The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

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The corporation of Lincoln have just let two fields for
£27, which formerly were let for £4O per annum.
The apple and pear trees of Herefordshire promise unu-
sually abundant crops of fruit.

M. and Mrs. Bird have been committed for a felonious
assault on Mary Ann Parsons.

Proceedings are about to be taken against the bail of
Lola Montes, for the forfeited recognizances.
Everything indicates the prospect of a large fruit crop

The woman who robbed Mr. Cowell, in London, by
the aid of chloroform, has been sentenced to fifteen years'

transportation

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river and stoker jumped off

A HAPPY SPOT.—The Tyrawly Herald says that there
are at present only three paupers in the workhouse of that
a cost of only Is. 6d. a day.

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The village of Stanley, Perthshire, was visited, on Sa-
turday, by a thunderstorm of unexampled severity. Two
cattle, which were in the fields along with others, were
struck by lightning and killed. A boy hgrrowing in a
field on the same farm had the whip jerked from his hand,
the bonnet whisked from his head, and his hair burned by
the lightning, at the same moment when the cattle were
killed. The horses also were struck down ; but, beyond
the stupor caused by the shock, no injury was done to

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The Cambridge Chronicle publishes the following as a
specimen of the sort of persons the liberals of that
borough think fit to entrust with the management of
municipal affairs. It is a reply to an invitation by the
Mayor, who is himself a liberal, to one of his customary
sectional dinners:—

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Dinner on Thurs-day 21 inst Butt after your Woates you Give
to Day in Counsel] and Likewise your Casting Woates I kinnat
With Propitay Except the Envat;ashin. Wm. LUSH ER,
_H. S. Foster, Mayor, . _ March 12, 1850.

Thomson's Lane, eam.bridge.
LORD CAMPBELL AND MISS SELLON.—An anonymous
correspondent of the Guardian, in a long communication
upon another subject, mentions incidentally that upon
reading the letters that passed between Miss Sellon and
Lord Campbell, he lost not a post in entreating Miss Sel-
lon to allow him to double Lord Campbell's subscription
towards her " Orphan Home." Upon this the editor of
the Guardian remarks in a note :—" If we are not misin-
formed, our correspondent might have doubled Lord
Campbell's subscription without being the poorer for his
liberality. We believe that his lordship never actually
contributed a sixpence to the Orphans' Home."
A case of poisoning with arsenic—that of a woman
named Bennison, by her husband—is suspected to have
taken place at Leith. The deceased, after taking some
gruel, and retching violently, died suddenly on Monday
last. In the same building lived a cripple, often drawn in

a small cart by a dog. The contents of a vessel into
which the deceased had vomited were thrown out, the dog
had access to them, it died the same evening, suspicion
was directed to the husband, and it appears he had pur-
chased arsenic on the pretence of killing rats. On the
previous Monday, Bennison had entered his wife's name

)y her death was entitled to £6.

LORD GREY'S PLOUGHING DAY.—A few days ago,
Lord Gr,,lr had his " ploughing day" at West Learmouth,
one of the largest and finest farms in the county ; and,
according to the extent and opulence of neighbouring
farmers, from ninety to one hundred ploughs might.
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der ordinary circumstances, have been fairly expected ;
but, alas, there were not more than six, and these be-
longed to dependents of his lordship. Not a single inde-
pendent farmer of Northumberland sent a draught of
horses to the ploughing day at West Learmouth !! This

On Saturday, Mr. W. Archer, builder, of Portland-
town, obtained £219 in gold at the Bank of England, for

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the money in his pocket, he entered an omnibus. At the
same moment, a man about thirty-five. dressed in a brown
paletot, took his seat beside him, followed by a female
carrying an infant. When near the Angel, at Islington,

the lady was seized with hysterics, causing great alarm;
and confusion amongst the passengers, and the vehicle
being stopped, she was got out and taken to a surgeon's.