The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-01-06 00:00:00

DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE.—On Sunday, a tailor named
Porter, at Bradford, entered his father's house, on a bed
in which lay his sister, who had only been ten minutes de-
livered of a child; he dragged his sister from the bed, and
threw her into the street, where she was found by the
watchman, who had her immediately conveyed to bed
again. The watchman was alarmed by the smell of burn-
ing, and be hastened up stairs and found that the priso-
ner bad broken open a box, and had taken from thence
his sister's and child's clothing, and put them on the fire,
from which in burning they had fallen on the hearthstone,
He then went down stairs and took up a chair, which he
raised for the purpose of striking his sister as she lay on
the bed, when his father struck him with a hammer and
felled him, he was then secured and taken to the lock-up.
—Leeds paper.

YACHT CLUBS.--Mr. James Knight, secretary of the
Royal Southern Yacht Club, proposes a magnificent re-
view of all the yacht clubs in the kingdom, to take place
before her Majesty, off the Isle of Wight, in the yachting
months of 1846. Of its magnificence some idea may be
fornrid from the fact being that there are more than 11
clubs, commanding a force exceeding five hundred yachts,
and as the statistics of such a force may be interesting to
the lovers of aqktatio amusements, we may conclude by lay-
ing the following patticulato before our readers :
' No. of No. No. No. Principally
_

Distinction .;-,tsilabs. Yachts. Tons. Men. Guns.BrasilMi.
Royal Yacht Sg4,e.-rOn 102 9000 1600 400 from 2to 9
Royal ThaniesNltcht Club 146 4400 540 220 from to 6
Royal -West‘'.rn- u.. 1.4 Club 74 3000 400 260 from Ito 6
Royal Southern. 't Club 67 2800 350 230 from Ito 9
Royal Victoria 'Vac t Club 38 3200 420 250 from 2to 6
Royal Harwich Yacht Club 38 900 120 40 from to 4
Royal Cori; ,Yai,iht Club
Royal yfri,vs,-,f acht Club
.11?-041q.ukthern Yacht Club
Rory* Eastern Yacht Club

i Kingstown Yacht Club.. 29 1380 230 70 from Ito 6

621 29250 4380 1810

Deduct about 1-6th for the

same Yachts belonging to

different Clubs, you will
have a grand total of .... 530 25000 3900 1500

The sea-men areNexclusive of masters, cooks, and stew-
ards, which would give at least 800, in addition to the
foregoing numbers. Th 3 wages alone for the masters and
seamen exceed £120,000 per annum, and the intrinsic
value of the yachts, with their armament complete, is
more than three quarters of a million of money.

THE OVERLAND ROUTE.—Considerable discussion took
place last week between the Times and Morning Herald
as to whether the route via Marseilles or Trieste is the
most expeditious, the Herald having on the last occasion,
by the former route, outstripped its contemporaries. The
Herald gives the following explanation as to its arrange-
ments :—lmmediately upon reading the bombastic obser-
vations made by the Times in support of Mr. Waghorn's
project for conveying the Indian Mail via Germany—
offered, he doubt, as a compliment to Mr. Waghorn for
bringing Cie, Times' despatches, and with the hope of
receiving his assistance hereafter—we determined upon
proving the utter absurdity of the assertion that the
Trieste route was the shot-test, by running as rapid an
express as possible from Suez via Marseilles. The only
difficulty in our way was to obtain a steam-boat from
Alexandria to Marseilles, and to obviate this difficulty
we wrote to the French Government, stating our intention,
asking the favour that one of the usual passenger steam-
boa4 trading between Alexandria and Marseilles might
be placed at our disposal, and offering to pay all expenses
incurred in that service. The French Government hav-
ing considered our proposition, answered that they could
not comply with our request, but, to show their desire to
afford every possible assistance in accomplishing an object
of so much importance to England as the expediting the
conveyance of the Indian Mail, they bad determined upon
placing at our disposal a French war-steamer, which
could convey our agent to Egypt to arrange the express
from Suez to Alexandria, and for the use of which ves-
sel the French Government could not possibly receive any
pecuniary remuneration, but they, expected that a copy
of the " Overland Bombay Times" should be delivered
to the Government in Paris as soon as our courier ar-
rived there.

HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCE.—A WOMAN EATEN BY
RATS.—On Friday week, Mr. Jewison, Coroner, held an
inquest at Tong, on view of the body of Sarah Holds-
worth, a woman 84 years of age, who was found dead in
her house. The old woman resided in a hovel somewhere
in the riPirrhhnvirhnnri of TintllPl7 Rill and thmtrrh en F..-

advanced in life resided alone. For two days previous to
her death she had been confined to bed, having no one to
attend on her but a step-son nearly as old as herself. On
Wednesday night, at eight, he left her in bed, and re-
tired for the night ' • next morning he found her laid on
the floor dead, and presenting a most horrible spectacle.
Her right eye was nearly eaten out, her left eye was eaten,
her forehead and nose were gnarled, and the edges of a
sore on one arm had also been gnawed. It appeared that
the residence of the deceased was infested by rats, which
had become so bold that they had on former occasions
actualy eaten the old woman's chemise as she lay in bed,
likewise her other clothing and the bed clothes, into holes.
To keep them from attacking her person she had been ac-
customed, as was the case on Wednesday night, to have
alstick laid on the bed. Nothing had been beard in the
night in her cottage. It is believed that the vermin, more
ravenous than usual, bad attacked her as she lay, and
that to escape them she made an effort too great for her
feeble state, a fit had come on, of which she died, but
that the rats made their horrid feast before life was ex-
tinct. The unfortunate old woman was in the receipt of
3s. a-week relief from the union, and but a short time
ago it was sought to take her to the workhouse, but her
opposition was so great that the relieving officer was
obliged to desist. She paid 6d. a-week rent for her hovel,
and when found had 6s. 7-id., which she had saved up to
pay her rent. In connection With this little hoard a
simple but affecting incident was related. On Wednes-
day her step-sou, who appears to have been a tender,
affectionate nurse, gave her some some tea without sugar
or milk, and a piece of dry, coarse bread. The poor old
woman said she could like something nice, the addition of
milk and sugar to her tea, and of butter to her bread,
would probably have been quite a luxury ; but though sin
ill not a word was said of dipping into the rent fund.