The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-04-10 00:00:00

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elusive, and the summing up
At the Chester assizes, on TiiiirsdaY, Mr. Sainterco
surgeon, of Macclesfield, obtained a verdict with o'7
^..es, against a young man, named , 60°0
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-cred as an aq.;-4-

seduction of his wife.
defendant gave the plaintiff
as the penalty for, having practi
seven miles of Macclesfield, beini
meat between the parties.
THE CITY OF MANCHESTER.
ment made at the meeting of the 7
chester, last week, that that nlac(

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gainst the sal
with £5OO darnag
as a surgeon within
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in violation of an agr`",

by a state.

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uelore Justice Maule, his I
fidavit, or permit it to bi

earll at
ied to raceive an o•efj
ise thejurat stot
city" of Manche"

ter; and he said he knew of no such " atY."it aPPe3bl;
by a letter from Mr. Alexander Kay, which wai read 0
the Mayor, that great efforts had been mad( to obtain.
right to the dignified denomination, but without succes'
The matter is to be brought before a future munci1......00
MELANCHOLY SUICIDE BY A YOUNG LADY. a
Saturday evening last, Hannah Bartley, a blocming VIII,/
woman, about twenty years of age, committee suicide .
throwing herself off Agecroft-bridge, • situtre near "et
village of Prestwich, within a mile and a half of 1;c
father's house. She was observed by a youn man, aboi9
half-past ten o'clock, walking on the bridge , and Rd/
supposed the melancholy occurrence took Owe Eb°r`o
after. The deceased was the daughter of Mr. Thoo,,
Bartley, of Prestwich infant school, and was txpected
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have returned home that evening; as she left Lverpool Al
the six o'clock train for Manchester, where At had be„.
staying during the week on a visit to her aunt's. The 10
fortuna;e girl had been in a desponding state of mind
the last four months. j

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THE LATE VICAR OF PRESCOT.—An _nines Ai,
held at the residence of Mr. Cobbold, surged', St. tot
ban's, on the body of the Rev. Charles Chapman, recto
of Prescot, Lancashire, who committed suicide 'ender eet
following melancholy circumstances :—M. Cobbdd protect
that the deceased had been staying at his housefor itt
weeks for the benefit of his health, having, from liviafot
Lancashire, become subject to nervous debility. ,ed
about ten days after he came to St. Alban's he cpPeile
to get much better, but within the last few 10'a`- of
seemed more dejected, and took but very little noticet
anything that occurred. On the previous night he crforicl
to bed, accompanied by his wife, much as usual?
wished all a good night. About three o'clock thatoteett
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ing Mrs. Chapman called out, saying deceased had 0
gone down stairs for some time, and she heard ,
out "oh ! " Mr. Cobbold immediately went in setre%d
him, and in feeling about on the hall floor he put hit I°o6
in a pool of blond, and found deceased lying close br. Die
procured a light, and discovered deceased quite dead,'fitli
his throat cut in four distinct places, and a razor 1.10
winch he had perpetrated the deed close by his side. yr
jury returned a verdict of "temporary insanity. ,06
ceased was in his forty-first year, and only marriee'tue
sister of Mrs. Cobbold last November. Deceased st, or
time of his marriage was Fellow of Cambridge Cor
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but afterwards he obtained the above living, whic ote
estimated at £l9OO a year. The population is very grteot
and it is expected that th 3 living will be divided into
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viz. £l2OO and £7OO per annum. It is conjectured
the circumstance, coupled with the impression %qf
his mind that he was inadequate to the task of the 10
so many souls, were the motives which preyed uPOII
mind.