The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-02-13 00:00:00

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

On the sth instant Sir Robert Peel entered on his 57th
year.

The Essex Standard records three very serious incen-
diary fires in that county last week.
Dickens's "Christmas Carol" has been dramatised,
and its first representation at the Adelphi Theatre oft
Monday night was eminently successful.
It may be useful to some timid railway travellers to
state that the furious puffing of the engine shows the
safety valve is open, and explosion impossible.
On Saturday morning last, Elizabeth Kilshaw, a cilia
seven days old, died suddenly from the effects of spaatee
in the windpipe.
Seven convicts, from Edinburgh and Kirkdale, made
their escape, on Friday morning, from the Millbank Pe-
nitentiary. Their retreat has not been discovered.
THE LATE TRAGEDY AT D,EPTFORD.—The unhapPl.
woman Dickenson, who murdered her two children, sad
afterwards attempted self-destruction, is sufficiently reco•
vered to be removed to Newgate.
THE ANIMUS of REYEA L.—A new candidate for popu-
lar favour announces, in its prospectus, that "Foreigli
parliamentary reports will be given until the "Irish par-
liament is restored."

At an inquest held the other day, on a newly-born in•
fant in London, who had received a quarter of a tea'
spoonful of gin, the surgeon gave evidence that gia
given to one so young is sufficient to cause death.

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Two men, employed at the brewery of Messrs. Barclay
and Perkins, in Park-street, Southwark, were suffocate!
last Wednesday afternoon, by descending one of thy
vats which contained a large volume of carbonic acid gas'
The representatives for the county of Durham, of
wbom
three are " liberals" and one conservative, are
all agreed
upon supporting the agricultural interest and maintainiP%
that protection to which it is entitled.
LAUGHABLE MISTAKE.—The wire of Mr. Edward
Hudson, of Ulverstone, was brought to bed on Thurs-
day morning, and the infant being sickly, was baptize,.
Richard, rather hastily it would seem, as it turned out to
be a female.

VALUABLE COINS.—We are informed that the collec-
tion of coins, &c. made by the late Mr. Thomas, a Loa',
don grocer, and about to be sold, is estimated to be 0.!
the value of from £16,000 to £lB,ooo,—Literary
zette.

MANSLAUGHTER.—A young man named Lawrence
Hawksworth, .
died at Bolton, on Thursday
last, from
juries inflicted upon him by another man. The jury
,(.1.
the inquest returned a verdict of aggravated manslaug
against the latter. P
DORMOUSE BY POST.—A few days ago, a letter WI
received by post by a person in this town, contejoing,i; live dormouse. It had come a distance
of nearly 2w
miles, and reached its destination perfectly safe.--Doi"
caster Gazette.
SERIOUS FIRE AT SHEFFIELD.—At an early hour °,.,°
Thursday morning week, the cutlery works known as tif
Soho-wheel, Sheffield, were destroyed by fire. The est_,l'
mated loss is £BOO, and there is too much reason to fe'
that it bas been caused by an incendiary.
at th
Thee
Rev. Jamesr Brogden has been committed for tril
ad
Assizes charged with shooting 1,
wounding a police constable, name d Wintel, whom he°
served about his premises, near Hemel Hempstead, 911
mistook for one of a party of burglars.
or t• CHILD STEALING.—At the Central Criminal Co-a
on Wednesday, Elizabeth Mary Jones a well dressed IT
good looking widow was sentenced to be transported ter
e
seven years, for having stolen an infant child nara%
Selina Helling, four months old, in the month of Nov'
ber last. , t

The enquiry before Lord Sudeley, and the other try'
tees of Winchomb Grammar-school, into the conduct
Mr. Lapworth, the master, respecting the punishment!,
a lad named Carter, has terminated in the complete e''es
oneration of Mr. Lapworth. The case appears to 0'
been gone into at great length. _ _

THE LATE FATAL DUEL AT CARD EN TOWN —lO
Central Criminal Court on Wednesday, Mr. Wad(' ingtou;
on behalf of the crown, applied to the bench to fix a 414
for the trial of Lieut. Grant, who had given notice of 11_„
intention to surrender and take his trial, for be ing act
sory to the murder of Lieut. Col. Fawcett, in the dueLe
Camden Town. The judge, ref used to fix any day for wv
trial while the accused should be At large,