The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-28 00:00:00

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THE IliocoET.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer gave
notice that on the Bth of May he would make the financial
statement.
Loss OF AN OYSTER DREDGING BOAT AND FOUR
LlVES.—Extract of a letter from Mumbles, dated Saturday,
April 22:—A. lamentable oecurren,e has just taken place
here. One of the oyster fishing boats, in proceeding to the
ground in the offing, for the purpose of dredging for oysters,
was overtaken by a sudden squall of hail, which hove the
boat down to the water's edge and filled her with water.
The crew (four in number) were all drowned. Two were
married, and have left widows and fourteen young children
to bewail their sad fate.
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SowsAmntmism.—A young man, named Reeves, engaged
a bed at the Punchbowl Inn, Horsham, and after taking his
supper retired to rest. In the course of the night the land-
lord was alarmed by groans, and on getting up found the
poor fellow lying in the yard with both his legs. broken, and
other injuries, having jumped out of the window, a distance
of twenty feet. The next house nearl oined, and from the
marks on the wall it appeared as if he had descended a short
distance with his bands and knees, and then fell. The poor
fellow, who was subject to walking in his sleep, had not the
slightest recollection of the occurrence until he found him-
self in the yard.
Loss OF THE SOLWAY.—From an authorised statement
we learn that by this melancholy occurrence 35 lives were
lost. There were 98 persons saved. It is a singular coinci-
dence R°yal Mail Steam-packet Company should
one year and a half, exactly the same num-
berdheanve celost, that
withinthe
of ships that have been lost by the Government in the
West Indies, viz.-- '
ADMIRALTY VESSIMS• COMPANYS VESSELS.
Victor, all hands perished. Medina, all saved.
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Spitfire, all saved. Isis, one boy perished.
Magtera, four perished. Solway, 35 perished.
As relates to the loss of
w thill no 100 e Solway, it should be known
that the Company's shiplonger call at Corunna.
NON-INTRUSION.—No man laboured with a purer mind,
and a more unclouded intellect, and a greater devotion of his
pecuniary resources, after what was considered n perfect mo-
del of Church government, than the late Mr. Robert Hal-
dane. Few men had more deep insight into, and experience
of, the working of the popular and religious mind in such
matters, deprived of effectual check, than that eminent indi-
vidual. The Church of Scotland has known him for many
years as her intelligent and able supporter, as many of her
sons knew him as the chosen friend and adviser of her late
accomplished champion, Dr. Andrew Thomson; and we
think the fact should be generally known, that this able and
disinterested man, lying on his death bed, within these few
months, calmly waiting his glorious change, stated, " I wish
it to be known that I am no NON-INTRUSIONIST.”—Lon-
don Paper.

SHOCKING DEATH.—On Saturday, a woman, named
Steward, wife of a clerk in the bleaching establishment of
Messrs. Nicholson, at Donaghclony, went to the mills tc
get some clothes beetled._ She was accompanied by het

daughter, a child about five years old. The child incau-
tiously left her mother to look at some of the wheels attached
to the beetles, when, on approaching too near the machinery,
she was drawn in and literally beaten to pieces. Both her
arms were cut oft. Her death was instantaneous. The dis-
tracted mother, on seeing the condition of her child, ran to
her assistance, when she would have shared the same fate
but for the timely assistance afforded by some workmen.
She was drawn from the wheel, her dress having been torn

off; her thigh was shockingly lacerated, and she received
some sever?, bruises on the body. The puor creature lies

dangerously ill.—Belfast Whig.
SHOCKING OUTRAGE.—On Thursday last an industrious
poor mail named Lyons, and his wife, residing near Bally-
hooley, were dragged, out of bed by a set of miscreants who
beat them into a state of insensibility, and then like demons
poured vitriol on their faces and other parts of their bodies,
the effects of which were a restoration to consciousness, and
the most agonizing torments. They left their unfortunate
victims in this deplorable state, after rifling the house of £3,
all the poor people possessed in the world. The poor wo-
man's eyes being totally burned away by the vitriol, and her
skull fractured—there is no hope.of her recovery. The man
is not quite so bad, although shockingly injured. Two fel-
lows are taken on suspicion. It appears that poor Lyons
was a skilful person in the management of some process in
milling or combing of wool, and was about to be employed
by a gentleman who has got up some such mill in Ballyhoolev ;
hence proceeded the dreadful malevolence of those human
demons for his destruction.—Cork Constitution.

EXECUTION.—At Monmouth, on Monday last, Edward
Rees underwent the last punishment of the law for the mur-
der of the daughter of a respectable cottager at Chepstow.
At eleven o'clock the culprit partook of the sacrament, when
he acknowledged the justice of his sentence. He was then
pinioned and conducted to the scaffold, on his way to which
he shook hands with the few persons assembled in the gaol,
saying, " Good bye, God bless you ; I shall soon be in glory."
He passed through the lodge, and ascended the stairs leading
to the roof, where the drop was constructed, and stepped
lightly on to the scaffold. When the rope had been adjusted,
he addressed the multitude at great length, urging them to
take warning by his fate and to shun evil company. He then
again shook hands with the governor of the gaol and the ex-
ecutioner. The cap was pulled over his face, and as he heard
the bolt withdrawn he made a grasp at the rope with both
hands, which the executioner was obliged to remove. He
struggled for a considerable time, and the crowd, who from
the moment of his appearance had conducted themselves
with seeming propriety, and listened attentively to his ad-
dress, began quietly to disperse. After hanging the usual
time, the body was cut down, and is'to be interred this even-
ing within the walls of the prison.
litisti CENSUS FOR 18.11—The following is a return of
the population in Ireland in 1841 :

Leinster..
Munster..
Connaught,
Ulster....

Males.
963,747
1,186,190
707,884
1,161,146

Females.
1,009,984
1,209,971
711,072
1,224,579