The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-13 00:00:00

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till the year 1825 ! Out of this there has
no account of maps and surveys sold to the public, nearl
£25,500, better than one-third of the latter amount bein
derivable from the railway mania of 1844-5.

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this country at a time when such loss can least lie spared ;
and because the day will be spent by thousands in feasting
and idle dissipation, rather than in fasting and humilia-
tion." This serio-comic person ends his protest with the
following counsel :—" If the day must be set apart from
the ordinary duties of life, I should advise my friends to
observe it in mental improvement, social enjoyment, and
healthful and refreshing exercises for the body." Accord-
ing to this pseudo shepherd of the people, it is useless to
order a fast, because thousands will spend the clay so
recommended in feasting, &c. ; and lest they should not
be so minded, he tells them it will be best observed
by indulging in social enjoyment, and other com-
fortable matters genial to Socinianism !
MIGRATION.—In the course of his speech on the Fac-
tories bill, Sir R. Peel observed that the noble lord, the
member for Lynn, was'now a great advocate for the con-
struction.of railways—that system of locomotion which
was extending. itself both in England and on the Conti-
nent. The greater that extension, the more would the
means be facilitated of free egress for the skilled manu-
facturers and artizans of this country to the receipt of
higher wages abroad. The prejudices of the English arti-
zan to removal from his home, were fast declining from'
the English character. He read of higher wages abroad—
he read, further, that the ancient hostility to an English-
man was no more felt or encouraged—he found he could
reach Rouen, or any other place in France, in twelve or
fourteen hours, and these facts, together with a feeling
partly of curiosity and partly a hope of gain, ought all to
operate upon the House of Commons as reasons why it
could not continue to control English labour as formerly
when locomotion was difficult, and when prejudices ex-
isted and prevailed.
DISCOVERY OF A SUPPOSED MYSTERIOUS MURDER
COMMITTED ELEVEN YEARS SlNCE.—Saturday week's Go-
vernment Police Gazette contains the particulars of a
supposed murder, under most mysterious circumstances,
committed eleven years since. In the month of August,
1836, a mare was found tied in a coppice at Sedgberrow,
Worcestershire. She was of the following description,
viz., dark brown with switch tail, star in the forehead,
long in the back, about fifteen hands high, three or four
years old, and a fast trotter. She had on a bridle and
saddle, the latter a good one, with two new stirrup leathers
and girths attached, maker's name on the saddle, " C.
Reeve, Malmsbury." In consequence of human bones
having been recently discovered near to where the mare
was found,' it is thought that the owner of the mare was
murdei.ed,' and that he was a dealer. A person suspected
of the.murder has given away an antique double-linked
silver watch chain, and affixed to the chain is a watchkey,
in the body of which 'is curiously worked in silver the
figure of a man,' seated on a barrel, smoking a pipe. It
is believed that. the. chain .and key belonged to the de-
ceased, and every endeavour is being made to ascertain
who that individual was.