The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1848-01-18 00:00:00

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Excise usages are becoming ludicrously strict. Not
only is ginger wine charged with duty when sent from
Scotland to England, but, the essence of coffee is also
also threatened with duty, because, in order to preserve
the freshness of the beverage that, " cheers, but not
inebriates," a homoeopathic quantity of alcoholi is
dropped into each bottle of the mocha fluid.

Scotland, so far, does not appear to have suffered much
from the panic. The National Bank of Scotland has in-
creased its dividend from 6 to 6i per cent., the Edinburgh
and Glasgow Bank is expected to make a similar advance,
and the customs revenue of Greenock, for the years end-
,z January 5, 1846-7, and 8, have, respectively, been
£324,477, and £407,083.
1. at Douglas, Isle of Man, is said to have con-
cl, on his death-bed, a few days since, to a murder

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which- he committed eleven years igo, on a man named
Robert Cannon, who was found dead, in Douglas harbour,
with his scull fractured, and which, at the time, was sup-
posed to have been occasioned by a blow against a vessel,
in his fall.

THE LAND SCHEME.—Mr. Fergus O'Connor has pur-
chased the Great Dafford estate, in the parish of Broms-
grove, containing 280 acres. The subject has created a
great sensation amongst the farmers, lest O'Connor's
four-acre allotments should bring more poor into the
parish, with which it is already so heavily burthened.—
Worcester Journal.
REDUCTION IN GAS.—The agitation for reduction in
the price of gas, aided as it has been by the spirited con-
duct of the Marylebone vestry, in calling in the aid of a
new company, has had its effect. On Saturday the Im-
perial Gaslight Company gave notice that the price of
their gas will be reduced to 6s. per 1000 cubic feet from
the 31st of March next.
The Ipswich Express tells a curious story of a blunder-
ing wedding lately performed in Suffolk. Instead of the
bride and bridegroom being joined in holy wedlock, that
ceremony was performed between the bridesmaid and the
" daddy," (father in church.) The mistake was discovered
when the parties retired to the vestry, and was easily
rectified, as the daddy had a wife living,
A curious fact is mentioned of the extraordinary num-
ber of 28,071 mice having been taken or caught from
September to January in the Dean Forest, Gloucester-
shire, over an area only of 1,993 acres. The successful
method adopted there was boring holes in the ground 20
inches deep, wider at the bottom than the top, which pre-
vented them getting out when once in, and into which
holes were dropped some favourite food
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;OLDEN-LANE MURDER.—Harriet Parker, who
stands charged with the wilful murder of Robert Henry
Blake, and Armenia Blake, the two children of Robert
H. Blake, with whom she had been two years previously
cohabiting, has been committed to Newgate for trial.
Previous to her departure she said to the gaoler, she
wished to be hanged, and hoped she would not be trans-
ported. Her firmness astonished every one in court.
We noticed last week the murder of a man named Wall,
near Bristol, by a youth of the name of Manfield. It
appears that Manfield was, a few weeks previously, de-
tected stealing pears, but the magistrate, the Rev. Frank
Hewson, who convicted him, knowing how much is said
by the press against clerical magistrates, who even appa-
rently act with undue severity, and unwilling to incur the
censure of the world, let him off without any punish-
ment ! What a want of moral courage.
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Another extensive robbery has
been committed, under circumstances of a peculiarly
mysterious nature, from the Great Western Railway
Company. A box of sovereigns—it said amounting to
several thousand pounds—was booked on Monday, at the
Paddington station, for Bristol, and thence to Taunton,
to a banking house in which town it was consigned. On
the arrival of the carriages at Bristol, it was found that

the treasure had been abstracted

A poor woman, named Elizabeth Hopkins, residing
within the Croyden Union, having died from exhaustion
in protracted labour, in tlie,middle of which she was left
by the surgeon, an investigation took place on Tuesday,
before the coroner for Surrey, when a verdict was re-
turned to that effect •, `• and that Mr. Berncastle has
shown the greatest inhumanity towards the deceased in
leaving her when in labour, and that we, the jury, con-
sider him a very unfit person to act as a parochial medical
officer."
The workpeople in the employ of Messrs. Hudson and
Bottom, lace-dressers, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire, on
Monday presented to Mr. J. T. Bottom a splendid piece
of plate as a testimonial of their esteem. The plate
consisted of a candelabrum, standing 22 inches high, in
the centre of which was an elegant cut. glass basin, 11
inches in diameter; over which a silver wire grating was
placed for the reception of flowers. About 10 inches
from the base of the pedestal projected three arms, which
also have glasses for flowers.
SINGULAR CIRCUMSTANCE.—On Sunday morning last
a man named Frederick Weston was found in Mr. Beard's
farm-yard, at Ovingdean, weltering in his own blood,
having dreadfully mutilated himself in a manner to which
we cannot more particularly allude. He was conveyed to
the County Hospital, where he now lies in a precarious
state. He comes from Dover, and is about thirty years of
age. He is a religious fanatic belonging to a sect called
" the Latter-day Saints," and he says he committed the
act "to do God justice."—Brighton Guardian.
FATAL COACH ACCIDENT.—As the Manchester and
Derby mail was proceeding on its journey to the latter-
named place, on Saturday evening, when near the terminus
of the Cromford and High Peak railway, and proceeding
at a steady pace, it was overturned. There were about
ten passengers in and upon the coach, none of whom were
seriously injured, except a gentleman named Greensmith,
of the Darley paper-mills, who received a severe bruise on
one shoulder. The coachman received such injuries that
he expired the same evening.
THE CORN TRADE.—However ill many corn speculators
may have fared during the last year, one gentleman, who can
scarcely be called either an agriculturist or a factor, seems
to have profited by the corns of the public. A Mr.
Eisenberg, with wliose name the public is sufficiently
familiar through our advertising columns, has, it is said,
reaped such a harvest, and carried his knowledge of corns
to so good a market, that he has become proprietor of one
of the finest mansions at Richmond, in addition to a
handsome house in town, and all the other adjuncts of a
man of fortune. We fear that dealing in corns is better
than dealing in corn.—Country paper.