The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-09-23 00:00:00

OBITUARY.

Sept. 10, at the Rectory, Loupton, Essex, in his 74th year,
the Venerable Archdeacon Hamilton.

Sept. 11, at No. 1, the Grove, Shepherd's Bush, the Rev. C.
D'Oyley Alpin, Incumbent of Stanley, Yorkshire, aged 70.
Sept. 12, at Hastings, the Rev. Henry Chichely Michell,
A.M., late Perpetual Curate of Lymington, Hants, in his 47th
year.

Sept. 11, suddenly, at Lark-hill, neat Worcester, the Rev.
Gregory Boraston, formerly Rector of Broughton Hacket, in
that county, in his 84th year.

Aug. 29rat Penrith, Cumberland, aged 35, the Rev. Thomas
Bleaymire.

-We understand that the Hon. and Rev. Wm. Towry
Law, Vicar of Harborne, near this town, and Chancellor
of the diocese of Bath and Wells, has resigned his clerical
charge with the intention of joining the communion of the
Church of Rome. The honourable and reverend gentle.
man is a son of the late Lord Chief Justice Ellenborough,
and brother to the presentEarl.—Birmingham Advertiser.

DEATH OF THE REGIUS PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AT
OXFORD.—Died, on "Wcdnesdiy last, at his residence in
St. Giles's-street, after a few hours' illness, John Kidd,
D.M., of Christ Church College, Regius Professor of
Medicine, Tomline's PrEelector of Anatomy, Aldrichian
Professor of Anatomy, and Radcliffe's Librarian. Dr.
Kidd was highly esteemed and respected both in the
University and city of Oxford.

The Rev. J. K. Marsh, minister of Brimington, has
lately commenced out-of-door preaching on Brimington
Common, and other places in his parish. The same
practice is also observed in different parts of the country
by some of the clergy, who adopt it as the best, and indeed
the only means of addressing such of their parishioners as
absent themselves from church on the Lord's day. The
neglect of public worship is, we believe, very general in
the mining districts, whilst beer-houses are increasing,
and desecration of the sabbath becomes fearfully prevalent
amongst the working classes.—Derbyshire Courkr.
The village of Deopham, Norfolk, has long been known
in its neighbourhood for its entire abandonment to Dissent.
These has been no resident vicar within the memory of
man, and only of late years esident curate, and with no
parsonage Louse, no schoNVlno resident gentry. The
church in sad repair—there seemed little prospect of any
improvement; we trust, however, that better days are now
in store. The Rev. George H. Turner (late curate of St.
Andrew's, Holborn.) was last year presented to the living
by the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. Nothing could
be more dreary than the appearance of the place on his
arrival ; but indefatigable zeal and self-devotion have
quickly had their fruits. On Wednesday last an excellent
and tastefully built school-room, with master's house,
close to the church, was opened, while a parsonage house,
near at hand, was seen rising high above the ground, and
the internal arrangements of the church, by a wonderful
transformation, werefound by experience to be well adapted
for a solemn carrying out of the English ritual.—London
Guardian.

DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION.—On Tuesday even-
ing, a fire of a most destructive character brol e out in the
storehouses of Messrs. Hay,' Anderson, and Sangster,
nursery and seedsmen of Kennington, and in less than
40 minutes, nearly the whole range of buildings, together
with their contents, amounting to several thousand pounds
in value, were utterly destroyed. Besides these were a
range of stables and a piggery, and a number of hotbeds.
The agonised cries of a number of pigs who were unable
to escape were heard above the roar and crackling of the
fire. These cries soon ceased, and the poor animals were
speedily out of their misery. After burning for about 20
minutes with incredible fury the warehouses fell one by
one with a fearful crash, leaving only a confused pile of
blazing timber upon the ground.
ATROCIOUS OUTRAGE.— On Sunday night last, or
rather on Monday morning, about one o'clock, a poor
girl was brought to the station-house, Cardiff, almost
dead. It appears she had left her situation in Chepstow,
and had gone to Swansea in order to procure another.
She did not succeed, and was coming into Cardiff at about
twelve o'clock, over the west bridge, when a fellow over-
took her, and told her he would show her into the town.
As she was a stranger, she thanked him, and he led her
towards the tan-yard by the castle, and then took her
into the park, and endeavoured to commit a rape upon
her, but not succeeding, he threw her down, robbed her
of about £2 and all her clothes, and then threw her into
the feeder, which was close by. After struggling for a
little while, having sunk once or twice, she reached the
opposite bank, where she remained some little time, and
then crawled, as well as she could, towards the town,
when she was taken to the station-house. The inhuman
fellow decamped. and he has not since been heard of. The
name of the poor girl is Margaret Rowland.—Swansea
Herald.
TRIAL OF A POLICEMAN FOR MURDER.—At the
Central Criminal Court, London, on Friday, Brnjamin
Cole, City policeman, surrendered to take his trial for the
manslaughter of William Cogan, of Plumtree-court, Shoe-
lane. The prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Ryland,
Mr. Locke, and Mr. Parry prosecuted ; and Mr. Serjeant
Wilkins, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Ballantine defended the
prisoner. Mr, Rylan d having stated the case to the jury,
the various witnesses -repeated their evidence, which has
been so frequently brought before the public while the
case was under investigation at the police court ; the wit-
nesses Long and his wife distinctly deposing to having
seen the prisoner shortly before two o'clock in the morn-
ing of the day when the alleged manslaughter took place,
pursue and beat the deceased about the head with his
baton,—Other witnesses deposed to a scuffle having taken
place between them, when much violence was used by the
prisoner.—lt appeared on the cross-examination of Long,
that one of his sons had been convicted of felony, that he
himself had been convicted seven times for drunkenness
in connection with this affair, and, as he alleged, from the
animosity of the police towards him, and all while he was
an innocent man. Also, that he got his living by turning
his wife's mangle. His reference to the memorandum of
his various imprisonments, which be had kept carefully
packed in a snuff-box, created much amusement in court.
.—Another of the adverse witnesses, it also appeared, had
been in prison four times for pot stealing.—After a variety
of other evidence bad been brought forward, and a very
searching investigation, which occupied the whole of the
day, the jury at aix o'clock returned a verdict of not
guilty,