The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-24 00:00:00

Mr. CLARKSON addressed the jury for the prisoner.
Witnesses were examined on behalf of the prisoner

And, IA

to conc

ome years, and had 1

ce in prisoner's manner and character,
sible there was a better hearted man in
•edth most humane disposition.
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eye, and c

tion fa!

h they ix

ies of ob

he joined the r

nit material occasions to inquire into the condi.
ight. But, he had always found that the prisone
attempt to in his conduct both as a man and a sc,
alone that himself by his own merit from the ra
-resented Lieutenant in the Guards, and was rest,.,.,.__
tent, or knew him. He was a kind-hearted, benevolent; humane
man.
ictured .
111 ----:,. -T 4 the regiment of T'

imes of the

ly and easily

Colone

Bouven
I,as h

comma'
n it mon

.., which 1 with the regiment at Waterloo. I have known the pri-
- again we are soner twenty-four or twenty-five years. His conduct -
igher conception of an officer and a gentleman was under my notice, a-
'-I '-I space and time, i consider it unexceptionable in every particular. He w.
elation of the not at all addicted to quarrel.
+ies___ Lord George Alanners, also an officer in the Blues, gave
similar evidence as to the prisoner's conduct, and said he
~ • _r_..„:„..„•,,1.,,•1,, inoffensive, humane,

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I was

liest forn

And here

out it come

Colonel I

t with

Lear activit

_„ess quence of any violent act of the accused; and secondly, if
Ise peen more fully vanquished for they were satisfied on that point, whether it was premedi-
-v. The homogeneous structure, tated, and attended with malice on the part of the prisoner.
'Nr denizens of creation once The Learned Judge then minutely read over the evidence;
' before our cl"--- --4 ed. It was his duty to
..-1 nov -elled, and hey went
duel, and one met

qua

—awing the some hundred spectators.—ivotungnam Jour/tat.
dhe did not believe Mr. Wells, of Redleaf, Kent, whose death was an-
-nee ;he was of a nounced a few days ago, has bequeathed to the country
his famous picture of " The Glorification," by Guido,
,ant to which he purchased from the late Sir Thomas Lawrence
fnr one thousand two hundred guineas, The whole of
_ . .

p. which the prisoner lately belonged in 1664, an a naa Ire-
most
offers opportunities of seeing him. He was a man of the ancient pictures collected by Mr. Wells, with this ex-
n most inoffensive and mild habits. ception, are to be sold by auction in the course of the
ve The Marquis of Anglesea had known Lieut. Munro ensuing spring. The modern pictures, amongst which
kv ever since he (Lord A.) had held the of Colonel of are several by Landseer, Stanfield, Collins, Wilkie, &c.,
, office are to remain as heir-looms in the family.
___

-, and FATAL FIGHT BY BOYS. ,e, dnesday two boyF,
_ ...ost exemplary aged respectively eight and nine years old, fought together
lien He had raised in London upwards of half an hour, they having been set
nks to the post of on and encouraged by three men. One of them inflicted
4-Pd by all who on the other such severe injuries that he died shortly after-
wards. At the inquest on Friday, it was proved that the
-nen forced the deceased to fight, though he was unwil-
--id that they gave him a quantity of beer. The in-

quiry was adjourned. The men are to L._ ..Len into cus-
tody, and it is supposed they will be committed for man-
slaughter.
THE SECRETS OF THE GAS-1-10USE.—If gas-works really
do yield gas at an almost nominal price, compared with
'what the companies charge for it, one would naturally
expect that, in such cases as those of publ;-
which may happen, as a few of them do, to
own gas, and make no secret of their accr

profit, the secret would inevitably come out
Builder) have long been looking for ju

:nstitutior

:its of cost and

iow we (th

Mercury, it appears, that at the V/ak
rection the gas is made on the premise. at 54d. per thou-
sand cubic feet ! The actual price demanded in the me-
tropolis is 6s. for the same quantity.
DREADFUL OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday week, in Ash-
ton-under-Lyne, seven men and a boy, in the employ of
the Huddersfield and Manchester Railway Company, went
into the company's store-room and stables, a temporary
building erected of wood, near the tunnel which is being
made under the town, for the purpose of hunting rats,
which infest the place. In order to drive them out of the
holes they got a quantity of powder, which they put into
holes at the bottom of the building. In the store-room was
half a cask of powder, used for blasti.„_ •
did not act with sufficient caution, but allowed this cask to
remain near one of the holes. On its being ignited like
the others, the blaze came in contact with the barrel of
i nowder, and theresult was a