The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-03-26 00:00:00

THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD.

let any reasonable person ask himself the question, whe- At Nottingham assizes, John Sansome was sentenced to
ther it can be right to saddle the overburthened rate- death for the murder of a young woman named Elizabeth
payers with a charge of £5,000 per annum, in order to put Bailey. The prisoner caused the deceased's death by
£350 per annum in the pockets of each one of the 13 using an instrument to procure miscarriage, for which he
parish doctors, and a nice little balance which I suppose was paid 7s. The judge told him he feared he had long
goes towards the support of the parish dispensaries, esta- carried on the practice.

nen, in

ouuuay weeK, miss liabrielle Jervis, the daughte:
d of Sivynfen Jervis, Esq., of Darlaston Hall, near Stone
:e Staffordshire, publicly abjured the Protestant religion

lities to at

end to

are e nab

In
hauel at

e doctrines of the
ied to Swyn-

think a parish dector'situa-
, with £350 from the parish,

)mas Fitzherbert

in; of the proprietary of the Bank

can get t

recom mended

to the subj

half year

When the

Ind to a

dintheCt

money market during the last six months,
iirninution that has taken place in the dis-

Zany children

ss of the bank, are
but be viewed as k

onsiderea, the above divi-
ng as satifactory as could

about 300, althot

a institutions

rick Watmough, said to be an illegitimate son of
Duke of St. Albans, has had to enter into recog-
,

n consequence

his extr

3ur cor

.en from Ireland and els(
Can it

threaten
Duchess

weretary to the

ns. It appeared that the allowance
iich had been paid him during -his
I been discontinued by the duchess,

Whether 11

that let

in the C

,sts,l do not know,

is facts

•ks (ori

) per share, with £5 per share
]dad to carry out recent improvements), were sold by
action at the Albion Hotel, in Whitehaven, on Thurs.

lent has clearly proved how bad tb

s not more

ear to e

Ve may further add that
ered dear.—Cumberland

yone h

,es were not

is for a poor person to be treated and

ight, until now, that
are poor creatures liv
ed cellars, in the mi

Whitehurst, employed

at Kid

, if any, comforts about them; and I should ha
-,,hen these poor creatures required an op

be better to remove them to one of t
4L-

:als of the to

wholesome fooc

with the best advice the town affords, kind attention
good nursing, without being deprived of nf

this without costing a shilling to the pa-
•"spondent thinks differently : I very

But your corr

fear that the money
influence in forming

art of the question I

Will he t

for ti

EXTRAORDINARY CRUELTY.—At the Worcester assizes,
last week, W. York, a lad of about sixteen years of age,
was charged with killing a horse, the property of his
master. It appeared by the evidence of a servant, that
one morning, when the family were at church, she saw
one of the horses run from the stable into the yard, and
1 several times against a post and then fall to
She called the boy, who made his appearance
table, and went across with her

dash its he
the ground
from the loft above t

to the horse, which then lay on the ground in a dying
state. A strap was buckled tight round its throat, and a
bag was fastened on its mouth and nostrils, still more
effectually to stop its breath. The lad took out his knife
and cut the strap, and next unfastened and removed the
bag, after which he pulled a wad of brown paper from one
of its nostrils. Assistance was procured, but arrived too
late, the horse died before the impediments to its breath-
ing had been removed many minutes. When the animal

was examined a second wad of paper was found in the
other nostril. From statements made by the prisoner, it
at he had conceived a dislike to the horse be-
and had taken this course to rid himself
prisoner was found guilty and

cause it was slow

of the annoyance

een month:

ORM .-.

imprisonment, and to be