The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-03-02 00:00:00

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ee him murder me ?" when Allan, who was at that time ,, _
'sing a ham knife, laid hold of his brother William, and about
'Change.
AWFUL SnirwaxcK.—On the night of the 20th ult.,
uflieted a fearful wound on his head with the n weap
end afterwards ran it to the handle into his body imme-o' the ship Brechin Castle, 400 tons burden, bound from
Port Adelaide for Swansea, was wrecked off Mumbles
liately above the heart, which caused instant death.
Head, near the latter port. The moment she struck the
the fratricide is in custody.
On_ Monday an Irish family, consisting of Ave children rocks she must have gone to pieces, and every soul on
board perished. The identification of the vessel, crew,
ts, called in at the Union-house Hereford,
- -- . Rz.c.. was made by finding among the rocks some of the

for the night after a journey from Newport. They par-
ship's papers arid documents .She had arrive
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took of the usual refreshments, and afterwards retired to--- . --'d witnin
the dead body of one of fifteen miles of her destination when the deplorable acci-
rest. On the following morning an unusual noise was
-4• which it was ascertained arose from this family,
-,, ,„,..i. dent happened, which; it is supposed, was occasioned
through a mistake of the lights. She was laden with
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copper ore, and commanded by Mr. S. R. Baxter, and a
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Twenty-six persons, therefore, found a watery grave.
Among the passengers were Mr. and Mrs. Winterbottom
and child, and Mr. and Mrs. Fairburn and child. Seve-
REMARKABLE PROTEST OF A LIBERAL PEER.--1 .„z ral bodies were washed ashore ; and the mail bag, with
Earl of Radnor ha 4 entered upon the journals of the House the Port Adelaide papers and letters, was found on the
of Lords a protest against the Irish measures, to the effect rocks. The ship and cargo were valued at X 20,000, and
that government having no store of food is not bound to were fully insured.
feed the people; "the supply of food," he observes, EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF ARSON AGAINST A LADY
' leads to injustice and disastrous consequences, because AT BRISTOL.7-A charge of arson, accompanied by eircum-
,be obtained by taxation," which does stances of the most extraordinary and myste rioolice-court,
us charac-
-- cqually, those on the verge of destitution them- ter, was preferred on Wednesday, at the p
selves being obliged to contribute. In other parts of the Bristol, against a young lady, named Sarah Outeridge,
protest he advances the propositions that the poor ought to who is said to be most respectably connected. It was
rely upon their own industry rather than grants from go- stated that Miss Outeridge came to Bristol,
y, accompany from the
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ithout fiirther ceremony for the -benefit of the

such funds can only

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lieve the distress which is unavoidable. her sister's husband, with their family. Inc m‘v.,...u. ut
The Gazette of Tuesday contains a Treasury warrant, the party is to settle in Bristol, but they took up a tem-
making certain alterations in the postage arrangements re- porary abode at Mrs. Langley's lodging and boarding-
cently
.entered into between this country and Prussia. house, in Cumberland-street, Brunswick-square. On
According to the warrant issued in December last, an Tuesday evening, five.successive fires were discovered in
English postage of one halfpenny was charged on British various apartments of the house, detached from each other,
newspapers sent to Prussia, via Hamburg or Belgium ; the first fire having occurred in the bedroom of the ac-
that halfpenny rateis now removed, and such newspapers cured. A, great number of witnesses were etamined, but
will in future go free. It is also directed, that in lieu of the testimony was mostly of a circumstantial character,
all rates of postage hitherto imposed on printed papers and presented no strong facts against her. One witness,
and pamphlets, not strictly newspapers, sent from t, is however, said she told. Miss Onteridge that she, was. the
country to Prussia, ailf umforlp British rate of sixpencelbr last up staiii,,and must have set the room on fire; and
the first half ounce, and so on, according to the scale for she said she supposed she must, but her brother Would
letters, shall be adopted, pay the damage.