The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1849-12-04 00:00:00

A man named William Richard Fragile, but better
known as William Parry, keeping a drug and grocery
shop in Suffolk-street, Birmingham, was committed on a
verdict of manslaughter by a coroner's jury, for causing
the death of a female whom he, a non-professional man,
attended in labour, and sent for assistanconly when it
was too late.

As a person named Lowis, who lives at Low Plains,
near Penrith, was crossing the river Eden by the stepping-
stones at Bongate Mill, and carrying his son, a boy seven
years old, on his back, his foot slipped, and the little lad
fell into the water, and was carried down the stream a con-
siderable distance before his father could rescue him, when
life was extinct.

The Tablet contains an ordinance of Dr. Wiseman,
Roman Catholic " Vicar Apostolic of the London Dis-
trict." enjoining that, " in Votive Masses and Offices of
the Conception of the B. V. M." the word Immaculate
to be joined to the word Conceptio, and that in the public
recitation of the Litany of Loretto the words Regina sine
labe originali concepta be always added.
PRICE of MEAT.—A Worcester butcher has just en-
tered into a contract to furnish meat—beef and mutton—
to the county gaol of that town, for the ensuing quarter,
at 34-d. per lb. for the first six weeks, and 3d. for the
second six weeks. This contract tells tales ; for at the
same time the butchers of Worcester are selling meat to
their general customers at 6d. and 6d. per lb., as in this
city.

Joseph Ady was summoned to appear at the Mansion
House, London, on Monday, in consequence of his refu-
sal to pay the sum of £ll Ils. due for the postage of his
circulars, which had been refused and returned to the
post-office. Before the case came on for hearing Ady paid
the amount. It appears that he posted 1400 unpaid let-
ters on Friday, so that he will probably be again sum-
moned in a short time.
THE MURDER IN MILLBANK PENITENTIARY.—Fran-
cis, the man who lately killed one of the warders in the
Millbank Penitentiary, was tried at the Central Criminal
Court, on Thursday, and was acquitted on the ground of
insanity. It appeared that he was affected with an hered-
itary tendency to insanity, that he had gone mad when
under a former sentence of transportation, and that he
was maddened by excessive fear of transportation.

INGENUITY AND PERSEVERANCE.---A young man
named Griffith Giliffiths, of Chorlwyn, Merionethshire,
twenty-two years of age, is now in progress of building a
smack of eighty tons burthen. He is assisted by an only
sister named Laura, who in a masculine manner handles
gaily the large carpenter's saw. Two years of perseve-
rance have jointly together so far advanced the building
that the deck beams are completed.—Carnarvon Herald.
Mr. Lea, of Astley, formerly a large manufacturer in
Kidderminster has issued an address to the working men,
in which he calls their attention to the projected exhibi-
tion in 1851, as a means by which the trade of that
borough, may be promoted ; and offers a prize of 100
guineas for the man or set of men who may invent a new
article of any description, provided it is done in Kidder-
minster, and adapted for general use.

Cunzeous.—Soine months back, a little girl, the daugh-
ter of a person named Carter, residing at Cambridge. fell
down a flight of stone steps, on her way home. She has
at intervals complained ofia pain in her leg, on the thigh
of which a flesh wound was for some time visible. On
Tuesday last, a piece of slate pencil, three inches in
length, was extracted from the calf, the blunt end being
next the skin. The little sufferer is now going on well.
Lieutenant Gale's proposal to employ balloons in
searching for Sir John Franklin, has drawn a letter from
a Parisian gentleman, M. Dupuis Delcourt, who asserts
that he was the first to propose the use of balloons in
Arctic exploration, and who adds that he is about to
appeal to the French government, and to the learned
societies of all countries, for the means of executing a
project he has formed for the circumnavigation of the
globe by balloons.
A FORTUNATE PURCHASE.—A few days since Mr. H.
Siviter, bookseller, purchased a lot of books at the Auc-
tion-room, Fleet-street, London.. Amongst them was a
large quarto volume, entitled " Venables on Diabetes."
On getting them home, as was his custom, he commenced
arranging them for sale, and on inspecting the above work
found some of the leaves pasted together, and on separat-
ing them discovered a £5O and two £lO Bank of England
notes.

On Wednesday, two young men, named Scorah. and
Lynch, were in a stable near Wakefield, when a friend
came in with a double-barrelled gun, which, while the
three were in conversation, went off, and the contents
lodged in the breast of Lynch, who died instantly. The
only way by which the accident could be acounted for was,
that in trying to shut the door the hammer, which was
down on the cap, might have naught the dress of the
friend, and being drawn back exploded the cap.

DUBBING, ONES-SELF A KNIGHT.—The other day a
respectable farmer called at the post-office, not one hun-
dred miles from Dunfermline, with a money order, which
the postmaster asked him to sign, " I see," said the far-
mer, " it maun be signed name and sirname ; but how can
Ido that, I fear it will no do to write sirname"— "Oh!
yes," said the postmaster, "write your sirname there,
pointing to the place. He then signed the order Sir
David —, and received his money.—Fifeshire Journal.
OLD EXECUTION AT YORK.—On Tuesday, April 13th,
A.D.' 1649,-George F. Merrington and Maria Merrinu-
ton, his wife, were executed at the gallows of St. Leonard's,
Green Dykes, without Walmgate Bar, for the wilful mur-
der of Wm. Rex, Esq., Dunnington, near York. This
dreadful murder was committed in their house at Fulford,
in the evening, just before dinner on the 9th day of March.
Mr. Rex's body was found by a piece of cord that led to
his grave in the kitchen, where they buried his body near
the fire-place.
POOR-LAW HtmANrry.—The St. Alban's Board of
Guardians refused last week, by a majority of six to two,
to pay to a nurse who attended two cholera patients for
thirteen days and seven nights, sixpence per day and six-
pence per night, 10s. The poor woman was brought
twice before the board, and her account was reduced to
7s. 6d. The physician testified that she was " efficient
in the discharge of her duties, and very attentive to the
patients." Such is the way in which the friends of the
new poor-law " consider the poor."
The Romanists at home must be in a poor way with
respect to converts: The market is so bad that recourse
has been had to an old stereotyped paragraph announcing
the conversion of the daughters of Dr. Bathurst, once
Bishop of Norwich,-ladies who are continually going over
to Rome. An entirely new paragraph also announces the
recent conversion of some score of individuals, two of
whom, it is said, were barristers. No names are given,
as we are sure they would be were they worth record-
ing or existing to record.

-FURTHER -MEASURES FOR RELIEVING SIR JOHN
FRANKLIN.—We are informed on good authority, that
with the view of undertaking some further steps to ascer-
tain the fate of Sir John Franklin and his gallant com-
panions, a committee of officers experienced in Arctic
navigation—namely, Captains Sir William E, Parry, Sir
John Back, and F. W. Beechey, associated with the
Admiralty hydrngrapher, Rear Admiral Sir Francis Beau-
fort, were last week summoned together to consider
the most advisable means for carrying out the wishes of
the government.
MUNIFICENT BEQUEST.—On Monday Mr. Thomas
Cooper, author of the " Purgatory of Suicides," an-
nounced that a bequest of £lO,OOO for the erection of a
working man's hall, in the metropolis, had just been
made by a Mr. Jenkins. The building is to be for the
free use of working men of all denominations, under the
control of twelve directors, who have been nominated ;
and also that Mr. Hall, the celebrated geologist, had ex-
pressed his intention, on the completion of the building,
to present his magnificent museum to it ; and further,
that a gentleman, whose name did not transpire, would
furnish a library of 1000 vols.
A tablet to the memory of Sir John Barrow, has been
erected in Ulverston Parish Church, with the following
inscription :—" Sacred to the memory of Sir John Bar-
row, Bart., LLD., F.R.S., 40 years secretary of the
Admiralty, who was born in a small cottage in the adjoin-
ing village of Dragley Beck, on the 19th June, 1164; and
departed this life on the 23d of November, 1848. Full of
years and honour. Soli Deo ploria." A tablet also in
-ernembrance of Sir John has been placed in the humble
cottage, at Dragley Beck, wherein he was born, recording
his birth there,, and, in few and simple words, his:subse-
quent honourable career.

At Clerkenwell Police-office, on Wednesday, Charles
Corbey, a young man not yet of age, was charged with at-
tempting to murder Mary Noble, a young woman will
whom he had lived. Thecouple had a quarrel, and Noble left
the prisoner, saying that she would live with him no more;
he went to her place of work, pretended to kiss her, but
cut her throat with a razor. The young woman was
examined ; when she was bound over to prosecute she ex-
claimed entreatingly,—" Oh ! I hope you will have mercy
upon him : the Lord has been so merciful as to spare my
life, and I hope his will be spared." Corbey is a man of
weak aspect, and :during the examination he betrayed
every sign of being a very silly person.
On Saturday, two little boys, varying in age from twelve
to fourteen years, were committed to prison for two
months at Twickenham. for throwing stones at a train on
the South Western and Windsor Railway, and thereby
injuring William Dear, the fireman of the " Charon" en-
gine. The offence was proved by the evidence of several
witnesses, and it appeared that the practice was one of
frequent oocurrence. The prisoners made no denial of
the charge. The magistrates observed that under the
General Railway Act they had the power to commit the
prisoners for trial, for the misdemeanour, which rendered
them liable to two years' imprisonment with hard labour,
and were it not for their youth they would have been
committed. _

DREADFUL FIRE.—On Tuesday a fire broke out in
Nottingham, in what is called Lees's-close. A hovel, a
shed, a hay store-house, and a stable were entirely de-
stroyed, tind other places more or less injured. At the
time the alarm was first given, about twenty pigs, several
cows, two horses, and a pony were fastened within the
buildings, but all were brought safely out, except the three
latter, which were burnt to death. One of the horses was
rescued twice, but such was its great alarm that it both
times broke away, and ran into the midst of several tons
of burning hay, and soon afterwards died in great agony.
The horses and pony were worth something less than £5O,
the property £2OO or £3OO. None of the owners of the
property were insured.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF SEDUCTION.—In the Court
of Common Pleas, on Thursday last, before Lord Chief
Justice Wilde, an extraordinary trial for Deduction took
place. The plaintiff, a Mr. Collyer, is a post-master at
Tottenham, and the action was brought for the seduction
of his daughter (a girl of little more than fifteen years of
age) by the defendant, a person named Mayne, a bread-
baker in Tottenham. The offence was committed upon
the plaintiff's daughter in the parlour behind the defen-
dant's shop, on an occasion when she went to the defen-
dant's shop with some pickles ; and, according to the
evidence of the girl herself, the defendant accomplished
his object by force. The details of the case disclose the
most abominable facts which were, perhaps, ever laid be-
fore a court of justice. The damages were laid at £1,000,1
and, after a lengthened hearing, the jury returned a ygr.
diet for the plaintiff—Damages 4150,