The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-01-25 00:00:00

nen to

MR. T. HARPER
country for a period of forty years, died
London last week.

THE VIEW from the In _
Palace at SS Benham is one of the most beautiful and ea-

tensive in En

THE INAUGURAL MEETING
ety was held on Thursday last,
Eastlake was appointed Preside

of the Phetog
in London.

raphic Sod-
Sir Charles

THE WELL at the People's
already been sunk 340 feet, a dep
for an ample supply of water.

Palace at Nc
►th found to be

~00d, has
Ecient

YDROPTIOBIA.-
L has lost a area

Ir. Sinclair, farmer

Macduff, Peal

uente of

a rabid dog attack

g one of the flock

" IN SCOTLAND.—The Dumbarton Herald
at being

" DIGGINGS
announces that a mine of nickel silver is at

wrought on the Duke of Argyle's estate r

ley clothing

A. BorLgu EXPLOSION took place at the
mill, Gloucestershire, on Thursday morning, which
killed one person, injured several others, and nearly de-
molished the building.
TEN HOURS' BILL.—A meeting has been held at Chorl-
ton-upon-Medlock, to adopt measures for the restriction
of the motive power. " Stop the engine," is the universal
cry of the operatives in that district.
THE FALL OF THE ROTHERHAM MECHANICS' HALL,
by which a labourer was killed, bas been decided to have
taken place, partly from neglect of the architect, and
partly from the unprcecedented wet season.
JOSEPH HAYES, Sheffield, has been sentenced to six
months' imprisonment, for enlisting into the Royal Ma-
rines, denying and concealing the fact that he had volun-
teered into the Third West York Militia.

THE BARONESS VON BECK'S COMPANION.—In the
case of Constant Derra de Meroda (secretary to the late
Baroness Von Beck) v. Dawson, Tindal, Peyton and Ry-
land, a rule nisi for a new trial has been granted.
DISCOVERY OF GUANO.—The governor of the Falk-
land Islands has just sent home despatches announcing
that guano has been discovered in large quantities in those
islands. The guano is not of equal value to Peruvian.

NOBLE. CONDUCT.—The daughter of the late Mr. H.
Hall, of Bridge Bottleworks, Sunderland, has recently
waited upon her father's creditors arid paid them 20s. in
the pound, 25 years having elapsed since the bankruptcy.
THE Doncaster Chronicle states that, a few days ago,
the presiding elder of the Latter-day Saints' Church, in
Crowle, mysteriously disappeared from the vill
behind him a disconsolate wife and a host of unpaid bills

ge, leaving
1.

A GANG OF HIGHWAY ROBBERS have been conducting
their illegal operations for some time past in the neigh-
bourhood of Penrith, Cumberland. One of the gang
generally goes in the dress of a female, on their nightly
exploits.

THE Perth Courier states that all the emigrants to
Australia from that neighbourhood are doing well at the
" diggings," and further, that they have not forgotten in
their prosperity their friends at home. One sailor lad
has saved upwards of £5OO.

A NOBLE DEED.—EarI Manvers has just made a return
to his tenants at Fledborough, Notts, who have all suf-
fered severely from the late flood, of the whole of the half
veer' rent which was paid by them at his late audit in
December.

A WORTHY DAUGHTER.—The daughter of the late Mr.
H. Hall, of Bridge Bottle Works, Sunderland, has re-
cently waited upon her father's creditors, and paid them
20s. in the pound, twenty-five years having elapsed since
the bankruptcy.

HENRY HALL, of Brighton, has been apprehended on
a charge of committing two daring burglaries at South-
ampton. on Sunday night. The burglar admitted in prison
that a cap and shoes left behind in one of the houses
robbed belonged to him.

GEORGE PETERS, the son of a labouring man, residing
in the Cliffe, on the Sussex Downs, lost his life on Tues-
day week, from exposure during the whole of a tempes-
tuous night to the weather. He had lost his way on the
road to Lewes, and been unable to proceed.

THE Scotsman states that Thomas Lees, a cattle dro-
ver belonging to Edinburgh, was run over by a locomotive
at the Haymarket station of the Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway. Both legs were cut off close to his body, and
it was not expected that he could live over the nigqt.

THE CLERK TO THE NOTTINGHAM MAGISTRATES,
in a letter to the Times, denies that a fracas took place
between the military and the inhabitants, or that there is
the least ill-feeling prevalent between them. The alarm-
ing paragraph in the morning papers were the fabrications
of some local penny-a-liner.

THE NOTORIOUS IMPOSTOR, Thomas Bradley, alias
the Rev. J. Bloomfield. and Mary Bradley, his wife, were
brought up at the Lambeth Police-office, _
charge of obtaining a quantity of choice plants, under false
pretences, from Messrs. Lane and Son, the florists. The
prisoners were remanded.

Friday. on a

ST. KATHARINE DOCKS.—The dividend declared at
the half-yearly meeting of this Company, on Wednesday,
was at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, and the report
and accounts were unanimously adopted. The chairman
(Mr. Alderman Thompson) explained that the progress of
business was satisfactory.

THE CHARTIST LAUREATE.—OR Wednesday, at the
Thames Police-court, James Duncan, the father of Dun-
can the Chartist poet, who made himself so conspicuous
in the Trafalgar-square " revolution," was ordered to
pay 4s. 6d. a week towards the support of the laureate,
who is in a lunatic asylum.

THE SEXTON of Lambert parish, according to the Edin-
burgh Scotsman, was busily engaged one day last week
digging a grave, when the earth gave way, and be was
precipitated into the excavation and securely wedged there.
The neighbours exerted themselves for two hours before
he was rescued. Fcrtunately, he was " more frightened
than hurt."

POISONING IN EDINBURGH.—The Evening Courant
states that a woman has been apprehended on a charge of
poisoning her paramour, Peter Kerr, a shoemaker, be-
tween fifty and sixty years of age, by whom she bad several
children. Arsenic had been found upon the stomach of
the deceased. The woman, it appears, had been heard to
threaten his life.

SEVERAL PASSENGERS were injured by an accident
which occurred on Monday on the Hamilton branch of
the Caledonian railway. In consequence of a slip caused
by the late heavy rains, the trains had to run on the
same line in both directions. A collision was the conse-

quence ; out, ueyonu a iew urumes LullMb vl Luc [Jaz-
sengers, little harm was done.
HENRY MEREWEATHER, Esq., said to be a son of the
late Dean of Hereford, has been committed for trial, at
Aberystwith, on a charge of cutting and wounding E. R.
Williams, son of R. Williams, M.D. The offence was
committed in the lobby of the ball-room at Aberystwith,
and arose out of an intended duel in which both gentle-
men were to have been the seconds.
THE BUILDING OF IRON SHIPS has
staple trade on the Tyne. On Tuesday, the

become q

Swarthmore,
vas launched

of 1,100 tons, built for a Liverpool firm,
from the building yard of Messrs. Coutts and Parkinson
Her owners, who are members of the Society of Friends,
instead of a carouse, gave £5O towards a school for the
education of the workmen's children.

AMUSING INSTRUCTION.--A magic lantern, represent-
ing the principal stations of the Church Missionary So-
ciety, has been designed and brought into use for the
purpose of interesting and instructing the juvenile friends
of that institution. " Dissolving Views" have also been
prepared for the use of juvenile associations of the London
Society for promoting Christianity amongst the Jews.
THE CRIMINAL BARBOUR.—This murderer, who lately
suffered the last penalty of the law at York, in the " con-
fession" which obtained for him a temporary respite, im-
plicated a person named M'Cormack in the horrible crime
of which it is now known that he, Barbour, alone was
guilty. It is remarkable, as showing the cool villainy of
the miserable culprit, that he, in his letters to a Mrs.
Pigott, written in York jail, requests that his " best re-
spects" be given to his " friend, Mr. M'Cormack."

ALICE KENYON, aged 44 years, the wife of Edward
Kenyon, a dresser, died a miserable death on Saturday
evening last. at the Guide-bridgo station of the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway. Being in-
toxicated, she fell back between two carriages of a train
while it was in motion, and, despite the efforts of the by-

standers, she was run over. She only survived for about
fifteen minutes. The husband of the deceased, who was
with her at the time, was likewise drunk. Surely the
railway officials were neglecting one of the company's
best byelaws in permitting intoxicated persons to travel
on the line.

THE GREAT CORN SWINDLER.—At the Mansion-house
on Tuesday, two further cases were proved against Mr.
Robert Ferdinand Pries, the discovery of whose extensive
forgeries in the corn market caused last week the stoppage
of the House of Messrs. Collman and Stohltenfoht. On
their behalf Mr. Freshfield produced forged documents
purporting to represent 28,000 quarters of wheat, and
upon which £51,000 had been obtained by the prisoner.
Mr. Ignace Sholoff, a foreign banker, produced forged
bills of lading upon which he had advanced £9,000. The
prisoner was then remanded for a week for the production
of other cases.

COUNTY VOTES.-It should be kept in mind that the
last day on which a qualification for a county vote can
this vear be legally obtained is the 31st instant (January) ;
and that the title-deeds should be completed on or before
that day, to enable the party to have his name duly regis-
tered in August next. Persons intending to procure quali-
fications for county votes had better consult their solici-
tors at once, and have the legal transfers perfected with-
out delay. The Conservative party have always been
negligent of this duty, which they owe to themselves and
their country ; not so the Whigs and Radicals, or we
should not have the legitimate voters of counties over-run
by Anti-corn-law League faggot votes, nor the alive
Aberdeen, Russell, Molesworth, Keogh, and Company,
usurping the rule of this great kingdom.
EXTRAORDINARY ATTEMPT AT MURDER. —A most
diabolical attempt at murder was made, on Tuesday, at
Cottingham, near Hull. Mrs. Duffil, the wife of a respect-
able innkeeper at Beverley, had vieited Hull, on_ Tuesday,
and left that town by the last train for Beverley, taking
her seat in a second-class carriage. In this carriage were
several other persons, who, however, all got out when the
train reached Cottingham., with the except ion of a man,
who was thus left alone with Mrs. Duffil. No sooner was
the train in motion again than this fellow set upon the
unfortunate woman, robbed her, and threw her out of the
carriage. She is fearfully cut and bruised about the head ;
and no hopes whatever are entertained of her recovery.
It is known that Mrs. Duffil had a considerable sum of
money upon her when she left Hull, but none whatever
was found upon her person when she was picked up. As
the train was slackening speed on arrival at Beverley, a
man WAS seen to jump out of the carriage in which the
crime was committed, and run away. In the darkness of
the night he escaped.