The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-02-09 00:00:00

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On Friday night, George Hampsou and Susan Morton,
wto had been betrothed for about three years, tied them-
gam, together with four handkerchiefs, threw themselves
int& the Barnsley Canal, near Wakefield, and were
drowiled, No reason is alleged for the wicked act, which
has thr6l;Ytt two respectable families into a state of the
deepest distnSS,
Dr. Charles Henry Lovell and Mrs. Hope Betts, were
tried on the coroet's inquisition, (the grand jury having
ignored the bill preferred against them,) at the Central
Criminal Court, before Mr. Justice Cresswell, for the
manslaughter of Martha Hobbs by the hydropathic sys-
tem. The evidence was very weak against the prisoners,
and the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. •
The Duke of Cleveland is making extensive improve-
ments in the gardens at Raby Castle, Durham, and under
the direction of Mr. Roberts, his grace's head gardener, a
very spacious range of vineries have been erected, the bor-
ders of which embrace five thousand feet, imil which have
been planted with the choicest A Tape vines, to be culti-
vated on the system so successfully practised by Mr.
Roberts.

On Wednesday, a remarkable accident occurred at the
Tunbridge station of the South-eastern Railway. The
Maidstone noon up-train had just arrived at the station,
and the engine went forward to take in a supply of fuel
ana water ; while the engine was passing over the turn-
table, the table split, and a large piece separated, throw-
ing the engine off the rails, and stopping all traffic for a
time, but happily causing no personal injury.

ELOPEMENT TO IiRETNA iiREEN.—Un the 23rd ult.,
Mr. William Hope, son of Lomax Hope, Esq., of Boholme
Cannoby, was married, at the above place, to Miss Jane
Donaldson, daughter of the Rev. James Donaldson, of
Cannoby Manse. The fair lady, it would appear, had
been narrowly watched, or rather confined to her room,
for some weeks, but " love laughs at locksmiths," and
she effected her escape.—Carlisle Patriot.
A curious hoax was played on a farmer no
last week, by some neighbours spreading a r

had given le6e

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to the -poor of the tow:to gather tt

from one. of his fields. The consequence was, that a fine
field of Swede turnips was densely thronged by parties

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full two acres had been cleared of the crops that the owner
was apprised of what was going on, and enabled to stop
the appropriation of his roots.