The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-01-01 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The recent election of the Right Hon. Charles Williams
Wynne, for Montgomeryshire, makes the thirteenth time suc-
cessively that he has been returned for that county, though his
age is scarcely beyond that of middle life.
CAPTAIN Ross.—The East India Company have added £lOO
to the subscription for the discovery, if possible, . of the intrepid
Capt. Ross and his gallant companions in the Arctic regions.
The subscription at present amounts to £2BOO, £lOO of which
was subscribed by Lord Goderich, the only member of the
Administration who has contributed to this lendable under..
taking.—Loadon, Standard.
IRISH Loose.—" his landlady was what was termed a ge•
neral dealer,' and, among other things, sold bread and whisky.
A customer entered her shop, and inquired if she had anything
Ito eat and drink ? To be sure,' she replied, I have got a
thimblefull of the cratur, my darling, that comes only to two-
pence ; and this big little loaf you may have for the same
mo-
ney?'.'Bothtwo-pence I' Both the same, as I'm a Christian
woman, and worth double the sum. "Fill me the whisky, if
you piase.' She did so, and he drank it; then rejoined `lt
comes to two-pence, my jewel; I'm not hungry, take back the
loaf,' tendering it. ' Yes, hony, but what pays for the whisky ?'
Why, the loaf, to be sure !" But you haven't paid for the
loaf.' Why, you wouldn't have a man pay for a, thing he
hasn't eat ?' A. friend going by was called in by the landlady
to decide the 'difficulty, who gave it against her; and, from de-
ficiency in her powers of calculation, she permitted the rogue to
escape.t"—Bernard's Retrospections.

THE ISIUHDER AT FARSLEY.—The 12th inst. the inquest on
the body of James Benson was resumed before the Coroner for
further investigating the circumstances attending this most,
atrocious murder. this lamentable occurrence is supposed to
have originated in a strike for wages against Benson's em-
ployer, Mr..Abimelech Hainsworth, in which strike the deceas-
ed did not participate. It appeared that on the night of the
murder there was an assembly of the Union men to meet John
Powlett, The secretary, at the usual place of meeting, the Bay
Mare public house, but there was no evidence to connect the one
transaction with the other, as the meeting lasted from six t,O
eleven, and the murder took place about halt:past eight. After
an able charge from the Coroner, the Jury retired for a short
time, and then gave in the following verdict :—We find a ver-
dict of wilful murder against divers persons unknown to us;
and welurther find that the deceased had become obnoxious
to a large body called the Clothiers' Union, by
.refusing to
leave his master's employment, and to join them in their en-
deavours to compel his master, Abimelech Hainsworth, to sub-
mit to the dictation of the said Clothiers' Union, hy.pay.ing his
workmen such wages as they proposed, and to receive into his
service only such persons as the said Union approved of; and
have too much reason to fear that his murder has been thd
consequence of his fidelity to his waster." The Jury also re-
quested that the Coroner would make a communication to the
Secretary of State on the subject, and expressed their thanks
to the Coroner for the great attention he had paid to the im-
portant investigation.—Leeds Intelligencer.

POACHING.-An affray of a very serious nature took place
early on Saturday mottling week, between a desperate gang of
poachers, from Pershore and Belford, and the keepers of the
Earl of Coventry, in a wood called Perry-wood, near Croome.
The poachers were nine in number, and the keepers five; the
latter succeeded in disabling the guns of their assailants, or the
I,tost serioaq consecuentps eirabi !Jaye itti ti 4. of
gang called upon the rest to "put the lead into them r." The
leader, Thomas Price, sen., was thrown by one of the keepers
on the ground, and there held for above a quarter of an hour,
so that he can be most fully identified; but, we regret to say,
he was rescued, in consequence of a failure in the sticks used
by the keepers, which were made of ash, and being cut across
the grain, snapped instantly. The gun barrels were used with
brutal violence by the poachers, and one keeper has the mart
of the two barrels in the side of the nose, as if it were thrust in.
On Monday night the keeper of It. Berkeley, Esq., of Spetch-
ley, was attacked and severely beaten by a party of poachers.
—The game-bill has greatly increased the number of poachers
in Devon and Somerset. On Friday night week, at Ifolincete,
the property of Sir T. Acland, the bailiff and four assistant%
met a gang of poachers, who were armed with guns, and jumped
from the fence of the wood into the road ; the poachers calling
out to the part) to keep back, or they would make them. Bir-
mingham boldly sprung upon two of the fellows, and seized
them by the collars, when a third presented a gun which one of
his assistants fortunately broke with his stick, and immediately
knocked the man down. A sharp battle ensued for three or
four minutes, during which some very severe blows were struck,
and the poachers had much the worst it ;—three of them were
captured, and, on the following morning, were taken to, Dun-
ster, and examined before two magistrates, who committed. them
to Taunton Gaol for trial at the next quarter sessions.

WANTS AND CA PA BILITIES.—We are never SO mods tenlated
to moralize as after a perusal of the advertising columns of the
Times. There is something intensely pathetic in many of the
Whs which exhale from the damp surface of that broadsheet.
hat hope can be held out to a " respectable young woman
without followers?" who is so unreasonable as to desire a situa-
tion "as nursery maid where there is no infant ?" Or, to a
"respectable strong youth," who will only be satisfied with the
office .of "light porter?" Both must pine unheeded, unless
they agree to meet and sigh to each other. They are, indeed,
"two for a.pair." The following we are inclined to think ra-
ther suspicious :—" A lady of 30 years of age is desirous of meet-
ing with a situation as useful companion. She is naturally
cheerful, and, to an invalid, flatters herself she would be an ac-
quisition." Dear creature ! who would find in his heart to shut
the door in her face?' We fear, however, she has no chance
against the experience of a widow. " Wanted, by a respect-
able widow, age about 36, and free from every incumlnanee, 11
situation to superintend the concerns of a widower. To one
who has a family, she flatters herself she would be an acquisi-
tion," &c. Who doubts it? We will back the widow for a
rump and dozen they are man and wife in a month. These
widows ! Here is another:—"A widow lady, of most respect-
able connexions, wishes for a situation to manage the domestic-
establishment of a widower or single gentleman_ She feels con-
fident of giving satisfaction?' This is plain en7n!gli ; but there
is another still plainer. The noose matrimonial danees in
every sentence. "A widow, respectably connected, wishes a
situation as housekeeper to a single gentleman or widovrer.
She flatters herself she would be found an acquisition, as she is
competent, and would not object, to superintend the education
of the younger branches of his family." What ! not of the
" single gentleman's?' Oh, fie !—Tait's Magazine-
MURDER.—Thursday night an atrocious murder was commit-
ted in the New Vennel, High-street, on the body of a poor
man, named Niel Adams, a waiver, under circumstances of
rather a peculiar and mysterious character. It appears that the
deceased on the night before mentioned, had been partaking
somewhat freely of spirituous liquors with a fellow workman, in
the same street where the murder was perpetrated, anal that in
returning home, and within a kw paces of his• own dwelling,
he had been assaulted by some person who had iuticted a vio-
lent blow on the head of the deceased with a heavy stick ear
bludgeon, which almost instantly proved fatal, as his lifeless
body was shortly afterwards found weltering in its blood, at ap-
parently the same spot where he had been assaulted. The de-
ceased, it is believed, had no money on him at the time; but
it would appear, that the perpetrator of the crime had carried
off the hat worn by the unfortunate man, and left his own in its
stead, as an old hat was found lying near the bady. No satis- •
factory trace has as yet, we are given tounderstansf, been found
of the assassin ; but an individual of the name of Sutherland,
a labourer, who had been observed by the watchme . • -in
about the spot on the night in question, was seen ' a 31,143 u.
lar in High-street, with. the deceased's hat on hi: • .{an,.fs;
being questioned as to how the hat came into eg.'
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immediately took it off, and left the shop, fr... -, •IiImprod(11,
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ceeded to a broker's stall on the Bell o' the B e : ''Whe lsv..--1) 0.1 4"
chased a bonnet, with which he has since a e . , ~„,r,Arae eit ,„,..t
has left a widow in a state of mental deran .a. ' qu 1 c.f
on her melancholy bereavement, and six Of .. -.. toicltriacrfii. 4
1 .his fearful eatastrophe--Gtasgstv Courier- msf 4, .. : ;, - . .. _ n
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