The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-21 00:00:00

MANSLAUGHTER BY ROAD TRUSTEES:--OR Monday
Mr. Payne concluded the inquest on the body of William
Brent, who met his death by an accident alleged to halt('
arisen from the disgraceful state of the road at Newington
Causeway, Southwark. After hearing further evidence,
the jury returned a verdict of " manslaughter against Mr.
Pocock, chairman, and the five trustees of the South
District Board of St. George, Southwark."
On Saturday night last three men made a murderous
assault on Mr. Wigg, tea-dealer, Walworth, as he was
going home from his shop with a little boy, his son, with
the intention of robbing him. They struck him on the
head with a life-preserver ; and, although two of the
ruffians were immediately afterwards apprehended, he was
unable to appear against them until Wednesday, when
they were fully committed.
SUICIDE FROM WATERLOO-BRIDGE.-011 the morning
of Friday last, between three and four o'clock, a respect-
able female, having first divested herself of her bonnet
and shawl, jumped into the Thames from one of the re-
cesses of Waterloo-bridge. It being a fine moonlight
night, the unfortunate creature's struggles were distinctly
visible, and some lightermen hastened to her assistance,
but she sunk and was drowned. About half-past six her
body was found in the mud on the Lambeth shore; it is
that of a female, aged about 25.
A lamentable accident occurred on Friday in a new
sewer which is in the process of formation in the Lower-
road, Islington, London, by which two lives were lost.
This sewer was to run under the New River, and a la-
bourer having unfortunately perforated its bed, the water
rushed in, and the two men, named Ellis and Bone, were
swept away. So great was the rush of water that the body
of Ellis was recovered at the mouth of a branch of the
sewers at London-bridge, a distance of two miles. The
body of Bone has not yet been found.

PHILLIP'S PATENT'PiRE ANN/HILATOR.-011 Friday
a public demonstration of the efficacy of this invention
took place at the Gas Works, Vauxhall. A preliminary
lecture havingbeen delivered by Mr. Phillips, heproceeded
to set fire to a model of a ship then to a model of a house,
and lastly to a building or house made exclusively of wood,
in the interior of which were deposited shavings, covered
with pitch and tar, wood covered with turpentine, &c. To
describe the success of these experiments would only be
to repeat that which we hale on former occasions at-
tempted to do—namely, to declare the perfect success of
each experiment.
A CANDIDATE FOR A JUVENILE REFORMATORY.—At
one of the London police-offices, on Monday, a little boy,
named Joseph Neville, was charged' with having picked a
gentleman's pocket of a handkerchief: The prisoner was
not expert at the attempt, and was caught in the act by
the prosecutor, who seized and held him.—The Lord
Mayor r krow bony have you been picking pockets ? Pri-
soner : have been at it just three months, sir.—Lord
Mayor : And how many pockets have you picked during
that time?: Prisoner (shaking his head) I really don't
know.—The Lord Mayor :—Do you mean that you don't
know because they were so many? Prisoner : I do, your
Lordship.—The Lord Mayor then sentenced the wretched
child to be imprisoned for one month, and:gave particular
directions respecting him to the principal gaoler.
VATAL OOentRENCE AT THE REGENT'S, CANAL DOCKS..
—On Thursday as a young man named Robert Aplett was
heaving up the winch on board the Lively, a vessel re-
cently arrived from Germany, a discharge of firearms was
heard, and Aplett exclaimed, "My God, I am shot !"
falling back immediately a corpse. A shot had entered
the right breast, leaving an orifice the size of a
The shot, it appears, was fired in London-street, Ratcliff,
250 yards from the dock, by a youth named William East,
who was taken inta'eustody the same evening brthe po-
lice, and made a confession to the effect that' he was
amusing himself with a gun, and firing at an earthenware
jug fixed ion'a post. He missed his aim, and the shot
reached the poor man Aplett, who was at work on board
the Lively schooner, and killed him on the spot. East
underwent an examination at the Thames police-court..
A LAlrr OF' SPlHrr.—Andrew Carter was charged, at'
the Mansion-house Ellice-office, with having stolen a
pocket handkerchief.. Miss Caroline Weston, who resides-
in Bermondsey; said—Last night, a little after sixh'elock,
as I was passing through Fenchurch-street, I saw the
prisoner put his hand into the pocket of a gentleman and
pull out part of a handkerchief. I immediately seized
the prisoner by the collar,. and I called to the gentleman,
who turned about, The handkerchief fell at his- feet.—
The Lord Mayor: Yousheld the prisoner fast ? Witness :
Certainly I did, my Lord ; and 1 would not let him go,
as the attempt was so palpable.—The Lord Mayor-:: What
have you to say, prisoner, to this lady's statement ? - The
prisoner : I don't deny-that she took me, my Lord ; but
what was I to do ? ' I am a Italian, in great distress,
and as hungry as a wolf. I must eat ; and I must get
something to buy food.—The Lord Mayor : is the
prisoner known ?•-; The policeman into whose custody •the
prisoner was given said the prisoner was the companion
of thieves.—The• Lord Mayor : I shall send him for six •
weeks to hard labour in prison. I cannot sufficiently
express my admiration of the spirit and presence of mind
exhibited by the young lady who performed so hazardous
a flat as that of taking into custody a person of this de-
scription. The prisoner was then committed.
SINGULAR AMP FATAL ACCIDENT.—On the 24th ult.
a young man, named John Dalton, living as farm-servant
with Mr. Newton.- of Hackthorpe, near Kendal, went
with two fellow-servants, named John Hilton and James
Blaylock. into the stable to attend the horses. Blaylock
went up into the hayloft for the purpose of putting some
hay into the racks, taking, a candle with him, which he
placed against the wall. Hilton is a ventriloquist, and the
deceased said to him,. " Let us frighten Blaylock."
Hilton accordingly threw his voice on to the loft, making
it appear as if another person was on the hay.mow, and
the deceased went up the ladder on to the loft, and crept
in on his hands and knees to where the candle was, and
blew it out. Blaylock, on hearing the voice, was making
towards the place from whence he fancied it proceeded,
when the candle went out;. he immediately came to the
mow-stead for the purpose of getting down, and threw a
hay-fork, which he had with him, down before him. The
deceased was lying by:the edge of the mow-stead, and one
of the fork prongs struck him on the outside of the left
knee. He immediately cried out to Blaylock, " 0 Frank,
you have stabbed me." The wound was a very severe
puncture, and in the course of the night the ::.nee swelled
very much. On the following day the deceased went to
Shap to consult a surgeon, who prescribed a certain
course to be pursued with the wound, and advised him to
keep to his bed entirely. The deceased, however, went
about his work as usual. The knee grew gradually worse,
and the deceased died from the effects of the wound on the
6th instant.

MARRIAGE WEEIII A, DECEASED WlFes-SISTER.-A
meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham was held in
the Town-hall, on Tuesday night, for the purpose of con-
sidering the propriety of petitioning Parliament for the
abolition of the law-which prohibits a widower from mar-
rying the sister of:lyis- deceased wife ; there was a con-
siderable attendance of ladies. The Mayor occupied the
chair, and was supported by the Rev. J. C. Miller, rector
of St. Martin's, the Rev. J. B. Owen, vicar of Bilston,
R. Spooner, Esq., M.P., the Jewish Rabbi, resident in
Birmingham, and dissenting ministers representing various
congregations of the town and neighbourhood. Letters
were read from Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Mintz, M.P.,
and the Rev. J. A. James (Nonconformist), expressive of
their concurrence in the object of the meeting, but re—
gretting their inability to attend. The Rev. J. C. Miller;
and the Rev. J$ B. Owen moved and seconded the adop-
tion of a petition to Parliament, prays.ng for the legalisa-
tion of marriages of the class above-mentioned. The
Rev. Prebendary Gray, warden of Queen's College,
moved an amendment to the effect—." That no petition
upon the subject under discussion be uresented to Parlia,
ment ; that the marriage of a man with his deceased wife's
sister was especially prohibited by Scripture, by the prac,
tice of the universal Church, and by the opinions of
divines ando theologians of all agen. until a very recent.
period." The Rev. Mr. Mackenzie, of the Scotch
Church, seconded the amendment. Mr. Spooner, Ml;',
supported.tho petition, and the Rey. J. C. Miller having
replied, the mayor proceeded to take the sense of the
meeting.. A very considerable number of hands were
held up in favour of the amendment, and the original
motion was carried almost unanimously, and amidst
great applause. _ _ _

LOD:DION NEXT SUMMER.—There is much speculation
afloat as to how we shall be able to lodge, board, and en-
tertain-.the numbers of strangers who may be expected to.
visit London next year. The first point, no doubt, would
be to establish something like, an approximation to the
number of our future guests. We have not only to,consi-
der •the aggregate of the detachments which may arrive
from France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Russia, and, in a
word, from Europe generally, but to carry our calculations
into other regions of the globe. The citizens of .the

he course

our shores in 1.. 01 the ensuing spring our
awn East Indian possessions and the British colonies will
also furnish their contingents. Is it exaggeration to say
that from the whole surface of the habitable globe—leav-
ing the three kingdoms for the moment out of the account
—a million of persons. will be attracted to London in the
course of the ensuin, spring to visit the great Exhibition
of the Industry of alrNations ? We leave this"portion of
the question to the decision of our more speculative rea-
ders. The only datum which we can offer to assist their
ingenuity is the statement which has reached us that the
railway companies have made arrangements to convey
10,000 visitors from Vienna alone. If this be so, the " ex-
pectation" of the number of continental foreigners who
may visit us next spring may be stated in the shape of a
very obvious.. proportion. Be this,, however, as it may,
there can be little doubt that, of the 28,000,000 persons
who compose the population of the British Isles—London
excepted—we shall at least have 11,000,000 visitors to the
great Exhibition of next spring. Were all these birds of
passage to, settle down in a single swarm, the population
of London would for the time be doubled. We should
require. two Smithfields, two Leadenhalls, two Billings-
gates,, two Covent-gardens. Our milkmen would require
a double supply of chalk, and, our bakers of alum

as many omnibuses would traverse our streets;, twice as
many Hansom cabs be careering from one side of the
town towards Kensington. Where are all these people to
feed, to sleep ? What are the laundresses about ? We
dare not follow the subject out in its infinite ramifications.
No doubt keen eyes are already directed towards the pos-
sibilities of the future. Many a speculator looks to the
season of the Great Exhibition as a golden time, and has
already planned his measures for taking tithe of the stran-
gers. Where personal interest is so actively concerned,
there is not much occasion for urging the necessity of
timely preparation.—Times.
EXTRAORDINARY CURE OF AN ULCERATED LEG By
HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS.— fillet of a letter
from Mr. Eastwood, of No. 4, ell-street, Hull, to
Professor Holloway :—" Sir,— r two years 1 was grievi-
ously afflicted with a bad 1 , which was full of ulcers. I
applied to several doct and took their remedies, but
without the least go ;at length, happily for me, I pro-
cured some of yo Ointment and Pills from Mrs. Noble,
of this town,y Ich had the effect of curing my leg in a
brief space f time, in gratitude for which "I make this
case kn ,in the hope that others may derive benefit by
aclopti g a similar coma,"