The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-01-13 00:00:00

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not succeed; the Colonel sent it to Mr. Thomas, a silver-
smith, in the Strand, who lent £2OO upon it; half of which
was given to Lord Huatjngtower. Mr. Metcalf was after-
wards employed to redeem it, and he paid £2OO more npon

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it; and Colonel Copeland used the money to I
Lord Huntingtower's for horses. Colonel Cope
that at one time he had as many as forty or fifty executions
out against him. He was asked whether he had not been
about to marry Mrs. Edmonds ? The court interposed, that

he need not answer. Colonel Copeland observed, "It is a
most impertinent question ; but I could readily answer it,
were I required." The further examination of witnesses was
adjourned.

SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—Some days since two boys
named Gilmer and Campbell, picked up, on the shore, at
Holywood, a bottle, with a proportionate buoy attached to it.
On examination, tbey discovered it contained a letter, and.

attached to it, a slip of paper, on which was written a re-
quest, that whoever might pick it up would put the letter in
Holywood postoffice. The communication was directed to a
person named Gibson, residing at Portwilliam, in the South
of Scotland. The slip of paper stated, that this method of
forwarding a letter was adopted by one of the crew of the
schooner Cheerful, then lying in the Lough,—it being im-
possible, on account of the storm, to come ashore in a boat.
The letter was forthwith conveyed to the postoffice, and
would, of course, be duly received by the person to whom it
is addressed. In stormy weather, when.wind and tide suited,
many communications might, probably, be effected in this
manner, of consequence both to merchants and friends.—
Belfast Paper.

INGENIOUS ESCAPE FROM PRISON.—On Saturday week,
during the time of the usual assembly of the prisoners at El-
gin for religious instruction in the afternoon, Peter Campbell
and John Young (confined for theft), who occupied the
highest cell in the prison, put in execution the following
previously concocted scheme for escape :—The former had
been, apparently, in agony with the toothache throughout the
day, and by that means had evaded attendance with the rest.
The latter made. his appearance as usual; but i❑ about half
an hour, feigning some excuse, left the apartment. The

gaoler, unwilling to lose sight of him, followed, and found
him, to all appearance, about to give up the ghost, from a pain
in his stomach, but as he expressed his wish to join in re-
ceiving instruction, and his intention to come down imme-
diately, the gaoler left him. Five minutes elapsed, and the
prisoner did not make his entrance, so the gaoler returned to
fetch him down, when, to his conternation, ho saw no prisoner
visible where he had left two not ten minutes before. The
whole matter, however, was plain enough. A wooden door
that opened out to the bartizau was pushed aside, and a rope,

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spun out of the oakum that the prisoners had been employe
in picking, had one end attached to their bed, whilethe othE

extended out at the door, over the bartizan, and down upo
roof of a lower part of the building. Such had been therou
of the prisoners, and, droppin

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AN AGED TEA PAR•

ual con

undred of the oldest it

habitants of the district

third anniver

y of a

kind, which most of them have aided in celebrating
following, according to the correspondent, who con
cates the fact to a contemporary, are the names, resit
and ages of a few of the oldest of the party :

Mary Salisbury, 50, Back Red Bank
Martha Wood, John-street .....