The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1843-04-14 00:00:00

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---On Sunday evening last a
6 to a m ew in Burghead, was seen safely
r. Nest morning, at 3 o'clock, when

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was no appearance
be accounted for,

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sh boy, belongin to Cumtningstown, had
nto the boat and loosened the moorings ; and, the wind
fair, the boat was drifted across the Moray Frith to
, a distance of upwards of 40 miles, where it and its

appears that af

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RDER AND SUICIDI

—On Friday last,

the magistrates who sit in petty sessions at Baldock, com-
mitted for trial Mary Ann Draper, aged 22, a young woman,
who had attempted to poison her mistress by mixing with her
coffee a quantity of oxalic acid sufficient to cause speedy death.
The girl's character was not got ; she had taken some table-
linen from her mistress, but promised amendment and was
forgiven. As soon as her f ither was apprised of what had

day or two was found dead in a plantation, with his head al-
most severed from his body, and in his right hand a knife
covered with blood. His age was 53. Two of his sons have
been transported for aggravated crimes.

LAMENTABLE CATASTROPHE.—It is with feelings of un-
feigned sorrow we announce the death yesterday evening, by
a mournful accident, of Mr. William Hunt. Jun., of the firm
of Hunt and Son, solicitors, Stourbridge, and Under-Sheriff
It seems that the deceased was proceeding
5 o'clock, to dine at the Birches, the re-
s horse shied and reared
which be met in the

sidence of Mr. George

at a coal cart
Worcestershir

.e, when h,
3 Mr. Bat

ne, and the girths at the same time break-
a to the ground uneer the wheel of the cart,

passing over his head, killed

scattere

Mr. Hunt, we b,
Herald.

anner over the road.
—Worcester

.eve, was about 30 years of

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RTUNE.—A THRIFTY WIFE,—An
me:3f John Dean, residing in the

Hill, has recently experienced u

of fortune, under rather extraordinary
It appears that John bad been blessed (as it
with a remarkably saving and frugal wife :
disposition to save, that John was generally
'rids to be in rather indigent cireumstan-
A few days ago, however
-a were enterta: 'd of 1-

of money

. of her
. She called her husband to her bedside, and told
that if he looked in a certain place he would find an
3cicing ; and, on his bringing it to her, she proceeded
to draw from it a considerable number of sovereigns, count-
ing out ten for each of her children ; and the remainder,
amounting to upwards of £2OO, she presented to her as-
tonished husband.—Halifax Guardian.

THE MONOMANIAC MUSEUM
or two back that Stephenson. whn h 3

—We mentioned a week
lipf...t.o.—isstraffer the
,tieen and Sir K. reel, gave great opposition in Bedlam to
the efforts of the attendants in that establishment to remove
the hair which almost covered his face. We can now state
that no doubt whatever exists as to this poor man's insanity.
Him hostility to the Queen and her Minister have merged in
a rage for learning the Greek language ; and he fancies him-
self destined to be the greatest Greek scholar the world ever
saw. He has somehow contrived to pick up about half the
Greek alphabet, and this he relies upon as evidence of what

his future eminence will be if he be furnished with the means
of pursuing his studies. M'Naugbton still continues to
occupy an apartment on the ground floor gallery, and still
continues to impress his attendants with the full conviction
of his sanity. He wears his own clothes, and not the hos-
pital dress, and the practice is to permit any of the inmates
who can provide clothes of their own they may wear them.
M'Naughton has not yet been permitted to see any of his
friends, the rule being that for the first month after their
admission no persons are allowed to communicate with the
inmates. Oxford also wears his own clothes, which are sup-
plied to him by his friends, and he evinces a great desire to
have a smart appearance on the days on which visitors are
admitted, but on other days he not unfrequently indulges in
the low slang of a common London scamp. For the special
information of the monomaniacs we can state that Oxford is
heartily tired of his incarceration already, and frequently
expresses his regret that be had not been either hanged or
transported, as punishments far preferable to imprisonment
for life. He constantly recommends hanging as the most
effectual preventive of the modern monomania. No books
are allowed to the inmates but such as have undergone the
-nection of the house surgeon or steward of the hospital.

The Holy Scri

alc given to an tne patients in a fit
state .of mind, but are, of course, withheld from persons
labouring under religious excitement. To these latter light
entertaining publications are freely given, such, for instance,
as the Penny Mayazine, Chambers' s Journal, &c.—Observer.

CHARGE OF MURDER.-At the London Central Criminal
Court, on Saturday, James Dawson, aged 27, a sailor, was
indicted, for that he on the 26th of August last, being a sub-
ject of our Sovereign Lady the Queen, at Zanzibar, a place
out of her Majesty's dominions, upon a perso❑ whose name
is unknown, with a certain knife which hp ►,,,,, •

hand, d

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feloniously make an assault, and him upon his head,
neck, breast, sides, back, &c., did feloniously stab and
wound, of which said stabs and wounds he then and there
died,against the peace of our said Lady the Queen, &c.
After the examination of the witnesses, Mr. Justice Cress-
....

well, in summing up, said the case before them was on of pa-
ramount importance, and involved for their consideration two
material questions; first, was an Arab or any unknown per-
son killed on the nicht in question, and if so, was he killed
by the prisoner? Now, the only evidence of any death hav-
ing taken place was the admission of the prisoner himself,
- Mated that he had killed a man, who was attempting to
'nd the fact of the body of
witness House, who,

ith huff

Now, it certainly was very strange indeed
nunication had been made to the Consul, no

ps whatever had been taken to look after the body of th
•son supposed to have been murdered. If they were satis
i that a person had been killed, then would arise the im

,t question, was he killed by
so, under what circumstance

,e hand of the prisoner ?
Now the statement of

n 1
the the prisoner was, that be had killed the man in defending
elf from an attack of a nature which could not be mis-
Inderstood, and it that was true be was undoubtedly justi-
ied in so do
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cite a
.c.Ol f
0 i ng, for, by the law of England, if a criminal as-
"s made upon a female, she would be justified, in de-
her chastity, in killing her assailant ; so also was it
an. If, therefore, they were of opinion the prisoner
lid k
manin defending himself against an assault of
'uch a nature, they were bound to acquit him. The jury al-
immediately acquitted the prisoner.
aost

EXTILAORDINARY CASE.—Benjamin Thomas was charge
it the Clerkenwell Police-office, on Saturday, with felon
isly appropriating a considerable sum of money, the prc
y of Henry Tufnell, Esq., M. P., of Tuft-len-part
-v. Mr. Steele, attended as counsel for the prosecu
that on Wednesday last the prisoner an
,gaged on Tufnell-park in grub];
roots of trees, when one of the men struck hi
crowbar through a pewter half-pint measure, nearly full c
One of the labourers took up the measure, pu

3nd st

five other labourers were e

s breast

4, few minutes after t

teisher a

it ciepartur
lelf vessel, like a iarn ac

The men divc
iven up what t

so, except the prisoner, who declined t
f the booty. There could be no doub
9s subjecting himself to a very seriou

as pursuing ; for Mr. Justi
Queen v. Reade, tried in t
Aecided that if a person foul

ices such

r •
roperty on which lie found it was abandoned, the find
;flowing no disposition to return it, could be indicted f

The sum of mon

found, in this instance,

£3OO or £4OO, of which more than £2OO had been restor
:o Mr. Tufnell. The prisoner was committed for tri