The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

Mr. Wakefield, fhe well-known Queen's counsel, was
found dead in his shower-bath on Monday. He was to
hare replied in the evening in a cause in the Vice-Chan-
cellor's Court.

The son of General Dick, who disputed his father's will
on the ground that he hid been poisoned by his daughter,
in whose favour it had been made, was condemned in the
sum of £lOO by the Prerogative Court, last week, to mark
the Court's sense of such an unwarranted course.
There are 363 judges in the United kingdom, whose
salaries amount to £402,032 a year. England has 143,
Ireland 114, and Scotland 94. The salaries in England
are £208,976; in Ireland, £116,086; in Ireland, £116,086;
and in Scotland, £76,970.

CORRESPONDENCE.

THE NEW CHAPEL FOR THE BLIND

TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.
SIR,—I venture to hope that, in these days of progres-
sion, accommodation for the poor will be provided in the
new Chapel for the Blind ; and if the site is fixed, as re-
ported, in Bardman-street, it seems to me this could be
better arranged, while the cause of the Church would no
doubt be more practically advanced, by rebuilding or adapt-
ing St. Philip's, than by a new separate chapel in a dis-
trict well provided with accommodation. Arrangements
with the patron I imagine might be made without diffi-
culty ; and as there would be a great saving in land, be-
sides the available materials, a prominent ornament might
be secured to the town without extra expense ; at the
worst, I should anticipate no difficulty in raising what
would be required by suhscription, to which none would
contribute his mite with greater pleasure than, Sir, your
very obedient but uninfluential
Liverpool, 23d July, 1846

TOWNSMAN,

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

Earl Grey has subscribed £lOO. to the Cobden testi-
monial.

On Friday week three fishermen were drowned whilst
catching shrimps on the sands at Southport.
Samples of new wheat were shown in Newark market
on Wednesday. It was of very excellent quality and very
dry.

The two Harveys, one of them R rich farmer, have been
acquitted of the charge of inceudiarism at the Cambridge
assizes.

Madame Tussaud has just added to her magnificent ex-
hibition, a unique figure of Mr. Macready, the celebrated
tragedian, in the character of Coriolanus.

Joseph Cooper, a porter, in Glasgow, was struck by
lightning last week, while sitting at his window, and has
been blind and dumb ever since.

At Worcester ass.zes, on Friday, Richard Farley was
sentenced to fifteen years' transportation, and Ann Jones
to one year's imprisonment, for forging a will.
The freedom of the city of London has been voted by
the Council in gold boxes, of the valpe of £lOO each, to
Mesgis. Cobden, Villiers, Bright, and Colonel Thompson.
The stoker and driver of the engine attached to the lug-
gage train, at the time of the late accident on the Eastern
Counties Railway, have been committed for trial.
In the House of Commons, on Tturaday, Mr. W.
Brown was introduced by Mr. Brotherton and Mr.
Thorneley, and took the oath and his seat for South Lan-
cashire.

On Monday last, Mr. Nicholas Cunliffe, of Ilkley, about
83 years of age, went down to a place called Stead, near
Burley, to look at a beast he had there out at gist, and
was unfortunately killed by the animal in the field.
On Monday, a clerk of the Bank of England was robbed
of £1,900 in notes. A reward of £lOO has been offered
for the apprehension of the thief. He has not, as yet,
been discovered.

The subject selected for the cup at the approaching
Doncaster races is a group in silver representing Sir
Clifford Constable overturning the Duke of York at the
battle of Wakefield in 1460.

On the 14th inst. a collier at High Felling, Durham
inflicted several gashes in his throat with n

1116 WiLii a razor, ann
then completed his destruction by throwing himself
down the shaft of a coal pit.
The sum of £1,200 has been funded for the benefit of
the family of the late Thomas Hood. [What a difference
between the Hood relief fund and the Cobden " testimo-
nial."]

111esrs. Bramah and Robinson, engineers, have made a
series of hollow iron tubes, which are to be sunk in the
Goodwin Sands, and erected into a pillar, firmly fastened
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at the summit, and life-buoy; will float around.
WESTMINSTER-BRIDGE.—This bridge sank consider..
ably on Wednesday. Sir Howard Douglas predicted that
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the hatches." For days the vessel rolled awftili;,-;nYth;
cries were heartrending, while the falling spars maimed
many of those on deck, including the chief officers.
When the hurricane had somewhat moderated, no time
was lost in removing the ha►ches, when a sergeant, seven
men, one woman, and five children, were found dead on

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