The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-06 00:00:00

At twelve o'clock, on Thursday, at Derby, Platts paid
the last penalty of the law for the murder of Collins, at

REPRESENTATIO/,

Stonor, son of Lord Camoy

_ -
OXFORD.—The Hon. I'. E.
rs, is to be brought forward on

The Old Bridge of Dumfries, after standing 600 years,
hae begun to give way. Last week a lad tumbled through
a hole in it into the river.

A Tractarian weekly journal, in an article on education,

_, .......,..,..pion of the country is one of _Lien into this error,—Lawton himself pointing out the man,—:-
th-ose things that will probatly never be set straight, till they (the jury) were called upon to take money out of his (Mr.
we have had a Revolution and a Restoration !" Lawton s) pocket. Mr. Martin contended that it would have
HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.—The official return of been:ltroolouttehemsatd. neessafooiti thhee doetfeii‘iidrant to have attempted an
iths registered in the London districts during the past aluirnea-n whop had used 4 till proper caution, skill, ann CI eri egetnlceemfaosr

week indicates a steady improvement in the state of pub-
lic health.

the purpose of making the necessary arrest. The present action
was brought against the defendant for not having arrested this.
man; but did the jury think that, if he had have been arrested,
he would have paid the man?
Witnesses were called to prove that it would havebeen imprac-
ticable to have made an arrest upon the stage of performance.
Mr. KKOWLES addressed the jury for the plaintiff. He said
the witnesses called were " runners" for the other side, and
were balled to make up in the cause.

A meeting of the teachers anti other supporters of the
borough of Leeds will be held in
s evening, to consider the Govern-

the Assembly Rooms tl

A gentleman,
eastern and soutl
extent to which agricultural improvements are being made
is beyond all precedent.
Several gentlemen from Whitby, says the Yorkshire
Gazette, attended a greyhound course at Harwood. Dale
on Wednesday, when they killed the extraordinary number

who has lately travelled through the
kern midland emintips_ states that the

His LORDSHIP reapitulated the evidence to the jury, leav-
ing it entirely with them to abjudicate between the parties.
The jury, after a few minutes deliberation, returned a verdict
for the plaintiff for 'lO5.

A verdict was taken by arrangement between " Keily v. the
plaintiff, in a similar action.

of ten hares twenty sheep.
The pretty village of Hunningbury, near Leamington,
has been devastated by fire. Fifteen houses were de-
stroyed, and many others greatly injured, so that half the

SANSON V. SHEPHERD.—This was an action upon a promis=
sary note given by plaintiff to defendant for the sum of £3O, a
balance of £lO of which was owing. The case possessed not
the slightest public interest, and the jury returned a-verdict for
9, with damages of .t3O
Thus en

led Liverpool Assize
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REPRESENTATION OF EAST SUSSEX.—Lord Cantalupe
.ias announced himself as a candidate for the eastern divi-
sion of Sussex, in place of Mr. Frewen, who has signified
his intention of retiring from the representation.
Mrs. Nisbett (Lady Boothby) has resolved to return to
S 1 the stage; and wir unvmarlr'

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS

_ re-appear at the Haymarket imme•
er in her original character of Constance

liately afttr, E

The North Wales Chronicle records the recapture of
Richard Evans, alias Evan Richards, a Wesh Jack Shep-
pard, who has broken_from five different gaols, and whose

mn the county gaol in September, 1843.
Edinburgh High Court of Justiciary, on Satur-
day week, Elizabeth -Yates was sentenced to death for
having, on the 2d of February last, thrown her infant son
into the Union Canal, whereby he was drowned. Extreme
poverty is said to have been the cause of the criminal act.
TEN HOURS FACTORY BILL.—The Central Short Time
Committee of the West-Riding of Yorkshire have issued
an address, calling upon the factory workers to imme-

Hours Bill

The military schoolmasters who are about to be trained
at Chelsea, are to be amenable to martial law, and will be
enlisted as soldiers. They will be mustered monthly with

scholastic duties

A patent has

been granted fo3
mnibus, carrying

neteen persons, besides
11 cwt., and can

he driver and cad, is said to weigh,or

be drawn by two ordinary horses, at the r

to of ten miles

A few days ago, the wife of the Rev. J. Rider, vicar of
Nuneaton, near Coventry, was safely delivered of four
children, who were all living. About ten months ago
this lady had three children at a birth, who are still living.
—Worcester Chronicle.

FOREIGN CArri.E.—The imports of foreign cattle for
the past week have been—from Hamburgh, 378 oxen and
cows, and 15 calves ; from Antwerp, 5 calves ; from Bre
men, 28 oxen and cows ; and from 'Rotterdam, 8 cows
and 15 calves.
EAST SOMERSET

Mr. H. G. Andrews and Mr. N. J.
Hingmore are both in the field on the Tory interest, in
the room of the late Colonel Gore Langton. Mr. William

is fixed for the 10th of April.
The Duke of Wellington completed his 60th year in
the army on the 6th instant, having joined the 63d regi-
ment, as an ensign, on the 6th of March, 1787. He is,
we preSume, the oldest soldier in Europe actively and
professionally employed at the present time.

England, Ireland, and Spain are all claiming the honour
of having given birth to Lola Montez, the dancing lady
who has so fascinated the king of Bavaria.—The Rhenish
Observer announces that the Signora has been created
Countess of Sternheim, and that the patent of creation is
to be presented to her on her birthday. - • -
During a trial at the late_Derby assizes, it was deemed

ence of

telegraph, and scarcely five minutes elapsed from the timE
of sending the message before an answer was received,

saying that the witness would come by the next train