The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-12-21 00:00:00

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A cargo of 530 tierces of Russian beef has lately arrived
in London, from Archangel.
There are now 38 convents and four monasteries in Great
Britain.

A NEW COMER.—A Spanish giant has just visited
London for exhibition. He is seven feet ten inches, and
over thirty stone weight.
Government have it in contemplation to pass a measure
authorising pensions to be granted to superannuated mas-
ters of workhouses.

It appears that the Smithfield Cattle Club have dons
away with all restrictions as to the feeding of prize-beasts,
and intend to adopt a similar rule in regard to sheep.
SMUGGLED WATER. —The Edinburgh Water Company
has munificently handed over to the infirmary three gui-
neas obtained as fines from certain publicans for supplying
water to parties not legally entitled to receive it.
A railway guard, Mr. Charles Ridley, of Darlington,
was found dead on the railway about a mile north of Dar-
lington on Saturday week. It is supposed be had fallen
from the train in a fit.

Mr. Feargus O'Connor has a letter in the Northern
Star of last Sunday, addressed " To the women of Eng-
land," whom he styles, "My dear children." Hovr
happy the women of England must be in such a parent !
ROBBERY OF DR. BOWRING.—The magistrates have
committed two more prisoners for trial on the charge of
being concerned in the robbery of £lOOO from Dr. Bow-
rine:.

The brig Emma, of Hull, was wrecked on the 26th ult.,
in the Gulf of Finland. She was laden with linseed, tal-
low, and hemp. Two of the crew were drowned, but the
rest reached the shore in a boat.

On Friday, William S. Sheridan was acquitted at the
Central Criminal Court of the murder of his mother, by
administering poison to her. We have already given the
particulars of the case.
John Pargeter, 33, postman, was convicted at the Cen-
tral Criminal Court, on Thursday, of stealing a letter con-
taining a country bank note for £lO, the property of the
Marquis of Clanricarde, the Postmaster-General. Sen-
tence to be transported for ten years.
A prisoner in the Central Criminal Court, on Thursday,
was sentenced to six months' imprisonment for uttering a
forged letter, purporting to be signed by Mr. Stephenson,
the engineer of the London and North Western company,
directing that the bearer should be passed to Birmingham
and back in a second-class carriage.
CONVICTION FOR MURDER.—At the Central Criminal
Court, London, on Thursday, George M'Coy and Thomas
Sale. coopers, each 25 years of age, were found guilty of
the murder of Mr. John Bellchamhers, by fracturing his
head with a bolt, in London, on the 11th of October last.
They were both sentenced to be hanged.
Sir William Young, Bart., one of the Directors of the
East India Company, and Captain Charritie, were put on
their trial, on Saturday, at the Central Criminal Court,
before Lord Denman, on a charge of having received
£3OOO from a Mr. Weathersnoon, for a cadetship in the
Company's service. The case for the prosecution lasted
all day : it was adjourned.
CANADIAN BUTTER.—Among the most recent arrivals
from North America have been some large importations
of butter from the Canadian provinces of that quarter of
the globe. One vessel, recently arrived, has brought
nearly four hundred packages, and another about three
hundred packages of that article of food, the produce of
Canada.

One of the highest floods known in the Severn, during
the last fifty years occurred on Saturday, Sunday, and
Mon,lav ; and the vale of that river presented the appear-
ance of an inland sea, as the meadows were overflowed for
miles around. At Bridgnorth the waters forced their way
into the gas-works, and the town was consequently thrown
into utter darkness at night.
THE GAME LAws.-Two important decisions were
given, last week, in the Edinburgh Court of Session. In
one a tenant was declared entitled to damages from his
landlord, on the ground that the quantity of game on the
farm was excessive; in the other it was decided that a
tenant has no right to frighten the game off his own
crops, without hurting it, by means of blank shot and
muzzled dogs !
MURDER BY POISONING.—At the Central Criminal
Court, on Wednesday, William Newton Allnuttt, a most
respectable and interesting-looking boy, aged 12 yers, was
found guilty of the wilful murder of his grandfather, Mr.
Samuel Nelme, at Hackney, on the 26th of Oct., last, by
administering to him a deadly poison. The learned Judge
immediately recorded the sentence of death against the
prisoner. at the same time intimating that the recom-
mendation of the jury should be laid before her Majesty,
with a view to her merciful consideration of the case.
STARTLING FACTS.—The Lincoln Mercury says
The practice of taking opium, laudanum, ether, and mor-
phia, has increased and is increasing amongst the fens of
Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire to a frightful extent. It
obtains amongst the aged, the infirm, and the young, and
it is confined to neither sex—old men, old women, and
young females are equally Ps victims. It may be safely
averred that every second customer who visits the drug-
gist's purchases opium, laudanum. or some opiate or
narcotic, whilst every second customer of the grocer is a
purchaser of tobacco.
EXTRAORDINARY IF TRUE.—The Exeter Post says
In the parish of Launcells, near Stratton, Cornwall; is a
farm called Norton, belonging to L. W. Buck, Esq. It
is now in the occupation of a sound-hearted Old English
gentleman, Mr. John Bray. This farm, from its size,
requires many hands for its cultivation and management.
It is considered to have had, for the last one hundred
years, not less, upon the average, than 20 persons living
in the farm-house ; yet, strange to say, there has not,
during the whole of that time, been a corpse in the
house, nor has a fever prevailed there.
HONOURABLE TO THE WORKING CLASSES.—In conse-
quence of the Messrs. V—n, of Darlington, being una-
able to pay up to the district bank the sum of £B,OOO
borrowed, the bankers not only refused fresh discounts,
but also sent in an execution. The men having been
made aware of the occurrence, unanimously agreed to
work until Christmas without requiring their wages. The
firm, however, succeeded in obtaining the sum they re-
quired from a railway company,' with which they paid off
the bank, when the men drew their employers in a car-
riage to the works, whence they quickly, and amidst
cheers, ejected the bum bailiffs.
CREATING AT CARDS.—At the Central Criminal Court,
London, on Thursday, Andrew William Barr, Charles
Bruder, Samuel Rolfs, convicted on Tuesday of conspiring
to defraud Mr. Julius A. Kerrie, by cheating him at card-
playing, were brought up for judgment. The prisoners
had decoyed a young man lately come into money, and by
various devices and stratagems, under the pretence of
gaming at cards, they had plundered him to a frightful
extent. They had, in their conversations between them,
plotted to deprive him of his last shilling, and it had been
proved that Barr had eak-ulated how much they would
have, on the whole, to divide amongst them. The spoil
they had already btained, as appeared upon the indict-
ments, amounted to £1,440. The sentence upon Barr was
that he be imprisoned for 15 months, and pay a fine of
£590 to the crown. Upon Brewer, that he pay £5OO fine
and be imprisoned one year; and upon Rolfs, that he be
imprisoned six months and pay a fine of £lOO.
SHOCKING DEATHS BY FIRE.—On Tuesday an inquest
was held by Mr. Bedford, at the Westminster Hospital,
on the bodies of Mrs. Warne, aged 88, and her sister,
Miss Partridge, aged 93.. whose deaths were caused by
fire. The deceased ladies resided at the house of Mr.
Evans, 24 Charles-street, Westminster. On the Bth inst.,
about 11 o'clock in the morning, Mr. Evans was alarmed
by another lodger calling to him " The old ladies are on
fire." He went to the room and discovered Miss Par-
tridge with the sleeves of her dress and cap on fire, and
Mrs. Warne throwing water over her. With some diffi-
culty he put it out. Mrs. Warne was also burnt. They
were conveyed to the hospital, but Miss Partridge died
the next day. It was hoped Mrs. Warne would recover,
and the inquest was adjourned for her evidence, but she
died on Sunday night. A witness stated that Mrs.
\Alamo said, her sister was sitting by the fire at her break-
fast when her shawl caught fire and she ran into her
room, and in endeavouring to put it out, Mrs. Warne's
clothes caught fire.

LONDONBEGGARS.—Mr. C. 6, Addison, a barrister
of the Inner Temple, has addressed a letter to the Times,
containing the following extraordinary statement :
" Some years ago, a baronet got his governess with child.
She was sent away to obscure lodgings in London to hide
her shame, and there gave birth to a son. The mother
died, and the child was put out to nurse. The baronet
made a weekly allowance for the child's support, but be-
yond this troubled himself not concerning its fate. In
a short time the infant was hired out, or sold, to a com-
mon London beggar woman, and was exposed night after
night to the pelting storm, the howling wind, and the
damps and fogs of our uncongenial London atmosphere,
for the purpose of exciting sympathy and extracting alms
from the charitable. I shall not trouble you with the
successive stages end eras of that unhappy child's exist-
ence. Suffice it to say, that after having been a street
sleeper at nights under doors, and a street sweeper in the
day time at the crossings, it ended its career by becoming
the associate of a common pickpocket, and was prosecuted
by me for felony, and received sentence of transportation.
Such, sir, is the history and fate of 90 per cent. of the
London beggar women's pretended children."