The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1841-10-26 00:00:00

_ LORD ELDON'S PROPHgTic WORDS.—The emphatic
words of the venerable Earl of Eldon ought to be recollected
by every Protestant ; they are indelibly fixed on our mind :
—" From the moment that the bill passed, the state would
no longer have a Protestant king and a Protestant parlia-
ment. When these dangers shall have arrived, I shall have
been consigned to the urn, the sepulchre, and mortality ;
but that they will arrive I have no more doubt than I yet
continue to exist." Who can doubt but that he was a true
prophet, and that the fulfilment is speedily approaching, if
the Lord, in his mercy, does not raise up a deliverer, who
will place civil and religious liberty on a safe, solid, and du-
rable basis?

FALL OF THE ROOF OF A MILL.-IHOst of our local
readers will remember the spacious mill erected by Messrs.
Marshall and Co., flax spinners, at Holbeck, in which the
great Radical Reform meeting was held in the early part of
the present year, before the machinery was fixed up in it.
This mill was erected on a novel principle ; it covers nearly
two acres of ground, but it is only one story high, having a
flat roof, covered with asphalte, with the intention of having
a garden thereon. We regret to have to state that during
the high wind which blew in the night of Sunday last, namely
about three o'clock on Monday morning, two of the arches
which support the roof fell in with a tremendous crash.—
Leeds Intelligencer.

On Thursday an extraordinary accident happened through
a cat to a child, the daughter of a person named Foley, re-
siding at New-street, New-cut, Lambeth. The mother had
occasion to go out on an errand, and shut the door of the
bed-room, leaving the child in bed. A cat was underneath
the bedstead, the end of which was close to the fender at the
fire-place. Soon after Mrs. Foley had left the house, an
alarm was raised that the house was on fire, and it was soon
discovered that the room was in flames, arising from a fire
proceeding from the bedclothes. The child was in imminent
danger, but it was got out. A surgeon was called in, and
every assistance rendered to the unfortunate sufferer, who
was burnt in a dreadful manner; there are but slight hopes
of its recovery. The accident is supposed to have arisen from
the cat having got under the fire-place, and hot cinders falling
upon it, in its fright it leaped on the bed and set fire to the
bedding.
A Day's SHOOTING.—A short time since, a well-known
sporting lawyer applied to the Marquis of Exeter for
leave to have a day's shooting, which was, with some re-
luctance. granted, upon which the expectant sportsman
promised to the associates of his choice, lots of game on his
return. The happy day having arrived, our hero set forth
on his expedition, and found the keeper and his assistants
waiting ; and, after a good day's sport, night broke in upon
his labours, and he prepared to take his departure, having
bagged twenty-seven brace of patridges, and eight brace of
hares. Having fee'd the keeper, the assistant, and helper,
&c., which in all amounted to 355. he desired the keeper to
see the game properly placed in his gig. The keeper, with a
smile, said, " Park the game up, sir? I thought you knew !"
—" Knew what ?" said the astonished lawyer. The keeper
hereupon produced a letter, and, after winking to his assistant,
handed it to the sporting lawyer, for his perusal, who
read—" Permit Mr. —, to have a day's shooting, in the
usuatway." " Well," exclaimed our hero, " have I not shot
in the usual way ? Does his lordship take me for a poacher ?"
To which the keeper replied, " that when his lordship per-
mitted any gentleman to shoot over his land, he allowed them
to carry off only one brace of birds and a hare, as he sold
the rest." Thus was this eminent gentleman minus,
" gratuitous," powder, shot, turnpikes, &c. &c., and laughed
at into the bargain by the persons to whom he had promised
" lots of game."—Cambridge paper.
DIABOLICAL ACT.—At Malmesbury Special Sessions, on
the 7th instant, Robert Bassett, a railway policeman, in-
formed the bench, on oath, that, being on duty, stationed at
Minety, on Sunday, the 3d instant, he passed the down mail
Great Western Railway train from London, through the
station, all right, at midnight. At two o'clock on Monday
morning the up mail train came in sight, and he put the sig-
nals for her all right at the station ; but he found directly
that she threw her steam off ; he heard a loud crash up the
line from where he stood, and ran down towards them, a
distance of nearly a mile and a half from the station. Before
he arrived the drivers had put back, to see what they had run
over; and had commenced to put the steam on again, and
passed him gently, and ordered him to go down the line to
see what impediment remained, they having picked up, and
got with them, a copper dome, or cap, belonging to an old
engine, which stood on the siding. Witness went on, and
found three transoms, a lot of stone, and one length of metal,
on the up line ; which metal, by the concussion, had been
cut in two ; the stones had been partly knocked off by the
engine guard, and the remainder were ground down under
the engine. The wooden transoms were very much split and
cut about ; they were laid across the railway ; one of them
had been cut in the centre. The engine had kept driving it
for a space of fifty yards from the place where it had been
laid. The witness found it cut in two ; the other part was
forced above a foot into the bank, at some distance ; witness
understood it had belonged to the Vesta engine. As soon as
witness had cleared all the obstructions on that line he turned
to the down line, to see if that was correct. There he found
that three very large stones had been laid upon it; one was
cut asunder, and the others ground in pieces, one of them
weighing nearly a quarter of a hundred weight; and a couple
of transoms were found cut in pieces similar to the others.
After calling the constable whose beat it occurred on, we
looked about for footmarks, and found the prints of two
persons round about the Vesta engine, and the materials
which lay near it.—John Brown, of Minety, was charged
with being concerned in the above offence. A considerable
mass of evidence was adduced against him, but the ma-
gistrates did not think it strong enough to warrant a com-
mittal; and the prisoner, who denied the charge, but acknow-
ledged that he was on the railway on the Sunday evening,
was dismissed.

Sunday evening a sermon was preached at the parish church
of St. Sepulchre, Snowhill, by the Rev. I'. Dale, Vicar of
St. Bride's, in aid of the funds for erecting ten additional
churches, with parsonage-houses and schools, in the populous
district of Bethall-green. The reverend preacher took his
text from the sth and 7th verses of the 95th psalm—" 0
come, let us worship and bow down ; let us kneel before the
Lord our Maker. For he is our God, and we are the sheep
of his pasture." In the course of an eloquent appeal to the
congregation the reverend gentleman stated that the parish
of St. Matthew, Bethnal-green, contained a population or
more than 70,000 souls, with church accommodation for
5,000, and only one national school. The amount required
for the erection and endowment of the ten district churches
has been estimated at £75,000. Upwards of £60,000 have
been already raised, and the committee have good hope of
the realisation of the full amount in a very short period. The
church on this occasion was crowded in every part, and the
collection made at the doors after the service amounted to
nearly £6O. Among the subscriptions lately announced are
several munificent donations .—one of £6,000, from the Rev.
J. W. and his sister, by the Bishop of London ; a person
signing himself " Commercial Prosperity,". £2,000; and
one under the signature of " A successful Emigrant of for-
mer Days," £lOOO. The firm of Hanbury, Buxton, and Co.,
the brewers, of Mile-end, have also presented the committee
with £lOOO.

SUICIDE FROM UNREQUITED LOVE.—On Thursday after-
noon, an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the Adam
and Eve, High-street, Hoxton Old Town, on the body of
Sarah Bygrave, a beautiful girl, aged 18, niece of Mr. Hol-
loway, the landlord of the above house, who destroyed her-
self under the following circumstances:—A neighbour said,
that on the Tuesday preceding he had seen deceased sus-
pended by a cord to a beam in the skittle-ground of Mr.
Holloway, and immediately cut her down, when she was
found quite dead. He bad been informed by one of his
lodgers that, about one o'clock the same morning, she was
awoke by hearing a stifled cry of " Dick, Dick, save me,
save me." Mr. Henry Holloway, the deceased's uncle, said
his niece had lived with him for •the last nine months, and
had enjoyed the best of health and spirits until a fortnight
back, when a young man with whom she had been acquainted
in Northampton called upon her. He slept in the house
that night, and left on the following morning. Since then
he had noticed a great change in her, and her mind wan-
dered so much at times that she was not conscious of what
she was doing. She was often in tears, and complained very
much of her head. The same morning that she parted from
the young man she was overheard asking him " if he intended
to marry her," to which he replied, " No, I do not."
He Then you shall never see me more," was the rejoinder.
and got into
thethe
oun (witness) saw her last alive a few minutes before twelve
herbe7daY night, after the house was closed, going towards
-room. She must have partially retraced her steps,
out of a gig; her
her right arm 11-rolici skittle-ground by a side door. Eighteen
months backdeceased and her father were both thrown
a broken heart, Om was killed on the spot, and she had
and she then became dependent on a Six months after her mother died of
bro-
ther, but in consequence
and the young man f a misunderstanding between him
with him. His opinionw alluded to, she left and came to reside
that the deceased destroyed her-
self through the refusal oafst young man to marry her, of
dotingly fond.
whom she was
Other evidence of a similar
nature having been given, the
jury returned a verdict of
" Temporary insanity."