The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-07-14 00:00:00

sum of £2O a-year.
SUSPECTMD MURDER IN SUNDERLAND.—

On Sunday
oman named Cather-
Lambton

morning last, the body of a youn_
ine Hindmarsh, was found near the to

twelve o'clock on Saturday ni

How sl

such a lonely place as that in which she was discovered,
is unknown ; but it is supposed, from a variety of circum-
stances which have been ascertained, that she had been
drawn there by a worthless seducer, who, after destroy-
ing her virtue, had, to escape detection and punishment,
thrown her over the bank and destroyed her life. The

most diligent inquiries are being made into the affair.
She was alive when found, but unable to speak, and died
the same afternoon. The inquest terminated on Saturday
with a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or

LON GUVITY EXTRAORDINARY.--There is now residing
in the parish of Beguildy, adjoining to the borough of
Knucklas, Radnorshire, a person of the name of William
Matthews, whose lengthened age seldom finds a parallel.
He is now in his 118th year, and retains the full power of
his natural faculties, being competent to recount, with the

most scrupulous exactness, transactions which otherwise
the long space of a century would have buried in oblivion.
Ells bodily strength, considering his many years, is almost
incredible. Hevalks at the rate of three miles an hour,
and commonly performs journies of 20 miles in the day.
He is strongly tinctured with the enthusiasm and folly of
the times of the junior days—a etrong, and prejudiced
belief in wizardism and witchcraft.—Hereford Journal.
PILENCH OPINION OF ENGLISH ARTISTS.—LC Obcer-
valeur Francais says ;—" The death of Robert Haydon
is naturally drawing attention to the precarious position
of artists in England. Isolated, for the most part, one
from the other, neglected by a public, who, in general,
can but little judge of or appreciate their efforts, aban-

doned to themselves by a government which does not pro-
tect or encourage the ornamental arts, the English artists
have no other exercise for their talent than the patronage

which almost always, aces injury to the art which it re-
duels to its own level. Those who, like Robert Ilaydon,

despise to bend their pencil to the caprices of fashion, and
aspire to the more sublime flights of fancy, may termi-
nate, as he did, their hard career in misery, despair, and
sometimes even by suicide."

A CHINESE WITNESS.—In a dkorce case in the
House of Lords on Friday, a female Chinese, whose name
is Kowhan, was called in, and Lord Brougham desired

the saucer,) " if she does not "speak the truth, _
will punish her." The interpreter then made her a
quainted with the Noble and Learned Lord's remark.—
Lord Brougham: now ask her "Rho are her gods ?" In
reply she said, through the interpreter, that the chef

T gods

was- Buddha —Lord Brougham : tell her that Buddha
will punish her most severely if she does not speak the
truth ; and that she will also be punished in this world if
she does not speak tha truth. This being explained, she
replied in Chinese. '• I will speak the truth."
The inquiry into the origin of the incendiary fires at
d in the apprehension of Cornelius Har-

Soham has r

James Harvey, a grocer and drape

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younger Harvey were burned, the charge preferred against
them was, the ignition of the house of Mr. Peachy, with
a view to consume that of the younger prisoner. The

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over-insured, and he was indebted to his uncle A
prisoners were examined before the

istrates,

rly the whole of the younger

prisoner's stock was saved, he had claimed trout toe ornce
for its total loss. Such evidence was adduced as warranted
the remanding the poisoners, and they were conveyed to

the county gaol at (.3ambridge.
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Danish slave felucca ashore

and that on Lieutenant

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ling to board