The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-09-11 00:00:00

3d two dalighters went iiito7

of scene being thought r

sary to their

'ho had previ-

ried before they had any knowleu.,..
friends not knowing where to direct them.
each of them was seized with a dreadful ter,.
melancholy to relate, one of the daughters died in Beaufort
buildings, Bath.—Devizes Gazette.

On their return

—of which,

MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The table of mortality for
the week ending last Saturday gives a total number of 820
deaths, of which 457 are under the age of 15 ; 235 between
the ages of 15 and 60 ; and 128 of the age of GO and upwards.
These numbers show a weekly decrease in the deaths of
nearly 200 compared with the returns of two years back. Of
the 820 persons who died last week, 166 were from epidemic,
endemic, and contagious diseases ; 181 from diseases of the
brain, nerves, and senses ; 190 from diseases of the lungs and
other organs of respiration ; 12 from diseases of the heart and
blood-vessels ; 90 from diseases 8f the stomach, liver, and
other organs of digestion ; 7 diseases of the kidneys •, 3 child-
bed ; 6 diseases of the joints ; 1 disease of skin ; 94 disease of
uncertain seat ; 46 old age or natural decay ; 20 by violence,
privation, or intemperance ; and 1 from a cause not specified.
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MOST ATROCIOUS MURDER.—On Saturday evening last a
most inhuman murder was perpetrated within a mile of the
town of Castlecomer, on the mail-coach road leading from
thence to Dublin. The victim, a stout-looking young man,
is suspected to have been a deserter. When discovered, he
was lifeless, lying in a pool of blood on the middle of a
road ; a man's hat was found close to his own, which led
the immediate apprehension of three carmen, who ha,l
the spot a short time before the murder ocr-•-
way from Kilkenny, where they had L-
of whom claimed the hat in question. an Inquest was held
on the body of the deceased on Monday, the result of which
was the immediate liberation of the carmen, agains*
hardly.a suspicion was entertained, notwithstanding the
markable circumstance of the hat of one of them being
found on the spot where the murder was committed. This
circumstance was satisfactorily accounted for by its having
fallen off when the owner of it was asleep in his car, and was
most probably picked up, either by one of the murderers or
their unfortunate victim. It also appeared, from the evi-
dence, that about half an hour after the cars had passed,
some persons (supposed tohave accompanied a corpse for in-
terment in the course of the day, from an adjoining parish,)
were heard wrangling at the entrance to the churchyard, and
were supposed to have proceeded along the road to the scene
of the murder, as something like skirmishing was overheard
there, and two-amen, strangers to those who met them, were
seen running in all haste from the spot, towards the collie-
ries, who have not since been heard of,—Dublin Evening
Mail.

red, on their

peen selling coals, one

et,tril; OTEAMERS.—Extract of a
Peacock, dated on board the Pacific Stt_
Company's steam-vessel Peru, lat. 9 15 N, long.
and 14 days from Plymouth :—" The Peru has hitht_
a most prosperous voyage, answering in every respeL
most sanguine expectations. On leaving
.Plymouth we
perienced a head wind, with a heavy cross swell, until
evening of the following day, when 1 ordered the fires to
burnt down, blew out the boilers, and Made sail. On 0
first trial of sailing, although deep, we got seven kw,.
her. There was a good deal of swell on
occasionally rolled deep; but after a
the moveable parts of the funnel, I saw no risk in to
it, and in eight minutes from the commencement I I
gratification to see it snug in the chock, with or a ropeyarn. When the wind d;
everything in its place again, and the
minutes from hauling taught the main gears. fhe elicited the admiration of every one on board. The fun..
when down in the chock, lies within the level of the paddle-
boats, and at a distance would resemble a long mid-ship gun
It is completely out of the way of working the sail, and when down, the open
simplified. We had only one entire day's sailing
getting into the trades, and then only three more.
trade wind was very light, except for two days out of
three, when, with the wind dead aft, with lower topmast
top-gallant studding-sails set, we went 11 knots fr
consecutive hours, and -in the 24 hours ran 225 mil'

1. from Captain
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gation of

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ores alight i

thou of sweeping it is much
hefore

..ae greatest run under sail; the least was .._
was the fifth day of sailing, when near the edge of t
variables. We only consume half a ton of coals per ho,
the average, and find no difficulty of keeping steam wi
the additional length of funnel. The Hull coals arc
lent, and in my own, as well as in the chief en;
opinion, are superior to the Llanelly coals. The so!
admirably, and the engines work extremely well
vacuum now exceeds 28 in both. I perceive th
advantage of Sir Win. Burnett's patent solution
studding-sails and awning'; it will increase their
per cent. lam happy to inform you that my passel
well, very contented, happy and comfortable, whic'
expressed. I hope to be at Rio on the 26th day,
there is every prospect at present."
THE LADY AND THE LAWYER, OR DENa
DONE.—An old dame, named Hannah Ycatmar
by a keen ems

140, an(

s-examination in the Court of Queen's Ben
, and exclaimed, " Don't you go for to as
•m not a min, r- is-

Chief Ju7tlc

) be bothered in this way
'entnan : "