The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-05-19 00:00:00

a respectable family I MELANCHOLY CASE.—On Monday evening, about nine
• • died under cir- o'clock, a man rung The bell at the door of Mr. Probyn,
have been of Lower Belgrave- street, London, and on its being opened
was by the servant, she was told that her mother had died very
suddenly. The announcement had such an effect on the

=Several met/AM ....
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named Ball, in Norfo!k, hatieg teeentiy
I Immediately a loud crash was hea:-4-1 in the area of the
cumslances which' excited suspicion, the bodies -
exhumed, and the dikotery made that their deat..
i house, into which she had thrown hersei7 .
caused by arsenic. It is said that suspicion rests on until' t -
than one person. 4poor girls mind, that anc .-- - —"" wgis "all fr
RICH ACTRESSES.--Mrs. Kean, Mdlle, laeoni, i'eciaico, that '' She would :,,lon be with her tnother),
others,po wag
Fanny Kemble, Fanny Ellsler, Miss Stephens, (nu'vr
erhaCveouanctceusmsfrom the attio
t window, and fractured her arm and leg, and tritt with
eMfiosrst
uSnheisr rebffy, andthei r Mparnoyd
fession. We believe the richest actress on the stage et' ot,..`ier injuries, She was perfectly sensible, and was con-
present is Madame Celeste. veye,sl to St. George's Hospital.
On Tuesday week Edward Powell, of Cargwell, was LOALN, SOCIETIES.—We learn from a parliamentary
gri
nding a knife on a new stone, weighing about 10 cwt., return tint,: last year there were no fewer than 144 loan
when too much power was applied to the wheel and the societies, of which 42 are situate in Middlesex. It would
stone flew to fragments, breaking the thigh of the unfor- appear that these societies are not very profitable con-
tunate man, and forcing the knife into his lower jaw. He cerns. Persons are generally induced to obtain a loan,
died in a few minutes. which is spent in a few days, and they find it no very-
Goucirio.—Mr. Bingham, the magistrate, recently easy matte? to pay weekly alms for a period of a year.,
said he was sorry to see that'
the horrible practice of In Middlesex last year 2 were discontinued, and 18 others
gouging, which had been imported from the most barba- yielded no net profits after the payment of interest and
rous part of the back settlements of America, was rapidly the cost of management. One of the societies in Tot-
gaining ground in this country; and that he was deter- tenham-court-road had 2,395 applications in the year, of
mined, in every case of the kind that came before him, to which 1,957 were borrowers. The net profit c"
check such brutality as much as possible. cern amounted to £136 14s. 4d. There are Ifit
The Times of yesterday week was published with a ties in Liverpool, one of which had nearly 4,oooapplie...
supplement the full size of the principal sheet, and eon- pus last year : the society granted only 1,776 applications-
tained 1,941 advertisements, the duty on which would be INCREASING STRENGTH OF THE BRITISH NA-Os-
-C 145 Ils. 6d. ; which, added to .£125, the stamp duty on According to the last official returns, it appep.-
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30,000 copies, the average daily circulation, gives upwards of 100 ships of war now buildir-4,
£270 Ils. 6d., as the contribution of the Times of yester- arsenals, among which are no less than 35, set,
day week to the revenue of the country. I and other war steamers; four 36-gun frigates; ten 50-guru
THE SQUADRON OF EVOLUTION.—On Wednesday last frigates ; ten ships of the line, averaging from 80 to 84
the experimental squadron got under weigh at Portsmouth guns each—viz., the Agamemnon, the Colossus, the
and proceeded to sea, accompanied by numerous yachts I Irresistible, the Majestic, the Meeanee, the Brunswick,
and steamers, filled with curious spectators. A sharp the Cressy, the Lion, the Mars,and the San& Pareil ; six
squall, which came on about two o'clock, soon put the ships of the line of 90 guns each—viz., the Aboukir, the-
latter to flight, and about five o'clock the fleet was lost Exmouth, the Princess Royal,.the Algiers, the Hannibal,.
from sight. and the St. Jean d'Acre; six ships of the line, first-rates.
A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been returned of 110 guns each—viz., the Marlborough, the Royal
against Eliza Clark, who threw her children into the river Frederick, the Victoria, the Prince of Wales, the Royal
over Battersea Bridge. The body of the third child has 1 Sovereign, and the Windsor Castle; and lastly, the Royal
been found. On Friday, at the Central Criminal Court, 1 Albert, of 120 guns.
the unfortunate woman was 'found not guilty, on tLe 1 DISGRACEFUL SCENE.—A scene of unparalleled atro-
ground- of insanity. She will be confined during her city occurred at the Marley Hut Close, South Brent, So.
Majesty's pleasure. merset, on Sunday week; two men, named Charles Pur-
Alexander Reid, a sailor, belonging to the frigate Row- nell and Robert Parsions, induced two boys to fight, and'
ley, was brought up at Bow-street, on Wednesday, having after a contest of one hour, one was killed. It Repeats-
been caught sleeping in a tent in the royal garden at Buck- that the men had taken the two boys into a " teem)," shop,.
ingham Palace. He stated that he only went into the and given tlynn beer, and set them to fight. Eren whets
garden to see the Queen, and being sleepy, was tempted they saw deceased was the weaker of the two, and waa
to lie down on her Majesty's sofa. The prisoner was re- nearly dead, they brutally insisted on his continuing the
manded. contest, and defied the bystanders to interfere. At length,
At Sunderland, on Wednesday, Robert Henry Leigh_ he was taken up and carried into one of the huts, and oniy
ton, master, John Bowmaker, mate, and William Grozier survived a few minutes. The jury, at the inquest, re-
and Thomas Fairclough, seamen, and Thomas Wallace, turned an unanimous verdict of manslaughter against
an apprentice, part of the crew of the schooner Helen, of Hutchings, Purnell, and Parsons, all three of whom have
Sunderland, were committed to Durham gaol on a charge absconded. The coroner immediately issued his warrant
of sinking the vessel by boring holes in her bottom, while for their apprehension, and it is to be hoped that they
on her way to the Baltic. may now be brought to justice. Purnell has lost his left
CALtNARVON REGATTA.—At the preliminary meeting band just above the wrist.—Bristol Mirror.
for the holding of this year's regatta, it was determined SORROW UNTO DEATH.—It was our melancholy duty
that the contests should come off on Thursday, the 27th, to record, in a late obituary, the death of the lovely -
- "-t.3.._ the 2Rth August next. The Hon. Color el only daughter of the late W. Dr' -Iv, Esq., of '--

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a rem-larukrsalbelvy-
is now our still more painful task to -announce the
death of her brother, Mr. H. Duberly,
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0.... rennant, member: for the county, will be pre: It
sident. Three superb pieces of plate stand over from the
contests of last year. handsome young man. It appeared that on Thursday,
Within the last ten days no fewer than eighty of the after the decease of his sister, to whom he was devotedly
water-fowl have been found dead around and in the orna- attached, he arrived at Torquay, to accompany her re-
mental water of St. James's Park. It was determined to mains to Dursley. The melancholy task was accom-
plished on the Monday, and on the hearse arriving at the
watch ; and it was found that a pair of Egyptian geese,
which had not long been placed in the park, were in the late residence of his mother (now that of Mr. G. Duberly,
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habit of attacking the smaller birds, and that one bite was his brother,) he had the coffin opened, and sat by it until
sufficient to cause death. one in the morning, in overwhelming grief. Again at an,
CHEESE.—It appears from a parliamentary return that early hour he resumed his sad vigils; at the funeral,
for the year ending the sth January last, the importation which took place about noon, he evinced"the strongest
into Great Britain of European cheese was 201,253 cwt. ; emotion and sorrow, and on his return became alarmingly
from the United States of America, in the year, 66,337 ill. Two surgeons were in attendance, but medical skill
oncwt. ; and from the British possessions, 234 cwt., making proved, unhappily, ineffectual—he died at four o'clock o
the aggregate of the importation of cheese in one year, Wednesday morning.—Bristol Mirror.
267,824 cwt. DIFFERENCES IN THE CABINET.—It is seated, upon
A MALTHUSIAN VlLLAGE.—Glapwell, a village near what we believe to be unexceptionable authority, that the
Chesterfield, was thrown into a state of unusual wonder- sugar question, which is said to have had more to do witlx
ment and surprise last week, through a female resident the m% sterious retirement of the present colonial secre-
there having given birth to one of her own species, an tary from office than theological scruples, has again cre-
event which had not occurred in the above village for the ated a serious difference in the cabinet. It is rumoured
last seventeen years, although containing twenty-two that the colonial secretary, and another cabinet minister,
families. whose connection with what is called the West India in-
Mr. Robert Patterson, the son of " Old Mortality," a 1 terest is less direct, have refused to go the length the pre-
worthy, quiet character of the olden school, who remem_ racier desires in removing West India pro.ection ; and
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bered much of the early history of Galloway, and the - further, that they n......-a- -- ,__

e so large a party in the cabi—
net as to defeat the minister's proposition. It certainly
seems rather strange that the government should protect
West India agriculture while they destroy the protection
of English agriculture, pretending that they refuse Cuba
sugar because it is slave-grown, while they are importing
slave-grown sugars and slave-grown maize from America.
It is said that Sir R. Peel swallowed his defeat in prefer.:
ence to impeding the progress of his "comprehensive
measure."—Britannia.

A YOUNG CRIMINAL.—In the New Court, Old Bailey,
London, on Thursday, Thomas Miller, a smartly-dressed
boy, only eight years of age, pleaded guilty to stealing a
cast of a bear, value 405., the property of Thomas Beau-
champ. The boy had to be plaed on a stool that the court
might see him. The common

when,
mane some in-
quiries respecting the prisoner, when, tom the astonishment
of every one present, it was stated that he had been twice
convicted of felony in that court, and had been twice in-
dicted at another court for felony, but, on account of his
age, he had escaped hitherto with a light punishment. The
mother of the prisoner, a well-dressed woman, said her
son was a boy of very evil habits, and quite beyond her
managercent. The learned Judge said it was very diffi.
'-ed to deal with such a case as this. If the prisoner
large there was very little hope of `-:

cult in

. life reforma-
tion; and the best course that could possibly be adoated
was to place him at the disposal of the government, by
sentencing him, nominally, to be transported for seven
years, but with a recommendation that he should be sent
to the juvenile establishment in the Isle of Wight.
WHAT WILL THE LORDS Do?—According to some
of our private accounts, there is a possibility that the
corn bill may be defeated in the House of Lords on the
secvnd reading ; but the more general expectation is, that
a clause fatal to its becoming law will be carried in com-
mittee. The Government is calculating upon a majority
of thirty-four on the first division ; but it is confidently
asserted, that in this are included all the bishops and the
names of several peers, who, either like the Duke of Cam-
bridge and the Archbishops of York end Canterbury,
will not vote at a!l—or of others, who, although they have
not made a formal declaration upon the subject, will cer-
tainly vote against the bill. With great pride and gratifi-
cation,
peers,we
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astonishes and distresses us—will

vote against the destruction of the agricultural interests
Ireland t and that those who were looked upon as doubt-
ful, or who were said not to have made up their minds
upon the subject, have decided wisely and justly, and
amongst the latter Lords Erne, Clancarty. Ranfurly, &c.
—Dublin Mail. The London correspondent of the Dub-
lin Mail of Friday adds as showing the ministerial fears
on this subject—" Expresses were despatched from Lon-
don on Wednesday to the following Ambassadors, requir-
ing their immediate presence in Westminster, to take a
part at the second reading of the bill, and to be present
during the sittings in committee at its subsequent stages :
Lord Cowley, Paris; Lord Holland, Florence: Lord
Howard de Walden. Lisbon; Lord Westmoreland, Ber-
lin. At the latter court there is no Secretary of Lega-
tion ; but so urgent is the case, even with the majority of
thirty-six, (which is the majority stated by the free traders
by which the Lords will pass the bill), that Mr. Hamil-
ton, one of the corps diplomatique, was himself the bearer
of the express, in order that he may assume the position
of Charge d'Affaires, in the absence of the Ambassador.
Lord Hcytesbury will, of course, be ordered over.' "
DESTITUTION AND POOR LAW RELIEF.—Mr. R.
Brinsley Sheridan has written a letter to The Times, de-
tailing the destitute circumstances of several no

abour-

ers and their families in the neighbourhood of his residence
in Dorsetshire, who had asked him to step in between
them and their immediate employers. In one case. a mart
could only raise Os. a week, including Is. 6d. earned by
his son, upon which to support himself, his wife, and a
family of six young children ; and in others the wages
were but is. a week, for the support, in some instances.
of families of six persons. Mr. Sheridan visited some of
them at their homes. " My visit to the dwellings of these
poor people," be says, "chanced to be at their dinner
hour, when I found that the meal they were about to par-
take of consisted merely of a small quantity of horse beans
and turnip tops boiled in water. I asked the wife of one
of the men what she intended to prepare for her husband's
supper when he returned home from his hard day's work?
and her answer was, in the most cheerful tone, Why,
bless you, sir, horse beans and turnip tops.' I believe this
to be the condition of the agricultural labourers cener