were beginning to be afraid they would
be obliged to appropriate to their own use and benefit.
Luckily for Black, however, he one day entered into con-
versation with a footman, whom he net accidentally at
the Cove of Cork, and who had heard from another ser-
vant some particulars touching the lost heir to the Perth-
shire estates. The result was, that Black made his exis-
tence known in the proper quarter, and after the lapse of
a few months his claims were recognised, and he succeeded
in obtaining his discharge from naval servitude, on the
arrival of the Leander at the port of Plymouth from New
York, which took 'place a few days ago. The lucky sailor
and his friend, Lieutenant Barnard, R.N., are now in
Scotland, adjusting the preliminaries.

HOLLOWAY'S PILLS HAVE CURED A PALPITATION OF
THE HEART AND SHORTNESS OF BREATH.—I. Word, of the
Tat. European Bengal Fusiliers, Lahore, had suffered for three
, years from a palpitation of the heatt, great difficult of
breathing, a diseased liver, and an overflow of blood to the
chest to such a degree that he vomited considerable quanti-
ties. His case was considered hopeless, having baffled the
skill of several 'eminent medical men, who gave him up as
past all human aid. Whilst lingering in this condition, he
was advised to try Holloway's pills, and solely by their means
he has been effectually cured, and his health completely re-
established.