The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-05 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.-TUESDAY.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Marquis and
Marchioness of Normanby with their company, last evening.
at their residence in Hill-street. The Queen and Prince
Albert were accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen, and
were attended by Lady Portman, lion. Miss Cocks, Hon.
Miss Cavendish, Marquis of Fleadfort, Lord George Lennox,
Sir William Lumley, Sir George Anson, Col. Buckley, and
Sir Edward Bowater'.

The Earl of Albemarle and Viscount Melbourne had audi-
ences of the Queen, yesterday.
Her Majesty and Prince Albert took an airing, yesterday,
in an open carriage.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Lord
Robert Grosvenor, Mr. George Edward Anson, Earl of Mor-
ley, Lord George Lennox, Sir Edward Bowater, and Mr.
Francis Seymour, went, yesterday, to Exeter Hall, to preside
at the meeting of the Society for the Extinction of the Slave
Trade, and for the civilisation of Africa.

Colonel Buckley has relieved the Hon. Colonel Grey in the
duty of equerry in waiting on the Queen.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager, attended by her suite, 41
rode on horseback in the parks yesterday. The Duke of
Sussex paid a visit to her Majesty at Marlborough House.
The Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke of Cambridge
visited the Princess Augusta at Claremont House, St. James's.
The Princess Augusta of Cambridge also visited her Royal
Highness on Saturday.
The Duchess Ida, with the Princesses of Saxe Weimar,
took an airing yesterday afternoon in an open carriage and
four.

HORRIBLE MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUS-
BAND, AND SUICIDE OF THE MURDERER.

(Front the Morning Herald of Wednesday.)
Yesterday forenoon, about a quarter before 12 o'clock,
the neighbourhood of St. John-street-road and parts adjacent
were thrown into the utmost state of consternation and alarm
by the circulation of a report that a man named Gingell, who
about ten months since carried on business as a greengrocer
in Goswell-street, had while passing down Compton-street, in
his wife's company, taken a razor from his pocket, and having
succeeded in cutting her throat, had also in a similar manner,
and with the same instrument, put a period to his own exist-
ence. The rumour turned out to be too true. It appeared
that Gingell, who had previously been a widower, and left,
with two children, is about 40 years of age. He married his
late wife, who was the daughter of a respectable tradesman,
named Shol, residing in lslington-terrace, Islington. They
had lived most unhappily, and during the twelvemonth she
had been - separated from him, and returned to her father,
three times. Yesterday they were seen passing down Comp-
ton-street, and on arriving at No. 57, the residence of Mrs.
Gingell's brother, she was in the act of raising her hand for
the purpose of ringing the bell by the side of the door, when
her husband seized her by the back of the neck with one hand,
and with the other, which grasped a razor, he cut her throat
from one side to the other, dividing the windpipe and arteries
completely to the vertebra. Death was instantaneous, and
the body of the unfortunate woman reeled lifeless on to the
pavement. The persons who saw the occurrence were trans-
fixed with horror and astonishment, and before their presence
of mind returned sufficiently to enable them to raise an alarm,
the husband had himself inflicted an equally frightful wound
on his own throat, and fell on the pavement beside her com-
pletely deluging the place with their blood. A vast body
of persons immediately collected round the appalling spec-
tacle, and information having been conveyed to the police,
constable Redman, 224 G, was first on the spot. He found
the wife with her head leaning against the scraper of the door,
No. 57, and the husband within a foot of her, both in a large
pool of blood, which was still flowing from dreadful wounds .
in their throats. A surgeon was present, who pronounced
the wife quite dead, but the husband still alive, and advised
their immediate removal to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
which was done. On their arrival at the hospital, Mr.
Knight, the house surgeon, pronounced in both cases life
quite extinct. On searching their bodies three letters were
found addressed to the wife, upon the subject of their sepa-
ration, from the husband ; two in the possession of the for-
mer, and one in Gingell's own pocket, bearing date last
Saturday, and requesting her to return to him, adding that
he had taken respectable lodgings at King's-cross, and he
had no doubt but they would be more comfortable than they
had been.

The unfortunate young woman's father being aware that
Gingell had importuned her again to return to him, strenuously
urged her not to comply, being cognizant of his violent dis-
position, and the fact that he had made several attempts on
her life before. It is also stated that he had made previously
three attempts upon his own life, twice by cutting his throat,
and once by endeavouring to bleed himself to death. On
searching for the razor with which he succeeded in com-
mitting the last horrible and two-fold crime, it was found in
the midst of the blood in which the bodies lay, and is now in
charge of the police, together with the letters, a bunch of
keys, and other documents found in his possession. Both
husband and wife were attired in a respectable manner.
The coroner's ingust is appointed to take place this day
when a full investigation into all the circumstances will be
entered into.

The Morning Herald of yesterday contains an account of
the coroner's inquest on the bodies. Evidence was adduced
which went to prove that the murderer and suicide was
labouring under temporary insanity. The jury then retired
to consult, and, after a short absence, returned a verdict,
"That the deceased, George Gingell, committed both acts,
being at the time in a state of temporary insanity, brought
on by jealousy."

The supplement to the Malta Times contains a letter of
Khiva, dated May 2d, which confirms the account of the total
failure of the Russian expedition. The invaders had lost-by
the cold 15,000 horses and 10,000 camels. Few men have
perished ; but the army was unable to effect its retreat to
Orenburg for want of transport. The cold was many days
below 30 degrees of Reaumur.

RISE IN THE PRICE OF PAPER.—At a meeting of paper-
makers, held here on Friday, it was determined to advance
the price of all kinds of paper from this date, in conse-
quence of the late addition to the duty on that article.—
Glasgow paper.
THE CROPS.—Wheat is coming forward rapidly, and with
the exception of the late sown, which is weakly, looks re-
markably well. Barley and oats suffered from the drought,
but the late rains have proved beneficial to them. On the
light soils rain is wanted for the Lent corn. In the Isle of
Thanet the crops generally have wonderfully improved.—
Kentish Gazette. •

A HINT FROM JUDGE LYNCH.—At a meeting of the
citizens of Natches, recently held for the purpose of devis-
ing means to rid the town of incendiaries, the following reso-
lution was passed :—" Resolved—That the pickpockets,
gamblers, and loafers, who have no ostensible mode of
making a living, be allowed forty-eight hours to leave the
city, all those remaining after that time may expect to receive
their just dues."
BROWBEATING A LAWYER.—At a late trial before a
justice of the peace in Mount Vernon, Kty., a lawyer, who
was concerned in the case, had the temerity to call the justice
a meddlesome fellow and a rascal ; upon which the dignitary
arose, and taking up the bench upon which he had been sit-
ting, with a single sweep brought it in contact with the
lawyer's head, with such judicial force that the learned coun-
sel was prostrated, and the trial also.
VARIETIES OF FLOWERS.—There are dispersed over the
surface of the globe upwards of forty thousand distinct species
of plants which bear flowers ; and from the number of new
species which have, in comparatively recent times, rewarded
the labours of collectors, we cannot suppose that the entire.
number, or anything approaching to it, is yet known, even
to those best skilled in plants. The vast number of flower-
producing vegetables is variously distributed over the globe,
in its different regions, according to its several latitudes,
climates, and characters of soil. In this respect, the usual
estimate is, that there are upwards of thirteen thousand
flowering plants, natives of the intertropical parts of Ame-
rica, considerably more than five thousand in tropical Africa.
In Australia and the numerous islands with which the wide
expanse of the Pacific is studded, either within the tropics or
not very far without them, there are about 5,000 species
already known, though some of the largest and most tropical
of those islands have been but imperfectly explored. Tem-
perate America, in both hemispheres, contains about 4,000 ;
temperate Asia, about 2,000 ; and Europe, which lies wholly
within the temperate zone, 'contains at least seven thousand
distinct species of plants which bear flowers.—The Florists'
Journal.

GLANDERED HORSES.—The recent disclosures that have
been made relative to the practice of selling deceased horses
in Smithfield has caused a great stir in the city; but the
whole of the facts connected with these disgraceful proceed-
ings have not been brought to light. Our correspondent,
who has had good opportunities of acquiring information on
the subject, states that the extent to which glandered horses
are employed and sold in the metropolis is almost incredible.
There is a gang of fellows in the neighbourhood of St.
George's-road, who deal in nothing else but glandered horses,
and every market day at Smithfield they are sent there, con-
federates being disguised, some as countrymen, some as
grooms, and in a variety of other ways, to assist in getting
rid of the diseased animals. It may be a matter of sur-
prise where the animals are obtained from ; but the great
coach yards where the stages make their first or second change
of horses from London supply a great number of them. The
horses that work in these stages, from their high keep and
fast work, are particularly liable to this dreadful disorder, and
they are attacked with it in the most sudden manner ; but
the moment the foreman sees a horse begins to " weep," the
technical term for the discharge from the nostrils, with a
small lump or " jug " on the jaw bone, he is taken out of
the team, and placed in a box by himself; and if the disorder
increases, he is sold for what he will fetch ; and there are
fellows whol regularly go and buy horses of this description,
because, as they are mostly young, good shaped, and if sound,
worth a considerable sum of money, they are better calcu-
lated to assist the vagabonds in defraudinga purchaser. They
frequently in this way-get hold of a horse six years old, in good
condition, and which cost probably a short time before £4O
or £5O, for £3 or £4, and they then make use of a strong
injection to the nostrils, which has the effect of stopping the
discharge for a time, and when this is effected, they do all in
their power to induce some person to purchase him, and to
this end all kinds of fraud and deception are practised, and
unfortunately, with but too much success. In many cases
these diseased horses come into the hands of cabmen, and it
is notorious that a great number of them are worked in the
night cabs about the streets, to the imminent risk of spread-
ing the disorder in a most frightful manner, as it is of a highly
contagious character. It is to be hoped, from the exposures
that have been made, and the manner in 41!
that griev-
ance twee has been taken up by the city autaushowrit
means will be devised to put an end to monstrous evil,
—Morning Herald.