The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-05-04 00:00:00

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MEETING OF MERCHANTS.—A meeting of merchant
and bankers was appointed to take place at the Hall o
Commerce,. London, on Friday, on the state of thi
)me time a message wa

money m
brought f
of -the de

After waiting

ror of iCt

act of stealing a brass ket

t, near Grampound
He had roused th 4
farmer's sons folloN

of the f

with a gun, over

ie pot; after going some distance, the gipsy refused to
5 any further; an altercation ensued, and the thief pro-

duced a hammer, with which he threatened his captor;
in self-defence the other fired, wounding the gipsy in the
calf of the leg, and the wound has proved so severe that it
has been found necessary to amputate the limb. -
HORRIBLE MURDER di? THREE CHILDREN.—A hor-
rible case of infanticide has just occurred, in the. parish of
Llanybidder, Carmarthen. The mother of the children is
named Mary Hughes, and on Wednesday week her sister-

in-law called on her, and, on going into the house, the
d or of which was unlocked, she went up stairs, and there
saw the three children hanging from a beam in the roof
She called for assistance, and they were cut down, but lift

.efore, it is supposed that she
said that her mind has lately

F FUND

—On Thursday, the Briti
House for the Relief of t

le their report of t

up to the

e present
3,970 163.

zn:"

,t the Witt

poison to I

he prisone
usband. 1

of Tollesbu
from a liver
Live to him.

't know w

reply wc

le- cha

;e I can do that for y

on Tu

ma E. Hume, was finally examinei.

Iwithi

3rne broti

lived i

more than on,
long." On t

, which I

a whiU

diment at the bottom of the basin. She afterwards en-
deavoured to persuade him to take two pills she had
made, but he refused. She gave them to her son, who
handed them to the police. She said they were recom-
mended by a man named Warner, but this he denied.
The pills were analysed, and found to contain twenty-six
grains of sugar of lead—a poison. Mr. Dawson, drug-
gist, heard her say, when getting some medicine fur her
husband, that she hoped it would be the last lie would
take, for that •if he were dead she would be happy. She
was committed for trial at the assizes, and was conveyed

S PICTURES

1 opened. his mansion in Whitehall-

reception of visiters invit

Lection of -worlAs of art

lion of ti

ion of Saturday

clay, S

The principal staircase, th
ye, one or two other rooms

;ed, whilst the pic

Sue a fresh arrangement

Lils was the immediate cau

The invitations in ti

not regulated by the exclusive spirit which almost uni-
formly prevails on similar occasions. That there should
be present many of the most distinguished members of the
peerage and of the House of Commons, might natural:y
be expected, from the eminent social and political position
which the right hon. baronet occupies ; but it was gratifying

le in anc
ssell did r.

Idle of tL

Lady I

til most of the company had left
lip in the gallery, 11

.ved his for

ially by the hati,

led to justify the ob.

a gentleff

iy which ac

etl the walls."
sr.—On Tiles(

'as as pleasing a piett

lay, the 11th annual g
f this association was held in Drury-lai
The chair w

T-UNIC

1 on the oc

)uke of Cambr

Unior

year, anu with which through the debates
Iv fa-

,ment on th

the past year I

Innocer

is for the current year are, t 1
eapolitan Wedding," and oni

Nixon

)Ciety was visited during
500

le figure in mar-
Ir. Calder Mar-

Foley rect
" Iris Aso

in competition for the
n cast-iron, of a figul

bracc

seven of the car -
7ize of £5OO. A
of " Thalia," in
For the council by
will give an idea