The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

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A ROMANCE OF THE FOREST.—On Sunday, the down
train which left the Eastern Counties Railway at a quarter
to three, was unusually crowded, and a large number of
persons arriving too late for tickets, entered t
without them, purposing to pay upon
the third-class passenger

carriages
mt. Amongst
ome atten-

tion by his violent gesticulations and impatience.

,everal

times declaring that the train was off the line. Upon ar-
riving at Forest Gate, the seaman forced his way through
the booking-office, left the main road, proceeded towards
the forest, partially undressing himself as he went along.
It subsequently transpired that his name was Andrew
.Nilson, that he had escaped from his friends, who were
about taking him by the branch line to Edmonton, that
within the last few weeks he had returned from Bermuda,
and that the death of his wife and child on the passage,

had affected his mind so much that he had several times
attempted selfdestruction. His father and brother hay-
ing traced him to Forest Gate, proceeded in search of him
and he was eventually discovered walking in the forest,
near Wanstead, in a state of nudity, having placed his
clothes upon the trees. After some difficulty, he was

secured, dressed, and brought to town. On reaching
home it was found that he had either lost or been robbed
During Monday, however, he declared that he
le forest, and his statement ultimately proved

left it in
correct.

On Tuesday his brother proceeded to the place
where he had left his clothes, and after a short search
found the bag amongst some furze, containing the whole
amount missing.—London paper.
THE SUBTERRANEAN FIRE NEAR SHEFFIELD.—SOMO

account of this fire appeared in a former impressimi. A
correspondent of the Sheffield Independent gives some
further particulars. He says :—" Old people whom I
have known well remembered a fire, which was burning
under the Red Hill and adjacent fields, near a century

since. Some of t

aem who we

icing since the me

outbreak, fully believed this fire to be -nothing but a con-
tinuation of the former one. Be this as it may, it is
certain that for about thirty years past the fire has been
undermining the ground on which many of the habita-
tions stand. Sometimes, for the space of a year or more,
arious individual houses have been so dreadfully filled
)le to

with black or choice as
breathe unless the door was kept
the cellars have been closed for
years since a portion of the street
a loaded waggon had passed over the spo
hollow on, which the people walked and dwelt. D

de oven. Many of
ibout twenty
lv after
g the

cipal well of the village, came up, not warm merely, but
positively hot. From fifteen to twenty-five years ago,
both in winter and summer, as soon as the evening closed
in, flames were seen to issue from various fissures in par-

A few year

I outbuildings had suffered so much, by
1. that it was deemed advisable to take
use of in

Id the

ilding of two neat cot

ground Where it wiis thought it
•st. and where the new buildi

These were erected
fire had 1
s wouP

done its
I safely.
than six or eight' years since, the cot-
., down, one of them having been al-
bandoned by its inhabitants."

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_THUNDERSTORM IN LINCOI
NOTTINGHAMSHIRE.—A storm which is thou
been the most awful which has been wit
of England since May, 1802, passed in
the south-west on Friday evening, the 14th instal
did not fall in the town. At Peterboro', the Deepings,
Crowland, and onwards towards Boston and Wisbech,

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