The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-08-10 00:00:00

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The Times of Friday has a long article On the Navigation
Laws, the evident tendency of which is to show that con-

jury to our commercial marine. We hope, however, that
our contemporary's anticipations will not prove correct.
Lord Farnham has given every tenant who has paid the
one-half of the rent due last November a receipt for the
full amount. Since the famine first set in, this excellent
nobleman has never been a day absent from Farnham,
where his whole time has been employed in alleviating
the distress of the people.

STATISTICS OF COMMITTALS.—From a parliamentary
document printed within the last few days it appears that
in the two years ending on the 31st of December, 1844,
the committals on criminal charges numbered 56,133, and
in the two subsequent years 49,410; thus showing a differ-
ence in the two years of 6,723 committals.

At Newcastle assizes, on Friday week, Daniel M'Allum
was tried for the manslaughter of a little boy, by causing
him to drink a quantity of ardent spirit. As it appeared,
however, that no evil intent could be proved against the
man,—he had given the boy a bottle of spirits, and told
him to drink as much as he liked,—the judge stopped the
case, and a verdict of acquittal was given.
UNHEALTHFUL CALLINGS SWORD MAKING.—Mr.
Morin has stated at the Academy of Sciences :—Amongst
the numerous professions which shorten the duration of
human life, that of the knife-grinder is one of the most
murderous. In the sword manufactories of France,
almost all the workmen die before the ages of forty or
forty-five. Soldiers, it seems, are not all that fall by the
sword.
Miss Charlotte Haskell, a single lady of forty, was
burnt to death on Sunday morning, at Salisbury, in her
bedroom. Her father discovered the room in flames,
with the door locked, when he went up to see what made
her so long in preparing for church. When the door was
opened she was quite dead, and the whole room in flames.
The cause of the fire is a mystery, hut the young lady
.•
es under an aberration of intellect.
—On Tuesday, a man

EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS

exterior, died in Lambeth workhouse froni the effects of

state of intoxication, and removed to. the police station,
and thence to the workhouse, where an immense quantity
of spirits was drawn from him by the stomach pump.

a stupor

On Tuesday week, just as the steamer Cardiff 'Castle
was about to sail from Glasgow, the boiler burst, and two
of the passengers were seriously, if not dangerously scalded.
The event caused, of course, the greatest consternation.
Some passengers leaped over the stern of the vessel ; and

a woman, a German, named Rudolph, in the excitement
of the moment, threw two, if not three, children—either
her own or under her care—into the water ; but all were
saved.

FLOGGING IN -THE' 'NAVY
der of the late House of C

---A• return, Published by

3minons shows that the total
number of corporal punishments inflicted in her Majesty's
navy amounted last year to 1,077, total number of lashes,
32,366 ; in 1845, to 1,079, total number of lashes, 33,511 ;
and in 1844, to 1,411, total number of lashes, 42,352.
The highest number of lashes inflicted during the above
trennial period varied from 41 to 72, and the lowest from
3 to 6.

THE CONDEMNED CONVICT AT LINCOLN.—The state-
ment that has gone forth respecting the execution of Mary
Ann Milner, at Lincoln, on Friday last, is incorrect.
The unfortunate woman hung herself in her cell a few
hours before the appointed time. An inquest was held on
the body on the following day, and a verdict of felo de se
The error arose through the officials at

as returned

the gaol allowing a report to be circulated that Miliner
had been privately executed within the walls of the prison.
EXECUTIONS ON CAPITAL CONVICTIONS.—By an offi-
cial document, printed by order of the House of Com-
mons, it is shown that in five years to 1826 there were
5,286 persons convicted on capital charges, and 307 were
Ayppiitpcl in the next five years, 7,o77persons were con-

ged
werean e3xPe4:;:xii;iiiena ;
the'n tnheext, next,767, 3,877,0ut outof which
whichich
44
were executed ; and in the five years ending 1846 the
convictions were 616, and the executions 56.
FATAL CARRIAGE ACCIDENT.—Mr. WilSOlli of Lang-
ford Grove, his wife, and their son, a young man of 24,
were returning on Wednesday, from the palace of the
Bishop of Rochester, when the horses took fright; at a
sharp turn the carriage was upset and shattered to pieces.
Young Mr. Wilson was killed on the spot ; his mother
was taken up insensible, having suffered a dangerous con-
cussion of the brain ; and the elder Mr. Wilson was
severely bruised on the head and face. Both the coach-
man and footman were hurt.
JOSEPH ADY IN A NEW CHARACTER.--This notorious
personage is now trying a new species of annoyance. He
is sending right and left, to respectable ladies, circulars
of which the following is a copy :—" Madam,—Your
husband is embarked in an undertaking rendered illegal
by

arious acts of parliament, subjecting him, yourself,
and children to severe liabilities and insults. He may be
dragged from his house any time of the day or night, to
be confined in a felons' cell. The police may enter your
apartment, take possession of your money, jewels, and
paraphernalia, and leave you to the tender mercies of the
law. -On receipt of 2Os. will point out the disease and
the remedy,"