The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1835-09-01 00:00:00

LGCAL NEWS.

THE CONVICTS.—The wife of one of the two men (Ogden)
now under sentence of death at Livet pool, tor the offence com-
mitted near Oldham, died on Wednesday last, of a severe fit of
dropsy.
RESPlTE.—Abraham Ogden and Martin Mellor, the two
criminals lying under sentence of death in the Kirkdale county
gaol, for the offence committed near Bury, have been respiteil
during his Majesty's pleasure. No orders have been received
respecting John Tarbuck, who also is under sentence of death
for an offence committed in Manchester.

EXECUTIONS.—A report has gone abroad that it is the inten-
tion of the sheriff in future to execute criminals within the
borough. This is not the fact ; they will be executed at Kirkdale,
as heretofore. How such a rumour could get abroad we cannot
tell ; the hindrance to public business by executing at the bo-
rough gaol, leaving the limited space for the populace out of the
question, would be such as to render it extremely inconvenient,
if not impracticable.
IMPORTATION OF TURTLE.---A large quantity of turtle has
recently been brought into this port. which will be the means of
causing that delicious soup, so much sought after, to be sold at
a lower rate for the present than tieretofore. The greatest con-
signment has been made to Mr. Robert Wilson, of the Albion
Hotel, Manchester, whose skill in dressing the article will,
without doubt, be the means of bringing numbers to his turtle
feasts. Mr. Hadley, of the Adelphi, in this town, has also re-
ceived a considerable quantity.
PRINCE GEORGE OF CUMBERLAND AND PRINCE GEORGE OF
CAMBItIDGE.—At the Court at Windsor Castle, August 15,
1885.—The King, as Sovereign of the Most Noble Order of the
Garter, has been graciously pleased. by letters patent under his
royal sign manual and the great seal of the order, bearing date
this day, to dispense with all the statutes and regulations usually
observed in regard to installation, and to grant unto his Majes-
ty's nephews, the Prince George of Cumberland and the Prince
George of Cambridge, duly elected Knights of the said most
noble Order, full power and authority to exercise all rights
and privileges belonging to Knights Companions of the said
Most Noble Order of the Garter, in as full and as ample a man-
ner as if they had been formally installed, any decree, rule, or
usage to the contrary notwithstanding.—London Gazette.
DEATH OF PATRICK POWER, ESQ., M.P., FOR THE COUNTY
OF WATERFoRD.—The Waterford Mail announces the death of
this gentleman as having,takin place on Monday week, at his
residence in Kilkenny. rile fatigue consequent upon attending
his parliamentary duties had it appears considerably enervated
is strength. An attack of dysentery was the immediate cause
of his death. Mr. Power was a radical reformer.
THE LIVERPOOL AND MANctIESTER RAILWAY.—As no ab-
stract of the half-yearly report of the directors of the Liverpool
and Manchester Railway, made to the general Ince ing held on
the 22d ult., has yet appeared in the newspapers, we have ob-
tained a copy of the report, and extract from it the following
particulars, which possess a considerable share of public interest
at a time when so many extensive lines of railway are in pro-
gress or in contemplation. The receipts for the he ;f-year are
£ s. d
Coaching department 52.137 3 4
Merchandise do. . 13,631 1 4
.Coal do.

99,474 16 0
Total expenses, including interest...6l,Bl4 6 2

Net profit for the six months 37,660 9 10
which pays the usual half-yearly dividend of 41 per cent.,
leaving a surplus of more than .C2OOO. It may, perhaps, be
worthy of remark that this is the first time that the dividend for
the first half of a yea? has been entirely paid outfit* the receipts
of that half-year, which is necessarily less productive than the
second half. The expenses of locomotive power are still heavy,
amounting (including the purchase of three new engines) to
£16,462. The cost of repairing engines amounts altogether to
£7,594 13s. 4d., which is a reduction on the amount mentioned
in former reports, especially when the increased amount of traffic
is considered. it appears from the report that the new tunnel
to Lime-street is not likely to be opened for some time to come
—various circumstances having occurred to delay the comple-
tion of the station in Lime-street. As that will be the great en-
trance to Liverpool from all parts of the kingdom, it is intended
that the buildings shall be "not inferior in style and design to
the most approved public buildings of the town;" and the com-
mon council of Liverpool have voted a suns of £2OOO towards
the expense of architectural decorations.
BELFAST ELECTION.—This election closed on Thursday last,
the third day of the poll, during which no vote was taken for
either candidate. At six o'clock the booths were closed. The
sovereign then stated that the numbers were, for Mr. Dunbar
162, for Mr. Tennent 82, and declared George Dunbar, Esq.,
to be duly elected. Mr. Dunbar arrived in Liverpool on Sun-
day, and, after stopping a short time at the King's Arms
Hotel, proceeded to London to take his seat in thellouse of
Commons. This he was expected to do last night.
CASE OF SUPPOSED POISONING.—Bridget Dolan, an Irish
girl about twenty-five, was examined at the New Bailey, Man-
chester, on Monday ast, on a charge of attempting to poison
seven.of her master's, Mr. Sandiford's, children. It appeared
that on-the Friday evening, as Mr. Sandiferd's eldest daughter
was practising on the piano-forte, she suddenly felt a stiffness
in her fingers, which prevented her from striking the keys:
Immediately afterwards she and her six sisters were all seized
with sickness and other symptoms of having taken some mine-
ral poison.. A surgeon was sent for, and by the prompt appli-
cation of remedies, although three of the children remained In ,
great danger through the night, they were all eventually saved.
It seems that Dolan had prepared the milk for the children
with a small quantity of water, seven of whom partook of it,
while the eighth child of Mr. Sandiford, who took tea with her
father and mother, exhibited no symptom of illness. When
Dolan fetched the milk from the cellar, Mrs. Sandiford remark-
ed that there were some greasy spots on its surface. which she
pointed out to the woman, woo replied that they were of no
consequence,
and by stirring up the milk removed the remark-
able appearances. The stomach pump was used by the sur-
geon, and the contents of the children's stomach's given to
Dolan, against whom uo suspicion existed at the time, to take
care of that it might be analyzed. On the following morning,
when the surgeon called for that purpose, Dolan was directed
to fetch the bowl which contained the liquid, who, instead of
doing so, told her fellow-servant to "empty the stuff out of the
b0w1.," and take it to her mistress. This the other did as she
was directed by Dolor. These were the grounds on which
Dolan was taken iuto custody, and examined on suspicion of
having wilfully administered the poison. On the examination
before the magistrates, Mr. Kenworthy, the surgeon, stated that
the symptoms exibited by the children warranted the concin-
s;on that arsenic had been administered to them; but for want
of any positive proof of the fact, Dolan was discharged.
ACCELERATION OF THE MAIL TO LONDON.—An arrange.
ment has been made by the Postmaster-General, which, by ac-
celerating the pace of the mail coach from hence to Londuu,
and, by starting from Lives-pool forty-five minutes sooner, will
bring the mail into London at seven p. m., which will give to
Liverpool a daily direct post to the Continent, instead of twice
a week only, and will also save twenty-four hours' delay on all
letters passing through London. This desirable arrangement is
to commence on the 3d September: the mail will then stall
from the Postoffice at half-past nine, and the box will be closed
at nine. This will not at all curtail the time fur writing to Lon-
don, as a second bag is despatched for London every ;teeming
at eight o'clock, the letter-box being open during the night and
till half-past seven the next morning ; and, by this conveyance,
letters are delivered in London at the same time as tbos6 sent
by the mail of the previous night.
-The late Earl of Devon has left but little of his property, over
which he could exercise the power of testamental v disposition,
to his own relatives. To his coachman, and wife, and their child-
ren (whom during his lifetime be had caused to be educated far
above their station), he has left the Charenton estate, and the
house in Paris, with all his personalites, among which arc some
articles of rare value. Powdernam Castle, in Devonshire with
£5OOO a year out of the Irish estates to keep it up. have descend-
ed to the-presant earl— the surplus revenues of the Irish estates
to Viscount Courtenay, eldest son of the present earl.—Public
Ledger,