The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-08-19 00:00:00

ANOTHER

This was an interpleader to try the question of property
of considerable value, consisting of the whole working
plant used for the construction of the docks at Birkenhead.
The plaintiff was Mr. M'Cormick, the extensive con-
tractor, and the defendants are Messrs. John and Richard
Parry, the owners of Seacome Ferry. In constructing
the sea wall, inclosing Wallasey Pool, great damage was
done to the land slip at Seacombe, for which the defendants
claimed compensation, and the question was referred to
arbitration. The amount awarded was £4,000, but the
money not being paid, a warrant under afi fa issued, and
a seizure was made. The sum of £l,OOO was paid by the
plaintiff to the defendants, being part of the consideration
of a mortgage deed, and for the plant, which was the pro-
perty taken, a claim was made under certain mortgage
deeds granted by the Trustees of the Birkenhead Docks
to the plaintiff.—His Lordship ordered a verdict to be
entered for the plaintiffs, with liberty to the defendant to
move to enter a verdict if the court above should be of
opinion that the points raised on his behalf were sustain-
able under the acts for the construction of the docks.—
A verdict for the plaintiff was entered accordingly.

It is reported that Captain William Peel, second son of
the late Sir Robert Peel, will come forward for a leading
constituency at the approaching general election.
By an act of last session, the disputed question as to
the right to toll for thrashing machines has been set at
rest, and they are now exempt as " implements of agri-
culture."
FATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT.—Another of these ter-
ricle accidents which, from time to time, occur in the
working of coal mines, took place on Saturday at the
Malago Vale Works, in the parish of Bedminster, near
Bristol, and has lost to society six valuable lines.
A singular case of suicide has taken place at Vienna.
The chief physician at the Royal Hospital, Dr. Reyer, put
an end to his existence by fastening a bladder, filled with
chloroform, round his mouth and nostrils by means of a
band of diachylon plaster.
About four o'clock on Friday evening the steeple of St.
Cuthbert's Church, Thetford, fell on the roof of the
building, carrying away one of the arches and destroying
the organ. The building is very old ; it is built of flint
and freestone, and has been repaired many times.
A few mornings since the gamekeeper of Stephen Mills,
Esq., at Elston, near Salisbury, discovered that during the
night upwards of 100 young partridges, which had been
bred up by hens under his care, had been stolen from the
coops near the keeper's house.
Count Guicciardini is among the many foreign visitors
now in Edinburgh. The Count, who is a descendant of
the well-known historian, was guilty of a crime which is
now unpardonable in Italy—that of perusing the Bible—
and for this he is now an exile.

THE LATE COLLIERY ACCIDENT NEAR BRISTOL.—
At a late hour on Friday night, the coroner, .Mr. J. B.
Grindon, concluded the investigation into the circum-
stances attendant on the death of the five poor fellows
who were unfortunately killed at the Malago Vale coal-
pit, Bedminster, near this- city, on Saturday morning
week. The result has been the committal of the manager
of the works, Mr. Moses Gilderoy Siewart, and one of the
overlookers, Henry Pillinger, to take their trial for man-
slaughter.
THE DEAN OF YORK SUMMONED FOR CHURCH RATES.
—On Thursday, at the Guildhall, the Dean of York was
charged with not having paid £1 12s. church rates, in
respect of the deanery, to the parish officers of St.
Michael-le-Belfrey. The dean submitted, first, that the
deanery is not in the parish of St. Michael-le-Belfrey ;
and secondly, that it had been the custom, for many
hundreds of years, not to assess the deanery for church
rates ; also, that the deanery was extra-parochial. After
some discussion, the magistrates confirmed the rate,
which was at once paid by the dean.—Leeds Mercury.
LOVE AND MURDER.—We have a German in prison,
guilty of the murder of a young lady whom he loved.
Briefly, the circumstances are these :—The prisoner was a
servant in the family of Mr. Scholten, and became ena-
moured of his (laughter. He declared before, as the testi-
mony shows, that he intended to make a declaration of
love, and, if not received, would shoot the girl. He made
his declaration of love, and the lady indignantly repulsed
him. He went and got a double-barrel gun, came into
the house where the lady and mother were, and, painting
to the gun, told her he had a present for her. She said,
" You are not going to shoot, surely ?" He replied, " I
am ;" firing one barrel, and afterwards the other, the loads
taking effect in the bead, and scattering her brains all over
the room. The young lady was beautiful and accom-
plished. The prisoner made a sham attempt to kill him-
self. He is quite young, and a very innocent-looking
fellow.—Palmyra Mobile) Whig, July 17.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—BURIED ALIVE.—The town of
Tipperary was thrown into a state of the utmost excite-
ment on the sth instant by the report of a woman having
been buried alive. The following are the particulars :
Mary Neill, a young woman, died on Sunday in the poor-
house, and was buried on Monday, in White Church,
about four miles from town. On the same morning a
man heard her cry as he passed close to her grave, and he
ran as rapidly as possible to town, and gave the alarm.
Many of the inhabitants hurried out ; the master of the
workhouse having been informed of the circumstance,
sent out some of the officers to ascertain if there were
truth in the report : and his men, on returning, stated
that they had disinterred the body of Mary Neill, and that,
on opening her coffin, she was lying on her right side, the
shrouding torn,a cap which she wore on her head removed,
and scratches and blood on her face, and other marks of
recent violent exertion apparent, but she was quite dead.
Her apparent death previously was sudden, and it is be-
lieved she was sunk only in a trance. However, there
was no blame to the workhouse officers, as the hapless wo-
man was over 24 hours dead previous to her interment.