The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-08 00:00:00

'kneed a reduction of 3s. to

Dld except at a• r

:tion of

'eduction of 10s. v

At London, on Thu

took place

day, a general
the 41b. loaf selling at 81d
A Row IN THE HOUSE OF CO-mmoNs.—On Thursday
Mr. Patrick O'Connor, son of Alderman O'Connor, ex-
mayor and a justice of the peace of Sligo, was charged,
at Marlborough-street police-office, with using abusive
and insulting language and behaviour to Mr. John Patrick

Somers, M.P.. for Sligo, calculated to provoke a breach of
the peace. The quarrel was about a debt alleged to be
owing.by the one to the other. They disputed about it
in the lobby of the House of Commons, and very abusiv
language was used, a threat was made and a stick wa
flourished in a menacing manner. Mr. O'Connor bein
unable to find bail was sent to

A Wn,

,n-fhe event, and in gre

anxiety. to have the earliest

horse and gig, and proceeded to the electric telegraph
office, at " Castleford, a distance of three or four miles.
Cossack being announced as the winner was such a stroke
of fortune for him, that he at once lost all recollection (
the manner in which he had come from Pont

,etimet, an

proceeded home again, with all possible haste, on foot,
without it ever once crossing his mind that he had left
his horse and gig, until he reached his destination, and
wanted a pocket hankderchief from his top coat, in order
to wipe off the perspiration from. his face !

. .
HORRID MURDER.—A shocking murder was commit-
ted on Wednesday, in Bryanston-square, London. The
deceased is Mary Stowell, an aged female living in a
back kitchen, No. 40, Adam-street, and the murderess,

Mary Ann Hunt, lodged with her. On Wednesday morn-
ing, the woman Hurst was seen wandering about under
suspicious circumstances, and on being taken into custody
by an officer, it was discovered that she was making away
with two bundles of wearing apparel belonging to the de-
ceased, who was found dead near the fire place in the
kitchen. It appeared that Hunt had endeavoured to
strangle the poor old woman in her sleep, as the rope wf
found round her neck ; but failing to do so, she
her several times severely, with a pc

coverec

and her head wa

'he prisoner has been remandec

RIOTS ARISING OUT OF THE HIGH PRICE OF FOOD.—
On Tuesday last, an alarming riot broke out in the city
of Wells, originating chiefly with women and boys. They
called upon Mr. Fry, a respectable baker, and demanded
that he should lower thP bread. He endeavoured

but in vain, to reason With them, and they broke his
windows, damaged his premises, and destroyed. his carts
and waggons. A troop of Yeomanry Cavalry were called
in, the riot act was read, and the people at length returned
to their homes. At Nottingham a similar disturbance
took place yesterday week, also headed chiefly by women
and boys. They went to a number of bakers shops,
had bread given them ; in other cases they took it,and
and
broke the windows. The did not, however, generally
offer violence s total observance of organiza-

tion anion

There was a
t the malconten

dispersed tit tl.

it of whom

mg of the

ust magistrate in Mr

and on the follov
n of ebullition.

A gentleman" met

alias "

Hardwicl

!et police-office, the 01

, of the

:r. Smith,"

vhose real name is the Hon. Henry
charged with

Arundel, the son of Lady Arundel

clear, and a fine .of five pounds was. therefore i
When Mr. Arundel was taken into custody he

r. Hardwici

dant to prison for a month, with hard 141
time a gentleman applied for tl--
ine instead of ti

impri,spntl

June 5,1847.

A RELIC OF Tna FAMINE OF 1800,—On Monday
t , two pieces of brew, made during the famine of
00, when flour was is. a peck, and preserved by their
w n er, were shown to us at our office. One is a Id. loaf,
the other a roll. The loaf, which is in good preservation,
is about two inches square, and even when unshrfrelled
by time could not have made more than two decent
mouthfuls. The roll is partially decayed, but so far as
we can judge, It could not, when fresh, have c
dimensions of a finger biscuit, to which in sl

1 have a hungry,

with a roll

.deci the
it bears

.like aspect

and loaf of 1835,
preserved. Bad
h mementos of a

temporary privation,