The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1845-05-20 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY,

There are 1,200,000 female servants in England, of
whom 110,000 are in London and its suburbs.
Among the many new things that steam brings from
abroad are new potatoes, some of which have been brought
by the steamer Clyde from Bermuda.
DOUBLE SUICIDE.—On Tuesday week, a man named
Bishop, at Doynton, near Bath, after taking a quantity of
poison, deliberately shot hitrs-.lf.

Father Matthew, in a letter acknowledging a contribu-
tion, says " £7,000 have been raised, and my debts are
liquidated."

Few persons are aware that from 1700 to 1844 there are
on record 101 shocks of earthquakes in England, 138 in
Scotland, and 17 in Wales.

THE ST. GILES MURDER.-011 Friday, Joseph Con-
nor was found guilty of the murder of Mary Brothers, in
a brothel, in March last. He was sentenced to death.
In a recent police case in London, it appeared that the
box-keeper of the Victoria Theatre pays £lO a week for
his place.

William Wilkinson, a boy thirteen years of age, has
been committed to York Castle for killing his playfellow,
aged eight, by throwing him violently to the ground in a
sudden quarrel.

SFVERE SUMMER WEATHER.—The Breconshire bea-
cons and the neighbouring hills were covered with
snow during last week, and the weather was unusually
cold.

Four valuable horses were suffocated in the stable of
the Crown Inn, at Bellericay, near Ipswich, on Thursday
se'nnight, the straw or litter having been set on fire by
an incendiary.

SUICIDE OF A BOY.—An errand boy, in the employ of
a druggist at Sheffield, hung himself on Thursday. He
had been seen to take some money from his master's till,
and feared the consequences.
It is seriously contemplated to undermine all London
and excavate a railway—one or more—which is to com-
mence at Hyde Park Corner, and have intermediate sta-
tions at each chief thoroughfare, with a street frontage !
In the year 1840 no fewer than 3,884 males, of twenty
years and upwards, died violent deaths in England and
Wales. Of these 532 were killed by carriages, carts, and
horses, and 110 on railways.
AWFUL VISITATION.—A man, named Evans, at a per-
forming gallery at Stockport, fell down dead while in the
act of performing a part, on Tuesday night, in which he
represented the semblance of death.
The trial of Martha Brixey took place, in the Central
Criminal Court, on Friday, for the murder of her master's
child, by cutting off its head, at Greenwich. She was
acquitted on the ground of insanity. The grand jury
threw out the bill against Mr. Meyer.
The greatest alarm has been excited in military circles
by her Majesty having chosen the period 1740-50 for her
bal costume, as at that time neither whiskers nor mous-
taches were worn, and those facial appendages will, there-
fore, have to be shorn.
The editor of a midland paper, animadverting upon the
manner in which one of Shakapere's plays was lately
performed, seriously cautions his readers against supposing
that he has " the least intention of detracting from the
well-earned reputation of the great dramatic author."
On Tuesday, as one of the Greenwich steamers was
proceeding down the Thames with 300 or 400 passengers,
she was run into by a Yorkshire " billyboy," whose bow.
sprit swept her decks, killing on the spot a boy of ten
years, and seriously injuring several others.
On Sunday evening, Mrs. Jane Thomas, aged 64, re-
siding at Poplar, died from a rupture of one of the vessels
of the brain, caused by a fall on the pavement, in conse-
quence of her having stepped on a piece of orange-peel.
She fell heavily, her weight being 15 stone.
TREASURE TROVE.—On Thursday week, as two la-
bourers were grubbing up a fence between Laycock and
Melksham, they dug up two thimbles, w:th their open
ends together, and found in them a note of a Bristol bank,
for £BOO, bearing date about forty years ago.