The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-05-02 00:00:00

ultra' Iflisrellany.

An abundance of ripe strawberries were exhibited in
Edinburgh market last week.

scionday into the bargain. st was Mr. e arane -i_ t. say ~rom .ae effects of the fright he had rt.-
_,,,,d,
The distress in Leeds is so grcrat that one in ten of the trated," instead of the Poor Law. There were pictures The boys, who had acted in so thoughtless a manner, wr„
population is maintained by the parish funds. of the poor—dying r—sleepin. on the stone floors I—men taken into custody and the case is at present under r'
The Earl of Yarborough has given £lOOO to found a '" • • • '
and women in separate cages—&c. The police prevented vestigation.—Edinburgh Register.
_.,,, of
"Yarborough Scholarship" at the Royal Naval School, any great assemblage : Sir George Grey was "not at PROPULSION OF STEAM-VESSELS.—Mr. W. AP":0.
New Cross, Lincoln. home," nor Mr. Cochrane ! for his affair was all abroad. Kingston-upon-Hull, has taken out a patent for „„it•
The foundation-stone of the monument to celebrate the EVASION OF AN OATH.—A revolting case of sabordi. thinery for propelling vessels, consisting of a shaft, l'-iis
landing of Prince Albert, at Ramsey, in the isle of Man, nation for perjury has been disclosed in the Deemster's netted with the engine, projecting through the sick° of
was laid with some pomp on Monday.ks,
Court, Isle of Man. A farmer, who had been summoned usual • this shaft carries two double ended cyan- • 5
In the Court of Chancery, on Wednesday, Lord - ,-,1;4019
for non-payment of £47 rent, suborned two men to swearlevers, at right angles to each other. To the cra , a
Brougham introduced Prince Metternich. They both sat that they had seen him pay the landlord. He had met upon the ends of the crank-levers, are attached bar 'OO
for some time beside the Lord Chancellor.uS
them on Douglas quay, and took them to a public-house, rods, being. attached to pins upon cranks, or levers, the
tsl
At several parish and district meetings in the metropo-
lis, more particularly on Easter Monday, opportunity has The witnesses sat down. and while drinking their glasses, two similar shafts, one of which is situated bei°,,r,,at°
the defendant took out of his pocket a piece of chalk, driving-shaft attached to the engine; the other 914.-- the
been taken to express undiminished loyalty and gratitude •
with which he drew the figure of a man upon the table,
sbatiendhuthriaztunshtaalftl—inteh.e cuenpturnes
tohfustehehtuhrrizeuenbtaelinta' 0011
to the active guardians of order on the 10th. and wrote the plaintiff's name across. He laid down £47,
The Commissioners of Customs have decided against and the witnesses then agreed to swear that they had seen placed floats, which act as the propellers,
.and are avrifterr
the appeal made by the Due de Stackpole, and that no-
bleman's splendid schooner yacht, the Gipsy Queen, has in a vertical position, whether in entering tne Sig
tenrEmonceynpAaßittsoTsplait*Nnti
EDINBURGH.—The Chartist de- during their passage through, or leaving it ;or 0.0,40
been declared forfeited to the Crown for smuggling. monstration held on the Calton Hill on Monday evening be so arranged, that during their backward ra°le,:tloof
The Countess of Mornington, in Thursday's Times, proved a total failure. There might have been 600 or 700 they may present their edges to the direction of ni-atllo
again appeals to the public for alms :her husband, the persons on the hill; but, owing to the unfavourable wea. which may be done by means of eccentrics uPt?i„rto
ther, the meeting adjourned to the hall in Adam-square, crank arms, and forming the floats themselves., siralw-
Earl of Mornington (the " Long Tilney Wellesley Long
Pole Long/ of Fitzgerald) having left her destitute. where, after the assemblage had been kept waiting a con- Venetian blinds. 90
siderable time for the committee, a memorial to the An old woman, named Hannah Williams, 031194
The citizens of York were hoaxed on Good Friday by
a public announcement that a man would ride in a bucket, Queen, praying her Majesty to dissolve the present Par. years of age, was found dead in her bed at Gloucest 11,31
liament, was ultimately adopted. Delegates were then week, in a state of the most apparent destitution •""S''IOE4
drawn by three beautiful white swans, down the river
Ouse. Multitudes attended, to be disappointed, .0.. after
appointed to represent the Scotch Chartists in the great been living for some time past on ls a week, with
On Wednesday, a prize fight for £2OO took place be- ~ National Assembly," to be held in the metropolis on from the union, and the charity of her neighbours. ori,
tween James Massey, of Manchester, and Jas. Edwards, the Ist of May. her death, however, was found a hoard of money ir,o ill
of Cheltenham. The locale was near Newmarket. After
ATTEMPTED WADER AND ROBBERY.—On Monday, ous places, amounting to £ll4 2s. 2d., including eased
53 rounds, Edwards came off victor. between two and three o'clock, as a watchman named silver and £2 in copper • and, although the Pors the
The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer decided, on Brassett, sixty-four years of age, was on duty at the Leith creature had been shivering with cold throughout '0
Saturday, that a creditor cannot split a debt, which is and Glasgow wharf, London, he was suddenly attacked by inclement weather of the winter and spring, there 00
above £2O, for the purpose of enabling him to recover his three men, who came on shore in a boat. They struck found on the premises a large stock of coal (more ore °cly
claim by several suits, brought in the new County Courts. the poor old man on the head, as he believed with a life ton and a half in weight) the accumulation of mat'Ycsere
It is said that Mademoiselle Jenny Lind will make her preserver or some other blunt and heavy instrument, ritable gifts ; whilst, in various parts of the heu,se,,d' :01.:
first appearance for the season, at the Italian Opera, on which soon rendered him insensible. Believing, it is pre.' found stored away the remnants of unconsumed rou.no 'eta
Thursday next, as Amina in "La Sonnamhula "—the sumed, that life was extinct, they thrust him into a cellar, dently the relics of what she had received from t,i% fille'
and fastened the door on the outside. They thentime from the workhouse, and in gifts from frie9'-ouldi
best of her characters. This will be the anniversary of
her brilliant de'but last year. pro-ceeded to ransack the place, breaking open an iron safe, believed she was in excessive need. There were ,111„,ty 9
which they rifled of its contents. The poor watchman pieces of bread, numberless pieces of bacon grown '- l'a-clisst
The York Courant was published for the last time on
Thursday. It first appeared under that name in 1719, lies in a very precarious condition. from long keeping, bits of cheese, remnants of Put Such
EVASION OF THE LAW.—We have heard of many &c., some of very recent acquisition, and others o' 4
being a continuation of the York Mercury (said to be the
modes of evading the law, but Thomas Turk, a man who age as to have become long since unfit for eating. „• s
first newspaper established in the county). It is now to
be incorporated with the York Herald. was deprived of his license to sell beer at our police-court LAMENTABRE OCCURRENCE.—Great sensation
FRENCH CONTRACT FOR HORSES.—The Provisional last week, has adopted a plan somewhat new in theann ls created on Tuesday morning last, in the eighb°`-sotif
of beer selling in Newport. Having a " good
trTtuyhnog'm'oaoaodsf of Minster yard, by the discovery nof th.e, 4).4
Government having issued a decree that they intend to
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f(twhiedogwardoefn
c„usptloanmt,,,aantdthbeeiTngy,ramnocrseocvaesrt,lop,osinsespseadigowfenallpyre,
enter into contracts for 28,000 cavalry horses, several
French contractors are at present inthe north of England,
making7purehases. Turk resolved he would not retire from business so quietly which she resided. The unfortunate lady retiresets, sirst
On Monday, a fearful explosion of fire-damp took place as some people might expect ; and he now evadesthe law, about nine o'clock on Monday,being °v.' a es"
in the deep pit at Victoria Iron Works, Monmouthshire, and carries on " a roaring trade," by selling nuts at three time. On •the foil ' owin morning the servant was''' or
by which five men lost their lives instantly. Two others half-pence each, and giving away a glass ofsparkling on findin her mistress's bed-room door partly or e°' 00
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quitted it be
were seriously injured—one so much so that his recovery beer to the nut-buyer ! This system is carried
on an ex- on the bed, perceived she had qui set s
is despaired of. sensive scale nightly.—Monmouth Merlin, proceeding to the garden she found that the WI ,ttll
ESCAPE FROM GAOL. —On Sunday morning, John At the Thames Police-office, on Monday, James Bolton longing to the well had been removed. Knowing t 1 51
Bryant and Edward Edwards, two prisoners in the convict was sentenced to eight days' imprisonment, for practising deceased was subject to fits of aberration, she at 01 sito
gaol, at Springfield, who were awaiting their trial at the the
following novel cheat at Stepney fair. About three petted that she had destroyed herself. A person g° TO
pennyworth of coppers were placed on small pegs, which the bucket, descended, and soon found the Wk' 3lon'
ensuing assizes, effected their escape. They have not
been heard of since. ,
were to be thrown at with a small bar, when, if all the deceased had complained very much of her head ou on"
Two hours before the artillery in St. James's-park, half-pence were dislodged, the thrower, who paid a penny, day, and wept bitterly. She had also said_ t9ntrhgert ,:deslol.,
pocketed them. The • er, who was the proprietor, —" Youhate me, Eliza;" and on her replying ~ a , London. announced to the Cockneys the birth of a prin-
cess at their doors, the bells were ringing in honour of the was ready to take the chance either as a staker or a thrower, did not, why should she," the deceased motile ',pet
event at Berwick-upon-Tweed—the intelligence having but always took care that he should win, in each capacity, cause all the world does."—The jury returned a 'se
been received at the latter place by electric telegraph. except when he occasionally lost on purpose to give an " Temporary insanity." strifill'
CIRCULATION OF THE BIBLE.—The following has been appearance of fairness to the game. When he tnrew STRANGE ATTACK.—Last week J. Lhoski, an Attip bag
the circulation of the Scriptures through the British and himself the halfpence were- lodged lightly on the pegs, was charged, at the Marlborough Police-office, :,,,jird°o;
Foreign Bible Society, during the last three years in the but when others threw, the lo wer half-penny was made to ing annoyed Prince Metternich, and broken so"), 181'°ts and
following large towns :—London, 126,391; Liverpool, adhere by means of some composition. at the Brunswick Hotel, in Princes-street; „teroich aito
81,342 ; Manchester. 129,241 ; Leeds, 49,975 ; Bristol, PENURY of Louts PRILIFFE.—The Count de Neuilly manager of the hotel, said that Prince i‘se", had c° is
54,955.—T0ta1, 441,905 copies. . lives at Claremont in a state of almost penury, denying suite were now stopping there. The prisole 0., Fused
On Wednesday the entire of the valuable timber, prin- himself those small luxuries which had become all but to the hotel, and requested to see Baron gul oaer o
cipally oak, standing in the woods at Stowe, Foscott, necessaries from long use to a, man of his time of life.— attached to the suite of the prince. The rshotel• et,
Thornborough, Finmore, Hillesden, Fakutt, and Ashwell, Even with the most rigid economy, however, it is said that very energetic language, and at last he left the' the stre9o
the property of the Duke of Buckingham, was sold by his income is still insufficient-for his maintenance, and that- a minute or two some stones were thrown
public auction at Buckingham. The sale produced up- in a year or two, if he survives so long, he will be corn- which broke two of the windows. The Pris°"
I, sb ur a reP) 14
wards of £22,000. pletely destitute. It can, however, scarcely be the inten- to Mr. Watson,: Do you know that You '-a- o
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At the Dempster's Court, in the Isle of Man, the other tion a the French Government to sequestrate the private in your house s Do you know that Prince lett....raiece
day, the judge, barristers, and litigants, were not a little property, not only of the ex-King, but of his whole family. a traitor to his country, and that he has, been aims faho
&miler 0,, 5,
amused at the appearance of a new candidate for forensic The dowers of his sons' wives are said to be almost entirely before the Hungarian Diet, and dare not sholooti,dp.
honours, in the shape of a monkey, which, seated in the invested either in French funds, or in land in France, and there ? Do you know that he has not only irn_A ? "*".l
lawyers' seats and looking at the bench, chattered away whatever claim the nation may have upon the Royal hands, but his arms up to his armpits, in ble;aer7o,
until rudely expelled by a servant girl, who came to look estates, it can by no process, that we are aware of, be ex- Hardwick asked the prisoner what he was? 0101 ft,r(lrel
after the runaway pet of her mistress. tended to property thus acquired.—Times. ( am a doctor of philosophy. I have received 10° 'l4l
Mr. T. Campbell Foster, formerly "The Times Corn- DESECRATION AND ROBBERY.—The minister- of a the Austrian goverrment, £3O and £5O at a time' Ilofte
missioner" in Ireland, now a barrister on the Northern pretty church, which rises almost in the shadow of an is £5O coming to me to which lam entitled. -1,,‘ ''? iso,
circuit, has promptly and emphatically denied that he embattled " fortress of the fen," not 100 miles from Con- wick asked the prisoner how he obtained a lividnts' a we/
ever made an overture to write articles from Ireland for nigsby, was called upon by: a party of " navvies" on Sun- prisoner said he had written several workshaw.dwicislis
the Northern Star, or any other newspaper than the day week, to christen a child. While engaged in his duty, contributed to the quarterly reviews. Mr. ,_,--d him to
Times. This denial has been occasioned by a statement another of these sons of clay and iron, evidently a mate the prisoner 6s. for the damage, and rehuue SAS
made in the House of Commons by Mr. F. O'Connor. of the christening party,- entered the church, and,. acting bail for his good behaviour. .., alt '7.4
One-of the clerks at the General Post Office has been on the Principle of " exchange no robbery," took the rev. MR. COG,IIIIANE'S PAUPER DEmoNsTßAT,Tfroiti,
_TO
dismissed for refusing to be sworn a special constable gentleman's new hat , and left in its place his own—one been impertinently and falsely stated in an Au..7srasePsd
during the Chartist demonstration. Of course he is, in of those bettered coverings which we see on the heads of that Sir George Gray would not interfere t? _1:0130 Sir
his own eyes, "an injured Englishman." Reasonable " Emeralders" during the harvest season—brimless, numerous procession of the inmates of -__Woorkstuo`nsces';e4
people, however, will hold that if a man refuses to protect almost crownless, and wofully " wanting a nap." We others through the public streets to the 11. rp,srievsP,o.
the property on which lie is employed, it would be only are told that the trick is an old one; and that the same the purpose of laying a host of
child has been christened on, a former occasion at a sacri- before the Government, but the hon. hart. 00, tif
natural to refuse him the custody of it any longer. " bastile
too
an of
Charles Dickens and other amateurs will shortly per- five to a worthy parish clerk of a great coat.-Stamford portnnity, in his place in the House of. Curacause° .0°
ess s''
form " The Merry Wives of Windsor" and " Every Man Mercury. removing any impression that might have been
ssas $
in his Humour," in aid of the purchase and preservation ROYAL. COLLEGE OF CIIEMISTRY.—Dr. Sheridan Mus- such unfounded assertion. Mr- Cochrane; „ha:ate/POI
of Shakspere's house, and of an endowment for some pratt delivered an interesting lecture, on Wednesday peared in Trafalgar-square on Monday, and
',ions- ° °
worthy dramatist whose means may not be equal to his evening,' at the monthly meeting of the subscribers and cab with a van behind containing " Illustra, a tooled_
merits, and to whom the custody of the property at Strat- students of the college, at Hanover-square, on the manu- " Bastiles" and the Poor-law, advanced /I.''' With
00
ford may be confided. facture of the carbonate of soda, sulphuric acid, and hy- 1500 peions to Whitehall. A body of Poltiveas; wit,hticle-1
The returns of the Registrar-General record the death drochloric acid ; and in a series of successful experibients, appeared, and they fled immediately. The Aefe 4.4
of• a child, aged two years, o from inflammation of the showed how the deleterious gases evolved in the process, t van finding his progress effectually stopPadt orusich4rev
stomach and smaller intestines, combined with fluid black and which were so destructive of vegetation, as to have payment for his services of Mr. Cochrane,. 0 Sllnt'o g;
blood in the right side and large veins of the heart, sup- caused an action for damages to have been brought against immediately satisfied, and the bearer of t`,l,ocsed
posed to he caused by mephitic vapour from a cesspool the Messrs. Muspratt, proprietors of chemical works in tions"' quietly retired. Mr. Cochrane vets-804 95 ass:,
opened, of which the contents were carried through the Liverpool, upon that ground, might be condensed, and on in his cab, his "tail"" having been cut use les.,ss
house." Two days elapsed between the date of the latter their unhealthy action thereby greatly diminished, if not stated, and went to the Home-office, when' hi
occurrence and the death. altogether prevented. Scattered through the rooms were petition, the hon. baronet presiding oyes-that rrhas e ;le
NECESSARY EVILS.—A gentleman was constantly in many specimens of daguerreotype portraits and landscapes, not being visible to such an undesired guest.
,',d rece,
the habit of calling his servants, before their faces, "TalbotYpes, and of silver and copper electrotypes, all the affair, the only casualty being a broken hQdsot
cessary evils." He quarrelled with one of them, who of which were greatly and deservedly admired. by one of the crowd, more, however, from accident ill
left him in a rage, said he was sick of service, and vowed DAMAGE BY RIOTOUS OR TUMULTUOUS ASSEMBLIES. design.
_sisiiritsirs
that he would never enter it again. A few days after his —Sir W. Clay's bill, for amending the law relative to re- RELICS OF A WANDERING JRIVELLEa' gen 'S„sf;s•
old master meeting him in livery, said, " Poh, you are medies against the hundred in England, only contains month of December last a wandering Ps' lociPtn
gone into service again after all." " Ah, sir, I have found two previsions. By the law, as it now stands, compen- Daniel Stewart, a native of Ireland, died at hi,sequel'loo4
that masters are ' necessary evils'." sation can only be obtained against the inhabitants of a Keptie-street, Arbroath. Stewart had been it ii b°,s°
A correspondent of the Gardeners' Chronicle mentions hundred for damage done, where the offence amounts to the habit of visiting Arbroath with the two sills
9,00,006,
that a robin is now rearing her young in a sawpit, where felony ; and it is considered expedient that such inhabit-. jewellery with which he travelled - but his aPPethsef.sces
the sawyers work every day, and could at any time lay ants should be made liable to yield compensation in like apparel, as well as his penurious habits, led I.°stileP,',so°,
their hands on the young or the parent bird, which dis- manner to parties damnified by the acts of persons, riot-. sion that he was far from being in affluent clni 9W otio,
plays no fear, but comes when the men are at dinner to onsly and tumultuously assembled, which may not amount After his death, his landlady, accompanieest 7 013,4 fe:l
pick up the crumbs. A wren had followed the example, to felony. For this object, it is provided by the hill, that business and a magistrate, had his effects S,
_Jed of!_ii 1?0,,%
and had built her nest under the same shed ; but the in every case where any building whatever, or any part to their very great surprise, found that, inste!,,se'esel:4
jealous robin would not allow the wren to lay her eggs, thereof, shall be destroyed, or shall be in any manner trumpery articles which they naturally s.l ci"4,
and at last succeeded in driving her away. damaged, or where any commodities whatever therein formed his stock in trade, there was a verY la,' 6.50ge',a6),6
shall be destroyed, taken away, or damaged by any riot- of valuable gold and silver watches, diamond set,' o,eo
On Tuesday, Mr, Thomas Steele was brought before ous or tumultuous assembly of persons, the inhabitants of and pins, not a few of the rings enamelled o" TliPint '„;
Mr. Jardine, at Bow-street, for an attempt to commit sui-
the hundred shall be liable to yield full compensation in monds, besides other articles of great value. •nts '',"itolP,
tide by throwing himself over Waterloo-bridge. Mr.
damages to the person orpersons injured. at the same time found two deposit- bank r",,,etiroille tl`,
Steele, having solemnly pledged his word not to attempt s
PLAGIARISM.—The Tablct (Popish paper), in corn- sums of £2OO and £26, respectively. .No re-~,t V,. at
orw
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lieemveffMeer-.
the crime again was dismissed, having been bound over in
menting upon Lord Brougham's attempt. to become a appeared, and in the absence of any settletn,.!i; or,,iit 'be
his own recognizance in £lOO and two sureties of £5O
naturalized Frenchman, while he retained the privileges ceased, Mr. Robertson, the Sheriff-substuusrivc° of 100
of a British subject, says :—" One thin.. disappoints us in and Mr. Forsyth, the Procurator-Fiscal, D'Dssio!i, ail
this affair : the notion is not original.' Lord Brougham broath, on Wednesday last, and took Pess'entl, 71 I
house,eacl.
aLsohr dig
contributionßrougham htaos a sent
fund £r
raising
s to
no g Peelstur e'
Steele from his pecuniary difficulties.
has borrowede it from men more eccentric than himself. whole roert on behalf of the Crown. The °,409
FALSE GOLD COIN OF COLUMBIA.—On Saturday, at thethat Lord Brougham is asquainted with of the property. is supposed to be not less thrby al.,ip Poo
It 'VI knownof
actarian system philosophy. Many estimable wart's wearing apparel was valued yesteras, of is6i,
examinedwspaiaracy
Columbia. The spurious •
Mansion- h o u s e , a young
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con gar
professors of that religion have reduced to- practice an and curiously enough, as if to mark the co s his fss.
analogous theory. When they travel abroad they frequent stock in trade exhibited to the meanness °' urn ° ssi
current tOOO
ioo commitf othe
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nec
ph
extensiveua
hr gieo oo f
f h 1
and devout • • su
the catholic churches, are very at mass, sing latter was found to be worth the enorusou ,cosso
coin is a piece of yellow metal, of the size of a half
vespers, and ask bishops for their blessing. They are . tli A b th ex- ser ng.— r roa Guide. ..-00 Oer IV
sovereign, with the impression-of the arms of Columbiar str.A. T 1 f 5 ft
tremely catholic. But when they return this . t A
soul ry, CHILD STARVED BY ITS /1'...0T.- 0- 0,,
of 1832, and of `• IREM, Popayan." It is believed that they never enter a catholic chapel, and speak slightingiy last, an inquest was held at Birmingham' son o'o'
10,000 of them, at least, have been struck off.
of the mass. They change on their passage : Wheatcroft, a little boy eight years, old, t"eed e.,s, Carat
M. Jullien, whose name appears as a bankrupt in the catholics abroad—protestants at home. Lord Brougham -named Whestcroft, and a woman 'who P°lo rie,",,oigei,
Gazette, owes between £9.000 and £lO,OOO, principally did but borrow their theory and apply it to civil politics— and who had been residing for some dine 'se sr"se iii
arising out of his connection with English operant Drury in our opinion the more innocent borrowing of the two." street, and whose death was alleged to a 9 It f.'(;00,, S
Lane, where his extravagance as a manager precluded the A person, describing himself as the Rev. B. C. D. F. starvation and ill-treatment by bin parents:uspieVoP,
impossibility of a profitable return. It is stated that he Fairfax, has been victimising the parishioners of Raw- from the evidence of several persons th,-t,„:er cbi 01°,4!
offered his creditors to put aside £1,500 per annum out of marsh, near Sheffield, where he had been officiating some been excited that the deceased and two enueltc,sl,,reits
his professional earnings—but failing in conciliating all, months on behalf of the rector, who had been spending ' the same parents were treated with great,c Toorti of if
and an attempt being made while at Dublin to arrest him the winter in Ireland. He obtained the curacy by an- examination it was found that they weThline fliers; ,
—he determined upon going through the Gazette, and his swering an advertisement in. the Ecclesiastical Gazette, wales on their backs, and that they o'lo in° (WO,
assets are now stated at nil. and showing ample testionials ; but having obtained tied up in the house, while their father ° ifbetten 0,
" One of the officials" of the Sherborne workhouse, credit to a large amount, by an assumed liberality of ex- away, and left without food for two days a 5 a l'"ig.„,o tl).,
having nothing better to do, has executed the following penditure, on the time approaching for him to resign his had a large cut on his forehead, such ciclet_,,°- ii,, ice)
barefaced delusion. He wrote on an egg, " Prepare ye, trust the creditors became pressing, and suddenly he was would make ; all three were perfect ,:a &DIV/ A?
for the kingdom of heaven is at hand"—placed it in a missed from the parish, and has not since been heard of. father had been seen beating them with wbiell I.eleireo
hen's nest, and pretended the bird had produced it. The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign 31st of March, the door of the place itibildre° cb,in of
Numbers of persons believed in the prodigy, and trembled. Parts and other religious societies are also sufferers. Being , confined was broken open, and the %ig tlieol 0
cd,
The local journal says that " several of the ministers a young, unmarried man, " tall, slender, of dark corn- The mother was also, in the habit of betitor, ta iloco
actually alluded to the matter. in the pulpits." On Mon- plexion, with large expressive eyes, and jetty hair ;" being, she had been seen to put them in a L'aleat.flt 0 bet
day, a notice was posted ' on the union gates" that the moreover, supposed to be nobly born and rich, he attracted occasion to throw a sheet over their b° sr 114001 I
matter was an April fool hoax. Cl ea 'he ' rd
great notice from the ladies : not only so ; his zeal for the pany with another woman, named CI, in t ajog if ,
At Brighton Police-court, last week, a man, named church, kindness to the poor and those who did not attend match, and stick the prongs of a fnthstO eiiit(i,"
Lawton Lucas, was committed for trial for the novel trick his ministry, made him one universal favourite with the and tell her it was the devil. Now, a hid 014 ce,
of abstracting money in the following manner :—He went villagers. The tradesmen supplied him with goods to any medical care bestowed on the de es low.e„,ea VOf t
into a pastrycook's shop for a bun, for which he laid down amount, and he was surrounded wiih all the comforts and Sunday last. The medical evidenc* 0-ccantion.o
a sixpence, and received sd. in change. The sixpence elegancies of life. By and bye there came down to the bad resulted from water on the brain/ soati'°,sse / eel
was afterwards observed to be dangling over the till, and, clerical residence two persons, one of them a " page," and tinual irritation of the stomach, ther'od.
.s ise.l;t
on examination, was found tied round with fine horse. the other a relative, whom he called " Johnny Deer," or stomach being occasioned 'by want ot tousaios,'sa, 0
hair, to which a long end was attached. On being taken 1 " dear," a term of endearment somewhat applicable ; turned a verdict of " Manslaughter nil ad'eaPlC'
-Ito custody, three or four others, similarly prepared 1 since there are shrewd suspicions. that althoug4 in male calling herself Sarah Wheatcroft, „, hllll3
i attire the wearer it of the ft:min:De gentler, considered George Wheatcroft was '''

i were fowl in ins po4eio,